I defect. knowing my luck amuro rey or shinn yamada will show up. i quit :(

YAY! ZEONQUEST!

>>7635146
Posting that in the trollfest that's Sunday afternoon /tg/? Bold move, man.

At the end of our last episode:

>"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."

You are currently on a surfaced Jukon class Submarine. Zolomon is having his suit (a normal Z'Gok) repaired down below.
It is currently 9pm, just after dark.

YOUR ORDERS?

While our shit repairs, we and Zolomon change into Hawaiian shirts, sit in some chairs up top, and relax while drinking daiquiris.

>>7635327

Remember what happened LAST time you went drinking in a hot zone? Or the time before that?

>>7635358
Nope.

Anyway, radio the rest of our team, get a sit rep. Check in with the commander on Hawaii, whoever he is. Get some intel.

>>7635283

Teach Elaine the basics in Underwater MS use.

Have some talk with the team and Base commanders how the battle went so we know how we shall put our formation when the feddies come back.

Suggest splitting Nachtmaren into splitting into 3 groups.

Group 1: Ball Hunter group, Basically try bo take down as many balls as possible and escort Group 2, Will need fast units but won´t have to focus on heavy firepower, The ideal pilots would be us and Zolomon.

Group 2: Anti Fleet group.
Essentially a heavy firepower group, Will need heavy but slow units, Jolyne would be ideal since she is used to do heavy bombardments.

Group 3: Base defense, The Hildorfr and AA guard, Reubens get stuck on land, Since 1 day is hardly enough training for a actual combat situation.

>>7635408
This sounds good. Also get our suit repaired once the more badly damaged MS's have been fixed.
Also: Reload

>Teach Elaine the basics in Underwater MS use.

You and Zolomon RTB and meet up with the rest of the unit.

Some of the buildings are showing signs of damage and you can spot some fairly big craters, presumeably from the Battleships large guns.
You meet up with Jolyne, Hovis and Elaine, they appear undamaged if a little scuffed up in places.

"Well, that was interesting. We spent most of the day dodging battery and counter-battery fire. Thanks for the flare by the way. I think I just got my first Battleship kill."

"Carrier actually."

Your support squad has been beefed up by some Zaku Tanks sporting 180mm guns on their backs.

You order Ruubens to get familiar with moving in water, and assign her to take some walks and swims around the area, near the subline, and send Zolomon off as her buddy.

You meet up with the base commander, a one Major Timon.

"Good to see that your first foray into aquatic operations went well Lieutenant. Thanks again for your help, sorry, but as you'd imagine, tonights Luau is cancelled until further notice. So don't bother unpacking those hawaiian shirts just yet."

He guestures to a map of the area with several wooden chits representing the forces in the area.

"This is the current state of play. The enemy fleet here is the one we've just combatted. We've just gotten word from Wolfpack 8 that there's a second fleet coming in from north - the arctic most likely - to rendezvous with them by 1100 tonight. With our forces arrayed currently, we have no way of preventing this. Wolfpacks 4 and 6 are also reporting smaller detatchments enemy sea assets heading in our direction from South America and what's probably surviving naval assets from Killimanjaro. But we wont have to worry about them for a day or so."

HE IS ABOUT TO SUGGEST A PLAN OF ACTION - IF YOU HAVE ANY YOURSELF, NOW IS THE TIME TO SHARE THEM.

What kind of exposives do we have? If we can rig enough to set off a collapse along the Big Island fault line we can cause a tsunami that'll swamp everything within several thousand kilometers.

OP, Suggestion: You're writing too much for each post now.

In the early threads, your updates would come every 10 - 20 minutes and be a few paragraphs. That would mean more interaction and more fun.

Now your updates take at least a half hour, which means less total, and less interaction by us, the players.

Maybe you should try going for smaller, more frequent posts.

Woo, in at the beginning this time!

Other things to do, aside from what's been mentioned:

Talk to Hovis about any tricks he can teach us about programming movements into our suit, given that he was one of the test pilots for the original MA/MS prototypes.

Also, have Hovis switch over to the Zock. If Jolyne can pilot it, have her switch to the Hildolfr and use it for AA work at the base.

I think we can safely assume that tomorrow's Feddie assault is going to involve them keeping their remaining ships out of range of our land-based assets and launching a metric fuckton of Balls and aircraft from as far out as they can.

Do we have a better idea of exactly what the Feddies brought to the party, and how much of it we've already destroyed?

>>7635765
>You meet up with the base commander, a one Major Timon.

Sorry, just checked the Rankings sheet, and he should actually be ranked a Commodore.

>What kind of exposives do we have? If we can rig enough to set off a collapse along the Big Island fault line we can cause a tsunami that'll swamp everything within several thousand kilometers.

It's a nice idea, but David doesn't know much about geology. Hell, when he arrived WEATHER was new to him.

Plan of action:

High speed assault, at night if we can manage it. Take the Zock, the Z'Goks, and the Grabro, come through the Feddie fleet at top speed, and try to hit any carriers and battleships they have. Ball-carrying submarines are the secondary target.

>>7635770
Yeah, even if this was possible (and I don't know if anything short of another colony drop could manage it), most of the areas that would be hit by the hypothetical tsunami are under Zeon control.

I think that makes the Superman I plan what we'd call a "bad idea".

>>7635817
Is he at least familiar with the concept of ROCKS FALL, EVERYONE DIES?

>>7635765
Oh god. No wonder the battle lasted 4 days, this is going to be a huge concentration of naval force.

>>7635765

"The order for tonight is to keep the feds on their toes. We're going to mount a night time raid on them. I was thinking of two possible routes. Firstly, by sea: We sent a couple of squads of Marine MS along the seabed, where it's tricky to track them and attack the enemy that way. Secondly: by air, the Gaw that you came in on has now been repaired, and we can use it to paradrop forces direction onto enemy ships, before escaping via the sea route. We've also got some Dodai's and Zaku's we can use to covver the Gaw from the enemy. Those are the best idea's I've got at the moment, unless you can think of anything."

ANY IDEAS?

>>7635868
Are you familiar with the concepts of "tsunamis generally don't do jack out at sea", "nukes are banned by the Antarctic Treaty", and "the first thing the tsunami would destroy would be THE BASE WE'RE TRYING TO DEFEND"?

>Major/Commodore Timon

Hakuna Matata.

>>7635765

Set up a Forward defense line, Other then that im at loss, Naval battles arn´t my forte.

Oh and suggest the team split in >>7635408 with escorting a Zock inside the enemy fleet and then open up a can of Strike Freedom... I mean beamspam.

Ideas for units for the operation:

David: Command Z´Gok
Zolomon: Z´Gok
Jolyne: Zock. (Funfact, Only 3 Zocks were ever produced.)
Elaine: Zaku Cannon
Hovis: Hildolfr

And ask if we suffered any unit losses in todays battle, Are we at advantage or badly outnumbered?

They've experience our undersea capabilities, and may be expecting us to try the same maneuvers again.

An airdrop however, would leave us exposed to their fire as we drop. We need an air raid, dropping bombs onto them from above instead.

So how about this:

The GAW plus any air support we can spare, goes on a bombing run, dropping ordinance onto the enemy ships.

This aerial bombing acts as a diversion, keeping their attention off of the sea while we come up from under them in our MS.

>>7635908
"Take the Grabro, the Zock, and the Z'Goks and have them come in at high speed on or near the surface. Use the noise from that to cover the sound of our other suits and subs coming in from below. Dodais and Gaw are inadvisable, because if we don't spread any Minovsky they'll be caught on enemy radar or CAP, but if we do spread Minovsky they'll know we're coming."

>>7635908

Why not both?

Double whammy them.

They're dealing with the paradrop and them boom!

Subs and MMS' come up from the deep!

I'm not sure which one we'd lead, but it's a plan.

Marina forces are the anvil. The paradrop is the hammer!

>>7635964
Or going with my plan of an aerial bombing raid. The bombs from the planes are the anvil, and the undersea MMSes are the hammer.

>>7635953

Or what this fine anon suggested. Less risk of losing mobile suits in the paradrop.

>>7635964
Bring in the paradrop second if we do this, about 10-15 minutes or so after the first attack goes in. Try to have the Gaw fling the suits out on a ballistic trajectory towards the enemy fleet in order to keep the Gaw itself as far away from the enemy aircraft and shipboard AA as possible.

>>7636016
Also, have the Dodai-riding Zakus try to fly in the radar shadow of the Gaw, only coming out from behind it once the Feddies start to commit their CAP.

And I think that we should have a general talk with everyone about the Balls; any insights as to their capabilities or how best to kill them would be useful.

>>7635953
For the air raid component, have the Zakus load up with Panzerfausts and 90mm MGs, removing the Heat Hawks in favor of extra ammo. If their Dodais can carry bombs, torps or missiles, load them up too.

>>7635924
>>7635953

Don't forget that Elaine currently in a Acguy, and that Long Range Artillery isn't her forte.

>can of Strike Freedom... I mean beamspam.

The two words are essentially synonyms anyway.

>The GAW plus any air support we can spare, goes on a bombing run, dropping ordinance onto the enemy ships.

>This aerial bombing acts as a diversion, keeping their attention off of the sea while we come up from under them in our MS.

You bring up the idea with the Commodore.

"I was thinking of a two pronged assault, but I didn't feel that we had the resources available to use in a raid. But if you're unit wants to take part, then maybe we could afford it. I wasn't going to ask you to take part, since you've only just arrived and have been fighting all day."

He seems pleased with your suggestion and thinks that it could work.

WHAT SQUAD ORDER AND LOADOUT (WHERE APPLICABLE) DO YOU WANT?

>>7636079

Talk amongst yourselves. Dinner.

Also, don't forget that the F2's you came in on can ride Dodai's as well if you want that job.

>>7636079

Hrm. I let someone more knowledgeable then I with Kill 'Em All's setting to do the loadout.

Let's see... if the feddie commanders are at all paranoid they'd have started doing active sonar pulses every so often inface their passive wasnt picking anything up. They'll likely have one third to one half of their Balls in the water at any given time now to protect from an underwater assault. A goodsized CAP should also be expected endangering any air units we send their way.

Primary targets through the remainder of the battle should remain Carriers, Battleships and then remaining balls in that order.

If our submarines have anything approaching todays firepower they should be able to sink a Battleship with 2-3 solid Torpedo hits. If the Feddie battleships lack depthcharge launchers we should move them lower down the list of priorities. Cruisers or destroyers carring helicopters with sub hunting gear should then replace them as a priority.

David and Zol go underwater again, naturally.

Hovis should remain at the base to defend in case the Feds have any plans for an assault.

Elaine and Jolyne, I think could be of use riding on Dodais, accompanying the bombing run, and then once the bombs are dropping, using their bazookas and MGs to hit the enemy ships while keeping mobile.

And I agree with the previous suggestion of the smaller ships and dodais riding tight with the Gaws to hide from the radar.

>>7636079
Squad order and loadout:

HIGH SPEED STRIKING FORCE:
Lister: Z'Gok Commander.
Zol: Z'Gok.
Boone: Grabro.
Elaine: Z'Gok.

