Excellent. I believe that's enough for a couple techs, if we sell them. Have our drones return their cargo to the holding bay, and inform our resident slaver corporation, please.

How many more can we grab before they're full?

Ask AR how many slaves their parent corp needs for them to get EMP weaponry.

>>5836630
damn. Just 7 chimps less then what Alpharange wanted. We did capture an extra, what, 36 apes though? Maybe they'll take it anyway.

>>5836726
I've listed the living apes you captured. The rest have drowned in a tearful haze.

You can sell of the 56 apes for one piece of technology, but you don't have enough chimps at the moment.

They won't take an order of 50 apes, and a separate order of 93 chimps and 6 apes?

>>5836742
"They want a promise of 1500. We surpass our current debt by 378 - we need a lot more 'employees' if we're going to be able to purchase the schematics without consequence."

Build 6 habitats.

Call AR. They said they needed more slaves if their parent corp was going to supply EMP. Find out that number. We may want to hold off trading the slaves until we can basically make them get EMP for us (and them).

Also, who would be able to sell us EMP shielding for our drones? Or do we need to tech lab that?

Finally, looks like our tear gas is quite successful. Probably useful enough to use on the battlefield, although the lack of visibility will prove highly problematic unless we find a solution.

>>5836770
"Tell you what - if you can get us up to 1500 slaves, by the end of the month - I don't care what race they are - I will give you EMP technology when I buy it as well. How about that?"

>>5836807
IR or heatvision. Already planning to use it because of the possibility of cloakers, right?

>>5836807
EMP shielding was Centauri's area of expertise.

Subcontractor note: Guys, we don't need their EMP tech. We're developing EMP guns in like a day.

>"Tell you what - if you can get us up to 1500 slaves, by the end of the month - I don't care what race they are - I will give you EMP technology when I buy it as well. How about that?"
"Thanks for the offer. We'll look into it."

>>5836811
"Sounds good. We'll see what we can do."

Make sure our artillery drones are supplied with tear gas and stun shells.

>>5836630
Does Lammy still want to trade the 5 apes for something? I have forgot what they where willing to give us for just 5.

>>5836860
A piece of their technology for five gorillas.

We should still trade them the apes for the hauler/attacker droid.

>>5836834
Good thing we didn't try to EMP them after all, then. Man, we're missing out on a lot of cool things with them gone. Maybe Uni-Peace will have gotten their hands on some for us to play with.

>>5836832
Good call. Let's call up TradeStar and get a price.

>>5836843
Crap. This completely slipped my mind. If we're going to get them, we don't want or need anyone else having them. Especially not, say, groups that don't rely on drones.

>>5836895
I second this. Then we get to work immediately on that gravity-snatcher gun. Shouldn't be too much work to figure out, it's already a big part of what the gun does. And then we make some SH amphibious gravity snatcher slavers.

>>5836895
"Oh, you've got apes to trade in, well, we've got a selection of handy prizes you can cherrypick from!"

Explosive Bolt Technology
Combat-Hauler Hybrid
Sonic Technology
Slave Collar Technology
Skimmer Technology

>>5836954
I want the combat hauler.

We should get the explosive bolt before there's any chance of war with AR, sounded like they'll be useful.

Sonic is gun only, no shell, right?

>>5836954
Combat-Hauler Hybrids. Pleasure doing business, as always.

>>5836997
Sonic is gun and shell, no missle.
The shell is basicaly a powerful speaker with a limited battery.

>>5836997
>>5837001
I take it you folks are after the combat-hauler then? Yeah.

"Done deal. We're collecting the slaves tomorrow, you get the schematics tomorrow."

>>5837062
Advance to next day plz.

>>5836891
If we still have enough apes then get the tech from Lammy please.

Day 21, Month 2

32179.1 tons
28,266 fuel

+1395 tons/day
+3651 fuel/day

You have discovered additional deposits and pockets.

You have uncovered the secrets of the Kil'thweq Mothership Propulsion Thruster.
You have uncovered the secrets of the Kil'thweq Powered Armour Unit.
You have invented the EMP Gun.

You have lost 50 Apes.
You now are capable of crafting combat-hauler hybrids.

IR Sensor Schematics are available for the price of 5000 TONS. This would raise you debt of 27500 to 32500.

Can I have a quick description of the mothership propulsor unit?

Begin constructing 30 SH amphibious combat/hauler hybrids.

Begin researching any adjustments to the gravity gun needed for it to be a "snatcher gun."

>>5837217
Describe the Propulsion thruster and its capabilities, please.

>>5837217
We should hold off on buying anything. Not only are we really close to approaching debt in metals but we are going to be soon at war with the hippies.
And can the prawn mothership propulsion unit be scaled down to say a our largest drone size and be outfitted to bomb with our selection of bombs?

>>5837192
Agreed

Do we have a Tech Lab yet?

Buy IR specs.

Build 5 light drones with the mothership propulsion unit, a tank of extra gas instead of a weapon, and send them high up over Uni-Peace territory to be our eyes in the sky. Repeat this process for the area behind the metal wall.

