CURRENT STATUS

You are Corporal David Lister in the Republic of Zeon Military
You are currently a part of MASTODON BATTALION, 1st Company
You pilot a MS-06J Zaku II (Ground Combat Model): Currently under minor repairs and rearmament.

Skills
MINOR TECHNICAL SKILL

KILLS
2 TANKS
1 HLV DOOR

Really guys? Really?

Go write your gundam fanfiction in /m/.

ZOLOMON RINGO
Currently your wingman

Pilots a MS-06F

KILLS
1 TANK
5 FIN-FAN GUNSHIPS

>>6203178

Your Current CO is Sergeant Wolfgang Strauss

Pilots a MS-06S

KILLS
3 TANKS
3 FIN FANS

>>6203155
quests are roleplaying/text games, so traditional games is fine. Whine less.

>>6203140
>>David Lister
Holy shit, I'm the guy who suggested this, but I had to leave before the thread really got going. You honestly have no idea how happy this now makes me.

>>6203227

I'm still not using that picture. This is 0079 Gundam Era, we've already got our token black.
(SERIOUSLY TOMINO WHAT?)

Anyway, you are currently aboard The Prancer, a Gallop MSV retooled as a dedicated support vessel. Attatched to it is the Loki Particle Emissions Pod, a large scale Minovsky Particle Generator currently attended to by Engineers from the 603rd Test Squadron.

You have been dismissed by Captain Fontaine and allotted a room to catch a nights sleep.

Your Orders?

You are currently part of Operation Elephant, a decoy operation to draw Federation Forces away from New York and California by drawing them south after you.

You are currently moving out of Salina Cruz towards Guatemala.

After being dismissed the three of you decide to find a room to bunk for the night.

You pass the time playing cards for a few hours and then turn in. The following morning when you awake you notice the hum of the hoversystems on the Prancer. The Land Cruiser appears to be moving at high speed.

You all get up and dressed and get your orders from Company command. You've pulled flank escort duty.

After being repaired and re-armed your mobile suits were taken out and lashed to the side of the Prancer. When you get to them you notice that as well as your Kill Marks, the Battalion Badge has been added.

>>6203278
LOOK

A SNAIL

>>6203434

Currently the marching order for Mastodon Battalion is as follows:

In the Centre: Support Vehicles and The Prancer.
The Loki is bomabrding the area with Minovsky Particles in a random fashion, making your exact position hard to pinpoint.

Inner Reserve Ring: 1st Company and AA Assets

Medium Support Ring: 2nd Company

Outer Patrol Ring: 3rd Company + Mechanized Infantry assets

Beyond the Patrol Rings are 4 Luggun Scout Planes who fly outside the Minovsky Interference and scan for incoming enemy forces.

Three wings of Dopp fighters patrol the general area.

You are currently making doubletime out of Mexico, and will reach Guatemala by Lunchtime.

>>6203443

That is an EXCELLENT nick-name for it. I am totally going to have to steal it.

Anyway. Come Eight in the Morning, your company is rotated out to the Outer Ring. Around 10 you enter Guatemala, Laser Comms from the Prancer tell you that they've got a warm welcome.

Two Tank companies heading your way.

Your orders?

(You are still armed with a 120mm Machine Gun, but it is now fully armed, and you have two spare drums. Your Heat Hawk has been retrieved and you have 2 Cracker Grenades)

ZOLOMON RINGO is still armed with a Bazooka, but now has 4 reloads.

SERGEANT STRAUSS's armament remains unchanged.

[X] Invade Mejico

Fuck year Zeon quest.

Look for cover, try to hide somewhere and lob a cracker when they get in range, followed by MG fire. Get Zolomon on a good firing position.

If not, fire all leg missiles and hit them with everything you can.

Did we get kill notches applied?

>>6203583
Engage the enemy at close range, where they will have relative trouble maneuvering versus our ability to side-step.

>>6206277

I'M A TREE

WHERE IS THE ZEON QUEST

YOU SAID THERE WOULD BE ZEON QUEST

will you quest people stop this shit?

its annoying go do it on some other /tg/ related chan we have a few of em

>>6206668

Bro. Ignore the thread. It's one thread.

Like I do with the ten thousand 'How do I play my level 16 Lawful Axiomatic Half-dragonborn hermaphrodite PaladinRogue who has a futa Succubus following it around.' Threads.

OI! WERE'Z DA STOMPY?

AH WAS TOLD DERE'D BE STOMPY

>>6206860

I too am perturbed by the lack of stomping.

ZEON THIRSTS FOR THE STRENGTH OF ITS PEOPLE

VICTORY IS THE GREATEST TRIBUTE WE CAN PAY TO THOSE WHO SACRIFICE THEIR LIVES FOR US!

RISE!

RISE!

TAKE YOUR SORROW AND TURN IT INTO ANGER!

ZEON THIRSTS FOR THE STRENGTH OF ITS PEOPLE!

SIEG ZEON! SIEG ZEON! SIEG ZEON! SIEG ZEON!

Gihren drops a colony on one of the polar caps.

Most of the world floods.

LOL WHOOPS

>>6208944

Everyone leaves Earth for the colonies, everyone is Spacenoids now

Zeon wins by default

>>6210594

HOLY SHIT. I thought the thread went and died...

>Look for cover, try to hide somewhere and lob a cracker when they get in range, followed by MG fire. Get Zolomon on a good firing position.

You find a small hilly section of land up ahead and take up firing positions. From there you can see the enemy advance.
Your mono-eye zooms in to get a close look, and you can see roughly 15 Type-61 battletanks.
Initially no sign of infantry, but you switch to Infra-red and you spot a small platoon entrenched behind them.
A quick check on your sat-nav reveals them to be holed up just on the Guatemalean (sp?) border.

