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ImpAtom posted:You missed V(oyage)!  Brunom1 posted:They don't really need to represent anything, as you said with K. Though, if you're asking, there's F(inal), V(oyage), Z(odiac), X(cross)-Omega plus XO, OE (Operation Extend), EX for E, MX could be for Magnate Ten but it has the M letter, Scramble Commander or Shin could be S, GC could be the G game, Neo could be N, UX and BX for those two letters and Compact for C.
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AradoBalanga posted:Herpaderp. To be fair, Z is five games and I think F and F Final might be different games. You'd said single, so...
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Brunom1 posted:
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: Wha…!
: Pipe down, Shinn
: Rrgh…!
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 It is one century after mankind ventured into space. It has been no easy voyage, as nuclear warfare has redrawn the map of the world's nations and conflict with Earth's ancient nemesis the "Jama Kingdom" raised the specter of global famine. The colonies’ exploitation of their dominance over agricultural exports only served to heighten tensions between the two sides. Conditions worsened greatly fifteen years ago, with the unprecedented calamity known as the "Second Impact". The chaotic state of the world in its aftermath allowed such mysterious forces as the "Darius Army", the "Katou Organization" and "Dancouga" to commence operations. To counter this, the nations of the world embarked on a military buildup and changes in policies. However, this had the indirect effect of antagonizing the space colonists. Tensions between Earth and the Space Colonies rose greatly. Five years ago marked the outbreak of the so-called "War of the Giants" with the massive life forms known as "Mimetic Beasts". Sadly, mankind's narrow victory did not result in a cessation of hostilities between fellow men, and, three years ago, terrorist acts by the colonies sparked an all-out war between the Space Colonies and Earth. The war lasted a year and several months, Earth's victory coming at the cost of depleting the defenses of all its nations. This presented an opening for the "Mechabeast Army" and the "Mycenae Empire", and it would be another year before the ad-hoc establishment of the New UN, containing representatives of both Earth and the Colonies, managed to repulse them. The resulting peace was short-lived, as the Darius Army started a full-blown invasion and the resurgent Jama Kingdom (free from its Seal) triggered a new round of militarization, precluding any chance of total peace for mankind. And now, contact with visitors from parallel world has raised the curtain on a new era of warfare...  And now for something completely different: we open up in a classroom in Japan, Misaki Middle School, with Kouichi calling Ichitaka (orange shirt) to check this new Dancouga vid he found online. Seems like the thing was last sighted north of the Republic of East Asia, where it intervened in an ongoing battle with the Darius Army and the government forces. As usual, it took the side of whoever was losing – meaning the government. Kouichi figures that goes without saying, as everyone knows the Dancouga’s a CHAMPION OF JUSTICE. There’s no way in hell it’d buddy up with the Darius forces.  Yajima isn’t so sure, having heard rumors that it’s been fighting to prolong conflict prior even to the War of the Giants. Kouichi poo-poos at the story, saying those are obviously hoaxes but, more importantly, he and Ichitaka still wanna watch the vid. Ichitaka at least is also a Dancouga fan, really digging its somewhat different style compared to the Godannar, Gaiking and Combattler. “Yeaaaah! And there’s the Dancouga’s deadly beam attack! Boom, oneshotted!” Kouchi raves beside him. Ichitaka can’t help but be impressed at the fine work Isabelle Cronkite, the reporter who got this scoop, does.  Risako steps over and ask what’s gotten the boys so hyped, only to quickly lose interest when she’s told. Yesterday it was Jeeg, today it’s Dancouga – Kouichi does nothing but watch news on those bots and she’s at her breaking point with that. Hey, now, it’s only because Japan’s got these champions around that the place has taken so little damage despite the ongoing war. Complaining about it is gonna bring her bad luck! That said, Yajima figures it goes to show how peaceful things are around here that we can take it for granted like that. Kouichi and Ichitaka aren’t listening, cheering as the Arma Squadron in the video repels the Darius forces and scores a win for the government. Risako sighs, unable to understand why the boys like robots so much. “It’s a guy thing – you wouldn’t get it,” Kouichi proclaims and Ichitaka readily agrees, before realizing he’s late for meeting with “the professor”. What, he’s gonna skip class? That’s not a very CHAMPION OF JUSTICE thing to do, Kouichi points out; Ichitaka concedes that but says keeping promises is even more important. The professor said he had something to show him, so it shouldn’t take too long to wrap it up and get back. Yajima will answer his name at rollcall, so he better return quick.  As he leaves, Yajima sees that the guy really likes Prof. Grife… though, Risako notes, the title’s actually self-appointed, as he’s just an old man who likes to invent stuff at home. Well, Yajima and co. don’t know enough about professor to question that. Risako’s mom has deemed the guy a weirdo but if he’s really impressive enough to warrant that kind of admiration from Ichitaka, then maybe she’d like to meet him sometime. Kouichi groans at how she’s always sticking her nose in their business, but is interrupted when Furuya, an upperclassman, grabs one Shinji Ikari and drags him off. Kouichi quickly says he needs to go to the bathroom and goes after.  And Furuya’s taken Shinji up to the roof, where the kid was supposed to have come ASAP after recess started. Is he shirking his responsibilities?! No, Shinji says he got called up by his teacher but that’s hardly any excuse for Furuya’s empty stomach. Shinji better hustle and get him some curry bread and none of that school store junk – Furuya wants some from Hama Bakery and it better be ready in ten minutes! Shinji stammers that it’s impossible to make it there and back in that time but, before Furuya can get in his face, Kouichi steps in to help. Furuya’s surprised to see him here, as him “recruiting” Shinji would’ve meant Kouichi didn’t need to play gofer anymore. Still, he’s not gonna sit by as they harass the new junior classman and offers to go and buy the drat curry bread in his stead. That is, until Risako steps in and orders everyone to stop right there – she figured something was up with Kouichi and, what do you know, it’s Furuya harassing him again. Furuya sniffs that he was just asking him a favor but that’s hardly an excuse for her: “there’s nothing worse than those who pick on the weak!” That seems to have an impact with Kouichi; he tells her to let it go and heads out to buy the thing (again, ten minutes!). As he leaves, with Risako in pursuit, Shinji wonders why Kouichi covered for him.  Risako catches up to Kouichi by the bike area, warning that he’ll be late for class if he goes all the way to Hama Bakery. Maybe not, he oughta make it in time if he cuts through the forest by the Shinto shrine. But why does he care so much? Why is he playing Furuya’s gofer in that junior’s stead? “Gotta help those who are weak, right?” he answers. “That’s what’s just and you know I’m all about justice!” Risako sighs at him starting with that again but Kouichi’s 100% confident: “I know I got a whole lotta power in me… it’s just not awakened yet, ya know.” Risako objects that his daydreaming won’t amount to anything – and he wasn’t like this when they were kids. Well, he doesn’t care about how he was or wasn’t way back when. Yajima shows up and asks what’s up. Risako explains, making note of Kouichi’s inane ranting on justice and how he’s willingly signed up for this, and asks Yajima to talk some sense into him. Yajima points out that he’s gotta stand up to Furuya and if he can’t do it alone, then they’ll tackle it together. What, so Yajima’s trying to be the mighty champion now? No, Kouichi insists he can do this alone and runs off. Risako doesn’t understand why he’s pushing them away, especially when the three of them used to be such good friends before.   We cut to the JUDA Corporation, the president’s office, where Yui Ogawa (the secretary) is reporting the “Linebarrel’” flight – it’s descending pretty much as expected. When president Kunio Ishigami asks, Reiji Moritsugu, over the comm, reports that they’ve already evacuated the city that’s the first projected landing point.  Miu Kujo’s (brown hair) by the second landing point and it’s also clear. Finally, Satoru Yamashita reports that visual conditions are A-OK. It’s T-minus five minutes until the Linebarrel breaks into the atmosphere… but a problem crops up. Yui reports that it’s being attacked by satellite weapons and that quickly causes it to divert from the projected descent course. How strange, Ishigami thinks, as he’s sure they called every country out there to warn about what they were doing.  In a hidden area, it’s two folks who are behind this: “Satellite weapons hacked and under control. The target’s switched to the specified course.”  And, indeed, the Linebarrel is now going to land in a completely different place. Yui runs the numbers and says it’s headed for Miura, in the Kanagawa Prefecture. That’s not too good, Ishigami sighs, but it beats it landing in Hakone. Meanwhile, the Linebarrel has just broken into the atmosphere.  Ichitaka arrives at Prof. Grife’s house, greeted at the door by Alice. When he asks, she tells Ichitaka that the professor’s mood is the same as usual and points him over to the lab. Good to hear, because the guy’s hard to calm down once he gets cranky.  Inside the lab, both Prof. Grife and Yuu, his son, are waiting. Ichitaka’s surprised to see his “bro” here, asking when he came back; Yuu doesn’t answer, though his taciturn nature is hardly a surprise. Grife says that maybe it’d help if Ichitaka acted his age and stopped calling him “bro”, though the kid argues that, however old they are, Yuu will always be his big bro to him. If anything, Alice is on Ichitaka’s side: “There are plenty of examples of people who aren’t blood-related referring to one another as ‘bro’. So I see no problems at all with that”. Fine, fine, Grife won’t beat on this dead horse further. More important than that, Ichitaka’s a bit miffed that the professor didn’t give him a call to tell that Yuu was back in town; problem is, while he’s been here a week, they’ve spent most of their time working in the underground. From what Ichitaka remembers, said underground is where the professor dumps his failed knick-knacks but details will have to wait. First and foremost, Grife wants him to check something out at this pod.  Inside is someone who Ichitaka recognizes, though he hasn’t seen in a while: HL-0 Haruno, a helper robot. She was originally Alice’s sister model, though Grife says he and Yuu have given her a new lot in life. When they activate Haruno, however, her speech is a bit wonky. Grife figures her specialization into a combat AI has hampered her other thought processes; she won’t be able to function in maid mode like this. Alice argues that her odd pattern isn’t UNUSED nowadays – no problems at all there – but Grife isn’t having it. He figures it can be fixed if they reboot her AI straight into combat mode. So, they push a few buttons and it’s done: Haruno greets Ichitaka with a more soldier-like manner (think Lamia, minus the bugs). He’s a bit surprised at the change in attitude but Grife explains that Haruno’s been reborn as a proper combat-oriented Android. Why? What’s the professor going to be fighting against? Grife chuckles and asks if Ichitaka remembers his dream. Indeed, he does: “‘Course, you wanted to build a giant robot… wait, Haruno isn’t gonna grow thirty meters tall or something, right?” Hardly. Remember what Grife said about him and Yuu being working at the underground? Well, there just might be something there besides trash. Yuu beckons Ichitaka over to a wall and, upon command, Alice flicks a switch and causes it to open. This here’s Grife secret elevator to his underground lab! The thing can’t handle a lot of folks inside, though, so Alice will stay up top while they descend.  