If they encounter any trouble, they are to self-destruct.

>You have uncovered the secrets of the Kil'thweq Powered Armour Unit.
Create enough powered armor units for all subcontractors present in our main facility. Keep them available for our personal use in the event of a critical attack.

>You have invented the EMP Gun.
Create 30 light combat drones with EMP guns.

Create an excessively large quantity of all artillery types, so that we'll have whatever we want on hand. A couple thousand rounds of each, say.

Can our currently constructed drones cross the ocean between Uni-Peace's holdings, or not?

>>5837234
It moves approximately at the same speed as drones with repulsor technology in an atmosphere but can accelerate to a maximum of approximately a fifth of the speed of light in vacuum. It's designed for interstellar travel. You're able to turn off the thruster so that it consumes no more fuel - but so that it still floats in the position that it was in.
It's a spaceship engine, not a drone method of locomotion. Something with a propulsion thruster must be constructed and launched from a heavy construction facility.

>>5837301
I'm against this, currently. I think we should learn what the Propulsion tech is capable of before telling the world that we have it.

>>5837308
I'm for this.

>>5837328
You lost your trip, dude.

>>5837328
This was me, sorry.
>>5837289
Yes.
>>5837301
No.
>>5837308
Done.

How much time needed to adjust the gravity guns via the tech lab? Or can they work for snatching monkeys into their holds as they are now?

I recall you saying some time ago that the powered armor units possessed exceptional mobility, both because of jump jets and because they're just fast. Is this the case, and if so, would it be possible to use our tech lab to create a supermobile drone type?

>>5837374
Yeah, didn't mean to give orders for something that wouldn't work. Still want to buy the IR specs, or the VTOL. We don't want to be falling into tunnel traps.

>>5837328
Hmm so that would mean they are outside our current production ability to produce anything with the propulsion unit. I was hoping to make something that was a B-52 combined with an AC-!30 Spooky with the heat rays as it's primary weapons and just bombard the ground while it floats there.

>>5837435
Will IR work for detecting tunnels? If it's good enough, it should notice ground temperature differences, or people moving around underneath. Detecting the cloaked units will be nice at least, but if we can't find tunnels, we may want sonar.

>>5837247
Done.
"Gravity Snatcher" will be developed in 5 days time.
Do you want to develop it as a primary weapon or as a superweapon (It takes up three slots and auxiliary slots)? It will be proportionally powerful.

>Yeah, didn't mean to give orders for something that wouldn't work. Still want to buy the IR specs, or the VTOL. We don't want to be falling into tunnel traps.
We don't need either. We'll just pulse artillery everything before we roll over it, and all the tunnels will collapse.

>>5837464
>Do you want to develop it as a primary weapon or as a superweapon (It takes up three slots and auxiliary slots)? It will be proportionally powerful.
Primary weapon. It has to fit on combat-hauler hybrid drones.

>>5837472
Seconding primary. We also want those hybrids to have, say, a lightning gun for anything that can't really be captured (like a power suit or something), and a normal gravity gun for deflecting stuff.

Although a superweapon gravity gun would be something really cool for the future. Can we get a superweapon lighting gun?

>>5837422
Yes, you will be able to tech. lab a powered armour drone type.
It will sacrifice durability - but it will also be able to move much faster and without difficult through difficult terrain.

>>5837527
Yes.

>>5837542
Set that up as our next research after the gravity snatcher is done.

Activate all our inactive drones briefly to check for readiness, then deactivate them again.

If they're fine, I think we're good to end the day.

Could you repost our current standing military forces?

2 more days until the invasion, correct?

Once the hybrids are built, deactivate them until we can equip them with the gravity snatcher.

>>5837597
Make sure we have several light drones patrolling around the rest.

Also, instead of power armor drones, how about researching superweapon ARTILLERY? Pic related.

Plasma, can we use the gravity gun to create repulsor technology? You said in an earlier thread that we could turn the gravity gun into JUST a grab or repel gun, but never addressed us using it for repulsor tech on our drones as far as i can remember.

>>5837627
We have superweapon artillery. They're called missiles. We need to research things that fill in gaps in our forces; we lack any type of fast unit.

>>5837627
Superweapon artillery is basically a mobile missle silo, so that the missles aren't delayed.

>>5837650
If we get flyers, we fix the speed problem. Missiles are great, but expensive.

>>5837681
Flying units are pretty damned expensive, too; they almost all have a fuel cost multiplier.

>>5837648
You'd be able to make crude, rudimentry repulsors - nothing as smooth and stable as Centauri tech but yes.

>>5837694
How long would it take, and how much better/worse would they be compared to standard tracks and centauri repulsors?

Let's also look into miniaturized missile pods alongside the powered armor drones for rapid anti-air and anti-tank capabilities.

Think C&C3 Stealth Tank hit-and-run salvos.