SMITING FORCE:
Jolyne: Zock
Hovis: Hildolfr (thanks to the amphib capabilities, it can deploy with us tonight)
Assorted other pilots: whatever can be spared for guard duty, including Jolyne's Zaku Cannon for AA work.

AIR RAID:
Dodai-rider Zakus, loaded with Panzerfausts and 90mm MGs, taking extra ammo for both instead of Heat Hawks. The Dodais are loaded with anti-ship missiles and torps.

UNDERSEA FORCE: whatever's already out there

>>7636119
Don't forget that the Feddie subs also carry Ball complements. We'll need to kill those too.

>>7635908
Hmm...if we go by sea, we risk coming across their Balls if they've got them patrolling.

Then again, we'll probably have to deal with them anyway.

If we go by air, we risk losing the GAW. We had to fight our way here in the first place.

I suggest we go by sea. If there's anything we learned yesterday it's that marine MS canraise all kinds of hell against ships. So logically we ought to hit them again, but harder.

I say we go with a sizable force, at least four of us: Us, Zolomon, Jolyne and Elaine, definitely. Ask Hovis if he thinks he's up to it, but then again we may want him in Hila to provide fire support (that is, if the enemy's in range at all).

Anyway:
Us: Comman Z'gok
Zolomon: Z'gok
Jolyne: Zock
Elaine: Acguy or Z'gok

If Hovis is up for the night raid: Gogg

So are we decided in splitting our forces into an air bombing and an undersea attack? Meaning no paradrop of mobile suits? Some on dodais would be good, but airdropping them seems suicidal.

If the air force begins bombing as a first strike, the Feds will focus on the skies. They may assume that a sea attack will accompany the air forces, but still, their attention will be focused on the sky.

This is when we attack from below. Whether or not they have those mobile balls patrolling or not is inconsequential. We will have to go in underwater. The air bombing provides us with a perfect opening.

The air forces while doing their own thing, spots for us, giving us the location of the carriers and other high profile targets which we then attack with sub torpedos, beams, and whatever else we've got.

However, both waves of these attacks, and and sea, must be quick, decisive, and surprising.

Everyone agreed on this course of action?

>>7636173
The order in which we go in is as follows: the Striking Force comes in at top speed, using LD mode. It begins its attack. The Undersea Force moves in under cover of the massive amounts of noise created by three Z'Goks and the Grabro moving as fast as possible.

Within the next five minutes or so, the Air Raid comes in. Zakus on Dodais ride in the shadow of the Gaw; when the enemy CAP comes up to challenge, the Zakus deploy and the Gaw turns for home, as its only real purpose is to mislead the Feddies as to what the air component of the raid is for.

Two to three minutes after the Air Raid hits, the Undersea Force launches its own assault.

The primary targets are anything that can carry Balls; carriers, transport subs, and so forth. Any battleships are secondary targets, as we don't want them shelling the base again if we can avoid it.

The Smiting Force gets the final part of the evening's festivities; when we pop a flare to announce our withdrawal, they wait three minutes and then start firing on that position.

>>7636173
This looks good as long as we keep in mind that this is supposed to be a raid. Hit a few ships, get in and out without engaging the balls.

We might wanna check up with the team first and see how fatigues THEY are, But they should be able to do it i think, But going into battle exhausted would be pretty suicidal, And if we fight now we will have fought like 3 battles in one day, That is bound to be very exhausting for the team.

But if we do do the split air/sub attack, I say we do:

Submerged Team:
Zolomon(Z´Gok Command type, He will need those 33%+ when he escorts), Jolyne(Zock, To beamspam the ships)

Airborne Team:
David(Gouf Zolomon Custom, We won´t need a underwater suit when in the air after all, And Balls are VERY crappy in close quarters.), Elaine(Pretty much anything, still bad in water so air team is pretty much her only choice).

>>7636249
I prefer the Dodais over a drop, After all, Balls can operate both in air and underwater, so having free movements on both fronts are advantageous. And a drop would mean retrival would be hard.

>>7636249

I would assume that we'd have Zakus on Dodais providing cover for whatever we're sending, along with some dopps.

>>7636286
The reason for the sequence of these attacks is to cause the maximum amount of chaos in the Feddie deployments, especially of Balls. They'll commit against the Striking Force first, be forced to pull units back up to deal with the Air Raid, and then have to move back down again to face the Undersea force.

>>7636295
That loadout makes no sense. Jolyne has no experience underwater first of all. Zolomon's custom Gouf is customized for Zolomon, which means it's specialized for melee fighting, not airborne assaults.

>>7636249
>>7636219
I 'm generally agreeing with this. The feddies will be too far out of range for the Hilda to be of any use in the battle and it would to too dangerous to drop the thing out in the open ocean.

Beam spam from below shortly after the bombing starts.

>>7636299
Yes, we would. Gaws plus whatever other bombers we have. Dopps for close air support. Zakus or other equivalent suits on dodais with MGs and bazookas or panzerfausts, mostly for covering the air units and taking shots of opportunity against the enemy ships.

>>7636330
Beam and torpedoes. :)

One more addendum to my plan: we may want to be prepared for a low-Minovsky environment, given that the Gaw is not going to be sticking around any longer than it absolutely has to.

>>7636330
Hilda has amphibious capabilities now, remember? It comes out far enough to start shelling the Feddie forces right after our raid withdraws, disorganizing any Feddie pursuit.

>>7636333

What are the bombers going to be armed with? Are they just going to use bombs or torps?

Can Dopps carry a single torpedo/mine on them? We just need some extra explosive stuff to drop on the feddies and anything the escorts can carry might help.

>>7636311

That would be Elaine, We havn´t heard if Jolyne have anywater experience when we asked the team, And she is still a better choice then Elaine, And the general idea with using the Gouf would be going low and go melee against the Balls while riding the Dodai, And maybe do a Dodairider Crash against a ship and RIPANDTEAR various sea vessels with melee weponary while jumping between them.

>>7636373
The Hilda is like the team pet, Can´t go anywhere without her.

>>7636373
Attaching pontoons to a tank doesn't really make it amphibious. That was more of a safety measure in case our plane went down to keep it from sinking.

Trying to use it for what it isn't doesn't seem wise.

>>7636382
I don't think we should be bringing Dopps along, given that the base commander mentioned last thread that we were already running low on interceptors. But if we want to risk it, we go for missiles.

In general, missiles and torps over bombs; it's just a lot easier to hit a ship with the first two.

And that's the other reason for the low-Minovsky environment: we can use guided-missile spam against the ships.

>>7636403
It is a long-range artillery platform. And it can float.

I mean, we're not taking it into close-quarters combat here; we're having it lob a few shells at 20+ kilometers out and then high-tailing it back for home. I think it can manage that.

>>7636398
Alright, well then we don't know if Jolyne has any undersea experience while David does.

Jolyne, as we know, is specialized for long range artillery support, which doesn't sound like a spec that would include much undersea work. Eventually she will get trained in underwater work, since that's what we're here for.

And using the Gouf to go in low on a dodai doesn't make any sense at all. First: Because the use of MS on dodai for this mission seems to be mostly as a support and defense maneuver. Also, because it's a fucking plane. The altitudes they can reach is their best quality. Going down, TOWARDS THE FED'S GUNS makes no sense.

If you want MS action against Fed ships, it would only make sense to have that be done via undersea suits.

Which is why it only makes sense for this particular operation for David and Zolomon to go undersea.

>>7636442
It's an enormous cannon built for land, not the sea. You want to fire an enormous cannon on the ocean, you use a battleship which is designed for that.

If you use an enormous land cannon wearing a lifejacket, then the recoil is going to overturn it and cause it to sink to the bottom of the sea.

>>7636442
These are more along the lines of Emergency flotation measures. Now, if we were to load it into a sub and surface an appropriate distance from the fleet on the otherhand....

Still that'd take a couple hours.

>>7636483
Hmm. Apologized, quick question before we go farther down this line of thought: is the Hildolfr capable of using its main gun while floating on the ocean, or will the recoil sink it?

>>7636529
It's a fucking tank. Built for land.

Alright. No dopps, Zakus and Dodais should provide enough of a escort. Probably. (We should probably save the dopps for base defense as it is, if they're so low).

Uh... torpedoes and missiles over general bombs seems to work for me.

Hrm.

That's all I got. The load out looks good enough.

(Though, I must say I want to see the Feddie dossier on us.)

>>7636572
Feddie Dossier on us probably consists of two words:

RUN.
AWAY.

>>7636442
>It is a long-range artillery platform. And it can float.

A mobile artillery piece with a couple of pontoons attached to it does not a battleship make.

The recoil on its gun would, if not sink the damn thing, flip it over.

Better to have Hovis pilot another marine MS for the assault. We need as many as we can get so that we can hit the Feddies hard and fast.

>>7636618
In that case, put Hovis in the Zock and Jolyne in her Zaku Cannon.

>>7636219
>Us: Comman Z'gok
>Zolomon: Z'gok
>Jolyne: Zock
>Elaine: Acguy or Z'gok

>If Hovis is up for the night raid: Gogg

Elaine CAN go in the Z'Gok if you want, but with the Acguy's solid projectiles it wont have the cooldown period of the Z'Gok's weapons. Just something for you to consider.

Hovis is more than willing to give the Gogg a go. You have everybody who hasn't gotten any water training find a suit and get their feet wet. You hash out your attack plan with the Commodore.

(FYI: Boone is currently off duty, and his Grabulo is in the docks being repaired, and unavailable tonight.)

You have two squads of Marine MS to back up your aquatic raid, a squad of 3 Acguy's and a squad of 3 Goggs.

The current plan is to have the air attack go off first. The Gaw (plus it's Dopps) backed up by 6 Zaku IIJ's riding dodais with a mix of 120mm, Zooks and Magella Top Cannons.

Using the cover of the air attack, your forces, using the seabed as cover will mount your attack. Do as much damage as possible and then escape when your element of suprise wears off.

Sounds good?

>>7636613

>Feddie Dossier on us probably consists of two words:

>RUN.
>AWAY.

Yeah, but you'd hardly be alone in that. I can name at least three other people who have probably got that in big letters attatched to their dossier.

>The recoil on its gun would, if not sink the damn thing, flip it over.

This, the pontoons are there so that if the thing ends up in the drink it can get back to base.
Although Ookawara say's that he's seen some ideas in the engineering corps lately about a hovercraft system platform that might be interesting.
It's not something he'd be able to knock up in an evening though. He'd need at least a fortnight or so back in Cali.

>>7636738

Sure, Why not.

>>7636738
Eh, leave her in the Acguy again I guess.

That loadout sounds good. We need to be sure to concentrate our firepower, though. Ignore the destroyers, ignore the cruisers, ignore the Balls as much as possible. Kill the carriers first, the battleships second, and anything else that looks like it could carry a Ball third.

>>7636738
Sounds good. Except we'll need a massive attack at the end to cover our escape. A large bomb of some kind. Biggest we can find that won't break the Antactic Treaty?

>>7636738

Is there any other bomber at the base that could go as well?

Sure, it means the escort will be spread a little thing, but extra tonnage for explosives.

>>7636824
Put knocking that thing up on Ookawara's to-do list. Once the battle is over, he can work on getting that ready; it would definitely be nice to have if we want to get Hildolfrs through the terrain around Jaburo.

