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Sorry, just came back from work.
Will participate later.

>>5860182
That's one person. Anyone else?

>>5860182 here again.

It seems like we're the only ones atm, so I would favour delaying your quest for a few hours.
If I remember correctly, you used to start Corp Quest around 5 am cet, so maybe most of the regulars aren't here yet.

>>5860731
Actually, usually I start the quest between 6 and 8 PM, GMT.

In other words, two-to-four hours ago. Of course, sometimes it takes a while for popularity to pick up.

Sup, I'm all for this.

>>5860802

In that case, I don't know what's going wrong today.

Two people's enough in my opinion. To start with, anyway.

You guys up for this?

The monolithic ziggurat has a massive, heavily reinforced trench carved into the earth a short distance in front of it, in which hundreds of gasmasked militiamen dwell and mill about, while the looted powered armour stands tall and proud, a short distance behind the line. There are also sixty turrets, utilizing technology that has been stolen from your drones - artillery and lasers - ready to fire.

After this final stage of the battle, you'll be able to order what you want constructed today and you'll be able to progress to tomorrow. I'm about to post what troops you have available for this conflict. So, as soon as you read that, feel free to post what tactics you wish for your drones to use and what tactics you wish for Lemmington to use.

Prepare for lots and lots of numbers.

Tradestar:
66 Heavy Haulers
51 Medium Combat Drones (armed with lasers)
50 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with thermobaric and napalm artillery and grav and flamer)
49 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with fragmentation artillery and grav and flamer)
46 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with lasers and grav and flamer)
42 Light Combat Drones (armed with flamers)
37 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with lasers, lightning, shockwave, grav and flamer)
21 Superheavy Combat Drone (armed with lightning guns, pulse artillery and gravity guns)
19 Heavy Combat Drones (armed with tear-gas artillery and stun guns)
16 Light Combat Drones (armed with lightning guns)
17 Light Combat Drones (armed with gravity guns)
10 Heavy Combat Drones (armed with pulse and herbicide artillery and flamer and grav)
6 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with heat ray)
4 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with pulse and herbicide artillery and flamer and grav)

Lemmington Pharmaceuticals:
1381 Lobotomies
376 Clone Troopers
182 Decontamination Troopers
44 Heavy Decontaminant Tanks
36 Medium Virus Tanks
13 Heavy Nitrogen Freezer Tanks
18 Medium Nerve Gas Tanks
5 Heavy Transport Tanks

Uni-Peace:
316 Militiamen
67 Looted Powered Armour Units
45 Heavy Laser Turrets
15 Heavy Artillery Turrets

Missles:
5 Herbicide Missles
10 HE Missiles
15 Tear-Gas Missles
20 Napalm Missiles
20 Thermobaric Missiles
20 Pulse Missles

>>5860948

Can the enemy use their turreted lasers as pd against our artillery?

I'm up for this as well so that should make 3.

>>5860962
Never know until you try.

>>5860124
Can we get an updated map please.

>>5861037
If you manage to claim the ziggurat as your own territory:

>>5861055

Let's shoot a single pulse missile at the ziggurat to test their defensive capabilities.

Until it arrives, all troops should stay out of the enemy's range.

>>5861055
Send 20 of our water scouts to check out the islands that are south and south east under the ziggurat area.

>>5861089
I'll agree on this. If they have a way to shoot it down / blow it up before it can get to them we will need to send groups of missles to try to counter it.

>>5861089
How many are in agreement?
>>5861099
You're currently in the middle of a fight. Sending out scouts is rather improbable at this rate, considering that the vast majority, if not all of your military is fighting ecoterrorists.

>>5861120
Good point. We can just have that be queued for after the battle.

>>5861120

Could we have more information on the setup of the turrets?

>>5861089
>>5861111
Is anyone against this?

Just to make it clear, you want to fire a missle and observe what happens before you attempt to move out of the jungle and approach the ziggurat?

>>5861141
Sounds about right to me.

Currently are our artillery in range or are we just in Missle range?

>>5861191
All of your troops are just out of artillery range of the site.

In any case, here's a shitty diagram.

The orange line is the trench.
Small green dots are the Powered Armour Units - not actual number.
Larger darker dots are the Laser Turrets - not actual number.
The green box is the artillery turret line.
The ziggurat is the orange box

>>5861251

Ask Samson70(Comrade Samson?) how many missiles of what kind would be required to annihilate the artillery line, in his opinion.

>>5861251
Thanks Plasma.

>>5861278
"Seems like a pretty easy target to me - I'd say two high explosive missles spread across the artillery line would promise the destruction of all of them."

>>5861298
Well he is right almost all the time butI am thinking we should add a 3rd. 2 HE like he wants and 1 Pulse that is lunched 20 seconds after and aimed in the center of the Art line.

This way it may get the leftovers

>>5861298

This seems too easy.
We should destroy the forest around us to avoid any ambushes, destroy the enemies artillery and after that, begin to shell his positions.

Oh, and let's open a video feed to alpha range as soon as the fight starts, maybe they'll enjoy it and the seem like really swell guys.

Unfortunately i can't stay today (first post in thread, so don't worry) at any rate, i found this and thought it might be useful
http://freetexthost.com/
good luck against those hippies

>>5861352
We could have some of our Art fire Herbicide rounds and dent them right away so we can clear the trees. This should happen after we launch the missles.

>>5861352
You open up a video-feed to AlphaRange and the various officials gather the beer and popcorn rations, crowding around the screens to spectate, chatting amongst themselves and placing bets.
>>5861350
So, 2 HE, 1 Pulse.

Are we agreed?

>>5861397

Seems good.

>>5861418
I'll wait for one more confirmation before I move on.

>>5861397
Agreed

The missles are launched from their silos and you busy yourself delivering herbicide to the surrounding forest, trying to expose any ambush - but there is none. There are remains of partially dug tunnels yet to be completed, but there isn't much. While there are many tunnels, clearly there hasn't been enough to time for the defenses to be completely finished.

