January 4th 3033. Earlier this afternoon the Hell Knights Mercenary company engaged forces of the Titania Militia and the Martian Soviet Socialist Republic near the Martian Military base just a few kilometers south southeast of Station 42. The Martians released this recording of audio communications between their commander and the mercenary commander prior the the start of hostilities:
Martian Commander: Attention intruders this is Commander Igor Kovalevsky of the Martian Soviet Socialist Republic. You have entered into sovereign territory of M.S.S.R. Turn back now or we will be forced to engage you.
Hell Knights Commander: This is Lieutenant Domingo Gomez of the Hell Knights mercenary company. You are harboring the fugitive militia leader Ivar "Bear" Belyakov. He is wanted by the Titania government for numerous crimes and we have a legal contract to apprehend him. Remand him to our custody and we will be more than happy to depart.
Martian Commander: Lieutenant I am afraid you are not understanding me. This is sovereign territory of M.S.S.R. and is governed by our laws! Mr. Belyakov has requested asylum and we have granted it. You must turn back now or we will fire on you!
Hell Knights Commander: Get back to your base and leave this to us or we'll kick your Marski ass!
End transmission......
The Hell Knights force consisted of one Incubus light mech piloted my Lt. Gomez, two light infantry squads mounted in two LAGAREV hovercraft, one Hobelar light hover tank, and three Douglas medium hover tanks. The Martian force consisted of one heavy infantry squad and two light infantry squads with two Dragunov Battlesuits, and two Degtyaryov Battlesuits. Bear's militia units consisted of his own squad of light militia, two improvised armored vehicles, and two snipers.
Both of the mercenary light transports were destroyed in the first few shots and several mercenaries were kill when one of them exploded.
A Dragunov Battlesuit was taken out of action by the combined firepower of three Douglas hover tanks. The sturdy armored suit took quite a bit of punishment before going down.
On the Mercenary left flank Lt. Gomez engaged two Martian Battlesuits in his light mech and although he damaged the other Dragunov his Incubus was shredded by the twin heavy machine guns of the Degtyaryov.
In the center of the field a Militia technical fired a fragmentation missile at a mercenary rifle squad. Three members of the squad were knocked prone but not injured. The squad returned fire at Bear's unit and a squad of Soviets inflicting several casualties on both units.
On the mercenary left flank Hell Knight tanks and the Martian Battlesuits engaged each other. The other Dragunov was destroyed and the Degtyaryov traded fire with tanks suffering light damage and inflicting the same to the tanks.
Although initially successful the mercenaries holding the hill in the center of the field began to take casualties from the combined fire of the militia and martian light infantry.
The unit was all but destroyed when it was outflanked by one of the Degtyaryov Battlesuits. All but the Sargent were killed by heavy machine gun fire.
Two members of the Martian Heavy Infantry Squad were gunned down by the Hobelar light hover tank's pulse laser as if sped past their position.
Despite being surrounded and damaged by enemy armor the Degtyaryov Battlesuit on the mercenary left flank fought on. Two of the Douglas tanks were badly damaged in the exchange.
Eventually however the Battlesuit was brought down by the mercenary tanks who then surged forward to engage the final Degtyaryov.
The remaining Martian Battlesuit opened up at point blank range at one of the Douglas tanks damaging it further but not destroying it. The mercenary tanks lightly damaged the Battlesuit and it took more damage when the remaining member of the Hell Knights squad from the transport that exploded shot it with his plasma carbine. Bear killed the mercenary Sargent on the hill with his assault rifle.
As the whine of Martian repulserlift engines were heard approaching from the base the mercenary tanks made a last ditch effort to kill Bear rather than capture him. His two remaining comrades were cut down by the Hobelar as it flanked their position and the Douglas hover tanks reduced the rocky outcropping to gravel with their railguns but the militia leader survived.
The mercenary forces retreated just moments before Martian Gunships and Dropships arrived on scene.
Notes: This was a nasty 2000 point No Limits battle between my mercenaries and My wife's militia and Martians. Those Martian Battlesuits survived a heck of the lot of punishment and did quite a bit of damage to my forces. After they wrecked my transports and nearly wiped out one of my squads I focused on taking them down which kept me for focusing on my objective of capturing Bear. They slippery militia leader also survived my best attempts to kill him at the end of the battle.
We had decided that this would be a six turn battle and I would have needed to be in clear control of the field for a total victory or kill Bear for a minor victory. Unfortunately I did neither. All I had left at the end of the battle were four damaged tanks and one trooper with a plasma carbine.
One funny thing about the battle is that my wife forgot to deploy here field cannon so we decided it was held in reserve. She then forgot to bring it on the board until the fourth turn.
It was a pretty good battle and we had a lot of fun with it. Both sides did some heavy damage to each other and we introduced another faction to the conflict.
1 comment:
"Marski ass"
Too funny, nice batrep too, rock on.
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