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PoptartsNinja posted:On the plus side, it probably saved the Po from taking a Gauss Rifle shot to the rear armor. Oh, god drat it.
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Night10194 posted:Aren't you basically turbofucked if you get swarmed? Somewhat. If you're in a vee, very yes. If you're a 'mech, only mostly yes. Going prone and standing up can work, punching them if you have hands can work, going into water works if you're watertight.
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garland336 posted:That's extraordinarily eerie that you can call that. Stackpole: Main character is "Like Kai" or "Like Phelan." Background characters love them even though they're terrible human beings. Villains tend to be more interesting than the protagonists. Combat reads a bit like turn-by-turn tabletop play. Coleman: The Capellan Confederation can do no wrong, "One man's terrorist is another man's patriot" main characters, antagonists are either cardboard cut-outs or suddenly become staggeringly incompetent whenever the main character shows up. Has no sympathetic characters. Pardoe: Occasional weird callbacks or references to Civil War battles and/or Southern Pride. Main characters are occasionally flawed enough to be interesting (with Archer Christfori as the biggest exception). Uses Stackpoling egregiously. Combat tends to read like you're playing Mechwarrior 3.
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Auxilia: Tactical Update 6 “My god,” Barna Roland breathed into his microphone. His callsign was ‘Heat Sink,’ earned half-a-decade ago when he’d been drummed out of the Davion Light Guards. Hotheaded and brash, he tended to panic and make poor decisions when he got emotional, leading his last commander to comment that he needed an extra heat sink for his head. “One of them is still moving!” A tree, its trunk split by PPC fire, emitted a loud popping crack and fell, kicking up another cloud of billowing smoke and ash that obscured his target once again. Erring on the side of caution, eight members of the Demon Hawks—a full two lances—had poured their fire into the squad of beetle-like infantry that had been playing IRIS’s little Locust. It would have been enough to annihilate a `Mech, level most buildings, or cripple several platoons of infantry, and yet as far as Barna could tell they’d only managed to kill four infantrymen. Even if that specific squad had been crippled the fact that even one of them might still be capable of fighting was unnerving. “That’s Battle Armor for you,” their Liaison officer said nonchalantly, as though he’d expected it. “Most of our shots missed. A well-trained squad isn’t worried about shrapnel the way normal infantrymen are, so they’ll move around constantly even when under fire. They’re small, and fast targets, and shaped just enough like BattleMechs that sometimes your DI computer will freak out a little. Just take a deep breath and keep pouring on the fire, and don’t let them—” “Get these guys off of me!” There was more than a little panic in Yul Liao’s voice. The young man was Capellan born, but bore only the faintest hint of a Russian accent. Aside from his unfortunate last name, he had no known relation to the Confederation’s ruling family. The callsign “Chancellor” had been obvious, even to Barna. Barna twisted, his blood running cold as he watched gray-armored bodies with odd, mottled white feather patterns swarm over the Capellan pilot’s machine. Yul was taciturn and serious and Barna didn’t much like him, but even he wasn’t sure he wanted to watch the other man get torn to shreds by three-meter war machines. “Hold your fire!” Alec broadcast, “You’ll hit him if you try to ‘help.’ Yul, listen very carefully. They’ll kill you before you can get into the water and you don’t have jump jets so you need to throw your machine at the ground as hard as you think you can. Give yourself whiplash if you have to, and try to crush one of them if you can, but shake them off before they can get a good grip!”   Movement Phase Anvil (Player) - Attempts to enter hex 1317, but the hex is already occupied! Movement ends in hex 1217. Locust "Bane" (Player) - Attempts to enter hex 1217, but the hex is already occupied! Movement ends in hex 1318. Shooting Phase Elemental Point Coleen (ACE!) - Fires SRM-2s at Sunfire (3 base + 2 range + 1 enemy movement = 6): rolled 7, 10 missiles hit Center Torso (32/34 armor remaining), Left Leg (26/28 armor remaining), Center Torso (30/34 armor remaining), Center Torso (28/34 armor remaining), Left Arm (20/22 armor remaining), Center Torso (26/34 armor remaining), Right Arm (20/22 armor remaining), Head (7/9 armor remaining (Pilot hit!)), Right Arm (18/22 armor remaining), Right Leg (26/28 armor remaining (TAC!))