[OOC] RPGuild Ranked Tournament

[Rilla]

@Tharraleos Polemistis Are you interested in joining the ranks as well?

[MelonHead]

So... if it's street level destruction does that mean I can use a battle mech?

Higan, A.S.P operator

Higan (pronounced Hee-gan)

Race: Ramor (prounounced Ra-more) a race with a number of similarities to humans, they are humanoid mammals with the same number of appendages. The only significant differences are that they are more tolerant to temperature extremes and can last for longer periods of time without water, oxygen, food and sleep. Essentially they are an all-round hardier race of people. Their skin is thicker than a humans, and regardless of climate always dark olive in complexion. The average height for males is 5ft and females slightly higher, and their eyes are somewhat larger on average than a humans. Their life spans range around 60-70 years, even with their modern medical technology.

Gender: Male

Age: 28

Height: 5ft 2”

Weight: 80kg

Appearance: Higan has the characteristic dark olive skin of the Ramor, with broad shoulders and a noticeably muscular body. His eyes are green and his hair is buzz cut and dark brown. He has wide friendly features with an honest looking face, though splashes of scarring tend to mar this image somewhat. The scars are small and livid, running across both of his cheek bones in a seemingly random pattern. They came from exploding glass. In his cockpit he wears a simple pilot outfit which is dark green in colour. The technology of the Ramor has allowed them to produce high-durability weave armour, so despite the seeming simplicity of his clothes they provide him with roughly the same protection as a Kevlar vest.

Personality: Course, honest, rough, determined, intelligent, witty, good humoured.

Physical Traits: Higan is physically impressive, though well within human capability. He can bench roughly 300kg and run at 15mph, his extensive endurance training allows him to remain fighting fit for extended periods of time. His senses are roughly similar to a humans, though he has slightly greater vision, especially in low light conditions.

Skills: Higan is a soldier of the 12th Division, a.k.a L.A.S light armour and support. He has been trained for roughly 10 years to become adept at a number of combat orientated skills, namely.
Hand to hand combat
Firearms training
Endurance training
Scout training/Survival training
Ranger/Sniper training
Demolitions
Artillery
Armoured Support Platform (ASP) piloting

Background: Higan is a member of the 12th division of the Grent Republic's Army, a militaristic state in an alternate earth torn asunder by war. He is unmarried, after recently breaking up with his girlfriend and fiancée of three years, he was born in the republic to an officer of the army and found his path marked out for him.

Equipment: A.S.P
14” Steel Combat Knife
.50 calibre revolver, 6 shot chamber, 6 additional rounds.
Survival Kit (first aid, GPS, flare gun, etc.)

Higan’s main combat capabilities are drawn from his A.S.P, or Armoured Support Platform, which is in colloquial terms a one-man mechanical unit with walker capabilities. It looks roughly like the image below.

Reference Picture

A.S.P (130)
The A.S.P is actually in Ramor terms relatively low-powered, serving in a support and scouting role alongside mainline forces.
Height: 12ft
Width: 5ft
Weight: 30 tonnes
Length: 4ft

Armaments: The A.S.P is equipped with primary, secondary and tertiary armaments for a number of different combat scenarios.
Primary: 105mm Rifled A.S.P Gun (basically a tank gun) capable of firing HEAT warheads (similar to 3BK-31) smoke canisters and anti-personel rounds (which fire multiple flechettes). Due to the relatively small storage space for ammunition on the A.S.P 130 it may only carry five of each of these rounds. It can fire roughly twice per minute. Rounds are ejected when spent underneath the barrel through an automatic sliding door.

Secondary: 40mm anti-material rifle, RPM 20, 100 rounds, can be separated from the Mech without breaking, but it weighs just under a tonne and can’t be fired by anything other than the mech.

Tertiary: Anti-Personnel Suppression, Chaingun, .50 cal, 300rpm, 1200 rounds.

Armour: The A.S.P 130 is constructed using plates of titanium sandwiching plates of depleted uranium with alumina tiles worked in (similar to Chobham armour). This gives it a relatively light-weight body while offering significant protection from anti-tank measures. The RHAe values for the armour are as followed.
Front: 800mm
Back: 400mm
Sides: 300mm
Arms: 250mm
Legs: 500mm
Optics: 100mm
Joints: 100mm
Top: 200mm

The Armour is specially designed to resist heat. It does not conduct electricity into the electronics or pilot area. Internal heating systems can adjust for extreme drops in temperature up to -100 degrees, at the cost of hydrogen fuel.

The A.S.P is also equipped with an Active Protection System, which, like modern day tanks, is capable of confusing heat-seeking and other guided missiles with large concentrations of infra-red.

