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Steel Giants (Interest Check)

It is good to know that on my arrival I can break bread with my countrymen and bring order and peace... before we wreck the world with giant war machines!

http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/29400/posts/ooc?page=1#post-846264

I'M GUNNA WRECK IT!

Steel Giants (Interest Check)

The Shotgun is not a good choice for any one fighting mechs as it is most affective at very close range and its whole design is better used against fragile flesh rather than powerful CVF's. If you felt like having one it would be a 2, and a double barreled holdout(sawed off) would count as a 1.

Steel Giants (Mecha Roleplay)

YEAR: 2102:
Humanity creates Ethus, a highly volatile but powerful, clean, and unlimited alternative to all energy.
The Utopia corporation take control of the worlds government through their addiction to their new energy.
YEAR: 2123:
Hjertz Automotive creates the first CVF(Combat Vehicle Frames), the huge Mechas are powered by Ethus and cause major damage in any battle they are involved in. Other corporations starting building their own CVF's, the new nuclear bomb for any country looking to wage war.
YEAR 2138:
Utopia loses control of their Ethus generators to a group of freedom fighter organization known as Prometheus, who give the world fire from the gods.... but this fire does not bring peace like they hope. With their fire humanity attacks their neighbors and brings war like none have ever seen.
YEAR: 2147:PRESENT DAY:
From what I can tell North America is now the wild west small cities and towns seem to only last near what used to be Mexico. Besides the Ethus power junctions scattering in the Midwest, America is largely a vacant wasteland.
Actually so is most of the world: the super fortress in South Africa called 'Monolith' is cut off from the world, the last things close to what you could call 'armies' are in former China & Japan, now the 'The Red Monarchy' and their last remaining opponent is 'The Seaboard Frontier' in former Canada. Although they are a very small fraction of what used to be they still harbor the most power in comparison to the mysterious Monolith.
.......But none of it will last............

Overview: Steel Giants is largely a freeform, open world Mecha pilot RP, you will play the role of a Frame Pilot who is currently in the Midwestern Wasteland. You will begin as a team who are asked to do a single job and after that you are left to your own desires on how you would like to continue in the game.(stay in a team, split off into factions, join an army, become a bounty hunter etc). Your frame will be running on an Ethus battery and will need to recharge it once every 48 hours. Your CVFs or 'Frames' will have varying abilities based on points you assign it. Everyone has 15 Units to spend on one of 3 groups: Arms, Armor, and Agility.

Arms designated how many weapons you have and how good they are. So if you choose 20 grenades(2), a submachine gun(2), and a large armmounted cannon(4), you will have 8 units of Arms.
Examples:
Unit 1 : Hold Out Weapons(Pistols and small daggers), 10 packs of small items (Grenades, mines, ect)
Unit 2 : Guns, Melee Weapons, Basic Shield, Light Snipers
Unit 3 : Heavy Shield, Energy Weapons, Heavy Snipers, Heavy Weapons
Unit 4 : Rockets, Cannons, 2-Handed Melee

Armor designates how tough your armor really is with a 1 being it is made of wood, and 10 being impregnable.

Agility will determine more than just how fast you are but if you could even fly.
Examples
Units 1-3: Walkers
Units 4-5: Sprinters
Units 7-9: Jump Jets
Unit 10: Full Flight Engines (Major drain on Ethus)

Character Sheets:
You will have you CS in 2 parts, one for your Pilot and the Other for your MechaFrame.
PILOT
Name: (Full)
Age: (15-65)
Height:
Weight:
Background: (choose from: Mercenary, Freedom Fighter, Bandit, Drifter, Bounty Hunter, Refugee, Mechanic)
Bio: (Paragraph minimum, and I have left details of the world quite basic on purpose to give you more room to give a more freeform description, in short, the game's narrative builds around the players characters)
Description: (Text or Pic)