! Elemental Point Bryce (ACE!) - Swarms Po (3 base + 0 active troopers + 1 enemy movement + 1 light woods = 5): rolled 10, succeeds! Elemental Point Mabel (ACE!) - Fires SRM-2 at Osprey (3 base + 2 range + 0 enemy movement = 5): rolled 8, 6 missiles Left Arm (14/16 armor remaining), Left Arm (12/16 armor remaining), Left Arm (10/16 armor remaining), Right Torso (20/22 armor remaining), Right Torso (18/22 armor remaining), Left Arm (8/16 armor remaining)! Elemental Point Graves (ACE!) ??? Elemental Point Baker (ACE!) - Fires Small Lasers at Komodo (3 base + 2 range + 3 enemy movement = 8): rolled 6, miss! - Fires SRM-2s at Komodo (3 base + 0 range + 3 enemy movement = 6): rolled 11, 8 missile hits reduced to 6 by AMS Right Arm (12/14 armor remaining), Right Arm (10/14 armor remaining), Left Leg (14/16 armor remaining), Left Arm (12/14 armor remaining), Right Leg (14/16 armor remaining), Left Leg (12/16 armor remaining)! Atlas (Player) - Torso-twists to threaten hex 1220! - Fires PPC at Elemental Point Mabel (3 base + 0 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor = 8): rolled 7, hit Elemental 4 (0/10 armor remaining)! - Fires Medium Pulse Laser at Elemental Point Mabel (3 base + 4 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor - 2 pulse laser = 10): rolled 10, hit Elemental 4 (0/1 trooper remaining)! - Fires Medium Pulse Laser at Elemental Point Mabel (3 base + 4 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor - 2 pulse laser = 10): rolled 2, miss! - Fires Light Autocannon/5 at Elemental Point Mabel (3 base + 0 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor = 8): rolled 7, miss! - Fires Light Autocannon/5 at Elemental Point Mabel (3 base + 0 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor = 8): rolled 8, hit Elemental 2 (5/10 armor remaining)! - Fires Light Autocannon/5 at Elemental Point Mabel (3 base + 0 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor = 8): rolled 6, miss! - Fires Light Autocannon/5 at Elemental Point Mabel (3 base + 0 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor = 8): rolled 4, miss! - Fires Streak SRM-6 at Elemental Point Mabel (3 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor = 10): rolled 7, fails to lock-on! - Fires TAG at Elemental Point Mabel (3 base + 0 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor = 8): rolled 8, hit! - Gains 23 heat, sinks 30! Hunchback (Player) - No Line of Sight to primary target! - Fires Ultra AC/10 at Elemental Point Mabel (2 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor = 9): rolled 7, miss! - Fires Ultra AC/10 at Elemental Point Mabel (2 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor = 9): rolled 7, miss! - Gains 7 heat, sinks 22! Sunfire (Player) - No Line of Sight to primary target! - Fires PPC at Elemental Point Baker (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 battle armor = 8): rolled 9, hit Elemental 3 (0/10 armor remaining)! - Fires PPC at Elemental Point Baker (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 battle armor = 8): rolled 5, miss! - Fires Medium Pulse Laser at Elemental Point Baker (4 base + 2 range + 2 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 battle armor - 2 pulse laser = 8): rolled 8, hit Elemental 2 (4/10 armor remaining)! - Fires Medium Pulse Laser at Elemental Point Baker (4 base + 2 range + 2 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 battle armor - 2 pulse laser = 8): rolled 9, hit Elemental 2 (0/10 armor, 0/1 trooper remaining)! - Fires Medium Pulse Laser at Elemental Point Baker (4 base + 2 range + 2 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 battle armor - 2 pulse laser = 8): rolled 11, hit Elemental 5 (4/10 armor remaining)! - Fires Medium Pulse Laser at Elemental Point Baker (4 base + 2 range + 2 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 battle armor - 2 pulse laser = 8): rolled 5, miss! - Gains 38 heat, sinks 38! Anvil (Player) - Fires Large Pulse Laser at Elemental Point Mabel (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor - 2 pulse laser = 9): rolled 5, miss! - Fires Large Pulse Laser at Elemental Point Mabel (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor - 2 pulse laser = 9): rolled 10, hit Elemental 2 (0/10 armor, 0/1 trooper remaining)! - Gains 2 heat, sinks 24! Tempest (Player) - Attempts to attack Elemental Point Bryce. Swarming infantry may not be the target of weapon attacks! - Fires Gauss Rifle at Elemental Point Mabel (4 base + 0 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor = 9): rolled 5, miss! - Fires Medium Laser at Elemental Point Mabel (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor = 11): rolled 6, miss! - Fires Medium Laser at Elemental Point Mabel (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor = 11): rolled 9, miss! - Fires Medium Laser at Elemental Point Mabel (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor = 11): rolled 3, miss! - Fires SRM-4 at Elemental Point Mabel (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor = 11): rolled 