All things considered, today didn’t go that badly. If you
wanted to be generous, then you could call our first day of operations on Fletcher
a success. (My great-grandmother unquestionably would have, but that’s her for
you)
AFFS intel had put two main units on Fletcher; the now-Cappelanised
Planetary Guard, and the 1st Liao Guards. The latter had been using
the world as a staging ground for attacks into the FedSuns’ Terran corridor,
which had left the Fletcher PG shouldering most of the ‘heavy lifting’ of defending
the world and the assets we were targeting. As such, we were largely expecting
to be facing a mix of vehicles and Battle Armour, with some second-rate ‘Mechs
as support.
The plan was to drop each of the BattleMech lances on a
different site, do some damage to both the facilities and the defenders and
then get the hell out of there. Naturally,
that’s not what happened at all. Instead, at each of the three sites we dropped
onto modern, front-line BattleMechs with skilled pilots. In other words, the
Liao Guards were there, not the Fletcher PG as expected.
The only good news is that they were apparently as
surprised as we were. That allowed us a chance to do some damage and make a
break to the rendezvous point. It wasn’t nearly as much as I’d have liked,
either in terms of the Capellan losses or the property damage we did.
On the upside, we didn’t suffer any losses, even if
Dimitri’s Archer is pretty much a
wreck and will need a lot of work before it’s useful again. Ransom, the newest
member of the lance, performed exceptionally well, his Black Knight managing to badly wound a Cappie Lu Wei Bang during the battle. Assault lance also did plenty of
damage, taking down two ‘Mechs without loss, while using infernos to spread damage
across the target
Only Recon Lance didn’t do so well. They faced a much
heavier force then their own, and had no option but to try and flee. They
escaped mostly intact, but Will definitely didn’t like it.
For all that, however, we do have a problem. Something has
seen the Liao Guard pulled from raiding duty, and then reassigned to guarding
the same targets we were going to hit. We need to find out what that is before
we continue our operations. In order to do that, I’m getting boots on the
ground to sniff out the situation.
I’ve had a few volunteers to do some on-foot intel and
recon. Takhashi, Randy and Lee are good at this sort of thing and have produced
some great results in past, so I’m confident that they will be able to do the
same here. Bruce spent some years on Fletcher in the past, and at the very
least can be a guide and might also know a few things. Finally, Ransom has also
put his hand up; he’s still new to the unit, but he’s definitely no amateur. It’ll
be interesting to see what he finds in particular.
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