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Bloody Pom posted:Stag and Dragoon for MVPs. The Stag soaked bad dice like a champ, and the Dragoon both dealt and received a huge amount of punishment and still extracted successfully. Basically this. As for the OpFor MVP I'm voting the Hawk Hunter for being an annoying ace. Ath turned up and scared everyone, but the Hawk Hunter did it for longer. If we're talking good mechs from a couple pages back then my picks would be: Light = spider - it's high speed, and 2 MLs are reasonable for bug mechs. Medium = the Phoenix Hawk 1D. The Vindicator and Enforcer (and Hunchback) are all mechs I like, but for sheer all around ability, the P-Hawk ends up winning on balance, for the tabletop. Wolverine, and Griffin are good too, while the shadowhawk is "it would be great if-". I also like the Bushwacker. Heavy - Thunderbolt 5SE - jumpy, with mixed bag of weapons. The Marauder 3D is also acceptable, and the Catapult C1 and Quickdraw are also both pretty reasonable choices. Assault - Awesome 8Q wins overall (siege mech), although the Marauder 2 is pretty good also. I wish the Atlas was more than just area denial in a city.
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Am I correct in assuming the Demon Hawks are earning more in a single day than most merc companies see in a year?
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Stag and Komodo for dice god sacrifice and saving the team from the one real "oh poo poo" moment when the infantry cut them off. Clan side jump on the Aerospace pilot bandwagon, though I think a secondary category of "most amusing" would include the David ripping both his legs off with MASC, it's the "back down the hill whoops dead" of the game  .
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"Let them have this minor victory—they have destroyed a few `Mechs and a few light aircraft, but the war will yet be ours.” I knew I was forgetting something! Damnit Ath, you lost eight planes, four of which were your only transports on site! Have fun repairing and re-arming your weapons without your only non-dropship source of supply.
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I'd like to echo everyone else and congratulate PTN for running such an exciting and entertaining scenario. While I think Jeronimo: Breakout slightly edges it out in terms of carnage and insanity, it was still a wild ride and hats off to everyone who took part in it. As for MVPs, I'm going to nominate the Dragoon and Salamander for the players and the first Wolverine IIC for the OpFor. The Dragoon surely needs no explanation, but I feel that the Salamander deserves recognition for sparing Gooncompany a lot of enemy fire via judicious use of smoke rounds. It wasn't particularly flashy, but tactically it really evened the playing field. The Wolverine IIC kept on trucking even when it was blown to hell and scored a headshot on the Screamer that could very easily have killed Jason if the dice had been crueler.
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Scintilla posted:I'd like to echo everyone else and congratulate PTN for running such an exciting and entertaining scenario. While I think Jeronimo: Breakout slightly edges it out in terms of carnage and insanity, it was still a wild ride and hats off to everyone who took part in it. That's a really good point, felt to me like the smoke was pivotal in putting shape round the battle for us too.
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thetruegentleman posted:"Let them have this minor victory—they have destroyed a few `Mechs and a few light aircraft, but the war will yet be ours.” They're Clanners. Logistics is for Merchant Caste cowards.
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Didn't we work out that the reason the aerospace pilot didn't come around for a second pass was that he crashed/exploded the moment he tried to perform any sort of manoeuvre?
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I'm going to go with the Stag and Salamander for MVP, for tactical smoke and tactical bad luck absorption.
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MVPs: Ardlen (Flashman) for coordination efforts and Axe-man (Komodo) for saving our collective butt. Also thanks to PTN for his infinite patience and planning, as well as everyone in-thread and IRC (esp. Ardlen) who was incredibly helpful whenever I had no idea what to do. (Which was pretty much every turn).
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Come on, guys, let's not give PTN a big head, he's only run a community BattleTech game for years while telling an engaging storyline that so fundamentally reboots BattleTech and fixes everything wrong with it while integrating all the different characters and storylines of the original that he both restores and refreshes the franchise.
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Given the Chameleon's disappointing skid at the Wolverine IIC, I am going to assume that the NRWR will respond by replacing it with a larger version of the Porcupine.