Damage control systems: The A.S.P is equipped with a number of automatic systems similar to those seen in a modern day tank, ammunition is kept in self-contained storage spaces linked to their respective weapon, reducing chance of self-destruction. Fire is automatically fought by internal systems.

Filter System: The A.S.P is essentially a mobile bunker, filtering hostile elements from the air.
Optics: The A.S.P is augmented with an optical sensory unit with a 180 degree depth of view directly in front. This includes a zoom function of up to 60x, night vision, thermal vision, and electric vision. The main weapons are connected to this system and can target and adjust in 0.20 of a second. The pilot still has control over when to fire, and can over-ride targeting systems to manual control if they wish.

Computer System: Linked to Optics, the computer system on the A.S.P can provide the pilot with data based on a rough estimation of a target. It can estimate things like, thickness, speed and weapon calibres.

It has a backup system in place in the case of damage to main optics (which are located roughly where the head would be on a human.) where the armour peels back from directly in front of the pilot’s head, allowing him physical view of around 90 degrees in front through a bullet proof double paned window. This is obviously a major weakness, and is only to be used as a last resort.

Physical Traits:
Strength: The A.S.P only has one available hand unless it abandons its secondary weapon. Regardless, with just the one hand it can lift up to twenty tonnes of weight. The crushing grip of the hand can easily bent metal or destroy rock. The legs of the walker are significantly stronger, capable of lifting up to 50 tonnes of weight each. Though the machine can’t ‘kick’ it can jump up to fifteen feet into the air.

Speed: The A.S.P has been clocked moving at speeds in excess of 70mph, which is impressive for a walker, it is the fastest Armoured Support Vehicle in Ramor. Its acceleration is 7 seconds 0-70 mph.

Agility: The A.S.P is capable of manoeuvring in tight quarters, but regardless its size is still a limiting factor on its agility. Though far less cumbersome than a tank, it takes almost twice as long for an A.S.P to turn around than an ordinary human, it can however adjust its weapons incredibly quickly and its arms can move at roughly human speeds.

Speaker System: The A.S.P may project the pilot’s voice through external speaker systems on the chest plate.
Comm Link: The A.S.P has com links similar to those in use in the modern day military.

Power System: The A.S.P is fuelled by a Ramor speciality, hydrogen gas fuel canisters with an effective life span of 20 hours in active use. They are stored at the rear and bottom of the mech (obviously protected by the back armour) and are roughly 60cm in diameter. They will explode if hit.

I feel like everyone's characters thus far have been too weak for mid-tier powered, considering you're looking at about tier 5 on the old system. Might as well limit this to a low powered tournament, or someone like my character here will come in and kill everyone on their own, and be well within 'street level' destruction.

[Nightangel]

I feel like perhaps the concept on what qualifies as "Powered" might be a little too vague. To my mind, most of the characters I've seen would fall far above the level of what Innue described as "the mid to lower end of the second tier". I've always thought the idea of a tournament was to submit balanced characters and let the writing decide the victor, not to have a contest of who can think up the more powerful character.

Personally, I feel that some powers should just not be allowed in a tournament, such as gesture-less magic, telekenesis and similar uncounterable effects, and self healing.

[Skallagrim]

Well since we have not seen who has or has not been accepted, to presume that Innue won't make suggested changes to powers to make them more 'inline' is jumping the gun. I have already had to alter a power to bring it inline with Innue's balancing.

[MelonHead]

I agree with that, I just think that the entry specifications are incredibly vague.

Looking at it, your modern character Skallagrim will be more than a match for most if not all of the characters here in anything other than the most unfavourable conditions.

Modern technology is arguably better than any magic, and if you don't believe me look up some specs for the average MBT, my character's mech is actually less powerful in terms of armour and firepower.

Is a tank higher than mid tier? lol.

[Skallagrim]

Oh I never said technology wasn't a match for magic or fantasy based characters. I think a well written and played tech character is a challenge no doubt.

[Innue]

@Nightangel

I'm not going to outright state an ability is not acceptable based on the nature of it. That is not how I operate for anything, as there can be perfectly balanced examples of those things within the tier.

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@MelonHead

My definition of what is 'mid tier' in terms of power might be different from yours. However, people have been submitting characters within the scope of what I am looking for - maybe trending slightly towards the lower end. There seems to be a strong preference for closer range characters and less of a stress on destructive magical force which may be the reason it is trending that way. I would have seen it more comparative to the 2-4 on your old system, if I recall it correctly.

You can use a battlemech if you so choose, but I stated I will be limiting the upper end speed on projectiles.

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Shidenblades' and Skalagrim's characters were both given preliminary approvals.

