Sieg Zeon!

After a battle in Chihuahua followed by taking on some Mobile Suits in Don Martin, you are currently fighting the enemy forces laying siege to the city of Nuevo Laredo.

Well, not JUST you, there's a full battalion of Mobile Suits here as well, plus armour and infantry.

Yesterday, battle was joined and you quickly managed to take advantage of the enemy revealing their heavy battleship to you by punching through the enemy lines and taking them both out. Most of the enemy attackers pulled back, however over the intercom your recon specialist Calvin Hobart relayed the following:

>"Good Job Commander, most of the attacks are now pulling back! However were getting reports that an enemy raiding team has broken through the defensive line and is causing havoc in the defence zone. What are your orders?"

Well?

YOUR ORDERS?

>>8563525
So they thought it'd be a good idea to send a small force right into our most heavily defended place? Wow, feddie tactics these days seem... lacking. Get all units to converge on the raiding team. Jolyne and Hovis should get there first, right? Since we left them at the edge of the line when we went for the first Big Tray, and they should still be there. So have them move to engage, while we hoof it.

I ask:

"Any recon on the enemy raiding team? Coordinates?"

What sort of raiding team? Infantry?

We do still have those Hooverbikes with rocket launchers around, don't we? I'd say it's time to put them to some use.

>>8563525
Find out if it's to the north or to the south of us. If it's to the North they may be trying to make a run for the bridge to secure it.

Also get back to the defensive line a do a quick check on our Suit damage and ammo stores.

>>8563525

Send an elite squad of Dave Lister and cohorts to deal with this raiding party!

>>8563565

Their last known position was after they took out an AA camp roughly 2 KM east of the defence line. They were able to break through after eenmy Depp Roggs dropped cluster bombs and high explosives to breach the defense wall and to spread chaos.

It's believed that they are currently operating within the area that I have marked.

>>8563681
Oh hey, that's close to where Hovis and Jolyne are. Have them go in with the local forces to take them out. Us, Zol and Elaine make best speed back too, though with any luck by the time we get there the others will have taken care of the threat.

>>8563553
It's the same thing we constantly do.

>>8563607

To quote yesterday's thread:

>The final prong is a force of high speed light vehicles mounting unguided AT and A-MS weapons, they appear to be trying to breach the defences with supporting bombers escorted by TinCods so that this raiding force can breach the defensive line and assault the positions behind. So far, the 2 MS Squads and a squadron of Magella's aren't letting them but the Bombing is taking it's toll.

>>8563681
Get back to the defensive line, a do a quick check on our Suit damage and ammo stores then CHARGE!

>>8563707
Yeah, but we're main characters!

>>8563756

Perhaps they have developed their own main characters? That would essentially make this war a Main Character arms race.

>>8563717
Alright. Use our Artillery to contain them as the Nachtmaren moves to encircle and destroy them. Also, if we pass any friendly units on the way see if we can't grab some fresh ammo for our 'zooks. Get Calvin to start relaying targeting telemetry to Jol and Hovis.

As for the Air assets, can we rotate one of our Dopp squadrons to hit them as we move to engage? Dopps should be able to deal with Tin Cods, and that could easily mean us destroying or forcing off those Depp Roggs. If not, drop some Arty into their formations to at least disrupt them while we deal with this Raiding Unit.

>>8563756
>>8563783
Last time on Feddie Quest!

>>8563783
My god...

>>8563850
Don't worry, we're animated better.

>>8563753

With the Federation forces retreating you're able to make it back over the wall realitvely quickly and unharmed.

Once over the wall you take stock of your ammo and damage.
You: MS-09 Dom (Light Damage) (4 Shots left in your Bazooka, no reloads, no panzerfausts. Near full ammo for 90mm)
Elaine: MS-09 Dom (Moderate damage, right arm non functional, she took an artillery shell to the arm whilst trying to zip past it, the shoulder pauldron took most of it. same ammo status as you.)
Zolomon: MS-07B-3 (Light damage, 50% Gatling Ammo remaining. 100% Triple-35mm ammo)

Jolyne: MS-09K2 (No damage, 75% shoulder cannon ammo remaining)
Hovis: Rhino (No damage, 90% ammo remaining.)

There is an ammo dump within 5 minutes travel, and a repair bay at 10 minutes. Delays will widen the search area however.

Pssst, there's a Gundam with the Feddie team.

>>8563921
Head in now. We're going against light vehicles and fighters, we probably won't need to use the bazookas much, and time is of the essence.

>>8563921
Can we get Elaine to give us an estimate on how long a basic field repair on her right arm would be?

>>8563921
Ok, repairing an arm would take awhile, longer than we probably have to contain the feddies atm. Elaine should be able to handle combat against light vehicles one handed as long as she just uses the 90mm.

As long as we dont run into anything overly large we should be fine with our MG ammo stores.

>>8563921

Have Elaine give unload her zook and give us the rounds thats 30 seconds work at most. 8 rounds (7 if getting the chambered one out is impossible) will be plenty for infantry when we have a full 90mm.

Aside from that send Elaine to the repair bay to get her arm operational while David and Zol go hunting.

Also Calvin's top priority is to get Hovis and Jol are fire soloution on the raiders even at the expence of the front line arty fire.

>>8564001

That should be fine, the Dom's arms are designed to take the recoil of a 330mm Bazooka after all.

So head into the combat zone now, no reloading?

>>8563921
Could we get Calvin to run Ammo to us from the Dump on his Dodai while we move to investigate the target area? If he can get to the dump and back to us before we make it there, it seems like an idea worth doing.

>>8564061
Sounds good. But get Calvin spotting for Hovis and Jol maybe move them a little closer to the area in question.

>>8564001

Us and Zolomon are more than enough for the raiders with the calvin spoting for artilary.

Let Elaine get her arm fixed while we hunt small fry so that she can fight properly when apologised enevitably throws a gundam at us (fucking bandit!)

>>8564013

Again retrieve zook ammo from elaine if we can if not strait there.

Also can Hovis carry spare zook ammo for us on the rhino? Might come in handy later on.

>>8564061
Yeah, head in now.

>>8564124

Okay, you can have Calvin run you ammo from his Dodai or you can have him spotting for the artillery teams.

Also, I don't think that strapping high explosives to the outside of the Rhinoceros is a good idea.
Or one that Hovis is likely to go for considering that explosive rockets too close to his person is how he lost the Hildorfr and his leg.

Now, here's the local area map, as stated before the blue area represents the suspected possible area that the enemy could be in, or made it too.
The red stars represent Flak Nests, the one crossed out is the one that the Raiding party have just taken out.
The shield symbols represent redoubt areas, trenches and bunkers that the defending forces on the wall are to retreat back to if their position becomes untenable.

The towers are the artillery sites.

>>8564237
Have him spot for artillery teams, but primarily he should be looking for the enemy forces and relating that to us and all friendly forces so that we can find and take out the last of the feddies.

*relaying

>>8564237
Sounds like we should head for the center artillery site before the feddies can hit it. We cant be losing those guns.

>>8564237

You incidentally will be coming in from the north.
As for terrain, it's a mix between light and heavy tree cover scored with dirt roads. The northern half is heavy tree cover, the southern half light tree cover although the southern hald does have the occaisional gorge and depression that makes aerial spotting difficult.

If the enemy are using the roads they'll be easy to spot simply from their dust trails, although it IS 4pm and as the light gets worse from herein, those trails will get harder to spot.

>>8564237
If all we have to deal with are light vehicles, then we don't need him to run us ammo. Do we want to take the chance that they slipped something else in?

Now, I'm off to dinner, I'll be back in about 30mins.

>>8564286
Well even if they did, Elaine and us still have 4 bazooka rounds each, which should be enough.

>>8564286
They'd need some hefty punch to break through our lines like this, so I'd be there's at least one enemy MS team in there. Most likely Ground GMs, but I wouldn't discount more of the Ground Gundams somewhere in their roster here.

>>8564350
Not necessarily. Remember, they had bombers break holes in the walls and fortifications.

>>8564350
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>>8563681

No GMs were used in the breaching of these fortifications.

>>8564407
Doesn't necessarily mean an enemy MS team didn't slip through the gap in our lines, but the general trend is for sending Calvin to spot for Arty. It's a sound decision either way, and if there is something that actually requires serious force to deal with, he can potentially spot it before we get there, and we can engage accordingly.

