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Tempest_56 posted:The Dragon was defeated in an honor duel by a mercenary. There's like a 90% chance he's already committed seppuku. Kinda pointless to insult. You are missing the point of adding insult to injury. There are still other mechs who can witness the act. What kind of piloting check would you need to make to pull that off anyway? 
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I think the greatest insult to the Tai-i will be when we use his battlemech as a bridge for our invasion force to cross the river. Will save our vehicles a lot of hassle.
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Fraction Jackson posted:Both of those are correct though, as are "toasters" and "goddamned toaster-fuckers". I thought that was from the ComStar hidden worlds defecting to WoB in the schism and having a lot of puppets in the FWL which was lousy with WoB, as well as the Manei Domini having been implied to be an actual interstellar power in their own right. WoB post-3067 has some pretty amazing unit designs though (the Celestials and Spectrals are both awesome looking and genuinely fun to use together) so I kind of forgive them for a lot. quote:Operationally, too, it's hard to deal with nukes and orbital bombardments. And then the Dragoons' counterattack was pretty much doomed from the start, and they had no way to know they were hosed. (See also: Case White.) The only really viable way to deal with nukes and orbital bombardment is your own nukes and plenty of AMS in space, let alone on the ground. Yeah.
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PoptartsNinja posted:Heh. Why do you taunt us with these posts? Why? 
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PoptartsNinja posted:Heh. Bye Pladdicus. Also: Yay, apparently everyone got their orders in before horrific late night update. That makes me happy.
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Fraction Jackson posted:In all fairness to the Dragoons, it's not really their fault that the WOB murdered the hell out of them, it's pretty well established that nothing post-3067 makes any loving sense, most notably how WOB managed to somehow become super-badass overnight and manage the logistical nightmare of a seemingly infinite number of multi-jump surgical strikes. Of all the problems associated with the Jihad, the one bright point I felt was the Battle of Outreach. It warmed my heart that after fifty nine years Wayne Waco got to be the one that killed Jaime Wolf. It was poetry.
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Axe-man posted:the only alien you need to know Tetatae Ugh don't remind me. I bought that stupid book as a wee lad with limited money.
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Yeah, that one was pretty awful. Also, someone rolled boxcars to hit. Nobody's done it on the damage diagram yet, though (you lucky stiffs).
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PoptartsNinja posted:Yeah, that one was pretty awful. Also, someone rolled boxcars to hit. Nobody's done it on the damage diagram yet, though (you lucky stiffs). Awww, i hope i rolled boxcars
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Axe-man posted:Awww, i hope i rolled boxcars I feel silly for asking this, but "boxcars"? Also, holy poo poo Poptarts, I hope you never play Shadowrun. With your rolling that poo poo would get ridiculous fast.
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paragon1 posted:I feel silly for asking this, but "boxcars"? Pair of 6s.
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paragon1 posted:I feel silly for asking this, but "boxcars"? When you roll two sixes on a 2D6, that's boxcars. Particularly sought after in Battletech.
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The correct course of action is to call in salvage and recover the Dragon from the water, with the pilot in the cockpit. Keep him as a prisoner until the battle ends and then ransom him back to the Kuritas for some parts or whatever. You want to continue the unspoken agreement between all mechwarriors that you don't dick around, since you don't want them dicking around with you.
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Great, a mix of anticipation AND fear. Grabbing fresh pants.
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El Spamo posted:Sorry to drag the machine gun ammo explosion issue up again, but would it really negatively impact the game that much to house-rule (y'know, with everyone playing's consent) in that MG ammo doesn't explode? It gets hit, becomes useless, finito. I've been gnawing on the idea of hooking my friends into playing battletech so that little change might be something to propose. As an alternative, you could try the house rule used by my gaming circle: Anyone loading ammo into his Mech can deliberately decide to not carry the maximum amount into combat. You can decide to just take, say, 20 shots of MG ammo into the battle. Shouldn't exactly be a problem from a fluff standpoint to have the techs only load the bin partially. Note that the reduced damage from ammo explosion is the only advantage this will offer to you. No putting other equipment into the Mech or mixing differrent ammo types in the same bin or similar bullshit. Oh, and nice knowing you, Pladdicus. 
