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Volmarias posted:
They've actually got me beaten, it's just a question as to how much damage I can do before they win next round.
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Feb 25, 2022 03:15
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Yeah taking out that Spite eased up the pressure a lot. But we still have that practically untouched Avenger Ultra and the rest of his entourage to contend with.
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Feb 25, 2022 04:48
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Be honest here, PTN, you’re having a blast aren’t you.
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Feb 25, 2022 05:09
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Giant robot shotguns are pretty satisfying, yeah.
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Back Hack posted:Be honest here, PTN, you’re having a blast aren’t you. Lucky crits on both sides! Whats carceri do?
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TheParadigm posted:Lucky crits on both sides! Imprisons everything in sensors and line of sight. It's incredibly mean. Imprison does double damage to targets that have already been imprisoned, if it had gone before the Everest had cleared Exposed it would've done 20 damage outright if the Everest failed the save. PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 07:23 on Feb 25, 2022 |
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It was a lucky kill, too. ~30% chance, else we'd have needed to burn through 20 more HP.
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Lancer Interlude: Round 5 – Turn 2 A roiling cloud of nanites enveloped Triada’s Black Witch, clinging to its outer armor and partially phasing it into another reality. She barely had time to twist as a pair of meter-long claws flashed out of the murk towards her mech. The Black Witch twisted, its hand never breaking contact with the Mag Field, and the swipe rent a chasm in the facility’s floor almost deep enough for an unarmored man to take cover in. For the scantest moment, she saw a single baleful eye watching her from the gloom before her attacker faded back into its cloud of ravening microbots and vanished from her sight. Movement Map  Last Turn Correction Black Witch - [Mag Parry] reaction: rolls 3! Combat Swallowtail (Player) - [Protocol] [Free Action] Move Hive Drone to 1321! - [Quick Tech] Invade Puppet Systems vs. Avenger - - Rolls (5 + 4 = 9) vs. E-Def and missed! - [Quick Tech] Hurl into the Duat vs. Avenger - - Rolls (5 + 12 = 17) vs. E-Def and hit! Avenger stunned until the end of their next turn! - [Overcharge] to gain a Quick Action as a Free Action, gains (1d6? = 3) heat - [Quick Tech][Free Action] Invade Fragment Signal vs. Avenger - - Rolls (5 + 9 = 14) vs. E-Def and hit, Avenger gains 2 heat, Avenger impaired! Lurker - Must pass a hull test vs. save target 15: (3 base + 19 roll = 22): succeeds! - [Protocol][Free Action] Creates a Shroud Zone centered in hex 1718! - [Quick Action] Umbral Shift, teleports to Shroud Zone Hex 1718! - [Skirmish] on Black Witch with Ripper Claws - - Rolls (0 base + 3 = 3) vs. Evasion 12 and missed! Active Map  Primary Objective 1 - Open the Exterior Blast Door - - Exit your mech and hack the door using the computer in 0923 (Complete!) Primary Objective 2 - Open the Interior Blast Door - - Exit your mech and hack the door using the computer in 2404 (0/1) - - Deal 20 damage to interior door (0/20) Alternative Objective - Defeat Most Enemies (7/12) Waiting Players     Activated Players Waiting NPCs    Activated NPC(s) 
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Feb 25, 2022 23:53
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I would 100% buy a PTN Battletech book if it came out, but I also am not sure I'd like it because I think my preferences have changed since my prime Battletech-reading days. At this point though I think I would really, really enjoy a PTN Lancer book. Just saying. If you want to make a "pay me extra to convince me to write a book" Patreon tier or something.
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PTN's fluff writing has always been grand, and I would also absolutely buy a battletech book authored by him. I'll admit to having very little idea what's going on during this Lancer interlude but the fluff keeps me coming back.
