Robotech - Tales of the RDF

Sergeant Taniya


Battle! Taniya eagerly welcomed the familiar flood of feelings and reactions that came with the knowledge that all of their lives were in danger. Her voice was clear and strong over the short-range radio. "Squad, focus fire and destroy that recon pod. Watch for fire from the foot soldiers; their particle beam rifles are more effective than the cannons on the male power armor." Then to Tolson, she added. "Your first battle, Tolson, and your first true glimpse into the world of Zentraedi. Enjoy it!"


Taniya turned her Tomahawk and aimed both of her particle beam cannons on the recon pod, all the while smiling and thinking, Hah! Dear Zaile, your keen eyes are as sharp as ever - all they needed was focusing!


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Order of Battle


18 - Male Powered Armor 1-2


15 - Battle Pods 1-2


15 - Battle Pod 3 damaged


13 - Zaile


12 - Kevin


11 - Recon Pod


10 - Lightweight Foot Soldiers 1-4


9 - Taniya


8 - Infantry 1-10


5 - Infantry 11-20


Holding on @Beowulf in his Defender
 
"What!?" Connor shouted, turning his Defender to face the direction the enemies supposedly were. He primed his cannons, and had his finger on the trigger.


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Beowulf, your character has a +2 to initiative on your sheet, and another +2 from your Defender.
Even with Zaile's shouted warning, the Malcontents were lying in wait. The five Zentraedi mecha all leap into the fray, blasters firing in all directions. MPA 1 and 2 both target Taniya in her Tomahawk, while the three Battle Pods aim at Zaile in hers.


@Epiphany is up for your attack action, and you and @Dannigan need to either dodge and use another action doing so, or take the hit.


Order of Battle


18 - Male Powered Armor 1-2


15 - Battle Pods 1-2


15 - Battle Pod 3 damaged


13 - Zaile <====


12 - Kevin


11 - Recon Pod


10 - Lightweight Foot Soldiers 1-4


9 - Taniya


8 - Infantry 1-10


7 - Connor


5 - Infantry 11-20


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Corporal Zaile Alencar


The Zentraedi Imperative thrummed in Zaile's veins, the relentless urge to fight and die in glorious battle. Hundreds of Zentraedi generations had been bred for this and she'd taken her first breath with a head swimming in battle tactics and a hunger to use them. Elyana was in the back seat but the Corporal's awareness of her wife was dim; there was enemy ahead. RDF training drills had put her back into fighting shape but this was her first real battle in almost three years now. The need to crush her enemies dominated most other considerations.


One of the first rules of proper warfare; reduce your enemies' numbers so that your own overwhelm them. With that in mind, Zaile swiveled one of her main guns on the Tomahawk, the HPC-155 Heavy Particle Acceleration Cannon, and aimed it squarely at one of the lightly armored full-size Zentraedi without power armor. A quick kill meant one less gun shooting at them.


Of course the enemy chose that moment to open fire on her. The Imperative urged her to disregard the feeble enemy attacks, given the Tomahawk boasted far superior armor than anything she'd ever driven. But caution prevailed; she had to keep her mecha in the fight as long as possible. And she had to protect her passenger...her wife...


Zaile threw the Tomahawk to the side, frantically pushing the heavy beast of a machine to avoid the onslaught coming her way.


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OOC: ...Unless I need to lose my action to dodge the incoming fire. In which case, I think I'd rather try dodging if I can...


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The soldiers that your are going up against are not the same level of crack troops that Zaile is used to working with. These grunts are the bottom of the barrel scum that can't shoot straight as can be witnessed by Zaile being able to dodge the attacks coming at her easily.


Your return fire with the main gun of the Tomahawk lances out and slams into one of the soldiers in their lightweight armor, causing him to collapse.


From his position across the road, Kevin lines up a shot with his GU-11 gun pod and fires a burst at the damaged Battle Pod. Zaile's earlier shot managed to damage it badly, and Kevin is able to finish it off.


@Dannigan is up with Taniya


Order of Battle


18 - Male Powered Armor 1-2 [1]


15 - Battle Pods 1-2 [1]


13 - Zaile [2]


12 - Kevin [1]


11 - Recon Pod [1]


10 - Lightweight Foot Soldiers 2-4


9 - Taniya <====


8 - Infantry 1-10


7 - Connor


5 - Infantry 11-20
 
Sergeant Taniya


"Hold on, Tolson!" Taniya elected to take the hit from the Male Power Armor and open fire on the Recon Pod. She felt if this ambush team was part of some larger element, then the sooner the radio interference was taken out, the better. It might also help against any combat jamming the enemy might be performing on friendly units. Plus if Tolson were, after the destruction of the pod, still unable to alert Brazilia Base, then it would be clear that there was another enemy unit out there performing electronic counter-measures. It was worth taking the hit to know sooner rather than later.


