fantasy?

Forces of the unknown have caused our world to merge/combine with a typical (or not-so-typical) fantasy world. Old world governments have managed to hold on to major urban and suburban areas, but rural areas range from fragile peace to complete chaos. People and towns from either side suddenly find themselves in a new realm, and portals going between both worlds are scattered throughout the lands.

The old worlds are gone, and two new worlds are in their place. Our side of a SHTF hellhole, and the other side of a untouched land of endless fantastical possibility. Be a STALKER, adventurer, hero, or bandit. The new world is yours.
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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    ask chatGPT

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Threadly Question: Island hopping campaign against giants or jungle warfare against wood elves?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I wish to see elves cry when their God trees get napalmed and agent oranged.
      I want to drink in their tears, and bask in their pain. I hate elves so God damn much.
      Such is the life of a moderate.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Russians invade the Forests elves are given American assets
        >The US invades rocky mountains, Giants are given Russian tech
        Such is life in fantasy proxy world

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I pick jungle campaign against the elves. Its simply a more interesting conflict. The giants are going to suck and entreching and digging in due to their size, they're also much harder to conceal, this makes them much easier to remove from the islands.
      The reason the japs were such a hard fight was that they were dug in to hell and back and set up ambushes everywhere.
      Elves can do this and more. They have natural night vision, so expect loads of noght ops. In addition, these are WOOD elves so instead of just having to worry about if every villager might be an elf collaborator, you also have to worry about every woodland creature as well.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Giants and islands don't mix very well. Very little cover/concealment for them and naval forces can simply engage the bigger targets from a safe distance. Once a foothold is established, the giants won't be able to drive the invaders off the island without suffering unsistainable casualties or failing altogether. Elves would be much harder to drive off each island.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Threadly Question: Island hopping campaign against giants or jungle warfare against wood elves?

        you misunderstand. The giants are not on the islands. The giants ARE the islands.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Vietnam 2.0 against elves all the way.
      Also, island hopping against titans would be nice (like godzilla) because

      Giants and islands don't mix very well. Very little cover/concealment for them and naval forces can simply engage the bigger targets from a safe distance. Once a foothold is established, the giants won't be able to drive the invaders off the island without suffering unsistainable casualties or failing altogether. Elves would be much harder to drive off each island.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Elves, because a merc company is not bound by the same PR that the US government was during 'nam.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Leave wood elves alone. It's THEIR forest and you're just a guest. If you pissed them off, that's all on you. You should have known better.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        The elf asiatics shouldn't have gotten so chummy with the Chinese if they weren't prepared to deal with the consequences.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >asiatics
          In my little setting, woodelves are essentially tiny brown Japanese countryside people that live in big family units and drive around in old rusty k vans and trucks.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        The elf asiatics shouldn't have gotten so chummy with the Chinese if they weren't prepared to deal with the consequences.

        It isnt the elves forest, it is MY forest. They are MY elves, it is MY ISLAND.
        I have been ALLOWING the elves to nest there because it pleases me, because they tend my trees and amuse me. You cannot wrest my possessions from me, try and I will lay your souls to waste.

        And shut off that god damn noise all your ships are making.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Well YOUR elves are letting YOUR island become a commie staging area, so now its everybody's problem.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Your mortal politics are exhausting, fine, bring me this commie with an appropriate sacrifice and I'll turn his brain to sea foam.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Burn in hell, knifears

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      How big are the giants

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        DnD makes them range from 16-32 ft. While I think DnD is normally pretty gay, 16 ft actually seems like a fair size for a fantasy giant.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Can something with no understanding of it's actions truly be evil?
          >Yes, obviously.
          >*Actual quote from the rules*
          3.5 backwards was based as frick.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Like I said, DnD is stupid, but 16 feet seems fair.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        DnD makes them range from 16-32 ft. While I think DnD is normally pretty gay, 16 ft actually seems like a fair size for a fantasy giant.

        >Not having French cannibal giants the size of Nimitz class supercarriers

        What's the point?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          sauce?

