Author Topic: Objective Raids (Read 19524 times)

MadCapellan · « **Reply #60 on:** 11 May 2011, 14:14:48 »

Objectives: Capellan Confederation will be followed by a photo of a moon crater titled "Objectives: Draconis Combine", then, a one-page leaflet with the heading "Objectives: Federated Suns". Objectives: FWL, a beautifully written work rendered in gorgeous, flowing verse, will be released as soon as they can find someone who cares enough to upload it to BattleCorps.

Hersh67 · « **Reply #61 on:** 11 May 2011, 14:29:04 »

Quote from: Kit deSummersville on 11 May 2011, 13:23:16

You might check the past few posts in this thread....

Yep. That's what I was thinking 15+ years ago... Although the CapCon? Sigh. Pushovers. :)

Hersh67 · « **Reply #62 on:** 11 May 2011, 14:31:36 »

Quote from: MadCapellan on 11 May 2011, 14:14:48

Objectives: Capellan Confederation will be followed by a photo of a moon crater titled "Objectives: Draconis Combine", then, a one-page leaflet with the heading "Objectives: Federated Suns". Objectives: FWL, a beautifully written work rendered in gorgeous, flowing verse, will be released as soon as they can find someone who cares enough to upload it to BattleCorps.

And Objectives: Lyran (whatever they're called at the time...)?

Kit deSummersville · « **Reply #63 on:** 11 May 2011, 14:36:35 »

Quote from: Hersh67 on 11 May 2011, 14:31:36

And Objectives: Lyran (whatever they're called at the time...)?

It will take four authors and still need to be updated when it is finally complete.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #64 on:** 11 May 2011, 15:20:11 »

Quote from: Kit deSummersville on 11 May 2011, 14:36:35

It will take four authors and still need to be updated when it is finally complete.

Yes, because Objectives Lyran actually describes the Objectives of the Lyrans: Social parties and up and comping fashion trends.

Kit deSummersville · « **Reply #65 on:** 11 May 2011, 15:21:46 »

Quote from: Gunslinger on 11 May 2011, 15:20:11

Yes, because Objectives Lyran actually describes the Objectives of the Lyrans: Social parties and up and comping fashion trends.

You left off the entire section on creative bookkeeping.

trajan331 · « **Reply #66 on:** 11 May 2011, 15:22:26 »

Cool they did Capellan Confederation first. WOuld love to see House Davion but, I guess it is more important to see the industry of the person that you plan to attack :)

Gunslinger · « **Reply #67 on:** 11 May 2011, 15:41:48 »

Quote from: trajan331 on 11 May 2011, 15:22:26

Cool they did Capellan Confederation first. WOuld love to see House Davion but, I guess it is more important to see the industry of the person that you plan to attack :)

Series will follow the same line up as the Field Reports.

Greywind · « **Reply #68 on:** 11 May 2011, 16:45:24 »

Quote from: trajan331 on 11 May 2011, 15:22:26

Cool they did Capellan Confederation first. WOuld love to see House Davion but, I guess it is more important to see the industry of the person that you plan to attack :)

The Capellans always got done first. That's why their nation is so small.

trajan331 · « **Reply #69 on:** 11 May 2011, 23:23:16 »

So they don't follow the idea of lets, get the big one out of the way first? :D

Medron Pryde · « **Reply #70 on:** 12 May 2011, 02:24:54 »

Yeah...all the Davion players need to know what targets they have.

;)

mbear · « **Reply #71 on:** 12 May 2011, 06:25:24 »

Quote from: Gunslinger on 11 May 2011, 15:20:11

Yes, because Objectives Lyran actually describes the Objectives of the Lyrans: Social parties and up and comping fashion trends.

Cool! Should be an excellent companion to Objectives Magistracy that describes the various drinks, drugs, and other entertainments available to visitors of a Canopian Pleasure Circus. :D

tabletopgamer6886 · « **Reply #72 on:** 12 May 2011, 22:06:55 »

Quote from: Degman on 09 May 2011, 19:03:24

Don't have the Objective Raids but Tukayyid is the best scenario pack I've read :)

Well, thank you!

When I was playtesting the scenarios in Tukayyid with my local group, we had an awful time trying to balance things out. No matter what I tried to give them an advantage, the Com Guards got pounded in all of our playtest sessions. (The superior Clan equipment and especially their higher skills in gunnery and piloting were decisive factors.) I was really worried about it and sent along a note with the final manuscript voicing my concerns.

But in one of the few reviews I saw of the book, the reviewer said the Clans lost every single time he and his group tried to play out the scenarios.

