NACHTMAREN SQUAD STATUS

BITCHING NEW UNIT SYMBOL TO PAINT ON SHOULDERS: CHECK

Hangar
2x MS-06F2 Zaku II's (customised with head vulcans)
1x MS-06K Zaku Cannon (customised with head vulcans)
1x MT-05M Hildolfr Mobile Tank ( + Attatched Floatation devices)
1x MS-07B Gouf (Zolomon Custom)

Pilots
Lt David Lister
Ensign Zolomon Ringo
Corporal Jolyne Brande
Pvt 1st Elaine "Ruubens" Arronax
Pvt 1st Hovis Goddard

FANTAZMIC!

ZEONQUEST, FUCK YEAH!

>>7617830
Let's see about adding some MGs to the arms of the Hilda for close combat situations.

You have just landed on the Hawaiian Naval Base, your Gaw has overstrained it's engines carrying you and will be unable to leave until repairs are made.

In any case, the enemy fleet (possessing at least two Aircraft Carriers) is roughly half an hour away. This is enough time to reload and re-arm yourselves.
Alternatively, you can attempt to switch your current rides for Marine MS. You're current hangar contents will be stored in a MS hangar for retrieval later.

YOUR ORDERS WHILST I GO HUNTING FOR COOL MARINE MS PICTURES?

RAPE EVERYTHING

>>7617878
Pretty sure the Hildolfr already has one of those.

>>7617906
Is the enemy trying to land, or will this just be a naval engagement?
If so, switch to the Marine suits

>>7617906
I don't see why we can't try out the marine mobile suits. After all, this is a NAVY we're dealing with.

Keep the Hilda and at least Jolyne on land. They've got long range capabilities. There goal is to bombard the enemy ships from a reinforced position.

>>7617906
Hm.

Do we know much about the makeup of their forces? A marine MS would lend itself to a stealthier sort of attack, but we....we don't do stealthy very well, do we.

I say Dave and Zol should get Marine MS and take the fight to the enemy while Jolyne and Ruebens do anti-air, and Hovis has an artillery duel with the fleet.

>>7618021
While admittedly we are here to try out the Marine MS, I'm not sure it is advisable to do so for the first time in a Massive naval battle. If the Feds are trying to take hawaii, we should stay on land to defend it.

>>7618021
I'm okay with this.

Hm, let's switch for a mixture of Acguy and Gogg models. Only take Zaku Marine Types if there's nothing better. Let's take some Z'gok models, if available.

delicious zeon

>>7617974
>Is the enemy trying to land, or will this just be a naval engagement?

>Do we know much about the makeup of their forces?

You know for a fact that there are at least two carriers, so the possibility of air attack can't be ruled out. You also know that the fleet possessed surface navy vessels, but you couldn't say off the top of your head which was which. You saw a lot of smaller ships and some bigger ships.
You also think you saw landing vessels, so a ground attack could occur as well.

You'll know more if you try to contact local command forces. You're currently standing on the airfield.

>A marine MS would lend itself to a stealthier sort of attack, but we....we don't do stealthy very well, do we.

Actually, Marine MS are less stealthy than any other kind of MS as minovsky particles don't spread underwater, and even if they did, sonar would be unaffected by them.
The main draw of Marine MS are that a) They can travel in water as well as land, and b) They have water cooled MS scale beam weapons.

>>7618021
I'm in favor of this plan.

>>7618129

b) is definitely the reason we want one.

>>7618053

This possibly the first time we've really been outgunned: All the cruisers and battleships in that fleet will bomb the island flat, and us with it, if we stay on land exclusively. The Hidolfr is the only unit we have that can engage them at that range, and its only one MS. If we don't take the fight to them, they'll pick us off.

>>7618129
Well, let's contact the local command first and find out what they are expecting and where they need help the most.

>>7618253
Stop being a pussy

Take marine MS, whatever we can get. Most of them are built for a mixture of beam spam and close combat. Claw up the carriers from below!

>>7618199

Agreed, Staying on land means the Feddies can snipe from a distance and do blitz attacks with their MAs.

I say we take the fight to them and try sinking the Carriers first, If we can take out the carriers the enemy MAs won´t have any place to reload and refuel, Meaning they can´t keep on fighting.

That means the battle will go smoother for us if it drags on.

>>7618279
Let's leave the Hilda on land, possibly Jolyne since she's got that built in cannon as well. They can take shots from a distance while David, Zolomon, and Elaine go under in amphibious suits, using their beam weapons on the propellers and undersides of the hulls.

>>7618313

Elaine can´t use MSes underwater, So leave her to guard the Hilda, Otherwise OK.

>>7618367
She may not know how to swim, but that doesn't mean she can't use a Marine MS.

>>7618253

You find your local commander and quickly introduce yourself whilst he orders units around.

You ask about exchanging for marine Mobile Suits, he directs you off to his aide who quickly rattles off what's available.

2x MSM-07 Z'Goks
1x MSM-07S Command Z'Gok
3x MSM-03 Goggs
1x MSM-10 Zock
5x MSM-04 Acguy's

You ask for additional information about the enemy fleet, according to the aide, it consists of about 15 destroyers, 5 cruisers, 2 Carriers and 1 Battleship plus 7 Jukon type Submarines.

Conversely, the Hawaii defenders consist of 2 MSM Companies and 10 Jukon class submarines, plus Captain Flanagan Boone in his Marine MA prototype: The MAM-07 Grabulo.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7618418
David, Zolomon and Ruubens in whatever best underwater suits are there.

>>7618418
Z'GOKS. EVERYONE IN Z'GOKS.

>>7618129
We'll take a Marine MS.

Is the Feddie surface fleet going to be spreading Minovsky particles? If so, we're going to want to use our Marine MS to spot for the Hildolfr; attach some sort of comms cable between it and our suit.

Zol stays in his Gouf Custom, meleeing the fuck out of any ships he comes across.

Elaine in a second Marine MS, to cover us while we do the artillery spotting thing.

Jolyne to stay with the Hilda, assuming her Zaku Cannon has decent range; she'll help give it some cover while shelling the Feddie fleet.

>>7618418
Heading to MAHQ to look up the units now, but could you please post a basic summary of what they do in the meantime?

Lister in a Command Z'gok, Zolomon in a Z'gok, Jolyne in a Zock is what I'd say.

>>7618418
ACGUY!!!! FUCKYEA

>>7618418
Ruubens in an Acguy. Must happen.

>>7618418

Lister: Command Z'Gok
Zolomon: Z'Gok
Elaine: Acguy.
Jolyne: Stays in her Zaku.
Hovis: Hidorfr

Make sure to mention to Elaine that we gave her the cutest MS.

And

Assault Team: (AKA SUPRISE ENEMIES WITH MARINE MSes AND SHOOT DOWN THE CARRIERS Team)
Lister,Zolomon

Base Defense Team: (AKA HOLD THE LINE Team)
Elaine, Jolyne, Hovis.

