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August 14, 2007
Tactics 101: Never Feint of Heart
Here’s a fun little strategy article over at Wizkids, cleverly disguised inside a piece of Mechwarrior fanfic. The story features Mechwarrior instructor Sergeant Stan Severo of the Irian Academy of Combative Science (and the Mechwarrior action pack featuring his camouflaged Atlas).
The story focuses on a “teaching moment” featuring SGT Severo and his students watching and analyzing footage from a ‘mech battle. It’s actually pretty well written. Here’s a taste:
” Now in a fury and with a clean line of fire, the Marauder IIC pilot targeted the startled Jackalope and cut loose with a horrendous blast from its right arm PPC. Man-made lightning arced between the two in a bolt of savage ferocity to connect with the light ’Mech’s left torso. The mighty clap ripped through the remaining armor over its chest to tear into the missile launcher beneath, instantly igniting the missiles stored in the launcher’s ammunition bins. Gouts of fire shot from the vent hatches around the stricken ’Mech’s CASE system as it tried in vain to channel the force of the blow away from the Jackalope’s critical systems. It was only partially successful. The great heat from the explosion melted through the internal structure of the torso, causing the left shoulder to cave inward while the concussive force from the detonations tossed the ’Mech around like a rag doll to eventually fall to the soft turf, torn, abused, and bleeding coolant.”
Posted by Discoshaman at August 14, 2007 04:34 AM