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[Doubloon-Seven]

Doubloon's Plan (0):
Chiefwaffles' Plan (2): Chiefwaffles, Doubloon-Seven

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Yeah, okay. I can get behind this, and a more specialied team is liable to work better anyhow.

[Draignean]

Doubloon's Plan (0):
Chiefwaffles' Plan (3): Chiefwaffles, Doubloon-Seven,Draignean

[Happerry]

Doubloon's Plan (0):
Chiefwaffles' Plan (4): Chiefwaffles, Doubloon-Seven, Draignean, Happerry

[johiah]

Thantro assasinate/capture mission:
The ambush was almost perfect. Our eyes on the roofs and in the alley saw a sedan go by. Then, another, identical sedan was going by. Thane sent the signal and Juanita, Ambush Lead, activated her force shield on the road. The sedan crashed into it headon, seemingly stunning everyone inside. Unfortunately their rearguard, in a different sedan, was able to stop soon enough to avoid the first car, and there were no other cars in between the two sedans.
The team jumped out of the box except Juanita, who was now unconscious against a side of the box and bleeding from her left nostril. The flashbangs were thrown into the vehicle, likely deafening and blinding anyone inside. The men started firing into the car, although many of the bullets were being slowed by the metal frame or flat out deflected by whatever the man in the back right seat was wearing.
The third sedan stopped at this point and four more men jumped out, which is when the support team engaged. Support Lead Grecia opened up with her rifle on the four men, somehow scoring four hits and four kills. She then fired at the crashed car, and it is theorized that this is what killed the scientist. The first car came back, then, and one of the men inside leaned out and fired multiple times at Grecia. Her shield protected her, although she noted that the bullets seemed more powerful than usual, and the second one actually penetrated partway through the shield, forcing her to retreat.
Suddenly bullets started pouring from the totaled sedan. They were pistol rounds, but they were powerful. After maybe twenty shots at five meters the last four or so shots broke through Amy's shield, and three retained enough energy to kill Thane and Benjamin. The other sedan crossed the street at this time, laying down covering fire and activating two smoke grenades. We don't believe that any other enemies died, and the sedan drove off, having retrieved two of the men from the totalled sedan. We found some interesting loot, namely a couple pistols. As the men retreated across the roofs, sirens wailed in the distance. The XO congratulates us for a job (mostly) well done, and gives us a temporary bonus.
Mission objective success
Thane and Benjamin were KIA
The 8 other operatives are now more experienced.
3 pistols scavenged
3 encrypted radios scavenged
3 smoke grenades scavenged
6 flashbangs consumed
Enemy stability decreased by ~8%
+20 supply (one time)

[johiah]

Thantro factory assault mission:
The Pocket team timed their exit wrong. When they jumped out of the box they were in the middle of a large warehouse, rows upon rows of boxes. They were in the right facility, but in the middle of an open space and 50 meters from the door that they were to let the rest of the team in through.
Up on the catwalks on the edges of the room the team saw no less than eight guards. Two were in plainclothes, yet obviously agents, while the other 6 were your run of the mill guards. Lead managed to drop one of the plainclothes, but not before the other ducked into cover and shouted something in his radio.
The team started moving to the door as the guards started firing at them. Lead's shield was taking a beating, as several of the guards had rifles. Eventually one bullet got through so lead dropped his and 1 raised his. They reached the door, letting the rest of the team in, while at the same time enemy guards and agents were pouring into the room on the far side and taking cover while firing at our team.
Our men with rifles opened up, able to actually hit and do damage at such ranges. They got back to the rows of boxes, having cycled through I's shield and into II's. One of the agents popped out of cover just 10 meters from our position and lobbed something at us. No one saw what it was in the chaos, so when the flashbang went off it stunned the entire team except Abigail, the Support Lead. She raised her shield in the direction most of the fire was coming from, and tried to supress both the left and right sides long enough for the team to recover. She took a shot in the chest and one in the back by enemy agents, both essentially ignoring the kevlar, and she fell. They got Alex and Isabella before the team recovered and starting shooting back again. One of the team grabbed Abigail's gun.
The sheer amount of fire, basically the equivalent of perhaps four or five rifles, was enough to continually punch through the shields, although Maximillian managed to kill many of the guards and the agents with pistols managed to take out a few of their counterpart, but ultimately the assault team was forced to retreat. On the way out they lost three more agents, and one was wounded pretty bad as a bullet tore through his shoulder. Despite having to retreat and technically being a failure, the factories' merchandise was all stored in the room and heavily damaged during the firefight.
Mission failed
Abigail, Alex, Isabella, Tim, Carlyle KIA
Maximillian heavily injured
5 agents are more experienced
5 foal pistols lost/scavenged by Mondragon
1 kevlar vest lost/scavenged by Mondragon
2 combat suits lost/scavenged by Mondragon
3 confirmed agent kills
~20 confirmed guard kills
~4 agent wounds
~15 guard wounds
-~10 enemy supply next turn

Spoiler: Current technologies and equipment (click to show/hide)

EU and ammo can safely be ignored when equipping non player characters.

