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[Burnt Pies]

If the light lance/training cadre can be kept relatively well shielded by the heavies, I think it'd be good to get the rookies some on the job experience.

For mech acquisition, I agree we definitely need a few more. The guillotine sounds like a good option, though we seem to have 2 free pilots, so perhaps picking up a medium and a light would be better? Or picking up the Guillotine now and looking for a better option on a second mech once we get paid, perhaps.

[Blaze]

I don't have much knowledge of the game, but I'd happily take Frajtov, callsign Wojtek.

I think we have a leftover locust, throw on some leftover MLasers and it should be okay. Can't really see the need to burn our remaining funds if we have something we can use.

Or you can always throw me in an LRM carrier for shiggles.

[Hasek10]

Should we deploy a second lance for the upcoming mission? Ker-Ker is still recovering from her wounds, though not in any way that would penalize her piloting or gunnery.
It might be worthwhile to deploy the Cadre Lance. They won't be expected to do much of the heavy lifting, and they're also not down a mech (while the Medium Lance, at present, is). That, and battle is a much more effective teacher than training.
Should we buy a mech? More than one mech?

I really like the idea of deploying the Cadre lance as reinforcements for the Recon Raid. Battle is definitely a much better XP earner than training. Anything to get Linebuster on the field of course

That said, the map looks to be a great layout for systematically hunting down the Capellan forces. Heavy Urban+City Dense means you can play hide and seek with the enemy force while waiting for the Cadre lance to arrive if you want.

I'm also a fan of the Guillotine, if simply because of its efficient weapon loadout and resilience to ammo explosions. Its a little above-cost, but I can definitely see it being a huge force multiplier if we give it to a pilot with Energy Weapon specialization. Lets do it.

[Fishbreath]

Last Time's Action Items

• We purchased the Guillotine, assigning it to Private Hanzoku Yuksel. After a long moment with his shattered Locust, he gives the techs the okay to start salvage operations.
  
  
• The Cadre Lance deploys alongside Heavy Lance.

The Action of October 27, 3050

The Capellan forces arrayed against us are lightweight, as is typical for Capellans. (If I'd known they were such pushovers, I would have recommended tackling them a lot more strongly!)



The only things on the list to be concerned about are the Hetzer (with its AC/20) and the Vindicator, which mounts a PPC.

The battle commences in heavy fog. That has two effects: movement will be much slower, and accurate shooting will be somewhat harder. The terrain is heavy urban; there are no open areas on the map, and most combat is going to take place along streets.

Round 1

Since Heavy Lance is deployed with the Scout duty, they arrive on the battlefield fastest mechs first. Only Private Ngo's Crab is fast enough to make it on the first round. Rook and Double Dog will arrive in the second round. Drake and the Awesome will turn up in the third. We deploy on the north edge of the map; the enemy deploys in the center.



Ngo starts off on a side street, out of view of the enemy; the liaison, in a Wasp, tangles with the /Capellan Phoenix Hawk and takes heavy damage.



Round 2

The Flashman and Thunderbolt show up, deployed somewhat to Ngo's west. They take an aggressive tack, moving toward the Phoenix Hawk and firing on it.



Rook hits with most of her weapons, while Double Dog does a lot of missing. He hits with one medium laser, though, which is enough to pierce the Phoenix Hawk's center torso armor.

Ngo exchanges ineffectual fire with the enemies on her side of the map.

Round 3

Drake deploys behind Ngo. As expected, the enemy gets out of his line of sight, except for one poor, unfortunate Hetzer assault gun a full 18 hexes away. He'll take that shot.

On the other side of the map, Rook and Double Dog continue to hammer the Phoenix Hawk.

Alarms go off in the latter's cockpit as the two heavies' shots hit home. It's very nearly dead.



At maximum range, Drake hits with two of his three PPCs. Putting him in the Awesome is basically cheating. If he can see it, he can hit it; if he can hit it, he can kill it.

Round 4

The Phoenix Hawk dodges behind Double Dog, but Rook still has a clear shot. Drake is set to take some fire, as enemy vehicles roll out into the street to engage his mech, but he can handle it.



Drake and Rook tie for first blood. Drake bags a Packrat patrol vehicle, while Rook gets the Phoenix Hawk. Ngo kicks the Vindicator.

