Enemy Grid

Alright Folks , we have 3 rounds , give em hell and dust off, this is just the appetizers so dont get too cocky !

rolled 7, 4, 9, 6, 4, 8 = 38

Increase speed, 1L west!
Fire rail guns, West (270 degrees), North west at 300 degrees, and at 315 degrees

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGX6vGL0GBI&feature=related

however, dont ever find an excuse to stop your blood from boiling .

"Everyone, begin closing range with the mak fleet!"

>thrust 1L West (around BF ships)
> fire Homing missile x 2 to the west, homing in on surviving targets

>>14599149
Here is my card, upgraded with shields.

I have 2 DR.

fixed positions

>>14599022
oh coool, i forgot all about OC's quest. i wonder what shenanigans-
>>14599047
gog dang. and i cant play.

>>14599192
No worries, we have battleships with area of effect weapons.
Just pick a craft that can turtle well.
I'm planning to stick behind a battleship and mop up enemies.

>Stork Squad
>ACCELERATE 4
>MOVE 4 NW
>make sure to fly bellow the allied vessel to avoid collision and allied fire, use the extra action point if necessary to do so

rolled 4, 2, 9, 4, 4, 5, 9, 3 = 40

>Wait until the Storks directly in front of me move.
>Move forwards 1 length (looks like 7 hexes).
>Fire frontal railguns directly forwards twice.
>If possible fire under or over the Storks to keep from hitting them, if they're still there.

>>14599273

>Forgot to mention, prioritize array ships if possible.

rolled 4, 3, 7, 7, 9, 10, 2, 4 = 46

>Moving 1L forwards to the west.
>Firing frontal railgun banks twice, priority targets those array ships, then anything else left over.
>Trying not to crash into or shoot at allied ships.
Please move out of the way, Garukan guys?

rolled 1, 6, 6, 2, 5, 3, 5, 7, 10 = 45

>Move up Half movement
> Wait unitl rest of fleet fires
>Whole squadron use 3 actions to fire rockets at closest wounded array ships.
>Use res of movement to take cover behind the battle ships.

Can I play?

"Package is inbound."

>Tighten up Formation to Clear Lines of Fire
>Set Velocity All Full West, Damn the Makarians
>Launch Nukes, Set to Proximity Detonation

rolled 7, 10, 6, 6, 4, 9, 6, 6, 2 = 56

>>14599459
Yep.

"Allright, Pequod crew, you ready to 'poon the Maks?"
>Move 1 speed forward
>Itano Circus the Maks 3x (missile)
>pray I won't get blasted to bits the next turn

>>14599540
How do I play?

>botting I1
> thrust 6 west
> overwatch west

Enemy Phase.

Rear line 90 percent destroyed.

Do I just say an action?

Fastest ship.
Fly to the heart of the enemy territory, the enemy flagship.
Self-destruct with all bombs.

Roll d20?

>>14599551


we're playing Naval ATM so please check
>>14597768
>>14597823

also a link to the compilation of Visual Codices if you want to join future missions:

http://www.mediafire.com/coltonzerospace

rolled 17 = 17

>>14599627
Sorry about that. here's the roll.

>>14599551
Go here
https://02.chat.mibbit.com/?url=irc%3A%2F%2Firc.rizon.net%2Fskirmishquest

ask BlackFlag (also known as OrbitalCommand) or King.

>>14599631
Join irc, you can got to mibbit.com

server is Rizon
channel is #skirmishquest

We can answer you questions there.

>>14599629
Thanks man. I'll join future missions after I read the rules.

Action Phase. Enemy Retaliation in progress...

>O1 squad destroyed
>Ezerakaria Critically damaged.
>Garuka 02 destroyed

Missile barrage incoming.

>>14599843

B1, target the center ship which I have called the command ship.

B2, fire on array ships.

Storks, full thrust forward and launch nukes at black holes, nukes set to detonate only upon destruction or when in proximity to Black hole forts.

Predators, intercept enemy missiles and fighters.

Garukans, target any array ships you can hit.

Ezarakaria, stand by for repair. Black Flag, do your thing.

Moving south 1L
Firing both EMP bombs to blow up in the center of each missile groups to the west.

rolled 5, 2, 8, 5 = 20

>Accelerate to 2 L straight West.
>Fire Mega Cannon straight West.
>Fire starboard railguns straight North.
>Reload frontal railguns.

>>14599991

If drift is taken into effect, don't accelerate, just keep drifting forwards.