As the elevator goes, Ichitaka’s pretty surprised this house had something like this tucked away. He thought he knew every corner of it! Of course, it wouldn’t be Grife’s secret elevator if he knew about it. The thing’s going reeaally deep but eventually they arrive. Grife tells Ichitaka to opens his eyes up real good and take a look at what’s ahead. But it’s pitch black…  As soon as the lights come on, however, the kid freaks out. Grife has a huge laugh: “WAHAHAHA! Surprised, are you? This is my greatest creation: the Rushbird!” Ichitaka really is surprised – dumbstruck, he says – but this ain’t all Grife has to show. Pressing another button, stuff starts moving around in the underground hangar and brings out another mech, which Grife introduces as the Straybird. “Cool, don’tcha think? I’d also liken this one to being a masterpiece of mine.” Ichitaka’s fanboyism is in overdrive now: “Whoooaaa! This is SO AWESOME! You got two mechs?!” Yuu doesn’t appreciate the yelling, though, pointing out that the difficult part is yet to come. Indeed, Grife says they’ll now be running start-up tests. If those are successful, Grife would like to… Never mind that – the whole area starts shaking then and there. An earthquake? Haruno runs an analysis and says no: it’s an explosion. Alice runs over and she’s got bad news: someone’s bombarding the lab!  Mission 1 – The Youth Drawn To Iron   : WAAAH!! : Hurry, all of you! Get in the elevator! : We can’t! The safety lock isn’t working due to the tremors!: Gwaargh! : G-Gramps?!  : Target has been silenced. Moving to capture via pattern G. : Initiating descent. *The three units land.*  : Target secured. We’ve also found two units, about forty meters tall.  : Disregard those. The “new potential” is all that matters. : Roger.  : The Linebarrel hasn’t come down yet… (Dmitri) : Hey, boss! There’s something over there! (Sawatari): Hm? But the radar is clear… : Are your eyes just a piece of décor? Use them. (Wufei): Hmph. I don’t recall asking your opinion, newbie.  : Analyzing visual data… no known matches. : What’re those things, then?!: Target recovery confirmed. Retreating. : …*All three units leave.* : You ain’t going anywhere!*Ring, ring!*  : Do you copy, Sawatari? : Cmdr. Katou?!: You can let those small units go.: What the hell for, Hisataka?! : Because they are not the enemy. Your imagination is a bit lacking, Sawatari.: Oh, come on. You didn’t say anything about that before— : …: Hey, now, we got a newcomer coming in!: All within the scope of my imagination. If he’ll be a nuisance, then feel free to play with him; if not…: Then we let him go?: Correct.: Roger that. Our primary objective is still the Linebarrel, of course. : Hold up, bro! Lemme come with!: No, I’ll go and save gramps. : I wanna help him too, you know!: You’re an outsider and this is none of your business. Back off!: “O-Outsider”…?: …The link’s looking good. We’re leaving, Haruno! : Ready when you are.*Gone.* : Bro! Yuu!: And there it goes…: Got a hit on radar! SDF Armas!  : That’s where we detected the explosions? (Igarashi) : Yes, sir. But we’re receiving intel that it wasn’t the Katou Organization Armas who did it… : We’ll handle the Irregulars later. First off, we’ll beat the snot outta these guys and drive them outta town!: Roger!*Machine gun fire!* : Hah, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Let’s get to it, boss, newbie!: I suppose we must. Imagine! O, powerless people!: Yeah, imagine good! Imagine what’s gonna be left of your corpses after I’m done!: … : Hrrrm! Don’t give ‘em an inch! Keep firing! : “None of my business”… What an awful thing to say, bro…: Ichitaka…: Hey, Alice. Think you can get this thing moving like Haruno did?: I’m sorry, Ichitaka… I haven’t either combat-oriented thought patterns or the necessary functionalities to work as a copilot.: Hey, that’s nothing to apologize for. Blah… That’s how it’s gonna be, huh? Screw it, then!*Ichitaka jumps into the Rushbird. : If you can’t get it moving, then I’ll do it! Hop aboard, Alice!: Huuh?! You can actually operate it?!: No idea but I figure it’s safer inside this cockpit than sitting here, waiting to be rescued! Come on! : O-OK!*In she goes.* : H-Hey… this kinda looks like that simulator the professor made…! Alright, I think I can manage this!*Wiiiirrrrrr! Stomp!* : And we’re moving! So next would be…: Alice, you see that panel over there? Press all buttons from left to right, would you? After that, pull the lever overhead and bring out that control panel under your seat – that’ll shift our mode!: A-Alright!: I think we’re good. Trust me on this one!: Here goes!!  : WAAAAA!!: Another one?!: Ooow… The sim sure didn’t pull Gs like this thing…!: Yo, who’re you?! You friends with that guy from before?!: Alice, think you can get a bead on Yuu’s mech? : Um… Maybe if I press a few buttons here and there we might get something?: … Ah, no, never mind. We’re good. : Who the hell are you? Civs?: You’re with the SDF? The name’s Ichitaka Nagumo, 3rd year student of Misaki Middle School! : And who’re those guys? They’re making a mess of our town!: I can’t tell you that. If you’re a civ, then get outta here!: Hey, I’ve got my own reasons for being here, alright? I can’t just go ‘Yeah, OK!’ and back off!: …: Are you done talking?: Then, die!: Urgh!: Work that imagination and figure out if this’ll hit or not! : Gyaaaaaaargh!! : And you’re next in line, moron.: Tch, no way we’re going down here! Back me up, Alice!: I’ll do whatever I can! And we finally have our originals, having to take on a bevy of Katou units. Gotta take them all down, so we’ll want to take it nice and easy.  Rushbird (Ichitaka Nagumo, AL-3 Alice) Pilot Skills: Shield Defense Prevail L1 Support Attack L1 Support Defense L1 Attack Combo L1 Spirit Commands – Ichitaka: Invincible Accelerate Spirit Commands – Alice: Gain Trust Mech Features: Shield Laplace Wall – Damage from Beam and Energy-type weapons reduced by 2000. If Laplace Wall reduces the damage to 0, Rushbird will regenerate 15 EN. Squad Bonus: Armor +150, HP+1000, Land terrain rating: A The Rushbird may kinda look like a Real but it’s very much a Super Robot. It won’t be dodging anything but it can take a good hit – especially against stuff that’s got energy weapons. And while it also packs a hefty punch, you’ll find its current weapon selection to be lacking in range – the best he has for a post-movement attack is 1-2! The range in its other weapons make it a good Support Attacker, though, and Ichitaka’s a good enough pilot. All in all, you can easily fit it in any group.  The Katou mooks can be decently dodgy (though Wufei is by far the dodgiest) and accurate, so setting Ichitaka on a positive terrain for some defense/evasion bonus will help. : We’re gonna have to wreck these guys before we can go after the professor and my bro!: I dunno how much that sim experience’ll help here but I’ll go with whatever works! Alice, you do as I tell you, alright?: OK!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AC8y1CcbtY Ichitaka: “While I’m off doing this, my bro and the professor are...!” Alice: “Aah? We’re jumping right in there?!" Ichitaka: “We gotta or we’re dead meat!” Alice: “Oh, wow! You hit him!” Ichitaka: “And here’s the follow-up!”  Enemy Phase!  Named folks are hanging back but not the mooks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHFw-bqw4yM Ichitaka: “Alice, know that thing in the sim? We’re gonna try that! Alice: “But I wasn’t allowed near any of that research!” Ichitaka: “What’s the enemy up to, Alice?” Alice: “He’s rushing us down!” Ichitaka: “Ah, craaap!” The one we weakened before gets wrecked.  Player Phase! *By the Shinto shrine to the NW*  : drat, a buncha Armas pop up outta nowhere, the place turns into a warzone… what’s going on here?! I-I gotta get back right the hell now!: Huh? What’s that noise…? A-Ack! Something’s falling this way!!  : It’s here! Commander, we’ve confirmed of the Linebarrel’s landing!: So did we. A shame that it didn’t crash right on top of JUDA but this will do. Execute the plan right away.: Roger. Sawatari, keep the Irregular busy.: You got it, boss!*As Sawatari starts heading for Ichitaka, we cut back to Kouichi.* : Hrm…? Why am I…? Aah, right… there was something falling and…: Oh, crap, the bread! Aah! It’s all smooshed up! Noooo…: What?! And my cell broke too?! This day just keeps getting worse… huh? What the…? : …: A girl? Why’s she right next to me?*Looks at the Linebarrel.* : A-Aah! An Arma?! Where’d that come from?!: …Hm…: Hey, come on, get up! We gotta book it – this is getting real dangerous! : Huh…? What… Why am I here…?: You’re awake, yeah? Good, good.: Listen, can you run? We need to get out of here right now!: Did you… help me? Thanks.: I guess I did, huh? Heheheh… Wait, this ain’t the time for that! Come on – we gotta get going! : What’s your name, even?: …I don’t know.: Huh? : Kouichi!: Yajima?!: Thank god, you’re safe. Risako went, like, white as a sheet when she couldn’t call your cell.: Yeah, the thing’s busted… But why’re you here?: Well, she told me to come look for you, so I did. You really shouldn’t make her worry so much, you know.: …And, also, who’s the girl? And what’s that Arma, even?: Don’t ask me, ‘cause I’ve no clue. : Alright, alright; you can save the story for later. Right now we need to get back to school and find shelter!: Right…: And you can relax, too – it’s all good now. Come on!: Y-Yes…*They start going down the path into town.* : This way, Kouichi! Hurry!: Go and surround the Linebarrel! : Yes, sir!: Aah! They’re coming this way!: Those are…: Hey, you! We gotta hide!: Those are… my enemy…: Huh?!*The Katou mooks start stomping over.* : Waaah!!: Aaah!: This ain’t looking good… Kouichi, I’ll draw their attention! Take the girl and run!: But you’ll—: It’s no biggie. Same ol' song and dance between us, eh?: But…: Get outta here already!: Why…: Huh?!: I… I don’t need your help anymore! I can take care of myself, drat it!*Kouichi punches a tree and it falls right over!* : !!: Th-The hell?! I knocked this huge tree down… with my bare hands…?: Ko-Kouichi… When did you get so strong…?: I remembered… my name… It’s Kizaki… Emi Kizaki!: Emi Kizaki…: You... Will you fight with me?: Huh?: If you’ve the will to fight, then call out the Linebarrel…!: Line… barrel?: Put your hand on my chest.: Wait, what?!: Hurry up…!: A-Alright, then. Come here, Linebarrel!!  : It’s… that Arma from before?! It flew here in the blink of an eye… What’s going on?!: This is the Linebarrel…! I can fight with it?: Yes.: Alright, Yajima, find someplace to hide out!: What?!: I’ll handle this mess! Let’s do this, Emi!: Do you know what to do?: Hmhmm. Linebarrel… Yeah, I can handle this guy! Haaaaaaah!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEEIvUJzPlM Katou mook: “The Linebarrel belongs to us!” : Is that the Arma that fell back there? It can move?!: Looks like it, yes!: It can’t be… How is the Linebarrel active?!: I thought it didn’t have a Factor?: Are you seeing this, Commander? Looks like the thing’s already picked up a Factor. : Hm. The Factor may be a newbie but you’re still up against an original Machina. Don’t let your guard down. : Whoa… And this power’s mine now?: Yes. : Heheheh…! Well, things are looking up already!*Dmitri moves up to him.* : I am Dmitri Magarov, Captain of the Katou Organization’s 3rd Unit. Are you one of JUDA’s Factors?: JUDA? Factors? Hell if I know, man! I’m Kouichi Hayase – a CHAMPION OF JUSTICE!: D-Did he says Kouichi Hayase?! Why would he—?!: And if you’re picking a fight with a champion of justice that makes you the bad guy! Meaning you’re all going down!: Heh, we’ve got a real loudmouth crashing our party now! Come on, boss – get rid of him quick!: I’m on it!: Kouichi… It’s you…?: Ichitaka, you must focus on the Armas!: Y-Yeah, you’re right!   : Ah? The target Machina’s up and about. Things are a bit different from advertised – what do we do, Tanaka? (Aoi)*Bing!*  : Sorry; give me a minute on this one. I didn’t think this would happen.*Looks at the Rushbird.