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[X] Plan: Cheeky Symphonies for a cheeky warp
Sterbelicht - One Sacrifice At A Time Against The Galaxy (40K)
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[X] Plan: Cheeky Symphonies for a cheeky warp
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[X] Plan: Cheeky Symphonies for a cheeky warp
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@HeroCooky Is it ok to do this? Have Cry for the Future active for this turn, and then switch it out for whatever the new Symohony is next turn?
HeroCooky
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Yeah, you auto-activate a Symphony when you create it, and as long as you pay the action cost to activate the first you are golden.
Oh @HeroCooky Also I decided to use that extra half-action we got from Class is in Session, either to get 3 melodies if we can, if not to boost the auto-ticker and just upgrade Love to II. Do either work? Should I modify the plan to be one or the other specifically?
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392.M43 - "Entombed" Within These Machines
HeroCooky
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Warcaskets. A...deceptive name in more than one sense, as they are neither made for war nor useful as caskets. In truth, these black boxes are advanced life-support systems capable of sustaining even the most injured and mauled people in, if not life, then at least an approximation of almost-life within these boxes, these "caskets" as it is. Within them, one can still enjoy most things that make life worth living, as advanced sensors and machine-mind-interface implants used in many bionics and war machines of the Federation enable these large caskets to approximate attached limbs to a still-functioning torso.
That such a thing can be used for war, and that humanity would utilize them as such, should not come as a surprise to anyone, as the second the first stone was thrown by humanity's ancestors it was a race to see what weapons could be made, created, found, and changed, with nothing too sacred or too costly to be turned toward war.
Yet, though a warcasket should have been impossible to use for the average human, as the injuries they would need to have sustained should have either killed them or been cheaper to replace with full-body augmetics, they were very useful for Space Marines and, surprisingly, Piscarians. The physiologies of both are capable of making full use of the abilities that warcaskets enabled once a user was implanted, or more accurately "entombed" within these machines.
The problems in their creation came about when it came time to decide what types of weapons and equipment the warcaskets would be equipped with. Though individualizations were sound, the scale of the conflicts the Federation and the Lamenters had engaged in required a particular irreverent approach with an eye toward mass production rather than eking out the last percentage points of performance.
Thus, these were the designs chosen:
(6-Hour Moratorium)
[] Warcasket Pattern XYZ
(Write-In 3 Warcasket Patterns. Vote Individually for each.)
That such a thing can be used for war, and that humanity would utilize them as such, should not come as a surprise to anyone, as the second the first stone was thrown by humanity's ancestors it was a race to see what weapons could be made, created, found, and changed, with nothing too sacred or too costly to be turned toward war.
Yet, though a warcasket should have been impossible to use for the average human, as the injuries they would need to have sustained should have either killed them or been cheaper to replace with full-body augmetics, they were very useful for Space Marines and, surprisingly, Piscarians. The physiologies of both are capable of making full use of the abilities that warcaskets enabled once a user was implanted, or more accurately "entombed" within these machines.
The problems in their creation came about when it came time to decide what types of weapons and equipment the warcaskets would be equipped with. Though individualizations were sound, the scale of the conflicts the Federation and the Lamenters had engaged in required a particular irreverent approach with an eye toward mass production rather than eking out the last percentage points of performance.
Thus, these were the designs chosen:
(6-Hour Moratorium)
[] Warcasket Pattern XYZ
(Write-In 3 Warcasket Patterns. Vote Individually for each.)
HeroCooky
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No, its like...mecha. Sword mecha, missile mecha, and GUN mecha. You know, like Dreadnought Patterns.
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Why does it have to be mecha? Says who?
Ok. One of my issues with the Dreadnought is simple: it's a terrible melee platform. Let's fix that yes?
[] Excalibur pattern
- [] Designed to be nimble and maneuverable, the Excalibur pattern is a specialized melee platform, built lanky and well proportioned compared to the typical dreadnought. Wielding an upscaled power sword or maul (pilots choice) in one hand and equipped with a heavy ion shield gauntlet in the other. They also possess integrated flamers for the clearing of infantry. While less armored than the traditional dreadnought the Excalibur pattern is much more nimble and capable of dodging. (Someone familiar with the Aeldari might remark on its resemblance to a wraith construct, but it's a case of convergent evolution more than anything).
