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@Rilla

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Someone with earth powers would be pretty skilled at fighting a tank and pound them from underneath, but building characters just to fight certain characters is a dangerous game.

@ImportantNobody

They could probably immobilize it, though they would presumably be within range of the cannon and blown to pieces, plus tanks can move pretty fast, probably faster than most of the characters here actually.

People trapped in a giant melon

Tier Level
Unsuited: 3 or Low Powered
Suited: 4 or Mid Powered

Jok 'Boom-kid'

Jok ‘Boom-kid’

Race: Ramor, a race with a number of similarities to humans, they are humanoid mammals with the same number of appendages. The only significant differences are that they are more tolerant to temperature extremes and can last for longer periods of time without water, oxygen, food and sleep. Essentially they are an all-round hardier race of people. Their skin is thicker than a humans, and regardless of climate always dark olive in complexion. The average height for males is 5ft and females slightly higher, and their eyes are somewhat larger on average than a humans. Their life spans range around 60-70 years, even with their modern medical technology.

Gender: Male

Height: 5ft dead

Weight: 75kg

Age: 19

Appearance: Jok has a sharp angular face that one instantly distrusts, coupled with a boyish grin that completes the look of a bit of a prankster. His skin is dark olive in complexion, like all of his race. His body type would best be described as athletic, not noticeably bulky for a soldier but with a wiry strength. He has short black hair and brown eyes. His skin is fairly heavily tattooed, though nothing on his face.

Reference picture

Personality: Jok’s boyish demeanour is something of a front for what is by all accounts a sadistic mind. Perfectly suitable for his role as an explosives expert, prone to leaving cruel traps for the enemy, he shows little remorse about his actions. With a slightly inappropriate sense of humour and a mean streak, he is only somewhat redeemed by his loyalty to his squad.

Physical Traits: As a foot soldier in the Grent Republic’s army and a recruit fresh from the republic’s controversial new training facility, Jok is physically powerful, ruthless, and masterful in the art of dealing death, despite his age. However, he would still be limited by the restraints of biology if it were not for the exo-skeletons foot soldiers are outfitted with.

Unsuited

If Jok’s suit is disabled for whatever reason or unsuitable for a mission he’s forced to rely on his own muscles, with decreased physical capabilities.

Strength: Roughly bench 250kg

Speed: Max running speed of 24mph

Agility: Reflexes at roughly double peak human, due to controversial drug programs increasing the receptivity of synapses in the brain.

Durability: All Ramor have somewhat thicker skin than humans and denser bones, making him roughly twice as hard to hurt as a human his size.

Endurance: Jok can run at a flat sprint for 30 minutes, long distance training has increased his endurance to almost super human levels. He could easily jog for a day and night without rest, making it unlikely that he will tire in anything other than a long period of activity.

Suited

Strength: Roughly bench 1000kg

Speed: Max running speed of 50mph (reached in four seconds.)

Agility: Reflexes remain the same, but the exo-suit allows him to move his arms faster and with more force, almost quadruple his normal speed.

Durability: The suit doesn’t change his natural durability, though it is made of titanium and would easily repel a bullet if he was lucky enough to be hit in one of the structural pieces.

Endurance: The suit increases his endurance, though its relatively short battery life of six hours does put a cap on the amount of time he can spend using it.

Senses: Jok has the naturally powerful eyesight of the Ramor which is almost half again better than a humans, especially in low light conditions. Other than that his senses are similar to any humans, save for his pain tolerance is higher due to his controversial ‘training’.

Skills: After undergoing the three year intensive training program Jok has become the perfect soldier, unquestioning of his orders regardless of their brutality, capable of making tactical decisions, and incredibly proficient with his tools of the trade.
Survival
Basic Weapons
Advanced Weapons
Demolitions
Bomb Defusal
Basic Combat
Advanced Combat
Psychological Warfare
Guerrilla Tactics
Advanced Driving Course
Parkour
Intermediate Combat First-Aid
Hand to Hand combat, most similar to Krav Maga and Judo
Engineering
Electronics
Improvised munitions

Equipment (all weapons are roughly similar to modern day equivalents in stats not included)

ALICE Pack: Specially modified for quick movement and access on covert operations, Jok is none-the-less equipped with what is most like the modern day ALICE pack. It’s fastened outside his Exo-Suit.