At this point you notice several low flying aircraft: Fly Manta Fighter Bombers. The feds have been harrassing the Battalion with probing strikes from Fly Manta Wings all morning and this latest strike is probable meant to coincide with the Tanks attack.

You are currently in ambush positions, but it looks like the Fly Manta's will be going directly over you. Do you break cover to take out the Fly Manta and then take on the Tanks, or do you keep the element of suprise?

Again... sorry about leaving the thread, it's just from the looks of it, nobody responded to the thread until 4 hours after I left it, so I assumed it had died.

>>6212722
Start up on the bombers, and put both crackers into the tanks when they're in range, why not.

>>6213163
>Start up on the bombers, and put both crackers into the tanks when they're in range, why not.

HURRAH! A POST!

You open up on the Fly Manta's as they fly overhead, one of them explodes instantly, closely followed by a second, Strauss opens up with you, clipping another, it spins out of control and crashes into the ground.

With the element of suprise lost, Zolomon pops up out of cover and fires his Bazooka at the Tanks. They are still in close formation and the 240mm Rocket hits one of the tanks in the rear of the formation. The explosive force hurls the Tank into the air, and it manages to land somewhat on another, which stops moving.
The turret is still moving however, so odds are only the tracks are damaged.

The remaining Tanks begin to spread out making it harder to catch. They also increase speed towards you, from the looks of it, they are trying to encircle you.

What do you do?

KILLS
DAVID LISTER: 2 PLANES
WOLFGANG STRAUSS: 1 PLANE
ZOLOMON RINGO: 1 TANK

>>6213294
Start an impromptu tank-football match MS IGLOO 2 style

>>6213294
Start moving our team to the side to avoid getting flanked while attacking with our MG.

>>6213294
What's that mech next to GP02?

>>6213416
It's a Xamel Heavy Artillery Mech

>>6213416
>>6213435

You MIGHT get one of those during the Africa part of the campaign (if we can get that far).

>Start moving our team to the side to avoid getting flanked while attacking with our MG.

Your team breaks cover in an attempt to prevent yourself from being surrounded, firing as you go. With the hills prevent one arm of the pincer movement from firing at you , only about 6 of the tanks have a clear shot at your squad.

Your combined fire takes down three of them before they can shoot back, and the smoke and flying dirt makes targeting you difficult.
There's a loud *PANG* and your Zaku momentarily stumbles as a shell hits you in the left foreleg. Your armour holds and you're able to get the Zaku in control without falling.
Whilst charging forward, the entrenched infantry start firing mortar rounds at you, but they're too light a warhead to actually do more than make your aim a little shaky.

When you get close enough you hurl a Cracker at the tanks, though it does little real damage.

Zolomon charges in and kicks one of the tanks upside down, before slicing the turret off the last one with his Hawk.

A quick check behind you shows that the second half of the tank company has rounded the hills and is heading towards you. Also Strauss points out a cluster of dots in the distance: more incoming Fly Manta F/B's.

Reinforcements from the 2nd Company Support Squads should be only a few minutes away, unless this attack has been timed to coincide with multiple attacks.
You have no way to currently tell.

Your Orders?

>>6213531

KILLS

David Lister: 2 Tanks
Wolfgang Strauss: 1 Tank
Zolomon Ringo: 3 Tanks

Ammo Status:

You have 63 Rounds in your MG remaining, and two reloads. You have 1 cracker left. All 6 Leg Missiles remain unfired.

Strauss, has 73 rounds remaining at two reloads. He has 2 cracker grenades.

Zolomon has used up all of the ammo in his Bazooka and now needs to reload. He has 4 reloads available.

>>6213531

Blast out a few Leg rockets to try and scatter the tanks out of fromation, then take the initiative and have the squad counter-encircle the tanks and take them out.

Try and do this before the bombers hit you; If they catch up before you can break the tanks scatter and try to link up with reinforcments.

>>6213531
Mop up the rest of the tanks.

>>6213614

Also spare a burst from the MG to suppress that damn infantry; they can't hurt you, but best not to leave them unbroken and capable of calling in artillery/airstrike coordinates or some shit like that.

>>6213614

>Blast out a few Leg rockets to try and scatter the tanks out of fromation, then take the initiative and have the squad counter-encircle the tanks and take them out.

Try and do this before the bombers hit you; If they catch up before you can break the tanks scatter and try to link up with reinforcments.

You open up with a quick salvo from your Leg Rockets, partially to break the incoming Tank's formation, and also to give Zolomon time to reload. Two of the rockets miss, but one manages to catch a tank in the tracks, flipping it sideways spectacularly.

They're return fire is sporadic and innaccurate, and you barrel forward into it, Zolomon joins the two of you, his Bazooka now reloaded.
Your combined fire manages to take down four of the scattered vehicles before the remaining 3 tanks beat a hasty retreat.

The Fly Manta's however are now in range.

KILLS: You: 2 Tanks Strauss: 1 Tank Zol: 1 Tank.

Your orders?

>>6213680
Unload the MG on 'em.

Also, can I just say you chose an absolutely terrible time for questing?

>>6213680
We're probably low on ammo and need to reload. Fire the remaining ammo while looking for some cover where we can reload.

>>6213709
It's fine for us Eurofags.

>>6213723
Amerifags outnumber Eurofags five to one.

>>6213723

And Ausfags.

>>6213680

Entrench, and unlaod whatever you can to take out the bombers. Stagger reloading so that at least 2 Suits are firing at any one time.

