Robotech - Southern Cross Adventure

[Rykon]

"Nice kill there hotshot! Now it's time to turn up the heat!" Alan yells over the radio while slamming his throttle forward. His Spartas belches a plasma round from its cannon toward one of the power armors in maintenance, hopefully engulfing both the machine and it's engineer in plumes of bright blue flame. At the end of his attack, he'd leap into Battloid mode shields up and ready to cover the squad as necessary.

130 MD in an AoE, worth noting there is a Damage Over Time effect from the fire.

Spoiler

MDC:
Main Body: 475
Right Shield: 500
Left Shield: 500

Payload:
APFSDS - 25 - 3d6x10 - Spent: 0
MPAT - 10 - 2d6x10 - Spent: 0
Plasma - 10 - 2d8x10: Spent: 1
Smoke: 3 - Spent: 0

In the Spartas:
Number of Attacks: 8 (6Base +2MECT)
Strike: +9 with Cannons, +10 to HtH, +11 with EU-11 (+2 Ranged, +3 HtH, +2Eu-11 Stacked with Ranged)
Parry: +14 (MECT +4)
Dodge: +12 (MECT +3)
Roll: +9 (MECT+3)
Perception: +8
Initiative: +3

On Foot:
Number of Attacks: 6
Strike: +7 (+5PP +2Martial Arts)
Parry: +10 (+5PP +2Boxing +3Martial Arts)
Dodge: +9 (+5PP +1Boxing +3Martial Arts)
Roll: +6 (+3HTH +1Boxing +2Gymnastics)
Perception: +9 (+8IQ +1Demolitions)
Initiative: +1
Damage: +12 (+12PS)
Horror Save: +3 (+3OCC)

 

[Psychie]

The shell explodes in flames, causing the technician to be incinerated in a greasy ball of flame as the grenades go off in a bunch of secondary explosions, tearing the already damaged mecha to bits. The flames are now raging, and even more explosions are soon going to be filling the room.

Purr is up

27 - Marlon
24 - Ryuko
21 - Female Soldiers 4-7
18 - Alan
15 - Gabi <====
13 - Deunan
12 - Male Soldiers 1-8
11 - Neo

 

[Purr]

Gabi "Chrome Shaman" De la Rosa
Tac Corp Special Forces Recon Patrol​

Spoiler: Ajax Payload

Missile Payload:
11/12 Plasma/Napalm short-range missiles - 2d6x10 M.D., 3 mile range, 15 foot radius, 5 M.D.C.
3/3 Fragmentation short-range missiles - 2d4x10 M.D. at a 3 mile range, 20 foot radius. 5 M.D.C.
Electronic Warfare Pod
16 chaff/flare bundles (4 in Ajax/12 in EW Pod)

"There's my battle-chica! Way to go, Ryuko!" Gabi roared to Ryuko when she blew a hole clean through the Meltrandi officer.

Flying in with her Ajax in Battloid mode, Gabi examined her remaining options. Now how can I help the team most? Gabi thought in Spanish. Then she spotted the mini-missiles, grenades, and the wide-open Female Power Armor units. If those Meltrandi hop in those and get into the air, they could create a big advantage and throw us off our game. So let me take away their biggest advantage - the power armor units!

"Guys! I'm taking out their armor! Fire in the hole!" she cautioned using the military lingo of ground-based grunts. Gabriela surmised the resulting flames and explosions would throw outrageous amounts of dangerous debris in all directions, especially when the power armor units went up with them. Kind of like making her own 4th of July firework spectacular! Hey! God bless the U.S.A.!

Using the targeting computer, she selected a single plasma short-range missile, locked onto the stack of mini-missiles, and loosed. "Missile away!"

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STATUS

Location: Inside the Zentraedi hideout.
Statblock: VHT-10A Ajax (400/400 M.D.). CBR Mk 2E Armor (105/105 M.D.). Heavy Shield (55/55 M.D.).
Effects Active: None. Ajax mode: Battloid. Dragonfly slot: Cobalt mine.

 

[Psychie]

The missile flies straight and true, and it hits the stack of mini missiles and causes a massive detonation. The flames and shrapnel flies out and engulfs the Female Powered Armor units and the female soldiers trying to take cover around them, killing the Zentraedi and ripping the powered suits apart.

