In reply to Lewis Eugene Grey (msg # 14):

"The burnt section is where he crashed. We managed after about a week of shooting at him to hit his Manoeuvre drive. Whilst our gunnery has improved, I think he has repaired the damage. Ok, so perhaps it was not a week of shooting, but it seemed like it...If you have some supplies we can wait a little longer.

The other two sites marked seem to be primitive settlements. One has been attacked and probably does not have to many left. A few tanks will do that. They have 4 Shuttles they use as transports too. Seems to be a company down there, and they can do what they like. The primitives seem to have negligible arms."

"Cap'n, they'd be sitting ducks against the both of us, plus our fighters!" Lewis interjects gleefully.

So Captain luv, should I take her down to see what we can find?"

We'll share ... two is always better than one ... get us a list of absolute necessities, as we don't carry a lot of supplies either and we have 35 Labrysians aboard as well. Once he is no longer a threat, we'll kill the tanks... Let's put the fighters up... we can then provide him more missiles than he can stop... do you still have a few left?

In reply to Cyril Zotmund (msg # 18):

"Of course, in order to shoot at him through the Atmosphere, we would have to get within range of his Dorsal turret. I notice the Scout is conspicuously is staying on the other side of the planet to himself..."
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Laughing... He is a scout after all... his job is to report, not fight. Can't we put missiles through the atmosphere?

In reply to Cyril Zotmund (msg # 20):

"We can, sir, but due to the atmospheric pressure creating resistance on their hulls, they will overheat and trigger the detonators if they go over 740 mph. Since they self-detonate after a minute, this reduces their range somewhat! This also makes them very vulnerable to point defence fire, which is probably why the scout is staying away.

Missiles designed for atmospheric operations, such as the TML, have shorter ranges in space, but longer in atmosphere as they are designed to overcome this problem."

"So lets go find them and launch the missiles at close range."

Yes, since we don't need line of sight for those.


OOC - Are the Fighters capable of working in the atmosphere?

In reply to Cyril Zotmund (msg # 23):

"Disturbingly, the Dastavka, her fighters and her ships boat can all travel faster than that in the atmosphere. So too, could the Destroyer they are targeting, and the shuttles, as all are designed for atmospheric  operations. Only space missiles are not, no doubt to save costs...But of them only the Dastavka and her ships boat are armed with anything other than space missiles. Oh, and the APC, but it does not fly or float well."

He pauses. "I guess Tanyas grav bike with a Mortar could be considered armed as well."
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Laughing   I think we'll leave Tanya's bike aboard.  But the destroyer is stationary... so the missiles might still work? Digging in with Lasers means it's just DASTAVKA as all the fighters only have missiles. That's a crappy contest.

"Cap'n, I could take the boat down, with a small team, and do some scouting, while you remain in orbit. Might be good to see who these primitives are first, before we make contact, or try to arm them."

You did hear that the Government destroyer put some tanks down there?

"Yes, Cap'n. but up here, we have an "eye in the sky". It would be doubly effective with a coordinated ground, effort."

"In the meanwhile, perhaps we could doctor up some of our missles some, to make them orbital air-to-surface jobs? give them some sort of insulation on the nose, perhaps...."

"You provide the mortar, I'll provide the grav bike."

In reply to Tanya Weaver (msg # 30):

"That might just take longer than we have. They would need to be streamlined and be made of different materials. Actually a 64mm shaped charge mortar would likely do a lot of damage to either a starship or a tank, if you have those rounds, Tanya."

[Secret to Tanya Weaver: The mortar was installed on the grav bike following action against Vilani troops. As such, you do have some of those warhead. They are on your char sheet.]

Very well Duke... at the moment the Starship is the biggest threat... let's do what we can to disable it, then we can bring DASTAVKA down a bit and fry the tanks...

"So we going down now?" she says with a smile. "Oh, I got a Dragonfly Ultralight I can fly to scout but it is not much for combat"

Lets go down, but not in sight of the destroyer...

"Good thing I picked up that grav belt in aegir, and trained in something a little heavier than my trusty pistol.." Lewis pats his sidearm.

In reply to Lewis Eugene Grey (msg # 35):

As you approach the other side of the planet, the sensors start beeping.

"Actually, sir, I have just picked up a three shuttles travelling in convoy. Destination unknown, but they seem to be heading towards an Island marked on the map as having primitives. They are beyond the horizon from the destroyer, and heading further."

"Do you think it's a raid?"

In reply to Lewis Eugene Grey (msg # 37):

"Hard to tell, sir. Three shuttles is a bit much for a scouting trip or foraging for food, I would think. Could contain 4 APCs with 64 Troops, 2 Scout tanks and a Medium tank, or there could be a couple of guys out hunting for lunch. Can't say."

"I'm going to see if I can pick up any comm signals.. it was mentioned the primitives were using radios."