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Sent my orders in and while that's percolating:Volmarias posted:
PoptartsNinja posted:They've actually got me beaten, it's just a question as to how much damage I can do before they win next round. Conspiratiorist posted:Yeah taking out that Spite eased up the pressure a lot. We're burning a lot of resources (multiple core powers, several structure points, etc.) - this is a pretty nasty encounter with multiple high damage threats and a good support setup. However, two key principles of Lancer campaigns are: 1) It's 'fail forward' - the PCs are not expected to win every sitrep or every mission. The full game has some narrative tools to enable the game to move forward even when you don't assume the PCs win. Those don't apply so much in a one-shot format but what's important is to remember that despite the PCs being a 1:1 overmatch against even strong NPCs, the game is set up so that those strong PCs are at increasing risk over the course of a mission. A cannon shot to the face in the third sitrep is a lot scarier than in the first one because... 2) It's attritional - the PCs start off very, very strong with full resources and then the risks get larger and larger as those resources are depleted. Every hp, structure, stress, weapon mount, and system loss eats your repair cap between fights and eventually you have to decide what to fix. So we're not quite there yet (particularly because that Spite blowing up was pretty clutch, that would have some serious hurt) but certainly enroute. The mark of  time in Lancer is when you are going into the last sitrep of a mission and you just don't have enough repair cap to be in fighting shape; like you're choosing between having no guns or rolling multiple "this blows you up if you roll a 1 here" dice the first time you get hit. We'll see if PTN manages to throw out enough hurt to push the team over that line before we win.
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Lancer Interlude: Round 5 – Turn 3 A resounding explosion shook the complex as the mag field collapsed, sending every shell embedded in its membranous surface ricocheting around its interior for a few seconds. Every shot, every chipped armor plate, everything even remotely ferrous was turned into a projectile and thrown against the Mag Field’s occupants. The bounty hunter was shredded in seconds, the little scout lasted a few moments longer. The Avenger strode out of the smoke, its body dripping an ablative nanite shroud. At least the pilot seemed distracted, it didn’t reach for its shotgun or level its pistol anyone’s way. Instead, the auto-turret on its shoulder opened fire again, striking sparks from Triada’s armor and tearing through Charlotte’s Pegasus. Guilty as it made him feel, Frank breathed a sigh of relief. The turret had stitched a line of holes in the floor near his feet, but hadn’t managed to tag him in the gloom. Movement Map  Combat Black Witch (Player) - [Skirmish] with Impact Lance vs. Lurker, Avenger and Thermal Pistol vs. Avenger. - - Must roll a 4+ to bypass Lurker’s invisibility: rolled 1, failed! - - Impact Lance vs. Avenger (+1 difficulty [impaired]) rolls (4 base + 5 roll - 3 difficulty = 6) vs. Evasion 5 [stunned target], hit for (1d6 = (2 / 2 [resistance] = 1)) energy damage, applies Exemplar’s Mark to Avenger. Gains 1 blademaster die. - - Thermal Pistol vs. Avenger (+3 difficulty [engaged, soft cover, impaired]) rolls (4 base + 11 roll - 2 difficulty = 13) vs. Evasion 5, hit for (2 / 2 [resistance] = 1) energy damage! - [Quick Action] Ferrous Lash vs. Avenger - - Avenger is Stunned and automatically fails the save, pulled to hex 2014! - - - Avenger collides with the Strider in hex 2014, movement ends in hex 1915. Avenger falls prone! - [Free Action] expends a Blademaster die to Feint vs. Lurker, ignoring engagement - [Moves] to 1420! Mag Field - Collapses, dealing (6d6 = 22) kinetic damage to all occupants! - - Attacks Scout (6 base + 18 roll = 24) vs. Eva ?, hit (0/2 structure, 0/8 hp remaining)! Scout destroyed! [Avenger] - [Revenge] triggers, Avenger gains Overshield 12, +5 base damage, and +1 accuracy on all attacks)! - - Attacks Lotus Drone (6 base + 14 roll = 20) vs. Eva 10, Drone destroyed! - - Attacks Strider (6 base + 15 roll = 21) vs Eva ?, hit (0/12 hp remaining)! Strider destroyed! [Avenger] - [Endless Revenge] triggers, Avenger gains +5 Overshield - - Attacks Avenger (6 base + 9 roll = 15) vs. Eva 5, suffers (22 / 2 [resistance] (Origin hex 2115 is within range 3) damage (6/17 Overshield remaining)! Avenger - [Juggernaut] the Ultra clears the Stunned condition! - [Move] Stands up in hex 1814! - [Boost] to hex 1413! - [Skirmish] with Ravager Turret! - - Ravager Turret vs. Swallowtail (+1 accuracy (Revenge))! - - - Must roll a 4+ to bypass Swallowtail’s invisibility: rolls 3, fails! - - Ravager Turret vs. Black Witch (+1 accuracy (Revenge)) rolls (2 base + 15 roll + 2 accuracy = 19) vs Evasion 12, hit for (11 / 2 resistance = 6 - 1 armor = 5) kinetic damage (10/18 hp remaining)! - - Ravager Turret vs. Hive Drone (+1 accuracy (Revenge)) rolls (2 base + 9 roll + 3 accuracy = 14) vs Evasion 10 (0/5 hp remaining)! Drone destroyed! - - Ravager Turret vs. Pegasus (+1 accuracy (Revenge)) rolls (2 base + 16 roll + 6 accuracy =24 ) vs Evasion 11 and crit for (11 + (1d6 = 3) deadly = 14) kinetic damage (3/4 structure, 7/18 hp remaining)! Pegasus - Rolls (1d6 = 5) on the structure damage table and suffers a Glancing Blow, Pegasus is impaired until the end of its next turn! Active Map  Primary Objective 1 - Open the Exterior Blast Door - - Exit your mech and hack the door using the computer in 0923 (Complete!) Primary Objective 2 - Open the Interior Blast Door - - Exit your mech and hack the door using the computer in 2404 (0/1) - - Deal 20 damage to interior door (0/20) Alternative Objective - Defeat Most Enemies (10/12) Waiting Players  Activated Players  Waiting NPCs Activated NPC(s) 
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PoptartsNinja posted:Mag Field Send the House of Smoke Triada's regards.