It isn't long until the missles are flying overhead and straight towards the artillery line - but something's wrong. They detonate prematurely, hit by apparently nothing at a distance of just over a quarter of a mile from the ziggurat.. A visible ripple can be spreading throughout the air, over an invisible surface.

You recieve a message from Uni-Peace:
"Is that all you have..? Go ahead, launch more missles. Not like it'll do you any good."
A melodic laugh follows the female voice.
"Missles, artillery - even snipers - it's all worthless. If you want to try anything, you're going to have to fight us face to face."

>>5861514
Modify the flight path of a napalm missile so it will descend on the enemies position in an angle of 90°. This way it should still rain it's payload on the enemy.
Launch it, see what happens.

>>5861514

Do we have any way to use the tunnels to our advantage?

Collapse them under the enemy's position, complete them and attack from behind the trench etc...

Do we have EMP guns yet, or are those still being research?

>>5861556
What about airbursting that before the shield? maybe they can't stop fire

IF that doesn't work, we lay siege to them, and we build thrusters into the alien mothership (forgot name) and drop it over them

>>5861556
This and ask 70 what he thinks.

>>5861514
Okay.

Get a few droids together, and a HE or Napalm missile. Then tie the thermobaric missile to the droids so they're carrying it like a battering ram, and have everything else act as covering fire for them.

Then, as the suicide bots ram forward and approach the enemy's front line, have them self destruct, hopefully blowing up the missile along with them.

>>5861611
"Seems like a decent idea."
>>5861598
It's been researched.
>>5861579
You send drones to find out.

>>5861613
Does anyone agree with this?

>>5861642
I say we use it as a Plan B in case the current Napalm plan doesn't work out. Still, I bet the bastards would never be expecting something like that.

One of the regulars, reporting in.

Seems like the ziggurat is the shield. I'm in favor of airburst detonating some napalm shells to get the full visual of the shield's area, and to determine its full capabilities. Also try out some lasers against it.

>>5861654
I love the idea and yes it does make a good plan b.

>>5861654
Or better yet, ask what our good man Samson 70 thinks about it! He's the military expert.

I'd like everyone to remember a certain piece of tech we haven't unveiled: the heat beam.

"Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not."

>>5861613
Instead of tying a missile to them (HOW?), it'd probably be easier to have a SH artillery drone or a shell hauler drone self destruct along with all its payload.

>>5861697
We're a mining company. We must have some kind of rope or metal cord somewhere.

>>5861686
"No. Getting a drone over there and dragging it back to the site would take hours. Even then, chances are it might be shot down and explode amongst your own ranks."

"You could fill a hauler with artillery shells and then detonate it - that might be a reasonable substitute."

rolled 7, 1 = 8

>>5861697
Let us ask Sampson 70 about the nature of the shielding, first.

But this seems like an excellent idea.

Let's do the airburst napalm detonation, and see just what this shield is capable of.

How about a barrage from our artillery as well, several different types of shells?

The napalm missle is sent flying, since most of you seem in favour of it.

You have the missle detonate above the frontline, having it descend at a different angle so that if the shield is dome-shaped, it should explode above the trench.

Message from Uni-Peace as soon as the missle is visible:
"Oh come on, don't be so silly! I told you, it wouldn't work, so why don't you just stop and surr--"

The missle explodes on the shield and napalm rains down on the trench, covering dozens of poor victims and incinerating a handful of powered armour units. The Uni-Peace correspondant bursts into violent screeching and swearing, while your AlphaRange observers laugh and cheer.

>>5861782

Let's try the same with our napalm artillery, we shouldn't waste our missiles if our shells are enough.

>>5861782

Do 5 salvos of airburst napalm artillery now, saturating the entire area over the bubble's front half.

>>5861782
Wait what?
What just happened?
How far does the shield reach?
Did the airbursted napalm go through the shield?

>>5861739
"Not too sure what kind it is - but it's definite high tech, and military tech at that. Not that AlphaRange rubbish, they're just arms dealers and thugs. This is the sort of thing you only see on military frontlines, in actual conflicts and not feeble tradewars like what we're a part of. If it's a kinetic shield, it shouldn't block anything physical moving at a slow velocity and it also shouldn't block heat and energy-based weaponry - lasers, heat rays and so on."

>>5861829
>>5861838
How about we open comms and negotiate a surrender from them?
You know, a "submit or die" type deal.

>>"Oh come on, don't be so silly! I told you, it wouldn't work, so why don't you just stop and surr--"

"--ound you with fire instead? Yukyukyuk."

We should also try to capture the leader of Uni-Peace, we could either sell her to AlphaRange as a means to support their "morale" or let Lemmington have her, so we can do things to her that make the end of "I have no mouth, but I must scream" look like a most pleasent vacation.

>>5861838

This, and open up with our heat beams (they're longer range than lasers, right?) at a single point on the ziggurat. That point being wherever Sampson 70 thinks the shield generator is most likely to be located.

>>5861871
How about we airburst some gas over the area?

>>5861849
The shield seems to reach a quarter of a mile.
It does not seem to block napalm, supporting S70's theory.

>>5861905
Depending on wind conditions and gas density this might be pointless. Also they'd probably have time to dive for gas masks.

How many hippies and natives did we capture, anyways?

>>5861914
Ok


So, does anybody support negotiating a surrender?

>>5861937

I agree, open negotiations but keep shelling them, if effective, with napalm artillery.
This should add some urgency to our discussion of their surrender.

>>5861927
473 hippies, 124 chimps, 67 apes and 8 gorillas.

>>5861871
Looks like it is time to test the heat ray! What kind of range does it have anyway?

>>5861838
I agree with this.

>>5861961
I don't know about that.
Shouldn't we aim to capture as many alive as possible?

>>5861968

Any results with the tunnels, yet?