[MelonHead]

I won't use the battlemech here, I was just making a point. I don't think anyone's characters (save maybe Skallagrim's firebased weaponry, if used very carefully) has a chance of even scratching the armour of a tank.

I'll probably enter a different character on the lower end of 'powered' as I prefer that level myself.

[Innue]

@MelonHead

There are too many abilities that could fall under either of those levels depending on how they are done, which is why the scope is somewhat vague.

A battlemech could be used, but it would likely need certain changes to be appropriately in line with what I am thinking. I also think some of the characters would surprise you in terms of efficacy against it.

[MelonHead]

Unless I completely abandon physics (which does seem to be the case if we're slowing bullets down.) then physically there just isn't anyone here with a weapon that can pierce the armour of the mech. To adjust the mech to a level where people could fight it with swords would also require a complete abandonment of logic and reason, because swords just can't cut through the armour of vehicles designed with modern day firepower in mind.

Even with magic there isn't really anyone who can come close, as the most destructive of magics at this tier only tend to be effective against organic opponents, and to use magic that could produce enough force to come close to piercing the armour of even a pretty shit tank would essentially mean you could kill any other character here in one hit.

Your best bet (and it's still pretty hopeless) would be some sort of magic that exploits its relatively cumbersome size, or a very quick character that can outrun its turning circle, though even then that's only if we're discounting the fact that the anti-material rifle could have put a hole through your body before you even saw it.

With all this in mind, I'll just be making another super-powered fleshy for the grinder, though I'm pretty sure they'll be incinerated by Skallagrim's incendiary rounds if I happen to be unlucky enough to get matched against him. Those things are like half again hotter than a flamethrower, everyone is fucked.

[Tuujaimaa]

If you think that we could not so much as scratch a tank, you are being very naive. :L

[Skallagrim]

The rounds only last for a few seconds at most unless they touch something that can be easily set ablaze, and by easily I mean dried kindling easy. Dragon's breath are mostly to cause damage to property and occasionally someone unlucky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnA9yyE2ma8

[MelonHead]

The rounds only last for a few seconds at most unless they touch something that can be easily set ablaze, and by easily I mean dried kindling easy. Dragon's breath are mostly to cause damage to property and occasionally someone unlucky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnA9yyE2ma8

@Skallagrim

Dragon's breath was probably the ones I meant, I was quoting from memory and I only had the one look earlier.

I appreciate you insulting me again Tuujaimaa, it was a figure of speech, though if you genuinely believe any of the other characters here can penetrate a modern day tank then you're the one who's 'naive'.

[Skallagrim]

Melon, I have two rounds one is a fireball/dragons breath and the other is an incendiary round. They both do in effect the same thing, the only difference is that the fireball has a longer stream range.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwhCygmhbCg

[MelonHead]

Melon, I have two rounds one is a fireball/dragons breath and the other is an incendiary round. They both do in effect the same thing, the only difference is that the fireball has a longer stream range.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwhCygmhbCg

@Skallagrim

That looks incredibly painful.

Weird they didn't set the trees on fire though.

[Vordak]

Huh, those incendiary rounds look surprisingly tame. It could burn pretty deep at 3000 Fahrenheit, but judging by how quickly it goes out, i'd imagine that simple leather armor or even a thick enough gambeson could stop it. Feel free to correct me if i'm wrong though.

[ImportantNobody]

I assume players can jump onto the tank and open it up like Chewie does to the AT-STs from Star Wars. Can we also assume the doors would be able to be broken into with a well place sword into some gap? Or that's probably assuming to much.

[MelonHead]

I assume players can jump onto the tank and open it up like Chewie does to the AT-STs from Star Wars. Can we also assume the doors would be able to be broken into with a well place sword into some gap? Or that's probably assuming to much.

@ImportantNobody

I think Hollywood is probably responsible for the myth that a tank can be accessed so easily, especially modern day tanks. They're more like mobile bunkers.

You've also somehow dodged the 50. machine gun that would probably be putting large holes in your chest as you do that, of course.

Hell, modern day tanks can't even destroy other modern day tanks. The Americans lost one of their tanks to the terrain once and couldn't even blow it up themselves to deny it to the enemy.

[ImportantNobody]

Someone with earth powers would be pretty skilled at fighting a tank and pound them from underneath, but building characters just to fight certain characters is a dangerous game.

[MelonHead]

Someone with earth powers would be pretty skilled at fighting a tank and pound them from underneath, but building characters just to fight certain characters is a dangerous game.

@ImportantNobody

They could probably immobilize it, though they would presumably be within range of the cannon and blown to pieces, plus tanks can move pretty fast, probably faster than most of the characters here actually.