Battlegroup 1 - Rabbit: Comms

[astral obsidian]

two seperate order phases

[urban hemlock]

I'm working on it now

[dim thorn]

So do we do hold orders or no?

[urban hemlock]

I did but I'm not sure. I'm still making a map atm

This is what I have so far.
I may not be a good choice for uploading Armco's maps. I'm not able to upload files of that size without screenshotting them.

I didn't realize that until I had to post it but I think the map is usable at least

[astral obsidian]

Send it in the TAC-COM intentions thread then

[urban hemlock]

Thank you for keeping me in line

[shrewd fable]

I screenshot my maps as well, its just easier

[urban hemlock]

That makes sense

[astral obsidian]

@wary cave Hey! To answer your question, we’re not really sure. Us and Spearhead are going to be the only one dealing with these Lumaran NPC frigates, so we’ll find out what Shack wants from us. Orders will definitely matter when we land.

[wary cave]

Thanks! Just realized I put that in the wrong channel 🥲😭

[astral obsidian]

All good man

[restive nimbus]

hey is the Rp ok for what i did?

[astral obsidian]

Yeah all good, we’re not following a specific order schedule at the moment while we’re transiting in space

But once we get on the deck, we’ll start keeping a schedule

[restive nimbus]

the logi truck says it has 3 crew, can 1 of mine be my bunny?

[astral obsidian]

Flavor is completely up to you!

[urban hemlock]

Awww yeah lol what's their name?

[restive nimbus]

chungus

[astral obsidian]

@urban hemlock excellent news. Flying Shovels can deploy via VTOL and they have offered to speed ahead to the station, collect the transports, and meet us part way

[urban hemlock]

Oh very nice let me look into that where are we meeting them?

[astral obsidian]

Don't know where we'll end up, so it's hard to say

We still don't quite know how Shack intends to handle our transports transiting through the combat zone

[urban hemlock]

Right I'm worried about that

I was going to rewrite the orders anyways so this works out. I'll just have rabbit going to crossroads this turn since we're getting the pick up and hopefully that goes through

[astral obsidian]

I wouldn't have us going to Crossroads.

I don't think we'll be able to get the transports this turn

Probably best you go talk to Syntax in https://discord.com/channels/222052888531173386/1382191881873653833

[urban hemlock]

I don't either but I talked with Tabby and she said that it would be best to just put our final destination in the order just in case shack deems it possible for us to get their within the turn

[worthy cape]

Be aware that means bunny can die then 😬

[urban hemlock]

I think RP generally allows for saying your unit survived just for roleplay purposes. Though if you like the drama you can RP them as passing away. I think that's what I would do. I died in the training campaign I was in and I roleplayed it as them all at least being heavily injured since they survive it anyways

[wise turret]

Counterpoint bunny can also commit robot war crimes

[astral obsidian]

We do not do war crime jokes here.

[worthy cape]

However, the bunny could be last man standing and go on a murder spree with the crew weapon upgrades

[restive nimbus]

I'm aware, it higher's the steaks for me

[restive nimbus]

That is what's going to happen with my luck

[rancid idol]

petit chungus

How should we best handle rp-interaction, dialogue and such, in this?

Whats the appropriate channels and such?

[urban hemlock]

every order you give has a section for RP, you still have a chance to post one now while we are on the transports #1385616851832147988 message

[dim thorn]

the only Traing campaign that had deaths be "real" was New Braven

[urban hemlock]

that wasn't a training campaign that was just Dresden's DM story line. That was real

[dim thorn]

i just used the term to cover all the ones under V4 rules

also, do we need to post new orders?

we do need to for the turn we end up on the Freighters

but idr if that's this turn or next

[astral obsidian]

No need for orders yet as we understand it. Next turn possibly. There’s a lot of questions we want to ask Shack about what we’re doing

[urban hemlock]

From what I can tell the battlegroups only require a tac map for now as getting hundreds of players to order their units to "do nothing on a transport" is pretty mood killing

[rancid idol]

And active dialogue between units, like for example my engineers having smalltalk with my designated vehicle crew?

