Mech Masters - Early Days
Topic: ToS Chronicles
This was written AFTER I got the idea to do action reports - so it may seem a bit "fuzzy". Bear with it, as it does at least lay the foundation for the later reports in the series.


Team name: Mech Masters

Leader: Mike Masters.
Code Name: Mauler
Race: Human
His combat skills leans more to Cannons
Recon Mech – name: Fang

Manager and Mechanic: Phil J.
Code Name: Gyzmo.
Race: Cyborg
His combat skills lean more to Cannons and Melee fighting
Recon Mech

We won our first fight. Gyzmo carved them up good with his power axes as Mauler stayed back and hammered them with his cannon - although he did run out of ammo.

XP applied and Mechs repaired.


Hired a new team member:
Mechanic: Nigel
CodeName: Dazed
Race: Replicant - I
His combat skills lean more to Unguided missiles and cannons.
Recon Mech

Second mission
There is a river running through the map. Initially, the enemy was not in sight.
Sent the team to climb the nearest hill. Enemy spotted. 2 Mechs. 1 Recon and 1 Light.

Gyzmo charges towards the river to close range for his quad machine guns, and to get into melee range for his twin Power axes. Machine guns do double damage if you are in melee range, and they are the fastest recycling weapons.

Mauler and Dazed stay in the trees and start locking targets. Mauler is having a hard time getting good locks.
Dazed, on the other hand, gets an average lock on the recon and a perfect lock on the Light mech.

Gyzmo engages Jump Jets to cross river (at Rookie level, walking across could be bad)
Mauler and Dazed start shooting.. both missing.. (both are still Rookies.. and it shows).

Gyzmo is across the river, still in the air, floats over the Light Mech, and lines himself up to do a “death from above” when ....
Both enemy mechs open up on Gyzmo. Heavy Meson cannon slug (which has a good chance at doing a critical) hits Gyzmo.
CRITICAL HIT on Gyro. Amazingly, Gyzmo passes the pilot skill check to remain airborne.

Gyzmo lands his wounded mech. The damaged gyro throws the mech off balance and Gyzmo flails at the controls trying to keep his mech standing – but fails. His mech falls to the ground.

Seemingly happy with the outcome of their onslaught, the enemy mechs ignore Gyzmo. Light mech jumps across river. The recon mech climbs the hill disappears from view. Gyzmo slowly gets up and goes off after recon mech.

The trees on the hill mask the incoming light mech. Mauler breaks cover looking for the enemy mechs. He reacquires them and opens up with all weapons. The enemy mechs all lock onto Mauler and hammer him with everything they have. Alerts are going off in Mauler’s cockpit.
He radios Dazed – “Feel free to help out – anytime now would be good!”

Gyzmo chases the recon mech back across river, but his damaged Gyro causes him to fall in the river. He continues to fall on every attempt to stand.

Dazed runs down the hill to help Mauler. He let’s loose his missiles, peppering the light mech. His systems shows the Light Titan’s left leg has lost most of its armor.

Ignoring Dazed, the enemy mechs continue to pound on Mauler. Reeling under the barrage, Mauler fights to keep his mech standing – and then all his power goes out. Engine destroyed!

Turning to face Dazed, the enemy mechs close in on him and tear into his armor. Eventualy, his right leg buckles and snaps and his mech falls to the ground. Standing over him, the enemy mechs kick, punch and fire their weapons into him.

Concentrating solely on his controls, Gyzmo finally gets his mech to stand up (14% chance and he did it!), and marches out of the river. He charges into the fray, revving his power axes.

His first swing with the power axe cleaves off the damaged leg from the Light Titan! With a wicked grin on his face, Gyzmo turns to face the enemy recon titan.

The recon titan looked up at Gyzmo, but with weapon still pointing at Dazed, he fires. The shot hits the engine and Dazed mech engine explodes!!
Dazed is killed instantly.
The rolling fireball superheats the other mechs and causes Gyzmo's engine to also explode, killing him as well!!
Both enemy mechs take damage and the resulting heat shuts them down.

Mission failure.

Back at HQ.. Mauler applies his little xp from that mission and recruits :

Name: David
Code Name: Wolf.
Race: Human.
His combat skills are leaning towards Energy weapons and missiles and a
little melee.
Recon Mech - name: TripWire.