>>8564549
sending calvin for recon is definitely the best idea. If we do run into enemy MS without warning we should at least have a hefty speed advantage to regroup and rearm/summon help if necessary.

>>8564549
I know, I just get kinda annoyed when whenever something happens everyone gets all crazy about "It's a gundam!" when we have no real reason to believe that to be the case.

>>8564656
The moment we stop expecting a gundam is the moment one of our friends gets a close-up death scene as they are turned to ash.

>>8564763
But it's completely meta!

>>8564763
Yes, but the gundam can do that whether we expect it or not, and david already has enough paranoia without more being added

>>8564791

As long as bandit is alive, our paranoia about that death machine is completely legit. ... I should have agreed when you wanted to shoot him as he bailed last time, huh?

>>8564656
I'm not expecting The Gundam at all, but it still pays to be cautious. We know the Federation has limited production runs of MS by now, and this is a major offensive after all. We've reached the point in the war when we should start expecting enemy MS in every major engagement we take part in.

>>8564842
Yes, you should have!

>>8564844
And we have faced enemy MS in this battle, back at Don Martin.

>>8564878
Look, it's still pritty early in the war as far as Fed MS go. We're probably taken out most/all of the regular MS assigned to this particular region.
Would I be suprised if we ran into another GM team? Not especially but that's starting to become less likely unless they've pulled them away from other parts of the front.

>>8564928
That's what my logic is at this point. Of course, there's still the strong possibility that each of the other two prongs has an MS team, so we might want to radio the Mad Angler unit and whatever city the center prong is going for.

Anyway, with the support team behind you and Calvin providing recon, you move south to try and intercept the federation raiding forces.

You enter the zone on the look out for any enemy movements.

"No sign of enemy forces so far, all friendly forces and encampments in this area are in high alert and I'm linked in with most of them." Calvin reports.

The area here is heavily wooded, troops can easily wait in ambush if you aren't careful.
A friendly AA encampment and Redoubt zone will be coming up on your left shortly.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>8565115
How close are our emplacements to the woods? I'm considering having our forces burn down the forest to deny them the cover. Continue South, angling to our right a bit.

>>8565115
Cautious advance. Have Hovis and Jol ready to drop Arty on anywhere we take fire from in an instant's notice. Move in along our lines, then head into the gap near the area where we lost the AA unit. If they haven't attacked another of our camps yet, they're probably operating in that zone.

We did leave the Torso of the captured/damaged Gundam with our Ship heading for California right?

As for dealing with this tactical situation, while encircling them and pinning their force down is a good idea don't forget the strategic picture! It's just a small force ment to distract / delay us from their main force. I'm not even sure that we should be dealing with it.
Then again it's getting dark and we might need some rest/repair time.
Don't want this turning into another hawaii goose chase for the entire night.

>>8565115
Can you mark on the map where Hovis and Jolyne are?

>>8565198
We already took out their main force, and everything else is retreating. These are the only enemy units left.

>>8565188
This.

>one of our friends gets a close-up death scene

I would look forward to that. Doesn't have to be death by Gundam though.

>>8565233
True, but we could be harassing their retreat, knocking out a couple of dozen tanks would be worth more than these light attack forces.

Then again, our forces are tired and we are low on ammo. Crushing this little annoyance with overwhelming force quickly is a good idea either way.

>>8565320
That, plus if we ignore them they might make it behind our lines and then they'd be able to raise some real hell.

>>8565338

Also their main forces might be regroupring rather than retreating. And fighting on two fronts doesn't go well for Germans, I'd guess that includes Space Germans.

>>8565188

You pass by the AA posts and redoubt, they report no signs of the enemy.
You cautiously head south through the trees. Though providing excellent cover, travelling through them with wheeled vehicles would still be trecherous, slowing the speed that the raiding force could go.

You eventually come to a crossroads. You cant see any movement either way, and there's still no sign of the enemy from the air either.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>8565381
Eh, even if they do regroup, they've lost their artillery support and a bunch of their tanks. Considering that we don't have reports of more bomber attacks I think it's safe to assume that the Depp Rogs have been taken out too, so if they do come back once we finish off these raiders we shouldn't have too much trouble.

>>8565408
Continue South.

>>8565424

My point exactly. Hunt the raiders now, before they can make things really difficult should the main attack resume.

>>8565408
If were a feddie raiding force, I'd try to get to something important and blow it up. I bet they're going to try to get through this defense net and try to break through the back of our lines. If that's the case, they'll probably continue East to try and get through the space between the two bunker sites where there's only an AA emplacement. And they'll need speed, so they'll probably keep to the roads.

Keep heading south. We'll approach a wider road, I'll bet that's where they're going.

>>8565408
I'd say keep heading south for the center most artillery position but the trees thin out the closer you get to it...

There's gotta be some kind of tracks left over from the vehicles after they blew away that one position. Looks like open fields around it, should be easy for calvin to get a general idea of which way they went.

Fan out, look for tracks or dust and converge on the enemy once spotted. Wolfpack style.

The enemy is probably not dumb enough to hit the closest Zeon installations, but will try to slip by and hit something in the rear. Then frogleap around to cause as much havoc as possible.

Can we call in some mechanized infantry to scout for us too? And how the hell is the enemy air assets not spotted yet, have they withdrawn?

>>8565494
Word. Seconded.

Maybe we should set a time limit how long we spend on this hunt.

It could be a ruse to lure us away from the main line after all.

Alright we need to exterminate the civilian population.
How many people will we kill?

>>8565589
We've spent 5-10 minutes *maybe* getting this far south. I'd say we have time. ;)

Just keep walking foward

>>8565654
Dom's don't walk. They WHOOSH.

>>8565638

We had time on Hawaii...

>Can we call in some mechanized infantry to scout for us too?

Do this, on top of anything else (like continuing south).

>I'd say keep heading south for the center most artillery position but the trees thin out the closer you get to it...

>There's gotta be some kind of tracks left over from the vehicles after they blew away that one position. Looks like open fields around it, should be easy for calvin to get a general idea of which way they went.

You head south, aiming to head towards the attacked area. You reach another crossroads and look down it.
For a second you think you can see movement in the distance, less than 500m. You aren't sure but you think it was the enemy raiding force on the sides of the road, travelling slowly, however you think they've moved off into the trees.

YOUR ORDERS?

(the green X represents where Jolyne and Hovis are.)

>>8565839
Bring Calvin in to circle the forest in case they come out. Hovis and Jolyne fire for effect to flush them out. We search around the edge of the forest in case some of them didn't enter or went another way.

>>8565839

We're pretty damn quick, I'd say head for the movement we saw, look for any traces around there before moving on.

>>8565839

Can we see anything in the area with IR sensors?

Can't we call some sort of scout chopper-plane-satellite-whatever?
Also, keep moving forward

>>8565839
Ask Calvin if he saw that movement. Even if he didnt guestimate the feddie position and start droping some artillery fire. They're about halfway between us and that forward flack position. Move up and take them out from behind while they've getting shelled.

>>8565839
Encircle the area we think they will have walked to with our faster Doms with Zolomon in the rear to block any retreat. Acertain if they are friend or foe and if enemy hem them in so Hovis can give them a good thrashing.

>>8565886
>>8565898
>>8565886

You order Hovis and Jolyne to flush them out with artillery fire whilst you switch to IR and head down the road.
A nearby Artillery site begins shelling the area as well.

You carefully move down the track scanning with IR, heavy explosions rock the forest, parts of it are on fire. Hopefully it wont spread to badly like it did in Don Martin, but it's not like your using napalm like the enmy did back then.

Eventually you are rewarded with several Jeeps and a Command Hovertank crossing over the road about 100m in front of you. You fire off a spray with your 90mm and move to the side to allow Zolomon and Elaine to do the same. Your fire takes out a couple of the jeeps, you aren't able to tell if the other two made any kills the enemy has escaped into the forest on the other side of the road.

They appear to be heading SSE, the game is afoot!

YOUR ORDERS?

(Blue is the enemy as usual.)

>>8566130
Alert all forces in the area. Calvin keeps circling the forest in case any more come out. Artillery keeps on the pressure, see if we can get a Zaku Tank to come over with some ammunition pellets for Jolyne and Hovis. Us, Zol and Elaine follow the jeeps and hovertank.