[urban hemlock]

Same area but maybe ping the person your talking to in the roleplay if they are ok with that

[astral obsidian]

@urban hemlock You do know that the idea of Flying Shovels is to go to the station and bring the transports to us at field nav 1?

also probably don’t need to have the other BGs on our map

you also need to delete the old map I think

[astral obsidian]

@urban hemlock you there?

we need to decide, rather quickly

if we go with the first map or the second

this new info about the 1 to 3 speed range depending on a d4 roll is important

I say we delete the second map and go for the original. Just try and get to the mining station and board the transports there. Much simpler, and relies on less variables.

If you don't respond before Shack gets to our first map, I will be telling him to void the second map

[rose tiger]

• he probably goes by order

[urban hemlock]

I'll resend it

[astral obsidian]

TAC-COM maps are closed. Can’t resend anymore. We just need to pick one to delete

I say delete the second one based on the new info

[urban hemlock]

Ok

[fallen spoke]

I've been swamped at work. Can somebody give me a sitrep?

[wise turret]

Not much currently just hoping we can make planetfall without exploding

[rose tiger]

Well @astral obsidian seems like it won't be necessary to wait much longer 😄

[shrewd fable]

Yay! Rabbit is on the map! 🎉

[astral obsidian]

https://tenor.com/view/smiling-cassian-andor-andor-smirk-pleased-gif-667447246046561056

[vernal brook]

Sorry ive been pulling some weird hours at work but saw a ping about T4 orders. Are we still doing RP orders or are we supposed to turn in actual orders?

[astral obsidian]

Depending on the final situation of this round, orders may be needed. I think we’ll probably just ask for orders from everyone anyway to make sure we still have people.

[vernal brook]

o7

[tulip garden]

convenient find now that you've deployed

[dim thorn]

Yeah, heading to station first is a good idea, with our speed being 2, pretty sure we can get to station in 1 turn, then planetside 1 turn from there, but idk

[astral obsidian]

We would be able to reach Elim from the station if the transports are speed 2, which we don’t really know.

[dim thorn]

Ours is

[astral obsidian]

So it would take 2 turns to get us to Crossroads from the station

[dim thorn]

Elim transports are Speed 3

[astral obsidian]

I mean the Lumaran ones

Huh?

[dim thorn]

The transports at the station are Speed 3

[astral obsidian]

Is this confirmed?

I haven’t seen it anywhere

The statblock Shack shared doesn’t mention speed at all

[dim thorn]

They're Frigates, that's a stated speed in our statblovks

I thought they were freighters

They're the same speed as the Frigate that is fleeing to let the rest know to not get in our fleet's way

[astral obsidian]

Frigates are speed 2? I thought? I dunno. We’ll find out, they may be completely different

[dim thorn]

Yeah, I could've swore they were Freighters, which are Speed 3

[woven spindle]

Looks like our transport rolled a two for speed, could be worse

[astral obsidian]

Yeah. We pretty much wanted anything but speed 1

[dim thorn]

Well, that means either we're forced to go to Elim, or we go mining station then crossroads...I vote Elim so we can at least do something besides just watch

[woven spindle]

I still like the idea of holding course for Crossroads so we can get a foothold there, from what I've gleaned Elim is where a lot of Battlegroups are heading?

[astral obsidian]

I mean, our current whole idea is go to the station to collect the transports so we have mobility anywhere

[dim thorn]

Ah, fair... But they're unarmed, no?

[astral obsidian]

Indeed

But by the time we reach a zone where that may be an issue, Fluffle and Atlas will be in the area

So we should be relatively safe

This doesn’t account for ground anti-ship defenses, though

[dim thorn]

And that's something that's probably lacking ground side at crossroads, right

[astral obsidian]

And my understanding is that Victorum plans to move along the southern nav points in an attempt to draw the main enemy fleet into a line battle

[astral obsidian]

One would hope

[dim thorn]

I mean, logic has applied to the bots, so far

[urban hemlock]

I'm going to write our tac map to get us to crossroads now

[dim thorn]

...with Mining Transports, I'm guessing

[astral obsidian]

I mean we still don't know where we're ending up at the end of this turn

[urban hemlock]

Understood

[astral obsidian]

That will change what the tacmap looks like

Something sadly tells me since we're still technically in combat even though it's ended at the Gate, we're not gonna be moving to the station this round

[urban hemlock]

Well atleast we have space combat finally lol

[wicked summit]

Well it is not 3 speed but 2 is still better than 1. So whats the plan yall

[astral obsidian]

We're going to the Rock Station to pickup the mining frigates

From there we will head to Crossroads

[urban hemlock]

We're ditching it anyways

[worthy cape]

so plan isnt changing with the lower roll

[wicked summit]

sounds like a plan.