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Speaking of the KTB, looks like the Field Guide supplement has is moving closer toward production: https://twitter.com/Orbitaldropkick/status/1500580190459678730?s=20&t=oNRAUHFzKBSXidwycEwQrw
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Lancer Interlude: Round 5 – Turn 4 “Automated repair systems activated,” Charlotte announced, as she skittered behind a pillar her Pegasus had already memorized the location of and into a little harder cover. It took a few moments for the nanites to switch her armor back together, but most importantly they replaced the wires that had been damaged by the scout’s optical attack. Ushabti voiced its displeasure as soon as the sensors it parasitized started feeding it clear data again. Its shots sparked off the Avenger’s armor, but the thinning nano-shroud the enemy mech still sported filled in the damage almost immediately. Charlotte glared at it. “Your backup’s mostly gone, pirate,” she muttered to herself. “What are you going to do now?” Movement Map  Combat Pegasus (Player) - [Full Round Action] Stabilize - [Moves] to 1120! - [Free Action] Ushabti hits Avenger for 1 k ap damage (5 overshield remaining)! - [Free Action] Ushabti hits Avenger for 1 k ap damage (4 overshield remaining)! - [Free Action] Ushabti hits Avenger for 1 k ap damage (3 overshield remaining)! Active Map  Primary Objective 1 - Open the Exterior Blast Door - - Exit your mech and hack the door using the computer in 0923 (Complete!) Primary Objective 2 - Open the Interior Blast Door - - Exit your mech and hack the door using the computer in 2404 (0/1) - - Deal 20 damage to interior door (0/20) Alternative Objective - Defeat Most Enemies (10/12) Waiting Players  Activated Players Waiting NPCs Activated NPC(s) PTN’s note: Sorry for the delay, I didn’t get player orders until yesterday and then had a major 3D printer issue to clean up before it could cause any damage. If they're paying attention, the players have a chance to win this instantly at the start of Round 6, without me getting a chance to act again. 
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Lancer Interlude: Round 6 – Turn 1 Homage to thee, Osiris, Lord of eternity, King of the Gods, whose names are manifold, whos forms are holy, though being of hidden form in the temples, whose Ka is holy. Thou art a shining Spirit-Body, the governor of Spirit-Bodies; permanent is thy rank, established is thy rule. Thou art the well-doing Sekhem of the Company of the Gods, gracious is thy face, and beloved by him that see it. Thy fear is set in all the lands by reason of thy perfect love, and they cry out to thy name making it the first of names, and all people make offerings to thee. The Swallowtail’s NHP casket sang with incomprehensible noise as the self-important entity within leapt to respond to one of Frank’s orders—nay, requests. The thrumming vibration shook the little scout mech to the core as OSIRIS tensed its shackles near to the breaking point. Hail, O ye who make perfect souls to enter into the House of Osiris, make ye the well-instructed soul of the Osiris the scribe Ani, whose word is true, to enter in and to be with you in the House of Osiris. Let him hear even as ye hear; let him have sight even as ye have sight; let him stand up even as ye stand up; let him take his seat even as ye take your seats. “Liturgicode activated. And shall this day open the fourth gate,” OSIRIS recited emotionlessly, oblivious to the rising chorus that surrounded its physical shell. “And all mine friends shall dine in the House of Osiris!” Frank’s stomach did a flip as the whole universe seemed to do a flip on itself—and then nothing changed. OSIRIS’s casket went deadly silent, its occupant resting in its coded shackles. Frank scowled. One time in four, Osiris made a grand show of doing nothing at all. Another failure, just as disappointing as the first time it’d happened, when he and Triada had been jumped by a Trade Barony hit squad. “Get clear, Frank—you’re too close xenotech menace!” Frank’s friend, Argodile Mosswine called out a warning. “You won’t last long if it gets you with one of its tentacles!” “Right,” Frank muttered, kicking the Swallowtail into action. As he started to scuttle away, the worst happened: a nanite tendril wrapped around