Task Force 3 - Fluffle: Comms

[modern pawn]

I’ll send him the server invite and drag him in here!

[feral tangle]

Hell yeah!

Honestly I would have joined too but I already made rabbit lol

You guys are like our special forces

[modern pawn]

He wants to know what positions you have available and if there’s any equipment you want? From what he’s telling me he really wants a gun

[feral tangle]

Can he buy a new ship jkjk

Lemme look

[modern pawn]

Lmaoo no he’s brand new

I just convinced him to join while we’re in a hot tub

[feral tangle]

Ooooooh~

We really need to bring our fighters back now that we have a flight deck

@misty maple https://youtu.be/NmEyGiaqm7k?si=6gfdkXY1Nhc3ACi4

[feral tangle]

I'm really not sure what would be best for them. There really isn't a lot of security on these ships, so an infantry would honestly be pretty useful, but they have an armory now so it wouldn't be all that necessary.

There is definitely a lot of vehicles needed for falafel because they have a lot of bays and no one in them.

[modern pawn]

I will let him know he’s figuring out the bot rn then I’ll let him talk to you guys and figure it out

[feral tangle]

Best thing is to just have him choose whatever he wants

[modern pawn]

That’s what I’m stressing to him

[misty maple]

uhhhh

[feral tangle]

We do have a flight deck now

[misty maple]

righhhttt

is it supplied?

[feral tangle]

We need crew

[feral tangle]

Honestly, if you are interested you could offer to have them join as a fighter if they are down. No use in having a flight deck if no one uses it

[misty maple]

The reason I’m not immediately jumping to join is because to rearm needs LS

[feral tangle]

We do have a bit of large supply and I'm not sure how much of it we're going to be using on the landing force now

How much large supply does it take?

[modern pawn]

To rearm just requires the task force to be in supply

[misty maple]

yeah that

[feral tangle]

So multiple things can supply at the same time?

[misty maple]

yep

[feral tangle]

Geez, that's a lot to coordinate

[modern pawn]

To be in supply, you spend one LS every two rounds

[feral tangle]

You guys should be good though

[modern pawn]

And you don’t have to do it if there’s not a reason to

[feral tangle]

Yeah that should be fine

Plus Tabby took extra supplies I think

[misty maple]

The problem would be how much Cargo bay is being dedicated to rabbit vs LS for TF weapons

[feral tangle]

I really don't know how much is going to be dedicated to rabbit because we may be able to take the starport with fluffles vehicle strike group

You're right though. If we do end up using a large supply to deploy Rabbit, that could definitely be an issue

I don't know

[misty maple]

TF fluffles has 2 Cargo Bay in total 💀

[feral tangle]

Wait no way

[modern pawn]

You can’t even transport rabbit then can you?

[feral tangle]

Damn

[feral tangle]

Honestly I'm probably just going to request that you guys don't so you don't end up stranded

If anything, the strike force that we build up of vehicles on fluffle will just be what is deployed of a rabbit

I'm going to feel really bad if that guy took a flight deck for nothing though I feel like an idiot

[misty maple]

I genuinely think it’s not worth carrying a fighter since all your orbitals are fast and you have decent amount of HMG point defense

I’ll check in later but fighters just doesn’t make sense for how tight supplies are and current taskforce layout

[feral tangle]

I mean there will be airports and star ports that you'll most likely be able to resupply at

[cold prism]

Any my track record with hanger ships has NOTHING to do with it I expect 😜

[feral tangle]

Wait what happened?

[shadow mica]

I think imma join as a fighter instead of my mech.

[feral tangle]

There's we go

I'm the last Autocannon in rabbit lol

[shadow mica]

Good luck, my friend.

I think you'll need it.

Oh, and speaking of which.

[feral tangle]

We should be fine

[shadow mica]

Did we figure out the transport situation?

Or is it still "wait for Elim/ Ziyal?"

[feral tangle]

This Force is pretty much deploying to the planet to scout for a starport and hopefully help take it so your kinda gonna be the first out now

[shadow mica]

Wow, ok, way to put the pressure on us. /j

[feral tangle]

Lol it should be fine, you'll probably be on the move pretty quick after we take it so you guys'll probably be the safest

[lunar snow]

I can ask if Grizzills and I can Deploy before entering the system and temporarily follow Fluffle, then follow Rabbit on down to the surface, gives us a little more FS and gets two of our fastest BG members in atmo

Yeah, it'll be dicey, but...

And gets us above the BG minimum

[feral tangle]

We may be able to do something where we have our hat following you to VTOLs as well but we can have the hat land on the flight deck in fluffle for a safe keeping

[shadow mica]

@cold prism, you got a fighter now.

[feral tangle]

Make sure to keep it fed with airport runs lol

[feral tangle]

If you cross paths with Atlas while they're doing a rearm action, you may be able to reload with them. So keep that in mind. You reloads are very limited

[proper plover]

Unfortunately, that sounds like it would split your units from either the Rabbit BG or Fluffle TF at one point or another. Gotta pick a group and stay with them

[cold prism]

Ask some of the OG vets about when Pride's Fall....fell lol.

[lunar snow]

figured that would be the case

[proper plover]

sorry. I know the deployment stuff is rough right now. If we get enough Cargo Bays to carry all of Rabbit BG you might be able to fly along as active units. But that's a big 'if'

[late nebula]

are you guys going recon 1 week before?

[proper plover]

if we manage to scrape together the minimum 15 for Fluffle, then that is the plan

we have Treecat's scanner, Lonely's autocannon, and Warren's HMG to try to get through whatever is waiting at the gate

oh, and looks like Muppet's Fighter too

[cold prism]

What's our thoughts on the Flight Deck option?

[proper plover]

More planes!! but then I don't have a flight deck

[feral tangle]

Seems like a temporary debuff to gain a permanent upgrade for a unit so I definitely think it's worth it as long as we get to have repair kits in the next campaign, I think I read into it a little bit too much

[restive grove]

Hey Squrl how’s it going? Good to see you back, and in an orbital too no less

[subtle goblet]

hm. i need to figure out how to communicate on my map that your flying in early......

[proper plover]

Maybe wait until we're sure we are?

I can let you know

[restive grove]

I was about to say I don’t think either this TF or rabbit is very sure what we’re doing yet lol

But also some kind of clock symbol? Dunno

[proper plover]

Lol I like the clock ⏰

[restive grove]

How ya doing Tabby? Enjoying the planning as an orbital?

[proper plover]

I'm doing well 😊 it's been good. How are you doin' Rex? It's good to see you back

[restive grove]

I’m doing alright, took an entire day off of discord, and that’s done wonders for my mental health lol

[subtle goblet]

your speed 3 so you would be going 2 turns before Victorium at speed 1 right?

[coral dirge]

I think so, unless they burn 1 LS

[subtle goblet]

but the 1 LS is once we are already on the map i think... maybe

[rain anvil]

Just fyi, towards the end of next week, if you're still in need of more ships to get the task force going, I'll talk to my crew (Triple, destroyer) about moving to Fluffle. We only bring one cargo capacity, but two flight decks, a scanner and an hmg. If that works for you guys 🙂

[coral dirge]

Sounds good to me

[restive grove]

Sick!

[feral tangle]

Well from what people are discussing in the meta chat and the speed bonus that we've given rabbit by cutting some of the slower vehicles we had, we may be in a position because of how fast fluffful is as well to get on the planet and get a foothold on the closest starport before the bots get tipped off that we're even there

[dusk sail]

posting this here just for clarity

[proper plover]

https://tenor.com/view/scorbunny-pokémon-scorbunny-scorbunny-covered-in-dirt-pokémon-scorbunny-covered-in-dirt-quick-attack-gif-25740580

[feral tangle]

Also, if we get that second scanning ship with a flight bay we're going to be so set to just scan every system on the planet as soon as we start the mission

You'll literally be able to scan two sectors per turn

[proper plover]

Sounds good! Let me know if you've got any questions about what we might be doing after dropping in

[cold prism]

Good to be here.

Glad to have deck plates under my feet again.

[reef dome]

Question, doesnt Hare utalise too much Customization slots?

[restive grove]

Let’s hope those deck plates stay that way this time! Lol

[cold prism]

I mean.

Im in a Light Freighter, with a Flight Deck and Scanner and nothing but harsh language to throw at the enemy.

Lighting won't strike twice will it?

[lunar snow]

nope, they're using all their CS slots

and utilizing the Free Bits

[restive grove]

checks my unit name being Lightning, looks back at you

“I’m sure it won’t™️”

[reef dome]

Ah so every crew member can add 2 CS to the ship ontop of the base CS capacity?

[lunar snow]

in case you're unaware, and i'm amused by squrl's past experience, but Squrl is the man behind Pride's Fall... his orbital on Haven fell victim to a Plasma Bug (Bug Anti-Orbital) in the Haven campaign

[lunar snow]

nope, they're just completely maxxed on CS, and their ships come with either Landing Gear (Squrl) or Cargo Bays (Tabby and Electro) for free, from their Hulls

[reef dome]

But Hare uses 6 CS in total right?

[dusk sail]

the crew chooses from the available equipment

[restive grove]

I do know, the reason I said the Lightning thing is because my Destroyer Lightning was a mere few hexes away when the Pride went down, and now I’m playing another unit called Lightning lol

[dusk sail]

cargo bay is auto included, so they have 4 more selections

so they declare at the start of the campaign what they have, and the rest of the equipment is left behind before entering the campaign.

