REMINDER OF THE BATTLEFIELD:


As soon as you return from the center lines you receive word via an Ul-Mor rider, that the Eorna skirmish line on your right flank is in serious trouble. Some new monsters have been unleashed by the Sathar, and the Eorna are totally unable to stand against them. Already they are dying and retreating. Soon these monsters will turn the flank of the Edestekai, unhinging the entire line of your
army! The Eorna desperately need your help.

As you approach the scene of the crisis, you are able to see several of the huge monsters. They are enormous cybots, apparently part reptilian, part robot. They are rampaging through the Eorna front. This hideous creation of the Sathar has a huge metallic head with eyes that blaze firth laser beams. Flames shoot from its "mouth" which is full of horrid metallic teeth. The creature's appearance suggests the name:  cybodragon!

While you are dispatching a desperate call for reinforcements, you see a Sathar ground vehicle roar up behind one of the cybodragons. Two Sathar technicians emerge from the vehicle and the cybodragon comes to a halt. The technicians slither up the sides of the now stilled beast and remove a plate from the back of its head. An object is removed from inside, and another inserted in its place. The technicians get back into their vehicle and the monster continues its attack. The technicians head for the next cybodragon.  It is obvious that the power required by such a creation is enormous. That Sathar vehicle holds the supply of extra power packs! The only way to halt the cybodragon attack is to destroy or capture that truck immediately.



SITUATION:  The Sathar have attacked the weakest point of the Volturnus forces' line with their cybodragons. At this instant, the cybodragon nearest you has ceased attacking, awaiting new power packs from the Sathar mobile supply unit (the ground truck). Of course, there is still sporadic firing, and the cybodragon is still a formidable foe, for it retains its flame thrower and melee
capabilities. Once recharged, its laser weapons will also function again.

GOAL:  You must destroy or capture the mobile supply unit. This will prevent the Sathar from providing new power packs for the cybodragon. It will also give an example to the other troops, for it enough such trucks can be knocked out, the
Sathar forces will soon be out of ammunition!


Here is the map.  On this map, ignore the #4 and related icons/arrows.  You are looking at #3 with the related eorna forces.



You are approaching from the point where the word "highway" is.  You still have the recoiless rifle, but it is not set up yet (1 turn to set up).

The refueling truck will take one turn to reach the cybodragon.  It is approaching from the bottom area of the ancient road.  After reaching the southern cybodragon, it must remain with it for 4 turns before refueling is complete.  You have essentially 5 rounds to make a go of this.  There are 10 sathar, 2 at each of the places marked, and two on the truck.

SATHAR FORCES
· 10 Sathar, with the following statistics:

STR/STA DEX/RS INT/LOG PER/LDR PS IM RW M
40/40    40/40 45/45   45/65    2  4 20 20

These Sathar are armed with laser rifles and one full clip each.

· 1 cybodragon
(MV Fast; IM/RS 8/75; STA 500; ATT 80; DM 10-100
from bite, claws, and metallic tentacles; SA Two laser
eyes that fire 5 shots each, 10d10 damage per shot,
flamethrower breath for 3d10)

· 1 ground truck (120 structural points)

VOLTURNUS FORCES

YOU!

6 Eorna with the following statistics:
STR/STA DEX/RS INT/LOG PER/LDR PS IM RW M
40/40   40/40   45/45  45/65    2 4  20 20

Each has a laser rifle with one full clip.

2 megasauruses under Eorna control

You have 5 reinforcement eorna approaching from the rear.  The sathar have an undetermined number of reinforcements coming in from the rear.
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Bartja sets up the recoiless rifle to fire at the truck when it's up and ready.

 Throwing an idea out to the others as Bartja sets up the rifle, Kri'lik says, "Perhaps now would be a good time to call in our air cover and perhaps send in those megasauruses under Eorna control."

"Agreed!  Let's call in the air cover and set up the recoiless rifle," Desiraye says as she switches out power packs/belt on her laser rifle.

Seeing the veteran warrior Desiraye checking her power usage, professor Kri'lik does the same for his beam weapons switching SEU sources as needed.

"Groovy, lets hit that truck with everything we have then mop up the rest!"

Emboldened by his previous success, or maybe just knocked silly by the concussion waves of nearby explosions, S'Krllk begins to approach the cybodragon that has run out of ammunition. Perhaps he believes he can turn it against the Sathar, or perhaps he's just a distraction to allow the Sathar to waste ammo on.

ROUND 1

In the ensuing fight, you get weapons set up and loaded and call the air strike.