>>8566130
Use artillery and the Doms to herd the enemy forces into something nasty. Zolomon can pounce on any enemy units that get through our screen.

>>8566130
Seems kinda light in the way of firepower. This cant be all of them. Attack and follow but be on the look out for some kind of ambush.

is our dom faster than the command hovertank? Taking the crew alive could yield some tasty intel!

>>8566274
Considering its pitifull armament, that shouldn't be impossible. Need to corner it quickly so they don't have time to blow it up themselves though.

>>8566290

Can we do a hovering kick? :3

>>8566290
>>8566215
>>8566201

So, shift the artillery target to keep shelling the enemies position?Where do you want your squad to move to? To the open southern area, or directly towards them?

Or something else?

YOUR ORDERS?

>>8566632
I'm thinking we jet towards it at max speed, grab it, and shake it a bit so everyone in there gets motion sick or knocked the fuck out.

>>8566673
Artillery keeps shelling the same area it's been shelling. We zip after the jeeps and hovertank.

>>8566675
>>8566703

You quickly advance towards the enemy forces as they retreat. An enemy A/MS missile streaks out, and you hunker down to deflect the blow. You rock in your seat and the computer squeals warning tones at you as the missile breaches your armour and punches a small hole in the area between your Dom's head and shoulder. It's a glancing hit however and nothing important is damaged. You return fire into the forest spraying the area with 90mm shells.
Behind you the other team members open fire as well, trees are shredded, dust and dirt are flung into the air. Some more missiles are flung your way, but you're all keeping mobile and none of them strike home.

At the end of it the smoke clears to reveal several smoking wrecks and an immobilised command tank. You can't see any surviving forces and the crew of the Command Tank have dismounted and are surrendering.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>8566673
Can we call in additional Artillery support from those towers? Is Calvin still scouting? Now that we have a fix on their location, we should be able to get more accurate data on the enemy forces if there is more than what we can currently see.

We should attempt to flank the enemy to allow for additional friendly artillery support.

>>8566820
Approach and inform them that you accept their surrender. Disarm them of any high-explosives they might be attempting to detonate in a suicide run, and lets find a way to herd them towards command.

>>8566820
Take them captive. Get some of the mech infantry to escort them to base. Keep them secured, don't let them escape. I'm sure we have ways of making them talk. I want to know about their plans for this attack, and see if they know anything about the GMs.

>>8566820
Accept the surrender, call in some infantry to escort them back, then call Cal and get a sitrep on the rest of the battle.

>>8566873
This and send one or two of our team mates to scout the area for more feddies.

Accept thier surrender; have Calvin call in for a pickup than keep looking out. Order everyone to keep their eyes open still.

We may want to launch a raid against the Feddies tonight. Not a full-scale offensive, just a recon in force, with the added benefit of preventing the Feddies from getting time to rest.

>>8567113
I think we have a previous appointment to keep with the mechanics and our Mobile Suits.

Otherwise yeah good idea.

>>8566854
>>8566873

You have two platoons of Mechanised infantry come and pick them up.

After they're led away you receive a call from Captain Breda of the 108th. She informs you that it looks like the enemy have pulled back for now. They're still out there in the distance, but aren't making any agressive moves for now.
It looks like your successful attacks on the Land Battleships have put them on the defensive, since it appear that they have some breathing space, you are ordered back to the defence HQ to rearm and repair.

Since you've got no word of the enemy, you decide to do so.

DO YOU WISH TO CHANGE YOUR LOADOUT AT THIS TIME?

See how our team is holding out. Our greatest weapon is our teammates.

>>8567228
Two platoons? Yeah, I think upwards of sixty men should be able to keep them from escaping. Good job.

I don't think we need a change of loadout.

>>8566820

Make sure to order artillery to stand down, for one thing!

ALSO, have Zol and Calvin continue to sweep, and call in ground forces to take away the prisoners.

>>8567267

It was just the crew of a single command tank, and some wounded. I think about 30 men with submachine guns SHOULD be able to handle that.

>>8567228
Nah, I think our standard loadout is good.

Let's find out what's going on on the rest of the defense line, maybe put in a call to Matamoros to get them to move out towards Monterrey, then chat with the squad.

>>8567228

Nah, but it'd be nice to get that breach in our armor patched. Also, I'm assuming more panserfausts are a given?

>>8567329
Exactly. But you never know. Better add an extra twenty.

Drop panzerfausts. Get more reloads and add some damned grenades already.

>>8567382
We already have grenades with us.

>>8567372
Dont think that's really our call man. The local forces can look after them. I'm more interested in that hovertank of theirs.

And the loadout seems to be fine as is.

>>8567459

It's a standard ground effect vehicle that operates on the same principles as the Rhinoceros. On a much smaller scale obviously.

Anyway, your team repairs and reloads themselves.
It is now 6pm and the sun is starting to go down.
You are currently on alert, but no further attacks seem forthcoming. It's possible that the federation won't make any further attacks today.

IN ANY CASE. YOUR ORDERS?

The half that is most needing repairs goes and gets them done. The other half stands ready to respond to attacks. We can't have our entire unit out of suit.

>>8567594
Can we talk with the command here to see how they are holding up? Perhaps send out another probing scout or two to check on what the Feddies are up to?

>>8567594
small talk with our men, congratulate on landbattleship kills, hi 5s all around

>>8567594

Be nice to try a night attack to strike at their supply lines. ALSO, do we have any idea where there air forces are based? Those would be the best targets we could get, I think.

>>8567594

Obviously continue our... patrol? Sortie? Until we're relieved for the night.

>>8567594
>It's a standard ground effect vehicle that operates on the same principles as the Rhinoceros.

So it has multiple flack turrets, a powerful artillery cannon and missile pods? Shit, these sounds like primary targets.

I believe someone mentioned going on a nighttime raid of the feddie forces?

>>8567459
Myself, I want to destroy this entire Feddie force. Not just drive them back with heavy losses. Wipe them completely off the board. Given the local geography, I'm pretty sure we can do that if the Matamoros force moves out to Monterrey and Monclova, then digs in blocking the passes the Feddies would have to take to escape into south-central Mexico.

>>8567608
>>8567611
These, then >>8567624. If we know about where the Feddies are encamped, have our local artillery units shell them intermittently throughout the night.

>>8567640

No, it's just a small APC looking thing with I think one small gun for close in defense. It just has the same type of propulsion as the Rhino.

>>8567645
Wait. Idea. If we sent a team behind enemy lines with explosives and blew that dam would that block off their retreat? Because if the local Zeon's could get that hover truck working and ready to go it could infiltrate and carry a good enough sized payload.

They just need to get it into the water on the backside of the dam and blow it when it's needed.

>>8567611
Right forgot about that part. Talk to the local commander. Distribute MS vs MS combat footage if we havent done so.

>>8567710
Ah.

>>8567807

Not that they shouldn't be prime targets or anything. They have advanced sonar and communication gear, in addition to other types of sensors. They're just usually held behind the lines, and are somewhat small and stealthy to boot.

>>8567774
Actually, that would work quite well.

The troops at Matamoros should still start moving west, though. If we don't need to use them on this Feddie force, then they can start moving further west and dig in along the central Feddie prong's line of retreat.

Come to think of it, are there any plans for mass-producing any of the Mobile Armors we've seen so far? I can only image how much good it would do Zeon if every MS company had something like the Rhinoceros to call in for support.

>>8567892
As I recall, we did gather enough information on the Hidolfr to put it into production. By the time we get back into space, we might see more Bigros as well.

>>8567892
IIRC, we got them to seriously considered mass production of the Hildolfr.

Assuming they actually started that, the existing Hildolfrs can be upgraded to Rhinos in the field, while the production line can shift over towards building them as Rhinos from the get-go.

>>8567930
If we're REALLY lucky, we might even see some Val Varos.

>>8567936
>Mass produced Rhinos

Oh, I can't wait! Apologized, can we get an official call on if any of the MAs are going to see production on a larger scale?

>>8567877
>>8567774
Why do we keep wanting to blow up a dam? Seriously, a dam is much more useful intact than as a one-time surprise Strategic weapon.

