OfWindAndRain

When Royalty Collides ~Closed~

@ViolentViolet

What @HaleyTheRandom said?

When Royalty Collides ~Closed~

@HaleyTheRandom
D:

[@Everyone]
We must kidnap Haley and make her GM the roleplay as her one and only job. This is clearly our only option.

The Greenbriar Miracles

@Mr Allen J
(Yes, I play on PC)

Well, uh, Bae is Bae. Mei the best Bae win. :D

My character is all simple, and everyone else has all these complex characters. Normally I go with something, well, different, but I just wanted to play a normal sort of girl. I rarely play girls too.

Possible Mech RP

@FallenTrinity
Anyhow, I must sleep.

Goodnight. I will talk to you either tomorrow morning, or later in the afternoon. School is arse.

The Greenbriar Miracles

@JackalopeLove
xD



DVa is my spirit animal.

Possible Mech RP

@FallenTrinity
Okay, so, here's what I suggest.

Humanity has colonized the majority of the star system- there are bases and such on many of the moons, such as Europa or Titan, Mars has moderate colonization, the Moon/Luna is a bustling spaceport and trading hub, there are likely more than a couple large space stations in orbit around both Earth and Mars that cater both to military and commercial purposes. There are satellites and such in orbit around planets in other solar systems, likely with some automatic colonization packages sent along- things that hit the group, deploy some 'bots, and starts clearing and building up a small infrastructure for the first colony to use when they finally go. Maybe they're en route. Either way, I think this would be reasonable for their to be ACTUAL infrastructure in the solar system for this sort of time period. There'd likely be a population boom, and the population of the solar system might be around 12 billion by now, with the average lifespan probably extending to 120 or 130, with one's prime starting to end more into their forties than their thirties, and only becoming a 'senior' when they're about 70-80. They'll only really be frail at 100+.

That's what I'd suggest.

More than that, the UN's IDF probably wouldn't be very powerful. The fear of extraterrestrials would be present, most definitely, but when humanity has reverse engineered a fuckton of it and has spread through the stars, that initial fear would've faded greatly. In this, I'd suggest that the IDF has greatly faded, where people still sorta participate just to keep up the pretense. In actuality, I'd figure that major nations of similar minds would join together- the North Americas and maybe some European countries would probably make a major alliance/faction, such as America, Canada, Great Britain, France, and Germany- maybe even South Korea, Spain, Greece, etc. Another faction might be Russia, China, North Korea, and other similar states. A third, weaker faction might be places like Israel, Saudi Arabia, India, and Egypt.

These three factions would be, I figure, the major players. Feel free to edit it however you want, but these are the closest, whether geographically, politically, ideologically, etc.

Mechs would likely be Titan-sized, in my mind- about 30' or a little less. They'd be heavy enough to operate on places such as Mars, resilient enough to stand up to those elements, as well as to survive 'titanfall,' strong enough to take care of objectives quickly and efficiently, mobile enough to avoid heavy, damaging fire, powerful enough to keep themselves running. They'd likely rely more on shields than armor. If shells are hitting armor, then you're going to be shaken up and screwed up a bit, and every hit is a chance for disaster. Shields can regenerate, rely solely on energy, don't need to be repaired, and can take those hits without the chance of a critical hit, so to speak.

Weapons would be limited- likely nothing over 160mm, maximum. Railguns might be in the 20-40mm range, cannon might be up to 105mm, autocannon would be up to 40mm. Each mech would have a minimum of half-coverage light armor, a full life support suite, emergency ejection, a self-contained cockpit, and a communications suite. One fusion reactor would work best, I think, and would keep the entire thing running. If severely damaged, it might screw up and blow the entire area to hell, but then again, so would a nuclear reactor, and fusion has a helluva lot more energy production potential.

Each mech would probably be limited to two or three weapons- likely an autocannon or chaingun, and then a cannon or small railgun, and maybe a mortar tube or missile launcher. Chainguns would likely be 5mm to 15mm- 5mm would have higher rate of fire, laser-accurate, might have two of them mounted, and would be used against light armor or infantry. 15mm might be useful against structures, suppression of Titans, and medium armor. Ish. Missiles would probably be 60mm to 80mm, mortars might be 105mm to 160mm.

Energy weapons?
Some smaller/stealthier titans might have a sort-of plasma blade, that it can activate to use in the event of close combat. I don't like swords and shit, but activating a device that's on your mech's arm to cut down a rushing mech or the like would be useful. Self-defense rather than an offensive weapon. Plasma cannon or an ion cannon would be limited in use- it'd consume quite a bit of energy which might deprive other systems of it, and would overheat quickly- and lasers would be limited in effectiveness. Lasers, in all seriousness, would only be useful against aircraft, or something else that can be exposed to the laser for a 'long' time, without heat-resistant plating. Lasers aren't red beams of destruction, it's just a concentrated beam of heat. You could melt the walls of a fuel tank, the electronics, etc. Good against slow cruise missiles or something. Concentrated beams of ionized particles- the more traditional cut-through-everything lasers- would have limited use, but would likely be very accurate and good for making holes in things, or cutting up infantry.

