Red Hessian Reporting Facility

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Message to: RHA
Comm ID: Oberleutnant Johannes Farb
Location: Ronneburg, Omega-5

Yesterday marked a big battle in Omega-5, where we had to defend our vital interests against those Corsair usurpers. Hessians were able to scramble a sizable fleet to meet the Corsair threat. Cruisers under the command of Fabian.Schneider and Hendrik.Baumann spearheaded the effort. The fleet consisted also escorts JagdTiger and JadgPanter in their Thor-bombers and myself and our maverick friend Olaf Streithorst in Odins.

The Corsairs were out there in force in a mixed bag of OPG and Benitez pilots souped up with mavericks of their own. Most of their fleet was bombers mixed with couple of titans.



I have hard time recalling the actual battle since my camera malfunctioned after the battle was joined. OneEYEDJack was blown out of the sky within minutes by Olaf who continued feeding Poison his own medicine. After that we sadly lost first the Cruiser under Hendrik's command due to his armor plating deficiencies. The work to reinforce them to battle standards was scheduled next week.

After the furball had lasted some time we lost the other cruiser to the relentless attacks of the 4-5 bombers. That only left our 2 bombers and 2 Odins against odds with Titans and who knows how many bombers. Slowly but surely we managed to turn the battle in our favor by making the bombers destroyed or run one by one.
At some point we lost Tiger also.

All I can remember is that at the end of the day there were only 3 Hessians left standing. The Corsairs had fled or died. Tequila.Sunrise, Ximen Benitez, Custo Benitez, Julian Benitez and others had been soundly beaten.

One thing is sure. We should have brought more escort ships. We were not able to stop the bombers making their bombing runs against our cruisers. And those cruisers should tried to keep the distance. A lesson to be learned. A victory but at a steep price.

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Flying under radar.