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[thatkid]

Sending everyone of my mechs on the Hijack Carrier mission, unless our bases can be attacked during a mission in which case I leave all Sentinel series units behind at base.

[Tsuchigumo550]

Don't worry- you'll never be somewhere you don't need to be unless the host demands it.

The host manipulates time/space! Mwahahaha!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Full Info:
The carrier is located at C9 and C10.
Guard Drones are pink. They are at F 7, 9, 10, 12.
Guard Pilots are Red. They are at E8 and E11.
Your units started in the Yellow Drop Zone.
They are arranged in a Spearhead pattern.
All of your units have the first go in relation to the enemy drones.
Your Seekers and Skirmishers move before the enemy Pilots.
Your Sentinels move after the enemy pilots.
There were no rolls involved. This turn order is constant.
 
Radio emissions were detected.

The enemy Drones are equipped with an unknown rifle.
The enemy pilots are equipped with an unknown rifle, and an unknown blade.

The Carrier seems to be preparing it's engines. This will take around 10 turns.
Carriers must prepare their engines then lock down their ports.
Locking down ports takes roughly 2 turns.

I'll add this to the rules before I forget...
All rifles have a base range of 2-6 squares. They are maximally effective at 3-6 squares. Their accuracy suffers slightly (0. at 2 squares.
Launchers have a base range of 4-8 squares. They have no range stat modifiers.
Blades have a base range of 1-1 squares. They must be used when you are adjacent to an enemy.

[HailFire]

Spoiler:  Intercepted AEON WTC Internal Agency documents: (click to show/hide)

**CLASSIFIED- YOUR EYES ONLY**

Asset Designation: Research and Development Facility "Blind Eagle" (Asset, 2nd Grade)
Asset Controller: Adamant Heavy Arms, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AEON World Technology Corporation
Asset Location: ███████████, Eastern Front

Asset Block Designations (14/14):
-Agriculture and Life Support: 5/14 (Staff Capacity: 25)
-Engineering/Hangar Space: 6/14 (Optimal Mechanized Infantry Vehicle Capacity: 6/ Maximum MIV Capacity: 15)
-Fortifications: 3/14 (+300 Structural Integrity Rating (STR))

Staff (Assets, Expendable; with the obvious exception of myself):
15 Research and Development Personnel
5 MIV Technicians
3 Reserve MIV Pilots
████████████, AEON Internal Agency Monitor
1 Communications Officer

Spoiler: Blind Eagle Mechanized Infantry Roster: (click to show/hide)

**CLASSIFIED- YOUR EYES ONLY**

Assets, 2nd Grade
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Pilot Name: Captain ███████████ (Alias: 'Warden')
Species: Human
Age: ██
Gender: Male

Background Information: Piloting ace and former head of an Adamant Heavy Arms strike force; current head of security for Blind Eagle. Everything beyond that's censored, I'm afraid.

Personality Profile: The Captain refused to take the mandatory staff profiling form or interview, scrawling "Pointless Bullshit" over the 'Dislikes' section of the form before handing it back to me; under orders not to press the issue. (Ref. ████████████)

MIV Designation: 'Warden'
Shell: Regulator
Core: Mythril-C
Armaments: Anubis-I x1, ERMS-01 x1, Fox Fang x1
Modifications: None
Notes: Standard desert camo, but while the interior workings of the vehicle are kept in tip-top shape, the exterior is kept intentionally worn and decrepit-looking, covered with a motley assortment of warning signs, and wrapped in places with "CAUTION" tape. Like all of the MIVs here (except for the "Evening Mist" unit, which is an EL vehicle; see below), it's emblazoned with the AHA logo.
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Pilot Name: Dr. Chau Doyen
Species: Human
Age: 27 (est.)
Gender: Female

Background Information: Dr. Doyen has been amazingly hard to track over the years, having been shuffled between various government- and corporate-run research agencies and facilities before and after the Event; became the head of Research and Development and de-facto leader of Blind Eagle after Epsilon Laboratories merged with AHA.

