MechWarrior: Days of the Clans

[That_One_Guy]

Garian looked around then back at his radar, looking for a blip that marked his enemies positions.

[Zender_Solarheart]

For a moment, Zandile spots the mostly-breached armor near the missiles, and thinks to detonate them...however, his Styx is a close-range 'mech, which means he'd likely suffer collateral damage if he did that right now. So instead, he circles around the 'mech towards its back (left or right, whichever will get behind it faster), while firing three bursts of Autocannon rounds into the nearest leg on it, aiming towards the knee-joint. If the Autocannon rounds don't do the trick, then he'll fire another two Laser blasts at the joint, alternating between the two until he can smack its knee with the Hatchet.

[Gorbaz]

Talin

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The Vulture is distracted by other fire coming it's way, allowing you to flank it. You blaze away at close range, melting off armour and destroying one of the launcher mechanisms

Mel

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Your PPC's spit into life, hitting the Vulture in the centre torso and left arm, causing damage and crippling it's autocannon. The Vulture accellerates towards you and launches all it's missiles. Shots coming from the Axeman stagger it's aim, 18 of the missiles impacting your right leg, 6 in your centre torso, and 12 missing completely. The missiles leave smoking holes in your armour, but cause no internal damage

Zender

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Your circling of the Vulture is made easier as it accellerates foward past you and concentrating it's fire on the Warhammer. Your autocannon barks out three burst, one of which misses, but the other two clip it's right leg, staggering the vehicle

DnD and TOG

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Three Ryoken burst from the woodlands to the south and open fire on you both with a blaze of laser fire. The first concentrates of the Atlas, two of it's medium lasers cutting into the mech's knee and damaging the joint, but not beyond useability. The two large lasers melt armour off the torso, but it holds firm. The other two Ryokens concentrate their fire on the Maurauder. The first fires all it's lasers, two of which collide with the torso while the others miss, while the second lends it's fire, also having most of it's shots dance across the torso armour. Alarms blaze in the cockpit at there is a hull breach on the right side of the torso. Thankfully the ammo for the autocannon is stores elsewhere, so doesn't explode.

[dndman997]

Duo feels the laser impact as the force some what shook the cockpit "dammit" he said quickly opening the comms "could really use some help over here" he said letting out PPC shots and medium laser shots. he manuverued his mech around in hopes to get the cockpit of one in sight of the autocannon.

[Zender_Solarheart]

"Bad move, tin-head!" Zandile shouts with fury, as he closes in on the Vulture from behind, firing a few Laser shots at its damaged leg, while moving in for a point-blank Autocannon shot at the back of the cockpit. And if that doesn't do it, then there's always the Hatchet.

[talin]

Talin hears Duo over the comms "Could really use some help over here!" He notes that the vulture is taken care of and brings his mech to top speed attempting to quickly get behind the Ryoken and trying to rake his lasers across their cockpits in an attempt to get their attention while his immense speed and angle of approach presents them with a difficult target to hit. "I'll try and draw their fire, you focus your fire on their midsections and see if you can get one of their cores to go critical!"

[MelissaB]

Viper bounces around in her cockpit for the impact of the missiles. "Son of a Bitch!" Viper turns her legs but keeps her torso facing the vulture and accelerates to max speed and using an alpha strike hoping to get the vulture in a circle of death.

[That_One_Guy]

Garian smiles and prepares his LRMs on the Ryoken aimed at him while simultaneously aiming his PPCs and firing them at it.

[Gorbaz]

Duo and Zender and Mel

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Combining your fire on the Vulture results in it's cockpit crumpling under heavy autocannon fire, and a huge explosion as it's missile ammo bin detonates. Thankfully, your shots don't fly through and hit each other, however, the sudden brightness of the explosion is startling, and may have damaged the reactor. That's another mech down

Talin

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Unfortunatly, your skill isn't enough to hit the Ryoken's head from behind, mostly due to it only being visible from the front. Instead, you rake the rear armour and cause a fair amount of damage to the Mech. You also get it's attention, as evidenced by it turning to point all of it's 6 lasers in your direction

TOG

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Your fullisade rips into the Ryoken's right arm, tearing it off the mech. The machine staggars, but starts to strafe around and fireing at you with it's remaining weapons. Your right arm takes a couple of hits, but holds firm, and your cockpit it struck, melting some armour but the structure remains intact. You doubt that you could take much more punishment to the head before tou'll be seeing sunlight through the hull

The remaining Ryoken and DnD exchange fire ineffectually

[That_One_Guy]

Garian lets loose another round of LRMs and PPCs while retreating backwards back towards the nearest hangars for repairs.

