Your base of operations is the Dabude class land battleship: The Roter Mond, where overall Battalion command falls to Captain Dirk Fontaine.
During your previous mission in Operation Elephant he captained a Gallop MSV, but it slightly exploded*.

You are currently under orders to meet back up with allied forces travelling south from New York.

* Well, as nuclear explosions go, it WASN'T all that big.

You have just finished a two day stint of R&R in the New Mexican resort town of Truth and Consequences are now heading east... towards Roswell.

You are currently piloting an MS-06J Zaku II (Ground Type) With Leg Rockets, a 120mm MG, reloads and Cracker Grenades.

Previous threads here before I forget: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=zeonquest

>>6688003

Your CO is Sergeant Major WOLFGANG STRAUSS, One Week War and Loum veteran.
He currently pilots a:
MS-06S Zaku II (Commanders type) with a Magella Cannon + Reloads

Your wingman is ZOLOMON RINGO, nowhere near as good a ladies man as he thinks he is, destroyer of worlds with a heat hawk.
He currently pilots a:
MS-06F Zaku II with 120mm Machine Gun (Plus Reloads) and 2x Heat Hawks.

I say we take a stop at the trinity site if possible, to give recognition to the start of the nuclear age.

And damn, you start this right as i am about to run to the gym...

After the battle with Federation forces, Mastodon Battalion decides to move off, heading easterly towards Roswell.
The plan is to circumvent the mountains by going north, around them and then heading back into the town.
The Detour means that you probably wont reach Roswell until morning.
After reloading, the three of you are on support ring, travelling in close with the Roter Mond, either to defend it from attacks that pierce the outer patrol ring, or to support said patrol ring against concentrated ground attacks. You in your semi-customised Zaku (pic related.)

It is currently 7pm, and night is coming.

Check the sensors and request Wolfgang to ask for a sitrep, unless we're maintaining radio silence.

>>6688072

Unless you take six or more hours, I think you MAY be able to catch us later on. I've had threads start at 6:30 and not finish until 2:30 at night.

Your unit has another three hours until called into reserve, where you'll get 8 hours of sleep. By the time you wake up you'll be in Roswell, assuming nothing bad happens.

Zolomon asks Wolfgang over contact coms if he thinks that the feds are going to mount a second attack.

"Well, it really depends on whether or not they think their previous night attack worked well enough or not. They may just decide to only attack during dusk and dawn when they have some light to work with and can coordinate better between air and land forces. Or they may decide to go for aerial night raids just to keep us on our toes. Remember Costa Rica?"

You continue to march.

At 10pm, the battalion has begun to forge it's way through the valleys towards the town of Oscura and 1st Company is put back on reserve for repair and rearmament.
So far, no sign of enemy attacks.

IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WISH TO DO WHILST ON RESERVE? CHANGE LOADOUT? TALK TO NPC'S ETC?

6:30 Bump

>>6688844

Man, there goes my plan to get an early start in and finish early enough to get a decent nights sleep.

Well, regardless, here are your current options:

One of the following
120mm ZMP-50D Zaku Machine Gun (100 Round Drum)
240mm Bazooka (4 Shots per reload)
175mm HT-01B Magella Attack cannon

In push situations it's possible to carry two of either, or possibly two of the same weapon. But the extra weight strains the Mobile Suits frame, and firing two weapons at the same time stresses the arm actuators due to the recoil (to say nothing in the loss in accuracy.)

Each Hardpoint on the hip has been improved to hold up to 4 reloads for the main weapon, a Heat Hawk, or four MIP-B6 cracker grenades.
It may also support the weight of a 120mm Machine Gun, but it must have it's ammo drum removed first to stop it from interfering with the arms traverse.

The Rear Hardpoint can be used to fit a main weapon or heat hawk, and often swaps between the two.

Each Leg mounted rocket launcher has a catch for a single reload of the main weapon.

Your Mobile Suit's shield has been changed into a Boxer Shield, for enhanced defence and assault.

Panzerfausts will not be invented until much later in the war.

>>6689177
Get a Magella cannon, a hip-slot machine gun and a back-slot bazooka.

Fill up on ammo. Find out if anyone knows what's going on where we're going.

>>6689219

I'm not sure if the Tech are going to let load up with all of those guns for no reason. You don't have a supply train, and guns are at a premium (ammo luckily is fairly plentiful for now. But another situation like Salina Cruz and you might run out.)
Also, there's a maintance aspect, carrying that many weapons and ammo will strain the fuck out of the actuators, meaning more possibly needless time in the Roter Mond getting repaired.

What do you say to convince them to give you it? Keeping in mind that you can only trade on your Ace status so many times, and you are TECHINCALLY still just a corporal.

>>6689177
Grab extra magazines and either duct tape the magazine to the leg/arm/torso/etc (You'd be surprised what one can hold up with ten rolls of duct tape OR weld/bolt one or two extra ammo carrying racks/rails to hold ammunition on. Basically, what I'm saying here is that we need to increase our ammunition capacity. Also try to grab some spare food to keep in the cockpit.

>>6689289
Inform them that:

a) The Federation have some kind of weird shit going down with planes that WILL NOT DIE
b) We are horribly outgunned and outnumbered, and as a result if we should be attacked by the wrong kind of enemies then we'll lose for sure. Equipping a Zaku with every kind of weapon means it will not be helpless, if, for example, we run into a hard target when expecting fighters.
c) If it's absolutely impossible, then drop the Magella cannon because that's probably the least useful.

>>6689371

Luckily you've been friendly with one of the techs who works with your Suits and your able to convince Ookawara to equip your MS with a Bazzoka (Back Plate) and a hip mounted MG. You both decide to ditch the Hawk since you can make do with the punch shield, and use the other hip point to hold two reloads for each weapon.