*  : And there’s that guy, too. He’s about as big as the Dancouga. (Sakuya) : That’s not any mech I’ve seen in “Men’s Super Robots Monthly”. (Johnny) : But how reliable is that magazine exactly? (Kurara): Yo… Isn’t that the Dancouga?!: The D-Dancouga?! And what’re those things there?! : Oh, thank goodness! The Linebarrel’s safe! : I’d no idea what we were gonna do when the thing changed its drop point but we still managed to make it in time.: It finding a Factor already wasn’t in the plans, though.: Psh, now the Dancouga and JUDA’s Machinas decided to turn up. : Can you hear us, Kouichi Hayase? We’re here to pick you up!: Yeah, come with us to JUDA!: The hell… how do you two know my name?!: Weren’t you the one yelling your name just a minute ago? You were pretty dang loud, too. : O-Oh, I was?: Are you stupid or something?: Don’t call me that! I’m a CHAMPION OF JUSTICE, OK?! : Everyone here except me and the Dancouga is evil, so my justice’ll trash you all good!: ?! You’re…!: Huh… Is that really Kouichi in there?: Oi, where’d he get the idea we’re his buddies…?: What, then, Tanaka? Figured out how we’ll deal with this?: I have: stick to the original plan and move to capture the Linebarrel. Way its pilot’s looking, we’d be risking even more unnecessary damage by letting him be.: And the unknown unit?: You should be alright to ignore it – it doesn’t seem hostile, I think.: The Dancouga… didn’t think it’d intrude on this battle.: Hrm…! It’s on the move!: Sorry, “Champ”!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtVXd2s9vjE Kurara: “Who goes and proclaims himself a Champion of Justice? What a sad kid…” Johnny: “Middle schoolers, you know how they are.” Sakuya: “What’d you mean…?” Aoi: “Never mind that – let’s bring this guy in quick!” : Whaa?! Why’d the Dancouga attack me?!: I'm justice incarnate! A champion! A CHAMPION OF JUSTICE!: Why… why doesn’t anyone get my justice?!: Fine, then… : You’re evil, too, Dancouga! You’re my enemy!! : Oh, dear… We’ve gone and poked the bear.: Tanaka?!: Sorry, kids. I’ll go and write an apology to JUDA.: Sawatari, Dmitri, Wufei. The mission may have failed but carry on fighting. : Not to the death, of course – wait for an opportunity and pull back.: Chill out, Hisataka. Barring the Dancouga, the others ain’t all that.: That was an order. : Psh, fine. We’ll get ready to back off.: You there. Can you fight?: Kinda, I think!: The two of us and the Dancouga are on your side. First order of business is to deal with the enemy Armas, alright?: I don’t really know what’s going on, but OK!: Let’s get to it, then…!Still can’t lose anyone but we’re not in a whole lot of danger: everyone we’ve got can take care of themselves.  Dancouga Nova (Aoi Hidaka, Kurara Tachibana, Sakuya Kamon, Johnny Burnette) Pilot Skills: Sword Cut Prevail L2 Spirit Commands – Aoi: Alert Fighting Spirit Spirit Commands – Kurara: Strike Gain Spirit Commands – Sakuya: Accelerate Guts (ド根性) – fully restores unit’s HP Spirit Commands – Johnny: Focus Iron Wall (鉄壁) – reduces all incoming damage to 1/4 for the next turn. Squad Bonus: Crit Ratio +10, Armor +100, Accuracy Rate +5 The Dancouga’s often known as a glass cannon but maybe they decided, since it was its debut, to skip the glass part. In truth, the thing has a fine amount of defenses and packs a hefty punch – it’s by far our strongest unit on the field. And, as you might expect, having four pilots’ worth of spirit commands will only make it better.  Hind-Kind (Satoru Yamashita) Pilot Skills: Prevail L1 Support Attack L1 Support Defense L1 Spirit Commands: Scan Invincible Squad Bonus: Armor +100, Accuracy Rate+5 Yamashita knows what he wants to be and that’s an artillery wall. He’s pretty tough and has a lot of range in his attacks, his skills also making him a very nice support unit. He’ll very likely be relegated to being a squaddie but he’ll do the job well. Oh and if you’re facing a particularly dodgy enemy, his Reflector Cores will apply the Mobility Down debuff to make things easier.  Painkiller (Miu Kujo) Pilot Skills: Prevail L1 Support Attack L1 Support Defense L1 Spirit Commands: Cheer Focus Mech Features: Repair Module Squad Bonus: Money Earned +10%, EN +50, 1000 Barrier Even more of a squaddie than Yamashita, Miu would kinda make a good fit for a long-range robot like the Rushbird (especially with that extra Barrier). She only has two attacks, her better one being pre-movement, so she won’t be hitting too nicely for now. But with that Repair module, she’s pretty much our main source of healing right now (without having to spend Alice’s SP) and Focus means she’s one of the more accurate folks here. By the by, Kouichi’s a neutral unit. You could attack him but I’m all but sure he’d just heal up like he did with Aoi’s punch.  Off to work we go. : Reiji’s not around today, so I better bring my A-game! Come on!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTR-y5FEroo Not bad.  Small help from Ichitaka and Miu’s got a kill in sight. : The town’ll end up in ruins if this doesn’t stop…! We have to give this one 110%!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yFUCuCod5Q Attagirl.  And since attacking Kouichi isn’t on the menu today, Aoi’ll finish off some of Ichitaka’s previous buddies. : Three commander-class mechs, huh? Today’s gonna be a good one, folks.: Takurou Sawatari, Dmitri Magarov and Wufei Chang with his Altron Gundam… All of them are certified tough cookies.: Well, aren’t we well-informed.: “Men’s Underworld Monthly” had an article on the Katou Organization, you see.: Whatever, we eat tough cookies for breakfast! Let’s go wild!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaIuMF_wR_c Shame we can’t hear Sakuya yelling. Enemy Phase!  Stuff is still coming in, with this Arma just barely surviving his bout with Yamashita. Sawatari and Wufei are going after Kouichi. Player Phase!  Now we’re off to get rid of the little guys. Miu takes one and Yamashita will slap this one into oblivion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h89nuGSGyMk The last one’ll fall eventually – he’s still healthy.  Meanwhile, Aoi’s helping Kouichi with Dmitri. We won’t let the kid have this kill, of course. Enemy Phase!  Along the way, Sawatari decides to take a swing at Yamashita. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH05NGWJozk He’s a good candidate to having his mobility debuffed.  Over here, Dmitri’s gotten close enough for Kouichi to bust out his better attack. : If you think an amateur can win against the captain of the Katou Organization’s 3rd Unit, think again!: Justice always wins, even kids know that!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-zWSoSdd8E Dmitri: “We, the Katou Organization, will be taking the Linebarrel!” And taking damage: Emi: “Our regeneration will take care of that very soon.” Kouichi: “Yow, Linebarrel! You’re pretty awesome!” Emi: “Go, counterattack…!” Kouichi: “Yup, I was JUST thinking about that!”  And Miu almost oneshotted the last Arma. Player Phase!  Alright, let’s take out Dmitri after Kouichi was kind enough to leave him in the red. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC6ofRi-HFs Boom. : And here’s the order to withdraw. Pulling back!
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 Over by Sawatari, Yamashita gets parried so only Miu gets any damage done. We’re not killing him this turn, so Ichitaka takes out the last Arma mook. With that, it’s only a matter of taking one miniboss out per turn. : I don’t pull my punches even against rookies! Why don’t ya go and imagine the miserable death you’re gonna get?!: No way, no how! If I’m gonna be imagining anything, it’ll be my teary reunion with the professor and my bro!      Alice: “S-Something just lit up!” Ichitaka: “That can be good or bad! What color is it?!” Ichitaka: “Alright, the book says getting closer makes it easier to hit stuff!” Alice: “U-Um, some gauge is rising!” Ichitaka: “Let’s try out this ‘Lightning Fist’!” Ichitaka: “Hey, it worked?! In that case!” : I'm justice incarnate! Anyone who fights me is evil!: Fine. If you’d paint justice as your own, then show me what you’ve got!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-YeTIHCN2U  : I reckon this is good enough. Next time, though, you’re dead!: Katou Hisataka… You say all of this is in the name of true justice, hm?: That’s right.: Very well. I’ll trust your vision one more time. : …: (I have to figure out what, exactly, the world needs right now…)   drat it! : A righteous man needs to be strong. Do you understand what that means?: I don’t and I’ve no time to think about it! I’ve already got my hands full here!: Then it’s up to me to educate you. But this lesson’ll come at the tip of Nataku’s fangs!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkS4QdFxm3g And here’s Ichitaka’s strongest attack. : A Champion of Justice, huh…? Then, I’ll…! That’s all of the Katou enemies down, so the battle might be over but there’s still the matter of Kouichi. He’s a bit woozy, so Ichitaka, Aoi, Yamashita and Miu move in to try and pin him down. It doesn’t work and Kouichi starts flying away but not before busting out a speech: “I’ll give you folks some time to think things over! Power isn’t just, alright? Justice is power! And if you guys decide to accept my justice, then we’re good! But if you don’t… then, next time, I’ll be playing for keeps! (Nailed it...!)” And off he goes, immediately vanishing from Miu’s sensors; seems to her the thing shifted inside a warp field. Ishigami phones in right then and tells them to come back – and to bring the mystery robot along for the ride. Ichitaka’s a bit surprised but Yamashita asks that he follow them to JUDA as they’ve some questions to ask. Wait, isn’t JUDA supposed to be this company that makes medical equipment and the sort? Why do they have combat Armas? Alice, ever informative, argues that even the civilian-owned Photon Lab has the Mazinger Z, so she sees no problems at all with JUDA having some Armas tucked away. Ichitaka sees plenty of problems but, regardless, Miu and Yamashita say their group’ll want to know about his bot and what happened here.  Ichitaka concedes and tells them to lead the way. He tells Alice that, with the Rushbird being unable to fly, they’re gonna have a real hard time catching up to the Straybird; and if they ran into Darius monsters or Haniwas along the way, that’d be it. With that said, Ichitaka’s happy to be working with Alice and hopes she’s keep helping – he’s nowhere good enough to fly this thing without her as his subpilot. She’s rather startled by his suggestion: “No, no, no, no! I’m just a basic helper model! I haven’t any of the knowledge or thought processes required for combat!” Sure but didn’t he show her to what to do to HELP him pilot? She just needs to keep that in mind. Alice isn’t sure she can pull that off but, if he insists, she’ll give it a try. As for the Dancouga, they’ve another mission waiting so they gotta bolt. Aoi hopes the kids’ll have grown stronger the next time we meet. Ichitaka’s a bit sad that he couldn’t thank them or shake their hands but Yamashita’s sure they’ll run into each other again. Before that, though, they’re off to JUDA. And here are all the convos we didn’t get. Most are with Kouichi since I didn’t waste time and resources going after him: : Stop, Kouichi! What’re you even doing inside that Arma?!: I dunno who you think you are but you’re light years away from being able to tangle with this Super Robot of Justice!: I’m a Champion of Justice and I’ll protect peace in this town!: It’s me! Ichitaka!: Yeah, right! You’re gonna have to think of a better lie than that, dude!: Crap, he’s not leaving me any choice here!-- : You’re going a bit too crazy here, pal!: You wanna take me on? Then the Dancouga really isn’t a robot of JUSTICE!: Welp, so much for that heroic streak we’ve been having…: I’m kind of bummed out now…: Save that for later, Kurara! We’re busy!-- : That total rookie went and got a whole lot stronger like it ain’t no thing!: I tell ya, Factors are a royal pain-in-the-rear end!: drat straight, I got stronger – this here’s the power of justice! Take a look!-- : I’m not that guy who could only cry! I’m not worthless anymore!: From this glorious day onwards, I’m a CHAMPION OF JUSTICE! And I’m not letting anyone get the better of me – not today, not ever!: …-- : Kouichi Hayase! Quit wasting our time and do as we ask!: Zip it! You think I’m gonna listen to anyone who calls people stupid?!: I called you stupid because you’re being stupid as hell, stupid!: Alright, that does it! You’re going down!