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>>549235
Or, well, not right now, you're not. He just showed up and threw down the giant, clawed gauntlet, but you think you're being lured. Towards a trap or away from something else, you don't know, but you know that most of his digging is happening clear across the combat theatre and he just came all the way over here to harass you and then ran off.

You don't like it.

With you are the Bravely Broken--your squad of four mass-produced Steel Berets. Though only given a C combat rating, you've outfitted them with improved weapons, kit, and ablative armor, hoping to keep them in the fight (and their blood off your hands).

"We still have that comm signal?" you ask.

"Yessir," Susan, their erstwhile leader, replies. "I've got Derby tracking."

"Any odds on getting seismic readings piped in from topside?" You ask Drang, the local German mission control.

"I can try, but don't rely on it," he tells you bluntly. "It will only work as long as we can reach you."

Having opted to track the distress signal of a missing recon team, you put aside directly targeting Sabomole now, and weigh your options. You already dismantled one trap, you don’t doubt there’s more--and you don’t want to leave something nasty at your back.

>Head straight for the distress signal.
>Do at least a quick sweep of the areas you would otherwise skip.

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So, uh. Hi folks. Interesting weather we're having.

>>549238
>Do at least a quick sweep of the areas you would otherwise skip.

There's clearly something going on down here, and we're being baited to run on by. Let's make sure we don't miss it.

>>549238
>Do at least a quick sweep of the areas you would otherwise skip.
I guess we should get a feel for the kind of traps and mechaniloid variety we'll be facing.

>>549238
>Do at least a quick sweep of the areas you would otherwise skip.
Not letting ambushes happen is important in shit terrain like this.

>>549238
>Do at least a quick sweep of the areas you would otherwise skip.

>>549243
Welcome to hell, HC. Excited to watch everything you guys put time and effort into die out?

>>549235
SHIT YES! I'm finally awake for one!

>>549238
>Do at least a quick sweep of the areas you would otherwise skip.

First for /tg/ mods being faggots

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>Do at least a quick sweep of the areas you would otherwise skip.
Also hoo boy it begins

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>>549251
No sense worrying about what's out of our hands. As one of the longest-running QMs (pretty much exclusively due to my glacial pace), it's disappointing, but sometimes you've got to play the hand you've been dealt.

For now, let's try to keep it positive. We've all got enough to worry about in our day to day lives already.

>>549238
>Do at least a quick sweep of the areas you would otherwise skip.
Sabomole showing up like that sets my teeth on edge. I have no trust for this situation.

>>549243
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? Now I have to actually /update/ MHX.

>>549238
>Do at least a quick sweep of the areas you would otherwise skip.
May as well sound off as here.

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>>549238
>Do at least a quick sweep of the areas you would otherwise skip.

Sabomole's presence was a lure. The signal could be one too. The biggest threat here is the environment.

Let's peek around first, get better situational awareness so something doesn't pick off the unit as we go for the signal.

>>549238
>>Do at least a quick sweep of the areas you would otherwise skip.
Shouldn't be hard. We have our eye things to help with odd signals, and a extra four pairs of them to check spots we're looking for at a decent clip.

>>549238
>>Do at least a quick sweep of the areas you would otherwise skip.

>>549238
>Do at least a quick sweep of the areas you would otherwise skip.

>>549238
>Fire all weapons into the tunnel ceiling
>Die from cave-in
we qst now

>>549238
>>Do at least a quick sweep of the areas you would otherwise skip
Morning HC

>>549238
>>Do at least a quick sweep of the areas you would otherwise skip.

Woo! First new MHQ thread since I finished the archives!

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>>549330
Nice. What'd you think?

Also, writing in progress. Pretty obvious what won.

>>549330
Welcome, fresh meat! Prepare to suffer.

>>549336

Lots of fun, good balance of combat and camaraderie.

I miss Schwarz.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYmZHShs00g

“Let’s not leave anything behind us. Not immediately behind us, anyway,” you order. “Stack up, I’m on point.”

“Copy,” Susan replies crisply--his usual sarcasm less ever-present when on the job. “Flak, take mid, you’ve got the heavy stuff. I’ll take back, Marx in front.”

The tunnels slope this way and that, but trend mostly down--wide enough that you don’t have to crawl, but evasive room is minimal. This whole place reeks of ambush.

...And, sure enough, there it is.You slow your approach, the squad following suit behind you with weapons up, as your OPAL scanner chimes in your ear.

“What is it?” asks Flak silently on the hunter line.

“Just rocks,” Susan replies. “Maybe--”

You covertly switch over to your T. Coils. One of those rocks is not a rock.

“Get ready,” is all you reply, taking a step forward.

From the ceiling, a large, blocky mass of stone plunges down the moment you’re beneath it--only for you to spring backwards, firing a cable into the thing as it unfurls into a humanoid. It snags his chest and goes taut as you yank back and grab the line with your free hand, turning on your heel and slamming the Crag Man into the wall. The squad opens fire, plasma splashing across his rocky armor. He plunges his fist into the wall behind him and pulls out a giant chunk of stone, but you yank him off-balance and swing again, stumbling him. Finally, the combined output of the squad is enough to put him down, the rumble of his explosive death swallowed up by the cavern.

Susan finally breaks the silence. “Wow. How’d you know?”

You grin and tap your temple. “Let’s go.”

After calling in to warn Drang that you’ve had contact with hostile Reploids, you move deeper down, the signal getting stronger and stronger.

Finally, you find it. Holding up a hand, you gesture at still forms in the dark.

Marx takes a cautious step forward, rifle raised. “Is that…?”

“Two mechaniloid signals, there and there,” you point out.

“Right around them,” Susan observes.

>I’m going in, you guys cover.
>I’ve got the heavier ordnance, I’m on overwatch.
>Other?

>>549378
>>I’m going in, you guys cover.

>>549378
>>I’m going in, you guys cover.

We're the tank, they're here to back us up.

>>549378
>I’m going in, you guys cover.

>>549378
>I’m going in, you guys cover.
We've got the OPAL system so our spatial awareness should be better in the dark, and we've got the armor to take a hit if need be. Time to head the charge.

>>549378
>I’ve got the heavier ordnance, I’m on overwatch.
come on, they need SOME live experience.

Hell yes, Maverick Hunter Quest is on.

>>549378

>I’m going in, you guys cover.

>>549378
>I’m going in, you guys cover.

>>549399
>come on, they need SOME live experience.

Problem with that is it can all to easily turn into death experience, especially if we're putting them into a situation we're better suited for than they are.

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>>549378
>I’ve got the heavier ordnance, I’m on overwatch.

Don't do their job for them. Let them get some EXP, it'll be good for them.

>>549399
We were built to be a tank. only makes sense we go in first.

>>549378
>I’m going in, you guys cover.
Time to be the bait we were made to be.