[] Excalibur pattern
- [] Designed to be nimble and maneuverable, the Excalibur pattern is a specialized melee platform, built lanky and well proportioned compared to the typical dreadnought. Wielding an upscaled power sword or maul (pilots choice) in one hand and equipped with a heavy ion shield gauntlet in the other. They also possess integrated flamers for the clearing of infantry. While less armored than the traditional dreadnought the Excalibur pattern is much more nimble and capable of dodging. (Someone familiar with the Aeldari might remark on its resemblance to a wraith construct, but it's a case of convergent evolution more than anything).
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[] The Warcasket-casket, AKA the Hearse:
A somewhat ironic design created by the interned Lamenter Fytya. Battle-hungry even by the standards of most chapters, he grew frustrated at his warcasket being rendered combat ineffective and left out of battle, and helped design the hearse, a matroiska doll of a Warcasket that takes in a damaged, more normal version into itself as a pilot. While the original design leaned towards more practical simple recovery and repair roles, Fytya's incessent lamentations over "being taken from the battlefield like a piece of scrap" wore down the design team until they created a more combat capable design.
It strides the gap between simpler mechs and the smallest of titans, and is capable of interning several caskets within itselflike voltron using networked cogitator technology as more than the sum of its parts. It contains substantial medical stabilization and treatment abilities as well as more mechanical repair suites for it's pilots.
Despite the rather insane design, it has achieved infamous status among the federations enemies for splitting into multiple fully healed and functional individual warcaskets after being "disabled."
A somewhat ironic design created by the interned Lamenter Fytya. Battle-hungry even by the standards of most chapters, he grew frustrated at his warcasket being rendered combat ineffective and left out of battle, and helped design the hearse, a matroiska doll of a Warcasket that takes in a damaged, more normal version into itself as a pilot. While the original design leaned towards more practical simple recovery and repair roles, Fytya's incessent lamentations over "being taken from the battlefield like a piece of scrap" wore down the design team until they created a more combat capable design.
It strides the gap between simpler mechs and the smallest of titans, and is capable of interning several caskets within itself
Despite the rather insane design, it has achieved infamous status among the federations enemies for splitting into multiple fully healed and functional individual warcaskets after being "disabled."
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HeroCooky
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Me? Warcaskets are literally, as in, per lore (IIRC), Dreadnought-precursors.
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I'm making an argument that such is arbitrarily and unnecessarily limiting. IE, couldn't we use the control method in a variety of vehicles if we wanted to?
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HeroCooky
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Because you aren't using Space Marines as drivers. Piscarians, maybe, but if you are putting them into cutting-edge life-support machines intended to go into war machines for combat, you are putting them into roles that directly go into frontline roles or support that are proportional to the costs. So spidermech with big honking artillery, or the Excalibur mentioned above. Stuff like that.
Well, let's base one off the one dreadnaught we have -
[] Hellfire Reborn - An homage to the Promise of Rebirth that carried Chapter Master Amadeus 'Chyron' Chyropheles, May His Name Ever Be Remembered for so many years, the Hellfire Reborn is armed in as similar a manner to the Hellfire Deadnaught as possible, with a heavy plasma cannon, missile launcher, smoke launchers and twin-linked heavy bolters. It's basically a brick with heavy armor and a lot of guns, but it pays significant respect to the origins of the modern Lamenter order, and is thus one of their most-used designs.
So basically BIG GUN.
[] Hellfire Reborn - An homage to the Promise of Rebirth that carried Chapter Master Amadeus 'Chyron' Chyropheles, May His Name Ever Be Remembered for so many years, the Hellfire Reborn is armed in as similar a manner to the Hellfire Deadnaught as possible, with a heavy plasma cannon, missile launcher, smoke launchers and twin-linked heavy bolters. It's basically a brick with heavy armor and a lot of guns, but it pays significant respect to the origins of the modern Lamenter order, and is thus one of their most-used designs.
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So like a cutting edge machine used as slow, hover and move slowly, close air support in contested areas, designed to take and receive fire, with the most advanced armor and shielding systems, a sort of flying tank? Like a high tech, antigravity version of this: Convair 49 Or for already high tech versions, these? Supreme Commander Gunships or for 40k stuff, something like a Storm Eagle or Stormraven, but maybe better?
Something like that to be proportional to the cost?
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