The Eorna begin firing at the 10 Sathar, which keeps them temporarily occupied in finding cover and firing back.

The 2 megasauruses are unleashed to attack the Sathar and begin descending to do that.

ROUND 2
Desiraye and Bartja hit the truck.  A hole is blown into one side, and Desiraye nearly, but not quite, hits the driver.  Instead, her laser melts the glass, slowing down the truck slightly as the Sathar rolls down the window and sticks its head out to stear.

The megasauruses will arrive next round.  One of the Sathar is killed and one injured.  The Sathar seem to be coordinating their attack on one Eorna at a time, and one of the Eorna is killed.

The Sathar look in your direction as you attack the truck, and one waves an arm in your direction.

5 Sathar turn toward you while the remaining 4 continue to attack the Eorna and megasauruses.

OOC: Sorry for the delays; I've been traveling on business and am going out of town again today.  I tend to work all the time without any internet access when I travel.

Bartja will continue to fire at the truck as long as he is able.

 Kri'lik watches the enemy Sathar split their forces. Now is as good a time as any to be heroic, the professor comments to himself. As the Sathar split in two Kr'lik shifts his aim upon the enemy slugs who are engaged with his Eorna allies.

"Die you Sathar scum!" He yells at the enemy in their own language.

 The doctor takes aim and fires his laser rifle at the nearest sathar attacking the eorna.

Beam weapons 35% + aim

Desiraye tries tomake herself as small as she can to the oncoming Sathar fire while she tries to return accurate fire at them.

STR/STA: 65/60
DEX/RS: 60/60
INT/LOG: 40/40
PER/LDR: 40/40
IM: 6
CURRENT STAMINA: 60/60

SKILLS:
Beam Weapons:4
70% +15% for aimed shot

Becka runs forward until she has a good clear shot of the nearest sathar.  Then she fires at it after taking careful aim.

ROUND 3
The 5 sathar open fire on you...

Becka is hit for 42 damage.
Desiraye is hit for 36 damage.
Bartja is hit for 12 damage.

The truck has reached the strange cybodragon now, and its driver and passenger (both Sathar) are powering up the cybodragon.

Desiraye hits one of the 5 Sathar.  Sergi hits the same one.  The sathar goes down, leaving only 4.

Kri'lik hits another sathar, wounding it.

Bartja hits the vehicle with the recoilless for 66 structural points of damage.

(Your air strike will arrive next round.  You already see them gliding in.  But more Sathar are also coming closer to get into position behind the others.)

The sathar manage to shoot down one of the megalasaurs, but not before it rips a sathar body to shreds.  One of the Eorna is hit by two shots, and he also collapses.

The Eorna manage to take out two more Sathar, leaving just 1 (plus the 4 aiming at you).

But then the 5 replacements step into place.  4 of them aim at the eorna and their strange dinosaur creature.  1 joins the ranks of those aiming at you.

Bartja continues to fire at the truck, keeping the recoiless trained on it to ensure better accuracy.

Desiraye winces from the hit from one of the Sathar rifles but, she continues to return accurate fire back on the advancing enemies at her and her companions.  "HIT 'EM HARD!" Desiraye yells out to her companions around her.

STR/STA: 65/60
DEX/RS: 60/60
INT/LOG: 40/40
PER/LDR: 40/40
IM: 6
CURRENT STAMINA: 24/60

SKILLS:
Beam Weapons:4
70% +15% for aimed shot

OOC: If there is cover, Desiraye seeks it or she is prone if I didn't make that clear before
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Becka fires again at the nearest Sathar.

S'Krllk wavers between attempting to do in the Sathar, and fleeing the cybodragon, until he remembers a phrase oft repeated by some previous humans he had occasion to see... "discretion is the better part of valor".
Therefore, S'Krllk attempts to sneak back away from the hideous death that surely awaited him.

Sergi will continue to fire at the Sathar, giving cover to our heroic RR gunner and trying to be as small a target as possible.

Professor Kri'lik continues to concentrate his efforts on aidding the Eorna. That is unless one of his allies calls for medical aid.

Fires at the nearest Sathar
35% + aim

(Im still here. been busy with work. Im also game for continuing on with something else.)

ROUND 4

The kurabanda air attack option arrives!

The Kurabanda have launched themselves from the tops of the ruins overlooking the battlefield and glided over enemy units, where they now drop hand grenades as they fly over.  (Next round, they will try to land behind the enemy and open fire with bows and arrows, but they will be helpless for one round first, as they must remove their hang gliders and prepare their bows and arrows. A total of 8 Kurabanda are flying overhead.

