[OOC] Ace Academy - Ready!? Set!? Rumble! - High Casual

[Ammokkx]

post hype

Poor Ogre tho.

[vietmyke]

I've been meaning to mention this, but doesn't lightning come before thunder?

[vancexentan]

It's the way Jaden taught Bill. He was Black Thunder. He couldn't think of something that came before thunder. White clouds doesn't sound cool.

[vietmyke]

Sonic booms come after thunder. Anyway I'll be posting tonight.

[Peaceless]

Some questions about positioning:

1. I thought both brawlers were taking fire from Rio. Did one of them break off?

2. I charged the Brawler in the shoulder of the weapon hand, not the shield. Did I miss?

3. If the 2nd brawler is near the 1st one, do I hit it?

[vietmyke]

I had assumed both brawlers were fighting Rio while Sara went after the snipers, but Vance wrote that one of the brawlers continued to attack Sara, so I took it as the brawler chasing after Sara

[vancexentan]

@Peaceless
1. I'll review my former post if there are inconsistencies I'll try to fix them. I'm still sick however I felt like I should try to get a post up.
2. Machine reacted, and blocked the attack with the shield. These are high level AI's. Bill's heavy specialization in close combat won him out against the skirmisher, and Exalted furthered his edge. Now he's more or less target fodder.
3. No I had them spread out after the grenade throw.

[Peaceless]

Pretty hard to do this without getting a good feel of distance and positioning... Kiril would do something completely different if the two brawlers are more than 10 meters apart.

The question is who edits what.

[vancexentan]

According to my post the brawlers were taking fire from Rio. However their heavier gear prevents them from taking too much damage. You on the other hand were getting pegged by snipers along with Ian. You shouldn't have been able to rush up against them in the first place i believe.

[vietmyke]

I imagine he was using his shield to block fire and just charging through it regardless to get to the heavies.

Since both heavies are taking fire from Rio, does that mean it isn't chasing Sara and I should edit my post?

[vancexentan]

In great sync they shot at the pilots with dexterous skill, and ability much like any top tier pilot would at the academy. The group rushed forward to meet the front line fights while the snipers hung back and shot at Ian, and Kiril in order to keep them off balance. Bill on the other hand flashed forward Exalted's speed was breath taking, and without the g forces to hold him back he was more than capable of handling Masurao. He rushed up to the enemy skirmisher

Fight starts enemy team heavies go forward to the mid way point they take a grenade but use their shields take it without powering down. They continue to use their shields.

Bill takes the skirmisher on mid way point.

The moment the gunfire started, Ian was immediately pressured by the two enemy snipers. Firing up the jump jets, he quickly jumped backwards to a range that would be out of the effective range of all but the longer range units. Unfortunately, those were the ones targeting him at the moment. He managed to keep himself mostly unscathed by continuously moving, but it wasn't exactly easy to get a shot while dodging. He had managed a few pot-shots in the meantime, but he couldn't keep this up forever.

Ian starts taking shots at the enemy snipers they're put off but are still focusing on Ian, and Kiril. Enemy snipers take precautions to also help out their allies by focusing down on Rio's projectiles. This may have let Kiril get in close.

He looked over his shoulder at the navy-blue Gear. "Dodge for a while longer, I will remove the shields." He said quietly, before charging forward. His Gear's heavy feet slammed onto the ground next to Rio just as the brawlers dodged backwards from her grenade, and at that exact moment he activated all boosters. With a roar much like an exo-atmospheric rocket, Ogre slammed into one brawler with its shoulder between the weapon and the shield, the spike pushing into the side of its head.

kiril attacks one of the brawlers whom have broken off from being right next to each other. Just because Peaceless says he smashed the enemy brawler doesn't mean it actually happens. There's a difference between player action, and what I actually allow. One of you could say you went in and merc'd the whole enemy team. I wouldn't allow that same thing happens here the bot changed and blocked with the shield. Took damage but and got pulled off his feet. Kiril thought he finished it but didn't and got rekt for his trouble of not making sure he actually did.

