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Blackjack thanks for the backup. its a gamble; I'm going all in on the talos, since it needs to go down this turn.
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Sorry for the delay, everyone. I do have all orders in so we're not waiting on any players, this one's on me. I'm having to work a little extra this week to make up for the time I'll be at a doctor's appointment later this week; and it's cut into my update time a little bit. The update is coming, hopefully tonight. For future reference: please don't send orders as pictures if you can at-all avoid it. I can deal with pictures but I can't copy them into notepad for quick reference which slows me down a hair. I'm not calling anyone out so nobody should feel in any way bad if they've done this; this is just a general 'plaintext works best.' 
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Dragon’s Teeth 3-7 Sweat rolled down Rampart’s back as the fusion reactor somewhere beneath her command couch kicked up another octave. She tried to push her Blackjack as hard as she could, to keep close to the slowly retreating Talos and keep it from opening up the range. If it made enough space to get a good bead on her, she’d be all but finished—but the fear that its lighter-weight ally was creeping up behind her was almost panic inducing. Light ‘Mechs didn’t have much firepower, but it never took much to punch through the rear armor of most BattleMechs. A wave of heat vented into her cockpit as she pressed the largest red button on her control stick, firing every weapon she had into the Talos before she passed it. Her lasers scored the Talos’s surface a moment before the plasma streamers from her flamers briefly obscured the enemy ‘Mech from view. She felt her Blackjack protest beneath her, and could see the heat shimmer from its frontal armor despite Frigid’s balmy sub-freezing temperatures. The Talos turned, its autocannon tracking her; new missiles poking their warheads from its SRM-6 as Rampart walked. A single shot and it would be through her armor. One stray missile and the entire left side of her ‘Mech’s torso would probably cave in, or tear away under the weight of her own left arm. She imagined she could hear the typical alert chime as it finished reloading. And then Prodigal’s Mongoose slipped in behind it, moving at what felt like a casual pace but which Rampart suspected was probably adrenaline-induced time dilation. Prodigal’s lasers flashed, and Rampart imagined she could actually see the microsecond beams. The Talos’s arm shifted slightly as one of Prodigal’s lasers carved into its ejector port and a shell the size of Rampart’s head flashed past overhead, missing so closely she probably could’ve touched it. The Talos’s SRMs ignited—and went nowhere, as Prodigal’s lasers had melted all six into the launcher. The Talos keeled over almost comically, spinning on its heels as it tried to track her Blackjack. That was a sure sign of gyro damage, the ‘mech had just moved farther than the pilot expected. It didn’t hit the ground particularly hard—but apparently hard enough to pop the armed SRMs out of the back of its damaged missile launcher. They detonated in a flash that was almost instantly lost to the much larger secondary detonation of the Talos’s ammo bin. The remains of its torso skittered through the trees like a giant mangled insect fleeing a child’s magnifying glass. “Well,” Rampart breathed. “That’s two for two. I guess we know their weakness.”    