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Re: Battletech Beatdowns in Northern VA
« Reply #660 on: 02 March 2020, 23:31:59 »
Have we settled on a date for March yet?
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Re: Battletech Beatdowns in Northern VA
« Reply #661 on: 03 March 2020, 20:20:46 »
Quote from: Firesprocket on 02 March 2020, 23:31:59
Have we settled on a date for March yet?

Yes, the next game is the last Saturday in March.  Same Bat-time, same Bat-channel.
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Re: Battletech Beatdowns in Northern VA
« Reply #662 on: 03 March 2020, 20:27:10 »
I'll try to be there!  :thumbsup:
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Re: Battletech Beatdowns in Northern VA
« Reply #663 on: 03 March 2020, 21:17:22 »
so 28 March then?
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Re: Battletech Beatdowns in Northern VA
« Reply #664 on: 06 March 2020, 19:19:35 »
Bad news... I've been invited to a friend's wedding that weekend, and won't be able to make the game... Sorry!
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Re: Battletech Beatdowns in Northern VA
« Reply #665 on: 06 March 2020, 20:20:15 »
Wedding invites only 3 weeks before hand?  Yikes, but I'll try not to get your blazerhawk blasted ;)
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Re: Battletech Beatdowns in Northern VA
« Reply #666 on: 06 March 2020, 20:26:11 »
I would appreciate that!

My friend wants a sword arch, and well, I have one...
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Re: Battletech Beatdowns in Northern VA
« Reply #667 on: 08 March 2020, 11:33:03 »
So just to be clear, while the Vulcan, P.Hawk and Ostscout await for a helo to come by with repair parts and to pick up prisoners, the rest of the company went ahead to do a bit more scouting.

So here's a question that will need a consensus from the group.  If it looks like you all might make contact, do you all try to wait for the Vulcan, Ostscout and P.Hawk to make repairs or not?
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Re: Battletech Beatdowns in Northern VA
« Reply #668 on: 08 March 2020, 11:44:03 »
It depends entirely on the contact in question...

With the guys we drove off?  Sure!

With a worst case scenario?  Absolutely not!
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Re: Battletech Beatdowns in Northern VA
« Reply #669 on: 08 March 2020, 12:27:39 »
Agreed, entirely will depend on contact, if there is belief that unavoidable contact would occur before repairs could be effected, I'd say I'd move the Vulcan back and leave the Phawk and Ostscout behind as their repairs are more important.
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Re: Battletech Beatdowns in Northern VA
« Reply #670 on: 08 March 2020, 12:50:09 »
Hopefully the Blazer Hawk's Recon Camera will give us SOME kind of warning...
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Re: Battletech Beatdowns in Northern VA
« Reply #671 on: 08 March 2020, 15:40:50 »
So as the 2 Lance's of the company are scouting forward, you all pick up comms from an unidentified contact that is clearly in the middle of a fight.  You all hear things like:

"They played us."
"Scatter and regroup at the normal place."

Along with the normal expletives youd probably get.

After about half an hour, you all get hailed over the radio that goes something like this,

"To the company of unidentified mechs approaching.  This is captain Bauer of the Timbuktu Security Forces.  If you are coming to rescue your pirate friends, I'm afraid you're too late.  We will gladly put you in the same grave where they are.  If you are instead in pursuit of these pirates, we appreciate you coming all this way, but your assistance isnt required."

From the discussion we had after the last meeting, you all radioed back to your battalion HQ and after some time they got back to you all saying that there are no local security forces operating in your area.

So what's does the company want to do?
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Re: Battletech Beatdowns in Northern VA
« Reply #672 on: 08 March 2020, 15:51:41 »
First, get a bearing on the transmission from the supposed "Security Forces"...
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Re: Battletech Beatdowns in Northern VA
« Reply #673 on: 08 March 2020, 15:57:19 »
Quote from: Daryk on 08 March 2020, 15:51:41
First, get a bearing on the transmission from the supposed "Security Forces"...

Done.
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Re: Battletech Beatdowns in Northern VA
« Reply #674 on: 08 March 2020, 16:00:01 »
Hooray for Improved Communications!  8)

The next intel need is how many individual units have we heard?

