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Political Vote 5 (Clovis Lestrade): C3) Don’t marry Jenna Clay. Political Vote 5 (Red Corsair): R4) gently caress it, let’s find that Castle Brian already. Political Vote 5 (Takashi Kurita): T5) Allow the Yakuza to serve as ‘Mechwarriors, create the Ghost Legions.
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R3) Assist the Free Worlders in repelling the fake Red Corsair pirates. T5) Allow the Yakuza to serve as ‘Mechwarriors, create the Ghost Legions Also, gently caress Yeah! Political votes are the best. EDIT: Very subtle poll edit. Chicken Slayer fucked around with this message at 07:17 on Aug 18, 2011 |
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Political Vote 5 (Clovis Lestrade): C1) Marry Jenna Clay on Summer. Political Vote 5 (Red Corsair): R3) Assist the Free Worlders in repelling the fake Red Corsair pirates. Political Vote 5 (Takashi Kurita): T5) Allow the Yakuza to serve as ‘Mechwarriors, create the Ghost Legions.
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Political Vote 5 (Clovis Lestrade): C1) Marry Jenna Clay on Summer. Political Vote 5 (Red Corsair): R3) Assist the Free Worlders in repelling the fake Red Corsair pirates. Political Vote 5 (Takashi Kurita): T5) Allow the Yakuza to serve as ‘Mechwarriors, create the Ghost Legions.
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Aug 18, 2011 03:37
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Political Vote 5 (Clovis Lestrade): C1) Marry Jenna Clay on Summer. Political Vote 5 (Red Corsair): R3) Assist the Free Worlders in repelling the fake Red Corsair pirates. Political Vote 5 (Takashi Kurita): T3) Enter negotiations with Hanse Davion to free up troops to serve on the Clan front. You guys seriously think the Snakes would let their pride fall so much to let the Yakuza be sen as more then dirt 
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The Clovis Matter: C2) Marry Jenna Clay on Tharkad The Red Corsair Affair: R3) Assist the Free Worlders in repelling the fake Red Corsair pirates The Kuritan Catalyst: T5) Allow the Yakuza to serve as 'Mechwarriors, create the Ghost Legions Frankly, any idea Uncle Chandy has must be a great idea. Thing is, if he's anything like the canon Chandrasekar then any ideas he gets would be designed to make Theodore look good so Theodore's suggestion must be what he's really trying to push. The shame of ceding worlds to the hated Davion enemy would be unbearable to a man so sincerely concerned for the fate of his homeland. I want to see a Lyran/FWL alliance against the clans, and possibly see the Good Thomas start to win greater power and influence against the man who would call himself "The Master." And about Tharkad... I don't know exactly if rushing the wedding is the greatest of ideas, but at least the Home Guard's there and they're friends. Wouldn't want to go to Summer, since that's where Aldo Lestrade is the strongest. Sure it's a break from plans and Aldo might grow suspicious of his son's rush for marriage, but I think it's a better shot than walking into the lion's den. Of course, er, Jeana getting outed early would be bad, too. W.T. Fits posted:Hey, if Clovis and Jenna get married on Tharkad, will the ceremony be covered by You know... PoptartsNinja posted:and Aldo Lestrade—” ... it's entirely possible that she didn't gently caress off as thoroughly as she would have the Lyrans believe. Runa fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Aug 18, 2011 |
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T.G. Xarbala posted:... it's entirely possible that she didn't gently caress off as thoroughly as she would have the Lyrans believe. Everything is coming up
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Political Vote 5 (Clovis Lestrade): C1) Marry Jenna Clay on Summer. Political Vote 5 (Red Corsair): R3) Assist the Free Worlders in repelling the fake Red Corsair pirates. Political Vote 5 (Takashi Kurita): T2) Allow Hanse Davion control of every contested world to send every possible unit at the Clan front. Even though Kurita doesn't really want this, it's the strongest move the Combine can make. We already know that the Fox is not planning on attacking on this front, but negotiations could take forever. There is nothing the Fox is better at than diplomacy and he will squeeze for the best deal possible. Freeing up these units for redeployment immediately is huge. These are the best, most experienced units available to the Combine. There has been no Edo Bay Bombing or other disaster to bring the Yakuza the acclaim they'd need to get the logistical support they'd need to be effective Mech Warriors.