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Servicio en Espanol posted:Given the Chameleon's disappointing skid at the Wolverine IIC, I am going to assume that the NRWR will respond by replacing it with a larger version of the Porcupine. ahahaha I just realized the only kill the Clans managed was a training mech
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Keru posted:Player MVPs: Voting this as well
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Hang on a tic. Ath isn't really ranked. Why is HE the one to tell people to pull back?
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Artificer posted:Hang on a tic. Ath isn't really ranked. Why is HE the one to tell people to pull back? He's the guy who looks and sounds the most like he knows what he's doing and the Clanner unit seems to be in chaos after the savaging they got.
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There's a Star Captain nearby, but they just got boom-dogged to gently caress and so might need a moment to work out where half their torso went.
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Artificer posted:Hang on a tic. Ath isn't really ranked. Why is HE the one to tell people to pull back? My guess is he's probably just that terrifying to the other warriors.
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Ath is the pissed off guy in the Hellstar who just ran out of opposing targets to shoot. You want to countermand his orders? Feel free to challenge him to a Trial of Refusal. Right now. 
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Keru posted:Player MVPs: These are my MVP votes as well
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Artificer posted:Hang on a tic. Ath isn't really ranked. Why is HE the one to tell people to pull back? He's so murderous that other Clanners are legitimately afraid of him, and he's also obviously right.
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MVPs: Choosing the Grasshopper and Salamander , but really everyone is deserving of getting this.
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Leperflesh posted:For OpFor MVP, I vote for the guy in the aerospace jet that somehow managed to ready his plane, and then take off on a crowded runway, and then came back for a strafing run despite taking return fire... in a hurricane. OK, he had to bug out in the end, but that's ballsy and he saved a plane that might have otherwise gotten fragged. This.
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This entire raid lasted about 2 minutes and 30 seconds and lead to the destruction of 21 clan mechs, eight aircraft including the only four transports this base had, quite a bit of infantry and soon the crippling or destruction of a McKenna-class battleship. All that was lost in exchange was a trainer mech. Okay, and also a lot of severely damaged mechs.
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Those rounds being 10 seconds should probably be handwaved in story line purposed. Because why not.
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That was a hell of a ride. Jason is presumably now back at base stretching his sore muscles and rubbing his suspiciously seatbelt-shaped bruises. He can soothe himself by relaxing into a deep pool of C-bills. I've already sent my thanks to PTN in the last orders PM, so it remains to elect the MVPs - if I can do that as one of the players? For the opposition: Almost the Wolverine IIC for Just Not Dying, but it has to go to the Lucerne for making everyone on Goonlance constantly play around it. I really feel this deserves recognition since this one mech disrupted so many plans and caused many late nights in #megamek pouring over landing sites. Somewhere there's an alternate universe where the Screamer tried landing behind the Lucerne for a backshot, and if you press your ear to the monitor and listen very carefully, you can hear that universe's Loxbourne raging about "bullshit Ace pulseboats" even now. For the players,. the Salamander for the very timely smoke rounds that saved mechs left and right, and my buddy the Grasshopper for stepping forward for a rescue and taking significant risks in the process. No Demon Hawk left behind! EDIT: It is also now my personal threadcanon that, when the war is over, Jason will quietly pay for the erection of a dignified memorial to all the Good Doggies who laid down their lives heroically in defence of the planet. Loxbourne fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Jun 27, 2016 |
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I've been wondering how fast the money flowed in the Demon Hawks coffers for this mission. My lousy mental calculations indicate they earned their keep at about 1*10E9 Cbills per hour.
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Loxbourne posted:That was a hell of a ride. Jason is presumably now back at base stretching his sore muscles and rubbing his suspiciously seatbelt-shaped bruises. He can soothe himself by relaxing into a deep pool of C-bills. First thing I thought of - 
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Demon Hawk MVPs: - Stag, who absorbed all the misfortune so the Hawks didn't have to. - Salamander, who bought the Hawks precious time with smoke rounds. This was a three-way between the Dragoon for overall being a solid contributor, and the Grasshopper for retrieving Icepick and staying back to be the last to retreat, but I felt that without the smoke rounds the campaign could have ended worse for the company. OpFor Honorary MVPs: - Infantry, for sneaking around the Demon Hawks and blocking off the extraction point. They would have been more successful if they weren't spotted earlier, but I thought that they made the goons panic for a moment despite being Elemental rejects made them MVP material. - Honorary (  ) mention to the Aerospace pilot who dared to take off his plane while under fire and in a raging hurricane. He didn't contribute much to the actual fight, but he's got balls.
