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[Egan_BW]

"Pilot! How long can you keep her in the sky?"
Stay back and refrain from wasting .45 ammo from this range.

"We can't take much more of this fire. I can set you down, but we'll have to call a fresh chopper to extract you. Which means you'll be on your own for an hour."

"Alright. Set us down. What do you think, Remrud? Should you and Hoffman land with the rest of us or come back with a new chopper?

[Nikitian]

(( ...Seems this has started. Sent a pm some time ago, but no reply, so asking here: may I late-join yet? ))

Spoiler: Explosives Specialist (click to show/hide)

Name: S/Of Nemesio Barrantes
Age: 39
Gender: Male
Bio/Appearance, etc.: Imagine a man born to wage war. Imagine a man with penchant for all things that can go bang, a man with a taste for aroma of various things burning. Imagine a man who does not mind hands-on approach to violence and destruction.
And then discharge that man from military service. ...Good thing ERRANT was there to pick him up, eh?

Strength:   +1 [+0I5P]
Dexterity:  +1 [+1I0P]
Endurance:  +0 [+0I0P]
Charisma:   -1 [-1I0P]
Mind:       -1 [-1I0P]
Fate:       +2 [+2I0P]
Intuition:  -2 [-2I0P]

Engineering:-1 [-1I0P]
Shooting:   +2 [+0I5P1B]
Melee:      +2 [+2I0P]
Explosives: +2 [+2I0P]
Auxiliary:  -2 [-2I0P]
Medical:    -2 [-2I0P]
Science:    -2 [-2I0P]

Spoiler: Inventory (click to show/hide)

Weapons:
   Customized MK 14 EBR:
      Ammo: Four 20rnd JHP mags, Five 20rnd AP mags, 920 loose JHP bullets
      Range: Melee: 0 Short: +1 Medium: +1 Long: +0 Extreme: -1
      ROF: Fully Automatic
      Modifications:
         Leupold Mk 4 3.5-10x scope: +?
         Reflex Sight: +1 to Melee/Short (included)
         Foregrips: Better automatic Fire Control (+?)
         Mounted M203:
            Ammo: Six 40mm HE
            Range: Short: +1 Medium: 0
            ROF: Breech-Loaded

   AT4 Disposable Recoiless Rifle
      Ammo: One 84mm Rocket
      Range: Short: +1 Medium: 0 Long: -2

   VTAC Tomahawk

Explosives:
   M183 C-4 Satchel Charge Demolition Kit
      Payload: Two kits of 9.1 KG of C-4

   M112 C-4 Block Demolition Charge
      Payload: Eight kits of 1.25 pounds (0.56 Kg) of C-4

   AN-M14 Incendiary Grenade
      Payload: Two grenades

   AN-M8 White Smoke Grenade
      Payload: Two grenades

   M84 Flashbang
      Payload: Two grenades

   M67 Fragmentation Grenade
      Payload: Four grenades, each containing 180g of Composition B

   M68 Fragmentation Grenade (Impact fuse)
      Payload: Four grenades, each containing 180g of Composition B

Apparel:
   Interceptor Body Armor
   
   HEADS-UP Helmet
   Load Bearing Vest
   Field Pack
   

Miscellaneous:
   Entrenching Tool
   Modular Sleep System
   Canvas Tent
   Extreme Weather Jacket and Trousers
   Individual Water-Purification System
   Ballistic Ear-Plugs
   Gun Cleaning Kit
   Duct Tape
   Towel
   Mess Tin, Cooking Fuel, 4 meals (2 days) of MRE
   Hydration Pack for 2 Litres of Water. And 2 1 litre Canteens. (2 days of Water)

Spoiler: Cost list (click to show/hide)

1600$ for armor
3000$ for gun
1500$ for rocket
 300$ for axe
 500$ for 1000 7.62 JHP
 100$ for 100 7.62 AP
  80$ for eight M14 mags (plus one free)
 600$ for M203
 360$ for six 40mm HE
 500$ for two Satchel Charge Demo-kits
 120$ for eight Block Demolition Charges
 600$ for two Incendiary Grenades
 200$ for two White-Smoke Grenades
 300$ for two Flashbang Grenades
 240$ for eight Frag Grenades