>>549399
They have plenty of live experience. Two of them were on the Saetos Op. Besides, their role for the most part is Support and area control. They work best as a unit and don't handle surprises that well from what we were told.

>>549412
Please, thats why we let them get the last hit in to get all the exp.

>I'm going in, you guys cover

>>549378
>I’m going in, you guys cover.
It's nice to have some backup gun so we can do our intended role.

>>549378
>I’m going in, you guys cover.

but capcha we are playing a robot.

>>549378
>I’m going in, you guys cover.
Checking in late as always.

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“Same deal as before,” you declare. “Get ready to bail me out of whatever I stick my foot into.”

You advance slowly, the radio distress beacon right on top of the unmoving forms--this close, you verify what you already suspected--this is the missing recon team. Their armor is riddled with scorchmarked pinholes, all of them slumped over atop one another. The silence is deafening.

And then, as you near, the mechaniloids spring to life, two columns punching through the earth from where they were set, pillars blocking you off from either side.

“Wayings!” Marx calls, but the real trap is overhead. A third, undetected mechaniloid springs to life, a camouflaged dome sliding open to reveal a gun turret that immediately begins filling the area with bounding lasers, spraying wildly this way and that. Shots scratch across your armor as your shields flare, the small, frantic blue needles of energy sending disorienting flashes down the once-dark corridor. Behind you, the Berets open fire on the Waying blocking the way, obscuring the shot on the turret.

“Incoming seismic!” Drang calls urgently, filling out the explosive chaos of the last second.

>Turn and fire on the Waying. Get out of there.
>Take out the turret first, declaw the trap.

>>549533
>>Take out the turret first, declaw the trap

And I'm off to sleep, best of luck

>>549533
>Take out the turret first, declaw the trap.
if Sabomole wants to divide and conquer, let's surround him before he can.

>>549533
>>Take out the turret first, declaw the trap.

>>549533
>Turn and fire on the Waying. Get out of there.
No reason to worry about taking out the trap if we get out of it, and I'd rather not wait around for Sabomole to show up and take advantage of it. Also pretty certain that the recon team is already dead so I doubt we need to worry about the turret hurting them any more than they already are.

>>549533
>Take out the turret first, declaw the trap.
Do use a T. Coil to gain some high ground

>>549533
Turret and immediately get ready to lance and buster any mole that decides to pop out, here or by the Berets.

>>549533
>Turn and fire on the Waying. Get out of there.
Sabomole's plan is probably to either wail on us in the trap, or trash the fire support team while we are isolated.
Busting out of the trap will keep him from doing either.

>>549533
>Take out the turret first, declaw the trap.
Tempted to say get the hell out, but I know that leaving things alone will screw us somehow.

>>549533

>Take out the turret first, declaw the trap.

>>549533
>>Take out the turret first, declaw the trap.
Sabomole is going to take a swat at someone to stun them so the turret can rip them apart. Best way to counter that i the ol' Megaman X tactic of 'the floor is now lava' and wall jump to safety. Use the lock on hunter for this and don't forget the tumult shells. They are made for shit like this.

>>549577
This.

The turret is the most urgent target. Even if the mole is playing the backstab game, we cannot let it get in our head.

>>549617

Yeah. We aren't a rookie and besides if thry cannot avoid an evident backtab of a Maverick that's playing Mechanoid, our team will be toast.

We cannot play babysitter, that will just make a weak team. We can take the bigger risks but they need to.pull their own weight around.

Also, we really need to get that BFG miniboss killer four our team after this.

Doesn't Flak have a BFG or am I imagining shit?

>>549646
Pretty sure one of our berets (name escapes me) has rocket launcher loaded up with a couple of our flak missiles, but I wouldn't really classify that as a BFG. Not from our perspective at any rate, it probably is from the perspective of a beret...

>>549636
I wonder what weapon data we have or we can buy that will make the best bazooka amunition to take out a mid boss? Since it would have a huge payload, it would have only one ir two shots by mision, probably two since it would be a dedicated weapon instead of Variable Weapon Data Ammo.

It would have to be generic, maybe based on data from an explosive weapon?

We could ask Em, his speciality is stabbity"and slashity weapons but maybe he knows a BFG specialist?

>>549533
>>Take out the turret first, declaw the trap.

We can probably face Sabomole if the turret's down when he gets here; we don't want to have to leave this trap active, whether we escape from it now or not.

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This is more of a two shots weapon ( one if we had it as VWD) that's there to take out a mid boss by making massive ammounts of damage.

Something a heavy C class or near B class would carry.

Is basically so our team can take out a big mechanoid on their own. So it would probably have to be an explosive rocket or something like that.

After all, is our team, a midboss killed is a necessity.

>>549665
Ehhhh.. the problem with a physical weapon as oppose to a VWES weapon is that you are carrying extra weight in something that can be targeted. Considering Anode is the current king of 'gotta go fast', that'd be bad. Mind you, we do have some god damn horrifying weapons like the wrenade so sheer pow is not an issue.

Besides, unless otherwise provided Mortarphant will be our next target and she'll have a giant ol explosive weapon.

>>549665
Sounds like something Bison would have been able to give us advice on

>>549685
"Wrenade"

I approve of this.

>>549533
>>Take out the turret first, declaw the trap.
nice to have you back again so soon.

>>549693

I like the sound of that too.

>>549665
Tangentially related, what sorts of stuff could be made out of us, if we went maverick and were defeated by a hunter?

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You guys really do have a hell of a knack for names like that, I love it.

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And not every mission is a speed mission. Currently we don’t have a heavy on the team and paying for that upgrade on any of the team would be expensive. We can still post the add in the berets forum and see if there any takers.

"NEED HEAVY TO CARRY BFG, WANT TO TAKE OUT A MIDBOSS IN ONE OR TWO SHOTS? CONTACT CAPTAIN ANODE.*

*Must have big and heavy build already. Also be able to carry great weighy. Armor upgrade negotiable.

>>549699
Oil for the oil god, heads for the head throne

Good day everyone

>>549716

Hah! Makes me think of all of those late-night adds for local used car lots or Jesus Christ Bail Bonds.

>>549716
I uh, just meant that I approve of the nickname. Wouldn't say no to giving our berets some of those though. Add a little cannon to their glass.

>>549716
Yeah that sounds like something Anode would do.

>>549533
>Take out the turret first, declaw the trap.
Give him less help if that's really him incoming.
(Also, recap updated to current events.)

>>549735
Sadly we eighter need to nail some good paying misions tp upgrade Flak into a heavy or we have to hope our add works.

And no those heavies are still C class since they are too slow to be Bs without build in weapons.

The same build with at least one BFG build in counts as a B with the right armor. The right armor being heavy armor since it isn't a speed build.

