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Interdimensional mecha arms race faction B (MHM temp name)
« on: March 27, 2019, 12:45:42 am »

Core thread
This faction inhabits a vast mountain range.
Military hardware mecha starting equipment
MHM unique mechanic: Overload, reactors fail hot instead of safe, giving a Meltdown Mode with boosted power output before your reactor finishes cooking you into slag.
MHM mechs are significantly less expensive. As such prices are for a production run of 4 mechs

Frame choice of:
Stealth frame: Detect this! Has a decent capacity rating and built in information warfare equipment, including adaptive camo, ECM, and anti radar systems. Midrange in terms of weight and speed, costly. 8 funding, 2 industrial capacity

Legs/mobility choice of:
Digitigrade legs: backwards bending legs, boosted leaping ability, lower to the ground. 2 funding 1 industrial.


Starting weapon(s): Harken launcher array: High powered grappling wire anchors, utilizes railgun tech to fire incredibly heavy grappling anchors at speeds high enough to kill tanks. 1 funds 1 industrial capacity
HMG: exactly what it sounds like, a heavy machine gun. Good against light vehicles and infantry, along with aircraft. 1 funding 1 industrial capacity
Missile pod: A missile pod stripped from a heli, limited ammo, but capable of targeting both armored land targets and flying foes with equal ease. 1 funding

Tether: rather than having its own power source this mech uses a cable hooked up to the city’s power grid. Cheap, but has all the downsides. Free


Micro fission reactor: a very small nuclear reactor, overloading it will be incredibly dangerous, but it can run for prolonged periods of time and provides a lot of power. 3 funding 4 industrial capacity


Man-machine neural interface: Provides feedback and decent control, free on all mechs.

Support units
Missile militia: Surface to anywhere missile launchers and AK 36s given to a group of poorly trained militia, what could possibly go wrong? May or may not rout as soon as they are confronted with enemy forces. 1 manpower 1 funds

Howitzer battery: high powered long range artillery, struggles against smaller targets. Immobile, but relatively cheap for the amount of firepower it has. 1 per battery 1 industrial capacity, 1 funds

Ultraheavy plane: Lots of bombs, lots of paratroopers. Massive and hella expensive, also slow, both in flight and at rearming/refueling. 3 industrial capacity 10 funding

Heavy tank: High firepower, low mobility, can take a ton of punishment before dying. Equipped with two heavy miniguns and an anti tank gun. Hella slow, exceptionally vulnerable to air strikes. 2 industrial capacity 5 funding

Fighter plane: Exactly what it sounds like, a fighter jet, effective against enemy air units, less so against ground targets. Has some problems with the engine giving out in humid conditions. 1 industrial capacity 2 funds

Heli: a heavily armed helicopter, effective against most targets with its missiles and machine guns. Modular, can be re equipped to suit a wide variety of situations, don’t try to run its engines in humid areas. Current loadouts, standard, Recon: no guns but has a sensor suite +1 funds, Light transport: Capable of carrying a single squad -1 funds.  (cheaper)
Base cost for standard loadout: 2 industrial capacity 3 funding.

« Last Edit: March 28, 2019, 03:03:08 pm by dgr11897 »
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Re: Interdimensional mecha arms race faction B (MHM temp name)
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2019, 12:55:25 am »

Startup Plan:
Stealth Frame
Digitigrade Legs
Micro Fission Reactor

This gives us a mech which is hard to find, and will easily sweep enemy infantry and light vehicles.
« Last Edit: March 27, 2019, 01:06:10 am by Taricus »
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Re: Interdimensional mecha arms race faction B (MHM temp name)
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2019, 01:03:01 am »

Startup Plan:
Stealth Frame
Digitigrade Legs
HMG
Micro Fission Reactor

This gives us a mech which is hard to find, and will easily sweep enemy infantry and light vehicles.
HMG is a default weapon, you get all three weapons.
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Re: Interdimensional mecha arms race faction B (MHM temp name)
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2019, 01:06:17 am »

Right, edited
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Re: Interdimensional mecha arms race faction B (MHM temp name)
« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2019, 05:21:42 am »

What about caterpillar track legs, it's great for all terrain and it'll increase the speed of the mech, thus increasing its stealth. To reduce cost, I'd suggest instead of built-in weapons, how about we build hands for the mech and increase the size and firepower of already existing firearms? Snipers are perfect for our stealth mech.

