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PoptartsNinja posted:I always count new arrivals as having entered the map at a full run. A to hit is a 12 then. 4 base + 4 range + 1 player walked + 1 darkness penalty + 2 enemy moved 6 hexes. But you have 14 turns of ammo to expend, and most battles are done in 10 or less. Basically are you going to gamble? He will hit you on 10s thanks to his superior gunmanship, of course the insult to his pride if you hit him will be huge. Also viva if you walk to 0817 the lightray ace will at least have to MOVE if he wants to shoot you in the rear end... it is a small favor at least? ((I forget due to rust but no skidding on walk movement which that should be right?)) AtomikKrab fucked around with this message at 03:27 on Jul 6, 2015 |
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AtomikKrab posted:Basically are you going to gamble? He will hit you on 10s thanks to his superior gunmanship, of course the insult to his pride if you hit him will be huge. dude's a Capellan. He doesn't have pride, he has fear of getting murdered by his superiors. Plus I don't intend to gamble that much on PTN's dice, thankyouverymuch.
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Jul 6, 2015 03:31
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:dude's a Capellan. He doesn't have pride, he has fear of getting murdered by his superiors. the gamble is 0-15? damage to you and 0-30 damage to him. (ams is going to shred that lrm if he fires it.)
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Jul 6, 2015 03:33
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More importantly your damage is in the form of potential headcaps, his isn't.
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Jul 6, 2015 04:34
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If you guys can prove the Bloodhound killed that car could Comstar start attacking them?
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Jul 6, 2015 04:45
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Good things something something Vengeance Counter. Also, it should be very obvious which car Carlos is in
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Jul 6, 2015 05:00
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PoptartsNinja posted:Also, it should be very obvious which car Carlos is in The black one in 1029 is parked by the HPG station; all the others are running away.
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Jul 6, 2015 05:17
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I hope we see more of that Sha Yu pilot, his mental state is mostly calm throughout (and suspicious).
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PoptartsNinja posted:Good things something something Vengeance Counter. Perhaps if the Veng counter gets high enough the Caps will do something stupid. How can we piss them off?
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Jul 6, 2015 06:15
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Put yourself between Capellans and Comstar assets and watch the fireworks.
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Kial posted:Perhaps if the Veng counter gets high enough the Caps will do something stupid. How can we piss them off? So far the counter has gone up A) when the Flea got headcapped, and B) when the Bloodhound dropped. ...it's not a counter for how badly we want Vengeance, it's a counter for how badly the Capellans do. I suspect that the more Cappies we hurt and/or freak out, the more the others will be tempted to do Something Dumb (tm) in anger. Also: berryjon posted:The black one in 1029 is parked by the HPG station; all the others are running away. That was my thought as well, but I sort of hope that isn't the case since that's the car directly in front of the Sha Yu, and that guy isn't so panicked that he doesn't stand the chance to say 'hmm, something is up here' and shoot said car. ....maybe someone should shoot the Sha Yu and give him something else to think about.
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Kial posted:If you guys can prove the Bloodhound killed that car could Comstar start attacking them? I doubt it, if they cast enough doubt that'd just mean Comstar would want to conduct an investigation once the immediate battle is over, and the Capellans can probably pin it on the pilot acting on his own like an idiot (which he probably was). I doubt local Comstar forces would want to come in on the side of the guerillas hiding in the woods unless they really had to, like the Capellans launching a sustained attack against them. A few accidental misses gouging their facility will get an angry letter sent to their commander and some chilly reception the next time they want to use the space phone, but those couple of Comstar mechs probably aren't enough to take on the entire Capellan occupation army if they go starting an actual fight.
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Jul 6, 2015 09:18
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Cappellans will do something stupid like turn buildings to dust and generally make a mess. Maybe even using the comstar building as cover will piss them off. Also if they find out that Carlos is sending a message then they might actually engage the complex. Then we get the comstar mechs on our side. So maybe keep far enough away to not brawl with their heavies but close enough to be able to support comstar if that eventually happens? Were two mechs found in buildings?
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Jul 6, 2015 09:31
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There's the little Dart we were ostensibly here to salvage, then there's the Grand Titan belonging to :???: in the covered garage.
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Is the grand Titan a capcon or comstar design. If it's comstar leave it alone if it's capcon blow it up.
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Jul 6, 2015 15:43
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From what lore I can find about it, it's actually a FWL design 
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Jul 6, 2015 15:43
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Open up that building. Let's get Carlos Marik a ride home.
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Jul 6, 2015 15:44
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It's not the most clear where that Lightray is going, but moving away from the precentor's family's dome and never shooting that direction is probably a good idea.
