[Battletech] Operation RAT - Second-Wave Tikograd, Tikonov
3/21/2010 10:30:00 AM @ Endgame
Agent #151 Frank DiazComplexity: Level 1
Experience: Beginner
Game: Battletech
This is the second scenario of Operation RAT: Second-Wave Tikograd, Tikonov
Capellan ConfederationHamilton Highlanders vs. Federated SunsSeventh Crucis Lancers
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"The battle inside the Earthwerks factory was treacherous. We’d blown the doors off to get at the Seventh when they had taken refuge inside and they were using the cover of the heavy machinery to prevent us from massing our forces within. Our time was running out as we knew reinforcements were trying to get to the Fed Rats."
-- Hamilton Highlanders Warrior.
Background
To prevent Colonel Ridzik from destroying the military industries of Tikograd which included some twenty weapons factories and the Earthwerks BattleMech Factory the Marshals of the Crucis Lancers developed a risky plan but one that showed promise. The morning of October 11 the Sixth and Eighth Crucis Lancers attempted feints to draw attention away from the real thrust of the new assault by the Seventh Crucis Lancers. Poor performance, coordination, and execution of all phases almost ruined everything.
Tipped off by the change in targets and an assault that started two hours before it was supposed to, Colonel Ridzik was not fooled and repositioned several companies of his force based on a suspicion that the industrial sector was about to be hit. Just as Colonel Ridzik was about to order his troops to begin destroying the factories; the first 'Mechs of the Seventh Lancers hit their drop zones. The Sixth and Eighth Lancers, realizing that the timing was off and that the diversion had not worked, turned from the other sections of the city to protect the Seventh from Hamilton's Highlanders.
The drop of the Seventh Crucis Lancers was going badly. The whole 'Mech regiment was supposed to land near the Earthwerks factory in the southeastern corner of the industrial section but Liao fighters and poor atmospheric conditions scattered the regiment . Only Bravo Company, First Battalion of the Seventh Lancers, dropped in and around the 'Mech factory, right in the middle of the First Company of the Hamilton Highlanders. Bravo company managed to fight their way through the Highlanders and into the factory where it became a desperate bid to hold on and survive until reinforcements came…