Weapons:
Foal N5B2 Carbine Rifle: 884m/sec muzzle velocity. Fully automatic. 700 RPM. Effective up to 500m. 5.56x45mm cartridge. 2 EU unloaded, 3 EU loaded. 6 supply. 30 round clip size. 30 rounds 1 EU. Can pierce 12mm of steel at 600m.

Foal N2822 Semi-Automatic Service Pistol: 253m/sec muzzle velocity. Semi automatic. Typical range 25m, effective to 40m. 0.45 ACP cartridge. 1 EU unloaded, 2 EU loaded. 3 supply. 7 round clip size. 32 rounds 1 EU. Cannot pierce substantial armor without repeated shots.

Combat knife: A small knife capable of piercing limited armor. 1 AP. 1 supply.

Armor and equipment:
Kevlar vest: Light protection of torso, shoulders, and upper legs. Gray. 3 EU. 2 supply.

Combat suit: Thin bodywide protection. Black. 1 EU. 1 supply.

Encrypted radio: 100 meter broadcast radius. Static gets rather bad at max range. Encrypted to prevent enemy intercepting, although use signals that agents are in the area to anyone listening. 1 EU. 2 supply per pair.

Smoke grenades: Can form a cloud of smoke roughly 10 meters in diameter that reduces anyone inside to vague shadows. 1 EU for 3. 1 supply for 3.

Flashbangs: Likely stun and disorient anyone caught within the 3 meter blast radius. Anyone outside of that gets a reduced effect. 1 EU for 3. 1
supply for 3.

Forced entry kit: Lockpicks, acid and other assorted gear for breaking in. 4 EU. 5 supply.

Bomb/trap defusal kit: A series of items useful for defusing bombs. 4 EU. 6 supply.

Breaching charge: A small but powerful localized detonation meant for creating man sized hole in walls with a thickness of less than 15 centimeters. Ineffective against anything stronger than brick. 2 EU. 4 supply.

Designed technologies:
DNSIT, Direct Neural-Spinal Interface Tap or "Necktap": [1] [3]
A barely functional hacking aid requiring specialized training to use. 10 EU. 10 Supply. Only 1 man per squad is capable of using one.
Improves hacking attempts by 1%.

Pocket Dimension Pockets: [4] [4]
Increases space in a pocket by 5 times. 1 hour charge. Difficult to do initial enchantment, but enchantment does not fade. Provides protection from a myriad of sensors for anything inside. 2 supply to place enchantment on a piece of armor or clothing. Trivial to refresh.

Force Buckler: [7] [6]
An effective force wall capable of blocking 10 N5B2 rifle shots at minimum size when cast by a thaumic potential 3 spellcaster. A difficult spell, half of the force can cast it. Variable shape and strength, stronger by 100% for each thaumic potential level above 3 of the person casting it.

Spoiler: Owned equipment, materials, and supply (click to show/hide)

Corporation integrity: 100%
Supply: 100/100
Maintenance: 23
(Unused supply will add to the next turn)

1 Necktap
1 combat suit with a PDP
5 kevlar vests
8 combat suits
4 foal carbines
11 foal pistols
3 pistols (scavenged)
3 encrypted radios (scavenged, still encrypted)
3 smoke grenades (scavenged)

Spoiler: Agents (click to show/hide)

You have one squad out of two maximum (12/20)
[6]Juanita (F) 1 mission, Learned spells: Force buckler
[6]Maximillian (M) 1 mission, Violet Heart, Learned spells: Force buckler. Heavily wounded: Cannot fight this turn
[6]Grecia (F) 1 mission, Learned spells: Force buckler
[5]Amy (F) 1 mission, Learned spells: Force buckler
[5]Zachary (M) 1 mission, Learned spells: Force buckler
[4]Roberto (M) 1 mission, Learned spells: Force buckler
[3]John (M) 1 mission
[3]Tino (M) 1 mission
[3]Maya (F) 1 mission
[2]Jones (M) 1 mission
[2]Zoey (F) 1 mission
[2]Rick (M) 1 mission
[2]Abednago (M) 1 mission

It is now the Design Phase of February. Vote on a single design to research.

[Urist Mc Dwarf]

Force Pellets: To build on our success with force shields. we are now building an offensive version. These small pellets are enchanted to create an effect similar to Force Shield except it rapidly expands outwards from the pellet.

