1014 replies to this topic

[cmopatrick]

hmmmm, guess I wasn't quite creative enough. should have moved to the flat 66 and at least had BAP (ok, and endo/ff). would have fit the character a bit better, all things considered. guess I just wimped out (I better be careful, TOG might take a shot at me the next time I call to get an update ).

Edited by cmopatrick, 11 March 2013 - 04:04 AM.

[Alan Wagner]

Well I've finished the character sheet if you guys want to take a look at it.

Character Sheet:

Faction Vote: Osric Rebel
-
Name: Alan Wagner
Callsign: Praetorian
Role: Protector
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: November 3, 3027
Planet of Birth: Ludwigshafen
-Appearance-
Picture:
Height: 182 cm
Weight: 136 kg
Hair Color: Brown
Hair Style: Short w/ trimmed beard
Eye Color: Brown
Background:
Alan was born to a wealthy family on Ludwigshafen. His father and forefathers were high ranking military officers in the Lyran Commonwealth, and Alan’s father hoped that he would someday have a son who would become a military officer in the service of House Steiner. His father’s dreams of having a military officer for a son were dashed a mere seven years before Alan’s birth however when the Federated Commonwealth came into existence. The large number of military rankings awarded to the wealthy in the Lyran Commonwealth became null and void and Alan’s free ticket to becoming an officer was revoked. Thus began Alan’s path to becoming the first talented mechwarrior in his family in several generations.

Alan grew up living the life of a socialite. His father’s wealth had a huge impact on his quality of living and so when Alan joined the Armed Forces of the Federated Commonwealth he was in for a shock. His military training hit him like a sack of bricks, but he pushed himself and persevered refusing to fail. His goal was no longer to become a military officer, but to become the most talented soldier he could be. He put an incredible amount of effort into his training and succeeded with flying colors. Finally, he made it through boot camp and became a fully fledged mechwarrior for the FedCom army.

A problem arose however when Alan graduated his training, there was no one to fight. He had missed the War of 3039, and had no opportunity to advance in title or rank. As the years dragged on with little to no combat options available Alan became increasingly frustrated. His duties as a mechwarrior were reduced to garrisoning various planets in the Commonwealth and standing guard when dignitaries came through. Sick of being nothing but an honor guard, Alan abandoned the Federated Commonwealth and took his ‘mech with him, a Centurion specifically built for withstanding sieges and defending an asset.

Alan Spent the next five years floating around the periphery looking for a contract, and finally traveled to Solaris VII on the border of the Lyran Commonwealth in search of a job as a mercenary. He sought out the Mercenary Hall in hopes of finding a job, but could only find one opening. The job had been left by a representative of the Triumvirate of Kharkandan asking for what sounded like a defensive force. The commission sounded somewhat nebulous, but Alan had few options left and he was running low on C-Bills. He took the last of his money and used it to buy a ride to the small planet hoping he could begin his journey as a mechwarrior.

-Mech-
Mech Class: Medium
Mech Model: Centurion CN9-A2
Mech Loadout:
X1 PPC RA
X2 Medium Lasers CT
X1 LRM-10 LT
-X2 LRM-10 Ammo LT
X15 HS (Including Engine Heat Sinks)
-X3 HS RA
-X2 HS RL
-X2 HS LL
Standard 200 Engine (Default)
Standard Armor 10.5 Tons

Edited by Alan Wagner, 11 March 2013 - 04:51 AM.

[Spokes]

Standard PPCs aren't LosTech-- they're fairly common weapons.

[Thom Frankfurt]

Sparks Murphey, on 10 March 2013 - 10:31 PM, said:

Contrary to popular opinion, the PPC is actually quite common. According to the Tech Manual, the PPC is actually a category more common than the AC/10 (I think category c instead of d, but I'm on the road at the moment). The ER PPC is lostech, but the PPC itself is a brute weapon that splatters particles at things.

Spokes, on 11 March 2013 - 09:31 AM, said:

Standard PPCs aren't LosTech-- they're fairly common weapons.

If you really think about it, the AC10 weighs what 12 tons? and takes up 7 (eight if you include 1 ton of ammo) compared to a PPC's 7 tons and 3 crits. So a PPC is roughly twice as likely of making it though a battle if you just go by weight/crits. Personally I'm more fond of the OG regular PPC than any of the other versions of it ('cept Clan ERPPC that thing is just beast) As for the AC's I usually use the LB10X AC the most, it seems I like shottys... All that being said, Janitor doesn't want us to have them. And I'm being a good boy and following his wishes. But the more I think about it, I kinda wish I brought that Val instead of the Wolverine.