>>7636834
Biggest we can find that won't break the Antarctic Treaty?

Find the oldest, least effective suit we have, drop it into the middle of the Feddie fleet without a pilot, and set its reactor to go critical.

>>7636834
>>7636838

And a means to carry that huge bomb to cover our escape.

I'm thinking air fuel bomb. All the whizzbang of a nuke, but without all the things like nuclear radiation. Electromagnetic pulse!

And you know... violating the Antartic Treaty.

>>7636738
Let's do it! Death from above and below!

>>7636824
Who would those three people be?

I mean, Char is obviously one of them, but I don't know quite enough about Gundam to be able to guess at the other two.

>>7636738
Yup.

Also, priority should be given to destroying the remaining carrier and the crippled battleship. Next in priority are the Balls.

Also, we ought to attack the ships' keels (primary structural element, keeps everthing together) and propellers. Because unless they brought extras, I doubt even the Balls working repair are going to get them working again. (That type of damage requires dry dock facilities to fix. And I doubt their support ships have any extra parts lying around.)

>>7636827
> PSYCOMMU TEST TYPE ZAKU

>>7636889

That seems best. And it means that we don't have to surface.

One more thing, there a chance to bring a wolfpack with us? Subs as back up to the MMS' might be good.

>>7636889
Ignore the crippled battleship for now, I think. It'll slow them down, and force them to divert scarce manpower and resources to field repairs if they want to avoid just scuttling it.

And remember there's another Feddie fleet meeting up with this one. Do we have any idea what that second fleet is bringing to the dance?

Pic unrelated to the current battle.

Finally got around to drawing this thing up. Think this would get the Federation's Attention?

>>7636838

Zeon doesn't HAVE a decent dedicated bomber. Their air assets and designs suck because they don't have anywhere to properly stress test them due to living in space.

>>7636846
>it would definitely be nice to have if we want to get Hildolfrs through the terrain around Jaburo.

It'd be based around a Zaku Tank actually, but yeah.

Your attack begins a 10:30. You meet up with the rest of your unit and head towards the sub-line at LD mode.
Above you, the Gaw and it's escorts take off. You reach the Sub-line in five minutes of travel. There you meet up with the other two squads and begin your journey towards the enemy locations.

NOTE: IF YOU WANT, THE COLONY MADE TRENCHES ARE STILL AVAILABLE. BUT LARGER MS WILL HAVE TROUBLE NAVIGATING AND AVOIDING DEBRIS (GOGGS AND THE ZOCK IN THIS CASE.)

Also, there's no assurances that the Feds haven't sent patrols. On the other hand, the periodic collapses mean that fighting and combat will go unnoticed, so it remains the quickest route.

TIME BEFORE AIR ATTACK: 10 MINUTES

YOUR ORDERS?

Also, may I suggest this as our background music while we're beating the crap out of the RB-79s?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REVl4skqqUg

Keep back from the air contingent. We want the Feds to see the planes before they can see us.

>>7637033
Let's not tempt fate.

Speed is good and all, but given the size of our force Id rather we not take any unnecessary risks.

Besides, we can handle Balls if we encounter them.

>>7637057

Yeah, but you don't want to arrive to late to party though do you?

>>7637033
Have a suit or two dispatched to the trench. Instruct them to make some obvious but understandable mistake (beam cannon to a piece of debris, most likely) that will let the Feddies know that there's somebody in the trench.

Then the entire rest of the force comes in at top speed in the open ocean, just after the Feddies have deployed their Balls into the trench to prevent a repeat of what we did to them yesterday.

>>7636927

It´s not really a test type, But a Zaku with Psycommu specified for high mobility in space, Hence why the legs are ROCKETS EVERYWHERE! And it is better then it looks, It is pretty much the Zeongs brother.

Now, What is in this pic is probably what we will get if we get a newtype Mobile suit, Only 3 Psycommu System Zaku were made however, and they were all prototype units. With 2 wire-guided 5-barrel mega particle gun it is pretty much the closest thing to the Zeong we will be able to get, Seeing how only 1 Zeong was made, And i doubt we will get that one.

Well, It is one of those or a Mobile Armor.


>>7637033
We take the slow route this time, Safety in numbers.

>>7637033
>crappy Zeon air assets

Sounds like something our espionage wing should be getting on top of, then.

>>7637057

That too. We want them focused on the planes before they notice us.

Also, about using an Fuel Air bomb to cover our escape, will that work?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_air_bomb The wiki article can explain how it works better then I.

>>7637186
Well, we could also end up with a Kikeroga, which is apparently some sort of MS version of the Elmeth.

>>7637019

I have to say, it does scream Zeonic ZOOPER VEAPON!

But I thought we were trying to keep Zeon from developing those hemmoraging bastards?

>>7637271
We are. The only real purpose of that monstrosity would be to keep Ginias Sakhalin from doing anything even more stupid than usual.

>>7637185

I should point out that the decoy plan is VERY dangerous and might kill anyone who tries that. Zolomon might be crazy enough, Ruubens Naive enough, but everyone else is going to tell you where to go.
You could still pull rank I suppose, but that's probably not the sort of cross team working atmosphere you want to encourage this far under the sea - where 'accidents' happen.>>7637186

>Seeing how only 1/2 of a Zeong was made, And i doubt we will get that one.

Fixed.

>>7637315
In that case, why don't we do the decoy plan ourselves?

Drawing away Balls from the real strike force can only be a good thing, and if they recognize us from yesterday they'll definitely be committing a big force to deal with us.

>>7637315

Then DAVID is the decoy, We are crazy enough to do it too.

>>7637019

I like it.

Fuck it, let's get a move on.

>>7637356
Didn't we collapse part of the trench yesterday?

>>7637315
It would not do to have one of Zeon's top Aces to die from a beam weapon to the back accident. Let's just stay as a group.


>>7637019 Related to previous pic

I agree with being the decoy ourselves.

Besides, all we gotta do is stir up some shit. Not actually go in there.

>>7637473

That's a couple thousand miles. But on the other hand... I like it.

It gives something for the Feddies to shit themselves over, Zeon's main proponent of crazy shit is busy, and hey! If it gets built in time, we can shell Jaburo before we attack!

>>7637356
>>7637376

You opt to undertake the decoy plan itself. You put Zolomon in command of the unit whilst you head down to the trenches.

Once inside you switch to LD mode and begin tracing towards the enemy. A couple of times you have to double back due to cave in. The enemy depth charges must have damaged the area even more once you left.

You turn a corner and pull back, toggling back into MS mode to avoid a probing searchlight. With all of the collapses you probably haven't shown up on the enemy sonar yet.
You turn on your arm camera and take a cautious peek around the side. You don't think your close enough to the enemy to get a decent response if your draw their attention now. You might, but it would probably be best to be sure.

Your arm camera reveals it to be a lone Fish-Eye patrolling the trenches.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7637473

I'm pretty sure that at the size you're suggesting, this still counts as a breach of the Antarctic treaty.
Furthermore, the blast would be barely enough to scratch Jaburo's defenses.
There's a reason why we didn't just nuke Jaburo during the One Week War and instead opted to drop an ENTIRE GODDAMN COLONY on the place.

>>7637586

Attempt to shoot it, But miss on purpuse so we alert it to us. After we are sure it have seen us and sent a signal to the fleet blow it up.

>>7637303

True, Man i hate Gineas, I hope we can stop him from killing loyal Zeeks and breaking a ceasefire this time around, I mean, Killing Superiors,Badass Tank crews and refugees is NOT cool, Even if it is by proxy. And imagine his face if we get the Aspalas Project discontinued.

>>7637660
It's a decoy, we just need to make the feddies think it could engdanger Jaburo.

Blast that shit with a laser.

>>7637685

But don't hit it!

As for the terbuchet, it is a decoy, but... hrm.

Do we want the Feddies to think we're breaking the treaty?

>>7637586
If we can't sneak by it, hit it with a piece of debris. At this depth, it'll implode if we scratch it.

>>7637821
I suppose we could convert it into a Zaku thrower. Strap our most patriotic and least skilled pilots into them and tell them how to overload their MS reactors.

>>7637683
Instead of spending the time and resources necessary to construct a decoy of this scale, why don't we just build more suits instead? You know, something that's actually useful?

>>7637683
>It's a decoy, we just need to make the feddies think it could engdanger Jaburo.

Yeah, but for reasons I've just outlined it probably wont. Even so, since it's a static fortification, you've probably just given them a use for all of their EMP shielded cruise missiles that they thought they weren't to be able to use this war.

You can push the plan if you want, I just don't know how effective it's going to be.

>>7637685

General consensus: Blast that feddie ball?

>>7637874
I'd rather just slam our claws into it, personally, given that you mentioned that we're not close enough to the fleet to be sure that we'll divert a significant chunk of their defenses.

>>7637665

apluse was discontuned. gians ingored it, went insain, shot the view screen when killed, lanched, kill all the sctinces involed in the project, killed the man had told him the project was cancsled...

short version, it wont go well.

>>7637874
>EMP shielded cruise missiles

God dammit. Why didnt they just bomb the hell out of California base and Zeon's other HLV sites with those things?

>>7637874
Shoot with the intent to kill. If we miss, we might get a squad down here, but if we hit, we can probably find a juicier target.

>>7637874
The thing im thinking is about the giant laser that fried the feddies in the Anime, A Baoa Qu?

Anyway, A landbased mock up of that, That should get their attention.

And i say that we get the balls attention, THEN CRUSH THEM!

>>7637941
I doubt there will be any juicier tagets, A ball is what we will get, Since i think that is what can get in the trech to begin with, everything else is too big.

>>7637936

it was implied the feddies didnt have them. the fly mantas, i think, droped like flys when they opend there bomb bay doors (OPEN THE POD BAY DOORS HAL!) due to insufcent sheilding.

>>7637896

Accepted.

You lay in wait for the ball to move towards you, presently it does so, and you reach out and breach it with your claws. It implodes with a near audible POP.
You check the corridor for more enemies, seeing none you push on.

You use LD mode where you can, but you have to play hide and seek with a couple more patrols - occaisionally it turns into a game of Tag.

KILLS: 3 Fisheye Balls

After about 5 minutes you reach an opening, up above you can see a couple of vessels, probably destroyers. This would probably make a good spot to mount your decoy operation. You set the fuse on your head torps to thirty seconds and fire them into the roof of the tunnel you just came down.
You repeat the process two more times and then deliberately reveal yourself to a pair of Fisheyes.

>>7638014

if the giant laser is the one i think your thinking off, it wasnt a laser, but a sunlight based wepone useing a coloney, i think. like the feddie solar system. tho there harsh wepones, and proberbly should be covered by the anatartic treaty.

Start playing the song "Holy Diver" at maximum volume from our external speakers.

Particle beam shot into one of the Balls, another particle beam shot into the keel of one of the destroyers.

Then we REALLY start to trip Balls.

LASER THE FUCK OUT OF SHIT

FILL THEIR HULLS WITH WATER

COLLAPSE THEIR SHIT

CRUSH THEIR SHIT

SLAP THEIR SHIT

>>7638058
Relevant link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuVfrLh9Oz4

Start at about 1:16 and go from there.

