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It's honestly impressive how bloodthirsty the player and allies dice are. More pilots usually survive being shot down than this.
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PoptartsNinja posted:
Pretty sure I had 1MP left to face the LAM for a kick.
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Feb 18, 2024 00:04
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Grabbed the K1 relatively intact, nice
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Feb 18, 2024 00:13
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Z the IVth posted:Pretty sure I had 1MP left to face the LAM for a kick. There wasn't a turn in your orders. Torso twists I'll do if needed, but not turns. That might screw up your movement on the next turn. PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Feb 18, 2024 |
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Feb 18, 2024 00:28
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I'm going to move to 1112, facing 1212, and try once again to take apart that light LAM. I think another of the same volley will be fine before my heat starts affecting my to-hits. I'm anticipating needing to move toward and help bring down the Medium LAM before we consider the area secured. Orders in.
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Feb 18, 2024 00:49
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It's a cooldown turn for me, but I will chuck some LRMs at the medium LAM
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Feb 18, 2024 03:36
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PoptartsNinja posted:Showdown at High Noon 4-10 Missed the roll result there. Add another Catapult to the pile!
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Veloxyll posted:Missed the roll result there. <_< youre gonna get me shutdown! I won't be able to do business on Earth!!
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Feb 18, 2024 04:52
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I missed the roll, so it's an auto-pass. Even if it'd been a copy-paste error, my forgetting it is judged in the player's favor.
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Feb 18, 2024 08:01
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PoptartsNinja posted:There wasn't a turn in your orders. But I did ask for a kick and there was only one legal move to achieve it - should have been obvious even if I neglected to put the turn order in. I had 3 MP - 2 to get up the hill and 1 to turn left to get in arc for the kick. There is literally no other move available. I would have given you more detailed orders like I've done previously but they are already fiddly when I'm forced to phone post as I can't see the map/sheets at the same time.
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Z the IVth posted:But I did ask for a kick and there was only one legal move to achieve it - should have been obvious even if I neglected to put the turn order in. I had 3 MP - 2 to get up the hill and 1 to turn left to get in arc for the kick. There is literally no other move available. You only had 3 MP. 1 for the initial turn, 2 to move up the hill. So I couldn't have made that turn in any case, you were out of MP. There are a few hard rules I have kept for the past decade, and one of those is "never gently caress with player movement." In any capacity. If your orders are "move to hex" and nothing else, I will do my level best to get you there through the shortest and safest possible path that I can see. That means if you don't say you're kool-aid manning through a building you'll go around a building. But I won't gently caress with your movement and I will do my level best not to do anything you haven't asked for, because as far as I know you may have some maneuvering plan I'm not aware of that an extra turn might gently caress up. I don't like cardinals but if you have to use north/south/etc. because you're phone posting I'll take them. If there had been a final "facing north" I'd have at least been able to do the usual "Unable to face Hex WXYZ: Has 3 MP, needs 4"
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PoptartsNinja posted:Ostsol (Player) Oh for the love of Kerensky! Man, I gotta do something about the loving alternate orders. I keep missing out on easy stomps. Ostsol Going to continue to wail on the Dragon, but I'm going to swing to its unprotected rear arc and penetrate it with my hot lasers. And this time, I'm going to put in extra orders in case I knock it down without knocking it out. Hey, what happens if it has an ammo explosion while I'm stomping on it? Because that would be hilarious, but also terrible for the next Rampart.
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Feb 18, 2024 19:22
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PoptartsNinja posted:You only had 3 MP. 1 for the initial turn, 2 to move up the hill. So I couldn't have made that turn in any case, you were out of MP. Fair enough as I'd miscounted my MP costs.
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painedforever posted:Hey, what happens if it has an ammo explosion while I'm stomping on it? Because that would be hilarious, but also terrible for the next Rampart. It'll die, you'll be fine.
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Rifleman Ok it looks like I've also got shots at that last heavy. Standing still and shooting it. Hopefully it games over and the LAMs gently caress off.
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Feb 18, 2024 19:40
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Nicely played Goonswarm! Dropship beachhead established and you seem like you're crunching down the perimeter! If all goes well maybe this aftermath we'll have some useful info to send back!
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Feb 18, 2024 21:39
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A very good turn all around! Can probably yank the surviving ER PPC from the Catapult to get our Battlemaster back up to Royal spec, then convert what's left into something resembling a K2.