>>8567961
Val Varos would be ideal, but I wouldn't expect them until late in the war, and if we nixed the Adzam they'd probably lack their plasma leaders. Still, even without them they would be incredibly effective heavy support units.

>>8567980
Well the Federation did want to return Earth to it's natural state. We're helping them out!

>>8567980
Because it isn't actually doing anything for us either way right now, and if we blow it the resulting flood takes out the most effective Feddie lines of retreat. We have an opportunity in the current campaign to annihilate what I suspect to be the only major Feddie force south of Canada that isn't permanently assigned to Jaburo. Anything that gives us a better chance of trapping and destroying all three Feddie invasion columns is worth it.

>>8567981
I'm pretty sure that the Adzams have already been built and tested.

The only thing that I worry about with the production of MA is that funding for future MS lines might be impeded slightly.

We need the Gelgoogs, dagnabbit. They're like Gundams, but cheaper and SIEG ZEON.

>>8568084
What I'm hoping is that the funding for things like Hildolfrs/Rhinos, reverse engineering Feddie aircraft to make a fighter that doesn't blow goats, Gelgoog R&D, getting more Zanzibar Kais/IIs and Tivvays built, etc. is coming from useless junk like the Apsalus project, or the Dolos-class carriers.

>>8568187
This. Nixing projects like Apsalus, Zakrello, Dolos, and maybe even Big Zam would give us tons of surplus cash for faster MS and aerofighter R&D, and bigger production runs of ships and MAs that are actually worth something, like Zanzibar or Bigro.

>>8568187
Apsalus DID give us the Minovsky Craft technology, if we can get Ghinus' AIDSy hands off of it.

>>8567640

It looks like we've got two trains of thought, one is for a night-raid, the other is for continuing on patrol.
What's it going to be?

Would be nice to get word from HQ while we are there how the rest of the Rio Grande defence line is holding up.

Should be time to launch that counter attack, encircle and destroy what remains of the Federation (offensive) army here in America.

>>8568239
Best offense is a good offensive move. Best defense is a good offense.

NIGHT RAID AFTER OUR REPAIRS

>>8568239

Night raid to destroy the damn. Flood the area.

DROWN THEIR TANKS!

>>8568239

I'm in favor of the night raid. There's enough local forces to patrol. Obviously we'd make our intentions known to local command, and see if they have any opinions.

>>8568239
Damaged suits go in for repairs, undamaged ones go out on the raid. When we get back, repaired suits go on patrol, raiding suits go in for repairs.

Before we do that, though, let's get in touch with the local CO to get a general sitrep for the RG Defense Line, and mention to her about having the Matamoros force sortie.

>>8568257

Night time raid.

Lets also see if we have some volunteers in Goufs and Zaku 2s that want to join us.

Possibly no more than 4 or so.

>>8568239
Night raid. In and out, blow up their command hovertanks and some more T-60s.

>>8568239
Repairs, talk to Zeon local commander then night raid.

OHHHH wait, have the arties on standby to shell feddy positions when we signal our retreat.

Green signal flares.

Fire on the flares, we retreat.

... we need to use our flares more... <_<

I vote for the night raid.

So, night raid is almost unanimous.

Priority Targets:

Munition carriers
Repair and recovery vehicles
Artillery
Mobile suits
Troop carriers
Tanks

Exit strategy:

Defense line artillery on standby.
All MS on the raid will have colored flares to denote targets.
Green Priority one tarets
Red Priority Two targets

Any suggestions?

>>8568525
If we're lucky enough to find their aircraft on the ground, they're also high priority.

>>8568525
command vehicles/structures - break their chain of command

So, general gist is for a night-time raid. Command has nixed your requested to gank the dam though. They kind of want this city and the defenses intact in case they have to do this dance again.

So where do you want to raid, the enemy forces have encamped in the blue rectangle, but also don't for get there was that enemy splinter up north that Calvin found, who knows if that's met up with the main forces yet?

YOUR ORDERS?

>>8568525
Also, if they have any unmanned mobile suits, we grab one of them and send it back to our lines.

>>8568653
Mention to command about the bridge north of town.

Then hit the rectangle. Better to raid the forces that a) we know are there and b) that already took a severe beating today.

>>8568577
And I'm back. Given a. That Dopps are good, but smalltime, and b. that we don't have that many, Feddie Aircraft should probably be number 2 or 3 on the target priority list. Also, if getting rid of the Fausts can give us another mag of 'zook rounds, I support it. Otherwise, nope.

>>8568653
Go for the known forces. No need to go on a wild goose chase.

>>8568653
hit+run upwards, depending on situation,check outthe north

>>8568693

Agreed. Take out the ones that were already beaten to hell.

>>8568653
>>8568693
We could swing in from the north and attack the main force from behind? That way if there are any signfigant forces moving into position in the north area we'll be able to chew them up a bit. Admittedly at the cost of our raid on the larger group but still.

>>8568795
I'd go with the south, because it's closer to our start line for the raid. Less time on the approach means less chance of being detected before we start.

Other priority target: any other Big Trays. If the division we hit in Chihuahua is any indication, this one should probably still have another one or two left.

Also have our arties on standby on our signal.

>>8568900
>>8568862

Both of these strike me as excellent ideas. Seconded.

So guys, it looks like Russia is designing ground attack aircraft for Zeon.

>>8568653
They've decided to camp 1-2 km outside our main defensive line? Near the highway no less?
Man these feddies are dumb.

I think we should attack them from the south and roll up the flank so to speak, not engage all of them at any one time, just shoot and scoot. Cause a good deal of chaos that way.

>>8568743
>>8568783
>>8568787

You plan to make several hit and run raids on the on the federations forces southern flank before pressing on to investigate that northern contact.

You wait until dusk, which is at 8:00pm before leaving. You dash across the lightly wooded area, the dark covers you and the sparse terrain makes for good going.

You see the flood lights of enemy positions, and the flames with troops warming their hands. You dash in close, the enemy spot you but you fire off your bazooka into the midst of the formation.
The explosion sends light vehicles and a couple of tanks into the air, you dash off as sirens begin wailing. You keep up this rate of fire as you dash across the line, tanks and man portable weapons fire about you, but you weather the storm and after 10 minutes of high speed jinking and shooting you make it to the end of their lines.

You've all sustained some damage, Zolomon taking the worst of it as his Gouf isn't as fast. He's lost his shield again and his armours sporting cracks and chips. Otherwise he's still fully functional however.

DO YOU WISH TO CONTINUE?

>>8569241
Good enough. Move north and scout.

>>8569241
Pop flares for the artillery to start the shelling, then continue. Have Zol break off and head back to our lines, with a report on the raid, while the Doms keep onward towards the north.

>>8569241
YES.

>>8569241

Hold of on our Arty and move off at Zols best speed.

>>8569314

Your out of range for artillery, but the Dom's head north, Zol heads south for repairs.

You journey north west for about twenty minutes across country when you get a priority laser-comm message from Calvin.

"Uh commander, we just got a call from the seismic sensor post here in the final defence line we've got a suspicious signature coming from your direction? Can you advise?"

YOUR ORDERS?

>>8569493
Stop and begin search patterns. Stick close though, we don't want anyone to get isolated in the middle of a raid.

>>8569493
Do we notice any tremors? Fucking hell, I'm not sure we can take on another one of the tunnel aircraft carriers. Try to get some sensor readings, and keep moving, that's important. Don't stay still.

>>8569540
Oh, and order everyone to turn on sonar and turn down the hoverjets in the Doms.

>>8569554
>>8569540
>>8569556
I'll third Zeta and Sam on this one.

Wait, from the FINAL defense line? That's like 10+ km away!

Got to be something huge, or the proto-Gundam is a lot heavier than I thought. Can't be anything with a hoverskirt though...

My God. They've completed the Psycho Gundam nearly 10 years in advance! What have we done?!

>>8569493
They're not picking up Zol are they?

>>8569540
>>8569554
>>8569556

You turn off the hoverjets and activate your sonar sensors. Looking around you don't see any nearby enemies.

Sure enough however on the sonar sensors are showing a massive sonar signature. Except it seems to be moving away, to the east.
You can't see anything on IR that would be making such a large signature.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>8569622
call for support!
we could use that zeon equivalent to the big tray right now

those guns are huge

>>8569715
Follow it. Top speed. Some unidentified object heading for our lines in the dead of night = BAD THING. Let's try to stop it before it gets there.

