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Jefffar

From a military perspective, until you get up to real strategic level systems (Strategic Bombers, SSBNs, Carrier battle Groups) all those armoured vehicles, artillery, missiles, planes, helicopters, etc are just there to help the infantry do their job (seize and hold ground). They do it by either he...

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I've gone into detail on the forums in the past as to why in any realistic scenario a robot is a far less effective AFV than a tank. But Rifts has Giant Robots and they have them for a reason (they are freakin' cool) so we have to deal with how they are presented in universe and, quite frankly, thei...

Jefffar

If there were anti-armor weapons in Palladium, there'd be less love of these monstrosities. Except there can't be anti-armor weapons that can knock out an enemy in one shot, equivalent to the rocket-propelled-grenade and tanks. If there was, then even regular power armor would be largely worthless....

Jefffar

The CS Navy more or less split with 1/3 to 1/2 of it defecting to Free Quebec.

IIRC there was some skirmishes, but both forces chose to preserve their strength isntead of fighting sustained battles of attrition.

Jefffar

There are bionic weapons in that style in Heroes Unlimited. You can use those as a rough template.

Jefffar

Stepping in officially, the no game stats on Forums of the Megaverse is still in effect regardless of Palladium's relationship with the IP holder as a way to protect both Palladium and the individual poster from possible copyright infringement complications. For the record, soliciting Palladium conv...

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Thread locked - Warnings/Bannings to come.

Jefffar

There's a whole other thread to discuss what exceptions may exist for group mind block, please feel free to discuss those there.

Jefffar

I use the spray rules and enforce that Dodging takes the place of your next melee attack.

Moving in and out of cover is a melee attack too.

A couple of sprays and then some careful fire and the targets are too busy trying not to get shot to do anything.

Jefffar

Maybe an adjustment, -2 if not used with both hands.

Though it seems odd to me that the Masters would make a weapon that would be troublesome to use.

Jefffar

Sort of.

I did have a game in which an NPC faction did have a handful of armoured vehicles they used for special occasions.

But, never was it a PC vehicle. Probably for the best, you could run a family car for a week on the fuel used by a tank in an hour.

Jefffar

This topic is no longer relevant and is going to just cause debates about the global pandemic, which this section of the forums is not appropriate to, so this thread is now locked.

Jefffar

There is no changelog.

Something I will point out is that the missile ROFs are generally per launch system, with the two shoulder packs being seperate systems thus doubling the number of simultaneous missiles fired.

Jefffar

I really meant the at least a black belt when I said at least a black belt. Trying to put degrees on the black belt when the character has learned to smash tank armour with his bare first, lower his body weight to the point of climbing walls like an insect, paralyze his oponent with a finger poke or...

Jefffar

With the exception of the 'Agent' forms, I'd say that all the Martial Arts you are starting at the equivalent to at least a Black Belt plus some extra special time with a true master learning secret techniques that are never taught to outsiders.

Jefffar

It varies depending on the source.

Areas of flame I tend to give per melee. Interactive flaming objects I tend to do per action

Jefffar

I think Seto just proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that official stats, OSM stats and what appears in the animation need not be related so arguing about which is the real stat is pointless.

Since that means the last several pages of this thread are now pointless, I'll lock this thread

Jefffar

Nice find.

Jefffar

Seto Kaiba wrote:Um... the Su-34 is a ground/surface attacker, not a bomber

It's replacing the Tu-22M Backfire bomber, amoung other aircraft.

Jefffar

There are Modern Bombers capable of carrying offesnive air to air weaponry.

The Su-34 can carry the AA-10 and AA-12 air to air missiles, some versions of which have ranges inexcess of 100 miles.

Jefffar

While that's not wrong, the problem with your reasoning is that having multiple fixed guns covering an arc is only useful in a dogfight if your weapons aren't precise enough to guarantee a hit on your first try. It's compensating for accuracy with volume. The more or less the entire history of guns...

Jefffar

So, as depicted, the Beta's bomb bay could only be redesigned with a major redesign of the lower anatomy of the Beta. Not impossible, but difficult. Probably becoming a new fighter rather than our trusted, familiar Beta. Perhaps this may be part of the not fully explored Shadow Beta or Super Beta up...

Jefffar

I think it's time to move the discussion of HG canon to the HG forums.

In the Palladium Robotech RPGs, the EBSIS was created for the 1st edition canon. It was not specifically mentioned by name, but the possibility for non-UEG aligned states does exist in the 2nd edition cannon.

Jefffar

No attack of oppourtunity mechanic, no, but still a bad idea to turn your back ona n opponent. 1) You have to be aware of an attackt o dodge or parry - for most characters that means an attack from behind can't be defended agaisnt. 2) Lots of ways an enemy could have automatic critical strikes, auto...

