I fought in the factory again, against Baron James Chuhasi who fielded a Warhammer. He was certainly more experienced than I was, but at least I had an advantage of 10 tons.
As soon as we entered the arena we opened fire on each other. For the first exchanges we only lost armor plates.
The first internal damage was suffered by the Warhammer, who lost two heat sinks and a small laser in his left tosro.
Just seconds later I managed to score another critical hit on Chuhasi's 'Mech which destroyed the PPC in the left arm of the Warhammer. So far the fight looked really good for me.
After intensiv fighting at close range, the Warhammer lost his other arm, and had only some small lasers left.
While we kicked at each other, Chuhasi made clear that he was the superior 'Mech pilot though, as he destroyed my left leg, while I only managed to destroy his upper leg actuator and foot actuator.
Although I was lying on the ground now, I still had enough fire power I could bring to bear, and destroyed the last laser of the Warhammer and scored a critical engine hit.
While the Warhammer hobbled around me to get into a good position to kick at me, I destroyed with a broadside the center torso of the Warhammer. Unfortunately this caused the Warhammer to explode, which in turn destroyed the torsi of my Zeus as well!
As Chuhasi was badly injured while I remained unharmed when I ejected, HOD was granted victory.
We salvaged what was left of the damaged and destroyed 'Mechs: an Archer (with a nasty AC/20 in it's back firing arc), a BNC-5S Banshee, an ACHL-1NC Achilles.
I was quite sad and shocked to have lost the family Zeus that quickly. We bought another Zeus, and together with our Techs I salaveg as much as possible from the old one. Luckily, the head had remained intakt, and I was able to use some parts of the arms and legs. After all, it still had enough original parts to remain our family heirloom.
The next two fights in the tourney were over very quickly, as both our reputation and the 'Mechs we were able to field made our adversaries to give up rather quickly. In the end, we were the winners of the tourney!
We gained 12,000,000.- C-Bills, some very good 'Mechs with LosTech and a good deal to our reputation.
Log Entry by Hptm Theobald von Stein, hod1
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