-- : Stop attacking, Kouichi, and come with us to JUDA!: Don’t tell me what to do! I won’t go easy on you just ‘cause you’re a girl, you hear?! By JUDA, Ichitaka’s just told Ishigami about the Rushbird and Alice (she’s not a robot but it’s simpler to just leave it at that). And Ishigami confirms that, like Ichitaka said, JUDA is known as a medical equipment company but that’s just a front – in truth, they can actually be dubbed a group of champions of justice. Really. Well, Ichitaka thinks Ishigami’s trustworthy enough to tell the story of what happened. Fast forward a nondescript time later and he’s done; despite Yuu telling him to keep off, Ichitaka’s still determined to go and save Grife. Ishigami’s a bit amazed that the mysterious assailants managed to hit the lab right under JUDA’s nose. Alice’s got a bunch of pictures of the guys stored in her memory banks and, with Ishigami’s permission, finds a terminal and starts uploading them. She’s quite handy but, then again, it’s her purpose to make everyone’s life easier. As the finishes, Yui runs a check and comes up empty – whatever group those guys work for, JUDA has nothing on them. Ishigami ponders that they might be connected to the Katou Organization and Yui explains to Ichitaka that they’re one of the foes JUDA fights against. In that case, Ichitaka asks if he and Alice could join JUDA. If they go on waltzing about in the Rushbird, folks might mistake them for criminals and try to arrest them; and he can’t ditch the bot as, then, he’d have no way of pursuing the professor and Yuu.  Alice asks the same but, unfortunately, Ishigami says no. What’re they supposed to do, then? Well, here’s a thought: do they feel like being CHAMPIONS OF JUSTICE?! See, Ishigami can’t get them into JUDA but there’s this new team, LOTUS, that’ll be put together soon. Join that and Ichitaka and Alice’ll be covered in all their basic, maintenance and intel gathering necessities. Plus, JUDA will also be helping those guys. Something about this gives Ichitaka a bad feeling but it’s not like they’ve got any choice. Both him and Alice agree to it – not problems at all! A call comes in right then, Yui IDing it as Lady Une from the Preventers. Ishigami has her put through, telling Ichitaka that he’s free to listen in.  Une’s glad to see Ishigami well, and he’s always happy to see her ever beautiful face (Yui tells him to stop before he gets a harassment suit). Une’s in a hurry, so she ignores him and goes straight to the point: she’s heard JUDA failed to secure the Linebarrel. Unfortunately, yes; and things were going swimmingly until the Katou Organization messed everything up. The Preventers have also gotten intel on the Rushbird and the unknown attackers but, unfortunately, they weren’t quick enough on the take to track their escape. Sounds like some mighty folks, indeed, to evade both them and JUDA. As for the Linebarrel, Ishigami says they’re having folks keep an eye out for the Factor (the pilot) but JUDA’s rather understaffed. Much as it shames him to ask, could Une send some Preventer agents to help? Sure, especially since Quatre and Sally are relatively close – she’ll set things up quick. Ishigami’s very thankful that she’s lending one of their Gundam pilots but she doesn’t see why not, since they’ll all be working on the same team soon. She means LOTUS, yes, an elite squadron answering directly to the UN secretariat – the UN itself has just given the green light for its creation. There are so many groups out there who were forced to act by their lonesome and, with LOTUS, they’ll now be capable of consolidating those into an united, independent fighting force. Ishigami promises that while JUDA’s forces aren’t too vast, they’ll all work their hardest to assist. And, with that, Une excuses herself.  Well, looks like the elite team’s ready to get to work and Ishigami is hyped – JUDA’ll answer this call-to-arms in defense of world peace with their absolute best! Miu and Yamashita are ready to go, too, eager to give Reiji the news as he was looking forward to the start of LOTUS. Ishigami, all giddy, quickly turns to Ichitaka and congratulates him on his perfect timing with cozying up with JUDA: “You, too, are now a CHAMPION OF JUSTICE – a defender of the world!” That’s cool, sure, but what will that actually entail? Simply put: fight anything that’s a threat to peace and mankind. That means evil terrorist groups like the Katou Organization and assorted baddies like the Haniwa Phantoms and monsters from the Darius Army. Alice and Ichitaka find this a bit odd: we’ve always had folks around to fight those enemies and they’ve never shunned from cooperating with each other (like in the War of the Giants). Why’d they feel the need to bring them all into a single group now? Blame politics for that as, from what Ishigami heard, some of those righteous bots ran the risk of falling into the hands of some rather evil politicians if left unchecked. So Une, from her position inside the UN, worked to create the new group as a way to keep those bots free and safe. Ichitaka understands now and is happy to be aboard, working with Ishigami’s team to help the world. In return, he just asks for help in searching for Grife.  Cut to Shangri-La, the commander’s room, and Sawatari wants to know why Katou had them back off like that. Katou asks him to calm down and as to why he did it… “You’re gonna tell me to ‘imagine it’, aren’t ya? Fine, fine. I’ll understand eventually, is what you’re getting at,” Sawatari groans. In exchange for all this, though, he wants permission to deploy the next time they go after the Linebarrel. Dmitri makes the same request and, in that case, Katou tells them to bring Wufei along for the ride.  Katou asks Masaki if they’ve the troops available for another attack and the guy says it should be fine, considering they couldn’t get a bead on the Daiku Maryu or the Gaiking. Sawatari isn’t too keen on working with “forehead” again and Dmitri somewhat agrees. All of them have sworn loyalty to Katou and his ideals, but they don’t think Wufei’s on the same page as them. Plus, the guy joined way too suddenly. Katou, however is certain that Wufei’s the same as them and won’t turn. If he says so…  Speaking of, he’s now wandering Shangri-La deep in thought: “The endless waltz… must we all dance this dance of lies?”  Some time later, Quatre’s already made it to Japan and informs Sally that he’s investigating the Linebarrel’s crash site. Mind, he’s feeling a bit uneasy for this new assignment: how is he supposed to pass as a middle schooler? Sally figures his boyish good looks will work well enough, though he’s sure Heero or Duo would’ve been the better picks – they’re old hands at this sort of thing. Too late for that now, though, so Sally sends him a picture of his target: the Linebarrel’s Factor. Kouichi strikes him as quite the commonplace teenager but, regardless, his orders are to look into him, check whether or not he’s the makings of a proper Factor and how he’s reacting after his run-in with the Linebarrel. And if he needs help with anything, Sally wants him to call JUDA’s Ishigami right away. They’ll need the Linebarrel’s power in LOTUS, so this must succeed. Quatre’s hoping things with Kouichi can go without any unpleasantries… and why is there some smooshed curry break lying around here?  : You are already dead.: What…?: I’m sorry. The Linebarrel and I… we landed on you.: Wait, hold on there! But I’m alive! I’m breathing just fine, my heart’s beating and—: That’s because the Linebarrel’s D-S.O.I.L. restored you…: The Linebarrel…? That Arma restored me?: It’s not an Arma. The Linebarrel’s a Machina. : A Machina? OK, so it’s different from an Arma. And you say it restored me?: I asked the Linebarrel to save you… and, so, you were reborn – as Factor, sharing your life with it.: …: So, the reason why I could control it and those superpowers I got…: Yes. While you stay with the Linebarrel, you’ll have inhuman strength and any wounds you take will heal pretty much instantly… : You now function as the Factor, the element needed to engage the Linebarrel. : “Inhuman strength”, eh…? Hey, that sounds good to me if it got me stronger!: …
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May 22, 2017 22:27
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Kouichi is sort of impressively dumb, isn't he?
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May 22, 2017 22:54
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I wish to go on record and state that the Linebarrels of Iron anime is terrible. Like, absolutely, completely, 100% bad. The manga, on the other hand, is Very Good, and thus it's a shame they used the anime instead of the manga in this game.
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May 22, 2017 23:06
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...Linebarrel's of those deconstructive sorts of series, isn't it?
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May 22, 2017 23:17
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I...don't think I'm going to like Kouichi, unless he gets over this real fast.
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May 23, 2017 00:29
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Mikl posted:I wish to go on record and state that the Linebarrels of Iron anime is terrible. Like, absolutely, completely, 100% bad. Having read the manga and not seen the anime, I can say this is certainly a different beginning. I wonder how much is the anime and how much is SRW.
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May 23, 2017 00:29
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Sordas Volantyr posted:...Linebarrel's of those deconstructive sorts of series, isn't it? Pretty much. The entire point of early Linebarrel is that Koichi constantly screams that he's a CHAMPION OF JUSTICE but he's full of poo poo, and the events around him will force him to actually live up to his claims. Which I can imagine will only happen even harder when he's surrounded by actual heroes in this crossover game. Later Linebarrel...is more complicated, and I've forgotten a lot because scanlations for some reason stopped for years and now I want to reread from the beginning. And the anime apparently heavily deviates from the manga and I only know the latter, so I'm not sure what will actually happen here. Brunom, you called that bully "Furuya" the first time and "Furiya" the following ones. I'm not sure which is right but one must be wrong. Another grammar correction: quote:If you’ve the will to fight, the call out the Linebarrel…! That "the" should be "then".
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May 23, 2017 00:33
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I love the idea of a "Men's Super Robots Monthly". it's exactly the sort of thign that would exist in an SRW universe.
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May 23, 2017 00:42
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Mikl posted:I wish to go on record and state that the Linebarrels of Iron anime is terrible. Like, absolutely, completely, 100% bad. Echoing the manga is very good. UX does the manga's story more or less if you're looking for that.
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May 23, 2017 00:42
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Hunter Noventa posted:I love the idea of a "Men's Super Robots Monthly". it's exactly the sort of thign that would exist in an SRW universe. IRC that was a thing in Dancouga Nova.
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May 23, 2017 00:43
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Blaze Dragon posted:Brunom, you called that bully "Furuya" the first time and "Furiya" the following ones. I'm not sure which is right but one must be wrong. Another grammar correction: Son of a... it IS Furuya and I've no idea why I changed after starting with the right one.
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May 23, 2017 00:44
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I can't help but see Kouichi as "Psychotic Kira Yamato" for some reason. Also Wufei is basically a Linebarrels character in this game.
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May 23, 2017 01:01
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Dr Pepper posted:I can't help but see Kouichi as "Psychotic Kira Yamato" for some reason. The reason is Hiraiface.