"Here is your single surrender opportunity. Unlike your companions and their pitiful resistance up to this point, we are not concerned with your capture. Your so-called 'defense' is going to fall apart shortly with an assault you cannot imagine, using weapons that will crack right through your lines, and your deaths will be exceedingly painful. A response is expected within 5 minutes. This minor shelling to prompt your expedience will cease upon receipt of this. Good day."

Yeah, keep shelling with napalm.

>>5861838
The napalm covers the line, and the militiamen and sneaking deep into the cubbyholes of the trenches to hide. The screams of the correspondant become louder.
>>5861981
Potentially infinite range, as soon as long as there's a straight line with no obstacle and an atmosphere.
>>5861987
Yes - a handful of your drones are beginning to go Southeast towards the trench.

>>5862030

Tell the correspondant to calm down and start negotiating, as we don't enjoy slaughtering her troops.

>>5862000
"Never! Fucking never, you fucking bastards! How dare you do this to this planet! He came here to rid this world of its infection and you have come here to do nothing but exploit it! Prepare to witness the full fury of Gaia!"

Suddenly, all of the looted PA units stealth up, the artillery turrets begin to fire and you also hear a distant thud-thud-thud-thud of increasing volume.

>>5862066
Heat Ray those artillery bots if we can. All units armed with lasers, march forward guns blazing. Artillery bots, fire support, if we're lucky we can even take out a few of those stealth power suits.

>>5862096
oh and gravity bots- try and stop some of those damn artillery shells!

>>5862066
Saturate the area with napalm shells.
Have the light grav drones defend the artillery from shells.
Begin firing every available energy weapon at the enemy.

>>5862066

Focous our napalm attacks on the enemies artillery, have Lemmington use their troops to establish multi layerd defensive lines against the cloaked enemies.

Ready for an attack by the "father" of the natives.
As soon as he appears have Samson70 focus on finding a way to get rid of that thing as fast as possible. Their morale will brake afterworkds.
To quote a famous soldier:
"The father, we destroy him and this is over"

>>5862066
>>Suddenly, all of the looted PA units stealth up, the artillery turrets begin to fire and you also hear a distant thud-thud-thud-thud of increasing volume.

Thud-thud-thud-thud? Uh oh. Methinks we should have just struck full force and tried to take out as many PA units as possible before they cloaked.

Ask Sampson 70 if he has any idea what that noise is.

Airburst HE shells against the incoming artillery.

Why aren't we coring a focused heat ray hole into the ziggurat?

Have the lobotomies charge, and laser drones advance to firing range.

Gravity gun the approaching artillery with all those drones we built for the task.

Flamer bots & lobotomies, charge. Laser drones, advance and engage.

Artillery drones, thermobaric barrage the area in front of the shield. Don't let those PA units advance out of it.

>>5862066
Have all of the lasers drones fire in all directions toward the enemy lines. Make a wall of lasers fire. Have the heat ray units all fire at different points. Make a constantly changing Fan of heat ray fire toward the enemy base.

Have 1/5 of the Art fire napalm toward the enemy lines and have them blow up just outside of the range of our units. Try to make a wall of death toward the enemy is what I am going for.

I'm seconding the HE airburst and gravity counters to the artillery.
Also, we need to start Heat Raying their shit.

I'm going to try and consolidate everything. Here goes.

Defend against the incoming artillery with the gravity gun light drones and any spare auxiliary gravity guns. If HE artillery airburst shield would help, do it with artillery not tied up from the below orders.

Saturate the enemy artillery with napalm shells. Have a thermobaric/napalm barrage in the area in front of the shield to prevent PA escape/engaging.

Laser/lightning drones advance and fire at opportunity targets, when none spotted create a "wall of light." 1/2 EMP drones assist with this, the others spray the flanks.

Light Flamers, lobotomies, and anything else LP wants to send--charge.

Heat rays quickly fire into the area where the PA was. Then focus on the ziggurat's core to try and bring the shield down.

>>5862178
Sounds like it will help with the cloaked units but we need the Lobotomies to get out there.

Do all that but the near by napalm fire. Have Lemmington Pharmaceuticals send their units as our front line. We can keep backing them up.

Let's keep our units back - the artillery is lighting the whole area back anyway.
How are we going to use the heat rays - focused on the ziggurat or strafing the enemy lines?

You attempt to napalm the incoming powered armour infantry as well as napalm the ziggurat's defense, using gravity guns to blast shells out of the sky while your laser drones and the clone troopers advance firing en masse, with the contaminator troopers and the flame drones going underground.

It appears that the enemy shield has been disabled - because the napalm shells land without a problem in the world. Meanwhile, the enemy's frontlines are deactivating their cloaking. All of the powered armour infantry reappears and so does...

... It's massive. A gigantic mechanized humanoid that's several hundred feet tall, firing dozens of artillery shells directly at your drones as well as volleys of explosive bullets and laser fire. On its chest is an armoured power generator, and the ancient symbol of Green Peace painted in white over the green spray-painted hull. Also in white are the words "Gaia". The enemy armour is opening fire, and so is this "Gaia", severely damaging your front lines.

>>5862258
Sounds good.

>>5862297
The lobotomies are also racing forward, acting as literal shields of meat to absorb the enemy fire.

>>5862297
Well shit. Where the hell did this thing come from? Underground, or behind their lines?

>>On its chest is an armoured power generator

ALL HEAT RAYS CONCENTRATE YOUR FIREPOWER ON THE SUPER POWER GENERATOR

>>5862297
Fire.

God damn.

Everything at it. Missiles, Heat Rays, Lasers, Artillery, I don't care, even do the drone equivalent of kicking its toes if we can. Take that goddamn thing down!

>>5862297
Oooooh :3

Does it say things like:

"ENGAGING TRADESTAR AGGRESSORS."
or
"HAJJAR WILL BE LIBERATED." ?

>>5862332
It was cloaked.

>>5862332
That thing would definitley be heavily armored. Let be a bit MECHWARRIOR and hit it in the legs with the heatrays and artillery.

