I suspect there may be some power brokering going on at HQ - someone is under the impression we would be good at defending a politician. I get yet another replacement medium fighter. Glyphgryph gets scout duty again. Megaman gets a medium fighter. Mainiac debuts in the "lucky" heavy drone.
We meet our politician at the outskirts of the sector the enemy is suspected to be in. Seeing no point in sticking close to him, we disperse and get searching for anything to shoot at.
CONTACT - Mainiac spots the enemy using the unusual tactic of getting shot by them, losing his front shields as a result. Well, lets get this over with shall we? ATTACK...
Myself and Glyphgryph tear into the enemy formation coming out form the cover of a cluster of asteroids. They had no idea we were coming. I manage 3 sweet shots at an enemy fighter...
and all 3 missiles impact - end result - dead fighter. My joy at this is very short lived. Megaman has uncovered a second squadron to the south of the sector and is doing well at avoiding thier shots. This second squad seems to be mainly scouts, so he should be able to hurt them on his own. His first shot wings one of them - keep it up please. Meanwhile...
I line up a second kill opportunity on an enemy light bomber. 3 missiles are sent his way, but he is turning too quick and I miss. I chase him into the asteroid cluster. Megaman continues his harassing of the enemy scouts to the south...
and then my luck comes good again:
The enemy bomber crashes into an asteroid. 3 more missiles sent his way, but only one hits, seriously damaging his engines. Lets see him try to run away from me now. Megaman continues to impress tying up 3 scouts by himself.
Of course, this was all too good to last. The enemy bomber I was chasing is now a lot slower than I had allowed for. We collide, and end up facing one another. A point blank exchange of fire drops my front shields, but destroys all his systems. The coward ejects as I vapourise whats left of his ship. While this is going on, Mainiac ends up in a sticky position:
He takes a massive starboard hit, and is left with only the abilities to shoot and turn left. Mainiac opts to hyperspace away in an effort to himself and possibly more importantly the ship. This doesnt go as planned as he is shot from behind by an unseen enemy and dies in a burst of flame. Now seems like a good time to regroup - the enemy are nowhere to be seen. This doesn't stop one of them landing a light hit on Megaman though. FOr reasons known only to himself, he ejects as a result of this - FROM A PERFECTLY GOOD SHIP. This doesn't look good all of a sudden. A damaged medium fighter and a scout against at least 3 scouts, and I suspect a few drones.
Well, at least that drone isn't much of a threat... well, it wasn't until it avoided 3 of those 4 missiles with ninja like agility, rammed into Glyphgryph and point blank vapourised him! Time for vengance:
He meets the same fate as Glyphgryph. Thats what you get for spreading my squadmates atoms into the void. All of a sudden I realise I am now on my own. Great. Well, lets find my next victim.
This proves to be difficult without a scout to feed me sensor information. Its not that hard to avoid the missiles sent at me, but it would be nice to be able to fire back...
There it is: the long range bomber thats causing me all the problems. He only managed to hit me once, but thats once too many. I need to dispatch him quickly while he is isolated.
Alas, this I could not do. he manages to hit me once more, destroying all my weapon systems. I can do no more good here so I hyperspace out. Fuck the politician. Fuck him in his stupid ass. Getting my ship home is far more important at this stage.
So, summary time. Well, we didnt manage to protect the politician. This is of minor importance though as the 3 kills I manage win me a medal and earn a promotion! This will unlock better ships for the rest of you. Oh, Glyphgryph and Mainiac didnt make it. Sorry guys.
Pilot roster:
1 Monkeyhead - fighter/bomber: 8 missions, 12 kills, 2 MoH, 1 MoCB, 1 green on green, 7 ships lost
KIA Boski - gunship: 5 missions, 7 kills, 3 ships lost, 2 green on green
KIA GlyphGryph - anything: 8 missions, 1 kill, 5 ships lost
KIA EuchreJack - Kamikazi drone: 2 missions, 1 kill, 2 ship lost
KIA Shadowdump - all round: 1 mission, 1 ship lost
2 Megaman - anything: 3 missions, 2 kills, 1 MoH, 2 ship lost
KIA Falknor - anything: 1 mission, 1 ship lost.
KIA Mainiac - low spec: 1 mission, 1 ship lost
3 Muwahahaha - slow and heavy
4 Char13mange - speed
5 Metal Militia - anything
6 Deadmeat - gunship/scout
7 warhammer651 - heavily armed
8 Sheb - bomber
9 IronyOwl - armor
10 Metal Militia - heavily armed
11 deviled - speed
12 Farseer - anything
13 Inteuniso - anything
14 Shadowdump's Clone - all round
15 mr person - low speed
16 Euchrejack's clone - Kamikazi
17 tarran - weapons, speed
18 xanatos jr - deathtrap/battlecruiser
19 Codecimal the Infinitely Prolonged - fighter
20 burnt pies - speed, weapons
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Topic: LP: Critical Mass. Mission 13 update. More pilots always welcome. (Read 12413 times)