>Repairing and Reloading Ezarakaria
>Continue 1L west, fire Homing missiles x 2 through the rift to the west of me. Homing in on either the command ship or the other large ship, depending on which rift they emerge from

rolled 8, 3, 10, 7, 3, 9, 9, 10, 3 = 62

Fuck the police! I'm charging ahead! YARRRRR

>going 30 deg southwest, full speed
>2 dice to shoot the missiles down
>1 overwatch for shooting whatever else may be coming my way next enemy phase

rolled 1, 3, 1, 7 = 12

>Moving 2L forwards, based on the map that was drawn, unless drift is taken into effect, in which case move 1L forwards.
>Fire Mega west.
>Fire broadside railguns south.
>Probably hit something due to drift.

>scan B2 in prep for aid next phase

this is gonna be dicey

>>14600135
Don't stop them now, they're on a roll

some one is archiving these battles for future refernce right? because i wanna see who wins tomorrow

"Special delivery in the pipe. Postman has completed his duly appointed rounds. Buggin' out."

>Stabilize
>Launching Nukes @ Nearest Black Hole, Set to Detonate at Proper Distance
>Full Speed E, GTFO

>>14600164
Yeah, it's on Suptg, like the other threads.

rolled 6, 4, 1, 4, 3, 8, 5, 4, 3, 10, 10, 9 = 67

Move full length up
>target the fighters/ bombers in front with machine guns all three actions.

>>14600141
Not a chance.

HLF Forces push forward with a triad of battleships. Each one detonating their megacannons in practiced volley.

Light warps and twists as the packed enemy forces scramble for safety.
===

>>>ENemy phase to be posted tomorrow, we Adjourne for sleep and continue to process the rest of the turns tomorrow.

>> thanks for playing.

>>14600246
It's just a three-phase game man, chillax, it'll end. Anyways, what's the beef with the game?

>>14600263

Clearly being gone for two weeks made people soft to this kind of presence.

Dont think this dies easily bruh.

alright kids, Roll Call

Hello.

>>14602858
It's almost midnight here. I'll be here in about 8 hours or more, folks. Nightynight.

Enemy Arrays have attacked.

B1 Melting down
B2 Melting down
P2 80% destroyed

Enemy Flagship has launched ZeroDivide missiles, cancelling anything it detonates out of existence.

Processing drift...

>>14603279

Hmmm...

Judging from this situation, I'd suggest it be high time to get out. But we should at least bloody their noses a bit more before fleeing. So here's my suggestions:

[I1] should move to intercept those void missiles.

[B1] and [B2] are likely lost causes. If possible, either act as shields against those void missiles, or ram that unique ship and DODing upon contact.

Cruisers can go focus fire on those things that just shot those super lasers.

And someone should go bot [P1] and have them do something useful.

>Have fun, I got a doctor's appointment.

>>14603279
For those that are here, wait for me to draw up orders before acting.


>>14603345
Ignore this guy's advice, it's terrible :P

Nukes Detonate.

Battleships collide with Zerodivide missiles, and black holes.

Postman escapes the field.

Enemy Loop Field establishing in 1 turn.

..Action Phase.

Garukans, move NW and angle so that you can use rail guns to fire at that center 'command ship'. After your shots are away, retreat from this engagement.

"I think they've noticed us, time to pull out."

>Jumping away

I think we should just be retreating now, Admiral.
We dont have time to stagger around getting in cheapshots.

>Move 1L West
>Reload
>Called shot firing missiles at Commander God's Battleship's engines
>Last action to evacuate

"Have fun with the maks, bastard."

SIr

"So the feds turned to cheap tricks did they ? "

" Millia, Prep the Jump Drive. We're done with these backstabbing losers. "

>>14603713
"A mak drive? Oh well, until next time. Ensign Jorkowski, have Manila shot and his clone vat flushed for disobeying orders."

>>14603588

>Goddamnit King

"KING, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?!? CEASE FIRE, I REPEAT; CEASE FIRE!"

Too late; the Mothership already fired on the Black Flag battleship. Walker doubted that he'd be able to repair relations between the Black Flag and Bravo, not without leaving someone to hang. He would have to sit down with the Rear Admiral about this; especially after making it clear to Ezerakaia that he would not tolerate any form of backstabbing.

On one hand, he wouldn't have to pay them.

On the other hand, the invasionary forces no longer had an experienced ally to count on in the upcoming naval fight.

-Mothership Evacuated.
-BlackFlag has utilized a spacetime distortion engine.

ALL Forces retreated or destroyed.


A message has been sent from the Black FLag.
" I'll be coming back for that 100 "

It would seem that our Gambit to cut the enemy forces have paid off- however the damage we took is more crippling than anticipated.

===

Mission Over.

>>14603842

>Fucking hell, man.

