[MM/RP] ND vs. UIW - ToP for Obvious Lie - Kowloon (1312) [Complete]

[Dave Baughman]

Fate, if you have no objections, lets resolve the TH's pursuit of your York now (since they won init and are going to use Naval Engagement against you). Vision is going to hold back (5.5 FP) so 28.5 FP of Manei Domini fighters are going after the remaining 14.25 FP of your force. If you survive this round of combat you'll be able to escape.

[blockquote]Rolled 2d6 : 1, 6, total 7[/blockquote]

[Dave Baughman]

TH inflicts 11.5 FP, so if the York makes its survival roll it will be able to (barely) escape.

[Fatebringer]

Combat Roll

[blockquote]Rolled 2d6 : 2, 1, total 3[/blockquote]

Survival Check

[blockquote]Rolled 2d6 : 3, 5, total 8[/blockquote]

[Fatebringer]

LOL, Chance for the enemy to crit and sink me

[blockquote]Rolled 2d6 : 2, 5, total 7[/blockquote]

[Fatebringer]

The York Warship... Neg, a trio of boosters without any armor or guns remaining on several sized evades the pursuing fleet with one dropship carrying a star's worth of three clusters of fighter it brought with. No one could have excpected the treachery that awaited them. The Aegis that was her escort lay cracked and brocken in the void, but the information that Star Commodore Ladhemil had, nuclear weapons use, Falcon cowardice, and the return of the McEvedy, would be invaluable. Despite Star Commodore Fidel's orders to fight to the end, Ladhemil felt required to get this information to the Khan as soon as possible and when they finally reached quasi-safe distance he gave the order to jump...

ND had 14.25 - 11.5 + 1.25 = 4
TH had 28.5 - 2.25 + .25 = 26.5

Salvage Pool is 13.75

[Cannonshop]

Spider Moon Traffic control, Boojum, Kowloon system...

"I think we're alone now, that last Dominion ship won't last long."  CPO Emma Jennings tugged her headset off, and sighed.  "Okay, people, the intruders are burning toward Kowloon-the-Planet.  That means either an invasion, or bombardment.  OUR fleet doesn't have anything within a month of here except the Capital squadrons, and they need to stay there in case these guys are here for a broader sort of conquest."

"Why're they burning at the planet, Chief?  The fuckin' Industry is out HERE?"  PO3 Jian Sinclair asked, "Most fo the industries, too..."

"Because they're Flatlanders."  Emma spat, "Flatlanders always assume nothing of value is anywhere but on, or directly above, a blue-marble planet, which is why we're going to keep chatter out here to a flat minimum-also, not everything industrial or valuable is out here-without the components produced on Kowloon itself and the near-orbitals there, our yards, mines, and processors are out of business one month, two tops-there just aren't enough heavy elements in the belts out here to keep anything above a smallshop operation open."

"We're stuck here, eh?" someone asked.

"Yeah, we're stuck here." Chief Jennings confirmed, "Get the Rockjack family ops together on a telnet, we need to figure out a plan to get the unarmed civilians out of the way for when these bozos realize they're going to be pounding mostly farmland, and come looking for the REAL money."

"What about the Clanners that stayed and fought?"  Sinclair asked, "They're flatlanders, those lifepods and wrecks won't keep 'em alive long, and I'll bet they have wounded."

"We've got to get them out of here before those...whoever they are, collect 'em or burn 'em."  Corpsman-Petty-Officer Winter Liang insisted.
"Send out rescue service boats-hopefully they'll be able to match and recover before those invasion types get back-but if hostiles even LOOK at the boats, the crews're to duck for the nearest rubble-pile and hide."

[Fatebringer]

((That is turn 3 combat. Dave asked me to knock it out. Your still on turn 2))

[Cannonshop]

((That is turn 3 combat. Dave asked me to knock it out. Your still on turn 2))

Sorry 'bout that.  the sentiment could just as easily be a reaction to the situation in turn 2, I thought, anyway.  I'll amend accordingly.

[Dave Baughman]

Main battle is in progress.

[Dave Baughman]

So... I started wrapping up the naval fight and suddenly I see...

