Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-7489529-20141106174023/@comment-24901923-20141120203744

Arcturus piloted his new Valkyrie to join the rest of the assembled SMC vanguard. He took some time to familiarize himself with the MS's performance, then opened a comm channel.

"Attention Silver Moon, your Alpha is back! Now, my brethren, show me your war dance. Fire at will, and make it rain blood and steel. The enemy shall bleed a gallon for every drop they spill.", he broadcast to Bastion's defenders. The wolf Faunus smiled as he recieved an enthusiastic chorus of affirmatives and hooahs in response. They only had a platoon's worth of pilots, but they were all seasoned aces with MS to match, and Bastion itself was as or more well-fortified than most military installations.

"Control, status of enemy advance?", he asked of the guildsmen in the command bunker.

"Two minutes and closing at full throttle, sir. I think they're going for a fly-by drop right into the base!", was the reply.

"Then both sides know that we can't stop that many from breaking through if they try all at once. Artillery, use our sat-links to fire into the enemy formation from over the horizon if you can. Vanguard and Sigma Lead, retreat to cover the infrastructural and residential zones. Leave the rest until those are clear. Control, keep lanes open for the vanguard as they advance but deploy the MS barricades and internal gun turrets to box the enemy in. When the transports are dealt with, snipers are to spread out on the walls and pin the enemy by shooting anything dumb enough to try getting past the barricades with jump jets. Heavy weapons will join the vanguard at that time. Valkyries, pincer the enemy formation and target the transports' engines and cockpits, then shift to airborne and internal threats in that order. We'll deal with any external ones once those are neutralized.", Arcturus ordered. The freelancers moved quickly to obey, those outside of Bastion in ground-based MS splitting evenly to cover the prioritized sectors, while the Valkyries split into two groups and their leader joined those stationing themselves on the east flank. Machinegun turrets deployed from underground in a ring at the base of the outer wall. Two deployed on either side of each MS barricade that rose from the ground at the intersections of Bastion's streets. The coilgun artillery began to fire over the ridge.

When the Heavenly Adonis forces cleared the mountains, they were met with a constant barrage of fire from the SMC as Arcturus and his Valkyries charged, emptying thier beam rifles and missile pods into the enemy formation before setting to work with their beam sabers and clavicle-mounted machineguns. They used their MS' unexpected speed to great effect, easily dodging the fighter escorts' fire as they tried to respond, bringing thier wing-thrusters together in front of themselves as a shield when necessary. Transports, and soon dropships and fighters after the enemy formation got within range of the SMC's machinegun turrets, dropped like flies as the coilguns and beam sniper rifles tore through 2 or 3 craft at once for each kill the heavy weapons MS made with their 300mm cannons. When all the HA craft cleared the north wall, all the ground between it and the ridge excavated itself as Bastion's control center detonated that section of the minefield, shredding most of the wreckage and crash survivors in a massive cloud of shrapnel. Despite the carnage, several platoons' worth of HA MS managed to make it through the gauntlet and into Bastion itself.