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            It's called bt Ogre gods. I would wholeheartedly recommend it, the only problem being the author died a couple years back and the status of future books is in limbo.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Is it translated into Gunlanguage or can you only get it in Surrenderese?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Oui

                https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/The-Ogre-Gods/TPB-1-Part-1?id=164004&readType=1

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Hey thanks, you're alright.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                just read a few pages, this is awesome
                why are the ouiaboos so good at les comiques?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      If anything, Islands would be inhabited by tiny race of fairy-like beings. Giants don't do well in islands. Not enough resources to sustain themselves.

      UNless you're talking about giants so big that one of them inhabits an entire island, and they can walk from island to island as they see fit.
      Or just the giants BEING the islands.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        as I said

        https://i.imgur.com/vGauO2R.gif

        [...]

        you misunderstand. The giants are not on the islands. The giants ARE the islands.

        Would humans have any shot at beating what's essentially a walking mountain? Let alone an alliance of them? (Sea-giants could probably just bellow like a mega-whale and signal to each other from oceans away)

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Anything above a hill giant would be invincible to a medieval army. A modern army, hell anyone with field artillery could kill giants. Modern armies could kill hundred foot tall giants if the wanted to. Just imagine what a barrage 16 inch APHE ammo would do to a sea giant.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Maybe with a nuclear Bunker Buster or a Rod of God, you could do it, but the difficult part would be aiming it and accurately hitting a moving target with it.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Unless they can move at mach 1, hitting them would be trivially easy. Even if they were, we could still hit them, it'd just require more effort.
              Second, why do you think we would have trouble penetrating a giant's skin? An AP shell fired from a 16"/50 caliber mark 7 gun could penetrate 30 feet of concrete. These shells, mind you, would then explode a short time after striking their targets. I think that even AT weapons would cause significant injuries to giants, on account of their organs not being protected by spaced or reactive armor.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Once you get into real towering giant sizes, one hundred feet and up, a humanoid giant would need to have a body like solid steel just to walk around normally, breathe, pump blood, etc.

            When something brute forces the square cube law it means they're exponentially stronger than normal flesh and bone.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              We've had the technology to destroy massive works of steel for well over a century. Giants just aren't that tough compared to modern weaponry.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Forgot pic

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                No weapon used in anger on this planet would penetrate though the chest of say, a 100 foot solid steel statue of a man.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I think I see the problem here. I said 100ft TALL, not 100 ft THICK. A 100 ft thick giant would need to be something like 600 ft tall to be even recognizeable as a humanoid. Even then, I think sustained fire would kill him. You know, death by a thousand cuts.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                No no we were on the same page. The chest of a 100 foot tall man would be what, 15 feet thick? What weapon ever used in a war would penetrate 15 feet of steel?

                Now I'm using steel because that's what we started with, it's not like I know the exact height at which Square Cube requires that exact strength, but 100 feet for a humanoid is well past the point where they have to start getting exponentially stronger and more durable just to exist.

                I'm not even saying that you couldn't kill giants under these terms, but I am saying that when your largest weapons are weaker than a 22lr by comparison, engaging them large scale is far from a simple matter.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                It wouldn't be like 15 ft of rolled homogeneous steel. There would be different hardnesses, thicknesses, consistencies, and layers since its got skin, bones, cartilage, muscles, and organs.
                When you think of it like that, the battleship shell starts to seem like the perfect tool for the job. Its designed specifically to punch through the belt, decapping plate, anti-spalling plate and all the various compartments of a battleship.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                No no we were on the same page. The chest of a 100 foot tall man would be what, 15 feet thick? What weapon ever used in a war would penetrate 15 feet of steel?

                Now I'm using steel because that's what we started with, it's not like I know the exact height at which Square Cube requires that exact strength, but 100 feet for a humanoid is well past the point where they have to start getting exponentially stronger and more durable just to exist.

                I'm not even saying that you couldn't kill giants under these terms, but I am saying that when your largest weapons are weaker than a 22lr by comparison, engaging them large scale is far from a simple matter.

                How thick of an armor could a 100-foot-tall giant wear?
                It's a 100-foot-tall giant, so Square Cube law is out of the equation from the beginning.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                What kind of armor would a 100 ft tall giant wear? Its not getting iron or bronze unless its got a whole industry to refine the metals and forge them (it would need to be forged for armor this size.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                If there are mega-animals that he eats, he could make armor from their skins and bones.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                The skin would have to withstand the pressure and friction of the ground, the muscles would have to lift the absurd weight, the bones would have to bear the weight and not shatter instantly, the organs would have to move blood and fluid and oxygen. Not all as strong as steel? My man that's probably lowballing it. Any tissue, bloodvessel, or bodily structure not hyper resilient would fricking explode under these kinds of pressures.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Now we've reached the problem of not being able to prove our statements. We each are just saying what we think and feel. Even if we were to bring in numbers, in the end this is all fiction, so we could just dispute eachothers figures endlessly.

