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Thank you, kind sir. You are now my 2nd favourite person on all the internets (Taffy comes first, in this case)

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Years and years ago, Col. Taffy offered a school on mechanized warfare, going over each era's mecha in detail. I'd like to reread those but can't find them. Hopefully someone else has them bookmarked

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I'd love to see an action shot of a Blood Fued between two Great Houses. The book touches on this topic (and it has since become my favourite Splicers plot/story) but the mechanics and artwork all about Splicers vs Machines. Seeing two Houses go at it would really drive home the violent nature of th...

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The part that I like is, as you said, this breaks all the rules that most of the Great Houses hold sacred; especially the ones involved with human "desecration". The Biotics exist solely as a means to deal with problems that the Resistance simply doesn't have the resources to properly (and...

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Actually, I was thinking along the lines of terror cells/resistance organizations. Something like that crossed with the Landsraad from Dune. While I have no problems with a given House having multiple bolt-holes and hideaways in their territory, I don't imagine they'd have much of their civilian pop...

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i would tend to assume that most great houses actually have multiple population centers in fact - this allows each region to take advantage of any local conditions, insulates against the destruction of a single region by having essential resources in multiple places, and means that the house can sp...

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In my Splicerverse. The Machine is the big bad boogyman. rarely seen if at all ever encountered. It it does strike, it leaves scores of dead in its wake, entire houses fall with ease. Y'know, I'd never thought of Splicers this way. Given that it's a Palladium product and most of the crunchy bits ar...

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From the main book, we know that the various houses (Great as well as not-Great) don't always get along. The constantly-shifting leadership garuntees new tactics and ideas, but also brings inherent instability in relationships between the various Houses. Diplomats like the famous Senator Nicole Teig...

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Supergyro wrote:This movie is madness!!!!!

No. This. Is. SPARTAN!!! *sparta-kick*

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Wow. I leave the thread alone for a while and look what happens! I asked for some help and you guys came through for me (and how!). to you guys Unfortunatly, the game kinda imploded on me when the shopowner I asked to pass the word around failed to do so. Also imploded due to my brother, who was the...

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Also, you need to remember that most Zentradi wouldn't live long enough to move up any sort of rank system. The average life of a male Zentradi grunt was... what? Three years? Even taking into consideration the fact that they emerge from their cloning chamber with rudimentary skill programming, that...

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You're right in that Rifts Earth or Splicers technology could possibly have different ways of making those materials. But especially in the Splicers world, by the time they develop organic technology to make plastics and whatnot, their culture most likely wouldn't allow them to even consider using t...

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Exactly how "precious" do the metals have to be? Why not just make the radios out of plastic, glass, silicon and carbon with traces of copper and gold like they are now. Most of the metal is chrome on the finish and completely cosmetic. The problem with that is that the machines which mak...

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How would it affect one organism and not pass on to the other? The only programming the little turds have after all are perform a random affect if organism touches metal and if host touches another organism infect it. Yeah, I know. Stupid NEXUS, designing a lethal plague like that! Bad machine! *sh...

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Splicers know how to take care of their equipment. Nutrient pool should be easy for one of the characters Genetics, Biology, Chemistry or too some degree Operate Bio-equipment. Our Outrider uses the blood of his Dracos as nutrient pool and a few other ingredients. Really? I always thought the nutri...

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While the folly of bringing a Rifts-type character into Splicers is made quite clear in the main book, I'm deeply intrigued by the idea of going the other way around. So here's the set-up: a moderatly experienced Dreadguard (level 5) is summarily dumped into Rifts Earth. How would he cope and how wo...

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And so this isn't entirely deviating from the thread, I really like the idea there LT. Holmes, but are we talking about a single system with potentially several dozen habitable planets?!?!?! Someone has got to believe this isn't natural, and that something REALLY BIG AND POWERFUL set this up for so...

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I'm thinking to completely restrict mecha. For the first few session, the most protection the PCs would have is some CVR-3 and the occasional MD weapon. Getting Cyclones would be the plot of a major adventure, and I seriously doubt I'd allow any sort of heavier mecha.

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More than just dry physics and "how tos" I'm hoping for NPC suggestions and whatnot.

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The idea of putting everything into one starsystem is it removes any need for FTL. Boats and ships still take weeks to make transits in our time, so it's not unreasonable to assume a Horizont would take the same amount of time for a intra-system transit.

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So I'm going to be starting a new RPG setting in the next few weeks and could use some help from this esteemed board. During the REF's long absence from Earth, they had more than just the job of hunting down the Robotech Masters. Living up to their name as "The Pioneer Mission", they also ...

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It's also a matter of game balance and playablity. That's also why the Cyclones are so tough and various other little blips and bloopers that don't quite match with "reality".

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When it comes to Destroid tactics, I've always felt that they were best used to defend fixed positions while in space, or be kept totally planet-bound. They have strength and power, but woefully little manouverability and engines to get them from point A to point B. That fact alone limits their usef...

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I've always looked at it as each generation of military built their equipment to fight the previous war (which happens all the time in real life). First Generation: a transforming atmospheric fighter jet, optimized for planetary combat and giant land-based robots; built with the recent Global War in...

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Archie and Hagan have always been my favourite antagonists. They really came to life in Mechanoids and I love their Titan Robotics blurbs in the Rifter, but this just takes the cake I really enjoyed the insights into their mentality and especially how the Shemarrians are essentially Hagan's wet drea...