>>549699
A massive electric lance. A heavy electricity based body upgrade or an electric forceshield, that last one being the most expensive upgrade. The hunter would get nothing from our VRD and might keep one of our external wespons.

>>549769
Yeah, problem with upgrading one of the berets too much is that they'd likely just get re-assigned and we might have trouble bringing them along for missions after that. Also it could be seen as favoritism and cause some friction in the rest of the squad and we wouldn't want that. Might work out if the upgrades were modular, so they could theoretically work with any beret...

>>549699
A non-transferrable coupon for eternal stink-eye from Cathode, Em, and India

>>549839
*VWD, what would VRD be anyway? Variable Raw Data?

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You ignore the bolts spanging off your armor and flooding the deathtrap, the bodies at your feet twitching and dancing as the stray fire rakes across them again, kicking up plumes of dirt all around. Instead, you grit your teeth and sight upwards, shooting your busters straight up into the ceiling.

Another hit gets through before the damned thing finally goes down, and you turn to address the damaged Drill Waying separating you and your squad.

It goes down just as Sabomole bursts from the wall, sizes up the distance, and turns to swing a massive, clawed hand into Flak’s chest.

Metal scrapes and rends, and there’s a sizzling flash as the Beret tumbles backwards, three long furrows carved into his armor before he can even yelp in surprise. You fire through the falling wreckage of the Waying, but he’s already disengaging again. You and Susan both sprint to the exit hole, the Beret sending a gleaming blue light of his Lockon rifle down after the mole, you chasing with a hurricane bomb. You hear a distant explosion and a dull patter of thumps, shrapnel embedding itself in earth. You can’t tell if you hit him.

“I’m okay!” Flak says, voice a little garbled and modulated. “I’m okay. I think the armor…”

Well, it didn’t hold, that’s for sure. The ablative chestplate overlay you commissioned lived up to the ‘ablative’ part, carved clear through by those massive claws. The wounds dig deep past the outer plating and into the stock chassis beneath, angry-looking furrows. The wound itself smells like ozone--you suspect this is part of the whole “Disruptor” Sabomole thing.

“Signal retreating,” Drang confirms. “It stopped a few hundred yards away.”

After a moment, Flak can stand, shaking his head clear of the EM interference. Susan keeps his gun up all the while, despite the lack of moles or mechaniloids.

“Not really built for that sort of thing,” Flak says sheepishly. “That was a pretty good hit.”

“Have we got a bead on where the digging stopped?” Susan comms.

>Stay focused.
>Where’s he at, Drang?

>>549841
That's the beauty of tegnicalities. With no in build weapon, no VWD weapons and not even a weapon with a direct link to it's power core. A slow heavy, even with heavy armor, still counts as a C due to basically being a sitting duck.

The moment it gets a in build weapon or a weapon with a link to it's power core, it becomes a probationary B and it might get reasigned, but if we don't aprove those upgrades, is still a C.

>>549859
>Stay focused.
Don't want any of them running ahead.

>>549859
>Hand signals only, plan standard bait, Flak get out of danger, light steps. Sabamole cannot hear encrypted inner coms due to it's distructor interference.Got any more ideas?

Remenber when we learned berets hand signals? Let's use them.

>>549859
>>Stay focused.
but keep someone watching the sensors. Pretty sure he's going to keep harassing us.

>Loop Zipline around Waying
>Hit Sabomole with pointy bit when he pops up
>Now he can't run away without pulling the waying all the way out

>>549859
>Stay focused.
Keep calm.

>>549859
Thank god for the ablative armor. Keep focused on the task at hand. He'll be coming for us again and again and will be damned in trying to stop him from using hit and run tactics.

>>549894
this is a good idea as well.

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This. There is no way the Mavericks are up to data with new gen berets hand signals yet. And Sabamole own build up screws him if he tries to listen to our encrypted short distance coms.

>>549859
Additional thought: do we have the option of retreating teammates if they suffer too much damage? Sabomole seems to have more mobility than us in this environment.

>>549859
>Stay focused.

Also this
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>>549863
Good point. I bet some Hunters do this rules lawyerering to stay as B class and don't get sent against the most dangerous targets. Also as a A class Captain we have the right to keep any member for some time before we decide is ready for a promotion test anyway.

But yeah let's keep the heavy as C class if we ever get it, just in case.

>>549919
We don't have acess to emergency beam out for our troops. Also as soon we we go too deep, we cannot even use our own emergency beam out. At most if half or more of our team gets injured, we can order them to retreat.

>Additional thought: do we have the option of retreating teammates if they suffer too much damage? Sabomole seems to have more mobility than us in this environment.

Can we fake an injury and retreat to lure him out?

>>549994
probably a bad idea. Sabomole seems damn certain to keep us from something. Either their command structure or the machines that make all those holes. Guy is probably on a deadline, trying to breach his target and get the loot.

>>549994
We can talk about our options using hand signals with the berets, who have way more team training than we have.

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This. Sabamole can at most disrupt communications and create false images of his location by using digging mechanoids with fake signals. But even with black market upgrades he isn't build to intercept communications due to his own systems causing interference. And no we aren't pulling this out of our ass, both us and Cathode have the knowledge of an electric engineer since we were build to be A class and not including that knowledge would be stupid. Granted we don't know enough to build our own bots without a build it yourself kit, but we have the basics and could act as the Fourth electrician in an emergency.

This is because our creators are tobot wars nerds so they made us electricians in homage to Elec Man and other Electric themed robot masters. And also so we didn't try to pull comic book stunts with electricity.

Does that work?

>>549859

>Stay focused.
>Hand signals only, plan standard bait, Flak get out of danger, light steps. Sabamole cannot hear encrypted inner coms due to it's distructor interference.Got any more ideas?

>>550048
Seems logical, Anode would have fried himself more than once trying to play Electro or Black Electric Guy otherwise.

Also there is a huge difference between being an electricist and being able to build your own bots.

That reminds me. Did we finally bought that do it yourself Meetool building set? They are basically this century Lego robots kit so we shouldn't have too much problem with it. We could also get a military meetool kit since we are a Captain.

But we should probably save the military set as a gift to Em.

"Think of it as a segurity system for your lab. You are second in Comand of the Fourth now. That means a lot more spies."

"You just want to see Meets with gun turrets in my office that shot intruders don't you?"

"And you don't?"

"Fine, but you cannot mess with them. No shooting commanding oficers with painballs, no treating High Commander Halcyon as target practice and so on."

"Em... you are acting responsible! Our little Emerald is all grown up now!"

"Still not letting you touch the military meets."

"Aww."

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“Focus,” you order Susan. “He’s going to try this again.”

“I--” He steadies himself and nods. “Yes, sir.”

“Plus, we got what we came here for. Is this them, Marx?”

“Yes, sir.” Advancing cautiously, he kneels next to the bodies as you take advantage of the time to cut down the remaining Waying opposite you. “FOF transponders are Bundeswehr. All human, KIA.”