                Frankly, I don't enjoy having space battler tier arguments. I would prefer to just have fun larping or writing greens.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                That's really not what happened.
                You said that we could kill super big giants easily.
                I pointed out that tissue strength has to rise exponentially after a certain point to overcome square-cube, and that after a certain point, the giant would be like a block of steel. I even pointed out I don't know the exact height at which this would be the case, but 100 feet is past the point of exponential increase regardless.
                You said it would still be easy to kill them even if they were a solid block of steel, because we can blow up ships, which aren't like a solid block of steel in any way.
                I pointed out the scale is completely different between a block and a ship, and then you said they couldn't be as strong as steel because you didn't like the idea.

                Look, let me make the following clear.
                As you increase human proportions past about ten feet, and relative strength/ability to exist/live remains constant, you have to exponentially increase the strength of all tissues to accommodate. This is just a fact.

                At some point, and it's probably closer than you think but I won't speculate a specific number, this would mean the human tissues would have to be as resilient as steel.

                Aside from that completely, an anti ship missile or battleship cannon would, if fired at a 100 foot tall man made of steel, not produce a wound as large or larger, proportionally, as a 22lr would on a normal human.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Even if we say a 16 inch naval gun is roughly analogous to a .22 short when dealing with giants, a .22 short can still kill someone.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                NTA
                We can look to a specific proportion there, we don't have to guess. Take the AP value of a 16 inch gun (what is that two or three feet?) on a 100 foot steel man, then convert to how deep that wound would be in inches on a 72 inch tall man.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            If we're talking sea giants, as in those confused for islands, who would probably be at least hundreds of meters tall, they would probably have skin made of a dozen meters of granite, let alone the "fat" and fleshy parts. You'd need a lot of time taking down something like that, and when it can cross extreme distances quickly, throw massive boulders, cause tsunamis and catastrophic shockwaves, possibly dive, on top of other capabilities of an ancient magical creature it seems extremely foolish to anger much less threaten one. What if they know ancient giant's magic? What if there are thousands of giants resting in the earth and by killing one of their kin you aggro them all? What if they're a load-bearing pillar of the magical ecosystem? My analysis: handle with care.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            If we're talking sea giants, as in those confused for islands, who would probably be at least hundreds of meters tall, they would probably have skin made of a dozen meters of granite, let alone the "fat" and fleshy parts. You'd need a lot of time taking down something like that, and when it can cross extreme distances quickly, throw massive boulders, cause tsunamis and catastrophic shockwaves, possibly dive, on top of other capabilities of an ancient magical creature it seems extremely foolish to anger much less threaten one. What if they know ancient giant's magic? What if there are thousands of giants resting in the earth and by killing one of their kin you aggro them all? What if they're a load-bearing pillar of the magical ecosystem? My analysis: handle with care.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Island hopping campaign against giants no brainer. They're huge targets and if you can get some artillery and naval guns there its an easy strategy of just bombing them from afar.
      Jungle warfare against woodelves is just asking for Vietnam 2.0

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I am thinking that despite the absolute humiliation the Russians are going through, slavshits are going to perform better in uncharted hostile fantasy environment simply because of their focus on bigger calibres and versatility. (ifv that is amphibious and armed with both 100mm and 30mm for example)
    Especially if units were to spread out or act independently.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      they're also going to have less clash of cultures when dealing with medieval fiefdoms on account them basically being a feudal state themselves.

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Old world governments have managed to hold on to major urban and suburban areas, but rural areas range from fragile peace to complete chaos.
    Wouldn't this lead to a massive famine? Most ofnthe world is hardly self sustainable in food and relies on the globalised trade economy to feed the urban populations. A sudden and inexplicable collapse in global trade that makes the vast majority of oceans and rural farmland unusable would see something like 80% of the global urban population starving so I highly doubt there would be any sort of uneasy peace and more like the Old World governments immediately chimping out to land grab as much as possible in a total war scenario. I would like to see the total annihilation of elves and other demihuman populations until only the females are left for domestic purposes.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Lol you act like we'd be the ones with the advantage here. Compared to the divine churches and Mageocracy we're the third world shithole.

