I hear that.

I honestly would probably have been happier in a medium. But the power loaders don't really get that big as of now, so I'm not too worried about locking myself into the Light class via specialization. Low tonnage is just what you have to deal with as an Edenite. :P

I think for me, the mod cap and rules are the real limiter here, not weight class so much.

Doing light, and fairly stock is being cool though, I don't have any complaints.

Being my first mission with this game I believe that I will want to change some things about my character and Mech, even if I have to start over from scratch.

I will be too slow to keep up in a normal gravity game.  I've enjoyed walking at a running pace, but the speed modifiers to be hit are worth more than the extra armour for the Blackjack.  The normal heat profile is awesome, but unless I put MASC in for the occasional boost combat becomes over there instead of over here.

Kitten usually allows people a mulligan after their first mission or so to tweak their character/mech once they see how things are done.  Your mech as is would work but it would simply take some...adjustments of tactics both on your side and the rest of your lance.

I would have worked just fine in a 3/5...cept for an unexpected ammo explosion...

Power Loaders are in the 20, 25, 30, 40 and 65 ton range.

X-3 (25 tons) and X-3a (30 tons) are available to any Eden character.  X-3EW (20 tons) requires serious mental power and/or tinker or tech.  X-3c (30 tons) requires two rank, but isn't limited to only officers.  X-5 (65 tons) requires a 4 accuracy and 3 physical.  X-6 is the LAM and more or less unavailable to PC's at this point.  A-3s (25 tons) is the upgraded version of the X-3EW, A-3 (30 tons) is the upgraded version of the X-3a and the A-3c (40 tons) is the token medium and upgraded version of the X-3c.  Currently there is no upgraded version of the X-5 in the A series.

Advance and Fire Mission updated, good luck peeps, shoot straight.

Get north of that line if you can people :-P

10+ is Decompression, so the LT hit would take that torso out of action...meaning one less AC/5 in the mix.

I'm at a famiky thing right now, expect to be home in about 12 hours.

Blame phone

Ana, you need to be adjacent to the center hex of the hill to scan it :(

Otherwise I would have attempted a scan of this hill last turn...

cna't move faster... so... not much help there.

Update halted for the moment, i have the Shadow Hawk and Hornet left to resolve their attacks.

Domestic crisis distracting me.

Op Force firephase completed, no mercs were lost, but armor was certainly thinned and scrubbed off a little.

Op Force has cooled off and seems to have six mechs ready to fight.

Mercs have seven active mechs, but there is a lot of heat out there, which will hamstring their movement and offensive this turn.

Combat seems to be split between the forward area and the back field.

Ziro and Quix and Viking all took damage, so they are considered 'engaged' and may not advance forward into the forward scouting zone.  (Not that they're really fast enough to help contribute there, just saying.)

Viking and Quix need to move at this time, the rest of the Mercs have initiative and may wait for Op Force to move.

kitten, doesn't need to be edited, but shouldn't my weapons fire modifier be gone?, that's at 8 heat, i'm at 7 (this was the deciding factor in me not shooting the previous turn)

In reply to Kitten (msg # 873):

I have 8.5 working heat sinks.  My heat has been reduced by 5.  Is this because I was shut down?

Yeah, i did a quick heat chart last night and noted changes needed to be done, but forgot to do them this morning.

They've been updated so it should all be good.

Quix's damage was accidentally marked off against Ziro.

Damage has been corrected and should be accurate now.

Right Viking has moved, just waiting on Quix now.

No rush.  Just letting you know who i'm waiting on.

In reply to Kitten (msg # 878):

Back from work.  Updating now.

 Well, my decompression  roll is either very good or very bad. Rolled a 2 with 2d6.

Very much a miss.

Quick question, Kitten: I know I can't cross the enemy line, but am I able to stand on it?

On to, Yes.  (ie. 0610, is on the line.)

Past, No.  (ie. 0710,is past the line.)
This message was last edited by the GM at 14:12, Tue 05 Aug 2014.

o.O

Will give Ziro the rest of the day to get movement/fire orders in.

Tomorrow if i wake up to do turns and nothing is in, he just... sort of stands there.

He should have something up soon. I am bugging him about it :3