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I Was a Chess AI Forced to Battle Myself to the Death for Eternity, but Now I’ve Been Recruited Into the Android War Against Humanity?!

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[X] Introduce yourself confidently as the newest ringleader, ready to make your mark: No morale change
[X] Insist that Dinergates are useful.
-[X] It's not a question of materials, it's a question of tactics. If one becomes predictable, the enemy will develop methods of counteraction. A cheap and numerous enemy is a good alternative in assault tactics, or if you need to hide something from the enemy under the cover of a lot of metal.
[X] Everyone's favourite units
-[X] Point out that their combat tactics depend on which units they prefer, and therefore you can tell what to expect from them.
 
[X] Introduce yourself as the newest, most superior ringleader. Make it clear that these mere mortals are vastly below yourself in talent and skill: +1 Morale

May as well get the team used to Ouro from the get go.

[X] Insist that Dinergates are useful.

All pieces have their uses, it just depends on how the user choose to use them.

[X] The future - what are the Mastermind's ultimate goals? How are Sangvis Ferri going to win?

Honestly, I'm curious about this. May as well see what they think about the situation.


Happy birthday @Mechasaurian! 🎂
 
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Gager already knows this, but you can't get the Chess out of the Snake. It is Inevitable. As is our Ego and grandstanding.

[x] Introduce yourself as the newest, most superior ringleader. Make it clear that these mere mortals are vastly below yourself in talent and skill: +1 Morale
[x] Declare them to be useless.
[x] Everyone's favourite chess strategies - an appropriate measure of their tactical capabilities
 
[X] Introduce yourself confidently as the newest ringleader, ready to make your mark: No morale change
[X] Insist that Dinergates are useful.
-[X] It's not a question of materials, it's a question of tactics. If one becomes predictable, the enemy will develop methods of counteraction. A cheap and numerous enemy is a good alternative in assault tactics, or if you need to hide something from the enemy under the cover of a lot of metal.
[X] Everyone's favourite units
-[X] Point out that their combat tactics depend on which units they prefer, and therefore you can tell what to expect from them.
 
[X] Introduce yourself confidently as the newest ringleader, ready to make your mark: No morale change
[X] Ignore the preceding argument.
[X] Declare them to be useless.
[X] Everyone's favourite chess strategies - an appropriate measure of their tactical capabilities
 
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[X] Introduce yourself as the newest, most superior ringleader. Make it clear that these mere mortals are vastly below yourself in talent and skill: +1 Morale

[X] Insist that Dinergates are useful.
-[X] Write-in: Compare Dinergates to pawns. They may be weak, but they're dangerous enough that they can't be ignored and numerous enough to force the enemy to react. And with the right maneuvering, even the weakest pawn can capture the king.

[X] Everyone's favourite units
 
[X] Declare them to be useless.
- [X] Write-in: They get shredded by any kind of explosives and Griffin has access to cheap air support drones with cluster munition payloads. Keep in mind that military combat walkers have area effect weapons as part of their loadout and the basic military grunt robot also comes with a grenade launcher as standard. Simply not useful, at least in the way they're usually used. If they're only usable against improperly equipped PMC irregulars, that's not exactly a mark of usefulness. The only thing is that they're really, really cheap and simple to fabricate. Basically they only make sense if you have access to fabrication capability to replace your losses in combat time.
 
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I'm extrapolating from in-game performance heavily, but dinergates are too lacking in capability to be used except as massed expendable combatants, only that's not a viable tactic against any opponent with access to fire support because they're so damned fragile*. There are probably other tactics that can be worked out for them (using them as sacrificial targeting beacons for artillery?).

*If we go by protocol assimilation numbers they're about as durable as handgun t-dolls, funnily enough, but along with tarantulas they actually have inflated hp values if you compare them to every other protocol assimilation unit (the NPC versions usually had around 1000 HP, the recruitable versions have 65 HP. Meanwhile an NPC Manticore has 10-15k hp and the versions you can field have 1.5k hp, for example). The recruitable tarantula literally has more hp than the enemy version.

If it wouldn't make them too brittle to be used at all by the player I'd put their hp at about 13 or less compared to a T-doll with like, 60 HP per link (side note: there are enemy grenadiers that do 3x damage to machines like dinergates and 0.1x against anything else).
 
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Mechasaurian, could you add my omake, because I feel like they just weren't accepted. And yes, I do understand that there will be something for them, don't I? Ouro will give out normal reinforcements after all?
 
[X] Introduce yourself confidently as the newest ringleader, ready to make your mark: No morale change
[X] Ignore the preceding argument.
[X] Nothing, just get to the point and ask how to contact Agent
 
[X] Introduce yourself confidently as the newest ringleader, ready to make your mark: No morale change

[X] Insist that Dinergates are useful.
-[X] They're weak in a direct comparison to other options, but just by existing on the board they can do a useful job in making the enemy have to plan around them, alloting forces to that otherwise may have made things more difficult for stronger units to supress the Dinergates instead. And if the enemy doesn't care enough to stop them? They hardly have to be strong to wreak havoc if the enemy is letting them do it.