Movement Phase [n/a] Shooting Phase Mongoose (Player) - Torso-twists to threaten hex 1618! - Fires ER Large Laser at Talos #1 (4 Gunnery + 0 range + [1] movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods = 6): rolled 6, hit Rear Center Torso (0/5 armor, 13/16 structure remaining)! Crit! - - Critical chance in Center Torso: rolled 8, 1 critical hit sustained! - - - Rolled 1: upper. Rolled 6: gyro hit! - Fires Small Laser at Talos #1 (4 Gunnery + 0 range + [1] movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods = 6): Rolled 9, hit Right Arm (2/10 armor remaining)! - Fires Medium Laser at Talos #1 (4 Gunnery + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods = 6): rolled 11, hit Right Arm (0/10 armor, 5/8 structure remaining)! Crit! - - Critical chance in Right Arm: rolled 10, 2 critical hits sustained! - - - Rolled 4: lower. Rolled 4: AC/10 hit! - - - Rolled 5: lower. Rolled 2: AC/10 destroyed! - Fires Medium Laser at Talos #1 (4 Gunnery + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods = 6): rolled 6, hit Rear Left Torso (0/4 armor, 11/12 structure remaining)! Crit! - - Critical chance in Left Torso: rolled 9, 1 critical hit sustained! - - - Automatic upper. Rolled 2, SRM-6 hit! Sentinel (Player) - Fires Ultra AC/5 [Ultra] at BattleMaster (4 Gunnery + 0 range + 2 movement + 1 enemy movement = 7): rolled 9, with a cluster roll of 10: 2 shells hit Rear Center Torso (1/11 armor remaining), Left Leg (14/26 armor remaining)! - Fires Streak SRM-2 at BattleMaster (4 Gunnery + 2 range + 2 movement + 1 enemy movement = 9): rolled 10, 2 missiles hit Left Leg (12/26 armor remaining), Right Leg (24/26 armor remaining)! Blackjack (Player) - Fires Medium Laser at Talos #1 (4 Gunnery + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods = 7): rolled 5, missed! - Fires Medium Laser at Talos #1 (4 Gunnery + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods = 7): rolled 10, hit Center Torso (9/22 armor remaining)! - Fires Medium Laser at Talos #1 (4 Gunnery + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods = 7): rolled 8, hit Left Leg (6/16 armor remaining)! - Fires Medium Laser at Talos #1 (4 Gunnery + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods = 7): rolled 6, missed! - Fires Medium Laser at Talos #1 (4 Gunnery + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods = 7): rolled 3, missed! - Fires Medium Laser at Talos #1 (4 Gunnery + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods = 7): rolled 8, hit Right Arm (0/8 structure remaining)! Right arm blown off! - Fires Flamer [Damage] at Talos #1 (4 Gunnery + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods = 7): rolled 7, hit Center Torso (7/22 armor remaining)! - Fires Flamer [Damage] at Talos #1 (4 Gunnery + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods = 7): rolled 10, hit Right Torso (6/20 armor remaining)! Hoplite (Player) - Fires LB-10X [Slug] at Unknown Light BattleMech (2 base + 0 range + 1 movement + 2 enemy movement + 1 narrow profile = 6): rolled 7, hit Left Leg (0/7 structure remaining)! Leg blown off! - - 3 damage transfers to Rear Center Torso (5/10 structure remaining)! Crit! - - Unknown Light BattleMech suffers a critical chance in Center Torso: rolled 12: 3 critical hits sustained! - - - Rolled 3: upper. Rolled 6: gyro hit! - - - Rolled 5: lower. Rolled 1: gyro destroyed! ’Mech destroyed! - - - Rolled 3: upper. Rolled 3: engine hit! ArchBanshee HammerMaster (Ally) - Fires PPC at Hunchback (3 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 minimum range = 7): rolled 7, hit Right Torso (10/20 armor remaining)! TAC! - - Hunchback suffers a through-armor critical chance in Right Torso: rolled 6, no critical hit sustained! - Fires PPC at Hunchback (3 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 minimum range = 7): rolled 7, hit Right Leg (5/20 armor remaining)! Unknown Light BattleMech - Fires Machine Gun at Hoplite (4 Gunnery + 0 range + 2 movement + 1 enemy movement = 7): rolled 9, hit Right Arm (3/18 armor remaining)! - Fires Machine Gun at Hoplite (4 Gunnery + 0 range + 2 movement + 1 enemy movement = 7): rolled 10, hit Left Leg (19/26 armor remaining)! Talos #1 - Fires Autocannon/10 at Blackjack (3 Gunnery + 0 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods = 5): rolled 3, missed! - Fires SRM-6 at Blackjack (3 Gunnery + 0 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods = 5): rolled 3, missed! Hunchback - Fires Autocannon/20 at ArchBanshee HammerMaster (3 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement = 5): rolled 7, hit Right Torso (0/30 armor, 7/20 structure remaining)! Crit! - Fires Medium Laser at ArchBanshee HammerMaster (3 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement = 5): rolled 6, hit Left Leg (16/26 armor remaining) - Fires Medium Laser at ArchBanshee HammerMaster (3 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement = 5): rolled 10, hit Right Arm (16/21 armor remaining)! BattleMaster - Torso twists to threaten hex 1724! - Fires ER PPC at Sentinel (3 Gunnery + 0 range + 2 movement + 2 enemy movement = 7): rolled 9, hit Left Leg (0/10 armor remaining)! - Fires ER PPC at ArchBanshee HammerMaster (3 Gunnery + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + [0] secondary target = 5): rolled 8, hit Left Leg (6/26 armor remaining)! Shooting End Phase Talos #1 - Must pass a piloting test or fall (5 Piloting - 1 Easy to Pilot + 1 massive damage +3 gyro damage = 8): rolled 7, fails! - Must pass a piloting test to avoid pilot damage (5 Piloting - 1 Easy to Pilot + 1 massive damage +3 gyro damage = 8): rolled 10, succeeds! - - Talos #1 falls on its back in hex 1718 facing (rolled 1) original facing. Suffers 5 damage in the fall to Rear Left Torso (6/12 structure remaining)! Crit! - - - Talos #1 suffers a Critical Chance in Left Torso: rolled 10, 2 critical hits sustained! - - - Automatic upper: rolled 3, SRM-6 ammo hit! 2x Pilot hits! - - - Automatic upper: rolled 1, SRM-6 destroyed! - Talos #1 suffers an SRM-6 ammunition explosion for 108 damage in Left Torso (0/20 armor, 0/12 structure remaining)! Left torso destroyed! Left arm blown off! - - - 94 damage transfers to Center Torso (0/22 armor, 0/16 structure remaining)! ’Mech destroyed! 74 damage vented harmlessly! ArchBanshee HammerMaster - Must pass a piloting test or fall (5 Piloting + 1 massive damage = 6): rolled 7, succeeds! Melee Phase BattleMaster - Kicks ArchBanshee HammerMaster (3 Piloting + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement - 2 kick = 3): rolled 6, hit Right Arm (0/21 armor, 15/16 structure remaining)! Crit! - - ArchBanshee HammerMaster suffers a critical chance in Right Arm: rolled 8, 1 critical hit sustained! - - - Rolled 3: upper. Rolled 1: right shoulder hit! Melee End Phase - Must pass a piloting test or fall (5 Piloting + 1 massive damage + 0 kicked = 6): rolled 7, succeeds! Heat Phase Mongoose (Player) - Gains 20 heat, sinks [22]! Sentinel (Player) - Gains 6 heat, sinks [12]! Blackjack (Player) - Gains 26 heat, sinks [20]! Overheating! Hoplite (Player) - Gains 10 heat, sinks [18]! ArchBanshee HammerMaster (Ally) - Gains 25 heat, sinks [27]! Unknown Light BattleMech - Gains 2 heat, sinks [14]! Talos #1 - Gains 9 heat, sinks [12]! Hunchback - Gains 14 heat, sinks [15]! BattleMaster - Gains 32 heat, sinks [36]! End Phase Next Turn’s Movement Phase:   Map Link Objectives Primary Objective - Capture at least one Fake (Complete!) - Defeat or drive off the Fake SLDF (3/5) Secondary Objective - Colonel Wendigo survives (0/1) - Recover the enemy BattleMaster with cockpit intact (0/1) Player Status:     Ally Status:  OpForce Status:      Special Rules Bitter Cold: BattleMechs dissipate 2 additional heat per turn. Ejecting pilots suffer 1 automatic pilot damage.