Elaine is essantially the Close combat defense while Hovis snipes and Jolyne does Anti-Air defense.

Take all the z'goks, assign acguys as necessary.

>>7618539
Why Hovis in the Hildolfr when we have a Zock for artillery?

>>7618418
Command Z'Gok for us, regular Z'Gok for Elaine, and if it has better range/killing power than her Zaku Cannon we give the Zock to Jolyne. Zol stays in his Gouf, Hovis stays in the Hilda.

>>7618539
I would recommend that we leave zoloman and his gouf with Hovis, as he can easily handle both AA and general close in defense, and we take Jolyne and Elaine with us in marine MS

>>7618565

IIRC Hovis sucks at piloting Mobile suits, But is Godly in Mobile Armors, So i think he will preform better in Sub optimal MA he has complete mastery over then a Optimal MS he can´t use properly.

>>7618565
Range and plunging fire. Assuming we spot for it, the Hildolfr can hit targets 60km out, and since it's firing shells it can put them on a ballistic trajectory that brings the shells right down through the top of the ship before exploding.

>>7618570
From reviewing the capabilities of the marine suits this loadout looks good.

>>7618570
Now that I think about it, Elaine in an Acguy instead. That way she can surprise anybody who thinks that we're out there all alone in our Command Z'Gok.

>>7618539
that'll do

>>7618539
mostly agreed with this, but with elaine in a z'gok as well.

Lister zgok command
Zolomon zgok
Elaine zgok

>>7618570
seconded

>>7618539
Hmm. I do think we should put Jolyne into the Zock. And we definitely want to use our artillery advantage here; I think the Hildolfr outranges anything the Feddies have in that fleet (aside from the aircraft of course), so the more damage we do as the fleet approaches, the easier the job of our MS forces once the close-quarters fighting starts.

But Zol in a Z'Gok does sound reasonable. Switch my proposed force to that.

And we can have the other guys from the base cover Jolyne and Hovis while Zol, Elaine and Dave head out to spot for the artillery and pick off ships.

Here's the relevant Zock info from MAHQ:


Produced at the Principality of Zeon's California Base during the latter weeks of the Universal Century Era's One Year War, the MSM-10 Zock was one of the last amphibious mobile suits to be produced - though its form represented the shift from mobile suits to the new mobile armor concept. With the thrusters in its armor "skirt" and short, non-functional feet, the Zock could best be described as a hovering gun emplacement, capable of covering all angles of attack with its front-and-back symmetrical design.

FIXED ARMAMENTS: photon maser gun, mounted in head; 8 x mega particle gun, mounted in torso (4 facing front, 4 facing rear)

Z'GOKS. Z'GOKS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

I like the artillery spotting idea. We can take the Command Z'Gok and do that while Zol uses another Z'Gok to DEATH FROM BELOW.

It's been a half a fucking hour, my god.

Priority targets for the arty are the carriers and the battleship. If we can, let's try to pull a genuine Second Midway on the Feddies and shell the carriers when they've got planes rearming and refueling for a strike; under those circumstances, one or two shells at most should be enough to make those carriers go up like it was July 4th (or November 5th, for the British contingent).

Landing craft are the third major target, after the carriers and the battleship.

Once those ships are all eliminated, shift to a general attack on whatever the Feddies have left as they attempt to flee.

Using the Zock does seem like a good idea, but we need someone to pull anti-air, otherwise the Hildolfr will be cut to shreds by planes. Reubens should stay with Hovis if Jolyne is taking the Zock.

>>7618807

Sorry, I was having my Dinner.

Oh and for people discussing the Hildolfr Vs Zock debate, I'd point out at this point that in my overarching plans, if you had opted to go with the Marine Corps, Hovis would have arrived in the Zock.
Also, if you'd stuck with the Marine Corps, I would have given you these.

About Hilda's gun vs the enemy fleet.

Whilst the Cruisers probably lack 300mm cannons with her range, the Battleship might not. Hell, it might actually be able to outrange the Hilda.
Ultimately, there's only one way to find out.

>>7618504
>post a basic summary of what they do in the meantime?

Z'Gok = Excellent Marine MS with Beam guns in the arms and claws, torpedo launcher in the head. Equivalent in power to an F2.
Z'Gok Command = Same as above but 33% better.
Gogg = High powered beam cannons in the chest, torpedo launchers and big claws on extendable arms, old but dangerous.
Acguy = WHAT IS LOVE? Essentially the same perfromance as a Zaku, armed with machine guns in the arms and head vulcans. The cheapest of the Marine MS, but also the smallest, and most adorable.
Zock: See >>7618743

Hope this helps.

>>7618935
put em all in Acguys... and cute them to death

>>7618955

Although tempting i will stand by >>7618539

>>7618861

I agree, The carriers are the biggest threat.

Consolidating my final proposed loadout for ease of use.

SPOTTING/STRIKE FORCE:
Lister: Command Z'Gok
Zol: Z'Gok
Elaine: Z'Gok (Acguy is just too slow to keep up, looks like)
Flanagan: Grabro

SMITING FORCE:
Jolyne: Zock
Hovis: Hildolfr
Assorted other pilots from base: Acguys and Goggs

Spotting/Striking force gives our arty targeting data and picks off targets of opportunity. Smiting force smites the Feddie fleet with the targeting data we're giving them; the pilots that aren't Jolyne or Hovis are there to give them AA and close-range support.

Priority targets are battleship, carriers, landing craft/amphibious assault vehicles, in that order. The exception to this is that if we have a chance to hit the carriers while they're preparing an airstrike for launch, we take it.

>>7618991
In light of new information in >>7618935, I'm shifting first priority to killing the battleship. While finding out whether it or the Hildolfr has longer range could be amusing, I'd rather just kill it before that becomes an issue instead.

>>7618539
>Lister: Command Z'Gok
>Zolomon: Z'Gok
>Elaine: Acguy.
>Jolyne: Stays in her Zaku.
>Hovis: Hidorfr

Done.

>Make sure to mention to Elaine that we gave her the cutest MS.

You decide against doing this - everyone's thinking it though.

>Assault Team: (AKA SUPRISE ENEMIES WITH MARINE MSes AND SHOOT DOWN THE CARRIERS Team)
>Lister,Zolomon

No suprises there then.

>Base Defense Team: (AKA HOLD THE LINE Team)
Elaine, Jolyne, Hovis.

>Elaine is essantially the Close combat defense while Hovis snipes and Jolyne does Anti-Air defense.

Sounds good, you organise with Hovis that on green flares he starts shelling on that position, on red he stops. You then check that the Z'Gok Command can even do this (it can.)

You tell the base commander that you're setting up a squad of mixed AA and Artillery Assets on the shoreline to support him, he agrees and sends a squad of his AA units and Artillery to your positions to boost your effectiveness.