4, miss! - Gains 14 heat, sinks 22! Awesome (Player) - Fires PPC at Elemental point Mabel (4 base + 0 range + 0 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor = 8): rolled 2, ! - Fires PPC at Elemental point Mabel (4 base + 0 range + 0 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor = 8): rolled 9, hit Elemental 5 (0/10 armor remaining)! - Fires PPC at Elemental point Mabel (4 base + 0 range + 0 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor = 8): rolled 10, hit Elemental 3 (0/10 armor remaining)! - Fires PPC at Elemental point Mabel (4 base + 0 range + 0 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor = 8): rolled 9, hit Elemental 5 (0/1 trooper remaining)! - Gains 40 heat, sinks 38! Dragoon II (Player) - Fires LB 10-X Autocannon (Slug) at Elemental Point Mabel (3 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor = 9): rolled 9, hit Point 1 (0/10 armor remaining)! - Fires LB 10-X Autocannon (Slug) at Elemental Point Mabel (3 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor = 9): rolled 3, miss! - Fires Large Pulse Laser at Elemental Point Mabel (3 base + 2 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor - 2 pulse laser = 9): rolled 8, miss! - Fires Large Pulse Laser at Elemental Point Mabel (3 base + 2 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor - 2 pulse laser = 9): rolled 5, miss! - Gains 26 heat, sinks 26! Phoenix Hawk (Player) - Torso-twists to threaten hex 0915! - Fires Large Pulse Laser at Elemental Point Colleen (3 base + 0 range + 3 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 battle armor - 2 pulse laser = 6): rolled 7, hit Elemental 1 (0/10 armor remaining)! - Fires Medium Laser at Elemental Point Colleen (3 base + 2 range + 3 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 battle armor = 10): rolled 8, miss! - Fires Medium Laser at Elemental Point Colleen (3 base + 2 range + 3 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 battle armor = 10): rolled 6, miss! - Gains 22 heat, sinks 20! Komodo (Player) - Fires Medium Laser at Elemental Point Colleen (3 base + 2 range + 3 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 battle armor = 10): rolled 11, hit Elemental 3 (5/10 armor remaining)! - Fires Medium Laser at Elemental Point Colleen (3 base + 2 range + 3 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 battle armor = 10): rolled 7, miss! - Fires Medium Laser at Elemental Point Colleen (3 base + 2 range + 3 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 battle armor = 10): rolled 6, miss! - Fires Medium Laser at Elemental Point Colleen (3 base + 2 range + 3 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 battle armor = 10): rolled 4, miss! - Fires Medium Laser at Elemental Point Colleen (3 base + 2 range + 3 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 battle armor = 10): rolled 6, miss! - Fires Medium Laser at Elemental Point Colleen (3 base + 2 range + 3 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 battle armor = 10): rolled 7, miss! - Fires Medium Laser at Elemental Point Colleen (3 base + 2 range + 3 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 battle armor = 10): rolled 6, miss! - Fires Medium Laser at Elemental Point Colleen (3 base + 2 range + 3 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 battle armor = 10): rolled 9, miss! - Fires TAG at Elemental Point Colleen (3 base + 0 range + 3 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 battle armor = 8): rolled 7, miss! - Gains 29 heat, sinks 28! Osprey (Player) - Torso-twists to threaten hex 1418! - Fires Gauss Rifle at Elemental Point Mabel (4 base + 0 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor = 9): rolled 7, miss! - Fires Medium Laser at Elemental Point Mabel (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor = 11): rolled 9, miss! - Fires Medium Laser at Elemental Point Mabel (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor = 11): rolled 9, miss! - Fires Medium Laser at Elemental Point Mabel (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor = 11): rolled 3, miss! - Gains 11 heat, sinks 20! Enfield (Player) - Fires LB 10-X Autocannon (Slug) at Elemental Point Mabel: (4 base + 0 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor = 9): rolled 10, hit Elemental 3 (0/1 trooper remaining)! - Fires Large Laser at Elemental Point Mabel: (4 base + 0 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor = 9): rolled 8, miss! - Fires Medium Laser at Elemental Point Mabel: (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor = 11): rolled 8, miss! - Fires Medium Laser at Elemental Point Mabel: (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 2 heavy woods + 1 battle armor = 11): rolled 9, miss! - Gains 17 heat, sinks 22! Po (Player) - Primary target too close! - Fires Large Laser at Elemental Point Colleen (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 battle armor = 8): rolled 