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Dec. 30th, 2003 07:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bzarcherYou ever have a moment when you know you're alone, and there's no possible reason that someone could be inside, but when you close your eyes for a second, you suddenly feel someone's behind you?
Until about 10 seconds ago, I thought that only happened in horror movies, but it just happened to me. Creepy. My heart's still pounding a bit.
I actually think that besides being bored, one of the semi-frustrating aspects is that I haven't actually gotten to talk to Lisa since Sunday, and even if it was just a quick exchange of hugs and such, it'd be nice to have a moment with her.
I think she's working extra for the holiday, but my brain's farting out about if she actually told me that, or if my mind is drawing together patterns and facts again.
In less esoteric or pitiable news, I've been playing with Megamek's large scale scenario abilities. Defended a Falcon Garrison with a Solahma binary and 2 points of elementals vs. a raiding Wolf binary from the 4th Assault Cluster. Not bad. I've had an urge to really get into tabletopping again, and I want to get my tactics and quick strategy skills back up to what they used to be before I attempt it.
(If anyone's curious, I used Level 4 honor for the Solahma, and set the Wolves to level 2. However, the Wolf force violated Zellbrigen pretty early, so I assumed the garrison would as well after a few turns of that.)
In fact...what the hell.
Set the Falcon force as being on Sudeten, with the Assault guards raiding for samples of the Pinion and Spirit garrison mechs for evaluation. 3z4 mapsheet grid, with the left edge and part of the centre using suburban maps while the rest was a mix of rolling hills and standard sheets. (Computer did random map assignment.)
Sudenten Dark Wing
2 points standard elementals, laser armaments. (Other 3 points bid away. Use 'em as a reserve force if you get hammered.)
Eye star (All 4/5s, as we assume Solahma pilots or otherwise second-liners.)
1 Pinion
1 Pinion 2
1 Spirit (Star Commander)
1 Cougar A
1 Solitaire
Beak star
1 Bane (Kraken)
1 Turkina C (Star Captain)
1 Bane (Kraken) 3
1 Annihilator C
1 Vapor Eagle (Goshawk) II
Raiders:
4th Wolf Assault Guard, Trinary Bravo. (All 3/4 pilots.)
Hammer Star
1 Timber Wolf (Mad Cat) A
1 Gargoyle (Man O' War) C (Star Commander)
1 Warhawk (Masakari) A
1 Burrock (Abthaka)
1 Cauldron Born C
Anvil Star
1 Iron Cheetah B (??? It was in the Megamek database...was this a Mechforce UK design that got validated? Either way, it showed up as a Wolf mech, so.)
1 Dire Wolf (Daishi) C (Star Commander. The Star Captain bid himself out to get two 100 tonners in.)
1 Blood Asp A (Abthaka from the same raid that got the Burrock?)
1 Timber Wolf (Mad Cat) Prime
1 Linebacker C
Falcons started at the left edge, with the elementals deployed slightly forward. Wolves can drop wherever. The computer put them near the middle of the board as a whole and then moved up and to the left to engage until I moved the faster stuff down to nip at the flank and they reacted.
As you can probably tell, I used random assignment for the Wolves, but chose the Falcon stuff semi-deliberately, to make sure I got mostly garrison equipment. The standard Kraken is solely in there because I thought rolling 12 Ultra-fired AC/2's would be fun.
According to the bid I thought up, the Wolves do not have to destroy the Falcons, just reduce them to where they'd surrender. The Falcons, on the other hand, given their status, will not yield unless they take 80% losses, considering their status as Solahma. They're shooting for one last chance to get into the breeding program, and will fight accordingly. Alpha strikes are encouraged when it makes sense to do so, particularly for the Eye star. The Elemental points each set a target (The Burrock and Cauldron Born in my game) to bring down ASAP, and swarmed as soon as they got in range. Victory conditions for the Falcons are a Wolf withdraw or sweeping the field.
To make it a bit nastier, I could see allowing the Falcon player to bring in those other 3 points and maybe another Eye star if the Wolves really egregiously offended Falcon conventions/honor standards. (And don't forget. Level 4 means /no/ mech physicals, no combined fire, and no switching targets unless the other force is being dishonorable.)