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Also, about enlisted flying aircraft doesn't happen in the Real World TM . While I can agree that they can crew the Destroids (since enlisted crew modern-day tanks), I'm not quite sure about allowing anyone other than officers to fly VTs. Does that make sense to anyone else? Actually in the past th...

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Is it just me or are the descriptions of the ASC body armour lacking decent pictures for all the variations? The styleized armours is one of the hallmarks of the middle chapter of Robotech and definitly sets it apart from parts 1 and 3, and yet that was wholly glossed over in this book. Or am I just...

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being i uually include some kinda rules for size in games. the smaller profile of the logan makes it deadly verse the enemy (imo) it was designed to slay: Zent Malcontents. This isnt supported by the show, or the rpg, but i felt the Logan was made specifically for use against the Malcontents on ear...

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No matter how advanced Jet Fighters, Tanks, or Navy Ships get...you will always need straight-leg infantry to go in and mop up. Also, the VF fighter in Battloid will not get into the cave, basement, inner areas of a building to effect a hostage rescue. Shooters in body armor with assault rifles or ...

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Cyclone troopers, and infantry with heavy weapons... I disagree with this. Veritechs and the Destroids have taken over the role of ground-based infantry as well as fast-attack air calvary. There's absolutly no need for human-scale infantry brigades. That being said, I firmly believe that Cyclone Ri...

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drewkitty ~..~ wrote:The only problem is that those two mecha, destroids and cyclones, are about 35 years and light years apart.

Nobody ever specified Destroids as the target mecha. And even if they did, it's a well-known fact that high-tech bandits have scavanged RDF mecha.

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That's a specialty of the Cyclone Riders using the VR-041 Sabre. Those nifty little can-openers strapped to the forearms make quick work of access hatches and the like...

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As many as the plot requires, which is the staple of fiction (and science fiction in particular).

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Creating the character, Stats and skills doesn't seem to be a problem. It is tallying the bonuses correctly that tend to boggle the mind. Yeah, but I figured going through it wouldn't hurt, especially for any noobs that lurk here. My one grip about PBs layouts is they don't give any examples of how...

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What might be a really good idea would be to start a new thread about how to roll a new-style RT character from scratch, right from the attributes to the final stat blocks. I don't know about the rest of you, but this new-fangled stuff can be confusing and it makes me want to fall back into my old R...

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I'm still praying for Rifter material. That would just rock so much.

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-Zentraedi Breakout (ASC forces and assignments in SA) -New World Order (ASC base) -Strike Force (setting adjustment, but they also did that for NG and Sent) -Return of the Masters 2nd Ed. (Masters, Zentraedi, bioroids, ASC mecha prototypes) Those are the four best Robotech books, and some of the b...

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Very nicely done, Cav. The only thing I'd change is removing the GMP from the mix and giving it it's own branch. Afterall, it's supposedly independant from the other branches.

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Tiree wrote:I did use 60 missiles in the encounter. Range is your friend.

A true graduate of the Scott Bernard School of Missle Aiming

I bet your Alpha pilot could really use that rearming Horizon-T

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Personally, I'm not all that fond of there being a seperate RCC for half-Zentradi. For all intents and purposes, Zentradi are biologically human so there's no need for their offspring to be any different. The most I'm willing to give would be some dice bonuses in character creation, but even that is...

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So what about Macross Launch Era adventures, or Reconstruction era? Pre-Masters War on earth or at a colony? Beuler? Era: SDF-1's return from Pluto 75,000 scared civilians were accidentally dragged to Pluto. How do they really fit in with the military defending them? Adventure Seed #1: The PCs are ...

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Kurseteller wrote: And the MAC II has Paper thin armor.

I agree with the justification the book gives that. There's only so much armour you can put on something before it becomes immovable, and the MAC II is already massive enough. We should be thankful that they didn't make it transforming

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Era: During the Shadow Chronicles /Late Invid Invasion Scenario: In addition to its main mission of finding the Robotech Masters and negotiating a peace treaty, the Pioneer Mission was also tasked with identifying suitable worlds for colonization to fulfil the Gloval Directive of spreading humanity ...

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Jefffar wrote:I think we might be seeing part of the turn around for Palladium finally picking up steam, and Robotech is leading the way.

"Roboteeeech to the rescue!!"

*ahem* Sorry about that

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Ever since PB reaquired the lisence I've been asking if that includes Rifter-able content. So far the answer I've gotten is 'no', sadly.

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Voidsinger wrote:Otherwise, you end up with people just playing veritech pilots

... you mean there are OTHER mecha to pilot?

because so many see the destroids as slow, and taking forever to get anywhere (in particular if they're tied to a certain operating time away from base).

But they are!

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To Majestic and Nick: I meant no disrespect or insult with my comment . I know you guys are doing lots of work on an insanly short timetable and it's all great (far, far better than the wonky stick figures that I'm capable of) but Rabid proved my point right here: Its right in-line with the animatio...

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wow...more previews of mecha we have seen a million times....don;t get me wrong, I appreciate the sentiment but how about some pics of the SC battloids and power armor. Not only that, but some of this artwork seems to be scanned and greyscaled from the animation. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure the ar...

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In fact, the bad thing about the generic chart is that it intimates (in game terms) that missile warhead technology stayed level throughout the 40+ years of Robotech , which is rather absurd when you think about it. It is rather absurd, agreed. Then again, so are MANY FACETS of the animated CARTOON...

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Ugh. I loathe the canon Macross mecha. Even the stats they have for some of the VF-1 variants are just too absurd for my liking.

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