“Laser trap got them,” Derby says quietly. Trapped them between the bars and then just… He drifts off, shaking his head, as Susan and Flak look around, keeping their guard up.

“Right, I’ll call it in. Drang…”

“We heard,” he says. “We appreciate you trying.”

“We’ll mark their location,” you offer. “For once it’s clear.”

“Thank you, Captain. And… if you could collect their dog tags…”

“Understood,” you reply. “I’ve got them.”

“I’ll pass the news on. Thank you again, Captain.”

“Hey.” Marx breaks the long silence from the squad. “Y, catch.” Derby looks up as Marx tosses him a small field data drive.

“What do you make of this?” he asks.

Derby sets down his gun and opens his toolkit--the other Berets moving to cover him, as you finish collecting the fourth set of tags from the downed humans. “It’s not encrypted--at all. They must have gotten this together in a hurry.”

“We’re still in the clear,” you tell him. “What is it?”

“This is… a map of a tunnel system.”

“They were doing recon,” Susan points out.

“No, no, the elevation is all wrong. It’s down deeper. We’re almost straight above it.”

>I think we just found what the mavs are trying to hide from us. Let’s go.
>We can check it out later. We got what we came here for, let’s retask on Sabomole.

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>I think we just found what the mavs are trying to hide from us. Let’s go.

>>550048
A trend I am noticing for this batch is we seem to have a half and half split of mavs. One half running interference, the other half going for data or research. Gibbon is doing something with data, Moloch attacked a research place, Atlantica has a optics guy, and Foxfire had that crazy data while also hacking Rho. Add the possibility that Sabomole is trying something and it's making for a pretty strong case.

>>550165
>>I think we just found what the mavs are trying to hide from us. Let’s go.
No need to hunt for the mole. With our reenactment of the Zero division, he'll want to come at us.

>>550165
>I think we just found what the mavs are trying to hide from us. Let’s go.

If Sabomole doesn't want us there then that means there's a decent chance he hasn't had time to booby-trap the hell out of the place. Also going where he doesn't want us seems likely to draw him out. If it doesn't, we can change tactics, but we went looking for the recon squad because we wanted more information. Let's use the information we got.

>>550165

>I think we just found what the mavs are trying to hide from us. Let’s go.

Either it's where he's trying to get to, and we'll get there before he's prepped the deathtraps, or it's what he's trying to keep us from knowing whatever is there and he'll move to intercept us. Either way, he's chasing us instead of the other way around.

>>550165
>>Get a lot of votes for hand signals, no hand signals used - -

>>550175

Of course is all about data. The bastard who ripped our power source from us us trying to make stronger Reploids and upgrade itself. Even we know that.

We just haven't rationalised it tet.

>>550165
Are we going with the bait and the hand signals or not?

>>550165
>I think we just found what the mavs are trying to hide from us. Let’s go.

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>>550216
That depends on if you're going after Sabomole directly or not.

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>>550165
>I think we just found what the mavs are trying to hide from us. Let’s go.
With a destination in mind, we can take Sabomole as he comes to us, instead of him popping up to take surprise swipes as we chase him.

>>550254
We had a lot of votes for hand signals yet you didn't use them in your post. Unless you wanted to imply they were using them and the talking was to trick the mole.

>>550295
Dude, were are not going to use them all the time or right away and as is its just basic info and reporting. Calm thyself.

>>550244
This. Let's lead the mole to our chosen battleground. Too bad we don’t know of any metal rooms were he can't use his digging ability easily

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>>550295
Hand signals are used to communicate tactical actions. "Go here," "wait here," "flank him," that sort of thing.

You just received more intel about the mission. There's no hand sign for exposition, unless you do too much exposition, then it's just an air-jerk.

>>550310
Even if we don't go after the mole directly, the fact private coms are safe from him is important.

>>550313

This works. Not that the tunnels will have many if any metal rooms with metal floors. But picking the battlefield is a good idea.

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>>550165
>I think we just found what the mavs are trying to hide from us. Let’s go.
i hope there's something really REALLY expensive for us to interfere with down there. a particle accelerator would look cool on our trophy wall.

>>550324
So I guess we should all learn ASL? That would be one way for unimpeded communications. Might look a bit funny, though.

>>550324
I am sure that "private coms safe" and "bait tactic insert number here" are standard hand signals.

>>550363
You can generally assume that the secure line is in use for combat communication unless you're speaking to someone without access to the hunter line.

>>550165
>>I think we just found what the mavs are trying to hide from us. Let’s go.
He'll be desperate to stop us from getting to whatever he's up to so he'll eventually be forced to engage us if we get too close to the end of his secret tunnels. If he can't run without jeopardizing his mission, we can take him out when he makes his stand.

>>550363
Coms + private + safe= Three hand signs. Then we just use the private coms with our team frecuency to say the rest.

Using too much sign language would be for when we have the private channels compromised.

>>550165
>>I think we just found what the mavs are trying to hide from us. Let’s go.

Sabomole seems to like coming to us. Let's force him to do so by threatening what he's trying to keep us from.

Maybe we can even get a chance to pick our battlefield.

>>550391
Yeah this works.

I assume that due to certain misions we had were we had communications hacked, that our team has an encrypted short range coms.

And Hunter Command, if Anode is us, then he no longer trusts the public channels.

Also that each team has its own channels is standard in this type of fiction and even in real life military units.

Plus the Dog is gone, so is Frog. We are in an oficial war situation. We don't trust Halcyon and we don't trust the new leader of the Fourth.

We had a whole argument the past thread about if the mole has a death switch or not. Anode current paranoid levels: medium.

And there are things we cannot say to our therapist. Like the fact that we suspect some new transfers to MHH (Maverick Hunters Headquarters) might be spies.

Of course we might not be thinking all this in a concious way.

Oh my, next time we get drunk we better not start to rant all this...

>>550461
Let's just do a private party. Us, Em, India and maybe our syster. Warm Em to shut us if we rant about certain things.

Foxfire will end in the party even if we don't want to, right?

Junk spoiler about my OC ahead
So it seems Bokan would be a B class female pilot, data analist with the ability to control mechanoids. She would always have a scort of four flyng small mechanoids, with Meet like brains so they have some autonomy. Also work for Halcyon as eighter his secretary or assistant (or a secretary of a make secretary of Halcyon). With her boss taking credit because that's what bosses do. She doesn't have VWD due to being an old model. But lack of social life means all her money went for upgrades. Then India finds there is another pilot in base and forces poor Bokan into social situations.

>>550461
The hell? We trust Gopher fine. He's not a bad officer, he's just a gruff by the books one. There has been zero reason to not trust him. For the most part while I may be ok with some of this, we are not going to go full paranoia right off the bat because some of you say so. While we do influence his choice, we don't influence his every little action and thought.