        Battle Taxi NL-42 #6 (TF1) has no thrust left to spend and cannot avoid collision.
    Attacker takes 638 damage.
*** Battle Taxi NL-42 #6 (TF1) DESTROYED by by massive ramming damage! ***
    Defender takes 34 damage .
*** Strike 2 Squadron (Worst GM Ever) DESTROYED by by massive ramming damage! ***
Possible collision between Battle Taxi NL-42 #19 (TF1) and Aquarius Escort #2 (TF1)!
        Aquarius Escort #2 (TF1) attempts to avoid the collision. Needs 5, rolls 8: avoids collision, but spends remaining thrust.Possible collision between VNS-105A Squadron (TF1) and Aquarius Escort #13 (TF1)!
        Aquarius Escort #13 (TF1) attempts to avoid the collision. Needs 5, rolls 3: cannot avoid collision.
    Attacker takes 6 damage.
*** VNS-105A Squadron (TF1) DESTROYED by by massive ramming damage! ***
*** Stuka STU-K5 #2 (TF1) was trapped in the wreckage. ***
*** Eisensturm EST-OC #3 (TF1) was trapped in the wreckage. ***
*** Eisensturm EST-OA #4 (TF1) was trapped in the wreckage. ***
*** Eisensturm EST-R3 #6 (TF1) was trapped in the wreckage. ***
*** Eisensturm EST-R3 #7 (TF1) was trapped in the wreckage. ***
*** Eisensturm EST-R3 #8 (TF1) was trapped in the wreckage. ***
    Defender takes 173 damage  (using Right Side table).        Aquarius Escort #13 (TF1) takes 173 damage to RS. Armor destroyed, 5 damage transfers to the SI. 3 SI remaining
            Possible critical hit (Damage threshold exceeded); needs 8, rolls 10 : Transport bays hit! 0 units destroyed.
            Possible critical hit (SI damaged); needs 8, rolls 10 : Cargo hit! 100% of cargo is lost

[Cannonshop]

damn, didn't realize I blew it that bad.

[Dave Baughman]

hey, you took out some Toasters in the process at least  



The invading fleet blasts through the Kowloon defense line in tight formation, disengaging at high acceleration as soon as the two Kowloon WarShips are sunk...

(battle damage assessment and remaining combat rolls to follow after work)

Victory!
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Winner is: Terran Hegemony?

Worst GM Ever: 0 BV remaining (from 1275671 initially) 1213938 BV disengaged
TF1: 118702 BV remaining (from 233161 initially) 0 BV fled
ObviousLie: 28568 BV remaining (from 177326 initially) 0 BV fled
Deathrider6: 0 BV remaining (from 0 initially) 0 BV fled

(unit list is too long - MegaMek apparently has a copy & paste limit   - entitystatus attached for your perusal)

[Fatebringer]

The current round is still turn 3, TH gets to declare actions of all the units not engaged against the ND ship. Then on turn 4, UIW and TH have to roll initiative.

[Dave Baughman]

(OOC: its actually one turn later, TH arrived in op round 2, so the MM fight was in round 3 and the "future" fight was in round 4)

Battle Damage Assessment, Turn 3 (TH vs. UIW portion)


TH committed 79.50 FP (plus 3 taxis @ 0.25 each and 3 FP of marines for a total of 3.75)
UIW committed 18.25 FP (plus 47 taxis @ 0.25 each and 48 FP of marine troops for a total of 59.75 marine FP)


UIW sustains 64% casualties including the loss of both WarShips (11.75 FP of naval damage, 39.00 FP of marines*)

*As the marine losses were realistically probably more like 30 or 40%, you can shift some marine FP damage to naval, especially if you need to increase the naval damage to account for the sunk warships.

TH sustains 5% casualties (4.00 FP Naval, 0.25 FP marines)

The TH marines never deployed, but given the way the Fredasa was savaged by the Lie just before she went down, I'm figuring from a fluff POV that 0.25 represents a Battle Taxi getting trashed on the hanger deck by debris or something.

UIW recovers 1.25 FP of naval FP through damage control, as well as 4.00 FP of marine FP.
TH recovers 0.50 FP through damage control (not enough damage to get any damcon on the marine portion of its FP)



Assuming the UIW doesn't do any voluntary damage transfer, its FP for the system stands at 14.50
Inclusive of its damage from facing the Dominion forces in the separate engagement this turn, the combined TH(?) force stands at 109 FP. All ships still intact except Sign of Revelation, which was sunk against the Dominion York.



During Turn 4, 28.5 FP was already committed to separate action against the York. While the rest of the fleet moves in to secure various orbital positions, Sarah McEvedy and her assault dropships (along with a small fighter force) move to reduce Fleet Base Kowloon.

[Dave Baughman]

36.00 TH FP (1 Lev 2 + 4 DA + 2 squads of each weight class) simple rez vs. Fleet Base Kowloon

[blockquote]Rolled 2d6 : 5, 1, total 6[/blockquote]