Total: 10000$

[Egan_BW]

((If Aigre approves you joining retroactively, I'll put you on fireteam Lmao.
...Another M14 user on a CQB mission! Joy! ))

[syvarris]

"Like hell I'm leaving y'all!  We can hop on the second when it comes if you need aeriel support.  Hoffman [Zormod], join up with Ayy for now, I'll go with Lmao.  Barrantes [Nik], Muldoon [Dev], secure our immediate vicinity, then prepare to blow the service elevator right next to us."

Be the last person to disembark.  Try and take out one or both of the greys using kids as shields, if possible.  Once on the ground, find hard cover that has line of sight to the grays, but doesn't require me to run through enemy fire, and continue trying to take out the grays that have grabbed human shields.

Also, Nik pointed out an error in my char sheet--I wrote down my M14's bonus at medium as +2, but it only has +1.  Please correct that.  Question: Do SOPMOD optics conflict with the default scope, or could I get a +1 to long range by equipping the x6 ACOG?  If the latter, I'd like to retroactively equip the x6.

[Aigre Excalibur]

(( We add Nikitian's Nemesio Barrantes and stuff him into the copter retroactively ))

Hold fire as per orders. Have FMJ rounds loaded in all weapons.

You load your gun up.

"Pilot! How long can you keep her in the sky?"
Stay back and refrain from wasting .45 ammo from this range.

You stay behind the armored doors of the UH-60 blackhawk

Lamo team! Focus fire on the alien behind the water fountain let the sniper take car of the rest

start snapping shots with my m4 at the alien behind the water fountain and get to cover.

[3+2-2 =3]

You take one snap shot from a wobbly copter. It grazes the alien behind the water fountain in the right arm [fails cover save], and flies smack into the neck of the civilian behind him. [5 on over-penetration]

The civilian's neck arteries turn into a fountain of blood, baptizing everyone around him. The screaming starts. Lots and lots of screaming from a hundred civilian prisoners squatting around in front of the UFO.

"I'm taking the furthest one.  Everyone hold fire until I open up."

You curse as your trigger happy m4 user tries to blap the alien by the fountain. Then you go fuck it and take a shot at the furthest alien. [6]

Your 7.62mm NATO round travels through 5 civilians before being deflected off somewhere. (Alien passes a cover save)

The first civilian has his left arm shredded. The second's head explodes. The third is holed square in the chest. It goes through the right thigh of a fourth. Then it buries itself in the gut of the fifth victim.

William Muldoon

Holding fire until Lester shoots first.  Pick my target as the near-left beta.

"Pick targets, make the surprise count.  Lets put them all down before they have a chance to shoot back."

You fire a burst into one of the aliens holding a hostage. It hits him square in the chest and nails the six year old girl he was holding, leaving him unscathed.

But we're not done yet...

Keep my gun pointed at the fountain grey. Make sure FMJ is the loaded ammotype. Don't fire until Lester fires.

Lester fired.
You chuck fully automatic 7.62 NATO firepower from a wobbly helicopter down-range at the wounded grey by the fountain. [1]

You massacre about 30 civilians behind your target.

The wounded alien by the fountain shoots at open copter door, and misses.

A second one fires and misses as well.

A third hits Cody Hoffman in the right leg. He is bleeding.

The fourth misses.

(Those were bad alien rolls. You lucky bastards)

Aliens: Alien by water fountain wounded in the right arm.

ERRANT: Cody Hoffman is bleeding from the right leg.

Civilians:
1 blood fountain from over-penetrated m4 fire.
A m14 shot shredded someone's arm, brained a second, holed a third in the chest, wounded a fourth in the leg, and then gutted the fifth.
1 dead six year old girl, former body shield for an alien. Shredded by expanding hollow point rounds. It's going to be a closed-casket funeral.
30 massacred from machine-gun fire.