[talin]

(didn't realize I was already behind them) talin pushes his mechs upper speed limit to get behind a hill letting of a final salvo of laser fire at the ryoken targeting Garian (TOG) "Garian's taking hits and I got my hands full trying not to get hit, we need assistance NOW!"

[MelissaB]

"Roger that. Jason, Duo offer Garian covering fire!" Viper sets her mech to max speed and heads over trying to aid her lance mates. "Zandile get to Talin as soon as you can and offer support. Guerilla tactics only don't want anyone getting caught out in the open facing three of those bastards." Viper Fires her PPCs at the closest mech as soon as they come into range trying to get their attention she then instantly slows her mech down and turns her legs to the side and speeds up again often changing her speed to slower and faster tomake her movement erratic to make her a more difficult target as she moves to the side she begins firing any weapon she has that the clanner is in range of.

[dndman997]

"im doing my best viper" Duo said over the comms aiming and firing everything his mech has towards the nearest ryoken

[Zender_Solarheart]

"Roger that!" Zandile shouts into the com-link, his voice made a bit more tense by the adrenaline of battle. Sticking to the rolling hill-sides as cover, he works his way up towards the Ryoken Talin's occupied with, firing a short burst of his Autocannon at the spot where Talin's laser blast damaged it, once he gets a clear shot. If that's not enough, then he keeps up the pressure, firing 1 or 2 shots from his Lasers at its legs as he dashes between cover, and using said cover to alleviate the heat build-up from using said lasers. The Ryoken may be a fast model, but if its legs are damaged, that speed is far less of an issue.

[Gorbaz]

[TOG]
Your LRM and PPC volley clips the leg of one of the Ryokens, tripping it up and causing it to collapse forward. Unfortunatly, as there are no repair bays anywhere nearby, you'd have to travel back to the main base for repairs.

[Talin]
The laserfire from your mech melts off the rear armour of the fallen Ryoken, exposing it's reactor core to the open air. The poilot struggles to right his mech, but it's slow going

[Mel]
PPC fire rakes across the arm of one of the Ryokens, causing it's attention to focus on you. Your erratic movement puts off it's pilot, and the only shot that hits is a larhe laser hitting your left arm, but only damaging the armour. Thankfully, the weapon systems still seem to be working as normal

[Zender]
Autocannon rounds thud right into the breach that Talin's lasers had made and, in a catestrophic explosion, the core melts down. The mech is vapourised, although the pilot managed to eject in time

There are two Ryokens left on the battlefield. Both appear shaken

[Zender_Solarheart]

Zandile sees his Autocannon fire strike true, piercing the core in what re-defines the meaning of a "critical hit," and igniting what's left of the Ryoken in the searing eruption of a reactor melt-down. The Styx auto-adjusts its camera-filtering to protect his eyes from the bright flash, and he instinctively ducks as close to his spot of cover as possible to avoid radiation damage. "Well, so much for salvaging that one." His voice bears a mix of mild annoyance, humor, and the brief rush of downing one's opponent. The pilot lives, but if he's not a Steel Viper, then Zandile has no real motivation to pursue.

His next thought is to check up on the team-mate he just moved in to support. "This is Zandile. 1 Ryoken nuked, 2 to go. You still in fighting shape, Talin?" Talin's 'mech is a light-weight, so he's hoping that the recent nuking of that Ryoken didn't put his little Locust in unnecessary danger.

[talin]

Talin sees the ryoken go off and shields his eyes, his mech being at about med range when it happened so he didn't think it damaged anything. He hears Zandile's comment *ha! leave it to a merc to think of salvage at a time like this.* he thinks to himself "I'm all green Zan, just keep focused on the last one standing, Garians got the other prone so he only needs to pounce on it while it's down and he's got an easy time of it." He takes the advantage of the other two ryoken being shaken up by their closer proximity and charges the one that is still standing from the side and (see next post).

[Zender_Solarheart]

"On it!" Zandile shouts over the com-link, before darting to the nearest cover-spot that lets him shoot at the Ryoken's lower sections, and fires a pair of Laser blasts at its legs, one from each arm-gun. If that melts any armor off, he fires an Autocannon burst at the damaged spot to compound the damage; if not, he moves between cover spots in an arc, with the opposite direction of Talin, and fires a single Laser blast at its legs between cover-swaps. If there's one thing Garian's proved expertly, it's that even the fastest 'mech is nothing without a means of locomotion.

[That_One_Guy]

Garian continues his slow retreat backwards, firing one more volley at the Ryoken before starting a full retreat back for repairs.

[dndman997]

Duo aims his autocannon 5 to bear upon the closest ryoken aiming for its leg to cripple it