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Medal should be "Terashell's rear end-plate of Honor" and should be + Aim/+ Will. Issue to the next Squadmate that comes back from a mission nearly dead. Stomperud absolutely has to be "Bork Bork Bork". Make Tiny Turtle "Mecha Gear Rag", continue naming convention for all future Mecs.
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Tactical Sense because +defense when you can see multiple enemies is the time you want +defense. drat Good Ground because it doesn't take long for pistols to be of questionable utility. Though Gunslinger does have its oments when your sniper is running through UFOs, since sometimes you will have to move to set up for a new shot, and Gunslinger lets them put at least some hurt out the turn they move. Shredder Rockets because it kills all basic foes, sets up captures on 5 hp foes, and lets you blow up more cover, and exposes giant fuckoff enemies to bonus damage for a turn or two. Revive I am quite a fan of revive. Sure you won't always get a knockdown instead of just a flat out dead. But when you do, it means you can get that soldier back into the fight for the rest of the mission. Suppression is nice, I guess, but things go wrong. -30 aim on one enemy for 2 shots worth of ammo has its moments, but only if your support/heavy is there while it's happening. And it assumes that he can't just shoot the troublemaker, since he already has something resembling a shot. The first rule of X-Com is sometimes things go wrong. You can have your guy you've revived on rearguard for the mission if you don't want to use the medkit charges. Without it, you still burn a medkit charge, but you're down a man for the rest of the mission regardless. The medal should be Thin Men Umbrella. Since you got it for surviving Thin men. Edit: And the +1 Aim and Will for each no casualty mission. It is a better and more versatile bonus. So the medal can go to any soldier instead of snipers.
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Feb 14, 2014 01:03
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Ah yes, the secondary heart causing bleed outs as a guarantee over kills. Forgot about that. That makes his post make perfect sense. I didn't know what gene mode he meant nor which con to the revive list he was saying it countered.
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Feb 14, 2014 01:13
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Irrelevant. You mean irrelevant.
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Feb 14, 2014 01:28
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You can't not name the mech "Tech Support" YOU WILL REGRET THIS!
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Feb 14, 2014 01:34
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Ragnar "No-limbs" Tiny Turtle Nittien "Uutalbar" Stopmperud The council obviously awards the Champion Bootlicker Prize, giving Aim and Will. First one goes to Tiny Turtle, in recognition of the one controllable appendage that will remain for him.
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Feb 14, 2014 01:35
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Cooked Auto posted:But with that name he'll just die off-screen. drat. Good point. He'll have a cool action figure, though!
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Feb 14, 2014 01:40
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Edit: pages!  Other people translated a hurried post into legibility. Ceebees fucked around with this message at 01:50 on Feb 14, 2014 |
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Feb 14, 2014 01:42
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gently caress PORTENT I don't even blame you a little for cheesing it. I vote +Aim & +Will, because I also value will over crit. Nothing really standing out to me for the badge name. I've experimented a bit with those two skill choices for the heavy and support, and I find I prefer the Rifle Suppression on the support, and the Shredder Rocket on the Heavy. There are a lot of situations later in the game where accuracy becomes an issue even with Colonels, or potential damage output will not kill an enemy in one turn that threatens a soldier. So I take Rifle Suppression and give them at least a -30 aim. One support smoke grenading your squad and another support suppressing a target with their rifle is pretty wonderful for insuring you don't get murdered! Shredder Rocket also ups the potential damage on targets, and another ability (although nerfed in EW) helps the rocket further against certain enemies. An extra explosion never* hurts, either. As much as I loved Cknoor's Bloodbowl run and Ragnar, I second Tech Support for the Mech name.  It made me giggle.
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Feb 14, 2014 01:43
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I figured I'd try to get toolboks and revenge of the sleeves working and only just got toolboks in. Is it not possible to change soldier nationalities with toolboks? Was going to make Tiny Icelandic and Nittien Norwegian.
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Feb 14, 2014 01:48
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Jade Star posted:Tactical Sense vs Aggression Another point against extra crit: Crit is inherently random, and you generally you don't take shots unless you know they'll do the job, no crit required. You'll never have a plan for your turn that includes "Soldier X must crit against Alien Y" - even if you've got an aggressive play style.