Weaponry: Jok’s load out is dependent on a mission, he has a small armoury from which he can choose to bring a reasonable amount of weaponry into the field. If there is no Intel on the mission or objective then he will bring a random assortment of weaponry from each category to suit different possible scenarios. His weapon choices are as followed.

Mainline weaponry

KG20 Carbine Assault Rifle: Weighing around 4kg with a full magazine of 30 rounds, with an adjustable stock that drops the length from 35” to 31” the KG20 fires 5.56mm rounds and is roughly equitable in terms of power and velocity to the M4 Carbine. It also features an under-barrel grenade launcher which can fire a single 40mm fragmentation grenade. Maximum ammo, four magazines.

SOP Submachine Gun: Only 2.5kg in weight and 26” in length with an integrated silencer, the SOP submachine gun fires 7.62 rounds and has an effective range of around 100 meters. Maximum ammo, four magazines.

Man-portable explosive ordinance

Hazard MGL: 5kg six-shot revolver-type grenade launcher that can be loaded with HE, HEAT, chemical and pyrotechnic 40mm rounds. It has a short stubby design and can effectively fire up to 300 meters at roughly three rounds per second. It fires rounds at a velocity of about 70 meters per second. Maximum ammo, six HE, two of each special round type on an ammo belt.

Leaper Shoulder-Launched Assault Weapon: Weighing a hefty 15kg means this rocket launcher is only really suitable when Jok’s suited up. Fires 150mm warhead with optional laser guidance system. One shot and it’s abandoned, similar to the MBT LAW.

Anti-Personnel Mine: Similar in essence to the M18 Claymore mine, max capacity of two. Can be activated by laser detection, trip wire, or remote detonation.

36Rde Anti-personnel grenades: Fragmentation grenades with motion sensor technology, designed to be thrown into a hot zone where they remain undetonated until triggered either by the user’s kill-switch or when a large body (roughly human sized) moves into the kill radius of five feet. Similar in detonation strength to an ordinary fragmentation grenade. Capacity of three.

Smoke Grenades: Essentially exactly what they sound like, similar to modern day equivalent. Max capacity, two.

RE20: Similar in essence to modern day C4 explosives, small satchels which can be adjusted to become adhesive and stick to surfaces. They are detonated remotely by trigger. Maximum of two.

Side Arms

Hedson Pistol: 9mm pistol, fairly basic, 12 round magazine, couple extra mags, can be outfitted with a silencer.

Jackhammer Revolver: 6 shot revolver, 50. rounds. Extra 6 rounds.

14" combat knife

Medi-kit: All special operatives are authorised two multi-purpose stim-packs. Administered by injection, they release adrenaline to combat pain and also reduce/stop bleeding. They are also effective at combating poisons and toxins in the blood.

Armour: Jok is always wearing full camouflaged combat gear on missions, including a durable weave vest similar though slightly more effective than modern day Kevlar. He also tends to wear a ballistic face mask with built in air filtration technology and a lightweight helmet with adjustable night vision goggles.

Exo-Suit: The most innovative piece of equipment designed by Ramor military service for infantrymen. The Exo-suit is a external titanium alloy support-suit designed to reinforce the user's muscular strength, making them faster, more durable, able to hit harder and lift more. It requires a ten minute operation in base conditions to attach the suit to the operator, and cannot be effectively removed without basic surgical tools. It's lightweight, roughly ten kg all around, and makes only a slight amount of sound as the structure moves. It's powered by hydrogen batteries attached to the back of the suit just above the tail bone. It can be powered down when not in use and moved using ones own strength, with only a slight encumbrance. It has a life of two hours operational, which is the trade off for having highly volatile batteries because they must be encased in the titanium shell and can't be easily replaced. The wiring is protected by the titanium shell, and the feet and knuckles of the operator are also protected allowing for the use of more powerful melee attacks.