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May 23, 2017 01:15
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Blaze Dragon posted:The reason is Hiraiface. Hirai went on record as saying he tried to draw in a different style than his usual for Linebarrels. At least, I'm pretty sure he did. I can't find the thing.
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May 23, 2017 01:21
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Sordas Volantyr posted:...Linebarrel's of those deconstructive sorts of series, isn't it? Also, if people do decide to check out the vastly superior manga, Miu does not appear until about...a third(ish) of the way in. Her design (as well as Painkiller's design) were locked down already, but the anime started well before she got introduced in the manga proper, and thus she has a vastly different personality and characterization than in the manga. Painkiller itself is also radically different in the anime than in the manga, so keep that in mind. If anyone needs a single reason why the anime gets crapped on (outside of Hisashi Hirai's artwork), it was made by Studio Gonzo.
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May 23, 2017 01:59
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Okay, I remember watching Rushbird's attacks a long time ago, but seeing Alice's reactions (how do I super robot?) has really sold me on the originals already. She's quite the contrast to Nine though. If OGs ever gets around to it I hope to see the Android power hour, with Lamia, Alice and Nine (among others that I probably don't know about).
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May 23, 2017 02:06
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AradoBalanga posted:At first, kind of. It focuses a bit on the consequences of suddenly being given the keys to a giant mobile weapon as well as everything good and bad about such a situation. Kouichi's characterization plays off of that, with him thinking that now he's got a license to be a superhero with no care for what's going on around him. Except that, you know, there are things like collateral damage and organizations with their own agendas getting up in your face out there that superhero stories don't really talk about or put in the forefront (Marvel's own S.H.I.E.L.D. and DC's own Amanda Waller being rare exceptions to this). Speaking of, I would love to see Nick Fury or Amanda Waller have to deal with all the super robot nonsense SRW puts out, but alas, that's nothing more than a pipe dream. Technically, Marvel is canon to the SRW universe thanks to Project Cross Zone and Marvel vs Capcom.
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May 23, 2017 03:11
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MonsieurChoc posted:Technically, Marvel is canon to the SRW universe thanks to Project Cross Zone and Marvel vs Capcom. Well, about as canon as alternate universes get. Actually, speaking of which, is Marvel vs Capcom even canon to the characters in Project X Zone?
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May 23, 2017 03:20
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Ashsaber posted:Okay, I remember watching Rushbird's attacks a long time ago, but seeing Alice's reactions (how do I super robot?) has really sold me on the originals already. She's quite the contrast to Nine though. Aschen just being a jerk to all of them for being, in her estimation, terrible stereotypes of androids and wondering what Nine's super mode is like. It's gotta be activated by turning the gear around! I watched Linebarrels right after finishing Gurren Lagann and Simon and Kouichi share a voice actor so it was really jarring going from nice boy Simon to dingus supreme Kouichi. The manga is alright though!
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May 23, 2017 03:27
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Inferno-sama posted:Well, about as canon as alternate universes get. Actually, speaking of which, is Marvel vs Capcom even canon to the characters in Project X Zone? I'm just going with the "everything in srw is canon" thing they've got going.
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May 23, 2017 03:53
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After 2 prologues the game's moving pretty fast now. Only 1 map in and the originals are already joining an official team made up of various different different shows. I feel like it usually takes a bit longer for that to happen. Originals seem pretty cool and their theme is great, but this Kouichi dude is kind of a tool.
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May 23, 2017 04:16
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Sorry I didn't see this earlier Brunom! Hope it's an interesting ride. Also,Mikl posted:I wish to go on record and state that the Linebarrels of Iron anime is terrible. Like, absolutely, completely, 100% bad. I only know the manga, so it took me a bit to figure out that Kouichi is supposed to be the same guy. Seeing him cheerleading justice is really weird when the manga introduces him as a terrible person, only to steadily reveal the crazy number of issues going on both around him and in his head as the story continues. He wasn't really all that memorable, but his flaws made him stand out a bit from the usual SRW types. But sure, let's throw all that out the window so we can kick off with an incredibly early plot revelation, at the expense of all his characterization. No way that's gonna end poorly  .
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May 23, 2017 21:49
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Was posted in the lp-zone thread, Katou decides to give Wufei a "welcome aboard" gift to his organization: Is it wrong that I think this is even nicer-looking than the Altron?
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May 24, 2017 11:32
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The head looks really awkward, but other than that Machina Altron is actually pretty neat.
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May 24, 2017 16:08
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Technically it's an ARMA not a Machina.
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May 24, 2017 16:13
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That looks ZoE as gently caress. Which reminds me why isnt ZoE in an SRW yet.
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May 24, 2017 16:22
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Rigged Death Trap posted:That looks ZoE as gently caress. Konami.
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May 24, 2017 16:25
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Oh, Brunom also hasn't mentioned the actual miracle that SRW L pulled off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlm-Y4PUacc Making Kitei no Tsurugi sound remotely good.
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May 24, 2017 16:37
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The BGM was part of the reason I decided that all the Armas/Machinas would be sub units. They're quite good units though. Definitely worth using.
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GimmickMan posted:The BGM was part of the reason I decided that all the Armas/Machinas would be sub units. Yeah, I actually can't think of a single Linebarrels unit that isn't at least prime squaddie material.
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May 24, 2017 21:45
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Materant posted:Yeah, I actually can't think of a single Linebarrels unit that isn't at least prime squaddie material.
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May 24, 2017 22:11
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Onmi posted:Oh, Brunom also hasn't mentioned the actual miracle that SRW L pulled off. It's amazing how much better this song sounds without the vocals. Like, I heard this version first, thought "Well, this is the immediate winner of the BGMs so far", decided to look up the actual OP, regretted it the second the vocals kicked in.
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Sordas Volantyr posted:It's amazing how much better this song sounds without the vocals. Like, I heard this version first, thought "Well, this is the immediate winner of the BGMs so far", decided to look up the actual OP, regretted it the second the vocals kicked in. This is more or less how I feel about the Cross Ange units theme in V. It sounds good, especially at the beginning, but when I hear it with vocals it sounds, I don't know, kinda mediocre.
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Brunom1 posted:
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 And we’re back at the intermission menu, Yamashita leading as our top ace by only one kill. We’ll be fiddling with a couple of options today, so here’s what each column does, top to bottom: Pilot: Pilot Stats > Skill Parts > Reassign Machine: Unit Stats > Unit Upgrades > Formation (Pair units up, but we can’t do it yet) System: Search > System (Options) > Data Save > Next Mission We’ll start with the Skill Parts. Like in W, this game doesn’t allow you to spend PP to buy skills – you simply spend Skill Parts to teach them to your guys.  We’ve gained a handful over the past missions but I reckon now’s a good time spend. The Rushbird’ll always be a more melee-oriented bot, so we’ll give Ichitaka one level of Infight (インファイト). This skill will slightly boost your melee weapons’ attack power and crit ratio for each level it gets (no movement increase, unfortunately). Do keep in mind that skill growth in this game is a lot more limited than normal. Prevail will usually go up regularly but, at most, expect your other skills to only increase up to L2 naturally, if ever – you’ll have to use Skill Parts to boost them further.  And, finally, by the Unit Upgrade menu, you can do exactly what it says on the tin: spend our hard-earned cash to boost our mechs’ stats. Remember that L actively encourages you to pick favorites and sink your cash into them, as the Squad Bonuses increase as you get units to 50% and 100% upgrades. Ichitaka’ll always be around and up front, so I give him a boost to everything. With that done, let’s get to work.  We open up at JUDA’s hangar, with Goro Maki and Rachel Calvin marveling (“OH MY GOD!”) at the Rushbird’s fine construction – this is a work of art, made with the latest cybernetic tech. And it looks perfect, too, which shows the Japanese ARE the best at this sort of thing. Ichitaka points out that Grife isn’t really Japanese and he might actually be American like Rachel. Mind you, Alice argues that the professor pretty much stuck with the Japanese school of bot design, so she sees no problems at all with Rachel’s assessment. Whatever the case, Maki wants to give the thing a thorough look-over, though Rachel has other things in mind: specifically, Alice. Would it be alright to open her up and check what makes her tick? That’s a scary thought to Ichitaka but Rachel says that, with Grife gone, the JUDA crew needs to know how Alice is built in order to pull any maintenance work that might be required. Alice, however, tells her not to worry as she’s equipped with self-maintenance features. “Ah, really? Alrighty, then. (Tsk…),” Rachel quietly grunts. Too bad for her, Ichitaka has good ears: “Hey, I heard that! You wanted to tinker with her just for curiosity’s sake, didn’t you?!” “Well… I’m not NOT curious,” Rachel quips.  When Miu asks, Maki confirms that he also wasn’t aware of any Prof. Grife and is very surprised that a seemingly nameless scientist could build something of this level. Hell, the cost of making it alone would be significant. Rachel figures he must’ve had some sponsor and Alice posits that we could potentially find some files on that inside the lab’s secret vault. Maybe those can give us some clue as to what happened with Grife? Unfortunately, Ishigami doesn’t let Ichitaka head back to the lab to check around – the building is under investigation and it’s looking like a certain group has it on lockdown. Well, couldn’t we use LOTUS’ UN authority to deal with that? It’s not that simple as two giant robots did emerge from that building – a full investigation is necessary and Ishigami isn’t too keen on stepping on these toes. Ichitaka’s worried that if we drag our feet on this then any potential clues’ll disappear. We could even use a secret route to get in there, so no one’ll notice. Alice also asks him to please let them go… and it works. “Aah, I can’t say no when you ask me like that… Alright, I guess I’ll allow it,” he says, though insists that Miu and Yamashita also accompany them. They can quickly summon their Machinas in a bind and, on foot, can play bodyguards to Ichitaka. He’s surprised these two are strong enough to pull that off but, you know, Factors get super-strength.  