[center][h1]Lieutenant Commander Johann "Rhino" Von Brandt[/h1][/center]

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[color=lightblue]<<Vulture, Rhino, good copy, assuming Squad Lead. Allied elements, keep up the good work, walking fire across the right flank, bound up on my mark. Mark!>>[/color]

Rhino had shifted from focusing on his own efforts and piloting to organizing the counteroffensive properly. Properly, of course, meant naturally integrating the Helldog's preferred method of shorter, clipped call outs and more focused on just getting the point across. He chimed in naturally, moving forward at a steady pace, making sure to never outpace the Helldogs and friendly infantry support. It was good to see the hostiles buckling proper, infantry scattering or just surrendering outright while return MAS fire was becoming more of an obligation rather than anything heartfelt. Didn't mean damage couldn't be done, however, as one of the Helldogs fell back to use the Secutor as cover, and he retracted the 20mm to provide both a stable firing position for the rifle, and an unobstructed view to work with, syncing his frame's steps in time with the damaged Sentry to minimize any obstruction of outgoing fire. Rabbit ID'd the mystery frame trying to tango two on one against Skollr units, Hex but no outbound comms, probably took a nasty hit. Explained the radio silence at the very least, and he was cool and professional over comms, even as he worked between callouts and coordination with the Helldogs.

[color=lightblue]<<Rook, Rhino, coordinate with Rabbit to support Hex.>>[/color]

Rhino swapped to a direct line to not clutter the squad comms, and to not put the rookie on possible blast in front of everyone. Fighting Heavy MAS was a dangerous gambit, even in another MAS, and he could hear the overconfidence in Rook's voice after performing reasonably well so far after touching down, especially compared to the space engagement. He was still calm, but more direct in tone compared to the squad wide tone he adopted once being tapped for temporary lead.

[color=lightblue]<<With comms down you can't assume anything, work around what you see. Heavy MAS like those only need to get one good hit in to do critical damage, especially if kitted out for urban warfare. Go for joints, optics, feed mechanisms, the small things that can't be armored easily, and work them over from there.>>[/color]

Rook wanted reinforcements, and rightly so, but until the Coalition MAS units stopped fighting, Rhino couldn't simply go chasing after the next biggest target, and he had Rabbit heading that way from the looks of it to help work over the Skollr units. Ideal world he would be deploying to help bring them down, but until the Helldog front was secured, he couldn't leave them in the lurch. Even if one wasn't using him as cover, which they were, it came with the duties of squad lead. Vulture, squad lead actual, had diverted to make room for Rabbit to get clear of her crash site and re-engage, while Commie was busy hunting the Coalition toy that had grounded Rabbit to begin with. Sending another burst of 30mm into a Coalition MAS that tried to poke out to lay down suppressing fire, forcing it back with damage along its side. 

[color=lightblue]<<Center right ducking, bounding up to the wrecked APC!>>[/color]

The Secutor advanced, though 'bounding' might be optimistic. Compared to the dueling super frames and the rest of his squadron, Rhino was practically plodding. Even compared to the Helldog Sentry frames, they could readily outpace him if they so wanted to, it came with the territory and it was something he was used to. Sparing another glance at the duel in the sky, and ignoring the rattle of 35mm across his frame as he subconsciously shifted to shield the Helldog behind him from further incoming fire, he spotted the explosion of a weapon's platform, though the duel was still going fierce. Well Rhino assumed so, any attention directed that way set his optics and sensors on the fritz, not even a firm smack of the console seemed to resolve it. Hex, Rabbit, and Rook were dancing with the two Skollr, he was still tied down on the Helldog front, and Commie was alone on high. He opened a channel to Vulture between confirmations and chatter with the Helldogs, given Rabbit had taken good advantage of the danger close run to get free of her crash site.

[color=lightblue]"Vulture, Rhino. Commie nailed the Jaeger's weapon but optics are acting fuzzy trying to track what's going on beyond that. Recommend making all good speed up there to help, rest of us are pretty firmly grounded or too entangled to disengage and assist."[/color]

As novel, and amusing, an idea as it was, a flight capable Secutor would lose almost all the advantages the frame had currently with fairly limited gains at best. Something would have to go, the combined weight of every modification, weapon platform, and support system would kill nearly any conventional flight system capable of gravitational work. Rabbit was down, Hex was comms down, and he wasn't about to suggest Rook make a hard turn and go get into a whole new kind of trouble. Rattling fire across his armor refocused his attention, another burst of 30mm chewing away at the cover of the offending Coalition MAS, encouraging the pilot to either run or keep their head down, covering gaps left by the Helldog angles of fire as they called them out. No sense giving the already broken enemy a chance to get any more serious hits to force the Helldogs to spend more time in repair after the LZ was finally declared secure enough to establish a base of operations.