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    homosexual thread for gays
    only gays will post below this post

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      What, you got a problem with gayots?

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'd pay to watch an epic clash between Dothraki-style nomads and much smaller force of sandBlack folk with technicals.

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why the frick was the other fantasy thread closed? We had five fantasy "themed" Ukraine meme threads with almost the exact same titles, but one thread where we're all talking about fantasy mercenary organization and that gets booted what the frick

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Op here, it was just bumped off because os inactivity. Unless the jannies bump locked it early. Wouldn't put it past them.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        I cant find it in the archive am I just blind?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          [...]

          That should do it, if its still there.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Ah let me be more clear.
            I mean that yesterday, there was a /k/ thread about fantasy guilds, and it was going great, people were talking about medieval history and mercenaries and stuff, and then it was suddenly deleted.

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    I'm not that dumb you half rotted trilobite.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Dio is more important than Van Halen.

      • 11 months ago
        Crashmaster

        Yeah, probably.

        [...]
        I'm not that dumb you half rotted trilobite.

        pic related

  9. 11 months ago
    Crashmaster

    >"There's someone out there watching us. I can feel it in the back of my neck. They watch as they already see us personally and wait to plunge knives. And WHAT will we do about it?"
    "Well, if you die, there's no problem. If you don't wanna die, whatever you do, you should ask if you can sleep with it tonight. " I said to Case.
    >A leopard class dropship slipped around us in a prolonged standoff while a pair of larger Excalibur class dropships rocketed past our own Union. Dropships were something of a target worth shooting at in this time and place, and our union was a great target, armed with nuclear warheads, we could possibly fire one warhead and destroy an Excalibur in exchange for fighting the Leopard, or vice versa, though I suspected we may in fact have a better chance of surviving the encounter if we shot the leopard directly, detonated the nuke within ten miles and then fought fiercely with the two Excaliburs. They didn't have the armament to really fend us off that well, and I suspected we could make the grade. Two of our mechwarriors in the meantime, a newly gazetted Lieutenant Harris, was in medical stasis, watched over by a Davion noblewoman, and a Sergeant Harden was in a medical bed after losing his right arm about three quarters of the way up the forearm, his right hip, and his right leg up to the knee, from a penetrating shot to the wienerpit.
    >There was more to consider, but the Capellan refused to acknowledge for the time being, that she had, likewise, lost her left hand to a wienerpit penetration, just as the other two, and stood a dual watch over Harris and Harden along side Elizabeth, to whom Harris was betrothed.
    >I looked at the sensors and decided there was something to do.
    >I called the executive officer to my station and proposed a plan of action, as a dropship engineer.
    >Within an hour of this action I found myself suited up and floating through space with a rifle under a pretense arranged by the captain to take "preventative action."

    • 11 months ago
      Crashmaster

      >We were a diplomatic party as the word went and so we weren't subject to the customary engagement by defenses that would've destroyed us without a second to even consider the notion of ease, much less difficulty.
      >We decelerated our relative velocity and requested the permission required to enter the dropship.
      >They let us in almost in an instant. Though it was considered to be poor form, the commanding officer of a military force COULD meet with his opponent in the presence of a cadre of his own men. I myself received a temporary promotion as it were to Captain, though as the head of engineering I was already commissioned.
      >The door opened and the old man Elijah Mason was himself, in our presence and told us what to do, he walked in and greeted the commanding officer, a general Harmson, intent on allowing a third party to which we were in hostility to escape, and would bring the forces of the Free Worlds League to bare against us if we were to attempt further pursuits.
      >When Elijah grabbed the paper general by his lapele and thrust a pistol in his throat, all hell broke loose for a span of about twelve seconds.
      >I grabbed a guard raising his TK rifle toward the old man, thrust my needle pistol into his throat and vented its contents within the cabin.
      >It took seconds to sequester the majority of the crew into a portion of the mech bay.
      >I noted one among them, a woman looking to be about twenty one to twenty three years of age, I couldn't let her be here for what I was to do, so I grabbed her by the arm and dragged her with me back to the airlock.
      >Despite my guilt for her present entanglement in the situation, I placed my muzzle against her head and quelled her pleas for clemency from our brutality.
      >I bid her to get in the EVA suit by the airlock, then holstered my pistol and by the arm, dragged her along.
      >When we once more reached the back of the ship, Elijah screamed, even in front of the prisoners.
      >"Captain Halligan, what the hell are you doing?"

