Battletech/Mechwarrior PbP: "Days of the Jackal" [closed]

[Douane]

Shalimar,

how about SI/ House Steiner politics ?

The whole Inner Sphere is a bit broad spectrum (or the knowledge is extremely thin).


Folkert

 

[Radiant]

just shot Douane an e-mail with stats and background so I hope we're good to go soon.

 

[Shalimar]

Shalimar,

how about SI/ House Steiner politics ?

The whole Inner Sphere is a bit broad spectrum (or the knowledge is extremely thin).


Folkert

Which ever, I just want it to show that she is somwhat knowledgeable about what the major politics things going on are. Like knowing about upcoming nuptuials between the Davion/Steiners, I cant remember when Hanse and Melissa got together. Steiner Politics would work.

 

[doghead]

Starship. That would be cool. He takes us in, shoots us out, then coordinates fire support. "Death from above". And if I remember correctly, some of the ships looked pretty cool. Starship. Starship!

~I think that I have said "cool" more times on this thread than in my entire time as an Enworlder.~

Re Hasic: Douane. Do you know any sites with details on House Liao/the Cappellan Federation. It sounds like there are some things that I'll should know about, even if I am going to ignore them. Particularly as everyone else will assume them.

Re Brother: Feel free to play with ages. You can give him some sisters as well. I saw my brother as more of a political animal than Hasic. But capable with a emch. Like Hasic, he spent time learning to pilot "God gave a Turtle" as soon as he was old enough.

Does going to Military Academy imply some sort of obligation to join the Cappellan Federation forces, or is it more like finishing school for the elite. If the former, then maybe it would make more sense if he didn't finish due to the crisis. Otherwise, I'm going to have to think of a reason why he would abandon that responsibilty. To rescue his family? Not a problem, but it will take a bit more thinking. We can start without it, i think. Hasic willl just avoid the subject.

Off to consult the Google ...

 

[Shalimar]

Give me a second everyone and I can get you .PDFs of all of the House Books that will bring you up to speed on the Innersphere Houses up to the start date of the game.

House Liao, Capellan Confederation
http://www.classicbattletech.com/HouseBooks/HouseLiao-TextOnly.pdf

House Steiner, Lyran Commonwealth
http://www.classicbattletech.com/HouseBooks/HouseSteiner-TextOnly.pdf

House Davion, Federated Suns
http://www.classicbattletech.com/HouseBooks/HouseDavion-TextOnly.pdf

House Kurita, Draconis Combine
http://www.classicbattletech.com/HouseBooks/HouseKurita-TextOnly.pdf

House Marik, Free Worlds League
http://www.classicbattletech.com/HouseBooks/HouseMarikTextOnly.pdf

 

[Shalimar]

Starship. That would be cool. He takes us in, shoots us out, then coordinates fire support. "Death from above". And if I remember correctly, some of the ships looked pretty cool. Starship. Starship!

I don't know if your thinking the same thing I am thinking. There are 3 types of Ships:

Jumpship- A jumpship is the actual transportation. A jumpship folds space moving itself and any attached dropships up to 30 light years in a single jump. It takes a week or so to recharge between jumps depending on the type of sun the system has. Jumpships are unarmed and considered sacred and as such are not attacked except by pirates, they are just too valuable because they are soo neccessary to inter-stellar civilization and so difficult to produce.

Dropship- A dropship is what is transported by jumpships, it carries people, Mechs, Aerospace Assets, or pretty much anything that needs transporting. The dropship lands, opens its mech bays, and there you go the mechs walk out. Some dropships are armed, the ones intended for combat, others which just transport merchants and their goods are only lightly armed. Dropships don't hover over combat and fire down into it, that would be very expensive in terms of fuel. They might land and act as fortresses though.

Aerospace fighters- Fighters are atmospheric but can also act in space, these are the dogfighters, they run 3 major types of missions, Capital ship duty, fighting other Aerospace Fighters, and attacking ground targets.

btw- DFA, death from above, is a battlemech maneuver, a mech with Jump Jets uses those jets to jump and land on top of another mech, putting its strong legs through the weak cockpit area of an opposing mech.

 

[Douane]

Re Hasic: Douane. Do you know any sites with details on House Liao/the Cappellan Federation. It sounds like there are some things that I'll should know about, even if I am going to ignore them. Particularly as everyone else will assume them.

I will come up with something as soon as I have a bit of time on my hands.

Re Brother: Feel free to play with ages. You can give him some sisters as well. I saw my brother as more of a political animal than Hasic. But capable with a emch. Like Hasic, he spent time learning to pilot "God gave a Turtle" as soon as he was old enough.

Got you. Will drop the Warrior House then and think of something else.

Does going to Military Academy imply some sort of obligation to join the Cappellan Federation forces, or is it more like finishing school for the elite. If the former, then maybe it would make more sense if he didn't finish due to the crisis.

It most certainly does. 5 years in a line regiment, then 3 years in a reserve regiment. (The state invested a lot in your education! )


Folkert

 

[Douane]

Give me a second everyone and I can get you .PDFs of all of the House Books that will bring you up to speed on the Innersphere Houses up to the start date of the game.

House Liao, Capellan Confederation
http://www.classicbattletech.com/HouseBooks/HouseLiao-TextOnly.pdf

House Steiner, Lyran Commonwealth
http://www.classicbattletech.com/HouseBooks/HouseSteiner-TextOnly.pdf

House Davion, Federated Suns
http://www.classicbattletech.com/HouseBooks/HouseDavion-TextOnly.pdf

House Kurita, Draconis Combine
http://www.classicbattletech.com/HouseBooks/HouseKurita-TextOnly.pdf

House Marik, Free Worlds League
http://www.classicbattletech.com/HouseBooks/HouseMarikTextOnly.pdf

They actually finished them!

When I last looked upon this they had just one online (Steiner). But I never came back because I got them all in print (with the illustrations).


Folkert

 

[doghead]

Thanks Shalimar.

Will get onto it asap.

doghead

 

[Douane]

I don't know if your thinking the same thing I am thinking. [...]

Maybe Doghead got a glimpse at the warship section on chaosmarch.com.


Folkert