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LANCER: BATTLEGROUP - To Kill the Worthy King
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<blockquote data-quote="Tun Kai Poh" data-source="post: 8461227" data-attributes="member: 6761960"><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>The Sword, Part 2</strong></span></p><p></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px">Round 3. </span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px">State of the fleets: </span></em></p><p></p><p><strong><em>2nd Crisis Response Group (Union Navy)</em></strong></p><p></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px">Battlegroup Eland (Range 4)</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px">Interdiction 1d6+2</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px">UNS-BB Nikolai Bukharin (25 HP), 2 volley tokens on 3x3 Block Short-Spool Cannons, boarding attempts by Tenacity 10 Marines.</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px">UNS-CV Shamokin Rising (16 HP), boarding attempts by Tenacity 10 Marines.</span></em></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em><span style="font-size: 15px">2x Fighter Wing (5 HP, 5 HP)</span></em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em><span style="font-size: 15px">Destroyer Unicorn (6 HP)</span></em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em><span style="font-size: 15px">Destroyer Undine (8 HP)</span></em></li> </ul><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px">Battlegroup Splinter (Range 3), </span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px">Interdiction: 2d6+2</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px">UNS-BB Richard Wagner (15 HP), 0 charge tokens and 4 overcharge tokens on Spinal Petajoule Kinetic, 1 charge tokens and 1 overcharge token on Spinal Petajoule Kinetic, Lock On. Bolstered.</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px">UNS-LS Björn Járnsiđa (13 HP, 1 OS from Sandstorm). Bolstered. </span></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The Wagner has taken quite a hammering, pretty much all self-inflicted.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px">Battlegroup Sour Brains (Range 3)</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px">Interdiction: 1d6+2</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px">MSMCS We Demand Hazard Pay (21 HP)</span></em></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em><span style="font-size: 15px">3x Mounted Chassis Wing (1 HP, 3 HP, 3 HP)</span></em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em><span style="font-size: 15px">MSMCS Facefirst (8 HP)</span></em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em><span style="font-size: 15px">MSMCS Fool's Gold (6 HP)</span></em></li> </ul><p><em><strong>2nd Expeditionary Fleet (Harrison Armory Colonial Legionate)</strong></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px">Battlegroup Hannibal (Gyre Center)</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px">Interdiction: 1d6</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px">PCV-DN Hannibal (Turtleback) (35 HP), Boarded by Tenacity 10 Marines. Deploy Ontological Payload: All Wings and Escorts are disabled until end of next turn.</span></em></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em><span style="font-size: 15px">1x Brothers in Arms (8 HP), 2 charge token on Short-Spool Spinal Guns (1/2 strength)</span></em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em><span style="font-size: 15px">Ace: Albedo Cavalier (8 HP), 2 heat tokens on 1 Beam.</span></em></li> </ul><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px">Battlegroup Shaka Zulu (Gyre Center)</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px">PCV-DN Shaka Zulu (Paladin) (-6 HP) </span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px">Battlegroup Titania (Gyre Center)</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px">Interdiction: 2d6</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px">PCV-DN Titania (UNKNOWN Man O'War) (35 HP), 2 charge token on Naphoros Omnigun, 2 charge tokens on Demisolar Lance, 1 reloading token on Pulse-Pack Missiles, Lock On.</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px">- 4x Daggerflight (6 HP, 6 HP, 6 HP, 2 HP) </span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px">Battlegroup Arminius (Gyre Center)</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px">Interdiction: 1d6+4</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px">PCV-GC Arminius (Mastermind Breakwater) (25 HP)</span></em></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em><span style="font-size: 15px">4x Fighter-Bomber Wing (5 HP, 5 HP, 5 HP, 5 HP)</span></em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em><span style="font-size: 15px">Diluvia (18 HP)</span></em></li> </ul><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">An eerie darkness settles on the Wagner's bridge, both figuratively and literally as her crew silence her alarms, waiting tensely, taut faces highlighted by the dimmed glow of their screens. Her gunnery crew is particularly tense, knowing full well the fate of the battle will literally turn on their efforts in the next few hours. CGO Bryant carefully pushes the last few petajoules of power into the port SPK and runs her team through their final calculations.