Right equipment bidding over.

I need to post mission notes, and then you guys work out who you want to 'duel'

Bloodname Batchall

Trueborns with a Bloodname, can call out a target before the mission start as their intended target.  No other clan players may engage this target, unless the target fires upon them.

Xue and Marina have the same level of bloodname, so we look at who as higher Honor, that would be Xue at the moment, so Xue gets first pick of who to declare Batchall on.

Targets for this mission that they can call out are...

75tn Maurader      ~ 15 honor ~

65tn Thunder Bolt  ~ 13 honor ~

40tn Whitworth     ~  8 honor ~

35tn Jenner        ~  7 honor ~

25tn Commando      ~  5 honor ~

20tn Locust        ~  4 honor ~

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There is also a 70tn Archer, but i'm not going to put this on the list to be called out because it's run by Cassiadora, a rookie player who needs to learn the mechanics of how to play, so it wouldn't be a fair target.
This message was last edited by the GM at 13:23, Mon 11 July 2016.

Isn't the GM nice! :-) Thank you! *hug*

Go big or go home...

Marauder.

I suppose I can hardly let you have all the fun.

Thunderbolt.

Youre both nuts, but fine.

Marauder is big...but has light armour for a 75 tonner and shitty heat sinks for it's weapons load.  It's far easier to crack than that heavily armoured Thunderbolt.

No notation of variants or tech is noted yet.

Bad presumption to presume it's a 3025 3R

Even the 3050 Marauders were shitty...and as you point out IS XL engines are a death sentence for them since it adds two more areas where I can kill it on top of head, center torso and either leg.

As long as no one calls foul when the mechs hit the table.  (shrugs)

Besides what Trueborn Bloodnamed pilot with a decently sized mech would turn down the largest enemy?

Given the tonnage we are arrayed against and the description of them being pirates I expect most of them will be much closer to 3025 tech than 3050 top of the line elite house units with full level 2 tech.  Either that or the honor maximum for the event is likely to low, to say nothing of how low some folks bid themselves.

Reyvak is back, from the old campaign.

Always nice to have an old player back, so we should be able to work out competitive bids easier soon.

Awesomesauce.

Question for you Kitten...

We've been using inferior Spheroid tech before now but now we're using the good stuff...Active Probe and ECM suite that are better than Beagle Probes and Guardian ECM.  Are the Targeting Computers now fully fledged?  -1 to hit at any range and ability to aim their shots at any range at a +3?

Those pesky IS versions only gave -1 at long and medium and no bonus at short but allowed aiming at short range.

Just wanna be sure...

Indeed. I am back. As an aside, I do want to apologize for disappearing suddenly. I am sure someone else had to pick up my slack, but I was in a pretty back accident, and was out of commission for almost 2 months.

I just send my character stuff over to Kitten so, i should be changing my name to Kehj Moon soon.

You most certainly do not have to apologize for that Reyvak.

I'm glad that you are good enough to be able to come back and enjoy some more of the game in its current incarnation.

Mother in law had an accident and in hospital, so lil distracted, so... mission delayed on account of that.

Do what you need to.  We'll be here when you get back.

In the midst of preparing for a camping trip this weekend.

Mission is held up, because i need to type up the Batchall Rules.  After i get the rules typed up, i plan on having a do-over of the Bloodnames Batchall, to let the players have a second chance on changing their Batchalls.

After the first mission i plan on having a mulligan offering, and players will get a chance to fix stuff about their characters they dont like.

At that point I'll check more closely to make sure all characters are also legal.

Legal, for the campaign, as a major difference, is the requirement that Options start at level one.  If you dont know what you want for an option, you take Untapped Potential (1).

Okay, I've got the Batchall notes typed up.  Simplified rule interpretation of what's in the campaign thread.


1)  You will notice that even though you start out by challenging a target to solo Batchall before a mission.

2)  If you are not in Batchall, you may start one during a mission by hitting an opponent not engaged in Batchall during the mission.


3)  You will notice that it is possible to engage in Batchall with an opponent already in a Batchall if they fire on you.

    *) If the opponent is engaged with a Bloodname opponent, you must ask permission to join the Batchall against the opponent.

4)  You will notice that if the Batchall falls apart and becomes a Grand Melee that honor gains will take a nose dive (Especially for Trueborns).

5)  I've decided that Freeborns with Noble may make formal Batchall before a mission, but are not considered Bloodnames, so during the mission, other pilots do not need permission to join their Batchall, if fired upon.

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I've decided to allow the entire Op Force (including those not controlled by me) to be subject to Batchall.  Honor values are estimate, based on mech type, and may be adjusted after the mission, if a particularly outstanding or terrible pilot was in the mech.

Mechs are a general denotion of combat ability.  They do not note possible variants, tech, modification, or pilot skill.


Batchall Order of Declaration
Maurader
Archer
T-Bolt
Whitworth
Jenner
Commando
Locust



Bloodnames
Xue
Mariana

Notable Freeborns
Gunnar

That looks a lot more like the the rules for Zellbrigen than they do the procedure of a Batchall, or are we just combining them both into one concept so it is easier to fit in the rules?

I'm in the middle of packing for a weekend camping trip.

You are probably right.  I'm just combining it (the way of the clans) all together at the moment to try and get in the rules area.  I'm not going to split hairs on the exact clan terms, i just want to get it all down in the rules section at this point.  I just wanted to get enough on the thread, so that players could see how the honor thing is going to work so that they can make an educated selection on who they call out pre mission.

Will give Xue till today to answer post, if not, will leave their batchall up on the Maurader.

I know...

I screwed up my design cause I can't use the Targeting Computer that I was banking on cause I forgot the need for 3 mental to take advantage of it.

I don't know how I went from a LB-6x with an over abundance of ammo (supposed to be a mix of LBX cluster and LBX slug) to a LB-5x with not enough ammo to fire every round we will play.

So I'll take the Whitworth to start with.