[Turn 52] *Turning Point* Pella II - Shark Supremacy vs. Federated Suns

[Dave Baughman]

Zenith Jump Point
Pella Star System
9 November 3091

Alerted to the presence of a Federated Suns task force in Capellan space, the Shark Supremacy moves quickly to confront the interlopers. When they arrive, the general lack of cooperation they receive from the local governor leads them to believe that he is in cahoots with the Federats.

Several hours later, a transmission is received from the task force.

"Shark Supremacy forces, this is Vice-Admiral Lisa Mae Richards commanding FSDS Principality. We are a Star League Defense Force task force on official Council business. We request permission to return to Federated Suns space via sectors 2533, 2633, and 2733. Be advised that if you do not grant us flight clearance we will have no choice but to regard your intentions as hostile."

Scenario

The Federated Suns convoy has no intention of backing down - even if it means cutting a swathe through Capellan space to get back home.

Cooler Heads Can Prevail

The Shark Supremacy can avert a conflict at Pella by granting the FS force their movement request. Note that their proposed flight plan takes them within jump range of Sian; if they were to double-cross you, it could be costly.

The rest of this scenario assumes the Sharks deny flight clearance and a fight ensues.

Attacker

The attacker consists of elements of the Shark Supremacy navy, in two broad components:

• Aerospace fighters: one aerospace line-item (cluster or wing).
• WarShips: no more than two warships.

If playing in MegaMek, squadrons and capital fighters should only be used if warships are present. Otherwise, scale the fight to allow for individual non-capital fighter combat.

Defender

The defenders are elements of the Federated Suns task force lead by the 10th Lyran Guards Aerospace Brigade. FS aerospace tables are attached for reference.

The FS fighters are regular, with one veteran squadron leader for every six fighters deployed.

The FS may field and equal number of fighters to those fielded by the Sharks. Additionally, they may field combat dropships equal to the difference in BV (MegaMek) or FP (Simple Res). If WarShips are present, the following pocket warships may be fielded:

• Overlord A3
• Excalibur PWS
• Arondight PWS

Scoring

In Simple Resolution, roll only one round of combat, after which the FS convoy will flee.

Each side earns a number of points equal to the percentage of enemy BV (MegaMek) or FP (Simple Resolution) destroyed.

• If the winner's score is no more than 24% above the loser's, the battle is a draw
• If the winner's score is 25-49% above the loser's, that side wins a marginal victory
• If the winner's score is 50% or more above the loser's, that side wins a decisive victory

[Fatebringer]

Our version of Megamek doesn't have working Fighter SQDNs, so we opted to proxy this with Mechs.

FS will get 2 Heavy (Overlord A3s), 4 Mediums (Other Dropships) and 2 lights (Fighters)
SS get 2 Assaults (Destroyers) 1 Medium (Dropship) 2 lights (Fighters)

The match will be faught in open terrain to simulate the openess of space.

[Fatebringer]

This fight isn't even close to what the scenario should be so we aren't going to finish it. The FS side has more armor, more speed, more guns, etc. Not even close to what they would be facing with the well armored / well gunned warships and fighters they would have been facing.

[Fatebringer]

We are going again with lighter mechs for the FS and adding pavement to force the units to either slow down or make the same PSR's they would make in space.

[Fatebringer]

The Volga (Stone Rhino) didn't make it thru the battle, but the Whirlwind (Bane) did. However the armor held up as several of the harder hitting dropships (Legionairres) were taken down early. The last dropship managed to take down a fast moving fighter squadron (Incubus)

Victory!
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Winner is: TEAM #1

Fatebringer: 4977 BV remaining (from 10333 initially) 0 BV fled
10th Lyran Guards: 0 BV remaining (from 10230 initially) 0 BV fled

Survivors are:
Kraken (Bane) 3 (Fatebringer)
Pilot : Ja-Eun Xian [4/5] ( 1 hit(s) )
Kills : 2

Peregrine (Horned Owl) (Fatebringer)
Pilot : Elvinia Armstrong [4/5] ( 2 hit(s) )
Kills : 1

Firefly C FFL-C (Fatebringer)
Pilot : Charlotte Smith [4/5]
Kills : 1


Graveyard contains:
Legionnaire LGN-1X (10th Lyran Guards)
Pilot : Alopa Yep [4/5] ( 6 hit(s)   )
Kills : 0
Destroyed by pilot error.

Hatchetman HCT-5DD (10th Lyran Guards)
Pilot : Carl Duxbury [4/5] ( 6 hit(s)   )
Kills : 0
Destroyed by Kraken (Bane) 3 (Fatebringer)

Legionnaire LGN-2D (10th Lyran Guards)
Pilot : Brielle Lpez [4/5]
Kills : 0
Destroyed by Behemoth (Stone Rhino) 3 (Fatebringer)

Legionnaire LGN-2D #2 (10th Lyran Guards)
Pilot : Nevin Hodyl [4/5] ( 6 hit(s)   )
Kills : 0
Destroyed by Firefly C FFL-C (Fatebringer)

Centurion CN9-D5 (10th Lyran Guards)
Pilot : Darcey Williams [4/5] ( 1 hit(s) )
Kills : 0
Destroyed by Kraken (Bane) 3 (Fatebringer)

Behemoth (Stone Rhino) 3 (Fatebringer)
Pilot : Mikaela MacDuffie [4/5] ( 5 hit(s) )
Kills : 1
Destroyed by Valkyrie VLK-QD4 (10th Lyran Guards)

Blackjack BJ-2 (10th Lyran Guards)
Pilot : Lonan Ubaydah [3/4] ( 1 hit(s) )
Kills : 1
Destroyed by Vixen (Incubus) (Fatebringer)

Vixen (Incubus) (Fatebringer)
Pilot : Marlene  Schenk [4/5]
Kills : 2
Destroyed by Blackjack BJ-2 (10th Lyran Guards)


The following utterly destroyed units are not available for salvage:
MechWarrior Alopa Yep (10th Lyran Guards)
Gunnery Skill : Alopa Yep [4] ( 6 hit(s)   )
Kills : 0
Destroyed by pilot error.

MechWarrior Carl Duxbury (10th Lyran Guards)
Gunnery Skill : Carl Duxbury [4] ( 6 hit(s)   )
Kills : 0
Destroyed by pilot error.

MechWarrior Nevin Hodyl (10th Lyran Guards)
Gunnery Skill : Nevin Hodyl [4] ( 6 hit(s)   )
Kills : 0
Destroyed by pilot error.

Valkyrie VLK-QD4 (10th Lyran Guards)
Pilot : Bandhura  Kumur [4/5] ( 6 hit(s)   )
Kills : 1
Destroyed by Vixen (Incubus) (Fatebringer)

Nightsky NGS-5S (10th Lyran Guards)
Pilot : Rod Long [4/5] ( 6 hit(s) )
Kills : 0
Destroyed by Peregrine (Horned Owl) (Fatebringer)

MechWarrior Rod Long (10th Lyran Guards)
Gunnery Skill : Rod Long [4] ( 6 hit(s) )
Kills : 0
Destroyed by pilot error.


Detailed unit status saved to entitystatus.txt