>>6213736
OP is britfag IIRC

>>6213775
It's three o'clock for Britfags.

Even Britfags are more likely be browsing 4chan in the evening - at least three hours from now.

>>6213786

And its only Midnight for Ausfags. We're good for hours still.

Unload on the planes. if we can aim our leg rockets use those as well

>>6213794

Not the rockets. Save the high-strength ordnance like that for actual hard targets - bombers will go down to rapid MG fire easily.

>>6213810

what are they going to do send some experimental mobile suit that predates the gundam with a clever cover up back story piloted by a group of young teenagers at us.
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.
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your right keep the rockets

>Also, can I just say you chose an absolutely terrible time for questing?

Gods. I've been TRYING to figure out what the best time would be. Someone suggested 7 on a Friday. I *did* that and I didn't get a reply for four hours.

Apparently they meant 7pm US Western time.

>>6213714

>We're probably low on ammo and need to reload.

Actually, you've been pretty economical with your shots, you've still got a good 50 shots left before reload.
Strauss has been even more economical, he's not even past the half way point on his drum.

>Entrench, and unlaod whatever you can to take out the bombers. Stagger reloading so that at least 2 Suits are firing at any one time.

You retake the cover afforded by the small hilly area and begin to fire on the Fly Manta's. It looks like two full wings of five, which begin to make low flying strafing runs at your with their dumb-fire rockets.

They're probably saving their bombs for the Prancer.

By having to get so low, they make for an easier target, but it also makes you easier to hit as well.

The three of you start firing heavily at the planes as they come close, using up ammo heavily. Their missiles chew up the ground, but by keeping mobile and dodging just at the right moment you're able to avoid them.

It looks like the Federation pilots are still trying to get used to having to actually aim for a change, instead of relying on guided weapon.

After five kills, they pull up outside your firing range.
Then they start to drop bombs. The first one hits the ground lest than fifteen metres away from Zolomon and the explosion knock him on his back, the power cabling for his legs severed.

"Mah leg! It's not responding!" He cries.

The bombs are continuing to drop.

Your orders?

>>6213910
That's allot of Fruit Fuckers

>>6213910

Fuck. Scattering would be the default tactic, but with a squadmate immobilized...

You and Strauss keep moving, but don't move too far from Zolomon. Dance around, put up as much fire as possible, and make yourselves more threatening and high-priority targets in general for the bombers than your downed squaddie. Hold out until your damn reinforcments can show up.

>>6213910
Zolomon's going to have to take care of himself.

Continue to try and eliminate bombers.

>>6213910
help him, drag his zaku to safety if we can, if not grab zolo and run

Where are the Dopps when you need them?

>>6213983

CALL FOR DOPP SUPPORT

>>6213944
>That's allot of Fruit Fuckers

Those aren't Fruit Fuckers. Those are TEN METER TALL FRUIT FUCKERS ARMED WITH FRIKKIN LASER PISTOLS.

>You and Strauss keep moving, but don't move too far from Zolomon. Dance around, put up as much fire as possible, and make yourselves more threatening and high-priority targets in general for the bombers than your downed squaddie.

You scatter outwards trying to draw the Fighter Bombers attention and after seeing you retreat they cease dropping bombs and start to reform to continue their attack run...

At which point a single wing of Dopp fighters plow into them. All of the Fly Manta's explode in a mix of vulcan and rockets in a single pass.

You get the feeling that they've getting a lot of practice this morning.

Zolomon manages to right himself. His Zaku lost it's right arm and the Bazooka and is dragging it's leg.

"You know you could have dragged me out of the pickle zone you know..." he grouses

"And risk losing the entire squad?" Strauss replies.

You can see a squad of reinforcements arriving on scene. Zolomon needs to return for repair, but both you and Strauss still have a fair amount of ammo left (your rifles could do with a reload though)

Your orders?

>>6214052
Reload and continue to search and destroy.

>>6214052

Reload. coordinate with Reinforcments to get an overview of the current tactical situation. Send Zolomon back to the Snail for repairs.

>Reload. coordinate with Reinforcments to get an overview of the current tactical situation. Send Zolomon back to the Snail for repairs.

Strauss links up with the supporting Squad from Second Company about the tactical Situation.
Seems that a second Fly Manta Squadron mounted an attack from the rear, which drew the attention of the other two Dopp wings.
With their destruction things are looking quiet.

You take this oppourtunity to reload. Strauss does the same.

The Lugguns are moving back into place, but there's no up to date tectical recon available.

After sighting the Luggun, Sergeant Strauss sends a lasercom relayed through it back to the snail asking for a Samson to come and rendezvous with Zolomon to carry him back to the Snail.

You take a look at the trenches on the border in infra-red. Looks like the retreating Tanks picked them up.

>>6214176

The Luggun moves out of the Minovsky Interference range, and relays the situation back to you and the Snail.
Seems that the tanks are retreating back to a Medea transport. They're too far ahead to be intercepted before the plane takes off. They still seems to be in full retreat.

The Supporting Squad returns to the reserves, taking Zolomon with them until they meet with the Samson, which takes him back to the Snail.

The two of you continue your forward patrol, and by lunchtime, Mastodon Battallion crosses into Guatemala.

NEW KILLS
Dave: 2 Planes
Wolf: 2 Planes
Zol: 1 Plane

Bill Murray enjoys quests.

>>6214220

I'm sorry you died. looked like it hurt. and then they dropped you when you were dead.

>>6214210

lets celebrate our push into feddy territory

>>6214210
So then what's the current situation?

After you enter Guatemala the attacks begin to lessen. You and Strauss continue your patrol alone until one, when 1st company is cycled into Support.