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Loxbourne posted:EDIT: It is also now my personal threadcanon that, when the war is over, Jason will quietly pay for the erection of a dignified memorial to all the Good Doggies who laid down their lives heroically in defence of the planet. Dammit, this needs to be canon.  Can we also automatically get Revenants as MvP?
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Artificer posted:Hang on a tic. Ath isn't really ranked. Why is HE the one to tell people to pull back? Well, Haze was probably supposed to be the one to do it, given that he had an update about being saved by cybernetics after getting burned half to death; then his mech got utterly wrecked, so he's either dead, or in no shape to give any kind of order. Even better, most of the enemy Star Commanders are either dead, out of commission, or not in a position to know what the hell is going on. In other words, Ath is one of the few Clanners left on the battlefield who's 1. Competent (he was outed by age, not inability), 2. Aware (he's been in the battle since turn 9, probably the longest of any intact mech), and 3. Calm (everyone else is either enraged or shell shocked at the biggest rear end-kicking since Hastilude, where the Clanners at least had an excuse for being wrecked). Besides, do you really want someone like Star Commander Joop giving the end speech?
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SIGSEGV posted:the only four transports this base had The only four transports on-map. The airfield's bigger than the playing map by far. Big enough to warrant a full cluster to defend it. Ath's not wrong though, since the local defenders pretty much just pulled a "Japanese CAP at Midway" move and threw everything they had at an obvious threat. Meanwhile 6/9 boomdoggies have had plenty of time to find hangars full of aircraft to go explode inside. Edit: I do love how even the vote's been so far. Pretty much everyone's gotten at least 1 vote for MVP (I'm surprised nobody's MVP'd the Chameleon for that sweet slide-tackle or the Champion for keeping me honest with consistent defense-focused sniping all match)
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Aww. Hopefully the good doggies will handle finishing to destroy whatever logistics capability the clan have left here. Also it's nice to know that the bombers got through, I just can't wait to see what happened to the McKenna.
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PoptartsNinja posted:Meanwhile 6/9 boomdoggies have had plenty of time to find hangars full of aircraft to go explode inside. Good Doggies. Best Doggies.
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PoptartsNinja posted:Meanwhile 6/9 boomdoggies have had plenty of time to find hangars full of aircraft to go explode inside. Ideally by going in and shooting up everything inside, waiting for damage control teams to show up, and then blowing up.
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PoptartsNinja posted:The only four transports on-map. The airfield's bigger than the playing map by far. Big enough to warrant a full cluster to defend it. Hmmmmm. That slide tackle was hella sweet/gnarly. Changing my Stag vote to one for the Chameleon.
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Just because he's subordinate, doesn't mean he's not allowed to speak. And the fact that no higher ups countermanded him means what he said rang true.
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PoptartsNinja posted:The only four transports on-map. The airfield's bigger than the playing map by far. Big enough to warrant a full cluster to defend it. Yea, just about everyone has had a great moment of some kind in this mission. The inadvertant slide tackle owned. Ardlen did a great job helping herd cats, I'm pretty sure the Champion made some clutch shots, the Phoenix Hawk played great fast rear end in a top hat light spoiler, etc. e: Man I went back and read through all the updates again and that Dragoon II's lasers were seriously headshot machines. I think it got at least 5 headshots with those suckers, although only the Lucerne ended up with a kill from them. Gwaihir fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Jun 27, 2016 |
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garland336 posted:Just because he's subordinate, doesn't mean he's not allowed to speak. And the fact that no higher ups countermanded him means what he said rang true. That no one countermanded him could also help his standing. Perhaps he'll go for a Trial of Position in the near future.Next mission with him might feature him as Star Captain.
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Loa Vecre posted:Players: For the Players:Stag and Screamer For the Clans: The Aero pilot
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Stag and Lancelot for player MVPs, Opfor MVP has got to be the 'Hey, where did those infantry bugger off to, anyway? Nowhere important, I'm sure'.
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