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Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets


Things do not go well today, not well at all!

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MarmaladeSkies
Jun 16, 2022
Yeaaaah, 3 skull worlds might be overreaching until we get another heavy or two. Those were expensive missions.

Gnoman
Feb 12, 2014

Come, all you fair and tender maids
Who flourish in your pri-ime
Beware, take care, keep your garden fair
Let Gnoman steal your thy-y-me
Le-et Gnoman steal your thyme




Might have been able to pull out that first mission, if you hadn't given the AC/20 to somebody that can't shoot.

The TBT build you accidentally made (it is supposed to have 2xLRM15, you can cram 2xLRM20 in there if you ditch all other weapons) might be pretty good. The standard one is a wee bit fragile.

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets


Things go a bit better this time!

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets


At some point I won’t be worried about going bankrupt!















Serpentis
May 31, 2011

Well, if I really HAVE to shoot you in the bollocks to shut you up, then I guess I'll need to, post-haste, for everyone else's sake.
Alright, with all picked skills, you can just touch up Vedette 2's skills to bring them all up to 8 - so Piloting 5 first please.

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

Fuck you say?!

Not Comstar is saving for that sweet sweet piloting 8

AJ_Impy
Jun 17, 2007

SWORD OF SMATTAS. CAN YOU NOT HEAR A WORLD CRY OUT FOR JUSTICE? WHEN WILL YOU DELIVER IT?
Yam Slacker
Lostechier: Save for Gunnery 6. If possible, do one mission then level up the gunnery in order to minimise time not being ded shooty.

MarmaladeSkies
Jun 16, 2022
Your choice for Mars for now.

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets


Dammit, I need to get more cash! at least this new place doesn't look to bad!

MarmaladeSkies
Jun 16, 2022
I guess mechwarriors take poorly to being told their pay will be late.

Maybe store the Raven? You don’t use it, so it’s just taking funds to maintain.

AJ_Impy
Jun 17, 2007

SWORD OF SMATTAS. CAN YOU NOT HEAR A WORLD CRY OUT FOR JUSTICE? WHEN WILL YOU DELIVER IT?
Yam Slacker
Sell the -accuracy medium laser.
Sell fifty of anything we have a hundred of.
Sell five of everything we have twenty five of.

Gnoman
Feb 12, 2014

Come, all you fair and tender maids
Who flourish in your pri-ime
Beware, take care, keep your garden fair
Let Gnoman steal your thy-y-me
Le-et Gnoman steal your thyme




Lot of the missions, the salvage was worth less than the extra pay you'd have gotten by taking less salvage. 1 guaranteed share is probably enough to get anything that's really worth getting on these lower-level missions, I think.

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets


Lets run away from comstar then make some money!

Gnoman
Feb 12, 2014

Come, all you fair and tender maids
Who flourish in your pri-ime
Beware, take care, keep your garden fair
Let Gnoman steal your thy-y-me
Le-et Gnoman steal your thyme




The objective text and strange double-dropship event makes me think the Comstar mission was bugged and you were only supposed to be fighting one Com Guard lance. Which you might have been able to handle.

I was hoping you'd decide to use the AC/20 at the end, and that's going to be a rather formidable fighter.

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets

Gnoman posted:

The objective text and strange double-dropship event makes me think the Comstar mission was bugged and you were only supposed to be fighting one Com Guard lance. Which you might have been able to handle.

I was hoping you'd decide to use the AC/20 at the end, and that's going to be a rather formidable fighter.

Yeah, it was a harsh as hell mission.

And the AC20++ Orion is going to MURDER things, and has enough guns to be useful when its out of ammo.

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets

(In Which the AC20++ Orion murders things)

Things go very well today, and the salvage and cash pours in - then goes right out again as I start the last major upgrade.
The fact we get several new heavy mechs this update pushes us up a good level in combat effectiveness.















Serpentis
May 31, 2011

Well, if I really HAVE to shoot you in the bollocks to shut you up, then I guess I'll need to, post-haste, for everyone else's sake.
Guts and Piloting 6 for Vedette II please!

AJ_Impy
Jun 17, 2007

SWORD OF SMATTAS. CAN YOU NOT HEAR A WORLD CRY OUT FOR JUSTICE? WHEN WILL YOU DELIVER IT?
Yam Slacker
Gunnery 6, Guts 4 for Lostechier

Gnoman
Feb 12, 2014

Come, all you fair and tender maids
Who flourish in your pri-ime
Beware, take care, keep your garden fair
Let Gnoman steal your thy-y-me
Le-et Gnoman steal your thyme




I do hope you remembered that you allied with the FWL, and are in a system with a Faction Store (There's a tab in the store, if I remember how it works correctly).