Zolomon returns around 2, now carrying some sort of large bore cannon.

Apparently Okawara was bored and discovered that Mastodon Battalion kept all of the AA Magella's old gun-barrels. (The Current AA Configeration uses slightly larger barrels to fire clustered Flack shells.)

ZOLMON is now armed with 1 Magella Attack Cannon with 5 shells, and two reloads + 2 Crackers.

You quickly march through the main roads of Guatemala city, and then on to Honduras. If the Feds continue to hold off with the attacks then you should reach it by evening.

>>6214329

Advance with caution. They could likely be regrouping for an ambush.

Being an hour late is preferable to stumbling into a properly executed trap.

Whilst the Feds continue to hold off, they do make the occaisional probing attack with Fly Manta's but nothing serious.

More worrying is that Lugguns keep reporting Medea transports travelling alongside and behind. It looks like forces from North America are beginning to arrive on scene...

You reach Honduras at five in the evening. In about an hour your Company is put on reserve and your allowed to return to the Snail to Repair, Rearm and get some food and then some shut-eye. In another 5 hours you'll be back up on Patrol.

DO YOU WANT TO CHANGE YOUR ZAKU'S WEAPONS?

>>6214329
Nice. We have our own artillery support.

>>6214387
i never actually watched Gundam. can i get a short list of options?

>>6214387
Keep the MG. We'll have more versatility this way.

>>6214387

Craker grenades haven't done shit for us, but our engagments haven't been extended enough for us to need more ammo. Leg rockets have been incredibly useful so far.

I think we should leave the loadout as-is, unless we have some cool new options to play with?

>>6214432
Zolomon has Magella cannon so we could probably grab one too, but I think his is enough for our team.

>>6214400
>i never actually watched Gundam. can i get a short list of options?

Hand Held weapons
120mm Zaku Machine Gun (100 shell drum)
240mm Bazooka (4 Shots)
MAgella Top Long Range artillery cannon (5 Shots)
(2 reloads for each can be stored on the left or right hip)

Cracker Grenades (2 Stored on each hip)

Heat Hawk (Traditionally stored on the Back Hip point, the hand held weapon can be stored here when the Hawk is in use)

Your J type land warfare model also comes with a 3 barrelled missile launcher on each leg.

Those are your options. If you think about what I've just said, you may be able to spot a somewhat hidden option...

>>6214462
We can drop the heat hawk and get a bazooka or something instead. But heat hawk is awesome so we won't drop it.

>>6214462

Dropping the Heat Hawk for an extra gun ont he buttplate?

nah. Unless we're deliberately assaulting a land battleship or somesuch, we won't need more firepower than the MG.

>>6214387
Keep current configuration.
What type of bassassery must we do to get an experimental mobile suit or a new production model like a gouf or a dom?

rolled 35230 = 35230

>>6214462
Hm. Hidden option?

Can we try to strap the Heat Hawk on somewhere else and then take a bazooka in that slot, in addition to our trusty machine gun?

>>6214462
Can we get anti-infantry fragmentation grenades?

>>6214462

Also, S-Mines and other anti-infantry shenannigans haven't been developed yet, have they?

>>6214462

Keep the heat hawk, Zolomon proved it's the ultimate AA tool. We could do with some pilot sidearms if the Zaku gets shot to hell, though.

>>6214476

Heh. Yeah, that's what I was hinting at.

Somewhere out there there's a Gundam War CCG Card of Shin Matsunaga going to town on someone with dual MG's in his R-1A.

In any case, you all opt to more or less keep your weapons loadout as is. You ditch the crackers in place of extra ammo.
Ammo isn't a problem for the Battalion yet, most people have kept their ammo expenditure down.

rolled 1319 = 1319

>>6214555
sooooo... we now have 500 bullets and a melee weapon with which to solve problems. Fantastic.

>>6214568

500 Tank shells. It's a 120mm Machinegun.

I think we can solve most problems short of a Land battleship, yeah.

Also >>6214555
We spend our 5 hors of downtime resting and maybe chatting a little about team tactics with the squad.

rolled 29615 = 29615

>>6214629
So. Downtime.
Um... eat food? Eat lots of tasty food and then sleep? i dunno.

Bill Murray says: Try to sneak into some strategy sessions or some shit. FIND OUT WHAT IS GOING DOWN.

Grab something to eat, ask Strauss if he knows any more than the rest of you then grab some sleep. We'll need it for killing Feddies.

>>6214568

Essentially.

Anyway, you and the rest of the squad is woken up at 11. The rest did you some good, but you still feel tired. It's a good thing the Heimdal adjusted everyones sleeping patterns to american time before the drop, or you would have been completely shattered.

Luckily, Nighttime is expected to be quiet, the Feds are still adapting to ground war without radar or radio. They haven't mounted a night attack yet, and Company Captain Curtis thinks they're still marshalling their forces for a big attack somewhere.

You bypass Honduras's capital of Tegucigalpa, as your Lugguns can't get decent intel with Sonar or Magnoscope and Captain Fontaine doesn't think it's worth the risk.

You're pretty sure you sport a couple of tanks dug in. So it's probably for the best.

This happens just before 4am on the 11th. At four, you're once again cycled back into support.

If you keep making good time, you'll be in Panama City by this evening.
Of course, if they're going to stage any sort of counter attack it's going to be Panama or nowhere.

>>6214762
Bill Murray wonders if there's another post coming.

>>6214762

Open a secure channel and talk to Strauss. He might know more than he's saying. Sit back and enjoy your downtime, and check your personal inventory.