You lot act like this is your first rodeo with bullshit raining upon our heads while Cain Labs laughs in the background. Us shooting the shit does not mean Anode is thinking it.

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“Let’s check it out. He’ll come to us.”

The squad falls in and you continue to advance--you don’t have hard map data, but you have relative Z-position, and you’re getting closer to the “start” of the tunnel system.

“Drang, didn’t you say there was a company that had rights to this place?” you ask. Static. “Drang? Can you hear me?”

Well, shit.

“So much for that,” Susan observes dourly.

There’s strangely little activity down here--not even shifting earth. More worrying is the knowledge that if Sabomole makes another run on you, there won’t be advance warning. You spot signs of combat here and there--the recon team must have made a fighting retreat with their intelligence. Eventually, though, the tunnel breaches into older, harder stone--grey, rigged up with lights and rigging. Storage containers that read AEGIS litter the sides.

“This is older digging,” Marx observes. “Different striations, different machinery. I think we’re here.”

“Well, where’s here, is the question,” Susan notes. “What are they looking down here?”

“Footprints,” Flak says quietly, pointing down at a thin layer of dust--broken by fresh bootmarks, in and out.

“That iust be the recon team’s infil and exfil,” Derby says. “Too small for Reploids.”

“Hold up. Did you hear that?”

The squad goes quiet, listening, and… sure enough, there’s a faint, droning noise.

>Let’s go the way the recon team went. Maybe they found something.
>Follow the sound. Nothing else should be active down here.
>Other?

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>>550570

>Follow the sound. Nothing else should be active down here.

>>550570
>Follow the sound. Nothing else should be active down here.

SEEK THE HEART SEEK THE HEART SEEK THE HEART SEEK THE HEART SEEK THE HEART

>>550570
>Follow the sound. Nothing else should be active down here.

>>550511
We don't like Gopher since certain mision, even if we understand why he sent us. Yeah is not like the dislike we have for Halcyon. But for us Gopher is the type of leader that seems to care more about the mision than his men.

That's okay, we saw how making it about the people you lead destroyed Frog. But Gopher will never get from us the same respect we had for Frog, because Gopher doesn't care about his men on a personal level. We are all replaceable for him.

Granted, that's the sane way to be a leader in the MH, but we don’t have to like it.

>>550511
Not that guy but I disagree we dont trust Gopher but we don't distrust him either and if he keeps it up we will trust him pretty soon but Frog has never screwed us and gone to bat for us time after time I for one would follow him into hell as the saying goes. Basicly Gopher is just some hunter who happens to be our CO while frog is our friend.

>>550570
>Follow the sound. Nothing else should be active down here.

>>550570
>Follow the sound. Nothing else should be active down here.
Tough choice. Got a feeling we should keep on the trail, but there is a chance this thing is a power generator or drilling machine. Either or are good targets, but we should keep an eye on the position and map so we can get back on the trail.

>>550570
>Follow the sound. Nothing else should be active down here.

>>550622
>Follow the sound. Nothing else should be active down here.

Let's be careful team.

>>550612 here >>550603
has a point about us possibly never liking him but to me Gopher seems like a good officer and i respect his position He also seems the type who wants his people to get out and uses his distance to cusion the inevitable times they don't. TLDR he will probably never be liked as a friend by us but respect as an officer and appreciation for his command seem to be something we can muster.

>>550603
I don't think it's so much disposable but more he sees us for our role and simply doesn't want to sugar coat. He was very accurate about our role. We are sturdy, tough, and stubborn as all hell and that makes us the best option for these sort of missions which would kill Em or India. This also means that due to the nature of the missions we are going to see the worse sort of shit. They need to be done, so send the person who can do it rather than the person who feels like it or doesn't.

Season 1, for all it's hard points was a very bright point for being a mav hunter. Now we are at war and every decision we make costs lives or important strategic points.

>>550570
>>Follow the sound. Nothing else should be active down here.
We know there is something active that way so I vote the bird in the hand not the two in the bush.

>>550511
>>550603
>>550612

Basically what Bokan and the Anon said. Gopher is just our leader, Frog was a father for his men. Also Gopher doesn't care about us in a personal level like Frog did. We are just cogs in the machine for him. But that's still better that the social climber shit with no morals that Hacyon is.

>>550661
Personally? I like Gopher. He's a hardass, sure, but a reasonable one. I can respect that, even if he might never be a buddy. Different from Frog is not necessarily bad, and I agreed with his decision to terminate Wren (even if I didn't like it). Anyway:

>Follow the sound. Nothing else should be active down here.

>>550663
Yes we are replaceable for him. Have you seen some of our list of targets? At least two of them should be for the Zero unit not a menber of the fourth.

Also Zero unit would get emergency recall and priority healing against a G class. We won't.

>>550736
Oh I'm curious now, which two?

>>550736
What we did to piss off Halcyon so much,

>>550755
We survived. Unlike Seven we haven't had the chance to piss him off personaly yet.

>>550753
Got the list? I didn't save it.

>>550753
The way you design them? Pick any two.

>>550775
Oh I've aaaaaalways got the list.

Barrage Mortarphant
Broadside Yamatoad
Disruptor Sabomole
Glacier Gibbon
Graverend Moloch
Hurricane Wren
Soul Foxfire
Stellar Atlantica

>>550706
correct me if i'm wrong gut you like gopher as a commander not as a person (at least not more than any other random person) Becaus that is my position I also agreed with his decision to terminate Wren and didnt like it I also felt he did it in the best way for Anode mentally and emotionally.

>>550788
The full list, names alone tell nothing.

>>550775
>Mortarphant & Yamatoad
I assume are who you mean Yamatoad is an S

>>550813
What you are refering to is the dossiers not the list.

>>550813
Speak for yourself, they tell me eeeeeverything.

>>550799
He has the right mindset to be a leader of Hunter Command. As in, Mavericks Hunters don't last long, so don't form personal relacionships with them and that the mision comes first. We understand that, we just don't like it. We are also less likely to trust someone that sees us as replaceable.

Also Cain, the full list.

>>550829
Then figure out what two Mavericks I was talking out yourself. Since the names tell everything.

>>550843
Y'all disrespectful shitbirds need to get out or shut up.

>>550843
I am quite sure one on the list used to be G class but I don't wanna bother with looking at old threads. That's what you are referring to?

>>550843
>>550833
Jesus christ you two are being fucking insufferable. Re-fucking-lax and dial back the shadowruns.

>>550843
Warpstar Griffin and Legion Strigiform. Definitely those two.

>>550895
> Warpstar Griffin and Legion Strigiform

Welp. Those now all kinds of exist.