>>8569622
OH SHIT! It's Garry Oak come to challenge us while we're beat up!

>>8569715
Aw hell, it -is- one of the Morlocks again. Sonnovabitch, how do they have enough Big Tray chassis to make these things with us blowing them up left and right?

This could be a massive problem. If it gets away, it could surface behind our defense lines and vomit air and armor all over us. But as of now, we can't go after it into the middle of the Fed assault groups.

>>8569715
Shit, it's moving to breach the defense line. Give them a call, get everyone on active duty, tell them about the Morlocks that we've fought before. Make sure they keep a lock on it's whereabouts, and get any Dopps, Gaws or Fat Uncles in the air so that it can't come up underneath them.

>>8569715

Calvin was with us the last time we dealt with a Morloc class ship right? Would he have recordings of it's readings, or otherwise recognise them?

>>8569493

If there using tunnels then there's reasonable odds that they came in from around here. If we can locate the entrance to the tunnels we can hit whatever is down there from the back and maybe stop them before they hit. Otherwise I'd opt to continue, we still haven't lit up any targets for the artillery.

>>8569870
This is sounding like a plan. Get Zolomon Jol and Hovis to hang out where they think it's going to pop up and play whack-a-mole. David and Elaine try to locate the *COUGHSUBMERSIBLECARRIERCOUGH* I mean opening to the tunnel.

>>8569870
Except that it's likely that they tunneled down far away from here and we have no idea where from. We can safely assume it was somewhere to the West, but how far? Northwest? Southwest? I think a better idea would just be to GTF back to base and handle it when it surfaces.

>>8569771
>>8569769
>>8569744
>>8569803


You dash east trying to outrun the sonar signal. Damn this thing is fast, you don't recall the last Morlock you chased to have been going that fast...

You call Calvin ahead and ask him to compare the seismic signal against that of the Morlock you encountered earlier... this week wasn't it?

Man, it feels longer.

"Confirmed! I've got a 95% match in seismic signal, except we've got a four way doppler effect and it seems to be sped up about 5 times. It's definately a drill ship of SOME description sir! I've signalled the defences forces everyones being put on full alert as we speak!"

"Keep yourself in the air, and if Zolomon's not back, tell him to forget about repair, just get a new shield and make do!" You order.

"Roger! I'll relay the message along!"

You dash forwards, attempted to outpace the enemy, but with the hoverjets on you have to rely on Calvins sporadic updates.

The things outpacing even you, whilst drilling underground, how the hell is that possible?

>>8569975
find out when the sonar station first got the strange contact.
We attempt a rough calculation based on how far the contact moves according to our dom's sensors per minute and how long the contact has been showing up on the base's sensors. Should be a hole roughly around point x.

>>8569715
I don't know why you guys are surprised that the Feddies have a number of Morlocs. When I mentioned it last time you were like "Naw they only have 2..."

That's dumb as hell. This is the Federation, the build hundreds of MS and Space Battleships from one base in 2 months Federation.

Anyway, follow it.

>>8569744 sounds about right.

>>8569990
Oh, oh! Get as many of the Zakus and Goufs onto Dodais as possible! With this speed it could easily surface under some of our MS and use the drill to destroy or damage them, but it can't if they're in the air.

>>8569990

Maybe that bit is made out of whatever the Feddie MS are made out of it.

With acid and lasers, maybe.

But shiiiiit!

>>8569990
Maybe its a decoy, but I don't trust that nearly enough for us to ignore it. Keep trying to keep up. Make sure that Calvin has our Arty ready to drop shells on this thing whenever he tells our friendly Artillery-folk to do so.

>>8569990

Fffffffffffffff

>>8569990

Its going that fast? Jeez, maybe they snuck in a pre-dug tunnel somewhere. Or more insidiously, they just made a ground based torpedo that gives off the signal of one of these Morlocks. Now that would be a terrible technological advance, but I'm stuck as to how it can move that fast. For now all we can do is follow it and put everyone on alert, I wouldn't be suprised if they pushed elsewhere during an attack of this kind.

>>8570024
This is also a pretty good idea.

SHIT MUST BE USING LASER DRILLS OR SOMETHING

OR A FUCKING UNDERWATER RIVER

OR A FUCKING UNKNOWN, UNDERGROUND, RAILWAY SYSTEM

In any case, after dashing across country in the dark (always a FUN past-time) for about 20 minutes you see an explosion in the far distance. Alarm sirens wail and you hear the staccato of gunfire.

"Holy shit! It just took out the defensive wall in the north! The thing chewed up a mobile suit and five tanks as well! We've got multiple enemy contacts, the rest of the enemy forces are throwing everything they have at the breach! You'd better hurry up Commander if you want to make it back before they get here! It submerged again! The Subterranean Battleship has submerged again! I don't think we were able to damage it all that much before it did it either!"

THE MAP SHOWS THE BREACH LOCATION, WHAT ENEMY FORCES ARE DOING AND YOUR LOCATION.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>8569990
>how the hell is that possible?
This doesnt seem physically possible. ಠ_ಠ
Even the Morlock's speed was beyond what could be considered realistic.

Even with some kind of plasma drill all you'd accomplish is melting your own vehicle with the debris.

>>8570115

Damn, as much as I'd like to take it in one piece, I doubt that is much of an option, regardless its a problem we need to deal with so full speed on that location with whatever is avaliable. Current breach is only in one location, so we can hit foward of that position with artillery and be confident of hitting enemy troops, which should slow their advance. If we have any big guns, now would be time to bust them out.

>>8570115
GET IN THE HOLE AND SHOOT IT FROM BEHIND AGAIN!

Cover our advance toward the hole by droping as much artillery fire on the attacking Feddie forces as possible.

>>8570115
Well, at least it looks like we'll be able to hit their advance from behind. Do so. If we're lucky, we should be able to break its back before this monster surfaces again. Have Calvin pinpoint it for arty if and when it does.

Cant we blast through the ground into the tunnel it's already made and come up behind it?

>>8570020
Because both of the previous ones were resounding failures. If you make something that's that resources intensive and it doesn't work twice, it's generally foolish to do it AGAIN.

>>8570115
Get some of our units to follow it into the tunnel with bombs and explosives, make sure they watch out for it's rear guns. We'll cut off their reinforcements that are moving in.

>>8570115
Send out urgent warning to all other positions along the defense line about the new Feddie tactic. If they hear the same sort of signal, they need to know what to expect.

More immediately: we slam into and through the Feddies from behind, using heat saber and 90mm to carve our way through them. Then we follow that battleship through the tunnels. We can't afford to let it unload its troop complement behind us.

>>8570115
I vote that we pull our follow it card. Also, idea. What if we drop a shitton of Arty on its projected path, cause a seismic event to fuck with it?

Is that possible? Because if it is, strikes me as worth doing.

Anyway, order to shift one of our MS companies into the breach in order to stopgap while we chase that piece of shit down.

>>8570237
This, in addition to my previous suggestion.

>>8570184
Also agreed with this. Until we send up flares to tell them we're coming through, every artillery piece we have there should be hitting the breach non-stop.

>>8570206
Well, they tend to work pretty well until Nachtmaren finds them.

>>8570115
Just remembered: unlock our limiters. We need as much speed as possible right now.

>>8570184
You dash forwards, trying to beat the enemy before they reach the breach, suddenly the ground in front of you surges upwards and you jink to the side to avoid the underground explosion. Then the entire tunnel that the drill must have been using collapses sending dirt into the the air, both you and Elaine struggle to stay standing, in the confusion you and the enemy actually manage to cross each others path without noticing and come out on the other side.

You reach the walls and can see that the tunnel as well as several underground rivers have collapse, destroying several roads and who knows what else. Evidently the drill ship was using an underground river system to navigate. Hence it's speed.

You dash over the wall and up to the drills second entry point. It's speed should be reduced now at least, you see several Zaku's moving up to defend the breach.Shells and unguided missiles barrage the breach zone though as the federation attempt to widen the gap and break through.
You see a Zaku go down missing it's head from an artillery shell as you leap into the gaping hole, narrowly avoiding the enemy shells.