[lunar snow]

(Lonely) Hare has, not free, Landing Gear, Ground Vehicle Bay, Mech Bay, and an Autocannon

[misty maple]

the crew on Hare has Armory & Weapon Mount Arc

[feral tangle]

Hopefully that doesn't happen again 🙏

[shadow mica]

So Hare has 1 LS to spare.

[feral tangle]

The biggest problem fluffle is currently facing, is lack of supplies. At this point even if it does amass enough large supply to deploy rabbit on turn one they'll be completely out at the beginning of the game, at that point the armory would literally be functionless. So there's a few things to consider there.

We'll have to think about the CS we're using more too because if we do deploy a taskforce with a plan to be on low supply we may as well bring @scenic matrix 's damage control upgrade instead because instead of eating large supply it would give us new supplies to work with. Especially if we're planning to burn all of it on deploying an ally

[shadow mica]

Only, Electro now has to discuss with his crew what upgrades to keep.

[feral tangle]

Yeah basically that

[scenic matrix]

I can switch it over

[proper plover]

The armory only takes large supply of it's going out to the whole task force

It can supply the orbital crew without using LS

[scenic matrix]

Since it's your ship, which one would you prefer?

[proper plover]

I like the idea of being able to repel boarders but I'm good working with whatever we have. I absolutely love the idea of a cobbled together fleet of random stuff

My answer to those questions will more often than not be "do what your heart tells you" 🤣

[scenic matrix]

Armory it is then

[reef dome]

Do we know if there is a chance for the orbitals to resuply?

[misty maple]

Nope

Most likely no though

[proper plover]

We don't know yet. Probably need to ask the nice otter people if they have anything to spare once we kick some bot butt

Can probably ask the nice otter people for intel too

It is their system and the bots are there to take something

[feral tangle]

Oooh I see my bad

[feral tangle]

Maybe if we're able to repel the bots from Elim by getting there before they do we can resupply before the bots have a chance to destroy everything lol

[proper plover]

That would be pretty sweet, or even claim some of it back from the bots maybe?

[quasi pulsar]

Well now you guys dont technically need me around. But ill stivk around until like a day or two before drop. In case more orbitals show up and you still need crew.

[proper plover]

Cool. Appreciate the willingness to play crew if needed

[reef dome]

Could supplies maybe be collected from the gate?

[proper plover]

🤷‍♀️ we'll find out

[quiet sparrow]

Hey TF3! Atlas crew here, just checking in. What do you all need?

[cold prism]

I think Supplies us the big thing thats been discussed

[quiet sparrow]

As in LS? We can possibly restock you as needed since we're Logi but no guarantees until it's closer to decision time.

[proper plover]

What are you offering?? 😂 Fluffle could use a few things, like fast ships and crews for said ships

[modern pawn]

Hey guys Victorum checking in as well do you have a plan atm?

[quiet sparrow]

Nevermind lol

[brazen aurora]

How do you think STORM felt when we were the only deployable BG, and had no expectation of reinforcements or support?-

... not angry, just parallel.

[spiral pewter]

Here is a helpful graphic I made for figuring out BG transport by TFs

[deep pivot]

You need / want any more aero? Saw you had flight deck space

[versed oriole]

Shalom and good day, Taskforce Fluffle!

What are the odds of y'all helping The Storm Blessed at Elim City?
Scout/assault/capture?
T-3, T-2, T-1, or T-0?
What AA, anti-orbital, and ground assault capability do y'all have?

[spiral pewter]

In victorum's Spreadsheet there is a section for ship templates that perform autocalcs based on loadout. I recommend checking it out

[feral tangle]

https://tenor.com/view/cool-good-awesome-neat-bender-gif-8925513

This is going to be fluffle with all their scanning tech every turn

I wonder if we can use scanners to spot for artillery? That would be so powerful

Possibly

[proper plover]

I will get a document together tonight with our current set up and plans

[cold prism]

Treecat's motto (unofficial) is

"Our Flight Deck is always open."

[proper plover]

Do they serve waffles? Now I'm thinking Flight Deck and Diner

Diners, Flight Decks and Dives 😁

[cold prism]

And now my deck officer has spiky blonde hair and wears bright colored shirts with flame patterns on them.

[proper plover]

https://tenor.com/view/pizza-hungry-laugh-happy-guy-fieri-gif-14888649

[high osprey]

@proper plover what all do we have to do before orders?

[proper plover]

Ah, lovely. What I need from you is what direction you want your gun to face on Warren

That way I can put something together tonight

And I'll get orders templates pinned so it will be easy

[plucky charm]

Enjoy free propaganda !

[proper plover]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18v0BwjVwoEeLjxtsT182lZXJzBIN-cdpYvXyOmBS8F8/edit?gid=105612404#gid=105612404

Alright Fluffle, we've got a couple points to clarify so forgive the pings

@snow cipher what direction does your autocannon face? fixed, arc, or turret?

@high osprey what direction do you want the HMG facing? I have it forward but I can change it

@coral dirge @arctic vale Scarab and Tempest Mechs, are you joining the Task Force (staying aboard ship for the campaign) or staying with Rabbit BG?

[restive grove]

Probably best to unpin the old one to be safe?

[proper plover]

And then please add yourself to the Roster and ship if I've missed you

Just know that this is for the Task Force Fluffle and you will be with us for the duration

We are so close to being a really real Task Force! 😂

[restive grove]

https://tenor.com/view/bloodyink5-gif-25936133

[coral dirge]

we're down being permanent additions to the TF

[whole fiber]

Whaddup TF3, do y'all need another member? 👀

[proper plover]

if you wanna fly fast in space then hop along, although we might blow up

full disclosure 🤣

[whole fiber]

Lets hope it is "blowing up" in a good way lol

[proper plover]

it will be glorious. And did I mention fast??

[whole fiber]

Anything I should know about this TF?

[proper plover]

Probably going to be first through the gate, so that's fun. We're not very big and we don't have much armor so the first few rounds will likely be dicey. Live fast and die fluffy

All our ships (all three of them) have room for crew so pick one that speaks to you and sign on if you're interested. The pins have the roster

If we survive the initial rounds, I think investigating space and reporting enemy activity will be high on our priority list

then running and hiding behind Victorum with their big guns

[whole fiber]

Hmmm that might sound a bit too risky for me. I will have to enquire around a bit more

[proper plover]

No worries!

[cold prism]

I mean Speed=Armor so I'm sure we will be fine.

Just fine.....

0.0

[cold prism]

If it makes you feel better. I'm going in with nothing but harsh language and rude gestures to throw at the enemy. So I'm at least that confident 😜

[proper plover]

do you think the 'Live fast, Die fluffy" was too much? lol

[cold prism]

Nah. Its perfect

[high osprey]

forward is fine

[snow cipher]

Forward

[brazen aurora]

Being fast means you find trouble fast, and you run deep into trouble fast.

[plucky charm]

<.<

.>

I found a bunny.

(has been posted in meta comm here -> #meta-comm message)

[rain anvil]

Hello there! Coming from Atlas, have you guys secured a source of large supply to keep your taskforce running? Otherwise, we are relatively certain we have enough to keep you guys resupplied, as well as us and Flying Shovels airfield.

In the current situation we specifically have enough for about 10 turns of operations, and will probably go up to 12 once our last crew members pick some more cargo slots. In case that helps.

[feral tangle]

They are basically at the point where they will be empty on round 1 if we manage to split the battlegroup for rabbit and deploy them through Fluffle. We aren't positive that's going to be possible though.

[feral tangle]

Welcome! @lean path you can either deploy on Lonely Heir or Warren, currently Lonely is just missing 1 bay so you could close off that ship. But Warren is completely uncrewed for their deployment bays so you could start her vehicle crew

[lean path]

I'll start in Warren. Might well start the vehicle crew for it

[shadow mica]

If you wanna put yourself down. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18v0BwjVwoEeLjxtsT182lZXJzBIN-cdpYvXyOmBS8F8/edit?gid=1649845737#gid=1649845737

[proper plover]

Reminder, if you sign up for Fluffle we will be doing space stuff. If you want to do ground stuff, join Rabbit

[shadow mica]

We do have landing capability...

[shadow mica]

And we can deploy our troops ground-side.

[proper plover]

Right. But that requires the orbitals to stay on the ground. I just don't want people to be upset when the orbitals leaves the ground

[shadow mica]

Maybe. Actually, Tabby, do planet-side troops still count towards the crew limit?

[proper plover]

We can deploy a separate battle group if we have the large supply to cover it all, but we aren't tied together. If a ground unit is listed in the Task Force they are tied together

Not sure if that answers your question

[shadow mica]

Mmhmm, so we could do a back-line deployment and harass enemy logi if the airspace is largely uncontested.

[proper plover]

Which might be what happens, because unless someone else signs on we will be joining one of the other Task Forces. So if people have a preference between Atlas and Victorum, this is the week to make that decision

My original goal was to scout space stuff using superior speed

[shadow mica]

There's nothing saying we still can't do that.

[rain anvil]

I can relatively safely guarantee you that you will get the minimum members needed to form a taskforce. It's too cool not to happen.

[proper plover]

People seem to not want to 'Live fast and Die fluffy' with their fancy new ships 😂

[lean path]

I can remain on board until Deployment is optimal. Worst I can do is help in the Orbital.

[proper plover]

I might be overly cautious about making sure people know what they're signing up for because the BG and TF coherency rules are new

[rain anvil]

I think it's actually really important to mention. Make sure people are not disappointed. I'm also a bit afraid of that with Atlas, since we have such a big land component now.