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Magni posted:As an alternative, you could try the house rule used by my gaming circle: Anyone loading ammo into his Mech can deliberately decide to not carry the maximum amount into combat. You can decide to just take, say, 20 shots of MG ammo into the battle. Shouldn't exactly be a problem from a fluff standpoint to have the techs only load the bin partially.
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I know this isnt terribly related but if any of you know of minecraft some one made this.Sunday Punch posted:I built a Mad Dog battlemech!
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wjs5 posted:I know this isnt terribly related but if any of you know of minecraft some one made this. maybe it is just my opinion of minecraft in general but that is an impressive amount of wasted time and effort  but it does look awesome
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With regards to Desmond: "I care not if he is skilled, but is he lucky?" -Napoleon Bonaparte (supposedly)
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MJ12 posted:I thought that was from the ComStar hidden worlds defecting to WoB in the schism and having a lot of puppets in the FWL which was lousy with WoB, as well as the Manei Domini having been implied to be an actual interstellar power in their own right. It was some arcane fuckery with the jump drive using the L-I battery or something that had like a %60 chance of irreversibly burning the thing out, but that's a fairly small price to pay when it gives you free reign to launch invasions of what are considered "safe" systems. Der Waffle Mous fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Feb 1, 2011 |
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Did the Vulcan's flamer add heat to the Hussar or was that all generated by it firing its Large Laser (at the wrong guy!)
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KnightLight posted:With regards to Desmond: Yes he is.
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Tempest_56 posted:Of all the problems associated with the Jihad, the one bright point I felt was the Battle of Outreach. It warmed my heart that after fifty nine years Wayne Waco got to be the one that killed Jaime Wolf. It was poetry. Wait what? Where does this happen? I thought I had all the pre-DA books!  KnightLight posted:Did the Vulcan's flamer add heat to the Hussar or was that all generated by it firing its Large Laser (at the wrong guy!) Yeah flamers add heat to the target, makes them marginally better than MGs. 
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WarLocke posted:Yeah flamers add heat to the target, makes them marginally better than MGs. The fact they don't explode (how does -that- make sense, they're BASED on combustion) also marginally helps  (ohgod I'm going to die)
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To be fair, you PROBABLY won't die. Ejecting is commonplace! ...unless your engine blows up or he hit your cockpit. Then you're gonna die.