Your rocket launchers have a MG Drum and a Bazooka reload attatched to them.

You haven't the space to fit a Magella, and it's possible that you might overload the machine if you did.

YOUR CURRENT LOADOUT:
1 Zaku Machinegun (Unloaded) (3 Ammo Drums)
1 240mm Bazooka (4 Shots) (3 Reloads)
Boxer Shield

Is this fine?

>>6689445
yes. lets go patrol and keep our eyes open for that feddie newtype.

Sounds good to me.

Also

>Okwara

Would there happen to be engineers called Katoki and Kawamori too?

Your new loadout agreed on, you decide to catch some shut eye.

>Find out if anyone knows what's going on where we're going.

On the way to your bunks you ask Strauss if he knows why were going directly to Roswell instead of taking the main road to Alberquerque. He visibly resists the urge to do a Bugs Bunny impression and shrugs.

"Not a clue, which might mean we've got to pull some spooks ass out of the fire again.... What fun." he deadpans.

"It wasn't so bad, I mean we had a pretty hairy chase scene on a motorbike but that was it." Zolomon pipes up.

"For YOU guy's, we had to fucking storm the presidents apartment, try to talk him into giving us our men back, and then watching Incognito murder every single earthnoid in the room when he said no."

With nothing more to say, the three of you retire to your quarters, you set your alarm for 6:00 am.

You are woken up at 2:00.
But not by your alarm but the red-alert/general quarters alarm. You can hear explosions outside of the vessel.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>6689770
INTENSIFY THE FORWARD FIREPOWER

Get moving, start killing.

Check to see if everyone is alright and present, then gear up, grab anything we need from the room and head to our mobile suits.

>>6689770
Get to our Zaku and find out what's going on!

We better end up in Las Vegas. Also, new Feddie aerospace unit+Roswell=Area 51.

>>6689795
>Check to see if everyone is alright and present, then gear up, grab anything we need from the room and head to our mobile suits.

You all get up, your fine if a little groggy and tired from lack of sleep. Still you're more or less used to only having five hours of sleep thanks to Operation Elephant.
You quickly scramble on some clothes and run to the MS bay to try and get a handle on the situation.
As you reach it, you can hear the staccatto of the Roter Mond's medium artillery turrets firing. You quickly reach Ookawara as he's overseeing squad 2 of First Company out of the door.
You can see a heavy firefight going on, both on the ground and in the air.

"What happened!" you yell over the din.

"Heavy Federation forces, at least three full battalions! No Battleships, but were looking at a lot of tanks and air-forces! The Lugguns reported at least two wings of Depp Roggs orbiting just outside the minovsky field!"

You all quickly get to your suits.

WOLFGANG STRAUSS has taken a second 120mm Machine Gun.

As you exit the Roter Mond you spot a squad of five Federation Tanks attack a retreating group of your Magella Tanks.
You quickly dash up to the nearest one and kick it just right to lift into the air. You then bring your Boxer Shield down and attempt to punch it into another enemy tank. The Tank crumples with the force of your blow and narrowly misses the target you were aiming for.
You've still however managed to draw their attention away from the Magella's they were attacking by having your giant robot skeleton leap into their midst.

You are in the middle of a small Type-61 Tank formation.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>6689912

Start blasting Ride of the Valkyries.

RIP AND TEAR!

>>6689912
Keep firing until it looks like Sinai, '67.

>>6687938
Oh my god, Zeon Quest! I started reading the archives last Sunday, and now I can participate! Wheeeeee!

*ahem*, suggest we use our 120 mm machine gun?

Time to use your shield fist

>>6689925
Second

Tap-dance on top of the tanks.

>>6689940
Here's a reference.

Since we ditched the heat hawk, punch, kick, throw...whatever...just kill some goddamn tanks.

REMEMBER WHAT THE BOSS TAUGHT YOU IN CQC.

>Keep firing until it looks like Sinai, '67.

>*ahem*, suggest we use our 120 mm machine gun?

>Time to use your shield fist

>Since we ditched the heat hawk, punch, kick, throw...whatever...just kill some goddamn tanks.

Kick! Punch! It's all in the mind!

Unofrtunately, you 120mm Gun is still by your side, and currently not loaded. Instead you fire off a salvo from your leg rockets into the group. Explosions and great plumes of dirt follow obscuring you from them. Innaccurate return fire follows and you pull out your loaded Bazooka and start using those shots as a sort of reverse tracer to help your fire.

You fire two rockets into the smoke and are rewarded by the sounds of yet more explosions. Zolomon and Strauss have caught up with you now.
The smoke clears revealing the wreckage of five tanks.

KILLS:
You: 5 Tanks.

A furious aeriel battle between Federation fighters and Dopps and Dodai riding Zaku's is going on in the night sky above you. There is 0% cloud cover and a full moon. Visiblity across the battlefield is good, and there are two Starburst flares in the air for added visibility.

There are still plenty of tanks and the Thirds and the rest of 1st Company are currently in combat with them.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>6690141
They seek to hide in their metal boxes... We should take their metal boxes from them! (Kill more tanks, with machine gun, which we will load with ammo now.)

Get Zoloman and Strauss to deal with the rest of the Feddie armour while we unsling our 120mm and start taking potshots at the strafing aircraft; if those two can't deal with the armour, then go and help them.

>>6687938
> I'LL BE PLAYING V:TM IN CAMBRIDGE ON SUNDAYS
Sup (presumably) fellow Britfag! Where exactly are you at?

>>6690163

You pull the Ammo Drum from the side of your leg launchers and load it into your MG. The Bazooka is replaced back onto the back plate.

The three of you more to support the rest of your Company. You see a unit of Magella Tanks lending AA fire to the battle above you.
You spot a company of Tanks manage to trap a squad in a pincer movement and you move to assist.