>>5862297

My post here >>5862258 still mostly stands. Thermobaric the enemy PA, don't worry about "wall of light," EMP drones hit PA too. Heat rays hit Gaia instead of the ziggurat.

Heat Rays focus fire on Gaia's leg joints.

>>5862332
Don't, lets see if we can salvage the power generator intact. Aim for anything that looks like a command post.

>>5862297
>Green Peace
:3

All heat rays on the armoured power generator. Add in a bit of lightning for flavor. Lets try to overlord this mother fucker and RIP AND TEAR.

>>5862373
Let's crack the command post open with high explosives and afterwards tear gas it. I want the enemies leaders alive.

>>5862345
>>5862351
It looks like a typical suit of Kil'thweq powered armour, except gigantic, with a jury-rigged generator basically strapped to it, and the arms scrapped and swapped about like a lot.

The left arm has a large, rapid-fire laser cannon (6x lasers) surrounded by three artillery guns while the right arm has three artillery guns and a rather large assault cannon that spits out explosive bolts (6x explosive bolters).

>>5862348
Nice.

Also as the one saying hit the power generator, I agree that we should focus fire on a leg with all heat beams, all spare lasers, and HE rounds.

Launch 10 HE missiles, 5 pulse, 5 thermobaric at Gaia.

>>5862297
Out of interest, how is Alpharange responding to this?

And by that I mean, how are the odds looking and who are they betting for the most?

>>5862418
Considering that we took down the prawn mothership with fewer forces... I'd say that the odds aren't too against us.

>>5862428
>>5862428
That was also them trying to escape in a non-combat vessel, and we'd already taken out the majority of their forces.

>>5862409
Agreed

Wait a minute guys! Gaia was probably the thing that was causing the force field, launching rockets directly won't work. Let's try and fry it's circuit boards or whatever with some napalm, at least we know that can work.

>>5862445
STOP TRYING TO KILL MORALE

Waiting for a general consensus.

What do you wish to target with your heat rays, the legs or the generator?

>>5862458
No shield at the moment. May not be one when the missiles finally arrive.

>>5862476
Legs.

>>5862476
definitely legs.

>>5862476
Most fire at legs but have at least 2 Heat rays fire on the armored power gen.

>>5862511
I'd rather keep the generator intact so we can capture and examine it if we win.

If we're firing at the legs, I want some pulse rounds hitting the ground at its feet.

>>5862511
Everything on legs and arms. If it's heavily armored hitting it with one or two won't really be of much use.

>>5862531
But it's jury-rigged.

>>5862549
I was mostly wanting to see what it did to the armored core. Wasn't really expecting it to take it down but you never know it could end up shorting it out or overloading it.

All on legs is the smart thing to do.

>>5862549
No. Forget the arms.

Just one leg. FOCUS FIRE.

>>5862570
Seconding this, with an alteration: Aim for a joint- preferably the knee. Mechanical joints have to be less armored to allow for mobility.

The legs are primarily targetted, while you try to avoid damaging the generator, weapons fire raining down on the legs. The superheavy lasers slowly burn into the metal plating and the lightning arcs about the circuitry but your best weapon is the heat ray. Almost immediately, the metal begins to melt away and the legs begin to buckle as all six are focused on the legs. It takes a handful of steps back, slowly starting to retreat as it continues to fire upon your forces, over and over again, doing most of the damage as the PA Infantry is slowly but surely picked off like flies.

Meanwhile, the contaminator troopers and the flamer drones have arrived at a door in the tunnels leading towards the trenches. What do they do?

Tradestar:
66 Heavy Haulers
48 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with thermobaric and napalm artillery and grav and flamer)
46 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with fragmentation artillery and grav and flamer)
42 Light Combat Drones (armed with flamers)
41 Medium Combat Drones (armed with lasers)
38 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with lasers and grav and flamer)
31 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with lasers, lightning, shockwave, grav and flamer)
17 Superheavy Combat Drone (armed with lightning guns, pulse artillery and gravity guns)
15 Heavy Combat Drones (armed with tear-gas artillery and stun guns)
12 Light Combat Drones (armed with lightning guns)
9 Light Combat Drones (armed with gravity guns)
7 Heavy Combat Drones (armed with pulse and herbicide artillery and flamer and grav)
6 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with heat ray)
3 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with pulse and herbicide artillery and flamer and grav)

Lemmington Pharmaceuticals:
1292 Lobotomies
296 Clone Troopers
182 Decontamination Troopers
44 Heavy Decontaminant Tanks
36 Medium Virus Tanks
13 Heavy Nitrogen Freezer Tanks
18 Medium Nerve Gas Tanks
5 Heavy Transport Tanks

Uni-Peace:
179 Militiamen
43 Looted Powered Armour Units
33 Heavy Laser Turrets
11 Heavy Artillery Turrets
1 "Gaia"

>>5862620
>Meanwhile, the contaminator troopers and the flamer drones have arrived at a door in the tunnels leading towards the trenches. What do they do?

Make some tasty BBQ

>>5862620
Fire pulse shells at its feet and that leg, thermobaric/HE mix near the head/upper chest.

>>5862620
Well, guess what the flamers and contaminators will do :D

Also, have Lemmington's disposable infantry form a full scale assault on the trenches. It's not important if they arrive, but the will distract the enemy and also weaken Lemmington's forces.

>>5862620
Send in the Lobotomies first. Subdue anyone that looks like a leader- we want those alive.

>>5862620

If the missiles arrive after Gaia goes down, redirect them to blast the shit out of the remaining forces instead.

Into the trenches, flush them out. Be ready with a few laser drones to zap anyone popping up over them.

Attempt to reopen a comms channel with their speaker.

>>5862660
So you're going to order the lobotomies to charge straight ahead towards the frontlines, correct? When fire's focused on them, you'll unleash your flamers and contaminators, by the sound of it.

>>5862703

That's the idea, sorry it's late and English isn't my native language.