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 Wow, Comstar certainly is spooked if they're calling EVERYTHING back to Terra and going to effectively nuke a significant portion of the HPG Grid. As for the political votes, this is where I'm at my weakest in regards to Battletech lore. I'm pretty decently versed on mechs, weapons, and some Clan history, but IS history and politics I know little about. Still, my choices are as follows: Political Vote 5 (Clovis Lestrade) C1) Marry Jenna Clay on Summer. If I understand this situation correctly, any further delay of the wedding or changing the location to Tharkad so suddenly will draw the ire and suspicion of Aldo Lestrade, and due to the recent Heimdall operation Tharkad doesn't exactly have the right atmosphere currently for a wedding imo. Political Vote 5 (Red Corsair) Well, obviously the Helm raid didn't go according to plan. My choice is R3) Assist the Free Worlders in repelling the fake Red Corsair pirates. Otherwise, once the battle is over Melissa and company are probably looking at harsh interrogation followed by a swift execution. By helping, she could manuever her group into a better bargaining position. I'm also looking forward to Comstar's false flag op going south (even though the players were Comstar in the last scenario). Political Vote 5 (Takashi Kurita) Sorry about the wall of text everyone, but I wanted to explain my reasoning. Also, PoptartsNinja posted:He wore the last three fingernails of his right hand long, the current ‘in’ fashion for Capellan nobility: lacquered, adorned in gold leaf, and reinforced with carbon fibers that left them razor sharp. This disturbs me greatly.EDIT: I have changed my Kurita vote to T4! landcollector fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Aug 18, 2011 |
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PoptartsNinja posted:Political Vote 5 (Clovis Lestrade): Can I vote for two? These options are not mutually exclusive. If it's a "pick one only," then T4 is more important than T5. The Dragon will get better use out of The Fox's battle-hardened mercenaries than they will out of essentially untrained, if loyal, Yakuza, though both would of course be better than only one or the other. [e] My reasoning. C2: Nothing that Aldo Lestrade is excited about can be good... But not marrying her would be a worse idea. Besides, they seem to be the lovebirds that Candice and Justin should have been. Hopefully, they can deal with Lestrade. R4: The Lyran Commonwealth is going to need a unit capable of fighting the Clans on near-equal terms as soon as humanly possible. If they pull a load of Tech 2 'mechs out of that Castle Brian, that might just be the punch they'll need - more or less literally, as I trust that by now, news of Steiner Rules Dueling has spread. T4: The Dragon needs to be in The Fox's good graces. The invasion is too early, the technology base of the Inner Sphere is so bad that even if ComStar said "gently caress it" and transmitted full Star League technology to every world immediately, it wouldn't be enough. The Dragon will need The Fox's veteran mercenary warriors to help stave the tide. Eventually that won't be enough; the Draconis Combine is going to get hammered like a loving anvil, but if they're in the Fox's good graces, they might pull an alliance out of anyway. T5: If not mutually exclusive with T4, more units on the front line can't hurt. But T4 is higher priority in my opinion. ShadowDragon8685 fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Aug 18, 2011 |
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Political Vote 5 (Clovis Lestrade): C1) Marry Jenna Clay on Summer. Political Vote 5 (Red Corsair): R3) Assist the Free Worlders in repelling the fake Red Corsair pirates. Political Vote 5 (Takashi Kurita): T5) Allow the Yakuza to serve as ‘Mechwarriors, create the Ghost Legions. The only one I'm pushing for that's out of sync with other folks is T5. Why not the more popular T4? Simple - it's Hanse Goddamn Davion. Start negotiations with border concessions, and he will go for the loving throat.
