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Angola, Count Also sign me up, preferably for a Gripen. Callsign Orbital.
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Since AngerPEACE looks like it's not gonna win Angola - Dictator gently caress colonialism and I don't trust someone who supported Rhodesia to have the people's best interests in mind.
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Apr 18, 2017 17:24
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I'll cast my vote again; Angola, Count
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Apr 18, 2017 17:31
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As I already said, there is only one Count and he was played by Bela Lugosi. We're mercenary secretaries now, take Dictation.
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Usual Barb posted:gently caress colonialism and I don't trust someone who supported Rhodesia to have the people's best interests in mind. I'm...pretty sure "running humanitarian aid into Rhodesia" means "flew in food and medicine for people displaced in the Rhodesian Bush War", not "supported the Rhodesian government."
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Apr 18, 2017 17:40
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FYI : Our mercs, after the previous stellar mission, have decided to have a Thunderdome. Why? I'm not sure, maybe to decide who's the boss or who carries the M60? It's looking to be entertaining. But on the other hand if they all die from infections in two weeks then we're poo poo out of merc luck.
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Yooper posted:FYI : Our mercs, after the previous stellar mission, have decided to have a Thunderdome. Why? I'm not sure, maybe to decide who's the boss or who carries the M60? Apparently our ground component is slowly descending into madness.  I wonder if we could sell the rights to a reality TV show?And since third time's the charm - Count me in for Angola!
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Yooper posted:Here is a link to our Master Sheet This is also in the OP. It is a mirror of the working sheet. All pilot requests are on there, plane assignment, budget, links, you name it. If I hosed it up, please let me know.
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Yooper posted:FYI : Our mercs, after the previous stellar mission, have decided to have a Thunderdome. Why? I'm not sure, maybe to decide who's the boss or who carries the M60? It was the only sensible solution that a bunch of 18-year-old bootcamp dropouts could come up with to determine who gets the one of the very few leadership slots! Also it will be fun to see which one beats the other with a chain or bat or whatever. I think they'll all be wearing rigid body armor and in any case they are very weak (thanks a lot, Phoenix Command Stat Generation) so I don't think any of them are likely to be seriously injured. Also we shouldn't worry about grinding up too many ground mercs and becoming under strength, as that recruit roster is WAY longer than the number of soldiers a sane Phoenix Command GM can simulate in any given mission. Plenty of replacements, is what I'm saying.
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Soup Inspector posted:Apparently our ground component is slowly descending into madness. Oh like you wouldn't take the chance to dress everybody up in those super-heavy EOD suits and whale on each other with 2x4's 
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Apr 18, 2017 18:18
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Soup Inspector posted:Apparently our ground component is slowly descending into madness. They're commanded by Kurt Russel. He thinks. Sooner or later we're going to find them naked, painted blue, and hopped up on some crazy local mushroom muttering about how they need to feel the kill like an animal. Phoenix Command has done worse to stronger minds.
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Soup Inspector posted:Apparently our ground component is slowly descending into madness. We've been in theater like a day and a half. The descent into madness isn't that slow.
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Zaodai posted:We've been in theater like a day and a half. The descent into madness isn't that slow. Nor did it just begin.
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Apr 18, 2017 18:22
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Soup Inspector posted:Apparently our ground component is slowly descending into madness. Ok, listen, the ground troops have...some things to work out, but let's be honest here, they ain't got it as easy as we do. They don't have radios or binoculars, they're all so young, they don't have ~100's of millions of dollars to throw around and they don't get to argue over which EW pod is the best. Instead, they argue over who gets the single m60 or who gets one of the scant few squad leader positions. I hope we will all give our ground component some space and let them figure things out for themselves. They are facing a very different set of circumstances and we have to acknowledge that. Also I think their base coordinator might be the used car salesman who sells us American planes and missiles? It's difficult to say.
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Davin Valkri posted:I'm...pretty sure "running humanitarian aid into Rhodesia" means "flew in food and medicine for people displaced in the Rhodesian Bush War", not "supported the Rhodesian government." He probably just has good PR people
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Apr 18, 2017 18:27
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Yeah, while you guys were arguing over whether multi-million dollar frogfoots are too poo poo for the money, there are actual children better supplied than our ground forces. And yet we still managed to blow up that radar installation for you. 