Day 22, Month 2

33466.1 tons
32,207 fuel

+1395 tons/day
+3541 fuel/day

The following drones are not active:
60 Medium Combat Drones (armed with lasers)
50 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with thermobaric and napalm artillery and grav and flamer)
50 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with fragmentation artillery and grav and flamer)
50 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with lasers and grav and flamer)
30 Light Combat Drones (armed with EMP guns)
30 Superheavy Combat-Hauler Drones
21 Superheavy Combat Drone (armed with lightning guns, pulse artillery and gravity guns)
20 Heavy Combat Drones (armed with tear-gas and stun guns)
20 Heavy Constructors
20 Heavy Haulers
20 Light Combat Drones (armed with gravity guns)
20 Light Combat Drones (armed with lightning guns)
20 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with lasers, lightning, shockwave, grav and flamer)
10 Heavy Combat Drones (armed with pulse and herbicide artillery and flamer and grav)
6 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with heat ray)
5 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with pulse and herbicide artillery and flamer and grav)

These are your available missles:

10 HE Missiles
10 Herbicide Missles
15 Pulse Missles
20 Napalm Missiles
20 Tear-Gas Missles
20 Thermobaric Missiles

You are developing Gravity Snatcher technology. It will be ready on Day 26.

Samson 70 is copying himself. He will awaken on Day 23.

Lemmington forces will arrive on Day 23.

>>5837729
>>Stealth

This is something we are really lacking presently. Although with some luck we could examine the stealth suits Uni-Peace apparently has.

>>5837747

True, but the hit-and-run tactic still stands.

>>5837726
About as mobile and as fast as a tracked drone.

The only advantage is it can move through the z-axis for the same price as any other drone.

>>5837738
Please confirm that we can easily swap out shell types between all sorts of artillery.

Please confirm that we have burned the trees that we growing in the south all the way back to the line of destroyed drones.

>>5837800
Excellent. I say we develop it then. Never hurts to have another dimension to move in. Would it improve the movement or development time any if we spliced in the jump jet tech from the PA any?

>>5837812
Both are confirmed.

>>5837812
We've been swapping out shells already. Why wouldn't we be able to?

Well, LP wanted hundreds of drones assisting, and we can provide.

>>5837845
>We've been swapping out shells already. Why wouldn't we be able to?
No reason, but the fact that our artillery units are persistently listed by ammunition type in the log makes me nervous.

Let's not forget to insist on scanning every incoming LP combat unit for the nanoplague.

>>5837831
Splicing it with that technology would only damage what you wish to achieve.

>>5837839
As long as you're confirming things, would you confirm that we'll be able to cross the waters between Uni-Peace's islands without a problem?

Would it be feasible to call Centuri's parent corp and ask them about buying tech? Mentioning that although their operation here failed, they could still be supplied with gas by us in exchange for certain pieces of technology, perhaps.

Anything you want to produce before we go to tomorrow, with the grand entrance?

>>5837911
You will.

>>5837913
No. Officially, you're the employee of another company. Whatever they would be doing with you would be official, while what 137 did wasn't official. It would cause all sorts of business problems.

Yes, I want another 10 pulse missiles. And 50 heavy haulers for slave-gathering purposes.

>>5837917
Sure.
>20 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with lasers, lightning, shockwave, grav and flamer)
Give us another twenty of these.

>15 Pulse Missles
And ten of those.

>>5837950
Okay, that makes sense.

Plasma I am not sure if you saw this but buy the tech from Lammy for the 5 apes.

>>5837950
>No. Officially, you're the employee of another company. Whatever they would be doing with you would be official, while what 137 did wasn't official. It would cause all sorts of business problems.
So... if Samson 70 still officially working for them? Could he claim to have inherited Prospector 137's contract, as the sole remaining synth of his company on the planet?

>>5837982
They want 5 gorillas, the bigger option. We don't have any right now.

>>5837982

That offer is for 5 gorillas, not apes. We have yet to capture a living gorilla, huge bastards that they are.

>>5837875
Well let's just make the best that we can out of what we have then. Repulsor tech please!

>>5837982
They don't want 5 apes, they want 5 gorillas, and we have none. We cannot do this, stop saying it.

>>5837993
Samson 70 was produced by 137 on Hajjar. CS couldn't give a shit about him.

After this month is done i think we should build a bridge to our east base.

Are there any more production requests before the final moment?

If not, say when.

>>5838028
Pretty sure I'm good here.

When.

>>5838028
When

>>5838028

Let's get this party started.

When.

Sweet, my favorite thread on /tg/ and its at a high point. Yay.

Day 23, Month 2

34861.1 tons
29,857 fuel

+1395 tons/day
-1574 fuel/day

Missle Stock:
10 HE Missiles
10 Herbicide Missles
20 Napalm Missiles
20 Tear-Gas Missles
20 Thermobaric Missiles
25 Pulse Missles

Active Drones:
100 Light Combat Drones (armed with flamers)
70 Heavy Haulers (each hauler is carrying four each of the five most popular shells)
60 Medium Combat Drones (armed with lasers)
50 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with thermobaric and napalm artillery and grav and flamer)
50 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with fragmentation artillery and grav and flamer)
50 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with lasers and grav and flamer)
40 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with lasers, lightning, shockwave, grav and flamer)
30 Light Combat Drones (armed with EMP guns)
21 Superheavy Combat Drone (armed with lightning guns, pulse artillery and gravity guns)
20 Light Combat Drones (armed with gravity guns)
20 Light Combat Drones (armed with lightning guns)
10 Heavy Combat Drones (armed with pulse and herbicide artillery and flamer and grav)
6 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with heat ray)
5 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with pulse and herbicide artillery and flamer and grav)

Total combat drone count:
462

You have an incoming message from Lemmington Pharmaceuticals:
"This is Jeremy Fimbledale, representitive of Lemmington Pharmaceuticals on this beautiful planet, requesting permission to enter your territory."