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Chicken Slayer posted:C1) Marry Jenna Clay on Summer. OK aweseome I'm going with these. C1: I like weddings, people should get married and be happy! And "Summer" sounds like a nice place for a wedding. I got married on the first day of summer.  R3: Helping people with their problems is nice. We don't like liars. T5: "Ghost Legions" sounds pretty cool to me! I have a pretty tenuous grasp on what's going on or why, I can't keep any of the major characters straight, and I have no idea where or how this relates to the canon, with which I'm totally unfamiliar (beyond what I've somewhat absorbed from reading this thread). Consequently, I'm gonna be basing my votes on pretty facile reasoning, sorry.
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Please correct me if I am wrong, people who know what I am doing, but is Jenna Clay's husband to be better defended on Tharkad or Summer? I'm assuming it's Tharkad, so I am voting for that, but I meant to vote the better defended option. quote:
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C1, R3, T5. The only choice I don't really understand is the C one, but from what I understand C2 could cause problems and marrying is always better than not marrying so let's go with C1.
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C1 - get hitched, and then we'll see if exposing Jenna needs to happen... 'cause a yes/no vote on that one could be interesting... R3 - Let's make friends! Besides, I like things that give House Marik something to do and possibly some nice screen time. I like House Marik and the fluff always seems to shaft them. T5 - Maybe not the most tactically sound choice but almost certainly, to our point of view, the most fun.
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C2; R3; T4 AND T5; Logically Takeshi will need all the help he can get. The Ghost regiments and the Kell Hounds AND the Wolf's Dragoons barely pulled his rear end out of the fire in the "real" timeline, so in this one it's going to take the Northwind Highlanders, Eridani Light Horse and probably Team Banzai and the Lexington Combat Group for good measure. landcollector posted:
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I know nothing about the Battletech fiction but: C1, R2, T5
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Cthulhu Dreams posted:Why cannot we vote for both? The people of the Draconis Combine might be willing to accept one or the other, but they are a very traditional and slow-changing society. Negotiating with a five-hundred year enemy is nearly unthinkable; but then again... so is letting the Yakuza pilot Battlemechs as if they were Samurai.
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C1: Maintain the cover story. R3: Fighting against someone with the same name is a gesture of solidarity with the FWL. T4: Giving Hanse a stake in the fight against the Clans is bad news for the clans. If T5 is possible in addition, then T5 as well. This is not a time for half measures.
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AJ_Impy posted:C1: Maintain the cover story. Let's just hope Hanse doesn't keel over from a heart attack in this timeline....
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landcollector posted:Let's just hope Hanse doesn't keel over from a heart attack in this timeline.... Thankfully, he is barely over 50 right now because the Clan Invasion is happening so much sooner.
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Political Vote 5 (Clovis Lestrade): C2) Marry Jenna Clay on Tharkad. Political Vote 5 (Red Corsair): R3) Assist the Free Worlders in repelling the fake Red Corsair pirates. Political Vote 5 (Takashi Kurita): T5) Allow the Yakuza to serve as ‘Mechwarriors, create the Ghost Legions. The strength must be found from within the Dragon, not from without. And it is fitting for Criminals and Low-Lives to find honor in their deaths by serving the dragon, not harming it. Edit: Vote change, C1 -> C2. Taerkar fucked around with this message at 09:12 on Aug 18, 2011 |
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Political Vote 5 (Clovis Lestrade): C1) Marry Jenna Clay on Summer. Political Vote 5 (Red Corsair): R3) Assist the Free Worlders in repelling the fake Red Corsair pirates. (although if R4 is available in addition, I'd like to see that as well) Political Vote 5 (Takashi Kurita): T5) Allow the Yakuza to serve as ‘Mechwarriors, create the Ghost Legions.
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The only thing I care to vote for is that we create the  legions. Whatever it is, involves Japanese gangsters so it must be gloriously space 80's.
