DROP TIMES: MEET @ 1300 EST; possible 2nd drop if there are enough people. DROP ~30 minutes after meet time RULES: ALL PLAYERS WELCOME! Bring your campaign character & mech: get your .mul file BEFORE we drop! (ask for help if you need it) Any mech that a player currently owns or plans on purchasing during this downtime cycle may be used. Players without characters in the campaign will be limited in Tech Level to the current timeline and up to 2000 BV for their unit. Priority goes to people with characters, but others may join if there is room. Any number of observers are welcome to sit in and watch. Bring some booze! The battlefield will be a randomly chosen 32x34 or 35x35 map. Players on each team will roll for Leadership and Scrounge checks as usual, best rolls apply for each team. Leadership rolls receive no Support or Initiative Bonus and XP Bonus is reduced by 1 XP, Scrounge rolls do not receive normal bonuses; highest roll determines Team's deployment, objectives, and possibly other drop specific factors. "Real Blind Drop" will be disabled for all Exhibition matches to help speed up drop setup. 1 XP reward for participation; players who leave prematurely may be subject to receiving no reward (at the discretion of the GM) A designated GM/Admin must be present and a minimum of 4 players MUST participate for XP to be awarded. We aren't required to complete these drops, but I would provide at least a 4 hour window if you plan to stick around for the whole thing. If people are ready to go with their .mul files and combat moves quickly, it is possible we could finish much much earlier. MAKE SURE YOU ARE UP TO DATE WITH NEWEST BUILD AND SAVE FILE!: http://www.uobgaming.com/showthread.php?2559-DOWNLOAD-LINKS
Well the bad news is that I got called into work. I won't be around for today's sim drop. The good news is that I can still post here to answer any questions our esteemed Admin, Bluetavius, might have. Depending on the size of your group, I would recommend either 2v2 with no bots or 4v4 with bots being optional (or some variation of that. I STRONGLY advise using no more than 6v6 and limiting unit selection to infantry, tanks, vtol, and mechs (infantry, conventional vehicles, and mechs are a 3:2:1 ratio in terms of numbers; a 4v4 mechs vs infantry would be 4 mechs vs 12 infantry platoons). Also, remember that bots get an additional 20% bonus to BV. Finally, be careful of the map chosen if using bots; they operate much better on mostly flat, mostly open terrain. Blue was asking earlier what kind of scenario he should run. Part of the new update I've been working on is providing a more self-explainatory mission generator that would allow faster "plug and play" game setups. Do the best you can for this weekend and I will do my best to provide more tools next week. When in doubt, refer to the Admin master rules table I made earlier, the Sim Drop rules listed above, and the suggestions of the players involved. Good luck! PS. Don't forget to get screen shots, record who attended, and copy final combat results!
Attendees were Blue, Val, David, Hunter, Crave and me. Unfortunately I didn't capture any ss or combat results, but it came down to: Pavement killed hunter and Crave ^^. Me and David got overwhelmed by remaining enemies: Yen-lo, Crab, Rifleman and Lancelot. After David got taken down I managed to kill what was rest of the crab and finally went out in an engine explosion that more or less crippled what was left of the Lancelot, at this point the yenlo was out of ammo as well. However they still had a completely fresh rifleman. All in all, we concluded that pavement won.
Victory! ------------------- Winner is: TEAM #2 Axe: 0 BV remaining (from 2248 initially) 0 BV fled Bluetavius: 0 BV remaining (from 1928 initially) 0 BV fled MagnusEffect: 1498 BV remaining (from 3169 initially) 0 BV fled Manco: 0 BV remaining (from 2038 initially) 0 BV fled Val: 0 BV remaining (from 3458 initially) 0 BV fled RavenWater: 1562 BV remaining (from 2248 initially) 0 BV fled Ghiest2: 2157 BV remaining (from 2235 initially) 0 BV fled HG: 0 BV remaining (from 0 initially) 0 BV fled Survivors are: Rifleman RFL-4D Hawk (RavenWater) Pilot : Fanjunkare David Ravenwater [2/4] Kills : 2 Shadow Hawk SHD-2K Duvhok (MagnusEffect) (disabled/lost leg) Pilot : Major Magnus Sullivan [2/3] ( 1 hit(s) ) Kills : 0 Catapult CPLT-R1 (Ghiest2) Pilot : Fanjunkare Bjorn [2/4] Kills : 0 Participants: -Val -Hunter Gamma -Magnus Effect -Axevid -Manco -Bluetavius -Ghiest -David Ravenwater +3 XP to all participants (1 XP + 2XP for epic Leadership roll) Very close fight. Everyone got some great plays in. Axevid had full Courage Mode on (and helped inspire a new rule we will be implementing). Val was a bullet magnet as usual. Hunter definitely carried his own weight. Blue's Lancelot was deceptively more hardy than expected. Only David and Ghiest remained in any workable condition with Ghiest having a near perfect game in his Catapult. I showed Manco how to NOT DFA by failing to kill my target and snapping my leg off in the process. Finally, a very sincere congrats to Manco for doing very well in his first Megamek game!