[proper plover]

Exactly. I just want people to have fun with their units and get some of the fantasy of playing them

[feral tangle]

I believe that there is a weapon that can be crewed on Warren so you could just be the Gunner until they need you on the ground

[feral tangle]

Technically as long as you stay in orbit of the planet, if you have all light vehicles, they're definitely going to be able to follow you around because they have a higher speed than the orbitals. It's just once you leave the planet's orbit that they'll be stuck

Even if you are in upper atmosphere

I believe

[shadow mica]

There's still an entire week until OP start. So, I wouldn't worry much.

[proper plover]

Which would be fine, but there's so much stuff on the space map I wanna poke 😂 😂

And then probably run away from lol

[rain anvil]

I get the feeling tbh. Exploring space, not just the big planet, could be very rewarding/fun.

[feral tangle]

Who knows. Maybe you'll be able to deploy a light vehicle in the wreckage. Catch some robot scrappers off guard

They also honestly have the highest chance of landing on that Moon if there is going to be a chance of that happening

Not that I suggest it as like you guys's first option lol it's probably going to be hell

[proper plover]

Oh, I've already asked Shack if LVs and LMs can deploy on a moon 🤣

He said it depends

[feral tangle]

I wonder why we have recruitment issues 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[proper plover]

Whatever could you mean?? 😜

[unreal inlet]

I mean who wants to miss out on driving a literal moon landrover 😂

[feral tangle]

All right side objective. We need to see what's on the other side of the Alden gate

[reef dome]

Would make for some amazing gameplay possibilities.

And Fluffle is actually perfectly suited for this.

[plucky charm]

Fluffy moon bunnies. :O

[feral tangle]

https://tenor.com/view/helldivers-gaming-automatons-malevelon-creek-gif-12533518342521227876

[proper plover]

Hopefully we get the results of the stealth VTOL mission soon

[feral tangle]

Ah that's so cool!

[proper plover]

There we go! Midrounds!

And he's making us wait 😭 lol

[feral tangle]

At least we'll know what we're looking at

[modern pawn]

Hey tabby how many guns do you have? And how much point defense?

[restive grove]

Finley and Maz are giving updates in the storm thread

[feral tangle]

For orbital defense they have one autocannon and one HMG as well as a fighter.

[modern pawn]

Roger

[restive grove]

The frigate is in high orbit over Elim

[proper plover]

Treecat has harsh language as well

[feral tangle]

Well fluffle definitely has a good reason to have units following them while they're in orbit now. Apparently the Bots have ICBMs. These would be great priority targets for our light vehicles

[proud dust]

If anything you can try to let TF1 and TF2 clear for a turn and full deploy Rabbit on T2. There’s no AA that’s been spotted so Storm should be reasonably safe landing T1 and can hold for a turn I’m sure

[quiet pendant]

We still need at least four more units to qualify as a TF.

We only have three more spaces for combat units barring crew.

2 Ground Vehicles (GVs) DC and 1 Fighter DC left over.

Now'd be the prime time to advertise, actually.

[feral tangle]

I've been trying

[quiet pendant]

I'd post another advert, but I'm currently away from my PC.

Another advert has hit meta-comm.

[oblique gazelle]

do you guys need an y help with the frigate?

storm blessed might be able to spare a few vtols

is boarding within the realm of possibility

[feral tangle]

we dont have any vtol bays so they would need to bring their own. and we would need another ship to hold it

Unless you guys dont need a place to land

[oblique gazelle]

I believe all of us are directly in void atm

[proper plover]

We don't have any infantry for boarding other ships

[feral tangle]

well if you're interested we could defintly use the extra hands on deck

[oblique gazelle]

we are heading down to land on the spaceport t4

[feral tangle]

beautiful

[oblique gazelle]

I think one of the ships is on the way

[feral tangle]

we could open recruitment to infantry

[oblique gazelle]

we will likely lose a vtol and their crew if we go initially

[oblique gazelle]

no no, i mean our ships would be there

[proper plover]

It's been open since I made the first advert

[reef dome]

Are you guys planning to go escorted by a fleet?

[oblique gazelle]

hopefully yes

we are budgeting 3 intercepts

[feral tangle]

I mean like a targeted add for infantry specifically

[restive grove]

News: these frigates are infact seperate than the automated landers mentioned in the initial briefing.

[oblique gazelle]

ok, currently, the idea is to ignore orbital contesting and try to take 0 casualties dropping in

drop infantry turn one

to hold the spaceport

then go back up and help with orbital

(aside from the tank transports, and the spec ops, so it would only be 14 flyers in that scenario)

@reef dome any chance of you guys being the escort?

[restive grove]

Who was that orbital from Atlas who said they’d come over if we needed the extra capacity? We’re going to need it if we still want to go through with the deployment of 15 rabbits + a hat

[oblique gazelle]

we have a mining transport, no?

[oblique gazelle]

we are planning on deploying with rabbits anyways

[restive grove]

We have to secure the station to be able to get those and considering we want the surprise, that feels like better used for other groups

[reef dome]

Something to ask the rest, I'm from rabbit.
I'm just trying to get a vision of all the BG's plans.

[restive grove]

Meaning what exactly?

[oblique gazelle]

fair enough

[oblique gazelle]

storm blessed will be deploying with only conventional capacity

same for rabbits, as far as i have heard

[proper plover]

I think Pioneer and TripleS have mentioned maybe, but no confirmation until later in the week

[feral tangle]

it may be wise for fluffle to focus on taking that mining station to confirm deployment

[restive grove]

I think we should speak with them cause we need to make our choice on splitting Rabbit pretty soon, as shack has mentioned we’re gonna start figuring out arrival days soon

[feral tangle]

should we ask them now?

[feral tangle]

currently we are hardstuck waiting for a vtol bay I think so we may be undermanned to deploy half of rabbit. It may be impossible unless I missunderstand the rules

[quiet pendant]

Fluffle has 2 LS.

That's 10 players.

[proper plover]

Nah, we'll wait

[oblique gazelle]

can vtol deploy light mechs?

[quiet pendant]

Nope, unless you're a HVTOL.

Besides, it's all kinda a moot point unless Fluffle can get at least ~15 players.

Since we aren't a proper TF with only 11 players.

We have 3 DC for a fighter and two ground vehicles respectively.

[feral tangle]

rabbit logistics have been nightmare fuel

[quiet pendant]

Yup, I don't blame Bolts for taking a break from Meta.

[feral tangle]

theres too many variables

[quiet pendant]

Nah, in hindsight we shouldn't have had a sign-up sheet before the OP was even announced proper. That inflated our actual player numbers.

[oblique gazelle]

current situation

we are dropping in elim, are you also heading in that direction?

[quiet pendant]

On turn 1?

Who is covering your deployment?

[restive grove]

Storm is going in on VTOL’s

[oblique gazelle]

t3

[quiet pendant]

Aight.

[oblique gazelle]

we have full lift capacity for all our units

[quiet pendant]

Tabby floated the idea of going on a quote unquote tour of the outer nav points.

Doing some aggressive scouting before running away

[oblique gazelle]

should we not free the friendlies asap

[quiet pendant]

We have LVs and LMs, and Shack said - depending on circumstance - we'd be able to use them in EVA operations.

And probably, but we're only a small combat force. 2 LMs and 2 LVs.

Our only advantage are the landing gears and vehicle bays on our DDs.

Which can disembark these units.

But again, we're lacking in actual people with rifles.

We could probably win some pitched orbital engagements if we had another fighter.

But again, it's all moot unless we get enough people to formally declare a TF.

That's just the situation.

[reef dome]

One more ship with a barracks or a VTOL bay would seemingly be ideal.

[quiet pendant]

Maybe, atm we have 2 ASF DC, 2 LM DC and 4 GV DC.

GV = Ground Vehicle.

Free are 2 GV and 1 ASF.

[oblique gazelle]

worst case all of fluffle can join up with another TF

[quiet pendant]

Tabby, what's the play? Are we going for some scouting along the nav points or....?

[oblique gazelle]

you dont have any vtol bays whatsoever?

[quiet pendant]

Only 2 DC worth of Flight Decks, of which 1 DC is taken up.

[oblique gazelle]

even a single bay would let the HVTOLS do their thing

[quiet pendant]

We have 2 DC worth of ground vehicle bays and landing capable orbitals.

We could take 2 LVs for example and dismount our combat element.

That'd be 2 LMs and 4 LVs in that example.

Hell, we could take IFVs or tanks, too.

Literally anything vaguely combat capable and motor-/mechanised.

[feral tangle]

yes rabbit is pretty speed oriented though. I honestly think it would be best if a tank was in Fluffle to give them a deployable MBC though just as a part of the crew

[scenic inlet]

Okay question: As it stands. With what are you deploying, at which speed?

[quiet pendant]

We currently have 2 LMs, 2 LVs and a fighter plus our two DDs and the one LF.

[feral tangle]

For Rabbit: we have a hat with all of our infantry engineers and our medic, we have 4 LVs 2 mechs, then we could possibly deployfrom 2 of storms Hvtols to get a logi and an artillery out that should give us 3 speed to travers the map with

[proper plover]

Since people keep asking the timeline for Fluffle:
Open recruitment until Wednesday 6/18
Thursday 6/19 ask other Task Forces if anyone wants to join us
Friday 6/20 is decision day, if Fluffle is viable we vote on where to go and what to do. ~~If Fluffle is not viable we vote on what Task Forces ships/crews want to join. ~~
**Sunday 6/22 **First orders are due

[proper plover]

anything before those dates isn't being discussed because we are not a viable Task Force currently

Battle Groups should make other plans and keep Fluffle as a backup plan

[quiet pendant]

Oh, and Shack said some NAV points had Points if Interest, so I'm not worried about our ground side units not having anything to do.