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Feb 14, 2014 01:55
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DatonKallandor posted:Another point against extra crit: Crit is inherently random To a point. With an assault you can stack enough crit chance on something to push it up to 100%. Flanking is 60%, Aggression is 10% per, Shotguns get some inherent crit chance as well, Killer Instinct is +50% chance, coming out of being cloaked is... +30%? Not sure, they changed that one. If you go and make dealing crits a focus point you can engineer situations where an assault will have 100% crit chances.
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Feb 14, 2014 01:59
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DatonKallandor posted:Another point against extra crit: Crit is inherently random, and you generally you don't take shots unless you know they'll do the job, no crit required. You'll never have a plan for your turn that includes "Soldier X must crit against Alien Y" - even if you've got an aggressive play style. So is defense. You could have 90 defense and still get shot. Same with crit, you could have 90% crit and still fail to do so. So it's not a bonus for or against either. It's just the nature of the game.
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Feb 14, 2014 02:01
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The Council Medal kind of looks like a frog. The gap between the upper two stars and the nameplate makes its "mouth". Have it grant +1 Will and Aim and name it the Medal of Frogdom, because Presidential Medal of Frogdom is probably too much to fit. I also propose that you should name your soldiers Nitten "Mittens" Stomperud and Ragnar "Rock" Tinyturtle.
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Feb 14, 2014 02:02
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From the moment I saw the nickname the game chose for Ragnar Tiny Turtle I knew he should be nicknamed Terrapin.
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Feb 14, 2014 02:17
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Anyone who earns my medal has to receive it via high-velocity railgun directly in the anus.
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Feb 14, 2014 02:23
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Ragnar "Tinnitus" TinyTurtle Nittien "Børk Børk Børk" Stomperud The Medal of Honour should be +Aim and Will, and named L. H. Oswald Merit Badge
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Feb 14, 2014 02:25
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Things X-Com has done to me today: 3 soldiers missed 90% + shots all in a row. They all died in subsequent turns due to a panic cascade leading to the uncovering of two more enemy packs. My newly promoted Assault with Tactical Sense and the Urban Combat medal (+5 def in cover)died while in hard cover to a crit from a sectoid after rampaging across the map and racking up at least 5 kills. Portent killed my A-Team, and with it, the X-Com Project. Again. Ironman Classic, of course. 
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Feb 14, 2014 02:36
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call it the rectum occupation service medal
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Feb 14, 2014 02:37
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Personally, I think a big point against with Tactical Sense is that it requires visual contact with the enemy. With few exceptions, if your soldier can see an alien, the alien can see your soldier. And on higher difficulties, if an alien can see your soldier, that soldier is dead. +20 defense isn't going to do poo poo when you've got at least 4 aliens with LOS on your soldier. If you've got that many aliens on you, you're probably better off putting your soldier behind concealment. On the other hand, Aggression indirectly helps keep your soldiers alive by helping to reduce the number of guns pointed at them. e: Tactical Sense also doesn't help at all against grenades and melee attackers. Aggression does, by killing them. Fister Roboto fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Feb 14, 2014 |
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Feb 14, 2014 02:54
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All of you are going to feel really bad later on if we don't name our first MEC Laputan Machine.
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Feb 14, 2014 04:41
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The Council medal should be called "The X-Com Paradox" because people should be dying in X-Com, not surviving. The only weapons choice I care about is Shredder Rockets because more rockets more explosions less cover for ITZ. Make the God drat mech "Tech Support" Edit: Ragnar "Jadestar's BFF" Tinyturtle or Ragnar "gently caress Guava" Tinyturtle ZenVulgarity fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Feb 14, 2014 |
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Feb 14, 2014 04:48
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Zeroisanumber posted:All of you are going to feel really bad later on if we don't name our first MEC Laputan Machine. Be careful what you wish for: sometimes you want a machine to give you orange and it gives you lemon-lime.
