Ralts Bloodthorne
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This weekend we did some Future Fun.
The PC's came in on a hot LZ, the dropship pilot (A PC) had to make an orbital insertion under fire, hit the targeted LZ, then hold position under fire while the other PC's dismounted and the last PC (Ships gunner) raked the area with Firelinked Gauss weapons, trying to keep the Spooks heads down.
The Hornet Mark III came barrelling down in atmosphere, ECM's on full, the pilot making a straight nose-dive for the LZ, no funny stuff, just trying to break the horizon in a hell of a hurry.
Starship Dodge Feat: Once per round, per point of Dex Bonus, the pilot of a light or smaller craft may make an opposed Drive check (DC = Attack Roll) to avoid being hit. Special: Must have the Piloting Nueral Jack.
The five PC's in the back are all sweating this, knowing that there's nothing they can do, and one hit from a planetary particle beam battery and they are so much carbon ash.
Two PC's do last minute checks on thier gear.
The Hornet takes a grazing hit from a mobile Anti-Aircraft gun, but the tachyon field holds (90 points - 50 DR) well enough to keep the ship from suffering more than minor damage (40 points) to the hull. Everyone inside is belted in, and the inertia compensators hold so there is no impact damage from the coherent light.
The gunner strafes a ramjet shrieking by, then switches his aim toward the air to air missile it launched. The ramjet keeps going, raining shards of armor, but the missile explodes... (Rolls to hit)
The dropship hits the LZ, and the gunner begins laying down fire while the PC's bail out the back, looking around. One PC pops up an aireal recon drone, but it's quickly shot down.
The Combat Cyborg sees a missile coming in, and knocks it out of the air with his point defense system, and the party runs across the tarmac of the spaceport landing grid for the command building.
The gunner lays down cover fire, concentrating on a bunker that is tearing up the tachyon field with Particle Beam Cannon (54 points average) but doing minor damage to the ship. The pilot is forced to goose the ship out of the way several times.
The ground pounders hit the building, and begin facing the security forces as the pilot sees a Corvette powering up. The pilot launches the dropships only missiles, and all of them impact on the corvette, heavily damaging it. The gunner finishes it off with long bursts from the Gauss Guns.
One of the PC's is down, his Nova Star power armor failing under crossed fire from 3 Spook heavy weapons teams, and the borg is laying down fire to keep the team medic covered (An andriod) while he drags the fallen PC back and checks the status readouts.
He's dead, his chest blown out when the Arclight PPC caved in his breastplate and caused his cells to instantly turn to steam. They hit the emergency destruct switch as the building shudders. The second team has set the demo charges on the Starports defense grid's computers.
Outside, the fight is raging, two dropships have crashed into the tarmac. One PC on the other dropship tears loose from the wreckage, pops free his damage missile launcher, and begins hosing fire at an oncoming hover tank. In the other, the PC is dead, the dropship falling from 3,500 feet and exploding when it hit the tarmac.
("DAMN!" yells the PC, and grabs another clone sheet, "This is getting nasty!")
The team inside building comes out, just as another hover-tank comes around the corner.
("Where are these blasted tanks coming from?" asks one. "ConFedMilInt said the spaceport wasn't guarded.")
The team runs across the tarmac, where the arriving borg manages to kill 2 of the tanks but is dropped by another heavy hover-tank arriving with a pair of quick strike infantry carriers.
They leap aboard the dropships, and the andriod sprints across the tarmac, racing for the fallen cyborg. He pulls the intact cerebral chassis from the cyborg and runs back for the dropship. The dropship is heating up the fusion torch for liftoff and the gunner is laying the Gauss Cannons into two more hovertanks.
The dropship lurches, taking a hard hit, and the troop-bay is holed. Everyone goes to internal armor environment as the andriod and the hapless borg cerebral chassis get on board.
The pilot punches it as the intact borg fires a brace of rockets and dumps his now empty rocket pack out of the back of the dropship as it takes off.
The dropship powers up out of atmosphere, and docks with the troop-ship. Smoking, reduced to 15 hp, and 7 out of 19 PC's used (It's called a "meatgrinder" campaign, and uses clones, memory engram downloads, and soul-chips) Killed In Action and mission accomplished.
The players switch characters to thier light assault fighters as the carrier launches defensive ships when an enemy fleet drops out of shuntspace, obviously returning to Theranod IX for post-battle refits.
Fun for everyone, eh?