>>7638014

The Solar Ray was an ENTIRE COLONY converted in a Carbon Chemical Laser.
Cima Girahou's colony to be precise.

>>7638021

The two balls turn to face you in suprise, pop the first one with your beam cannon and then dodge the second ones fire. You rush forwards and grapple the enemy, using your claws to shear off his own.
The ball begins to crumple from the pressure and you toss it up towards an open section leading to the ocean and shoot it with your other beam.

If that hasn't gotten their attention you don't know what will.

WHAT NOW?

We should focus on killing the Balls first, We are going solo right now and we should avoid getting swarmed, We can engage enmy ships once we thinned out the amount of balls that can attack us when ripping and tearing, After all that takes awhile and we can´t fight effectively when breaking hulls.

>>7638159
We start running in a direction that will take any pursuing Balls away from where the main raid is coming in. Pop off a shot at one of the ships, aiming for its keel, just to make it look like we're trying our routine from yesterday.

>>7638159

Lets see, Zolomon said we needed to take out an average of 5 balls per unit, So i think we can kill around 3 more to make it easier for team 1, then retreat.

If we get hopelessly out numbered, Say 20 against 1, Run like hell.

>>7638219
We aren't just trying to kill Balls, though. We're trying to draw them off from the Raid force. Therefore, we want as many of them chasing us as possible.

Let's devote one of our beam cannons to taking potshots at the keels and propellers of ships while the other one is used for Ball-busting.

>>7638257
This. Be a Zeonic Attention Whore

>>7638219
>Lets see, Zolomon said we needed to take out an average of 5 balls per unit, So i think we can kill around 3 more to make it easier for team 1, then retreat.

>If we get hopelessly out numbered, Say 20 against 1, Run like hell.

Actually the trenches probable make for good cover, so you're odds wouldn't be too bad, but doing five in a messy way to get their attention would probably work.

Using the maps you've got of the trenches, you move off after you see Balls coming your way. You pop one to make sure he knows where you are.
You find a good intersection and take out another pair. One with a beam and the other with your claws. You're able to dodge the return fire, but things are getting a little too crowded. You switch to LD mode and put some distance between the yourselves and the enemy.

You hope the air attack is going well.

You turn another corner, you've reached the end of the trenches. Open ocean above and a deep gouge that leads to a colony fragment that stretchs all the way to the surface. You prep your Torpedoes and turn around. You wait until you can see the searchlights of the Fisheye's and fire, collapsing the area.

Above you, you can see the battle raging.

SIDESTORY INVOLVING THE REST OF UNIT TO FOLLOW.

>>7638257
I like this.

>>7637019
>>7637473
>Commander Pete Wesell of the 3rd Zeonic Engineering Corps leaned back in his chair and shrugged.
>"On paper the Jormungand Super Particle Cannon seems like an interesting idea. I dont know how practical it would be however. Maybe if we'd had the thing at Loum or been able to use it to help protect the colony during Operation British it could have proven it's usefulness. Little late to be bringing it up this far into the war wouldnt you say?"

>The man from Zeonic Intelligence opened the metal briefcase that was handcuffed to his arm, pulling out three pieces of paper. Without a word he slid them across the table.

>Picking them up Wesell examined the first print out.
>"'Hypersonic Minovski Bomb Projectile' eh? What'll you guys think of next?" He asked jokingly.

>>7638490
>Looking more closely he quickly recognised various minovsky field parts that belonged to the Jormungand. Glancing up he saw that the spook was still just as emotionless as before. The second page had plans for a massive artillery system that would launch the devices. It was hard to get an idea of the scale until he noticed the base entrances large enough for Mobile Suits.

>"You cant be serious, we could build a Musai with this much material."

>The third page showed the projected range for an operation 'Terminus' with notations scribbled on in marker regarding flight times and average atmosphereic density.

>"This is insane. Even if you could get the projectiles to land where we THINK Jaburo is located it still wouldnt mater! They'd either be too weak to punch through the rock and nuke hardening OR it would be so powerful the Feddies would think we'd broke the Antarctic treaty! Oh, and STILL probably not break through their base shielding."

>>7638512
>"We're giving you two weeks to begin construction on a site to these specifications. You'll recieve various housings and components transferred from another project in South East Asia. As much of these matarials are to be built on the exterior of the base as possible."

>"Cooling problems?"

>"Not quite. All concrete and rebar for the project will be procured on-island. When it is time to begin installing the cannon components you will close off the top of the construction as though they are already in place. Over the next few days cargo vehicles carrying containers will enter and exit only via the main groundlevel doors. ...Would you like to guess what will be inside the containers?"

>"I have no idea, cruise missiles and launchers?"

>"No. Six squads of our new Heavy Mobile Suit that is now entering production."

>Pete looked confused for a moment. "What?" He said at last.

>"In two weeks time these papers and this briefcase are going to be found by the Federation along with the body of a dead Zeon Colonel. We dont expect your construction to be completed until November. It's your job to make sure that a maximum number of people on the ground believe that this is a live project. Lie to your own men if you have to, I dont care, but expect a heavy Federation attack on your site a little over 2 weeks from now."

>>7638490
>>7638512
>>7638542
I can delete these if you feel that it's ruining the thread OP

>>7638671
NO.
This is smart. We should send this idea over to Garma. A fake super weapon to draw a Feddie attack into an ambush.

>>7638694
Why don't we codename this thing "Endor", and name the cannon "Death Star II"?

The air attack went well, it looks like none of the reinforcements were carriers, and Feds only launch a couple of wings of Fly Manta's to oppose them. Otherwise it's mostly flak fire from various cruisers and destroyers. The Gaw begins dropping depth charges set to about a meter below sea level (or if it lands on something hard) whilst the Dopps and Dodai Riders deal with the enemy fghters.
The Zaku's begin helping out, once their done with that, peppering the enemy ships with Bazooka, 120mm and 180mm shells.

At which point, the sea squad attacked. The Gogg and Acguy squadron go for the Subs and the Balls that haven't been aggro'd to you, whilst Nactmaren Squadron takes on the enemy ships directly.

Jolyne rose up, out of the dark sea first - spinning like a top, ands then she started rapid firing her 8 beam cannons. In the opening salvo she rotated roughly 1080 degrees and killed three destroyers two frigates and a cruiser, badly damaging the already wounded Battleship Ajax.
This took under a second.

Then Elaine, Zolomon and Hovis popped up and started shooting. Zolomon fires his torpedoes at the carrier that was limping on it's last legs. It begins to list on one side even further than it was before.

The rest of them manage to damage another three cruisers and kill a destroyer. Before getting a call from the other squads that they can't hold the subs off for much longer.

KILLS
ZOLOMON: 1 Frigate, 1 Carrier
JOLYNE: 3 Destroyers, 2 Frigates, 1 Cruiser
HOVIS: 1 Destroyer
RUUBENS: Noting, but plenty of assists.

>>7638726
Have they located that other enemy carrier?

BACK TO YOU

You are currently on the seabed underneath all of this. You can see the Acguy's and Gogg's dueling with the enemy subs and their reduced Fisheye escorts.

You can also see flames and the flashes of beam cannons up above.

You are next to a large upright column of colony that leads to the surface.

The way back through the tunnels is collapsed.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7638769
A colony tunnel that leads to the surface?

What that sounds like to me is "launching tube".

We get in that thing, switch to LD-mode and head towards the surface at top speed; when we pop up, find that other damn carrier and kill it dead.

>>7638801
this

>>7638769

How is our armor? We might want to go and help the Sub team, But we can´t really risk getting sunk either.

>>7638801
Going up!

>>7638801

I support this.

>>7638821
god that gundam looks so rediculous its not even funny.

>>7638801

It's not a tube, it's a big flat hunk of metal. But "get the surface" seems to be the order today so off we go!

You switch to LD mode and head upwards past the Gogg and Acguy squads. You break surface and meet back up with your squad.

"Nice to see made it okay."

"Honestly? I'm getting pretty used to navigating down there. It's a shame it's mostly collapsed now. What's the status?"

"Our air cover has moved off, and it looks like the enemy are beginning to realise where here and start shooting back. The squads down below are saying that they don't know for how long they can hold the subs off as well. Honestly boss, I think it's time to leave."

There are still a couple of target oppourtunity about if you want to linger, but that could be detrimental to your health.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7638874
Provide covering fire while the rest of our forces retreat.

>>7638874
Take a shot at an easy target then get out.

>>7638874
TIME TO ADVANCE BACKWARDS! Or rather RUN AWAAAAYYYY!

>>7638874
Unless one of those targets of opportunity is the other Feddie carrier, we make like a tree and get the fuck out of here.

If the Feddie carrier is here, we launch all of our remaining torps at it, along with another few beam cannon shots, and then blow this scene.

If we can, we use LD-mode and our claws to literally tear right through a Feddie sub while we vamoose.

>>7638911
>>7638910

You order the retreat, taking a couple more pot shots at the wounded battleship, hoping to finish it off before you leave. You are rewarded with a giant explosions. You must have managed to hit an ammo magazine.

You do have to dive away pretty fast to avoid the resultant flying turret however.

KILLS: 1 Battleship.

You order the retreat, and the other two squads disengage and retreat back. A couple of subs move to persue and a couple of depth charges indicate a flight of Don Escargot's trying to take you down, but you manage to weather their half hearted attempts and escape.

You return to base around 11:45, to cheers and congratulations from the Hawaiian forces.

RAID COMPLETED!

>>7638769

>>7638989
Promise everyone a round of drinks once the Feddie fleet(s) are finally dealt with. Now get some sleep so that we're ready for tomorrow.

>>7638989

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sogKUx_q7ig

>>7639040

I concur. We'll need as much rest for the second Feddie Fleet.

>>7638989

Time to catch some shuteye, After all apersonb can only stay awake for so long, and better be well rested for tomorrow, This isn´t over yet after all.

>>7638989
Shut-eye, backslapping, promises of drinks, and getting a battleship painted on our Z'Gok. Plus a handful of Balls.

We need to make as amny off-colour jokes involving the words "Ball", "Balls", and "Federation" as possible, with numerous verbs describing what we did to them.

Also yeah, congrats all round. Also check how Jo, Elaine and Hovis felt about marine combat.

>>7639148
Well, that's a given.

>>7639148
>Also check how Jo, Elaine and Hovis felt about marine combat.

Good idea, completely forgot.

Commodore Timon pats you on the back for a job well done.

"Nice work Sir David! The total kills for that raid are coming in now, but it's looking DAMN good, you finished off those capital ships you damaged during the day, and took out a fair number of escorts and cruisers into the bargain! Now go get some shut-eye, we've got more of the same tommorow!"

You salute and walk back to your allocated barracks, as you walk, Timon calls out to you again.

"If you're having trouble sleeping, try this!"

He throws a glass bottle at you, you catch it. It is a Bottle of Vintage Scotch (Year 0055).

OBTAINED: Bottle of Whisky.

You meet up with the rest of your squad and turn in.

>>7639305
fuckya whiskey

is 0055 a good year? i mean, it'll be beter then the 0079, but...

in anycase. tomorrow is a new day, full of a new battle group, proberbly reinforced with the old...