You manage to catch them unawares in the rear.
As you would imagine, rape follows.

After losing half of their numbers, the tanks attempt to make a fighting retreat. You persue them to get some more kills and then you let them disengage so that they don't draw you away from the fighting.

KILLS: You 2 Tanks
Zolomon 1 Tank
Strauss: 3 Tanks

You meet up with the squad you just rescued.

"Thanks! We overextended ourselves and they managed to ambush us! Stay close, if our squads work in tandem we'll stand a better chance!"

>>6690267
Can we get a sit-rep? (Situation Report)

>>6690292
Yeah, get a sitrep from the squad, your team (ammo, casualties, damage, etc) and then ask Strauss to contact the Roter Mond for a general sit-rep and orders.

>>6690198

Technically Huntingdonshire in East Anglia, why?

>>6690163
Second.

Do we have any intimidating music to kill to?

>>6690351
I'm in Cambridge myself, is all, and was wondering if you were at the university.

>>6690292
>>6690328

DAVID LISTER
MS-06J
120mm Rifle (85 shots remaining) (2 Spare drums)
Bazooka (2 Shots remaining) 3 Reloads remaining
Leg Launchers (3 Missiles Remaining.)
Boxer Shield
Undamaged

ZOLOMON RINGO
MS-06F
120mm Rifle (76 shots remaining) (2 Spare Drums)
2x Heat Hawks
Undamaged

WOLFGANG STRAUSS
MS-06S
120mm Machine Gun (80 shots remaining) (2 Drums available)
120mm Machine Gun (100 shots remaining)
1 Heat Hawk
Undamaged

The second squad you are allied with comprises of:

MS-06C Zaku II (Old Type) 120mm Machine Gun
MS-06J Zaku II (Ground type) 120mm Machine Gun + Leg Rockets
MS-096J Zaku II (Ground type) Bazooka

>>6690375

I don't really have the funds to bribe the bursary into Cambridge Uni mate. My family just lives down here that's all.
I sort of work in radio at the moment.

>>6690412
contact the roter mond and find out where the bulk of enemy ground forces are, then take this 2nd squad with us and flank the heaviest concentration of enemies.
Make sure to stay inside the minovsky field while flanking. Keep the squads a small distance apart so as not to appear as a large force that draws attention

>>6690412
Alright, and how does the battle look so far? Are our Dopps holding off the enemy bombers? Is the Newtype in the attack force? I think we can consider the ground battle in the bag, since we have a new carrier that has some actual weapons, and the other on-duty squads are engaging the tanks.

tl;dr- Go into skywatch, try to kill bombers.

Apologies for stealing your thunder, OP - but would you mind if I initiate Slug Quest soon?

As for this thread - what's the current combat situation? The way I see it, we can either continue persuit or return to base.

Get strauss on a good, stable firing position and have him either fill the sky with 120mm or turn a tank formation into scrap. see if we can't get Zolomon to dive right into a group of them and go mad with those heat hawks.

For ourselves, watch the skies. Our newtype friend'll surely be about.

>contact the roter mond and find out where the bulk of enemy ground forces are, then take this 2nd squad with us and flank the heaviest concentration of enemies.
Make sure to stay inside the minovsky field while flanking. Keep the squads a small distance apart so as not to appear as a large force that draws attention

Strauss get's into contact with the Roter Mond on laser comm.

It seems that the Bombers waiting to see if the fighters can cause a significant enough damage to our air cover to allow them to make a bombing run. The tanks don't appear to want to risk heavy losses and will retreat if they think the situation is untenable. The fighters seem to be little more willing to stick in the fight. Presumeably because our Dopps have a higher top speed and can catch them if they try to run.
There are however, less planes than there are tanks.
(No sign of the newtype just yet.)
If you wish to aid the air forces the Roter Mond DOES have enough Dodai's to mount another whole company if needs be.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>6690661
>If you wish to aid the air forces the Roter Mond DOES have enough Dodai's to mount another whole company if needs be.

let's do it, both our squad and the squad we rescued. Mount up and engage hostile air forces. After we clear the fighters we can go after the bombers while our air units rain death down on enemy tanks.

>>6690661
Lend aid to out air units, take out the enemy's air units (I'm assuming Fly Mantas?).

Strauss and ourselves have machineguns, and Zolomon has his Heat Hawks of +10 vs physics.

>>6690661
Is there any possible way of somehow getting the jump on those bombers, just in case our fighters are thinned out and we lose air superiority?

>>6690764
Hey, was Slugquest part 3 ever archived? I was getting into it, but then noticed there was a chunk missing.

I say we move to engage the feddie armour; we'll flank while the other squad suppresses them; keep an eye on the sky though, if thing start going bad, I'd radio for backup and start putting rounds into the air.

>>6690735
>Lend aid to out air units, take out the enemy's air units (I'm assuming Fly Mantas?).

A mix of Fly Manta's and Saberfish Heavy Fighters

>let's do it, both our squad and the squad we rescued. Mount up and engage hostile air forces. After we clear the fighters we can go after the bombers while our air units rain death down on enemy tanks.

You ask the other squad about mounting up with you and they decline.

"We've still got a lot of work to do down here, once we deal with the Tanks we'll join in if we need to though."

You signal the Roter Mond to send three Dodai's your way.

>>6690899
>they decline
jerks

anyway, TO THE SKIES

>>6690899
Perfect! If that Newtype shows up, we'll be ready this time!

Also, quick question, since all I know about Gundam comes from this quest, what exactly are the Dodais?

>>6690929
you know that hoverboard from back to the future 2?
It's like that.
For a 4 story tall robot war machine.

with guns added on

and a crew

so really it's nothing like that. I'm mr apologized has a pic for reference.