The base will soon be spreading high density minovsky particles to obscure the enemies radar and communications, so further communications will have to be directed via Lasercomm to either each other or to the orbiting Luggun AWAC's planes.

This process has taken 20 minutes. The enemy is 10 minutes away. The MS forces are moving forward slowly along the seabed to ambush whilst the Subs hold back as bait.
You are currently still on the shore, wishing that just once you could visit somewhere and not have to shoot things as soon as you get there.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7619031
AARGH. Something else I forgot that would be useful.

The Hawaiian islands have hardwired comm lines between them (telephone, data cables, etc.), so we should probably use those for our spotting if at all possible. That way we don't have to worry about either Minovsky density or a fragile floating cable between us and the base.

>>7619110

The base will be using the hardlines, but in case of them being damaged somehow, forces are being advised to use Lasercomms where possible.

Also: Forgot my pic.

>>7619102
ASSAULT TEAM...IKKIMASU!... i mean dive!

>>7619102
We and Zol take our Z'Goks out on a high-speed run to kill the battleship, since it's the only thing that's likely to outrange our arty.

>>7619102
>>7619131
Just out of curiosity, where's that Zock stationed if Jolyne's not piloting it?

>>7619133
>ASSAULT TEAM...IKKIMASU!... i mean dive!
>dive
>DIVE

>>7619102
prepare for the attack

>>7619133

You mean, ICKY MASS.

Sweet, here in time for the awesome.

>>7619173
love that movie :D

derp?

>>7619284

The best parts are without a doubt: The theme tune, Ming and Brian Blessed.
In no particular order.

Anyway.

You begin stepping into the pacific ocean for the first time as Ookawara gives you a quick crash course over the intercom.

"You've got two movement modes which is activated by the red toggle on your left console. It has the setting LD and MS on it, it should be currently set to MS. If you switch to Long Distance mode whilst in the water, your MS will go horizontal and activate it's backpack propellers. You're underwater speed will vastly increase up to about 100 knots, and your head torps will be more accurate. But enemy sonar will have an easier time hearing you. Also keep in mind that your ballast systems aren't as fast as thrusters, you'll sink slower than you can move up. Or any other direction for that matter. If you have to dodge, dodge into cover or straight up. Just don't raise so high that you reveal yourself to enemy surface fire. Watch out for Anti-Submarine planes. The base is low on Interceptors, and they wont attack until the enemy forces get closer to the base. Well, I guess that's it, good luck."

You keep on walking, just as the water is lapping over your head, Ookawara talks again."

"Wait! One last thing, when you fire your particle cannons the coolant systems flush out expended cool[shhhhhkkkkklkt - connection lost]."

"Uh boss? Should we go se what the end of that sentence was?"

"No, I can guess. These beams are like old recoilless rifles, we fire them and we scoot before the enemy uses the bubble stream of ejected coolant to track us."

"Really? You guessed that?"

"Yeah, isn't it obvious?"

You are now fully submerged underneath the pacific. You are currently in MS mode and there are 6 squads of friendly MS ahead of you trying to stealthy set up an ambush, you can see the Subs on Radar, they are somewhat closer to you.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7619431
Well, lets start stealthily moving up. Our latent newtype powers must go hand in hand with filling in the blanks.

>>7619431

We ambush a Carrier, Zol ambushes the battleship(So the Hilda won´t have to worry about counterattacks.), Friendly Squad takes care of the escorts.

>>7619431
6 squads? awesome. we're going to open up these ships like cans of sardines. stealth up with the others, commence rape, i suggets sinking carriers first, even if planes get up in the air, theyve got nowhere friendly to land again.

>>7619479
we must move up all sneaky like

>>7619431
Will it fuck up the attempts of the other MS to set up their ambush if we go in at high speed to kill the battleship and set up targets for Hovis?

Because if not, then we do that; the ambush will be even more devastating if it occurs while the Feddie ships are already trying to dodge artillery fire, Zol, and us.

>>7619431
Yep, we're newtype.

>>7619529

What worries me is that if we develop our newtypeness to far we will start hearing the people we kill and battles will be too painful to do... Like happened to Kamille.

Oh, And Pic too.

Stay frosty, time our attacks so we sink as many carriers as we can, then focus on the battleship after the opening attack, so that the Hidolfr's LR shelling can be unimpeded.

>>7619528
Making noise will put all vessels on alert, making it unlikely for a proper surprise attack to work.

>>7619529
Excellent, now if we can survive a couple dozen years we can pilot something like this!

>>7619573

It's highly unlikely that it'll get that bad. For a start Kamille had probably the highest rated newtype sensitivity in history. That's why he kept seeing dead women everywhere.

The fact that he was in a Tomino directed show didn't help either admittedly.

When we FINALLY get your asses to the Flannigan institute, I'm going to have so much fun explaining how newtypes work in this game.

>>7619526

Moving stealthily by keeping to the seabed and walking will be slow. It's likely that you'll only reach the Submarines by the time the enemy arrives.

On the other hand, you are right about the dangers of tipping the enemy off damaging th effectiveness of the suprise attack.

Your choice.

>>7619633
Aren't they likely to already be on alert, though?

I mean, they're about to mount an assault on one of the largest naval bases on the planet, so you'd think they'd expect someone to attack them.

Hell, they might actually be MORE suspicious if they get close without being attacked at least once.

>>7619706
stealth all the way

>>7619706
WELL LOOKS LIKE YOU JUST CONFIRMED THAT WE ARE NEWTYPES

>>7619706
Still think we and Zol should chance it. If the Feddie ships are already dealing with Zol and us in melee plus artillery fire from the Hildolfr and other units, the ambush may be enough to break their morale. And the noise from the combat will help obscure the sounds of our other units moving into position.

>>7619716

Well, the Subs aren't doing anything to avoid detection, so possibly the enemy thinks that they have the MS in the subs and are going launch when they get closer?

It's impossible to say for certain though.

I think the Hilda should initiate the attack with a long range bombardment. That will get the Fed focused on the above ground Zeonic forces, keeping their attention from us until we strike.

>>7619749

That or he read it somewhere whilst compiling his combined arms doctrine.

>>7619753
Hmm. In that case...

Let's wait for the ambush to go off first. Then we switch to LD-mode and come in at high speed.

>>7619749
No, the Newtype confirmation was the weird greentext stuff we were hearing back during the desert battles with the one-armed Newtype.

>>7619769

You'll still have to spot for the Hilda until the enemy fleet gets over the horizon though.

>>7619785
Apologized, a quick question: how far out is the ambush line, compared to the Hilda's range if we spot for it?

>>7619716
Maybe the Feddies don't know we have so many nautical MSes, never mind any at all. It's a thought.

I say we keep quiet and stick with the rest of the ambush. A greater concerted effort would be more effective. Besides, no one wants to be that one overeager sumbitch who ends up botching the entire operation for everyone just because his trigger finger was a bit too itchy, eh?