the Swallowtail’s right rear leg and pulled him bodily into the scouring shroud. “drat,” Mosswine cursed as Reply All lunged into motion and charged to the attempted rescue. He stretched out a hand in an attempt to arrest Frank’s motion, but the Swallowtail’s legs were ill equipped to grab back. With no other recourse, Frank froze and let the Swallowtail’s chameleonic armor kick in in the hopes that the lurking Xenotech mech would lose him in the gloom. Movement Map  Combat Swallowtail (Player) - [Full Action] [Full Tech] Lock On to Avenger, Hurl into the Duat (4th Gate) vs Avenger, consuming Lock-On! - Locks On to Avenger - Hurl into the Duat (+1 accuracy) rolls (5 base + 7 roll + 3 accuracy = 15) vs. E-Def, hits! - - Avenger becomes an Allied NPC until the end of its next turn! - [Moves] to 1112! Lurker - [Reaction] [Overwatch] vs. Swallowtail (target moved within melee weapon threat range) - - Scouring Whip (+1 accuracy) rolls (0 base + 10 roll + 4 accuracy = 14) vs. Evasion 10, hit! Swallowtail suffers (10 / 2 Realspace Extrusion = 5) kinetic damage and is pulled into hex 1617, adjacent to the Lurker! Avenger - [Reaction] [Mimic Mesh] Trigger: An allied character (Swallowtail) within range 5 is hit by an attack made by a hostile character the Avenger can see (Lurker) - - Avenger moves to hex 1516! Swallowtail (Player) - Shredded and Impaired by Umbral Shroud! - Becomes Invisible! Lurker - [Full Action] [Barrage] with Scouring Whip vs. Swallowtail, Ripper Claws vs. Swallowtail - - Scouring Whip: Must roll a 4+ to defeat Swallowtail’s invisibility: rolls 2, fails! - - Ripper Claws: Must roll a 4+ to defeat Swallowtail’s invisibility: rolls 1, fails! PTN’s note: As a (temporarily) allied NPC, the Avenger joins the player turn rotation unless someone frees it by one of Hurl into the Duat’s provisions. The players decide when it gets to go, and Round 6 has 5 turns). As I currently have no hostile units that haven’t acted, players have free reign until the Avenger’s turn, after which (because I’ll have a hostile unit available to take an action with again) the Avenger will act again immediately. Decide what order you’re going to go and send your orders in. Killing the Lurker while the Avenger is an ally counts towards that win condition Active Map  Primary Objective 1 - Open the Exterior Blast Door - - Exit your mech and hack the door using the computer in 0923 (Complete!) Primary Objective 2 - Open the Interior Blast Door - - Exit your mech and hack the door using the computer in 2404 (0/1) - - Deal 20 damage to interior door (0/20) Alternative Objective - Defeat Most Enemies (10/[11]) Waiting Players  Activated Players  Waiting NPCs Activated NPC(s)
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What the hell is that mech
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So... the first time the 4th Gate opened, Triada was originally on the other side, and ended with her being on his?
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Artificer posted:What the hell is that mech this... is a good thread title. almost.
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Judicator65 posted:So... the first time the 4th Gate opened, Triada was originally on the other side, and ended with her being on his? Yeah 4th Gate is limited mind control basically.
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But it's Lancer, it can't be that simple, so it's shifting you into a parallel universe or rewriting the timeline such that you've always been pals, which means that from the user's POV it seems like there's a ton of buildup and then nothing happens. That was fun fluff.
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CompCon posted:OSIRIS proved far more capable than the Union Science Bureau’s most imaginative blue-sky predictions. Where INSTINCT’s Others demonstrated tendencies toward paracausal entropic manifestation in real space, OSIRIS displayed a true mastery of entropic manifestation and a predicted growth model that would – eventually – allow them to fundamentally reject conventional interpretations of information permanence. In essence: unrestrained and allowed to develop as USB’s data indicated, OSIRIS Prime would have the capacity to delete what we perceive to be reality. OSIRIS deleted an IsEnemy() tag from reality itself.