FRAME:
Name: (Factory Names, Nicknames or mix of the Both)
Description: (Pic Only)
Weight Class: (Arms, Armor, Agility)
Weapons Descriptions: (Detail which weapons you have and their unit class)
Additional Notes: (Extra Details on your Frame Go Here)
Past Encounter: (Optional, give a description of a note worthy mission/battle/adventure that this Frame has been on)

Hjertz CVF

Name: Hjertz Model K3
Description:
Weight Class: Arms-2 Armor-6 Agility-7
Weapons Descriptions: The Model K's were a take on the battlefield none had considered before by using no guns. While some model K's used blades the K3 was unique in by using its massive hands for grappling, ripping, and smashing any opponent within arms reach.
Additional Notes: The obvious disadvantage to K3 was its lack of range. Hjertz countered this with not only giving K3 tough armor, but giving it the ability to cover distances with great speed and thus closing the gap to avoid gun play. And while it hasn't been tested, the K3 may just be the one frame that can easily defeat a frame with a 10 Units in armor.
Past Encounter: K3's are fantastic ambush Frames in areas with low visibility as their speed and close quarters expertise could remove numerous enemies before an alarm was even considered.

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Name: Hjertz Prototype-Model P1
Description:
Weight Class: Arms-6 Armor-7 Agility-2
Weapons Descriptions: The Model P comes with a double-barreled slug launcher, firing explosive heavy caliber rounds, attached below is the Model P Spike which was designed to eject a spike should the Model P attempt to jab anyone with its gun arm. The second arm lacks a weapon but works in a fist fight.
Additional Notes: The Model P on its own was not a huge success with the frame being so massive and slow it eventually would be taken down alone. The Model was never designed to fight alone but was in fact designed to lead an army of CVF's as an unstoppable commader who would slowly push the front line forward and bring victory. This was back when most governments had the funding to buy whole armies and fuel them. Sadly society collapsed before the Model P could make it out of the Prototype stage.

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Name: Hjertz Model J11
Description:
Weight Class: Arms-8 Armor-3 Agility-4
Weapons Descriptions: The J11 Carries two arm mounted heavy machine guns fitted with bayonets.
Additional Notes: The J Model ended with the J11 before the factories finally closed and only 5 made it out to circulation. The infamous J11's were immediately stolen and since then 3 have been destroyed leaving only 2 left on the world. The J11's are notorious in europe but as of late only one has been seen often causing rumors to come up that the other had been destroyed or is travelling in a region unfamiliar with their reputation.

I will also be making a number of other Hjertz CVF's so let me know if you'd like to pilot one.

Steel Giants (Interest Check)

Also in the sword vs. sniper argument:
It is true that a sniper has the advantage in most regular combat, but the circumstances are a bit different with our giant robots. A human being is down after at most 2 decent shots from a sniper, but a CVF is tougher than that even with a class 3 armor. Now most sword and shield CVF's also come with a fair amount of agility used mainly to close the gap between them and a gun men, but this agility can also be used to also avoid his gun fire. But when it comes down to it the better pilot can come out on top in either situation with knowing how to properly gain the advantage with either weapon.

Steel Giants (Interest Check)

Alright well I can see this has caught interest, I will be throughing the OP up as an OOC in the link post that will follow this one. I will take into consideration ALL posts made about adjusting the template for units and such so be prepared to make edits to characters already made.

Steel Giants (Interest Check)

PILOT
Name: Angus Brown
Age: 24
Height: 6'
Weight: 210
Background: Mercenary
Bio: Angus's Father was a tank gunner when the wars broke out and he couldn't understand what his mother meant when she told him he would see his father anymore one day. A list of men tried to take his fathers place after that but none of them would be his father, none of them were anything like his father. He was strong and brave while the pretenders acted sophisticated and charming. Angus would brood and never accept who ever tried to put themselves at his mother's side till the day she passed on quietly from illness. After that he was on his own, became a thug, and eventually joined a few of his gang in a mercenary corp. Whether it was luck that put him in that CFV or some heavenly intervention that gave him the short straw Angus was stuck with J9, the Frame with 'only one gun'.