>>550843
Calm damn man. Seriously, all it takes is a archive binge for you to look it up man. As is you are just stirring the shit. Another thing you have to realize is the 4th took some of THE heaviest casualties at the moment in both soldiers and officers. We have fought S ranks before. We have breached fortresses before, and as is it's less 'what to do to fuck us' and more 'shit, we need to get these done but our forces are spread thin'.

Don't assume we'll be given the best missions, assume that anyone else who could possibly handle it are facing their own mavs.

>>550931
I can actually give you stat sheets and abilities and all that. They were the two incidently most kick ass bosses in my campaign.

Warpstar Griffin was a negative-light all around S-Rank, Legion Strigiform was a walking cyberspace anomaly, basically.

>Next chance you have, compare the 'last modified' and 'created' dates on the map files.

Because giving a trap map seems in this guy's wheelhouse.

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>>550570
>Follow the sound. Nothing else should be active down here.

>>550949
We only have survived S ranks so far thanks to:

-Team up with our sister.
-One time use only extra life and a emergency upgrade.
-We literally just survived while we waiting for Zero to fight it. Was that G class or S class? Cain and Command love to change rankings.

And the G class is Stellar Atlantica. That's the only reason it has ? rank.

I mean 98% of the time Hunters Headquarters has some data in the target. About a third of the time the data is outdated (or in our case about 60% of the time). Hence why pros tend to go after Bs that have been Mavericks for a while as if they were black market As. And to treat an hunter that went Maverick as an A as A plus, that means more than regular A, not a true S.

The only reason to assign a ? Ranking when there is actually some data of the target is if the target abilities are classified or unknown. Or the target got a dangerous weapon that made its ranking be over S.

I mean the bad guy we defeated with our sister was a S but the weapon it had stolen made it closer to G actually.

And unknown targets are a First or Zero problem. The only reason is even on the list is due to the Maverick Hunters loses. Granted a S that actually does figure as a S on the list is gonna be a pain in the ass. But not as much as a Maverick so dangerous they refuse to give it a ranking.

>>550883
Shadowrun? No, what we are paranoid about makes completely sence in character. We have a story of faulty data, traitors and our superior admitting to us we are just a cog in the machine for him.

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>>551066
The S we fought as the Season 1 boss fight was as close to G as possible and we actually managed to shut down a lot of it's most bullshit gimmicks. Thats a pretty good accomplishment of talent.
Saetos was a trap from the start that Seven pushed on us. The entire thing was set up to kill as much people as possible. We survived it. Finally, any philosopher is G rank and on the higher end. The reason Atlantica is a unknown is because she was originally a civvie model. Her problem isn't going to be her so much as the enviroment and her control over it. The fact we plan to rush the 3 man chain right away is a sign that we are going for it.

We are also fighting the known S with the entire Armored division. If we remove Mortarphant, we could possibly free up 3 artillery officers and move in there as well. This is war. We'd be fighting mavericks of higher threats than serial murderers and crazy frozen hobos with killswitches. Besides, the Ranks mean jack all in terms of what they are capable of if even Foxfire could wreck us.

>>550833
The list of those that remain on our roster is at the end of the Pastebin recap, linked in the OP.

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>>551130
We could have killed Foxfire with a single shot. We just were an idiot and underestimated her.

And Foxfire was a civilian model yet was still ranked B. ? Ranks are extremely rare when the Maverick in question has already killed hundreds of people. There is something fishy about that rank. Hence why I agree the Maverick must have stolen experimental tech. We are ranked as a A class Captain yet the information is still classified for us.

So yeah for me she is a G or at least S plus until proven otherwise.

But we could talk about the ? rank with Em first. He is the old and experienced Hunter that we trust after all.

>>551108
We should be paranoid about the unencrypted data conveniently left on the corpses.

>>551215
Yeah let's ask Em about it. Also Foxfire too, she might have some idea.

She might be ? because she can create many hardlight copies of herself. Hence she is like fighting a whole damn army. And only damaging the original counts.

>>551222
>>551259

Oh the copses are bait, that's for sure. But we cannot fight the mole well until we get the right terrain aka steel floor.

Wonder if we will fight him or we just end fighting a Mechanoid copy of him?

>>551274
That's a posibility. That there are one or more false Sabamoles. It would fit the whole data theme so far.

>>551215
Not really. Just because you just need to hit her once doesn't mean it'd be easy. She had a nasty upgrade and a lot of data along with being a evasive model. We may be fast, but we still need to work on our accuracy and this was our first trip into cyber space. She was going to be a pain no matter what because that was her purpose.

And that data is classified because Stellar's manufacturer don't want any info about their idol coming to the surface. Thats not command's fault, thats her company's fault. Besides, lots of lower reploids can kill shit tons of people. People are not hard to kill. They are squishy and made of meat.

>>551306
We are not at the beginning of the war. Nowadays any civilian model that goes crazy in public gets put down hard. She has not, her data is also classified for a damn Captain of the Mavericks Hunters. Her manufacturer cannot keep her data secret when she has already killed more people that some A class that have gone Maverick. Things don't add up. Let's ask Em and Foxfire what the hell is going on. And what classified te h she stole.

>>551373
>We are not at the beginning of the war.
Er, mate, ever hear of Doctor Doppler and a certain something called the Doppler Rebellion?

Yeah. We're at war.

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>>551373
I really think her rank is unknown as a game mechanic -- it will increase over time. If she was our very first, say, she might have been B or so. But the longer we wait, I fear, the more killer Quick Man force beams she'll install in her room.

So... how many sabemolecopies we will end fighting? About five?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2BzMrn0prAk

>>551373
We know what classified tech Soulfire stole. It was that super adaptive Batman tech. And hundreds is not that much for a A threat. Even with Wren's downgrade, she was still killing in the thousands a day. The reason why Stellar is likely A rank is because she is building a huge fortress in the middle of the ocean which in terms of tactical priorities would require an A. You are also assuming that just because they can be put down hard that they are able to. High speed, high mobility, or even smart mavericks could evade police and hunters just like criminals can. Possibly more so.

>>551393
But not the beginning of it, the beginning was the Sigma rebellion.

>>551393
The beginning of the Maverick War. >>551417
The Maverick with the ? ranking.

>>551437
What Punk said.

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You can’t help but feel increasingly paranoid, down this deep and cut off from support. “Any odds this info is fishy?” you ask.

“Maybe, but I doubt it,” replies Marx. “Everything else looks normal. The drive was branded AEGIS too; they grabbed it and ran.”

After the entryway, the corridors down here are, mercifully, wider--there was plainly more time to dig these out. The squad fans out, grateful to not be scraping paint off each other’s shoulders in the close confines.

“Careful,” you warn them. “He can pop out anywhere. As long as we’re underground, treat it like we’re out, wide open.”

You slowly make your way towards the sound, expecting an ambush at any moment. The sound grows louder until you can feel it, a tremble in the earth, a dull droning that fills the corridor like an impromptu echo chamber.