While the SIGINT types are working on that, we should get a read from HQ on how they feel about units claiming to be them...
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Re: Battletech Beatdowns in Northern VA
« Reply #675 on: 08 March 2020, 16:19:05 »
Quote from: Daryk on 08 March 2020, 16:00:01
Hooray for Improved Communications!  8)

The next intel need is how many individual units have we heard?

While the SIGINT types are working on that, we should get a read from HQ on how they feel about units claiming to be them...

You've probably heard from at least half a dozen units, but alot of it was guys talking/screaming over each other.

As to HQ, they have told you they are negotiating for higher pay to investigate this; your contract stipulates to kill/capture pirates, not investigate if there are units masquerading as something they arent.
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Re: Battletech Beatdowns in Northern VA
« Reply #676 on: 08 March 2020, 16:31:42 »
If they're still negotiating, then we should cautiously approach, and not engage unless we get paid to...
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Re: Battletech Beatdowns in Northern VA
« Reply #677 on: 08 March 2020, 17:32:10 »
Quote from: Daryk on 08 March 2020, 16:31:42
If they're still negotiating, then we should cautiously approach, and not engage unless we get paid to...

Fast forward another 20-30 minutes and HQ says they secured new terms and the battalion will receive extra pay if you investigate.
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Re: Battletech Beatdowns in Northern VA
« Reply #678 on: 08 March 2020, 17:35:58 »
Investigate it is!  Now to find out if the bluffing bastards hung around for us...
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Re: Battletech Beatdowns in Northern VA
« Reply #679 on: 08 March 2020, 18:31:42 »
Quote from: Daryk on 08 March 2020, 17:35:58
Investigate it is!  Now to find out if the bluffing bastards hung around for us...

So now the question becomes, do you wait for the P.Hawk, Vulcan and Ostscout?
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Re: Battletech Beatdowns in Northern VA
« Reply #680 on: 08 March 2020, 18:34:31 »
If the 20-30 minutes it took for HQ to come up with an answer wasn't long enough to at least get them underway, I'll have to think about it.  And given I won't be there on the 28th, I'd really prefer to get an opinion from someone who will be...
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Re: Battletech Beatdowns in Northern VA
« Reply #681 on: 08 March 2020, 18:44:25 »
Quote from: Daryk on 08 March 2020, 18:34:31
If the 20-30 minutes it took for HQ to come up with an answer wasn't long enough to at least get them underway, I'll have to think about it.  And given I won't be there on the 28th, I'd really prefer to get an opinion from someone who will be...

It'll have taken at least an hour or two for the helo to fly out to where you all are.  That's how long it took for the 2 lances to clear the swamp.

About an hour has passed from when you initially heard the radio signals and got the updates from HQ.  So in that time, the 3 mechs can get some repairs done.  Or you can focus to fully repair one of the mechs.  Unless you want to wait until they are fully repaired; that's going to take another hour or two.
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Re: Battletech Beatdowns in Northern VA
« Reply #682 on: 08 March 2020, 19:02:16 »
Rog... I'll wait for someone else to weigh in before continuing, then...
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Re: Battletech Beatdowns in Northern VA
« Reply #683 on: 08 March 2020, 19:48:29 »
coudl we focus repair the Vulcan and slap armor on the head of the Phawk in that time?  Ostscout is probably not needed for this fight, can wait
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Re: Battletech Beatdowns in Northern VA
« Reply #684 on: 08 March 2020, 19:52:34 »
We would want in the background monitoring remote sensors and giving lines of bearing on comms...
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Re: Battletech Beatdowns in Northern VA
« Reply #685 on: 08 March 2020, 20:06:27 »
I'd not want it off alone offmap as it may get ran down by something it cant run from. we got a plethora of improved comms mechs to cover down.  it can cover final recovery and return to the group once completed repairs.
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Re: Battletech Beatdowns in Northern VA
« Reply #686 on: 09 March 2020, 03:16:48 »
What couldn't it run from?  ???
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Re: Battletech Beatdowns in Northern VA
« Reply #687 on: 09 March 2020, 16:05:15 »
Fast hovers are what initially come to mind.
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Re: Battletech Beatdowns in Northern VA
« Reply #688 on: 09 March 2020, 17:13:44 »
Not with woods though... and we fought in some fairly wooded terrain...
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Re: Battletech Beatdowns in Northern VA
« Reply #689 on: 09 March 2020, 17:45:19 »
We're coming out of that though, as maps would show.
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