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Your second is not because if life has taught me anything - no matter how screwed up your decision making process things might just work out for you anyway. This new Supremacist mindset just might end up destroying the Sohei here and staving off any other Clan plans for them.

Why because they beat a IS unit, if I was a Clan I'd be yea about time....Sohei is a new unit with no history behind them so no matter what they lose. The Beat them people will be like noobie unit you're expected to win. They lose its like you can't even handle a new unit that attempted to follow our ideals and you were ones with no honor.

They are becoming more isolationist then Canon harder to rebuild this way. Lots of Clans have history with the Jags and not in a good way. The wounded animal may be fierce but its still wounded.

InnerSphere lies and deceptions! [FAKE NEWS!!]

As for the Jags being a wounded animal - I agree and isn't that when an animal is at its most dangerous??

Your not wrong. I am gonna sit down with Gus and Bradshaw in this case to determine what course of action the Jags take on Rockland while at the same time going over the Sohei with Doc Agren, Ice Hellion, Daryk, and Sharpnel. I really wanna see what you guys think is the best course of action on Rockland going forward. Should be fun!

It doesn't look like the Sohei are going to win this as they are outnumbered and outgunned.

Finally finished my written summary of the aerospace clash in orbit of Rockland and it's bad folks. Special thanks to Bradshaw who plugged these forces into MegaMek to slug it out. We did it a few times and I'll let you read the resulting carnage which is my attempt to combine it all. Big question for you guys is what do you think can be recovered in regards to pilots and craft. Let me know and I hope you enjoy the summary.

The Sacrifice of Angels

The lighter craft of Rogue Fighter Star from the 10th Provisional Garrison Cluster outpaced their heavier comrades from Psi Galaxy Charlie Command Star in typical Smoke Jaguar fashion intent on capturing glory. Some of the Jaguars were so overzealous and reckless in their high-speed approaches that they failed to maintain control of their craft. While everyone managed to recover prior to the start of the actual engagement it was an omen of things to come. Distant volleys by Clan fighters began the combat and were responded to in kind by Gauss slugs from the Draconis Dropships that quickly revealed their upgraded nature.

The first victory of the battle went to Yoko Kijo and the Fukuryu who skillfully coordinated one of the first attacks on Pilot Ayda and her Swift C. These dishonorable tactics only seemed to further incense the Smoke Jaguar pilots who mercilessly combined fire themselves for the rest of the engagement on the Tennyo. Both Sais of the Tennyo’s Second Flight Third Lance became the focus of this ruthless fury with Kim Mi Sun’s fighter rapidly taking many long-range strikes quickly neutralizing it for the rest of the engagement.

Attempts to punish the Fukuryu were not as successful as Point Commander Natas discovered when he was annihilated in his Issus approaching the massive Achilles. This appeared alter the Jaguars early targets to the Tennyo rather than the Dropships which they had run to for support. Dogfights erupted around these mammoths as Clan pilots tried to maintain space while eliminating the Kuritan fighters. The range of their weaponry helped the Jaguars separate the Draconis pilots from their Dropship escorts. 

A deadly dance ensued at the edge of the Achilles range where the Tennyo and Jaguar AeroFighters would duel for supremacy. The Clansman using their superior weapons whittled down the Draconis fighters despite their discipline and teamwork. The resulting clash would see ten Jaguars destroyed (Lobe, Killian, Belinda, Damien, Cerndal, Nakhesi, Zaesh, Ghaset, Rydric, Sindrol) at the cost of the remaining eleven Tennyo (Noriki Sorenson, Nana Yamada, Shizukana Kaze, Ju Juan, Zuzanne Agnika, Mariah Cassetti, Cecilia Utchakov, Donna Black, Haruka Uehara, Asuka Uehara, Yoko Kijo) leaving only the two Kurita Dropships operational.

Following the destruction of the last Draconis aerospace fighter the remaining nine Jaguars pounced on the more damaged Yakaze attempting to bring it down. However, the death of Star Captain August Furste in a burst of LRM fire from the Yakaze proved this would not be an easy task. The Clan pilots were not to be easily deterred as they all a made for the damaged Achilles virtually ignoring its sister ship. This allowed the Fukuryu to wipe out Point Commander Inazre and Pilot Ghaset in their assault fighters. Another pass cost the Jags Pilot Dreven, Point Commander Arora and finally Point Commander Inazre before they apparently thought better of it. 

Point Commander Vadro called an end to the battle with damage mounting and just four Jaguar fighters remaining. The Jaguars would control the skies even if they could not break the Dragon’s orbital blockade. Their repeated assaults had left the Yakaze barely operational and both Draconis dropships low on ammo. While this pyrrhic war had left both sides devastated the silver lining for the Dragon was their ability to recover downed pilots and salvage various fighters. Kuritan Small Craft not only saved their own wounded but retrieved several prisoners of war as well.

So, we no longer have an Aerospace element? We got our asses kicked.

Numbers is one, tech superiority is another with range and firepower going to their side by a huge margin and then there is skill rating. Remembering a Clan Green is equal to an InnerSphere Regular and so on the Tennyo's experience factor was somewhat negated.

For all of them, this is why BV is there but in a campaign, things go in a different direction.

Let's say that I could agree with the first two but I remember reading that unlike on ground, the differences in skill between Clan and the Inner Sphere pilots was not that high (if only I could remember where I read that).