[proper plover]

oh i think it would be great to poke around and see what's there, i just don't want people to keep planning on Fluffle as a main source of anything

[quiet pendant]

Understandable.

[proper plover]

sorry if that came out kinda harsh, i don't mean it to be

[quiet pendant]

It didn't.

[feral tangle]

I've been worried about that too 💀

[proper plover]

its so hard to judge tone in text lol and i know people are excited and planning for all the things

I just got home, so I'm catching up on the midrounds. I really wanna save some adorable otter people at that mining station

[quiet pendant]

Imma be real, people are more quick to espouse their judgement over text than in person. So you're good.

Enough of that talk, though. The recruiting must continue.

[proper plover]

so I think I scared away a possible recruit with my 'Live fast, Die fluffy' pitch. I'm open to other ideas lol

[quiet pendant]

I got shoot fast and run quick.

Maybe hit hard instead?

[proper plover]

https://tenor.com/view/bugs-bunny-gun-gif-17974182

[feral tangle]

That idea of getting some marines in a vtol seems really versitle for Fluffle, do you think we could convice one oth the Vtols and an infantry to switch from storm to fluffle?

[reef dome]

Vtol requires bays first.

[quiet pendant]

No VTOL bays.

[proper plover]

I worry that a VTOL will be really vulnerable in space combat

[feral tangle]

I just meant deployed through the stargate without taking a vtol bay

[feral tangle]

yes that is true but the're already doing that anyways

[proper plover]

That will ultimately be a question for Thursday though

[quiet pendant]

I dunno, doubtful they'd have in-field resupply.

[proper plover]

I'm not gunna go poaching units from other groups until the very last moment

[feral tangle]

"Peirce the dark moon" and our poster could be black smoke from the mechanoid's factories no idea how to do posters though

[restive echo]

Are you guys planning on doing orbital support on a tac-map where you deploy ground forces that are part of your crew?

[feral tangle]

with the idea of seeing if we can get people to the moo

[reef dome]

I dont expect that to be allowed either. Storm is an exception as they're ALL Vtol but I dont think its expected for TF's to mix aerial units in without required facilities.

[feral tangle]

that would be possible with fluffle because they are also all deploying at the same time

it would still be as dangerous though

[restive echo]

I think the rule is that VTOLs (and other air assets) can be attached to a TF or BG, they just need to be with orbitals or ground respectively?

[proper plover]

that is something we can do but no decisions have been made

[feral tangle]

also storm is a battlegroup not a taskforce so they could have different limitations like you say

[restive echo]

Ok, so regardless of your plans after, you're still arriving in system on whatever round speed 3 gets you?

Or are you moving together with Atlas?

[proper plover]

if we scrape together a TF, yes. Speed 3 is the plan. Otherwise we will arrive with whatever TF we join

[scenic inlet]

Do you guys have any AA Capabilities? As Orbitals/Fighters (sorry, really don't know y'all's composition)

[proper plover]

HMG and auto-cannon, plus one Fighter

and harsh language, for what that's worth

[cold prism]

Don't forget my rude gestures. I hear those can be devastating 😝

[proper plover]

does Treecat have windows??

[cold prism]

At least one lol

[feral tangle]

you guys need to come up with a bunch of unsavory things to tell robots lol

[proper plover]

well, then I will add rude gestures to our arsenal list

oooh rude words in binary

[cold prism]

Or I'll have some of the flight deck folks lean out the flight deck hatch in space suits.

Though that does make me wonder...

Anyone know any good bot insults?

I don't know if

"Your mother was a toaster" will fit on my hull in binary.

[proper plover]

and your father was a fork?

[cold prism]

Hmm. I'll give it some thouight. If I come up with something good I'll have my guys paint it on the hull.

[restive grove]

No need for insults, just do the classic clone thing and

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-clone-wars-gif-13762346332239098640

[proper plover]

always a classic

[cold prism]

See. I don't have any lasers to use lol.

And if anyone recalls what Pride of Haven did in Op Redwall for Dres' mission.....Its something AMS is going to be known for 😂

[proper plover]

gotta have a good insult or two

[feral tangle]

I am thinking about roleplaying clone troopers for tyhis one because of our enemy type

[proper plover]

https://tenor.com/view/dancing-silly-clone-trooper-storm-trooper-star-wars-gif-17439982

[restive grove]

Luckily I RP my LV as a bunch of clones driving in a weird hybrid of a Juggernaut style wheelbase with a modern JLTV from the US army

[feral tangle]

speakiung about roleplay I was wanting to ask Tabby could I have my company commander on the bridge of Warren just their to organize rabbit and give you updates. strictly for roleplay

[feral tangle]

that makes sence, I'm still just using a warthog for my RP but it will most likely be changing next time I upgrade it

[proper plover]

oh, absolutely. Its good with me. I'm thinking of RPing the surviving member of my LV unit. So, eye-patch and fancy hat now

[feral tangle]

I was going to have my commander Zann who is kinda shameless pulled from star wars empire at war but it's my version of him not the villian he is from n the game

my callsign diesel

[cold prism]

https://tenor.com/view/down-periscope-pirate-may-god-have-mercy-on-his-soul-gif-15076988

[proper plover]

very much the vibe

[cold prism]

I don't think it'll be Treecat. But I might make an Orbital based on Down Periscope sometime....

[proper plover]

there will be Req for days after this campaign, so many options even if we blow up

[feral tangle]

don't blow up 😭 🙏

[cold prism]

Assuming we pull it off/survive.

Not that I have any doubts mind you. But OTHER people might not make it....

[proper plover]

Live Fast, Die Fluffy!

[cold prism]

And then again. I might lean into the pirate motif on this one anyway.

Arrrharrr harrrr

looks for picture of a squirrel in a priate hat

[proper plover]

oh god, a pirate Guy Fieri

or however you spell his name

[cold prism]

The Internet does not disappoint 😂

[proper plover]

that squirrel is better armed than your orbital 😂

[cold prism]

https://tenor.com/view/speechless-stickguy-walking-away-no-words-nope-bye-gif-20466513

[feral tangle]

"Today on Diner, drive-ins, and dives we're going to a little place called the Lumara System to try the bots new barbaqued otters"

[lunar snow]

My C(E)O is an AI, he can send some nasty bits of code out 😛

[cold prism]

Diners, Flight Decks and Dives*

[feral tangle]

lol accurate

[proper plover]

you're hired! on a consutant basis and we pay in carrots

[feral tangle]

we could have captain rex on the bridge of warren too aswell as Bolt's AI as the ships mainframe lol

[proper plover]

maybe the nice otter people would trade for fish, if that's better?

[lunar snow]

laughs I'm back with Rabbit, prefer being planetside, but I'll spin up a subroutine to work some up

[proper plover]

that would be great, nasty code will substantially increase our arsenal against the bots 😂

[feral tangle]

zip bomb the bot battleship

[cold prism]

OH! I got a good one.
"Your mother ran Windows Vista!"

[proper plover]

https://tenor.com/view/burn-gif-22904862

[restive grove]

Ah well, Rex likes to ride on the front lines

[cold prism]

I'm going to have too much fun taunting the bots on this one.

They might not respond to coms per our new intel.....but that dosn't mean I can't still try to get a rise out of them lol.

I don't recommend any keep station keeping TOO close to Treecat....

[feral tangle]

thats fair, I usually do that to but I wanted to RP some new chasrcters

[proper plover]

An eye-patch changes a character, don't ya know? Totally new and different vision, go fast but in space this time

[cold prism]

starts collecting Tresure Planet gifs

[coral dirge]

we should prepare some logical contradictions to broadcast if they board us
like a good old "this sentence is false"

[modern pawn]

@proper plover I got one more for you. He’ll be joining shortly when he’s off work

[brazen aurora]

why are you flying a vtol in space

coughs, looks at storm (and myself)

correction: why are you flying a vtol in space against an entire orbital-

[feral tangle]

"Storm, they can't get us all"

[brazen aurora]

... Yes, but also what's your rate of acceptable casualties?

[feral tangle]

0 😠

[brazen aurora]

Huh. And here I was, expecting a 60%+ casualty rate for STORM by the end of the campaign.

[coral dirge]

Don't worry Storm, we have one LM with jump jets, so if they jump, that's some LRMs being duped by their evasion

[quasi pulsar]

Man I should take my 3 LV Crew to the shooting range, they may be the only ones capable of shooting mechs out of Lonely should they get aboard at this rate.

[proper plover]

There are a couple days for training. We've also got permission to ask in Atlas chat for infantry volunteers

They don't need the barracks module to ride along

[quasi pulsar]

Do you think the Captain of Lonely would be apposed to me setting up my Motorcycles (aka LV) to protect key location on the ship? Plant a my HMG LV right in front of the engineroom. With a hallway to funnel in the enemy....

I jest I know it can't be done, but man howdy. Would I attempt it.

[proper plover]

Lol I would love to see that, but it would be such a shock for some poor crew member just coming around the corner to find themselves face to barrel of an HMG

[proper plover]

Good morning Fluffle. For our Captains, can I get some art work for your ships? Thinking of putting it in an advert for infantry/crew
@snow cipher @cold prism
And if others have artwork of their units, I can work up a whole Task Force graphic. Thanks!