>>7639332

just relised im a retard. scotch dosent matter about the year (sept for aging)

>>7639305

MANLY PICNIC

Eh, save it for when we've won the whole battle. It'll taste better that way.

Also have the whole "How do you feel about marine combat" chat with the guys.

>>7639332
Yes. On the other hand, the new battle group apparently didn't bring any carriers with them; therefore, if we can take down the remaining carrier, we've obtained air superiority for ourselves.

Also, we can start switching our focus to blowing up the Feddie transport subs. Hereby dubbed Ball-Sacks.

>>7639305

Did he just call us SIR David? Not bad getting called that seeing how Davids parents are space hippies and all.

>>7639352
I second this.

DONT END IT HERE, OP!

LET'S KEEP GOING! TOWARDS VICTORY!

>>7639361
>>ball-sacks
you sir, deserve a small medal

>>7639371

Well, we *are* a Knight of the Realm. Damn right we get called 'Sir David'.

>Also have the whole "How do you feel about marine combat" chat with the guys.

The next morning you get up early along with everybody else. The fact that august is the hottest time of year and it's sun-up by 5 helps as well.

You talk with everyone else how they're handling sea combat. Most seem to be handling it well, Zolomon is getting used to how the water resistance effects movement, Ruubens seems to be handling it okay, and old hand Hovis is doing fine. Jolyne seems to have taken to it like a Duck to... well, water.

>>7639371
>Did he just call us SIR David? Not bad getting called that seeing how Davids parents are space hippies and all.

Well, you ARE a knight of the realm. You got Knighted way back during Operation Elephant for (among other things) taking down the first Land Battleship of the American Campaign, saving the lives of your entire battalion and helping to instigate a regime change in Costa Rica friendly to Zeon.

>>7639543
After waking up you get some chow at the open tent mess hall. Some kind of eggs and rice arrangemen, with bits of fish and a poached egg on top. Not bad really.
Afterwards you stroll over to HQ to see what's happening.

Timon seems glad to see you.

"Ah Lieutenant, come in! Here's the current state of play. The enemy forces have joined up just outside our known artillery range. They've gotten themselves in a close formation, presumably for improved AA capacity. IT's possible they're in a holding pattern, waiting for the friendly reinforcements to arrive from the south. I've got three Wolfpacks harrassing those as we speak, but they've got a lot of AS capacity, and I don't think the Jukon's even with their MS support are going to do much. But that's tommorows problem, here's today's conundrum..."

He shows you a sonar map of the enemy fleet. You see a long line of ships nose to bumper, aranged almost like a bow.

"Recon flights show these ships lining up to be Cruisers. Missile Cruisers we think. We're not sure what they're up to, but I've put everyone on high alert and increased the minovsky density to 80%. Any ideas Lieutenant?"

Alright. We're expecting another attack today.

Take inventory of our resources. Plant our artillery and anti air forces together similarly to how we did it yesterday. Keep the rest of our forces on standby, ready to fire.

Any spotting, advanced warning systems we've got, use them. We hit them hard twice already. They're probably pretty angry and getting desperate, plus they've got reinforcements now.

They'll want to hit us hard and fast. They aren't looking for a prolonged battle. We need to be alert, and not go full bore when we see the enemy. We need to be aware of possible traps and ambushes, feints, etc. Just because they've been outsmarted doesn't mean we will be.

>>7639558
Large-scale rocket attack against Hawaii, looks like.

They don't really need much guidance, since they know where the base facilities are.

Think we'd better put a stop to it. A concerted wall of particle beams should do the trick. Once they've exhausted their missiles, we charge in and blow some stuff up.

Also, have we located the remaining enemy carrier?

>>7639605
One other possibility, though: could they be launching Balls at us?

our crest is badass (as always). thanks apoligsed.

i think i missed something, but do we have any idea when the second fleet arives? and how, so we can prepeare.

>>7639558
Well, we're on an island with minimal base coverage. They've got the entire sea to spread out, but they're keeping tight. Long range, high damage, all together.

"With M-Particles blanketing our location, they can't get a bead on us, but they still know where we are. Without precision aiming, they can't pinpoint where to hit, but with so many missiles at their disposal . . . If I were in their situation, with cruisers lined up like this, I'd have submersibles surrounding them to protect from our attacks, keeping them hidden away. Maybe something stealthy we can't pick up, maybe not. As for the cruisers themselves, if I were them, I'd blanket the entire area with them. If they can't pinpoint where we are, they'll flatten the entire place."

Also, maybe the missiles aren't just missiles. Rocket propelled mobile suits sent to land on the island?

>>7639558
Close formation = vulnerable.

Find the most badly damaged suit we have, preferably one that can't be repaired back to full capabilities. Get it into the Feddie fleet. Have it "self-destruct", taking out the tightly-packed Feddie ships when the reactor goes critical.

>>7639618

The sub line hasn't picked any up, and it's been scanning the trenches as well. Though most of them are now collapsed.

>>7639661
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant as in "could they have repurposed missiles to carry Balls straight into our lines?"

>>7639558
>You see a long line of ships nose to bumper, aranged almost like a bow

Pesant railgun was the first thing I thought of.
Seriously though they're probably going to fire in sequnce so that it'll be harder for us to shoot down their missile volley. If one explodes it could shield the ones behind it from our sensors.

>>7639605
>A concerted wall of particle beams should do the trick.

This guy has the right idea. Get some beam equipped MS down to the waterline to make use of the better cooling and beam spam the missiles as they come in.

>>7639674

Assuming they wanted the pilots to survive the delivery, that would be implasible at best.

Since their fighter cover is as good as gone, I would reccommend an aerial strike of some kind. The composition of such a strike escapes me, though, given our limited resurces.

>>7639825
They've gained a concentration of AA support. Whatever happens next will be us defending their attack.

As for missiles, perhaps they have some mobile suits. They suit a specialized rocket. It opens mid air, a MS ambacs down to attack.

>Large-scale rocket attack against Hawaii, looks like.

>They don't really need much guidance, since they know where the base facilities are.

You bring up the possiblity that perhaps they're simply going to fire the missiles unguided.

"That would do it, there's about 14 of those cruisers, and each of them pack about 200 cruise missiles..."

>Think we'd better put a stop to it. A concerted wall of particle beams should do the trick. Once they've exhausted their missiles, we charge in and blow some stuff up.

"Hmm, it could work, but I don't know if we have enough Mobile Suits to make it work..."

He picks up a phone.

"This Timon, get me the Pioneer Corps, tell them I want every single AA gun they have on the... northwest beach NOW. We have possible incoming missile bombardment and I need base defences!"

>Also, have we located the remaining enemy carrier?

"No sign of it since you spotted it coming over. Which is odd. We've got no sign of it leaving the area, and those planes are coming from SOMEWHERE."

"Okay, I've got all of my MS forces coming in off the beach, with the Subs staying put. Hopefully the enemy won't take that as an oppourtunity to push forwards with the balls. Which means I have a job for you. I want you to suit up, and break that federation gunline up."

YOUR ORDERS?

the cruisers are look like they are in some kind of massed rocket attack formation.

>>7639867
If the cruise missles are probable to come from the NW, I figure the enemy carrier will plan to come in from the other side of the island.

THE CRUISE MISSILES ARE A DIVERSION!

Think about it. They all line up together. Better to protect themselves of course, but also so we can see them. Right out in the open. Of course, the missile strike is likely, but perhaps the silos are empty. I wouldn't take the risk of that though. We need the anti missile defense there, but we need some forces on the other sides of the island to make sure we don't get outflanked.

>>7639957

OSHI-!

This Anon knows what's going on!

>>7639867
Loan our F2's to the base defenders at the very least and get the Hilda ready to assist in AA.

I am now greatly conflicted. Z'gok's would be better to leave behind to help shoot down the missiles with their beam weapons but we'll deffinitely need good Amphibious suits to attack the Feddie Fleet...

Jolyne in the Zock and us Zol and Ruby in Acguys?

>>7639957
Adding to this. Perhaps any high security documents should be removed from the main facility to a secluded area, ready to be destroyed/rescued in case of an evacuation.

>>7639972
>>7639957
>Carrier attack from behind

FFFFF- Cant believe I didnt see that coming.

>>7640017
Don't worry, I'm a /t/actical/g/enius, here to keep an eye open for surprises.

Hopefully Apologized will notice this moment of clarity Dave just had and point it out to Timon.

Adding to the "diversion" theory. Are there any high profile targets here that the Federation would like to capture? The docks, fabrication facilities, etc? Hawaii is a great tactical location, hence why the US wanted it so badly. If the Feds were to flatten it, it would leave them with some badly damaged real estate.

If they blitz right in behind us though, then they get all of these nice buildings to use for themselves.

>>7639867
>Adding to this. Perhaps any high security documents should be removed from the main facility to a secluded area, ready to be destroyed/rescued in case of an evacuation.

That's standard procedure actually.

You bring up the possiblity of the carrier making some sort of flanking run. He considers it.

"I'll strengthen my air patrols around the island, maybe load the Gaw up for Anti-Sub and have it patrol around."

>Loan our F2's to the base defenders at the very least and get the Hilda ready to assist in AA.


He welcomes your assistance, though he's running short of pilots. He's down to rookies and engineers with aspirations.

WHAT IS YOUR PLAN FOR TAKING OUT THE CRUISERS?

>>7640074

i suspect it dosent mater. you pay to much attantion to the carrier, the crusers bombard the place, reverse it and youve got the same problem. and force splitting isnt wihout its problems.

let the timon point out this possbilty, then go and disrupt the crusers. the fast there broken up, the quicker we can deal with the air craft carrier.

>>7640074
Infrastructure can be rebuilt. Our dead bodies cant be. The Feddies can just fly in pre-fab structures after they've captured the place.

>>7639957
Damn, you're probably right.

Post all of the interceptors off to the east. We'll take our old Zaku and a Dodai, Zol takes a Dodai and his Gouf, Ruubens takes her Zaku and a Dodai, and we get ready to track the incoming Feddie planes back to the carrier.

The reason we're not taking Marine Suits is that those all have beam weapons that are going to be needed against the incoming missiles.

>>7639973
Good plan.

And I'm voting that we ignore the cruisers for now. Once we shoot down the missiles, they're impotent. Us, Zol and Ruubens hop into some Acguys and get ready to sink ourselves a carrier.

Alright, here's the situation. There are three locations.

Location 1: The NW coast. Anti Air units are here to attempt to shoot down oncoming cruise missiles in case of a massive launch.

Location 2: The opposite sides of the island to defend against possible sneak attacks while we're distracted by the cruisers.

Location 3: The cruisers themselves. They need to be dealt with ASAP. The sooner they're disrupted or sunk, the sooner Location 1 can be scrubbed and our forces can be spread more evenly.

>>7640157

You requisition your land MS back up, and you, Zolomon and Ruubens all load up and obtain Dodais. You will be flying with the Gaw.

What will the rest of your unit be doing, and in what?

>>7640168
With most of their entire fleet all together it would be suicide for a small force like just our squad to take on the entire group. We need to find that lone Carrier while the rest of our guys defend the island.

>>7640115
Sounds like we're getting to that point people have been talking about where we have more suits than we do capable pilots.

