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Contract 1, FedCom Extraction Raid

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Contract 2, Outworlds Alliance Recon Raid

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Total Members Voted: 4

[GentlemanRaptor]

Liking the unmarked, non-sequential C-Bills from Roger. Can't wait to see how the contract shakes out.

[Hanzoku]

I tried to make each person's contribution link to their background where appropriate.

Took me a few hours, but I played through the first battle of the campaign. I should have something ready to post by Friday, but I need to edit the combat logs down a little - the raw text of the post is 55 pages, most of it due to the verbose nature of 'rolled this, needed that, fired this weapon at that target... I need to go through and summarize it heavily. After the first combat report, if people don't care for the nitty-gritty of the combat rolls, let me know and I'll just report the short summary of each combat round.

[Anvilfolk]

Awesome!

Let's get some salvage!!! Definitely would've gone for the Pirate contract too - and we shouldn't forget we can adjust the AI for the bots if we need to, including making them super unwilling to engage, or disengage when hit!

Only having one Veteran mech tech is going to be a huge problem though. Especially if all their minutes are set up on maintenance. I have to resort to Veterans relatively regularly when doing repairs!

[Hanzoku]

Heh... I ended up adjusting the maintenance modifier. Extensively. It's only funny until one of your mechs needs its whole cockpit replaced after what should be routine maintenance. I think I'll probably adjust the modifier back down after this update - my goal is that a regular mech tech can perform maintenance without issues 90% of the time, and veteran and elite ones actively improve the condition of the unit pretty consistently. My hoped for goal is that every mech has it's own personal tech rather then dumping all the maintenance work on one or two veteran or elite techs because they actually can be trusted not to spill coffee on the circuits every week.

[Knave]

Very informative write-up. Appreciate all the screens and explanations, truly!

Also would have voted for the Pirate Hunting, so I think you made a good executive decision there.
Looking forward to the AAR on our battles. Post as much detail as you feel like. I'm happy with anything

[Rince Wind]

I'd love to see some pre battle screens as well, because I have not yet figured out how to set some of the victory conditions from the mission briefing. Like getting to the other map edge. Or differing conditions for both teams.

Also how not to get all the enemy survivors into my team.

Also: <3 AC/20 (when it is on my side...)

[Hanzoku]

Sure thing, the next writeup covers the pre-battle information as presented in MegaMek, as well as my modification of Pursuit (Defender).

If you have more questions, I'll be happy to answer them, as well as some of the others who are playing along.

[EuchreJack]

Heh... I ended up adjusting the maintenance modifier. Extensively. It's only funny until one of your mechs needs its whole cockpit replaced after what should be routine maintenance. I think I'll probably adjust the modifier back down after this update - my goal is that a regular mech tech can perform maintenance without issues 90% of the time, and veteran and elite ones actively improve the condition of the unit pretty consistently. My hoped for goal is that every mech has it's own personal tech rather then dumping all the maintenance work on one or two veteran or elite techs because they actually can be trusted not to spill coffee on the circuits every week.

Once you perfect those settings, please share.  I'd like to implement them in a few of my campaigns.

One thing I do differently in setup: It is possible to recruit by rank.  So, instead of recruiting 12 mechwarriors, I first recruit 1 Captain, then 3 Lieutenants, and finally 8 mechwarriors.  Just because someone is an officer doesn't make them the best in the unit, is my reasoning.

[Hanzoku]

Oh, very true. The reason I didn't handle it the standard fashion is that the character backgrounds for our officers called for regulars or veterans except for Zhou Smythe, who didn't have as much training as the others. Also, I think that if I just went down the line, Xidonius would have been a veteran, which didn't mesh with his never having been in a mech before.

[RedKing]

Konrad “Little Dog” Lai – Veteran Special Ability: Weapon Specialist (Medium Laser) (-2 to the difficulty check for making shots with this particular weapon)

I had to laugh a little when I rolled that one. Given that his Mech is all medium lasers, all the time… Well, he’s going to be exceptionally deadly.

Heh. Hehe. HEHEHEHEHEHE. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

So I'm basically an ultra-elite gunner.
"What is being problem? Am pointing lasers at target, am shooting, am killing target. Why is being hard for you?"

If we ever stumble across an HBK-4P, that bitch is MINE.

[Taricus]

Note to self, modify my griffin to mount roughly 16 clan ER small lasers when I get the chance.

[EuchreJack]

You may want to exchange a medium mech on the Battle Lance with a light mech from the Recon Lance.  Should bring the Battle Lance down a size and beef up the Recon lance so it isn't completely outgunned.

[Rince Wind]

Martin tries to figure out how much beer they will need for the long trip. Anything to keep his mind busy, as they are now on their way to the first jo- ... contract. He will also need some decks of cards.

When Zhou came back with the news, and the conditions he felt proud, now though nervousness is taking over. Hopefully it will not last the whole journey. They can keep quite a bit of what is left on the battlefield, that sounds good. Kinda like extra pay, even it is just scrap to sell. But maybe the techs can to something with it. Now where was that list with the average thirst for beer again?

[EuchreJack]

Martin tries to figure out how much beer they will need for the long trip. Anything to keep his mind busy, as they are now on their way to the first jo- ... contract. He will also need some decks of cards.

When Zhou came back with the news, and the conditions he felt proud, now though nervousness is taking over. Hopefully it will not last the whole journey. They can keep quite a bit of what is left on the battlefield, that sounds good. Kinda like extra pay, even it is just scrap to sell. But maybe the techs can to something with it. Now where was that list with the average thirst for beer again?

Jack, upon seeing Martin's desire to play cards and the overall nervousness of some of the newer members, forms an impromptu Poker game.  He assures them that they can play with the earnings from their first payday, but not all of it of course.

New perk: Jack always has a deck of cards on him.  Sometimes the deck isn't even marked...

[Rince Wind]

Hey Buddy, I might not know my PPC from a large laser, but I earned my money gambling, so we play with THAT deck, you can use the others if I am not around.