Action Report for: Leutnant Lenora Schneider Filed on January 30, 818 A.S. Location: Bremen Action Type: Repulsion of Coalition Forces (Class 3)
Today I received a distress call from several of our pilots, who cited a Coalition gunboat in Bremen as well as accompanying fighters. By the time I was suited up, we had already lost a capital ship, but the SCRA had also lost some of their own. The reports of the other pilots involved can elaborate better than I can, as they were too fully engaged to brief me on the situation.
When I arrived, the Coalition gunboat callsigned "Social Credit" was standing by, leaving two Insurgent VHFs and a traitorous Bergelmir to engage our forces, consisting of two other Wraiths, myself, and a Tigershark. Shortly after I engaged, Major General Rall arrived on the scene. We quickly downed the traitor, at which point the gunboat engaged our squadron of fighters, and we concentrated fire on it. Though it employed a sort of ion disruption field, our Hornvipers took a steady toll on it and eventually forced it to withdraw. We then turned our attention to the remaining fighters, and while we at first made progress they quickly learned that our pilots, excluding Rall and myself, found it quite difficult to damage targets they were not jousting. Making matters worse, Rall was forced to withdraw by pressing matters elsewhere.
After nearly half an hour of attrition, the Coalition managed to land a critical blow on our Tigershark and destroyed it. While the pilot is safe, our forces were not sufficiently trained together to compensate for Coalition stratagems, and despite superior equipment and numbers we maintained a stalemate for some time. Eventually, I decided that for the safety of my wingmen a retreat was prudent; we were doing little enough damage to the Coalition with great risk to ourselves, and we were not defending Rheinland proper. I was able to get away from the battle more quickly, but stayed behind to make sure that both pilots made it through the jumphole to Braunschweig before entering myself. The Coalition fighters briefly pursued, but quickly realized their mistake and fled without further engagement.
In total, our own casualties consisted of one capital ship, one light fighter, and pride. We did not repay this upon the Coalition, but we preserved what lives we could while doing what damage we could. I suggest additional training sessions... and faster response to orders.
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