And then, the wall behind you explodes.

A massive, gleaming steel behemoth claws its way out of the stone itself, filling the corridor from floor to ceiling. Dark green casings over what look like pneumatic cylinders hiss as it chews through the rock. Moored in the center is a primitive-looking yellow mechaniloid, floodlights below its optics glaring down on you.

It’s not stopping.

No order needed, you all start running like hell.

“How fast can you move?!” You call over the din of smashing rock.

“Not very!” Flak yells back.

Up ahead, the path splits…
>Send the Berets one way, you take the other. Maybe one of you can shoot it in the ass.
>Try to destroy it on the run. It has a lot of rock to chew through, that will slow it down!
>Other?

>>551449
>Try to destroy it on the run. It has a lot of rock to chew through, that will slow it down!

If we split, the sabomole clone will kill them.

>>551449
Why hello there Armored armadillo's miniboss. What's that? Storm eagle wrecks your shit alongside penatrative attacks? Well then! We can slow it down with lock on hunter and wrenades while using our wires to aid in mobility. Anyone trips or slows down, we tarzan to their rescue.

>>551429
>>551437

Sure, if you take the S off the end of the Maverick Wars, as it has always been referred to in plural and take it all as one long singular conflict maybe. But at the end of the day this is a separate outbreak and separate war.

>>551449
Anode's seen enough horror movies to know not to split up. Give it a bad day.

It's got floodlights.

That means it needs to see

Flak attack

>>551467
>Try to destroy it on the run. It has a lot of rock to chew through, that will slow it down!

We are not 100% sure is a copy, but yeah, do not split the party.

>>551449
>Try to destroy it on the run. It has a lot of rock to chew through, that will slow it down!
Don't split the squad.

>>551449
>Try to destroy it on the run. It has a lot of rock to chew through, that will slow it down!

...Is this a Wily-tech metool-operated machine?

>>551449

>Try to destroy it on the run. It has a lot of rock to chew through, that will slow it down!

Wreck this mid-bosses shit with Lockon Hunters, Wrenades and maybe Flaks to screw with the searchlights.

>>551449
>Try to destroy it on the run. It has a lot of rock to chew through, that will slow it down!

Also this
>>551471
And if it becomes appropriate we should definitely do the Tarzan shout. Totally fits with Anode's personality.

>>551449
>Try to destroy it on the run. It has a lot of rock to chew through, that will slow it down!
Aim for lights or optics, maybe we can ditch it by faking which path we take

>>551449
>Try to destroy it on the run. It has a lot of rock to chew through, that will slow it down!

>>551449

I say we take out those lights. It'll be harder to chase you if it can't tell which way you went.

>>551478
The war doesn't end until all enemies are dead, defeated or have surrendered.

Is called the Mavericks Wars but is more like a long conflict with small pauses on it, like the 100 year old war.

>>551449
"Not very fast" means don't send them running. Make it a damage race against the little pilot. Run while shooting at him.

>>551546
Can we drain them for power? Or too risky? Actually how risky is to climb the thing on the side once we reach a place we can do that and just drain it's power?

>>551567
That would be cool but we lack open spaces.

>>551547
Well, for all intents and purposes, they largely had. End of Megaman 2 Sigma was done in and most everything between the Doppler Rebellion is just putzing around and police actioning as the spine of the Maverick was (from what could be told at the time) irrecovericably broken. To hand wave what has always been regarded in lore to be a series of wars as just one for the sake of saying corporations have no right to with hold sensitive trade information is not only innaccurate to corporate culture and civil law but also flies in the face of established lore.

Drop some grenades to make a crater. Then, when he tilts forward, we have a shot past the armor.

>>551609
Still one of my all time favorite gif posts. But this wasn't me.

>>551610
After the whole G class deal we just had? We are under martial law and open war so the Corporations better cooperate unless they want criminal charges and get blacklisted.

>>551676
>Martial law
The Maverick Hunters is a peace keeping organization, not the literal entirety of world governments. It has no ability to enforce martial law. Thats a local government thing.

The G class (who was reduced to S, canonly notably) was literally the start of the Doppler rebellion. When we woke up after it half of the base was leveled.

>>551676
Unfortunately Halcyon is a social climbing cunt. Our former grand commander would have actually used the martial law for that but he is gone.

The political concessions he can get out of the company in exchange for not insisting on a closer look are well worth the trade. Halcyon trusts the men under his command to prevail even under slightly sub-optimal circumstances.

>>551710
Yes he is a fair and just and competent leader.

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>>551710
And I would be more wiiling to believe you if Halcyon had not openly tried to kill his predecessor when it still was in charge.

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>it

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>>551760
DON'T JUDGE

>>551815
India: So that's were my lipstick went...

>>551815
>>551911
"The end result of the incident, later known as the Great April Fuckup, was a whirlwind of pay cuts, court martials, and General Rhode's personally punching every single member of the Fourth."

>>552012
And then him having to resign due to forgeting some Hunters are human and almost killing some of them. Not to mention the video of him punching women went viral.

>>551746
Rhodes did the same thing, as did his predecessor before him.

It's a hunter tradition.

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>>552096
Ironically true.

So... no one has any stories to tell while we wait? Lobster? Cain? Nuclear bear?

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The Berets break into a sprint. “Fire on the move if you can, otherwise, with me!” You call.

“We could flank--”

“Negative,” you reply. “Not with Sabomole out there.”

“Copy,” Susan replies.

The Berets are at an unhappy disadvantage, with their longarm buster rifles. You can snap-shoot back at it freely, not that it does much good, half your shots splashing across the burrowing teeth ineffectively. You need something with more punch.

At the same time, you’re stuck trying to figure out what the hell to hit--quick looks over your shoulder aren’t very helpful for identifying a weakspot. Your first hunch is the mechaniloid controller, which is unfortunately well-armored and hard to hit besides.

Fortunately, you’re pretty sure the Wrenades don’t give a shit. You snap-fire one and enjoy the shrieking ball of blades sailing downrange, impacting with the peal of metal on metal a hundred times in an instant.

It didn’t like that much, for sure. You hear dull thumps, and then micromissiles streak out overhead and impact, muffled explosions vanishing into the ceiling an instant before whole torrents of loosened rock and soil fall in clumps from above.

Marx yells in surprise as he’s caught, his run slowing to a sluggish crawl as he tries to pull his legs out of the loose earth. Derby is already turning, but you dash back and grab him by the arm, even as your lance streaks out and slashes through the debris. Between the two, you manage, barely, to pull him free before the digger drags him under. Your shoulder wrenches back unpleasantly as you dash clear, hampered by his added weight.

“T-thanks,” he manages, resuming his dead run.
>Spend some time trying to build a little more charge (current: 35%), fry it.
->Alternate: Spend backup battery to get up to 60%.
>Try to snarl up the cylinder with T. Coil cables.
>More hurricanes to its ugly mug.
>Other?