>>7619785

Ok, I say that we stay here and send a small(Nit all of them) company of subs ahead, The subs to battle for a short while before starting to retreat to base.

The feddies will obviously chase them there and when they pass over us we ambush them from below.

>>7619769
The carriers will launch their aircraft then, and we want as few birds in the air as possible. No interceptors, remember?

We keep stealthy, down a bunch of carriers in one go, toss some green flares on some carriers, and attack the Battleship before it can counterattack us. Goddamn I love low-counterattack-risk missions.
Sound good?

>>7619805

Hilda's max range is: 32 kilometers
Visual Range is: Slightly under 20 kilometers.

MSM Ambush Point: 25 Km out
Sub line: 15 Km out.

>Maybe the Feddies don't know we have so many nautical MSes, never mind any at all. It's a thought.

No, they know that Zeon is designing Marine Mobile Suits since their failed attack on Port Moresby. Which would have been another battle you would have taken part in if you had gone the Marine Route.

So do you want to move up to the Sub line at Long Distance mode and see how things are going from there?

>>7619781
I don't even remember anything specific about that. What greentext stuff?

Ironically enough, I'm watching a show about the Battle of Midway right now.

protip: NEVER ASSUME ANYTHING. YOU MAKE DAMN FUCKING SURE, ZEON QUESTERS. IF YOU'RE NOT SURE WHETHER OR NOT YOU TOOK SOMETHING OUT, YOU GO OUT THERE AND CHECK FOR YOURSELF.

Just wanted to give you guys some friendly advice :>

>>7619855
That's another good point. Depending on where the ambush point is, the carriers may already have launched a strike before they reach our MS lines. We want to avoid those carriers launching at all, if we can.

>>7619874

Go back to the Truth and Consequences and the Roswell battles. Skim until you reach the parts where your fighting the newtype with the One Armed Bandit pilot symbol.

>>7619896
Hrmm. I think at the time I assumed you were using greentext to quote other questers posts.

TIME TO GO BACK THERE AND RE READ SOME SHIT

>>7619911

I sort of was. I don't really want to spoil how your NT powers work though.

So, we moving up to the subs in LD? Or do you want to keep in MS mode?

>>7619866
Naw. Stick with the other MSes and hit them all at once.

>>7619866
Well, the first strike is definitely going to be in the air by then.

We head up as far as we can on LD-mode before the Feddies can pick us up, then switch to MS-mode (figure about the sub line, or maybe a bit ahead of it). The MS line waits for the fleet to pass over it. When the fleet does, (at about 22-23km, for best effect), we and Zol pop up, kill the battleship, and launch flares for the Hilda to use against the carriers. Then the MS ambush comes in from the rear, the subs come in from the front, and we and Zol are smashing anything that we aren't marking for the arty to take care of.

im all for sneaking up under carriers and cutting them open...then popping out the top like a msm-in-a-box.....

Can our Jukons send a brace of torpedoes to cover our advance?

>>7619964
The other MS are too far away for us to reach in time if we're in MS-mode.

>>7619957
Move up to the subline at LD, then switch to MS mode for the rest of the trip.

>>7619866
Just had one more thought.

Have the base send up one interceptor to spot for the Hilda while the rest of us are moving into position. The visual range from 5000 feet is probably a bit closer to the Hilda's max range, and we want to take advantage of that if at all possible. The interceptor comes back in before the carrier strike hits the base.

Don't forget, we can move in 3 dimensions down here.

>>7620009

You switch to LD mode and your cockpit rotates so that you're still upright whilst travelling. Your 360 Mono-Eye gives you a reasonably decent view of where you're going. After about 5 minutes you reach the Subs and gain contact, you can talk freely with the sub captain, they aren't under silent running.

WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FROM HERE, YOU MAY WANT TO SHARE THEM WITH THE SUB-CAPTAIN.

>>7620163
Tell the sub commanders to watch for the first couple booms of an overhead ship. Count to fifteen, then go nuts.

>they aren't under silent running.

They are now officially our distraction.

Send the subs in two groups, make it look like one is the distraction for another, then we stealth in and attack while the feddies are deciding where to send their forces.

Drawing away the feddie subs is a priority, they're most likely to detect us.

>>7620199

Hidolfer doesn't fire until we send up the flares, remember?

>>7620163
"We're going to be taking down that battleship, then marking the carriers for artillery fire. You guys focus on the landing craft, then switch to targeting the cruisers and destroyers once those are gone."

>>7620212
That's great, paint a bullseye on our giant, slow moving targets. I'd prefer to get them silent running for a time, and then after they get some distance, to kick on their engines and make like they are flanking.

>>7620238
Also, we and the subs start moving up at full speed once the Feddie fleet is one or two kilometers past the MS ambush line. We want to try to engage the Feddies at a point where they can't see the shore units yet.

>>7620220
By "booms," I meant Zol and us tearing up the underside of any particular vessel.

>>7620261
We've only got five minutes until the enemy fleet is in range. I don't think that's enough time for the subs to move much of anywhere if they're running silent.

>01/16/10(Sat)12:23

>01/16/10(Sat)15:52

In 3 and a half hours, we've waded into the ocean.

>>7619781
I just read the Zeonquest in Roswell.

OH SHIT. OH HOLY SHIT. Apologized, you magnificent bastard. I saw what you did there, with the 100% particle density scene.

>>7620341
I couldn't find that. Link?

>>7620377
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/6702817/

>>7620261

They're already a target since they had to leave port on full engines just to get to the battle line. Subs aren't defensive units, they need to get out into open water to be effective.

And they don't have to engage the enemy, they just need to draw off the enemy subs so we have a clear run at the battleship and carriers.

>>7620296
Considering this is our first time ever in the ocean, maybe it takes a little while.
Still, PROGRESS!

>>7620212

Just to remind you guy's the Subs are acting as decoys to draw in the enemy Subs and ships so that the MSM's can ambush them.

You greet the captain via contact-comms.

"It's nice to see some more reinforcements! We're pretty sure the feds have already spotted us this far out, but we don't think they've spotted the Mobile Suits. If you want to attack the enemy ships, the best time would be to zoom ahead on LD when the ambush springs.
Alternatively, if you have to travel forward without being spotted, there's a deep trench made by falling colony pieces, you can sneak up on LD mode all the way to the enemy fleet. Except it's pretty fraught, that far deep even small scratches will implode your suit, and there's a LOT of periodic falling debris. That's why our Marine Suits didn't take the route."

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7620341

That reminds me of the newtype documents about a Turned A.... PIC RELATED!

Also, Turn A means Unified.

>>7620422
>Epically dangerous route with one in a million survival chances
> We're Dave Lister bitches!

I think we know what to do.

>>7620422
None of us have strong enough plot armor to make it through there without a single casualty, and the implosion might make bubbles which would be STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM.
I dunno, is it worth it?

>>7620381
Man, I looked all over that thread and saw nothing. I must be blind.