>>6214807

HURRAY! PEOPLE ARE IMPATIENT FOR MY THREAD!

Sorry, it's new experience for me.

Two hours after skirting around Honduras Capital, you reach the border, unlike Guatemala, there's no opposition. In fact there's not even a border guard.

The Fly Manta spam continues, but even those are just probing attacks, probably just meant to confirm your general position.

It's getting downright lonely. You plan to cross Nicuragua directly, heading straight into San Jose. Theyre the Battalion will stop for two hours. Mostly to get food, but also to let the Prancer's fanjets and the Loki cool down.

The attacks going to come soon right?

>>6214864
Bill Murray suggests keeping an eye out. Sensors or whatever we've got. Change frequencies or whatever every now and then. Checking for shit.

Uh, make sure we aren't getting ambushed and flanked from behind by troops who hid to let us pass before closing in on us.

>>6214893
I concur. Also, think back why our character is so ronery.

>>6214896
Bill Murray hypothesizes that we're "lonely" because of the lack of conflict.

rolled 16413 = 16413

>>6214906
get him a damn hugging pillow or some shit. We don't have time for lonely on the battlefield! :D

Bill Murray can't wait for an update.

You get put on reserve without having fired a shot. It's still 9 in the morning, and all three of you meet in the mess hall for breakfast.

>ask Strauss if he knows any more than the rest of you then grab some sleep. We'll need it for killing Feddies.
>Try to sneak into some strategy sessions or some shit. FIND OUT WHAT IS GOING DOWN.

Over Breakfast, you talk with Sergeant Strauss about when he thinks the attacks going to come.

"Well, you got to understand, we've been doing okay so far. But that's probably because we've only been dealing with provincial bumfucks in old equipment. If the big bases at New York and California send everything they've got.... which they SHOULDN'T... if Fed tac doctrine is the same on the ground as it is in space, they always keep at least a 10% reserve for base defence. But if they do, were dead. We'll hold out for maybe a day or so, but we wont last long after that."

After delivering that depressing bombshell he finishes eating what was on his fork (a fried tomato you think) and continues speaking.

"Of course, hopefully by that point they'll be getting the news that the REAL invasion has begun, and then they'll high-tail it out. Leaving us to do... whatever."

You ask him when the real invasion is due.

"Last word I heard, tommorow. We'd all better hope and pray they get delayed."

Bill Murray wonders:

You said we have our machine which we carry in our right hand and our axe is strapped to our back.

You suggested we could possibly remove the axe and replace it with a secondary weapon. However, a majority were in favor of keeping the axe.

Couldn't we, however, strap our axe to the shield on our left arm, freeing up the space on our back for another weapon. Or, barring that, simply carry the axe in our left hand and drop it if combat engages when it isn't needed?

>>6214982

Find a quartermaster and try to get a nice sidearm and a knife or something. We might need it if we leave the Zaku. Check on Zolomon and then see what's on TV.

>>6215022
Bill Murray suggests an uzi.

>"Last word I heard, tommorow. We'd all better hope and pray they dont get delayed."

Whoops. Teaches me to post without proofreading.

Anyhow, you catch a few more hours of sleep before being put out on Patrol again.
You're still tired, but at least you aren't as bad as the Dopp pilots. The constant Fly Manta attacks are really beginning to take their toll. A full wing of Dopps has already been destroyed, and the pilots themselves are getting even less sleep than you are.

You entered Costa Rica whilst you were asleep, and San Jose is about an hours travel away.

It's at this point that the Lugguns start to report a LOT of activity up ahead. Radar's showing at least two full squadrons comprised of Sabre Fish Heavy Fighters and Fly Manta's flying over what appears to be several smaller vehicles surrounding a much larger vehicle. Possibly some kind of Federation Land Battleship.

Upon getting in radar range, the Fighters begin to move on your position.

Orders?

>>6215078

Wake your squad and run like hell to your Zaku.
Try to confirm the enemy and pack the bazooka if it's indeed a battleship, otherwise take the MG.

rolled 36473 = 36473

>>I think we can solve most problems short of a Land battleship, yeah.

>>several smaller vehicles surrounding a much larger vehicle. Possibly some kind of Federation Land Battleship.

:|

ANYWAY, we've got ammo. blaze away.

>>6215041
>>6215018
Bill Murray wonders how his ideas are received.

>>6215100

It's okay! Your on Patrol and in your Zaku already! The Lugguns have already retreated back to the inner zone and are out of position for laser comms.
You pull up tight, the Lugguns weren't able to get confirmation if you're looking at a land battleship or not.
On the other hand, the heavy jungle foilage will help keep your squad obscured from the fighters.

Orders? Push forwards or wait for reinforcements?

rolled 20836 = 20836

>>6215177
Call in the Dopps, and let the air power pass over us. We have ground units to kill.

>>6215177

The Saberfish an Earth Federation high-speed space fighter built by the Hervic Company starting in U.C.0076. Designed to launch from the Federation's Columbus-class carriers or to, in dire straits, attach to and launch from the hulls of the Federation's Salamis and Magellan-class space warships, the Saberfish could also be utilized in atmospheric combat.

The Saberfish was armed with four 25 mm machine guns and 12 missile launchers, which gave it enough firepower to kill a first-generation mobile suit like the Zaku II, but it fell victim to the high mobility of mobile suits, which were capable of circling around (thanks to their AMBAC manuveurs) and attack the poor fighter from the rear. Nevertheless, it continued to see service well into U.C.0087, despite the continued odds stacked against it. Many Federation mobile suit aces of the One Year War such as Bernard Monsha, South Burning, and Yuu Kajima first earned their wings piloting this starfighter.

