Posted, with my first Righteous Fury hit too! Hopefully that sucker doesn't Dodge...

Crisp high-tens, all around!

Iiiiiiii didn't realize that I'd already been introduced in the last combat post. Now my introduction post seems dumb.

Fixed it.

You know if our primary troopers kick it we are going to be awash in Heavy Gunners all over the place between Bull, Oggie and Everest...

In reply to GSN 1610311843 (msg # 52):

Who needs healing and is Zilch assisting?

When I'm not on my phone my post will be assisting.

In reply to GSN 1610292302 (msg # 53):

Roland and his comrade could definitely use some healing.

In reply to GSN 1610311843 (msg # 52):

Sergeants never die, they just go missing in action.

I'm down 5 and my comrade is down 4.  I'll think we'll both skip healing this time around as I think it would be a waste of wounds healed.

I have been looking but couldn't find anything that says you can only receive first aid 1 time per day.  If that is the case, we should heal up each time.

Under the special uses of Medicae on pg 126, it notes that any given person can only receive first aid once/24 hours.

I got through that without a scratch on me. I'll be fine. On another note, there's a Deathwatch game I joined and my Assault Marine in that can't hit SHIT because the GM had us have no stat above 60 AFTER chapter bonuses. I'm thinking I like playing Guardsmen a lot more, because I can actually hit sometime. That, or melee is just a shitshow and nobody ever should get into a fistfi-*BLAM* HERESY

Sawbones...

It's only 5 degrees of success since each point of critical damage Go es a -10 penalty.  Still good work on that Recaf bumps up those 5 plus your Int bonus in wounds which last I remember seeing was 5 as well.  Should put them at 7 wounds.

Zilch, I noticed a small but amusing typo in your post. I think it should catch on that Recaf is 'Decaf' whenever she gets K.O.'d

Damn...

I caught the autocorrect changing I here in the ooc but somehow missed it in the IC.

I second the new nickname, the best ones are always those given by your squadmates.  That reminds me, we still need come up with a good one for Ramirez and Emilia, no?  I motion we call them "Boom" and "boom" (sic) given how much 'splosives we just saw them put out.

Also, it would make for a pretty amusing image to see them side by side.

In reply to GSN 1701041631 (msg # 64):

That's not too bad, as it also plays off the bit of Twinlepathy I've been RPing them with. Referring to the two of them as a singular entity (i.e. "Boom-boom") could also make for some interesting (if not playfully confusing) antics.

Don't let my opinion affect what nicknames Ramirez and Emilia get, though. I've never known a soldier who got to pick what their comrades called them ;P

Heh. Glad I named this thread 'Banter'. You guys make me grin.
This message was last edited by the GM at 16:14, Mon 20 Feb 2017.

Yeah, I just left it as ?? because AC might want to tack on extra penalties considering we're knee deep in xeno corpses, in a dark tunnel, etc.  That said, I had a good roll.

True.  At least the worst the penalty can get to by raw is -60 so you'll still heal her from Decaf to Recaf with 7 instead of 10 wounds.

Good point.  I was hoping to avoid another exp investment in Medicae.  But it's probably worth grabbing one more +10.  That or another dump into Int might be worth it as well.

Every +10 matters in a game like this since we don't have psyker healing that can bridge wounds faster than 1/day.

Int is always good but gets expensive and usually is cheaper to get the skill bump.  If you can get a medicae mechadendrite that would help too...or a Narthecium or the like.  Really anything we can get our hands on to give us better numbers heals more on a success.

Best would be Good Cerebral Implants that give us Unnatural Int x2...*that* would be a hella big boost.

I have considered changing the rule on healing of once per day to once per mission. That would make these follow-on assignments less of a death sentence.

The tradeoff is the game is therefore less deadly, and you have less tension in every encounter.

It is still in the consideration phase.

I've always hated mechanics that limited healing to 1x/day.  I can understand mechanically why systems do it, but it stretches my suspension of disbelief just a bit too far.

One way we used to do it in d20 Modern was limit first aid actions to 1x/hit, although the level of bookkeeping that required ended up being a tad too much.  I'd be a fan of 1x/mission, though.