      • 11 months ago
        Crashmaster

        "Sir, she'll be useful, she's coming with us." I stated. "Hold her and I'll be back."
        >I climbed into the engine bay and lied again.
        "I'm going down to disable their reactor, then we can leave, should buy us plenty of time and they'll get picked up in a couple days or so."
        >"About your business, Captain."
        >I dipped into the ducts and made my way into the engineering circuits for the engines and reactor.
        >I traced a panel and then found a junction box for a box labeled QVW-280, which is easily the most important circuit in ANY ship carrying a fusion reactor.
        >I found the battery backup to the QVW 280 and isolated it, then I cut about three quarters of the massive cable that connected the circuits. With the increased resistance and load on the remaining continuous circuit, it would melt, and when it did, one didn't want to be within ten thousand miles of the star born anew and fleeting into nothing.
        >All considered, we probably shouldn't have done this below high orbit, but nonetheless it had to be done.
        >I returned to the group and retrieved the burden of my conscience.
        "We're done here, let's go."
        >We ran back out through the airlock we'd used to enter and burned like hell to get back to the Careless, holding the woman I'd grabbed earlier the whole way.
        >When we entered the airlock I waited just until we were cycled in before calling to our the pilot of the Careless to burn away.
        >We all began doffing our hardsuits and I decided I'd show some humanity. Not that I cared if she hated me. I just couldn't kill her.
        "What's your name and rank, kid."
        >"I'm Maurine Johnson. I'm not a soldier." She muttered.
        "Lieutenant Mark Halligan. Engineering. Well. Captain for the second." I explained.
        >Eventually we were at 1 G acceleration and intercepted a communication from the Phobos we'd just left. It played out over the speaker.
        >"THIS IS PHOBOS, MAYDAY MAYDAY WE HAVE A FAILURE OF QVW-280! REPEAT WE HAVE A-"
        >Maurine shuddered looking outside.
        >There was a flash.

        • 11 months ago
          Crashmaster

          >Maurine shrank from me, and began to take on a kind of terror.
          >I went back to engineering and was greeted by Sergeant Case.
          >"Can you sleep with THAT. sir?" he asked.
          "I think so."

          End.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Good job anon thanks for effortposting

  10. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Bumo

  11. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Wood Elf extremism must be dealt with accordingly

  12. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Yeah, man.

  13. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Lob a nuke at Israel in your story, eh lads?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Israel will be eaten by Cthulhu

  14. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    bumg

  15. 11 months ago
    Crashmaster

    Hang in there boys.

  16. 11 months ago
    Crashmaster

    After you've gone...
    Sudeten. Local time 1457 hours.
    Elizabeth Isabella Davion-Harris read the last HPG message she'd received carefully and wondered just when she'd get the next. It was due any day now at the latest, but anticipation never failed to grip her in the absence of new information. Of course she knew there wasn't time to write a new page of text every day between the intensive schedules of the military man in the commonwealth and even less to write about than time to write it.
    Her eyes calmly viewed the placid surroundings of her villa. A temperate of day 21 degrees celsius wore on over the peaceful courtyard. Outside, horsedrawn carriages plodded ponderously about their business, well trained and deftly disciplined not to startle at the occasional passing of patrolling light mechs, Aerospace fighters passing much too high overhead to be seen with the eye, but still so loud as to be heard from the surface of the planet.
    A chime relieved her of her boredom however. Elizabeth opened her terminal to see a message from a Major of the AFFS whom she had known during her time in the academy. Major Archibald Gracie had adressed her respectfully, but on the firm standing of a peer before he began speaking of intelligence reports which were unimportant enough to the AFFS to be shared in a video message sent via HPG. According to him, strange activity had come underway in the borders of the Lyran Commonwealth. This information had piqued her interest when she'd heard that a mercenary company with over four battalions in strength and little more than a name to their history was on the move toward the antispinward end of the inner sphere, having just stopped for an apparent resupply of some kind on Terra.
    Elizabeth shuddered to think that this indicated they moved for the Skye March.