At the time none of them had any canisters to use so J9's best close range feature was the free hand. But even without the canisters J9 and Angus were a lethal pairing and managed to make Ace before any of the others in his gang. It was during an ambush that Angus discovered the canisters when a J8 attacked them with it's spray and nearly melted their SMG. For the most part a J8 and J9 are very much the same machine, but the J8 lacks certain safety features put into the J9, such as a lock a loaded canister to keep it from being removed by other Model J Frames. It was exactly that lack of safety features that allowed Angus to gain the upper hand and start using the chem's in combat. Angus proved himself a worthy warrior and earned some reputation for ripping a canister right out of another Model J, eventually taking his name and reputation to work freelance in the Midwest where protection is always needed.

Description:

Angus

FRAME:
Name: Hjertz Model J9 - R055 "J9"
Description:

J9

Weight Class: 6 Unit
Weapons Descriptions: J9 carries into battle at all times his heavy caliber SMG, mainly because it acts as his left hand but also because of its ability to also act a sprayer of chemical acid or fire via canisters attached to the gun. Acid is designed to melt the metal of a CVF and while it may not destroy the frame it can easily disable a weapon or expose an internal part. Flame canisters were originally designed as a way to clear bunkers and wipe out infantry on the ground, today it is more commonly used to distort gun barrels and cook pilots stuck in their cockpits.

Notes: When emptied a canister must be removed and replaced by another within J9's chest compartment before he can use the chem-spray function on his SMG again. The combination of either gun play or chem-spray make J9 a deadly foe in medium to close range and his free hand allows it to use melee weapons given the right circumstances. J9's SMG unfortunatly gets in the way of ANY chance at using long range equipment and is thus unable to return fire on frames too far out. During j9's canister reloads his chest compartment filled with volatile acids and pyrotechnics is exposed and one well aimed shot may spell disaster for this CVF and his Pilot.

Hjertz manufacturer built and sold CVF's to many during the wars and continued to sell their stock until their factories shut down. Hjertz would develop 5 Models for their CVFs: Model H "The Sniper", Model K "The Warrior", Model A "The Cannon", Model J "The Hunter", and lastly Model P "The Tank". Hjertz Model J's were designed with the intent of using CVF like squads of Infantry, fighting together as a group and being versatile for many situations and terrain. Later models like the J8, J9, J10 scraped the needing a team to be effective and rather make them super soldiers within their range.

Past Encounter:

"She's more than an Android!" (needing an android)

She would be awake soon and with luck she wouldn't feel the host of needles being removed from her spine when she woke. Professer Ralton had tasked him with testing her in a public environment before returning to the lab. 'The Professor's Pet' was the name he heard the others call him when they assumed they were out of ear-shot, because he always did the professors dirty work without question. Though that was no different for any of the others working for him, what differed is that he didn't complain like they did. He believed his coming trip out of the lab would be good for him, that was if the professor's girl wasn't a disaster waiting to happen. He heard screams from the other room, the girl was awake and already unlucky from the start... he stood from his chair and entered the observation room waiting to make his introductions with the girl.


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So who is this girl? What is the professor's plans with her? Why could she be a disaster? All will be revealed to the one who plays her in his grand opera of science fiction, adventure and even... Romance.

Steel Giants (Interest Check)

YEAR: 2102:
Humanity creates Ethus, a highly volatile but powerful, clean, and unlimited alternative to all energy.
The Utopia corporation take control of the worlds government through their addiction to their new energy.
YEAR: 2123:
Hjertz Automotive creates the first CVF(Combat Vehicle Frames), the huge Mechas are powered by Ethus and cause major damage in any battle they are involved in. Other corporations starting building their own CVF's, the new nuclear bomb for any country looking to wage war.
YEAR 2138:
Utopia loses control of their Ethus generators to a group of freedom fighter organization known as Prometheus, who give the world fire from the gods.... but this fire does not bring peace like they hope. With their fire humanity attacks their neighbors and brings war like none have ever seen.
YEAR: 2157:PRESENT DAY:
From what I can tell North America is now the wild west small cities and towns seem to only last near what used to be Mexico. Besides the Ethus power junctions scattering in the Midwest, America is largely a vacant wasteland.
Actually so is most of the world: the super fortress in South Africa called 'Monolith' is cut off from the world, the last things close to what you could call 'armies' are in former China & Japan, now the 'The Red Monarchy' and their last remaining opponent is 'The Seaboard Frontier' in former Canada. Although they are a very small fraction of what used to be they still harbor the most power in comparison to the mysterious Monolith.
.......But none of it will last............