>>7620441
>the signature came from all over the world
>it emitted that Turned-A visual

Gentlemen, welcome to the UC2 callendar, year 0079.

>>7620422
Well, the Indiana Jones routine has always worked thus far. Then again, this is our first time in a marine MS, so I don't think we're acclimated enough to pull such risky maneuvers in a suit we have no idea how to use. I say we play it safe and launch in LD mode with the rest of the subs when the attack begins.

>>7620422
its dangerous, so letsgo!

>>7620462
>>7620490
We are David Lister, and we do crazy shit without even trying!

>>7620422
IF THERE'S A TRENCH, IT'S A MAN'S JOB TO THRUST INTO IT!

Let's sneak up on that Feddie fleet at top speed and give them a nasty surprise.

I say we take the safer route, We can´t go killing off people who arn´t in our squad, We need to think about what gives us the lowest amount of casulties.

We take the risky route.

Because we're awesome.

Let's just fucking blow shit up.

Um, the only ones who'd be doing the Trench Run are Zol and us.

>>7620548

Ah, Then it is fine, TIME TO SHOW THEM WHAT ACES ARE MADE FROM!

Sounds like we're going for it.

Sounds like this thread is slow as fuck.

>>7620528
>>7620548
>>7620574

I smiled a little.

You opt for the trench run. The captain directs you and using MS mode you stealthily drop down into it.
The cockpit creaks ominously as the pressure rises, but the computer assures you everythings fine.
In the gloom you switch to low light and then flick the toggle to LD mode.

You guide your one man submersible through the deep interconnecting troughs gouged in the seabed by chunks of colony that criss-cross the area. Your route is illuminated up on a computer map for you to follow.

In the deep dark, you spot a large chunk of the colony fall into your path, you and Zolomon nimbly dodge it, but in the silence, finding and dodging falling colony pieces is difficult. You keep an eye on the artifical ceiling for weak parts.
Two minutes in and you think your getting a feel for aquatic mobile suits, they can't dodge to fast, so you have to think ahead, but since everything else is slower as well it all balances.

Shortly after thinking this, pretty much the whole ceiling collapses. Teaches you to get so confident. You push forwards as you see a gap to the other side. Yeah hear Zolomon signal out behind you on laser comm
"Crap."
It doesn't sound like he's in trouble but you don't have time to toggle your rearview camera to see what's happening. You dart through the opening and dodge a couple of additional pieces. You switch to MS mode and turn around.
The debris has blocked the way back, but there are still holes enough to see Zolomon unharmed on the other side, and get a lasercomm off.

"Sorry, I had to pull back to stop my suit from getting tagged. What now?"

There are alternate routes Zolomon could try alone if you want, but then he'd be without help in a hostile environment.
Attempting to clear the debris will probably cause sufficient disturbance to alert the enemy forces.
There have been numerous places where you can simply escape the trench and move into the ocean proper.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7620903
How's about we think 3 dimensionally and he goes over the debris.

>>7620903
Zol moves out and attempts to stealthily rendezvous with the MS ambush line.

We continue onwards along the trench.

>>7620903

Zolomon goes back to the troops, We go on. We have Main Character plot armor, He does not.

He might be crazy enough to be a Getter pilot, But in a Real Robot Setting that is pretty deadly, And couldn´t stand losing him and his shenanigans.

Why doesn't he just use one of the points where he can escape into the ocean proper, then find another point past the blockage to come back in.

>>7620962

Nothing except the risk of detection, he'd have to walk though, which would cost time.

>>7620921
>How's about we think 3 dimensionally and he goes over the debris.

I *was* talking 3 dimensionally.

>>7620926
>>7620941

Both of these would work.

>>7620962

Time issues i think, We are on a clock here you know, If we take too long we will miss the fleet.

Let's send Zol back to rendezvous with everyone else, we continue as we are the main character.

>>7621249

When you say everyone else, do you mean the ambushing forces or the Subs?

>>7621265
Depends, if he can get to the ambush forces without giving away their position then go with that, if not go to the subs.

>>7621312

Agreed, We are going for stealth after all, If Zolomon is detected the ambush fails, if the ambush have already started when he arrives he can play reinforcements.

>>7621312

You tell Zolomon to walk his way to the other ambushing MS whilst you go on ahead. He salutes and walks his way out carefully.
You turn around and switch to LD mode and move off. Another two minutes of dodging slow moving debris and your onboard computer tells you that you should have moved far enough.

You find a hole large enough to travel through and poke your head out.

You have guessed well and come out underneath the enemy fleets.

You can see three large targets surrounded by smaller vessels above you. You can also see a couple of Submarines travelling ahead of you.

A few seconds after observing this, your sonar registers explosions, and you can see bright flashes to the west. It looks like the ambush has been triggered.

YOUR ORDERS?

Aim at the biggest target we can find. Full throttle towards it. Rip and tear.

>>7621483
Waste no time. Switch to MS, head up (quietly, if possible), and start tearing up the underside of the largest ship.

Target an escort. Go through it. Once we're standing on the sinking wreck, fire the flares to mark the nearest big target, then dive and find more targets.

>>7621483
RIP 'N' TEAR up through the bottom of the closest ship!, pop out the top covered in feddie blood!

>>7621483

The largest Ship is probably either the Battleship or the Carriers, So go for the largest target first, Then jump up on the second largerst and smash some bridges, before leaping to the remaing of the 3rd largest ships and crush the remaining bridge.

Break the keels of the ships. most vessels are able to dog doors down to halt the spread of water through out the ship. If the keel is broken the ships integrity is compromised and starts to split into sections with the keel. Remember bridge-brain, Keel-backbone

>>7621483
RIPNTEAR straight up through the central of the three big targets, firing our mega particle cannons into the other two targets as we do. When we clear to the top, launch a full salvo of our rockets at any nearby targets. Also pop our flares for Hovis at this point.

>>7621644
Also, when we jump to our next target, we RIPNTEAR back down through the ship to go underwater again.

>>7621483

You aim yourself upwards at the nearest big target. You then switch to LD mode and zip upwards. As you go up you prime your torpedo launchers and fire a salvo ahead of you.
Your enemy Torpedo detector goes off as you rise, but hopefully you'll be too close to the ship before it get's close. Your torps hit the armoured underside of the ship with a muffled crump.
Just to make sure you toggle your beam cannons and fire a shot from each arm in the same locations. Jets of bubbles stream out of the coolant ports, and arms (and claws) forwards you crash into the cracked underside.

You manage to tear through the underside of the vessel and begin pushing up. Below you, the persuing torpedoes self-destruct to prevent them from hitting the ship.
You tear upwards through small rooms and corridors until you come out into a large hangar.

You are currently half exposed in a Airship carrier's hangar. There are planes around you as well as panicking techs and soldiers.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7621749

Go for the planes, Ignore the footsoldiers, No need for senseless death, They are probably running to the lifeboats.