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I'm a gunslinger man, born and bred. With all buffs, a gunslinger plasma pistol is nearly as good as a plasma rifle. Don't have to move snipers too often, but it's nice to still get some use on those turns. It's 10 aim when the sniper's useful already versus a backup plan if things go to poo poo. I really prefer a backup plan. Plus, it's a much better functional aim bonus in close quarters. When my sniper's a mile away, he's safe anyway. Up close, the rifle aim penalty is a pain. As for Tactical Sense, I'm sentimental towards it. Have been since it kept my best assault alive through a turn when he got cornered by somewhere around half a dozen thin men. Colonel Thompson would not die. Voting? Nova Hyperion for our first MEC. If the game has decided Tiny Turtle is Korean, he should get the Korean Jaeger. Just common sense. The medal should be the Star of Adequacy (Not actually a star).
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Feb 14, 2014 05:09
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The medal should be the Dr. Lily Takakumi Haiku Composition Excellence Award.
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Feb 14, 2014 05:14
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Zeroisanumber posted:All of you are going to feel really bad later on if we don't name our first MEC Laputan Machine. Not Flatlander Woman?
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Feb 14, 2014 05:14
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Psion posted:Not Flatlander Woman? Sure, if it's female.
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chiasaur11 posted:
Changing my vote to Nova Hyperion. Keeps with the theme I was going for while being more appropriate for the specific soldier.
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Feb 14, 2014 05:55
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Ragnar "Robocop" Tinyturtle Nittien "Huscarl" Stomperud Also, the medal should be the Aim and Will version, and call it the John Madden Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Feb 14, 2014 06:10
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kaiten80 posted:Ragnar "Robocop" Tinyturtle I'm with this one all the way. Especially Huscarl.
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Feb 14, 2014 07:12
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Can the MEC be "TONKA TOUGH? Because he may be Tiny, but he's built Tonka Tough.
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Feb 14, 2014 07:40
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Aim and will for the medal. Nittien "Huscarl" Stomperud Ragnar "Lodbrok" Tiny Turtle
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Personally, I prefer to take Gunslinger on my first Sniper since it's useful early on while drat Good Ground is hard to exploit. After I get Skeleton Suits or better, I swap over to my second sniper who takes DGG, while my Gunslinger becomes my infiltration expert with Battle Scanner for use when I am dealing with a certain group of Bad People Who Need Killing. The extra bonus to Pistols really helps him when he's forced to rely on nothing but his sidearm.
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Feb 14, 2014 08:30
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I think the aim and will medal is pretty clearly the better choice, which is why I'd like for you to select the forever alone medal instead.
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Feb 14, 2014 11:02
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The Council Medal of Honor should obviously be renamed Kill-Securer Merit Badge. For nicknames Húscarl and Cherno Alpha seem like solid choices.
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Feb 14, 2014 11:28
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Since you're not playing with training roulette, should questions about possible ridiculous builds and which skills get swapped around be asked in the general X-Com thread?
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In honor of the gentlemen who present this LP I have a few nickname suggestions: Honorificabilitudinitatibus Quetzalcoatl Muvaffakiyetsizleştirici ("Maker of unsuccessful ones" in Turkish) Humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa A very aggressive reef fish known for taking bites out of people. I think anyone would be proud to lead soldiers with such fearsome honorifics into battle.
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Feb 14, 2014 11:49
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Jade Star posted:Is it not possible to change soldier nationalities with toolboks? Was going to make Tiny Icelandic and Nittien Norwegian.
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I guess I'll just repost myself.quote:The only acceptable nickname for Nittien Stomperud would be that "Nittien" is his nickname and "August" is his first name. Might be helping Jade Star a bit too. For Ragnar Tiny Turtle, I think Viking is a neat choice considering his complexion and yellow beard.
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Tony "Kill Securer" White is doing good work. With regards to Tac Sense vs. Aggression, once you step up to Impossible then Aggression becomes the logical choice - -5 to the enemy's hit odds achieves very little if you're not hunkered down, and if you are hunkered down then you can't see them anyway. And if you're letting multiple people see you (and thus get shots on you) you're even more boned. Compare with Aggression, which even at its worst is +10% insurance against a low damage roll, and at its best can push your crit chance up to the point where you can consider a crit "reliable". That's very specific to how much Impossible changes the dynamics of a straight-up firefight though, and on Classic and below Tac Sense makes a lot more sense, especially in the early game.
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