Working
with the assault lance is never dull, and I’m not just saying that because of
all the time I spend riding on Lee’s Vulture.
Those guys have an amazing ability to come up with insane plans and get
themselves into trouble. And because my squad is effectively attached to their
lance, I’m usually along for the ride.
Take
this latest one as an example. We were trying to look for a way to lure out the
Ashburton pirates. They’d managed to find out the target of the next pirate
attack, being a warehouse district on the Batman waterfront (Yeah, the pirates
were going straight after the capital even knowing that there was a mercenary
company present. Talk about ballsy!), so they had decided to plan a surprise
party. They had their ‘Mechs shipped in (Along with my squad, of course) and
hidden in the target warehouses in ambush.
Sure
enough the pirates took the bait. Five hovers (Two Condors, a Stygian, a maxim
and a civvy Hovertruck) blazed in from over the water, covered by a pair of
Cavalry VTOLs. As soon as they got near, Takahashi opened up from cover, which
definitely spooked them, but not enough at first to call off their attack.
While the hovers wheeled around (Including the Maxim dropping off a load of
Standard Battlearmour) they unleashed their own secret weapon. A Yeoman emerged form the water, and not
in a “’Mech walking on the ocean floor” way. Nom this thing was like some sort
of freaking submarine.
The
rest of the lance emerged and really set them off. The Cavalrys doused Haki’s Axman in infernos, so in response he
bought one of them down with his LBX. We swarmed the chopper and captured the
crew for further questioning. The Maxim then wheeled around and beamed Haki
with a TAG, leading to flights of LRMs from the hovers and the Yeoman bombarding him. (So we can add
‘prototype BattleMech and semi-guided LRMs’ to their operational budget).
Things
suddenly turned around when Randy sank the Stygian and then crushed the
Hovertruck, which was enough to convince them to get the hell out of there. The
Maxim had no way to pick their suits up and instead cut and ran, possibly
hoping that the suits would be able to escape on their own. Didn’t matter, as
Haki blasted the Maxim and sent it to the bottom as well. The two Condors and
remaining Cavalry got away clean, but they got nothing for their efforts. The Yeoman tried to make a run for it as
well, but a hit form Randy almost sunk it. For a moment it looked like it had
gone to the bottom as well, but it seemed to recover and escape.
So we managed
to scare them off without them having anything to show for it. Pretty good
start, if you ask me.
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