The bombers are vulnerable with the fighters engaging the Dopps. Take the Dodai and scatter the bombers so there won't be any worries about the kind of damage caused by large explosives. Plus it would likely flush out the newtype.

>>6690945
argh

>I'm sure mr apologized has a pic for reference.
fix'd for crappy keyboard

>>6690945
Okay, that's what I had gathered they were, just wanted to make sure.

>>6690957

You mean this?

Yeah, the Dodai doesn't so much have guns as a small bomb bay, and whilst your riding it the MS pilot has control.
Speaking of which. The three of you swoop into the skies to lend your support. You keep in close formation and take out several enemy planes on your first pass.
The three of you then split up to take targets of oppourtunity.

In the melee you spot a pair of Saberfishes shoot down a Dopp and you spray their direction with 120mm shells the first explodes, the second loses and engine and begins to lose altitude. Three Dopp, like flying metal pihrana's gang up on it and it too explodes in a shower of bullets and unguided rockets.

>>6691046
Take that!

Can the Zaku's Pod Missiles and/or Bazooka Rockets be set to detonate on a proximal or timed fuse?

>>6691097
>Can the Zaku's Pod Missiles and/or Bazooka Rockets be set to detonate on a proximal or timed fuse?

No, in order for them to work properly in a high minovsky environment without a shitton of electronics shielding almost all weapons work on basic low tech principles. Magella flak shells DO have this, but they need specialised turrets for that, and it's just a basic air pressure valve magnetically set to a certain value.
Trying to use too high tech munitions was what happened with some of the Depp Roggs over Salina Cruz, they tried to drop computerised smart munitions to scatter cluster bombs at a certain height, the M-Particles got to them and caused them to explode right there in the bomb bay - BOOM.

You swoop around and catch another Fly Manta with your machine gun. Bullets and rockets craze the sky around you, it looks like an enemy Saberfish is in your six and looking for revenge!

Your orders?

>>6690946
I like this idea

now that a few fighters are down I say the squad regroups and attacks the bomber formation. We need to flush out the newtype (if he is even around) on our terms, rather than waiting for him to dictate his engagement.

>>6691263
Open Fire! Kill him, and leave nothing but the ashes!
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.
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Actually, can we try to take him/her alive? That might be the best thing, if we could use them to determine whether any of our soldiers also have the precognitive gift.

>>6691301

Uh, he's behind you and firing at you.

>>6691321
Great! When he gets close, try to grab on and froce him down. I doubt even a high-tech air superiority fighter can stay airborne with a Zuku hanging on!

>>6691263
Target with rear cameras and gun it down with the MG. If It's THE newtype, (as evidenced by extraordinary skill or intuition), well, just have to wait to see what situation unfolds.

>>6691331
*force him down

>>6691263
>enemy Saberfish is in your six and looking for revenge!
Crazy Ivan his ass!

>>6691321
pull a split S and engage with machine gun, if he avoids that, call in the rest of our squad to help take him down/prevent his escape.

pic related

>>6691332

Normally pulling an over the shoulder shot using only the rear cameras would be next to impossible due to the back camera not being synced in with the rifle targeter. Neverletheless you swing your arm over and and using the position of the gun as a guide fire off a salvo.

IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE!

Most of the shells hit the armour causing it to crumple and fall off. One manages to hit the rocket pod full on causing it to explode. The entire fighter planes follows, the pilot has just enough time to pull the eject lever before the cockpit goes up as well.

Kills
1 Fighter

>>6691263
Flip & roll. Play chicken with the suicidal fucker.

>>6691397
Reading through some of the previous posts, I see now that this may not have been the Newtype after all. Sorry about that. But if it IS, then we should try to retrieve the pilot.

Attempt to signal ground forces as to the general area of the ejected pilot if practicable. Search out vulnerable bombers in any case. Also if practicable, make a cursory survey of the ground battle to see if intervention is warranted.

>>6691433
yeah, no mention of hearing any bells so I think it's safe to assume it was just an ambitious regular pilot. Also, he was taken out far too easily to be a newtype.

Forget the downed pilot, regroup the squad, engage the bombers.

>>6690946
>The bombers are vulnerable with the fighters engaging the Dopps. Take the Dodai and scatter the bombers so there won't be any worries about the kind of damage caused by large explosives. Plus it would likely flush out the newtype.

With your persuer taken care of you disengage yourself from the melee and use your IR scanners to try and locate the bombers. You score nothing so try to send a laser comm to the Roter Mond for tactical information.
Luckily you manage to get the communications ladome on the first try (usually it's Strauss who does the laser comm, you're out of practice) and talk to CiC there.

After getting a bead on the bombers position you head off in their direction.

Watch for AA and marauding fighters. Also, a ground SitRep would be very welcome from the Roter Mond while a laser com is handy.

>>6691397
Please accept my poor representation of this awesome event.

>>6691493

FIRE! FIRE! DON'T LET 'EM THROUGH!

>>6691493

You move out of the fighting, the flares from explosions and weapons fire fading behind you. Ahead of you, your IR sensors pick up three Depp Rogg bombers.
You can't see any other escorting fighters. Evidently they've gotten so used to you keeping to the Minovsky Zone that they've forgotten that you can operate outside of it.

You swoop out from the Minovsky particle coverage and your auxilliary radar comes to life showing the enemy planes.

You pull out your Bazooka take aim and fire, the sluggish bombers struggle to dodge , but you've timed your shot well, and the rocket slams into the lead bomber.

>>6691662
BOOM HEADSHOT

>>6691662
Try and take down the other two bombers. If we see any fighters trying to intercept us,call for backup from Strauss and Zolomon.

What does the non-minovsky zone look like through our radar? How are the feddies positioned?

>>6691650
Adequately satisfactory.
>>6691662
Bazooka!? Fine, head back into the M particles to avoid reprisal and see if we can't make add two more kill notches to the shield on the way.
>>6691709
That would also be wise also.

