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Still haven't worked out the unit/character sheet look/design...but, perhaps the sheets should look different depending upon the "time period"? I am thinking that the time periods could be: Classical Medieval Renaissance Napoleonic Victorian/WWI WWII 1950's to 1970's, maybe a cold war and/...

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Ok, now I have the information that goes on the unit/character sheet. Now, I am just trying to figure out what the sheet needs to "look like." Sigh. Oh well.

-STS

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Thank you for you support! I am lurking around some of the TT Wargaming boards and thinking about whether to post up some stuff there, but...I don't think I am ready for an "alpha test." I don't have any wargame-y people around me. Gamers, yes. Wargamers, no. After this apocalypse runs its...

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Can we do it better? Yeah. Reinsert the VF-1 series with it's multitude of options and ditch the alpha and beta altogether And that is why we are friends! Has anyone done a 1:1 comparison of the VF-1 to the Alpha and Beta to see what is "better" (speed, range, elite training bonuses, weap...

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Working on the Unit/character sheets now. I think it might be a two pager (or a front and back, preferably). The Front side has all the unit data and the back side is a quick reference table of charts and rules.

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Upper pod: "Laser bombs" are probably meant to be some sort of precision guided missiles. I'm going to go with medium range missiles or alternately an improved sensor pod with the range of the Catseye and the upgrades of the newer Defender Destroid. -POUNCER Maybe it is supposed to be Las...

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OK, so those new unit building costs seem to be in-line with what I want. Right now I am working on the level of detail. Does it matter if an Infantry Brigade is using M4's or AK-47's? What about at an individual soldier level? I know that the RPG aspect is all about maximizing the character, but on...

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Dude, he hasn't logged on since September? That's odd. Probably why it's been so quiet

-STS

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jaymz wrote:There is an excellent article in the Rifter about the CS fortress city of New Chillicothe

That would get you some answer about teh CS and Neural type AI.

Which one...there's like 80 of them or something.

-STS

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Do you have access to the "original" version of the Beta in the old Invid Invasion or Robotech II: The Sentinels? If so, I would just use the older version of the mecha. It is a bit lower on the MDC side, but the weapons used have far less restrictions and make a bit more sense. If you don...

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Is there a canon answer as to how AI is treated by the CS and the other large "countries" in Rifts? I am assuming that the AI be considered to be a "Neural Intelligence" per Soucebook 1. My guesses: I assume the CS would not be happy, nor would the Federation of Magic, Tolkeen, o...

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So, not sure if we can discuss other mecha, but...seeing as how much I enjoyed the discussions on the Alpha and Beta, I would love to see a discussion of all of the other mecha in Macross. Especially the VF-31. The Siegfried is amazing. Anyway, if we can discuss the other mecha from the other Macros...

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Club Pain Freak as detailed in The Beast that was Max by Gerard Houarner kinda fits that bill.

*shudder*

-STS

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I would go with one of these three: http://www.geocities.ws/kuseru/PMAN/Styles/boxing3.htm http://www.geocities.ws/kuseru/PMAN/Styles/boxing2.htm http://www.geocities.ws/kuseru/PMAN/Styles/boxing.htm They are already made full HtH styles. Plus, the Rifter #50 has some great new rules in "A Chal...

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What if: The Coalition Military is actually competent. The High Command appears to be Karl, JPII, Holmes, and that really old guy that I can't be bothered to look up right now... (edit: General Cabot). A lot of the writeups say things like "excellent strategist", "great tactician"...

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It is for national security...you love national security, right? If you hesitated to think of your answer, you obviously don't, and you likely harbor anti-Human, pro-d-bee sentiments, which lead to pro-demonic thoughts and actions. You are therefore obviously a traitor. Traitors must be eliminated ...

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[ Are you arguing that the CS is less technologically proficient than today? Unless magic/psionics are going to rewrite/change DNA, I would say that it would be pretty hard to spoof that. I always sort of figured that each of the progress trees (magic, tech, psi) all worked on different principles ...

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I've got my own head canon about the CS military leadership. This isn't directly supported by any text, just an over vibe I get. -- Company Grade Officers (2Lt, 1Lt, and Capt) are generally competent, and don't have to worry about playing politics. They are largely judged and promoted based on thei...

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As for getting his heart ripped out by a changeling...um, don't the CS have scanners to detect that sort of stuff? -STS i've always wondered how effective the coalition's detection protocols actually are....i mean, i can see them going "well it gives us like 60% false positives, but you gotta ...

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tl;dr quick comparison: NVA Regiment = 9792 points WWII Ranger Battalion = 9979 points VF-1 Veritech Squadron (12 aircraft) = 199,181 points 4 X-wings, 4 A-wings, 4-Y wings and 2-B-wings = 200,475 points Early WWII Battleship, HMS Hood = 11,290 points Random heavy space battleship = 2,818,816 points...

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OK, working on those costs, thinking about going with Speed Classes and Range Bands instead of exact speeds and exact ranges...since it isn't like a lot of warfare really depends on an extra 5 km/h in a fighter or an extra 3km of range for a ballistic missile. Will post the updated stuff...later on ...

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I detect a stealth edit.... As for heath deities, I would assume they would have to be specifically keyed to "heath" as opposed to "plains" or "meadows" or whatnot. Which makes an interesting question, how specific does a deity have to be? I would assume you could have ...

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As for getting his heart ripped out by a changeling...um, don't the CS have scanners to detect that sort of stuff?

