"Two Echelon formations! Ensign Garrou lead Left Echelon with the hizacks and deal with any mobile suits they send out. Take beam rifles, be quick, and draw their fire. I will take the Rick Doms on Right Echelon and will focus on eliminating the Salamis themselves. Doms take bazookas! Stay under the belly and we'll come up behind them. Zieg Zeon!" Romav's orders came over the comm with an authority that could only come from a man with considerable experience and grit. The Kaempfer quickly departed the mobile suit hanger, streaking away from the Fury with its small contingent of 4 Rick Dom IIs armed with 360mm bazookas, two wielding Ex-T2 Beam Bazookas, holdover weapons from the end of the One Year War, but exceptionally effective against ships. Their long recharge times however made them effectively one time use in most combat situations. (You can control when you use the Ex-T2 Beam Bazookas, I'll determine what the effects are.)<br/><br/>Tyrius quickly pulled his helmet down, the cockpit closed, the hiss of the air seal being created in his pilot's suit a welcome and somewhat familiar sensation. It had been awhile since Tyrius had launched in the Gelgoog R in a campaign that really meant something, the last time he had done so....A Baoa Qu...He mouthed the name of the now lost fortress asteroid and snapped back to the moment in front of him. "Ensign Garrou, launching!" His Gelgoog R quickly reached out as it marched up to the ready deck, grabbing its beam machine gun before a docking cable linked to the frame of the mobile suit. Lacking a true catapault, the Gwazine instead employed a different means to achieve a similar end. A cable was linked to the underskirt frame of the Gelgoog R, allowing it to fire its thrusters for a moment, the resistance of being held in place rocked Tyrius in the cockpit and then the lurch forward at full burn as the cable fell away felt like a continuous kick in the sternum. The momentary discomfort was well worth the prize that lay in front of him. Feddie mobile suits were his to destroy.<br/><br/>"HiZacks! With me!" The two newly acquired HiZacks flew in formation behind him, as ordered by Lieutenant Romav, which seemed odd, but this was time for combat, there was no time to think. "Our priority is the enemy mobile suits, we'll let the Rick Dom's deal with the ships themselves. A massive particle cannon blast flew in between the two mobile suit formations, the Abyssal Fury was laying down supporting intermittent fire with its ship to ship batteries. "They're covering our approach, let's move!" Tyrius fired the thrusters on the revamped and highly tuned Gelgoog R, when its thrusters fired at maximum burn he quickly put some distance between himself and the two HiZacks, but still well within distance to coordinate. The flitting of white blue thrusters in the distance made it clear that there would be no cease of hostility here. "Enemy mobile suits, watch your approach," Garrou noted, his Gelgoog seemed to navigate the distance between the Fury and the two Salamis class with the eagerness of a man who hungered for battle. No sooner than his warning came across was there a sudden outburst of incoming fire, the Salamis class ships unloaded with their anti mobile suit batteries, their particle cannons returning fire against the Fury.<br/><br/>Closing the distance, Tyrius quickly unfurled the beam machine gun, the Gelgoog R unleashed controlled bursts of beam fire, aiming at the darting mobile suits in the distance, still just out of range. Suddenly a beam tore across space and only his reflexes saved him, pushing hard on the thrusters, the Gelgoog R leapt downward, the g forces caused him to grit his teeth and clench his jaw as the painful burst nearly knocked the wind out of him. However the artillery beam sailed overhead harmlessly, dissipating into space before it could reach any target. "They've got artillery units out there!" He called over the comm, equipped with only beam machine guns they would have to close the distance, which would be difficult against an enemy with long range cannons. Pushing the Gelgoog R onward, he finally closed the distance to be within range of his beam machine gun. He could see some of the enemy mobile suits and listed them off to his squad "GM Quel," the powerful new mass produced mobile suit for the Federation, "Looks like a GM....With an additional booster pack?" Tyrius voice seemed to show some concern as he looked out onto a mobile suit he'd never seen. "GM Cannons laying down fire, and..." He was stunned as he saw, in Titans blue and black a HiZack, with a rather intricate backpack unit with a reactor powered shoulder cannon. "A HiZack with a cannon?!" He broke the Gelgoog R off its current course, the two HiZacks following closely, their formation was shattered by the high mobility GM he'd spotted, with incredible speed the High Mobility GM seemed to effortlessly catch up to them, firing with its beam rifle.<br/><br/>"Shit! He's right on me, I can't shake him!" the somewhat panicked voice of Jaka came over the comm, he was a little older than Tyrius, but had never seen combat until recently, this would be his first true campaign. "Hang on, we're trying to get to you!" Tyrius called back, the GM High Mobility had perfectly swooped in and split their formation, leaving Jaka momentarily without anyone to cover him. The Gelgoog lurched hard as Tyrius cut back, diving straight back at the GM High Mobility type, his beam machine gun firing, dangerously close to Jaka "Get the hell out of the way!!" Jaka barely avoided the friendly fire, thrusters burning hard pushing him to the left. But as near suicidal as Tyrius was, he had managed to drive off the High Mobility GM for the time being. As soon as it vacated their immediate presence though, a resounding volley of beam cannon fire swept through space, streaking into their just remade formation. "Break!" Tyrius fired his thrusters, just barely evading the suppressive fire from the beam cannon equipped GMs and strange Titans HiZack variant. Beyal was less lucky, his evasive maneuvers to one enemies fire drove him into the line of fire from another. His HiZack was struck, minor explosions came off the mobile suit's armor. The unit was hardly responsive, and Beyal fought the controls to maneuver, his small shoulder shield was all he could bring up to try and protect his cockpit.<br/><br/>Tyrius brought his massive Gelgoog shield to bare, streaking in front of Beyal's wounded mobile suit "Laka! On Me! Beyal, make it back to the Fury, you can't do any good out here now!" His orders held some weight of command, and with his mobile suit barely holding together, Beyal obeyed, the damaged HiZack gingerly maneuvering across the stars back towards the Fury. Tyrius fired his thrusters hard, streaking towards the line of GM Cannons, firing his beam machine gun as he streaked in, relying heavily on sheer speed to avoid incoming fire. He was effectively disrupting their formations, but with just Laka as his only back up, it began to appear that the High Mobility GM and the Quels would entrap them.<br/><br/>-------------------------<br/>Viktor Romav - MS-18 Kaempfer<br/>4x Rick Dom II w 360mm Bazooka, 2 with Ex-T2 Beam Bazooka<br/><br/>Tyrius Garrou - Gelgoog R<br/>HiZack (Fully operational)<br/>HiZack (Badly Damaged, Returning to Abyssal Fury)<br/>----------------------------------<br/><br/>Salamis Class 1<br/>4x GM Quel<br/>2x GM Cannon II<br/><br/>Salamis Class 2<br/>GM High Mobility Type (Full Bernean)<br/>3x GM Quel<br/>GM Cannon II<br/>HiZack Cannon