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

[doghead]

I'm not sure that I want to hear this

Perhaps its time to change history.

 

[Drakknyte32]

Wow that was fast.

I want to thank everyone for helping me come up with an idea that works well with an assault mech. It almost makes me feel bad that I'm planning on not using one now.

I've been looking over the mechs in the different catagories when I came across a heavy mech I want. The Maruader Mad-3D. When I saw the picture I really liked it. When I saw the weapon and armor loadout I really, really, REALLY liked it. If this isn't one of the forbidden mechs I would really like to use it. Unique or no It's just too cool.

If I do get the marauder then I will have a few more points to spend elswhere. I was thinking of getting the A3 selection. Same skills and advantages of my above layout and I would be able to up my charisma and build to 3 each. Will this work?

 

[Douane]

But of course not every of the engraved planets was a real target. Hanse is not called "the Fox" for nothing.


Preliminary start report: Solaris the Gameworld, July 3028.

Any problems with that?


Folkert

 

[Douane]

I'm not sure that I want to hear this

Perhaps its time to change history.

Remember, Doghead, the Capellans will have the last laugh on this. (Sure, 30 years in the future but still ...)


Folkert

 

[Douane]

I've been looking over the mechs in the different catagories when I came across a heavy mech I want. The Maruader Mad-3D. When I saw the picture I really liked it. When I saw the weapon and armor loadout I really, really, REALLY liked it. If this isn't one of the forbidden mechs I would really like to use it. Unique or no It's just too cool.

If I do get the marauder then I will have a few more points to spend elswhere. I was thinking of getting the A3 selection. Same skills and advantages of my above layout and I would be able to up my charisma and build to 3 each. Will this work?

Drakknyte,

the Marauder 3D is perfectly allright! (Only its 'big brother' is a special case.)


But I'm going to have to tinker a bit with your background, as the 3D was only built post-Fall of the Star League:

Perhaps you found a battle-damaged remains of a Davion outpost on your planet, out in the wilderness and long forgotten and "nursed" the marauder back to health?


How does that sound?


Folkert

 

[Shalimar]

Well, Taking stock of what we have, we aren't that light of a unit, we are in a good position for anything from recon to raid to garrision, and only fully commited Planetary Assualts seem out of our reach, well, depending on the type of world, a back water world with just militia and maybe a lance, but a full company or battalion are out. Even so, definitely not bad for a merc unit in 3025.

Marauder 3D, 75 tons, 3/4
Warhammer 6R, 70 tons, 4/4
Wolverine K, 55 tons, 3/4
Centurian A, 50 Tons, 4/4
Phoenix Haw LAM, 50 Tons, 5/4/4
Wolfhound, 35 Tons, 3/3
Locust, 20 tons, 4/3

Assuming someone brought us together into a merc unit, then they would lead it from the cockpitt of their mech giving us 2 full lances, hopefully another heavy, or with a lot of luck, an assault, which would break us up into 2 lances with them leading the main battle lance, and put the Centurian, Wolfhound, Locust and Phoenix hound together as the scout lance (a rather powerful scout lance I might add), with the 4 of us to argue about who is in charge.

 

[doghead]

I just pulled up the 3062 map. The CC looks rather squeezed. Time to take a chuck out of the Federated Suns I think.

Whats the story with the non-House planets in the center? They appear in the 3057 map. ie Terra Firma, the two Epsilons, Carver V, Outreach, Hsien. They are still there inthe 3062 map. There appear to be some non-House planets inside the Confederation. ie Styk, Gan Sing, Sarna.

Actually, Hsien, or possible Wei appeal as homeworlds. Its the names really. Hsien is the name of Hasic's uncle, Wei their family name. Do you know where we can get info on them?

 

[doghead]

What do the numbers mean? Locust 4/3? Pilot/Gunnery i assume (with Flyboy for the LAM).

It seems like a good collection to put together in order to use in number of different ways. Not necessarily all mechs at once. (If this is the case, can those not involved pilot the opponent mechs?)

But it seems a little lightweight to take on a planet. If you dropped that lot on earth today, they would be hard pressed to hold a single city. Alot of firepower in one package, but without extensive ground and air support, they would eventually be taken down by weight of numbers.

Why the assumption that the person bringing us together is a mech pilot?

 

[Douane]

Doghead,

most of them are part of the 'Chaos March', called this because they are remnants of the Federated Commonwealth's 'Sarna March'. Originally part of the Capellan Confederation, they had been taken in the Fourth War.

3057 Sun-Tzu Liao, enlightened Ruler on the Celestial Throne, attacked these worlds with the support of Thomas Marik to take them back. When the Federated Commonwealth split in two and the Lyran half made a separate peace with Marik (and after Marik had re-conquered those worlds lost in the 4th war) he pulled his mercenary troops out. Without them Sun-Tzu lacked the strength to take the remaining worlds by military might. On some of them revolutions were incited (mostly pro-capellan), some went independent and others were still fought over (often by Commonwealth troops who refused the orders of their High Command to leave their charges).

Notable exceptions:

Northwind: ancestral home of the mercenary Northwind Highlanders was reclaimed by them and declared independant.

Outreach: independent home of Wolf's Dragoons and the new "Mercenary World". Had Sun-Tzu tried to conquer this world the assigned forces would have been shredded without any gain and it would have gained him the extreme ill-will of the Dragoons, at this time still be best source on information on the Clans. (Not to mention their incredible fighting prowess, backed by clan technology.)

 

[Douane]

Actually, Hsien, or possible Wei appeal as homeworlds. Its the names really. Hsien is the name of Hasic's uncle, Wei their family name. Do you know where we can get info on them?

Wei

Population: 2,920,000,000
Percentage and Level of Native Life: 10% Reptile

Description:
The planet Wei started as an agricultural world, supplying worlds around it with the necessities of life. It was also an important source of ores and minerals including iron, gold, copper and titanium. What it became was a repository for nerve gas agents for the Star League and then the Capellan Confederation. Certain plants were discovered to produce chemical compounds that, when combined, produced deadly nerve agents.
Wei has one very large continent, Province, which covers almost 33 percent of the planet's surface. It is centered in the equatorial region and extends from the northern hemisphere southeast to the southern hemisphere. It is in the southern reaches of Province that the poison-producing plants are grown. The planetary capital, Vandannis City, is located in Vandannis Valley, a very large valley in the center of the continent.

Here the infamous Wei gas (its military designation: UrbStryc-A) was manufactured in a secret base located at Bonganville. Wei gas was designed to kill immediately and for easy cleanup. During the Fourth Succession War, Davion forces found out about this gas the hard way. Even those secure in their tanks or BattleMechs found that the gas trapped in air filters would evaporate due to the heat, then release itself as minute particles into the air circulation system. In the end, Wei gas cost the invaders two full battalions of troops.


Hsien has only one family of noble rank, the Montongs.