Honor cost would be along the lines of (Def Modifier of Max Jump) squared.

So...

1~2 Jump Jets is  1 honor
3~4 Jump Jets is  4 honor
5~7 Jump Jets is  9 honor
8~9 Jump Jets is 16 honor
10+ Jump Jest is 25 honor

Jump jets can only be placed in empty Torso or leg criticals, and would have to be symetrical.

ie. you cant put 3 in RT, and 2 in LT to jump 5, because it's lopsided, and offends my sense of how real world physics should work.

Gives Mariana 2 points of honor for her questions.

1 for the Uller question, since the XL adjustment should have been made, but wasnt.

1 for the Mad Cat Pod Space correction, that was just a typo/bad math somewhere.

Major selection short fall for bug warriors, there isnt any 20 ton omni mechs in the unit.

I'm going to put in a request to add a 20 ton omni light, probably a Fenris would make a good 20 ton light.  Will appear after the mission, either as a replacement for combat losses, or to swap out an exisiting mech.

I'm thinking the Shadow Hawk II is okay to ship out of the unit, it's large and starts with a bid price of 79 base honor, is anyone going to use this thing?

Going the other way i was considering shipping off the Wasp, which is probably the least attractive of the twenty ton options.
This message was last updated by the player at 20:36, Sat 02 July 2016.

Adder Light worked out to a 20ton omni.

The Fenris is a little heavy for that, and probably would make for a better 25ton omni, which would be more rugged that the 20 tonner.

Dont want to muck up existing bids, so i will make it an available mech after this mission.
This message was last edited by the GM at 20:38, Sat 02 July 2016.

So as a little touch on Options to be certain...

Leadership is gone.  As noted earlier.

Tinker is useless.  No availability.  No personal storage.  No mods so no alt loads.

X-Train Tech looses: No mods so no alt loads.

Physical Combat gone.  It's against all their training, Trueborn and Freeborn.

X-Train Aero gone. Clanners don't multi-task like that.

...also...No LAM pilot archetypes as they blew up all their LAMs.

Well Equipped, Damage Magnet, Trigger Happy...again only an issue for a force that isn't tossing all their cookies into a fight.  Even a unit like ours is 'fully funded' cause we fight and fighting is honorable.

Did I miss something?

Leadership, Physical Combat, Aero, LAMs, all gone.

X-Train Tech, still has a use for scouts, EW, and the like.  It lingers for that.

Posted new versions of Damage Magnet, Tinker and Trigger Happy in the Campaign Rules thread.

The Noble changes have already been discussed.

Waiting for Mikael to put a bid in.

Cassiadora i've decided will actually play with the Op Force, presuming you mangle them the way clanner should, you take her as a bondsman.  It goes a long way to skipping over explaining what a clan is to her, and she'll be a natural for roleplaying first exposures to them.

Since they have next to  no knowledge on how to play, (though they did mention playing long ago?), it'll give her at least the first mission to get the rust off.

Okay...elemental technican a thing or is the campaign needing to stick to Big mechs for the moment?

No there is no elemental tech and big mech is a misnomer since mechs will still be between roughly 40 tons down to 10 tons based on how good a mechwarrior you are.

Been going through what I can find of the rules.   Needless to say, I'm confused :-)   But still super keen! :-)

Well whatcha confused about?  Gimme something to work with and I can try to enlighten you to the best of my ability.

Well, I guess I should wait on the GM for the mech I'd be piloting and learn from there. :-)

Well...

You should be able to piece together a character without knowing what mech you are going to be piloting.  That I can help you with as my other day job here is being Tau the other Battlemaster for the missions here ;)

Ah cool.  Well.  I kinda picture a light mech with various subtle abilities.   Sneakiness, intelligence, counter intelligence, misdirection that type of thing.   Is that even possible?

How are we going to put specialty ammo into our bids? Is there going to be a table of that stuff?

Light mech is not a problem.

Kitten mentioned you starting out as an Inner Sphere pilot that will be part of the 'opposition forces' that the other players will be fighting against.  In it you'll be captured and made a bondsman and thus be part of the story from the Clan side.

Overall the game is more Battletech with some roleplaying mixed in than something like the old Crecent Hawks Inception PC game from back in the day (that you can get on Abandonware and play through an emulator *grins*).

You can take options that are more technically inclined in the vein of electronic warfare and you can focus your attributes in that angle as well.

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@Anton

I think that specialty ammo will not be part of the bid but more akin to you spending honor to simply access it in the same manner that a Trueborn with the Bloodname sub-spec can spend Honor to 'reserve' a mech as theirs for a mission and that isn't considered part of the bid either (Correct me if I'm wrong Kitten)

Specialty armor is part of bid.

So noted...even if I don't know the numbers/value of spec ammo I'm sure that Kitten will put that together.

I need to look at some numbers before settling on an honor value for stuff, but it's part of the bid, and not something you have to buy.

STILL waiting for a bid from Mikael on link to a message in this game

If i dont get one by tomorrow, will forfeit his place on the next mission with a no bid.

We only have four bids at the moment, so i will offer a handicap bid, bumping player bids up to adjust for being short a mechwarrior if that happens.

(sighs)

That or i can generate a character for Cassi to be the fifth, i'll mull it over and close the bids tomorrow so we can move on.  This really shouldnt be taking this long.
This message was last edited by the GM at 14:39, Thu 07 July 2016.

 I sent a PM to you on that bid, did i put it in the wrong place?.

Use the auction thread please.  So that when it is over everyone can see the bids.

I'm game!   Though I have to admit I spent 4 hours playing Star Trek Attack Wing tonight. One of guys did however promise to tell me more about Mech clans and such.

Thats a good thing, though Mik got his bid in, so i'm going to go with the original plan and have you play on the Op Force side.

Bidding is over.


Gunnar, has the low bid.

At this time, she can keep her bid, and original force, or, he can expend honor and position to take a higher bid.

ie.

1 honor to use Gunnar's bid of 44 and concede first choice of equipment to Mikael.

or

2 honor to use Mikael's bid of 45 and concede equipment choice to Mikael, Anton, and Mariana
or

4 honor to use Anton/Mariana's bid of 52 and concede choice of equipment to Makael, Mariana and Anton.

You have till tomororrow to reply, if you do not reply, i will presume you are keeping your bid and equipment.  (Sooner you repyly, the quicker the process goes, so if you know you're not.)


Actually, as close as the bids are, I'm going to presume Gunnar is good with keeping his bid, but it should be noted that MPL's do not work with Targeting computers.  So you still need to finalize your bid and equipment request.

(after Gunnar is settled, Mikael is next.)
This message was last edited by the GM at 23:45, Thu 07 July 2016.