"UrbanTurkey Shoot" Victory! ------------------- Winner is: TEAM #1 Val: 0 BV remaining (from 2368 initially) 0 BV fled Trenvor: 1790 BV remaining (from 2262 initially) 0 BV fled MostlyHarmless: 854 BV remaining (from 1439 initially) 0 BV fled MagnusEffect: 0 BV remaining (from 0 initially) 0 BV fled Princess: 0 BV remaining (from 9728 initially) 0 BV fled HG: 1590 BV remaining (from 2067 initially) 0 BV fled Survivors are: Phoenix Hawk PXH-2b (Trenvor) Pilot : Kapten Treabhar Holmre [2/4] Kills : 1 Centurion CN9-AL Harmless One (MostlyHarmless) Pilot : Kavellerist Gunnar Kirk [3/5] Kills : 3 Hunchback HBK-4P Helios (HG) Pilot : Kavellerist Jax Thorsen [3/3] Kills : 3 The following units are in retreat: MechWarrior Ronald MacWinney (Princess) Gunnery Skill : Ronald MacWinney [3] Kills : 0 MechWarrior Madison Nagalingam (Princess) Gunnery Skill : Madison Nagalingam [3] ( 3 hit(s) ) Kills : 0 MechWarrior Fanjunkare Valerie Boroson (Val) Gunnery Skill : Fanjunkare Valerie Boroson [2] ( 1 hit(s) ) Kills : 0 MechWarrior Derval O'Hollegan (Princess) Gunnery Skill : Derval O'Hollegan [4] ( 1 hit(s) ) Kills : 0 MechWarrior Hada Kpodo (Princess) Gunnery Skill : Hada Kpodo [4] ( 1 hit(s) ) Kills : 0 MechWarrior Nayara Dashiev (Princess) Gunnery Skill : Nayara Dashiev [3] ( 3 hit(s) ) Kills : 0 MechWarrior Angell Pantelakos (Princess) Gunnery Skill : Angell Pantelakos [3] ( 5 hit(s) ) Kills : 0 MechWarrior Kun-hee Fa (Princess) Gunnery Skill : Kun-hee Fa [4] ( 2 hit(s) ) Kills : 0 MechWarrior Allahditta Divecha (Princess) Gunnery Skill : Allahditta Divecha [3] ( 5 hit(s) ) Kills : 0 Graveyard contains: Urbanmech UM-R60P #2 (Princess) Pilot : Ronald MacWinney [3/4] Kills : 0 Destroyed by Centurion CN9-YLW Wangster (Val) Urbanmech UM-R60P (Princess) Pilot : Madison Nagalingam [3/4] ( 3 hit(s) ) Kills : 0 Destroyed by Centurion CN9-AL Harmless One (MostlyHarmless) Urbanmech UM-R60M #4 (Princess) Pilot : Martin Fløysvik [3/4] Kills : 1 Destroyed by Centurion CN9-YLW Wangster (Val) Urbanmech UM-R60M #8 (Princess) Pilot : Derval O'Hollegan [4/5] ( 1 hit(s) ) Kills : 0 Destroyed by Phoenix Hawk PXH-2b (Trenvor) Urbanmech UM-R60M #7 (Princess) Pilot : Hada Kpodo [4/5] ( 1 hit(s) ) Kills : 0 Destroyed by Centurion CN9-AL Harmless One (MostlyHarmless) Urbanmech UM-R60P #3 (Princess) Pilot : Nayara Dashiev [3/4] ( 3 hit(s) ) Kills : 0 Urbanmech UM-R60M #3 (Princess) Pilot : Tuu Nauwaleno [3/4] ( 2 hit(s) ) Kills : 0 Destroyed by Hunchback HBK-4P Helios (HG) Urbanmech UM-R60P #4 (Princess) Pilot : Angell Pantelakos [3/4] ( 5 hit(s) ) Kills : 0 Destroyed by Hunchback HBK-4P Helios (HG) Urbanmech UM-R60M #6 (Princess) Pilot : Kun-hee Fa [4/5] ( 2 hit(s) ) Kills : 0 Urbanmech UM-R60M #2 (Princess) Pilot : Allahditta Divecha [3/4] ( 5 hit(s) ) Kills : 0 The following utterly destroyed units are not available for salvage: Centurion CN9-YLW Wangster (Val) Pilot : Fanjunkare Valerie Boroson [2/3] ( 1 hit(s) ) Kills : 2 Destroyed by Urbanmech UM-R60M #4 (Princess) Urbanmech UM-R60M (Princess) Pilot : Marino Malaparte [3/4] ( 6 hit(s) ) Kills : 0 Destroyed by Centurion CN9-AL Harmless One (MostlyHarmless) MechWarrior Marino Malaparte (Princess) Gunnery Skill : Marino Malaparte [3] ( 6 hit(s) ) Kills : 0 Destroyed by pilot error. Urbanmech UM-R60M #5 (Princess) Pilot : Scott Rayborn [4/5] ( 6 hit(s) ) Kills : 0 Destroyed by Hunchback HBK-4P Helios (HG) MechWarrior Scott Rayborn (Princess) Gunnery Skill : Scott Rayborn [4] ( 6 hit(s) ) Kills : 0 Destroyed by pilot error. Participants: -Val -Hunter Gamma -Magnus Effect (as GM) -Mostly Harmless -Trevnor +2 XP to all participants (1 XP + 1XP for Leadership roll) All things considered, it was a