March 18th 3033, 2895 Memnon, MacIntyre Station, Trojan camp of the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. Last Tuesday a force of Jovian Imperial Legionnaires engaged a group of communist insurgents at MacIntyre Station on 2895 Memnon. The Jovians attacked with four squads of Legionnaires and a light mech. The station was defended by almost forty insurgents as well as four improvised armored vehicles and two light field artillery pieces.
The insurgents took the fight to the Jovians attacking immediately with their light vehicles and inflicting some casualties on the Imperial forces.
Two of the vehicles were quickly dispatched by the light mech and Jovian troopers who steadily advanced on the insurgent positions.
The Jovians were reportedly after insurgent leader Curt Stillwell. Early in the fighting he and his squad were cornered by the Jovian mech but they were able to find cover in a nearby building.
The remaining two insurgent vehicles were destroyed by the Jovian mech but the insurgents kept fighting in an attempt to save their leader.
Stillwell and his body guards engaged Jovian troopers in close quarters fighting inside a small building as the rest of the battle raged around them.
After dispatching the insurgent vehicles they Jovian Mecha destroyed an insurgent field canon only to be gunned down as it tried to jump away my the insurgent's auto-cannon and combined small arms fire.
Several insurgents units sought cover under elivated buildings in the middle of the station where they engaged a squad of Imperial troopers. Many casualties were inflicted in the close quarters fighting.
Curt Stillwell escaped the troopers inside the building he was hiding in only to be gunned down near the wreckage of the Jovian mech by another squad of troopers.
After their leader was gunned down the rest of the insurgents decided to flee the station. Although they had inflicted heavy casualties on the Imperial troopers they had lost all their heavy support.
The remaining imperial troopers began to quickly secure the station and search for remaining insurgents.
Up to this point the communist uprising in the Trojan camp of the Jovian Trojan asteroids has consisted of largely of protest over the abuse of workers in the region it appears that the Emperor is not longer interested in ignoring the situation. Two Imperial Legions have been stationed in the region as well as forces of the local household armies to put down this revolt.
March 24th 3033: Associated Press.
Notes: We're about to draw our Titania campaign to a close and we are going to stat to work on another competitive campaign. In addition to that we are working up a list of ongoing conflicts going on in our Solar Empire setting that we intend to use for one off battles in a kind of system wide narrative campaign. This battle was fought between myself and Curtis a gamer friend of ours who put together a force for our campaign setting using the brilliant Dreamforge Games Eisenkern Stromtroopers. I'm really impressed with these modes and what Curtis did with them and the Gundam Zaku mecha he used to supoort them. It's a really nice looking force he is putting together and I look forward to playing against him again.
As far as the battle goes it seemed pretty close points wise however at the end I only had lightly armed and armored militia up against powered armored troopers with assault rifles. I decided that since the Jovians achieved their objective of killing my commander and I had little chance of continuing the fight that the battle was a Jovian victory if an fairly expensive one.
