1st Battleship battle

[Hard Sarge]

Oct 2109

the first Alien Battleship is seen, but it is on the wrong side of the defence net, all units are orders to stand down and wait

just as it appears as if the BB will enter the main killing zone, it turns and lands and quickly takes over the place

the order comes in to take off and assult, plans will be forwarded as the craft is in flight

new armor and weapons are passed out, the last quiet spell, has given us a chance to rearm and gain some production time

the Transport lands and the ramp is lowered

Jack as the most exp trooper begins to exit the ramp and spots a Tank, snap fires a burst from his EEEW, and rips the cockpit of the tank apart, shifts his head and spots a 2nd tank, another burst and another tank goes down, a quick scan, and the coast is clear, a few steps forward, a smile crosses his face, his wild fireing not only took down 2 tanks, it also took out a Preacher

quickly he raises his rifle barrel to his lips and plants a kiss on its still warm barrel, good girl

over his headset, he starts to bark out his landing orders, Z get out here and begin the scout, Walloc you too, the rest of you deploy and keep spread out, this one may get hairy

[Hard Sarge]

1 Particle Rifle and 2 Pistols
1 AKEW Rifle
1 Heavy Plasma Gun
1 Heavy Ion Gun
3 Rockets launchers
5 EEEW Rifles
 
State of the Art Weapons, or so we hope
 
 
 

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Z on his Scout runs into another Preacher, and although it takes some doing is frozen in place (old Mindsheild)

Jack gets off 7 rounds, hitting with at least 4 of them, and the Preacher just turns and places a bolt of Ion right in the middle of the Transport landing bay, at least, the bay is empty

Gil fires off his Rocket Launcher, and a HE rounds explodes on the targets facesheild, nothing

Sarge, plants two Partcile bolts right into its chest, and then it falls

Jack keys his headset, record, 2 Tanks and 2 preachers, confirm, down

[Hard Sarge]

Record
LZ and Assult Zone secured
 
this thing is Huge, only looks to be one way in, or out
 
so going to be a bottleneck
 
note to brain boys, we need breaching charges already
 
Aliens are either hiding, or figure they can do more damage by letting us come to them
 
 

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Double doors, crudwell, this is going to be tuff

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okay, who first

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Z moves forward and pops the hatch, clean, but two more doors !

going to make this a room to room fight, but also means, the Aliens can't mass, or get much long range fire, but what they can shoot at, is going to be close and confined

the 2nd door is opened, and another tank is seen, NOW, yells Z and Walloc opens the other door, the Tank starts to swing its gun from side to side, which target to fire at ? Alfred fires a short burst, which misses, but confuses the tank even more, Walloc steps back and tosses his Static nade, the blind blue flash fills the room, the tank fires off a burst, but it is off target, and spatters against the wall

Record, 3 tanks, 2 Preachers down, confirmed

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and then the door opens and another tank enters the room, it moves towards Z and then both Z and the tank trade fire, with Z taking the worst of it, but his new Armor takes most of the brunt of the damage, Alfred fires off another burst, with causes the tank to change it's target, Z fires a burst from his pistol and the tank is down

Sarge takes some heavy mind blasts, his old shield is not enough to hold it off and he is frozen in place

need some healing guys, David is closest with a kit so moves in to repair the scout

Walloc steps forward to see if there are any more tanks behind this door

OOOPs, tank and Preacher

Walloc can't take a firefight, so backs up and tosses one of his new chem nades

need some help here guys, need some help

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Phoebe and Kelly (the Rocket Babes) fire off two stun rockets into the next room, it may not be a Commander, but it may slow it down some

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the gas and stun did not slow down the preacher, it steps into the door way, and it brought down by a hail of gun fire
 
Record, 4 tanks and 3 Preachers down, confirmed

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Alfred opens the door (his name is Fred Allison, but I call him Alfred) and spots another Preacher trying to leave the gas filled room, he doesn't make it

the Rocket babes, move in and fire stun rockets into the next room, Z slips in and gets behind some crates and waits for something in the other room to move

Sherry moves in and spots another Preacher hovering near the lift (now that would of been embearassing)

fires off a burst and hits twice, and in turn, takes a burst off of her Armored chest (either the armor is good, or the angles help, the shot does not get though)

Walloc steps up and tosses another Static nade and the Preacher goes down

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down the lift a Tank slowly lowers itself, bad move, it is met with a hail of fire and explodes before it bring its gun to bear
 
Erik clears the next hallway and then the engine room, looks like 2 more rooms and the lift
 
so far so good
 
Record, 5 tanks and 5 Preachers confirmed down
 
Z fails a mind check
 
we need to get the newer mind shield
 
 

[Hard Sarge]

Phoebe and Alfred have taken damage, either from left over gas, or during the heat of the firefight, nobody seen it

but time is taken to heal them, then Z jumps on the lift and raises to the top, nothing but a hallway, Walloc enters his lift, and is shocked to see 2 Preacher Commanders and another Preacher bent over some sort of control screen

toss his stun nade, and as the Aliens spin and fire, they are wild, giving him time to toss a 2nd one, only to have half of his leg blow off by the next hail of fire, down he drops, and yells for help, and to let the others know he has hit the jack pot, Sherry rushs over to start some healing, while Phoebe rushes to the lift and just has time to fire off a stun rocket

Z clears the other half of the upper levels

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Phoebe takes a blast to the chest, the other Aliens are shaky and miss, 5 shots are fired but only one reaches the target, but Phoebe is a blonde, and is a easy mark for the mind probe, she is frozen in place
 
2 more rooms are cleared
 
 

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Walloc rushes to protect Phoebe, fires off a burst and takes down one of the commanders, but is taken down by the return fire, Sherry enters the lift and gets off two bursts into the Preachers, but both remain hovering
 
Z hears the gun fire and turns to try and find a way to the battle, only to run face to face with another Preacher, tosses his Static nade and then fires off a burst from his pistol, Kelly hearing the fire from above, enters the lift and fires a stun rocket into the preacher and then drops back down, Jack, hearing and following the battle, rushes into the room and runs to the lift and plants 3 rounds into the Aliens chest as it rasies its Ion Weapon towards Z, the Alien loses
 
 

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the return fire from the Preachers is poor, Sherry withstands the mind probe, while Phoebe is able to shake off the cobwebs and pulls out some some stim kits, healing Afred

Alfred levels his Rifle and fires two bursts into the 2 Preachers, hitting with every round, both go down

Z and Jack clear two more rooms, and then spot another Preacher, tosses another stun nade, and ducks as the Ion blast goes high, Jack drops the Preacher with one round to the face plate

the rest is mop up and healing

Record, 5 tanks, 8 Preachers, 2 Commanders down, confirmed, maybe more, all the mind probes flying around, crew is confused as to the outcome, tell high command, not to let these things land

[GalacticOrigins]

This is very cool ... I wish I had passed on the screenies, tho, since my war is not that far. Seems if one researches like a snail, the aliens show up slower. I am still fighting era 1 and 2 in AUG 2109.
 
Wish I could do screenies, but I don't have that capability atm.

[Arctic Blast]

Good grief! Sounds like battleships are quite a bit of fun.

[dbt1949_slith]

I only had one battleship mission where I attacked the ship. That was enough.[X(]
The rest attacked my base or ended up being terror missions. I never attacked one in midair. It was tough enough taking out battlecruisers without losing fighters