There are 10 total Sathar with the replacements in place, plus the one powering up the giant robot.  5 aim at you and 5 aim at the Eorna.

Then you realize whom the Sathar are aiming at...the one who is trying to stop them from powering up the cybodragon.

They fire...and 3 of them hit Bartja, for a total damage of 126.  Bartja falls from the recoiless rifle, dead!

Two Eorna are hit, one of them dying from the Sathar blasts.

Grenades fall in the midst of the Sathar...



Three Sathar die from the falling grenades.  Due to the splash effect, three others are wounded.  One of those dies, leaving only four Sathar left.

Desiraye takes cover.

You fire your lasers...

Kri'lik, Desiraye, and Becka each hit their targets.  One more Sathar goes down, leaving only three Sathar, one of which is very wounded, plus the one finishing powering up the cybodragon.

The technician finishes powering up the cybodragon and turns to aim his laser rifle at you.

The cybodragon turns in your direction, and you get a good look at it for the first time:



You have heard of the Sathar using cybodragons before and know a little about them:

They are enormous cybots, apparently part reptilian, part robot. This hideous creation of the Sathar has a huge metallic head with eyes that blaze forth laser beams. The half creature, half robot monster is huge, larger even than the truck that just replaced its fuel cells--two or three times as large.  Flames shoot from its "mouth" which is full of horrid metallic teeth. The creature's appearance suggests the name: cybodragon!



The cybodragon turns toward you.  It is roughly 100 meters away, but not for long!  The thing is not only huge, BUT EXTREMELY FAST!  You probably only have about one round until it is within range.
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 "Oh crap!" Says the professor as he sees the cybodragon turn to face them. Well the Eorna will just have to stand on their own We have got to take that big thing down. He thinks to himself.
 Dropping to three knee's the insectoid steadies his aim at the approching cybot and fires. Hope this hits!

Beam weapons 35% + aim. He will also set it to 20 SEUs.

OOC: What weapon are you using?  Does it go to 20 SEU's?

OOC: Laser rifle, sorry about that. If not 20 SEUs I set it to max.

Becka keeps her laser rifle pointed at one of the remaining Sathar to get them out of the way and distracted.

Desiraye takes careful aim and fires a shot at the cybodragon (I beleive she's been shooting her rifle at max 20 SEU since the beginning of the battle).  "ALL OF YOU!  CONCENTRATE WHATEVER FIRE YOU CAN ON THAT DRAGON THING!"

STR/STA: 65/60
DEX/RS: 60/60
INT/LOG: 40/40
PER/LDR: 40/40
IM: 6
CURRENT STAMINA: 24/60

SKILLS:
Beam Weapons:4
70% +15% for aimed shot
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"Arse Biscuits!"  Sergi takes aim and fires his giro-pistol at the approaching monster.

Becka misses the Sathar, but Sergi, Desiraye and Kri'lik hit the oncoming cybodragon with their settings maxed out.  They do massive damage, slowing it down some.  (357 combined damage).

It fires its two "laser rifles" that it has installed in its eye sockets as it approaches, but it seems to be aiming at the recoiless rifle, where Bartja already died.  The recoiless is completely destroyed.

The kurabanda and Eorna engage the remaining Sathar.  One kurabanda is killed and one Eorna is killed, but the remaining Sathar are wiped out.

The kurabanda cannot hit the cybodragon from that distance, but the Eorna turn to aim at the cybodragon.

The cybodragon is now 40 meters away and firing up its flamethrower.  (This is considered "long" range for it.)  It is also turning its laser rifle equivalent eyes toward you.


Here are some SEU/damages of your common equipment:

Laser pistol: up to 10 SEU (20 SEU clips)
Laser rifle: up to 20 SEU (20 SEU clips)
gyrojet rifle: 3d10 (10 rounds)
gyrojet pistol: 2d10 (10 rounds)

(Remember, a gyrojet weapon gets up to 3 attacks per round, so please specify how many times you're firing it in a round.)

If you have to change your clip, it takes a full round (6 seconds).

If you want detailed information on rules from the rulebook, go here:  http://www.starfrontiers.com/rules/

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 Praising his good fortune with his shot, Professor Kri'lik follows up with another. A quick glance at his power pack indicator informs him he has only 40 SEUs left, he had better make these last few shots count.

Firing laser rifle, 20 SEU, 20 SEU remaining in power pack.
35% + aim.

