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[Sennin]

Watch this short video here... and be entertained. (Dont know if this has been shown before but I found it to be hilarious.)

Have you ever had a moment like this in Battletech or MWO? I know I have. It's crushing when it happens to you but rediculously funny in retrospect. Wether you were on the giving or receiving end, tell your funny stories here.

Edited by Sennin, 02 January 2013 - 06:29 PM.

[TruePoindexter]

Sennin, on 02 January 2013 - 06:11 PM, said:

Watch this short video here... and be entertained. (Dont know if this has been shown before but I found it to be hilarious.)

Have you ever had a moment like this in Battletech or MWO? I know I have. It's crushing when it happens to you but rediculously funny in retrospect. Wether you were on the giving or receiving end, tell your funny stories here.

Yes... this is why I hate dice based games. I've lost games of Risk to single armies.

[One Medic Army]

I've got one:
A couple weeks back, in preparation for a campaign that a friend is running, myself and the other players all took our pilot, and our mech, and we faced the GM and his 4 mech enemy team.

During that battle, I ended up directly behind an Assassin, in my Wolverine (modified, 2MLs, 3MGs, SRM6, and a Hatchet) with a perfect opportunity to alphastrike +hatchet into his rear.
I proceed to miss the TN of 8 on every single roll, with lots of 7s...

Also: in TT, when you're in a medium mech, Hunchbacks are ****ing SCARY man!

Edited by One Medic Army, 02 January 2013 - 06:52 PM.

[BerryChunks]

If dice seem to constantly screw you, it probably an issue of taking bad choices.

[dario03]

FIIIINNNNNAAAAAL FLLLLLAAAAAASSSSSSH!!!!

TruePoindexter, on 02 January 2013 - 06:46 PM, said:

Yes... this is why I hate dice based games. I've lost games of Risk to single armies.

I played Risk once and ended up losing a battle where I had like 9 times the people. Never played again, screw games of chance.
Chess>Risk

[Sandslice]

I've seen a 'Mech take nine center torso criticals from a single SRM-6 before; one of the missiles, by itself, had five (for TAC and for pushing the target to internal...)

In a very early game, I was testing a custom Archer variant... my brother ran a Stinger straight up to it and instantly gibbed it in one shot - a TAC three-engine with the machine gun.

[topgun505]

How are you playing? For every hit on an internal you roll for a chance at a crit, the possible results are 1 or 2 crits, or ... on a roll of 12, it results in the limb or head being completely blown off, or if the location is a torso it results in 3 crits instead. There is no way you can get 5 crits from a single weapon impact. If you did then you are doing something massively wrong.

Sandslice, on 02 January 2013 - 07:00 PM, said:

I've seen a 'Mech take nine center torso criticals from a single SRM-6 before; one of the missiles, by itself, had five (for TAC and for pushing the target to internal...)

In a very early game, I was testing a custom Archer variant... my brother ran a Stinger straight up to it and instantly gibbed it in one shot - a TAC three-engine with the machine gun.

[Throat Punch]

Sandslice, on 02 January 2013 - 07:00 PM, said:

I've seen a 'Mech take nine center torso criticals from a single SRM-6 before; one of the missiles, by itself, had five (for TAC and for pushing the target to internal...)

In a very early game, I was testing a custom Archer variant... my brother ran a Stinger straight up to it and instantly gibbed it in one shot - a TAC three-engine with the machine gun.

LOL i used to hate hate hate MG's in TT because of TAC's.

[One Medic Army]

topgun505, on 02 January 2013 - 07:12 PM, said:

How are you playing? For every hit on an internal you roll for a chance at a crit, the possible results are 1 or 2 crits, or ... on a roll of 12, it results in the limb or head being completely blown off, or if the location is a torso it results in 3 crits instead. There is no way you can get 5 crits from a single weapon impact. If you did then you are doing something massively wrong.

You're forgetting rolling double 1s on the hit location chart.
Through-armor-critical hit.
Apparently the missile that did this also punched through to internals.

[KhanCipher]

topgun505, on 02 January 2013 - 07:12 PM, said:

How are you playing? For every hit on an internal you roll for a chance at a crit, the possible results are 1 or 2 crits, or ... on a roll of 12, it results in the limb or head being completely blown off, or if the location is a torso it results in 3 crits instead. There is no way you can get 5 crits from a single weapon impact. If you did then you are doing something massively wrong.

and each srm missile hits separately... so at minimum 3 srms had to hit the internal structure.

[Sandslice]

topgun505, on 02 January 2013 - 07:12 PM, said:

How are you playing? For every hit on an internal you roll for a chance at a crit, the possible results are 1 or 2 crits, or ... on a roll of 12, it results in the limb or head being completely blown off, or if the location is a torso it results in 3 crits instead. There is no way you can get 5 crits from a single weapon impact. If you did then you are doing something massively wrong.

If the hit location is 2, the attack hits the center torso and gives a chance of critical hits, which is separate from the crit chance from internal damage.

Thus, rolling a 2, getting 12 on the TAC-confirm, and also dealing internal damage and rolling 11 on the internal crit confirm, you get five crits.

[Sennin]

Well this one kind of got derailed. I guess I should have put (Funny) next to the topic title. Oh well, anyone else got some stories to share?

I know the first game I ever played was a 1 vs 1 arena match with a friend. I took an Atlas and he took a Victor. I got headshot with an AC/20 in the opening round. Talk about a steep learning curve! The 3rd game I ever played I was using a Hunchback 4G and got my head kicked clean off my shoulders. Want to know what happened in my 5th game? LOL

[topgun505]

Ok. I'll make the assumption that the attacker rolled a to-hit and hit the target, then they rolled location and they rolled a 2 which is a TAC. If the body location in question had 1 point of armor left then you would get 1 crit roll chance from the TAC and one from actually hitting the internals since a SRM does 2 damage and it would damage the internals normally as well. If said body location was a torso and you rolled 12s on BOTH of the crit chances then and only then could you get up to 6 crits. But that's a 3% chance of a 3% chance just for those two box-car rolls ... plus the odds that the body location was down to only 1 armor so that the SRM actually did enough damage to spill its normal damage into the internals.

In other words ... a VERY rare set of circumstances indeed.

One Medic Army, on 02 January 2013 - 07:17 PM, said:

You're forgetting rolling double 1s on the hit location chart.
Through-armor-critical hit.
Apparently the missile that did this also punched through to internals.