Tally: 33 dead, 2 critically wounded (chest and gut), 2 wounded with limb shots.

[Aigre Excalibur]

"Like hell I'm leaving y'all!  We can hop on the second when it comes if you need aeriel support.  Hoffman [Zormod], join up with Ayy for now, I'll go with Lmao.  Barrantes [Nik], Muldoon [Dev], secure our immediate vicinity, then prepare to blow the service elevator right next to us."

Be the last person to disembark.  Try and take out one or both of the greys using kids as shields, if possible.  Once on the ground, find hard cover that has line of sight to the grays, but doesn't require me to run through enemy fire, and continue trying to take out the grays that have grabbed human shields.

Also, Nik pointed out an error in my char sheet--I wrote down my M14's bonus at medium as +2, but it only has +1.  Please correct that.  Question: Do SOPMOD optics conflict with the default scope, or could I get a +1 to long range by equipping the x6 ACOG?  If the latter, I'd like to retroactively equip the x6.

Optics don't stack, you'll use whichever is ideal for the situation.

[MidnightJaguar]

Sweet fucking Christ my IRA relatives caused less civie deaths then us. Fuck.
Patch up Cody using medical equipment.

[Egan_BW]

((Ahhaha fuck.))
"FUCKING WATCH YOUR FIRE! PILOT, BRING US IN TO LAND!"
Yell at people. Wish this were a 40K setting so I could field-execute people.

[MidnightJaguar]

Is it my fucking fault that aliens are apperntly flimsy as fuck and everything you shoot into one of them fucking over penetrates?

[syvarris]

"Fuck!  Hold fire 'til you're on the ground, chopper's far too unsteady!"

Unlatch my M14 from the heli, then wield my shotgun.  Be one of the first to disembark (are we fastroping or landing?), and clear the immediate vicinity before taking cover.  If there's no nearby enemies, swap back to M14 once I'm in cover, and try and take out one of the grays with a human shield.

((Also, are we using the ER roll system, or the traditional RTD system?  If I took Egan's pistol, and got a 2 while shooting it, how would my shot be different from Egan taking that shot?))

[Aigre Excalibur]

It's an ER roll system. An unstressed 2+3 shot will give you a perfect 5.

Battlefield conditions are never perfect.

[Zormod]

"Shit! Oh, Fuck! Holy fucking shit!"

Yeah, no more shooting here. Move away from the gun.

[Nikitian]

Frag 'em? Civvies 'd be patched up later.        ...Maybe.

JHP Magazine is loaded. Be ready to disembark third. Upon landing, hip-fire (single burst) at nearest alien while taking cover. EDIT: Map updated.

((@GM For the record: What kind of ranges are Melee and Short? It seems that the ranges are a bit longer than in ER (where "melee" range on deathtubes has generally been more or less a glorified "shove a gun up their face and pull the trigger"). Basically, is a few meters away (e.g. ~"across the room", "in the immediate vicinity") within Melee range, or is it Short range?

Also, could you generally include the distance between enemies positions in descriptions, where it isn't immediately obvious (like here)? No need for tactical maps if you don't want to, but it'd help with aiming AOEs (explosives, machinegun fire, etc.) and with planning in general (e.g. "Is it possible to 'zerk-bounce them one by one, or are they spaced too far?", "Which one is outlying from the group furthest and the best target for initial attack/in the best position to outflank us?" etc.).))

[Egan_BW]

"Hold off on explosives until our gunner is done killing all the civilians."

[Aigre Excalibur]

Updated Tactical Map of roof:

Hostile infantry in red diamonds and this is just what you can see. Remember they have a whole platoon here.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Medium is typically ideal assault rifle range of around 100m.

Short is things like firing down corridors, across rooms and bush-fighting ranges of ~20 to 50 metres

melee range can extend to targets in the same small room as you.

shooting across 2 rooms might be short range. Going toe-to-toe in extremely tight room-fighting confines would be melee.

For scale: each of those shop units are around 10-12 meters long.