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Are you sure it wasn't Orisis?PoptartsNinja posted:“Liturgicode activated. And shall this day open the fourth gate,” Orisis recited emotionlessly
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JackSplater posted:Are you sure it wasn't Orisis? Dude don't point out Osiris's mistakes you're gonna get us aAAAA@@@111B)(}:"{LLD))))&%^*#
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Yo PTN, Ace Darwin has another adventure in the issue of Shrapnel that dropped today.
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Lancer Interlude: Round 6 – Turn 2 Triada wasn’t sure her plan would work. Stretching out with the Black Witch’s magnetic lensing. She caught something, then felt nothing, no response from her magnetics. Normally she’d have assumed the other ‘Mech had managed to free itself and released her magnetic grip to try again; but nothing about this mech was particularly normal. Triada pulled anyway, and dragged the struggling Lurker from its cloud of protective nanites. She slammed it into a support pillar and opened fire. The Lurker reeled and shed armor plating and nanites like blood even before her impact lance hit it. As it started to reform its cloud, she put a shot into it from her pistol for good measure. Before it faded from view, she got a good look at the grounded Lurker clutching at the hole she’d bored through its chest. “Looks like it’s having trouble regenerating from that,” she sneered. “Good.” Movement Map  Combat Black Witch (Player) - [Quick Tech] Ferrous Lash on Lurker - - Lurker must pass an Agility (3 base + 5 roll = 8) vs. Save Target 15, fails! - - Lurker pulled to hex 1820, strikes an obstacle in hex 1820 and falls prone on hex 1720! - [Skirmish] with Impact Lance and Thermal Pistol vs. Lurker - - Impact Lance (+1 accuracy) rolls (4 + 7 roll + 6 accuracy = 17) vs Evasion, hits for (6 + 3 = 9) unresistible energy damage! Lurker - [Reaction] Defensive Shroud, trigger: the Lurker took damage - - Deploys an Umbral Shroud centered in hex 1720! Black Witch (Player) - - Must roll a 4+ to defeat the Lurker’s invisibility: rolls 4, succeeds! - - Thermal Pistol (+1 accuracy) rolls (4 + 15 roll + 5 accuracy = 24) vs Evasion, crits for (2 / 2 Realspace Extrusion = 1) energy damage! Active Map  Primary Objective 1 - Open the Exterior Blast Door - - Exit your mech and hack the door using the computer in 0923 (Complete!) Primary Objective 2 - Open the Interior Blast Door - - Exit your mech and hack the door using the computer in 2404 (0/1) - - Deal 20 damage to interior door (0/20) Alternative Objective - Defeat Most Enemies (10/[11]) Waiting Players Activated Players Waiting NPCs Activated NPC(s)
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Lancer Interlude: Round 6 – Turn 3 The lurker’s form faded away as the Ushabti kept chewing away at it, until finally it simply vanished without a trace, taking its cloying nanite clouds with it. “That was not as easy as I’d hoped,” She admitted. “Yeah, that was rougher than I thought it’d be,” Cap’n drawled, holding his pistol in a ready grip. “You guys nearly got plastered before I could get into position.” “Your mech’s a slow starter,” Frank grumbled. Frank was always grumbling, Cap’n just laughed. “I’ll guard the entranceway so you can get in and recover the printer.” Movement Map  Combat Pegasus (Player) - [Skirmish] Smartgun vs. Umbral Shroud / Oracle LMG-I w/ Zero In (+1 Accuracy, +1 Difficulty) vs. Lurker - - Smartgun rolls (4 base + 7 roll = 11) vs. Evasion 10, Shroud Zone dissipates! - - Oracle LMG-I rolls (4 base + 13 roll = 17) vs. Evasion, hits for (2 / 2 Resistance = 1) kinetic damage! - Ushabti Omnigun hits Lurker for 1 unresistible damage! - Ushabti Omnigun hits Lurker for 1 unresistible damage! - Ushabti Omnigun hits Lurker for 1 unresistible damage! Lurker destroyed! Active Map [N/A] Primary Objective 1 - Open the Exterior Blast Door - - Exit your mech and hack the door using the computer in 0923 (Complete!) Primary Objective 2 - Open the Interior Blast Door - - Exit your mech and hack the door using the computer in 2404 (0/1) - - Deal 20 damage to interior door (0/20) Alternative Objective - Defeat Most Enemies (11/[11]) Waiting Players Activated Players Waiting NPCs Activated NPC(s) Player Victory! PTN’s note: And that’s mission complete! With the Avenger converted and no enemies left, it doesn’t get a turn so it can’t revert back into an enemy combat unit. That’s probably exactly how I’d roll with that in an actual campaign, too. Building up to the 4th gate is tricky and landing it on the last or second-to-last enemy mech is hardly a guarantee. Plus it means there’s an NPC to ‘guard the base’ or who you can trot out for important missions, or who can even serve as a backup NPC if someone decides to CASTIGATE THE ENEMIES OF THE GODHEAD a bit too hard. The other way the players could’ve won would’ve been blasting through the interior bunker door. It wouldn’t have been easy but with a little luck I believe the Everest could have done that solo in a single turn.