>>7621749
>YOUR ORDERS?

YOU ARE HUGE THAT MEANS YOU HAVE HUGE EVIL.

CLEAVE AND SMITE.

>>7621749
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP5c_MEs9mo
get down

>>7621749
Rocket salvo into the hangar and we make our way onto the flight deck. Once on the flight deck, we smash the bridge and control tower with one clawed hand while we mark the other carrier for a salvo from Hovis.

Then we jump to the battleship and see how many times we can punch it before it sinks. Although our first targets for punching are their fire direction towers; without those, they can't coordinate their guns for however long they still have them.

>>7621749
toggle loudspeaker "I AM THE ANGEL OF DEATH - THE TIME OF RETRIBUTION IS AT HAND" begin slaughtering

>>7621804
No, our battle cry in this instance is simple:

"OH YEAH!"

>>7621829
but a red Z'gok is already taken D:

Claw our way to the bridge, taking out any turrets and the like we may come across. Shoot these planes as well.

>>7621829

THIS.

Also, planes mean Aviation Fuel. Find the tanks, fire beams guns, repeat catchphrase as we exit the carrier.

>>7621903

AGREED!

>>7621749
>>7621782

With a cry over the loadspeakers of "OH YEAH" you burst out of the hole, trampling planes as you go. You spot a fuel tank and as you stride towards the plane elevator you send a beam shot through it. A massive explosion follows behind you as you reach the Elevator and use your jets to jump onto the top deck.
A massive gout of explosive flame burst behind you, illuminating you in the midday sun.

You pop a green flare and look around, you see severall Don Escargot AS Planes and Fly Manta's on the deck.

As well as about 18 of these guy's in what look like depth charge deployers. Their ominous looking guns start to swivel towards you, althought the deployment gear will probably prevent most from doing so.

WEAPON STATUS
TORPEDO LAUNCHERS: 4 SALVO'S REMAINING
LEFT BEAM CANNON: CURRENTLY AIR COOLING, 18 SECONDS UNTIL REACTIVATED.
RIGHT BEAM CANNON: ACTIVE.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7621903

Won´t we get caught in the explosion from the fuel? It seems pretty risky.

>>7622009
Jump for the battleship. Use a beam cannon shot to make ourselves an entrance hole. Then thrust into that hole, and RIPNTEAR our way through the battleship's guts until we come out the bottom. Fire another beam cannon blast up through the battleship as we exit.

Then find another ship to OH YEAH into.

>>7622009
Salute them for their BALLS OF STEEL. While we jump to the next target.

>>7622024
I guess not.

>>7622009
Can we Punch bridges now? I really wanna punch Bridges.

Then again, I also think attacking a Gundam with Bikini Girls with Jetpacks is good idea. (Katejina had best plans of all Gundam villains)

>>7622009
Oh fuck! BALLS!

BALLS, OUR ONE WEAKNESS!!!

Are those some kind of Aqua Balls? Don't want to get swarmed if we go back into the waves.

Use the conning tower of the carrier as cover, and then charge any Balls that can draw a bead on us. We can't stay on the carrier too long, the shelling will start soon, but we have to take out as many of them as we can before they deploy.

>>7622009
try and line them up to shoot through several at the same time

>>7622163

I like this plan.

>>7622066

>Jump for the battleship. Use a beam cannon shot to make ourselves an entrance hole. Then thrust into that hole, and RIPNTEAR our way through the battleship's guts until we come out the bottom. Fire another beam cannon blast up through the battleship as we exit.

You leap off the Carrier deck a couple of long iron shafts flying around you. You dive into ocean and switch into LD mode and head towards the battleship. Explosions rock around you as advance towards it. Behind you, your sonar registers 18 objects plunging into the sea, it's a fair bet it's those Balls with claws you saw on the deck.
To the west you can still register explosions, the fighting at the ambush site must still be carrying on.

Being in the water increases the cooling rate of your beam weapons, both beam guns are now fine for use.

Speaking of which, you push forwards, dodging yet more point blank fire and fire into the flanks of the battleship with your beam weapons. Glowing orange holes billow out of the target zone and your reach forwards with your claws to widen the area, your suit creaks, the armour of these battleships is incredibly tough and thick.
Those enemy pods are moving in, and you'll have to dig your way in if you want to go right thorugh, which will take time you probably don't have.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7622239
Leap back, rocket salvo. Half of the rockets into the weakened area of the battleship hull, half towards the Balls.

If our particle cannons are good to go again, then one more particle shot into the weakened part of the battleship, with the entire rocket salvo and second particle shot targeting the Balls.

>>7622239

Stop digging, Go to surface, Punch Bridges...

And then take on the Aqua Balls on the surface via hit and run tactics, That is shoot, Run away until the Beam is recharged, Then shoot again, Then Run, ETC, ETC.

Bust the federations balls!

>>7622239

This is why I said to take out the Balls first!

We need to break line of sight. Go under the ship and up the other side. Then use those claws to climb out of the water, and fire off the next flare. Then we dive, and dive deep, to get back reinforcements.

Grab Ball with one claw.

Grab another Ball with other claw.

Smash together.

Balls are touching.

>>7622295
This sounds good. Combine with >>7622163
wherever appropriate.

>>7622009
jump to another ship, we can worry about the small fish once we've destroyed their command chain and retreat capabilities.

>>7622320

ANd then they got the gay.

Hmm. Let's see if we can take one Ball back home as a present for the engineers.

After we finish blowing the crap out of the Feddie fleet, anyway.

>>7622324
gosh im slow tonight

>>7622295

Underwater, Beam Cannons recharge in under a second, on the surface they have to be air cooled, normally this is about 5 seconds. But since the only air around in the hangar was on fire, well...

>>7622295
>>7622264

So, Take on the Balls or hit the surface and take on the BB that way?

>>7622414
Surface.

Fight the Balls first, can't take out ships if we're shot down while our back is turned.

>>7622414

fight the balls under water, use ships for cover whilst avoid depth charges.

If we stay close to the ships we should be safe.

>>7622414

The problem is that beams have reduced effectiveness powerwise in water, So if we can get the balls above surface and do "Jump shots" from the water we would dominate, Right?

>>7622544

Your beams effectiveness doesn't really degrade that much underwater since they're particle beams. There is some power loss, but this is made up by the increased fire rate.

You are in an underwater Mobile Suit, it's weapons are optimised for combat in such. Don't worry about it.

So, time to kick some balls?

>>7622611

No, Kicking balls is not very honourable and gentlemanly, Instead kick some RB-79.

>>7622611

We're gonna kick them where it hurts!

Do our Mobile Suits have the proud Nactmaren symbol on it? We gotta make sure they know who the fuck we are.

>>7622611
Yes, it's time to kick some balls.