Personality Profile: Straightforward, energetic, and curious, but cunning and meticulous. She's a scientist through-and-through, and insists on field testing everything- as soon as she was assigned to MIV R&D, she learned to pilot them.
Likes: Science, explosions, 'giant mecha' (MIVs; almost everyone on base uses the layman's term for them, for some reason), martial arts, spiders, autumn, breezy afternoons, pistachio ice cream.
Dislikes: Being interrupted, jockeying for funding, bureaucrats, rain, cell phones, cats (allergic)

MIV Designation: 'Evening Mist'
Shell: Kitsune
Core: Mythril-C
Armaments: EMRS-01 x1, Fox Fang x2
Modifications: None
Notes:
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Pilot Name: ELXAIS-α "Vito"/ELXAIS-β "Vivienne"
Species: Artificial Intelligence/Android
Age: 8 months (est.)/5 months (est.)
Gender: N/A (masculine)/ N/A (feminine)

Background Information: Dr. Doyen's pet projects from Epsilon; the Alpha unit's a black box AI designed for integration into an MIV, while the Beta unit's an experiment to see if a robot could actually pilot the things manually. May have to confiscate these or commission more of them once they get out of testing.

Personality Profile: Don't know if they've developed them; the Doctor won't let me get near them, and they're not, strictly speaking, staff members.

MIV Designation: Lanzer I
Shell: Kitsune
Core: Law-001
Armaments: Carat-I x1, Dragonbreath-01 x1, Rapier-X x1
Modifications: None
Notes: They share this one, due to lack of hangar space. Every time I ask if they could, hypothetically speaking, pilot the craft simultaneously, the Doc evades the question; suspect she's going over my head.
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Assets, 3rd Grade (They'd probably be Ex grade, but good pilots are hard to find!)
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Pilot Name: Mana Homewood
Species: Human
Age: 22 (est.)
Gender: Female

Background Information: The Captain's right hand and only remaining member of his squad. Can't give you much more than that, for the same reasons.

Personality Profile: Fortunately, I get to not bother with this one; she's always with the Captain and/or stoned (in defiance of company regulations, but see below), so getting accurate information here is virtually impossible. (Ref. ████████████)

MIV Designation: 'Big Daddy'
Shell: HVAU-01
Core: Youkai-II
Armaments: Dragonbreath-01 x2, ERMS-01 x2, Mantis-I x1
Modifications: None
Notes:Has a pair beady black dots and a large jagged line painted across the torso; the 'face' makes it look brain-damaged, but everyone seems to think it's endearing. Smell of weed permanently ingrained in cockpit.
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Pilot Name: Charlotte Oakleaf
Species: Hybrid (canine)
Age: 19 (est.)
Gender: Female

Background Information: Both Charlotte and Roxy (see below) were rescued from a slaver camp that had unwittingly set up near Blind Eagle by the Captain and Mana while out on patrol; Refer to Incident Report ████████████. Many of those rescued appeared to be subjects of some sort of genetic engineering program designed to splice humans and animals, likely as novelty pets for wasteland warlords.

On the sliding scale of human/animal (the subjects varied wildly), she's one of the leftmost subjects, with features limited to canine ears, tail, fangs, and claws; also the only one of the hybrids mentally and physically suitable for MIV operation (though some of the others were integrated into the staff; see attached staff dossier).

Personality Profile: Also decidedly dog-like- Tough, eager, loyal, distractable, but somewhat shy. Keep in mind that "loyal" applies to her rescuers, and, to a lesser extent, Blind Eagle base- not to any higher organization or authority.
Likes: Being petted (despite finding it embarrassing), running, fireflies, meat (esp. bacon), rain, sunbathing, children.
Dislikes: Men (mildly androphobic- the Captain seems to be the only one she's comfortable around), loud noises, lectures, spiders, celery, people grabbing her tail.

MIV Designation: 'Southwind'
Shell: Kitsune
Core: Law-001
Armaments: Anubis-I x1, Carat-I x1, Scorpion x1
Modifications: None
Notes:
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Pilot Name: ██████████████████ (Alias "Roxy")
Species: Human? (Needs verification)
Age: 13
Gender: Female

Background Information: Refer to above/Incident Report ████████████. Was missing both arms at the shoulder when we found her; may have psychological damage. Don't like to think what else they were doing at that camp, but Roxy was initiated into the roster to test neural interface technology. Preliminary testing described as "Above Expectations".

Personality Profile: Not touching this- shit's over my head anyway. (Ref. ████████████)

MIV Designation: 'Blackjack'
Shell: HVAU-01
Core: Mythril-C
Armaments: Anubis-I x1, Mantis-I x1, Carat-1 x1, Scorpion x1
Modifications: None
Notes: Matte black paint job, torso displays an Ace of Clubs overlapping a Queen.

**END REPORT**
████████████, AEON Internal Agency Monitor

Dammit, I went overboard on the fluff again, didn't I? 