>>552242
>Spend some time trying to build a little more charge (current: 35%), fry it.
I worry that Sabomole might use the charge against us in some way.

Like turn our charge into ANOTHER emp burst that hurts our allies rather than him or anode.

>>552242
>->Alternate: Spend backup battery to get up to 60%.
fry it fast and quick. Sooner we do the better. After all, Sabomole is probably strong against electricity.

>>552242
>Burn the battery to fry the bastard fast.

>>552242
>Use the battery, kill the shit out of this guy.

>>552275
we are not that desperate yet. The battery is for life and death moments only.

>>552260
No. Not wasting stuff in just a mini boss.
>>552259
>Spend some time trying to build a little more charge (current: 35%), fry it.

Guys, our team needs experience so they better learn to DODGEEE!

>>552242
>Alternate: Spend backup battery to get up to 60%

I don't like the way this thing is looking at our berets, and people have a point, Sabomole is likely resistant to electricity at the very least, so we might as well use it here.

>>552242
>>Spend some time trying to build a little more charge (current: 35%), fry it.

>>552287
This. Lets not give the bastard time to learn or tactics, stick to the basics.

"Just run ahead guys, I will keep it busy!"

>>552292
on the flip side we don't want to get in the habit of using a battery on every opp they are expensive.

>>552287
The thing is a immediate threat to our squad and is likely going to cost us a lot of resources to take down while protecting our berets. A decisive kill will save us ammo and health we need. Wrenades, lockon hunter and coils will be important to deal with Sabomole.

>>552305
We can get more money, the lives of us and our Berets are irreplaceable.

>>552305
Yeah I was debating pretty hard between burning the battery and stalling to get more charge, but I think in the end it'd be better to burn the battery and make sure our squad stays in tact. We paid for their equipment too, and even beyond that you can't put a price on earning points with the enlisted.

>>552292
supporting this

>>552305
Not exactly. Compared to an upgrade they are cheap. All this stuff and the mission on hand is worth it. Same with us being in peak shape and not losing men. Sometimes you have to spend money to make money, and this is one of those times.

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Heads up, disappearing for another hour or so, need to do some life stuff.

>>552313
But it will deny our berrets experience they sorely need. This is as powerful as enemy they can take out in their own. If we just waste the battery to kill it in one go they will learn nothing.

>>552324
>>552319
eh i ss your point but i think we don't need it to kill this thing but i could be reading this wrong so i get your position. On the other hand that means we can't use it for emergency dashing in teh actual boss fight which is still an issue.

>>552334
they will learn nothing if they die. Right now this giant peice of junk is pushing us AWAY from the other objective. We kill it fast, we save them. And berets don;t gain experience form the kill. They will not level up. Do not risk them needlessly because you want to save the damn elixer.

>>552337
True, but we have other means of mobility, so I'm no tooooooo worried about the loss of dashing potential. Also we should hopefully be able to build up at least a little charge between this and squaring off against Sabomole. I hope.

>>552325
I fuckin love that God, seeya soon Boss

>>552334
Ditto.

We can just tell them to run ahead if we are so worried about them getting killed. Is not the battery, is the mole using cameras and learning all our moves. If we stick to the basic moves like motion recharge instead of the battery he will know less about us.

>>552242
>->Alternate: Spend backup battery to get up to 60%.

Yeah. Stop screwing around and eliminate this dangerous distraction, so we can get back to what we're actually here for.

>>552337
We will likely build up a charge in time. Falls and drops give us plenty and we are going down. As is, there is no point in risking it. Who knows, this thing might be protecting a E or Heart tank. Seems of the same make as Armored Armadillos machines

>>552355
Dude don't even bother responding. The temptation is real, believe me I know, but it ain't worth it.

>>552368
Well, he is an electric engineer like us. Cameras are a posibility.

This enemy is not that hard, if we tell the team to hust run ahead instead of trying to shot they will be fine. Then we can just take this thing out

>>552368

I honestly don't see what him learning about the battery gains him, since we only have the one. Hell, if he sees us use it, it might /mislead/ him as to our capabilities because of that, make him expect us to have more.

Learning our moves is only helpful to him if there is a chance of us using those moves again before he's retired.

>>552242
>Spend backup battery to get up to 60%.

>>552390
>>>We expend about half our stuff in mocks and minibosses. The darn mole learns all our moves.

That's what I am worried about. This Mechanoid is not even a mid boss and the tunnels are kilometres long.

>>552242
Don't burn the battery. It didn't like the Wrenade, so huck more at it.

Or better yet, Lockon Hunter should teach it something about tunneling.

>>552421
You know maybe bringing a team to this particular mision was a mistake. We should have left them behind when we learned that a mere mock electric attack could kill one of our berets even with the armor on.

>>552320
Actually, slighly different vote; depending no

Have the berets clear the path slighly ahead; (not splits, no), if they can run and gun forward, leaving Anode to engage the driller with less distractions.
IF they're fast enough.

If they're not: Active battery, fry the fucker.

>>552428
Those wrenades are likely sabomole's weakness. We really should not waste them all. Meanwhile it is a electrical expert so it's most likely insulated like Mac was. Our charge will be useless and if we must dash we have the coil and jet pack.. which we should use with the charge blast.

>>552437
Yeah. The problem is that part two will be full of enemies a mere C team will have trouble with.

Considering that they lack our shielding, bringing them was a bad idea. But too late now.

>>552442
Given
"
No order needed, you all start running like hell.

“How fast can you move?!” You call over the din of smashing rock.

“Not very!” Flak yells back.
"

I'm pretty certain they're not fast enough. but yeah if they actually can outpace it then I agree, we can just fire over our shoulder and kill it at our leisure.

>>552442
This works.

>Try to snarl up the cylinder with T. Coil cables.

Battlebots banned entanglement for a reason. Get in there.

>>552442
This. Trying to shot the thing is slowing them down. Just tell them to let you take care of the mechanoid.

>>552442
Our guys are pretty slow and their shooting style has been shown to be very orderly. Any roadblock in the path they will likely not clear it in time. They are not moility base and we have no idea if Sabomole will try his shit again. We need to deal with them fast.

>>552242
change >>552293 to >>552442

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>>552242
>Alternate: Spend backup battery to get up to 60%.
Fry that sunnova bitch with everything available. I don't want any unnecessary casualties soldier!

>>552500
Why not combine it with the charge?

Halcyon for president.

>>552551
Then why the hell we brought a team that isn't insulated to an electric dungeon?

"Next Time I want to bring you guys to face an electric type, feel free to shot me in the head unless I get you insulation first."

>>552242
>Try to snarl up the cylinder with T. Coil cables.
Battery is for emergencies only.