>>5838128

Hellooooo, army.

Inform Fimbledale that all his forces must be subjected to a search to prevent nanoplague contamination before being allowed to enter our territory.

>>5838128
You have permission, over.

>>5838128
"Permission granted. Be advised that your clones will be examined for traces of the nanovirus prior to entrance."

>Inform Fimbledale that all his forces must be subjected to a search to prevent nanoplague contamination before being allowed to enter our territory.
Bring over some of our scanner drones to facilitate this. We built what, 200 of them?

anyone wanna buy some skooma? i stabbed one of the hippies and took his stash. made of the finest moon-sugar

>>5838157
>>5838169
>>5838173
"You don't trust the galaxy's leading pharmaceutical company to check its own employees for contamination? Oh, the shame. Very well, you may test them."

A group of vehicles roll into your territory.

LP:
50 Heavy Decontaminant Tanks
50 Superheavy Transport Tanks
40 Medium Virus Tanks
35 Heavy Transport Tanks
20 Heavy Nitrogen Freezer Tanks
20 Medium Nerve Gas Tanks

>>5838262
Does our current place of occupation have NBC (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) protection?
We should start off our attack with a shit load of napalm artillery to clear any vegetation that could obscure the line of fire for our military units.

>>5838262
Sample 'em. If we find anything contaminated, send it back and say it can't fight.

>>5838262
"It's nothing personal; we expected a certain leading synthetic company to have more caution, and look what happened there. Better safe than sorry."

>>5838262
"Thank you for your cooperation. Can't be too careful, you know. Nanoplagues are serious business."

Scan them, then assuming they are clean,

"You seem fine. Go on; you've got a long drive ahead.."

>>5838262

Once the battle is concluded, remind me to ask LP regarding their Nitrogen Freezer tech.

>>5838291
We have a plan of attack worked out. It goes like this:

Artillery a few miles back, accompanied by a few guards. The bulk of the forces somewhat in front of them.

Massive wave of defoliant artillery.
Massive wave of pulse artillery.
Massive wave of napalm/tear gas (depending if we want prisoners) artillery.
Charge. Slaughter all in our path.

>>5838309
And what if they aren't clean?

>>5838262
>>50 Heavy Decontaminant Tanks
>>50 Superheavy Transport Tanks
>>40 Medium Virus Tanks
>>35 Heavy Transport Tanks
>>20 Heavy Nitrogen Freezer Tanks
>>20 Medium Nerve Gas Tanks

MAN, these guys don't play around. This is heavy duty stuff.

...do want.

>>5838291
You've got a bomb shelter with state-of-the-art air and water filters from which you can remotely access everything you can in your meeting room. It comes with everyth frontier facility.

>>5838329
Yeah, but with viruses and nerv gas, the plan should be altered accordingly. Ask Sampson 70 about it.

>>5838367
Have them gas any open tunnels.

>>5838350
Your trip vanished, Plasma. Also, I sent you that email.

Wonder how many guys fit in 50 SH transport tanks.

>>5838350
That was me.

In any case, the tanks prove to be clean. There's not a speck of the nanovirus to be found on them.

Upon hearing the tactics stating in:
>>5838329
"Could you use something other than napalm? Our infantry might have some trouble getting through it. Any fragmentation shells or anything of the sort?"

See, if we had aerial spying in place, we could pinpoint Uni-Peace's command/living centers, put some of that virus or nerve gas in a missile or 5, and watch our enemy die from a distance.

>>5838394
I think we need to bring Samson 70 in on this before we go modifying his tactics willy-nilly. How long until he wakes up?

>>5838394

Once the napalm has done its work, just use your freezer tanks to extinguish the fire.

>>5838394
>"Could you use something other than napalm? Our infantry might have some trouble getting through it. Any fragmentation shells or anything of the sort?"
Well, napalm is preferred... we can go with tear gas. You won't have any problems with that, right? Or if you do, we could use thermobaric rounds.

>>5838394
"How about repeated applications of tear gas, or any incapacitating agent you've brought along? We have a "special" plan in mind for these hippie freaks that involves years of hard labor."

>>5838422
Okay, that's funny.

>>5838423
Thermobaric rounds are like napalm on crack + explosive, IIRC.

>>5838416
He is awake.

"Napalm is the best thing to use, but since we've got organic infantry in the equation... Well, I guess we can use frags. It won't be as effective and it won't keep their heads down for long, but we will have to live with that, I suppose."