She levelled both of her particle beam cannons on the pod and pulled the triggers the moment the pod was in her sights.


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Critical Strike! The Recon Pod turns to dodge, but all it does is delay its destruction for a fraction of a second. The twin beams slam into the pod and punch through it's paper thin armor.


The first group of infantry charge forward towards the convoy, laying down suppressing fire against the infantry guarding the trucks. They are much slower than the larger mecha and foot soldiers, and it will take them some time to close in.


@Beowulf, you are up with Connor


Order of Battle


18 - Male Powered Armor 1-2 [1]


15 - Battle Pods 1-2 [1]


13 - Zaile [2]


12 - Kevin [1]


10 - Lightweight Foot Soldiers 2-4 [1]


9 - Taniya [1]


8 - Infantry 1-10 [1]


7 - Connor <====


5 - Infantry 11-20


 
With the destruction of the Recon Pod, Tolson pipes up, "Sarge, all jamming is gone! I have a clean signal out. I'm sending up a signal that we are under attack."
 
Sergeant Taniya


When the recon pod explodes, Taniya clicks a counter on her monitor and grins. When Tolson relays the good news, Taniya replies, "Magnificent. Squad, minimize friendly casualties. McKinley, start with that infantry. Everyone else, focus fire on your teammates' targets and take them down quickly."
 
From her seat behind Taniya, you can hear Barbara sending a data uplink to a orbiting aircraft, and that signal is now being beamed down to both Brazilia and Anton-17.
 
"Bad day for you lads to be out and about." Connor grumbled, talking about the infantry that were about to be shot at by his air burst rounds. Shrapnel tends to really screw up your day, especially if they are rather large and go through you.


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It was a good choice to go with the airburst rounds this time out. Normally designed to shoot down heavily armored aircraft, the soft targets of the micronized infantry stand no chance. Round after round explode, showering the whole area with burning hot fragments of metal, literally turning the men into a bloody smear.


@Epiphany is up next with Zaile


Order of Battle


18 - Male Powered Armor 1-2 [1]


15 - Battle Pods 1-2 [1]


13 - Zaile [2]


12 - Kevin [1]


10 - Lightweight Foot Soldiers 2-4 [1]


9 - Taniya [1]


7 - Connor [1]
 
Corporal Zaile Alencar


With her other arm-cannon still unfired, Zaile lined up a bead on the Male Power Armor that had already damaged her CO's mecha. One flip of the trigger unleashed a blinding torrent of particle energy in the attacker's direction.


She didn't glance back at her wife but said "Bela Flor, just hold on. Tell me you're okay?"


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I am a bonehead. I forgot to have the MPAs and Battle Pods act before calling on Zaile. They just decided to delay until now. Yeah, that's the story. (' :) )
The sudden loss of the EW Pod seems to have been an unexpected factor, and the units in the powered armor and pods all pause for a moment, giving Zaile the drop on them. She lines up a shot on the MPA with her particle cannon, and the armored unit tries to dodge, but it doesn't manage to evade the attack. From her seat behind you, your wife manages to say, "I - I'm fine! Don't worry about me. Just get them!"


The two MPA suits seem to suddenly jump back into motion, and they turn with their weapons raised to face Connor and they let fly. One is a clean miss, the second will hit unless you dodge.


Battle Pods 1 and 2 both aim their heavy guns at Taniya, trying to do some serious damage to the Destroid.


Kevin growls out, "The hell with this pussyfooting around. Eat this!" He pops open one of is missile racks and aims at the undamaged MPA suit and fires five short range missiles at it. When the smoke clears, there is a pile of rubble where the Zentraedi unit used to be.


The three foot soldiers don't seem to appreciate that, and they raise their rifles and take aim at Kevin. He manages to leap to the side of two of the three, but the last one tags him hard in the torso, doing a moderate amount of damage to the armor.


@Dannigan is up with Taniya


Order of Battle


18 - Male Powered Armor 1 [2] damaged


15 - Battle Pods 1-2 [2]


13 - Zaile [3]


12 - Kevin [3]


10 - Lightweight Foot Soldiers 2-4 [2]


9 - Taniya [1] <====


7 - Connor [1]


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Sergeant Taniya


"That pod pilot is a good shot..." Taniya said as she swerved the great metal behemoth about.