Round 5

Drake, who can't back up owing to the heavy fog, remains stationary, aiming for the Vindicator. (It's inside his PPCs' minimum range, but he's a good enough gunner to manage the to-hit penalty.)

On the other side of the map, Rook and Double Dog slowly make their way over to the rest of the fighting.

Drake takes moderate damage, but manages to stay vertical. The Vindicator does not. Ngo kicks it again for good measure.

Round 6

Drake moves up, hoping to kick the Vindicator into submission.

No need. The Vindicator pilot, while attempting to stand, falls down, and...



I'll take it! Ngo, who did the last damage to the mech, gets credit for the kill.

Drake has a shot on the LRM Scorpion hassling the other members of the Heavy Lance, so he takes it. Rook and Double Dog still can't shoot at anything. Ngo can, but she's very unlikely to hit.

Round 7

Cadre Lance takes the field! They're staying mostly out of the way, though Linebuster leads the way.



Once again, buildings block Drake's line of fire. The LRM Scorpion he tagged last round is about to die a brutal death, though. Rook gets credit for the kill. Woad scores a hit, too.

Rounds 8-12

Cleanup at this point. We have a tremendous advantage in firepower and survivability.

Cadre Lance gets to fire its weapons in anger; merely showing up for battle is better for a pilot's skill than a good bit of training.

Drake finishes off the Hetzer he was shooting at earlier. Ngo bags a Scorpion, and Linebuster gets credit for two vehicles.

Damage

None to speak of; the enemy didn't make it through anyone's armor. Nobody was injured, either.

The Action of October 28, 3050

... and before we can do much more than replace damaged armor, there's another battle.

This one's objective is hide and seek: kill half the enemy while losing less than a third of the Opinionated Bastards' deployed force. Or, as I fully expect to do again, destroy the enemy utterly.

The enemy forces this time are a bit heavier than before. Almost everything on the field has something to be cautious of: an AC/10 on the Po tank, PPCs on the Vindicators, AC/20s on the Hetzers, and a large laser on the Grasshopper. Once again, Heavy Lance and Cadre Lance deploy.



The map is quite small, a 15x25-hex affair with a lot of variation in height. That helps balance out the numbers disadvantage; we can use the terrain to take cover.

Round 1

Again, it's a scouting deployment, so Ngo deploys first. She's at the northeast corner of the map. The allied FedCom mech, a Commando, deploys near the center of the eastern map border.

Ngo takes hits from four of the five AC/2s mounted on the AC/2 carrier, and more damage than that from one of the Vindicator's PPCs. Combined with a few LRMs, that's enough to knock her mech over, but not before she scores a critical hit on the AC/2 carrier, killing its crew. First blood comes early.

Round 2

Rook and Double Dog deploy on the southeastern corner of the map, and open fire on one of the Vindicators with moderate success. Ngo stumbles, but manages to stand, and moves quickly to join her comrades to her south.



Round 3

Drake takes the field. The entirety of Heavy Lance fires on the enemy Grasshopper; Drake hits with all three PPCs. The enemy mech falls.

Round 4

There's very little movement going on. The Opinionated Bastards have a good position, screened in part by the hill, and the enemies don't want to get any closer, either. Everyone focuses on the Grasshopper again; it's the biggest threat and the easiest to hit. It falls down a second time.



Round 5

The Grasshopper stands again and jumps closer, into medium laser range. *Drake and Rook will take another crack at him, while the other units split their fire to start working on the Vindicator next door.

Drake takes a hit to his gyro through the armor, and one of the Hetzers scores on his right arm with an AC/20, damaging one of his PPCs.

The Grasshopper pilot ejects after taking some engine, gyro, and actuator hits. That's excellent news. We didn't shoot out its core or destroy its limbs. If we can get it as salvage, we can probably save it.

Round 6

The next most dangerous targets are the Hetzers and the Vindicators, so that's where we aim next.

Rook takes out the first Hetzer, with assists from Drake and Ngo.

Round 7

Cadre Lance arrives. Most everyone stays behind our protective hilltop, although the whole formation slides slightly southwest. The remaining Hetzer has one of the better gunners left on the Capellan side, so we'll aim for him first.



Severe, moving to fire on one of the Vindicators, takes severe damage, and loses control of her mech. It falls. That's no good. On the other hand, it's also behind a hill, so by falling, it's now out of the line of fire.

Rook scores another kill, this time on the Hetzer.