>>7622611
Second particle beam burst into the battleship from point-blank range, focusing on the weakened bit. Salvo of rockets as a goodbye present for the Balls before we go through the hole in the side of the Battleship and RIPNTEAR our way out the top.

>>7622611

Time to abuse the federations balls. also where did you find the bad haros manga?

>>7622744
>Do our Mobile Suits have the proud Nactmaren symbol on it? We gotta make sure they know who the fuck we are.

Hardly, these mobile suits were spares that we got as the battle was starting.

I think I just had a Newtype flash of inspiration.

GENTLEMEN. I propose that, if and when the time comes, we STEAL the Alex.

>>7622809
>GENTLEMEN. I propose that, if and when the time comes, we STEAL the Alex.

=o

>>7622638

You turn around. Hoping that with the Battleship behind you, some of the balls will hesitate to fire. You fire a couple shots from your beam cannons at the oncoming enemies, taking out one.
The other begin firing at you, evidently they don't think their weapons are capable of harming the battleship. You dodge just in time, a couple of the iron spears ricochet of the curved surfaces of your head, but luckily do no harm.

You have to dive to the side, and you fire off another beam, scoring another kill.

Diving on ballast would take time, but if you switched to LD mode to do it you wouldn't be able to fire back. But on the other hand, you're running out of cover.

You might be able to win by sticking it out, but it'd be risky.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7622832
I repeat: beam blast into the already weakened part of the battleship, go through the resulting hole, RIPNTEAR.

Use another salvo of rockets/torpedoes to keep those Balls out of our face while we do this.

>>7622832
Switch to LD mode, dive, then switch back to MS mode to kick some ass.

>>7622793

I think it's from Gundam-San.

Also, don't think you have to deal with the entire enemy fleet all at once. Canonically the battle for midway lasted 4 full days, so don't be afraid to retreat back to your lines for repair and rearmament.

>>7622884
Once the battleship and both carriers are gone, we can think about heading back.

>>7622766
Oh shit. Are we attacking the side or center-bottom of the Battleship? Fuel tanks are normally located just inside from the belt armour to protect more vital areas of the ship, including the Magazines.

>>7622922

You've put two particle cannon shots through it. If that hasn't set them off then odds are that's not where the fuels situated.

Assuming that in UC everything isn't just powered by Ultralightweight Fusion Reactors anyway.

>>7623103
Well, if they are, I suppose it's our duty to uphold the Listerian tradition of leaving at least one mushroom cloud as testament to our passage.

If we can figure out where the battleship's engineering spaces are, let's see if we can make them lose containment on their reactor.

>>7623135

Your still knee deep in Fisheye Balls actually, I'd still like an answer how you're going to deal with them.

>>7623185
Balls are hardly designed for close combat, get all up in their shit.

>>7623103
Diesel fuel man. No point in taking fusion fuel away from everything else that might need it when there'd be litterally tons of Diesel fuel around. That and if they refit older existing Battleships it's much cheaper than putting new reactors in.

Either way I still support the 'jump out of the water and bash in the Bridge' idea. Besides it'd be easy to locate and shoot the Magazines from above. Just aim for the decking next to/behind the turrets.

>>7623185
If our particle cannons are charged, what's stopping us from doing >>7622860?

>>7623185

switch modes and swing around the other side of the battle ship. proceed to then launch smoke onto its main guns, retreat for the day

Also, I motion that we start blaring the song "Holy Diver" from our speakers.

Get to the surface, climb up the side of the ship, fire your flare, dive off the other side and head back to our lines.

>>7623285

And punch bridges. That´s where they are coordinating the battle, Remember? Kill the bridge=Kill the brain.

>>7623312
If we punch a bridge, we should do it in such a fashion that we can then fire both particle cannons into the ship through the destroyed bridge.

The sequence is 1) punch the bridge, 2) fire particle cannons while hands are still inside bridge, 3) retract hands and move on to next target.

Feck. 4chan ate my post. Plus I think were autosaging.

On the other hand were close to the end, so I'm conflicted about starting another thread.

Anyway.

You switch to LD mode and dive under the Battleship, coming swiftly up the other side. Like a salmon you break the water and leap directly on the vessel.
A giant turret with 900mm cannon is directly to your left, you fire your beam at it.
It doesn't explode, but it's no longer traversing. So theres that.
AA weapons and secondary guns swivel to meet you and you leap into the superstructure to try and give yourself some cover, and also to start climbing to the bridge. Your claws rent huge gouges in the vessel as you climb, small caliber bullets pinging off your armour. Occaisionally you stumble as a secondary gun manages to get a bead on you, but your armour takes it.
You soon reach the Bridge, lean forward and fire your torpedoes.
Unfortunately, this is the time that the Battleship fires it's main guns, nearly knocking you off with the violent recoil. (You note that the turret you shot didn't fire)
Some of your torps hit, and the area is obscured by smoke and explosions.
You are unsure if you have killed the target, but there are Don Escargot orbiting ahead and the Balls are beginning to surface.
Now might be the best time escape.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7623509

swim away little fish swim away

>>7623509

Escape, While returning Fire, There is only so much a single MS can do, No matter who is in it....

But before that, PUNCH A BRIDGE... Pic kinda related.

>>7623509
What's the status of the two carriers?

And before we leave, let's try hitting the top of one of the main turrets with a pair of particle cannon shots, then launching a full salvo of torps into the resulting hole. With any luck we'll touch off a magazine and blow the whole ship sky-high.

>>7623509
Jump off and fire any of our beams weapon(s) that are ready into the bridge again. Then DIVE DIVE DIVE!

>>7623509
i read that as 'wessel' - im watching star trek at the same time....
.
also, retreat i think weve done enough, if we can take out any seaballs on the way back, go for it, also, status report on zolo and the rest of the gang, weve been out of touch all battle.

>>7623588

You might end up diving at an odd angle, which might affect the speed at which you can get away. It's doable but an extra risk.

>What's the status of the two carriers?

You can't spot the other one from where you are, but the one you just hit is currently being heavily shelled and belching smoke and flame. It's moving slowly and seems to be deeper in the water than it was a few minutes ago. It's probably going to sink shortly.

>But before that, PUNCH A BRIDGE... Pic kinda related.

TOTALLY doable.

Does this effect your orders?

>>7623642

PUNCH BRIDGE, Retreat while returning fire, And make a joke about having to kick the feddies in the balls to the team when we rendevouz with them.

I'm not going crazy remembering the part about flares marking our targets, right? I didn't imagine that post.

So fire another flare and then get the hell out of Dodge.

>>7623642
This day won't be complete if we can't force you to use that image of the guys jumping away from a massive explosion. I stand by my proposal of FROG BLAST THE VENT CORE- er, I mean, shoot a hole in the top of one of the main turrets with beam cannons, then put an entire salvo of torps down that hole to try to detonate the magazine.

If there's another ship close enough to us, we jump to that for BRIDGE PUNCHAN ACTION before going into the water and heading home.

