3 November, 3145
Defiance-IIIb
A couple of days pass that you spend analyzing the data found by the patrols and patch up your equipment. The skeletal superstructure that the Hellspawn spotted seems to be supporting some sort of launching rig, with a modified Overlord dropship parked several kilometers away. Further analysis supports that this is most likely some sort of mass driver set to bombard Defiance, and seems to be mostly put together. Compounding the issue, only the superstructure was discovered in the patrols. The control and power facilities for the driver remain undiscovered. As a bright spot, your techs have managed to jerry rig your sensors to be significantly more useful than they had been, so you wont be flying completely blind.
Smash and Grab
Rather than dispatch additional patrols to try to find the command and control facilities for the Mass Driver and risk the small groups being picked off by the alerted enemy, or recon-in-force and not cover enough ground to find them at all, a third option has been arrived at: Asking the Dracs. Since we know where their DropShip is, and it stands to reason that they know where their own forces are, we're going to hit the Overlord hard and infiltrate battle armor into the vessel. From there, we will extract the information and pull back to come up with a proper attack plan. They probably won't just roll out the red carpet, so we'll need to punch a hole through one of their doors to provide access. Because the sensors are so spotty, we should be able to pull up and surprise them.
Cost: 300WP
Options:
Saw you coming +100 WP: The defenders start with additional active units on the board.
Armed and Operational +200 WP: The Overlord is operational. It will shut down when boarded.
Allocation: The PCs may deploy up to 16 units. At least two of these must be battle armor. ASF are not available.
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Objective: Intel raid. Approach the enemy's dropship, gain access to it, and then escape with the required data.
Rewards:
Information is ammunition: 200WP
Successfully deliver battlearmor to the breached DropShip and keep another unit within 3 hexes of the ship for 4 rounds.
No Man Left Behind: 100WP
Recover the battlearmor before leaving the field.
Hold the Line: 100WP
Withdraw at least one unit that stayed within 3 hexes of the ship from the map, or one battlearmor that infiltrated the ship.
Recon in force: 1 Renown
Destroy/cripple 50% of the defending forces before withdrawing.
Special Rules:
Salvage - Salvage is in play after this track if both Information is Ammunition and Hold the Line objectives are successful.
Forced Withdrawal
Planetary Condition Low Gravity (.75g)
Low Gravity walking Speeds:
3 > 4
4 > 5
5 > 7
6 > 8
7 > 9
8 > 11
9 > 12
10 > 13
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