Round 8

The enemy is below half strength, which means we win; I'm going to take a bit more time to blow stuff up, because it's going well and, and the more that's dead, the more likely we are to get a crack at that Grasshopper.

Drake loses his right arm to enemy fire, but that's okay. We can patch him up. We have the parts.

Rook notches yet another kill, this time taking down the Locust south of our force. Double Dog gets in on the action, destroying the Po heavy tank with a hit to the ammunition store.

Round 9-11

Cleanup goes well; all we have left are the two Vindicators, which are looking rather worse for the wear. Rook takes a hit to the gyro, but is otherwise okay. Newcomers to the killboard Woad and Euchre each account for one of the Vindicators. Congratulations!

After-Action Reports

Salvage



We score the Grasshopper! (We also took a Phoenix Hawk in the first battle.) The Grasshopper can be repaired; the Phoenix Hawk is only worth its weight in parts. That puts us at a little north of 40% salvage instead of the negotiated 30%, so we'll have to tread lightly on the next mission or two.

In terms of income, we make 175,000 C-bills on prisoner ransom and about 50,000 on battle loss compensation.

Damage



Nothing is out of commission. Heavy Lance needs some repairs. The Awesome's gyro turns out to be a total loss, but one of the spares we have fits. (I'm still not at all sure how to figure out which of the four different kinds of gyro a given mech requires.)

Nothing else to report on the damage front, except that we can't fully repair the Grasshopper—one of its jump jets was destroyed, and we can't order a new one on this contract.

Despite the damage to our mechs, none of our pilots were wounded.

Training



Ngo is now a Veteran, with 4+ piloting/3+ gunnery. Her new trait, Some Like It Hot, allows her to ignore the -1 to-hit penalty for mild overheating, which is useful. The Crab generates a lot of heat.

Ker-Ker also trained to 4+/4+. Woad and Euchre are both 5+/5+ now, which is still technically Green. Next time they raise a mech skill, though, they'll be Regulars.

Changing Mech Assignments



Mech assignments and organization shift a bit, since I had to throw together an undamaged lance to deploy following the mission above.

Woad steps into the Grasshopper and joins Rook, Drake, and Ngo in Heavy Lance. Medium Lance is now Double Dog in the Thunderbolt, Ker-Ker in the Frankenstein Lancelot, Hanzoku in the Guillotine, and Euchre in the TBT-5S.

Linebuster is still in charge of the rookies in Cadre Lance, whose ranks now include Wojtek, taking Woad's previous ride, the TBT-5N.

Kill Board(s)

Rook leaps out to a commanding lead, followed by Drake and the still-unclaimed Private Ngo.

Recon Raid



Hide and Seek



All-Time Leaders

• Lieutenant "Rook" Ishikawa (9, 2 mech)
• Captain "Drake" Halit (6, 2 mechs)
• Private Ngo (5, 2 mechs)
• Lieutenant "Linebuster" Atkinson (5)
• Private "Ker-Ker" Ec (2, 1 mech)
• Lieutenant "Double Dog" Dare (2)
• Private "Wojtek" Frajtov (1, 1 mech)
• Private "Euchre" Kojic (1, 1 mech)
• Private "Woad" Kohler (1, 1 mech)
• Sergeant "Milspec" Ortega (1)
• Private Jamil (1)

Status

It is now November 5, 3050. I stopped here because there's yet another battle planned for tomorrow, another Hide and Seek. See below for more information.

Finances

Our current balance is 5.225 million C-bills.

Spares

We're out of spare large lasers, and we only have gyros in the two-ton size at present. Owing to combat in orbit, no resupply is possible this month.

Next Mission

The next mission sees us facing an interesting force: no vehicles whatsoever, but two full lances of mechs. The expected Capellan force is primarily light mechs, with some Vindicators and a Wolverine expected. Medium Lance was deployed and therefore must face the enemy first. Given the current distribution of pilots, I'm tempted to bring both Cadre Lance and Heavy Lance along for this deployment. Both will take a while to arrive on the field, since none of our lances are what you'd call fast, but I'm uncomfortable leaving Heavy Lance to face twice its number alone.

