Battletech Wednesday January 24, 6pm
At The Sword and Board 1(193 Bloor Street West - Rear
Toronto)
Beginners welcome, everything provided
Mission: PAYBACK
SITUATION :
ZENITH POINT
STYK, CAPELLAN CONFEDERATION
24 JANUARY 3018
(Excerpt from ROM report 30680127/1548-Gamma, filed by agent Ramrod)
Just came back from the briefing with Earthwerks’ people. Johnston is not happy with us taking the contract, but we have been sitting on our asses for the last two months, guarding a couple of warehouses filled with stuff that only historians and archeologists would love to have. Captain Derer invoked the training clause in our contract, and Johnston acceded, though in bad grace.
The job for Earthwerks is simple: they want us to target the Tao Mechworks’ research and development center on Styk’s Fire Island. Tao destroyed Earthwerks’ fusion engine assembly line back in March. The main target building is IDed as TM-834X-C; opposition is expected to be Tao security forces, with possible backup from Syn’s Hussars, the Confed’s garrison unit.
Hosted by Demo Agent # 902 "Paradox"
Aftermath:
Destroy the R&D building. Destroy the R&D building by round 10 Completed
Spare the Hussars. Do not cripple or destroy any Hussar forces present Completed
Cut them off! Destroy the communications array before the R&D building. Completed
AFTER ACTION REPORT
Captain Derer piloting the Griffin brought his A game and with 2 shot, the only 2 shots, on the Commando, cored it.
“He who will not be named” piloting the Urbanmech could not hit the broad side of a barn while standing still at point blank range, let alone a Mongoose.
AFTERMATH
Journal Entry #140
Good news, mission completed. Bad news, the repair bill’s going to be a bitch.
We landed a cargo DropShip near Tao Mechworks and left half the Cannons to secure our ride; the rest headed for Fire Island. As we got close to the target, we ran into Tao security. We pushed them back, but just as we reached the building, we picked up a Syn’s Hussars patrol coming in from the east. While Earthwerks didn’t care how much damage we did to the Tao boys, they didn’t want us wrecking CCAF units.
While we’re demolishing the building and keeping the Cap¬pies off us, Amanda took out a communications array tower near the building to hamper their communications. After we flattened the building, we hightailed it for the DropShip, with both the Tao and Hussars right behind us. But halfway to the DropShip, they stopped chasing and pulled back for no apparent reason.
By the time we reached the DropShip, all hell was break¬ing loose. We could see smoke rising near the city’s center, and Sanderson said the radio was full of police officers calling for riot control. We didn’t hang around, but loaded up and got the hell out of there.
We were out of Styk’s atmosphere before we found out what was going on. A full-blown riot was happening below us. I don’t know if it had anything to do with our raid. I hope not.
—Gannon Derer
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