fairly close fight. The players were faced against an entire company of trained Urbanmech pilots. Not the most dangerous foe, but the were well match in battle value. Things were looking bad when Val had her AC/20 jam and died soon after due to complications with her DFA and the laws of gravity (more on that later). However, the players soon turned things around and made gravity their bitch: the enemy Urbanmechs did not understand the concept of "load bearing limits"; every time they jumped on top of a building, our players would just shoot it out from under them. At one point I think I saw half a dozen Urbanmechs lying prone in rubble. Trev did his runny/shooty thing to great effect. Hunter stiff-armed every enemy that tried to push through his kill zone. Mostly Harmless was very harmful. Well done guys! And now for awards! Derp Awards: The Zoidberg Award goes to Trev for doing what any jump jet specialist should do; jumping around and being a general pain in the ass to hit. Val put up a good fight, but triggering her own ammo explosion after executing a DFA has secured her a well deserved Tired of Living Award. Skill Awards: Again, gravity played very much to the player's favor; Trev, Hunter and MH all earned themselves the sometimes rewarding, but always hilarious Killing You With Gravity Award. Last but certainly not least, the rare Domino Effect Award goes to Mostly Harmless for his creative use/abuse of physics and enemy stupidity; that's working smarter, not harder! ------ Well done everyone! Thanks for playing!
Sorry Mags... I probably won't be able to make it to todays Drop. Should be fine next weekend though! Getting finished of the stuff about 7-8 PM.... so kinda late for a sim drop.
Winner is: TEAM #2 MagnusEffect: 0 BV remaining (from 0 initially) 0 BV fled HG: 0 BV remaining (from 2067 initially) 0 BV fled Princess: 3995 BV remaining (from 6373 initially) 0 BV fled MostlyHarmless: 0 BV remaining (from 1439 initially) 0 BV fled Tandaverik: 0 BV remaining (from 1783 initially) 0 BV fled Survivors are: Wolverine WVR-6J (Princess) Pilot : Cordell Gang [3/3] Kills : 0 Trebuchet TBT-5N (Princess) Pilot : Hersanti Purbacaraka [3/4] Kills : 1 Hunchback HBK-4Gr (Princess) Pilot : Agnete Sæbø [3/4] Kills : 2 The following units are in retreat: MechWarrior Montrell Spinelli (Tandaverik) Gunnery Skill : Montrell Spinelli [3] ( 1 hit(s) ) Kills : 0 MechWarrior De-wei Mok (Princess) Gunnery Skill : De-wei Mok [3] ( 5 hit(s) ) Kills : 0 MechWarrior Kavellerist Gunnar Kirk (MostlyHarmless) Gunnery Skill : Kavellerist Gunnar Kirk [3] ( 2 hit(s) ) Kills : 0 MechWarrior Kavellerist Jax Thorsen (HG) Gunnery Skill : Kavellerist Jax Thorsen [3] ( 2 hit(s) ) Kills : 0 Graveyard contains: Crab CRB-20 (Tandaverik) Pilot : Montrell Spinelli [3/3] ( 1 hit(s) ) Kills : 0 Destroyed by Hunchback HBK-4Gr (Princess) Centurion CN9-AH (Princess) Pilot : De-wei Mok [3/4] ( 5 hit(s) ) Kills : 0 Destroyed by pilot error. Centurion CN9-AL Harmless One (MostlyHarmless) Pilot : Kavellerist Gunnar Kirk [3/5] ( 2 hit(s) ) Kills : 0 Destroyed by Trebuchet TBT-5N (Princess) Hunchback HBK-4P Helios (HG) Pilot : Kavellerist Jax Thorsen [3/3] ( 2 hit(s) ) Kills : 0 Destroyed by Hunchback HBK-4Gr (Princess) Detailed unit status saved to entitystatus.txt Participants: HunterGramma MostlyHarmless Tanedin (welcome new guy! ) MagnusEffect (as GM) The players did an excellent job all things considered. They had a tough fight with tough odds (your glorious GM was a bit too aggressive with the opposition this time... sorry about that). Thanks for playing everyone! 1 XP + 1XP (for leadership roll) awarded to all participating players. Very close fight!