[odd sapphire]

Quick question: did you peeps hit your player count to be officially a fleet or still running short?

[coral dirge]

we're at 12 currently

[coral dirge]

Here's what I designed my mech to look like, back when its callsign was SCRAP (for a grand total of half a turn)
The idea was for the frame to be a mix of 3 different ones
Might redo the paintjob now that its been through 2 deployments

[quiet sparrow]

Hello TF Fluffle, I'm here to share our current plan that comes in this handy graphic

[proper plover]

Thanks!

[quiet sparrow]

No problem!

I understand this is Fluffle's current plan correct?

Arrival: Lussan Gate
Proceed through the Field Nav 1 to Elim City
Goals:
Scout/Scan for Main Fleet arrival and navigation through the asteroid field
Run with StormBlessed TF to Elim if possible
Work with Rabbit BG to get wheels on the ground if possible
Don't die

[shadow mica]

12? We're at 11.

Frankly, I'm half-way to just saying "we have not enough people to count as a BG" on the adverts.

[cold prism]

I dint currently have artwork. Though if I've got time I might mock something up in SE.

In my head Treecat is very close to the carrier variant of the CR-90.

Little blockier but you could use one of those and be close enough

[shadow mica]

In my eyes Treecat looks a little like this.

[coral dirge]

I counted the new hire as a 12th, @shadow mica

[shadow mica]

Swell,

'Least we're approaching the threshold.

[shadow mica]

Do we know what he's bringing?

[modern pawn]

No he got sick so I wasn’t able to help him set it up and figure stuff out

I’ll do that if he’s feeling better tonight

[shadow mica]

Darn.

[modern pawn]

The bot was a little confusing

[proper plover]

No worries! We'll get everything sorted

[slender bear]

Yo. Yall in need of a fighter pilot?

[shadow mica]

Yup,

[shadow mica]

We got a free bay for you.

[slender bear]

I call that a deal then

Which ship

[shadow mica]

Sick, Treecat.

[oblique gazelle]

Just to clarify, we are heading to drop off our infantry before we fight anything

[shadow mica]

Light Freighter "Treecat" with two DC of aerospace fighters.

[slender bear]

Copy

[shadow mica]

Glad to have you aboard.

[slender bear]

🫡

Only me and one other fighter pilot. We got our work cut out for us.

[shadow mica]

Maybe, maybe Simm's and his CV will join us, too. That'd give us a good air wing to play with.

[slender bear]

Indeed

[hoary apex]

I suspect Simm is joining

regardless I filed the paperwork to swap already

[rain anvil]

I'm underway to joining if you guys will have me and my crew 🙂 I'm just waiting for confirmation from my bland pizza

[plucky charm]

...is fluffle officially a thing now ?

[reef dome]

Seeingly about to be.

[plucky charm]

I'm waiting until the transfer is actually done to open up the champagne.

[hoary apex]

lightweights smh

Ive been drinking all day

[plucky charm]

Let me rephrase, to celebrate. xD

[coral dirge]

you know, with the recent Bay change, we could probably have 4 fighters and rotate the firing and rearming phases

and then we pop the champagne

[daring scaffold]

Yep, second group atlas had helped to make official :p

[hoary apex]

they are logistics after all

coordinating everyone else is logistics

wait does this mean Atlas is now a proud mother of 2?

[plucky charm]

I'm waiting for the papers to be signed...

[untold sedge]

@rain anvil so long brother

[daring scaffold]

Indeed, wish you luck in TF Fluffle Simm

And the rest of the TripleS

[thorny warren]

Aren't I just glowing

[hoary apex]

thats the radiation exposure

[cold prism]

That'll be me.

[oblique gazelle]

Are you guys planning on helping victorium or atlas?

Both look like they will have relatively high activity

[shadow mica]

Tabby wanted for us to resolve our storage/ threshold problems first. So we didn't have any extensive plans made. But! Now that we have we can finally work on a real gameplan.

And speaking of which.

@proper plover.

[proper plover]

Yes, hello. What's up?

https://tenor.com/view/i'm-here-you-rang-hey-hey-there-hey-girl-gif-1793955388941249006

[shadow mica]

We've acquired 3 additional fighters, two bombers, and a fully crewed DD at the behest of TF 2.

[lunar snow]

yoinks new Gif for Tuffman to view

[shadow mica]

Making about eight to nine new units.

[restive grove]

Dang y'all are cooking in here

[proper plover]

that puts us over 15 then 🎉 TF Fluffle is a viable entity!

[restive grove]

Hell yeah!

The fluffy dream can be realized

[rain anvil]

(pending the agreement of one bland pizza)

[proper plover]

we'll wait for everyone to get signed up on the Google doc and settle in tonight, yeah, don't want to rush anyone

[cold prism]

Hm. My Deck crews are gonna be busy.

Excellent.

[untold sedge]

(hopefully not)

[plucky charm]

Late to the party, but FLUFFLE IS A THING YIPPEEEEEEEE 🎉

[lunar snow]

the Bland Pizza is a person, not a thing, Corky

[untold sedge]

yes i do know this. And I hope they don't agree so I can have SImm back

[odd sapphire]

Grats peeps!

[slate meteor]

Congrats on meeting the requirements Fluffle

[proper plover]

do you have a short-order cook yet? or do we need to adjust the recruitment ads?

[feral tangle]

I heard you guys won

What are we looking at?

[proper plover]

Actually, still waiting on final confirmation from TripleS's crew

[feral tangle]

Now that fluffle isn't being held down by having to deploy rabbit. You guys are going to be extremely deadly literally anywhere you go especially on ground battles since you guys have I believe four aerospace units to work with as well as a scouting team for them. You guys are basically a helldiver's team. Super destroyers included

[cold prism]

Nothing so formal.

It'll just be a couple of the deck crew setting up home made grills in a corner of the Flight deck

[proper plover]

are we cooking over jet fuel again?

[proper plover]

I really wanted to help Rabbit's deployment, I'm sorry we weren't able to scrape together the Cargo space 😞

[feral tangle]

You're all good lol we got it from NPCs anyways 🙏

[restive grove]

Shack saw our issues and was like, “well I can help with that”

[feral tangle]

Yeah honestly lol

[proper plover]

that super brave stealth VTOL risked those dice rolls to get that intel for us

[feral tangle]

Yeah it definitely makes me want one, but I plan on taking an HVTOL

[lunar snow]

honestly, i have 3 choices:
1.) Finish off kitting out my VTOL, and get a backup, prep it to be a Spec-ops VTOL
2.) Finish out my VTOL and convert my inf dude to SF
3.) buy and mostly kit out a Destroyer

[proper plover]

yeah, i was considering reviving my LV and kitting it out, but then Shack was going to change up space stuff so I offered to help test it out

[feral tangle]

I'm probably going destroyer but I also want to buy armor up, crew arms, and the supply trailer 💀

Not to mention I could always take spare tire

[lunar snow]

lol

[proper plover]

lol someone need more Req

next campaign is going to be "Oops, all Orbitals"

[lunar snow]

you always could put in a crew, get two CS things, and up to captain

with 2 REQ

[restive grove]

I'm interested in bringing the Lightning back, but I want to fully kit out my LV and have a few of the other weapons to be able to hotswap them before campaigns depending on mission profile

[feral tangle]

I have a crew in my dossier already I just haven't bought it yet

[feral tangle]

I still think you should be able to switch what weapons your using if you return to your vehicle Bay and have an engineer swap it out

It would give engineers a dedicated purpose to stay in orbitals too

Although I think engineers are also able to board enemy orbitals faster? I think I read something like that in the rules I believe

[proper plover]

https://tenor.com/view/break-the-wall-blindspot-make-a-hole-vault-door-create-a-hole-gif-17801961

[proper plover]

they got the right tools for the job

[brazen aurora]

You might get your wish a bit earlier than you expect...

Apparently I can't read-

[subtle goblet]

The engineers opening up the door, then remembering they have no weapon for the upcoming job of fighting off the defenders

[brazen aurora]

The other VTOL with 2 PAI units inside

[feral tangle]

What if we gave them flamethrowers 🙏

[restive grove]

huh?

[brazen aurora]

...

ignore me misreading that-

[feral tangle]

My engineer snowshoe is planning on doing ship breaching with a flamethrower team with the reqs they get from this mission

[proper plover]

i do adore flamethrowers, that might get me to try engineer

[feral tangle]

All right. Eventually we make fluffle a task force where all of the ships are crewed with at least one team of flamethrowers

[cold prism]

Have you seen the reboot of A Team when they are cooking at the base in the desert?

Its that

[proper plover]

yum 😬

[subtle goblet]

What if.

We take some jet engines from fighter jets

And use those as flamethrowers?

[proper plover]

https://tenor.com/view/hotshots-hot-shots-movie-hot-dog-hotdog-gif-7141762809007685334

https://tenor.com/view/boom-machine-rocket-engine-engine-test-gif-15164373

so many uses for jet engines

[lunar snow]

You know that's happened outside of movies/tv, at some point

[proper plover]

and someone probably got into a lot of trouble for it 😂

[lunar snow]

only once the NCO found out

[proper plover]

from what i've heard, they always find out

[lunar snow]

mostly for not including said NCO in the first place

I did say "Once" and not "If"

[snow cipher]

This is what I have right now. The first one is the OG V2 picture while other two are going to be the new version which will match more with the new rules.