There are about 15 of these as well as an equal number of Fly Manta's heading your way.

The Dopps aren't going to be much of a match for them.

>>6215227
ALL GUNS FIRE

rolled 5917 = 5917

>>6215227
New plan! Let them go overhead, then start shooting them in the ass.

>>6215227
Well then, DEATH OR GLORY!

So no word on Bill Murray's weapons plan?

OH BOY THE BIG TRAY IS COMING

Bleh. Sucks.
With this quest and another quest running at the moment, now doesn't seem like a very good time to continue mine.

Radio HQ and tell them to flood the place with minovsky. Just before they do so, fire all your leg missiles at the enemy group to kill as many as possible.

Bill Murray is unsure if anyone else will post in this thread again.

>>6215284

Sorry.

GODDAMN IT. 4CHAN JUST DELETED MY POST.

GIVE ME A MINUTE, I'LL POST IN A SECOND.

>>6215362
Bill Murray suggest just hitting the back buttons. It will bring you back to the page where you typed out your post.

>>6215284
what was your quest? The SG one looks like it's mainly comical, and I'd play in this one if I knew jack shit about UC. There's probably other people like me, I guess.

>>6215256

Storing the Axe on the Shield would require a fair bit of engineering. There's no problem with just holding the Axe though, apart from the fact that the left hand is used to stabilize the gun when firing, and also to absorb recoil. Without it, you'd take a loss in accuracy and the repeated recoil might damage your arm actuators.

>>6215238

>New plan! Let them go overhead, then start shooting them in the ass.

You wait until the planes pass overhead, and then you let them have it. Zolomon discovers that the Magella Cannon works excellently as an AA weapon and starts taking them out in clumps, the rest of you get decent results with your MG's. It's a target rich environment, so targeting a breeze.

After the first few attacks however, the planes begin to swoop around like a shoal of fish to target you.
They can't see you, but they have a general idea. The Saberfish start firing rockets blindly into the foliage and the Fly-Manta's start dropping their bombs.

You have to keep on the move to keep alive, which cut's down on your firing and accuracy.
Luckily for you, by concentrating on your squad, they're taken by surprise when two squads from 3rd Company start firing into the formations.

Unluckily for you, the jungle is now on fire, your Zaku's can handle the heat, but the light vehicles supporting the Snail will need a path cleared for them.
The smoke is making it next to impossible to target the airforces.
The Squads from 3rd are upwind and unaffected.
Downwind incidentally, is the direction where the Land Fortress is suspected to be...

KILLS: Dave: 4 Planes Straus: 4 Planes Zol: 6 Planes

Orders?

rolled 9436 = 9436

>>6215463
Circle around, try to hit their formation in the side or back. Have the other company hold the line, and do whatever they can to clear a path forward while we're flanking.

>ZEONQUEST Pt3 I apologized on 4chan !!O1JS15Z6lxy 10/09/09(Fri)13:53
>I apologized on 4chan !!O1JS15Z6lxy 10/10/09(Sat)13:15

That's... pretty disappointing for 100 posts, bro.

>>6215413
>and I'd play in this one if I knew jack shit about UC.

I'd say go here: http://www.ultimatemark.com/gundam/
It has a pretty good timeline for UC, as well as a few interesting translations from various obscure sources.

Failing that, just go to /m/ and ask them to teach you about UC era Gundam.

Wait half an hour, read results, ignore obvious trolls.

>>6215463
clear a path for the support vehicles. We need them alive. Suppressing fire against the feddie aircraft, and watch out for their main ground force.

>>6215501

/tg/ doesn't seem to like participating in /m/-type quests.

>>6215463

Gather the team up to recon the possible land battleship under the cover of the smoke.

It's almost like the GM is railroading us~!

Bill Murray says "Fuck this war", and suggests we hightail it outta here and start living it up in the desert.

>>6215542
>>6215501
I know Gundam pretty damn well, I just don't wanna be a Zeke (even though I love Zakus).

I'd rather be the asshole Feddie in this case.

>>6215564
Unfortunatelu for you most of /m/ is neo-nazi zeon fanboys.

SIEG ZEON! SIEG ZEON!

>>6215564
And it's zeek not zeke.

>>6215501
>Circle around, try to hit their formation in the side or back. Have the other company hold the line, and do whatever they can to clear a path forward while we're flanking.

You move away from the fires direction so you can get a clear shot at the air-forces. You snag a few more kills between you, but the formations have mostly split apart in a chaotic fashion. After a few minutes the Fighters cut their losses and flee.
During this time the wind has shifted blowing the fire in an easterly direction.
This is basically good news for you as it means that the fire won't spread to where the Snail is (which is due north) on the other hand, you've lost cover from the smoke.

The area where the 3rd company was firing from comes under attack from long range artillery at this point. Looks like battleship grade shell from the size of the dirt plumes.
You're pretty sure you see an explosion from a Zaku.

Orders?

>>6215661
Get rid of those pesky fighters. We have lot of ammo so don't be stingy.

>>6215763

The fighters are already in retreat. There wasn't many of them left by the end anyway. They're probably heading towards Bluefields on the other east coast of the country.

I'm going to go get my dinner, be back in about 20 minutes.

>>6215603
>>6215612
Well, there's a number of reasons I don't go to /m/ any more.

And I don't care, Zeke or Zeek, it sounds the same and has the same letters and since it's slang I'll spell it the way I like.

I do what I want!

>>6215661
CHAAAAAAAAAAARGE

Call HQ and request Minovsky.

We need to get close to that battleship and hit the bridge ASAP.

>Call HQ and request Minovsky.