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Kell Hounds: Cylene Tactical Update 10 Combat Results: A Griffin Fires PPC at K1 (3 base + 1 walked + 2 enemy movement + 2 medium range = 8): Rolled 3, miss! Fires LRM10 at K1 (3 base + 1 walked + 2 enemy movement + 2 medium range = 8): Rolled 7, miss! Generates 14 heat, sinks 12. Now at 6 residual heat. Movement reduced to 4/6/5! B Blackjack Fires large laser at K2 (4 base + 1 walked + 2 enemy movement + 0 short range + 1 light woods = 8): Rolled 5, miss! Fires large laser at K2 (4 base + 1 walked + 2 enemy movement + 0 short range + 1 light woods = 8): Rolled 10, hit (0/10 structure remaining in center torso)! 'Mech destroyed! Fires medium laser at K2 (4 base + 1 walked + 2 enemy movement + 2 medium range + 1 light woods = 10): Rolled 8, miss! Generates 20 heat, sinks 17. Now at 6 residual heat. Movement reduced to 3/5/4! C Vulcan Fires medium laser at K1 (4 base + 1 walked + 2 enemy movement + 0 short range = 7): Rolled 9, hit (0/4 armor, 7/10 structure remaining in center torso)! Critical chance! Fires medium laser at K1 (4 base + 1 walked + 2 enemy movement + 0 short range = 7): Rolled 7, hit (0/2 armor, 4/7 structure remaining in right leg)! Critical chance! Fires flamer at K1 (4 base + 1 walked + 2 enemy movement + 0 short range = 7): Rolled 8, hit (5/10 armor remaining in center torso)! Fires machine gun at K1 (4 base + 1 walked + 2 enemy movement + 0 short range = 7): Rolled 5, miss! Generates 9 heat, sinks 12. Now at 0 residual heat. D Jenner Generates 2 heat, sinks 10. now at 0 residual heat. K1 Hussar Fires Large Laser at C Vulcan (2 base + 1 walked + 2 enemy movement + 0 short range = 5): Rolled 9, hit (0/11 armor 5/6 structure remaining on right arm)! Critical chance! Generates 10 heat, sinks 10. K2 Spider Fires Medium Laser at C Vulcan (5 base + 1 walked + 2 enemy movement + 2 medium range = 10): Rolled 12, hit (6/11 armor remaining on left arm)! Generates 5 heat, sinks 10. Critical Chances K1 Hussar 2 criticals sustained in center torso! Gyro Damaged! Large Laser destroyed! K1 Hussar 1 critical sustained in right leg! Foot Actuator destroyed! Combat Results K1 Hussar must make a piloting roll or fall! (5 base + 3 gyro hit + 2 leg actuator destroyed = 10): rolled 10, succeeds! K1 Hussar all weapons destroyed, disabled! K2 Spider Destroyed! C Vulcan kicks K1 Hussar (5 base - 2 kick + 1 walked + 2 enemy movement = 6): Rolled 6, hit (0/7 structure remaining in left leg, 0/3 armor 6/7 structure remaining in left torso! (critical chance!) K1 Hussar falls! Takes (3/7 structure remaining in left torso)! Critical chance! K1 Hussar sustains 1 critical to left torso! Nothing in left torso, critical transfers to center torso! K1 Hussar sustains 2 criticals to left torso! Nothing in left torso, criticals transfer to center torso! K1 Hussar sustains 3 criticals to center torso! Gyro Destroyed! Gyro still destroyed! Gyro really, really destroyed ok?! Combat Results K1 Hussar Gyro Destroyed, disabled! The Spider crumpled as Desmond’s large laser caught it square in the back. Desmond imagined his shot would’ve severed the spine if the Spider had been a man, not a ‘Mech. Instead, he cored the engine and his shot burned through the Spider’s center torso. The ‘Mech crumpled like a marionette with cut strings. “St. Croix!” Lt. Barnes demanded, “get the hell out of the way!” As if to punctuate his demands, the azure arc of his PPC missed her Vulcan by less than a meter. Desmond cringed, at that range the stream of charged particles accelerated to near lightspeed would’ve cored her ‘Mech from behind. “Not until I kill this Drac, sir!” St. Croix cursed in reply. The Hussar withered under her assault, staggered, nearly fell; its large laser a smoking ruin. St. Croix kicked it, it fell. She kicked it again for good measure. “And stay down, you jackass!” In his Jenner, Yoshita pulled to a slow stop. “… Hey,” he grumped. “You didn’t save any for me!” Turn 10 OpForce Movement: K1 HSR-300-D Hussar Disabled! K2 SDR-5K Spider Destroyed! Enemy Forces Destroyed! Victory Condition: Disable or Destroy both J. Edgar hovertanks (complete!) Optional Secondary Condition: Disable or Destroy all House Kurita ‘mech forces (Complete!)  