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berryjon posted:Weeeellll..... this is the thread that gave us the Flying Elbow Drop, so the possibility of dropkicking a fighter is definitely non-zero. If this swings back to Solaris sometime, a Charger vs Charger robo-wrestling match would be awesome.
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thiswayliesmadness posted:If this swings back to Solaris sometime, a Charger vs Charger robo-wrestling match would be awesome. Would mark the gently caress out. Vigorously.
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thiswayliesmadness posted:If this swings back to Solaris sometime, a Charger vs Charger robo-wrestling match would be awesome. Plus a captured Widowmaker pilot for the obligatory Owen Hart entrance, like the officer in this mission.
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PoptartsNinja posted:I feel that may be preferable to its current status of "completely useless." Range brackets are still a thing so a light autocannon would only be decent on a fast ambusher but it would actually have a use, unlike now. But you are a GM and have an audience who is probably willing to experiment along with you for a match or two. At least, I'd be down for seeing revised weapons. There's already been good variety and useful changes and I'm sure you could work out more.
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AC special rule: any double roll is a through-armour crit.
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Congratulations on six years of giant stompy robot action, Poptarts! Looking forward to another year of carnage, mayhem and political intrigue in the Inner Sphere!
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There's something fitting about the thread's birthday present being a lone, terrified widowmaker pissing themselves as an entire unit closes in on 'em.
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Night10194 posted:There's something fitting about the thread's birthday present being a lone, terrified widowmaker pissing themselves as an entire unit closes in on 'em. Year 7 begins as it means to go on.
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Orders in. Here's hoping the ice doesn't break 
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EponymousMrYar posted:Orders in. Why would you assume this
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EponymousMrYar posted:Orders in. Farewell, Nova Commander Makena. You will be remembered.
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W.T. Fits posted:Congratulations on six years of giant stompy robot action, Poptarts! Looking forward to another year of carnage, mayhem and political intrigue in the Inner Sphere! Suddenly I don't feel so bad that I don't remember all the missions
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EponymousMrYar posted:Orders in. The dice smile on you, Mr Yar. They appreciate your trust..
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mercenarynuker posted:Suddenly I don't feel so bad that I don't remember all the missions Same Edit: Lots of disrespectful 'hail Mary' shots this turn. I approve the disrespect, but shooting on 13s doesn't really help you win. Double Edit: Don't think we've ever seen anyone take a shot on an 18 to-hit before. PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Jan 22, 2017 |
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They're just doing the Clan equivalent of a gun salute for their insurgent buddy, as well as humiliating the last one standing in the process. Win-win! 
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Ikuta Glacier: Tactical Update 11 Point Commander Zandra’s machineguns chattered away, chewing apart more of the crippled Crimson Langur’s foamed-titanium skeleton. The pilot, either too busy assembling his survival gear or too stunned by the sudden loss of his `Mech’s leg, had never gotten around to turning off his IFF and signaling a surrender. That was hardly unusual, and had the pilot been from any other Clan Zandra likely would have given them the benefit of the doubt. But this was a Widowmaker, and the only doubt in Zandra’s mind was whether or not the enemy pilot’s DI computer was properly updating the `Mech’s damage diagram. Zandra brought her arm up and shattered a few dozen rounds against the back of the Crimson Langur’s head. That was something the pilot couldn’t ignore, the machine rocked as he tried to work one of his arms enough to sit it upright, only to snap one off at the bicep. Point Member Caleha laughed viciously—she’d been worrying that arm for a good thirty seconds and was overjoyed to see her efforts rewarded. Zandra could punish her later, if necessary—some of the damage the point was doing would likely be considered wastefully excessive—but as yet they hadn’t been ordered to stop. In theory that meant they had the Nova Commander’s tacit approval. Zandra always felt something of a visceral thrill when she was thoroughly dismantling the ride of a high-and-mighty Mechwarrior—the Nova Commander wasn’t so bad but most were so disgustingly arrogant she’d have rather endured listening to three hours of brazen aeropilot lies than spend ten minutes with an average `Mech Jock.   