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A MVP: Copperhead for the sac play, beyond that I don't know. Tell me that one of the mechs they dragged away was the mostly together quad LPL warhawk. Someone needs to slap a leg on and then drive that monster. I'm not sure what else is worth dragging away beyond that. Olothreutes fucked around with this message at 02:52 on Sep 8, 2016 |
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This entire mini-campaign has been my favorite in a thread full of great campaigns. This was awesome and I'm really glad we voted for the Mr. Johnson.
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Olothreutes posted:A Uhhh the Warhawk has no legs haha. Some of the lesser damaged machines: Wolf Spider Eta, missing a cockpit. Crossbow Alpha, missing a cockpit. Naga Redeemer, missing a cockpit (I think we have a theme going here...) Stormbreaker Storm Surge, destroyed Gyro Most everything else is missing several limbs or got straight up cored out. e: Wow all the clan mechs were seriously mauled in this one really. The least damaged were the ones that had cockpits blown away, followed by the ones that lost engines. Everything else had a ton of sections blown off or multiple crits to everything. Gwaihir fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Sep 8, 2016 |
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Sep 8, 2016 02:53
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A Letting in people who have gone 'gently caress Honor' is the
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Gwaihir posted:Uhhh the Warhawk has no legs haha. Yeah I somehow thought the cockpit was the issue with the warhawk, but it's only down one leg. The other just got flooded I think. I still think it's worth drying it out and slapping a new leg on there. It's probably easier to fix the leg than it is to fix a missing clan gyro, engine, or cockpit. It's too bad the dire wolf got so insanely destroyed, that would have been a fun one to walk away with. Crossbow alpha doesn't seem terribly amazing to me, but I could be wrong. The wolf spider could be neat. The naga is pretty specialized and might be interesting but I imagine it would have ammunition supply issues until the end of time. The stormbreaker looks pretty neat. Warhawk, stormbreaker? That would be some sweet haul right there. Olothreutes fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Sep 8, 2016 |
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Think of it another way, if we let in defectors, then how many other 2nd line "shield" units will consider doing the same, since they know that there's at least a chance NRWR/the IS won't rebuff them? And then the Clanners will only be left with their so-called sword to defend themselves with.
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Sep 8, 2016 03:14
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The Awesome actually shot both legs off haha. One via plain damage, the other via crit->Limb blown off. (The Awesome is great). The Stormbreaker would be amazing, because dual HLLs, 6/9, good armor, and heatsinks to fire them. Although the TAGs are somewhat wasted if not deployed with fire support. Wolf Spider would be cool too, although the gunnery penalty on HLLs means that they might be sorta hard to use since our pilots aren't totally up to the skills of the guys that were piloting those machines.
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Sep 8, 2016 03:16
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A I gotta see how this plays out, even if it is a trick.
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Sep 8, 2016 03:21
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player MVPs: Wild Weasel, Mountain Lion opforce MVP: Swordbreaker Upsilon, for killing my dumb rear end when I decided to walk. Political vote: A This is totally risky in my opinion, but I want to see it go horribly wrong just as much as I want it to go perfectly right.  Thanks for an awesome game, PTN!
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Gwaihir posted:The Awesome actually shot both legs off haha. One via plain damage, the other via crit->Limb blown off. That's too bad, I still want them to manage to drag the warhawk away. Legs are an easy repair I would think.
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Olothreutes posted:That's too bad, I still want them to manage to drag the warhawk away. Legs are an easy repair I would think. You would be wrong. Between the stabilizers, making sure the ankles have the proper range of motion, and finding actuators that fit legs are probably second only to hands in complexity.
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Sep 8, 2016 03:33
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That was a great mission, and lots of fun! Thanks PTN, fellow players and thread.  Demon Hawks MVP: Copperhead/Bethany Cochraine for doing the right tactical and team spirit thing and saving the Bobcat. OpFor MvP: Warhawk Riptide for dominating the northeast before, during and after the death of its two buddies in the center north. Btw., Delwyn kept his Captain rank after he got his promotion last mission, right? Just checking. RA Rx fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Sep 8, 2016 |
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PoptartsNinja posted:You would be wrong. And this is why I'm not a mech tech 
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Sep 8, 2016 03:46
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Player MVPs: Screamer for headshot madness and Copperhead for the sacrifice play OpFor MVP: Warhawk for requiring a lot of us to take down Voting A and hoping it doesn't backfire
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Tarezax posted:Political vote: A Voting this for political. Player MVPs: Wild Weasel and Copperhead OpFor MVPs: Warhawk Riptide Honorable Mention: Naga I wish I could have suggested something that I did that was notable, but I don't think soaking some damage and puttering about south of where I started is notable. The smoke was a pain in the rear end, though most of the stuff I had to deal with was from the Naga instead of our WW. Dice not really cooperating didn't help at all, but that's what dice do. All in all, really fun. I await my next turn in what, 5 years? 
