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- From: re@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Roderick Easton)
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- Subject: Re: BTECH-BAD night of rolling
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 10:11:23 GMT
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- Well, if everybody is going to come up with their cursed 'mech stories here's mine
-
- In the local campaign I have a standard Victor with Gunnery:3 and Piloting:3. however
- it has luck at somewhere like 12. In the first battle I fired 6 AC/20 shots and
- always better than an evens chance of hitting. I hit twice. In the same game the
- campaign co-ordinator running the defense warned me that if I came out from behind
- the building with the state my leg armour was in he would blow my left leg off. I
- came out he rolled 11 to hit (10 required) 9 for location (left leg) went internal
- with a medium laser and then rolled 12 for criticals... Anyway the techs had
- replaced the leg by the next battle. I charged straight towards a Rifleman. He hit
- me with one weapon. Location 2(CT chance of crits) criticals 11(2) gyro hit, engine
- hit... In the third battle (once again repaired) I wanted to employ my superior
- piloting and jump capability. I DFA'd a stationary Panther. TH:6 dice roll:5.
- Whoops, where'd all the rear torso armour go? In the most recent battle I went toe
- to toe with a Warhammer. 1st AC/20 shot:rt. 2nd AC/20 shot RT. Simultaneous medium
- laser shot:RA. I mean really, the arm is already dead!
- As if that wasn't bad enough the same model was being used in the competition. I
- charged it up to the top of the hill and started hitting... absolutely nothing with
- its AC/20. Return fire scored 3 PPC hits from Awesomes. Locations 12:head, no crits;
- 8:lt; 12:head, dead Victor.
- And then there was the Pheonix Hawk in a free for all which got killed by 1 medium
- laser hit and one LRM5 hit...
- but I think I'll leave it at that.
-
- Concerning the Steiner Stadium suppressor grid. They've already got that on Mech's in
- the prototype stage. See Project Blue Shield in "Unbound".
-
- TTFN
- Rod
-