The center lines, defended by the Edestekai pike are the next Sathar target. Armed only with pikes, the Edestekai need all the help and firepower you can give them.



(On this map you are shown coming in from the southeast to help the Edestekai pike line.)

You will be coming down a hill and have the height advantage over the Sathar forces.  (The height advantage gives you automatic initiative.)  At the bottom of the hill is desert terrain.

In the center of the area (about 50 meters between each side) is more of the vegetation root that gives off the dark black smoke.

There are 10 Sathar advancing across the desert.  They are about 100 meters away from the Edestekai, advancing slowly but surely.

COVER:  There are various rocks and shrubbery.  If you are looking for cover, roll a percentage roll:  01-20 indicates you can take full cover behind a rock/boulder; 21-40 indicates you can take soft cover behind a shrub or bush.

There are 16 Edestekai.  They travel in pairs, so for movement purposes, they are counted 2 to 1 (i.e., 8 counters on the board).

SITUATION: After opening the battle by an attack on the left flank, the Sathar are attempting to attack the Volturnus forces' center. The Sathar are approaching in two waves of 5 each.  In the rear of the Sathar forces, two Sathar are driving covered vehicles like Jeeps fit to the slithering, crawling worm creatures (the Sathar).

PLAYER CHARACTER'S GOALS: You must help the Edestekai by defeating the Sathar and making sure the Edestekai do not run away from battle.  (Recall that the Edestekai have strange religious beliefs and may believe that these are messengers from the gods, and they believe the quickdeaths are messengers from the God of Justice.  (Luckily, you see no quickdeaths here.)

Although you have only 16 Edestekai with you, reinforcements are approaching from the rear, another 16 in total.

The Edestekai are armed with pikes (long spears) which give them the advantage of being able to fight two ranks deep.  They must fight by melee only with the Sathar.  Each paired Edestekai will attack the same target.

The Edestekai also move in a formal line formation, four across (i.e., two counters).

Bartja abandons the recoiless rifle and heads toward the hill to help the Edestekai.  He will step in next to their ranks in the front row, pulling out his laser rifle set at 10 SEU.  He fires at the nearest Sathar when it is at 50 meters.

In reply to Bartja Nemuco (msg #2):

OOC: We could use the recoiless rifle onthe vehicles and ground troops... just a thought...

Yes, that is possible.  The gun itself weighs 44 pounds so will slow Bartja down.  You have 8 shells left (2 pounds each).



So he will have to take one round also to set it up on the tripod after moving it, and then he only gets to attack with it every other round.

"Everyone rally on Bartja.  We need that Recoiless Rifle!"

Bartja hauls it over, running as fast as his monkey-like Yazirian legs will carry him.  "I'm on it," he says. He will take the recoilless until it is about 100 meters from the center where the vegetation is and set it up there (which is considered short range for a recoilless), ready to fire as soon as he's set up.

Sergi collects some of the ammo

"We should set it up so we can fire into their flanks"

OOC Do we get our battle bots or are they mopping up the previous battlefield?

S'Krllk will assist in carrying what he can of the recoilless rifle. The re-programmed warbot can hunt down the Sathar on its own... at least until some Sathar jumps on it and re-programs.
Speaking of 'bots, do those that we were controlling stay with us?

You may not still control your robots.  Instead, the surviving robots, edestekai, etc. will be used in Encounter 4.  So the more that survive, the easier Encounter 4 will be.

Let me take a moment to remind you of a couple things before this battle starts:


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Kri'lik does his best to patch eveyone up that needs bandages while helping organize the rest for the next assault.

Becka pulls out another grenade, ready to launch it when they're close enough to hit a target.

Desiraye tries to get everyone set up in position and ready to fire on the advancing Sathar forces.  She looks for cover for herself

"Bartja, get ready to fire on the vehicles.  Everyone else, target the troops.  Get ready to move in case our allies decide to disengage."

Desiraye will take an aimed shot at one of the lead Quickdeath.

STR/STA: 65/60
DEX/RS: 60/60
INT/LOG: 40/40
PER/LDR: 40/40
IM: 6
CURRENT STAMINA: 60/60

SKILLS:
Beam Weapons:4

70% +15% for aimed shot
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"Get ready to call in the air support, we'll want it to hit just before the bad guys reach the pike line.  I'll going down to stiffen their resolve."

Sergi take off towards the Pike line.  He will attempt to steady them, prepare them for the air strike and the flanking support fire.

The plan is to disrupt the assault with flank fire and aerial grenades, receive the disordered attackers at the halt with steady pikes, then counter attack.

Please note if you need healing from Kri'lik, as he is offering services between the battles.

"We can use the cavalry too if you think that would be better?" Desiraye says to Sergi.

Sergi shouts over his shoulder...

"I'm inclined to keep them in reserve for later.  Coordinating the air strike, the pikes and the flank fire may be tough enough without getting cavalry in the mix.  Too likely they'ed get frighted off by the grenades."

You all get into your elected positions.  On the way over, Kri'lik is able to inject you with biocort and use the medkit.  (You may each raise your stamina by 10 for this.)

By the time you get in position and Bartja gets the recoilless rifle up, you see that the Sathar have gotten to within 50 yards of the Edestekai, still in two rows, and the two jeeps have driven up front and turned around.  The Sathar driving the Jeeps have gotten out and gone to the back of the Jeeps.

And now you are in position, ready to charge or fight, when the Sathar open the back of the Jeeps, and out of each comes a Quickdeath.  The two Quickdeaths charge the front lines of the Edestekai while the Sathar sit back and wait.

(You recall the Edestekai are highly religious and the Quickdeath are gods of justice.  Therefore, how they react--like running away--is a key point here.)





You do have the advantage of higher terrain.

Bartja fires the recoilless into the quickdeaths before they can reach the Edestekai.  He won't fire if it poses a danger of hitting allies. Instead, he will fire toward the sathar lines once it reaches that point.

As quickly as he can the Vrusk shifts his attention to the lines of their allies and fires his laser rifle at the nearest quickdeath.