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C2) Marry Jenna Clay on Tharkad. I don't have a fancy argument here but both my and my Political Advisor's guts agree this option has the best chance of weakening Aldo Lestrade (and that anything that screws him is for the best) R3) Assist the Free Worlders in repelling the fake Red Corsair pirates. Since I find it very likely the fake corsairs are a ROM false flag op aimed at the Castle and what is within they need to be defeated anyway and if anybody can let the FWL beat a ROM attack it is Morgan Kell. T5) Allow the Yakuza to serve as ‘Mechwarriors, create the Ghost Legions. While T4 is extremely tempting my exceptional Political Advisor who is far more knowledgeable about battletech than I is quite convinced that the Fox would think nothing of taking the offer as weakness and orchestrating a backstab to conquer as much as possible while they are otherwise engaged.
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PoptartsNinja posted:The people of the Draconis Combine might be willing to accept one or the other, but they are a very traditional and slow-changing society. Negotiating with a five-hundred year enemy is nearly unthinkable; but then again... so is letting the Yakuza pilot Battlemechs as if they were Samurai. Yeah that's pretty reasonable. I'd still like the politicans to create the Yakuza units as 'mercenaries' or whatever if they can do so, but fair enough.
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Glorious Japanese Space Gangsters, GO! On a tangent, I know there's a fair bit of threadhate for Hanse Davion (well, not really, but people seem to want to make sure that the Fox operates as far from canon as possible), but what exactly are we going to do with the Fox.
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PTN would it be possible to get the decided on reporting names catalogued somewhere in the OPs since we're starting to collect a fairly vast number of them?
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UberJew posted:PTN would it be possible to get the decided on reporting names catalogued somewhere in the OPs since we're starting to collect a fairly vast number of them? I'm not entirely certain what you mean by this. I mean, I've got an inkling, but I'd hate to assume I know what you're talking about and then be wrong.
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PoptartsNinja posted:I'm not entirely certain what you mean by this. I mean, I've got an inkling, but I'd hate to assume I know what you're talking about and then be wrong. A list of all the reporting names that have been assigned via the thread as prizes or in battles like Mad Dog (Copperhead). Less important in that specific case since there's a TRO entry but we've named a lot more than have had entries.
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UberJew posted:A list of all the reporting names that have been assigned via the thread as prizes or in battles like Mad Dog (Copperhead). Less important in that specific case since there's a TRO entry but we've named a lot more than have had entries. *Looks at request* *Looks at Thread length* 
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Mukaikubo posted:First choice: The first vote is truly the best one. Melissa Steiner must be protected- she is the hope of the Lyran Commonwealth. Jeana Clay will be marked for death as soon as the announcement hits, which means we must postpone it for as long as possible. Hence: A, Marry Jeana Clay on Summer. Besides, Clovis deserves a little happiness in this life. These both sound good so I'll toss in my votes the same way, except T5 sounds too awesome to pass up. Eumenides fucked around with this message at 06:07 on Aug 18, 2011 |
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Basically this. Having the marriage on Summer would only delay the inevitable, and place the "royal couple" immediately in harm's way, in Aldo's back yard. On Tharkad, they might have a chance because of the Home Guard. The Red Corsair, meanwhile, needs to get out of dodge ASAP. An escape is needed. At the same time, the less damage done on the way out the better, as the FWL isn't the enemy here. Right now we're dealing with Hanse during his most opportunistic phase. Bolstering the Clan front without significant assurances and deals would be suicidal. Ceding a few worlds in exchange for military support might be a good deal, and should cause Hanse to turn his attention against the Capellans instead of the Combine.
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UberJew posted:A list of all the reporting names that have been assigned via the thread as prizes or in battles like Mad Dog (Copperhead). Less important in that specific case since there's a TRO entry but we've named a lot more than have had entries. I thought that's what you were getting at. I went ahead and added them all to the TRO list, even though most of them are unchanged.
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