Inside the tunnel you dash ahead, the roof of it occaisionaly sending plumes of dust downwards in a worrying fashion. After five minutes you see the flaring of rockets, evidently this morlock uses some kind of rocket propulsion to give it speed.
You take aim and fire your Bazooka. The blast knocks out the engine and crumples most of the rear end, the battleship suddenly banks upwards onto the surface before slamming down on the ground. The tunnel begins to collapse. You and Elaine race forwards narrowly missing rocks and dirt as you leap outside.

You are now facing the Federation Drill Battleship. The insignia "MORLOCK 00P" are emblazeoned on it's side. The rocket booster ejects itself before it explodes in a firery blast.
The ship's side doors open and tanks are beginning to exit.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>8570404
I knew those underground cavern systems would come back to bite us. I KNEW IT!

Fire everything at those tanks. The resulting explosion should mess up the Morlock as well.

>>8570404
Fire our beam weapon to blind aything wan can then fire our bazooka ino the doors that have opened. If we can do so now would be a good time to dual weild.

>>8570404

Ok, so its mostly immobilized and now deploying vehicles, if we're feeling reckless we could assault into the carrier and try and shooting it up from the inside. However I would like to point out we still have our flares for precision artillery targeting, thus I say we light it up with green flares.

Let the artillery smash it while its still deploying vehicles while we pull back to a safer distance and pour on the fire. It may hinder the cover of the breach, but nothing that detrimental compared to letting this continue to operate.

>>8570404

Kill them with death.

>>8570404

Bullet/Bazooka Spamming seems like a good option right now.

Does the Morlock appear to have any sort of weaponry of its own or is it just acting as a glorified APC for tanks this time around?

>>8570493
This. Scattering Beam Gun to DW 'zook and 'fausts. If we don't have fausts (forgot if we took them for this sortie) 'zook + 90mm. Put rockets into the bridge and Vehicle Deployment Hatches, MG fire into emerging vehicles, specifically ones that are just emerging. See if we can't block up those hatches with some wreckage if we can't get a 'zook round into it.

Bazooka shots repeatedly, then try and toss a cracker in through those open doors.

>>8570404
Stab the tanks with bullets.

>>8570456

You take aim at the exiting tanks and fire. The blast takes out three in the close confines. The Morlock is moving again, although it is now on fire. You concentrate fire on the Morlock as it attempts to flee, its 4 drills spinning.
A 150mm shell rocks your Dom spoiling your aim, a squad of tanks, launched from the other side of the Morlock.

"Don't worry about them, I'll take care of them!" Elaine says as she engages them.

You turn your attention back to the Morlock only to see it bearing down upon you, it's one good rocket firing. You fire your bazooka at it, but the drill seems to take it without even flinching, you jink to the side to avoid it, but you aren't quick enough and the right hand drills brush against you.
Your leg and bazooka are shredded in the encounter and your suit falls over, sparks fly from your computer console, the computer screams warnning signals shrilly at you and your monitors flicker erratically. You shield your face from the sparks.

You see the Morlock turning around for another pass, you struggle to lift yourself up, draw your 90mm but the controls are none-responsive.
And then, Zolomon Ringo, in a MS07B-3 Gouf Custom painted like a skeleton leaps into the air behind it.

His heat rod lashes out, connects with the rocket booster and discharges itself.
The rocket explodes with tremendous concussive force, the entire battleship is rocked to the side.
On fire, smoke billowing from it, Zolomon lands on top of it, pulls out his Shotgun and discharges everything he has: Chaingun Shield, 35mm Wrist Vulcan, Shotgun, into it's hide.

Eventually the drills stop spinning, as theres nothing but shredded metal behind them.

Well, there's ANOTHER battleship kill for Zolomon.

"Hey boss? Still alive?" he asks you.

You manage to get your suit to give him the thumbs up.

>>8570660
Zol's getting more battleship kills than us. He should be careful. We can't be having someone under our command being better than us...

>>8570660

And here I was thinking we were the Ace pilot around here, still one problem down there's still the whole breach issue.

>>8570660
Oh dear. Our MS is going to be in the shop for a week.

See if we can ping any remaining vehicles from our prone position.

>>8570660

We need to get a hover skirt Gouf... <_<

Hopefully now that the Battleship is down, we can seal the breach. We seem to be a bit off balance for now, though.

>>8570783
Kill battleship
adviceLister.jpg
Use empty shell to seal hole in defenses

Enemy forces attempted to flood the breach, at which point counter-battery artillery began to shell the area at full force. the 108th took the brunt of the enemies initial assault and had to retreat back to the nearby redoubt positions.
The 57th proceeded to the then take up the slack by engaging at long range anything that made it past the curtain of fire. The Mech infantry also mounted several treeline ambushes on tanks that made it through.

Despite this losses were still heavy, with over 2 tank companies reported destroyed and 50% losses for the Infantry.
The 57th fared better and when the 107th went over the wall and attacked the enemy artillery from the rear after tying the enemy air cover up with an all or nothing gamble of attacking them with 100% of avaialable Dopp Fighter forces the enemy out and out surrendered rather than take any further losses.

This marked the end of the siege of Nuevo Laredo.

>>8570754
The MS-07H8 Gouf Flight Type should be in production about now. Maybe we can get our hands on one.

>>8570660
If our Dom is still capable of fighting, we head back into battle.

See if Zol can use his heat rod to quickly weld something in where the destroyed leg was.

If the Dom isn't in fighting condition anymore, we hop out and go find another suit to fight from.

>>8570727
Dave's a much more balanced pilot than Zol is, and much better at leading. Zol's thing is that he's specialized at close-combat; outside of it, he's at or slightly beneath our skill level, but in CQC he's a god amongst men.

>>8570826
Victory! How the fuck did we loose more than 2 tank companies when all we had we 2 tank companies?

>>8570826
Well, that's good. One Feddie column down, two to go.

Let's get a report on how things are going on the rest of the Defense Line. And warn them about new developments (Feddie MS squads, upgraded Morlock, etc).

Well, our suits ruined, so unless someone else can provide us with a spare we're sitting this one out. Still we have a mostly intact drill carrier, probably with some survivors onboard. We should get some troops to secure this site as well as any prisoners before they can get any ideas.

>>8570826

>>8570864
Wondering this also.

>>8570826
On the plus side we seem to have some into posession of some Federation mobile artillery and support vehicles. Perhaps even some aircraft? Maybe? Even a few?

>>8570864
kinda wondering this myself. Also, aren't our tank companies in Magellas, what are they doing on the front line? Unless we were using captured fed tanks of course

>>8570899

Captured tanks? Fighters? I like!

Proceed to use them... except a few. Get the engineers on working them.

Who needs research when the Feddies are doing it for us?

As for casualties, I'm pretty sure apologized just pulls them out of the air.

IN CONCLUSION

Enemy forces in Chihuahua never left the city after taking 50% casualites in combat with the Nachtmaren unit. Due to their proximity however, forces stationed at Juarez and Tucson remained in those positions to respond should they move out.

On the eastern front, the Federation forces, harrassed constantly by the Mand Angler unit eventually reached the city of Tucson. They were bogged down by siegeworks and when the defence forces from Mexicali and Tijuana ambushed them on both flanks the federation forces surrendered.

Roughly 900 federation soldiers were taken as POW's, and the battle was considered an astounding victory.

This marked the end of the Federation counter assault into the america's from Jaburo. Although the federation had made some gains: Reclaiming Chihuahua principally, the fact that it was unable to breach Zeons "Rio-Grande Defence Line" meant that it was classed as a failure.
What the Federation didn't know was the assault had stretched Zeon to a near breaking point.

STORYLINE ARC COMPLETE

>>8570826

Victory is sweet indeed.

>>8570864

I thought you had a Tank Battalion?

Whoops, oh well. Total tank losses aren't entirely unthinkable I suppose.

>>8570954
>eastern front
>Mad Angler unit

Dude, they were attacking from the west cost.

OMAKE!

>What the Federation didn't know was the assault had stretched Zeon to a near breaking point.

D:

We need to rearm.

Those mass produced Hildorfs and production Doms would be lovely right now... <_<

Brofist Zol

Compliment Ruby for her confidence, she's really become a great pilot *Thumbs up, sparkly smile*

>>8570954
>Mad Angler
>Eastern Front

Um...