As ever, energy weapons' effectiveness decreases with atmosphere. On Earth, where there's lots of dust and such in the air, a laser would travel much less distance than a laser on the moon. On Earth, that laser is constantly bouncing off particles in the air, while there's nothing on the moon. It ultimately wouldn't make much difference, though. The higher the power it has, however, the worse that damage dropoff will be.

In terms of equipment- if we're being launched like the titans from Titanfall, that means we're going to have orbital support, in some form or another. Even if our ship has to immediately leave, it can still map out the ENTIRE terrain and beam it to us, as well as leave small stealth satellites that can continue to monitor visually, with infrared, etc. These could also spot targets, laser-designate enemies and positions to get hit by mortar or cannon.

In addition to that- larger weapons CAN be deployed. Instead of firing off a capsule that deploys a Titan when it lands, there can also be capsules that turn into stationary anti-air platforms, or surveillance platforms. Artillery, missile, etc. Larger ones might be large railguns or cruise missile launch pads.

Hell, that could be our two primary objectives in our missions- in the first type of mission, we go in to eliminate a threat- a convoy, a base, a large group of hostiles, etc. Or, we're going into an area to secure, defend, and deploy these capsules- likely surveillance. If there is a large, heavily defended base, then rather than mount an assault, we could set up a surveillance, railgun, and area denial capsule just within range. We defend it from their mechs trying to disable us, while the area denial capsule fires off missiles or a small railgun that destroys enemy artillery/railguns, while the surveillance guides the railgun to fire on the required targets. Or maybe just aerial denial and surveillance- surveillance gets more accurate readings on targets, so that a ship in orbit can launch several kinetic packages to strike the enemy aerial denial platforms and major defensive positions, and then our mechs clean up the attacking forces, and then move onto their base and clean that up too.

The Greenbriar Miracles

@Mr Allen J
Yeah, Tracer is moderately difficult to casually play. After that, she can be really hard to play expertly, with some real skill- proGenjis are much more common, really.

Schooled in Magic

With Jazelle in tow, Priscilla, the young girl of about 18 that had joined Sunder's staff upon his offer as soon as he asked it, led the way to guest rooms. She didn't really know what to think about the girl, other than that she was strange, smelled nice, and that she pulled a knife on her as soon as she opened the door. It was a really interesting knife, too- she did some weird motion and it had flipped out, and then she flipped it again and it disappeared. She was curious about it, but it wasn't her place to ask questions. She was a servant, after all.

But Sunder did say to answer her questions, so...

With a sweet, delicate voice, Priscilla replied nonchalantly- "Well, Sunder- he hates being called Master- grew up a hundred years ago, I think. I've heard he's one of the only remaining Lone Powers that survived the initial attack, you know, when we lost all those kingdoms in the first few years after Necromancy started. Oh heavens, I think he attended Whitehall like everyone else, graduated as a combat magician and sorcerer. Really powerful, and he only grew after that. Served with the White Council for a time as one of their White Mages, went around helping everyone and providing council. He's told me that he got tired of all the restrictions and rules he had to follow, so because he was already so powerful, he struck out on his own as a Lone Power. He's been working towards peace in the Allied Lands for years, you know, knows anyone who's anyone. Most people don't like him, I think, but for the couple years I've worked for him, he's always been nice. Polite and respectful, which is kinda rare. Generous, too.

"He's been here for about forty years, I think. And you know, he's always trying to convince other races to come and join him here, for a while, if they wanted to go to Whitehall. Something about learning about how to mix with humans before actually being in crowds or the sort. We had a gorgon and a couple half-Fae here once- it was really neat! The gorgon was kinda scary though, but she was nice."

She looked brightly at the girl she was escorting, as she came to a stop outside a door. She had been sort-of wandered absent-mindedly down corridors to the correct room- she knew her way around the magical tower very well- and now stopped outside of it.

"He's doing his best to help all of us. You may not trust a kind one, but I know one when I see one, and I know that Sunder's a nice one, and you are too."

Priscilla beamed at the girl, and hesitantly reached out to Jazelle's shoulders.

"Sorry, but, your shirt is... I've never seen it before, and it looks so soft and comfortable?"

She wanted to touch it, yeah. Her current wear wasn't at all bad, and she's worn worse, but what Jazelle was wearing just looked comfy. Like a sofa, or a soft quilt.