Heat etc. not updated because it doesn’t matter Kell Hounds ’Mech Status A GRF-1N Griffin (KnoxZone) Weight: 55 tons (Medium) HD A(S): 9/9 (3/3) LT A(S): 20/20 (13/13) LT R A(S): 6/6 CT A(S): 8/20 (18/18) CT R A(S): 7/7 RT A(S): 20/20 (13/13) RT R A(S): 6/6 LA A(S): 9/14 (9/9) RA A(S): 13/14 (9/9) LL A(S): 13/18 (13/13) RL A(S): 14/18 (13/13) Heat: 4/30 Overheat Penalty: None Heat Sinks: 12 Movement: 5/8/5 Mechwarrior: Pilot 6, Gunnery 3 Mechwarrior Status: OK! Armament: PPC – RA (Heat: 10, Ammo: 0, Range: (L:18 M:12 S:6 Min:3), Status: OK!) LRM 10 – RT (Heat: 4, Ammo: 21, Range: (L:21 M:14 S:7 Min:6), Status: OK!) Notes: 2 hands—may punch with either arm (may not punch with right arm if PPC is fired) B BJ-1DB Blackjack (Axe-man) Weight: 45 tons (Medium) HD A(S): 9/9 (3/3) LT A(S): 14/14 (11/11) LT R A(S): 5/5 CT A(S): 16/16 (14/14) CT R A(S): 7/7 RT A(S): 14/14 (11/11) RT R A(S): 5/5 LA A(S): 11/11 (7/7) RA A(S): 11/11 (7/7) LL A(S): 14/14 (11/11) RL A(S): 6/14 (11/11) Heat: 4/30 Overheat Penalty: None Heat Sinks: 17 Movement: 4/6/4 Mechwarrior: Pilot 5, Gunnery 4 Mechwarrior Status: OK! Armament: Large Laser – RA (Heat: 8, Ammo: 0, Range: (L:15 M:10 S:5 Min:0), Status: OK!) Medium Laser – RA (Heat: 8, Ammo: 0, Range: (L:9 M:6 S:3 Min:0), Status: OK!) Large Laser – LA (Heat: 3, Ammo: 0, Range: (L:15 M:10 S:5 Min:), Status: OK!) Medium Laser – LA (Heat: 3, Ammo: 0, Range: (L:9 M:6 S:3 Min:0), Status: OK!) Notes: No hands or actuators —may not punch with either arm (may fire arm-mounted weapons into the rear arc) C VLT-5T Vulcan (Pladdicus) Weight: 40 tons (Medium) HD A(S): 9/9 (3/3) LT A(S): 7/12 (10/10) LT R A(S): 4/4 CT A(S): 9/15 (12/12) CT R A(S): 6/6 RT A(S): 0/12 (5/10) RT R A(S): 0/4 LA A(S): 6/11 (6/6) RA A(S): 0/11 (5/6) LL A(S): 14/14 (10/10) RL A(S): 9/14 (10/10) Heat: 0/30 Overheat Penalty: None Heat Sinks: 12 Movement: 6/9/5 Mechwarrior: Pilot 5, Gunnery 4 Mechwarrior Status: Lightly Injured (sprained back) Armament: Medium Laser – LT (Heat: 3, Ammo: 0, Range: (L:9 M:5 S:3 Min:0), Status: OK!) Medium Laser – RT (Heat: 3, Ammo: 0, Range: (L:9 M:5 S:3 Min:0), Status: OK!) Medium Laser – RT (Heat: 3, Ammo: 0, Range: (L:9 M:5 S:3 Min:0), Status: DESTROYED!) Medium Laser – RT (Heat: 3, Ammo: 0, Range: (L:9 M:5 S:3 Min:0), Status: DESTROYED!) Flamer – RA (Heat: 3, Ammo: 0, Range: (L:3 M:2 S:1 Min:0), Status: OK!) Machine Gun – LA (Heat: 0, Ammo: 196, Range: (L:3 M:2 S:1 Min:0), Status: OK!) Notes: no hands—may punch with either arm at increased risk of self-damage D JR7-D Jenner (Cthulhu Dreams) Weight: 35 tons (Light) HD A(S): 7/7 (3/3) LT A(S): 8/8 (8/8) LT R A(S): 4/4 CT A(S): 10/10 (11/11) CT R A(S): 3/3 RT A(S): 8/8 (8/8) RT R A(S): 4/4 LA A(S): 4/4 (6/6) RA A(S): 4/4 (6/6) LL A(S): 6/6 (8/8) RL A(S): 6/6 (8/8) Heat: 4/30 Overheat Penalty: None! Heat Sinks: 10 Movement: 7/11/5 Mechwarrior: Pilot 4, Gunnery 4 Mechwarrior Status: OK! Armament: Medium Laser – LA (Heat: 3, Ammo: 0, Range: (L:9 M:6 S:3 Min:0), Status: OK!) Medium Laser – LA (Heat: 3, Ammo: 0, Range: (L:9 M:6 S:3 Min:0), Status: OK!) Medium Laser – RA (Heat: 3, Ammo: 0, Range: (L:9 M:6 S:3 Min:0), Status: OK!) Medium Laser – RA (Heat: 3, Ammo: 0, Range: (L:9 M:6 S:3 Min:0), Status: OK!) SRM 4 – CT (Heat: 3, Ammo: 22, Range: (L:9 M:6 S:3 Min:0), Status: OK!) Notes: No hands or actuators —may not punch with either arm (may fire arm-mounted weapons into the rear arc) After-Action Report: This was a good intro, I think. It worked a lot better than I expected, even with people's stupidly good luck and my own fuckups regarding vehicles. Now, this game needs an MVP (both friendly and enemy) and we've got several strong contenders. I'll leave the MVPs up to you, although if I had my way, the MVP would be our little Vulcan (for being such a great punching bag) and our PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Jan 9, 2013 |
