Post in combat thread updated.

No they have the twin 20mm cannons and head laser(s).

Ah, well, I guess 20 mike mike works too...

The USAF birds probably have some other aspects of the F-22 and F-23 programs in terms of the advanced avionics they would have had.

I figure with the Global Civil War (ie WWIII) occurring both the F-22 and F-23 programs got green lit because like in WWII different manufacturers meant different production lines. Maybe 150-200 airframes of both types were built.

Likewise the F/A-18E and F-14E Advanced Tomcat may have both been procured as well for the USN. I. This scenario it’s possible the F-18F want procured with the two seat advanced tomcat taking its place in the inventory.

I also thought that to keep up with the demands of a light weight fighter the F-20 was also built for export because the F-16 production line just couldn’t keep up.

Of course the manufacture of these airframes would have been possibly been ended to make room for VF-1 production. Namely the F-23, F-14, and F-20 all built by Northrop stopping.

Hopefully I did those rolls correctly.

Looks good, you mirrored what I did for the NPC's....

Zach

Aksa had everyone fire their lasers as soon as they have a target.

"Rest of you use your lasers on any Vampire you think you can nail. Repeat, DEW's (Direct Energy Weapon's) only, do NOT let me catch you trying to down a Vamp with a gunpod."

And just a little while ago

"GERWALK mode then take your head on shot, backflip at the merge and go for shot two, if you have good shapes for a third, take the shot, otherwise reset for the next wave." She calls out to her folks and those of the 90th.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:06, Thu 04 Apr.

In reply to Aksa Tikkanen (msg # 547):

Sorry, didn't realise I had a head laser! I thought my ship was more geared towards the heavy gunpod. I'll repost when I get a chance tomorrow.

Tony

Well, hopefully the 90th can pick up the spare on wave 2.
This message was last edited by the player at 15:06, Tue 09 Apr.

I think we did decent so far right? We got quite a few and that is after the missiles took out a lot.

Yup!

Out of the 20 left, we've taken out 14 so far.
This message was last edited by the player at 19:16, Tue 09 Apr.

Sounds great! Time to head home for a beer! Our job is done, right? Right?

Tony

In reply to Zacharie Lefevre (msg # 552):

I think the name of the thread implies you’re in for the long haul.

If you watched the show or read the novels, between Saturn and Mars the SDF-1 is attacked constantly for three days. I am thinking of running this so that the players are in a different veritech for each sortie so that as players you can experience combat in the different sub variants of the VF-1.

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Also their is a third wave of anti ship missiles….

But the good news is that it looks like after I post for the 4 birds from the 90th the second wave of missiles are done for.

Will try to get something up tooor tomorrow

Adar would likely be better served using his nose lasers, since they are the new versions and have 10x the range of a GU-11 and 20x the range of the 20mm and head lasers.

Most of us, especially those in the AM birds have those new lasers. (40,000ft range vs 4,000ft for a GU-11 or 20mm, and 2,000ft for a bog standard (old) head/nose laser.) Which is why Aksa ordered those to be used.

Trust me, it wasn't me as a player trying to play Tin God.

:P

Saw this today in feed.

https://twitter.com/mummy_mode.../1780523152956948609

In reply to Aksa Tikkanen (msg # 557):

Damn that looked cool. Wonder if it was handmade?

In reply to Aksa Tikkanen (msg # 556):

Don’t forget that a kinetic energy weapon (bullets) will just keep going in space until affected by the gravitational pull of something.

So in theory what the NPC is saying is “we can thrown rocks at extreme range and may get some before we merge/pass the missiles”.


Edit: GU-11 has a range of 32,000 feet in space (4000x8) and that’s just effective range where you can easily hit a mecha sized target. Firing beyond that enacts penalties but not like it would in atmosphere (-1 to strike per 100 meters/300 feet), and I’d be inclined to use the same x8 rule in space so -1 per 2400 feet.  Toss in a weapon systems roll and factor in your strike bonus you can reach out pretty far with a GU-11.
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:48, Wed 17 Apr.

I think the QQ was a kit, but the Pods were scratch built.

Fair, regards the bullets. Would there be a higher chance of hitting (assuming ABM has a prox fuze)

The lower range listed for them gave me pause (1600ft) unless I wad reading that wrong.

In reply to Aksa Tikkanen (msg # 560):

The ABM may have less range but still a better chance to hit because it’s basically a flack round. So they’d blow up and the missile traverses through the debris felid and the law of “item traveling at velocity of X hits an object suffers damage based upon size of object and X”

Sorry just utilizing some of the higher level math a physics courses I took but don’t get to use as a financial systems guru.

Just a reminder. I will be out of the country from today until 5 MAY.

My posting will spotty at best.

Ok thanks for the heads up

Gawd.... the RNG is murdering us this wave...

Not really. I don’t see anyone getting blown up or having to eject.

Better to have the RNG screw you over when your not getting shot at then when you are.