This report was made to introduce you two quick and effective "Hit and Run" campaigns which we carried out today. The tactic is consistant of the rapid assembly of a small assault force and a strike on a key enemy target before reinforcements are in the battlefield.
Texas Strike #1
Our first mission was to take out two unknown-class Libertonian capital ships reported to be in orbit around Planet Houston. Since the MND Agents could hardly provide any more information regarding the two vessels, Herr Major General Auztin Engels decided to personally scout ahead in the dangerous gasps of Libertonian territory. Thanks to his bravery and cunning, we eventually found out that the two ships are in fact two Liberty Navy gunboats with minimal fighter escort. Vize Admiral August Von speer and myself took off from the Moselle immediately and set course for the Texas system.
As the two ships were in his sight, the Major General attempted to lure them away from Planet Houston, so that our bombers could hit them in open space and the enemy orbital installments wouldn't give us trouble. He was successful in this task, although he had to take evasive action, since the gunboats, classified as LNS|Peacekeeper and LNS|-Ionious didn't forget to summon their fighter escorts to pursuit the sole bomber of Herr Engels. Needless to say, Herr Von Speer and myself were there double time. Since Herr Engels was under heavy fire, he ordered the Vize Admiral to assume control of the operation, who ordered me to release the antimatter containment cells and give full power to my Supernova cannon. I carried his order out and charged the infamous tool of destruction, it was ready to melt Libertonian scum in a matter of seconds.
The first target was the Peacekeeper. Even though it was damaged by the time I got to the battlefield, the nanobots placed in its engineering section quickly restored its hull integrity to maximum. Despite that, I wouldn't say the Gunboat lasted more than a minute against the might of three SNACs, the final blow was given by my cannon in particular. The Ionisus realised that it would soon share faith with the other gunboat, so it tried to concentrate on evasion rather than trying to cause damage to us, but it failed to escape, needless to say.
While we were fighting the gunboats, more and more Libertonian ships arrived, the escort crew of two quickly grew to five and then eight. We stood no chance against such a tough opposition, and Herr Engels was hit by a SNAC or a Mini Razor shortly after we took the second gunboat out. Even though reserve pilot Axel Ruhenz joined the battle, we stood no chance, Herr Von Speer ordered the withdrawal of our forces. We made our jump back to Bering, then back to our glorious Vaterland at once. The Mission was successful, the targets were neutralized. The loss of the Major General's ship was most unfortunate, but I'm confident that he will be able to fulfill his duties in a matter of days at most.
The first strike obviously had a major impact on the enemy defences and we managed to cause quite a shock to the Libertonian forces orbitting Planet Houston. Since we saw that our previous attack was successful, we waited for the majority of the enemy defence fleet to clear out and we assembled for another attack in a matter of hours. The strike fleet was led by Vize Admiral August Von Speer, Oberleutnant Ralf Hofman was the second in command. Oberfeldwebel Gunter Weissman and I were the wingmen. Our primary objective was the destruction of any bomber class ship we encounter, that's why the majority of the wing was consistant of Wraith class very heavy fighters. I was ordered to provide bomber support for a possible capital ship encounter, even though we didn't expect any due to the strike we carried out earlier.
As we got to Texas, we were ordered to fly a few clicks above the Jump Gate and move to Houston keeping the same distance. Of course, the Libertonian proximity sensors immediately spotted our presence and a furious word battle erupted on system comms. I personally noticed that the Libertonians didn't really have any support by the civilian population around, some civilian frequencies joining the channel indicated that well enough and wished good luck to the Rheinwehr forces, hoping that we'd get rid of their opressors.
Our attack wing was first spotted by a Navy fighter under the control of Andy Doggett. He would have been a quick target to take out, but something.... happened before we could engage him. A Hessian gunboat, designated as ave literally burst into the system, shouting illiterable words on the system comms and immediately attacked the Libertonians. The Vize Admiral ordered us not to interfere, but as soon as the gunship spotted us, he started opening fire at our attack wing aswell. We were ordered to return fire and concentrate our weapons at the Hessian gunboat. As we were about to finish the intruder, the Libertonian reinforcement wing arrived. Since they had about three times as many fighters and bombers as we did, we had no choice but to abort the mission and retreat. Herr Weissman managed to take a fighter down with a mine during the engagement though.
We weren't held up by the Libertonian forces on our way to Bering, but strange things happened afterwards. Our trade lane sequence between Freeport 2 and the Texas jumpgate was interrupted by two revolutionist ships, a Thor-class Hessian bomber piloted by Ariane von PrimaLuna and a Unioner Eagle designated as Ramke. Our wing turned around and we ordered them to disperse at once. As soon as the second warning was given, they engaged their cruise engines and left the area with making patronising remarks at us and the Rheinwehr. We were about to leave when all of a sudden, the Hessian gunboat ave appeared out of nowhere and fired all of its guns at my idle ship. My hull took major damage, one of my wingmen even remarked that he didn't understand how I survived the salvo, as the fight was over. Outraged, Herr Von Speer demanded us to serve him the head of whoever was in command of the ave, so we all opened fire at the annoying gunboat. In a matter of seconds, Ramke and Von Primaluna arrived and joined the fight aswell, assisting the Hessian gunboat. Our concentrated fire relatively quickly dispatched the Heimdall-class ship, avenging the failure of our previous operation. Ramke was our next target. The Unioner ship didn't stand a chance against us, as it joined the fight in an already damaged state. At the end, it tried to do a suicide collision with Herr Weissman, who still had his shields up, therefore the Eagle, which was literally falling apart at that point got cut up like a piece of butter by a sharp knife. The Kusarian tactic was unsuccessful. Only Ariane Von Primaluna was left. The bomber, which was shooting my ship all along (without causing any remarkable damage), quickly switched to evasive tactics as the whole Rheinwehr assault wing was after its butt. As the ship realised it had no chance to evade, it tried targetting my bomber again with shooting not only guns, but missiles and torpedos at my direction aswell. I, however, had a different tactic in my mind. Since I knew the Hessian was after me, I stopped my thruster with leaving only the base engine on, deliberately trying to give the illusion of the easy prey to the Thor bomber. As soon as it turned around and tried coming close, I've put full power to my thruster and shot an Antimatter projectile directly into the hull of the terrorist bomber, which had its shields down already, thanks to my comrades.
Even though the second raid was not as successful as the first one, we managed to inflict heavy losses to both the Libertonians and the Rheinlander traitors with loosing only one ship in whole. The Rheinwehr had a yet again perilous, but glorious day of serivce.
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