[brazen aurora]

That violates at least 2 safety protocols, probably more.

[restive grove]

I’m unsure what this “safety” concept you’re referring to is

I work in theatre and there is no such thing :)

[brazen aurora]

Azure Lane?-

(Don't actually know, but that's the only one I can think of)

[brazen aurora]

Well, I work in Admin and have to clean up the messes that result from the flagrant disregard of safety, so...

(Yes, IRL I do Admin work).

[restive grove]

my perennial enemy

Just messing lol

I do mostly joke when talking about theatre safety, in reality we’re very safe, but it’s a bit of a stereotype/trope that theatres are chaos and unsafe

[brazen aurora]

Don't worry! My go-to threat for when I see someone about to do something stupid is "I'll make you fill in the paperwork yourself". Most people stop after~

[snow cipher]

The Sheffy art (left side) was painted on the Lonely Heir during combat. The reason being that I had a deal with Sheffy back on Haven that if Sheffy’s tank unit Sheffy’s Sword was destroyed I’d put Sheffy on my fighters. I would add Sheffy on the Lonely Heir since Sheffy’s covert ops unit was lost on Lussan

Apparently I still have the old RP post.

[lunar snow]

Lol, nice

[brazen aurora]

why is the first thing that pops up about the Sheffield when I search up Azur Lane have a "shame" sign-

... I regret reading the context-

[cold prism]

So this was an image I actually ran across when thinking about what Pride's Fall would look like.

Given my company AMS is on the face of things a shipping concern, I like the idea that a lot of their ships are just cargo ships that have been converted.

In Treecat's case a bunch of the cargo boxes have been converted to open to space allowing fighters to dock.

I'm sort of tossed up between a more Cold Sci Fi version of a CR90 carrier and this.

[finite osprey]

Cargo box’s can do interesting things

[dusty salmon]

Wild thing I'm reading here.

Also because cannonically in Azur Lane, Sheffield doesn't wear Pantsu.

[reef dome]

Its also partially a lesson on vessel purposes.

To be able to deploy something like a BG you need one of the larger classes to provide the required cargo space.

[feral tangle]

very important information for this taskforce. it's a big reason why the vehicle bays are so powerful

#meta-comm message

[rain anvil]

Hey guys 🙂 I can confirm, the Triple is joining Fluffle taskforce. We'll do our best to support.

Don't expect us to be in the front though, we're a support carrier :p

And that's 8 people I'm bringing with me x)

[plucky charm]

And thus, the Triple instantly grew a fur all-around the orbital.

Fluffy Triple. UwU

[proper plover]

Nope, that gif was too much lol

[fast sedge]

Hello there, greetings from the triple S!

[proper plover]

Welcome to Fluffle! (whose name was only partially chosen because I though it would be funny if Shack said it in a video)

[rain anvil]

Should we add ourselves to a doc? And if so where?

[proper plover]

If you want to fill out a Vessel template, that would be great otherwise I can do it if you give me the details

[rain anvil]

I have no issue filling up one

in this docs? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18v0BwjVwoEeLjxtsT182lZXJzBIN-cdpYvXyOmBS8F8/edit?gid=105612404#gid=105612404

[proper plover]

there's some weirdness with the ship silhouettes overlapping some of the cells, I'm terrible with spreadsheets so just move the images if you need to

yep that's the one

[rain anvil]

okay!

So just for introductions, the crew is:
@me Captain, bring Flight deck and hmg
@raven tundra First (and only) crew mate, brings flight deck and sensors
@fast sedge Fighter pilot
@shell phoenix Bomber pilot
@pliant mauve Fighter pilot
@onyx iron Bomber pilot
@hoary apex Medic
@tame ibex The grumpiest Marines (infantry)

and I hope I don't get banned for all these pings

[daring scaffold]

I think the limit was about 10 from what I saw once

[proper plover]

Sweet! a full house. Welcome everyone, we will be doing a pre-mission BBQ over on Treecat

[hoary apex]

yoooo BBQ

[shell phoenix]

bnuy

[rain anvil]

The triple is a bit of clowncar. But everyone has a job. I'll definitely enjoy a BBQ. I've heard a lot about the tree cat x)

[proper plover]

Her captain is a bit infamous

[raven tundra]

wait im only first officer because there is no other officers? 😭

[daring scaffold]

Good to see Atlas continuing to help out the smaller TFs and BGs

[hoary apex]

congratulations on your promotion

[rain anvil]

nono, even if there were more, you'd stay first officer. You joined first afterall

[shell phoenix]

just remember, if you don't behave you'll be turned into second officer

[rain anvil]

do we have a bomber icon I could copy paste?

[cold prism]

Im the other Orbital with a Flight Deck.

Treecat Light Freighter with Flight Deck and Sensors.

Nothing but harsh language, rude gestures and bot taunts to offer the enemy lol.

[rain anvil]

We are practicaly the same, just a bit bigger 😄

[hoary apex]

remember: taunting is a free action

[proper plover]

and with the sensors, those taunts are sure to hit their mark

[cold prism]

You get ONE ship blown out from under you..... 😜

[raven tundra]

if yall can get me some dough and tomato sauce i could whip up some pizza

[fast sedge]

our ship does bring alot of food

[hoary apex]

me: fluffles is great lets see what TF1 is doing
infighting
aaaaand thats the last time we check on TF1

[fast sedge]

take your choice of milk, pizza, banana or jesus

[hoary apex]

I think they’re called crewmembers

[proper plover]

are those toppings??

[hoary apex]

if they are I have a bridge to sell

[shell phoenix]

no, those are crewmembers

[hoary apex]

or an airlock to show you

[shell phoenix]

smh my head

[fast sedge]

if you can wrangle them then yes

[shell phoenix]

trying canabalism already

[proper plover]

Gotta have contingencies

[shell phoenix]

we aren't even marooned in space yet

[hoary apex]

preliminary cannibalism

[daring scaffold]

Basically the same thing

[hoary apex]

this is how we decide who to sacrifice

[proper plover]

good strong curry will cover any morally questionable flavors

[daring scaffold]

Who doesn't love milk, banana, pizza and Jesus pizza?

[shell phoenix]

we could make soup

[cold prism]

The joke is my Flight Deck Officer is based on Guy Feri.

Hosting Diners, Flight Decks and Dives

You will find Fluffle is a very serious Task Force......

[daring scaffold]

And Iron Hammers are definitely a very serious battlegroup

[proper plover]

https://tenor.com/view/team-america-team-america-movie-team-america-world-police-team-america-world-police-movie-teamamerica-gif-17659775706672984007

[hoary apex]

who woulda guessed the people who need no convincing to charge the enemy are a bit odd

[raven tundra]

i just find it funny that jesus and war are on the same boat

[proper plover]

all things in balance?

[daring scaffold]

Balance? I can show some real balance

One moment

[proper plover]

https://tenor.com/view/dr-seuss-grinch-gif-20631463

[raven tundra]

and bureaucracy hit

[daring scaffold]

Hold on a moment

[fast sedge]

oh god that

[daring scaffold]

When did Iron Hammers get a HVTOL

I don't remember that

[proper plover]

that is glorious and terrifying

[fast sedge]

better hope simms girlfriend isnt around

[daring scaffold]

True...

I am actually curious as to what her response would be

[proper plover]

i am also curious, but have no context so it has devolved into plain confusion

[shell phoenix]

what kind of lore am i missing

[fast sedge]

simms girlfrioend would prefer a stacked bar chart

[rain anvil]

My girlfriend saw a pie chart on my discord once, she broke into a 10 minute ramble as to why pie chart are bad and stacked bar charts are better 😂

[proper plover]

that is amazing, now everything must be pie charts

[raven tundra]

so your GF is a Pie hater?!?!?!?

[slender bear]

The air wing has grown. Nice to have more pilots here

[rain anvil]

Apparently x) she's doing a phd, with a lot of statistics apparently

[proper plover]

ah, yes. That would necessitate strong opinions on charts

[raven tundra]

okay so dislike of pie charts preference towards bar graphs and a PHD with lots of Stats, either Psych or Finance

[daring scaffold]

I'm kinda curious why pie charts are bad and why s tacked bar charts are better

[proper plover]

Does TripleS have any corresponding artwork? I'm looking to put together a Fluffle ship graphic

[shell phoenix]

destroyer

[proper plover]

https://tenor.com/view/boats-navy-squad-on-our-way-coming-gif-16537035

[raven tundra]

also keep in mind our ship doesnt go Bang it goes ping ping ping

[proper plover]

I don't think any of our ships would do well in sustained combat, we should be fast enough to hide behind Victorum ships if it gets too spicy

[rain anvil]

I'll look into it

[proper plover]

no worries, I just thought it would be fun

[rain anvil]

Definitely

[plucky charm]

Now I'm interested to hear her thoughts

[tame ibex]

I was pinged somewhere

[hoary apex]

^

[tame ibex]

[hoary apex]

Ive been queried as to our plan

[rain anvil]

That's a good question. What do we do as Fluffle? x) I like exploring space as a concept, but what are we doing in the first turn?

[thorny warren]

Last I heard, you were planning to stop at Nav1 and screen for the fleet, but Storm seems to think you're rushing to Elim turn 1?

[hoary apex]

last I heard of our plan

[rain anvil]

With the Triple, there's probably enough firepower in there and storm to take down the frigate

[proper plover]

Any talk of plans was put on hold until Fluffle was an actual thing. Then it was going to be a vote.