[Thom Frankfurt]

Alan Wagner, on 10 March 2013 - 06:19 PM, said:

I'm glad one of my first attempts to mess with a mech is being met with good reviews XD I'll look into the other RP as well. I had the feeling most of them were either not accepting or private.

Always taking Apps... We have a ridiculously high turn over rate. But L&D seems like a good place for potential RPers to test the waters of forum role-play.

[Spokes]

AC/10s only generate 3 points of heat though, and don't forget that standard PPCs have a 90 meter minimum range.

[dal10]

Spokes, on 11 March 2013 - 10:21 AM, said:

AC/10s only generate 3 points of heat though, and don't forget that standard PPCs have a 90 meter minimum range.

so roll something with a 5/8 movement profile and stick next to my charger. 90 meters may be your minimum range, but that is my max range, and 5 slasers hurt more than a normal ppc anyways.

[Thom Frankfurt]

I don't want to laugh, but that's funny.

[dal10]

go for it, the charger is for the lulz anyways

[guardian wolf]

XD BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Alan Wagner]

dal10, on 11 March 2013 - 10:25 AM, said:

so roll something with a 5/8 movement profile and stick next to my charger. 90 meters may be your minimum range, but that is my max range, and 5 slasers hurt more than a normal ppc anyways.

I have an unnatural love for the Charger due to Main Event being one of the few books I've gotten to read, but this still makes me face desk x.x

[Thom Frankfurt]

The Charger from 'Main Event' isn't too horrible. But if I had any choice I'd take something else. That being said, Jerimiah Rose didn't really have any choice.

[dal10]

Janitor101, on 10 March 2013 - 09:04 PM, said:

I have no issue against PPCs, but the campaign takes place on a Periphery planet, which I'll grant has an abnormally high number of mechwarriors on it. But I have been not allowing LosTech and Clan tech because it doesn't fit the periphery feel I was going for.
I let a few things slip rules wise, such as dal10's assault mech, which only got in cause the best thing it has going for it is the huge engine, as well as the Corrosive DHS's Thom signed up with, and a TAG laser here and there. But I mostly let that through for flavor, because if there was absolutely no LosTech, it'd almost not be as realistic, IMHO, cause there'd be that one guy with X, Y or Z that is irreplaceable.

Now, as for signing up, I'd personally prefer another light mech, cause we have four 55 ton mediums, two lights (35 tons and 25 tons) and one 80 tonner assault. However if you have your heart set on the Centurion, I won't stop you (TBH, the Centurion is my favorite in MWO). However I'm not willing to allow major LosTech weaponry such as PPCs, Pulse Lasers and the like. In the next part, I'll loosen the rules up.

based on the last sentence, we may get to use better stuff later, just because i got bored, i made an ideal (at least for me) charger.



Charger "dal10's Special" CGR-DTS

Mass: 80 tons
Tech Base: Inner Sphere
Chassis Config: Biped
Rules Level: Tournament Legal
Era: Clan Invasion
Tech Rating/Era Availability: E/X-X-E
Production Year: 3052
Cost: 22,543,440 C-Bills
Battle Value: 1,672

Chassis: Unknown Endo-Steel
Power Plant: Unknown 400 Fusion XL Engine
Walking Speed: 54.0 km/h (64.8 km/h)
Maximum Speed: 86.4 km/h (97.2 km/h)
Jump Jets: None
Jump Capacity: 0 meters
Armor: Unknown Standard Armor
Armament:
2 Large Pulse Lasers
1 Medium Laser
1 Hatchet
1 Guardian ECM Suite
1 Communications Equipment (1.0 tons) (5.0 tons)
Manufacturer: Unknown
Primary Factory: Unknown
Communications System: Unknown
Targeting and Tracking System: Unknown