[Tsuchigumo550]

Fluff accepted anyway.

[HailFire]

Let's go curbstomp some dudes; I'll deploy everyone on the Steal Rogue Intel mission.

[Tsuchigumo550]

Everyone is loving the grids today... This one might take a little more time. I want to use some weather.

[Luke_Prowler]

The looters are going to take on that rogue factory! Factories always have the best loot. Everyone is getting stuck in and getting their first taste of battle.

[HailFire]

The looters are going to take on that rogue factory! Factories always have the best loot. Everyone is getting stuck in and getting their first taste of battle.

That's pretty much why I picked my grid mission- want to learn how to play the game and get some kills and loot under my belt before I risk anyone. 

[adwarf]

Do the only other North Theater Mission

[Tsuchigumo550]

I promise this wasn't revenge for the fluff, but... let's just say I hope you liek your unit icons? Those are going to be a ton of work for everyone... Phew.

[img=http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/8136310/220/8136310.png]

I think you can guess as to who's who? It's kind of in order, kinda.

Which reminds me to do YOUR full stats.

You can tell that those three things over on the right are enemies. The red eyed one is the Arachnid.

You are outside, and you notice through your optic cameras that it's raining ever-so-slightly.
The Arachnid is slower than Evening Mist, Southwind, and Lazner, but faster than everyone else.
The drones are slower than everyone. They didn't get much rest, you know, since they were put on guard duty.
The Arachnid is equipped with what looks like an Anubis-like rife, but it has a few differences.
The Arachnid has an unknown blade.
The drones have the same kind of unknown launcher each. In fact, they're clones.
The drones carry what looks like a Mantis, but with a much shorter barrel and less bulk.

There were no rolls involved in this. This turn order is constant.

Radio emissions were not detected. You cannot detect a station nearby.
The walls of the building look reinforced.
The surrounding grass is getting wet. Wet grass sticks to stuff.

[Tsuchigumo550]

Before I let you do that- you do know you could be doing the same one? It's missions by base, not by theatre. Just making sure you know that.

If you want a different one then I'll just repurpose this post.

Wait. There's two anyway.
*crosses fingers for not having to do another grid, but at the same tome, kinda wants to make the crashsite map*

[adwarf]

Hurray I can do the Carrier mission. DO EET!!! But I'd prefer a water map :3

[Tsuchigumo550]

That... can be arranged. You guys do realize that half the reason those enemy weapons are unknown is because I've only half developed the parts, riiight?

[HailFire]

As a matter of fact, I do... only possible criticism is that Blackjack should be a club, not a spade. 

Also, re: the queen analogy you made earlier- can units change directions mid-turn, or only move in straight lines?

ED: Oh buggery, forgot to mention: Vito's running the Lanzer this mission; they'll take turns.

[thatkid]

Don't worry- you'll never be somewhere you don't need to be unless the host demands it.

The host manipulates time/space! Mwahahaha!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Full Info:
The carrier is located at C9 and C10.
Guard Drones are pink. They are at F 7, 9, 10, 12.
Guard Pilots are Red. They are at E8 and E11.
Your units started in the Yellow Drop Zone.
They are arranged in a Spearhead pattern.
All of your units have the first go in relation to the enemy drones.
Your Seekers and Skirmishers move before the enemy Pilots.
Your Sentinels move after the enemy pilots.
There were no rolls involved. This turn order is constant.
 
Radio emissions were detected.

The enemy Drones are equipped with an unknown rifle.
The enemy pilots are equipped with an unknown rifle, and an unknown blade.

The Carrier seems to be preparing it's engines. This will take around 10 turns.
Carriers must prepare their engines then lock down their ports.
Locking down ports takes roughly 2 turns.

I'll add this to the rules before I forget...
All rifles have a base range of 2-6 squares. They are maximally effective at 3-6 squares. Their accuracy suffers slightly (0. at 2 squares.
Launchers have a base range of 4-8 squares. They have no range stat modifiers.
Blades have a base range of 1-1 squares. They must be used when you are adjacent to an enemy.

Seeker I moves to M10, Seeker II moves to M9.
Skirmisher I moves to M7, Skirmisher II moves to M12

SeekerI and SeekerII both fire DragonBreath 01 at F9.
Skirmisher I fires ERMS-1 at M7, Skirmisher II fires ERMS-1 at M12

Waiting to give orders to Sentinels until after enemy moves. (and then I'll order sentinels, and Seekers and Skirmishers for the following turn as well)