"I intend to honor our agreement, even if those around me have no intention of doing so."

>Comeatmebro.jpg

So people, discussion time.

Why did this mission, which was supposed to be a hit-and-run, turn out as it did? I would like to hear from all of you, including the lurkers, as to how and why things worked out like this.

Turn 2 should have been seeing some signs of escape.
These ships are slow and cumbersome and once drif takes effect you'll just be sucked in no matter what.

Not only that we probably should have settled with the arrays getting destroyed as well as one or two high prized targets and nothing more. As soon as the enemy repositioned we're pretty much in a straight battle of numbers at that point.

One of the problems we seem to have is pilots picking vehicles or classes that are not well-suited for a mission.

So I would like to know how people would respond to being asked to pilot a different vehicle and/or class than the one they've picked.

Simply because having three battleships is not a good tactic, as we loose points when ships are destroyed; not when they are deployed. Thus our naval assets being at a balance of -50 points at the moment.

Also, it should be known that we're going to bar access to battleships until we can figure them out (as well as build up the points to pay for them and whatnot), and that generally, new players are not allowed to pick cruisers.

so i heard from orbital that next mission will either be a 0 points naval game where you play as other Forces [unless you can find a way to bring Bravo in the positives]

either that or we play planetside. and dig in until reinforcements arrive, [ see never]
or until forces vacate safely.
or until we can replenish our naval points by doing territory sieges .

Another note.
If we have zero points naval by the end of the day, Bravo will be incapable of flying to other planets. Rendering them a PDF.

P.S.

I'm told I'll be playing as Makarian forces. This is all the help I can offer.

>>14605979

nah, way I see it; the 3 battleship tactic nearly worked, they just forgot to step on the brakes

also a good half of the enemy arrays who retaliated wouldn't have been there if that one stork squad launched its nukes(yes that was my fault)

>>14606870

I suppose you're right; they did a fuckton of damage with their initial volley. In fact, I think most of the enemy casualties were the result of the 3 battleships.

It's probably a difference in tactical philosophies; I prefer the use of minimal force in our applications.

>>14606457

Right, well, I might as well get to doing this, seeing as Geist was giving me shit for it. While I don't have an official number yet, estimates for the ground section of Bravo should be around the 275~300 range.

Let's see... ended the Femto mission with 208 points, picked up a 20 from an NCA, spent 34 in our time travel fight, awarded 100 later to put us at 294 points. There were a few other point expenditure/gains that I need to tally from NCA's.

So let's see... subtracting the 50 point loss, we end up with at least 244 for both forces. Reserving 100 points for "in case of emergency" situations, that leaves us with 144 to spend.

Alright, so I'm going to go ahead and foot the bill for this one. I'll allocate the points so we end up with:

120 for Naval
24 for Ground (100 in reserve)

This is all pending review of additional costs/gains made by NCA.

Don't blow it again, King. And really, you do know that it's entirely possible to send messages to me in AIM when I'm not on? You had at least 2 weeks to spam me with "Walker, send points to Naval so we can field a fuckton of shit in the final battle." And FYI, I log my AIM conversations, so proving whether I ignored any of your attempts over AIM to get more points should be rather easy.

rolled 4, 9 = 13

Because the guys were kind of bugging me about it, and hell, why the hell not? I guess it'd allow us to use the full capacity of a cruiser without needing six more players to run the guns.

Right, roll to automate our naval assets, specifically the gun turrets, with AI, maybe even the Algorhymes, so a ship commander can use the homing function of his turrets and fire them while flying the ship.

>This probably breaks the system somewhat, and/or negates the purpose of having a gunner.

Oh, right, you ground pounders. NCA's for hunting for resources for points to makeup what we lost, or finding a way to get that ICBM we found space-borne for our big fight.

rolled 1, 5 = 6

>NCA to look for resources at the old Algorhyme compound, or to get in touch with Charlie, who conducted the search with me, and try to requisition some of the points they may have found.

Blaze wasn't satisfied with the way things had gone at the compound he and Charlie had found. They'd only done enough of a search to confirm that there was no one left alive there, and that it was the result of a xeno attack. Well, since Walker had come back, they knew it was just because it'd been abandoned. He couldn't count on it, but maybe they'd left something useful behind in their rush. He requisitioned a few scout droids and caught a transport down to the surface to look over it once more. At the same time, he called a contact in Charlie to see if they had found anything, and if they could spare some points from what'd been found.

>>14608563
>And I have something to help that effort. I want that maidbot, damn it

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/14432270/#14434817

>>14608720

Warden, you forgot you name. And trip. And maybe your dice.