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[MonkeyHead]

Hehehe, Boksi's an expert at hunting Ryckurn Monkeyhead's ships. Shame you're Ryckurn Monkeyhead...

fixed that for you

[MonkeyHead]

Mission 4 Update (Probably warcrimes. Yay!)

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Wow. this mission is a fun sounding one. Go kill the unarmed n00b pilots. If i had morals, i might object. Alas, i prefer shooting at things that dont shoot back. I assume that the fuck up potential will be increased by a sequadron or 2 of enemy aces in heavy fighters just waiting to kill all 3 of us horribly...

I will take a stealth fighter as usual. Boski and Glyphgryph get gunships with enough ammo to waste the trainees.
CONTACT! Boski spots the trainees learning to fly shuttles. WASTE THEM!



turkey shoot time. boski gets 2, glyphgryph gets 1, and gets a bit trigger happy. BAIL OUT BOSKI...



WTF? ONLY ONE MISSILE HITS BOSKI... causing moderate damage to sensors, shields and his cockpit, but he isnt dead. HOW?

everyone calms down, and the killing of the innoce... i mean mission continues. Boski bags another training craft as an enemy bomber shows up - too late suckers!

we mop up the rest of the training craft. on cue, the rest of the enemy squad show up, literally saturating our volume with missiles. we all take a few hits, then this happens...



my unshielded rear seems to be acting like a missile magnet. geuss what? i eject. again... 4 in a row? i am as good as dead...

BUT NO! miracle. i escape. my ship is wasted. boski also ejects in an incident i miss due to my ejecting. Glyphgryph hyperspaces out...



So a short and sharp action. we leave the enemy squadron behind to survey the smouldering wreckage of thier training craft! success! somehow noone has died still - this i do not understand. i have wrecked every craft i have been in. Boski would have a medal or 2 by now if he shot his own side less.

if this doesnt earn us enough cash for a 4th ship i will not be happy.

updated pilot stats and roster before mission 5:

1 Monkeyhead - fighter/bomber: 4 missions, 7 kills, 2 MoH, 4 ships lost
2 Boski - gunship: 4 missions, 7 kills, 2 ships lost, 2 green on green
3 GlyphGryph - anything: 4 missions, 1 kill, 1 ship lost
4 EuchreJack - low spec
5 Shadowdump - all round
6 Megaman - anything
7 Falknor - anything
8 Mainiac - low spec
9 Muwahahaha - slow and heavy
10 Char13mange - speed
11 Metal Militia - anything
12 Deadmeat - gunship/scout
13 warhammer651 - heavily armed
14 Sheb - bomber
15 IronyOwl - armor
16 Metal Militia - heavily armed
17 deviled - speed
18 - Farseer - anything
19 - Inteuniso - anything

[Sheb]

I hope you don't need to pay for every ship that you loose.

[MonkeyHead]

fortunatley not, but its not so simple...

 you start with a balance of 350. for each kill, mission success and medal this is increased by a small percentage for your next mission, and never decreases despite failure, green on green or any other snafu incident.

getting promoted up the ranks gives a bigger jump. kindly the game refunds you if a ship is wasted. the only problem is that the ships availiable to choose from are semi random, with the better ones unlocked by rank. as i am still at lieutenant, i only have access to basic models yet. the upside is as a lieutenant, the missions are relativley simple. hopefully if i dont die on the next mission, i might get promoted, get a few more and better ships to use, and some more dangerous missions. not that committing a horrible war crme wasnt fun mind you.

[IronyOwl]

By the way, what's the difference between making it home and ejecting to safety? You say you get reimbursed for destroyed ships, right?

[MonkeyHead]

making it home is surviving to the end, or hyperspacing away... either way you get to keep your ship. this is more relevant if you have a rare ship...

[Boksi]

Here's hoping that someone will die soon!

[Sheb]

Can we ban ejection? I mean, only the best pilots should fight, and what better way to select the best than natural selection?

[SHAD0Wdump]

Can we ban ejection? I mean, only the best pilots should fight, and what better way to select the best than natural selection?

I say nobody gets to eject except the rare and endangered MonkeyHead as our host.

[MonkeyHead]

afraid my only control over that would be my own craft - the rest are autonomous. i could ban myself from ejecting...

[MonkeyHead]

now with added FAIL, its the MISSION 5 UPDATE

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so today we get to attack a lone enemy freighter. i dont like the sound of that "almost certainly...."

