[OOC] The Nameless Grunts - Story of the 67th Legion (Star Wars Trooper RP)

[Hillan]

Oh hey, cool.

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[Roran Hawkins]

@Grayscythe: Our pilot is being roleplayed and we're all in the same squad, except Hillan who joined a bit later, but will be placed in it after Geonosis. Hence you cannot take control over him and have everyone just crash.

@Chadsworth: As the squad's sergeant I am the only one capable of communicating with higher command structure as to call in reinforcements etc, and since you are on Striker Eureka you did not crash most likely.

@Hillan: I don't know what you're doing, but I suspect you're a ground squad that's doing a full frontal assault towards the turbolaser bunkers with AT-TE support to draw fire and lock any garrison into a fight for the Larty squads to infilitrate and destroy. Considering the flanking Larty squads' jobs is a lot more dangerous they're the elite squads of the legion, and we'll have you promoted to out squad after the battle for bravery and whatnot. Excessive and stupid bravery is rewarded with a blaster bolt to your face though.

Result: I would like Grayscythe and Chadsworth to edit their posts, since Striker Eureka did not crash, since Red Fox roleplays our pilot you cannot just powerplay him to make us all crash with only one other survivor (which'd mean you just killed off all PC's)

Remember that we're all in one squad (except Hillan for now) and that you cannot just control the environment. As our sergeant and our pilot (and GM's) I and Fox control most of the environment that will affect us. (You can still say that your character sees clones die, or droids die, or even sees other gunships be slaughtered or whatever, but if we're going to get shot down Fox and I will trigger that as GM's)

[Hillan]

The point of my post was to have Razor, and the NPC (Read: 'Fodder'), Cobolt, join up with the main team. As I understood the situation as Striker Eureka being filled with wounded jedi and clones, Razor and Cobolt being part of the "Backup"-team for the main team, except their gunship was shot down, leaving only those two close to Eureka.

Did I misinterpret the situation?

Also, if you want me to change my post to do just what you suggested, I'll do that. I get mildly confused with all the terms for the vehicles and weapons, since my knowledge in Star Wars isn't second nature... Yet. I also assume you meant "Promoted to Our squad", right?

[Roran Hawkins]

Your post is fine. We just returned from the arena of episode two and dropped off jedi and wounded clones in a forward command post where we were restocked with fresh ones. We just lifted off and were making way to turbolaser defences while avoiding the major flak around our main offensive force, which includes parts of the 67th too that will frontally assault the turbolasers in order to pin the garrison and make the risky entree of the Larties in the turbolaser defences (located in those rocky outcrops and heavily defended perimeters) survivable.

The forward CP where we are collecting reinforcements for our fallen ones and depositing the jedi is relatively far from the actual combat (several hundred meters) as to make sure they're safe.

It seemed to me that you were in the middle of a firefight, so perhaps you could edit some parts to make it more feasible. You could always just say you joined our transport though if you don't care about rewriting the entire post.

[Grayscythe]

Sorry, I didn't realize we were all supposed to be in the same ship at the time, I had thought we were in different ships and we're going to meet up later, supported by when Echo called Striker Eureka, as in he was calling a ship other than the one he was on, over the comms and Fox rolled with it.
Hence I didn't make everyone crash or rather any NPC that anyone was controlling, just the ship Echo was in, but if that's an issue I'll edit it to something more suitable. Is it still an issue?
But regardless, it is a misunderstanding, you don't really think I'd try to kill everyone in my second post do you?

edit: Also, in that case how many clones are on a dropship? Judging by the number of NPCs we have combined with PCs, if we're all supposed to be on the same ship that'd be one packed bird.
Ignore the post for now, I'll rewrite it and edit accordingly after confirmation if it still calls for it. Thank you.

[Roran Hawkins]

Grayscythe said
Sorry, I didn't realize we were all supposed to be in the same ship at the time, I had thought we were in different ships and we're going to meet up later, supported by when Echo called Striker Eureka, as in he was calling a ship other than the one he was on, over the comms and Fox rolled with it.Hence I didn't make crash or rather any NPC that anyone was controlling, just the ship Echo was in, but if that's an issue I'll edit it to something more suitable. Is it still an issue?But regardless, it is a misunderstanding, you don't really think I'd try to kill everyone in my second post do you?edit: Also, in that case how many clones are on a dropship? Judging by the number of NPCs we have combined with PCs, if we're all supposed to be on the same ship that'd be one packed bird.Ignore the post for now, I'll rewrite it and edit accordingly after confirmation if it still calls for it. Thank you.

I know you weren't trying to, but I want you to edit/rework your post so you're on our ship. There can be up to 30 clones on a single Larty. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Low_Altitude_Assault_Transport (ctrl+f and search for '30 clone troopers' to easily find that line)

For a scale image:

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You can clearly distuinguish 5 clones in the first row, and that'd mean 6 such rows of clones would make up a filled Larty.

[Grayscythe]

Ok I'll rewrite it when I get the chance. Sorry for the mix up.

[Grayscythe]

Alright it's fixed.

[Grayscythe]

I'll try to post later today when I have access to my computer.

[Roran Hawkins]

Considering what to post now that we're attacking; Do not RP the attack yet, but feel free to run through this canyon and contemplate about the situation.

That'll be all for today, see you next time, same channel, same hour!

[Grayscythe]

So here's the age old question. Gunships have like a million lasers on them right? Why was the "we're out of rockets" excuse valid in Clone Wars?

[Roran Hawkins]

Because laser fire is like guns in a WW2 plane. When you fight with a large and unwieldy gunship (take for our world example an attack heli that doubles as transport) and let that fight against a small fighter jet armed with only machineguns. It's outmanouvred and outsped with ease, and we all know that placing additional turrets on planes slow craft only works to a certain degree (WW2 bomber formations)

That is why missiles are their only true defence or offence against fighters.

[Grayscythe]

Yeah but they didn't even try. Dooku was a high priority target and they had a clear shot. Even pilots will resort to using their guns against enemy craft if that's what they had. Seems like a stupid decision on Obi-Wan's part to just order to follow.

[Roran Hawkins]

I haven't watched the movie in a long time, so I can't make a clear call on this. In any case, I just realized that I as sergeant can't make arty calls or anything either. Hence, I'm going to use plot power to promote myself to Captain after Geonosis (even though captains are usually selectively bred for their role, I'd get some extra training) and promote someone to corporal and our current corporal to sergeant.

[Red Fox]

Remember, the plot is always on our side. I could not ignore to make a cheesy comment on that movie situation - it really called for a few laser shots, but then again ... The Revenge of the Sith demanded Dooku to live so he could ... die ... in the very beginning of the movie. Flawless.