11/24/59
The Rangers received a call to come immediately to extract a group of Federated Commonwealth who were cut off to the West. Due to the suddenness of the order, a collection of Lances from all three companies joined forces to provide cover.
Between the Rangers and the Federated Commonwealth extraction targets, the Drac opfor had a Commcenter along a South-flowing river that started at a deep pool reservoir. While the Drac were deployed mostly in a line, the Rangers noticed a Southern Lance that would have quickly started firing into the Federated Commonwealth unit, and sent word to the Federated Commonwealth to push to the North-East.
The Rangers sent Marigold ahead to open up a pathway for the Federated Commonwealth units to come through, and Marigold entered in from the North and began to push Southward. While Marigold did help to reduce the strength of the Drac forces, it was unable to draw the fire that was being sent against the extraction targets.
Turrets, including a pair of dual-Sniper artillery turrets, provided a high amount of potential damage, and as such, were targets. Fury and Jazz, who were deployed more Southward, dealt with the turrets and a lance of lighter mechs before swinging North to provide cover fire for the extraction.
Without the turrets to deal with and the Drac ground units busy, the Rangers used their air superiority to deliver crippling blows to several opfor mechs through a series of heavy bombing strikes.
Spectre and Blitzkrieg pushed West from the North-East, dealing with the few elements of the opfor that were most to the East at the time, though their fire only started closing in later, as the Federated Commonwealth units passed through Marigold's tunnel and the Drac reinforcements entered from the West.
The Federated Commonwealth units, for their part, provided a solid amount of firepower as they pushed East.
As the two lines of Rangers came together, the Drac base and units collapsed, as the outmaneuvering gave them no chance of stabilizing the fight. They therefore only managed to deal serious damage to half a dozen or so of the Ranger and Federated Commonwealth mechs while the Drac forces were wiped utterly. Overall, a successful end to the contract.
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Topic: FUSILIER Mission 5 - 11/24/3059 (Read 2948 times)