Battle of Newcastle, Australia:
The main deployment of this month is to Australia. Specifically, Newcastle, north of Sydney. This time, much to your annoyance, the Kaiju is coming up right on the beach.. deployments are hasty, with units rushing to the combat area. This time, damage will be done to the city. Leading off the fight, the RAN seems to be willing to contest this battle. They have ships patrolling up and down the coasts, with the clear intention of fighting back. Protecting Newcastle is HMAS Canberra, a missile frigate.
The Kaiju begins to pull itself out of the sea. It's a collossal lobster-like thing, blue like all Kaiju, although this one seems a particularly intense colour. There are some land modifications.. there seems to be extra limbs under the tail. The tail itself is very notable. Unless you miss your guess, and enormous missile launcher of some kind is built into it, clearly with some articulation and great power.
The Canberra shoots first. The missile streaks out towards the Kaiju, taking a moment to build up speed. The response is immediate. Even before the hit is recieved, a second missile is launched from the Kaiju, aimed for the Canberra
The ASM is a definite hit. The high-speed missile visibly slams into the giant lobster , and a large explosion is seen. The smoke, however, clears to show a still-intact Kaiju, albeit a mad one.
The Canberra isn't so lucky. The enemy missile is a solid hit, and she's in a sinking condition following the attack. Not utterly demolished, but clearly removed from the battlefield.
The ground units are still scrambling, hurrying to get in position. But the new black market jet from the USSCI is in range, and launches some missiles. Again, the Kaiju shoots back, almost before the jet reaches the drop point, but almost is not quite, which makes a difference. The jet disappears into an explosion, with nothing visible remaining. Its missiles, however, are not forgotten. Several hits are scored on the Kaiju, and this time it seems to feel them. Blood drips, and it takes a long moment to recover.
Following the explosion, the creature seems to be turning about in a rage. Several buildings are badly damaged or destroyed, and it manages to ready another missile for the oncoming units before any can enter range.
This one streaks towards the Ares infantry, causing an absurd explosion. Fortunately, after seeing the previous effects, the column managed to scatter properly and continues, despite significant casulties. At long last, the ground troops are in range. Three artillery pieces and the Coke Knights MRLS have managed to close the range. The infantry are still struggling to get their smaller weapons into the fight.
They fire their weapons, and the Kaiju erupts into flame, only to bull through it without further wounds. This is one tough lobster! It then chooses to launch another missile. At the same target. It is pretty much unmentionable what happens to the remainder of the Ares platoon.
Another round of fire is launched. This Kaiju doesn't seem to have any area powers, so it's a simple damage race. The next blow goes to the MRLS. The repeated pounding has opened up a new pit on the back of the creature, and it's visibly weakened.
Weakened.. but not dead. That missile launcher, still seemingly untouched and fully functional, returns fire on the last attacker. There is nothing left but a crater left of the MRLS, the missile arcing heavily in this urban environment.
More fire from the k-coms comes out. At this point the Kaiju is certainly weakened.. bleeding, with plenty of scorch marks and small chunks broken off. It's still fighting hard, but it's starting to look vulnerable, which shows quickly. The Coke Knights artillery nails a nice bank shot at the leg joints. That certainly wounded it. Unfortunately, it must have staggered out of the way, as the follow-up shots from the USSCI battery is mostly off-target.
The Kaiju, seemingly maddened by pain, and perhaps beginning to worry about dying, attempts to charge the attackers. It's still quick despite all that's happened, but is unable to yet close the range. The missile launcher attacks for it, however, and one more missile streaks out into the heavens.
Which demolishes one of the USSCI artillery pieces.
The surviving units, at this time, two artillery pieces and an infantry platoon, attack the badly wounded Kaiju. The USSCI unit manages the next hit, repeating the hit last turn on the tail, but this time the protective armour over it cracks. It's functionality is unknown, but that definately did damage. Sadly, the other two units fail to compound on the damage.
The lobster continues to charge the ADD artillery piece, but is starting to look erratic. It manages to close the range, trying to smash the weapon with its pincers, but it isn't in control of itself, digging into buildings and ground works rather than the defending artillery. This still causes shrapnel to rain over them, wounding some of the crew as they try to retreat hurredly.
One missile, hopefully the last launches from the damaged tail. This one is homing somewhat erratically. Perhaps some of the targeting systems were damaged. It's less accurate than the previous missiles have been, but the explosive yield is still immense, and even a near-miss is enough to wreck the final USSCI artillery piece. This one at least is left as twisted wreckage rather than simply vanishing.
The Ares artillery crew, wounded from the fragments and desperately trying to run away, scatter return fire and fail to do damage to the giant monster. The Coke Knights, in a seemingly chivalric attempt, focus fire closely on the Kaiju, hitting it with a close burst of machine gun fire to some of the exposed wounds, causing more blood to spurt out.
..even those who did it can't quite believe themselves when the collossal creature starts slowing down further. They maintain the fire.. killing the Kaiju. Praise be to the Coke Knights, for they have killed a Kaiju with infantry small arms!
(More to follow over the next few days.)
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