@DarkRecon I know you're one of the less active discord-checkers, so head on over there to see the new battle-map.

@DarkRecon

I'm going to ping you again because you forgot to pick a starting location last time you were in the discord and I don't really feel like waiting on you to show up again, so I'm going to give you the map + glossary here and all you need to do is just tell me here or in discord where Mai and Jake deploy.

Ooh, Ohh, Can I pick for @DarkRecon? If so I would put Maria at C9 and Jake at B10. And If I were just picking out stuff for Maria's assault pack myself, based on the description of the mech, I'd really just load it out with a ton of weapons to choose from. Beam Rifle, Assault Shot Gun, Missile Pods. The mech is optimized to use any sort of standard mech weaponry, so load it up with a weapon rack and send it into battle. lol

@DarkRecon... cause I forgot the brackets last time.

Ooh, Ohh, Can I pick for @DarkRecon?

you can't.

... pouty panda....

Also, I forgot to update my assault pack with a weapon change that I had discussed privately with Ariamis. So my assault pack load out is the boosters, ATS, Shield Pack, and Tidal Surger attachment to the Wave Surger. the omnirifle is still listed in the assault pack, but is not equipped for this mission.

If DarkRecon is gone for at least a week, then stuff can be picked for him.

If DarkRecon is gone for at least a week, then stuff can be picked for him.

I'll give him 'till Sunday morning. Roughly 90 hours from now. Should be reasonable enough, imo.

@DarkRecon, @ammokkx, @Ariamis I threw this up in discord as my recommendation for Maria's AP Load out, but moving it over here because it got no notice there, and also expanding on the weapons and such a little better.. So, going with a Multi-Weapon load-out, as mentioned before.







That's the three weapons I would choose. Doing a mimic of Jake's werk with more drones isn't really in the spirit of the mech design for quick/easy deployment, in my personal opinion. So if DarkRecon agrees, these would be my suggestion, assuming boss gives his blessings. There is room for one more weapon/system on the standard load out on assault packs for 4 units, so if Boss says Maria can have the Cruxi sword she used on the space station then I know Dark mentioned wanting to use that.

@DarkRecon, @ammokkx, @Ariamis I threw this up in discord as my recommendation for Maria's AP Load out, but moving it over here because it got no notice there, and also expanding on the weapons and such a little better.. So, going with a Multi-Weapon load-out, as mentioned before.

Assault Shot Gun [+]

Short Range, heavy impact kinetic rounds. Possible knock-back on heavily armored targets. 8 rounds loaded, additional set of 8 stored on board, requires a round to reload.

Laser Sniper Rifle [+]

Long Range, Energy rounds. Can be used for quick shots doing medium damage, or a charged shot for more damage. One round charge, two rounds cool off.

Shield [+]

Small personal shield designed to house the assault shotgun when not in use for easy access. Shield is of Medium Armor Class.

That's the three weapons I would choose. Doing a mimic of Jake's werk with more drones isn't really in the spirit of the mech design for quick/easy deployment, in my personal opinion. So if DarkRecon agrees, these would be my suggestion, assuming boss gives his blessings. There is room for one more weapon/system on the standard load out on assault packs for 4 units, so if Boss says Maria can have the Cruxi sword she used on the space station then I know Dark mentioned wanting to use that.

quick, disposable weaponry. I like it, but it's darkrecon's and ariamis' calls before it is mine.

@Mr Rage
No problems with this set.

Sweet, sounds like Everyone is on board for that, we have final placements. Just waiting for Paladins Assault Pack and I think the Player side will be set.

@Ariamis@Ammokkx@Apollosarcher

So in the spirit of being helpful, as well as impatient, and appeasing my joy of mecha design, I have also come up with a suggestion for a load out for Paladin, based on what Apollo has said in discord chat. So, Apollo, feel free to completely disregard and do your own thing, but this is what I think Paladin would like to play with, based on your probably unintentional input.



So to explain some of my thinking here: Apollo said more shields, and thrusters, and a grenade of some sort. The idea of the shields just adds Pally Drone into combat and makes for something other than just another static shield on top of your wall of a shield and your Phalanx energy shield attachment. The grenade being an EMP makes sense as Paladin is all about protection, so throwing a grenade in an urban environment is probably not a great idea with its rather unpredictable damage patterns with shrapnel and such. And the thrusters sounded like they were going to be used for a Reinhardt style of charge attack with a massive shield bash, so what better way then to do it ridiculously over-sized, but nearly impossible to stop when it does happen. The thermal halberd came from me mentioning a laser ax and Apollo and Jason getting excited over it, but the Halberd made more sense with the shield wall, you know, kinda pop up and poke a people from behind the shield sort of thing. The ATS is a fifth item, but you know, paladin is already a super heavy mech, so why not add the ability to do two things at once. Why fire both tungsten plugs at one target, when you could go after two targets?

Anyway, do with that what you want.

Paladin can keep the Halberd, thrusters and ATS with the following changes: thrusters have 1-turn recharge and add 3 units to a move.

@Apollosarcher

Paladin can keep the Halberd, thrusters and ATS with the following changes: thrusters have 1-turn recharge and add 3 units to a move.

you good with this or do you want something different about your assault pack?

@Ammokkx I'm good with that, flying brick wall with a pointy bit.

If y'all ever get confused on where anyone is, the 0th post will contain updated battle-maps.

@Apollosarcher@redbaron1234@Jasonhero@Gate Keeper postage is due, bois!