    • 11 months ago
      Crashmaster

      Hesperus II. Local time 2013 hours.
      James lead Charlie Lance up to a peak overlooking the Melrose valley and the Myoo mountains, searching for the landing sight of the Union they'd seen coming from orbit. James peered out heading nine degrees. He carefully scanned the surroundings and activated the seismometers in his barrowed Locust. Sensors didn't indicate anything particularly interesting. Seismic movements didn't seem to be active at the time, however Charlie lance was still to be on post for another four hours or so.
      He considered stepping down from the ridge and creeping back a hundred yards, waiting for the hour to pass or for the sensors to erupt.
      Behind him lie Defiance Industries, ahead of him lie a confronting and seemingly unending perdition. How cheerfully could a man give himself up for doomed, if the suspense would cease? Could a man be forgiven the transgression of fearing whatever came from a dropship so threatening as to land for an attack, and then sit idle for hours on end? Did they anticipate landing somewhere else? Nowhere near the complex? Could they have been anticipating landing on another continent? Or were they so confident as to take their time activating and disembarking the mechs?
      Harris needn't have waited long for his answer, nor long enough to make good on his contemplative action, for he witnessed the ramp of the ship open and immediately, a mech strode out of the hulk as confidently as a gladiator strode into the colliseum.
      His eyes shot wide from their slumbery delirium of tedious observation of lacking activity and he started to catalogue the strength they were up against in terms of sheer tonnage. By his count he'd seen three kitfoxes, three Harbingers and an astounding six warhammers.
      The mechs lined up and assembled into lances, their classic three lance company structure was divided into sets of a kitfox, a harbinger and two warhammers.

      • 11 months ago
        Crashmaster

        The mechs began their marching, and directed themselves straight toward him. James clenched his jaw in order to open a channel and barked "One company! Six warhammers, three harbingers and kitfoxes! How do I proceed?"
        "Pull back, Sergeant. Bring them into grid F5."
        "Charlie lance, pull back to F5 on your battlegrid. We have one company approaching."
        James stored an image of the encroaching assets who likely by now, had a rough bearing on his lance from seismometers present in the mechs to detect tremmors from mechs, and render transient vectors back to the source, filtering those of friendly mechs from those of unknown and enemy machines.
        An optical ranging from the locust's sensors estimated with great accuracy, the location of the company of mechs. He waited, watched as one of their kitfoxes turned its torso toward him and then veered off, stored a second image and location before he ran back behind the ridge, and transfered the images and locations of the company to all concerned parties on datalink.
        "Good capture, Sergeant. They're heading for the factory. We're setting new positions. Be there or be square, Sarge." said Cheenan.
        A waypoint had appeared on the battlegrid, and James called to his lance to follow, without time to form an actual formation he called for a column so the new guys wouldn't be burdened with the task of forming and keeping a formation under circumstances unfavorable to teaching patrol and classical travel minutia. Today was an involuntary lesson in the use of battle formations, and a practical demonstration at that. When James reached the rendezvous point, Alpha lance had been outfitted with ARC-5S archers, which proceeded to observe for ranging information on the closure of the formation. Seismic sensors aided, but James requested permission to run forward and spot the mechs.
        James proceeded forward until his optics could make out and tag the unknown mechs.

        • 11 months ago
          Crashmaster

          "Lietenant, these aren't your run of the mill house armies, nor are they normal mercs, they're packing what look like enhanced battlemechs making use of some lostech. I think we're gonna need proper artillery."
          "Roger, we read. Charlie 1, we're standing by. On your call." stated Field marshall Iverson.
          "Field Marshall, requesting twenty rounds on grid I-4 in about thirty seconds."
          "Passing it to the artillery crews." James watched as the mechs travelled on toward their first apparent target in the western end of the Myoo mountain industrial complex. The rounds eventually, and as well as he had called it, he watched the first round land among them, it was about twenty meters from the Kitfox, tumbling it, another landing behind a warhammer and heavily damaging its outer armor. Another warhammer was hit directly by one of the shells, splaying the right torso of the mech from center and wienerpit, the mech crumpled like a car falling from orbit.

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