-STS

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OMG, a reply!?! Ok, here is the rules for the unit costs: Unit Cost Now that the elements of the unit have been explained, how does a player go about building their organizations? Offense x Defense x Size = Combat Cost That is all that is needed when making a basic organization. IF you want to go fo...

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Tonight's game went really well. I love how easily HU interprets this particular power level. It was almost as if it were made to reflect those shows. m The team from left to right: Nemesis, Firecat, Canary Rune (behind Canary) Arctic Fox and Psiren. 1. HU does "street level" characters p...

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Hello me, it's me again. So, now that I've got the skill system built...and I have written the unit construction rules, it is opinion time So, building a low end barely functional corps of melee based infantry militia costs 880 points, which is acceptable when you are getting 20 to 50 thousand troop...

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At first I was thinking "heath" like the biome. There are not really any heath gods/goddesses, so you should do those too.

-STS

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Zer0 Kay wrote:Insanities do not negate discipline. A lot of soldiers suffer from insanity and have successful careers.

+1

I approve this message.

-STS

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The point I was making about pscionics is that if you can get into your enemy's mind and know exactly where they are going to strike, the Zentraedi may fold into a system and find themselves all of a sudden surrounded by a 100:1 ratio of Invid they were just waiting for them because they knew where...

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Is there any consensus/ideas on the Regis spacefold/energy bird beam? Or should it just be "plot power"?

-STS

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So, I since I have never seen a thread that talks about rifts themselves, how about it? What are they? What can be done to open and close them? Can you make them anywhere to anywhere? Are there permanent rifts that can not be closed? Can/do rifts make changes to things/beings that pass through them?...

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Yes. Are you asking for how to build it, or just whether they can have them?

-STS

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Daniel Stoker wrote:Wait, is it this from Steve Perry?

Daniel Stoker

A Steve Perry yes...but not that Steve Perry. That Steve Perry could do the soundtrack for the adventure, tho. Ah, Journey...hard enough to love, not too hard to hear the lyrics. One of my top 5 bands of all time...

-STS

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Because I totally love talking to myself... Would you want a mass combat game use counters with little pictures on it (little tanks, little infantry dudes, little helicopters) OR unit symbols for the counters, OR would you want them to be two sided so you could have a choice? Alternately, standing p...

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He could be bi, gay, a furry, anything, really... BUT he probably does need to have to a wife and an offspring for no other reason than hereditary lineage. Pleasure Bunnies from After the Bomb RPG could serve both purposes and also help to establish an alliance with the Empire of Humanity. Those re...

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Okie dokie got all the "zone of control" stuff and combining units stuff done. Yay. So, the rules posted below are the I am going with, and unless someone has some inputs, my project is done. The following are the aspects of each unit and rules of the game. Offense is the total base attack...

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Ok, got all the stats formatted, just trying to figure out how to put them on here without having to put it all on here without having to type it in all manually

Sigh, any ideas for how to do this?

-STS

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Nekira Sudacne wrote:There is nothing that gives you special powers or abilities in return for giving up Equipment, if that's what your asking.

Thank you for finding an excellent way to reword my question to make it far more comprehensible.

-STS

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Are there any rules or skills for religious/psionic asceticism in any of the books or anywhere in the Megaverse?

-STS

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That might be an interesting one shot...either help or hinder Kira Moss in her plan over the course of one night of festivities in ChiTown...

-STS

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I had forgotten about Joseph "the furry" Prosek II. He could be bi, gay, a furry, anything, really...BUT he probably does need to have to a wife and an offspring for no other reason than hereditary lineage. Granted, there is always IVF, and as long as Prosek I says it is OK...well, that ma...

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That they took control of a fleet by taking over their Factory Satellite....is another possibility. If you found a Factory Satellite and took it over, or repaired it, you could make your own Zentran/Meltran fleet pretty easily. I like this idea as it just seems to fit better since all of their ship...

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Not a conventional space power. The Invid invasion of Earth (as shown in Ep61), differs from Tirol (in Sentinels OVA). If we treat the show as a typical invasion, that approach basically bypasses defenders to get to the real prize. What good does a Multi-Trillion Dollar Space Navy do you if the ene...

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Does anyone have stats/background (or a link to them) for these eldritch monstrosities (beyond the wiki's)? Are they basically the same as low class Old Ones in Palladium/Rifts?

-STS

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Pretty much what it says? Was this some remnant of the war with the Supervision Army? I realize this is both a 'stupid question' and may require a lot of explanation so apologies are preemptively offered.

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As explained earlier, the Invid really just don't seem to be...able to be the galactic level threat they are portrayed to be.
What sort of "buffs" can be given to the Invid to make them the threat they are supposed to be?

-STS

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I guess the best we can do is the Hardware sticky and the Black Vault. jamyz has some stuff on his wiki, and there is always kitsune. Now I am sad -STS Thank you for the Black Vault Wiki mention. I am glad some people are still using it. You are welcome. Of course I use the Black Vault (who doesn't...

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After reading Mack in another thread talk about inspiration from an author of mythological lands, it hit me. It won't be in the Antarctica book but what about the account from Admiral Byrd describing the hollow earth in Antarctica with the strange people/aliens there? Or maybe some kind of alien li...

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Since all the books are compatible, could you not just start to add in stuff from Robotech, Chaos Earth and Rifts? The newer books add in great options for making cutting edge stuff for HU. What I usually do is use the old rules to make the thing, then just use the newer books to add in the capabil...

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