Sherwood is up

27 - Marlon
24 - Ryuko
18 - Alan
15 - Gabi
13 - Deunan <====
12 - Male Soldiers 1-8
11 - Neo

 

[Sherwood]

With an evil grin, Deunan cheers as she sees the destruction being wrought by her team. "Awesome! My turn now!" She transforms her mecha into its Tank mode, and unleashing the main gun, she targets the pallet of grenades being loaded into those Male Powered Armor suits, hoping to add to the level of mayhem in the room.

Total of 110 MD

 

[Psychie]

Deunan's plan to cause another explosion is successful. The grenades rip into a pair of the men, killing them and rips apart the powered suits that they were working on.

Neo lines a shot with her Eu-11 on on one of the soldiers, and with the high powered burst, kills him.

Needless to say, any pretense at stealth is gone as the explosions continue to rock the room. You are certain that there are more Zentraedi in the underground, and they will be on their way, guns blazing.

D. Rex is up

27 - Marlon <====
24 - Ryuko
18 - Alan
15 - Gabi
13 - Deunan
12 - Male Soldiers 4-8
11 - Neo

 

[D. Rex]

As the explosions became the scenery, Marlon could feel bits of shrapnel begin to strike his combat armor from the relative unsafely of his open cockpit. Better to be safe, he switched from tank mode to battloid.

Raising his gunpod, Marlin shot out a burst at one of the male Zentraedi left. Had to end them quickly and get the chamber secured before their reinforcements came.

Target: Male Soldier
Strike: 29
Damage: 20

Spoiler

MDC
Main Body: 475/
Cannon: 150/
Arm L: 150/
Arm R: 150/

Arm Shield L: 500/

Arm Shield R: 500/
Leg L: 260/
Leg R: 260/
Pilot Compartment: 150/




In the Hover Tank:
Number of Attacks: 8, +1 attack per melee round at levels 1, 3, 6, 10, and 14
Strike Cannon: +11 (+2 UC)
Strike EU-11A LR: +11(+2 UC)

Strike EU-11A HP: +10(+2 UC)
Hth strike: +12(+2 UC), +14 damage
Parry: +14 (+1 UC)
Dodge: +13 (+1 UC)
Roll: +10
Perception: +9
Initiative: +2 (+1 UC)



HPW-125A1 Particle Cannon

Range: 8,000 feet (2,438.4m)

Mega-Damage: 2d10x10+20 M.D. per blast

Rate of Fire: Three times per melee round.

Payload: Effectively unlimited.

Note: The Plasma Cannon delivers a massive stream of particles. The gun hits like a wrecking ball, and any mecha under 50 tons hit by a blast has a chance of being knocked down. When hit, the pilot must make a roll on the appropriate mecha piloting skill to keep his footing. Mecha that are knocked down lose initiative and one attack while they return to their feet.



105mm Cannon, Damage
APFSDS: 3d6x10
Plasma: 2d8x10, 25ft AoE
MPAT: 2d6x10, 50ft AoE
HEAT: 2d6x10
Canister(half range): 1d8x10, 25ft AoE
Canister(full range): 1d4x10, 50ft Aoe
Smoke: n/a, 100ft AoE


Rate of Fire: Twice per melee round
Payload: 48 rounds
Note: Typical loadout for the Hover Tank is nine shells of each kind except for the smoke rounds. Those have three rounds, unless something different is required for the mission.

EU-11A Gunpod
LR Burst:1d4x10
HP Burst: 1d6x10 +10
Range: 6000ft(LR) 2500ft(HP)

Ammo: N/A

 

[Psychie]

The soldier gets hit hard, and the blast scorches his flesh. But the Zentraedi make their soldiers tough, and he is still alive, but badly hurt.

Gundam Watcher 27 is up

27 - Marlon [1]
24 - Ryuko <====
18 - Alan
15 - Gabi
13 - Deunan
12 - Male Soldier 4 critically wounded
12 - Male soldiers 5-8
11 - Neo

 

[Gundam Watcher 27]

Ryuko's Ajax would pick up where Marlin's Battloid left off, firing one cannon at the wounded soldier.