>We need to get close to that battleship and hit the bridge ASAP.

You quickly link up with the survivors from 3rd. They're in a bad shape, damaged parts and scratched paint.

The heavy shelling is continuing, but it's not that accurate, and dropped off as 3rd Company moved west, oddly enough.

"We were doing okay until that last artillery hit. Took out Captain Oswabia and Sergeant Drahn. We're down to just three suits, and we're all low on ammo."

Meanwhile Sergeant Strauss was able to find a Luggun and get a laser comm off, requesting Minovsky support.

"Okay, listen up everyone! The call from Command is that the Loki is going to refocus it's minovsky spread towards us, which SHOULD cover us as we advance on the battleship. They're waking up 2nd Company now to reinforce our losses. If you 3rd Company boys want in, me and these losers are going to take on that battleship."

One of the Zaku's raises it's hand

"I've got a few more shots left in my Magella Cannon, I can support you with fire support, but I can't really push my suit further than that."

The rest of them agree to keep the gunner company, but they're too beat up and low on ammo to risk anything else.

At your Sergeants orders you begin marching south towards the Land Battleship.

What do we have in our inventory, personal and Zaku-wise?

Approach the battleship at a good pace while keeping to cover and watching for flankers. Try to keep to ground to avoid air strikes.

>>6216078
>What do we have in our inventory, personal and Zaku-wise?

Personally: 1 9mm Sidearm, and you are currently wearing your combat suit, which has heat regulation, and it's own oxygen supply.
Basic survival pack stored in cockpit.

The Zaku: 120 MG 34 shells remaining in Drum, 4 reloads. Leg mounted missile launchers still full loaded.

>Approach the battleship at a good pace while keeping to cover and watching for flankers. Try to keep to ground to avoid air strikes.

You plan to move to where the Battleship was last sighted, if it's still there, your fire support will fire on that position with your signal (a green flare) the signal to stop firing is a red flare, and the signal to retreat is a white one.

With the Minovsky percentages now sufficient for you to move with reduced detection you make good speed through the jungle.
You don't meet any picket forces oddly and you carefully come to a clearing.

You see a Big Tray surrounded by trucks and cranes surrounding it. From the looks of it, the Big Tray's tracks damaged themselves somewhere, immobilising the vehicle.
Engineers are currently swarming over the giant vehicle.

Do you launch a Green Flare? Charge in yourself?

Your Orders?

>>6216164
We couldn't get an uzi?

>>6216183

Zeon is in many respects one great big allegory for Nazi Germany, I think an Iraeli Submachinegun might not be entirely appropriate.

Pick a german one, and maybe we'll get something similar to have in the cockpit just in case.

>>6216164
Call for the shelling with the flare.

Use our rocket legs and MG as a last resort to keep back any forces that try to go for our artillery.

>>6216205
I said uzi as a placeholder for any compact submachine gun. Better than a semi auto pistol.

>>6216216
Here's something German.

HK MP7.

>>6216208
>Call for the shelling with the flare.

You launch green flares, and the rest of the squad opens fire from the cover of the trees. Most of the 120mm shells don't get through the armour, but occaisionally one goes through a window.
As the Big Tray's guns begin to track you, you start moving. Super-Heavy Shells begin to devestate the jungle around you.

Zolomon is running and firing his Magella Cannon, even it's heavy shells isn't enough to properly pierce the battleships armour, but it's certainly leaving bigger dents. The recoil is knocking the suit off the ground, and if it weren't for the F-Type having space verniers, Zol would have fallen over long ago.
The first of the artillery shells from 3rd Company come down, the first shell get's lucky and hit's the corner of the rear turret. It's still functioning, but it looks like it can't rotate anymore.
The rest of the shells don't get quite so lucky, either missing or pinging of the battleships armour and imbedding themselves into the ground.

The Engineer trucks meanwhile are trying to beat a hasty retreat.

Hmm. For some reason, 4chan's not letting me make posts when I've attatched images... hmmm.

>>6216351
SHOOT EVERYTHING

What kinds of defenses are present?

Any tanks or infantry?

Could we make it to the tank and start fucking shit up with out axe? Jump onto it and chop the turrets?

If we can, I say we signal to stop firing, and get in close and chop that shit like it's wood.

>>6216394
*our axe

Tell Strauss to fire at the Engineers while you or Zolomon climb the land ship as fast as you can. Try to reach the bridge and fire directly into it.

Fire a red flare if the shelling gets too heavy.

>What kinds of defenses are present?
>Any tanks or infantry?

No tanks or infantry are visible, it's just the Big Tray.

>Could we make it to the tank and start fucking shit up with out axe? Jump onto it and chop the turrets?

Yep.

>If we can, I say we signal to stop firing, and get in close and chop that shit like it's wood.

You keep firing until you run out of ammo in the drum, then you swap it with your heat hawk.

"Hold on! I'll pop the red flare!" calls Strauss, meanwhile Zolomon pulls out his Heat Hawk as well. As you charge forwards, keeping your Zaku's profile low to try and avoid getting hit.
You think you hear Zolomon asking Strauss for his heat hawk.

Just as your about to leap into the air, fire off your leg rockets and come down on the Big Tray's bridge.
You hear a cry from behind you.

"Lister! Duck!"

You instinctively duck and over your head fly a pair of Heat Tomahawks spinning at ferocious speed. The first hit slices the barrels of the nearest turret clean off. The second slams into the back of it, causing it's internal magazine to detonate in large plume of fire.