...or we could just have the infantry sit inside the tanks until the napalm has cleared.

>>5838422
S70: "... By the Maker, I think I am rubbing off on you organics. Excellent idea, sir."

I'm worried that Uni-Peace may have given out gas masks or the like. Plus, the resistance may be much heavier if we don't use napalm/thermobaric.

>>5838460
>>5838422

WHAT.

>>5838460
If that's going to be effective, I say that we get on with it. No point in waiting around if we can make the first strike.

>>5838463
That's why we specified having shock rounds as well. Resistance may be heavier,, but getting slaves should make up for the inevitable extra losses.

>>5838472
Whether it was sarcastic or not is up to you.

What is your first move? Your front lines are approaching the drone barrier.

Get a bit before the drone wall line, begin opening salvo with defoliant. Shell the entire area as far back as we can reach.

>>5838521

Begin the first two waves of artillery as outlined in >>5838329.

>>5838524
I'd say start the bombardment at maximum range. That way we ensure our artillery stays relatively safe.

>>5838540
Maximum range, firing on the move, until we reach the drone line. Starting bombardment hits a bit before the drone line.

Make sure that our artillery are protected both by some killer superheavy combat types and by the light EMP drones while firing.

Oh shit. Did we ever buy the IR tech? I know a few people were asking for it repeatedly, and we can afford it easily, but I'm not sure we ever had it explicitly declared.

Slowly, the forest begins to disintegrate as the herbicide takes effect. The bark begins to fall apart, leaves sizzling and every single type of plant slowly falling apart, decaying and becoming nothing more than soggy debris and puddles of disgusting biomass. Dozens upon dozens of figures move through the falling forest, desperately trying to locate some sort of cover. By the time the forest becomes even close to still, there's no sign of any humanoids.

>>5838601
Now pulse rounds. Blast that forest down.

>>5838597
Just as many people were against it as there were for it. So no. You do not possess infrared technology.

>>5838610
Seconding.

>>5838597
No, we didn't ever buy the IR tech. We'll be fine. Between EMP spam and the general ability to just level everything around our superheavies, things should turn out all right.

And if they don't, no sweat; we'll just build a new army. With blackjack, and hooker clones compliments of Lemmington.

>>hooker clones compliments of Lemmington.

Are we going to scan these for viruses too?

>>5838601
Is their equipment still intact? Will there be a possibility of the recovery after we before our bombardment?

>>5838636

Doubtlessly. I don't enjoy the idea of nanoplague-augmented gonorrhea.

>Are we going to scan these for viruses too?
I was thinking I'd just hold off a week or so and see if any of you died.

>>5838610
Dozens of pulse shells suddenly rain down from the heavens, smashing into ground. Debris flies everywhere and the sonic sensors of the drones are briefly ringing from the massive blastwave. Just as the pieces of soggy bark and rotten leaf fly into the air, so does the earth descend, collapsing on itself as the many worming tunnels beneath the earth fall apart, too shaken to maintain their structure. Muffled screams are heard as literally hundreds of men and women of every race struggle to escape the damp soil, many of them already crushed and killed.

It's up to you what to do in the third stage now. Your frontline and Lemmington's frontline are about to reach the first maze of collapsed tunnels. The first shots are yet to be fired. What do you do?

>>5838650
Our penises will rebel and try to fuck us in our own asses.

Speaking of which, is this colony all dudes? Sausage fest.

>>5838669
If you're all dudes, then the firm's all dudes.
If there's one chick amongst you, the firm has one chick.
You are the subcontractors.

>>5838666
Tear gas. Massive wave of tear gas.

>>5838666
send in the flame droids

>>5838666

Tear gas them, they're already reeling so we don't need shock rounds too.

Then our haulers and LP's men can move in and load them up while the rest of the front line continues advancing.

>>5838666

Let Lemmington advance ahead of us. That way they'll bear the brunt of any nasty traps the hippies might have in place.

>>5838666
Tear gas and capture them.

>>5838703
and watch your flanks- these guys are guerrilla fighters after all.

Maintain high alert on all our bases and mines, they might attack us after we begin to march into their territory. Also do we have any info on their cloaking tech? try ask Lemmington if they know anything about it.

>>5838697
No, I understand that. It was sort of a rhetorical question to the other subcontractors. Jokey funny ha ha.

>>5838699
>>5838708
>>5838723

There are also androids among the Uni-Peace ranks; if tear gas is in order, mix it up with periodic EMPs to nullify those.

>>5838739
TRY AND HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOUR AT 6:30 AM WHERE YOU LIVE.

>>5838748
I do, quite often, sir. Would you like a cookie?

>>5838736
We're continuing to construct combat drones, these can protect the home front (and reinforce the front line if needed). Ordering up 20 SH High Tech, 20 heavy artillery, and 20 light EMP.

>>5838748
In my experience, at 0630 almost everything is more hilarious. There's just less energy available for laughing.

>>5838747
Or if EMP shells are not in order, strafe the area with our EMP guns as we fill it with tear gas.

>>5838777
No, we need our EMP guns guarding our artillery. Besides, if Lemmington can't handle a few measly androids, what good are they? Tear gas is enough.