================================================================================
Equipment Type Rating Mass
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Internal Structure: Endo-Steel 122 points 4.00
Internal Locations: 5 LT, 2 RT, 3 LA, 1 RA, 1 LL, 2 RL
Engine: XL Fusion Engine 400 26.50
Walking MP: 5 (6)
Running MP: 8 (9)
Jumping MP: 0
Heat Sinks: Double Heat Sink 10(20) 0.00
Gyro: Standard 4.00
Cockpit: Standard 3.00
Actuators: L: SH+UA+LA+H R: SH+UA+LA+H
TSM Locations: 2 LT, 2 RT, 1 LA, 1 RA
Armor: Standard Armor AV - 240 15.00

Internal Armor
Structure Factor
Head 3 9
Center Torso 25 39
Center Torso (rear) 10
L/R Torso 17 25
L/R Torso (rear) 9
L/R Arm 13 25
L/R Leg 17 32

================================================================================
Equipment Location Heat Critical Mass
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Medium Laser HD 3 1 1.00
Guardian ECM Suite CT 0 2 1.50
Communications Equipment (1.0 tons) (5.0 tons) RT 0 5 5.00
Hatchet RA - 6 6.00
2 Large Pulse Lasers LA 20 4 14.00
Free Critical Slots: 3

BattleForce Statistics
MV S (+0) M (+2) L (+4) E (+6) Wt. Ov Armor: 8 Points: 17
5 3 3 0 0 4 0 Structure: 4
Special Abilities: TSM, MEL, ECM, ENE, SRCH, ES, SEAL, SOA



for the record i did a megamek game (with fog of war enabled, aka you don't know where stuff is. i also did a city map, just because in the open against those odds the chargers would be screwed) with 2 of these vs a mixed assault lance (1 atlas, 1 cyclops, 1 victor, and a stalker).

end result, 1 charger destroyed, one missing its pulse arm, vs 4 dead assault mechs (TSM hatchets on a 80 tonner are fun, especially once you get behind things)

Edited by dal10, 11 March 2013 - 11:59 AM.

[Thom Frankfurt]

Well yeah, 32pt chops on the punch table is very respectful. I wouldn't mind having one of those.

[dal10]

best part is once i hit 9 heat, i can stay right about there, i might lose it for a turn, but i get it back the next turn.

[The Shepherd]

Hi Again, pitching this character sheet for a remaining spot on the lineup and hopefully round the unit out with another light/scout.

Faction Vote: (Osric Rebel)
-
Name: James “Jim” Campbell
Callsign: Shepherd
Role: Scout, spotter, guardian angel (whether you like it or not)
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 15/05/3022
Planet of Birth: Northwind

-Appearance-
Picture: (If applicable)
Height: 195cm (6ft 4in)
Weight: 105kg
Hair Color: Ginger, mottled to light brown.
Hair Style: Cropped short military, slightly longer than thick sideburn chops, down to a full, but neat beard,
Eye Color: Green
Background:
James Campbell, (Jim or Jimmy to his friends) is a Northwind native and former Highlander who served with distinction under Stirling’s Fusiliers during the Clan invasion.
An excellent shot and a whiz with a gauss rifle, Jim became notorious in his regiment for a cocksure and bragging attitude over the coms when it came to his shooting, earning him the call-sign, “Crow”.

Piloting his beloved and handed down Highlander 732 he eventually earned command of his assault lance. Fighting a defensive action on a now clan conquered clan world his company was gutted by a veteran clan binary. Assuming command of a rag-tag group of mixed Mechs and militia forces, led by his assault lance, Jim held a rear guard for evacuating Highlander forces and civilian craft. In the final stages of the evacuation, believing a strong counterattack would give the honour bound clanners pause to engage the fleeing support and civilian vehicles, he took his lance toe to toe with a clan star of lighter Mechs, foolishly leaving the remaining IS forces to fend for themselves.

The highly skilled medium and light omni-mech pilots ran rings around his lance, tying them up while the rest of the binary hunted down the remaining militia defenders. Pulling the star back within range of their dropship’s guns, his lance took down the entire star, paying with everyone’s lives but Jim’s.
Hailed a hero in his battalion for holding the Clans back while civilians escaped, and not knowing Jim had charged the clan star, his commanders sought to give him command of his own company.

