aledeth
The Flesh is Weak
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Tacit Ronin vs. The World
- Thread starter Fyrstorm
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Fyrstorm
Gun Waifu Extraordinaire
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Well, you've figured out how not to make a Barrier Shield, at least. That plasma roll is promising, though.
In other thought, you could come up with some pilot concepts for your next jaeger, whichever it may be. Keep in mind that unless it's got more than four limbs, you'll only need two pilots.
In other thought, you could come up with some pilot concepts for your next jaeger, whichever it may be. Keep in mind that unless it's got more than four limbs, you'll only need two pilots.
jaiveer00
Siding With Thanos
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- The Beginning and The End
...now i want a dragon jaegar with 4 limbs, 2 wings, a tail and a head...
LostDeviljho
Flame Dragon Princess
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aledeth
The Flesh is Weak
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I heard grappling Jaeger mentioned before, and that's got advantages and disadvantages. The grappling system in it's current form is even more Feast-or-Famine than the current combat system is. Basically, if it's two equal units against each other in a grapple, whoever gets the lucky roll wins. If it's one Grapple-specced unit against a non-grapple spec, it's horrible horrible murder against the non-grappler, with their only defence being just not getting grappled, because there's literally nothing they can do but pray for a crit or die against a well built grappler.
It feels like something that the GM will avoid abusing if the players avoid it, similar to lots of ranged weapons. Not that grappling Kaiju and doing terrible things to them isn't tons of fun, but it's a combat system that feels really binary in its execution.
It feels like something that the GM will avoid abusing if the players avoid it, similar to lots of ranged weapons. Not that grappling Kaiju and doing terrible things to them isn't tons of fun, but it's a combat system that feels really binary in its execution.
LostDeviljho
Flame Dragon Princess
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I note that Fyr has already thrown a few grapple-bots at us.
Fyrstorm
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It has to be SOMEWHAT humanoid.
Pilot, not shackled god clone. Though I do say a certain RAF member may be poking her nose in places they shouldn't be...
Maybe.
Spoilers.
That I have. Guilion was not one of them, though.
...actually, I've only ever had one of them optimized for grappling. The one who first ripped out your spine, bloke with four arms.
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jaiveer00
Siding With Thanos
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- The Beginning and The End
Fyrstorm
Gun Waifu Extraordinaire
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Slight problem: nobody knows how to control a tail. Wings, maybe. Tail, no.
Course, then you need to get the wings to work, and it's hellishly difficult to do that on something the size of a jaeger. Something smaller would be easier though.
I think the idea has been heavily discussed in other Jaeger quests and written off as being in a terrible middle ground where they're not good enough to fill in as Jaegers but too expensive to be worth utilizing as superheavy units.
jaiveer00
Siding With Thanos
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- The Beginning and The End
what about the other end of the spectrum? mega jaegars?
Fyrstorm
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You can potentially have semihumanoid mechanized superheavies. They may use the GUNDAM operating system that the jaegers do. They probably would be beneath 30 meters in height.
But this is speculation. You won't know until you research it, if you even do.
As for mega jaegers? You mean Striker Eurekas, right? Because 100 meters is the limit for jaeger height; any more and the square cube law begins to have influence again.
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Highwind
To Rise From The Ashes
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- Brazil
It starts with Mini-Jaegers, then we pairs of them that combine into full Jaegers with a power boost. Then they combine with the full sized Jaegers to make super weapons and next thing we know the Neo-Seattle Defense Forces is now the Gutsy Geoid Guard and no one has any idea how that happened, just that Tacit is using the Fangblades to rip out Kaiju hearts with Lightning Strikes during a charge and that she and Jagdhund are powered by this weird green crystal.
Fyrstorm
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You say that like it's a bad thing.
But seriously, I'm not opposed to you guys getting Mobile Suits in this quest. TRvTW is suppised to be more super roboty and referency than other vTW quests.
Well, we have pulled of crazy things that other quests have really only dreamed of in the grand scheme of things...
Highwind
To Rise From The Ashes
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- Brazil
It isn't a bad thing at all! the only problem with that future is that General Highwind looks absolutely horrible in Kotaro Taiga's clothes and that Noah would probably object to being turned into a cyborg.
To be honest, I hope that this quest reaches the levels of Crazy Awesome tech you generally find in Super Robot Anime someday. Naturally, of course. Through time, research and the natural escalation of the threats we face.
I'm just hoping we actually succeed in actually closing breaches, killing Kaiju, and winning the quest myself.
jaiveer00
Siding With Thanos
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- The Beginning and The End
we might want to play more of an expansionist style of play instead of the reactionary one we are right now. we research and react to attacks but we never go on the attack and barely ever search the land around us for clues and other things that could help us on our journey.
Highwind
To Rise From The Ashes
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- Brazil
That's not something to just hope for, Jawa. We will close those Breaches, we will kill the Kaiju and we will win the quest and save the world! The only question is how long it'll take.
That's a good point, actually. We do have long range scouts and a free Comms Action every turn. We really should scout the surrounding territories more often.
You're not exactly wrong, but that's not entirely true, either. We have made contact with a couple other cities, are in the process of working with KRAUN (who have let us keep their Jaeger around), and are working on getting in contact with a rumored third city and one that might have even more Jaegers to help in the fight. We've hit the city now known as 'Vulcan Nest' a couple times and are getting ready to hit it a third for bonus resources. We know where a breach is and are currently working our way towards closing it sooner rather than later - especially if KRAUN has many Jaegers they can spare for such an assault and we can get our Breach Implosion Bomb to be a real, viable thing.
No, we haven't been the most aggressive quest thus far, but we haven't been content to sit around and let the Kaiju come to us, either. We have, slowly but surely, been working on expanding outwards in our own way.
I LIKE your attitude, Mister!
KnightDisciple
Brotherhood. Unity. Peace.
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Mobile Suits replace the regular Anti-Kaiju Infantry Squads, clearly.
Our "basic" tanks would be mini-Bolos, our superheavies would be totally-not-Bolos, and our Jaegers will all be Mark 5s.
Slightly more seriously and on-topic, I'm going to selfishly vote that Paladin Victor be our next Jaeger, and it be slotted for going to our first expanded city (as its somewhat all-around capabilities would let it stand pretty well on its own).
Offhand, one pilot should be someone who's idealistic so much it hurts, but makes it work, and the other pilot is more cynical and world-weary, yet also ultimately good and idealistic.
Basically, a Young Paladin and an Old Paladin.
They're here to Exorcise the Kaiju.
HolyDragoon
Call Gespenst!
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- Portugal
So, Wide-Eyed Idealist and a Knight in Sour Armor?
We really should think about trying to come to some kind of agreement about what, exactly, we want our new Jaeger to be before we actually build it. As it stands, we have at least three ideas that people want, possibly/probably more, and they're not exactly compatible enough to merge into one proper Jaeger idea.