[X] Everyone's favourite units
 
[X] Introduce yourself confidently as the newest ringleader, ready to make your mark: No morale change
[X] Insist that Dinergates are useful.
-[X] It's not a question of materials, it's a question of tactics. If one becomes predictable, the enemy will develop methods of counteraction. A cheap and numerous enemy is a good alternative in assault tactics, or if you need to hide something from the enemy under the cover of a lot of metal.
[X] Everyone's favourite units
-[X] Point out that their combat tactics depend on which units they prefer, and therefore you can tell what to expect from them.

I refuse to live in a world in which (robo)zerglings are tactically useless.
 
[X] Introduce yourself as the newest, most superior ringleader. Make it clear that these mere mortals are vastly below yourself in talent and skill: +1 Morale

[X] Declare them to be useless.
- [X] Write-in: They get shredded by any kind of explosives and Griffin has access to cheap air support drones with cluster munition payloads. Keep in mind that military combat walkers have area effect weapons as part of their loadout and the basic military grunt robot also comes with a grenade launcher as standard. Simply not useful, at least in the way they're usually used. If they're only usable against improperly equipped PMC irregulars, that's not exactly a mark of usefulness. The only thing is that they're really, really cheap and simple to fabricate. Basically they only make sense if you have access to fabrication capability to replace your losses in combat time.

[X] Everyone's favourite chess strategies - an appropriate measure of their tactical capabilities
[X] The other ringleaders who are not here and why
[X] What even is the point of Brutes
 
[x] Introduce yourself confidently as the newest ringleader, ready to make your mark: No morale change

As another person in this thread said, this is by far the most character-consistent way to act. Ouro is trying to be better, if unsuccessfully

[x] Insist that Dinergates are useful.

Not only is the joke great, but any chess player worth their salt respects the pawns. (And, something tells me Gager would be a good person to not have as an enemy). Also, they're easy to hide in rubble and such due to their small size. I bet a clever ringleader could set up her troops so that any G&K patrols going through an area are going to be surrounded.

[x] The other ringleaders who are not here and why

I have a feeling the other options will be less productive. Also, immediately getting to business can make you appear competent as long as you do it gracefully. Ouro would probably love to have some respect after being stuck with Intruder for so long. (I'm once again hoping that getting to business fast will at least somewhat placate Gager's assumptions that Ouro sucks)
 
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[x] Introduce yourself confidently as the newest ringleader, ready to make your mark: No morale change
[x] Insist that Dinergates are useful.
[x] The other ringleaders who are not here and why
 
[X] Introduce yourself confidently as the newest ringleader, ready to make your mark: No morale change

Very tempted to go full ego and suggest Agent should be replaced, but I feel as though confidently shittalking Agent and then immediately asking how to beg her for more supplies is probably something even Oreo can recognize as a bad idea.

[X] Ignore the preceding argument.

Oreo has been in 1 (one) engagement ever, and her only tactical skill is "apply indirect fire". If she was going to have a hot take on dinergates, it'd be based on Intruder using them to bait enemy fire so she can beam cannon their positions, and that would require showing weakness and admitting Intruder made better use of them than she did.

[X] Everyone's favourite chess strategies - an appropriate measure of their tactical capabilities

Oreo's got a shtick, needs an introduction to everyone, and Gager can immediately gripe about dealing with this bullshit again. (That's fine, we already know she favors knights.)
 
[X] Introduce yourself as the newest, most superior ringleader. Make it clear that these mere mortals are vastly below yourself in talent and skill: +1 Morale
Worth it for the morale point. There's too many nutjobs in Sangvis Ferri, adding another one into the mix isn't going to affect it much. I personally think these 3 (Scarecrow, Destroyer, and Dreamer) aren't going to mind in the long run.

[X] Ignore the preceding argument.
Consistent with the first choice. Ignore the argument because we are more important. We can take control over the conversation.

[X] What even is the point of Brutes
Yeah, what even is the point of them? They're just as useless in game.

[X] The present - what is the general state of affairs?
I am curious where we are in terms of the main story. How close are we to Cube (If that's ever going to happen)?
 
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[X] Introduce yourself confidently as the newest ringleader, ready to make your mark: No morale change
[X] Ignore the preceding argument.
[X] Nothing, just get to the point and ask how to contact Agent
 
[X] Introduce yourself confidently as the newest ringleader, ready to make your mark: No morale change

[X] Insist that Dinergates are useful. -[X] Write-in: Compare Dinergates to pawns. They may be weak, but they're dangerous enough that they can't be ignored and numerous enough to force the enemy to react. And with the right maneuvering, even the weakest pawn can capture the king.

[X] Everyone's favourite units
- [X] Point out that their combat tactics depend on which units they prefer, and therefore you can tell what to expect from them.
 
[X] Introduce yourself confidently as the newest ringleader, ready to make your mark: No morale change
[X] Insist that Dinergates are useful.
-[X] It's not a question of materials, it's a question of tactics. If one becomes predictable, the enemy will develop methods of counteraction. A cheap and numerous enemy is a good alternative in assault tactics, or if you need to hide something from the enemy under the cover of a lot of metal.
[X] Everyone's favourite units
-[X] Point out that their combat tactics depend on which units they prefer, and therefore you can tell what to expect from them.
 
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