The Greenbriar Miracles

@Mr Allen J
At the moment, my favorites that I prefer playing are:

Offense: Pharah, Tracer, McCree
Defense: Bastion, Widowmaker
Tank: Reinhardt
Support: Mercy, Symmetra

I've been trying to practice with:
Offense: Genji, Reaper
Defense: Mei
Tank: Winston
Support: Ana

I will not play:
Offense: N/A
Defense: Spamzo, Junkrat
Tank: Roadhog
Support: N/A

Possible Mech RP

@FallenTrinity
Hm.

Okay, for one, I need to know how big is it- sixty feet tall? six hundred? One hundred feet tall? I like feet better than meters for this because 10 feet = 1 story, and so it's easier for me to imagine how tall they are.

But here's a definite no-no:
255mm railgun.

Here's the gist of it:
The power requirements for a 255mm railgun would be enough to keep a satellite in orbit with a 100mm railgun and strike whatever the hell you wanted, whenever you wanted, two times faster and two hundred times more reactive.

A 120mm tank cannon firing an APDSFS round- an Armor Piercing Discarding Sabot Fin Stabilized type, usually with a fair bit of depleted uranium for maximum round density- can pierce well over 500mm of steel. In other alloys, that's still at least 200mm of penetration, and that means that in order to effectively defend oneself from that 120mm, you need to either be invisible, too hard to hit, or too strong to penetrate. That means either being really heavily armored with some really advanced stuff, being protected with some really advanced APS, or being high mobile and with advanced stealth of some sort- whether it be jamming, hiding one's heat sig, etc.

And a mech is a complex piece of equipment that will be used over a tank because of its agility and adaptability- it's a helluva lot easier to put a giant metal man into a swamp and out again than a tank. That being said, weapons are going to be advanced, and there's likely very little you can do if rounds actually HIT you. That's why soldiers wear so little armor, especially in places such as the arms, legs, or neck. It'll restrict mobility, and really, if you get hit, you're going to be pretty much down, at least for a minute, or down for good. A tank could easily take a mech on in an open battle- on a desert, field, farm, whatever, tanks are going to be prized because they'll present a smaller target, can still retain effective combat capability, and in all accounts are probably harder to kill.

Mechs would be prized because they'd have the firepower and maaaaybe the armor of a tank, with the agility of a soldier in a much larger target- they'd be able to take on anything, but they'd also be very vulnerable to hits.

Thus, something so large as to be able to conceal 155mm cannons is likely far too big. It'd be too easy to hit it from orbit, or with cruise missiles, or with kinetic artillery or a stationary railgun from very far away. The requirements to fire a 255mm railgun would be immense, and the structure of the mech would have to be absolutely PHENOMENAL to withstand the recoil. Nono, there's a reason why we put all the big guns on a battleship, and not a tank- the tank would have to be superbuilt, and it'd be too expensive for such limited movement and therefore effectiveness. The Tiger-series of tanks in WWII were very good at defeating enemies in front of them, but they often reached a battle too late, and were often outflanked and eliminated by the superior mobility of a T34.

So in terms of realism?

distances.io/flying/ocean-city-md/long..
Go to this link.

You are at Point A, in Ocean City, Maryland.
Your target is at Point B, in New York City, New York.

With a 255mm railgun, you could probably fire off two rounds before the enemy knew there was incoming ordnance.

Those two rounds would strike Long Island within five minutes, and they would have the destructive force of a very large cruise missile- each. The sort that could level one of those very dense city blocks, and then some, I'd figure.

Your Spectre is terribly unrealistic. Everything technically makes sense, but based on the size required to house a 255mm railgun and two 155mm concealed cannon? No, it's NOT realistic. It'd be easier to build a 150mm railgun into a former nuclear silo or the sort, where it was mainly pointed directly upwards but could have a very limited firing angle, by aiming itself in its hole. It could fire off a couple rounds and hit your giant mechs within a couple minutes, provided that you're within two hundred miles. If that's too much of a delay, one could just fire cruise missiles- whatever Active Protection System you have, whatever active camouflage of various sorts you're employing, it's still likely that the cruise missile will hit. You're a very, very large target, and such massive things are very hard to hide.

More than that, they'd be really SUPER expensive.

A realistic mech wouldn't be over three stories tall, in my opinion. Then they'll just get too big to effectively hide or counter all weapons incoming, and would be too expensive to haul around and such. Even with super advanced alien technology. If you GET this super advanced alien technology, and you can mount powerful weapons on bipedal tanks, of sorts, then that means you could build bigger or better ones using the same tech on more stable platforms, such as an MBT or a stationary turret.

Whew.
That was... I didn't mean to write that much. I just wanted to be thorough and make sure everything was addressed, and then I just started rambling.
Sorreh