[hoary apex]

ah ok

[thorny warren]

definitely, the question is whether you want to get there before us or not

[rain anvil]

I love votes (non ironically, I really love votes)

[proper plover]

The very first thing we need is a task force deployment organization. Who's where within the TF, which ship is in front, back, middle, ect

[hoary apex]

I nominate we push forward to clear elim and decide from there

[hoary apex]

who has the heaviest ship?

whoever can tank the best should lead the charge

[proper plover]

Also, I need a volunteer for backup TacCom

[rain anvil]

we're all destroyers, so no big difference there

[fast sedge]

yeah except one light frieghter

[hoary apex]

I can do it

its just organizing right?

[rain anvil]

I'd be fine being backup taccom, as long as I don't take it away from someone else. And with the big asterix that I'll be less present until this Sunday, afterwards I'll have plenty of time.

It's taking in everyone's orders, organising, and making a readable map out of it for shack to process our orders relatively easily

[proper plover]

Someone to process orders and make maps if Life happens to me

[hoary apex]

I can do that

[fast sedge]

yep storm + fluffles could easily take down the frigate unless the frigate has more backup than intel suggests

[misty maple]

that frigate is merely the vanguard…

[hoary apex]

if the frigate has more backup we retreat until atlas shows up

[proper plover]

Do we know if StormBlessed is still planning on going first?

[hoary apex]

if thats true we need to tap TF1

[rain anvil]

as far as they said in atlas comms, storm will be waiting for backup before coming out

due to having zero aa and fighters being there at the gate

[proper plover]

Well, part of our glory is the 'run away if too spicy' aspect of fast orbitals

[hoary apex]

^

between the two task forces we should be good

[rain anvil]

atlas is a bit out of guns at this point 😆 but sure

[hoary apex]

thats a fair point but if nothing else they can tank fire better

[rain anvil]

big true

Since commie is fine taccoming, I'm very happy leaving that to him

I can be a backup backup taccom in case something really goes south

[hoary apex]

lol yup

the problem Im running into is TACCOM will not fit in my name

[rain anvil]

TACCOMGACCAT?

I don't see the issue

well let's see if anyone else wants the job

[hoary apex]

lol

alright I took my callsign outta my name

hopefully its fine

[rain anvil]

might get confusing

[rain anvil]

I will out them when I get the time then 🙂

[rain anvil]

seems like storm will wait for whatever aa providing task force will come in first

which happens to be... us x)

[versed oriole]

Storm is really hoping we can get in a turn earlier with y'all to help clear the way to Elim City for us and Atlas

[hoary apex]

what do these options mean?

nvm

I just read the map

heres the map for everyone else

[proper plover]

you beat me to it, excellent job Backup TacCom 😂

[hoary apex]

lol

thanks

[proper plover]

It didn't sound like the enemy force was too strong at Lussan Gate, so I don't see a reason not to go ahead of Atlas and Victorum, does anyone else?

[hoary apex]

just to lay it out for everyone:
Going Field Nav 1 means likely moving in on the frigate over Elim City and attempting to take it out before Atlas gets here
Nav L-W1: Means we’re supporting Victoria. From what I can tell it’s certainly gonna be a heavier enemy presence.

my logic is if we clear out the frigate over Elim City that clears up our BG to begin moving in

[cold prism]

My vote is for Field Nav 1.

We know there are local security forces there that can help the Rest of ARMCO land.

Though we know Bot forces were also chasing them.

[proper plover]

if we free up the local security force by getting rid of the bots, it might help quite a few places

[restive grove]

Rabbit and Spearhead would appreciate the path to the Rock Station being clear as it’s our intention to secure the frigates at this time

[cold prism]

As for placement in the TF.

I'm going to pull a page from the book of my Warlock.

Im squishy. All the meatshields go first.

[hoary apex]

cant afford to have you lose another ship adter all

[proper plover]

lol yeah, I was thinking Warren and Lonely in front with Treecat and TripleS center, rear respectively.

[cold prism]

That's my thinking.

And if we are fast enough, the Bots might not see us coming.

If the locals are fleeing, they might not have devoted much to chasing them.

[restive grove]

Hey you’re stealing every Ranger, Wizard, Warlock and Sorcerer’s strategy! How dare you! /j

[proper plover]

where did that flying rabbit patch go? I saw it in some chat a few days ago?

[cold prism]

If it happens. It happens.

But I'm not going to go looking for trouble lol.

[proper plover]

... you seem to have missed the briefing on this Task Force 🤔

[restive grove]

Got you tabby

[proper plover]

Thank you!

[cold prism]

Well...

Not looking for any more trouble than you would expect jumping and unarmed freighter into a war zone.

[proper plover]

ah excellent, you're good then lol

[hoary apex]

Im realizing the best plan might be to clear out the frigate and scout for TF1

bc we have not the faintest clue where their fleet is

[proper plover]

Hopefully we can do a bit of scanning or chatting with the locals to find out

[fossil cairn]

You can shorten it to TCO if you want.
I know some people have done that.

[hoary apex]

eh its fine

[rain anvil]

We have two scanners in the tf right? With that we should be really good on the scouting front.

And I'd be happy with the Triple positioned in the middle.

Finding the enemy's main fleet should be the main priority. It'll be fireworks once Victorium reaches that

[hoary apex]

yeah but I dont wanna leave atlas without firepower against that frigate

and the BG cant do their job until we have a path to the ground

once thats sorted we move to find that fleet

[rain anvil]

I'm assuming for now that we'll go with storm to murder that frigate, clearing the path on the way there

Can scanners not look at other strategic areas?

[proper plover]

we may need to be in a strategic area to reveal everything within it

[hoary apex]

it seems so

I have an idea

[proper plover]

i mean, to let our scanners work on revealing stuff

[hoary apex]

we move to secure the planet

and then victoria moves to seige the gate

if we find the fleet victoria moves to help us

but if we dont find anything it saves them from trying to scout at a snails pace

[proper plover]

probably if we find the fleet we run away lol but yeah, I'm with you that finding the main fleet is important for Victorum to get work done

[hoary apex]

asking them rn on the whole sieging the other gate idea

[proper plover]

I think our ground units might have fun on that moon too if there's an opportunity for them to get out and stretch their wheels/legs

[sweet wagon]

-# Don't mind me I'm just putting this comment here so Discord lets me swap to see this chat easier

[fossil cairn]

Cancer there's a follow button you can hit

[sweet wagon]

I notice that now 🤣

[slender bear]

What's the plan for the fighter pilots here?

[cold prism]

https://tenor.com/view/iron-man-captain-america-attack-need-avengers-gif-20283562

Joke*

[hoary apex]

cover the rest of us

specially the bombers

[restive echo]

Btw is your sheet updated? I'm still only seeing 3 orbitals.

[hoary apex]

Warren, Lonely, Treecat, TripleS

what sheet are you looking at?

[versed oriole]

Looks like Simms hasn't transferred the TripleS over yet

[hoary apex]

^

[shadow mica]

He has,

[versed oriole]

Apparently an old defunct one

[shadow mica]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18v0BwjVwoEeLjxtsT182lZXJzBIN-cdpYvXyOmBS8F8/edit?gid=1649845737#gid=1649845737

Under "Fluffe Ships"

[hoary apex]

4 ships

[restive echo]

Yes, thanks Changeling for posting the correct one.

[daring scaffold]

Oh yeah, do you want the new and improved fleet sheet I made? It's a whole lot less cluttered than Victorum's

[cold prism]

Do we need a pin swapped out for sheets?

[hoary apex]

a pin?

nvm Im dumb

[hoary apex]

besides this is already pinned

[cold prism]

OK. Im on my phone and wasn't sure if something needed swapped.

But if we are good then I'll go back to thinking up bot insults. To Comm at the enemy.

[hoary apex]

Im impartial to a good toasterfucker

[snow cipher]

Good news I have finally remembered that the Mascot of the Lonely Heir Veronica has a bunny outfit.

[quasi pulsar]

I heard I may not be needed for Fluffle anymore? Or does Lonely still need my guys for boarder protection?

[snow cipher]

Considering how I was boarded during V2, I would very much like some security so I don’t get boarded by killer robots while I’m on the ground.

[modern pawn]

@chilly garnet

[slender bear]

Imagine if pilots had to run to their ships only to be boarded and blocked from the hangar bays.

[chilly garnet]

Yo is it cool if I join team Fluffle

[rain anvil]

Of course! It'd be awesome 🙂 What's your unit?

[quasi pulsar]

Unless I am allowed to use my LV inside you. I only have 3FS worth of repell boarders. 🤣

[feral tangle]

I may have been wrong about being able to join rabbit again apparently we're at Max capacity for the transports we can use

My apologize

[quiet pendant]

FYI, we can deploy vehicles ground-side with little penalty.

Orbitals only consume atmo-fuel if they're flying in low-atmo.

If you're landed or in high orbit at the end of a turn you don't spend any.

[rain anvil]

We need to fill up these light vehicle and mech bays

It'd be amazing

[quasi pulsar]

Im chuckling. I have had this LV squad for 2 campaigns and 1 side mission. Have yet to actually..
LV with them.