[wise turret]

Just gotta hope there isnt some omega mech at crossroad that will wipe out half our force like we are red shirts in star treck

[astral obsidian]

Nope. Getting 1 speed may have affected things

[astral obsidian]

Shush

/lh

[wise turret]

?

[astral obsidian]

/lh = lighthearted tone indicator

[wise turret]

Huh first time I have seen that before, fair

[fallen spoke]

I think Crossroads is the smart play. Elim looks like it's going to draw a lot of heat to that spaceport and we don't want to get bogged down. We need some room to maneuver.

[wise turret]

My only hope is that we wont get trapped between retreating robots from Elim city and reinforcing bots from the other city

[astral obsidian]

Well, based on new intel from today, we are going to be a very powerful BG

Simply because of flanking

Getting behind bots and using the flanking rule to ignore the armor will be crucial

[wise turret]

True but we only seen infantry and ships we have little clue what other ground units they could have

Thats my worry

[astral obsidian]

We shall find out!

[wise turret]

We will decimate the bots infantry but imagine what their mechs are gonna be like, im just glad I can hopefully outrun most things trying to kill me

unless they bomb us then I will just scream before we get put into 598 pieces

I feel our speed will be our greatest strength

[dim thorn]

and our near universal 1 Armour

nvm, LVs have 0 Armour

[astral obsidian]

I am pretty sure me and the ALV are the only armored things in our BG

Alright folks. We are infact at the gate.

So, with our speed 2 transports, we make all haste to the station.

[rose tiger]

Shovels is counting on your recon of Cross Roads

[urban hemlock]

We'll be there

[dim thorn]

Lights Mechs are Armor 1, as am I, a VTOL

[astral obsidian]

Oh, I did not know that LMs had armor

Sick

[urban hemlock]

Yeah light Mechs are nice when compared to LVs but they only have a light laser so they get out ranged by our machine guns

[worthy cape]

also no utility base

beyond fast recon

from the sound of it, the bots on the ground are slower than 1 speed, so we should be safe engaging those with LV if needed.

[dim thorn]

I think 1 speed is their max, i.e. with evasive

[wise turret]

I will be abusing that a lot just hope they dont have heavy machinery...

[worthy cape]

what do you mean?

also like jack just said in meta, they seem to move towards an objective at all costs atm.

so should be exploitable as long as there is no node controlling them to be more intelligent

[worthy cape]

I would guess the tanks/mechs to be a problem. a big problem

[wise turret]

Thats my worry we aint seen their mechs

If we dont get info on them before planet drop I will be worried

[worthy cape]

medium mechs and probably heavy mechs might get a grand reveal this campaign I reckon

in which case, sucks to be lightly armoured

[wise turret]

Lets just say I will be reversing very fast if we land at crossroads and we find half a dozen of them

[dim thorn]

I suppose i meant Rush

as that doubles the speed

[worthy cape]

ahh right, that makes more sense 😂

[worthy cape]

ill be right there with you

[dim thorn]

if they're clustered together, agreed, if any are... alone, i think we can easily Flank and Spank

[worthy cape]

if there dumb maybe we can bait them and flank them somehow, but wouldnt fancy being the bait

or we use our arty to push them where we want

if they are alone

[wise turret]

Last I checked we only have 1 arty team with us?

[worthy cape]

yeh thats right i think still

[dim thorn]

we have 2, I thought

yeah, we have 2, Thumper and Halberd

so, basically, once our arty is setup, we can eliminate /orbitals that are in range easily enough

Because VTOLs can Flank the bastards

and Arty has an AP anti-orbital direct hit attack

[shrewd pine]

Hi lads

are we still in transit or are we about to run the blockade

I’m assuming we’re the former based off the briefing map

[astral obsidian]

We are in transit, about to head to the Rock Station. Theoretically there is nobody between us and there.