MechWarrior Claims and Assignments

• For the record, the following mechwarriors are claimed.
• Captain Huri "Drake" Halit, Awesome AWS-8Q (Mephansteras)
• Lt. SG George "Linebuster" Atkinson, Lancelot LNC25-02 (Hasek10)
• Lt. SG Mariamu "Rook" Ishikawa, Flashman FLS-7K (Culise)
• Lt. JG Sung-min "Double Dog" Dare, Thunderbolt TDR-5S (a1s)
• Sgt. Jose "Milspec" Ortega, Phoenix Hawk PHX-1 (milspec)
• Pvt. Ferdinand "Woad" Kohler, Grasshopper GHR-5H (A Thing)
• Pvt. Jan "Euchre" Kojic, Trebuchet TBT-5S (EuchreJack)
• Pvt. Cathrine "Severe" Payne, Locust Custom (Burnt Pies)
• Pvt. E-Shei "Ker-Ker" Ec, Lancelot LNC25-02 "Frankenstein" (Kanil)
• Pvt. Ed "Hanzoku" Yuksel, Guillotine GLT-4L (Hanzoku)
• Pvt. Ik-jun "Wojtek" Frajtov, Trebuchet TBT-5N (Blaze)
• The following mechwarriors remain to be claimed. They're listed with their current mech assignment. To claim a mechwarrior, give me a callsign for one of them. I'll refer to them by their callsign in most places, and bold it so it's easier to find them.
• Pvt. Jamil, Vulcan VL-2T
• Pvt. Ngo, Crab CRB-20

Action Items

• For this next mission, should we deploy everything, or only reinforce Medium Lance with Heavy Lance?
  

[Mephansteras]

I'm inclined to say we bring in all lances. The Cadre lance can use more experience and should be able to do fine against Light Mechs.


Also, ouch, Drake's Awesome took quite the beating there. That's the disadvantage of an Assault - you make quite the target for everyone to shoot at!

[Blaze]

I say Bring all the lances, unless ammo/armor is becoming an issue.

[Dorsidwarf]

I'll take private Ngo, callsign Carcer.

I also recommend bringing in the cadre lance, the more shots out we make, the fewer shots in we take

[Burnt Pies]

I support bringing all the lances. I just hope Payne doesn't manage to fall on her arse this time.

[Kanil]

(I'm still not at all sure how to figure out which of the four different kinds of gyro a given mech requires.)

One ton for every 100 engine rating, rounded up. Engine rating is walk speed * 'mech tonnage. 205-300 rated engines are the most common, so you'll mostly need 3 ton gyros. (You sure seem to go through these things at a pretty high rate.)

[Hasek10]

Whew, good fights there! Glad the Cadre Lance had a chance to get on the field and take some shots. This next battle should be pretty doable. That first Hetzer looks pretty dangerous though.

 Lets keep up the full deployments for this month and then we can reassess how things are going after the smoke has cleared. Hopefully we'll be able to put some of our battlefield salvage in to service by then and we can start phasing out some of the more fragile level 1 chassis we're rolling with.

[Knave]

Read through the whole thread the last couple days. Love reading BT AARs. Keep up the good work!

May as well report in as Private Tedris Jamil since all the characters should be accounted for. callsign: Teddy Bear

Agree that the whole group should be deployed.

[Fishbreath]

The Action of November 6, 3050

It's going to be a brawl, and it's going to be a brawl almost out of the gate. The map was originally 15x35; that seemed a bit cramped, so I used my reroll to change the map size. Now it's 15 hexes by 25. Oops.

On the plus side, it's a very hilly map with a lot of forest, which means, given initiative (which I never have, and which always seems weighted against the force with fewer units in any case), we can use the trees to protect ourselves.

Medium Lance will deploy near the edge and stay close to it, so that they can retreat in case of emergency.

Round 1

Since, once again, it's a Scout deployment, units deploy by speed; onlyEuchre andHanzoku (in the Trebuchet and the jump-capable Guillotine) arrive in the first round.


Pictured: basically every mech currently deployed. Happily, almost everyone misses. As usual, the allied Wasp is getting plastered.

Round 2



Ker-Ker and Double Dog arrive. This is literally the worst kind of fight.

As seems to be tradition, Ker-Ker takes a pounding from the enemy, and fails to keep her mech on its feet.

The melee phase makes things even worse. Three of our four mechs end up on the ground.

Round 3

Everyone manages to get up. Euchre moves to protect the flank, while the heavier mechs take aim at a Vindicator and a Wolverine.

