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You did as well as you could've koolkevz, I'm surprised it took this long for the south lance to take a casualty. Also I can't really fault tokenbrownguy for his logic, the MechWarrior games, like Hogarth movies, like to take liberties. Also tbh he's become quite the wildcard for this scenario.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lvJ6eFcCJE
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Mar 27, 2017 01:41
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G-g-g-ghost mech!
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Mar 27, 2017 01:50
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Please let the next mission be Hogarth and his crew fighting against the Ghost Marauder. I don't care how it happens, but let it happen!
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Mar 27, 2017 01:52
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Uhhh... holy hell.
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paragon1 posted:edit: Real shame the Zeus couldn't get hits on the Dire Wolf this turn. Dire Wolf is still up, rampaging marauder is running around, and the King Cobra finally made it to within brawling range. It is looking ugly. Hey, I did what I figured would be removing both myself and the cobra for a turn instead of getting straight up murdered, which would be better for our lance overall. It's not my fault that suddenly paragon1 posted:Now it's a Saeder-Krupp run.
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Mar 27, 2017 03:44
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berryjon posted:Please let the next mission be Hogarth and his crew fighting against the Ghost Marauder. I don't care how it happens, but let it happen! We're bound due for Hogarth and his team to have the "We thought this was a movie but it's real life" thing happen.
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Mar 27, 2017 04:09
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TildeATH posted:We're bound due for Hogarth and his team to have the "We thought this was a movie but it's real life" thing happen. "In a way, all of us have an El Guapo to face someday. For some, shyness might be their El Guapo. For others, a Federated Suns education might be their El Guapo. For us... El Guapo is an autonomous experimental Star League supermech with a taste for human flesh in its reactor, one that is possibly also haunted, maybe by another Cameron. Or perhaps the same one, but with a haircut." --Thomas Hogarth
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Mar 27, 2017 04:28
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Haha holy poo poo, this update. Green vs Black Knights! I would strongly expect the black
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The Hogarth Mission will live forever in our hearts, next to wrestlemania and the Demon Hawk saga.
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Artificer posted:the King Cobra finally made it to within brawling range.
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Xarbala posted:"In a way, all of us have an El Guapo to face someday. For some, shyness might be their El Guapo. For others, a Federated Suns education might be their El Guapo. For us... El Guapo is an autonomous experimental Star League supermech with a taste for human flesh in its reactor, one that is possibly also haunted, maybe by another Cameron. Or perhaps the same one, but with a haircut." --Thomas Hogarth Rich Garces, terror of the Inner Sphere!
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Mar 27, 2017 04:51
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I dubb the black marauder Aku, mechshifting master of evil. Long live aku!
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Xarbala posted:"In a way, all of us have an El Guapo to face someday. For some, shyness might be their El Guapo. For others, a Federated Suns education might be their El Guapo. For us... El Guapo is an autonomous experimental Star League supermech with a taste for human flesh in its reactor, one that is possibly also haunted, maybe by another Cameron. Or perhaps the same one, but with a haircut." --Thomas Hogarth "I used to idolize you, but then I learned about movie tricks, camera angles, quick cuts, ghost heat."
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Holy poo poo it's Event Horizon: the 'Mech. Not emptyquoting this. 
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Mar 27, 2017 06:36
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Night10194 posted:Well, someone woke up the Eva and this ain't a Hogarth picture this time. Hey man, I was the Eva in that Hogarth mission, and this poo poo has nothing on the Banshee I piloted, even if mine could go ZA BEASTO and Berzerk out, complete with biting mouth. I mean, mine didn't eat an Astech for reaction mass, as far as I know. Man, Saeder-Krupp has the best (read: worst) black projects, the Azzies notwithstanding. Wonder how far Mitsuhama and that one division of Ares trying to weaponize insect spirits will have to go in order to catch up with LowfyrCorp now. Hans Brackhaus is gonna be pissed if you guys wind up destroying that cyberzombie Marauder. Never go negative essence, and never make a deal with a dragon(Corp). When PTN previewed this update, I had no idea that the thing he hinted at there would be the second most shocking thing is update, though shooting a downed and crippled Clanner that had a slim chance of regaining consciousness and enraging the rest of that Cloud Cobra Star enough for them to break Zell against you was not something that I was expecting to happen at all. Wonder what led to that decision... EDIT: Tarezax posted:Over the comms, a guttural cry of rage rings out. GhostStalker fucked around with this message at 07:46 on Mar 27, 2017 |
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The pilot already said what lead to that decision. He thought the mechs blew up for AoE damage like in the mechwarrior games. Using a mech as an exploding barrel in a shooter seems fair enough if you didn't know the rules worked differently.
