It was ugly fighting and in some places costly, but the Eridani had prevailed.  The Dragoon garrison was dislodged and were forced off from their defensive position at the Star Port.

Half a dozen Union Class dropships broke orbit landing in and around the starport, and fresh Davion companies quickly move into position to secure the important position.

News of the Eridani's base being sacked while they were out was demoralizing but not totally unexpected.

The fight for the Starport was over, but the fighting was still going on as pockets of resistance fought on in and around the Starport.

Small arms and dogged resistance by Combine infantry was making complete occupation of the starport beyond the Davion occupying forces reach.

When the Dragoons were busy with the Eridani assault, most of the Combine Dropships made good with the time bought and boosted for orbit to escape a mess, except one.  Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta and Omega squads were busy assaulting a Combine Union class dropship that was caught out low on fuel on the ground and unable to boost off to escape orbit with the rest of the Combine  transport assets.

An Eridani Union came and and landed on the Starport to offer a temporary sanctuary for 6th Company.  The mechs were quickly loaded into the mech bays, as the pair of LAMs were converted into their Aero forms and slotted into the Aero Bays.  Battle damage was quickly assessed and 'critical' parts were loaded onto the Dropship before it boosted for orbit.

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Please use this thread for light roleplaying as i tally up the damage done from Mission Eight.  Repairs will be 'limited' for Mission Nine.

PLEASE participate in this thread, even if its only a single post.  I'm using it as a means to measure the who's still with us and who is on hiatus for the next mission.

Halo and Holiday will probably sit out the next mission since i intend to BM the next chapter giving all the other BMs a break from the hard work of running missions.
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Ater parking his mech Devlin made his way to the lounge.  He grabbed a bottle of whiskey and table.

Bartender, when the rest of the unit arrives drinks are on me.

He kicks back in hsi chair and lights up a cigar.

(Union class drop ship, not mech warrior bar, though i will count Devlin as present and accounted for)

Svend grabbed a rag to wipe the sweat from his face as he worked well past exhaustion to bring his mech into decent shape. She was going to need lots of work done to repair the beating she took, but for now, Svend was doing all he could to simply cover her internals.

While they hadn't taken down any of the Dragoon mechs, at least most of the mechs were in decent condition.  Adam wasn't so sure about the internals of Reaper's Wolfhound though...that Ice Box did a number on his internals and he wasn't sure when he'd be ready for duty again.  Signing off on more paperwork he looked over the preliminary damage assessment from the battle as he saw Svend walk on by, "Svend, good job out there.  You took a lickin and kept on tickin thanks to those mods you made.  I know Scooter had allocated armour for my Clint and I'll see what I can do to get him to shift it over to your Firestarter...and if you need any pull getting any of her internals looked at drop my name, got it?"

Caille was cursing and swearing when she entered the lounge on the dropship, she hadn't been able to hit the inside of a barn, not to mention Johan just ticked her off, if only some idiot with monetary problems could promote the bastard out of their unit, and the sooner the better.

none of that was vocalized though, just a string of curses as she grbbed a beer, sat down near Carlyle, and popped open the can, taking a solid drink from it before setting it on the table.

Marcus found himself a quiet spot in the bar and tried to drown the memory of being surrounded by hostiles.

Scooter goes about assessing the damages.

It was going to be alot harder than usual this time.  The Union's stores of equipment was at best 'tight'.  Repairs were going to be alot harder to come by.

(Characters assigned repair pools are 'halved' at this time.)

There is a finite 'weight' of 35 tons of repair tonnage available to repair the Eridani unit.  Unit commanders will have to determine which mechs need to get on their feet as a priority for the next mission.

(10 tons for weapons)
(20 tons for Armor 320af - used 261 af)
(1 ton for internals 16pts - used 13 internals)
(3 tons for assorted ammo used / 1t of AC, SRM, and LRM)
(1 ton for incidentals) (Actuators)



Repairs Pending

Wild Stallions
New Kid
82 af of Armor
2 tons of weapons (2) LRM 5's  {If available / Roll required}
90 LRM Ammo (covered by Supply Pool - Only Standard Ammo Available)

Dark Horses
Wolfman (Armor damage repaired)(cost modifier 1.4)
10 af of Armor
3 tons of weapons (SRM 6) {If available / Roll required}
Ammo for SRM if repaired

Rabbit (cost modifier 1.3)
39 af of Armor Damage   (26 covered by 1/2 repair pool)
 7 pt of Internals (1 point over Repair Pool)
1 ton of Weapons Medium Laser {If available / Roll required}
2 ton of Weapons Sword {If available / Roll required}
Engine Critical {If available / Roll required}

Ping Pong (cost modifier 1.35)
36 af of Armor Damage   (28 covered by 1/2 repair pool)

Dancing Horses
Cowboy (fully repaired)
6 Precision AC/2 used (covered by Supply Pool - Only Standard Ammo Available)
Engine Critical

Back Draft
56 af of Armor Damage
 6 internals Damage (Covered by Repair Pool)

Reaper's Wolfhound
12 af of Armor Damage
 3 Heat Sinks Damage
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Cade parks his Mech in his slotted bay and then slowly takes a walk around it accessing the damage.  He flinches a bit when he sees the damage to two of his LRM5s, and makes a cross sign across his chest with his fingers.  A few inches to the left and the ammo bins would have gone off.