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">The gloom is broken by the sudden flash of the Björn's Harbinger lasers as they reach out and touch the newly arrived Arminius: a harbinger, if you will, of the Wagner's impending wrath.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>Battlegroup Splinter:</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>Remove charge token on the SPK, add one ovrecharge token. Take 1 damage</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>Harbinger lasers x2 : 4 points of damage on the Arminius</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">The Titania's missile racks unleash wave after wave of Pulse-Pack Missiles, seeding the area around Battlegroups Splinter and Sour Brains with nuclear mines. If the Union forces try to form a line at this range, they will suffer for it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>Battlegroup Hannibal: Brothers In Arms removes 1 charge token from Short-Spool Spinal Guns.</em></span></p><p></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px">Battlegroup Titania: Titania removes 1 charge token from Demisolar Lance. Its targeting laser deals 2 damage to Richard Wagner. Titania adds an omnigun charge token to Naphoros Omnigun. Titania removes a Reloading token from Pulse-Pack Missiles, so it's ready to fire. The Titania blankets Range 3 with the Pulse-Pack Missiles (any hostile battlegroup ending their turn there takes 2d6 Area Damage).</span></em></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">The flash is blinding as the massively overcharged starboard SPK unloads its full fury at the charging Titania sending its hyperdense payload at it at barely below the speed of light. The shot slams headlong into the massive battleship, staggering it and tearing a colossal gash in its hull, several hundred meters longer and deeper than the gash that killed the Shaka Zulu.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">But the Titania is apparently made of much sterner stuff. Despite the terrific impact, the ship continues to close, its energy signature glowing threateningly as it brings its own weapons to bear.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Then the second shot hits it dead center.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">The titanic battleship flies apart as the second supercharged shot plows through it, gutting it like a fish from bow to stern. Ready use pulse-pack missiles cook off, turning sizable chunks of spaceship into tiny chunks of spaceship as the angry expanding cloud of fire and debris consumes its escorting corvettes even as they desperately flee the maelstrom.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>SPK1 - Target: Titania Roll: 6 (4,2)</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>Reroll: 14</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>Bonus damage: (3, 2, 2, 1)</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>Total damage: 28</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>SPK2 - Target: Titania Roll: 6 (6)</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>Bonus damage: (2,2)</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>Total damage: 19</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>Impact step weapons fire simultaneously, so the Titania gets a parting shot with the Omnigun for 3 damage to Björn Járnsiđa. Destroying the Overshield on the Björn actually triggers the Sandstorm Vanguard's ability, dealing a further 3 damage to the Titania, which takes it into a level of destruction that leaves nothing to salvage.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">The crew of the Wagner say nothing, watching the carnage with cold calculation. They have, within the span of the last 48 hours accounted for two entire Purview capital ships, but at hideous cost to their own ships' integrity. Everyone knows that. And watching the tactical screen and the barrage now barring the path between the Bukharin and the Wagner, they know that they are still alone. Many are silently cursing the mercy that held their hand against the Titania before. Now it is they who will have to pay the butcher's bill.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Caspian breaks the silence.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">"Helm, engines, spool up," he points angrily at the image of the Arminius, "Point us at that spaceborne abomination. Gunnery, Security - prepare to launch everything we have left at that thing. Everyone else collision stations!"</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Next: Animals</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tun Kai Poh, post: 8461227, member: 6761960"] [SIZE=5][B]The Sword, Part 2[/B][/SIZE] [I][SIZE=4]Round 3. State of the fleets: [/SIZE][/I] [B][I]2nd Crisis Response Group (Union Navy)[/I][/B] [I][SIZE=4]Battlegroup Eland (Range 4) Interdiction 1d6+2 UNS-BB Nikolai Bukharin (25 HP), 2 volley tokens on 3x3 Block Short-Spool Cannons, boarding attempts by Tenacity 10 Marines. UNS-CV Shamokin Rising (16 HP), boarding attempts by Tenacity 10 Marines.