Ker-Ker, still focused by the enemy, loses a leg to weapons fire from a Wasp behind her. Her mech falls and won't be getting up, but at least she's not wounded or unconscious. The Lancelot still has both its arms, so she can prop herself up and shoot, too. Euchre plants a solid kick on the Wasp that did it and destroys its leg in return.

Round 4

Ker-Ker takes light damage, which isn't bad, all things considered. Since, for once, she's merely prone rather than prone and immobilized, she's actually a harder target for mechs more than one hex away than she would be were she standing.

Euchre bags the Wasp which knocked Ker-Ker's mech down, while Double Dog kicks the Stinger next to him in the torso, knocking it out.

Round 5

The Wolverine jumps next to Ker-Ker, no doubt intending to attempt to kick her downed mech. The rest of Heavy Lance angles to keep that from happening.



The Lancelot takes heavier damage this time, including a hit or two to the head. The damage knocks Ker-Ker out, so now she's in serious danger. Again.

Round 6

The good news is that everyone seems to be leaving Ker-Ker alone this round. The bad news is that, in attempting to protect her, we're pretty poorly positioned. The good news is, Cadre Lance arrives in two rounds. The bad news is, I'm not sure Ker-Ker will survive that long even if nobody's shooting at her this time.

The brunt of the enemy fire is aimed at Euchre, but catastrophe! It's the Thunderbolt taking a lucky critical hit through the armor. (Fun fact: through-armor crits should happen a little less than 3% of the time. It's happened twice in three turns here, though I didn't mention the first one, since it was less terrible in outcome.)



The allied Wasp proves its worth for once, destroying its opposite number.

Round 7

This time, we focus on one of the enemy Vindicators. Next round, Cadre Lance arrives; the round after, Heavy Lance takes the field to wrap this one up.



The FedCom Wasp falls again, after taking heavy damage from the Vindicator facing it. We knock out the nearer Vindicator's PPC, which renders it more or less harmless. It's also taken heavy center torso damage, and another round of focus fire should fell it.

Round 8*

Cadre Lance arrives. The better elements thereof take the field to the north of the battle, while Wojtek and Severe deploy to the south. They'll work as a team, with Severe spotting for Wojtek's LRMs.



Ker-Ker wakes up, somehow still not dead.

Teddy Bear scores his first mech kill, knocking out the Wolverine menacing Ker-Ker with a hit to the ammo reserves. Which is a shame, because other attacks decapitate it; we could have taken the chassis if it hadn't blown up.

Ker-Ker's Frankenstein Lancelot is going to take quite a lot of repairing agin.

Round 9

As Heavy Lance takes the field, the enemy quite wisely begins to retreat. We'll see what we can do to take them down.



It's Hanzoku in the Guillotine who gets the kill on the Vindicator nearest us, his first as an Opinionated Bastard. Rook, hitting a ridiculous cross-map shot on a damaged Wasp, further cements her place atop the killboard.

Rounds 10+

With only two enemy mechs left, we move to cleanup. Rook bags the Wolverine, while Severe notches her first kill on the enemy Firestarter.

Salvage, Repairs, Injuries

The Thunderbolt is a total loss, so thoroughly destroyed by the ammunition explosion that there's nothing left to salvage. The Frankenstein Lancelot is crippled, but we have enough spare parts to get it back into service. Everything else is undamaged. Ker-Ker is the only pilot to be wounded; she has a concussion again, along with a number of lesser injuries.

We can't take any actual salvage because we're still over our percentage.

We receive battle loss compensation to the tune of 600,000 C-bills, then add 70,000 more in ransom payments for enemy prisoners.

Kill Board(s)

Rook's lead grows. Notably, all the current Opinionated Bastards now have at least one kill.

Last Mission

(Turns out I forgot to take a picture. Oops.)

All-Time Leaders

• Lieutenant "Rook" Ishikawa (11, 4 mechs)
• Captain "Drake" Halit (6, 2 mechs)
• Private Ngo (5, 2 mechs)
• Lieutenant "Linebuster" Atkinson (5)
• Lieutenant "Double Dog" Dare (3, 1 mech)
• Private "Euchre" Kojic (2, 2 mechs)
• Private "Ker-Ker" Ec (2, 1 mech)
• Private "Teddy Bear" Jamil (2, 1 mech)
• Private "Wojtek" Frajtov (1, 1 mech)
• Private "Woad" Kohler (1, 1 mech)
• Private Ed "Hanzoku" Yuksel (1, 1 mech)
• Private Cathrine "Severe" Payne (1, 1 mech)
• Sergeant "Milspec" Ortega (1)

Status

It is now November 20, 3050.