>>7640168
Have Jolyne in the Zock and Boone in the Grabulo move out at top speed to take the cruisers, accompanied by an Acguy or Gogg. We, Zol and Ruubens stay frosty for news of the Feddies trying to shove their Balls up our ass.

>>7640194
Zaku Cannon and Hilda on AA. It's what they're best at.

>>7640215
Well, locally that's just because we're dealing with a major Feddie attack that also includes one of their first large-scale MS deployments of the war. But yeah, it's also a general problem that Zeon should be starting to have over the next month or two.

And get Hovis back into the Hilda, setting it up for anti-air work. If there's any way we can quickly weld a beam cannon onto it or something, we do; otherwise, it's going to help knock down missiles.

Well let's load up on lots of bazookas, panzerfausts, maybe a mg, and lots of grenades to go take out that carrier.

>>7640218
And let's hold off on attacking the cruisers for now. They're bait. And we're sure as fuck not fish.

>>7640194

Rest of the unit will be on AA duty onshore.

Maybe put Jo in the Zock so that she can beamspam any inadvertent missile waves.

>>7640231
>Zaku Cannon and Hilda on AA. It's what they're best at.

You load up and begin your patrol. Every hundred meters, the Gaw drops a sonar buoy. An hour of this and the feds wont need boats, they'll just walk into hawaii using them as stepping stones.

"Still nothing." comes the report. You keep your eyes out regardless.

"Oh shit, look at that boss!" Zolomon calls out, pointing your attention to the sky, which is now filled with the contrails of incoming missiles. A wall of beams and AA rise up to meet them. Missiles are taken out in their tens, but for ever 20 missiles taken out, one get's through. You see explosions rock the base and the beach. So many missiles it almost seems like it's raining high ex, explosions are everywhere.
Then it's over.

Ten seconds later the second wave hits.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7640365
God damn.

It's a gamble, but we have to keep searching for that carrier.

>>7640382

Agreed.

>>7640365
Grit our teeth, keep searching. Expect that if the Feddie carrier attacks it's going to be timed to come in between the missile waves.

>>7640365

Bollocks.

Stick to the plan. We figured that missile spam was a decent possibility; we need to find that damn carrier and kill it. The people on base defence know their job, so we should do ours.

>>7640382
>>7640412
>>7640414
>>7640419
Agreed. If we don't find that fucking carrier, these brave soldiers died for nothing.

>>7640433
SINK THE BISMA- wait do we even know the name of the Carrier?

>>7640382

You keep searching for the carrier.

The barrage continues, they weather the second wave okay, although some trees are set on fire. But during the third wave, a pair of missiles get through and hit the beaches. You notice that the beam and flak thin out a little.

You keep searching. The gaw captain reports he's still seeing nothing, and asks if they should widen the search area?

The fourth wave has just arrived.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7640472
I think unofficially it's "That Fucking Carrier".

>>7640478
"DO WHAT YOU FUCKING HAVE TO! WE NEED TO FIND THAT SHIT FUCKING YESTERDAY!"

>>7640480
?

>>7640478
Yes, we should widen the search area!

At the same time, tell the Gaw that if its particle cannons have sufficient range, it should use them to help take down the missiles.

>>7640508

Best idea, Also, What the hell is the search part doing?

And you know what?

When we find That Fucking Carrier, let's not kill it.

That would be too easy.

Instead, we're going to stand on the flight deck, blow the elevators to keep them from bringing anything up from the hangars, and then point our beam cannons at the bridge and have them sail the latest addition to the Zeonic Navy right back into harbor.

It'll be a nice boost to morale.

>>7640508
>At the same time, tell the Gaw that if its particle cannons have sufficient range, it should use them to help take down the missiles.

"Range? Perhaps, but not the accuracy. Widening the search area now."

You widen the search area, dropping yet more sonar buoys. You cover and area roughly 500km in about an hour.

Were up to wave 22 by this point. Large plumes of smoke are curling up into the sky from the base.

Still nothing.

>>7640539
We're flying around waiting for a target basicly.

>>7640541
I was going to suggest something similar with some smaller cruisers towards the end of the battle, but sure let's just grab the god dammed Carrier. I'm sure we could make use of it.

>>7640542
God damn it! It had better fucking be out here! We'd better not be looking for nothing!

KEEP LOOKING!

KEEP FUCKING LOOKING WE WILL FIND THAT PIECE OF SHIT

>>7640542
Starting to get a bit worried here.

Send the Gaw back; the missiles seem to be thick enough that their particle beams should still be able to thin them out a bit.

The three of us keep looking for THAT FUCKING CARRIER.

>>7640580
>>7640541
These.

Also, Arty, I saw your decoy super-weapon plans and the following theoretical implementation discussion (the big posts of greentext) and I am impressed. If we can at least suggest this to someone we should.

>>7640541

I agree. expect the enemy air attack to any minute now.

>>7640581

Widen the search area out an additional 250km and patrol the region, popping down sonar buoys. Out here there's next to no minovsky spread, so radio and radar and work fine.
Searching the area takes an additonal half an hour.

The enemy bombardment has finally stopped at wave 26. You're too far away from Hawaii to see the damage.

"Uh, Liuetenant, I can't raise Hawaii on either radio or lasercomm. We've lost contact with hawaii base. Your orders?"

>>7640542

Don´t stop looking, We won´t stop until we find it....

WAIT! What if it takes ANOTHER flank, And have already started attacking the base?

>>7640631

head back to base. We can't lose this area.

>>7640630
Search for an additional 30 minutes. After that . . . I don't know . . . I just don't know

Oh fuck. Fall back to base, the air attack must have started already.

there are a couple of us, can we not send a team to deal with the crusers?

>>7640630
...the carrier isn't even here, is it? It either snuck away or actually got destroyed earlier and we didn't notice. Fuck.

Fuck this, get back to base.

>>7640630

GOD.
FUCKING.
DAMNIT.

Get Zol back to base, at the least. If there's going to be close combat there, we need him.

At the same time, if there's going to be an attack from this side, it's going to come in now that the missile assault is over and the chances of fratricide are reduced.

>>7640645
>>7640646

You search for an additional 30 minutes along the area and then return to base.

It's a scene of devestation and ruin. Not totally luckily, it looks like most of the hardened base has sruvived (though you do see a collapsed bunker here and there.) a large triage tent appears to be working overtime, and several barracks and other buildings are still on fire.

LOSS: RUUBENS ARRONAX'S FAKE MUSTACHE (MK1), 1 BOTTLE OF WHISKY.

Field engineers are scrambling about the place digging up rubble putting out the flames.

You land and are greeted by a man you haven't met.

"I'm Acting Commodore Haylon, I'm afraid an explosion took out Commodor Timon when he was in a forward bunker, trying to organise the ammo train. I'm afraid we've taken a bit of a battering, that barrage damaged or out and out destroyed abouy 50% of our MS forces, near completely depleted our solid ammuniton stores and blasted our communications bunker, we're basically cut off from the Subs and have no way of telling what their situation is. They could be overrun and retreating for all we know. Well, it could have been worse I suppose, at least with the AA defences it wasn't a total wipe. Go... just go do whatever the hell you want, I've got a base to put back together."

YOUR ORDERS?

>LOSS: RUUBENS ARRONAX'S FAKE MUSTACHE (MK1), 1 BOTTLE OF WHISKY.

BASTARD

>>7640759
>LOSS: RUUBENS ARRONAX'S FAKE MUSTACHE (MK1)

There will come a reckoning. They will pay.

>>7640759

Seems we messed up, Time to go punch a wall in frustration.

We done fucked up this time guys.

I come onto /tg/ and the FIRST thing I see is
>LOSS: RUUBENS ARRONAX'S FAKE MUSTACHE (MK1)

How could this come to pass, /tg/. HOW.

We fucked up. We got people killed. But god damn we were due. We were due.

Now it's time to avenge those dead. We're beaten. But not broken. Not by a long shot. Fuck those Fed assholes. They're dead.

>>7640759
>LOSS: RUUBENS ARRONAX
OH GOD NO! THE PLOT ARMOR COULDNT SAVE HER!

>'S FAKE MUSTACHE (MK1),
...oh. And why didnt we have the bottle on our person? It could have been useful for a number of medical situations.

>damaged or destroyed 50% of our MS forces

This here ^ This is a problem. How many of the pilots survived?
-does the base still have Minovsky capability?
-can we have a marine MS sit at the waterline and pass communications between the base and the subs?

i think we just suffered from the red light falacy. got so consumed with the mystery of the carrier that we forgot about the crussers.

there can only be one redemption. through vengence. without screwing the base over agine.

>>7640821
>>7640781
>>7640768
Have you noticed the MK1 addendum? That means there will be a MK2. A glorious handlebar number.

>>7640788

You return to the ruined remains of your barracks. It's a good thing you travel light.
And that you carry the USB with your essay's with you.

You decide to try and go find the rest of your team. You find Jolyne fairly quickly.

"Hovis... his Hildolfr took a near direct hit. Amazingly it's not a total writeoff, but it's out of action for the forseeable future. A shrapnel fragment pierced the cockpit. The doctors had to amputate his leg... He's out of action for the forseeable future as well sir."

At this point, alarm sirens go off.

"NOW HEAR THIS! NOW HEAR THIS! ENEMY SUBMERSIBLE CARRIER HAS REVEALED ITSELF AND IS LAUNCHING BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS! ALL AIR ASSETS TO LAUNCH! THE FEDERATION FLEET IS IN FULL AND DIRECT ASSAULT! ALL FORCES MAN YOUR STATIONS! ALL MS PILOTS TO THEIR MOBILE SUITS!"

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7640837

MK II was the one Garma stole.

And i think this loss is acceptable, After all if we were all "FLAWLESS VICTORY" we would be in SEED Destiny not UC 0079.

>>7640847
SUBMERSIBLE CARRIER!?

THE FUCK!?

THOSE FUCKERS! THEY BAMBOOZLED US!

>>7640759
We do the last thing that the Feddies are expecting us to do, of course!

WE ATTACK.

>>7640847

... GET THAT FUCKER! FOR HOVIS! FOR TIMON!

>>7640847
"We'll throw him a party later." Cock our pistol. "I don't know about you guys. But I feel like killing some bastards."

what do we have?

we have to take down that carrier. do we still access to our marine suits? becous that might be the best way to attack it.

>>7640847
Oh, you have got to be fucking shitting me.

FUCKING SHITTING ME!

How the fuck did we not find the fucking thing?

Well, only one thing to do: punch things in frustration. Things like THAT FUCKING CARRIER.

>>7640878
It's too late for that. They're launching planes already. We need to take to the sky.

SUBMERSIBLE CARRIER APPEARING OUT OF NOWHERE?

That would take some sort of tactical geniu... CREEEEEEEEED!

orders: Get in the marine MSes, raise hell.

ps: fuck! Hovis!

>>7640869
>>7640873

You all dash outside, your Mobile suits are still waiting on the tarmac, and there might be a couple of Marine MS without pilots at the beach (althought that might be a bit of raffle.)

ZOLOMON, JOLYNE AND RUUBENS ARE ALL WITH YOU.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7640847

... ... ...

Oh. hell naw.