You allow Lemmington to advance alongside your light flamers - but the superheavy transports come to a halt and the rest slow to a snail's pace and the transport opens up, several racks carrying... things... appearing and unleashing them.
Each superheavy transport carries fifty of these things. Gas masks are grafted on to their faces, a long, sharp blade is grafted on to each arms. These lankey monsters are obviously starved and are completely naked, with any indication of gender removed. They scream wildly as they run forward, blade arms milling about - a grand total of two thousand of them. They run ahead of the other Lemmington vehicles while the superheavies retreat, but they don't catch up with your flamers, lagging just a little bit behind.

The first line of defense for Uni-Peace is doused with tear-gas and almost immediately, all of the victims collapse, the first line rendered completely useless. The second line of defense, however, rises up. Over a hundred explosive bolts go flying, dozens landing in your flamers. However, your flamers are yet to be in range with the second line. What do you do?

68 light combat drones (flamer) remaining.
1976 lobotomies remaining.

>>5838819
Hit the second wave of defenders with tear gas.

When that's done, hit whatever's behind them with whatever's appropriate- pulse or more tear gas.

Have our flamers slow down slightly so as to not outpace the Lemmington force.

Can our heavier drones equipped with lightning guns and lasers assist in picking off the defenders?

>>5838851
Yes, your laser and lightning drones can provide a form of covering fire, yes. They're still some distance behind, though, so accuracy is not promised. Do want them to try and accelerate?

>>5838819

Those things sound a whole lot like Gorefasts from Killing Floor.

Is there a natural height advantage anywhere for our superheavy combat drones to overlook the battle? I want to test out the reverse-engineered Heat Ray.

>>5838819
I'm thinking these guys aren't so good for the slave collecting process.

Have the light flamers dodge as best as possible--if that won't help then pull back, apply more tear gas.

>Do want them to try and accelerate?
No; take the accuracy hit. Actually, we should have the Lemmington troops in the lead; they seem eminently disposable and I'd rather not lose all our flame tanks. We might need them later.

Tear gas the second line, tear up whatever is behind them with heat beams and shock rounds.

>>5838894
Superheavies are approximately three feet taller than heavies. So, since the superheavy transports are repeating, yes.

>>5838894
>I want to test out the reverse-engineered Heat Ray.
Save it. They'll have a main base somewhere, and when we come up to it we'll want to still have some tricks up our sleeve. This is just the initial engagement, after all.

>>5838917
>>5838925

Tear gas second line, have a wave of rolling shock rounds fall behind it.

Save the heat beams for later.

I think we're pretty set on tear gas for the second line. If there's any ground in front of us that hasn't been pulsed, pulse it.

Let's advance far enough that we can have our haulers start filling up on hippies.

As shells fall from the heavens, the second line dives back down, retreating into their holes. Approximately half are caught in the wave of mist, falling down, incapacitated and writhing on the muddy floor. With a care in a world, the lobotomies speed past the second line, ignoring everyone there, even as the third line collapses and dozens of men and woman are drowned in mud, others of them trying to escape.

Three of the heavy Lemmington transports stop and heavily armoured clones climb out, twenty from each. Forty of them are armed with assault rifles while twenty of them are armed with decontaminators, chemical throwers, weapons perfectly suited for the tunnels below. Your flamer drones are just about to pass over the second line and the fourth line is already firing at the lobotomies approaching the third line, many of them ducking down in order to avoid your covering fire - some of which is accidentally hitting the lobotomies. Lemmington doesn't seem to care, though.

59 flamer drones remaining.
1923 lobotomies remaining

>>5839016
Tear gas, then pulse rounds on the fourth line.

Have our flamers help out the armored clone troopers.
Have our heavy units roll up steadily and start collecting gassed Uni-Peace personnel as practical.

>>5839016
Let the lobotomies take them out, provide frag fire as appropriate. Make sure the guys who aren't brain dead know to not kill the incapacitated hippies.

>>5839016
Keep an eye on our flanks and the ground underneath our artillery. It'd be just like those sneaky bastards to have tunneled under us.

>>5839038
How many flamers are you thinking of sending down?

>>5839056
Don't send in any flamers, let the clones take care of what they can.

>How many flamers are you thinking of sending down?
I actually meant to assist them by taking care of anyone escaping upwards, while the clone troops manage the actual in-tunnel portion of the operation.

>>5839056
20 flamers.

If there's ground that hasn't been pulsed in the battlefield area, then pulse it. And follow it up with tear gas.

I thought all the tunnels had collapsed. Why are we sending things into them?

Okay, so far, you seem to be pretty adamant about:
Lobotomies leading.
Flamers and Lemmington mechanized one line behind the lobotomies.
Haulers and the laser MCDs, laser SHCDs and high tech SHCDs two lines behind the flamers.
Rest trailing.

>>5839111
The tunnels of the first line have collapsed.
So have the tunnels of the third line - due to your pulse artillery.

Each line is approximately a hundred feet apart - and god knows how many lines there are between you and the shore line.

