Ranna Krannok<br/>Artos Training Facility/Harlech<br/>Debriefing room<br/><br/>(http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j77/wulfjaeger/279b6e5f-ef0f-4fa9-9a7d-d288709a4aea_zps14cbe92e.jpg)<br/><br/><hr/><br/><br/>Ranna watched as the last of the company piled into the reviewing room, a still shot of the last moments of the simulation where the remaining members of the lance were being overwhelmed by constant and consuming fire from four sides.  She continued to stare down at her clipboard making small notes regarding her assessment of the company.  Waiting as Erich entered the room, she snagged him by the arm.  "We need to have a discussion with the officers when this is over before the next scenario."  She whispered to Erich before she turned to the room, moving towards the front of the room.<br/>Once everyone was seated she walked to the front of the room, a smile closely resembling the Cheshire cat across her face as she looked out at the assembled mechwarriors.  "Well I was always told to sandwich debriefs like this with good no matter how bad things were.  So to start, considering what Erich and I threw at you, you handles yourselves ok.  If anyone went into that sim thinking I was going to go easy on you once you got warmed up, you were sadly mistaken."  She looked down at her clipboard for a moment to collect her thoughts.  "You all are supposed to be mechwarriors, which means at some point you went through a significant amount of training to learn how to run a mech and hopefully the basics of combat.  If any of you expected to come to a merc unit to learn the fundamentals, you need to walk away now."  Pausing for a moment to let the seriousness of her comment sink in.  "First, Recons.  Passive sensors do nothing for you in a hostile environment.  With visibility as low as it was relying on passive sensors is the quickest way to get one of your unit disabled without firing a shot.  Second, Heavy and Assault mechs NEVER leads recon lances.  If anyone was wondering why a anti-mech sapper team was waiting to strike, there's a good reason."<br/><br/>Ranna pressed a button on a remote which caused the ROM to jump to the initial reaction to the assault vehicles.  "Upon first contact with the harassing units recon needs to pull back out of range of the long threat and let the heavy hitters move in until you can move to a flank position.  The Wolfhound and Bushwhacker should have had enough speed and firepower to pull around the rear of the heavy lance and sweep the edge of the vehicle flank."  She smiled as she looked over at Elizabeth.  "And we seriously need to work on your accuracy!"  Pressing another button, the three dimensional representation of the fight jumped to the image of the vehicles pushing towards the city at high speed with the lances following hard behind.  "Finally, I have to admit that the HPG was the bait and the city was the trap.  I'd be lying if I said there was an easy way to take this target without heavy casualties.  So don't beat yourselves up to much, You weren't meant to walk away from this unscathed."<br/><br/>Ranna looked out at the sullen faces of the mechwarriors.  It hadn't been a bad showing for a bunch of newbies that didn't have a lot of combat experience.  Looking out over the crowd at the old men in the room. "Does anyone have any questions or comments?  Erich, Alroy, as the unit commanders, do you have anything to add?"