>>6691662
Can we switch to machine gun for the other two?

>>6691650

Technically your Zaku was bending his elbow and lfting his arm up so that the elbow was pointing in same direction as your facing, the gun is upside down. You then managed to get a full salvo on target from THERE.
Nice job on getting the scale between the two right for the first time in gundam EVER though.

Seriously, NOBODY ever remembers that those things are about 16-18 meters longs, IE: longer than you are tall.

>>6691759

Hit the other two, then get intel on Feddie positions and depoyment from outside the Minovsky Field while you're here.

>You pull out your Bazooka take aim and fire, the sluggish bombers struggle to dodge , but you've timed your shot well, and the rocket slams into the lead bomber.

Sorry got sidetracked.

As your shell hammers into the Depp Rogg it explodes in a gigantic ball of light and flame. The force of it pushes you and your Dodai backwards.

YOUR DODAI HAS STALLED

The giant explosion has taken out the other two bombers with it, but your Radiation alarm hasn't gone off. The bombers MUST be holding super heavy MOABs!

You are currently struggling to push the Dodai's nose down, and are spinning to the ground like an autumn leaf.
Weighing over 60 tonnes and made out of metal.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>6691845

Don't panic.

Think of zeon.

Do something exceedingly manly.

GLORY TO THE PRINCIPALITY OF ZEON!

>>6691845
I remember from earleir theads about something called AMBAC. I was mentioned for controlling our first orbital insertion. Would it be appropriate here?

>>6691845

If we eject from the dodai and disable and recoil absorption before firing out bazooka straight down moments before hitting the ground would the force of the shot be enough to decrease our momentium to non lethal?

working on the rule of cool with this one.

Continue trying to straighten out the Dodai.
Abandon plane if nescessary.

>>6691902
Rule of Cool works, have you tried Narivitium?

Abandon the Dodai so the crew wont have to deal with a multi-tonne machine dragging it down. Then engage thrusters, land, scan for targets/threats.

>>6690946
>>6691097
>>6691332
>>6691468
>>6691580
>>6691743
Also, I guess I will try being a namefag.

>>6691902

Also land on an enemy tank if possible.

>>6691945
Don't do it man, it's a bad decision!

>>6691883

AMBAC requires your legs to be free to work properly, you could disengage yourself and right your Zaku, but there's no telling if the Dodai will have an easier time pulling out of it's stall, also you haven't heard anything from the Dodai pilot, you don't know if he's concious or even alive right the moment.

>>6691845
attempt to recover from the stall, use the AMBAC system and our jump jets to assist in attaining a nose-down attitude.

If it doesn't work, abandon the dodai at the last moment and use our jump-jets to slow our fall. We can survive an orbital insertion so falling isn't a big deal for us.

The main goal here is to keep the dodai and it's crew alive.

>>6691953
Heh. I know, I know.

>>6691902

Not entirely sure but doesn't the whole mechanism of bazooka like weapons make them recoilless?

>>6691845

Agree with previous. Eject fromt he Dodai - they can pull out well enough without us on there; and then use our stabilizer rockets to stabilize ourselves as per our prior expoeriences in freefall.

I'd say we're pretty good at it now.

>>6691977
you are correct.

Also, the plan you are questioning would involve us landing in the middle of our own detonating ordinance. Jumping into explosions is never a good idea.

>>6691960
Ah, balls.

>>6691965
Okay, ^ This course of action then.

>>6691990

Are you suggesting somehow using an explosion to land is not pure win?

>>6691987
Seconded, but lets try to message them to make sure the crew is okay first.

>>6692013

It'd be cool, but its not worth our legs...

>>6692013
it's a technicality.

Using an explosion we create by wasting valuable ammunition not taking down feddy dogs is not win.

Now, if we were landing on top of a feddy tank we had blown up in mid-freefall whilst throwing our heathawk at an enemy fighter and putting on our coolguy shades for better cruise control, THAT would be win.

>>6692013
>Are you suggesting somehow using an explosion to land is not pure win?

Uh, you ARE aware that you have a near brand new set of thermonuclear hydrogen rockets in your backpack and legs for EXACTLY this sort of situation right?
You've survived bigger falls than this.

Heck, you actually caught an AA Missile at 200 meters and STILL managed to pull yourself into a landing.

>>6691960
Ride er' down attempting a recovery. If this doesn't work, try grabbing the aircraft to land and anchor both machines. If this is successful attempt to safely disable the engines. If unsuccessful, let her go. But remember that Zeon needs all her manpower.
>>6692025
And seeing if the crew are even alive would help in the decision making process.

>>6692080

You try to open a comm to the pilot of your Dodai repeatedly with no response, you keep trying to pull the heavy plate like plane into the right position but it keeps bucking in the air currents and you cant quite...

>Get a...cannon... Start blasting Ride... Get moving, start killing. [at] Zaku Keep firing until it looks like Sinai, '67.

Almost on instinct you disengage the magnetic locks and push off your Dodai. The first high velocity cannon shot rips through empty air, had you kept your position it would have hit you in the upper back, penetrating your rear armour and rupturing your thermonuclear fusion reactor.
The shell was 120mm, fired near straight up.
Half a second later the second shot, intended for the Dodai only clips it due to its changed position. It spins, belching black smoke and goes nose down.
The engines restart and you hear the pilot cry "Ejecting" before he makes his successful escape.

You aim downwards with your Bazooka and fire in the direction the shot came from. You manage to just avoid the next shot from whatever's firing down there.

>>6692164

>The shell was 120mm, fired near straight up.

Wait what? That's a Zaku MG shot. The Type 61's have 155mm cannons, as well as elevation issues. Shit, don't tell me they've captured some Zakus already.

