Place: Naasakiira (Corridor 1309) C556687-9 Ag Ni
Date: 050-1118
Attacking forces: Large Vargr corsair band consisting of:
12 7000t Aenoegrr Strike 'Cruiser' TL13 J2 M2 A1 1MesonE 3Fusion8 5Missile6
Damper3 MesonSc3 Model7fib
24 800t Oegveng Gunned Corvettes TL13 J2 M4 A4 1Pulselaser6
Damper2 Model7fib
6 30000t Goerrghkfae Assault Transports TL13 J2 M1 A0 Turrets have been
cannibalized to support capture of
Depot/Corridor. Model7fib
Each assault transport carries one mechanized regiment consisting of
800 8t combat and support vehicles and 5000 troops. The composition of
forces were four lift infantry regiments, one grav armor regiment and
one artillery/air defence/support regiment. All 6 were fully mechanized
and all troops had space to ride in grav vehicles down to the last mechanic
and supply clerk:)
They had config7 to be able to launch all vehicles at once.
[ The first two ships appeared in the starship issue of Digest in the
hands of the Vargr force that tries to help Zid Rachele steal a few
cruisers from Dynam Depot ]
Defending forces: The Naasakiira system defence force:
1 1000t Chrysantemum DE TL15 (which just happened to be in the area:)
6 5000t SDBs TL9 (Exact stats forgotten, but they didn't last one round
anyway)
6 factor 7 missile batteries.
15 factor 8 beam laser batteries.
60 factor 8 sand caster batteries.
These batteries were organized in to three areas, one defending the
starport, one defending the capitol and one defending the largest spaceport.
The Naasakiira ground forces were equipped to TL9, 4 mechanized infantry
regiments, one lift infantry regiment and one grav armor regiment.
One infantry regiment defended each group of batteries and the last one
were spread out around the govermental buildings and various other
areas. The grav-troops were held as a reserve.
All troops and vehicles had prepared positions and shelters.
[ The vehicles used were the Rob's Akian line (the Shellback, Cossack,
Longbow etc, with stats remade for Striker and tac-missiles added) ]
The vargr force had already defeated a large group of SDB's in an initial
engagement around one gas giant.
As I mentioned, the SDBs waiting in low orbit didn't survive the first round
of meson gun and nuke missile fire from the Aenoegrr ships. They got
destroyed critical hits (the space battle used Rebel Guard) before they had
even fired a shot. The Aenoegrr ships deployed as to screen the relatively
defenseless assault transports until they were close enough to deploy their
troops. As the force closed on the planet, the planetary defences started to
chip away at it. One assault transport became dead-in-space and one suffered a
cargo hit on it's load of munitions and simply blew up when the DE surprised
the vargr force from behind (the didn't have the time to reorganize the screen
to cover the back as well).
Meanwhile the attackers try to silence the ground based batteries but have
little success, the batteries are stationary, but they are very heavily
shielded and the sandcasters manage to deflect most nuke-missile and laser
salvoes.
The dead-in-space transport playes possum and hopes that everyone has
forgotten it.
The DE manage to avoid major damage through fancy flying and hiding behind
other ships. It's missiles are the only missiles that are able to penetrate
the nuke dampers of the Aenoegrr ships due to the difference in computers.
It manage to chew up enough screening ships that the ground batteries were able
to get some shots in at the assault transports. Another transport suffers the
cargo hit fate (10+ on 2D leading to explosion in some of the carried ammuntion.I still can't believe that the players rolled 10+ almost every time!:-o).
One Aenoegrr ships suffers a ship vaporized 'Destroyed' crit, and another
failes morale and let the transport screen it instead. When the force reach
drop distance only 4 Aenoegrr, 18 corvettes and 2 transports remain, mainly due
to the DE. When they begin to drop, the DE flies past the screen in to visual
range (as close as a few km) to one of the transports and fires a nuke missile
salvoe which hits almost 100%. The transport gets a 'ship partly shattered'
result and the aft 25% of it is destroyed at the same time as the DE gets a
little irradiated. The main part of the regiment deploys in order.
The 1.75 regiments attack one group of batteries each to clear the way for
the transports and corvettes to land and load up with loot. The first wave
in is the assault speeders armed with forward firing rapid plasma gun B's,
16 lense 8MW pulse lasers to function as point defence against SAMs, and
20 tons of cluster and 1000 kg bombs each as well as ARMs. The troops huddle in
shelters as the air defence vehicles roll out to face the speeders. The speeders
lauch the ARMs at the SAM vehicles and the SAM vehciels fires back. A number
of SAM vehicles are hit and looses their radars, and few SAMs hit, but they do
no major damage against the factor 30 speeders. Some speeders are shot down
by the laser batteries, but they have trouble slweing fast enough to hit the
wildly jinking speeders.
The speeders sweep in, strafing the defenders with their plasmaguns and
dropping clouds of cluster and 1ton bombs (the load of a B52 is about 25tons)
Some shelters are hit, most are not, the HE cluster bombs have trouble
penetrating the defending vehicles but there are causualities. As the speeders
sweep out, more SAMs are fired but they are all shot down by the PD pulse
lasers.
Next the infantry lands and the grav tanks begin to knock off the defending
batteries and tanks one by one, while defeating the return fire with point
defence pulse lasers. Very few attacking vehicles are destroyed while the
defenders are taking heavy causualities. The attackers also begin to call in
meson gun fire from orbit to annihilate large areas at once. Unless the wild
factor, the DE had been there, the vargr forces would have won in hours. As it
now happened, the DE used it's sandcasters against the infantry and fired
salvoes of nuke missiles against the fighting vehicles.
When the ships in orbit discovered that their ground force were being
annihilated, they accelerated away and jumped outsystem. The powerless
assault transport surrendered, but during the time from the surrender to that
the Naasakiira forces managed to scrape a few ships together to ferry them
down a lot escaped in smallcrafts to hide in the outer system.
The Naasakiira defence used the caputured equipment to reinforce itself, the
captured troops to begin rebuilding the starport which had been totally levelled
during the fighting. They also sent a delagation to the Glory of Taerz... (It's
1AM here, much to late for me to remember vargr spelling:) and managed to
strike a deal where the Glory forces took over the protection of Naasakiira in
exchange for about as much as Naasakiira had payed to the Imperial military
previosly.
Material damage were extreme. The starport and the spaceport lay in ruins.
The capitol had taken a few stray hits (the attackers got bridge destroyed crits
on the defenders). The attacking forces lost 21000 dead and 10000 captured.
The defenders lost about 40000 dead (30000 civilians) and half that amount
wounded (here too 75% civilians). Hightech combat involving meson guns and
nuclear missiles is very very deadly.
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