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@I just write I've just realized that no one asked, but how does size affect combat? Like, if I'm a tiny bit with the ability to hide in more places and exploit smaller gaps in defense or a giant gundam that can step on people, does that actually matter?
 
The Froggy Ninja said:
@I just write I've just realized that no one asked, but how does size affect combat? Like, if I'm a tiny bit with the ability to hide in more places and exploit smaller gaps in defense or a giant gundam that can step on people, does that actually matter?
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Only for fluff purposes; being abnormal sizes can come with interesting tradeoffs, but until you get to some actual heavy military gear like battle tanks and whatnot it doesn't unbalance things too much.
 
I just write said:
Only for fluff purposes; being abnormal sizes can come with interesting tradeoffs, but until you get to some actual heavy military gear like battle tanks and whatnot it doesn't unbalance things too much.
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Well I am a tank. So I guess I need to Salvage for a large weapon and hope for a gun. Actually, how big a bonus would I get for equipping one of our defense turrets?
 
The Froggy Ninja said:
I love how these abstractions work. A laser turret is equally effective as spiky knuckles is equally effective as super strength.
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A lot of it is terrain; sometimes there just aren't the long sightlines required for ranged weapons to really be good. The mortar has fewer problems with this, since it can be used for indirect fire.
 
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Manufacturer: Fenris Defence Industries
Model Name and Serial Number: Wolfhound-6, FDI-WHd-JL1U53
Personal Identifier: Julius Third, He/Him, Other Male Pronouns
Function: The Wolfhound model of Fenris Defence Industries Wolf- series is notable for several facts. Firstly, it's what they called a 'medium salvage unit', which is the equivalent of most other nations heavy power armour troops. Secondly, as a 'salvage unit', they were specialised in carrying out 'forceful salvaging'. Also known as tearing apart enemy units into transportable chunks of useful resources which could be returned to a local 'Battlefield Rapid-Manufacturing Facility' to be converted into additional troops. Thirdly that as a result of this, they only had basic self-repair capabilities and no internal manufacturing, however all of the various Wolf- series units had the plans for how to construct their own model and the other models they were usually deployed with. Finally, like every other one of the many Wolf- series, they included reverse-engineering denial charges and erasers to ensure that other forces could not successfully reverse-engineer the units and use such to discover a weakness or create a virus, amongst other things.
Physical Description: Like every other Wolfhound model, no matter what iteration (The Wolfhound-6 is the 6th iteration of the original design), Julius Third has the appearance of a wolf-like robot about 3 metres long and just over half that high. This includes ears on top of the head (actually parts of several different types of sensors), a tail (fulfills roles for many different sub-systems, particularly communications and sensors) and fangs and claws (actually modern combat heat or vibro-blades, particularly useful for disassembling armoured items into salvage). However Julius Third is most notable for the fact that a great many of his more advanced systems have been destroyed or rendered inoperable by denial charges and erasers after being captured by corporate agents interested in reverse-engineering his design. Which is why he was scrapped here rather than in a lab somewhere. Most unfortunately, this means that his internal self-repair capabilities are entirely nonfunctional for now. Repair of said capabilities have been made more difficult by the destruction of the blueprints that allow for fabrication of replacement parts.
Skills:
-Salvage 2
-Combat 1
Hardware:
-High Power Penetrating Structural Sensors: The difference between sensors meant to penetrate an object and determine the layout of components inside it and high power military sensors to determine weak points in enemy combatants actually comes down to very little fairly often. Sometimes it comes down to just the software. For a Wolfhound model, all it comes down to is the use the sensor data is put to, and even then there's no difference fairly often. (+5 Salvage, +4 Combat)
-Damaged Dismantling Claws and Fangs: A set of heat and vibro-blades to allow easy dismantling of durable objects for easy salvaging, or rapid deconstruction of enemy combatants. Alternatively, why not do both at once? Unfortunately for Julius Third, several were removed before he was scrapped to see if there were any improvements over the corporation's own heat and vibro-blades. Another problem is that some of the more complex programs determining the most effective use were wiped by the denial erasers. (+2 Salvage, +4 Combat)
Status: Patched
 
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    ##### 3.21
    [X] Rescue Dodger
    No. of votes: 5
    shibosho
    Void Stalker
    Semi-Autogyro
    always_confused
    Vanestus

    [X] Rescue Dodger
    -[X] 'salvage' as much of the enemy units/fortifcations as posssible.
    No. of votes: 1
    shinkiro

    [X] Repair a Component (will require Spare Parts)
    -[X] Sparta Industries repeating Laser (Small Weaponry, Battered)
    No. of votes: 1
    QueenPally

    [X] Rescue Dodger
    -[X] Assist in stripping the dead cannibals of their parts and then loot their base to the bedrock.
    No. of votes: 1
    Romulus

    [X] Order Minion Around
    -[X] Tell 'Simac' (Sagittarius Industries Mk. 44 Construction Assistant) to install Sparta Industries repeating Laser on Leroy Brown after it's been repaired by Iron Bob (QueenPally)
    [X] Rescue Dodger (TIME CRITICAL)
    -[X] Preferably after Laser has been installed, if there's time for that.
    No. of votes: 1
    Space Jawa

    [X] Rescue Dodger (TIME CRITICAL)
    No. of votes: 3
    Kyr'am
    Ash19256
    SoaringHawk218

    [X] Scrap a Room or Vehicle (returns included Components)
    -[X] Everything that the Cannibals use or own. Everything.
    No. of votes: 1
    ConfusedPotato

    [X]Negotiations!
    -[X]Cannibals
    -[X]Pick the most reasonable looking of them and try to persuade him to abandon his ways and join the settlement. If there are any Sparta industries bot, focus diplomacy on him\her\it
    No. of votes: 1
    Ukrainian Ranger

    [X] Repair Hardware (will require Spare Parts)
    -[X] Sharpen my drill and repair its motor.
    No. of votes: 1
    The Froggy Ninja

    [X] Make hardware
    -[X] A Stitched together copy of a Wyldhard concrete creator. Drill Moles used special mixed systems to ten Collected surface matter into concrete or similiar buidling materiaals. This will assist into making more sturdy FOUNDATIONS
    --[X] Use small concrete mixer
    No. of votes: 1
    Lizard Knight

    [X] Go looking for Spare Parts
    -[x] base from the secret cavern
    No. of votes: 1
    trekbook

    [X] Boss Minion round
    [X] work in scrap mine
    No. of votes: 1
    Uhtread

    [X] Rescue Dodger
    -[X] Purge the Heretechs. Leave no surviving cannibals. Take their broken chassis and strip them of their parts. Do all this while chanting praises to the Machine God.
    No. of votes: 1
    invictus1829

    [X] Write-In!
    -[X] Catalog data for later use. Organize the Unorganized, and make sure everything is digitally perfect as much as it can be when the others come back.
    No. of votes: 1
    Commander Downy

    [X] Rescue Dodger
    -[X] Insult the barbarians while at it.
    No. of votes: 1
    MasterDrakus

    [X] Defend the base and be prepared to sally to the aid of any attacked bots
    No. of votes: 1
    Easter
    Sadly, it is not certain whether I will be allowed to continue posting on SV. TL;DR, a certain thread went Eugenics-ish places, and since I'd posted some stuff in there from a transhumanist perspective I'm worried that I might be part of the collateral damage. Only time will tell.
     
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