Overview: Steel Giants is largely a freeform, open world Mecha pilot RP, you will play the role of a Frame Pilot who is currently in the Midwestern Wasteland. You will begin as a team who are asked to do a single job and after that you are left to your own desires on how you would like to continue in the game.(stay in a team, split off into factions, join an army, become a bounty hunter etc). Your frame will be running on an Ethus battery and will need to recharge it once every 48 hours. Your CVFs or 'Frames' will have varying abilities based on points you assign it. Everyone has 15 Units to spend on one of 3 groups: Arms, Armor, and Agility.

Arms designated how many weapons you have and how good they are. So if you choose 20 grenades(2), a submachine gun(2), and a large armmounted cannon(4), you will have 8 units of Arms.
Examples:
Unit 1 class: Pistols, Grenades (Per 10), Small hand Melee weapons (daggers) etc
Unit 2 class: Submachine Guns, Shields , Sword Sized Melee weapons, Arm mounted weapons (wrist launchers) etc
Unit 3 Class: Rifles, two handed melee weapons, back mounted weapons, etc
Unit 4:Heavy Duty Weapons, Large Cannons, MiniGuns, etc

Armor designates how tough your armor really is with a 1 being it is made of wood, and 10 being impregnable.

Agility will determine more than just how fast you are but if you could even fly.
Examples
Units 1-3: Walkers
Units 4-5: Sprinters
Units 7-9: Jump Jets
Unit 10: Full Flight Engines (Major drain on Ethus)

Character Sheets:
You will have you CS in 2 parts, one for your Pilot and the Other for your MechaFrame.
PILOT
Name: (Full)
Age: (15-65)
Height:
Weight:
Background: (choose from: Mercenary, Freedom Fighter, Bandit, Drifter, Bounty Hunter, Refugee, Mechanic)
Bio: (Paragraph minimum, and I have left details of the world quite basic on purpose to give you more room to give a more freeform description, in short, the game's narrative builds around the players characters)
Description: (Text or Pic)

FRAME:
Name: (Factory Names, Nicknames or mix of the Both)
Description: (Pic Only)
Weight Class: (Arms, Armor, Agility)
Weapons Descriptions: (Detail which weapons you have and their unit class)
Additional Notes: (Extra Details on your Frame Go Here)
Past Encounter: (Optional, give a description of a note worthy mission/battle/adventure that this Frame has been on)

These are some examples of my

Testing

Name: Hjertz Model K3
Description:
Weight Class: Arms-2 Armor-7 Agility-6
Weapons Descriptions: The Model K's were a take on the battlefield none had considered before by using no guns. While some model K's used blades the K3 was unique in by using its massive hands for grappling, ripping, and smashing any opponent within arms reach.
Additional Notes: The obvious disadvantage to K3 was its lack of range. Hjertz countered this with not only giving K3 tough armor, but giving it the ability to cover distances with great speed and thus closing the gap to avoid gun play. And while it hasn't been tested, the K3 may just be the one frame that can easily defeat a frame with a 10 Units in armor.
Past Encounter: K3's are fantastic ambush Frames in areas with low visibility as their speed and close quarters expertise could remove numerous enemies before an alarm was even considered.