That's it. I'm ready to rape me some feddies!

Apologized, I just want to say, that this has been the best Zeonquest in a while.

Mostly because of the quicker, shorter posts by you, giving us the opportunity to make more choices. We all feel more involved in the story right now, I'm sure.

I know this may sound a bit stupid but depending on how deep the ocean surrounding this Island may be could 'that Damn Carrier' be submersible?

We've already fought Feddie drill battleships it isn't an incredible leap of faith to think they might have something that can; surface, vomit planes and the sink back into the sea.

Also we don't know the Feddie Balls' land based capabilities.

"Jolyne! Zolomon! Go get your asses in a marine suit. We're gonna try to hold off these fucking planes for as long as we can. You two need to tear that god damn carrier apart!"

>>7640890
"Well, looks like we finally found THAT FUCKING CARRIER. And now we're going to kill it, and any Feddies in our way. We don't come back home until that thing is gone."

>>7640919
Your revelation is a bit late.

>>7640919
Well, gee, that might have been a useful insight BEFORE THE BASE WAS BLOWN TO PIECES!

7640919 here,

DAMNIT Next time I'm posting regardless of courtesy!!

I fucking KNEW IT!

>>7640922

Agreed.

"Anyone with a land MS and any damn training... suit up! We got feddies to kill!"

>>7640922
>"Jolyne! Zolomon! Go get your asses in a marine suit. We're gonna try to hold off these fucking planes for as long as we can. You two need to tear that god damn carrier apart!"

<Ruubens> What am I? Chopped liver?

>>7640960

"Ruby, you're with us. We gotta blacken the sky with out ackack." Time to see if Dualing Mag Cannons is a good idea or not.

>"Jolyne! Zolomon! Go get your asses in a marine suit. We're gonna try to hold off these fucking planes for as long as we can. You two need to tear that god damn carrier apart!"

You order Jolyen and Zolomon to the beaches whilst you and Ruubens remount your Dodai riding F2s.

You quickly take to the skies. You see about 8 Dopps accompany you, and a couple of J types, also riding on Dodais. But that's it.

You scan the area, and can soon spot the Carrier, it looks like the same carrier you saw yesterday. In the distance you can see the enemy fleet advancing. Mostly destroyers, the occaisional cruiser.
Then there's the planes, about 15 Saberfish, another 15 Flymanta's and 5 Don Escargot's, currently dropping depth charges into the sea.

YOUR TARGET PRIORITIES?

>>7640986
Our target? Whoever gets in our way.

>>7640986

TOP PRIORITY: REVENGE!

>>7640986
Just start blasting planes left and right. If you can possibly get the ones droping depth charges first do so.

Go for whatever stuff gets in our way, give priority to taking out the ones dropping charges.

Also I think the thread has hit autosage

>>7641035
It has, but we're not stopping until we're done.

>>7640986
Saberfish and Don Escargots.

We are literally going to fly right through them, using our Boxer Shield, Heat Hawks and head vulcans to rip as many as possible to shreds.

And then we head straight for the carrier, because if we wait to smash the entire raiding force the fucking thing might try to submerge again and run. THAT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

Kill everything!

We have a heart filled of Righteous Indignation, sorrow, and hateful rage!

On broadcast: "Men of Zeon! Will we let our brothers die in vain? Will we let our enemy take our island!? I say no! I say we send the feddies packing to the depths of hell! For the Commodore! SIEG ZEON!"

>>7641060
And our message for the Feddies:
. . .
. . .
. . .
"Die."

>>7641000

You start shooting at the air forces, Cutting a swathe with your 90mil. You are all quickly embroiled in bloody dogfights. You take down two saberfishes, and use the unaerodynamic qualities of your zaku to flip yourself over and take out the pair of fly-manta's on your six. One explodes, the other loses an engine and ends up in the drink.
Your Dodai stalls and you use your onboard thrusters to right yourself and restart it's engines by angling into a dive. You use the opourtunity to toss some crackers onto the deck of the carrier beneath you. You're not sure how much damage they'll do though.

In between the carnage you think you spot Ruubens staying low, attacking upwards, forcing the enemy to check their altitude when attacking. Flak turrets on the SubCarrier craze around her, but their caliber is unlikey to do her F2 much harm.

You see a Zaku lose it's Dodai and manage to land somewhat gracefully in the sea. It's pretty deep here, but hopefully he canuse his thrusters to make it to a shallower area before his suit cracks, or a MSM or sub can pick him up.

Missiles fly around you and manage to take out three more heavy fighters persuing a Dopp. You don't do it in time to save him, but at least you get his revenge.

>>7641050
Once we deal with the planes we should Heat Hawk the Carrier's hull somewhere so she can't dive.

>>7641073
"My name is David Lister. You killed our Hildolfr. Prepare to die."

>>7641060
>Righteous Indignation
>sorrow
>hateful rage
Burning Finger?

>>7640986
Target the bombers first.

LAND ON THAT CARRIER! RIP AND TEAR! RIP AND TEAR! REVENGE FOR OUR BROKEN SPIRITS! SPILT BLOOD FOR SPILT BLOOD!

>>7641076

We kill any remaining Escargots, then we land on the carrier and tear it apart with our Zaku hands. Well, with our Heat Hawks.

>>7641119
Indeed.

>>7641119

You take down a couple of bombers and then dive off your dodai onto the Carrier. The defensive turrets swivel to meet you but you make a dash towards the rear of the carrier, where the sealed elevator lives. You pull out your heat hawk.

Bullets ping off the heavy deck plating, as several Saberfish fire their heavy guns at you from above.

They then explode as a set of Sea to Air missiles explode in their close vicinity.
Up from the depths, like some sort of antedivulean sea creature, rises forth the Grablo.
You hack into the armoured plate of the elvator trying to get purchase as the other soldiers cover you.

Then the Grablo does something very impressive.

It reaches up, it's arms festooned with harpoons, it's hull pounded and cracked and hauls itself up open the deck, the entire vessel tips forward as the MA uses it's arms to climb forwards in front of you.

It's a vaguely horrifying sight.

"Need help, opening that door... boy?" comes the call from within it.

>>7641201
WHo the hell is pilotting that thing?

>>7641201
"Anything you can do would be much appreciated."

>>7641201
"Fuck yeah." New thread? This ones seems dangerously close to being purged.

>>7641201

Who?

>>7641201
Well if you think you can spare the time.

>>7641230
Oh wait, nevermind. We're only on page 4.

IT's giant claws descend either side of you, and tear into the deck, with a squeal of hydraulics it tears the door clear off.

You take the oppourtunity to lean over the side and fire off your underslung Grenade Launcher. Then you toss all of your remaining grenades inside. Explosions follow.
And keep following.

Fuck you must have hit a vital fuel line, no wonder it was so well armoured.

You look for your dodai, you find it. Spiraling down into the drink after getting shot down.

"Need a ride? Hop on the back, there are Marine MS relieving me underwater anyway."

You take him up on the offer and leap on his back. Holding tight the brown MA leaps off and into the sea as the Carrier explodes behind you.

KILLS: 1 Submersible Carrier.

>>7641201
"Strauss! Good to see you again. If you have a spare hand to lend I could most definitely use the help."

>>7641259
Radio out on a loudspeaker if we have one, as loudly as we can, "YOU HEAR THAT!? YOU HEAR THAT YOU FEDDIE SCUM!? THAT WAS YOUR SHIP! MAKE PEACE WITH YOUR GOD! YOU'RE ABOUT TO MEET HIM!"

>>7641251

Somebody best ARCHIVE THIS SHIT NOW!

>>7641259

".... Any enemy of them feddie freaks is my ally, Im David Lister of the Nachtmaren Unit, You are?"

>>7641287
It's already archived. I keep updating it regularly.

MOAR!

MOAR!

>>7641290
We were told the pilots' name the previous day but I'm having trouble finding it.

>>7641327
Flanagan, assuming it's still him.

GOD DAMN, THIS HAS BEEN THE BEST ZEON QUEST IN AGES!

>>7641327
Flanagan Boone.

And as soon as we get back to base, we hop into a spare Marine MS and head back out. There are still Feddies left to kill, after all.

I'm still betting that it's Strauss in disguise. Just you wait.

>>7641343
Absolutely.

There's only one truth in Zeonquest. By war's end, David Lister will be a cold shell of a man. Ravaged by the cold uncaring caress of death on the battlefield. He'll keep everything inside.

>"Im David Lister of the Nachtmaren Unit, You are?"

"I know who you are. I am Captain Flanagan Boone. No relation, in case you're wondering. I am, aside from the only licensed MA pilot on the island, the head of intelligence for the Pacific Area. Would you like to know what happened to the subs after the missile barrage? Where you were chasing your wild geese?"

"Uh."

"Oh good. The ending of the barrage signalled a simultaneous assault by the fleet's submarine forces as well as a large contingent of fish-eyes. Without MArine MS, our subs were largely uncovered aside from myself. We've lost five of our eight submarines, to only two of theirs. Our naval forces reserve is essentially destroyed, this is going to effectively signal the end of our dominance over the sea routes within the pacific for the next month at least."

"Ah well, it looks like the destroyers are retreating. It looks like that without their carriers, their battleship, and after depleting their cruisers, the fleet has almost certainly shot their bolt. If we had the forces I'd suggest finishing them off, but..."

"Ah well, tommorow is another day..."

TO BE CONTINUED

>>7641388
Guess he'll just have to take comfort in providing Zeonic dickings to Ruubens and Kycillia.

>>7641397

...
Wow we really screwed the pooch this time.

>>7641429

Yeah. Midway might be worse then it was in Canon...

>>7641397
Well fuck. It really wasn't Strauss.

Oh, and we messed up. Yeah, that really sucks. Damnit.

>>7641429
Quite. We need to get patched up and resume wrecking some shit at the first available opportunity.

Who all is for hunting down as much of the Feddie fleet as possible? Jaburo cant be taken if we dont rule the waves.

>>7641478

Here her!

Well, there's an incentive to go and find out more about this Newtype shit: if we could sense what the other guy is going to do, we wouldn't have to worry as much about shit like this.

>>7641397

Sounds like it is angst time for David, Anyway, We must keep in mind, there WAS a Carrier, We just didn´t anticipate that it would be submergable, Making it pretty legit fuck up.
Of course, No one will listen to that so we should accept any punishment we get.

>>7641512
This will be one of the stains on our record. It was an unwinnable situation. Those cruise missiles were coming down, and we anticipated it. Our forces shot down a shitload of them, and we tried our best to find a ghost in the middle of the ocean. Our egos got to us.

>>7641512
Well, to be honest, we should have been able to figure out that the fucking thing was submersible just from having seen it once. There are some pretty noticeable differences between submarines and non-submarines.

But yeah, this does not exactly go in our personal "win" column.

And to make matters worse, the 603rd is going to be showing up with the Aegir, they're going to want a test pilot, and we probably can't duck out of it now.

>>7641534
Well, no. The real issue is that we were right, there WAS a fucking carrier, and we just couldn't find the goddamn thing.

Which makes it even worse.

OMAKE

COMMENTS SENT TO HIGH COMMAND (SIDE 3) AT SOME POINT IN AUGUST.

