September 28, 3064 – There is nothing to protest our arrival on Small World – no fighters, no DropShips, nothing. Intel has their forces in garrisons in the five cities, as the mining interests are done in the suburbs of all of the cities – so each city has military, production, and economic value for garrisoning. That spreads out their units. Now they’ve put a full company of mechs and tanks right by the newly open up mining complex.
So we hit that place first. We have Nineveh Company unloading in that area. Within 15 minutes we have reached their compound and they have moved out to attack us. We are facing 12 mechs and 12 tanks with just 12 mechs – but we have higher level tech, some clan tech, they are all regular pilots, we also 50/50 elite/veteran:
Masakari C
ST-8A Shootist
HTM-27T Hatamato-Chi
GAL-1GLS Gallowglas
DVS-2 Devastator
Vulture B
CPLT-C1 Catapult
WHD-6D Warhammer
WTC-4M Watchman
JVN-10F Javelin
PXH-1D Phoenix Hawk
CMT-1 Comet
We’re also a but on the heavy side. 3 assaults (Masakari, Hatamato, Devastator), 2 mediums (Watchman, PXH), 2 ligghts (Comet, jav) and then a ton of quality heavies (Shootist, Gallowglas, Vulture, Catapult, and Warhammer) with two clan omnis in there.
We believe this is a very winnable battle.
This is our Gallowglas:
Here is the enemy company of Mechs, all level 1 tech:
Wasp
BattleMaster
Commando
Crusader
Phoenix Hawk
Shadow Hawk
UrbanMech
Scorpion
Cicada
Goliath
Marauder
JagerMech
There’s a lot of reasons these designs might have been sold as surplus and such. First, some might have been captured in war, and then not needed, like the UrbanMech. Quad designs aren’t valued highly, so the Scorpion and Goliath probably reflect that. Some are highly common Davion mechs that would have been replaced by updated and newer models. You can see mechs like the JagerMech and Commando sliding here. Others are mechs that are venerable, fight for a lot of militaries, but are tired – Wasp, Phoenix Hawk, Shadow Hawk, Marauder and Crusader.
He has these tanks:
2x AC2 Carriers
Schrek, AC Carrier version
Ontos
2x Harasser Missile Platforms
2x Goblin Medium Tanks
2x Condor Heavy Hover Tanks
Vedette Medium Tank
Saladin Assault Hover Tank
It also looks like about 5 squads of infantry are with them, and a lance of 4 VTOLS is buzzing around too. We did not have the infantry and VTOLs in our scouting report. The VTOLs are all the AC5 carrying versions of the Warrior Attack Helicopter. 2 squads of jump infantry with machine guns, two foot infantry with machine guns, and a foot with SRMS.
Even with all of this, the battle value for this match is 20206 for them and 31461 for us…
Let’s go!