Force Vests: These are kevlar vests enchanted to have walls of force interwoven with the fibers to make them harder to penetrate, and the force expands beyond the vest, providing additional coverage.

[Doomblade187]

Hm, shame about the factory failure, but that's okay. I support a spell research:

Cocoon

A force shield that is the size of a person and oblong in shape. The shield can be adjusted to fit most people. The purpose of the shield is twofold- one, it is meant to be reliable personal protection for a single person, and moves wn. The other purpose is to be a trap- in this mode, the shield holds the person in and can be moved with the casters mind instead of moving with them.

This is intended to be a kidnapping tool.

[johiah]

Surviving agents:
[6]Juanita (F) 1 mission, Learned spells: Force buckler
[6]Maximillian (M) 1 mission, Violet Heart, Learned spells: Force buckler. Heavily wounded: Cannot fight this turn
[6]Grecia (F) 1 mission, Learned spells: Force buckler
[5]Amy (F) 1 mission, Learned spells: Force buckler
[5]Zachary (M) 1 mission, Learned spells: Force buckler
[4]Roberto (M) 1 mission, Learned spells: Force buckler
[3]John (M) 1 mission
[3]Tino (M) 1 mission
[3]Maya (F) 1 mission
[2]Jones (M) 1 mission
[2]Zoey (F) 1 mission
[2]Rick (M) 1 mission
[2]Abednago (M) 1 mission


You have six agents capable of casting force shield.

[Doubloon-Seven]

So, a decent portion of our magical soldiers died. Time for some advanced hiring protocols.

Personnel Thaumic Attunement Scanner

The PTAS is a bit like a CT scanner, but is moreso focused on the brain. It takes scans of a person's brain before comparing them to the brain structures of previous individuals who have had great levels of Thaumic Attunement, in addition to comparing psychological profiles if available. It then uses equipment used to test the prominence of the magical field to detect energy spikes near to the person being tested. The end result is intended to be a roughly person-sized chamber that a person can lie in while their Attunement is being tested. The end result is a machine that can determine Attunement fairly quickly, while judging their future potential. This can at once be used in the hiring of soldiers and be commercialized, leased, and patented without concern over "illegal" matters.

[Happerry]

While I agree on the fact we need some new hiring protocols, i disagree on what kind we should get.

Expanded Auxiliary Espionage Facilities
While our current facilities for the training, equipping, and deploying of covert action teams suffice to deploy our current amount of agents, it can not be denied that twenty people... just isn't that much. As such, in order to be able to deploy more people and still properly support them, plans to expand the currently 'extra, backup' facilities into a new training center and armory for additional covert action teams has been drawn up. Since Mondragon seems currently limited to about the same number of agents that we possess, having more agents should give us a significant advantage over them, both in achieving success in priority missions and in being able to undertake more missions at once.

[Doubloon-Seven]

But even if we do have an extra squad, we probably won't have enough money to equip them properly.

[Madman198237]

But even if we do have an extra squad, we definitely won't have enough money to equip them properly.

FTFY

Ideas incoming...later.

[Chiefwaffles]

Design: Force Armor
Thanks to the wonders of Force magic, we can cheapen budget-cut greatly lower the expense of effective protective gear better than anything the world's seen!

A simple Combat Suit is enchanted to hold a constant force "layer" over the user at all times. It's a fairly small size to cover, so the force shield can be fairly effective at a relatively low energy cost. Operatives may experience trouble drinking or eating with Force Armor on, and it'll take a bit to get used to the invisible hard "shell" around your body with it on, but hey; protection isn't always trivial.
We can enchant other things as well with Force Armor, if we want them covered with a force wall layer for whatever reason.

Design
Force Vests (0):
Force Pellets (0):
Personal Thaumic Attunement Scanner (0):
Expanded Auxiliary Espionage Facilities (0):
Force Armor (1): Chiefwaffles

Fun fact, if we can revise Magic Pockets to not conserve mass on the external object, then that means we can commercialize the spell for massive amounts of money.

[Happerry]

Design
Force Vests (0):
Force Pellets (0):
Personal Thaumic Attunement Scanner (0):
Expanded Auxiliary Espionage Facilities (0):
Force Armor (1): Chiefwaffles
Flame Bullets (1): Happerry

[Madman198237]

Design
Force Vests (0):
Force Pellets (0):
Personal Thaumic Attunement Scanner (0):
Expanded Auxiliary Espionage Facilities (0):
Force Armor (2): Chiefwaffles, Madman

Better protection, decent enough (though it might be better to rework the shield to repel only fast-moving things, and make it spherical or some simple shape like that at a range away from the protectee, otherwise things like basic first aid might be impossible until the spell is completely dead)