>>8570954
I'm not sure if they could even hold Chihuahua. With those sorts of losses, and given Mexican geography, they're at too much risk of Zeon forces cutting them off and destroying them. I think that at best, they might be able to hold at Zacatecas. At worst, they have to pull back to the start line for the offensive.

And if they wait to move out of Chihuahua, we should be able to surround them; the forces at Juarez and Matamoros are still completely fresh, and the Tijuana and Mexicali forces probably took minimal losses. With that force at only half-strength? Zeon can easily take it.

So all in all, this should be a nightmarish defeat for the Feddies: at best, they get half a division out, and they can't hold on to any of their temporary gains. On the heels of the damage to Jaburo, their morale would be in the crapper.

>>8570954

So in review, we've just defeated the forces that would have kicked Zeon out of NA.

The question is what has this done to feddie troop placements. If the full scale assault on Odessa goes ahead this presumably should leave jaburo poorly defended. If the feds remove troops from the european theatre to defend jaburo the losses from odessa with any luck go down.

Best plan that springs to mind is a second stab a Jaburo, if the feds can be scared enough to heavily shore up mexico odessa can possibly be stoped altogether.

In character that would be another strike at Jaburo while retaliation would be light due to defeating this feddie push rather than fucking with the battle of odessa.

The hard part will be Jaburo's airpower.

OMAKE

TO: Captain Char Aznable

[EYES ONLY]

As per our earlier discussion we've agreed to your personnel demands. The Docks in Solomon report that one Musai to your specifications has been constructed. We've also allotted a full Zaku team under your command as well.
Unfortunately due to a repair bottleneck, we are unable to supply your unit with F2 models, and due to time constraints, refitting is not an option and the Musai hangar lacks the capacity to do so in transit. Nevertheless, all evidence from the Nachtmaren's encounters suggest that your team should be able to handle an enemy Mobile Suit if it comes to combat.

Which I must again stress is a sub-optimal resolution, simple data gathering on this mission would be satisfactory, obtaining the prototypes for ourselves would be the ideal, but only if possible.

I wish you the best of luck in your mission.

Sara Naan-Hassan-Singh Head of Zeonic Intelligence Operations (Aboa-Qu Office.)

>>8571012

Gah, sorry, I got my east and west mixed up. Good catch.

>>8571106
Sooooooooo... what are the chances that he just does recon and the sceedadles?

>>8571143
*then

>>8571091
Well, the forces that came out of Alaska and Northern Canada after Odessa are untouched.

But yeah, the ones that came up through Mexico in canon were probably the units we just annihilated.

And unless they have an entire fresh army right behind the one they lost, the Feddies aren't going to be able to hold Mexico. They might be able to hold at the isthmus west of the Yucatan, but more likely they'd fall all the way back to the Panama Canal, where they actually would be able to prepare a defensive line before we started overrunning their positions.

>>8571143
The odds are Char:1.

>>8570954
Huzzah! Victory is ours.

I can write a short Omake of an idea I just had. I'm a decent writefag.

The unsteady up and down gait reminded David Lister of El Muerto Gigante. Wondering how Ookawara was taking care of his old ride, he wistfully looked around the small scale devastation that was the remains of his Dom's cockpit. Then, after sneezing for the fourth time due to the hideous ozone-smoke of burnt electronics, he finally toggled the manual hatch release. As he opened it, a quiet, strange music filled his ears. The bass was low, made of drums and slow occasional piano. Then came Zol's voice: "When the shit jumps off what the fuck you gonna do
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta"

David cocked his head for a moment, and radioed "Zolomon what the fuck is that?" There was a pause, with another voice carrying on where Zol left off. "Whatsamatter bossman? I save your skin and I don't get to pick the song?" David sighed. "Carry on, Ringo." He could almost hear Zol's smile as he returned to singing along. And, after a moment and a shrug, David began humming with the tune...

>>8571159
I'm thinking we do a counter-counterattack. Two days from now, we get all the units from our defensive line to start the march back to Mexico.

>>8571143
Having seen the first three episodes, I must inform you that it isn't Char that screws up. Damn young blood.

>>8571143
Three times better than in canon.

>>8571159

That leaves another question as to what does the situation in northern canada look like?

My memory is based on the MSG series/movies so forgive me for not knowing exactly how the lines look right now but if there is territory to take in northern canada this just became the best oportunity for an offensive in that direction with the reduced risk from an assault into Mexico.

But as previously stated this is the time of the war where the feddie juggernaught started to get rolling fucking with troop dispositions is vital.

>>8571143
Not a Char problem. Depends entirely on how the men under his command perform.

>>8571198
Not all of them; the forces at Tucson, Laredo and Acuna are going to need to be rebuilt before they're ready to fight again. But the forces at Juarez and Matamoros were untouched, and the forces at Tijuana and Mexicali probably just took minor damage. Those four units would be heading south, and they should be able to destroy the Fedie forces in Chihuahua in a flash before moving to better defensive positions in Panama.

I do want to know what's up with the OH and the Gundam carcass it was taking back to California Base.

>>8571198
>ZEONQUEST MOVIE: David's Counterattack

>>8571239
>That leaves another question as to what does the situation in northern canada look like?

You remember what WW2 russia looked like right?

>>8571106
>Lister does it all the time, you'll be fine

lol

>>8571198
>>8571239
Hmm, while Zeon is apparently stretched to the limit in NA, it would be a good idea to keep the Feds from realizing it, especially with their recent losses and resultant low morale.
I think if possible, the Canada strike may be a better option, the forces in Mexico will either keep running, or end up pretty overstretched if they try to hold on to their gains, and by neutralizing the threat to the North,Zeon's defensive problem will be simplified

>>8571264
Exactly. And yeah, I'd love an Omake where it finally hits Ookawara that he has a mostly untouched feddie MS to pick apart.

Been trying to come up with some tactics that could work in the event we have to face a/the Gundam. Mainly I'm planning for a faceoff with the Bandit again.

Dom's attack each firing scattering beams in turn possible blinding him but mainly as a distraction. We get Zol to program our Dom to throw Heat hawks even if we wont be very good at it. The Bandit has consistantly foiled Zol`s Hawk atttacks before and he knows to expect them. David throws the Hawks and Zol jumps over and attacks with 2 Dom Heat Sabers.

Another variation of this would mix it up mainly with 2 MS in the center using ranged weapons and 2 doms on the outside carrying Chain Mines.

In either plan Hovis would fire fused rounds set to explode above ground hopefully limiting enemy jump options.

>>8571268

Oh god. Don't even joke about that, I'll be lucky if I can manage just to get to the end of the OYW.

David WILL have retired by then, he's put up with waaay too much bullshit already.

>>8571275
Well yeah, but we're in giant robots. We don't have to worry about the cold. 'Sides, it's only September. Can't be much snow yet.

>>8571310
Retire after one year?! Ridiculous! Our meteoric rise will surely make us a major player in post-war Zeon, win, lose, or nuclear apocalypse!

>>8571310
Embrace your destiny, run zeonquest for the next decade and cover all eras!

>>8571310
Still waiting for Zeonquest: Oldtimer's Edition.

>>8571313
This man is right. Earliest big snowfall we've ever had here was the first week of October. Mind you Zeon already holds most of the southern parts of Canada so it could indeed be getting a bit chilly... Most of the fighting would be in central BC and Newfoundland by now right? I mean most of Quebec farther north than a few hour drive from Ottawa doenst have much of value/population besides the James Bay power project.

I imagine the north east coast would have fallen to Zeon by now it it wernt for the Feddies paradropping tanks and troops.

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>>8571377
Also testing

Howard looked up in dismay from the trenches, the Zeon MS appearing as a literal specter of death and destruction upon the battlefield. The skeleton style paint job didn't help either. Steeling his nerve, he hefted his scuffed rifle and rushed towards the breach in the defensive line. They had all been briefed on the importance of this push, and they can't fail now. Artillery shells whistled through the air, screeching as they fell along the pitch-black and heavily cratered surroundings.

"Illumination shells incoming! Into the breach! Once more men!" Huey, red-faced and heaving along a rather bulky radio transmitter that somehow managed to function despite the Mintrosky Particles flying around panted behind him. A good kid - hope he doesn't catch a bullet.

