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Sten Hugo Hiller - 627184: Mecha Combat #964 - August 3346 Point Mech Panic

(By Sten Hugo Hiller - 627184) Mountain Climbing Mecha Combat #964

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Highlighting the August 3346 Point Mech Panic

As we have grown accustomed to, after the war the Gaming authorities held a Pointmech tournament. Well, actually it started just after the frontline had finished, but since I was a specialist in the war and it not was a Chrono, what was the hurry in jockeying for a position my troops couldnt hold?

Then round 3 happened, and quite a few of my Mechs were hors de combat. It was plenty to do when it came to repairs, both when it came to personell and machines. Then, the gates to … opened and Toshikos hordes came streaming out.

By untold heroics and sacrifices we managed to slow, contain and slowly push them back. But it was just the eye of the storm. We could see fresh hordes emerging, but for the moment they seemed content by building their strenght.

That made it possible for me to get to the arena and try out Brunos newest concept. A fire armed, freezing Humbaba.

The higher part of the mountain was awash in big names: Steve ChenRobbins, Bune Page and Leopold Hackenbush from the Death`s Brethren, Russ Painter and roward from Black Star Lycan Rangers and Darryl Proctor from Black Star Knights. Darren Jackson from M&L`s Blood Wolves, Jelloshots Succeddown of the Northwind Dragons, in addition to my many time nemesis Colin Toenjes of the Heroes.

As the balloon was about to go up, there was no time to waste, and I carved a path toward the top. The first strikes were ineffectual, but a few seconds before the scramble started the top was mine. For a couple of seconds at least.

The top was soon shrouded in cordite smoke and the stench of burned armor was only partially offset by the chill waves thet sucked in warmer air. It was a furball the likes I had not been involved in for a long time. Take the top, chug a super, look where you are and see who is on the top. Attack, and find someone else claimed the top in the two seconds between you feeding target info to the A.I. and the actual attack.

Into this swirling chaos charged my clanmate Able Hunter.

Now, I love having someone I can trust to cover my back, but in this kind of chaos, being alone and knowing anyone else around is a target, leaves no doubts when it comes to pushing the fire button. Now I had better take an extra split second to make sure no untoward blue on blue happened.

The swirl of battle intensified, and I drained my fourth super and charged the top again. A few seconds later I had been dethroned again, this time by Hackenbush. As I drew a bead on him, Able charged past and blew him off the top. I carefully removed my itchy triggerfinger from the button, and wiped quite a bit of sweat from my brow. As my hand dryed itself on my pants, Hackenbush returned and blew Able off the top again Snarling I reached for the targeting reticles, and was just about to fire when the light flashed and it was over.

A later scanning of footage taken from my gun cameras showed that those who was highest when that light flashed had been:

Div 1 288+ (34 Commanders): Daniel Scott, Leviathan (Kami)(1s) 2: Joe Kump 3: Fabio Favaro 4: Claude Poirier 5: George Warren 6: Sal Vezzosi Jr 7: Stroker Spot 8: Jaime Beltran 9: Jay Fleharty 10: David Buchanan Div 2 -287 (17 Commanders): Mk Mathews, ***R.V.*** (Notos)(1m,16s) Div 3 -200 (25 Commanders): Leopold Hackenbush, Death`s Brethren (Fext)(3s) Div 4 -155 (28 Commanders): Allan Brainstorm, M&L Blood Wolves (Boreas)(14m,11s) Div 5 -122 (31 Commanders): Peli Huijari, Smurf Platoon (Fext)(32s) Div 6 -93 (30 Commanders): Cody Mckissick, HF 110th C.C. 1st A.R. (Antithesis)(41m,16s) Div 7 -72 (40 Commanders): victorbrown, M.P.A. "Rangers" (Ignis)(35m,38s) Div 8 -53 (20 Commanders): Barbstoyland Barbstoyland, Ronins (Ignis)(44m,2s) Div 9 -38 (15 Commanders): Bryn35, MurderMechs (Dilophos)(10h,40m) Div 10 -25 (18 Commanders): Kimberly Horn, *R.V. 2.0* (Fides)(4m,10s) Div 11 -16 (17 Commanders): MechPilot, Mad Mac`s Mechs (Fides)(1d,16h)

Total Contestants: 275 Total medals claimed: 165 (of 165 possible)

Compared to the mid-war Frontline event we had a slight drop in participation, -nine fewer Commanders showed up this time. But there was still enough fighting formations on all tops to make sure all the prizes were claimed.

I am not sure how long it have been since the last time the Boreas wasnt the most-winning model in either a Selfsame or a Pointmech event. In this event it only managed to claim one Gold, while a trio of other models; Fext, Ignis and Fides all claimed two. None of the Crystal models managed to get even one Gold though.

The last half-hour saw six Golds change hands at least once, three of them the last minute. Two Commanders managed to keep the Gold for more than two hours, one of them for more than a day.

Sounds like a really freewheeling event here, at least for the top prizes. But how hard were the struggles for the lesser prizes? To find out we cast a glance at the number of medals held for more than 30 minutes in this event:

.............Silvers......Bronzes Div 1 ....0 of 4.........2 of 10 Div 2 ....0 of 4.........8 of 10 Div 3 ....0 of 4.........4 of 10 Div 4 ....3 of 4.......10 of 10 Div 5 ....0 of 4.........4 of 10 Div 6 ....4 of 4.........8 of 10 Div 7 ....2 of 4.........6 of 10 Div 8 ....2 of 4.......10 of 10 Div 9 ....4 of 4.......10 of 10 Div 10 ..3 of 4.........9 of 10 Div 11 ..4 of 4.......10 of 10

On the many of the higher tops it was in general pretty much full action. Mount Olympus, K3 and K5 all saw the majority of the medals, including all Gods and Silvers change hands at a furious pace, of those 15 medals only a trio were held for more than fourty seconds. K2 and K7 also saw lots of action. On K4, K6, K8 and K10 it was relatively quiet and on K9 and K11 no successful attacks took place. Hard to believe as it might be, the fact is, all medals on K11 was held for more than a day!!!

No single clan managed to lay claim to more than one Gold in this event, and no unaligned Commanders rose to the top this time. Neither did any of the Frontline winners manage to get a follow up win.

Upcoming event: Cruiserweight Chrono

Cruiserweight cowers a range of tonnages, but in this case the heaviest Mechs allowed to fight on the tops are 65 tons. As always a Commander can bring whatever Mechs he have and can put into the formation, but overweight Mechs will be treated as empty spaces when it comes to fighting, so using lighter Mechs is much prefered to heavier. As it is a Chrono, showing up ASAP and starting to collect points is highly recommended for those who want (good) prizes

Event ends April 28 between 1000 and 1030 New York Time

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