Movement Phase Stormcrow (Player) - Stands carefully (4 base + 4 ice - 2 careful stand = 6): rolled 7, succeeds! - Moved on ice hex 1022: rolled 5, the ice cracks but does not break! Executioner G (Player) - Must roll a 3+ to activate MASC: rolls 10, succeeds! Huntsman G (Player) - Insufficient MP to reach hex 0518: needs 6, has 5! Shooting Phase Executioner G (player) - Fires iHeavy Large Laser at Black Lanner (2 base + 2 range + 2 movement + 4 enemy movement = 10): rolled 11, hit Left Torso (0/16 armor remaining)! - Fires iHeavy Large Laser at Black Lanner (2 base + 2 range + 2 movement + 4 enemy movement = 10): rolled 3, miss! - Fires Gauss Rifle at Black Lanner (2 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 4 enemy movement = 8): rolled 3, miss! - Gains 39 heat, sinks 37! Grand Dragon “Yuki-Onna” (Player) - Holds fire! - Gains 2 heat, sinks 28! Crossbow G (player) - Fires ATM-12 (ER) at Black Lanner (3 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 4 enemy movement + 1 light woods = 11): rolled 5, miss! - Fires ATM-12 (ER) at Black Lanner (3 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 4 enemy movement + 1 light woods = 11): rolled 6, miss! - Fires Medium Pulse Laser at Black Lanner (3 base + 4 range + 1 movement + 4 enemy movement + 1 light woods - 2 pulse laser = 11): rolled 8, miss! - Fires Medium Pulse Laser at Black Lanner (3 base + 4 range + 1 movement + 4 enemy movement + 1 light woods - 2 pulse laser = 11): rolled 10, miss! - Gains 21 heat, sinks 27! Stormcrow Prime (player) - Holds fire! - Gains 2 heat, sinks 47! Ironhold Battle Armor 5 (player) - Holds fire! Pouncer Prime (player) - Activates Targeting Computer - Fires ER PPC at Mad Dog D (3 base + 4 range + 3 movement + 4 enemy movement + 1 heat + 3 Targeting Computer Aimed Shot = 18): automatic miss! - Gains 20 heat, sinks 27! Elementals 3 - Holds fire! Nova G (player) - Fires iHeavy Large Laser at Black Lanner (3 base + 2 range + 3 movement + 4 enemy movement + 1 light woods = 13): automatic miss! - Gains 29 heat, sinks 37! Wraiths 1 - Holds fire! Timber Wolf G (player) - Torso-twists to threaten hex 1129! - Fires ER Large Laser at Black Lanner (3 base + 4 range + 0 movement + 4 enemy movement + 2 light woods = 13): automatic miss! - Fires ER Large Laser at Black Lanner (3 base + 4 range + 0 movement + 4 enemy movement + 2 light woods = 13): automatic miss! - Gains 24 heat, sinks 33! Elemental 4 - Holds fire! Huntsman G (player) - No Line of Sight to primary target! - Gains 4 heat, sinks 39! Wraith 2 - Fires Machine Gun at Crimson Langur (3 base + 0 range - 4 enemy movement = -1): 3 troopers automatically hit Rear Center Torso (7/16 structure remaining (Crit!)), Head (7/9 armor remaining (Pilot hit!)), Left Arm (1/8 structure remaining (Crit!))! - Fires Machine Gun at Crimson Langur (3 base + 0 range - 4 enemy movement = -1): 4 troopers automatically hit Left Arm (0/8 structure remaining (Arm blown off! Damage transfers to Rear Left Torso (3/12 structure remaining (Crit!))), Left Leg (18/24 armor remaining), Rear Center Torso (5/16 structure remaining (Crit!)), Rear Center Torso (3/16 structure remaining (Crit!))! Hellbringer Prime (field refit) - Holds fire! - Gains 2 heat, sinks 31! Black Lanner B - Torso-twists to threaten hex 0612! - Fires LRM-20 at Executioner G (3 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 2 enemy movement = 7): rolled 9, 16 missiles hit Left Arm (19/31 armor remaining), Right Arm (15/31 armor remaining), Left Arm (14/31 armor remaining), Right Torso (27/30 armor remaining)! - Fires LRM-20 at Executioner G (3 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 2 enemy movement = 7): rolled 7, 20 missiles hit Right Arm (10/31 armor remaining), Center Torso (23/47 armor remaining), Center Torso (18/47 armor remaining), Left Leg (34/39 armor remaining)! - Gains 14 heat, sinks 20! End Phase: Crimson Langur - Must pass a 3+ consciousness test: rolled 7, succeeds! - Critical chance in Rear Center Torso: rolled 10, 2 critical hits sustained! - - Gyro hit! - - XL Engine hit! - Critical chance in Rear Left Torso: rolled 8, 1 critical hit sustained! - - Double Heat Sink hit! - Critical chance in Rear Center Torso: rolled 5, no critical hits sustained! - Critical chance in Rear Center Torso: rolled 2, no critical hits sustained! Executioner G - Must pass a piloting test or fall (3 base + 1 massive damage = 4): rolled 9, succeeds! Next Turn’s Movement Phase Black Lanner B - Activates MASC: must pass a 7+ test: rolled 9, succeeds!   Player Status:    Opposing Force Status:   Special Rules  Necrosia Stimulants Once per game, BattleMechs and Elementals may inject themselves with Necrosia stimulants granting them heightened reaction times for three turns. While Necrosia stimulants are active, Mechwarriors gain a -1 bonus to gunnery due to their heightened reaction times but suffer a +1 penalty to piloting tests due to minor visual hallucinations. Elementals in Ironhold Armor gain a -1 bonus to gunnery with no penalties. All other Elementals instead gain a -2 bonus to Anti-Mech attacks with no penalties. Icy Conditions Ice hexes are in play. At the bottom of the ravine, all ice hexes are treated as though they are elevation -6. It is possible to break through these ice hexes and fall into the liquid water below. If a `Mech does not extract itself from the water in two turns it will be frozen in place and immobilized (or destroyed if completely submerged). -60 C All `Mechs cool 3 additional points each turnHouse Rule Heavy Vibro Claws deal +1 damage per claw per elemental on leg and swarm attacks rather than the standard ruling. Primary Objectives - Achieve 100% humiliation or more (Complete!) Secondary Objectives - Push or charge a Widowmaker unit into the ravine (+10%/10%) - Kill Star Colonel Jolán Vickers (+10%/10%) - Leave one crippled enemy alive (+0%/5%) (+5% if that unit is an enemy officer) - Completely destroy a crippled enemy (+0%/10%) - Defeat 3 `Mechs with Elementals (+10%/10%) - Drug Free: defeat 5 enemy `Mechs without the aid of Necrosia (+10%/10%) - Battle High: defeat 5 enemy `Mechs with the aid of Necrosia (+10%/10%) - Give the Hunchback IIC pilot an honorable death OR capture them honorably (+0%/10%) - Score twice as many kills than the Glacier (10%/10%) - - Players 15 - - Glacier 3 - Kill an enemy `Mech without breaching its armor (+10%/10%) Orders Due: Midnight Tuesday!