Listening to his comms he replied, +"No, no, no.  Just pull the remaining precision rounds from the magazine and fully load her with the regular rounds.  I'll save those couple of belts of ammo and add them to what I couldn't load in before for any special missions I need to take later."+

With an almost silent sigh he looked over to Camille who was downing a beer seemingly as fast as possible adding , "We took the spaceport and have fresh reinforcements...could be worse."

(Tentative serious damage list)

At most... The unit may only repair 10 tons of equipment / weapons.

Mechs that took exceptional damage are...

Wild Stallion's
New Kid's Whitworth
needs 18 af.  needs one base roll of 6+.  Cost 15,750 if available
needs (2) tons for (2) LRM5's and needs base roll 7+ for each weapon to be available.  cost 42,000 each

Dark Horses
Wolfman's Whitwort
needs (3) tons for (1) SRM6 and needs base roll 8+.  cost 112,000.
(5 ammo available if weapon comes online)

Rabbit's Valkyrie
needs 1 pt of Internals.  needs base roll of 7+ to be available
needs (1) ton for (1) Medium Laser and needs base roll 7+.  cost 52,000.
needs (2) ton for Sword {Not available at this time}
needs (1) Engine Shielding.  needs base roll of 8+.  cost 130,000

Dancing Horses
Cowboy
needs (1) Engine Shielding.  needs base roll of 8+.  cost 140,000

Reaper's Wolf Hound
needs 93) tons for (3) Heat Sinks, base roll of 7+ for each.  cost 2700 each

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There seems to be enough parts on the Union, to cover all the repairs for everything.  So players may throw dice to see if parts are available.
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Being new Cade aimlessly wanders around the Mech bay looking to find whoever makes the repairs to these wondrous rigs.  Unfortunatly he pissed off the wrong man and only 1 LRM5 is available to repair his damaged one.  Nothing else... no armor...

[OOC:
11:30, Today: MW Cade Murphy rolled 3,2,9 using 2d6,2d6,2d6. Repair Rolls, AF, LRM5, LRM5. ]

Unit Readiness Status...
Wild Stallions
Ready - Blue Blood
Ready - Goth
Ready - Blackjack
Partial Repairs - Rookie - 42k spent for repairs - Still has 18af of Damage from last fight.

Dark Horses
Ready - Halo
Needs Repairs - Wolfman
Needs Repairs - Rabbit
Ready - Ping Pong

Dancing Horses
Needs Repairs - Cowboy
Ready - Joker
Ready - Backdraft
Needs Repairs - Wolfhound (WIA)

LAM Lance
Ready - Holiday
Ready - Dom
This message was last edited by the GM at 15:40, Mon 04 June 2012.

wow.  Epic bad.  Okay your start with damage on your mech and one LRM down for the next fight.
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Receiving a few more calls over his comms he looks up at the ceiling of the galley that they had all congregated in and he started shaking his head and answering back and forth questions that on his side amounted to a series of yes and no replies that ended with a surprised look on his face.

11:46, Today: 1st LT Adam Carlyle rolled 10 using 2d6. Engine Shielding TN8+. Yes.

Big question is do I have the funds...didn't make any mech kills this last time and last I remember I didn't have the C-bills to buy it hence why even when I failed it didn't matter

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ooc: Rolled for Reaper since that is Oliver
11:47, Today: 1st LT Adam Carlyle rolled 6,4,11 using 2d6,2d6,2d6. For Reaper's Heat Sinks JIC TN7+ ea. 1 HS found.

In reply to Kitten (msg #14):

So there is still a gaping hole in the torso covering the LRMS?

One LRM in the LT will be 'down', and you'll start the mission with 18 damage.

In reply to Kitten (msg #17):

Where is the damage located?  Or does the amazing tech crew move armor around and spread around the damage?
This message was last edited by the GM at 21:24, Mon 04 June 2012.

In reply to MW Cade Murphy (msg #18):

It more of a matter of 18 points of damage from the last mission that is not repaired.  Ending last mission you looked like this.  Just short the armor repairs by 18 points, and presume one of the LRM's in the LT was not repaired and that's your ready status.

