A bad night for the Marian Hegemony . . .
The commander will be referring tonight's showing to the inspectorate. It seems someone replaced the quality Marian Arms ammunition with some from Quikscell production from last century causing misfires from the autocannons or they were ballistically inefficient to the point of causing accuracy problems. Legionnaire Grant Aeneas' Centurion 10-B was gutted by ranged LRM fire though most of the rest of the mech was intact for salvage. The force's only heavy, the Cataphract, was caught from behind by a enemy Orion that managed to put a gauss round dead center to crush structure into the gyro.
Oddly enough, it was the weakest Centurion- our local build 9-H2 that managed to run for the objective while blowing a enemy Cadaver off it's feet. Two of the RL10 pods connected with 60% of their rounds and that legionnaire placed their LB-10X cluster in such a way that all of the sub-munitions impacted. While none of the sub-munitions managed to damage the internal components of the mech, one struck the mech's head . . . it must have hit in just the right way because the mech fell over as if no one was in charge of the machine.
Part of the reason Legio techs investigated the remaining ammunition was that the HPPC armed managed to connect several times with it's energy weapons- far more consistently than the ammunition dependent designs.
The AS Lance Pack Cataphract I painted up running as a CTF-X1 in I Legio colors. Still needs a bit of white, some steel for the cockpit frame & hand, and I was thinking of making the cockpit gold.