I am taking a low spec fighter. Boski gets his standard gunship. Glyphgryph gets a low spec scout, as thats the best we have on offer, and making his deput flight, its EuchreJack - welcome to bay12 squadron.

anyway, off we go then. dropping into the sector, nice and empty. lets get searching for this freighter then...

CONTACT!



well, that didnt take long. a destroyer. great. no doubt with some fighters. well, lets go get killed boys! attack at will... i fire off 3 light missiles in a hopeful potshot at the destroyer.



these suprisingly drop its shields entirely. if you 3 can get yor butts here quickly we might kill it before it kills me...



that missile hits me, seriously messing up my sensors, engines and weapons, however, im not giving up on killing that beast of a ship yet, especially as euchrejack in his suicide drone is almost in range...





KILL IT! KILL IT NOW!

unfortunatley Euchrejack misses and takes a wing hit. my ship is so broken i cant turn to help... and end up in this awkward position between a bomber and a light fighter. help please guys?



as luck would have it i am too fast to be targetted, and now with support from Euchrejack and glyphgryph, turn to chase them. boski is playing hump the asteroid miles away. this is good as it makes me safer.

then, somehow (lol my total lack of manouverability) the light fighter ends up behind me doing this:



but i am still very confident i can avoid those slow missiles... meanwhile glyphgryph is in a bad way. he has taken a massive hit from 2 enemy bombers as the rest of you play missile chicken with them... in the followingimage, notice how much of his ship is on fire. choosing to not be on fire anymore, glyphgryph elects to hyperspace out. i continue to turn slow left circles ( the only move i can make!) to avoid those missiles.



somehow, inamongst all this, euchrejack has lined up a bomber in his sights... please kill him...



he lands a good hit, and reloads... but the bomber gets off a shot on boski (by now me and the light fighter are just circling one another. he has no ammo left, and i cant get behind him)



boski is killed instantly and his ship is vapourised. bummer. his killer then fires off a missile at the fleeing glyphgryph... who manages to eject as his burning craft is vaporised. this leaves me in a craft that only turns left and euchrejack in a suicide drone against at least 2 heavy bombers and a light fighter.

determined to even the odds, euchrejack targets 2 enemy drones, killing the larger of the 2.



this seems to have made him deeply unpopular, as he then gets shot at. a lot.



those 2 missiles both hit, crippling him, so i rush to his aid, dodging some burning wreckage from an enemy green on green, but as i get there he ejects. this puts me on my own, in a ship that only turns left, against at least 3 more drones, 2 fighters, and 2 bombers. thers also a freighter somewhere.

then, the last thing i want to happens. i collide with a fleeing enemy ship. it dissapears up its own arse into hyperspace. this sint the bad thing. the bad thing is that now i cant move. at all. so i sit. and wait. but then this happens:



a passing bomber decides to show off and kill me while flying backwards. well, to deny him of his fun i decide to eject. hell, i have survived 4 of these already.

i get out of there as my ship disintegrates.



so a failure. but a fun one. boski is dead. we ALL lost our ships. the only kill goes to euchrejack in his suicide drone. heres hoping for more of the same next time out.

updated pilot roster and stats:

1 Monkeyhead - fighter/bomber: 5 missions, 7 kills, 2 MoH, 5 ships lost
KIA Boski - gunship: 5 missions, 7 kills, 3 ships lost, 2 green on green
2 GlyphGryph - anything: 5 missions, 1 kill, 2 ships lost
3 EuchreJack - Kamikazi drone: 1 mission, 1 kill, 1 ship lost
4 Shadowdump - all round
5 Megaman - anything
6 Falknor - anything
7 Mainiac - low spec
8 Muwahahaha - slow and heavy
9 Char13mange - speed
10 Metal Militia - anything
11 Deadmeat - gunship/scout
12 warhammer651 - heavily armed
13 Sheb - bomber
14 IronyOwl - armor
15 Metal Militia - heavily armed
16 deviled - speed
17 - Farseer - anything
18 - Inteuniso - anything

[SHAD0Wdump]

Well hey, at least your worst enemy is dead.

[MonkeyHead]

increases my odds of survival signifigantly i recon. mission 6 later once i have finished the duties of a father.

[EuchreJack]

Yay suicide drone!

This mission proves the effectiveness of the kamakazi plan!

[MonkeyHead]

as requested - its armed to the teeth for a ship of its size, but has no engines other than the minimum, no sensors other than some to work out where it is, and minimal armor. suits you sir! you might up with less next mission...