Personally disgraced and ashamed of his own brash actions and limited understanding of how to combat light Mechs, Jim refused the command and cut ties with the Highlanders, not seeing himself fit to command.
As a means to atone for his actions and to prevent a repeat of his last formal action, he sold his heavily damaged Highlander back to his unit and sought about finding the best light Mech to learn light unit tactics in. He found what he believed, on the face of it, to be the perfect solution. A beat up, Raven 3L, captured by Davion forces during border skirmishes with the Capellans. Currently a freelance Merc, going by his self-proclaimed call-sign of “Shepherd” he is now floating around the periphery, taking small time contracts to essentially teach himself how to scout and protect his lancemates. He has no aspirations for wealth, merely hoping to earn enough to fix the poorly maintained electronics systems of his Mech, become an accomplished scout and re-join his Highlander kin.

A tower of a man, he is broad shouldered and barrel chested, better suited to a bar brawl than a Mech’s cockpit. He wears combat fatigues almost all the time, sporting a Campbell tartan sash and Balmoral . He rarely appears socially in civvies.
Formerly merry and confident to the point of arrogance, he is now quiet, sullen and resistant to personal questions, loathe to give orders or assume any position of command. For the most part he keeps to himself, however he will try to relate and discuss tactics with any scout pilots he meets, albeit awkwardly.
When drunk, (which happens more so than usual these days), elements of his original boisterous personality shine through. He may even occasionally smile.

-Mech-
Mech Class: Light
Mech Model: Raven 3L (RVN-3L)

Mech Loadout:
Mass: 35 tons
Tech Base: Inner Sphere
Chassis Config: Biped
Rules Level: Tournament Legal
Era: Succession Wars
Tech Rating/Era Availability: E/X-F-E
Production Year: 3048
Cost: 5,524,875 C-Bills
Battle Value: 807

Chassis: Standard
Power Plant: Hermes 210 Fusion XL Engine
Walking Speed: 64.8 km/h
Maximum Speed: 97.2 km/h
Jump Jets: None
Armor: Standard Armor w/ CASE
Armament:
2 SRM-6s
2 Medium Lasers
1 Beagle Active Probe
1 Guardian ECM Suite
1 TAG
2t SRM ammo + CASE

==============================================================

Internal Armor
Structure Factor
Head 3 7
Center Torso 11 11
Center Torso (rear) 4
L/R Torso 8 12
L/R Torso (rear) 4
L/R Arm 6 9
L/R Leg 8 8

Current Mech status:

Jim’s Raven was in a reasonable sate of repair when he purchased it… over a year ago.
The ECM had already been damaged during its capture by Davion forces. Subsequent hits to the torso over the past year have now rendered it entirely inoperable. Jim currently cant afford to have a specialist tech (let alone find one out in the periphery) to take a look at it on top of his ordinary maintenance costs.

The Beagle Active Probe works however, if not temperamentally. As it is tied tightly into the Mech’s sensor arrays it was harder to damage. It does however, only give patchy coverage and is unreliable. Jim normally runs without the active sensor component to hone his basic spotting and scouting skills anyway and simply uses the attached sensor memory unit to record deployments to play them back to learn from and scrutinise his own performance.

(I am aware that the raven, even without the BAP and ECM still sports an impressive sensor suite. If this makes the mech too unsuitable for this reason, I can always have it also in various states of disrepair.)

Jim doesn’t like NARC beacons. They’re short range, temperamental and a fat lot of good for a lone mech. Not to mention extremely expensive to keep loaded.
As such, he’s made use of the spare ammo bin in the right torso to feed an additional SRM 6. He sold the NARC and used the profits to source another Hellespont Harpoon-6 for easy integration into the Mech’s control systems.

The raven had Ferro Fibrous armour when Jim purchased it, however, due to combat damage and running costs, Jim has replaced it with standard armour and used the remaining half-tonne after his field refit for extra protection.

(I tweaked the loadout of the Mech with Sparks, who has a copy of the Mech’s full stats. Mine are the abbreviated version.)

[dal10]

2 people vying for the last spot, lets see how this goes...

[Alan Wagner]

bring it on! *shakyfist*

[cmopatrick]

(TOG is slightly distracted while cmopatrick explains the situation about two pilots going after one slot... of course, that never stopped him from telling a good story : "yeah, there was this one steamin' hottie that hung out in the bar at Lightshaven in Solaris City , and there was these two pilots going after her, too. Actually, most of the regulars already ...er... oh , you said 'slot'... um... nevermind. "

Edited by cmopatrick, 12 March 2013 - 08:18 PM.

[Spokes]