Total damage: 20

 

[Psychie]

The soldier is knocked to the ground by the hit, and lies there, motionless.

Off in the distance, you can hear the sounds of heavy footprints running down one of the halls towards the chamber.

Rykon is up

27 - Marlon [1]
24 - Ryuko [1]
18 - Alan <====
15 - Gabi
13 - Deunan
12 - Male soldiers 5-8
11 - Neo

 

[Rykon]

Alan shifts back to Guardian mode and fires yet another plasma round down the hallway with heavy footprints, coating the flooring of the hall in molten plumes of blue flames. "Let's hope that slows those chuckle-heads down enough to buy time for our reinforcements."

[Well that's a miss... whoops.]

Spoiler

MDC:
Main Body: 475
Right Shield: 500
Left Shield: 500

Payload:
APFSDS - 25 - 3d6x10 - Spent: 0
MPAT - 10 - 2d6x10 - Spent: 0
Plasma - 10 - 2d8x10: Spent: 2
Smoke: 3 - Spent: 0

In the Spartas:
Number of Attacks: 8 (6Base +2MECT)
Strike: +9 with Cannons, +10 to HtH, +11 with EU-11 (+2 Ranged, +3 HtH, +2Eu-11 Stacked with Ranged)
Parry: +14 (MECT +4)
Dodge: +12 (MECT +3)
Roll: +9 (MECT+3)
Perception: +8
Initiative: +3

On Foot:
Number of Attacks: 6
Strike: +7 (+5PP +2Martial Arts)
Parry: +10 (+5PP +2Boxing +3Martial Arts)
Dodge: +9 (+5PP +1Boxing +3Martial Arts)
Roll: +6 (+3HTH +1Boxing +2Gymnastics)
Perception: +9 (+8IQ +1Demolitions)
Initiative: +1
Damage: +12 (+12PS)
Horror Save: +3 (+3OCC)

 

[Psychie]

The shell is slightly off target, and it explodes on the side of the wall.

Purr is up

27 - Marlon [1]
24 - Ryuko [1]
18 - Alan [1]
15 - Gabi <====
13 - Deunan
12 - Male soldiers 5-8
11 - Neo

 

[Purr]

Gabi "Chrome Shaman" De la Rosa
Tac Corp Special Forces Recon Patrol​

Spoiler: Ajax Payload

Missile Payload:
9/12 Plasma/Napalm short-range missiles - 2d6x10 M.D., 3 mile range, 15 foot radius, 5 M.D.C.
3/3 Fragmentation short-range missiles - 2d4x10 M.D. at a 3 mile range, 20 foot radius. 5 M.D.C.
Electronic Warfare Pod
16 chaff/flare bundles (4 in Ajax/12 in EW Pod)

Gabriela warned her battle-buddies. "Incoming armor! Take hard cover!" Still aloft, Gabriela huddled beside her own cover feeling she might have a good opportunity to slow the incoming force coming up the tunnel. If all went well, Third Heavy Recon could hold the mouth of the tunnel as a choke point and catch the mecha in close proximity to one another. There, the Spartas units could make great use of their area-of-effect ammunition.

Gabi armed 2 Plasma SRMs. The moment she caught sight of the enemy forces, she let fly at the storage drums and crates hoping to blow them all in one hit.

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STATUS

Location: Inside the Zentraedi hideout.
Statblock: VHT-10A Ajax (400/400 M.D.). CBR Mk 2E Armor (105/105 M.D.). Heavy Shield (55/55 M.D.).
Effects Active: None. Ajax mode: Battloid. Dragonfly slot: Cobalt mine.

 

[Psychie]

Through the smoke and haze that is filling the room, Gabi can see a flash of movement at one of the tunnel openings, and in a moment, you see a trio of Officer Pods leading a unknown number of Tactical Battle Pods that are charging into the room. Right as they are about to engage, your missiles find their mark. The stacks of barrels contain some kind of fuel oil, and when the plasma missiles hit, they light the entire area up with a flare of fire and a dark cloud of smoke.

