{"id":5506,"date":"2016-11-26T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T06:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=5506"},"modified":"2016-11-27T13:19:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T19:19:29","slug":"battle-of-new-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=5506","title":{"rendered":"Battle of New Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"image-003-800\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cStay on my six, Mischief,\u201d Jack ordered as they drifted towards the Shang ships.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn it like glue,\u201d Katy answered and her Hellcats used their maneuvering thrusters to slip into formation behind him.<\/p>\n

\u201cPromises, promises,\u201d he said with a smirk and flexed his fingers, preparing for the next stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Shang are painting us with sensor sweeps,\u201d Betty reported and glanced towards one of the displays where it showed a complex diagram of colors. \u201cWe\u2019re scattering and jamming below detection levels. But I think they\u2019re getting suspicious.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPrepare to break and attack on my order,\u201d Charles transmitted as they continued to close the range. \u201cUse old weapons packages only. Let us keep our full capabilities to ourselves for now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRoger that,\u201d Jack returned with an approving smile.<\/p>\n

\u201cApproaching detection levels,\u201d Betty reported as the sensor display began to flash. \u201cI can\u2019t keep them in the dark much longer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBreak in three,\u201d Charles ordered.<\/p>\n

Jack tightened his hands on the controls and ran his hands over a display.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo.\u201d<\/p>\n

A T&J song about bad guys biting the dust began to play.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne.\u201d<\/p>\n

Power flowed from capacitors, flooding defensive and offensive systems with enough power to light up small cities.<\/p>\n

\u201cBreak! Break! Break!\u201d Charles ordered and the world exploded in time to the screaming of a steel-stringed guitar.<\/p>\n

Deflection grids came alive and fire control systems locked onto their targets. Gravitic cannons reached out and twisted the very fabric of gravity between the Shang formation and the incoming Cowboys. Deflection grids collapsed and armor buckled as focused gravity tore the plates apart. Laser turrets pulsed into unshielded flanks, vaporizing armor and weapons alike…<\/p>\n

###<\/p>\n

You can read about the Battle of New Washington in Forge of War, available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble right now.<\/p>\n

Forge of War on Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n

Forge of War on Barnes and Noble<\/a><\/p>\n

###<\/p>\n

Full size image available for free on Patreon.<\/p>\n

Battle of New Washington at Patreon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cStay on my six, Mischief,\u201d Jack ordered as they drifted towards the Shang ships. \u201cOn it like glue,\u201d Katy answered and her Hellcats used their maneuvering thrusters to slip into formation behind him. \u201cPromises, promises,\u201d he said with a smirk[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diaries","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-medron-pryde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5506"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5510,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506\/revisions\/5510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}