You take this chance and hit your thrusters for everything you've got. At the apex of the jump you fire all of your rockets at once and use your thrusters to hurl yourself downwards towards where the bridge should be. You land well, and your axes slices clean through the bridge right to the base of the battleship. You manage to leap back with your axe as secondary explosions brew up in the craft.

From the safety of the trees, you see the Big Tray explode.

KILLS: David: 1 Land Battleship

>From the safety of the trees, you see the Big Tray explode.

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED

Just some reference material for you guys if you don't have some of this already.

>>6216518
FUCK YES I AM A MASTER STRATEGIST!

Also, I say we should have that MP7 instead of a pistol.

And for destroying this fucking, battle thing, we should get some accolades.

As your squad stops to secure the area and salvage your heat hawks, you stop to ask Zolomon exactly WHAT IS IT with him and throwing Heat hawks.

His Zaku shrugs at the comment (which is odd, you didn't think that they were capable of that) and he simply says.

"Well, It's like my crazy uncle Ryoma used to tell me: If there's a hole, it's a man's job to jam it in."

This explains nothing, but you're not sure if you want to explore this topic further, you fear it's going to get very silly.

In any case, San Jose a break and warm food looms on the horizon.

>>6216537

>>6216576

We're going to need a Zaku brofist here, right now.

Then head back to base for debrief, kill notches and chow.

>>6216599

If you can give me the name of that SMG on the bottom, I'll give you that when you get back to base.

I'll make up some info for it unless someone feels like translating that entire text box.

Bill Murray suggests finding a chick and getting our dick wet. We're badass war heroes after all.

>>6216576

If our entire force isn't sieging Zeon in triumph after that, I am going to be disappoint.

Lister needs a damn beer for that.

>>6216644
Sorry bro, not playing, but as a /m/echanic I felt the need to dump some of my lineart for reference for ya.

It's from Mobile Ops, I do believe, if that helps.

I feel as though we need a FEDQUEST for counterbalance.

>>6216687

Go back to Trojan Horse, feddie scum.
This is Zeon's earth now.

You move back along with the squad from 3rd Company.

You reach the Snail, where your unit attatches itself to the Prancer's side, whilst the other squad is taken inside for heavy repairs.
Samsons and other vehicles are already being sent out to salvage as much as possible from the destroyed mobile suits and the Big Tray.

Inside you are met with accolade by the Engineers in the Repair bay, and the pilots from 3rd Company greet and you thank each other for their timely assistant.

You're all called to the bridge for a debriefing.

>>6216742
Let's go to the debriefing.

Then we need to find a woman, and really get to "debriefing".

>>6216599

>>6216812

You reach the bridge where a somewhat haggard but nevertheless optimistic Captain Fontaine greets you.

"Great job gentlemen. Thats our first Capital ship kill of the operation! I've already put you forward for a medal! In about half an hour we get to San Jose. Were going to rest there for about two hours then push on to Panama.
I sent a small unit of plains clothes intelligence specialists ahead."

"Last we heard, they'd managed to secure the support of the Nicuraguan President to refuel and resupply us in San Jose. But after that we lost contact with the specialist."

He looks at you appraisingly.

"If you fancy a breath of fresh air, I'd like you to help us with this problem..."

TO BE CONTINUED

>>6216843

WHERE IS THE ZAKU BROFIST

I WAS TOLD THERE WOULD BE ZAKU BROFIST

Spy work?

>>6216888
>Spy work?

INDEED BILL.

Because I figured people will get bored if it's just robot action all of the time.

So, when should we have part 4?

>>6216920
RIGHT ABOUT NOW SOUNDS PRETTY GOOD

>>6216938

Not right now Bill. I'm knackered. I've been doing this since this morning, and we'll be hitting the post limit sooner rather than later.

That and I need to figure out what I'm going to do Shit needs to get planned out.

>>6216920

ASAP

We're not going to lose our Zaku, right?

Our zaku is a capital ship killer.

>>6216958
Regardless, we'll need bitching spy gear. Pistols with suppressors. A briefcase with a machine gun in it in case shit gets hairy.

>>6216964
Speaking of that, let's try to get our bitch more customized if we're allowed. Specialized decorations and shit. SHOW OFF OUR FEROCIOUSNESS!

>>6216964

Don't be silly. It's got your kill markings on it. Your practically a celebrity in the Battalion, they aren't taking your zaku away from you.

>Regardless, we'll need bitching spy gear. Pistols with suppressors. A briefcase with a machine gun in it in case shit gets hairy.

Sure, you'll also be getting that SMG you wanted. You'll have to wait and see what I've got stored for you.

>Speaking of that, let's try to get our bitch more customized if we're allowed. Specialized decorations and shit. SHOW OFF OUR FEROCIOUSNESS!

Problem is, you don't have all that many parts available to you, since everything's coming at a premium. You'll be able to get fuel and maybe ammo from San Jose (assuming the President was on the level) but machine parts for Mobile Suits? Not likely.

Paint would be pretty easy to get though...

>>6217053
That's what I was talking about.

Let's get it painted like a skeleton.

>>6217063
A red skeleton, to triple its speed. With blue highlights to make it luckier.

Well, that's me taking off my tripcode/GM's hat, and also this thread is archived up on sup/tg/ at:

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/6203113/

GG everyone.

>>6217068

If you can supply a photoshopped MS-06J lineart in the custom colour scheme you want, then we'll use it.

I'd recommend Mark Simmons lineart, but finding that stuff these days is next to impossible.

Also, red and blue? Ugh.

I vote for keeping the Green Zaku colour but putting symbols and stuff on.

Like a White Zeon Symbol with the circular part stylised like a skull on the Zeon's helms.

>>6217335

Zaku's helms, even.