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"...but he is no ace." Taniya grinned.
 
Barbara lets out a yelp and grabs onto the sides of her seat as Taniya makes the massive Destroid skip and jump aside. The comm tech quiets down quickly. "I'm ok. I've just never been shot at before today, and its a little unnerving!"


Towards the front of the column, a pair of the Comanchero's are laying down rocket and gunfire into the jungle where other Zentraedi units are lurking, and the lead Destroids are doing their best to quickly pound the attacking troops into submission or retreat.


At the rear of the convoy, the Earth defenders are outnumbered, but they are getting supporting fire from the infantry and their shoulder mounted rockets. So far, none of the cargo or tanker trucks have been hit.


@Beowulf is up with Connor


Order of Battle


18 - Male Powered Armor 1 [2] damaged


15 - Battle Pods 1-2 [2]


13 - Zaile [3]


12 - Kevin [3]


10 - Lightweight Foot Soldiers 2-4 [2]


9 - Taniya [2]


7 - Connor [1] <====
 
Kevin laughs. "Just so long as we get out of this fight alive, I don't give a damn how long it will take to repair. Hell, I'll help!"


@Beowulf is up.
 
((So I only get the one action, yes? Also, modifier I'm completely blanking on. I'm going to say +5 for dodge. Sounds right.))


"Oh shi..." Connor said, jerking his controls hard left, getting clear of the convoy they were supposed to be protecting. And hoping he avoided the incoming shots.


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Connor tries to evade, but one of the attacks still manages to score a solid hit. You take 30 MDC damage to your main body.


The MPA keys his radio and, speaking in his native Zentraedi, says, "Pull back! Pull back! We have what we came for!" With that announcement, the powered armor engages its jets and begins to accelerate away.


The two Battle Pods make a thruster-assisted leap out into the jungle, taking them out of sight of the ground based defenders. Your heavy MDC weapons can still track on all three mecha, using your radar to target the enemy.


@Epiphany is now up, what do you do?


Order of Battle


18 - Male Powered Armor 1 [3] damaged and retreating


15 - Battle Pods 1-2 [3] retreating


13 - Zaile [3] <====


12 - Kevin [3]


10 - Lightweight Foot Soldiers 2-4 [2]


9 - Taniya [2]


7 - Connor [2]
 
Corporal Zaile Alencar


"Pull back! Pull back! We have what we came for!"


Zaile looks incredulously at the departing Zentraedi forces. The heat of battle wars with the icy calm imposed by the discipline of her RDF training. So she dials the Zentraedi radio frequency, thumbs an open channel and in native Zentraedi yells "You forgot your going-away present!"


With that, she unloads one of her HPC-155 Heavy Particle Acceleration Cannons at the back of a fleeing Battle Pod.


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OOC: Not entirely sure if I can double attack or not so if not I'll modify the action.
 
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That would take up two attack/actions, and I'm only letting people do that in special circumstances; being able to dodge and shoot in the same round, or some attacks (like a power punch) that uses up two actions. Do you want both shots at one pod? Or will you save a particle cannon shot for later, since each cannon can only shoot twice a round.
 
I have a feeling that two shots to the same battlepod would be overkill. I'll take the one shot and save the other for my next attack. Modifying post now.
 
With a pull of the trigger, a stream of superheated particles fly out, chasing after the fleeing Battle Pod. This pilot may be better trained, and it is able to dodge the attack.


Kevin turns and once more unleashes a salvo of missiles, this time just three of them, aimed at the second fleeing Pod. This target, however, does not dodge, and it is blown to bits.


The last three foot soldiers turn and begin to sprint into the jungle and are quickly out of sight.


@Dannigan is up next.


Order of Battle


18 - Male Powered Armor 1 [3] damaged and retreating


15 - Battle Pod 1 [3] retreating


13 - Zaile [4]


12 - Kevin [4]


10 - Lightweight Foot Soldiers 2-4 [3] retreating


9 - Taniya [2] <====


7 - Connor [2]


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Sergeant Taniya


I am not convinced they are cowards... for they appear to have succeeded in their mission objective at significant cost to themselves.


Taniya's voice is cool and collected as she addresses the private in her rear seat. She is hoping her voice will lend to the private's own cool. "All right, Tolson. Remember what I taught you? That Male Power Armor unit is your target."


Taniya lines up the shot until she receives missile lock, selects all six missiles in the pod, and transfers control over to Tolson. All Tolson has to do is take the shot.


"Take him out."
 
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