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Pladdicus posted:The fact they don't explode (how does -that- make sense, they're BASED on combustion) also marginally helps they according to the fluff syphon plasma from the fusion core to use as the flames, so it isn't actually naplam or propellant. MVP has to be the vulcan! Teh brave and the bold, he was the boldest
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*brushes off jacket* Sorry ladies, I'm taken. 
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Pladdicus posted:*brushes off jacket* Considering you're playing a female pilot, that has... interesting implications. Also, FLAWLESS VICTORY. The mighty plot shielding of the Kell Hounds triumphs once again!
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Just incredible work all told. Good job team.
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Dolash posted:Just incredible Fixed that for you. Working on the next story post. 17th Recon vs. the Capellan Death Commandos anyone? Who'm I kidding, you're all going to vote for Caeser Steiner vs. the Steel Vipers.
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Beautifully well done, lads. Score another win for the Kell Hounds.
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Pladdicus posted:*brushes off jacket* We all did awesome   Agent Interrobang posted:Considering you're playing a female pilot, that has... interesting implications. Finally we see the way into your heart BIG ROBOTS!
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PoptartsNinja posted:Fixed that for you. Actially i was going to nominate the 17th recon. Really the IS battles are more fun, the clan ones can just feel like you are being kicked and you are a puppy... a puppy with cancer.
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PoptartsNinja posted:Now, this game needs an MVP (both friendly and enemy) and we've got several strong contenders. I'll leave the MVPs up to you, although if I had my way, the MVP would be our little Vulcan (for being such a great punching bag) and our I vote for the River. But, barring that, I vote for the Hussar and the Grif.
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Tremendous work all around, you guys did awesome, taking out that Dragon was simply perfect.
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Yeah, I am going to strongly argue for an all IS thing again for the next battle. Let the Clanners come, and let the rumors of their horrors spread while we comfort ourselves with the happy notion that we are the top of the heap still. And yes, fine shooting all around!
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 Victory Fanfare As far as Kell Hounds MVP voting is concerned... it's a tossup between the Vulcan for being in taking out the Hussar or the Griffin for being  enough to down that Dragon.Kurita side, MVP is the Jenner, for having the decency to just die as soon as we looked at it funny. Or the Hussar... that little bastard was 
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