17:57, Today: MW Caitlin Mallory rolled 7 using 2d6. Internals.
17:58, Today: MW Caitlin Mallory rolled 6 using 2d6. Med Laser. Nope
17:59, Today: MW Caitlin Mallory rolled 12 using 2d6. Engine Shielding

So....I'm down 1 Med Laser and 1 Sword.

The engine shielding was a vast improvement i think.  Nice rolling.

Can we 'pull strings' for our lancemates?

[OOC]Ah thanks for the explanation Kitty.[/ooc]


Cade watches the repairs of his mech and the movement of armor around the mech.  Since he could not find the armor replacement, he was forced to move armor around, making the right arm particularly vulnerable.  This makes Cade cringe.  With a thought he asks one of the technicians as nicely as possible if they would be so kind to swap out the broken LRM5 in the RT with the working one in the arm?  At least the one in the arm would be more protected from any hits.

The techs dont really mind, but they're sort of over worked, since Blue Blood is having them work non stop with out breaks or real rest to get the company's mechs up and running.  After they get some rack time, they're willing to humor Cade.

(How ever, you will get into combat before they get to work on that swap for you)

I would suggest reparing the torsos to full.  YOu have Ammo, and critical systems there.  So that means you have to short the arms and legs 18 points of repairs.  Even if you do no repairs on the right arm, that's on 10 points and another 8 points of damage will have to be allocated between left arm and right leg.  You might want to spread that 'damage' around.

Suggest no repairs on left arm, leaving it at 8 armor (4 damage)
Suggest partial repairs to right leg, bringint it up to 11 armor (to take a PPC hit or pair of lasers) (7 damage)
Leaves repairs on right arm, leaving it with 5 armor (7 damage).

It's going to be light armor no matter how you look at it, at least you cane take a PPC or a couple of lasers, with out losing body locations.

In reply to MW Marcus Brody (msg #22):

Not this time around, mostly because supplies are so limited on the dropship.  Either they have it or they dont.

[OOC:
In reply to Kitten (msg #24):

Sounds good.  Cade will gladly take those suggestions. [/OOC]

Cade listens to the techs and one particularly bright one comes up with a suggestion to better displace the missing armor.  Seeing the brilliance for what it is, Cade agrees fully and then does his best to help out the repair crew by bringing water, snacks and other goodies while they work endlessly.  He also tries to acquire some alcohol for the tech crew if possible.

Devlin tries to find replacement parts for his SRM but is out of luck once again.


22:16, Today: Cprl. Devlin Masters rolled 5 using 2d6. Repair Roll  SRM-6  8+.

camille was a little more than just tipsy as she raised her head and glared at the speakers, she was however, not too drunk to function, and the adrenalne burst from battle would clear her system quite quickly.

She finished her current beer, and made her way to her cicada.

If you made the rolls, the repairs were made, even if you didnt have the C-Bills.

Devlin, i'll give you the choice between deploying in your whitworth or oliver's wolfhound.  I know you were looking at the mech at one point.  With the SRM6 down, it's looking to be a pretty good option.

Mission should be starting... soon.

I'll keep the Whitworth.  Wolfhound runs too hot.

one question before I move on to rolling for ch 9, do we gain any exp from this mission?

Define 'this', with a chapter number.

If you mean chapter '8', yes you do, but you only have a day or so of down time, which is not really enough to have the experience 'settle in', or to do auctions or anything neat.  So.  Yes you do, just not right now.


(Part of it, is i'm out of practice to do bookkeeping and need a little time to reassimulate how.  Eight was a really really really long chapter, maybe the longest weve had.)
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OOC:  Sorry to be late to the party, but been busy...writing on my phone now....

If anyone had any doubtsa that the company commander's head could get really big, those were summarily refuted.  In the days following the operation to take the Starport, Captain Hinklemeyer-Schmidt went to an extreme to let everyone know how HE had made the right strategic call and how HE had directed his unit into successful action.  It was, as if, no one else were there and the higher brass--including the late captain of the company--had nothing to do with anything.  On top of that, he had been sure to describe the noble conduct of the whole engagement with the gentlemanly negotiations at the end of the action for the enemy to withdraw, making it an extended, perfumed duel of some sort.

All of this rubbed the rest of the company, needless to say, the wrong way.  To add to the humiliation, the captain had been sure to illustrate fully how he had helped to protect his unit...to extent that other members of the brigade took to calling the 6th Recon Company "Hinklemeyer-Schmidt's toy soldiers".  They were...probably...not happy.  All of this was possible, of course, because the captain's own mech was unscathed and he seemingly had little to do.
This message was last edited by the player at 16:13, Tue 12 June 2012.

OOC:  Please note edits in the prior posts.

To the relief of many, after a little while, the captain was conspicuously absent.  Those in the know understood he was now...with his latest success...being afforded the opportunity to join some more of the activities of the military brass--in particular, a few pretentious events of the exiled nobility finding themselves in a mercenary unit.  Many just hoped he would stay there.