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Born too late to explore the world; born too early to explore the galaxy.
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Half-NPC, Half-PC


Half-NPC, Half-PC

You Infantry might want to carry around a laser designator, in case you need an airstrike.
Goodnight peoples. Sleep tight.
1. My dropship- Maybe a chin turret, and that's it. A dozen soldiers, plus a few crates of equipment or ammunition.
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs39/i/2008/351/a/0/Osprey_by_Ruak.jpg

2. My gunship- 3 heavy AP MGs, 6 anti-tank/mech missiles, 2x17 missile pods- option of medivac of up to 4 or 5 wounded
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j203/Dash44_photos/gunship2.png

3. My fighter/ air strike- 8 Hellfire anti-tank/mech missiles OR 12 smaller Zeus anti-aircraft missiles, 2 anti-tank chainguns [similar to a Warthog, except with a bit more ammunition and effectiveness due to technological advancement]
http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2013/221/f/1/vulture_by_sttheo-d6hcxtf.jpg
Could I be two pilots?

One as a dropship, one as a gunship?

If the Task Force is limited on supplies and people, then there'd be a hybrid, but it'd make more sense just to have a gunship for support and a dropship for troops and ammunition. Gunship covers while dropship drops.
Also, could one not have something more like the HALO... Wasp, was it?

Essentially a sort of gunship that, instead of being specifically for troop transport, a gunship that was modified a bit to accomdate troopers?

There won't be much play for me if I don't have very much armaments.
First, ranks.


Second, now that I've read the Patton, I have one impression:

OP.

A big-ass mech doing 80? Hell no. Mechs will require hydraulics; they're the best modern technology to hold up heavy things that's most similar to an arm. And hydraulics are NOT fast. Going 80 mph? Never. 20? Maybe, if you're lucky and it's small and light.

This isn't a game; hydraulics extend and then come back in again, and it isn't instant. Four legs moving fast enough to go 80 mph is just flat-out impossible for this. I've been in scifi roleplays, and even then we've never had mechs moving 80 mph!

Tracks are faster than hydraulics, and it took over an hour to go three miles. I know, I've worked with excavators. My dad owns two of them. I've run on both of them. They're powerful, yes, but slow. And moving fast with hydraulics and the like will mean you'll end up screwing everything up. Fully extended legs will screw up hydraulics to the pint where you'd be lucky if they ran correctly for an hour much less if during combat.
He's right. The best we'd probably have at that point with consecutive wars might be a fully functioning laser, but that isn't like a laser sword. A laser 'cannon' would have to focus for at least ten seconds on a single spot before it'd start doing damage, and even then it'd just fry stuff, not burn a hole through someone. Railguns would probably take the place of regular cannons, and plasma weapons would probably be so experimental that it'd be impossible to use in combat.

Missiles and targeting systems would be much better, though.

... Could we be pilots? For air support and the like? A gunship or something? I'd really like to be air support.
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I have a problem with that app.

If dragons were so easy to kill that you could kill them with a shattered piece of wood, then a town would have no trouble fending one off with iron pitchforks and smithy hammers. And are there even dragons? If there are, the dragons must be pretty stupid and pretty weak in order to be killed by a single young elf by a piece of wood.

In that case, my character could kill a dozen. I have sharpened elven steel sticks, and two of them.
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