Oh, my god. I just sat here for almost half an hour and wrote this out...
Until about 10 seconds ago, I thought that only happened in horror movies, but it just happened to me. Creepy. My heart's still pounding a bit.
I actually think that besides being bored, one of the semi-frustrating aspects is that I haven't actually gotten to talk to Lisa since Sunday, and even if it was just a quick exchange of hugs and such, it'd be nice to have a moment with her.
I think she's working extra for the holiday, but my brain's farting out about if she actually told me that, or if my mind is drawing together patterns and facts again.
In less esoteric or pitiable news, I've been playing with Megamek's large scale scenario abilities. Defended a Falcon Garrison with a Solahma binary and 2 points of elementals vs. a raiding Wolf binary from the 4th Assault Cluster. Not bad. I've had an urge to really get into tabletopping again, and I want to get my tactics and quick strategy skills back up to what they used to be before I attempt it.
(If anyone's curious, I used Level 4 honor for the Solahma, and set the Wolves to level 2. However, the Wolf force violated Zellbrigen pretty early, so I assumed the garrison would as well after a few turns of that.)
In fact...what the hell.
Set the Falcon force as being on Sudeten, with the Assault guards raiding for samples of the Pinion and Spirit garrison mechs for evaluation. 3z4 mapsheet grid, with the left edge and part of the centre using suburban maps while the rest was a mix of rolling hills and standard sheets. (Computer did random map assignment.)
Sudenten Dark Wing
2 points standard elementals, laser armaments. (Other 3 points bid away. Use 'em as a reserve force if you get hammered.)
Eye star (All 4/5s, as we assume Solahma pilots or otherwise second-liners.)
1 Pinion
1 Pinion 2
1 Spirit (Star Commander)
1 Cougar A
1 Solitaire
Beak star
1 Bane (Kraken)
1 Turkina C (Star Captain)
1 Bane (Kraken) 3
1 Annihilator C
1 Vapor Eagle (Goshawk) II
Raiders:
4th Wolf Assault Guard, Trinary Bravo. (All 3/4 pilots.)
Hammer Star
1 Timber Wolf (Mad Cat) A
1 Gargoyle (Man O' War) C (Star Commander)
1 Warhawk (Masakari) A
1 Burrock (Abthaka)
1 Cauldron Born C
Anvil Star
1 Iron Cheetah B (??? It was in the Megamek database...was this a Mechforce UK design that got validated? Either way, it showed up as a Wolf mech, so.)
1 Dire Wolf (Daishi) C (Star Commander. The Star Captain bid himself out to get two 100 tonners in.)
1 Blood Asp A (Abthaka from the same raid that got the Burrock?)
1 Timber Wolf (Mad Cat) Prime
1 Linebacker C
Falcons started at the left edge, with the elementals deployed slightly forward. Wolves can drop wherever. The computer put them near the middle of the board as a whole and then moved up and to the left to engage until I moved the faster stuff down to nip at the flank and they reacted.
As you can probably tell, I used random assignment for the Wolves, but chose the Falcon stuff semi-deliberately, to make sure I got mostly garrison equipment. The standard Kraken is solely in there because I thought rolling 12 Ultra-fired AC/2's would be fun.
According to the bid I thought up, the Wolves do not have to destroy the Falcons, just reduce them to where they'd surrender. The Falcons, on the other hand, given their status, will not yield unless they take 80% losses, considering their status as Solahma. They're shooting for one last chance to get into the breeding program, and will fight accordingly. Alpha strikes are encouraged when it makes sense to do so, particularly for the Eye star. The Elemental points each set a target (The Burrock and Cauldron Born in my game) to bring down ASAP, and swarmed as soon as they got in range. Victory conditions for the Falcons are a Wolf withdraw or sweeping the field.
To make it a bit nastier, I could see allowing the Falcon player to bring in those other 3 points and maybe another Eye star if the Wolves really egregiously offended Falcon conventions/honor standards. (And don't forget. Level 4 means /no/ mech physicals, no combined fire, and no switching targets unless the other force is being dishonorable.)
Oh, my god. I just sat here for almost half an hour and wrote this out...