BTW-We REALLY are going to need a d20 Future icon for the thread titles
The PC's came in on a hot LZ, the dropship pilot (A PC) had to make an orbital insertion under fire, hit the targeted LZ, then hold position under fire while the other PC's dismounted and the last PC (Ships gunner) raked the area with Firelinked Gauss weapons, trying to keep the Spooks heads down.
The Hornet Mark III came barrelling down in atmosphere, ECM's on full, the pilot making a straight nose-dive for the LZ, no funny stuff, just trying to break the horizon in a hell of a hurry.
Starship Dodge Feat: Once per round, per point of Dex Bonus, the pilot of a light or smaller craft may make an opposed Drive check (DC = Attack Roll) to avoid being hit. Special: Must have the Piloting Nueral Jack.
The five PC's in the back are all sweating this, knowing that there's nothing they can do, and one hit from a planetary particle beam battery and they are so much carbon ash.
Two PC's do last minute checks on thier gear.
The Hornet takes a grazing hit from a mobile Anti-Aircraft gun, but the tachyon field holds (90 points - 50 DR) well enough to keep the ship from suffering more than minor damage (40 points) to the hull. Everyone inside is belted in, and the inertia compensators hold so there is no impact damage from the coherent light.
The gunner strafes a ramjet shrieking by, then switches his aim toward the air to air missile it launched. The ramjet keeps going, raining shards of armor, but the missile explodes... (Rolls to hit)
The dropship hits the LZ, and the gunner begins laying down fire while the PC's bail out the back, looking around. One PC pops up an aireal recon drone, but it's quickly shot down.
The Combat Cyborg sees a missile coming in, and knocks it out of the air with his point defense system, and the party runs across the tarmac of the spaceport landing grid for the command building.
The gunner lays down cover fire, concentrating on a bunker that is tearing up the tachyon field with Particle Beam Cannon (54 points average) but doing minor damage to the ship. The pilot is forced to goose the ship out of the way several times.
The ground pounders hit the building, and begin facing the security forces as the pilot sees a Corvette powering up. The pilot launches the dropships only missiles, and all of them impact on the corvette, heavily damaging it. The gunner finishes it off with long bursts from the Gauss Guns.
One of the PC's is down, his Nova Star power armor failing under crossed fire from 3 Spook heavy weapons teams, and the borg is laying down fire to keep the team medic covered (An andriod) while he drags the fallen PC back and checks the status readouts.
He's dead, his chest blown out when the Arclight PPC caved in his breastplate and caused his cells to instantly turn to steam. They hit the emergency destruct switch as the building shudders. The second team has set the demo charges on the Starports defense grid's computers.
Outside, the fight is raging, two dropships have crashed into the tarmac. One PC on the other dropship tears loose from the wreckage, pops free his damage missile launcher, and begins hosing fire at an oncoming hover tank. In the other, the PC is dead, the dropship falling from 3,500 feet and exploding when it hit the tarmac.
("DAMN!" yells the PC, and grabs another clone sheet, "This is getting nasty!")
The team inside building comes out, just as another hover-tank comes around the corner.
("Where are these blasted tanks coming from?" asks one. "ConFedMilInt said the spaceport wasn't guarded.")
The team runs across the tarmac, where the arriving borg manages to kill 2 of the tanks but is dropped by another heavy hover-tank arriving with a pair of quick strike infantry carriers.
They leap aboard the dropships, and the andriod sprints across the tarmac, racing for the fallen cyborg. He pulls the intact cerebral chassis from the cyborg and runs back for the dropship. The dropship is heating up the fusion torch for liftoff and the gunner is laying the Gauss Cannons into two more hovertanks.
The dropship lurches, taking a hard hit, and the troop-bay is holed. Everyone goes to internal armor environment as the andriod and the hapless borg cerebral chassis get on board.
The pilot punches it as the intact borg fires a brace of rockets and dumps his now empty rocket pack out of the back of the dropship as it takes off.
The dropship powers up out of atmosphere, and docks with the troop-ship. Smoking, reduced to 15 hp, and 7 out of 19 PC's used (It's called a "meatgrinder" campaign, and uses clones, memory engram downloads, and soul-chips) Killed In Action and mission accomplished.
The players switch characters to thier light assault fighters as the carrier launches defensive ships when an enemy fleet drops out of shuntspace, obviously returning to Theranod IX for post-battle refits.
Fun for everyone, eh?
BTW-We REALLY are going to need a d20 Future icon for the thread titles
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