Keep unloading all of our long ranged weapons into Gaia's knees.

Laser and flamethrower units engage the powered armor whenever possible.

Lobotomies surge forward, but don't go into the tunnels.

>>5862725
>>Lobotomies surge forward, but don't go into the tunnels.

But they sound perfect for the job. If they clog it up you can just flame the corpse away.

I want to make sure we shell the shit out of the PA before it recloaks.

>>5862745
Our flamers and contaminators are already at the end of the tunnels. So sending the lobotomies through would be a bit of a problem.

A distant shape flickers, near the ziggurat, flying away from it in incredibly high speeds, in the opposite direction from you. Apparently, the speaker currently can't be reached. Any attempt to open up a channel just results in hearing loud, panicked discussion before it shuts off a few seconds later.

One of Gaia's legs buckles. Gaia stumbles over and begins to attempt to crawl away, the cloaking device flickering online ever so slowly as it rolls away, trying to conceal the generator at the front as the thrusters on its back also power up. The powered armour units at the front desperately try to protect it, firing with all their might even as the lobotomies scream past them, racing in their hundreds towards the trenches. Hundreds of explosive bolts fly into the air, raining down on the hapless, mindless creatures as they continue their charge.

Then, the contaminators and the flamers burst out, spreading disease and fire throughout the trenches. Even the men occupying the laser and artillery turrets are evacuating them, desperately trying to run away before they're caught in the tide of glistening metal and twisted flesh.

>>5862847
Is Samson 70 within range of instantaneous communication? If so, tell him to calculate its flight corridor. Then have the Heat Rays and lasers fire into that corridor.

>>5862847
AWESOME

To bad the leaders appear to have legged it though. Maybe we can clip their escape pod with a heat ray?

>>5862847
High enough that an incoming missile can't catch it?

Heat beam the thrusters, don't let it escape until our missiles arrive!

Also slowly pull back with the SH and heavy drones that aren't close range units. If Gaia blows, we want to be far away.

>>5862884
Er, meant that to be "Fast enough" instead of "High enough."

>>5862847

Shoot airburst HE grenades at the retreating flyer, try not to destroy but disable it.

Use speakers to offer the remaining troops to surrender.

Oh, and try to locate the source of the transmissions you received from Uni-Peace and have it tear gassed.

>>5862927
Air burst fragmentation would probably work better.

>>5862884
You can try and shoot a missle if you like.
>>5862883
>>5862879
"We should be able to hit with the heat rays, gentlemen - should we attempt to destroy the vessel or force it land?"

>>5862847
See if 70 can help us snipe down the ship that is trying to get away.

Keep clearing the enemy and lets avoid damaging the base to much if they are running away. It can make for a great new base!

(OOC:Looks like we could use the tech lab to turn the manned guns into AI controlled turrets)

>>5862879
I'm going emphasize this. Samson is a highly successful combat AI; he'd need to be able to figure out things like this to survive.

Do the contaminators have nerve gas?

Also, once the legs are taken out, THEN disable the arms.

>>5862951
force it to land.

>>5862951
See
>>5862337
>>5862409
>>5862456
>>5862483

>>5862927
It's moving at such speeds that it'll be out of range before any artillery has any chance of reaching it.

Source of transmissions: Ziggurat.

>>5862951

Force it to land. Follwing, saturate the are with tear gas.

Fire at Gaia's thrusters. We don't want it escaping.

Can any of our missiles take out the thrusts without destroying the rest of Gaia?

rolled 7, 5 = 12

>>5862951
We should disable it.
Who knows what we can do with them?


I also second another offer of surrender - but only after Gaia has been disabled.

>>5862951
Force it to land.

And direct fire to Gaia's thrusters.

>>5862985
If it's traveling at speeds high enough to avoid artillery I'm fairly sure that the impact of hitting the ground will incapacitate anyone in it.

>>5862991
>>5862927
Nah, they got their surrender offer, they rejected it. Let's completely kick someone's ass for a change.

>>5863018
And by "completely kick their ass" I mean kill them all and take their tech. We already stated that they get ONE offer of surrender in front of everyone, we shouldn't go back on our word now. It will inspire future fear.

>>5863018
If we get 1500 troops AlphaRange will give us EMP tech (once they buy it form their parent company).

>>5863036
We have that already.

>>5863018
>>5863031
Let's take prisoners, at least.
Again, we have to think about our profit.

Guys, I think we need to start worrying about Alpha, Lemmington and that other grey civ near HQ3. If we take Uni-Peace, we'll have killed off three factions. Alph. and Lemm. might think they're next, and team up to take out the big boy. And we still know nothing about the grey people.

>>5863055

If I remember correctly, we all have very different objectives on this planet. Coexistence with both Lemmington and AlphaRange should be possible.

The thrusters of Gaia are, simply put, shot to shit. The engines of the thrusters suddenly ignite and the whole back of it suddenly bursts into flames - and Gaia simply slumps. The remaining suits of powered armour simply wave their arms frantically and cease firing, trying to indicate surrender. The hundred remaining militiamen scream and shout, cowering in the trenches. Hundreds of the less combat-orientated persons begin to run out of the ziggurat for the shore, screaming hysterically. The escape vehicle is shot out of the sky by the heat rays and it comes hurtling downwards. A single escape pod is launched from it. You hear Lemmington's board of directors cheer with delight. You hear AlphaRange's officials roar with laughter and applaud. Even S70 lets out a sadistic little chuckle.

"Gentlemen, I have calculated the trajectory of the escape pod. It should land somewhere on the shore and I believe I can give you an exact location. Congratulations on your victory."

>>5863086
Excellent

>>5863086
OOOOOOH.... this is going to be ... "fun"

>>5863086
Have the Lemmington Freeze Tanks put out the fires on Gaia.

Slave hauler drones move in, gather all enemies. Have the contaminators, normal footsoldiers, and flamer bots encourage compliance.

