In reply to Lewis Eugene Grey (msg # 44):

"Go exactly where sir? They are likely coming from two different directions..."

"Affirmative."  She gets on.

Ronovan instructs his men,  "Don't shoot until you see the whites of their livers."

"Let's check out the East, Thornhammer."

I'll come too...

In reply to Raymond 'Duke' Vurhund (msg # 49):

As the Dastavka flies low over the island, missiles launching and turrets flashing, the original hostile troops start their way inland, to where Ronovan and his men are waiting for them. By the time the APC reaches the colony, the first of the hostile Labrysians is just 200 yards from the nearest ambusher to the north-west, who as yet remains concealed.
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In reply to Fate (msg # 50):

The Labrysian team to the north is the first to reveal their positions, with the flamer opening up ineffectively on two of the leading fireteam. AM rifles then open up on the entire fireteam, and they seem to drop. Surprise now lost, they reload fervently.

However, a second fireteam with plasma weapons approach their position from the south, about 1000 yards north of Ronovan's position. There seems to be a third about 500 yards away from Ronovan's position as well, but they have not been sighted yet.
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In reply to Fate (msg # 51):

The second fireteam quickly closes with the North Labrysian team and exchanges fire. The hostile Labrysians all go down, but 2 Labrysians with heavy flamers are hit as they moved forward to take a heavy plasma guns from downed enemies. One is very fortunate, and the plasma round deflects of his heavy armour due to the high angle of incidence, but the other is hit squarely and goes down as plasma burns through his armour and cooks him inside of it.

A third fireteam is now visible approaching Ronovans position, about 400 yards to the north. They appear to be preparing to flank the team that has just taken fire. A fourth fireteam is moving into attack positions with cover about 300 yards to the north of the same rebel team.

In reply to Fate (msg # 52):

The Dastavka, a couple of miles up, unleashes a beam bombardment of the fourth fireteam, igniting the foliages somewhat. The smoke carries north west over towards the beach.

"Let's head north, toward all that fire and smoke, sergeant!"

In reply to Lewis Eugene Grey (msg # 54):

"Just us, Sir, or take the APC with us?

Also, from here, the smoke is West north-west, unless you want us to flank them to the north..."

[OOC Map for group 2, the fires are where Fireteam 4 were. Your current positions marked]

"Aye, We'll take the APC with us, and let's try and flank fireteam 4, effectively trapping both fireteams between our forces." Lewis contacts the westernmost squad, and suggests they advance, to keep up.

In reply to Lewis Eugene Grey (msg # 56):

OK, so just to be clear,

Thornhammer, Armstrong and Tonkins are in the APC. Joan and Ronny are with you, and the Westernmost squad of Labrysians is south-west of Ronovan. Duke and Tanya have moved up near the APC.

You are getting the Westernmost Squad of Labrysians moving up, right, to near Ronovans position? Whilst you and the humans and APC with you move East then North to flank Fireteam 4, which are currently engulfed in a growing bushfire. Go that right?

As shown on updated map, right?
This message was last edited by the GM at 09:42, Sun 09 Oct 2016.

right

In reply to Lewis Eugene Grey (msg # 58):

The APC is the fastest way to cover the approximately 4 miles down the nose of the ridge to where you are headed. At full speed, it should not take more than an hour...

The ships boat, parked up at the colony, would be a faster option...

"Oi! change of plan. We'll take all the men in the ships boat, instead."

Lewis Transmits to the colony:"This is Security Officer Grey, We're coming for the shuttle."

In reply to Lewis Eugene Grey (msg # 60):

"You guys need us for a pickup? Airborne..."

The craft responds fairly quickly. Within 10 minutes, those who want to be aboard are able to be so.

"You want to be on the other side of the fire, or this side and up the hill a little?"

"Up the hill, Illiam."

Ronavan orders his squad to carefully move north and fiercely engage fire team 3.  He intends to keep them busy while the rebels creep into position.
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In reply to 'Captain' Ronovan Ga Det Hug (msg # 64):

Ronovan are about 500 yards from their positions now...quite close enough to engage them, though with the standard -15 range penalty. This will drop to -11 at less than 500 yards, but if you plan to creep up on them, remember they are creeping away from you, probably at the same pace, so you may have to forgo stealth in order to get closer to them by moving faster than they are.

Of course, heavy plasma gun has 11 Acc, while Anti-Material Rifle has 9 Acc. They probably have DR50 armour on the torso, and DR30 armour elsewhere, so laser rifles would not be so impressive...
This message was last edited by the GM at 11:37, Tue 11 Oct 2016.

"We'll follow them until they stop moving, or until we can trap them between, the other group. in an all out assault our laser rifles wouldn't be effective, either."

Lewis contacts the nearest squad and has the other men move.

In reply to Lewis Eugene Grey (msg # 67):

My Bad, Ronovan is already 500 yards away from Fireteam 3. He will have about ten minutes of combat before the Ships Boat can have you on the scene.

But you are right about the effect of the laser rifles...you would need to to aimed shots at the skull (-7 to hit)...6d does an average of 21 damage per shot, and with an armour divisor of 2 that would reduce the total DR to 19 (Labrysians have natural DR of 5 and the head has 7), meaning on average 2 points of tight burning damage would penetrate to the head per shot, but this would be 8 points of injury because it is the skull. Easy to see how a good roll here could kill...but you would know this already.

In reply to Fate (msg # 68):

As Fireteam 3 moves north to engage Rebel Squad 1, Ronovans squad moves up behind them, catching them when they stop to engage. As they do, a fifth fireteam approaches their left flank.

Squad 2 moves north to assist Ronovans squad, while Squad one exchanges fire with at least one survivor of Fireteam 4 and Fireteam 3. They report another casualty.

The fire around Fireteam 4 begins to take hold, and is spreading slowly down the hill as the wind pushes it. The ships boat is by this time has arrived to pick up the APC and whoever is wanting a ride.

There are no reports of sightings from colonists looking over the crash sites of the other two APCs.