Becka turns her attention to the cybodragon.  She reloads her laser rifle, turning it to 20 SEU to fire at the cybodragon.

Everyone is currently reloading as the cybodragon gets in range and fires...

It fires its giant laser eyes at Desiraye...
It fires the other giant laser eye at Kri'lik...
And you can hear puff of energy and air as the giant flamethrower comes online...



Desiraye deftly jumps aside before the laser leaves a small crater in the ground.  Kri'lik watches as the laser beam flies just inches over his head.

Then the cybodragon sweeps its head from side to side, and flames sweep across you...

Becka catches on fire and is hit for 19 damage.  Becka falls unconscious, still in flames.

Desiraye is scorched for 11 damage, but she doesn't catch on fire.

S'Krllk is hit for 18 damage and catches on fire.

OOC: I pause here since there is a change in events to allow everyone to post their moves.  You are now fully loaded for the next round.

The cybodragon wails and looks down to attack you the next round, this time at short range just 20 yards away.

 Not about to let another of his friends fall to the enemy, the professor rushes to Becka's side as fast as his middle aged legs can carry him. Once there he immediately beings to diagnose her more critical injuries in order of severity and then starts first aid.

Taking careful aim (+15%) Sergi's innate dexterity (+20%) and weapons skill (+20%) give him a 55% chance to hit the monster with his 3 giro pistol rounds.

S'Krllk begins to flop around on the ground (attempting to put out the flames) and screech with high trilling sounds (perhaps attempting to confuse the cybodragon, or maybe because he always makes weird noises when hurt).

Desiraye tries to roll out of the way of the cybodragons deadly weapons but not before she is wounded again.  The pain goes through her body as she tries to find the best hard cover available before she can set up and take careful aim and fire at the dragon.  She calls out on her comlink to the party, "It's Desi!  I'm hit again and I don't think I'm gunna make it.  Good luck!"

If/When practical, Desiraye will be trying to get into the best position around and set up for her last stand instead of firing this round.  She pulls out her last incediary grenades and prepares herself for the next round.

OOC: Can she still be healed?

STR/STA: 65/60
DEX/RS: 60/60
INT/LOG: 40/40
PER/LDR: 40/40
IM: 6
CURRENT STAMINA: 13/60

SKILLS:
Beam Weapons:4
70% +15% for aimed shot

Sergi and Desiraye hit the cybodragon.

It bellows forth in pain, severely wounded.

S'krllk is busy putting out the flames, which he successfully does without further damage.

Kri'lik helps Becka, giving her first aid.

The cybodragon turns back to you, ready to fire its flamethrower again.

That's when Desi throws her grenade and Sergi fires again.  Sergi hits, delaying the cybodragon's attack, but it is Desi's grenade on its soft underbelly that makes it collapse with a roar like an ancient dinosaur as it flops to the ground.  You feel the earth beneath you rumble as the creature lays there dying.

Becka is revived to some extent.  (She now has 23 Stamina.)

Desi can also be healed.

Desiraye slumps her head into her amrs as she watches her grenades hit home and the cybodragon falls to the ground, out of commission.  She props herself up against the nearest fixture/structure and tries to compose herself from her wounds.

OOC: Icendiary grenade crossed off sheet
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Becka regains consciousness and says, "What did I miss?"  She sees the body of the giant lizard robot thing and says, "Maybe I'm glad I missed it.  That was a close one."

Then she says, "Where to next?  We should regroup with the Eorna."

"Glad your ok!" Says Kri'lik to now revived Becka. "It was a close one, you almost did'nt make it."

Sergi wipes the sweat from his forehead.

 "How are we all?  That was too damn close for comfort!"

S'Krllk cocks his head sideways as he looks about him. "Spiracles still functional, no one chaining me up for forced manual labor, no one trying to terminate my existence... great, now I've no idea what to do."

Desi gains back 24 stamina.

The Eorna are calling you over to them.

Sergi shakes his head

"A hero's work is never done!"

Reloading his pistol he begins to jog over to the Eorna.

Desiraye finally stands up after she is healed some and looks to the others as she replies to Sergi, "I'm not great but, I still have some fight left in me yet.  Let's head over to the Eorna to see where we can help out next!"

STR/STA: 65/60
DEX/RS: 60/60
INT/LOG: 40/40
PER/LDR: 40/40
IM: 6
CURRENT STAMINA: 37/60

SKILLS:
Beam Weapons:4

S'Krllk ambles to the eorna, somewhat confused as to his current good fortune.