Advance forward, order the hippies out of the power armor, secure this immediately. Cloaking will be excellent.

Train weapons on Gaia just in case, and put out the fires.

Rapid advance with light drones to the shore, secure the escape pod.

>>5863086
Start containing the men/apes/etc that have given up.

Start converting the base over to our tech.

Take Gaia back to our main base and start researching that shit.

Send ships to the south / south east of the ziggurat area.

>>5863106
Well now that they've surrendered, drone losses aren't really a problem, are they?

And we've made it clear, by show of force, that we're not the kind to fuck around. To kill these 'survivors' would be pointless, and would induce organizations to continue fighting to the last man.

Priority goes as thus:

1. Secure power armor. It can still attack us, get them out and guard the armor.

2. Contain enemy soldiers and "civilians." Begin enslaving as soon as feasible.

3. Extinguish fires on Gaia, guard it with heat beams. Begin preparations to move it to examination facilities.

4. Race to the escape pod and secure it.

5. Enter ziggurat and secure it. Find the speaker, I want her brought to the contractors.

Your haulers begin to secure the slaves, gathering them up and carting them off back to the thirteen habitats you have built. By the time the day is done, you have:
783 slaves
313 chimps
119 apes
17 gorillas

The fires of Gaia are put back and soon as the slaves are hauled back, you'll be able to cart it back. Unfortunately, the pilot's dead, with back filled with shrapnel from the explosion.

From the top of the ziggurat, your drones can observe thousands of refugees leaving the mainland for the islands, walking across a massive network of vines and roots that has grown across the water, basically creating a saltwater swamp. They are completely evacuating the mainland, leaving it empty.

Half a mile from the predicted escape pod landing site, a single female human has been located and surrounded by your flamer drones. She has since surrendered.

So... what do we want to do with the prisoners? We could sell them to Alpharange, but they seem to have some pretty good scientists/researchers to make this kind of tech, and there are still islands to cleanse.

>>5863271
Personally, I feel we have made our point- Uni-Peace has been driven from the south, and they will now have to pass a large body of water to get to us. I say we leave them be until they try and fuck with us again. Then we come down on them like the fist of an angry god.

>>5863192
>Send ships to the south / south east of the ziggurat area.

Correction: Send a group of slaver units and some scouts / samplers to see whats down there.

>>5863271
We'll hold them for now, separate them by native/hippie to begin with. Begin determining who is useful (engineers & scientists, primarily, but any other educated/trained individuals should be noted), and separate them further.

DO NOT SELL THEM YET.

Bring escape pod woman to contractor base.

Bring power armor to examination sites, begin acquiring cloaking.

Remaining forces:

Tradestar:
66 Heavy Haulers
47 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with thermobaric and napalm artillery and grav and flamer)
45 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with fragmentation artillery and grav and flamer)
37 Light Combat Drones (armed with flamers)
35 Medium Combat Drones (armed with lasers)
32 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with lasers and grav and flamer)
29 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with lasers, lightning, shockwave, grav and flamer)
15 Superheavy Combat Drone (armed with lightning guns, pulse artillery and gravity guns)
11 Heavy Combat Drones (armed with tear-gas artillery and stun guns)
9 Light Combat Drones (armed with lightning guns)
7 Light Combat Drones (armed with gravity guns)
6 Heavy Combat Drones (armed with pulse and herbicide artillery and flamer and grav)
6 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with heat ray)
3 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with pulse and herbicide artillery and flamer and grav)

>>5863312
I say we get a satellite up and hit the fuckers from orbit as soon as possible.

Wait, Lemmington want some spoil of war too right ? Lets discuss the share before claming it all

>>5863312
>>thousands of refugees

And we're just going to leave that? Yeah, right. We have 30 amphibious hybrid combat/hauler SH drones recently built. We'll up that order to a full 75. Once they're equipped with the modified gravity gun for slave snatching, we move in.

>>5863342
They got to stomp some hippies, which was what they really wanted. Let's not be hasty to give away what we did the brunt of earning.

Let us soak the land bridges with gas, and move in with capture teams.

>>5863333
Soon as the new month arrives, we can go on a spending spree.

>>5863263

Thank AlphaRange for watching and inform them that we hope our little operation entertained them. Close the video-feed as there isn't anything interesting going on at the moment.

Search the ziggurat for anything interesting and look if there are any hidden tunnels or other means of reaching the islands.

And finally, thank Lemmington for their cooperation in this Campaign and that we put great value in their support.

Begin to search the now liberated Uni-Peace territory for resources.

Finally, a list of our remaining forces would be great.

>>5863396
Or we could wait until our dedicated slave grabbers are ready. They should be able to grab slaves like a person picks strawberries.

>>5863342
"We're here to eliminate the major threat to our operations and to get revenge. Several of my friends were killed when they stole the active terraformation prototype. We're here to reclaim all stolen terraforming technology - so I hope you do not mind if we deny you access to that."

>>5863409

Tradestar:
66 Heavy Haulers
47 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with thermobaric and napalm artillery and grav and flamer)
45 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with fragmentation artillery and grav and flamer)
37 Light Combat Drones (armed with flamers)
35 Medium Combat Drones (armed with lasers)
32 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with lasers and grav and flamer)
29 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with lasers, lightning, shockwave, grav and flamer)
15 Superheavy Combat Drone (armed with lightning guns, pulse artillery and gravity guns)
11 Heavy Combat Drones (armed with tear-gas artillery and stun guns)
9 Light Combat Drones (armed with lightning guns)
7 Light Combat Drones (armed with gravity guns)
6 Heavy Combat Drones (armed with pulse and herbicide artillery and flamer and grav)
6 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with heat ray)
3 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with pulse and herbicide artillery and flamer and grav)

>>5863430

A reasonable request, they can have it if they inform us of what can be done with it, in my opinion at least.

>>5863352
75? How about at least 100. We also have Monkey Island to harvest. Of course, if we have VTOL the natives can't even touch us. Grabbing slaves from the Uni-Peace islands will probably require military escort.