... and whilst a little paranoia is healthy, I feel that near constant exposure to federation experimental works has given Lt. Lister an overactive imagination with regards to his estimations of the Federation technological abilities.
To this end, I would advise against taking his claims of Federation MS research to the letter. Certainly he has shown clear proof of the existence of such efforts, but it is unlikely to bear fruit for at least another 6 months in my estimation.
This is why, although many parts of his proposed Combine Arms Doctrine are interesting, I don't believe it a neccessity to adopt any of his suggestions on Anti-MS combat across the entire armed forces, aside from several specialist units.

It is also for this reason that I deny the Posthumous Rear Admiral Timons request for a field promotion to Lt. Commander for David Lister.

Signed [CLASSIFIED]

>>7641534
Not so much ego as "26 waves of missiles? They can fit that many onto a cruiser? Shit."

>>7641541
You know... I think we might be able to use that thing to our advantage. What happened to it in cannon?

>>7641583
Of course, this memo is likely to go down swimmingly when Char finds the Gundam in a few weeks.

>>7641583
Motherfucker

>>7641592
The 603rd was testing it. So the one thing I can pretty much guarantee happened to it in canon? THE TEST PILOT DIED.

>>7641583

FUUUUU-

We fucked up badly!

Like... really badly! SHIIIIIT!

>>7641583
DOH!

>>7641583
Well, fuck.

Think we should start seeing about getting a suite on Axis ready? It looks like we're going to need it.

>>7641583

Great, Now we will get a reputation as crazy person... the BAD kind of crazy.... Not AWESOME CRAZY.

>>7641583
That makes no sense. We just proved that they are technologically advanced, what with turning an aircraft carrier into a submarine.

How much do you want to bet that it was Garma who sent that?

>>7641600
We can only hope it's still floating around somewhere. In the meantime let's PWN the Federal wet navy and re-make a name for ourselves!

>>7641667
Unlikely, simply because we know that he has a fairly realistic appraisal of Zeon's chances.

I'm going to bet it was our buddy Flanagan.

>>7641667
Not too much. I'd put my money of Incognito.

>>7641681
Flanagan doesn't have the kind of rank to decide these things.

>>7641664
And for that matter, WE WERE RIGHT ABOUT THE GODDAMN CARRIER. We just couldn't find the fucking thing!

>>7641691
Do you think it's likely a spy would have that kind of pull?

>>7641583
THEY SHOULD'VE LISTENED! THEY SHOULD'VE!

>>7641708
Yes. I've had a bad feeling about him for awhile now.

>>7641708
More likely than Garma being so optimistic about Zeon maintaining its technological lead, especially when he got to see one of those unpleasant Feddie surprises first-hand.

>>7641708
Yes. He's quite skilled and we don't know his actual rank. I think he's fairly high on the chain of command.

>>7641720
Oh god, he's Scirocco isn't he?

Now it's time for David Lister to become a drunk, get stripped of his knighthood, and be busted back down to private.

>>7641732
No, now it's time for David Lister to take advantage of some enforced shore leave to go check out that Flanagan Institute thing. And we'll take the rest of the team with us.

>>7641583

RESPONSE TO SAID LETTER FROM UNKNOWN SOURCE.

Captain Kilroy says hello.

In fact he says a lot of things. Interesting things.

See you soon, Rear Admiral.

The Nowhere Man.

>>7641695

Mental Note: Flanagan Boone is douche. As the officer of intelligence he quite clearly "forgot" to mention the submergable function of the carriers, But he also takes every oppurtunity to insult and act like a ass to us.

>>7641757
We never even got to take Elaine swimming. This vacati- I mean, assignment, sucked.

>>7641765

... ... ... ... ...

THERE'S A TRAITOR A FOOT!

I SMELLS ME A FEDDIE LOYALIST!

>>7641765
Well, what do we have here?

Although I suppose a Feddie spy in Zeon High Command diverting attention away from Feddie MS makes a lot of sense.

>>7641765
Wait. Oh, I get it! This response is from Incognito! Who must still be interrogating Kilroy. So now we just need to figure out who the Rear Admiral is. And apparently Incognito suspects him/her.

Well good. As much as I dislike him, Incognito is not someone I'd want to turn traitor.

>>7641765
Oh shit! So the guy who sent the first letter is presumably a traitor trying to make Zeon lax about feddie MS development and stuff? Do you guys think I'm getting the right idea here?

>>7641816
Well, who under Garma's command that isn't Char would have some reason to want to fuck Zeon over?

>>7641769
i'ts not like 3 more suits would've made too much difference. perhaps up to the 12th or 13th volly but still.
it's almost like he wanted to sacrifice the base to protect the subs. damned if we did, damned if we didn't.

>>7641825
I believe so.

I want to meet this Nowhere Man. I think he and David would have a very interesting conversation.

>>7641825
Yes.

>>7641836
I have no idea. It could be anyone really. People turn against their own side for many reasons. Blackmail, riches, honest belief that it's the right thing to do, revenge... the list goes on. But there can't be too many Rear Admirals.

Apologized, I swear to God man, this might be my favorite Zeonquest thread yet.

Am I the only person who get's that the Rear Admiral is Kycilia Zabi ?

>>7641853
Well, actually, we might have made a difference if we'd attacked the missile cruisers before they finished launching.

>>7641902
Not everyone here knows Gundam. Myself included.

>>7641902
Probably not, but you guys are in the minority it would seem. I for one don't know who whoever you're talking about is.

On a slightly different note just some feedback for you apologised. This was the best chapter of Zeonquest we've had for a while, mostly thanks to you going with shorter updates more frequently giving us more places we can give suggestions and thus feel more involved.

I would like it if we got more time to interact with everyone in our group outside of battle, this was a very strong feature of the quest early on but over time we've been seeing less and less of it. I think this is why Strauss and Zolomon feel the most like people to me, and everyone else feeling less so in order of introduction (possibly why Shiro didn't get a great reaction in general). Jolyne is close behind Strauss and Zol, Ruubens is alright but not as good, Hovis and Shiro barely exist as people on my radar.

>>7641902

WAT!?

>>7641902
Yes, you were, and fuck, that's going to be unpleasant. I mean, if you're right, then our Space Forces AND our Newtype R&D department are going to need new commanders soon.

Dozle, I guess.

>>7641910
If we'd left the Marine MS with their Subs we would have been amazingly well off.

But we didnt.

Oh well, how were we supposed to know how our meddling was going to change the timeline?

>>7641902
Wait... isn't she the one some people have been shipping David with?

>>7641923
Well, we also haven't been getting much downtime recently.

I suspect that after Midway we're going to have a few weeks in-game in which not much happens, though, so that'll be our chance to start working on character development.

That way, we'll care when Amuro kills everyone around us.

>>7641955

That's right. We're quickly reaching Quirky Miniboss stage, aren't we?

Amuro takes out all of Nachtmaren Unit... some big speech... even bigger battle then before...

And we die crying hot tears of hate, while Amuro gets cheered on for defeating El Muerto Gigante.

Snot nose punk! He'll probably think we're just another baby eating Zeon!

>>7641952
More to the point, she's a member of the ruling Zabi family, the CinC of the Space Forces side of the Zeon military, and the primary backer of the Flanagan Institute (the people researching Newtype stuff for Zeon).

If she's a traitor, then that would go a long way towards explaining exactly why Zeon was so fucked.

>>7641991
Well on the plus side, it means my OTP are closer to being canon. Mu-ah-hahaha.

>>7641955
We're in forced downtime. Sitting in a bar with Zolomon, Jolyne and Elaine. "I can't wait for this fucking war to end, man."

"Yeah."

"I've had my fill of killing."

"Yeah." Sip. Sip. Sip.

Suddenly a soldier runs in. "Lieutenant Lister!? Lieutenant David Lister!? I'm looking for David Lister!"

"I'm Lister." Sip.

"Sir! Zeon high command radioed! There's some, some kind of Fed mobile suit tearing all kinds of shit up!"

". . . Yeah?"

"Your unit's been reactivated sir! You're to hunt him down."

"That so?" Finishes the bottle.

"This guy, this Amuro kid, he's a fucking, monster! They said he's got over a hundred mobile suit kills already!"

Stands up. "Take me to my suit."

>>7641947
the subs would have been fine, but the base would be gone. unless your saying have the marine ms perform beamspam from out at sea.

>>7641991

Wait, I don´t think Rear Admiral(Possibly Kycillia) is the traitor, I think [Classified] is.

After all, Kycillia strikes me as a daddys girl, And she was going to back her dad up if negotiations went to hell in the 3rd movie.

>>7642027
Right, but the second message (presumably written by Incognito) was sent to and addressed the Rear Admiral, who we believe to be Kycillia.

>>7642011
>>7641979

I can just see it! Our suit just floating there.. no arm.. no leg.

"You little snot nosed punk... you think you can beat me after killing all I hold dear!? I'm El Muerto Gigante! I'm Death itself!"

Cue Amuro's plot armor, easily defeated, warnings and klaxons going off. Exsplosion imminent.

"I'm comin' home, Ruby... I'm comin' home!"

>>7642075
I'm not sure if The Nowhere Man is Incognito. I'm thinking he's Incognito's boss.

>>7642101

Well, incognito is practically No-Man, the name Ulysses' gave the Cyclops, so... it makes sense.

>>7642083
MANLY TEARS!

>>7642101
if my memory serves, that's what incognito means. it's either that or something really similar.

>>7642083
David never seemed very into the whole grandeur of it. I'd imagine it more like Clive Owen's guy from The Bourne Identity, then Bourne at the end of Ultimatum.

We're floating up in space. Life support low. Amuro's got us trained with his fucking . . . laser rifle or whatever. We're down to a fucking heat hawk. "Ha. Hahahaha."

He's all pissy and angsty, "WHAT ARE YOU LAUGHING AT!?!"

"Good luck kid."

". . ."

"See if you can handle this shit better than I did." Pick up speed, choking out the words in the low oxygen. "I'm comin' Ruby. I'm comin'!" Charge with the heat hawk. Get blasted away.

>>7642027
>>7642075
Well, are there any other Rear Admirals that we know by name in the Zeon forces? Who would care about this sort of thing?

Admittedly, Kycillia isn't likely to be a traitor to her dad. But against Gihren, I can totally see it. And let's face it, in terms of general strategy Gihren is calling the shots at the moment, or at least he was when the war started.

>>7642169
Unless we've manned Garma up enough for him to take control of his shit.

>>7642169
Then we'll just have to hope that that changes. Or that it's a different Rear Admiral.

>>7642139
Nah. We throw the fucking Heat Hawk, straight at his face.

In the time it takes him to shoot it, we grapple his Super Prototype ass and make our reactor core go critical.

Remember, at the end of the One Year War novelizations, AMURO DIED. Let's see if we can find a way to make that canonical again.

I CAN NOT WAIT UNTIL NEXT FRIDAY!

This session of Zeonquest was perfect.

More chances for us to make decisions. More emotional. We fucked up and we had to face the consequences, as we still will, making it more real.

GOD DAMN WAS IT PERFECT!

>>7642231
Apologized, if you read this, you must, MUST, run the rest of this quest just like you did tonight. Don't get lost in it like you did before. Keep it light and fast.