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Mongoose Those back attacks are lethal! That's Talos #2 (or 1 I guess) down thanks to a lucky ammo explosion, and the poor Falcon losing its Gyro to out Hoplite. Speaking of the Falcon, does that quality as a captive for us? Or do we need to take one of the two remaining mechs alive for it to count? Either way, I'm ready to continue my role as the madlad who's shooting people's spines out. I can get behind the enemy Battlemaster if I sprint, landing in either 1924 or 1824. I really, really want to get directly behind it for that sweet back attack, but I confess I'm slightly worried about it turning around and punching my head off or something. I don't really have a plan beyond that, but getting behind them would make it really easy for me to continue nipping at their heels for the rest of the fight. Oh and uh, advice for our Blackjack. You're in a really bad spot, please take cover as best you can
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The player team rolls are decidedly murderous this match, that's not that much OPFOR remaining up and about.
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sentinel Gotta figure out positioning but I’m gonna continue my plan of attack. I don’t think our friend is going to survive regardless, though
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Nov 2, 2023 02:39
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So I think if I post up on 1612, I should be shooting from a high enough position to pass over the trees in 1717/18? Unless the enemy battlemaster is actually hiding out in the trees themselves?
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Go Goonlance go! How would they qualify as capturing the Battlemaster's cockpit intact?
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wedgekree posted:How would they qualify as capturing the Battlemaster's cockpit intact? They'd have to take it out without structural damage, which is tricky since BattleMasters have a certain negative quirk.
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If they get two separate melee attacks on it in the same round, could they treat it like a Thanksgiving wishbone?
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the fiddliest bonus objective is complete 
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The only suggestion I have when it comes to capturing the Battle Master is that maybe I could try and knock it down with a kick to the back? I guess we only need the cockpit intact, but it seems like it would be pretty easy to accidentally land a shot to the head at one point or another, and I'm not sure if blowing up the center torso would leave that intact or not
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Nov 2, 2023 04:26
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The objective is to kill it without headcapping it.
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Does the "Colonel Wendigo survives" secondary include the case of punching out? Because I get the feeling the next turn is going to end up with another ammo explosion, even if we happen to pop the other 2 mechs.
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might be some issues with the "punching out" idea
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the colonel has lived a long and presumably full life, so we should accept his apparent battle strategy of "aggressively facing away from the only surviving enemies on the map" for what it is and take this opportunity to start marking plans for the funeral. do you think he will have wanted lilacs?
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It's an ammo explosion kind of day
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Nick Buntline posted:the colonel has lived a long and presumably full life, so we should accept his apparent battle strategy of "aggressively facing away from the only surviving enemies on the map" for what it is and take this opportunity to start marking plans for the funeral. do you think he will have wanted lilacs? Yeah, he definitely has a death wish. The players should probably assume that particular secondary objective is a wash.
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He's a useful distraction, I'll give him that much. Also holy poo poo those criticals.
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Wow those dice. i got beyond lucky. Now the question is: the hunchback or the battlemaster first? I would also like to request a LOS check. Does the hunchback have one forest in the way, or two, shooting at 1815? It looks like it clips 1816 but I can't really tell.
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glwgameplayer posted:Mongoose The good news is both those hexes are outside the hunchback's arc! it can't bring the big gun to bear there. The bad news is the battlemaster's ppc's are ER versions with no minimum and the short goes out to seven. The good news is, they're arm mounted, so they won't be able to punch and shoot you. The bad news is you're probably taking at least one to the (preferrably not) face if you go there, maybe get another +1 from secondary target, and maybe it takes aim at the sentinel instead of you. I think i agree going for a speedy close is probaly the way to go, though. Gwaihir posted:So I think if I post up on 1612, I should be shooting from a high enough position to pass over the trees in 1717/18? Unless the enemy battlemaster is actually hiding out in the trees themselves? its not often you get to take a ranging shot like that on 7's. I don't think they can maneuver out of it, either, in a way you can't fix with a step to 1211. That hill to your left has a pretty wide range field of fire. I think I pretty much know my move, and I'm gonna try to get their attention(both), and give you room to work. 1815 gets me at medium/long range from the big guns, and thats all i can ask right now. TheParadigm fucked around with this message at 10:02 on Nov 2, 2023 |
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If everyone starts firing on those two mech, they may break off their attacks on the colonel. I wouldn't count him out necessarily as long as you press that attack.