I'd just say grab them as they cross the swamps but I don't feel like having half drown. Unless... could we cut off most of them by having our drones go around the landbridge faster and scare them back our way?

>>5863441

Thank you.

>>5863430
I'm fine with this. They've been goddamn helpful, and I don't think we need terraforming very much.

Ok, let's get ready for the next day.

>>5863430

I'm surprisingly okay with this.

We have enough gorillas to trade for a tech with them, too. Which unlike the humans and other natives, we don't need to worry about keeping/sorting/saving for purchase numbers.

>>5863409
The ziggurat's clearly of native creation, filled with hidden tunnels and appears to be forward base. It's filled with all sorts of interesting files and so on. Including a copy of the request for assistance that the Kil'thweq Mothership sent to its homeworld.

You have located nine new metal deposits and sixteen gas pockets. There's no need for me to list numerical values anymore. Changing the system to make it easier for me to handle.

AlphaRange has something to say.
"We're sending a 'copter with our congratulations gift right now - but also, we've got way more important business to discuss, as soon as you ceased talking with LP there."
>>5863455
"Well, if you want to know practically, military uses, they developed a strain of it that rapidly accelerated the growth of enclosed plantlife. They used it in shells and mines - but the herbicides took care of the mines and the gravity guns caught the shells. It's all very good at constricting and entangling various targets, rendering them immobile!"

>>5863474
Well, the biggest help was their giving us the herbicide and tear gas pre-invasion. We really didn't utilize them to full potential (read: all that much) in the actual combat.

>>5863430
"That depends. Would you be willing to trade for it?"

>>5863427
But they'll be gone by then...

>>5863507
Well, the Alpha copter sounds mildly suspicious, but I may just be paranoid.

>>You have located nine new metal deposits and sixteen gas pockets. There's no need for me to list numerical values anymore. Changing the system to make it easier for me to handle.

Nice. That'll be a relief.

>>"We're sending a 'copter with our congratulations gift right now - but also, we've got way more important business to discuss, as soon as you ceased talking with LP there."
Ready to talk to them, unless LP wants to discuss a tech for apes deal.

Wait, how about we herbicide shell one end of the bridge, cutting off their escape route?

>>5863531
We'll obviously have to make sure it's not contaminated (I'm a little worried at the rate Alpha Range seems to be expanding), but otherwise I don't think it's much to concern ourselves with.

I think we're all done with LP for the moment.

In exchange for 12 gorillas, Lemmington is offering you TWO choices from its list:
Contagion Formulae
Decontaminant Formulae
Headcrab Formulae
Nerve Gas Formulae
Combat-Sampler Hybrid
Cloning Technology
Gamma Technology
Lobotomy Technology

Ask for more details on ones you're interested in.

Can someone name the factions on the map by color for me? Right now I only know that we're blue and Uni is red.

>>5863517
They'll be on the islands, and we'll move in with a massive force of specialized slave grabbers that should be much more efficient, guarded by normal combat drones.

On that note, can we have missiles pre-aimed at the islands to take down any spaceworthy vehicles we detect launching?

Let's talk to AR. It's not like we don't have guns and turrets and drones for our own safety at home.

>>5863549
Good call but make sure to have slavers on stand by to make sure we don't have any of the bastards drown!

>>5863571
I want to hear at least a brief bit about all of these. They sound SWEET.

>>5863571

Cloning technology sounds interesting, could we use it to create a body for S70?

>>5863571
I'm interested in the Nerve Gas, Contagion, Headcrab, and Gamma. Nerve Gas and Contagion seem like they might be useful additions to our repertoire of artillery.

>>5863576
Yellow AlphaRange
Teal Lemminton
Grey ???
Purple Natives (I think)

>>5863576
TradeStar: Blue
Uni-Peace: Red
Lemmington Pharmaceuticals: Cyan
AlphaRange: Orange
Empire of Gurruk: Purple
Unknown: Grey

>>5863602
>>5863611
Thanks guys

>>5863611

Could we ask TradeStar how much underwater capabilites for our drones would cost?

>>5863571
Nerve Gas Formulae
Combat-Sampler Hybrid

>>5863571
Decontaminant and Gamma tech sound most interesting right now.

>>5863588
Contagion Formulae: Slow-acting disease that is highly contagious. Takes a week to kill, but spreads between its victims. Can be used in flame throwers, shells and missles.
Decontaminant Formulae: Incredibly powerful decontaminant, melts away any biological material and completely sterilizes whatever it comes into contact with. Can be used in flamers, shells and missles.
Headcrab Formulae: Creates a crab-like creature with a fondness of latching on to heads. Once latched on to heads, they're able of controlling the body of their biological victim. You are not able to directly command them but that's also an advantage - they don't require orders, they just cause havoc. They can fired in shells and in missles.
Nerve Gas Formulae: Incredibly lethal nerve gas. Any form of biological life that inhales it is promised to die a painful death within a handful of minutes. Can be fired in shells, missles and from flame-throwers.
Combat-Sampler Hybrid
Cloning Technology: Allows you to create clones of creatures that you have samples of.
Gamma Technology: Gamma rays that can be utilized in guns. Insanely lethal against any form of biological life, no matter what it's contained inside. Area-of-effect
Lobotomy Technology: Allows you to lobotomize creatures that you have in your possession, also allowing you to program commands into them - you can connect them to your network to edit the commands like you edit drone commands. Incapable of using remotely advanced technology.

Also, you can now examine:
Cloaking Technology
Explosive Bolts Technology
Kinetic Shield Technology

>>5863710
Lets start examining Cloaking and Kinetic Shield immediately.