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This battle has been hilarious, even if its been kinda one-sided, it exceeded all of my non-existant expectations. Well done goonwarriors!
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Looks like the Black Lanner may be making a break for it. If they're allowed to retreat off the side they can MASC off the map after their next movement - if not, the turn after that instead. Even if they go for the coward's way out, they've gotta live through the next shooting phase for the Dragon to make it out in time.
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That lanner is begging to be shot, or aiming to prevent the grand dragons escape. one question: how would a called shot for the arms go?
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Centurium posted:how would a called shot for the arms go? Do you have a targeting computer?
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The humiliation meter is leaking. 
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How high up are the trees? I could have sworn they were the same height as mechs...
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Hey PTN, you check out the battlemech manual yet? I love the quirks. They've added a huge list of canonical quirks for every single mech chassis in the game. Interested in trying them here?
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Love the effort to annihilate every square centimeter of the Crimson Langur.
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The humilation meter WAS leaking. Now it's more of a gush. Nice work, Goonbinary!
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I take it any withdrawing unit can't walk off the map immediately, it takes a turn on the side?
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RA Rx posted:I take it any withdrawing unit can't walk off the map immediately, it takes a turn on the side? As long as you've got the MP to get off the map you can exit immediately. The Grand Dragon does not have enough MP to do this.
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Um, PTN, you got my orders for Wraiths #1 mixed up with Wraiths #2. It's a hail mary, but I think I'm going to try to 'Death From Above' the Black Lanner in my Nova G Back Hack fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Jan 23, 2017 |
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Back Hack posted:Um, PTN, you got my orders for Wraiths #1 mixed up with Wraiths #2. Oh, possible. One set of Wraiths was trying to attack the removed-from-play Warhawk, which probably threw me off. Once the record sheet's no longer being tracked I'm not going to start tracking it again.
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PoptartsNinja posted:As long as you've got the MP to get off the map you can exit immediately. Well, he's only 1 reckless mp short.  What's reckless movement like again? Though the Black Lanner can probably survive this round against the firing squad at +4, and then Hanako/Tythas wins. I get why the route was used now though, less likely to be blocked. RA Rx fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Jan 23, 2017 |
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RA Rx posted:Love the effort to annihilate every square centimeter of the Crimson Langur. They're just having so much fun, it seemed rude to call them off.
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I still don't think that PTN is going to be such a by the book GM that if the mission ended with the Grand Dragon one hex from leaving the mission area that would go from "escaped completely" and "captured and/or murdered". If it were running from PTN controlled enemies as a survival objective, sure. But it's not, it is leaving a combat area from a player controlled force that has thus far shown no desire to try and kill it. I think PTN would take intent of both parties to disengage into consideration from a fluff perspective.
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Time to deploy the JUSTICE FOOT! Or fall flat on my face trying.
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Ah, those last minutes when everything seems finished... and the enemy does something incredibly desperate that actually pays off.
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It's going to have to pay off really well to offset the fact that they're soon going to be left frozen to death at the bottom of a ravine on some shithole planet, in a defeat so horrific their own Clan will disown them and try to forget them. But hey, enjoy your [E - the pilot, not PTN] last fleeting moments of hope.
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Back Hack posted:Fingers crossed it is what I HOPE it is. I haven't even gotten to that yet.
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