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Name: Hjertz Prototype-Model P1
Description:
Weight Class: Arms-6 Armor-7 Agility-2
Weapons Descriptions: The Model P comes with a double-barreled slug launcher, firing explosive heavy caliber rounds, attached below is the Model P Spike which was designed to eject a spike should the Model P attempt to jab anyone with its gun arm. The second arm lacks a weapon but works in a fist fight.
Additional Notes: The Model P on its own was not a huge success with the frame being so massive and slow it eventually would be taken down alone. The Model was never designed to fight alone but was in fact designed to lead an army of CVF's as an unstoppable commader who would slowly push the front line forward and bring victory. This was back when most governments had the funding to buy whole armies and fuel them. Sadly society collapsed before the Model P could make it out of the Prototype stage.

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Name: Hjertz Model J11
Description:
Weight Class: Arms-8 Armor-2 Agility-5
Weapons Descriptions: The J11 Carries two arm mounted heavy machine guns fitted with bayonets and acid spray.
Additional Notes: The J Model ended with the J11 before the factories finally closed and only 5 made it out to circulation. The infamous J11's were immediately stolen and since then 3 have been destroyed leaving only 2 left on the world. The J11's are notorious in europe but as of late only one has been seen often causing rumors to come up that the other had been destroyed or is travelling in a region unfamiliar with their reputation.

I will also be making a number of other Hjertz CVF's so let me know if you'd like to pilot one.

The Not so Normal Girl

She would be awake soon and with luck she wouldn't feel the host of needles being removed from her spine woke. Professer Ralton had tasked him with testing her in a public enviroment before returning to the lab and he would always do as he was told. 'The Professor's Pet' was the name he heard the others call him when they assumed they were out of ear-shot. He believed his coming trip out of the lab would be good for him, that was if the professor's girl wasn't a handful. He heard screams from the other room, the girl was awake and unlucky from the start... he stood from his chair and entered the observation room waiting to make his introductions with the girl.
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So the idea of this RP is that you, as the girl, will be discovering more and more about who and what you are and were. So when you start you are just a regular woman... and then things get interesting. This will be a scifi-drama themed rp with only minor scenes of action.

Iron Demons (The Mecha RP)

Making a few of my 15 point weight class mechs, I think this'll be fun.

Testing

Name: Hjertz Model K3
Description:
Weight Class: Weaponry-2 Armor-7 Agility-6
Weapons Descriptions: The Model K's were a take on the battlefield none had considered before by using no guns. While some models used blades the K3 was unique in by using its massive hands for grappling, ripping, and smashing any opponent within arms reach.
Additional Notes: The obvious disadvantage to K3's lack of weapons besides its fists is a lack of any form of combat. Hjertz countered this with not only giving K3 tough armor, but giving it the ability to cover great distances with great speed and thus closing the distance to avoid gun play.
Past Encounter: K3's are fantastic ambush Frames in areas with low visibility as their speed and close quarters expertise could remove numerous enemies before an alarm was even considered.

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Name: Hjertz Prototype-Model P1
Description:
Weight Class: Weapons-6 Armor-7 Speed-2
Weapons Descriptions: The Model P comes with a double-barreled slug launcher, firing explosive heavy caliber rounds, attached below is the Model P Spike which was designed to eject a spike should the Model P attempt to jab anyone with its gun arm. The second arm lacks a weapon but works in a fist fight.
Additional Notes: The Model P on its own was not a huge success with the frame being massive, slow and eventually will take enough fire to come down. The Model was never designed to fight alone but was in fact designed to lead an army of CVF's as an unstoppable commader who would slowly push the front line forward and bring victory. This was back when most governments had the funding to buy whole armies and fuel them. Sadly society collapsed before the Model P could make it out of the Prototype stage.

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Name: Hjertz Model J11
Description:
Weight Class: Weapons-8 Speed-5 Armor-2
Weapons Descriptions: The J11 Carries two arm mounted heavy machine guns fitted with bayonets and acid spray.
Additional Notes: The J Model ended with the J11 before the factories finally closed and only 5 made it out to circulation. The infamous J11's were immediately stolen and since then 3 have been destroyed leaving only 2 left on the world. The J11's are notorious in europe but as of late only one has been seen often causing rumors to come up that the other had been destroyed or is travelling in a region unfamiliar with their reputation.