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Dolash posted:You guys are getting chewed up. At this rate you'll win but you'll come out smoking, for sure. I don't even know if there's much you can do about it, it's just a weapon war - you're blasting each other whenever you can, I'm missing it if there's anything deeper going on. They can focus fire...  Maybe I'm just jaded from reading this whole thread from page one up to this point, but goons seem to have some aversion to focusing fire.
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Dolash posted:You guys are getting chewed up. At this rate you'll win but you'll come out smoking, for sure. I don't even know if there's much you can do about it, it's just a weapon war - you're blasting each other whenever you can, I'm missing it if there's anything deeper going on. The gauss rifle is down and we've got at least one turn, maybe two, until the other Gauss (number 3) comes into play
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Should the Bombardier have taken a penalty to one of its shots for splitting fire? Or does it not because it's indirect fire or something?
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^^^ No, since it was only shooting at the Awesome.Guitar_Hero posted:The gauss rifle is down and we've got at least one turn, maybe two, until the other Gauss (number 3) comes into play Number 3's been scoring pretty reliably at long range.
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^^^You have it listed as #4 shooting and not #3, which probably led to the confusion. While it looks like the Goons are getting trashed, overall this battle is progressing quite nicely. Both the Mongoose and Hermes lost half their firepower this turn, and the 60G is dead. Meanwhile the rest of the enemies are staying far away from optimal range. You guys are taking way more damage than you should be, but as long as it is the Awesome getting shot it is ok. Just mop-up the scrubs and remove the remaining enemies one by one. KnoxZone fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Nov 25, 2011 |
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Malachite_Dragon posted:They can focus fire... Why, it is almost like they are behaving like the Clanners some of them dislike so much, quiaff?  
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What does 'PPC hit' mean? I'm not seeing any mention of damage to it in the mech list; Its range doesn't seem to be affected, either. Does it take several hits to experience negative effects for certain weapons?
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Gimmick Account posted:What does 'PPC hit' mean? I'm not seeing any mention of damage to it in the mech list; Its range doesn't seem to be affected, either. Any critical hit knocks out a weapon. It's just that the awesome has three of them, so now it has two to fire next round.
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ShadowDragon8685 posted:Any critical hit knocks out a weapon. It's just that the awesome has three of them, so now it has two to fire next round. Oooh, okay. I was confused by the mech list, which still showed it as having three PPCs. All cleared up, then!
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Allright lancemates tell me who you want me to target this next round since my orders are pretty easy.
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PoptartsNinja posted:Critical Damage: Right Upper Arm Actuator Destroyed! What does this actually mean in practical terms? Reduced chance to hit with punches or weapons on that arm? (not that I have any weapons on it but anyway).
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When the Awesome went down and the lights started kicking, I could only think of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnTR-cG5W1I
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Perestroika posted:When the Awesome went down and the lights started kicking, I could only think of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnTR-cG5W1I Now I want the light mechs to win.
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ActionZero posted:What does this actually mean in practical terms? Reduced chance to hit with punches or weapons on that arm? (not that I have any weapons on it but anyway). Exactly. You will also do reduced damage with punches from that arm.
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All right, moving towards the left side of the map should keep us out of trouble from the other GR while we mop up the rest of these lights. The combination of buildings and woods should make it pretty hard to draw a bead.
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Until you can use the modifiers in your favor, I recommend not using 'break in the weather' until you guys can move reliably to get high modifiers to your to hit and limit theirs (i.e.: running full tilt while they just scooted at the beginning of the turn). DI is right - use the buildings and woods to limit the artillery's success for the next few turns and, in my opinion, lure them into the kill zone behind the warehouse. Oh, also...don't bunch up..
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I'd say this is the turn to finish off those lights, and I agree, get behind that warehouse for cover. At the very least you buy a couple turns of breathing room and put an end to the indirect fire, the 8 Urbie, which doesn't seem to have a gauss, can be disposed of at leisure as it tries to run up the pavement toward you, and your own advance will be shielded for the most part.
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ActionZero posted:What does this actually mean in practical terms? Reduced chance to hit with punches or weapons on that arm? (not that I have any weapons on it but anyway). normally if you lose one arm actuator you get a +2 to hit if you lose 2 actuators that goes up to +4 for all weapons in that arm. Also losing a hand acutator means you get a +1 to hit when punching.
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Sorry for yet another rules question (and I don't know why I didn't notice this before) but are you using a house rule to add a unit's movement to its target number for a piloting skill roll?
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KnoxZone posted:^^^You have it listed as #4 shooting and not #3, which probably led to the confusion. Whoops, fixed. Carbolic posted:Sorry for yet another rules question (and I don't know why I didn't notice this before) but are you using a house rule to add a unit's movement to its target number for a piloting skill roll? That's not a house rule. The further a `Mech moves, the higher its piloting test (which is why I don't like penalizing lights in any way on piloting tests, since they're going to be falling down anyway if they take 20+ damage in a turn. Except the Urbanmech). Arm actuators aren't bad. Shoulder actuators are. Fortunately, the Ostroc's arms are pretty vestigial. quote:Hi [PoptartsNinja] YES!
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PoptartsNinja posted:YES! This is loving awesome.
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I assume that's good news, but who or what is BattleCorps, and what's being sold?
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That is very good news PTN.
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SynthOrange posted:I assume that's good news, but who or what is BattleCorps, and what's being sold? I wrote a short Battletech story for them, for publishing.
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That's AWESOME!
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sweet battlecorps is the only canon fiction source now since the novels have been stopped. Hopefully you can link us when it goes through!
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Congratulations PTN. Can you give us a sneak peak? 
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Congrats PTN!
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PoptartsNinja posted:I wrote a short Battletech story for them, for publishing. Man, do I ever feel proud that I am the one who mentioned in this thread to you that they were actively looking for submissions. Welcome and good job- they do not just take every submission that bats its eyes seductively at their inboxes! Mukaikubo fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Nov 26, 2011 |
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Best of luck with the story! It'd be awesome if you actually got something out of the thread like that.
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Fingers crossed for you, PTN!
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PoptartsNinja posted:That's not a house rule. The further a `Mech moves, the higher its piloting test (which is why I don't like penalizing lights in any way on piloting tests, since they're going to be falling down anyway if they take 20+ damage in a turn. Except the Urbanmech). Is this new in Total Warfare? The BMR:R table for PSRs only has your own movement under the headings "Skidding Movement" and "Building Movement," not as a general modifier. Congrats on the Battlecorps good news!
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PoptartsNinja posted:I wrote a short Battletech story for them, for publishing. Keep up the good work, PTN! (Also, let us see the story...) 
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PoptartsNinja posted:Hi [PoptartsNinja] I like pretending GLaDOS is the one sending this message to PTN. Congrats on this, you're one more step to being too good for us.
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This is outstanding news, PTN. It couldn't happen to a nicer guy. If you haven't already you should send them a link to this thread to show them you can shake things up story wise and don't need to rely on paint by numbers plotting.
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Congrats on making it this far in the submission process, PTN. I hope they accept it.
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Congrats man!
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Trast posted:This is outstanding news, PTN. It couldn't happen to a nicer guy. If you haven't already you should send them a link to this thread to show them you can shake things up story wise and don't need to rely on paint by numbers plotting. Maybe do the same thing the Matul Remit guy did and give them a link that only shows your own posts and cuts out all the chatter inbetween. That's probably easier to get into than an almost 500 page-strong thread.
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PoptartsNinja posted:YES! Alright, PTN! That's awesome!
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Congratulations on the good news! I'll be sure to look out for your submission when it gets published.PoptartsNinja posted:O Orion
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