>>7623688
it's worrying that the flares didn't attract any friendly attention.....uhhh, can we check if everyone is dead or not? no sign of heat hawks in the air? etc

>>7623712
The flares did attract attention; note that the carrier we came up through is being shelled as we speak.

>>7623671

Your claw grasps at where the Bridge used to be, and squeezes. As you do so, you fire off another shot from your beam arm.

If that doesn't do it, you're not sure what will.

You dive headfirst into the sea, the Balls fire continuing to miss or bounce off. (A Gogg might have been a pin cushion by now though...) and switch LD mode on the moment you hit the water.
You dive as fast as you can, your ears complain from the extra pressure, but you deal with it. It's nothing worse than you'd get in a colony section with a faulty pressure gauge.
You dive down, being hotly persued by the enemy Marine Armours and falling depth charges. Your cockpit bounces as the concussive blasts rock your mobile suit. Eventually you reach the trench network. Do you risk it with all of the Depthcharges, knowing that the Balls would have to be suicidal to follow, or do you continue west, hoping to meet up with Zolomon and the other Marine forces?

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7623743
Risk it. Salvo any remaining torps at the Balls as a parting gift before we head back into the trench.

>>7623743
Depth charge route, Some of them WILL be dumb enough to follow, They are feddies after all. And if we lead them on to the second ambush we won´t be as succesful in that one.

>>7623743

go west, the trench network seems like a bad idea.

>>7623743
Head west young man

Take the trench, any that follow us will get wrecked.

>>7623851
Except debris could crush us as well

>>7623857
We are David Lister, and we fear no debris!

Also, since we aren't trying to be stealthy this time, we can use our particle cannons on stuff that we can't avoid.

>>7623857

Worth the risk IMO, And we can use our superior water manouvering to avoid the worst of it, And it provides a distraction for Team B to use for their ambush. After all IF the feddies choose to chase us they will split their troops up, Right?

>>7623743

You fire a salvo of torps at the balls to scatter them and then dive into the network of trenchs and tunnels.

Fragments and debris are falling constantly where you are, and you endevour to get out of dodge as quickly as possible.
You find yourself zipping through small spaces between falling colony mirrors and support structures, behind you the Balls follow, making occaisional shots with their harpoons, but you suspect that they're running out of ammo now.
You can hear the muffled thud of depth charges above you making the situation down here worse.

The must be saturating the entire area with them.

The entire roof in front of you collapses and you force yourself out of LD mode and swing back to decelerate. You turn around and take out the lead persuer with your beam cannon. You then fire your last salvo of torpedoes into the corridor section made by the curvature of a colony segment that you just came down. It collapses, trapping, hopefully dealing with your persuers.

You search for alternate exits and luckily find a small one you can pass through. About a minute of yet more debris dodging the depth charging stops, and it becomes easier going.
You pop up at the sub line. You can see several Jukons in the area tending to battle damaged MS's. It looks like the entire force has moved back to this area.

>>7623909

Contact nearby MS, Demand status report, say that the ambush was succesful, But that the enemy have Balls specified for water combat.

Go find somewhere we can get our Z'Gok resupplied (and painted).

>>7623940
Do that. Also give them an idea of how many to look for; we can confirm three dead Balls, but each carrier had a complement of 18 at the start of the battle (assuming both carriers had the same loadout). Even if a few more got taken down by debris in the trench, there are still somewhere between 25 and 30 of them unaccounted for.

You meet back up with a somewhat worse for wear Zolomon.
His Z'Gok is covered in scratches and the occaisional gouge and there are deep sea engineers working on his backpack.
Not that your's looks that much better, with all of the dust, smoke, bullet and shell dents.

"Glad to see you made it Zol."

"It was going fine until the subs started unloading those Marine Balls. One of 'em aint a problem, but 5 of them for every Mobile suit? That's a problem."

"Try eighteen. I ganked one of the Carriers, and next thing I know, Balls everywhere."

"Nasty. Anyway, it looks like they must have issued a retreat order, as they pulled back, and we decided to do the same. You'd better check in."

You find a surfaced Sub and use it to check in with the rest of the Nachtmaren Unit and command.

"The enemy forces are making a tactical retreat for today. Probably to like there wounds and formulate a second attack strategy. We don't beleive that the enemy knew our land bombardment capacity had the range it did. Thanks again for he Hildolfr, that really pulled it's weight. The base took some hits, but it could have been a whole lot worse. Get your suit repaired and re-armed, and then report back to base.

... oh, and welcome to Hawaii."

TO BE CONTINUED

Sounds like it's time for some R&R. Rearm and Repair that is.

>>7624033
well, at least we got some marine combat training.

Excellent. Tomorrow we finish the job of punching the Feddies in the Balls.

Tomorrow or next Friday?

>>7624040

BEACH EPISODE! I HOPE SO ANYWAY!

>>7624089
Indeed.

We need to decisively win this battle tomorrow not let it drag out for 4 days.

>>7624093

Tommorow, but like I said, the battle of Midway lasted 4 days, so expect it to conclude NEXT Saturday.
Also, at some point the 603rd might be sticking their oar in to complicate matters as well.

>>7624127
I meant to ask, I know that the Jormagund wasnt used at Loum in this timeline but was it still created? It's beam systems could be useful in a number of other projects.

>>7624127
>>7624113
We've already killed one of their two carriers and at minimum mission-killed their battleship. Just deal with the other carrier and their landing craft and we win.

Also, as long as the guys from the 603rd don't intend to have us or anyone we know pilot, it's all good. If they DO ask us to pilot, we find some excuse to get the fuck away from the people who obviously want us dead.

>>7624167

The papers for the prototype MIGHT exist, but it has never been built, and is considered a failed project.

Also, Zeon is unlikely to have the resources to spare for such a proposal at this moment in time.

>We need to decisively win this battle tomorrow not let it drag out for 4 days.

What makes you think that the 4 day battle WASN'T a decisive win for Zeon?

>>7624207
Because David Lister and Zolomon Ringo weren't there.

>>7624207
Well, it lasted for four days because it didn't have us. With our support, we can hopefully end it with an even MORE decisive Zeon victory.

Apologized, we went in disguise to a bar the other session. Did we learn any nicknames that any of us had?

>>7624207
Have you been following my decoy plan suggestions from the end of last couple threads? It could draw enough Federation forces away from Jaburo to seriously increase the effectiveness of our assault.

>>7624207
Because DAVID LISTER wasn´t there obviously.

>>7624173

DAVID LISTER, ZEON ACE, PUNCHER OF BRIDGES, BRINGER OF MUSHROOM CLOUDS, CRUSHER OF BALLS skips work. Hilarity ensues.

"SIR! SIR! PILOT FOR US!"
"Errr, I can´t I have, Umm, A fever, Yes That´s it."

GOD DAMN DAVID LISTER AND ZOLOMON RINGO ARE THE BEST FUCKING DUO EVER!