Ugohr Poof
The Traveling Gungan Salesman
With [member="Keld Fett"]'s company being deployed in another area of the financial district, as witnessed by the wreckage of the gunship carrying elements from the 1st Alliance Infantry battalion (the remainder of the 1st company was engaged near the main thoroughfare but not quite on it), Ugohr knew that the remaining three companies of the 1st Alliance Infantry had to stay behind the tank squadron so that they can blast as many One Sith soldiers from the windows of the skyscrapers as their range could allow for. Which means that they can at most blast enemy soldiers from 70 stories above street level, and even then it may not be very accurate. For aiming at targets higher above Ugohr had about six hundred men left as the enemy fired from windows but the grenadiers, mostly Grans and Gungans, lobbed grenades into the windows where the improvised enemy nests were, causing hot shards of transparisteel to fall to the ground, like the sidewalks, which, unlike the main street, was not mined.
"General, it is as we suspected: the One Sith transformed this area into a minefield!" the Jawa tank commander next to his tank told Ugohr on comm.
"All-n-youse, fire at will!"
After the tank squadron enters the minefield, the entire stock of rotating flails of the Alliance extended almost in unison. Because the main boulevard was a minefield, any evasive action would be restricted to infantry units: tanks couldn't do any evasive maneuvers without first retracting the flails. The flail may prove to be a straitjacket for the elevation along the forward arc. The drum was so big that they even when said drum is as close to the ground as is safely possible to put it, he could hear the clanking of the chains on both barrels, which means that barrel maintenance would be required if their tanks survived. And also no depression was really possible either, only elevation.
"Wesa mainly here to contain da enemy before other elements could join oursa position"
"Enemy grenadiers at point oh-seven: they're aiming at our anti-aircraft units"
"Anti-aircraft units, evasive maneuvers! All other Infantry units, stay on da sidewalks: blast da enemy through da windows!"
But because the anti-aircraft units were rather close to the center, splitting into two groups that could make it to each sidewalk proved slower with portable anti-air missile launchers than with even grenadiers. A grenade lobbed by the One Sith from the fourth floor lands close behind the tank, punching a hole in the street but narrowly missed his tank. Ugohr had his pick of targets, and, even with the flail being active, he was constrained by the elevation of his neighbors: he had to aim higher than his neighbors to fire. Which, to him, meant firing at maximum elevation. But, at maximum elevation, he couldn't hit fourth-floor targets from the middle of the street: he'd be looking at aiming targets three or four floors higher, or perhaps more if they were further away. Soon he began to fire the main guns of his tank indiscriminately in quick succession.
[member="Clovis Torcularis"] [member="Abyss"] [member="Keld Fett"] [member="Lisette Kuhn"]
"General, it is as we suspected: the One Sith transformed this area into a minefield!" the Jawa tank commander next to his tank told Ugohr on comm.
"All-n-youse, fire at will!"
After the tank squadron enters the minefield, the entire stock of rotating flails of the Alliance extended almost in unison. Because the main boulevard was a minefield, any evasive action would be restricted to infantry units: tanks couldn't do any evasive maneuvers without first retracting the flails. The flail may prove to be a straitjacket for the elevation along the forward arc. The drum was so big that they even when said drum is as close to the ground as is safely possible to put it, he could hear the clanking of the chains on both barrels, which means that barrel maintenance would be required if their tanks survived. And also no depression was really possible either, only elevation.
"Wesa mainly here to contain da enemy before other elements could join oursa position"
"Enemy grenadiers at point oh-seven: they're aiming at our anti-aircraft units"
"Anti-aircraft units, evasive maneuvers! All other Infantry units, stay on da sidewalks: blast da enemy through da windows!"
But because the anti-aircraft units were rather close to the center, splitting into two groups that could make it to each sidewalk proved slower with portable anti-air missile launchers than with even grenadiers. A grenade lobbed by the One Sith from the fourth floor lands close behind the tank, punching a hole in the street but narrowly missed his tank. Ugohr had his pick of targets, and, even with the flail being active, he was constrained by the elevation of his neighbors: he had to aim higher than his neighbors to fire. Which, to him, meant firing at maximum elevation. But, at maximum elevation, he couldn't hit fourth-floor targets from the middle of the street: he'd be looking at aiming targets three or four floors higher, or perhaps more if they were further away. Soon he began to fire the main guns of his tank indiscriminately in quick succession.
[member="Clovis Torcularis"] [member="Abyss"] [member="Keld Fett"] [member="Lisette Kuhn"]