Flaming oil sprays onto the lead Officer Pods, but you are not entirely sure if they are taking Mega Damage from the fires or if the flames are just a normal SDC fire. Either way, the explosion has distracted them, and it has put off their attack for a moment.

Sherwood is up

27 - Marlon [1]
24 - Ryuko [1]
18 - Alan [1]
16 - Officer Pods 1-3
15 - Gabi [1]
13 - Deunan <====
12 - Male soldiers 5-8
11 - Neo
8 - Battle Pods 1-?

 

[Sherwood]

"Good eye, Gabi! Engaging the Officer Pods!" Deunan, still in her Tank mode, swivels her mecha a touch to aim her main gun at the lead Glaug and squeezes off a blast from the heavy cannon.

Spoiler

On Foot:
Number of Attacks: 6
Strike: +10
Parry: +13 - +17 with Heavy Combat Shield
Dodge: +14
Roll: +6
Perception: +12
Initiative: +1
Damage: +2 from Ps

In the Hover Tank:
Number of Attacks: 8 - +1 attack per melee round at levels 1, 3, 6, 10, and 14
Strike: +12 with Cannons, +13 to HtH, +14 with EU-11 (+2)
Parry: +17 (+1)
Dodge: +17 (+1)
Roll: +9
Perception: +12
Initiative: +3 (+2)

Main Body: 475
Left Arm Shield: 500
Right Arm Shield: 500

 

[Psychie]

The stream of superheated particles slam into the Glaug like a wrecking ball, knocking it off its feet, damaging its armor seriously before it can struggle back to its feet, just in time for Neo to fire a Sabot round into the same damaged spot in its armor and causing it to explode from a Critical Strike! The half Zentraedi girl gives off a exultant fist pump and shouts, "Yes! Damn right I did that!"

The Battle Pods behind the remaining two Glaugs are all bunched up and you cannot see exactly how many there are, but you can tell there are at least four, maybe six.

D. Rex is up

27 - Marlon [1] <====
24 - Ryuko [1]
18 - Alan [1]
16 - Officer Pods 2-3 [2]
15 - Gabi [1]
13 - Deunan [1]
12 - Male soldiers 5-8 [1]
11 - Neo [1]
8 - Battle Pods 1-? [2]

 

[D. Rex]

Psychie What is the distance of the Zentraedi down the corridor? Are they in attacking range,or would it take another turn for them to reach us?

 

[Psychie]

They are all within 1,000 of you. The only thing keeping them from attacking you was the sudden blast of flame and smoke from the explosion from Gabi's missile attack.

 

[Psychie]

D. Rex you are still up. What do you want to do?

 

[D. Rex]

I want to shoot something.


Marlon ground his teeth at the quickness of the coming mecha. That must have been a short corridor that lead to another hangar. A group like that couldn't have mobilized already if they weren't already ready to go.

Still, between Neo and Rosy, they were stemmed off for the second, at least. But that meant he needed to get this room cleared even quicker. Even unarmored zeeks could pose a problem at close range.


Marlin again fired the EU-11 at one of the male soldiers. Had to save his PPC charges for when the officer pods broke through.

Strike: 13
Damage: 60

 

[Psychie]

The panicked soldiers, scattering and running for cover, are able to get out of the way of Marlon's attack.

Gundam Watcher 27 is up

27 - Marlon [2]
24 - Ryuko [1] <====
18 - Alan [1]
16 - Officer Pods 2-3 [2]
15 - Gabi [1]
13 - Deunan [1]
12 - Male soldiers 5-8 [1]
11 - Neo [1]
8 - Battle Pods 1-? [2]

 

[Gundam Watcher 27]

Ryuko's Ajax would attempt to finish what Malron's Battloid started, before putting both cannons up and firing at a single male soldier.

 

[Psychie]

Are you sure you want to do that? You could engage the Battle Pods with your missiles instead. Up to you.

 

[Sherwood]

In my opinion, the unarmored soldiers are a smaller threat than the 4-6 Pods out there, or the two Officer Pods. We have a chance to hit multiple ones at once right now; lets take it.

 

[D. Rex]

A smaller threat now. But if they grow a spine during the fight, We would have to deal with them trying to interfere WHILE the pods are close and firing at us.