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A, because even if it is a trap, the fact that some Clanners had to do that to take out the Dadlas and Duncan means the victory will be worth less than nothing.
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Gwaihir posted:Uhhh the Warhawk has no legs haha. Dunno if we'll have a choice on this or not, but I think picking up a Swordbreaker/Stormcrow and a Wolf Spider/Timberish Wolf would be a pretty nice haul. A lot of badass standoff lasers on those mechs Although if that Warhawk does end up being salvageable, though ...
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berryjon posted:A, because even if it is a trap, the fact that some Clanners had to do that to take out the Dadlas and Duncan means the victory will be worth less than nothing. I'm not even sure they'll succeed if they try.
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Sep 8, 2016 04:08
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A. I wanna see where this trap goes. Also MVPs: Copperhead, Wild Weasel. Opfor: Naga, because lol Naga Also because I know the Warhawk will win so I'll just throw that vote away for the heck of it
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A If the Demon Hawks can manage to score a big win with the "trash" pilots, Duncan and Jason will have so utterly humiliated their society that the second wave of Clan Crusaders might have to destroy the Sea Fox and Raven clans just so they can go back to pretending they're superior. Anyway, now that the end is official and everything, I'd like to thank everyone
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Olothreutes posted:Yeah I somehow thought the cockpit was the issue with the warhawk, but it's only down one leg. The other just got flooded I think. I still think it's worth drying it out and slapping a new leg on there. It's probably easier to fix the leg than it is to fix a missing clan gyro, engine, or cockpit. Replacing an entire limb is very time consuming and also difficult. Simply repairing actuators isn't too difficult (unless they're shoulder or hip actuators, in which case it's time to throw away the whole thing and replace it entirely!), by comparison. Fixing an engine is comparitively quite easy, replacing a cockpit's a bit challenging but more time consuming than anything else, same for gyros. At least, going by the RAW repair rules in Stratops. Having been doing an against the bot campaign, I can tell you I would much rather repair, or even replace a gyro than have to replace 2 legs. Voting A. Hopefully the rest of the clans see this start happening and the leadership either sees the light or is replaced by people who do. Then we can get Clanners who approach warfare like Sphereoids, only with superior clan technology. Because the clans no longer being honor bound makes things a lot, lot harder on anyone who ends up facing them. Shoeless fucked around with this message at 04:26 on Sep 8, 2016 |
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Voting A ... because B would be boring.
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Ice Fist posted:... because B would be boring. I don't know about that. But there is a pretty interesting branch here.
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Player MVP: Wild Weasel, Copperhead These players made choices that benefited the team OpFor: Warhawk Political: A Because the one basic truth of the clans is that as soon as the free births realize the true borns are nothing but BS, they are done for.
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Night10194 posted:This entire mini-campaign has been my favorite in a thread full of great campaigns. This was awesome and I'm really glad we voted for the Mr. Johnson. I voted for the Kalma-Youngblood Mercenary Company (name to be decided) a couple of times before but refuse to be disappointed they initially lost to other scenarios because this one was absolutely amazing.
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Voting A. If there's any Clanner that's going to be on the level with something like this, it's a freebirth. Also because they used the term 'trashborn'. As for MVPs, I nominate the Wild Weasel for providing crucial cover with its smoke spam. Things could have been a lot messier if the Clanners had been allowed clearer shots. For the OpFor, I'm gojng with the Varangian for going down in a blaze of glory after simply refusing to die for so long. Just about everything a Dire Wolf could aspire to, really.
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voting A because I just know this will be a trainwreck one way or another
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Whoops, missed the second MVP. Nominating the Dadlas as well, for doing what it does best: humiliating Clanners.