The two of them moved from cover to cover, throwing themselves into the deep craters as the metal giants raged around them. The Undead Titans. The Nachtmaren. That name was synonymous with dread here in this part of the Western Hemisphere. Howard tried to imagine how the pilots detached themselves from all the killing they had done. All the death caused by their hands. It was war on a massive scale. Ever since the Colony Drop the dead were simply counted in numbers. The cold equation that balances the living against the dead. Insanity.

Why did he fight? They invaded his land, HIS Earth. And with God as his witness, he would drive them off of it.

>>8571275
Well, perhaps we should prioritize finishing the Feddies off there. For example, instead of invading Australia, send those forces to the Canadian front, or invade Alaska directly from the sea. If we can drive the Feddies completely out of North America, we can redeploy all of those units that were covering the thousands of miles of front-lines elsewhere.

We also should spend some more time working on our occupation policy essay. Zeon is going to have to be able to get more support from the occupied territories if we want to have a prayer of holding back the Feddies. Also, our "treat the occupied with decency and compassion" idea would set us at odds with Gihren's "What Would Hitler Do?" policies, and anything that would help cleave us and Zeon away from Gihren is a good thing.

>>8571338
I think that what it meant was that we would have retired by the time of Char's Counterattack. Since that's 13-14 years after the end of the OYW, not quite as unreasonable. Either we're piloting a desk by then as an admiral, or we've reluctantly ended up in politics; otherwise, we're just sitting back and chilling.

>>8571424
or we've finished decomposing. Just saying

>>8571388
Actually, there's still fighting somewhere in New England, given that initial Feddie R&D for the Alex was being done in Augusta, Maine.

In the west, yeah, I'd expect that the fighting's probably somewhere on the coast near the BC-Alaska border. The Feddies might also still have Winnipeg and Thunder Bay.

>>8571389
>Single rifleman
>Thinks he can stop a squad of Zeon Mobile Suits

AhahahaOhWow.jpg

Just to remind you, no Zeonquest tommorow.

>>8571299
Isn't that just a horizontal version of the Jet Steam Attack with a Gouf added in?

Also, on the subject of chainmines, I'm not convinced that those weren't something that Misha came up with by himself...

>>8571496
Sort of I admit. But it keeps most of our guys spread apart hopefully limiting casulties. The idea is that it would only be used once against a single target never again.

>>8571299
Or we just call in a massive barrage on his location. Even the Gundam can't do much about a torrential downpour of high explosives hitting everything in a 500-foot radius of its position.

>Lister Wing
>Gundam Lister
>Gundam Lister Destiny
>Turn L(ister) Gundam
ok i'll stop....

>>8571535

You bet your life?

>>8571389
The Illumination rounds came in, slowly streaking towards the barren earth on their little parachutes - heavenly lights drifting to touch the hell below.

Their Morlock, their ace in the hole, was belching fire and thick black smoke from its massive chassis. He could see the outlines of two similarly painted MS dashing around it, brutally slaughtering the hapless tanks caught disembarking from the tight belly of the craft. Those poor sons of bitches never had a chance... Its a good thing he decided to stay in the infantry after all.

The metal rain began to fall harder around them, making further forward movement nigh impossible. Howard looked at his rifle with an amused expression on his face. What a weak toy compared to those rampaging beasts. Laughable. Truly the infantry were nothing but meat charging into the grinder here.

Heuy cheered behind him, startling him from his musings. The Morlock had done an about-face, and was bearing down upon one of the MS that fired rather ineffectually into its massive drills. At almost the last moment it lunged to the right, almost making it clear of the twisting metal maw. A shower of sparks and a small explosion proved that the harbinger of death did not escape unscathed, and the Morlock spun around to charge again as a bull would attack a fallen Matador.

>>8571558
We won't have to, we'll be several miles away with the artillery. Have a few Luugans overhead to see if it survives.

>>8571558
No. That's why you carefully gauge just how far it can jump by observing it in prior battles, then have more artillery dispersing mines around the area you're just blowing to hell in back. You disperse the mines up to about twice the distance you estimate the Gundam can jump.

Plasma leaders also would work quite nicely on one, though. Or just sending out a Zaku with a very basic autopilot system and a reactor set to detonate the instant it gets stabbed or shot.

>>8571535
Agreed. Like batman, the gundam is best dealt with through massive overkill

>>8571586
Have a few Gaws with particle cannons too. If they detect any movement in the killzone, they shoot it until it stops.

>>8571640
Since this is the original Gundam we're talking about, it can also be dealt with by shooting down the pieces before they can dock with the Core Fighter.

>>8571558
Well there was the other plan to simply surround the White Base and continually harass them until the ship wore out.

1st unit- Dopps, Luggins & Recon MS form a blockade perimiter around the Trojan Horse at 10-20 km.

2nd Unit- Persuit GAW's following at 20-40 km recieve targeting data from 1st unit and use their mega particle cannons from max range. Atleast 1 GAW from 2nd unit will remain seperate incase the Trojan Horse turns and attacks those in persuit.

3rd Unit- A handfull of Artillery Teams each deployed via Fat Uncle Transport each with a supporting Luggins. They deploy along the projected course of the Trojan Horse and recieve targeting data replayed by their luggins. These units will be effective even if their target descends to ground level. If threatened by Federation MS they reboard their transport and evac.

>>8571572
Heuy's cheer died in his throat as another MS leaped out of the darkness to lash out with a glowing metal rod. Howard imagined that he could hear the ringing sound as it struck the rear of the Morlock, but such delusions were quickly quenched as the resulting explosion's shockwave deafened him. With naught but a high-pitched ringing in his eardrums, he clearly saw the MS mount the rocking craft with malicious intent in mind. The volley of fire it poured into the Morlock was immense, and the light from the resulting explosions clearly illuminated the white bones painted upon the ferocious aggressor.

Heuy's heavy hand on his shoulder startled him from his deafened state. He turned to see the boy with tears streaming down his flushed, dirt-covered face. He shook his head in sympathy and watched so many lives go up in smoke. Screw the planet. If they wanted it so bad, they can HAVE it. One infantryman's rifle isn't going to change that fact. He could rebuild the home they destroyed, but not if he was dead. So screw the war. God damn walking skeletons.

Can I ask a question? Why is there a war in the first place? Why has humanity split into the Federation and Zeon, and why are they fighting?

>>8571310
What exactly does OYW cover? I'm covering the Gundam series at a rate of about one episode every two nights right now - its a sudden departure from the clean-lined and artsy anime that I'm used to.

>>8571753
Sounds reasonable to me. It can't require much more force than what got thrown against White Base in canon during its trek across North America, and is less likely to get all of that force strewn across the continent as piles of wreckage.

>Screw the planet. If they wanted it so bad, they can HAVE it. One infantryman's rifle isn't going to change that fact. He could rebuild the home they destroyed, but not if he was dead. So screw the war. God damn walking skeletons.
Heheheheh.

>>8571797
>>8571802
The original series (Mobile Suit Gundam) covers the last few months of the war, from mid-September through the end of December. Thus far, this entire quest has been in the part of the OYW before the original series. Episode 1 of MSG is happening three or four days from when today's session ended.

As for what the war is about? Zeon is a group of space colonies located at the L3 Lagrange point behind the moon, which seceded from the Earth Federation (think a more powerful but just as ineffectual UN and you'll about have it) about twenty years before the OYW. As for why Zeon started the war? Ideology, I think, and a sense that now was when they had their greatest possible military advantage over the Federation with the introduction of the mobile suit.

>>8571901
So basically... After twenty years, we're free, time to take over the world?

>>8571797

Zeonic independence from the Earth.

>>8571957

if I remember correctly, the earth fed said "lol no" to Zeonic independence and sanctioned them in a crippling manner.

>>8571957

You do remember Mastadon Squadrens original motto, right?

>>8572043
A-yup.

>>8572024
That too.

MWHAHAHAHA!

>>8571821
>It can't require much more force than what got thrown against White Base in canon during its trek across North America.

I was watching a bit of the Orig. the other day and Amuro and Friends blew through what had to have been 50 tanks 8 MS and a couple of squadrons of Dopps. And that way in their first hour or two on Earth!
I was litterally screaming 'Jesus christ Garma stop just sending your men to die!'