Ichitaka’s very grateful but Ishigami asks them to be very careful out there. The organization taking care of the lab’s lockdown isn’t hostile but they’re also not friendly. He won’t name them, only saying that we might eventually have to fight them. He figures the folks with boots on the ground are likely just collaborators; it’s the ones on top of said organization that are the actual dangerous ones, so Ichitaka can at least rest easy there. And, finally, the world at large isn’t aware of JUDA’s activities and the Katou Organization, so Ichitaka can’t tell anyone, alright? He promises and, with that, leaves with everyone. Ishigami laughs that both Ichitaka and Kouichi are just brimming with that typical teenager energy. His thoughts are interrupted when Yui walks over: Izuna and Shizuna have called in, having just wrapped up their business with the Katou Organization’s terrorist cell. They’ll be back in Japan soon. Ishigami’s glad to hear that. LOTUS is gaining more and more elite fighters, so it won’t be long before we can take on even bigger threats to humanity. Of course, it’d be better if such threats never showed up but…  Grife’s home is like something straight out of a TV show, covered in the police’s yellow tape. There are secret service types all over, the hangar’s pretty much buried under the rubble and the upper lab is all out in the open. We’re not getting in there via the main door, indeed, though Ichitaka didn’t expect anything else. He beckons the team over to that secret entrance and though the power’s out inside, Alice’s loaded with the building’s blueprint, so she can lead the way. They’re off to the underground lab.  The place is all sorts of messed up – we might be too late, Yamashita sighs. Alice looks around but can’t find the vault. It’s possible someone took it. And, actually, it’s not just the vault that’s missing: all of the computers have had their HDs yanked out. Ichitaka doesn’t appreciate these guys burglarizing the lab but his attention’s taken back to Alice as she cries out that something’s HORRIBLE. What happened? Her maid programming is tingling and she really, really wants to clean this place up! “Ah… Well, don’t worry. We’re good for now,” Ichitaka proclaims. More importantly, isn’t there anything that managed to stay hidden from the “looters”? Actually, yes: at Alice’s suggestion, they look around and find a painting of an angel. Is it a clue or something? Somewhat: the image was made via several nano-sized word strings layered on top of each other, all describing Grife’s research. You see, there was a time when they were testing out this nano-printer and, thus, needed a whole lot of characters to write around. The easiest choice was to use all of his research notes and whatnot, so this painting is pretty much a backup of everything Grife had around a year ago. It’s lacking the stuff that happened since then, of course, but Alice figures it’ll still be useful. Ichitaka’s blown away by the Professor’s foresight – a perfect example of the classic “I thought something like this could happen, so…” moment. Alice says that guy simply couldn’t be arsed to use anything else in that experiment, but whatever. They’ve stayed here long enough, though, so Ichitaka moves to lead everyone out via another path.  We make it out just fine, though Miu wants to leave quick – we’re a tad too conspicuous carrying this big painting and have no idea what those agent types will do if they catch us. A voice nearby calls out to them and, after a quick yelp of surprise, Ichitaka sees that it’s Yajima and Risako. Risako’s curious about the friends with him and that big painting, though Ichitaka quickly changes the subject by asking that they are doing here. Well, they were worried for him, figuring he’d be prowling about after Grife’s “disappearance”. That said, Yajima says it’s dangerous for Ichitaka to hang around here, what with the Armas and giant robot running amuck before. Plus, the folks locking down the house might tag him as a person of interest, so he oughta keep away. Ichitaka slowly says he’ll, um, keep that in mind. And on the subject of missing people, did he see Kouichi? Risako looked everywhere and couldn’t find him – he’s not home, either. Ichitaka nearly says too much but is stopped by Yamashita (confidential, remember?). Well, he agrees to keep an eye out for him, so Risako takes off with Yajima, wondering where Kouichi could’ve run off to. Yajima, having seen what happened, only nods along. After they’re gone, Ichitaka apologizes for his loose tongue. Still, Yamashita and Miu find it odd that Kouichi hasn’t gone home. We can only hope that the Preventer pilot is doing a good job keeping an eye on him. Still, Alice wants to get back to JUDA right away so we can get Grife’s painting analyzed. Moreover, she’ll likely need to engage in combat again soon, so she’s studying hard as a way to be useful there. As for Ichitaka, he’d like some pilot training and Yamashita and Miu are more than willing to spar with him.  Back at JUDA, Lady Une has put in another call to Ishigami. She apologizes for taking more of his time but Ishigami has a policy of never refusing calls from pretty ladies. Well, the problem is that they might have to speed up the process of assigning the Build Base team into LOTUS. See, Blue Cosmos caught wind of the offworlders that showed up around the PLANTs and is advocating that they be dealt with as hostile aliens; this led to a plan to impound various countries’ mobile weapons, which is exactly what they both feared. So now JUDA needs to hurry to get our partnership with Build Base set up quick. Ishigami swears to Une that his company’s always ready to handle any unit and take care of anyone, from anywhere. And she’s more than welcome to join them, mind. She thanks him for his dutifulness, though says her answer will have to be “no” – regardless of how elegantly he makes the offer. Shot down. Yui wishes he’d act more responsibly, and is not amused by his quip of the wrinkles she’ll get for her constant nagging.  Over by said Build Base, Tsubaki is trying to educate Kenji on the intricacies of managing his parts – every part works differently, so Kenji needs to understand zzzzzzzzz. A loud yell later and Kenji’s back up. Tsubaki tells him that the Jama Kingdom’s been getting progressively stronger and the only way for them to handle that is if he masters usage of the new parts. That’ll only happen with diligent study and training. Problem is that Kenji hates training, so he’s taking off. He’ll figure it all out on the fly when they get there!   As he runs (not for the first time), Yagyuu (eyepatch) and Kouji see that things ain’t going too good here. Tsubaki fumes at Kenji’s complete unwillingness to study even a little bit, and Sayaka has a laugh at how much alike he is to Kouji’s old self. Indeed, Kouji feels like he’s looking in a mirror… and, actually, that might be good for us. Considering the similarities between him and Kenji, Kouji thinks he has a sure-fire way to convince him to sit down and study with gusto (it’d even work on Boss). What is it, then? Oh, it won’t be any fun if he just said it. Boss wonders what he’s up to, as Kouji walks up to Yagyuu and whispers something to her.   Boss (big guy) doesn’t like being left in the dark, though Nuke and Mucha (grin) figure this is just an excuse for him to get some alone-time with Yagyuu. Regardless, the captain finds the plan very amusing and agrees to it. Kouji can’t wait to see it all unfold.   Yagyuu calls over Mido and Saotome (crazy looking) to help go after Kenji and, when asked, say the three of them have a crucial part to play in this training lesson. Off they go, leaving Kouji behind to get grilled by Sayaka. What was he talking with Yagyuu about? Didn’t he say that it was to get Kenji training? Maybe but Sayaka certainly doesn’t like the sight of him and her seemingly enjoying themselves so much. Kouji swears to her (and an outraged Boss) that it’s not like that – they’ll all have a big laugh once the training is over. Tsubaki wonders if this’ll fly but Kouji is 100% sure that not only will Kenji volunteer to train, he’ll be so very dedicated to it. Tsubaki and Sayaka find that hard to believe but Kouji tells them to trust him. *Door opens!*  : Heeey! TSUBAKIIIIII!! : Kenji? Why’re you in that much of a hurry?: Haah… Haah… T-Training! Combination training! C’mon!: Huh? But I thought you hated—: Never mind that and let’s get to it right now! I’m off to the training grounds!*Kenji runs off.*  : Hah, didn’t I tell ya?: Y-Yeah…: Well, let’s get going! We’re also gonna be helping out with that! Meanwhile, by the base’s command room, Cmdr. Miwa is welcoming Une over – it’s been a while since they met face-to-face. Une notices, however, that she doesn’t see Prof. Shiba around. Miwa apologizes and says he took leave for a moment… though, inwardly, she wonders where he might’ve run off to.   Cut to the Jama Kingdom’s HQ, Queen Himika rants at Ikima (stache), Amaso and Mimashi (two faces) for their inability to get Jeeg’s Bronze Bell. Mimashi swears that they’re trying their best but Amaso argues that the fault lies with the unwieldy Haniwa Phantoms. You mean the Haniwa Phantoms Himika personally gifted to them? N-No, of course not – it’s their fault for not making proper use! Sooorryyyy! Well, Ikima wants to try again and asks for a new Haniwa; he has a plan and vows to succeed in stealing the Bronze Bell. He swears he’s legit, so Himika decides to indulge him – he better come back with news of Jeeg’s complete and utter destruction, though! Amaso doesn’t like the guy trying to take all the glory but Mimashi sighs that he IS the strongest of them. Amaso is still miffed, as failure would really tick Himika off.  Special Training: Mach Drills!   : Hey, Yagyuu! What you said before was legit, right? : It was. I’ll stick to my word.: Hell, yeah! Then I’m gonna ace this training session! : Yo, Kenji, what kinda promise is that between you and the captain?: Sorry, no time to talk! Let’s get this started lickety-split! : He’s really fired up for this, huh? : I wanna know what the promise was even more… : Heheheh, now things are getting fun! We’ll toy with the idiot until he croaks! : Sounds like fun, alright…!: Are you ready, Kenji?: Absolutely! I’m ready whenever!: Tsubaki, Kyo, you heard him. Go and put him to work – and don’t hold back!: OK! : Then, Kenji, we’ll start your training by trying to shorten the time it takes for you to Build Up. While you’re very talented as a pilot, there’s still plenty of room to grow. Your reaction speed—: Yo, no need to butter me up – let’s get going already, Kyo!: A-Alright. He’s like a completely different person…: Kenji, your parts are gonna be shot out at double the regular speed, so watch it!: Heh! Easy-peasy!: Oh, we’ll see about that…: Begin!: Roger! Jeeg Parts – shoot!*Bang, bang!* : BUILD! U—: Suck on this!: Rocket Puuuunch!!: Wuh?! : Whoa, whoa, whoa! The hell are ya attacking me for?!: That’s also part of your training!: There’d be no point to this if we didn’t make it resemble live combat as much as we could!: Right, you’ll have to wade through the enemies’ attacks as you combine. I don’t need to tell you how important it is to hone that skill, right?: Yeah, I know, I know!: And, Kenji, make sure you don’t try combining with the Rocket Punch!: Hah, like I’d ever screw up that bad!: That’s a fine spirit – I’ll enjoy breaking it!: Here goes! Jeeg Parts – shoot!*Bang, bang!* : Rocket! Puuuunch!: Raaaaargh! BUILD UUUUUUP!! : Uwaaah! That’s too drat fast…!: Throwing in the towel already?: N-No way in hell! : Wow… I can’t remember ever seeing him this serious about training…: Yeah, I’m gonna pull this off…! No retreat! No surrender! Not until Yagyuu lets me touch her boobies!: Oh… So that’s how it is. : That was what your promise was about? Kouji, what were you thinking?!: Aahahah… Can’t argue with the results, though, right?: drat you, Kouji, that’s the kinda promise other men can only dream of!: That little…! Aaargh, that’s IT! Jeeg Parts! Shoot! Shoot! SHOOT! : Waah! Tsubaki, go easy with those!: Shut it, pervert! Shoot! SHOOOT!! : We’ve got your back, Tsubaki!: This one’s broken beyond repair…: So maybe we should just kill him and be done with it?: Rocket Puuunch!: Missiles – fire! : Uwaawaaa! You guys are just toying with me, ain’t ya?!: drat it, but I ain’t losing this one! BOOOBIEEEEEES!! : Haah, hooh…! There! I combined!: The brat’s pervert drive pulled through!: Yeah, how d’ya like them apples! And since I did my thing, now it’s time to pay up and lemme—: No, your training isn’t over yet!: Huuh?: You’ll be training to combine with the Mach Drills next! Switch to them IF YOU CAN!