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I’m obviously going to triple engine crit the battlemaster in the rct next turn, duh
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Archhammwr has gotten so drat lucky so far
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Mongoose So, I know it's risky. But I think I'm going to do as I said and attack the Battlemaster point-blank from the back. I think between the two of us we can either finish it or cripple it, and since we're attacking from the back we won't damage the head.
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glwgameplayer posted:Mongoose You can hit the head exactly as much from the back as you can from the front - it's always a 12 on the hit location tables (except for punches and kicks).
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does attacking the battlemaster from 2127 give me both back arc and over the trees?
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Captain Foo posted:does attacking the battlemaster from 2127 give me both back arc and over the trees? I think it goes around the forest entirely, and it's definitely back arc.
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biosterous posted:might be some issues with the "punching out" idea Welp.
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Just means he has to punch harder
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You should look on the bright side of life: when he takes a couple of ammo explosions this round, it'll only only bring him to a total of five wounds and then he won't take a last fatal one from the auto eject in horrible weather because he hasn't got an autoeject feature, so he'll
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Captain Foo posted:does attacking the battlemaster from 2127 give me both back arc and over the trees? Sentinel Orders in
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Yeah I'm not going to be able to hit anything this turn regardless so I'm just going to start climbing up this hill to get a good firing position for next turn. Dear god I wish we could tear out 2 of the heatsinks on this bucket and add 4 jumpjets instead. A pokey 4/6 is just absolute murder to get around with when there's so much elevation to deal with in the terrain.
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Still waiting on orders, I'm afraid. If I don't have them by the end of the day I'll update anyway.
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If you tell me who you need orders for I can submit as the alternate.
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blackjack orders are in! Was there someone else besides me that still needs orders?
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Dragon’s Teeth 3-8 Prodigal tried not to think too hard about what she was doing—and not just because she was breaching doctrine. Standard procedure for SLDF light Mechwarriors confronted with an enemy assault ‘Mech was to withdraw and call in heavier support. Some heavyweight missile boats like the venerable Archer may have been valid targets for a light lance but no assault ‘Mech was considered safe for any lance with an average weight under 70 tons to engage. The firepower difference was just too telling, especially since even a glancing blow could cripple her 25 ton Mongoose. That she was plowing through a half-meter of powdered snow straight towards not only an assault ‘Mech, but one of the SLDF’s premier battle wagons would’ve had her academy instructors screaming at her and forcibly shutting down the simulator pods—yet the only sound ringing in her ears was her own heartbeat. At least it seemed reasonably fixated on the pirate Franken-Banshee it and the Hunchback were slowly butchering. Nor was its armor pristine, although getting a close look at its frontal plates was a bit disheartening. It bore the scars of several PPC hits and at least one missile salvo, but the dull gleam of unbreached ceramet still shone behind the scars. Even if the whole lance concentrated their fire, they weren’t getting through that front armor before the BattleMaster finished at least one of them. That meant the thinner rear armor was the only way to go—something she