So I suppose it must come down to how your own group plays, and it all worked out in the end.

tabletopgamer6886 · « **Reply #73 on:** 12 May 2011, 22:19:07 »

Quote from: GramL on 10 May 2011, 14:55:23

I am going to add on more kind words and praises about Objective Raids. Growing up as a gamer in a small farming town 90% of my battletech experience as a teenager was playing against myself using cardboard squares with the names of mechs on them and creating elaborate scenarios, units and campaigns all in the cramped space that was my bedroom. Your book was by far my greatest resource in creating these stories. I used it to plot massive invasions, what-if scenarios, and create stories that I can still look back on with fondness. I still own my original copy, even with its missing front cover, several pages falling out, and star maps with convoluted lines arrows and notations that tracked the movements of all of the great houses in the inner sphere. In summation, Thank You.

As I'm still living in a small farming town and using cardstock markers in some of my games, I can sure relate to this! I'm glad that you got so much use from my book - thank you for sharing your story. (-:

tabletopgamer6886 · « **Reply #74 on:** 12 May 2011, 22:24:15 »

Quote from: Fireangel on 10 May 2011, 18:45:42

Before we all go overboard with love for the book, I do want to point out the three things that always bugged me:

1) The organization; units up front, clan front borders in the middle and remaining worlds in the back... It gets annoying having to go through three separate sections for information on the same State.

2) No index (at least I corrected this in my copy); seriously; this kind of book is in serious need of an index - if only for all the worlds!

3) The big lettered margins; the font just does not help (blame for this falls squarely on FASA's shoulders; I'm pretty sure the manuscript didn't have that ::) )

Besides these minor quibbles, I really don't have any complaints about the book. It still sees almost as much use as the TROs

OTOH, I absolutely love the maps; for years it was the single-source resource for maps of the Inner Sphere 'round these parts.

I think you're quite right with all your comments and especially in regards to the index. Every gaming book ought to have one and as I've been known to write up indexes of other books just for my own use in games it's very odd that I didn't do one in Objective Raids. I really can't explain it.

Greywind · « **Reply #75 on:** 12 May 2011, 22:27:24 »

I never stopped using OR in my games. It is/was a good book for that time period.

I am Belch II · « **Reply #76 on:** 13 May 2011, 00:08:02 »

Didn't the Jihad knock some of the important factorys and objectives out??

Kit deSummersville · « **Reply #77 on:** 13 May 2011, 00:11:06 »

One or two might have suffered some cosmetic damage....

:D

Paul · « **Reply #78 on:** 13 May 2011, 00:17:56 »

Quote from: Kit deSummersville on 13 May 2011, 00:11:06

One or two might have suffered some cosmetic damage....

Just a fleshwound.

Paul

Ruger · « **Reply #79 on:** 13 May 2011, 08:02:10 »

Quote from: Kit deSummersville on 13 May 2011, 00:11:06

One or two might have suffered some cosmetic damage....

:D

Kit, Kit, Kit...

You're supposed to say something along the lines of "yeah...about 15 - 20% of them suffered some kind of cosmetic damage."...

:D

;)

Ruger

mbear · « **Reply #80 on:** 13 May 2011, 10:15:02 »

Quote from: Kit deSummersville on 13 May 2011, 00:11:06

One or two might have suffered some cosmetic damage....

:D

Quote from: Ruger on 13 May 2011, 08:02:10

Kit, Kit, Kit...

You're supposed to say something along the lines of "yeah...about 15 - 20% of them suffered some kind of cosmetic damage."...

:D

;)

Ruger

I thought the affected factories just lost 15-20% of their production capacity... :D

Lorcan Nagle · « **Reply #81 on:** 13 May 2011, 10:38:34 »

Quote from: tabletopgamer6886 on 12 May 2011, 22:06:55

Well, thank you!

When I was playtesting the scenarios in Tukayyid with my local group, we had an awful time trying to balance things out. No matter what I tried to give them an advantage, the Com Guards got pounded in all of our playtest sessions. (The superior Clan equipment and especially their higher skills in gunnery and piloting were decisive factors.) I was really worried about it and sent along a note with the final manuscript voicing my concerns.

But in one of the few reviews I saw of the book, the reviewer said the Clans lost every single time he and his group tried to play out the scenarios.

So I suppose it must come down to how your own group plays, and it all worked out in the end.

Tukkayid is one of the handful of FASA books I donÂ´t own, but a couple of the guys in our group have it and weÂ´ve played through a bunch of the scenarios. ItÂ´s been fun every time.

guardiandashi · « **Reply #82 on:** 13 May 2011, 12:49:46 »

I thought in the jahad ~15-20% of the production facilities suffered some level of "cosmetic damage" including a few that suffered the "cosmetic damage" to the botom of the foundation of the production floor slab in the assembly bays (note the damage appears to be scorching and the thermal source seems to have been in the assembly bay. )

Gunslinger · « **Reply #83 on:** 13 May 2011, 13:05:36 »

Investor: "You lost half your production lines!"

CEO: "Yeah, but those lines were just for PR and aesthetic purposes only. The Locust line is our biggest money maker!"