Edit: I also suggest the name, Matterhorn Mechas.
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Re: Interdimensional mecha arms race faction B (MHM temp name)
« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2019, 05:32:52 am »

I am confused. Is the OP a part shop, or do we lose the options we don't pick?
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Re: Interdimensional mecha arms race faction B (MHM temp name)
« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2019, 05:57:23 am »

I propose the albeit shitty flag/banner of the Matterhorn Mechas


The light grey represents our technologies and machines, the red represents the blood of those fought for our freedom and the 2 Mountains represent our home and spell out an M for Matterhorn.

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Re: Interdimensional mecha arms race faction B (MHM temp name)
« Reply #7 on: March 27, 2019, 06:07:48 am »

Given that we're a full faction, it's probably better to represent that in the name. As for the options in the OP, we pick one option per category we can pick stuff from, and we don't get the others.
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« Reply #8 on: March 27, 2019, 02:19:37 pm »

Given that we're a full faction, it's probably better to represent that in the name. As for the options in the OP, we pick one option per category we can pick stuff from, and we don't get the others.
he is correct. In most things
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Re: Interdimensional mecha arms race faction B (MHM temp name)
« Reply #9 on: March 27, 2019, 02:29:20 pm »

Startup Plan:
Stealth Frame
Digitigrade Legs
Micro Fission Reactor

+1

As for the name I think we should comprise ourselves as something closer to a "Resistance" group. The core thread fluff alludes to what's basically an apocalypse from the two worlds merging or something, so I think our faction should be the banded-together remnants of the former civilizations of the old world, with the goal of eliminating the invaders then rebuilding society.
So basically a very militaristic/"rebellion"/single entity type deal.  Thoughts?
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Re: Interdimensional mecha arms race faction B (MHM temp name)
« Reply #10 on: March 27, 2019, 02:46:26 pm »

Mighty Mountaineers? Rocky Rebllion? Cliff Coup d’etat?

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Re: Interdimensional mecha arms race faction B (MHM temp name)
« Reply #11 on: March 27, 2019, 03:32:27 pm »

Are we starting in a mountain area or something? Is our whole planet mountains? Don't we represent an entire planet?
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Re: Interdimensional mecha arms race faction B (MHM temp name)
« Reply #12 on: March 27, 2019, 03:46:23 pm »

Yes and no, you are fighting for your whole planet, but you are not your whole planet. And it is just your country that is in a mountainous area, plus that is where the machine that caused this clusterf*ck to happen was built.
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Re: Interdimensional mecha arms race faction B (MHM temp name)
« Reply #13 on: March 27, 2019, 04:02:40 pm »

Startup Plan:
Stealth Frame
Digitigrade Legs
Micro Fission Reactor
+1
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Man-machine neural interface: Provides feedback and decent control, free on all mechs.
Is this a typo? Seems more the other faction. just making sure. I thought BattleTech was all manual pragmatic control schemes, anime tends to do stuff like this. I understand if you just wanted to add your own flare though.
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« Reply #14 on: March 27, 2019, 04:12:41 pm »

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Man-machine neural interface: Provides feedback and decent control, free on all mechs.
Is this a typo? Seems more the other faction. just making sure. I thought BattleTech was all manual pragmatic control schemes, anime tends to do stuff like this. I understand if you just wanted to add your own flare though.
ehhh, I needed to give you guys something extra, so I gave you this.
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