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Zaodai posted:The pilot already said what lead to that decision. He thought the mechs blew up for AoE damage like in the mechwarrior games. Using a mech as an exploding barrel in a shooter seems fair enough if you didn't know the rules worked differently. Whoops, I saw that post and forgot that he said why. My bad. TheParadigm posted:Green vs Black Knights! It already is an Ace according to it's pilot status box in it's unit card. GhostStalker fucked around with this message at 07:51 on Mar 27, 2017 |
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Yeah, I hosed up. Running to 1721 and turning to face 1820 would be 2 piloting checks too many for my taste. But if I jump to 1720 and refrain from firing literally everything I could jump into cover next turn to cool off, assuming I don't overdo things and shutdown. 9 current + 9(Engine+4 jump)= 18 heat before firing, 2 medium pulse lasers for heat two next turn. 3 Lasers to be as bad off as I am now at heat 6. No point in risking shut down at just heat 10 so I could go for as many as 5 medium lasers. Jumping and shooting a bunch is out, too many negative modifiers. Might jump to 1720 and shoot 2 medium lasers anyway just to be in a better position to shoot or scoot next turn.
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Honestly, the way this played out made me wonder if the missing pilot that vanished is named Shinji or whatever.
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Zaodai posted:The pilot already said what lead to that decision. He thought the mechs blew up for AoE damage like in the mechwarrior games. Using a mech as an exploding barrel in a shooter seems fair enough if you didn't know the rules worked differently. Cant wait to see how ptn justifies it in the fluff!
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So, is definitely suggest not wasting time shooting the Marauder. You guys have average/bad gunnery to start with, and it has the low profile quirk so it's even harder to hit. Just run from it and hope it decides to eat clanners instead. You might still be screwed if the clans focus fire you to death now, but not quite as badly as if the Warhawk was still alive.
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Aces everywhere and nobody cares about Zell any more... I think the time for standing still is well over. Should I (Banshee) run NW and shoot the Dire Wolf some more?
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Since the Marauder rolls for targets randomly out of those it can see, but it will only be around for 5 rounds (right?) it seems it would be best to try and kite it into a big group of people to lessen the chances of it focusing fire on any one unit for too long. And if it happens to take some heavy PPC shots at the Clans, all the better. Why must you betray us, Kharn-mech?  [EDIT] habituallyred posted:Yeah, I hosed up. And I wouldn't worry about this. You had a good reason at the time, based on the information you had. This is definitely a "happy little accident" style mistake, where you've made the mission much more interesting. It's still just a game, afterall. Zaodai fucked around with this message at 15:25 on Mar 27, 2017 |
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pun pundit posted:Aces everywhere and nobody cares about Zell any more... Oh, they still do. They were just providing some strong negative feedback to shooting unconscious pilots.
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Look if that clanner was a real winner he wouldn't have been unconscious anyways, no sense in having weaklings in the clan. He was doing them a service.
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Telsa Cola posted:Look if that clanner was a real winner he wouldn't have been unconscious anyways, no sense in having weaklings in the clan. He was doing them a service. Counterpoint: being known as someone who shoots downed pilots is a great way to get yourself "accidentally" stepped on someday.
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PoptartsNinja posted:Counterpoint: being known as someone who shoots downed pilots is a great way to get yourself "accidentally" stepped on someday. Just like the CapCon! Except replace accidentally with repeatedly, and someday with everyday. 
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Mar 27, 2017 16:53
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Also those feet will be on fire. Why? Why not.