Backstory: Jok is an infantry-man and demolitions specialist in the Grent republic's army. Due to the unique nature of his controversial training (for which he was volunteered by his orphanage) he is unquestioning of his orders and a force to be reckoned with on the battlefield.

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I assume players can jump onto the tank and open it up like Chewie does to the AT-STs from Star Wars. Can we also assume the doors would be able to be broken into with a well place sword into some gap? Or that's probably assuming to much.

@ImportantNobody

I think Hollywood is probably responsible for the myth that a tank can be accessed so easily, especially modern day tanks. They're more like mobile bunkers.

You've also somehow dodged the 50. machine gun that would probably be putting large holes in your chest as you do that, of course.

Hell, modern day tanks can't even destroy other modern day tanks. The Americans lost one of their tanks to the terrain once and couldn't even blow it up themselves to deny it to the enemy.

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Melon, I have two rounds one is a fireball/dragons breath and the other is an incendiary round. They both do in effect the same thing, the only difference is that the fireball has a longer stream range.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwhCygmhbCg

@Skallagrim

That looks incredibly painful.

Weird they didn't set the trees on fire though.

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The rounds only last for a few seconds at most unless they touch something that can be easily set ablaze, and by easily I mean dried kindling easy. Dragon's breath are mostly to cause damage to property and occasionally someone unlucky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnA9yyE2ma8

@Skallagrim

Dragon's breath was probably the ones I meant, I was quoting from memory and I only had the one look earlier.

I appreciate you insulting me again Tuujaimaa, it was a figure of speech, though if you genuinely believe any of the other characters here can penetrate a modern day tank then you're the one who's 'naive'.

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I suppose the only system that will work in the long term without the need for resets (though why you would discount resets I don't know, as almost every leaderboard system in sport and the like relies on it to keep things interesting.) is something where the amount of points are finite, with no new points (other than new people entering the leaderboards) being introduced, and where the winner gains the losers points in some fashion, somehow linked to how many points they had in the first place.

Someone who's better at math will have to work it out.

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Unless I completely abandon physics (which does seem to be the case if we're slowing bullets down.) then physically there just isn't anyone here with a weapon that can pierce the armour of the mech. To adjust the mech to a level where people could fight it with swords would also require a complete abandonment of logic and reason, because swords just can't cut through the armour of vehicles designed with modern day firepower in mind.

Even with magic there isn't really anyone who can come close, as the most destructive of magics at this tier only tend to be effective against organic opponents, and to use magic that could produce enough force to come close to piercing the armour of even a pretty shit tank would essentially mean you could kill any other character here in one hit.

Your best bet (and it's still pretty hopeless) would be some sort of magic that exploits its relatively cumbersome size, or a very quick character that can outrun its turning circle, though even then that's only if we're discounting the fact that the anti-material rifle could have put a hole through your body before you even saw it.

With all this in mind, I'll just be making another super-powered fleshy for the grinder, though I'm pretty sure they'll be incinerated by Skallagrim's incendiary rounds if I happen to be unlucky enough to get matched against him. Those things are like half again hotter than a flamethrower, everyone is fucked.

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I won't use the battlemech here, I was just making a point. I don't think anyone's characters (save maybe Skallagrim's firebased weaponry, if used very carefully) has a chance of even scratching the armour of a tank.

I'll probably enter a different character on the lower end of 'powered' as I prefer that level myself.

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I agree with that, I just think that the entry specifications are incredibly vague.

Looking at it, your modern character Skallagrim will be more than a match for most if not all of the characters here in anything other than the most unfavourable conditions.

Modern technology is arguably better than any magic, and if you don't believe me look up some specs for the average MBT, my character's mech is actually less powerful in terms of armour and firepower.

Is a tank higher than mid tier? lol.