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Issue 1 3050 update 05-08-2001


Davion Scores Bigtime in the Season Opener


Davion 19 - Liao 12

Casualties: Liao - Clint Eastwood (Cockpit Crushed)
Destroyed Mechs: None

Davion blasted Liao from the battlefield in a hard battle in the season opener. Davion was very much written down beforehand and could strike as an underdog. Liao on the other hand with good seasons in their back and veteran Cpt. Dead still on the bridge for the team looked very competetive before the whistle. Bookies had them on 2 to 1 in most systems around. Before the fight there where reports of Davion personell catching saboteurs in the MechBay, apparently the Davion camp suspects the Liao team and a lawsuit has been filed and results of that will be known shortly as when this update was written the court was still in session. However due to Volcanic eruptions in the battlefield area the match had to be stopped and an exact score was allocated by the judges it was clear that Davion was winning, they had the big momentum when the battlefield had to be abandoned. The score was Davion 10 and Liao 3 when it was broken up, sadly the first casualty of the games came already in the first round as Clint Eastwood of the Liao Death Heads was killed by a vicious kick from the legs of Yog-Sothoths Crusader, his cockpit and lifesupport crumbled from the incredible force and there was no escape. Captain Dead remained pretty defensive(or cowardly) in the initial fight as he drew back already from the start and took a clear support role to his fellow teammates, not getting in there as we would have liked to see. Finally the score was judged to 19-9, Davions Orion was Ruled out as well as their Valkyria, Liao had all their ruled out.
However after protests from Liao about unjust ruling because of default recycling times for all type of weapons the judges ruled in favor of Liao and awarded them 3 points more than the original score. More on this in a special bulletin in GameWeek below.

Here is a recap of what happened on the battlefield:

Teams both started out in the middle of the field on each side of a small forest

14 sec. First volLey fired by ithaqua two LRM 10s missing.
17 sec. Cthulhu fires his Rearden AC10 at Capt. Dead, close miss!
19 sec. First hit! Shub-Niggurath slams a round of LRMs in on capt. Dead!!
45 sec. capt. Dead answers with his Slugmaster autocannons staggering the Davion Archer.
129 sec. Liao Trebuchet fires double volley at Cthulhu's Mighty Orion to cover a dash for cover
185 sec. Azatoth tris the power of his Hunchback's Hellstorm AC20 on Sue-Tengs Hunchback finding a leg
185 sec. 2 full rounds of explosive missiles topple the Liao Crusader which falls heavily on its back
186 sec. Sue-Teng answers back on her menace Azatoth but shoots wide, planting a uranium shell in the forest
291 sec. First crit, left lower arm acutator on Liao Crusader blows out as the Davion Archer lobs in LRMs
292 sec. Uranium from Sue-Teng's AC20 hits Azatoth's Hunchback square in the chest, Azatoth is forced to
	 the ground
313 sec. Davions Valkyria smothers the Liao Hunchback with LRMs destroying its hip actuators
326 sec. Azatoth rips Sue-Tengs left leg right off with a mighty aimed AC20 slug!
334 sec. Cthulhu ripples Crusader with crits from his LRMs, a couple of LRM racks and a Sunburst medium
	 laser gone
337 sec. Yog-Sothoth finds the AC20 ammo cache on SueTeng's Hunchback, whole left torso goes into orbit!
338 sec. Sue-Teng surrenders his Hunchback to Davion - 3 points to Davion!
355 sec. Capt. Dead invisible so far, hiding in the back of the field lettings his teamates take the heat.
390 sec. Shub-Niggurath hits LRM15 ammo on Bruce Lee's CRusader with a well aimed LRM salvo.
400 sec. Bruce Lee surrenders his Crusader-6D to Davion forces - 3 points to Davion!
411 sec. Capt. Dead rips left torso of Orion wasting LRM15 and SRM4 ammo. Well shot by Cpt. Dead there!
431 sec. Liao Enforcer swoops in for a death-from-above on Azaztoth's Hunchback maiming him badly, both
	 mechs fall down
447 sec. Davion hunchback, Azatoth surrenders his Hunchback to Liao Forces - 3 points to Liao!
451 sec. Yog-Sothtoh kicks a downed Clint Eastwood in head killing Eastwood as cockpit life
	 support failes  - 4 points to Davion!
467 sec. Davions forces cincentrate on the Centurion, Capt Dead still in the background beside
	 the support Trebuchet.
537 sec. Called shot from the audience, Itaqua sniped the Rippler AC10 from the Centurions arm disabling it.
550 sec. Liao smothers Cthulhus Orion with round after round, the Orions seconds are counted but
	 it still stands.
602 sec. Fight Called of due to Earthquakes in the area, Davion declared winner with 19-9


Overall you could say that there was not that much room for scheming tactics but more of a good pilots kind of fight. Liao did good but it looked like the better trained and disciplined Davion mech pilots made the difference today. Davion has turned the table and shut up many mouths after their initial performance and will most certainly be a contender for the title this year. We have to see Cpt. Dead take more responsibility for Liao otherwise they will struggle at the bottom with the likes of Rasalhague and Steiner. That last thing has not been said about the recycling times thats for sure.

-Mike Reebok



Marik wins uphill Battle Against Steiner,


Knights of Atreus 19 - Steiner Totemkopfs 12

Casualties: None
Destroyed Mechs: Steiner Wasp-1W

The second of the first round 'Major House' Clashes was an interesting one indeed. beforehand Marik stood as favorites against the Steiner team who had not shown any sigss of better performance since last season. But when the battle was joined it turned out to be a close-quarter battle where the two teams started off with mech in the AC20 range at the start. MArik pulled the short straw on positioning as they were caught in the desert while Steiners comfortably setup positions in the forest. Initially Marik could concentrate fire on singled out Steiner Mechs and got the upper had. Half way through the battle Steiner came back strong when the desert caused big problems for Marik's heat management. A few mistakes by Steiner Mechwarrior turned the tide once again in favor of Marik. You could see the rivalry between the teams as they really tried to destroy eachother in the initial phases of the Battle. BOth sides were looking for blows and tried hard to cripple and destroy as many mechs as possible.