Im not opposed to it

Just laughing at coincidence

[coral dirge]

that's 2 more than us mech pilots 🙃

[proper plover]

I've been trying to tempt some infantry with our armory but no takers so far

[proper plover]

Welcome to the chaos! Signup in the pins, if you've any questions about the ships let us know 😁

[high osprey]

@proper plover Is a battleship or something similar even good considering its speed and lack of atmospheric fuel

I feel like the best you could get would be something like this to just be a devastating space combat orbital:

Main Battle Cannon ×2
Long-Range Missile Launcher ×1
Auto-Cannon x1
HMG (Arc) x1
Directional Sensor Suite x1
Scanner System x1
Flight Deck x1
Orbital Repair Arm x1
Damage Control Team x1

[proper plover]

I think its pretty great for being a tank in space, the customization is of the chart, you could make it basically anything you wanted

not great at scouting ahead due to the speed, but a heavy hitter

[spiral pewter]

You can see Victorum's Battleship to see how we did our loadout

[quiet sparrow]

It's also a good logistical ship since it's the only ship that could carry an entire 60 unit BG single handedly if built for that purpose

[proper plover]

its all in what you want to play

[high osprey]

I feel like doing this or a carrier/logistical ship for next campaign the only problem being crew

[proper plover]

think of crew as an 'opportunity' rather than a 'problem' lol

[high osprey]

lol

Ig

It depends on what we need because I feel like we don’t have a very space combat oriented battlegroup here so something like a logi/carrier ship feels like an easy target

[spiral pewter]

each crew member is another action you can take. Just because you own the battleship doesn't mean you get to use all the actions

[spiral pewter]

... looks at my TF

[proper plover]

next campaign will have a whole different briefing, so if you're wanting to fill a particular role I would say wait until you know what's what before spending Req

[quiet sparrow]

It's the biggest down side but since any unit that's assigned to the ship is crew it does open doors. The fighter pilot, vtol pilot, infantry, medics, mech pilot, all count as crew.

[high osprey]

True

[high osprey]

I don’t have the req anyway but I’ll probably get my own ship next campaign I just don’t know what it will be

[slender bear]

Going to get a few base units first. A marine unit and a bomber and maybe a mech but after i have the base units, I'll start upgrading them.

[quasi pulsar]

Do you guys even have guns outside your mechs?

I have a upgrade that gives my crew guns.

Lonely doesnt have a armory to give you weapons

[high osprey]

No but if we are in a situation where we are getting boarded we’re probably cooked

[proper plover]

if I have Large Supply when that happens, I can give the whole Task Force weapons from the armory

[high osprey]

You can do that cross ships

[proper plover]

yep, with the resources

[high osprey]

That’s kinda broken

[proper plover]

I can do it once, and it only lasts two rounds

[scenic inlet]

If you're getting boarded in the first few turns we can fight off any attackers. We got 9 Infantry squads in VTOLs ready to fight off boarders

[high osprey]

How they gonna land on our ships that don’t have any landing pads

[scenic inlet]

however they would normally be able to enter through a door when boarding... but you know... consentually

[high osprey]

Can vtols do that?

[scenic inlet]

afaik yes, but I don't have a reference right now

[slender bear]

We will just re create the first mission of halo CE

[fossil cairn]

It lets everyone fight twice.

[proper plover]

@lean path @snow cipher I had an idea, if we don't get any more LVs before the start of the game, "Georgia" and "BeachBN" can pair up and one of us can ditch the Ground Vehicle Bay for another orbital weapon.

[coral dirge]

if you ditch the bay Tabby, you won't need the landing gear anymore, so that's 2 extra CS

[snow cipher]

I'd say this looks decent but this is the newest artwork I commissioned though I am thinking about switching to a different artist.

[shadow mica]

Maybe, who'd you commission it from?

[slender bear]

Reminded me of a ship from infinite Lagrange

[rain anvil]

The Triple artwork is underway, there's no saying when it will be done though x) It'll be a whole crew effort

[slender bear]

This one

[snow cipher]

I commissioned this artist from this sight https://www.fiverr.com/s/yvXogxe

Main reason I'm concerned is that, this artwork is way to similar to this.

[shadow mica]

My guy, I think you commissioned AI art.

[snow cipher]

Yeah I think I was scammed.

[shadow mica]

The logo is crooked, the gun turrets aren't symmetrical nor the same and you can see the cargo hold somehow turning into the centre strut.

How much did you spend on it? Hopefully not too much.

[slender bear]

Too much it would seem

[snow cipher]

Around a hundred dollars since I thought (At the time) I was paying for an artist to draw my ship not use fracking AI!!!!

[shadow mica]

Sorry, man. But this is text-book AI.

[slender bear]

First thing I noticed when I went to that page was that none of it looked drawn and the style was inconsistent

[shadow mica]

It's too smooth.

[slender bear]

Indeed

[fossil cairn]

The Lighting is very centered

[snow cipher]

I have not had much exposure to AI or scams (with the exception of buying a fake copy of Pokemon White 2) so yeah I really fracked up.

[slender bear]

This is a drawn piece. I like this guy's ship art.

[shadow mica]

Oh, I know this guy.

Ye,

[fossil cairn]

That looks really cool

[slender bear]

You know the art shack uses is also ai right?

[shadow mica]

Yup,

[snow cipher]

Nice

[shadow mica]

it's one thing I dislike quite a bit.

[slender bear]

Same

[snow cipher]

Probably but that's fine since A it's for fun and B it's way to costly to commission artists for all of the artwork he needs.

[slender bear]

But it's necessary for the meta campaign due to how long it takes to make quality art in a short amount of time and then having to pay an artist and such so he gets a pass for me.

[shadow mica]

It's understandable in this context.

[fossil cairn]

My opinion is that the end product is free so it's okay

[snow cipher]

Agreed for stuff like this AI is fine. It's not fine when an "Artist" is charging $100 for hand drawn art and then turns around and uses AI.

[shadow mica]

The problem is commercial use.

[rain anvil]

Sorry for you Electro :/ that sucks

[snow cipher]

Next time I catch it I'm demanding a refund.

[proper plover]

https://tenor.com/view/running-home-bugs-bunny-jump-hiding-gif-8509983

I still like the idea of being able to dip out of an orbital battle by landing.

[slender bear]

If you give me a description for a ship you want, I can attempt to draw it. I need the practice and I enjoy drawing.

[feral tangle]

The 3D model is pretty nice though

[high osprey]

Wouldn’t you just get bombarded from the air

[snow cipher]

At least that 3D model is made by a real person since the date is was made is 2011

[shadow mica]

Did you commission a rendition of the model?

[snow cipher]

It looks like this, and as long as you can get the Armco symbol, the words Lonely Heir on it, and the ship's mascot on it I'll be good so have fun with it.

[snow cipher]

I paid for the "artwork" however the 3d model was made independently. https://www.deviantart.com/csm101/art/Mechwarrior-Aurora-Dropship-205802532

[slender bear]

Does the ship have a official name?

[snow cipher]

The ship type is an Aurora class dropship, but my ship's personal name is Lonely Heir.

[lunar snow]

you can add atmo fuel on a BB, btw, it just doen't come with free fuel

[high osprey]

Yeah but that build would be for just murdering anything that moves in space

Protection for the fleet

We have fighters but we would need more for that build

Could you orbitally bombard a ground target with main guns/long range missiles with a directional sensor suite

[lunar snow]

Could replace a single thing with an Atmo fuel tank, drop into Atmo once, and nuke enemy air trying to overwhelm our/friendly forces, then the next turn go back into orbit

[high osprey]

That would be really funny

What’s the advantage of the better sensors

Is it just range

[fierce saffron]

Just want to try out every different role? There’s also the plan I know several people are going for, start with one unit, then get and upgrade another to try it out, to then get the next, and so on until coming back to their first if they liked it

[slender bear]

Trying to get as many of my factions units as I can in supply so when one of them inevitably dies, I'll have another unit already ready to go for next time.

[hoary apex]

Atlas has breaching pods now

so we could move to attempt to disable the bot ship

Ultimately if we have to kill its not a big deal

it’d just be a valuable capture

[quasi pulsar]

Still need the landing gear if shes dropping off rabbit still.

[feral tangle]

She is not

We would only need landing gear on Lonely heir at that point

Then Tabby could take the damage control room

And possibly take another new bay because she wouldn't really need the landing gear any more

[chilly garnet]

Butter Bros

Do yall have an open hanger for a fighter?

[feral tangle]

there is a spot available on treecat I believe

[chilly garnet]

Excellent, how would I join treecat

[feral tangle]

i can sign you up now, do you have a rabbit based callsign?

[cold prism]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-hello-cat-peek-cat-door-cat-peek-door-gif-17361470248875227911

I have a Flight Deck yes.

Not 100% what all fighters we have

[feral tangle]

you have a new cat

[chilly garnet]

I don’t think so

How do I get one

[feral tangle]

Just think of one that only uses 7 characters for example mine is jackrbt

[feral tangle]

I was wrong his flight deck is full

I mean technically you can join but you would have to start outside of the ship sorry for the miscommunication

[chilly garnet]

No worries, how would that work exactly?

Cause I know I have to come back to resupply

[feral tangle]

basically you would start in the void but once another fighter launches I beleive you could board to try and rearm though I'm not positive that someone would want to share a flight bay

[chilly garnet]

That’s fair, I could be a kamikaze lol

[cold prism]

That is highly discouraged

[coral dirge]

Well I'm sure cycling 3 fighters in a 2 planes bay shouldn't be too hard

[chilly garnet]

If it’s too out of the way I don’t mind selecting another roll

[cold prism]

I'll have to double check the rules. But cycling you though shouldn't be too much of an issue.

Just might end up needing to wait a turn before someone can rearm

[modern pawn]

Sorry to be nosy that’s my friend so just wanted to check did shack confirm fighters could fly on their own through null space?