It wasn't a whole day since the defeat we suffered by the Red Barons that we had the chance to utterly disassemble the main fleet of the Red Hessian Army. Not to ignore the presence of the Wilde Flagship, the Heilige Einz and its escort, along with another Outcast Tridente showing up in Rheinland. Busy day.
Wilde incursion in New Berlin
My presence in the battlefield consisted of two sections. First off, I launched my Wraith to respond a distress signal transmitted by Hauptfeldwebel Gunter Weissman, his report notified me of a Wilde gunboat being present. When I got to space, I failed to establish contact with Herr Weissman, I was starting to fear the worst, so I quickly got into a trade lane in order to attempt tracking him down. I didn't have to go far, I had a visual on a Wilde ship right near the Berlin-Dortmund lane.
I didn't have time to analyze the vessel, the material buildup, weapon classes and origin, all I could determine is that it seemed to be a gunboat-class vessel of some sort, designated as Eselin. I recieved some weird comm signals from the ship, following that, it immediately opened fire at me. Since I obviously didn't stand a chance on my Wraith alone against an alien gunboat, my only choice was evading his projectiles and calling in reinforcements. So I did.
After a few minutes of dodging the shrapnel of the Eselin, the ship broke off and slowly started moving torwards the New Berlin sun. I used that occasion to call in reinforcements and attempted the establishment of communications with the vessel, but only the former succeeded. Admiral Engels aboard his gunboat and Hauptfeldwebel Weissman arrived to assist me very soon. We were ordered to take the Wilde ship down, it did some light damage to the gunboat of Herr Engels, but since Weissman was flying a bomber, we were successful at the destruction of the vessel.
Most unfortunately, I had to leave for a brief amount of time, my canteen time was in effect, during which Admiral Engels and Hauptfeldwebel Weissman made the first Military patrol in the Sigma-13 system, in cooperation with the GMG. A historic event I had to miss because of the strudels.
I soon returned to assist the Rheinwehr forces in fighting the Wilde Flagship, the legendary Heilige Einz, which was reported to be shooting Rheinwehr cruisers merely a few clicks from Planet New Berlin. I don't understand what made the Wilde come so deep into Rheinland, right near our capitol, but it was already forced to retreat as I arrived. I never got to see the ship as it retreated to Dresden.
The reason for our disability to chase down the Heilige Einz was that we spotted a whole Battlegroup of cruisers and bombers belonging to the Red Hessian Army, right near Border Station Brandenburg. The Hessian fleet, led by the RHC Von Rohe, the flagship of the Hessian fleet and another cruiser, the RHC Hessen along with the escort of several bombers have cut the way of our pursuit wing, under the command of Major Westerman. The reason for their presence, nor the name of their commander remained unknown to me all along, shortly after they realised we had more and more ships incoming, they opened fire at the Brandenburg Border station, which had numerous civilian casualties caused by the deck breeches.
Terrorists? Indeed.
Major Westerman obviously couldn't let that happen. He ordered all ships to open fire, we had three bombers and two fighters on the field against two heavy cruisers, two bombers and a fighter. The odds soon turned to support our favour. Our bomber wings were successful at penetrating the hull of the Hessian cruisers, which couldn't even properly resist, since me and reserve pilot Maister were successful at getting the attention of the enemy fighters and bombers, which left their capital ships without cover. Our bomber wing was successful at heavily damaging the RNC Hessen, the captain of the miner cruiser made a run for it and successfully fled. I don't think we'll be seeing the Hessen in a while, taking into account that it has more holes in it than a sheet of cheese.
The RHC Von Rohe, the flagship of the Red Hessian fleet didn't last any longer either. We were soon ultimately victorious, the bomber wing destroyed the cruiser with their SNAC rain, I strongly believe that we were successful at eliminating a large portion of the RHA command on board. Following that, our bombers were left alone against a vicious Volksfront warrior, Daniel Boehmer, who even though caused some headache temporary to our vessels, was eventually destroyed thanks to our superior numbers. Albert Kesselring, the ship me and reserve pilot Maister mainly kept pinned down was also destroyed even before Herr Boehmer went down, only one Odin was left, Hainz Stolzer. Major Westerman ordered me to cover his bomber, since it was the Hessian pilot's focus of attention during the engagement. So I did. The Hessian pilot wasn't the most skilled one, he kept performing the joust manouver on Westerman's bomber, so it was pretty much sitting ducks for my rain of hornvipers. Despite that, Herr Westerman succeeded in blowing him up with a SNAC, even though I've already caused him heavy damage.
Our forces were ultimately victorious in a rather short amount of time, the Red Hessian Army suffered major losses while the Rheinwehr stood in full might. I don't know if we managed to capture anyone alive, but I guess it's hardly a matter now.
As the title indicates, we didn't succeed in getting at least one day break from the Outcast Tridentes. Amateurs, as always. The day's encounter hardly offered a challenge, in fact, the Outcast ships dug their own graves.
Most of my wing left off to celebrate the Rheinwehr victory, only me and Reserve pilot Maister remained. The reserve pilot noted the sighting of an Outcast Falcata, the Singularity being present, the ship roamed through New Berlin and he was in a chase. I soon caught up with the reserve pilot, but not the Outcast, which kept disrupting the lanes as it went further into the system. The ship came from the direction of Dresden, I was hoping for it to go torwards Frankfurt and leave back torwards the Sigmas (where their presumed home is located), but to my surprise, he fled torwards Stuttgart and jumped to the system. Then, I thought he was going to raid miners in the Omegas, as some Outcasts lately did, but we quickly found him and an Outcast Tridente, the Black Sabbath laying an ambush to a Junker convoy. Me and Maister got there just as soon as the Outcast attack on the vessels begun, the Singularity led us to their position successfully.
I admit, I didn't know who to shoot at first, the Junkers didn't seem to be of the kind that spends combing the fields of scrap to reuse parts, we got the reading on two Junker transports, the Sticky Fingaz and the AVATAR being under heavy fire. The AVATAR soon went down though before I could order to interfere, even though I don't think of it as a real loss, I realised the Outcasts could pose a threat to our Omega mining operations aswell. At that point, I chose to order the opening of fire.
We quickly disposed of the Singularity, the Falcata-class bomber, the only hardship about him was the repeated use of mines against us, to ridiculous amounts, which were useless against my cruise disruptors, causing the Outcast more pain than us. The Black Sabbath Tridente was a bit tougher, luckily a merc came by and even though hiring a mercenary is really not among my favoured activies, I had to do it in order to be victorious.
Again, we were successful at ridding Rheinland of such unwanted elements. Unfortunately, we couldn't save either of the Junker transports, but a corporate convoy that soon passed through the area could travel with ease. Shortly afterwards, I returned my vessel to the Strausberg's hangar and went off duty.
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