Here is a recap of events during the battle.
Time(Seconds)
10 First LRM volley from Steiner, Homes on Marik Hunchback piloted by Primanus
12 Primanus retaliates and snipes right arm of steiner hunchback toppling him
14 Steiner Rifleman4D, lets loose with his Hailstorm AC10's on Primanus who barely stands his ground.
19 Caesar in his Trebuchet, locks on the Steiner Hunchback bombarding him with missles.
   The Hunchback loses both arms.
21-25 Raven in his Steiner Hunchback, takes severe punishment from all Marik Mechs while he still
   is on the ground.
38 Caesar fires a melting ray of ruby light from his medlasr destroying Ravens AC20, leaving the
   Hunchback without weapon.
54 Raven surrenders his battered Hunchback
66 Kaleb Dark retaliates in his Atlas with a AC20 in the chest of Primanus' Hunchback
68 Steniers follows up with some small arms fire ripping Primanus' Hunchback left arm off
84 Ocelot snipes down the flying wasp with a well aimed AC10 that rips the leg, the Wasp crashes and
   destroys ceter torso.
96 Kaleb dark blows primanus center torso destroying the hunchback. Steiner is back in the fight.
119 Steiner Archer falls down when shutting down due to heat, Mordre falls unconcious.
122 Mariks keeps pouring shoots into the unconicous Steiner Archer, maing it pay forthe shutdown.
202 Marik Trebuchet shutsdown due to heat generated in trying to finish the Archer piloted by Mordred.
234 Steiner crits Centurions Doombringer AC20 with an LRM volley from Ulrich's nimble Valkyrie.
250 Attila is forced to surrender his Centurion when left with no funtional weapon.
372 Marik trebuchet loses left leg to Kaleb Darks Atlas, who starts to make his precense felt.
384 Marik Trebuchet is surrendered by Longbow
455 Next Marik Trebuchet, piloted by Caesar surrenders after taking heavy fire from Kaleb Dark.
517 Mike Torello, in his Atlas finally reaches to action and fires his AC20 in chest of kaleb
    Dark from max range.
630 A dual volly of Slugthrower AC10's from Ocelot staggers Kaleb who falls down toppling several trees
    in the forest he is taking cover in.
635 Mike sees the downed kaleb and takes some pot shots, scoring one hit with the ac20 and missing one.
700 The battle is close but Steiner has the better positining, but kalebs atlas is having trouble
    getting up, toppling over some uprooted trees stopping him from joining the battle again.
    Marik capitalize on this.
747 Stenier Rifleman left leg is ripped of by a skillfull volley from Mike Torellos fearsome Atalas. 
766 Kaleb finally raises like a avenging angel, his atlas damaged legs screaming from the weight of
    his massive Atlas.
789 Fredrich, out of of ammo in his Rifleman, and with left leg gone surrenders, having done more then
    his fair share in this battle, proving again that the Davion version of the Rifleman although produced
    by forced child labour is a sound design who can deal out more damage then most others in its size
    class, although most light mechs boast with more armour. In the proper hands a rifelman-4D can
    dominate most battlefields as long as no one fires on it.
816 Mike Torello 'accidentely' hits the downed Stenier Archer with a stray AC20 shot destroying the
    archers Center torso. Out outcrie of Foul words comes from the crowd and the external speakers
    of remaining Steiner Mechs.
1015 Torello with his last shot for his ac20 is hesitent who to shoot at, Kaleb has excellent cover
     in his forest and the Valkyrie is also hard to hit. But he suddenly desides and let go of the
     last shot, a big smoke cloud covers the forest where Kaleb's Atlas stood, but when the smookes
     clears Kaleb is down with a big smooking hole in his hip, and seconds later he turns down his
     mech and surrenders. Mike Torello won this bout with his Captian Peer, Kaleb Dark.
1019 Steiners last pilot, Ulrich seeing his leader go down and surrender, also surrenders his Valkyrie.
     Leaving the marik a close call victory.



In Other News:


Liao brought to court by Davion!
The Davion team brought Liao Death Heads to trial on alledged sabotage accusations before their season opener. The Solaris court found Liao Not Guilty to the charges of sabotage against the Davion team. However Liaos legal team, Lawyer firm Heckler & Kock, were apprehended with trying to use false, planted evidence against Davion. On the Charges of Obstructing Justice and planting of evidence the Liao Team was found guilty as charged and fined 500 000 C-bills.


Liao selling mechs
Liao Death Heads announced that they are putting one of its Locust-1M's out for sale as of round 2.


Annoncement from Liao Death heads PR manager.
All pilots from all teams are welcome to the funeral of C.Eastwood on Monday the 15:th. Please no cheering and dressing up in bright colors.


Recycling times Changed
In an attempt to equal out the technological differences between the less advanced teams and the big Houses, the judges set the recycling times to default. That has been taken into discussion internally and to result have been to change them back to proper defaults.


Davion Unravels New Team Captain!
Gods of New Avalon from Davion announced a change in Captainhood within their team toady. The Punisher, yes the same man that led the Yoda family to a good second position in the 3048 Games are back. And he is working for the Opposition! This will certainly enrage Kurita Officals and Fans.