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Zaodai posted:Yeah, while you guys were arguing over whether multi-million dollar frogfoots are too poo poo for the money, there are actual children better supplied than our ground forces. I'll mention it now that before Phi had a chance to run his turn I made a little script that did 1 of 3 things. 1, the Mercs blew up the radar. 2, they blew it up and some chinese AAA fired up. 3, they cut a sewage line. Had they cut a sewage line the mission would have gone very badly. This was one reason the payout was so high. We had a 33% chances of about 50% (minimum) losses. But since Phi was able to run the turn, and a ground pounder named Grimace took one to the knee, the radar was blown up.
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Are you saying that if we had cut the sewage line, everything would have gone to poo poo?
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J-20 Mighty Dragons stuck spinning their wheels and sliding across the tarmac on an ocean of sewage.
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Dandywalken posted:J-20 Mighty Dragons stuck spinning their wheels and sliding across the tarmac on an ocean of sewage. I'm angry this didn't happen now.
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Apr 18, 2017 18:44
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Alikchi posted:I'm angry this didn't happen now. Now that you guys mention it, that would have been hilarious.
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I do want to point out that our ground force's commander isn't just a Kurt Russel Cosplayer. They're actually an escaped mental patient that thinks that they are Kurt Russel and all his characters. 
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Apr 18, 2017 19:14
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NewMars posted:I do want to point out that our ground force's commander isn't just a Kurt Russel Cosplayer. Forget about that, the International Moose Count is underway!
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NewMars posted:I do want to point out that our ground force's commander isn't just a Kurt Russel Cosplayer. Boca Raton. Of course. I wouldn't be surprised if this Faux Kurt Russel turned out to be a real Colonel Kurtz type the way things are shaking out. We should have voted for that Soviet partisan.
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Apr 18, 2017 19:16
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You know it just hits me: It's worse than that. We're commanded by FLORIDA MAN
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Apr 18, 2017 19:17
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Night10194 posted:You know it just hits me: It's worse than that. Hired Goons Ground Division: The Florida Men. Explains everything.
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NewMars posted:I do want to point out that our ground force's commander isn't just a Kurt Russel Cosplayer. And yet he managed to infiltrate that radar base and capture a guy, AND communicate with him in Chinese.
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Apr 18, 2017 19:19
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Communicate badly, as his intel cost Grimace a kneecap.
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A vote for the Angola Count.JcDent posted:Communicate badly, as his intel cost Grimace a kneecap. Well, to be fair, the guard who shot him apparently being a quickdraw was what really did his knee in, if the five pages of maths following the explanation of impulses meant what I think it did.
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Apr 18, 2017 19:32
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Serpentis posted:A vote for the Angola Count. From what I understand the tec had his weapon drawn and aimed at the door before Grimace came in and then managed to roll really well.
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Telsa Cola posted:From what I understand the tec had his weapon drawn and aimed at the door before Grimace came in and then managed to roll really well. I bet that tech just sat there all day, every day with his lovely TT-33 pointed at the door and beads of sweat dripping down his face. Finally, Grimace burst in and the tech shot him and the tech said, "See guys? I told y--" and then Grimace shot him in the face. The sad life of remote mountain radar technicians.
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Cathode Raymond posted:I bet that tech just sat there all day, every day with his lovely TT-33 pointed at the door and beads of sweat dripping down his face. Finally, Grimace burst in and the tech shot him and the tech said, "See guys? I told y--" and then Grimace shot him in the face. I think every sufficiently grognardy 'realistic' RPG or combat came eventually tends towards purest black comedy of errors.
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Apr 18, 2017 19:42
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In my head, it was basically this.
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Apr 18, 2017 19:44
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The Grimace did ace the 98% chance of failure not tompass out.
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Angola - Count
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Oh, I went away for a minute and the mercs have now invented boltguns, I'm sure this won't go badly Also Angola - Count
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quote:vote count
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Apr 18, 2017 21:12
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Angola - Count Mostly I want to drop some bombs on bitcoin aficionados. Also I just looked at the master sheet and noticed I'm in a Phantom. I had meant to ask for that anyway because my uncle flew an F-4C in Vietnam. (He was shot down though. Hopefully I do better.)
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Apr 18, 2017 21:15
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At least we'll be blowing up reddit. e: that vote tally has some dupes, but seems pretty Count-focused anyway.
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Yooper posted:FYI : Our mercs, after the previous stellar mission, have decided to have a Thunderdome. Why? I'm not sure, maybe to decide who's the boss or who carries the M60? Soup Inspector posted:Apparently our ground component is slowly descending into madness. Honestly this is fairly normal behavior for junior enlisted grunts
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