>>5863640
That's submersible technology

Here's what you can buy from TradeStar:

These products arrive at the end of the month:
One month's supplies, five people - 1 TON
Five units of fuel - 1 TON
Fusion Battery - 500 TONS
Engineer - 1000 TONS
Scientist - 2000 TONS
Satellite - 5000 TONS

These products arrive immediately:
Transport Drone Schematics - 1000 TONS
IR Sensor Schematics - 5000 TONS
VTOL Schematics - 5000 TONS
Pulse Laser Schematics - 10000 TONS
Submersible Schematics - 10000 TONS
Supermassive Drone Schematics - 10000 TONS
Tech. Lab Schematics - 10000 TONS
Gargantua Schematics - 15000 TONS
Heavy Construction Facility Schematics - 15000 TONS
Satellite Schematics - 15000 TONS
Colossus Schematics - 20000 TONS
Ion Space Engine Schematics - 20000 TONS

>>5863710
Gamma Tech

>>5863732
What's our Debt level again? And how much do we have?

>>5863750
Debt: 27500
Tomorrow's possession: 37,651.1

Tomorrow will be Day 24.
After Day 30, it's Month 3.
During Month 3, debt is refreshed to 2500.

Does AR buy clones?

>>5863600
No.
Biological bodies and synthetic life doesn't work out.

The biological minds are basically fried.

>>5863796

I would like to order
>Submersible Schematics - 10000 TONS

so we can start to rape this planet properly.
Any input concerning this?

>>5863815
Sure, I'm fine with that.

If we buy it though I'd like to set that as the last thing we buy this month.

>>5863815
We should wait for the start of the next month. Only a few more days.

>>5863809
No.
AR and LP don't really like one another due to a tradewar years back, when LP monopolized cloning technology and almost bankrupted AR by supplying them with clones.

They were paying LP insane amounts when LP was producing the clones incredibly cheaply.

>>5863815
I'm for it. We could claim that area to the east of Lemminton. And possibly explore that island that the nanoplague came from.

>>5863815
I would too. I also want to get specs for a heavy construction facility, the biggest drones we can make (colossus?), and satellites. VTOL would be nice but we can make due without I suppose.

However, we also want to spend some TONS on fuel (it's a good deal) and scientists, maybe a few fusion batteries.

>>5863835

Just wanted to let you know that I see this post as an example of absolutely stellar GMing. You are GOOD at this, sir.

>>5863865
Let's hold HCF and anything else off until next month (we pretty much have too, as we can't make up the rest of it in the time remaining).

>>5863850

My idea was to send our prospectors into the depths of the seas. It looks like this planet is 60% covered by water, why shouldn't we begin to build unterwater mines?

>>5863831
The sooner we start, the sooner we profit. And as soon as the next month hits, let's buy heavy construction yards, satellite, and colossus drones. We'll make it all back with the growth seen from the development.

>>5863890
Well, yeah. But as SOON as the next month rolls around, let's get on it.

>>5863865
You've also ordered two scientists already.

Gargantua and Colossi both require heavy construction facilities to be built, and so do spacecraft.

Oh, and I might as well tell you about what the drone variants are like:

Supermassive:
Costs 50 tons and 100 fuel.
Spends 100 fuel/day
Is as effective as 50x heavy constructors and 50x heavy haulers.
6 primary slots and 4 auxiliary slots

Gargantua:
Costs 100 tons and 250 fuel.
Spends 250 fuel/day
Is as effective as 200x heavy haulers.
12 primary slots and 8 auxiliary slots

Colossi:
Costs 250 tons and 1000 fuel.
Spends 1000 fuel/day
Is as effective as 1000x heavy haulers.
24 primary slots and 16 auxiliary slots

>>5863815
We already have amphibious technology.

>>5863909
colossus take way to much fuel for us right now.

Plasma can you please list the fuel used by each drone please.

>>5863909
>>5863900
Ok; so we buy Submersible Tech now (we'll have the heavy metals to pay for it tomorrow), and then wait for next month to buy the rest?

>>5863934
This.

>>5863934
We still have to give them the metals for the month. We wouldn't be able to cover the month amout + what we own them for shit we have bought.

>>5863924
Submersible Tech =/= Amphibious Tech

AT lets us create boats that can go along the surface of the water as well s go on land where ST lets us actually build things that can sustain the pressures of deep seas.

Okay.

So you guys want GAMMA TECHNOLOGY from LP.

What other technology do you want?

>>5863945
We only owe them 2500 a month, and I'm fairly sure that Plasma included this month's cost in our total debt.

>>5863957
Combat-Sampler Hybrid

>>5863945
Yes we can. See >>5863796

That's our total debt and we still have 6 days.

>>5863969
I'd prefer Nerve Gas.

>>5863931
Light - 1 fuel/day
Medium - 2 fuel/day
Heavy - 5 fuel/day
Superheavy - 25 fuel/day
Supermassive - 100 fuel/day
Gargantua - 250 fuel/day
Colossus - 1000 fuel/day

Every drone larger than heavy can be powered by a fusion battery, which you can order for the price of 500 TONS at the end of each month.

>>5863900
>>5863909
>>5863934

I like the idea of exploiting underwater resources...

Any information regarding this, Plasma?

>>5863983

We shouldn't max our debt yet. Who knows what will happen in the next 6 days.

>>5864007
Only possible with SUBMERSIBLE TECHNOLOGY.

Also, god. Make up your minds so I can start a "next day" post.

>>5863985
We already have non-lethal Nerve Gas, frankly I don't think we need a lethal kind. My vote is for Gamma.

>>5864026

I vote in favour of buying.

BTW, don't let us stress you Plasma and thank you for DMing this very enjoyable quest ;3

>>5864033
You've also chosen GAMMA, you need to choose one else.

>>5864016
Combat-Hauler is my vote.

Well, if no one is suggesting anything else, I would advise to buy the decontaminant. Just in case that bio/mechanical nanovirus makes another appearance.

>>5864079
Me, Changing my vote to Decontaminant.

>>5864097
Decontaminant.

New Thread:
>>5864165

My vote is for gamma.
I'm not sure about the rest.

Anyway, I'm off for today. Laters.