Winner is: TEAM #1 Participants: MagnusEffect: 3021 BV remaining (from 3169 initially) 0 BV fled Val: 2874 BV remaining (from 3458 initially) 0 BV fled Tzeentch: 1022 BV remaining (from 1305 initially) 0 BV fled Bluetavius: 1009 BV remaining (from 1928 initially) 0 BV fled MostlyHarmless: 1385 BV remaining (from 1439 initially) 0 BV fled HunterGamma: 0 BV remaining (from 2046 initially) 0 BV fled Princess: 0 BV remaining (from 9548 initially) 1384 BV fled Survivors are: Assassin ASN-21 Little Taiga (Tzeentch) Pilot : Lojtnant Hedloff Van Brisngr [4/4] Kills : 1 Lancelot LNC25-02 (Bluetavius) Pilot : werbelgerbleh [3/3] ( 1 hit(s) ) Kills : 1 Centurion CN9-AL Harmless One (MostlyHarmless) Pilot : Kavellerist Gunnar Kirk [3/5] Kills : 1 Hatamoto-Chi HTM-27T Tsukiyomi (Val) Pilot : Fanjunkare Valerie Boroson [2/3] Kills : 2 Shadow Hawk SHD-2K Duvhok (MagnusEffect) Pilot : Major Magnus Sullivan [2/3] Kills : 1 The following units are in retreat: Patton Tank (Pommel) MkII #4 (Princess) Driver : Uta Zobel [3/4] Kills : 0 Graveyard contains: Patton Tank (Pommel) MkII #6 (Princess) Driver : Brad Djambek [4/5] Kills : 0 Destroyed by Shadow Hawk SHD-2K Duvhok (MagnusEffect) Patton Tank (Pommel) MkII #2 (Princess) Driver : Ainoa Rivero [3/4] Kills : 0 Destroyed by Centurion CN9-AL Harmless One (MostlyHarmless) Patton Tank (Pommel) MkII #3 (Princess) Driver : Alessandra Tricker [3/4] Kills : 0 Destroyed by Hatamoto-Chi HTM-27T Tsukiyomi (Val) Patton Tank (Pommel) MkII #7 (Princess) Driver : Nawwaara Rais [4/5] Kills : 0 Destroyed by Hatamoto-Chi HTM-27T Tsukiyomi (Val) Patton Tank (Pommel) MkII #8 (Princess) Driver : Ben MacArthur [4/5] Kills : 0 Destroyed by Lancelot LNC25-02 (Bluetavius) Patton Tank (Pommel) MkII #5 (Princess) Driver : Alim bin Amr [4/5] Kills : 0 The following utterly destroyed units are not available for salvage: Patton Tank (Pommel) MkII (Princess) Driver : Hymete bin Mufeed [3/4] Kills : 0 Destroyed by Assassin ASN-21 Little Taiga (Tzeentch) (full list incomplete due to error with Megamek) Enemy force: Recon Lance = 6 mechs Armored Company = 8 Patton MkIIs Only 2 mechs and 1 tank survived. 79% of all enemies destroyed! Critical objective completed. MISSION SUCCESSFUL! Detailed unit status saved to entitystatus.txt Participants received +1XP + 2XP (for Leadership roll). Congrats everyone! Will post awards soon.
Unless someone steps up to the plate, sim drops are cancelled for the next two Saturdays (tomorrow and next week). I have to work a 12 hour shift both days. Sorry guys.
Eh, that's fine. I wasn't likely to be able to be a part of this weekends (Starting to pack up my stuff for a move)
i think we are on for Sat. the 19. the only complication is that i have a cousin's rehearsal dinner to go to. will let you know if that affects anything but we will aim for normal time at 1300 EST on saturday.