[urban hemlock]

If they're going to be mindless automatons that just go towards objectives, we can abuse the f*** out of that with our machine guns because if we move in advance our machine guns are far deadlier and if we know the direction they're heading we can outrange them too so we may be the perfect solution for these bots

[wicked summit]

alright i have to head off to work, if anything important happens hopefully we don't blow up

[proud siren]

WARTHOG, @astral obsidian ...

ORIGINATOR: SEAGULL AUTO REPORT, via T13C ACARS
DESTINATION: BG/TF TCOs, 2TCOs, Ambassadors, Adjutants. 

Seagull Actual is unavailable at this time. 
See attached file.```
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eZkZ6RMCbi97g9mk4H2sczWiPbWdDJ_fVm35iPV1PSU/edit?usp=sharing

[urban hemlock]

Damn, I wish we could deploy sooner to help you guys

[urban hemlock]

Storms always painful but I didn't realize you guys were taking that many casualties already

[proud siren]

Yeah, we're kinda fucked right now-

hope IH, Atlas, Fluffle can help us hold the line.

[urban hemlock]

https://youtu.be/khKdXTmbhDw?si=buv1DUVCO7igm01r

Lol

[astral obsidian]

Coming along @urban hemlock

[urban hemlock]

I hope by the end of this we have everyone mentioning at least once that they're listening to some kind of music from the playlist lol

We already have two of the songs mentioned

My head Cannon is that there's currently two radio frequencies being broadcasted to rabbit, one being orders from command and the next just being the playlist in the pins

[urban hemlock]

Also I was thinking about this because you mentioned it yesterday but another thing that you can do for role-play is just ping the person you're talking to in this channel and do the role play here. I know that Southpaw does that and I think that system is very nice. But any role play that you want to happen in the meta campaign we'll have to have in orders

I'm actually super proud of everybody for the role play by the way, my first time tac comming and everybody's having fun with it

[wicked summit]

that reminds me i gotta start putting in some orders and some RP

[urban hemlock]

Yeah I would like for everyone to post orders for turn 4 even though it doesn't seem necessary like we thought it wasn't initially. I would like everyone to get into the habit of always putting in orders

[wicked summit]

i can do that while being a dinosaur, just got to get my creative thinking going. I was really good about doing RP stuff in the first few campaigns but it has been a bit so i might be a little rusty lol

[proud siren]

@urban hemlock #1382781756989767692 message

Not all the BGs, just the ones deploying this or next turn.

Also, it was an automated message sent after T13C was lost.
That's what it means by "Seagull Actual Unavailable". The Human died.

[urban hemlock]

If you need something to help you start your role play. I have a announcement that my lead character gives to everyone in rabbit at the very top of the orders list so you can respond to that with your radio to get the ball rolling

[urban hemlock]

#1385616851832147988 message

[proud siren]

Listening in to the distress calls on STORM COMMAND NET?

[urban hemlock]

That too

[wicked summit]

I will give it a look. Appreciate it

[urban hemlock]

I also have a headcanon that the playlist that I have in pins in rabbit is playing on some of the radios in our convoy

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiA0sldH8GNx2gkYeyI-cVArx944jqGYQ&si=_r9_GVStFLsw3c82

At the very least it's playing in mine and Rex's vehicles

[proud siren]

EGG Distress Call: #1385617133991497748 message
T13C Last Moments: #1385617133991497748 message

[wicked summit]

Done

as for a visual this is what they are walking around in this #1385616851832147988 message

[woven spindle]

Oh, heck yeah

[urban hemlock]

that's so cool, I know Rex is doing a juggernaut from the republic but they're doing the smaller version I can't find a picture of it but here's the SHBT version

I'm literally just running a warthog with an autocannon strapped to it

https://tenor.com/view/halo-halo-game-halo-wars-warthog-halo-warthog-gif-13467779305201486557

[wicked summit]

i am debating bringing back the text wall RP lol

[urban hemlock]

I try to stick to the 3 paragraph rule just because it is in the rulebook technically but I also enjoy trying to fit as much information as I can into those three paragraphs as a personal challenge. I love seeing the stories though

[wicked summit]

Oh i didn't do it in my orders, they were their own separate thing in meta chat. Let me find one quick

[urban hemlock]

we should get a secondary tac map for use in our BG that lets people chose their own unit icon. but keep the offical map with the base game icons obv

[urban hemlock]

o?