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Feb 18, 2024 21:51
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Z the IVth posted:Standing still and shooting it. Hopefully it games over and the LAMs gently caress off. That'll depend on whether their conversion gear is intact. So Unknown 3 is trapped, since it's lost a limb.
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Feb 18, 2024 21:53
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Ostsol Orders are in. I'm going to finish off this damned 'Mech.
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As soon as we have control of the Dropship we should probably broadcast on their comms to surrender. Maybe we'll save a cockpit or two that way.
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propatriamori posted:As soon as we have control of the Dropship we should probably broadcast on their comms to surrender. Maybe we'll save a cockpit or two that way. Plus, intact electronics might have more info in them even if the Dropship computers are wiped. And pilots will probably know more than foot soldiers.
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Feb 18, 2024 23:11
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Y'know, I just noticed that we've basically completed all of the primary objectives. We're not going to get a "Mission Accomplished" message and a "Game Over" fade-out immediately, are we? We can keep playing?
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painedforever posted:Y'know, I just noticed that we've basically completed all of the primary objectives. We're not going to get a "Mission Accomplished" message and a "Game Over" fade-out immediately, are we? We can keep playing? You still need to frag the last enemy non LAM mech to complete all your primary objectives. But yeah, PTN said that one of the LAMs is unable to gently caress off because it’s lost an arm so it’s Conversion Gear is hosed, so I think that one might keep fighting for a bit unless a demand for surrender is broadcast and agreed to.
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GhostStalker posted:You still need to frag the last enemy non LAM mech to complete all your primary objectives. But yeah, PTN said that one of the LAMs is unable to gently caress off because it’s lost an arm so it’s Conversion Gear is hosed, so I think that one might keep fighting for a bit unless a demand for surrender is broadcast and agreed to. That last guy has many holes in it's paper-thin armour and a single medium laser, they're not doing a last stand if we ask for a surrender.
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Z the IVth posted:That last guy has many holes in it's paper-thin armour and a single medium laser, they're not doing a last stand if we ask for a surrender. that might depend on if he thinks he's going to end up in front of a firing squad after the fact
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Feb 19, 2024 06:33
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doubly so if these forces are DCMS house regulars or some other faction's "pirate" forces/deniable assets
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Holybat posted:doubly so if these forces are DCMS house regulars or some other faction's "pirate" forces/deniable assets It's got to be some kind of mix, right? The Falconer pilot claimed to be a merc and a Taurian iirc, and that seems to hold up. Like they have some kind of mix of that and then at least somewhat elite dudes riding LAMs, Royal variants, and brand new Catapults.
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It going to be possible to get useful intel from some of the mech computers if cockpits can be taken intact as salvage?
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Just thought people might enjoy seeing the results of my de-stress painting.  
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Curious 'mech, that. Some kind of melee build? Claws, Talons, TSM? I don't see much ranged armament, so it's very specialized. Sick paint job though! What unit is that?
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It's a Norn Emissary, sort-of a suped-up Hive Tyrant I guess? With my take on the old Hive Fleet Behemoth colors. Those aren't the colors I used back when I used to play Tyranids (my RL group stopped around 40k 5th ed?), but I think the red and blue Behemoth colors look really good dark/desaturated.
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Nice, it cleaned up really good!
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PoptartsNinja posted:It's a Norn Emissary, sort-of a suped-up Hive Tyrant I guess? With my take on the old Hive Fleet Behemoth colors. It looks like one of the old Codex covers and is rad. 
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Very Pacific Rim
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PoptartsNinja posted:Just thought people might enjoy seeing the results of my de-stress painting. Do a BT+WH40k crossover Mission.
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Nektu posted:Do a BT+WH40k crossover Mission. But the power scales, can any mech in fact punch hard enough to end a hive tyrant???
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Z the IVth posted:It looks like one of the old Codex covers and is rad. That was my first Tyranid codex and the look I was trying to emulate. vorebane posted:But the power scales, can any mech in fact punch hard enough to end a hive tyrant??? Yeah, probably. The settings are actually pretty comparable: Imperial Knights are about the same height as a BattleMech and they're both using similar future materials (Ceramet vs. Ceramite). The Imperium operates at a different scale, but technologically I don't think they're really that far off. PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Feb 20, 2024 |
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Feb 20, 2024 14:41
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I’m hearing a Simulator Exercise
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Make the bird aliens a canon antagonist .
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Captain Foo posted:I’m hearing a Simulator Exercise Too bad Halloween is so far off, it'd be funny as a Bug in the System mission
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