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Uhm, this isn't an HG board... But yes, the idea that everyone on earth is gone is something that doesnt even survive the visuals in the Macross portion. Thanks for the reminder of that. The dialog about the number of survivors in Robotech just doesn't seem to match the visuals of multiple communiti...

Jefffar

I may hav hybridized the Spaceship rules and Robot rules for my biggest, baddest designs

Jefffar

I don't think HU needs an overhaul. It certainly doesn't need a point buy system. They just need to streamline it and get all the Rifter material into the relevant categories and make everything easier to find and read. For one thing, I don't think you are going to find someone willing to put in th...

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What always bothered me about the updated description in RUE is that the fundamental difference between rockets & missiles on the battlefield is that one uses a guidance system to zero in on its target (missile)...& the other has no guidance system (rocket). Which technically would mean tha...

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Well I expect portable force field generators play a role.

Jefffar

More importantly, if a closing rift chopped Angie in half, would it really matter?

It's a god.

Jefffar

I did once do a giant HU style robot for a game, these are the rules limits as I encountered them 1) Money - you cap out very, very quickly when you start making big ones 2) No penalties for growing large other than the cost - ie there should be an exponential increase in weight, harder to prowl, do...

Jefffar

"I want it all, and I want it now!" - Freddie Mercury

Jefffar

I say there is need for an up to date common rulebook for all Palladium games with settign books containing setting specific rules, so I guess that woudl count as a third edition

Jefffar

In the RPG it's official that there were several independent polities that existed after the Macross Saga and that several of these were hostile to or engaged in war with the UEG during the 2010s and 2020s. You can argue against this existing in the show (though I beleive there is enough evidence th...

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Defender_X wrote:But to add, having other governments pop up and cause drama is fun. And some third rate government selling knock off mecha to anyone with the cash makes for some good mecha stompy time.

Wonderfully so. It provides so much oppourtunity in the between series times.

Jefffar

That is debatable really. How many times did Scott/Stig empty the MM-60 for 1 or 2 enemies? I get the idea of multiple missile launch to improve the odds (the VF-1 typically fired 4 missiles for 1-2 pods), but the entire payload would point toward either poor training or avionics issues given we se...

Jefffar

Turning a supersonic fighter-bomber into a gunship is a little counter intuitive to me. Gunships orbit an area at low speeds, while fighter bombers are built to zip through. The bomb bay can certainly be revised to make it more efficient. Some sort of rotary system similar to that found on many mode...

Jefffar

Anyone still waiting, can you DM me your UIDs for Lazlo so I can send them to be activated

Jefffar

I've always thought Skraypers needs about another 100 pages or so.

There's some great Rifter material for Wormwood that could and should be expanded upon to full sourcebook size.

Jefffar

Per Supreme Commander Leonard in Ep37 there where only 70,000 survivors, and in TSC an unnamed UEEF officer during the Briefing for the attack on Reflex Point mentions there are still several million people down on Earth in his objection to the use of the Neutron-S Missiles. Basically it comes down...

Jefffar

My large pile of material for the EBSIS came about in a similar manner. It all started with the PCs deciding to steal a helicopter... Now that's a story I'd want to hear. XD I imagine the game information for this would be as unavailable as much of the fanmade material? I had it about 50% ready for...

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As far as I know he hasn't published any of it...though he has helped ME at length to allow me to make my stat rewrites of Robotech (and writing of various Macross mecha) as accurate as I think is possible within the confines of the Palladium system. Thus far, almost none of it has been published f...

Jefffar

The EBSIS are not mentioned by name in 2E RPG, but there are indications of a non-aligned polity in Russia in the Shadow Chronicles book and mentions if multiple non-aligned states that had to be subdued in the Masters Saga book.

Jefffar

Yeah, it's almost like Sony might know what it's doing when it came to picking up a movie licence.

Jefffar

On an Earth, devastated by alien orbital-bombardment, what do the surviving Zentraedi eat? Whatever (and whoever) they can find. In the RPG context I had the Zentraedi tend to cluster near the crashed cruisers in the early stages in part because there would have been some of the stocks of the nutri...

Jefffar

Because that's not the way BTS is set up.

There are classes that represent guys who spent time in the military or are currently active military.

There are skill programs to represent what their job int he military actually was.

Jefffar

Should be a Skill program if it exists, but what would be different about it compared to any existing program?

Jefffar

Warning: Zombie thread, shoot for the head!

Jefffar

Maybe a lot of those D-bee races that don't know where they come from aren't really from another dimension at all.

Jefffar

I ran a few games with all of the optional rules from the Compendium of Modern Weapons on. With the Shock rules in place basically 1 hit incapacitates a character even if it doesn't drop them through the shock rules and the fact that body armour no longer 'stops' the wound in most cases. I actually ...

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