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Politcal Vote: A Echoing the reasons already stated. This seems more interesting even if they end up being a knife to stab in the back. Interesting note: Uncle Stevie's deception is still holding (since the Star Commander called him President.) MVPs: Copperhead for the sac play. Takes some grit to do that especially here. The Hunchbacks (coinflip says I'm technically nominating #1 for this but both did pretty well) for overall solid and consistent play. Honorable mention: The Nergal for SURPRISE VOLTRON out of nowhere. OPFOR MVP: Varangian Undertow for being really big and scary and big. OPFOR Honorable mention: The Naga for LRM shenanigans 
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Political Vote: voting A so hard, if you have genuine defectors from the Clans, even just Freeborns, it would be dumb not to take advantage of it. MVP Votes: so many good plays, I can't rightly remember what went down over the course of the mission. Pretty sure voting for the Nergaal is redundant, it'll pick up ally MVP easily enough, and we all know it did enough. Gonna go with the Copperhead and the Awesome for the Demon Hawks. OpFor MVP goes to the Warhawk.
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Politcal Vote: A. Let's see if they really are "In No Mood For Any More Trueborn Bullshit." Player MVPs: For obvious reasons, I can't not vote for the Copperhead saving my rear end. And secondly, the Wild Weasel for the smoke cover, which among other things kept the Blood Asp from becoming relevant until the last few turns. And even then, the smoke allowed us to engage it on our terms. OPFOR MVP: Varangian Undertow for being the looming threat during the early- to midgame. Loa Vecre fucked around with this message at 05:15 on Sep 8, 2016 |
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Vote: A MVP: Copperheads sacrifice and Wild Weasel's smoke for reasons already mentioned OpForce: The Warhawk did a great job tying up a bunch of us for a few turns before going down What were our reinforcements supposed to be PTN? Really fun game and looking to sit patiently back in rotation. Now someone do up an Awesome with a tar comp and all those large pulse lasers...
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Political Vote: A Being Sea Foxes, they'll probably stab you in the back, but that just makes it more interesting. Player MVP: Wild Weasel & Copperhead OpFor MVP: Varangian Undertow Kill them all, God will sort his own MVP: Naga CISscum fucked around with this message at 05:22 on Sep 9, 2016 |
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Loa Vecre posted:Politcal Vote: A. Let's see if they really are "In No Mood For Any More Trueborn Bullshit." What worries me is, if they're looking to prove they're better than Trueborns (or that there is trueborn bullshit), they might be out to use non-Clan tactcis to murder us or Uncle Steive. "The five of us did what everyone else could not!" Then again, I am legendarily paranoid.
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Surprising myself by voting B. My reasoning: we've been told a big chunk of the Demon Hawks pilots are out on injured reserve for a month or two. We add five clan pilots in pristine mechs, suddenly Uncle Amaris is looking at the Demon Hawks as a viable fighting force again, for possible immediate deployment. And that means going out with something like half (or more than half?) of the Demon Hawks being recently-converted Clan pilots. Ones that have no love for each other, and including pilots captured and pressed into service nominally according to Clan rules - as pilots defeated in honorable battle and then claimed - along with pilots who have severely broken Clan rules in order to swear allegiance to a Mercenary company owner. I anticipate serious tension there. Throw in the rivalry between the originating Clans of these pilots, and the lack of an overwhelming majority of inner sphere pilots to intervene and keep the peace, and I think you've got the potential for disaster. I don't actually think this star of renegades is here to stab anyone in the back, intentionally, but this is a Star leader possibly dragging along others in his team that might not be as fully on board, they've not had any time to assimilate, they'll be piloting their own familiar mechs (so, potentially more confident in their ability to predict how well they'll perform in battle), and at some point they may get pissed off enough to decide a backstab - even a suicidal one - is the only acceptable way forward. There's another point to make here, which is that I'm confident PTN has something interesting in mind for both options. PoptartsNinja posted:I don't know about that. He doesn't dick us around with boring crap just because we voted one way vs. another. MVPs: Copperhead and Bobcat OpFor MVP: Naga
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Political: A. Player MVPs: Copperhead and Wild Weasel. OpFor MVP: Viper for surviving long enough to withdraw. OpFor Mark of Shame: Naga for being a cowardly team-killing rear end in a top hat.
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Political: A. I feel like this is going to be the start towards shattering the clan's bullshit politics. Even if it backfires horribly, It'd still make one hell of a crack in it. Player MVPs: Bobcat and screamer Though everyone did extremely well. W.T. Fits posted:OpFor MVP: Viper for surviving long enough to withdraw. Seconding these two for the OpFor.
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