Contract Status

The Capellan forces are beginning to look worn down as our string of victories takes its toll on them. There's another mission scheduled for tomorrow, a probe against a medium vehicle lance and a mixed mech-and-vehicle light lance, with a second medium vehicle lance in reserve. Heavy Lance and Cadre Lance are currently detailed to the mission, with Cadre Lance arriving late as reinforcements.

Finances

We currently have 5.856 million C-bills in the bank.

Unit Market



There are a few options to replace the lost Thunderbolt, including another Thunderbolt. Action item below for should-we-buy-something.

Organization

Double Dog, left without a mech, takes Woad's slot in the Grasshopper for the upcoming mission. (Sorry, Woad. It's not that you're a bad pilot, it's that the other guy's a better one.)

Repairs

We're in good shape. Ker-Ker's Frankenstein Lancelot is missing a large laser, and the Grasshopper is still down a jump jet.

Spares

We're out of large lasers, which is a significant blow, especially given Ker-Ker's tendency to get our Lancelots blown up. We are, of course, still out of three-ton gyroscopes, but in good shape otherwise.

MechWarrior Claims and Assignments

• For the record, the following mechwarriors are claimed.
• Captain Huri "Drake" Halit, Awesome AWS-8Q (Mephansteras)
• Lt. SG George "Linebuster" Atkinson, Lancelot LNC25-02 (Hasek10)
• Lt. SG Mariamu "Rook" Ishikawa, Flashman FLS-7K (Culise)
• Lt. JG Sung-min "Double Dog" Dare, Thunderbolt TDR-5S (a1s)
• Sgt. Jose "Milspec" Ortega, Phoenix Hawk PHX-1 (milspec)
• Pvt. Ferdinand "Woad" Kohler, Grasshopper GHR-5H (A Thing)
• Pvt. Jan "Euchre" Kojic, Trebuchet TBT-5S (EuchreJack)
• Pvt. Cathrine "Severe" Payne, Locust Custom (Burnt Pies)
• Pvt. E-Shei "Ker-Ker" Ec, Lancelot LNC25-02 "Frankenstein" (Kanil)
• Pvt. Ed "Hanzoku" Yuksel, Guillotine GLT-4L (Hanzoku)
• Pvt. Ik-jun "Wojtek" Frajtov, Trebuchet TBT-5N (Blaze)
• Pvt. Tedros "Teddy Bear" Jamil, Vulcan VL-2T (Knave)
• The following mechwarriors remain to be claimed. They're listed with their current mech assignment. To claim a mechwarrior, give me a callsign for one of them. I'll refer to them by their callsign in most places, and bold it so it's easier to find them.
• Pvt. Ngo, Crab CRB-20

Action Items

• We're down a mech. Should we buy a new one?
  
• For Culise, about Rook:
  
  • Rook now has enough experience to buy a Weapons Specialist trait for large lasers, which will further improve her enemy-shredding ability in the Flashman, but tie her down to mechs with large lasers. Should she buy that trait, or save for improved piloting/gunnery down the line?
• Any requests for changes to deployment or strategy for the next battle?

[Kanil]

At least I didn't die. And my 'mech doesn't have ammo, so it didn't go Thunderbolt.

[Culise]

For Culise, about Rook:

• Rook now has enough experience to buy a Weapons Specialist trait for large lasers, which will further improve her enemy-shredding ability in the Flashman, but tie her down to mechs with large lasers. Should she buy that trait, or save for improved piloting/gunnery down the line?

I'm not too familiar with the nitty-gritty of the game.  What do folks in the thread generally foresee as being optimum for how we're running now as far as lasers versus guns? 

[Knave]

Teddy Bear scores his first mech kill, knocking out the Wolverine menacing Ker-Ker with a hit to the ammo reserves.

Hurray!

Which is a shame, because other attacks decapitate it; we could have taken the chassis if it hadn't blown up.

...shit.

Having a replacement Thunderbolt might be a good buy, the price doesn't look bad either. But it's a large chunk of our reserve c-bills. I imagine this sort of puts us back to square one.