As of now Bill has killed off a skirmisher. One brawler is down, and so is Kiril. Sniper down by Sara due to him having no protection. One brawler, remain. One damaged brawler as well but he's more or less down in the water a kinetic shot should finish him however Kiril is in no position to do that himself since the enemy brawler surprise attacked him more or less.

[Peaceless]

Well, I had to assume some kind of result. It makes sense that I haven't succeeded in all of my plan, and you are here to balance out overly ambitious players.

However:

1. Even if both snipers were shooting intently at Kiril, I do not see how this would prevented him from moving, at least to the point where the brawlers are in the snipers' way.

2. "You did not finish him off so he gets up and kills you" makes partial sense, but since Kiril purposefully took a risk to get both brawlers, him taking this risk when the outher one is completely out of range makes no sense.

3. I think that the best way to edit this without breaking the flow is for me to assume there is only one brawler and rewrite my post, with you rewriting the result. That way only Ogre and one brawler are affected.

[Ammokkx]

Since Rio is focus-fired right now, I'll wait until some other posts are up (and the above argument is settled) before posting m'self.

[vancexentan]

@PeacelessThat's why in a proper roleplay you write it like this: "John attempts to slash at Greg's chest. If he fails he attempts to dodge the following counter attack, and prepares his defense for the following enemy assault." or something along those lines. As GM I dictate where the story goes so I can't do that in my own posts.

Both sniper's weren't putting pressure on Kiril they were splitting their focus between you, and Ian. It wouldn't slow him down but he'd definitely need to take precautions meaning he wouldn't be able to steamroll his way directly towards the enemy brawlers.

If you want to edit your post to go after only one of the brawlers since the other one has split slightly off from the main one fair enough. However it isn't too far away from the brawler it merely spread their pattern out further from each to prevent being focused down on by Rio. I'll edit my post in response.

[Ammokkx]

@vancexentan I hope that me writing so little actual combat isn't an issue. I don't like getting ahead of myself, because if I assume too much it won't look nice when the GM loops around and says 'Actually, things didn't quite go that way'

[vancexentan]

@AmmokkxAs long as we get somewhere I'm fine. I'm not the best at writing combat myself. I use a DnD inspired way of combat but without dice roles. One doesn't just simply say 'I kill the Ogre' one says 'i attack the ogre'.

[vietmyke]

I think it depends on the group, generally I trust players to advance where necessary but not overdo it, ie killing one enemy but not the entire opposing team. I fee most writers are mature enough to know when they're going too far... Though I've been proven wrong before

[vancexentan]

I literally was in a roleplay where I first joined where one of the Co-Gms overpowered their character to the point where a 13 (maybe have been even younger) year old kid could take on a experienced elite young adult, who had spent three in game turns building up his assault, and block all three of his simultaneous attacks. One was sound based, one was a wind based attack, and one was physical objects. All of them did nothing. Needless to say I don't intend to gm like that as I've shown by making Bill a living breathing walking target if you're not within range of him. Getting Exalted (Masurao) literally is the only thing keeping him from being the same back up pilot he was last year.

I'll post for the others later today so if nothing is edited, or posted I'll just take it in stride.

[Peaceless]

I edited. Please look at the post and see which responses it changed retroactively. The victims of TIME WARP are probably just @vancexentan and @Ammokkx, but @vietmyke should doublecheck too.

I have miscalculated the amount of moderation you put into combat out of pure habit, and it won't happen again. My original plan was not to "kill" both brawlers outright but surprise one (maybe even without damaging it) and putting the other off balance. I figured it is balanced enough given what your character achieves in his actions, but if all combat actions need to run through you they will. I don't oppose this approach, just haven't done this in a while.

Beware though - if you say anything about "your Gear being better", you are in danger of falling into the same category of that Co-GM you just described.

[Ammokkx]

I'll edit if the GM edits.