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sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Rohan, for ruin and a red dawn!

Plane me as Sebmojangles.

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sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk










gotta givem a short, sharp shock - 'en they don't do it again, dig it?

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









simplefish posted:

Yooper I don't personally mind longer episodes but then I have longer bus journeys than most

I also don't mind you going a little interpretive with plans, although I agree we should plan in more detail with the list of CMANO functions we got given by I think Pssshaw or whoever, those were really helpful

As for the person running test strikes against S-20 and the like (sorry I can't remember who, I deliberately skip over those posts) I feel that's a little too meta and we have an in-role character who can tell us that stuff (although I want to stress this isn't meant as a personal dig at you, I know you're doing it to aid planning with the best of intentions)

Good post, I think the full detail game engine breakdown posts are a step too far, but summarising them would still be fine imo especially if it's done in character

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Yooper posted:

No idea who's flying them right now. I imagine they're hiring pilots on eLancer or something.

Intel on The Faithful is thin right now, I've got sources digging into it.


Flyerr.com

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Hexenritter posted:

beautiful.

And purely because I had a hand in its creation back in the day (before changing my username from CitrusFrog), I plan on painting goatstairs* on whatever aircraft I end up in.




*No I will never let that glorious flag die :v:

Needs the ring, otherwise this is perfect.

e: vv oh, duh. Of course it is.

sebmojo fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Apr 26, 2017

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Tythas posted:

Voting for By The Numbers also might I suggest this image for our emblem (only size I got)

This is classy.

e: for a graphic representation of a man with a live grenade in his obscenely distended anus

sebmojo fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Apr 26, 2017

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Davin Valkri posted:

Sperwers don't have an armed option. You'd have to use the Reaper.

Also, Jack, our shareholders nearly made a goatse our official roundel. We don't exactly have standing to mock the Free State for furriness, even if we do to mock everything else.

there's no nearly about it my friend

Now we must get the bote so we will have the goat on a boat

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Cathode Raymond posted:

Russians have implemented Dark Souls invincible dodging technology in their fighter jets and this is terrifying.

it did a barrel roll

K & P

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









TheGreatEvilKing posted:

Can we include just enough of a strike on the presidential palace to spook but not kill the dictator? Someone can go on twitter and thank his most competent employee for the leak.

I guarantee this degrades his command structure enough that we won't be facing competent officers.

:perfect:

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Vando posted:

I feel like strikes on the capital at this point would be overextending, we should have two clear objectives in this mission: 1. we eliminate, to the best extent possible, Angolan state SAM coverage; 2. we extract our defectors from hostile airspace.

At no stage do we need to be flying around in hostile territory, with no intel on air defences, trying to pull off a hail mary strike in the capital that isn't even necessary to achieve either short or long term objectives.

Hit the radar sites. Escort the defectors. If the radar strikes are successful, continue to beat up on the Bulgarian ground forces.

this makes sense. nothing to damage the HAYARD GUNNES (can't believe I only just got that) mystique by faceplanting on a pointlessly overambitious scheme.

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Golgotha.

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Capital Striiiiike to the tune of Chicken Attack.

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Night10194 posted:

What in god's name is this

it is the future my firend

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









could you change my callsign to Mojangle

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









don't cut the rope

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









:fingerkiss:

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Crazycryodude posted:

I see that the only units (visible to us) holding the bridges into Luanda from our side are the Bulgarian armor. They've been severely depleted and must be able to see the writing on the wall, maybe we can work something out that doesn't involve them dying pointlessly to a rain of SDB's?

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Dagon posted:

I hate boats more than I hate bridges. Sink it!

fraud the bote

why is this even a question

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Olothreutes posted:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/476530/Children_of_a_Dead_Earth/

This game should fit the "groggy space combat simulator" rather well. Think Kerbal Space Program with nukes.

I bought it fully expecting not to use it as much more than "Jane's Space Fleet Command" because I looked at the ship customisation screens and understood nothing. Now I spend all day thinking about how to defeat 1 gigawatt lasers, across 1000 km of inky blackness, at closure rates of 5-10 km/s. I never cared about material science before. But what if you could use material science... to vicariously experience getting realistically gibbed in space?? Suddenly: the rate at which a 1.5 cm thick zirconium copper whipple shield heats under a 30cm 1GW violet laser spot as it closes on that emitter is Compelling; the rate at which a ship full of micro-nuke depleted uranium explosively formed penetrator coilgun slugs can be spun by a nitrogen nuclear thermal rocket is Very Interesting.

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









1. Raining Dreams (for that amazing name)
2. Rohan (pours out 40)
3. Finest Hour (:black101:)

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









power crystals posted:

This was supposed to go up before Yooper called the vote, but I took too long and narrowly missed it. Oh well, gave me time for another editing pass instead. Consider it an interlude or something.


MEAT's callsign being in all caps as it is in the pilot roster is definitely canon by this point, btw.

Third person because I wanted to try that point of view instead for once, and because I think it's more interesting to not have a direct view into his mind for this particular story.

P.S. Tythas this is what you get for making that offer :v:

Speaking as someone who's critiqued more than a million words of terrible goon fiction, thats some nice writing.