See if we can get a good visual on what shot at us. Quickly.

>>6692164
Holy crap we are the new breed! Now we can defy physics too! Let's use AMBAC to try for a safe landing, and investigate what was/is firing at us.

>>6692203
It's either a Feddi MS with some Zeon weaponry, a captured Zaku or friendly fire; in any case, we need to know what going on; I second this guy's decision.

Land and scan. Also, bring weapons to the ready position at the earliest convenience


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP61DrdKokU
Also Jaburo could be fun.

>>6692217

no feddie MS for another 8 months or so.

>>6692217

Feddies don't have Mobile Suits yet. They heven't even started the Project V prototype runs yet. It's either Freindly fire or captured Zakus.

>>6692203

It wasn't a machine gun shot. It was an Anti-Armour kinetic penetrator fired from a Low Recoil Rifle. Think of it as a slightly smaller version of the Magella's conventional shells.

You try to zoom in and get a bead on the target, a heat bloom from your Bazooka makes the IR unhelpful, and even with the full moon you can't see properly even at full magnification.

What you can see however is the squad of tanks trying to second guess your landing position.
Ha!

You swap your Bazooka with your Machine Gun and start to aim at the tanks. You start firing at them whilst trying to aim you landing to be right on top of one.

>>6687938
HOLY SHIT YOU LIVE IN CAMBRDIGE ON!!!!!!

Where you at MAN!!!!

>>6692255

RTFT

He has already spoken to this fact.

>>6692246
What!?!? Bringing shells specifically meant to deal with well armored targets such as ourselves?!?! We'll teach them what using tactics gets them! Land on one and use our melee shield. No need to waste ammo on these plebeians!

>>6692246

...Well, I am thoroughly confused now. Please excuse me while I trawl through my MSV list to figure out what shot that at us.

>>6692289

Way to METAGAME.

>>6692246
anti-MS infantry team with a recoil-less rifle?

Toss a cracker nade where the shots originated from. Decimate enemy tanks with MG/Shield, inform EVERYONE that there are anti-MS infantry teams in the area.

Crush/punch/shoot the tank squad. Cycle between IR, RADAR, and SONAR to get a fix on whatever the something out of the ordinary was that took a potshot (as well as to get a picture of the surroundings). And if possible log the general area where the Dodai crew ditched.

>>6692317

More out of curiosity than anything else, since I don't remember anything with 120mm AP shells that wasn't a Zaku MG in this era. Also, the Type-61s turrets can't elevate high enough to do what it just did to us, so there /must/ be something else down there.

You land on top of a tank, your thrusters on full power. They handle the strain much more comfortably than your old ones, you'll have to thank Ookawara later.
You land on top of a tank, crushing then melting it with your thrusters. The dust cloud raised by your arrival once again obscures you. Before the Tanks can target you with their turrets you leap upwards on your thrusters again. You fire your MG at a tank causing it to explode.
Unfortunately these experienced tank pilots know better than to bunch up, and you don't make any more kills before you land.
You quickly dash to the side to avoid incoming shells and take out another tanks at close range with the last of the ammo in your MG.
You detatch your ammo drum and hurl it at another tank.
By pure luck it hits and warps one of the tanks cannons just before it was to fire and the turret explodes as the live shell jams itself in the barrel.
You grab a second ammo drum from your hips as you leap into the air, firing the last of your rockets in the remaining tanks general direction. You don't think you hit any, but it gave you time to reload.
You land and try to close the distance again, you notice that one of the tanks must have been too close to your rockets and had broken it's track. You quickly finish it off with a couple of shots from your MG.
You manage to catch a pair of shells fomr the last tank with your shield and return fire. Most of the shots go wide, but so do his. You eventaully take out it's left tracks causing it to spin around unexpectedly, it nearly flips itself in the process and you are able to get to melee range and finish it off with the Shield, finishing of the Tank squad.

KILLS: 5 Tanks.

>>6692164
'jumping off scene' (Ate dinner, hence large time discrepancy for the drawing)

>>6692433

So, nothing else down here? No infantry with SAM launchers? No AA tanks?

Locate our squad, inform them of our location.

>>6692444
Nice!

>>6692433
Scan for whatever was trying to shoot us. If/when we find it, kill it dead.

>Anti-Armour kinetic penetrator fired from a Low Recoil Rifle
Serious business.
If there is any good cover head for it. Warn any MS or aircraft outside the M particles that there is heavy ordinance in the area.
Also, scan. Knowing is half the battle. (GI Joooooooe).

>>6692532
The other half being long-range super-heavy artillery, amiright?

So was it that 120mm fire from the tanks (doubtful) or do we have hostile infantry or is it (please say it is) the newtype?

>>6692549
you know, that's a good point


Why are we not have the Roter Mond blanket the place where the shots came from with artillery again?

>>6692459
>So, nothing else down here? No infantry with SAM launchers? No AA tanks?

You do a quick recon of the area. You don't want to linger since your still out of the Minovsky range. As you search the area you spot what looks like heavy vehicle tire tracks leading away.
You must have first landed here, because you can see Zaku tracks.
Which is odd, you thought you landed further south...

You inspect the footprints again, you recognise the impression of extra veriern ports in the feet, this is the footprint of an MS-06F. You should know you've seen Zolomon leave enough of them...

By this point the Dodai pilot has manged to make contact with you and you start to run back towards the Roter Mond.

>>6692549
Absolutely.

>>6692553
I doubt the Newtype AIRCRAFT pilot would be going around in a tank.

>>6692568
I'd assumed the weird particles would keep us from contacting them, and I don't know if we have the know-how to accurately direct artillery fire. But if we can, and are able to get out of the blast zone, we should go for it.

>>6692576

I sense TRAITOR or captured zaku with that news...