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Jul 6, 2015 15:47
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Gwaihir posted:From what lore I can find about it, it's actually a FWL design The Grand Titan is a revamp of an old SLDF machine. In the canon timeline the FWL had access to the design through... wait for it... Word of Blake! That thing's gotta be ComStar.
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Jul 6, 2015 17:19
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Three of the four new arrivals have jump jets. Watch out, they're more maneuverable than they might appear.
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Jul 6, 2015 17:35
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I'd guess the Precentor has a ride. Steer well clear.
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AJ_Impy posted:I'd guess the Precentor has a ride. Steer well clear. This was my fault, and remember that higher ranking people generally do kick a good amount of rear end in battletech, so he is quite possibly a 2/2 pilot... in a sldf assault mech.
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Scintilla posted:Three of the four new arrivals have jump jets. Watch out, they're more maneuverable than they might appear. Most of them are also 5/8, so they're pretty maneuverable to begin with.
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Not really relevant to Battletech, but there's gonna be an IRL giant robot fight sometime in the next year, although the details of where and when haven't been worked out yet. American company MegaBots Inc challenged Japanese company Suidobashi Heavy Industries to a giant robot fight via YouTube video a week ago, and Sudobashi just accepted yesterday. I can't wait for more info. I saw the Megabots robot in person last year at New York Comic Con, but it wasn't in action, just standing around for people to gawk at, since you can't really have a demo of it in the middle of the Javits Center with all those people around. Can't wait to see it in actual action! GhostStalker fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Jul 6, 2015 |
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Jul 6, 2015 20:22
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Robot-fighting as spectator sport sounds pretty exciting because it gets around a lot of the "giant robots wouldn't actually be very useful in war" problems by going straight for being cool and fun. Still, I suspect if these two actually square off they'll either prove embarrassingly incapable of actually fighting or else one of them will have a technical glitch or immediately flounder on impact and end the "fight" in ten seconds.
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One will push the other over / both will fall down and not be able to get back up again. Which is kind of the same as Battletech sometimes.
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Jul 6, 2015 20:52
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It's absolutely battletech. Which is why the quad's manufacturers challenged the biped robot to a shove fight.
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Wait no I'm thinking of something else, Megabot has treads doesn't it.
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I love Capy heavies.
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T.G. Xarbala posted:Wait no I'm thinking of something else, Megabot has treads doesn't it. Yeah, it does.
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Now I'm disappointed it's not a Guntank. Or that Battletech has rules for dopey tankbots that aren't also quads.
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T.G. Xarbala posted:Now I'm disappointed it's not a Guntank. Guntank requires a competent pilot or else it's a total piece of garbage though. Are we sure we can rely on a robot pilot to match that level of skill?
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Sair posted:I love Capy heavies. No lie, I adore the Jinggau. Of all the `Mechs from its particular era, it's my favorite.
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It's a gimmick fight, and i would be shocked if it wasn't choreographed. Wake me up when we get autonomous robots fighting.
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Defiance Industries posted:The Grand Titan is a revamp of an old SLDF machine. In the canon timeline the FWL had access to the design through... wait for it... Word of Blake! That thing's gotta be ComStar. Also, in the canon timeline, the Wyvern-9N is a Comstar refit done specially for the battle of Tukayyid. Either that means something here, or it simply has a different provenance in the PTN-verse... 
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So, options for my turn: The bloodhound is knocked out for good(?) I can either guaranteed leg it this turn, or run up behind the Wyvern and unload in to it's back/give a kick to help the War Dog make sure it can't rejoin it's fellows. I'm not confident that the War Dog alone can guarantee it goes down (Although a single gauss hit to CTR or the LL would do it). The Sha Yu is 100% out of the picture for us, no one can get to it and it's untouched anyhow. I figure we get one turn of faffing about down here to clean up what we can before booking to back north to stay ahead and out of LoS of the reinforcement lance.
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Gwaihir posted:So, options for my turn: The bloodhound is knocked out for good(?) I can either guaranteed leg it this turn, or run up behind the Wyvern and unload in to it's back/give a kick to help the War Dog make sure it can't rejoin it's fellows. I'm not confident that the War Dog alone can guarantee it goes down (Although a single gauss hit to CTR or the LL would do it). He has two pilot hits and will wake up on a 5 or better, right now helpless, FINISH HIM
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Only reason I have him as a ??? is the vengeance counter went up and I didn't see a consciousness check roll at the start of the next turn.
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He's crippled enough that I called him out. Only an idiot would stand back up here.
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Oh, nice. Definitely going to help knock down the Wyvern then. I can easily do that and then get out of LoS from any of the reinforcements the following turn.
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