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









sparkmaster posted:

I don't like the idea of restricting weapon loadouts. The SDB in and of itself is a neat weapon, but it's vulnerable to ground fire and doesn't have a big warhead (as evidenced by some targets taking 2-3 bombs to take out last mission). It's good at what it does, being a standoff weapon best against small targets. Plus it forces us to choose what we want our Gripens to do. Either be our best A/A Fighter a really good standoff attack aircraft. It can't do both. This is also how it works (to a degree) in the real world, with highly capable aircraft sanitizing airspace and escorting less capable bomb trucks.

That being said, taking a less intense contract while our Gripens are being upgraded in Sweden would be a cool idea. I hear South America is nice this time of year.

This sounds a good compromise between meta and fiction.

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Omnibus servari non potest

'You can't save everyone'

Ne quid umquam abjicias


'Never throw anything away'

Quia tuti sunt tibi gradibus


'You are protected because of the stairs that you have.'

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Galaga Galaxian posted:

Yes, but what will the public/UN think?

they'll want some stairs real fuckin quick

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









orcbuster posted:

Yeah I don't see anyone stop following due to dying

I'd vote for 'death is death', keeps it simpler. A good LP death is a thing to savour.

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









CirclMastr posted:

SELL:
All SK-60s
Frogfoot

BUY:
AS MANY F-35s AS POSSIBLE I DON'T CARE WHAT IT TAKES

Only if we also implement weather.

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Dandywalken posted:

I vote BFLM attack.

not voting yet

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









orcbuster posted:

If you don't know these things then there is no quick answer because there is a lot of minutia to learn. Go to wikipedia and have a good long educational read to get the very basics. This game does not faff about with teaching you about the things actually in it but assumes that you already know (because no way anyone who doesn't know would want to buy this game.) It's about as niche as you can get.

there's also a lot of incidental explanation through the thread, hit the ? next to someone who seems to know what is what (i.e. not me) and have a read and they'll have often done a cliffs notes on something interesting earlier in the thread.

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Yooper, could you link those weapon explanations in your OP? They're fantastic, and it would be great to have an easy way to consult that info.

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









botese will live on within our hearts, and in our grotesquely distended anii

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









tornadooooo

I painted one of these when I was like 9 so this is p much a bucket list moment for me.

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









eastern Europe, planes gone

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Natives. I trust Yooper to throw us some additional interesting goodies, even if the money's a bit lighter.

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









MNAGA!

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Quinntan posted:

So you're suggesting we try (we may well fail, after all) to steal a boat to make up for the inevitable massive financial losses we will incur...

The mind boggles.

it will be the perfect crime

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Bacarruda posted:

Yooper's always given us interesting challenges. That's one of the things that makes him such a great GM.

But even if he throws us an economic lifeline and

I guess I'll give people a scenario.

We need to sink three of Iceberg's corvettes and kill the P-3 Orion they're using to spot Japanese fishing boats. Problem is, they've got great land-based radar and a squadron of F-16s on standby. Oh, and our ROE won't let us fire on targets we haven't visually ID'ed.

If we're working for Mitshuhashi, we can afford to send up the Atlantique with Exocets to hunt down the corvettes and the Argus to find the P-3. Once it findsthe, we scramble a flight of Tornadoes to kill the ships with Sea Eagle missiles. Meanwhile, another Tornado goes in low and fires of some Storm Shadows, blowing up the radar and blinding the Americans. uh oh, better hope our planner had enough CAP, 'cause here come the F-16s...

If we're working for the natives. We have to nickle-and-dime ourselves. It comes down to Paveways we can afford. And we'll just have to hope that the Phantoms can run away before they get shot down. Because two Gripens with no Meteors and no tanker support won't be in the air long.

Planning complex missions with lots of moving parts is a lot of fun. It makes people think and figure out how to get the most out of our forces. Small paydays mean we're stuck with small-ball, small-scale planning.

this is a good argument for natives imo

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









The Sandman posted:

Guys, POOR IMPULSE CONTROL is a Snow Crash reference. There's a guy with that as a tattoo. Said guy also uses glass knives and rides a motorcycle with a nuke in the sidecar. He's kind of awesome.

The side in this fight that actually has poor impulse control is the one where the downside is "demanding and erratic".

:ducksiren: :ducksiren: :ducksiren:

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









cobbie because sailors need to land sometime.

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Dance Officer posted:

Zach

Don't forget we have our own outfit of misfits for ground ops!

I think the thread died mid-thunderdome, sadly.

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sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Added Space posted:

Operation Haiku




General Orders

The Mamba awaits
Poised to strike as we take wing
Hide behind the hills

A knife at the throat
Remain sixty miles away
From enemy land

He who hides his face
Sees not the cold midnight sun
All radar active


CAP

4x F-16, AIM-120
1x Prowler, Jammers

First to brave the skies
Make haste for the Recon Point
Wait for watchful gulls

Harsh daybreak at noon
Burned faces with frosted brows
See them safely home

Recon

Saab S100B
MQ-9 Reaper
Stratotanker

Girt by three harsh lands
Circling sluggish waves below
Distant admirers

Anti-Shipping

4x Tornados, Sea Eagle
Atlantique 2, Exocet

After sharp-eyed gulls
See orca fins on the prowl
Eagles take their fill

Reserve

4x Gripen, Meteor & RB15F

Stalwart guardians
When screams heat the southern wind
Aid the rising sun

:coolfish:

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