>>6692576
Suggest we ask permission to follow the tracks, and snip this treat at the bud.

>>6687938
OP, before this thread ends you must be made aware of a problem with the Zeon Dabude Land Battleship.

It has ZERO Mobile suit capacity!

Fortunately I'm working on a solution. A custom bakpack/trailer attachment for the Dabude that would add the equivilant of 2 of the MS bays found on the Gallop, giving our ship a capacity of 6.

I suppose I could modify the design farther to allow for a 3rd bay if you want. suggestions?

>>6692586
Hey the guy got us to load beer onto his truck; he's gotta be a tactical genius on par with CREEEEEEED.

>>6692576
Contact Zoloman immediately; ask for a sit-rep. Promise him chocolate, bitches and beer if you survive.

>>6692576

Crap. Captured Zakus. Plus support vehicles of some sort. Double crap.
Tell the dodai pilot to inform them that there may be hostiles in captured Zakus running around.

...Now, hunting down the Zaku would be the /awesome/ thing to do, but linking up with the rest of the force is probably the smart thing. Hmm. Tough Choice.

Can we tell if its just the one set of tracks, or is it more?

As you run towards the base the sky blooms in a gigantic fireball, another one of those MOAB carrying Bombers must have been taken out. The firing seems to be dying down, and travelling further away from the Roter Mond, evidently the enemy forces are in retreat now.
You reach the Roter Mond and enter the MS bay.

You let the pilot down and then walk into a fee MS bay.

Whilst the techs begin to rearm your suit you quickly try to find someone to deliver your report to.

You spot a somewhat damaged Strauss and Zolomon enter the Roter Mond and go to meet up with him.

You tell him about what happened and what your found.

>>6692629
It's already been said this one has MS bays added.

>>6692689
Really? I must have missed that part... damn.

>>6692629

What are you talking about? The Dabude could carry 6 whole units in Gihren's Greed, which as I've mentioned before is where I'm getting 90% of my supplementary information.

Besides, even if that is the case, it wouldn't be the first time that this Battalion has gotten a custom base of operations.

>>6692707
Chap's acknowledged his mistake; do we have any news about those captured 120mm's (Don't presume they're mounted on MSs)?

>>6692707
Speaking of the Dabude, I've looked on google, but have yet to find any stats on the thing. Can you give us a idea of what weapons it has, besides the obvious Dual Super-Heavy Howitzers x2?

>>6692433
Christ I can't keep up with the drawing of awesome action scenes.

>>6692676 (assuming the 120mm shell came from a captured zaku)
Since Strauss is such an experienced soldier, shouldn't he have a good strategy for fighting MS? I mean, he was probably in a training exercise 'how to deal with a rouge zaku pilot' or something. We have no anti-MS experience, and zakus are a lot harder to kill than tanks.

Right, first we have to get rearmed and get any damage to ourselves and our section patched up; next we need to find out just what the fuck is shooting at us out there; how do we know it's a ZEON 120mm, if a 120mm at all; feddies could have captured or MANUFACTURED their own.

>>6692743

http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/msgundam/dabude.htm

Although that doesn't tell us anything we don't already know.

Report Rogue MS and Big Bertha to command with all haste. To say this is important to future defense efforts is an understatement.

>>6692707
Unrelated, I've downloaded Gihren's Greed: Blood of Zeon, and I am having trouble getting started due to only having a vague understanding of the menus. Is there a translation for any of these games, or at least a hold your hand guide.

>>6692769
AND it might be mounted to a vehicle or carried by an infantry team; might not be an MS at all.

>>6692769
Timeline is pretty clear that they didn't make their own until Project V got going in a few months from now.

>>6692758
Agreed; Strass would probably know more than any of us. He's possibly fought some Balls up in space, too.

After delivering your report to Strauss, it eventually filters up the ranks and about twenty minutes later the three of you are called up to the captains breifing room.

In the meantime you talk with Strauss and Zolomon as to what they got up to whilst you were out chasing bombers.

"Well, when you took out that first one and it's MOAB went up, pretty much EVERYONE started lasering CIC asking where the rest of them were. The Dopps allowed us to disengage and all of the guys on Dodais went after the bombers. When they realised the jig was up most of them started to retreat."

"One didn't, so Zol took it out with an axe. Again."

"THAT was the large explosion."

You are led into the captains briefing room by the Captains Aide, inside are him and another man you don't believe you've met.

>>6692795
il bet its char or garma....

>>6692758
You Sir, deserve several Internets for your work. Very nice!

>>6692772
Oh boy, who is it!
Yes, I saw this, but I could have sworn I saw another gun turret on the large back area of the Dubude. Might just be my eyes playing tricks.

>>6692795

>>6692821
Char is likely in space, and Gharma, well, I don't think Mastodon Battalion is a priority right now seeing as how he has to deal with counterattacking Federation divisions very soon.

>>6692860

It's probably the postion of the turrets and the awkward angles we aleawys seem to see these things from. Meh.

>>6692795

"Greetings gentlemen. My name is Sub-Commander Jordain, I work for Zeonic Intelligence." The man introduces himself.

"Thanks to your report and a closer preliminary scan of your black-box camera recordings, you've largely confirmed what we were afraid of."

Captain Fontaine joins in at this point

"That the Federation have begun experiments in reverse engineering Zeonic Mobile Suits."

Commander Jordain retakes the conversation

"You see, when we landed initially at Salina Cruz, we were behind schedule and moved off towards Panama without salvaging two of our mobile suits which failed to land successfully.When we returned those mobile suits were gone, their booby traps disarmed. When we discovered this the intelligence contingent aboard the Prancer reported it to high command when they reached the orbital zone and we began to look into it. We were quickly able to detirmine that the military research base hidden underneath Roswell Military Airbase was where these experiments were taking place."