was grateful to see Ironhead had realized—even if the gaping rents in Ironhead’s armor were disheartening. The BattleMaster’s pilot was too skilled to just ignore a flanker. She dropped its crosshairs onto a back already pockmarked with autocannon shell craters, choosing the largest cluster of dents and divots she could find and hovering there. Even the rear armor didn’t show any signs of a true breach; but she was certain it had been weakened. Ironhead was too skilled with that light autocannon to have bounced every shell. The white dot at the center of her targeting reticle pulsed a lock, and she fired—then breathed a sigh of relief as her large laser melted a hole the size of an strong infantryman in full field kit in the BattleMaster’s back. It didn’t explode spectacularly the way the Talos had. It barely even flinched, despite the way her laser carved into the BattleMaster’s structural supports. Instead, it swung, nearly backhanding her with the barrel of its PPC—a barrel she found herself staring down a moment later. The sudden but intensely angry glow of the PPC’s charging coils gave her a split-second of real warning; and Prodigal twisted in place. Rather than shooting her Mongoose square in the face, the BattleMaster caught her in the left shoulder and knocked the Mongoose reeling. Her status board caught fire, at first figuratively but then literally as the PPC’s charged particle beam carved through the Mongoose’s structural supports and shorted diagnostic sensors. A quick puff of the cockpit’s automatic fire suppression systems extinguished the blown monitor; but still left her in the dark about how badly she’d been hit. She tentatively swung her ‘Mech’s left arm back as counterweight for a kick, and the noise alone told her it was bad. Whatever structure she had left was strained nearly to the breaking point just trying to keep that arm attached. “Just wait, you bastard,” Prodigal murmured. “We’ll get you yet.”  Movement Phase [n/a] Shooting Phase Mongoose (Player) - Fires ER Large Laser at BattleMaster (4 Gunnery + 0 range + [1] movement + 1 enemy movement = 6): Rolled 11, hit Rear Right Torso (0/8 armor, 13/18 structure remaining)! Crit! - - BattleMaster suffers a critical chance in Right Torso: rolled 6, no critical hits sustained! - Fires Small Laser at BattleMaster (4 Gunnery + 0 range + [1] movement + 1 enemy movement = 6): rolled 6, hit Left Leg (9/26 armor remaining)! - Fires Medium Laser at BattleMaster (4 Gunnery + 0 range + [1] movement + 1 enemy movement = 6): rolled 5, missed! - Fires Medium Laser at BattleMaster (4 Gunnery + 0 range + [1] movement + 1 enemy movement = 6): rolled 5, missed! Sentinel (Player) - Torso-twists to threaten hex 2126! - Fires Ultra AC/5 [Ultra] at BattleMaster (4 Gunnery + 0 range + 2 movement + 1 enemy movement = 7): rolled 7, with a cluster roll of 5: 1 shell hit Rear Left Torso (1/8 armor remaining)! - Fires Streak SRM-2 at BattleMaster (4 Gunnery + 2 range + 2 movement + 1 enemy movement = 9): rolled 9, 2 missiles automatically hit Rear Right Torso (11/18 structure remaining (Crit!)), Rear Right Torso (9/18 armor remaining (Crit!))! - - BattleMaster suffers a critical chance in Right Torso: rolled 8, 1 critical hit sustained! - - - Automatic upper. Rolled 4, Medium Laser destroyed! - - BattleMaster suffers a critical chance in Right Torso: rolled 4, no critical hits sustained! Blackjack (Player) - Fires Medium Laser at BattleMaster (4 Gunnery + 4 range + 1 movement + 1 enemy movement + 2 light woods + 1 heat = 13): automatic miss! - Fires Medium Laser at Hunchback (4 Gunnery + 4 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 2 light woods + 1 secondary target + 1 heat = 13): automatic miss! - Fires Flamer at Hex 1717 (4 Gunnery + 0 range + 1 movement - 4 target hex + 2 secondary target + 1 heat = 4): rolled 6, hit! - - Blackjack attempts to start an intentional fire in hex 1717: rolled 5, succeeded! - - - Determining permanent wind direction: rolled 5! Hoplite (Player) - Holds fire! ArchBanshee HammerMaster (Ally) - Torso-twists to threaten hex 2020! - Fires PPC at Hunchback (3 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 minimum range = 6): rolled 9, hit Left Torso (5/20 armor remaining)! Hunchback - Torso-twists to threaten hex 1922! - Fires Autocannon/20 at ArchBanshee HammerMaster (3 base + 0 range + 1 movement + 1 enemy movement = 5): rolled 8, hit Right Arm (0/16 structure remaining)! Right arm blown off! - - 5 damage transfers to Right Torso (2/20 structure remaining)! Crit! - - ArchBanshee HammerMaster suffers a critical chance in Right Torso: rolled 6, no critical hit sustained! - Fires Medium Laser at ArchBanshee HammerMaster (3 base + 0 range + 1 movement + 1 enemy movement = 5): rolled 10, hit Rear Right Torso (0/20 structure remaining)! Right torso destroyed! - - 3 damage transfers to Rear Center Torso (14/17 armor remaining)! - Fires Small Laser at ArchBanshee HammerMaster (3 base + 0 range + 1 movement + 1 enemy movement = 5): rolled 7, hit Rear Center Torso (11/17 armor remaining)! - Fires Medium Laser at Mongoose (3 base + 0 range + 1 movement + 2 enemy movement + 1 secondary target = 7): Rolled 10, hit Left Torso (5/10 armor remaining)! BattleMaster - Torso twists to threaten hex 1822! - Fires ER PPC at Blackjack (3 Gunnery + 2 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 2 light woods = 9): rolled 8, missed! - Fires ER PPC at Mongoose (3 Gunnery + 0 range + 2 movement + 2 enemy movement + [0] secondary target = 7): rolled 7, hit Left Torso (0/10 armor, 1/6 structure remaining)! Crit! - - Mongoose suffers a critical chance in Left Torso: rolled 6, no critical hit sustained! Shooting End Phase ArchBanshee HammerMaster - Must pass a piloting test or fall (5 Piloting + 1 massive damage = 6): rolled 8, succeeds! BattleMaster - Must pass a piloting test or fall (3 Piloting + 1 massive damage = 4): rolled 12, succeeds! Melee Phase Mongoose - Kicks BattleMaster (4 Piloting + 2 movement + 1 enemy movement - 2 kick = 5): rolled 8, hit Right Leg (19/26 armor remaining)! Melee End Phase BattleMaster - Must pass a piloting test or fall (3 Piloting + 1 massive damage + 0 kicked = 4): rolled 6, succeeds! Heat Phase Mongoose (Player) - Gains 20 heat, sinks [22]! Sentinel (Player) - Gains 6 heat, sinks [12]! Blackjack (Player) - Gains 10 heat, sinks [20]! Overheating! Hoplite (Player) - Gains 10 heat, sinks [18]! ArchBanshee HammerMaster (Ally) - Gains 25 heat, sinks [27]! Unknown Light BattleMech - Gains 2 heat, sinks [14]! Talos #1 - Gains 9 heat, sinks [12]! Hunchback - Gains 14 heat, sinks [15]! BattleMaster - Gains 32 heat, sinks [36]! End Phase Next Turn’s Movement Phase:  Map Link Objectives Primary Objective - Capture at least one Fake (Complete!) - Defeat or drive off the Fake SLDF (3/5) Secondary Objective - Colonel Wendigo survives (0/1) - Recover the enemy BattleMaster with cockpit intact (0/1) Player Status:   Ally Status:  OpForce Status:   Special Rules Bitter Cold: BattleMechs dissipate 2 additional heat per turn. Ejecting pilots suffer 1 automatic pilot damage.
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Oh, it's all happening now! Colonel's lost both PPCs, so he doesn't have any good weapons left. Rampart needs to shoot the Battlemaster. That right torso is looking weak. A few more hits and it'll be kaboom time!
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I was gonna start working on the hunchback! However, I just noticed I can get to 1921 and put everything in the battlemaster's back. Maybe we go for a forced shutdown from heat to end things off? Hopefully aided by an engine crit or two? But, we might want to finish the hunchie first, in case they decide to do 'no survivors' and turn on the battlemaster rather than let it get captured.
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Mongoose I knew I was playing with fire, so I can’t really complain about being burned. But also owwwww! As I’ve now joined the pixel health club, I would prefer to stay out of the line of Fire this turn. Shooting the Hunchback in the back would mean I would have to start working on an entirely new angle of attack, so my best bet is to continue shooting the Battlemaster with you fine folks. Not sure where would be safest for me, I was considering the woods in 2221 or 2322, I think the Hunchie could turn and shoot me from there, but I’d be out of it’s ideal range at least.
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