9, hit Elemental 3 (0/10 armor, 0/1 trooper remaining)! - Fires Large Laser at Elemental Point Colleen (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 battle armor = 8): rolled 6, miss! - Fires SRM-6 at Elemental Point Colleen (4 base + 2 range + 2 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 battle armor = 10): rolled 9, miss! - Fires SRM-6 at Elemental Point Colleen (4 base + 2 range + 2 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 battle armor = 10): rolled 9, miss! - Gains 2 heat, sinks 20! Locust “Pulsar” (Player) - Attempts to attack Elemental Point Bryce. Swarming infantry may not be the target of weapon attacks! - Gains 1 heat, sinks 22! Locust “Bane” (Player) - Unable to establish Line of Sight to primary target! - Attempts to attack Elemental Point Bryce. Swarming infantry may not be the target of weapon attacks! - Gains 2 heat, sinks 10! Nova S - Holds fire! - Gains 2 heat, sinks 24! Grendel B - Holds fire! -Gains 2 heat, sinks 20! Viper C - Holds fire! - Gains 2 heat, sinks 20! Hellbringer Prime - Gains 2 heat, sinks 34! Mad Dog Prime - Gains 2 heat, sinks 28! Mad Dog B - Gains 2 heat, sinks 24! Summoner B - Fires ER PPC at Awesome (3 base + 4 range + 3 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods = 11): rolled 8, miss! - Fires Gauss Rifle at Awesome (3 base + 4 range + 3 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods = 11): rolled 5, miss! - Gains 21 heat, sinks 30! Warhawk Prime - Holds fire! - Gains 2 heat, sinks 40! End Phase Sunfire - Must pass a 3+ consciousness test: rolled 6, succeeds! - Through-armor critical chance in Right Leg! No critical hit sustained! Next Turn’s Movement Phase Kit Fox C - Must pass a 9+ consciousness test: rolled 12, succeeds! - Attempts to stand (4 base = 4): rolled 3, fails! - - Suffers 3 damage in the attempt to Center Torso (6/9 armor remaining)! - - - Must pass a piloting test to avoid pilot damage (4 base + 2 avoiding damage = 6): rolled 4, fails! - Must pass an 11+ consciousness test: rolled 8, fails!   Player Status: Demon Lance  Hawk Lance  Ally Status:  Opposing Force Status:       Mission Objective: - Defend the Convoy (5/5) - Assist Allied Forces - Drive off the Clans (0/?) - Bounty Collected: 7,000,000 c-bills (10,500,000 goods) - - Light: 3 - - Medium: 2 - - Heavy: - - Assault: Orders Due: Midnight Saturday! PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Mar 16, 2016 |
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Combined arms really has a way of making battletech scenarios frantic, and if that weren't enough the heavy star is well within firing distance! Maybe they're waiting for zell stuff? I really like the encounter design here.
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Anvil (Player) - Attempts to enter hex 1217, but the hex is already occupied! Movement ends in hex 1318 C/P error here PTN. This was "Bane" I think. That spot turned into quite the traffic jam lol
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quote:- Must pass a 9+ consciousness test: rolled 12, succeeds! Poor guy.
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Octatonic posted:Combined arms really has a way of making battletech scenarios frantic, and if that weren't enough the heavy star is well within firing distance! Maybe they're waiting for zell stuff? I really like the encounter design here. Well, maybe not entirely as the summoner just shot at me... Thankfully missed, but still shot at me
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Mar 16, 2016 22:03
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Now roll your mech's face onto the ground like it was your keyboard, and things might go alright. I'm guessing these guys have seen Clanner action before to know to do that.
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Jeeeeesus, Five Pilot Hits, Feedback Psychosis, Whiplash, and a Broken Spine. Someone just shoot that man and put him out of his misery already.
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evilmiera posted:I'm guessing these guys have seen Clanner action before to know to do that. Nah. The NRWR has battle armor of its own. 
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What is feedback psychosis? Basically a neurohelmet induced concussion?
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So, out of morbid curiousity, I decided to go back and track exactly what happen to that poor bastard pilot in the Kit Fox C. Update 3: Lost arm with all the mech's weapons. Reduced to a walking ECM Platform and little else. Update 4: Shot in face by a MPL. One Pilot Hit. Shot in the torso and had his AMS ammo explode. Two more pilot hits and fails consciousness test. Falls over, fails piloting test because of being knocked out. One more pilot hit. Update 6: Finally wakes up, attempts to stand, fails, falls over, and knocks himself out again. 5 Pilot Hits total. That man's life is suffering.