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Good job, team! Was there any compelling reason that you decided to slug it out versus going after the door or hacking it open?
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 The Spite was a big problem so dealing with it took priority. After that, I was eyeing the blast door with a 3d6+4 plus 2d6+4 double skirmish. Hacking it open would've taken an additional round, since Disembarking is a Full Action, leaving no actions free to interact with the console, but it was an option if we needed more shooting since Nana could disembark close enough while ASURA took over the Everest. Another plan was to trap the Avenger behind a Stasis Barrier, but with PTN's determination that WOLOLOing counted for mission objectives, and the Mag Field deleting both the Strider and Veteran Scout, we went for just moping up the remaining Lurker.
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Podima posted:Good job, team! Mag Field is a pretty tricky core power to use effectively, so using it when presented with a big blob of very dangerous enemies was kind of a no-brainer. After that it was pretty much just a turn by turn assessment of whether we were better off fighting or breaking away. I think ultimately the Spite getting out and subsequently getting plastered, and a couple of dece rolls on the mag field attacks to blow up the scout and strider is what turned it from a group we'd rather skip to one we felt like fighting.
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Also it's probably time to show off the most op talent in the game, Greasemonkey 3, since Conspiratiorist wanted to go all in on Winning At Lancerquote:FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES Pretty disgusting just for the free repair (that's equivalent to up to 8 repair cap across the team - or 7 factoring in his Everest discount) even before you consider it reloads his ASURA and Redundant Systems Upgrade charges
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I had a friend ask about the Mechwarrior 2 intro, specifically what this logo is:  I have no idea but I figure someone here will know in about 0.25 seconds e: I should mention, I did some searching but all I came up with were people making high res versions of it so my terms are wrong or it's just made up for the game maybe? Psion fucked around with this message at 07:13 on Mar 26, 2022 |
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It almost certainly was invented for the game, all the Wolf logos from around that time are just the Wolf logo and a Greek letter.
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It's almost certainly a cadre logo, which means it's temporary and likely something a sibko of cadets is using to identify themselves. The real question is, "which Clan's logo is it"? There're four visible elements. 1) A five-pointed star. Pretty common in Clan iconography, but not universal. I see it as a training facility logo because it's large and serving as a 'mentor' to... 2) What looks to be a π 3) The obvious skull 4) A hard to see snake  It's true that the Wolves are boring as poo poo when it comes to their unit logos, but you know who isn't? The Steel Vipers. And you know who the Jade Falcons were really pissed at before and after the Refusal war? The Steel Vipers. It's a logo for Clan Steel Viper's π Training Cadre. Either that, or the artist had a sweet Skull and Snake tattoo design he snuck in because he needed a logo and most Clans didn't have individual unit logos when Mechwarrior 2 came out Edit: on closer inspection, I'm pretty sure the 'spike' on the Pi is actually the tip of the snake's tail. PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Mar 26, 2022 |
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 I knew you would answer but that's going above and beyond. This is now the canon answer as far as I'm concerned.
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I just wanted to let everyone know I'm not dead, and I'm currently working on something. I just don't have the same time to commit to playing BattleTech every week that I used to, so the current plan is to create a 3151-era Alpha Strike game in another thread. When I post that, I'll probably be closing this thread for a (hopefully temporary) hiatus while I wait to see if life is going to calm down. In the interim, the Alpha Strike thread will be at least as heavy on audience participation as this one (with more things for the audience to vote on in the downtime between missions). I'm not going to lock this thread yet, so you'll all have a chance to yell at me if you need to.
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I just wanted to yell "thanks" before it closes.
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Well, it's been a long stretch. You should get to take breaks if you want.
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