Desert Canyon - Skirmish - Solo QP
Sitting in the lobby, everything is silent, the calm before the storm. I type a few words, "lock and lurm", no response. The countdown ends and we power up our 'mechs, I bring up the map and take company command. A voice comes over the comms, "Anybody got a plan?", I bring up the wheel, move to affirmative and release... move here (B3)... whoops.
We head off to B3 anyway and turn left at the intersect for B4. Halfway along, that voice, "We shouldn't be going this way, we should rush the centre.", "yeah, yeah, lets do that" someone else chimes in. Our Griffin jumps the ridge for D4, enemy ping, centre map. "Told you." Like dogs after a squirrel the whole team turns around and starts heading back to D3>D4, tunnel vision closing in. Me (MadDog), a King Crab and a RVN-2X keep advancing.
As we round the corner we spot it, a Kodi poking the ridge, his back to us all exposed, a Hunchie his companion. Lurms firing off next to it but from what who knows. Our Krab moves up to do his dance, we open fire, the Kodi is armless before he even sees us, the hunchie moves into cover and a MadDog trades his place. I poke the dog and he to pulls back, leaving the kodi chasing a raven as our KCrab pulls him to pieces, I'm hitting the hunch and dogs flank so they can't support the Kodi and the Krab does what Krabs do best.... Dakka. I poke them into cover, the Raven keeps locks and the Krab... much Dakka he brings. The Kodi drops and the other two stall but they won't last. I check the map, the rest of our guys are tightly balled in the C3 canyon trying wanting to push out but slowly getting surrounded. The Dog dies 10-11, we have the edge, the hunch runs, bad move, 9-9. C'mon guys! That voice over comms "What are you guys doing over there, you're in the wrong place".
I pop a marker and we climb the ridge at B4/B5, spot a Clops and 'Phract in the canyon firing on allies, no time time to wait for the Krab, we get their attention. 9-7, not good. Me and the Raven stall and poke, Krabs is coming! 9-6! Krabs is coming! 8-5! KRABS IS COMING! "We're dead, these guys are just wasting time now."
The King rises, his Dakka rains down and they regret not retreating when they had the chance as our fire combine. Lurms blot out the sun and lasers flare upon our armour. The enemy is complacent, it may be 8-3 but we will not fall so easy! Our Raven has pushed round to C5, who knows how little ammo and Armour Krabs has left and my side torso is torn clean from my chassis. We back down the ridge 6-3. "Just charge them, they've won" this guy knows nothing.
I pop one last marker in the corner of C5, "hold this position". We move, our Raven comes flying home, something, in pursuit. Krabs stops in open ground and turns to B4. One last moment of quite before the final storm. A Jaguar rounds the stack at C4, a Scat leaps the ridge, a Spider and Raven, chasing our own. Krabs charges towards the Jaguar, for one last moment, he shines, LRMS and PPCs crash upon his armour until his structure buckles under insurmountable levels of damage and he finally yields. We break cover and charge as a homage to Krabs, I pour my fury at that Jaguar and hit the override, with nothing but two ERMLs left it won't do anything but it feels good anyway. I fire at the Jaguars CT and take his first hit in kind. The targeting computer lights up, even in death Krab's will lives on, it's RT is unarmoured and almost gone, my weapons cycle, I line up my shot and take it, his torso explodes, his arm gone. For one last moment I feel satisfaction as he pops what remains of torso open. I jump to our last man, all I know is he's limping and then he's gone to.
Eyeing the scoreboard we got 5 kills between 3 of us, I hear that voice again "That match was a waste", a message pops up from the Raven "Should have stuck with the commander".
Note: This was going to be a story about how one guy on voice cost us the match by making "suggestions" going against what was happening and complaining about us 3 going solo the whole time but we had a pretty awesome game anyway (at least I did)
Note 2: To my wingmen, I salute you.
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