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mcjomar posted:Honestly, the way this played out made me wonder if the missing pilot that vanished is named Shinji or whatever. Since this is an S-K black project, I would've thought the pilot being Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu would be more likely, what with her being German and whatnot, but she hung herself after going crazy in the Eva, right? The pilot is at least an Ikari, going off of the circumstances, I guess. Zaodai posted:Why must you betray us, Kharn-mech? Because Kharn the Betrayer is a pretty cool guy? Though the Marauder is black, not red and it doesn't have enough spiky bits on its armor to be Kharn, not to mention not having Gorehowl to swing around... GhostStalker fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Mar 27, 2017 |
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The fact that the downed Wyvren wasn't marked as out on previous unit cards (name still white) made me think it was a valid target too, whether or not it could've been a cool exploding barrel.
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It was still a valid target; PTN was rolling for consciousness checks every turn. But it was not a wise target, for the reasons already explained. And, while I can understand the desire to make it explode, it would have been a great idea to actually ask in the thread "will it explode" or even mention in the shared doc to the other players "planning on blowing up the downed mech." But bygones, it's happened, move on. I'll be interested in seeing how the clanners react. Do they understand that thing came from their own facility?
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PoptartsNinja posted:Counterpoint: being known as someone who shoots downed pilots is a great way to get yourself "accidentally" stepped on someday. Little Richard's Panzer Brigade used to do poo poo like that. Then they lost a fight and tried to raise the flag of surrender. Killed to a man.
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Live by the sword, die by the sword. If you're going to shoot the wounded, why would they even bother surrendering? Fight to the end. 
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Okay, so it seem to me the obvious course of action for Team South is to bail the gently caress out and put distance between yourselves and the Ghost Marauder. With luck, it'll start shooting the Clanners instead of you and that'll be fun to watch. I realize that since you're a Steiner Recon Lance, that's easier said than done and you may have to eat a turn or two of fire to do it, but I think it's still the best way to complete the secondary objective. Just make sure to keep shooting the Clanners as you run away!
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Speaking of lostech, something I've been wondering. In the initial pitch of BT there were very few factories capable of still producing full mechs and most were salvaged or constantly patched up heirlooms, right? Obviously that's been long since moved past for a lot of reasons, but I'm curious how easy it is to recover and repair a mech that loses its gyros or has its engine shut down by battle damage. When our pilots are getting shot down and ejecting, is the general assumption that their side will recover and be able to repair their rides if they hold the field?
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Night10194 posted:Speaking of lostech, something I've been wondering. In the initial pitch of BT there were very few factories capable of still producing full mechs and most were salvaged or constantly patched up heirlooms, right? Obviously that's been long since moved past for a lot of reasons, but I'm curious how easy it is to recover and repair a mech that loses its gyros or has its engine shut down by battle damage. When our pilots are getting shot down and ejecting, is the general assumption that their side will recover and be able to repair their rides if they hold the field? Yeah, `Mechs are tough and the only thing they really have difficulty duplicating is the DI Computer (which has never taken up a critical slot). `Mechs are usually recoverable unless they're intentionally left to rot, and even if they are a good tech crew can still get them going once they get pulled off the seabed or dug out of whatever sand dune they were lost in. One of the Caballero Jenners was so old the tech crews joked that it was the first one ever produced, and had had so many replacement parts over the years it didn't have any of the original bits left. Half of that is the chief astech messing with the head technician, but it's just plausible enough that it might be true, which is something I love about the setting.
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What are the consequences of running through a square with a dead 'mech in it?
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Night10194 posted:Speaking of lostech, something I've been wondering. In the initial pitch of BT there were very few factories capable of still producing full mechs and most were salvaged or constantly patched up heirlooms, right? Obviously that's been long since moved past for a lot of reasons, but I'm curious how easy it is to recover and repair a mech that loses its gyros or has its engine shut down by battle damage. When our pilots are getting shot down and ejecting, is the general assumption that their side will recover and be able to repair their rides if they hold the field? Before factories started coming back up, a 'mech with a dead fusion engine was usually scrap, a 'mech without a CT is always scrap because AFAIK you can't fix that. You get a new 'mech and place some of the old bits on it instead. With the factories coming back, there's spare fusion engines going around so anything short of CT being completely destroyed is repairable.
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