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Artificer posted:What is feedback psychosis? Basically a neurohelmet induced concussion? Temporary catatonia caused when the Neurohelmet feeds a bunch of garbage data back into the pilot's brain after an ammo explosion.
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KnoxZone posted:Poor guy. Gonna have to get out the fire hose for that cockpit.
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So the two Kirghiz are back. Time to do some AAA again, because you really don't want to risk being strafed by those things again. If the NRWR are providing air support, bringing down the Clan air cover will make your life much, much easier-and even if they aren't, the fragile but incredibly deadly Clan ASFs are things you don't want flying around attacking multiple targets with every gun run.
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Be careful which direction you're facing. Even though the Kirghiz have moved 'past' the players, most of you are still in their aerospace hex. They can and will shoot you in the back if you're facing directly south.
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e: misread something.
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quote:Dragoon II (Player)  Two great tastes that taste great together!
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Just how hard is it to spot Elementals anyway? Or rather, what can they do to position themselves where we would need a Beagle Active Probe to see them? Point Baker not jumping into the fray like the rest is troublesome.
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PoptartsNinja posted:Be careful which direction you're facing. With that piece of advice, I think I may tromp my way down to 1218 and shoot at some more elementals.
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Telamon posted:Just how hard is it to spot Elementals anyway? Or rather, what can they do to position themselves where we would need a Beagle Active Probe to see them? Point Baker not jumping into the fray like the rest is troublesome. You'll need direct line of sight, but if they're in cover you'll need an active probe to reveal them unless they're already engaged.
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PoptartsNinja posted:Temporary catatonia caused when the Neurohelmet feeds a bunch of garbage data back into the pilot's brain after an ammo explosion.
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Mar 16, 2016 23:43
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How exactly does my command quirk work, anyway?
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dis astranagant posted:How exactly does my command quirk work, anyway? Against BattleMechs. Sorry, that should've been specified but I was just so happy I was able to squeeze the battle fists on I forgot to reread it.
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Nice touch on the rules clarification fluff with the Dragoon pilot going "NO DON'T."
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Can you try to scrape off swarming guys by walking through a building? Like, through the walls, not just through a mech-sized door. How about running through heavy woods? I feel like that might help too. If those aren't rules then I'm disappointed in the rules. 
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Welp, the convoy is about to run straight into the enemy battlemechs; better still, I'm pretty sure most of the convoy is actually in kicking range of the enemy mechs. Not that the enemy is going to bother with that, though: I bet the clanners will be perfectly happy to sit behind that big building and blast the idiots as they drive by from point-blank range, with no real fear of being shot at by the players. Assuming, of course, that Elementals aren't waiting in the bottom most H4 buildings... Regardless, someone might want to ignore the Elementals and engage the clan mechs, so the convoy doesn't get obliterated by bored clanners...
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It's a shame we can't shoot swarming elementals off friendly mechs. I mean, hosing friendly tanks down with machinegun fire to discourage enemy infantry from climbing onto them is a well established tradition in real life. That's why they make 'em bulletproof right? :p
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Remmon posted:It's a shame we can't shoot swarming elementals off friendly mechs. I mean, hosing friendly tanks down with machinegun fire to discourage enemy infantry from climbing onto them is a well established tradition in real life. That's why they make 'em bulletproof right? :p It's actually been done in thread before. Except instead of machineguns it was a gauss rifle.
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Leperflesh posted:Can you try to scrape off swarming guys by walking through a building? Not for a bonus, though any damage you take to a torso from Kool-Aiding through a building has a chance to crush swarmers. Leperflesh posted:I'm disappointed in the rules. We know. T.G. Xarbala posted:It's actually been done in thread before. Except instead of machineguns it was a gauss rifle. (Ace) Sylphs are more terrifying.
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The Merry Marauder posted:(Ace) Sylphs are more terrifying. I think that was the first and only friendly fire fatality in the thread, too. Fuckin' Sylphs were hilarious.
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PoptartsNinja posted:Against BattleMechs. So woods are cover for that. Good to know.
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Aw yeah stop drop and roll time.
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dis astranagant posted:So woods are cover for that. Good to know. Woods are, buildings are, partial cover is not. Or rather, the to-hit penalty from partial cover is, but the damage blocking is not. PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Mar 17, 2016 |
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PoptartsNinja posted:Or rather, the to-hit penalty from partial cover is, but the damage blocking is not. The wording made me think this was all that applied.
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