>>5839118
Well, some of our more close-range units should definitely be guarding our artillery, in addition to the light EMP drones, but that is substantially correct. Our medium laser drones could maybe drift forward a bit more.

That array works for me. We also have a definite emphasis on capture rather than killing, even at the loss of a few drones.

>>5839137
Do we have enough pulse artillery to saturate the entire area between us and the shore?

>>5839142
High tech SHCDs fall back, lightning LCDs take their place, MCDs move one line further forward?

>>5839137
Build 5 haulers full of pulse rounds, send them to the front.

And launch a herbicidal missile followed by a pulse missile so that the shockwave edge will barely brush us. So that we hit one or two more lines and then hit missile territory.

>>5839153
Your artillery's not enough, no.

You do have a massive selection of missles, however.

See, with superweapon artillery, we'd have had this entire area saturated by now. Do about 5 missiles worth of the previously suggested herbicide/pulse missile combo, follow each one with tear gas missile. Let's speed this process along.

>>5839162
Your haulers already have 280 spare pulse shells and your pulse artillery so far have only used 2/25 shells.

>>5839158
>High tech SHCDs fall back, lightning LCDs take their place, MCDs move one line further forward?
Not all the high tech HCDs. Let's say we have 20 on the advance, 20 with the artillery. Aside from that, yeah... let's move the lightning LCDs up. They're not doing us any good in the back.

Let's allocate... half our missile reserves to this offensive. Also, how many drones do we have guarding at the north border? I'd hate to be blindsided.

>>5839189
This.

This will let us advance quickly and to begin loading hippies into haulers almost immediately, instead of leaving them there while we slowly advance.

Do this, and then send our forces moving quickly forward.

Do we have a map of how the tunnels collapsed? With this information we could figure out any hubs that haven't collapsed and see a pattern in their defense strategies.

>Let's allocate... half our missile reserves to this offensive.
I'm inclined to hold our missiles back in general, rather than spending them freely. It seems a waste of their power to use them on random tunnels. Let's save them for breaking up any particularly tough knots.

Spend 5-10 of the 3 missile combo barrage, as Sampson 70 deems best.

Advance, have the haulers pick up slaves quickly so they don't hold us up, use LP personnel and gravity guns from combat drones if it would speed the process. How many slave haulers do we have? Is it enough to pick up at least several thousand hippies?

>>5839215

Fair enough. What I meant was to agree to only use a maximum of half our missiles for this entire conflict, so we don't end up nuking every single hostile we come across.

>>5839231
And if we notice any place that didn't get hit by the missiles, shell it as we go. Forward!

It occurs to me that those snatcher gun combat/transport hybrids would be perfect right about now.

>>5839189
Missles are launched.

They arrive approximately when the lobotomies reach Line 9, and they will hit Line 11 through to Line 36.

LP: "My sensors are a'tinglin'. You just shot some rockets?

The tear gas hits Line 4 - but almost all of the hippies have hidden underground before the shells strike. How fortunate, then, the the pulse shell arrives to bury them in the tunnels they hide in, leaving only a couple dozen on the surface, groaning. The lobotomies run straight past Line 5, hacking and slashing away whatever's in their way before they continue, their footsteps followed by the lethal chemical spray off your Lemmington allies and the heat of your drones' flames, while given supporting fire in the form of a lasers and lightning.

Your next choice?

>>5839231
Samson 70 says five missles of each.

Also:
1869 lobotomies remaining.
56 flamer drones remaining.
57 medium laser drones remaining.
48 Heavy Decontaminant Tanks remaining.

>>5839285
"That was us."

Let's get loading hippies, then.

>>5839285
Continue our advance methodically. Whenever a line two or three in front of our foremost troops seems largely intact, pound it with a tear gas/pulse combo. If there are serious trees still in existence anywhere, hit them with defoliant.

Continue until problems are encountered or ammunition is 70% depleted, please.

Pick up hippies into haulers, make a rapid push forward with several of the light drones to scout out the damage of the rockets. Maybe we'll even make AR's quota from this campaign.

>>5839314
Barbed nets trail across the floor while crude manipulators reach out and snatch at bodies, checking for signs of life. The alive are stuffed into the cargo bay while the dead are cast to the side. The nets slowly fill with wriggling victims who suffer the same fate, either contained to cast aside.

Start building another 15 herbicidal missiles, another 5 pulse, another 5 tear gas.

>>5839344

This makes me glad I'm not employed in a soulless corp.

But since that's our goal here, sounds like profit to me.

>>5839321
Does everyone agree with this?

Any natives among the hippies? We'd want to segregate them from the others for ease of payment.

>>5839404
There are natives amongst the hippies, correct - and they will be segregated.

>>5839395
Sounds good. I'd like to send about 4 light flamers zipping on ahead to scout out the result of the rockets so that we have prior knowledge of any snarls.

>>5839395

Seconded.

>>5839373
When in doubt, or when uncertain, remember to refer to our company motto: "Make money, dipshits!"

>>5839395
As long as it doesn't depleted our metal reserve till the point where we do not have enough to pay off our debt to Tradestar.