>>6692902
Hmm, I don't think so, see the picture here: >>6687983

Also, there are two dual MGs on the side facing us, and I think it's a safe bet that it is symmetrical. You can see the other gun turret just behind the 'neck' that connects the Minofski generator to the main hull.

>>6692917
Oh great, no we'll have to deal with aliens and captured Zakus. Also, sorry for double post.

>>6692917

No bets that we're going to get asked to blow the facility to all hell.

...wait, this is going to be another intelligence-shenannigans mission, isn't it? Get in, get out with their modded suits?

Well, scuttle downed suits from now on then.

>>6692917
kill.....kill.....KILL!!!!!!!

>>6692917
oh shi-

Well, now's the time for a headhunting mission on the captured MS the feddies have.
Ask Jordian if he knows Mr Incognito.

>>6692943

That's exactly what I mean - the design is symmetrical, but since we only have odd-angle pics of the thing, our eyes play tricks on us because of it.

Look's like we're going to Roswell. Hope we don't see any unexplainable objects in the sky.

>>6693002
or any proto gundam shapes on the ground.....

>>6693002
Called it; Area 51 we come!

Man we better have a Vegas mission; I WANT SLOTS, MAFIA GOONS, HUNTER S THOMPSON, HULA GIRLS AND ZAKUS ALL MIXED TOGETHER INTO ONE GLORIOUS VISAGE.

>>6693095
"So there I was in the middle of the desert; Zeon mobile suits were fluttering around me."

>>6693095
We were somewhere outside of Roswell when the drugs began to take hold.
'Zolomon, take the wheel'.
Suddenly, the sky was full of saberfish. Thousands of them. I fired wildy into the sky, but they were impervious to our bullets.
'What's the matter, Lister?'
'The Saberfish!'
'What?'
Poor bastard. He'd see them soon enough.
'We should stop, take a break.'
'We can't stop here...this is ZEON QUEST'.
(thread de-railment over)

>>6692961
>Oh great, no we'll have to deal with aliens and captured Zakus. Also, sorry for double post.

Actually, Area 51 it turns out is in Arizona, were in New Mexico heading east.
Roswell was where the Aliens crashed.
Area 51 is where the military took the remains. (Which is in Arizona)

Anyway

Fontaine takes over the briefing again.

"We only learnt of the facility recently from intelligence gained from our newly made Costa Rican allies..."

"Speaking of Costa Rica, are we looking at another sneaking mission like San Jose sir?"

Strauss interjects, Jordain answers.

"No. At this stage in the war, they've probably already salvaged several other Zaku chassis from various battlefield theatres across the world. What were more interested is in destroying what research progress they've made in mobile suit construction and use. This is why we've been heading towards Roswell, to storm that base and destroy those files. We already have Intelligence Assets in place on the facility, but he'll need a distraction to enter the restricted area and gain access to the files, which tommorow we will provide."

Fontaine takes off again

"Unfortunately, the Federation already knows this and has probably already begun evacuating key personell and moveable equipment. However are asset doesn't beleive they'll have the time to evacuate close to 10% of their materials with the air assets currently avaiable to them. All signs are that they have zero Medea Air Transports available to them, as they had been sent up to the front, and destroyed by the Zeonic 2nd and 3rd divisions."

"What are our orders if we encounter the Captured Mobile Suit again? Recapture?"

"No. You can destroy it on sight."

FIRST COMBAT WITH ENEMY MOBILE SUIT CONFIRMED

ACHEIVEMENT UNLOCKED.

>>6693170
Excellent, proceed with happy dance. Then get ready for next mission.

>>6693170

Looks like we need to go over anti-MS tactics with the squad, in detail. Apply what we know about Zakus weaknesses, and maybe come up with some creative exploits.

>>6692860

>>6693237
Ah-ha, I was right!

The three of you are dismissed. The balloon goes up (oh ho!) at 6:30am. In about four hours from now.

You three prepare youself for what's surely going to be a hard fight.

TO BE CONTINUED

>>6693237

>>6693217
Okay:
The mobile suits advantage is human movement, AMBAC, and multiple weapon loadouts.

The feddies will have few captured MS-scale weapons.
We should aim for the legs or sensors. Blinding or immobilizing an MS makes it an easier target.

>>6693297
Indeed, and we should arm up with Bazookas. They should have enough punch to cripple or destroy an MS with 1 hit.

>>6693269
Yay, thanks for the great quest Apologized! Will the next one be tomorrow?

>>6693269
Thread is up on suptg.

EVERYBODY VOTE!

Bring the bazookas, we be hunting cyclops

>>6693313

>Indeed, and we should arm up with Bazookas. They should have enough punch to cripple or destroy an MS with 1 hit.

Two of them do at the very least...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrZgBwC6asA

>>6693360
Well, how much plot armor do our enemies have? If they do have some, we may have to settle for damaging them before they escape.

>>6693360
Zakus have an unprotected hydraulic hose on the exterior of each of their legs. If we currently have the skill, target and fire upon these hoses. That would severely cripple the enemy suit.

>>6693321

Holy Carp it's already got two votes too!

You know there was a section where all of the Zeonquest parts were a nice shade of Zeon Green?

Then people kept on voting for them!

also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhQCM5HG2zs

Oh god. I think I know what I want Zolomons end of season upgrade to be...

>>6693399

Actually, I'm going with Mark Simmons theory that those tubes are actually heat and electricity circulators, designed to dump heat back into the power supply and add extra energy to parts of the Zaku that need it.
The Zaku has internal energy and heat control systems, but they aren't as efficient as the cables because they're smaller.

So cutting all of the cables and the suit will be sluggish and overheat really easily.

Next thread at 5pm GMT same as today.
REMEMBER: NO THREAD ON SUNDAY.

>>6693447
Sounds good, I'll be there. Good night all.