Seriously! Do you know how icy the streets are in Saso? I nearly broke my neck shaking my thing out there! Spend some money on some road salt, ya damn Haseks! ;D
The tourist board has issued a warning to those unexpected visitors who arrived recently. We have been doing all we can to make them welcome.
Due to vandals shooting out the street lights and causing problems with the power grids we have been leaving large piles of burning metal in the streets so our visitors can see.
We have also been loading special warming SRMs into our left arm single tubes to help stave off the cold weather while our visitors enjoy the free SRM 6 fire work displays we are providing free of charge.
For those who wish to explore the city on foot we have several squads with Recoilless rifles for yet more free fire work displays and Flamers to warm up visitors on those long cold nights.
Finally those visitors who are wearing the latest fashion in battle armour will be met by our band who love to play a lively tune with King Dave’s heavy metal sound.
All in all I feel we are doing a good job of dealing with any surprise visitors who wander the streets unannounced. Of course if they announce themselves we do lay on a special performance but that’s a bit hard on the surrounding buildings so we try to avoid that one.
This message bought to you by the New Syrtis Tourist Board, sponsored by the Hasek family who want you to know they are very passionate about unexpected visitors and are always willing to make the extra effort to make sure they never leave. ;)
On a separate note. The Fusilier Battle Armour. A handy place to assign those new troopers who lack potential. A trooper with potential and a good aggressive attitude goes to the Grenadiers for some nice close in action. A trooper with potential and patience goes to the Hauberks for that long range sniper type fire support. A trooper with potential and some training or experience in regular infantry goes to the Cavaliers. This left us with no place for the recruits who had little or no potential or the ability to fire at anything.
Now we have the Fusilier, an Assault grade Battle Armour without the ability to hurt anything but which makes a great blocking force to allow more important and useful units to manoeuvre.
The new high survival command Atlas. A splendid idea. So the mech jock officers who like to lead by wandering into enemy fire get to survive longer to do yet more stupid things. It’s the lack of oxygen they get 30 feet in the air, it rots the brain. Hey mech jocks, its the 32nd century. You don’t need to be able to see the people you are giving orders to. Just think, if Caleb and his invisible best friend had been driving an Atlas instead of a tank he could well be alive and in charge today.
The face hugger. If you see one clamped to the head of an enemy assault mech move away very fast, you do not want to see what comes bursting out of the engine later on. :o
A final note to address the truly bizarre concept of airdropping Assault Battle Armour. Almost certainly thought up by some armchair generals or civilian scientists sitting safe on New Avalon. Lets take a 2,000Kg Battle Armour, give it a jump pack and drop it out of an aircraft.
The only advantage I can see is that when you hit the ground the suit becomes your coffin and you don’t need anyone to bury you. Assault armour at terminal velocity will put you 6 feet under on impact. Let the light and medium suits do the stupid stuff like that.
Assault troopers, keep your feet on the ground. O0