>>5839460
I'm pretty sure an issue will arise before we deplete 70% of ammunition. Just a hunch.

The thousands of lobotomies race ahead, gibbering and slurring beneath their masks as they try and reach some unknown destination for some unknown reason - but they happen to act as the perfect meatshields, running through all of the enemy fire without a care in a world. The various Lemmington vehicles trail after them, dousing anything that isn't unconscious with a vile cocktail of chemicals. The haulers pick up the living and discard the dead and everything run perfectly smoothly as a jagged path is cut through the forest.

But, suddenly it happens. There's a brief click and then a soft boom. Vines rapidly grow out of the air, looking to grapple and wrestle with something, anything. They reach for the tracks of your drones, the artillery drones to be precise. They attempt to grapple with them and hold them back, as is their nature, while a new threat is detected. Natives, and by the hundreds, coming from the North, South towards your drones, dozens of gorillas among them.

Further up the field of battle, suddenly, a Lemmington vehicle explodes. Followed by another, and another, showering the surroundings with chemicals and bodyparts. Distant shapes flicker through the air, just barely invisible, on the verge of being possible to see.

How do you wish to deal with these two threats?

>>5839493
Prioritize the protection of our artillery. Btw will the lightning guns instagib the gorillas that get to close? Otherwise have our lasers contrinuously fire in a beam ans sweep across the battlefield slicing anything in its path.

>>5839493
>But, suddenly it happens. There's a brief click and then a soft boom. Vines rapidly grow out of the air, looking to grapple and wrestle with something, anything. They reach for the tracks of your drones, the artillery drones to be precise. They attempt to grapple with them and hold them back, as is their nature, while a new threat is detected. Natives, and by the hundreds, coming from the North, South towards your drones, dozens of gorillas among them.
Hit the area in front of the natives with tear gas. Lots of tear gas. Make them hold off or run through it. If they keep coming, use pulse shells to blast them back and napalm to make a more formidable barrier. While they're busy, deploy defoliant around all the drones affected by the vines.

When that's all dealt with, check to see if Lemmington's dealt with the stealth killers.

>>5839493
Expend a tear gas missile on the center of the formation of natives.

Have the defoliant artillery shell the ground near them if possible so that Agent Amber is released onto the traps. If this would prove highly problematic, send a defoliant missile at them.

EMP the area of the cloakers.

>>5839547
>>5839526
>>5839522

Set up a crisscrossing wall of laser fire 100 ft in front of the estimated cloaked units area. Spray the area with EMP whenever we get a partial view of them.

Apply defoliant, by spray/shell/missile, whichever is fastest.

Tear gas shell the natives, send a missile into their ranks to be sure.

>>5839547
>EMP the area of the cloakers.
We don't have long-range EMPs, or at least I thought we didn't. We've got light EMP drones guarding our artillery, but if they leave to aid Lemmington we'll leave ourselves vulnerable.

>>5839522
>>5839526
>>5839547
You don't have the time window to launch a tear gas missle in without landing it in the middle of your troops and causing damage in the however minor explosion. So, shells will have to suffice.

You manage to get rid of the vines by remote-activating and destroying an Agent Amber shell that you shoot, as soon as it's fired, in the middle of the air. The plantlife disintegrates and the drones are free.

But, something's wrong. Despite the tear gas, several of them are still running at you, insanely determined, all of their muscles tense and every vein in their native bodies ever so visible. Even after a pulse barrage, they keep on coming, screaming and snarling brutally. Only half of them have been taken down properly. They're almost in melee. What do you do?

As for the mysterious cloaked offenders - despite everything that Lemmington does, he can't hit them at all - his units simply aren't long ranged enough. His tanks are rapidly being picked off, chemicals spilling over the ground as the cloaked individuals flicker across the battlescape.

>>5839563
The lasers blaze. Hundreds of beams of light stream across everywhere, hitting nothing but - there! A series of flashes as the laser digs into metal plating. The laser returns to where it was. Slowly but surely, the lasers of your drones begin to follow the distant shapes, in a bizarre form of cat and mouse. Some of the stolen power suits are even revealed, their cloning mechanisms destroyed, allowing them to be quickly wiped out.

>>5839603
Charge forward with the EMP drones, shoot shoot shoot.

Combat drugs for the natives? Well then, open up, full lethality. Thermobaric, lasers, lightning, the works. Supporting flamethrowers if they start getting close, and use the gravity guns to knock them back/down.

Send the tear gas missile to air burst above our location.

>>5839650

Or self destruct some tear gas shells around our position. Set up a wall of napalm right in front of the natives, and shoot them with whatever's not tied up dealing with the suits.

>>5839603
Use airburst pulse artillery shells to blast the natives back. While they're being kept back, have our escorts open up with anything that can bring them down.

>>5839668
>>5839650
>>5839637

These.

My guess is Plasma fell asleep. Given that it's 8:30 am where he's at, small surprise.

Good thread, looking forward to the next one. Just took care of the archiving.

>>5839808
Seems like that's the case. Well, good show everyone.