Article Number 2273:
An RFP officer called, repeatedly, very loudly and in a disappointingly panicked voice, for heavy RW units today, in NB. I responded from the KGS. It took me a while to arrive. The battle was at the Hamburg JG. A UN VHF, a reservist Coalition BMB and a reservist Coalition BC. We had two GB (BDM), one VHF (RFP) and the Fredegunde, but we ourselves were not engaged for the sake of honour, despite the RFP officer pleading us to. The RFP VHF got shot down, but our forces were winning. The BC was at less than half hull integrity when U 791 encountered a life support malfunction and had to retreat. U 95 was anti-snub armed, so the Fredegunde had to destroy the BC, which we did, with low hull damage done to ourselves. A UN Hel arrived quickly. We engaged it and damaged it badly, but U 95 failed to CD and they fled. We disengaged and left the snubcraft at the GB's care. They began to joke mid battle, and spoke of a "surprise".
A UN Arbiter-class named the Sirene uncloaked behind us. They had an odd "electrical(?) field" around them, resembling the Munich dark matter nebulae storms. We had not registered any interference on our radar before, otherwise we would have used our CLD. They were armed with 4 Pulses and 4 Hellbores. The Fredegunde was armed with 4 Rheinwehr Primaries and 2 Heavy Mortars. The Arbiter-class is a dreadnought, and we a light carrier, so we stood no chance from close. I coordinated the maneuver consisted of turning behind them, of using our advantage in agility to out-turn them, move behind and make distance before they can turn. Additionally, their Hellbores turned slowly, so, although we had received heavy damage while still at the front, we received minimal while performing the maneuver. They were also slow to react and, as if surprised why an Elbe-class was heading right towards them, did not move for a few seconds, allowing us to make even more distance. Eventually that turned from about 500 meters to about 2500 meters. We now had the advantage. U 95 kept them CD-ed. The UN brought a BMB and all of them together showered us with fire. The Hel returned and fired, too. At about that time a reservist RW fighter arrived, named the Karavelle, but it was shot down almost immediately. We were denting the Sirene slowly, but quicker than they together were denting us. I realized that the Hel was damaged enough to not withstand a direct hit from a Heavy Mortar, and, conveniently, as they could not hit us from afar, they approached very close. I ceased fire upon the Sirene (we had been unloading primaries at them, and only that, as they were our most energy efficient weapons) and waited for the powercore to recharge for two Heavy Mortar shots. Once it did, I defeated the Hel's shield with one, and disintegrated their hull with the other. Then I focused fire back at the Sirene. When our scanner read their hull integrity at 4%, they turned away and started to cruise. U 95 failed to CD them (which was their second failure). They excused their failure stating that they wanted to CD the Novas coming our way, although we were doing well on our own and had two functional flaks, which they either disregarded or did not know, despite working for the intelligence service. Combined secondary and primary fire from the Fredegunde then shot down the UN BMB, but U 95 took the last shot, so the computer recorded it as their score. The rest of them fled. I will mention that Erik Schmidt of the UN said, during the battle, at the recorded time: "[03.04.2018 14:55:41] UN|Erik.Schmidt.: An entire fleet, i'd rather loose them with honour instead of have my men run like cowards." I will also mention that he redirected fire at the Coalition BC, which he had been using for cover, shortly before it was put out of action, so the computer registered it as his score: "[03.04.2018 14:45:07] Death: Coalition.Spire was put out of action by UN|Erik.Schmidt. (Gun)." The summary and the camera shots are below.
Allied Units Involved:
[RW]RWSS-Fredegunde (Elbe-Class; Heavily Damaged)
BDM|U-791 (Oder-Class; Damaged, Escaped)
BDM|U-95 (Oder-Class; Damaged)
RFP|Vollstrecker (Fighter; Destroyed)
Karavelle (Fighter; Destroyed)
Enemy Units Involved:
UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene (Arbiter-Class; Very Heavily Damaged, Escaped)
Coalition.Spire (Hurricane-Class; Destroyed)
UN|Weissenburg (Hel-Class; Destroyed)
UN|Kommerikut (Bomber; Destroyed)
UN|Erik.Schmidt (Fighter; Damaged, Escaped)
Kuzma-2 (Bomber; Damaged, Escaped)
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Klemens Kossuth
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