*Beep, boop!* : Hold on! Something’s coming!: What?! : Wh-What is that thing…? : It’s me!: Pops?!: What are you doing there, Professor?!: Ohohoho… Because I heard what you were doing and it sounded fun. So why was only I left out of it? That’s just mean!: “Left out”… what’re ya, twelve?!: Professor, didn’t you have a visitor today?: Never mind that right now. How could I even show my face to her if this training does not succeed?: That’s fine and all but why are you in that Haniwa Phantom?: This is a Haniwa I built especially to help you train! I call it Micchi mk. II!: “Micchi”… as in Cmdr. Tamashiro’s old nickname?: I don’t think grandma would be too happy with that…: Hahah! Building this baby was easy as pie with my skills – shows how much I wanted to play… that is, wanted to help you train! : So you’d best buckle up, Kenji, because the actual training starts right now! Defeat Micchi mk. II with the Mach Drills – you won’t be able to call this a success unless you do!: Alrighty, then! I’ll take on any Micchies you’ve got – for boobies! Come on, Tsubaki!: Kenji, you huge, stupid IDIOT! Take this, then! Mach Drills, set up! SHOOT!*Blam!* : Waaaaaaah!! : W-Whoa, that’s fast!: Tsubaki, don’t you think you should slow down for a first attempt?: Quiet, you!: Urgh, drat! And I was so close to touchdown…!: BWAHAHAHA! You better wave goodbye to those boobies, kid! Sucks to be you!: Again – I’mma get it right this time! Bring it!*Beep, beep!*  : We’ve got a Haniwa Phantom on radar! It’s headed your way!: Oops, sorry, Miwa! That’s my Haniwa, the Micchi mk. II! Isn’t it as pretty as you?: No, it’s a much bigger group that’s incoming!: Whaat?!: All troops shift to high alert and get ready to engage. And, professor, please return to Build Base ASAP. Lady Une has been waiting for you all this time!: Y-Yes, ma’am!: Got blips on the radar! They’re here!  : Jeeg! Today’s the day I’ll claim your Bronze Bell as our own!: Huh, Ikima’s showed up in person? They’re playing for keeps today, I guess.: And you, Mazinger Z, will be accompanying Jeeg in its voyage to the underworld. However, before any of that…!*Looks at Micchi mk. II* : I will first reduce this disgusting sham of a Haniwa to dust! : Wah?! : Pops!: I-I’m alright, but Micchi mk. II is…: Ikima, you piece of crap! You’re wrecking my chances of getting some boobies! I’mma make you pay real good for this!!: That’s the spirit, Kenji! And I’ll even throw you a little bone: if you manage to defeat him, I’ll consider your training a success!: For real?! Alright! Keep watching, pops!: We’ve already sent a request to JUDA for assistance. They’re on the way, so hold on until then.: Roger that, grandma!: That’s that, then. Sayaka, Boss, you guys handle repairing and resupplying, alright?: We’re on it! And be careful, Kouji – it’s been a while since you piloted the Mazinger, so don’t do anything crazy!: Build Angels, get in formation and follow my lead!: Aye, aye!*Mido and Saotome tag in with Yagyuu.* : Get over there, Haniwas!: Heheheh… We’ll see how long that confidence lasts… Destroy everything, without losing Kenji or Kyo. The Haniwas are a bit beefier than the previous mooks we fought (some are twinned up, too) but keep your folks together and take things slow and you’ll be good. And here are our new folks:  Steel Jeeg (Kenji Kusanagi) Pilot Skills: Prevail L3 Spirit Commands: Focus Invincible Mech Features: Bronze Bell Power (銅鐸パワー) – activates at 130 morale, damage dealt increases by 25%; damage taken decreases by 25%; accuracy and evasion increase by 25%. Squad Bonus: Mobility +5, melee weapons’ power +100 Kenji’s pretty amazing and that Bronze Bell is a big reason why – once it activates, he’ll turn into one of your strongest guys. Jeeg’s S size means enemies will have a harder time than most hitting him (though Kenji’s not the most evasive guy without the Bell running) and his best weapons all ignore size differences, so his damage won’t suffer much. Mind you, his weaker stuff – the one’s you might use against mooks – don’t ignore size, so that’s something to keep in mind. Jeeg DOES like to chug through EN quickly, so he’s a prime candidate for an E-Save part. Finally, a handful of his tricks require having the Big Shooter around, so you’ll likely want to have Kyo and Tsubaki joining him in a twin unit.  Mazinger Z (Kouji Kabuto) Pilot Skills: Sword Cut Prevail L3 Spirit Commands: Invincible Guts Strike Mech Features: Mazin Power (マジンパワー) – activates at 130 morale, damage dealt up by 25%, damage taken down by 25%. Squad Bonus: Armor +150, Mobility +5 The prototypical Super Robot pilot is pretty dang powerful. Notoriously bulky and hard-hitting, Kouji’s main weakness is that his range isn’t too great on his better attacks. Other than that he’s great and when Mazin Power activates, it takes a major screw-up to get him killled.  Big Shooter (Kyo Misumi, Tsubaki Tamashiro) Pilot Skills: Prevail L1 Support Attack L1 Support Defense L1 Spirit Commands – Kyo: Focus Accelerate Spirit Commands – Tsubaki: Cheer Scan Mech Features: Resupply Module Squad Bonus: Money earned +10%, EN+50 Like I said, the main point of the Big Shooter is to support Jeeg and it’s built pretty much to do that. The EN bonus and resupply module will help cover Kenji’s EN issues and its presence is needed for a lot of attacks. Mind, Jeeg is stuck on the ground and the Big Shooter, obviously, isn’t a tank – you’ll want to either get Kenji airborne or get a land adaptor for this.  Aphrodite A (Sayaka Yumi) Pilot Skills: Support Attack L1 Spirit Commands: Trust Bless Mech Features: Repair Module Squad Bonus: Money earned +10%, mobility +5 Standard issue, classic support girl. The Aphrodite A is weak and fragile as hell and there are a ton of units that can do its job better. Bless is your main reason for deploying Sayaka right now but, once other folks with it show up, she’ll likely get benched.  Build Angel (Yagyuu Mitsuko) Pilot Skills: Prevail L1 Support Attack L1 Support Defense L1 Spirit Commands: Accelerate Alert Mech Features: Repair Module Squad Bonus: 15% chance to dodge attacks, terrain rating in air and space set to A Speaking of way better support units, Yagyuu is a great fit for a whole lot of people. Accelerate, repair, flying and the squad bonus (which’ll get even better at 50%) all in one package is a great deal.  Boss Borot (Boss, Nuke, Mucha) Pilot Skills: Prevail L1 Support Defense L1 Spirit Commands - Boss: Guts Faith (友情) – fully restores target’s HP. Spirit Commands - Nuke: Trust Cheer Spirit Commands - Mucha: Scan Accelerate Mech Features: Resupply Module Squad Bonus: Melee weapons’ power +100, crit ratio +10%, land terrain rating set to A, debuff immunity Also a better support unit: Boss! While he won’t be kicking as much rear end as he did in MX, Mucha’s accelerate and that, frankly, outrageous squad bonus means he can tag in with any melee-oriented unit. He can’t hit or survive well, of course, but that’s what upgrades are for and, worst case scenario, the Borot always costs peanuts to repair. One noteworthy bit, mind, is that all of its attacks carry the morale down debuff!  So we finally move everyone forward and stand by.  Enemy Phase!  They do the same.  Player Phase!  The bigger Haniwas aren’t moving, mind, so we’ll start with the Boya Kaengus up front; when you attack a twinned unit, you can order your team to focus fire on the main enemy unit, the sub or for each one to attack their respective target. Since we’re running solo, that last option isn’t available. Oh, and don’t worry about Ikima. : That’s enough playing around for today, girls. Now we get serious!: Aye, aye! We’ve got your back, captain!: Let’s get in there and knock them off our skies!    Yagyuu can’t do decent-ish damage post-movement until she gets some morale, mind.  We’ll have Kenji take care of that. : Think you can come here and mess up my good times, eh?! Y’all better get ready for some payback!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR73F6IaxIY The Mazinger Team is still trudging along. Enemy Phase!  Blah.[/i] : Today shall be the day where I present your Bronze Bell to Queen Himika, Jeeg!: What’re you on all about with that “bell” business?! Start making sense, guy!: All I’ll do is send you to your death, wallowing in ignorance! Try to attack Ikima and it does absolutely no damage! He gloats about their evil power – nothing will work on him! Well, Kyo suggests we leave him for later and focus on the other Haniwas for now. That said, Ikima doubts we’ll be able to disregard his mighty unit with it bearing down on us.  Kenji’s getting pestered, but that’s fine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTUoYzWv8hU Little bit of damage won’t bug him.  Couple of Boya Kaengu do decide to go after Kyo. : Ooh, Kenji, you little…! That was your motivation for training?! I swear, when I get my hands on you, I’ll…!: I understand you’re angry, Tsubaki, but you have to calm down. There’s a battle to be fought.: I know, I know! drat it, this is all that pervert’s fault!   Kyo’s high Skill stat means he crits often, though the Big Shooter still isn’t meant for damage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sCMppmFlaM Oh, and Yagyuu gets attack from far enough that she can fire a better weapon. Player Phase!  The JUDA crew finally arrives, Une requesting that we help clear out the Jama Kingdom attackers. When Miu asks, Ichitaka is feeling rather confident; not only did she and Yamashita help with his training, he’s also particularly pumped up to pull his weight with Jeeg and Mazinger right there. Alice herself has kind of rushed through her studies as a subpilot but she’s already learned somewhat, so “so there are mostly no problems!” Kenji’s not a whole lot impressed that our backup consists of only a handful of units but Kouji recognizes two of JUDA’s Machinas and knows they’re good for it.   Rather, there are THREE JUDA Machinas around as the twins Izuna (the one on the left) and Shizuna Endo. Izuna, ever polite, apologizes for the delay but Shizuna, the rough kansai type, scoffs that the star players are always the last ones to take to the field. Kenji isn’t paying attention, wondering instead “The hell’s that flying hammer-looking thing?” Shizuna heard that and she is not amused by the comparison – she’ll find and box him some after this gets wrapped up! Une reminds Kenji that they’re in the middle of a battle, so antagonizing their allies is a big no-no. What, when did he become the bad guy here? Yagyuu restores order, telling of the big Haniwa’s barrier and asking Ichitaka’s crew to assist with the nearby enemies. As they move in, Izuna wants to provide support from the rear but Shizuna isn’t having any of that weak-rear end crap – they’re getting in there and showing everyone how awesome they are! Brunom1 fucked around with this message at 21:54 on May 27, 2017 |