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

Fuck you say?!

Piloting 8 for Not Comstar then Guts

MarmaladeSkies
Jun 16, 2022
I can get Guts 10? Let’s get Mars Guts 10.

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets


Right! the cash is starting to come in now!

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets


A tough mission in the middle there, but things are still moving in the right direction!

Gnoman
Feb 12, 2014

Come, all you fair and tender maids
Who flourish in your pri-ime
Beware, take care, keep your garden fair
Let Gnoman steal your thy-y-me
Le-et Gnoman steal your thyme




I had the same reaction you did when the Cronus showed up. Never heard of that Battlemech before.

That's a nasty Archer, though it might be worth replacing the other ML with a heat sink. If there's somebody close enough to be worth using a ML on, they're probably in punching distance, and that monster runs hot. Pairing it with the anti-stability UAC/5 (which generally is close to as good damage-wise as an AC/10) is a really mean thing to do.

I noticed a thing called an "exchanger" in the store, which might be worth using. Or not, I'm not sure what it does, but it appears to do something with heat.

Koorisch
Mar 29, 2009

Gnoman posted:

I noticed a thing called an "exchanger" in the store, which might be worth using. Or not, I'm not sure what it does, but it appears to do something with heat.

Exchangers lower total heat gain by something like 10-20%.

They're superb equipment to put in any extremely hot mechs since the more heat your mech can gain, the more effective they get, if you can get your total heat to a specific value they are straight up better than putting in more Double Heatsinks for the tonnage.

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets
Yeah, it needs some modding.

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets


A couple of easy missions, then the RNG steps up it's game!

Gnoman
Feb 12, 2014

Come, all you fair and tender maids
Who flourish in your pri-ime
Beware, take care, keep your garden fair
Let Gnoman steal your thy-y-me
Le-et Gnoman steal your thyme




I'd just like to say that I made this joke well before you did!

Gnoman posted:

There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships BattleMechs today,

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets


Things get rough again. The spike to three skulls is rough in this mod!

AJ_Impy
Jun 17, 2007

SWORD OF SMATTAS. CAN YOU NOT HEAR A WORLD CRY OUT FOR JUSTICE? WHEN WILL YOU DELIVER IT?
Yam Slacker
Your voice track starts skipping at the 14 minute mark.

Gnoman
Feb 12, 2014

Come, all you fair and tender maids
Who flourish in your pri-ime
Beware, take care, keep your garden fair
Let Gnoman steal your thy-y-me
Le-et Gnoman steal your thyme




I'd suggest using that as an excuse to revert the save to before Archergeddon.

AJ_Impy
Jun 17, 2007

SWORD OF SMATTAS. CAN YOU NOT HEAR A WORLD CRY OUT FOR JUSTICE? WHEN WILL YOU DELIVER IT?
Yam Slacker
And lose that upgraded LRM? We just need to retreat less.

Gnoman
Feb 12, 2014

Come, all you fair and tender maids
Who flourish in your pri-ime
Beware, take care, keep your garden fair
Let Gnoman steal your thy-y-me
Le-et Gnoman steal your thyme




AJ_Impy posted:

And lose that upgraded LRM? We just need to retreat less.

Compared to losing two ++ LRMs and an expensive UAC?

AJ_Impy
Jun 17, 2007

SWORD OF SMATTAS. CAN YOU NOT HEAR A WORLD CRY OUT FOR JUSTICE? WHEN WILL YOU DELIVER IT?
Yam Slacker

Gnoman posted:

Compared to losing two ++ LRMs and an expensive UAC?

I'm not having Lostechier's hard work so easily cast aside. :colbert:

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets


I hate swarms of light mechs!

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets


I need to make bank - so lets get on it!
Also, I have a problem remembering to spend XP at the end of a session….















AJ_Impy
Jun 17, 2007

SWORD OF SMATTAS. CAN YOU NOT HEAR A WORLD CRY OUT FOR JUSTICE? WHEN WILL YOU DELIVER IT?
Yam Slacker
Lostechier, save for Tactics 8

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets


Time to bring in some cash!

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Serpentis
May 31, 2011

Well, if I really HAVE to shoot you in the bollocks to shut you up, then I guess I'll need to, post-haste, for everyone else's sake.
Guts 7 for Vedette II please!

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