Map Concept

His wide striding steps came to an abrupt halt. A blue and white shape charged from the midst of the sandstorm. It was a Zeus-6S an old well worn model. Where his Daikyu was a race car the 6S was a 4x4. Where the Daikyu was an elegant fencer, the Zeus was a heavyweight boxer that kept fighting after tremendous damage.Fahas braced the legs of his Mechs to the ground and raised the arms.Both his Imperator Ultra ACs spit fire. Several 80mm rounds found their mark on the blue white checkers of the Zeus left shoulder housing.The massive Mechs shrugged off the damage and kept coming without answering the fire. Fahas cleared the office building, the metal and glass construction disturbed his targeting locks. After two steps he got a much better lock. He triggered an alpha strike, a grave risk.In the baking oven of Ko’s desert, even the eleven heat-sinks with increased capacity were not enough to keep the temperature on a safe level.The Zeus stumbled. For an instant it looked like he was losing the fight with gravity, but he kept on both legs. Although the left arm with the AC was missing.The Daikyu pilot should have known better. It was the third engagement of the 15th Dieron Regulars with the 1st Skye Jaegers in the last couple of hours. Every Time the attackers lured the defenders in to use more weapons than they could manage and to expose themselves. When they could barely move, cooking in the heat of their cockpits, the Jaegers used violence and concentrated fire to dispatch those warriors.It were only a dozen meters into the cover of the building complex, but it could have been a hundred meters or more.Two medium Mechs were clearing the huge rocks in the southeast. A Cobra moved through the gaps between the rocks, the Coventry LRMs had an instant lock on the Daikyu. The second, a dangerous Hunchback, used his jump jets to jump right into Fahas left flank.The blowing wind of the sandstorm made it an almost impossible maneuver, almost.With blaring overheat warnings and the whining messages of different target locks the poor Daikyu pilot almost missed the Barghest. The Skye Jaeger raised on his four short thick legs from the waters of the sea.The water was shallow eight meter in depth. No BattleMech should have closed the distance without being spotted.In the next moment, the sky was falling. 45 Long Range Missiles rocked Fahas’ Mech. Several missed the marked and blew several stories of the building.Although the sandstorm dispersed some of the killing light, the remaining force of multiple laser weapons were enough to cut deep into the Daikyu’s armor.The killing blow however came from both Defiance Disintegrator LB 20-X of the Hunchback and Barghest. Both used pellets and the force of multiple hits at the same time smashed the Daikyu to the ground.It hurt, the belts were cutting deep into his flesh when they kept him bound to the seat.A quick glance at the diagnostics showed heavy armor damage. The thick transplex armor of his canopy had a crack - but all systems were nominal. Youssef Fahas decided that he would not take the disgrace of losing his Mech. He tried to remember his death haiku. Knowing the odds were stacked against him he would not survive. But that Zeus would die with him.“The sound of drums….”His own voice lent him strength while he used the full modeled hands of his Daikyu to rise again.His throat felt bone-dry when he croaked the words in the sauna of his cockpit“Path to the spaceport is clear!”Not yet. The DCMS Mech was not out. The idiot on the controls should have better played possum.It looked like the Daikyu would do pushups when the Zeus take the last steps to the prone Mech. Without haste lieutenant Lendering flipped the switch for the kick controll.[/b][/b][/b]With a heavy thrust on the left pedal the Mechs left foot smashed into the stretched arm of the Daikyu.The voice of his CO Colonel Pitcher sounded as barren as his own: “Understood, encirclement is finished. Add more pressure but keep a path for the snakes open.”A simple gamble trick. There was a dropship on the small space port - a civilian Mule. When the captain thought he was safe no longer he would blast his engines and flee. Then the remaining Regulars would have nowhere to go.. When there was death or victory an option they would inflict serious damage on the remnants of the two battalions of the Skye Jaegers. But when there was the option for escape - even the most hardline Samurai might go for that route.Maybe not all - the Daikyu tried again to come to his feet.“Dämlicher Hund!”The mighty Zeus raised his feet and placed it on the rear of the Daikyu and pressed the mech down. A moment the arms of the Daikyu could counter the weight of the 80 ton Mech, then they broke with a sharp bang. The protruding cockpit of the Daikyu rammed into the concrete. But Lendering kept pressing him down. With a screeching sound the structure of the heavy mech bend until the Daikyu lay flat on the ground. There was no other attempt to stood up. The cockpit was only a ruin, squeezed flat between the concrete and the weight of two Mechs.The pilot of the Zeus wondered if those were the same cunning soldiers they had faced two weeks earlier. Not that it mattered much, they were the enemy, and it was his duty and pleasure to kill them. Nothing felt better than to kill them on Lyran ground.