[/SIZE][/I] [LIST] [*][I][SIZE=4]2x Fighter Wing (5 HP, 5 HP)[/SIZE][/I] [*][I][SIZE=4]Destroyer Unicorn (6 HP)[/SIZE][/I] [*][I][SIZE=4]Destroyer Undine (8 HP)[/SIZE][/I] [/LIST] [I][SIZE=4]Battlegroup Splinter (Range 3), Interdiction: 2d6+2 UNS-BB Richard Wagner (15 HP), 0 charge tokens and 4 overcharge tokens on Spinal Petajoule Kinetic, 1 charge tokens and 1 overcharge token on Spinal Petajoule Kinetic, Lock On. Bolstered. UNS-LS Björn Járnsiđa (13 HP, 1 OS from Sandstorm). Bolstered. [/SIZE] The Wagner has taken quite a hammering, pretty much all self-inflicted. [SIZE=4]Battlegroup Sour Brains (Range 3) Interdiction: 1d6+2 MSMCS We Demand Hazard Pay (21 HP)[/SIZE][/I] [LIST] [*][I][SIZE=4]3x Mounted Chassis Wing (1 HP, 3 HP, 3 HP)[/SIZE][/I] [*][I][SIZE=4]MSMCS Facefirst (8 HP)[/SIZE][/I] [*][I][SIZE=4]MSMCS Fool's Gold (6 HP)[/SIZE][/I] [/LIST] [I][B]2nd Expeditionary Fleet (Harrison Armory Colonial Legionate)[/B] [SIZE=4]Battlegroup Hannibal (Gyre Center) Interdiction: 1d6 PCV-DN Hannibal (Turtleback) (35 HP), Boarded by Tenacity 10 Marines. Deploy Ontological Payload: All Wings and Escorts are disabled until end of next turn.[/SIZE][/I] [LIST] [*][I][SIZE=4]1x Brothers in Arms (8 HP), 2 charge token on Short-Spool Spinal Guns (1/2 strength)[/SIZE][/I] [*][I][SIZE=4]Ace: Albedo Cavalier (8 HP), 2 heat tokens on 1 Beam.[/SIZE][/I] [/LIST] [I][SIZE=4]Battlegroup Shaka Zulu (Gyre Center) PCV-DN Shaka Zulu (Paladin) (-6 HP) Battlegroup Titania (Gyre Center) Interdiction: 2d6 PCV-DN Titania (UNKNOWN Man O'War) (35 HP), 2 charge token on Naphoros Omnigun, 2 charge tokens on Demisolar Lance, 1 reloading token on Pulse-Pack Missiles, Lock On. - 4x Daggerflight (6 HP, 6 HP, 6 HP, 2 HP) Battlegroup Arminius (Gyre Center) Interdiction: 1d6+4 PCV-GC Arminius (Mastermind Breakwater) (25 HP)[/SIZE][/I] [LIST] [*][I][SIZE=4]4x Fighter-Bomber Wing (5 HP, 5 HP, 5 HP, 5 HP)[/SIZE][/I] [*][I][SIZE=4]Diluvia (18 HP)[/SIZE][/I] [/LIST] [SIZE=4]An eerie darkness settles on the Wagner's bridge, both figuratively and literally as her crew silence her alarms, waiting tensely, taut faces highlighted by the dimmed glow of their screens. Her gunnery crew is particularly tense, knowing full well the fate of the battle will literally turn on their efforts in the next few hours. CGO Bryant carefully pushes the last few petajoules of power into the port SPK and runs her team through their final calculations. The gloom is broken by the sudden flash of the Björn's Harbinger lasers as they reach out and touch the newly arrived Arminius: a harbinger, if you will, of the Wagner's impending wrath. [I]Battlegroup Splinter: Remove charge token on the SPK, add one ovrecharge token. Take 1 damage Harbinger lasers x2 : 4 points of damage on the Arminius[/I] The Titania's missile racks unleash wave after wave of Pulse-Pack Missiles, seeding the area around Battlegroups Splinter and Sour Brains with nuclear mines. If the Union forces try to form a line at this range, they will suffer for it. [I]Battlegroup Hannibal: Brothers In Arms removes 1 charge token from Short-Spool Spinal Guns.[/I][/SIZE] [I][SIZE=4]Battlegroup Titania: Titania removes 1 charge token from Demisolar Lance. Its targeting laser deals 2 damage to Richard Wagner. Titania adds an omnigun charge token to Naphoros Omnigun. Titania removes a Reloading token from Pulse-Pack Missiles, so it's ready to fire. The Titania blankets Range 3 with the Pulse-Pack Missiles (any hostile battlegroup ending their turn there takes 2d6 Area Damage).[/SIZE][/I] [SIZE=4] The flash is blinding as the massively overcharged starboard SPK unloads its full fury at the charging Titania sending its hyperdense payload at it at barely below the speed of light. The shot slams headlong into the massive battleship, staggering it and tearing a colossal gash in its hull, several hundred meters longer and deeper than the gash that killed the Shaka Zulu. But the Titania is apparently made of much sterner stuff. Despite the terrific impact, the ship continues to close, its energy signature glowing threateningly as it brings its own weapons to bear. Then the second shot hits it dead center. The titanic battleship flies apart as the second supercharged shot plows through it, gutting it like a fish from bow to stern. Ready use pulse-pack missiles cook off, turning sizable chunks of spaceship into tiny chunks of spaceship as the angry expanding cloud of fire and debris consumes its escorting corvettes even as they desperately flee the maelstrom. [I]SPK1 - Target: Titania Roll: 6 (4,2) Reroll: 14 Bonus damage: (3, 2, 2, 1) Total damage: 28 SPK2 - Target: Titania Roll: 6 (6) Bonus damage: (2,2) Total damage: 19 Impact step weapons fire simultaneously, so the Titania gets a parting shot with the Omnigun for 3 damage to Björn Járnsiđa. Destroying the Overshield on the Björn actually triggers the Sandstorm Vanguard's ability, dealing a further 3 damage to the Titania, which takes it into a level of destruction that leaves nothing to salvage.[/I] The crew of the Wagner say nothing, watching the carnage with cold calculation. They have, within the span of the last 48 hours accounted for two entire Purview capital ships, but at hideous cost to their own ships' integrity. Everyone knows that. And watching the tactical screen and the barrage now barring the path between the Bukharin and the Wagner, they know that they are still alone. Many are silently cursing the mercy that held their hand against the Titania before. Now it is they who will have to pay the butcher's bill. Caspian breaks the silence. "Helm, engines, spool up," he points angrily at the image of the Arminius, "Point us at that spaceborne abomination. Gunnery, Security - prepare to launch everything we have left at that thing. Everyone else collision stations!" Next: Animals[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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