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 Deceive (Shizuna Endo, Izuna Endo) Pilot Skills: Prevail L1 Support Defense L1 Spirit Commands – Shizuna: Invincible Luck Spirit Commands – Izuna: Trust Focus Mech Features: Resupply Module Squad Bonus: HP +500, Exp earned +10%, debuff immunity Shizuna’s a bit of an odd support, seeing as how her main draw is that her Nerve Crack weapon reduces the target’s morale – give her some support attack parts and she could potentially hit an enemy with it five times in a single turn. Were this A Portable, that’d be huge. It’s not, though, so I’m not too sure how much use I could get out of the Deceive – time will tell. At least the EN regen from the resupply module and her Nerve Crack Hand being post-movement could make her for a decent-ish squaddie to a short-range Super.  The JUDA team is too far away to attack, though, so our guys will need to hold on by themselves for another turn.  Eeeh, I think I prefer W’s version. : My first actual battle with the Mazinger in who knows how long. You Haniwas’re gonna be helping me get back in the game!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTMt81M9UP0 A classic.  Kenji sticks by his crew, taking out a weakened Boya Kaengu. Yagyuu and Kyo each start working on others. Enemy Phase!  Oh and Ikima can reduce your SP, FYI…  A couple of Haniwas decide to take a detour to gun for the Factors.       They certainly hit harder than the Katou Armas.  Sayaka is hanging out back but that doesn’t stop one enemy for trying his hand. : Tetsuya and Jun aren’t here right now, so I’ll have to fight my best to pick up the slack!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwh8EHmt-Fg  Kouji seems to be a primary target as a bevy of stuff rushes him down (taking some not insignificant damage). Kenji does nab a handful of kills, as well… surviving with only 1000 HP! Player Phase!  Only difference is that Kouji and Kenji can be easily healed, while all the Haniwas lost a good chunk of health in their venture. Now it’s just a matter of picking a target and killing it, so here’s the cliffs notes:       : You ready, Izuna? Can’t let any of those folks one-up us, so we’re gonna go ballistic here!  : “One-up”… but this isn’t a competition.: Ah, ya big dumdum! Battles ARE a competition and whoever’s the bigger ace has got it made! So put your back into this!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_Rq8xiY88k I’m rather disappointed that the hand didn’t follow up the throw with a big punch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl6kUDxB92g And here’s the Build Angels’ strongest attack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmFriqcS6OU The first of Kenji’s combined attacks with the Big Shooter. I question the efficiency of a bazooka that’s bigger than the user… : You two ready to rock? We’re gonna put on a slick show for Tsubaki!: What, did you give up on Sayaka, Boss?: What’re you, stupid?! I’m gunning for them both now – one babe in each hand!: Yeah, that’s why you’re the boss, Boss!: Off we go, then! Ooryaaa!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0__FPYFNKM I confess that I was surprised that he oneshotted the thing!  Oh, this’ll be good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4FBR5v7ngQ There’s the Laplace Wall at work. Thanks for the free EN, Ikima! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUO8b7ApEDA Finally, the last mook – right in range for Yamashita’s strongest weapon. : There’s only that thing left now…!: Oh, what’s the matter? You’d best not get your hopes up simply because you’ve destroyed the other Haniwa Phantoms.: drat it…! Look at how giddy that prick is!: Heheheheh… Indeed, there is absolutely no hope for any of you!: Rrgh, I could wreck that sort of barrier as easy as one-two-three if I had the Kaiser right now!: What, the Build Base’s got no secret weapons or whatever?!: …There IS something that’d work.: Really?! Out with it, then!: Kenji’ll need to combine with the Mach Drills. Charge those with the energy of Jeeg’s Bronze Bell and it might work…: The Mach Drills… those things that almost went and crushed my dreams?!: That’s too risky! He didn’t even pull it off during training!: No, I know he can do it.: Kouji…?: Go for it, Kenji! If you’re a real man, that is!: Hah, that goes without saying, Kouji! : Here I go! Do it, Tsubaki!: …Well, alright. Mach Drills, set up! Shoot!*Blam, Blam!*  : Waaaah?!: It’s not working. He can’t react fast enough…!: What the crap’re you doing?! Did you lose your balls or something?!: We know you’re better than that, Kenji! You’re a real man, so you CAN pull through, can't you?!: Y-Yagyuu… OK. Tsubaki, again!: This is crazy, Kenji! Mess it up again and Jeeg won’t…: Nah, I just realized something after Yagyuu said her piece. Send the drills over, Tsubaki!: The only way to beat Ikima’ll be with the Mach Drills, so we need to take a chance with him.: Kyo… OK. Make it work this time, Kenji!: (Looking at the drills from the front, they kinda look like…): (Yeah, mine and all men’s favorite thing in the world! I just gotta visualize and my hands’ll do their part!)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvIjko68n34 “I’m pulling it off this time, Tsubaki!” “Mach Drills, set up! Shoot!” “C’mere, my booby drills!” “ALRIGHT! Here we go!” “Ooooryaaa! Booby Drill ATTAAAAAACK!” : Gwaaargh! I-It can’t be… he tore through the evil energy?!: Hell, yeah! His barrier’s toast now!: So cool… Jeeg really is the best!: Should be no problem to take that guy out after that. Psyche yourselves up and let’s get to it! Indeed, with only 8400 HP left, we can easily wrap this up. : Annoying little bug! You’ll soon be but a smear on the floor!: Well, none of us are nice enough to let you drop us that easy!: Tsubaki, scan his Dai Kaengu for a weakness! That’s step #1!     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEffwTPVDTs  Off goes Ikima, promising to REMEMBER THIS. Of course, he’s already lost a couple of times, so Kenji suggests he start writing it all down. Shizuna’s revised her opinion on Kenji slightly – he’s a complete idiot but decent enough in battle. Miwa calls in and summons everyone back to Build Base, including the JUDA crew. Lady Une’s waiting for them. More important to Kenji, does all this mean his training was a success? Tsubaki slowly confirms, which means it’s time for Yagyuu to fulfill her end of the bargain!  Cut to the Jama Kingdom, Ikima is very apologetic for his screw up. Amaso sniffs at the poor showing despite all his huffing and puffing and requests that Himika let him go next. Mamashi also wants in, but the queen quickly silences them all. She is NOT in the mood for their bickering. She sees in Jeeg and his allies enemies to be respected and knows they must take the Bronze Bell before our strength grows even further.  At Build Base, Miwa is welcoming our team and praising JUDA’s vaunted combat expertise. Yamashita puts his best “official” voice and salutes her in lieu of Reiji, their team leader. This is Une’s first time meeting with us and Ichitaka is rather nervous, stuttering a quick introduction. Une, of course, has been briefed on him and Ichitaka promises to work hard as part of LOTUS. She appreciates his earnestness and turns to speak to the entire team: this last battle has further confirmed to her the importance of the LOTUS project. Kouji has heard of the team from Prof. Yumi, as the Photon Lab crew will also be joining. Une knows that united strength is the way to stand up to any upcoming threats but every single member of our team is important individually – we couldn’t have prevailed today without Jeeg busting the enemy’s barrier. Despite being the man of the hour, Kenji isn’t listening (daydreaming about boobies). Shizuna and Tsubaki aren’t amused by his grin. But, regardless, what Une expects from us is that we’ll be flexible enough to adapt to any and all situation, so she hopes we’ll keep up the good work.  A call comes in right then and it’s Prof. Yumi from his Orbital Space Station. Kouji eagerly asks if he’s finished his maintenance on the Mazinkaiser but, sadly, no – it’ll take longer. Guess he’ll have to make do with the Mazinger in the meantime. But the reason Yumi called is that while he’s agreed to have the Mazinger Team join LOTUS, Tetsuya and Jun’s mechs are taking longer than expected to 100% ready for battle again. They’ll likely be delayed in their rendezvous with us. Lady Une’s not too surprised, considering the difficult battles those two went through.  Tetsuya gets on the mic to tell Kouji and co to not slack off while out there – if he catches word that they’ve messed up somehow, he’ll personally come and whip them back into shape. Jun is nicer, though, only asking for them to hold the fort until the Great Mazinger and Venus are ready to go again. Kouji swears to do just that. As the call ends, the Build Base and Mazinger teams are now officially under Une’s command as part of LOTUS. The base itself, explains Prof. Shiba, will carry on investigating whatever the Jama Kingdom is up to while providing prompt support to us. Of special note to Miwa is that they’re still searching for a way to rescue thought-alive Hiroshi – the original Jeeg – from within the progressively shrinking Zone. That’s for another time, though, and Miwa suggests we go and rest after the last battle. Une does ask Ichitaka and Alice to come see her when they’ve the time, though. Kenji doesn’t need rest, though, as it is now time to collect his reward! Yagyuu will stand by her word, so she asks him to come by the hangar. He does so immediately, leaving behind a fuming Tsubaki to wonder why Yagyuu made a promise like that in the first place. Kouji invites her along to watch it all go down, eliciting an angry retort that this is, first and foremost, his fault for making this inane suggestion! Easy, now. Didn’t he say it’d be funny? She’ll see what he means.  By the hangar, Yagyuu isn’t really worried about staying true to her word. She tells Kenji to close his eyes and he’ll get some boobies right in his face. And he does so, Tsubaki and Boss glaring at him for his antics/luck, though Miu has absolutely no idea what’s going on and is incredibly confused. Kenji’s faced is cradled in boobies and he’s as happy as can be – life is good. Or it was, for a second, before he starts feeling his head being crushed. What the hell? He opens his eyes and finds himself buried in Saotome’s very muscular cleavage and arms. The berserk fighter has no qualms in squishing him like a grape as Kenji protests that this wasn’t the deal! “Oh? And when, exactly, did I say anything about it being my breasts?” Yagyuu chuckles. Kenji begs Tsubaki for help but, of course, he brought this on himself. Kouji wonders if Boss is still jealous – does he wanna take Kenji’s spot? Absolutely not. Shizuna is feeling pretty good at the spectacle – it saved her the trouble of having to actually box him some – and Izuna has a laugh at how much livelier this group’s turning out to be.  As Kenji continues to suffer, Alice walks in, having just prepped a healthcare plan for everyone and… what are they doing? Effort being rewarded and all that, answers Yamashita. Speaking of, Kouji’s been told that Ichitaka’s another trainee pilot – it’s tough business starting out but he tells him to hang in there. And if he’s ever not feeling up to it, he can always ask Saotome to “reward” him. Ichitaka’s rather star-struck with THE Kouji Kabuto and stammers a very proper thank you. But he needn’t get hung up on formalities, of course, what with them being teammates now. Ichitaka gets that but Kouji is still a big name for him to deal with. “Ichitaka, your heart rate is rising. Hmm, this symptom indicates… is it love?” Alice ponders, eliciting an energetic “NO WAY!” That’s a better attitude, Kouji says, and tells Ichitaka to talk to him the same he would Alice. Ichitaka tones it down a bit – still a bit too proper for Kouji’s tastes but he’ll get used to it. And what was that about a healthcare plan?  Well, as we all know, Alice’s primary job is as a maid, meaning she can also handle pretty much any health care needs we require. In exchange, she hopes folks would indulge her with some combat lessons. That’d be no problem for the Mazinger Team and Alice is quite grateful. A nondescript amount of time later, Yamashita reminds Ichitaka and Alice that Une wanted them to stop by. Repairs on the Rushbird have finished just now and Alice has done examining our crew, so this seems as good a time as any. Yamashita asks him to be back in time for their training session, mind.  Back at the command room, Ichitaka’s disappointed to hear that they’ve found nothing on Grife or Yuu. Une says that Preventers are searching right now and they’ve even requested the other LOTUS-affiliated groups to help with that. Ichitaka’s surprised they’d go to those lengths for him, but it’s not exactly for his benefit alone. Both of Grife’s units have quite a few distinctive features – the Straybird has been avoiding any and all detection, while the Rushbird seems capable of some dimensional interference. They can’t well disregard these units and their creator, right? Wait, what was that about the Rushbird? Miwa relays a report from JUDA, saying that they mean the Input-Output energy devices in the bot’s hands; from what they’ve seen, the bot is interacting with another dimension(s?) when attacking and defending. Sounds dangerous but Shiba is sure the LOTUS mechanics can handle servicing the thing. We won’t be hanging around here, mind, as LOTUS’ next destination will be the Dannar Base to join up with the locals and Nanbara Connection team. Une does tell Ichitaka to focus on improving himself instead of stressing over working with his idols. He does promise to do so, but, inwardly, is already giddy over the thought of meeting the Godannar and Combattler crew… he’s gonna have to work on that. But not right now, as Build Base’s crew detects something: Mimetic Beasts, headed towards the Naruto Straits! Well, that’s a job for us so Une tells everyone to gear up and get ready to move. Seems like Ichitaka’s training session got replaced with some live combat. Is Alice ready to go? Yup, no problems at all, as she’s already finished processing data from the previous battle. Elsewhere…   : (…Where are you, my partner…?): (The one who’ll synchronize and fight beside me… I know she’s somewhere in the blue planet…): (Nagisa… Kanou. My partner… I need you...)
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