Pathfinder may be winning in the RP department lol they have it in their mission comms too lol

[wicked summit]

This was from the last campaign with my orbital. When we were fighting pirates. This RP post was so large i had to split it in three due to discord text limits
#meta-comm message

That message goes to part 1

[urban hemlock]

damn I wish I was here a year ago lol

[wicked summit]

Yeah i didn't mess around when it came to RP. It is one thing i really enjoy with table top games like DnD and what shack is trying to create. I love telling a story

[proud siren]

They have audio recordings.

[urban hemlock]

That's how I do it too

[urban hemlock]

South is a really good Dm too

[dim thorn]

this message turned out to be prophetic for us, lol

#1382037555876331722 message

[manic elm]

As Kato Hiragashi makes one final check of his light vehicle, he comes across his trusted gunner. The young woman, a hot headed red head that only went by Elizabeth, nodded as she made one last check of her own, specifically on her MG. Kato nodded in return as he headed into the vehicle cabin. After the last mission, he wanted to make absolutely sure nothing was going to break. Though it took little damage, he wasn’t going to take any chance. Reports were that the planet was swarming with toasters. Toasters… Hiragashi’s hands clenched as he thought about the genocidal machines. He was a man that believed doing things in the old paper style instead of using more automation. He took a deep breath as he made his rounds of the vehicle’s systems. This was going to be a long mission.

[rich salmon]

We've arrived! Yipee

[sturdy thorn]

There’s a playlist?

And also, since I’ll be riding the VTOL I think deploying directly into some buildings at crossroads would be a good idea for the extra protection.

Just need to find a spot with good sight lines

[sturdy thorn]

So uhh, stupid question. Where do I post the orders? Am I overlooking something very obvious?

[forest otter]

https://discord.com/channels/222052888531173386/1385616851832147988

Here's our order channel

[silk echo]

do i actually need to post an order now?

or is it still just rp?

[astral obsidian]

Still just RP for us.

We are currently unsure if next round or the round after will be the first real orders for us

A lot depends on moving parts

[silk echo]

ok, thanks!

[astral obsidian]

[sturdy thorn]

One day

[manic elm]

Real quick, who is dropping first from our battle group and who is following afterwards?

[dim thorn]

definitely Myself, with using my rappelling gear to deploy Borealis without landing and putting myself at excessive risk

idk who else

[manic elm]

Ok

[astral obsidian]

We’re all going to be dropping at once with the mining frigates

[dim thorn]

That, too

goes to check if we'd be able to all deploy from the landed frigates

[astral obsidian]

There is no indication of their DC or how they function

We are essentially clueless. Shack has provided almost zero details

If they are limited by DC and it takes us several turns to deploy, I’m going to be incredibly frustrated

[dim thorn]

Seems like it's limited only in how many it carries

[astral obsidian]

Alright since Spearhead has been naming their transports and doing assignments I figure I’ll do the same for ours

[verbal geode]

Hey Rabbit, Spearhead here, wondering if anyone had made possible claims for the other set of transports in the event we don't end up with them

[astral obsidian]

Still no confirmation from Shack on if we can have our HAT and VTOL outside of it, but I’m going to plan under the assumption that we can. I’ll put the inf, engis, and medics in the HAT and VTOL

[astral obsidian]

I’m not sure anyone else has. We both staked our interest pretty quickly.

[verbal geode]

That's what I figured, was wondering on the possibility of you guys taking them to transfer over to us after we land at the mines, but that's still up in the air so I'll check in later

[astral obsidian]

I mean, if we're allowed, we would gladly bring them along with us

@urban hemlock I was going through and starting to organize our layouts for the transport, and we have 3 players that did not fill out the continuing interest sheet.

@silk echo
@vale barn
@manic elm

If those 3 players wish to continue, that brings us up to 34 total players. I am now going to do the calculation and organization to see if we can fit within our 5 ships plus VTOL and HAT.

[urban hemlock]

Well spoonie and spector should be okay because I believe they just joined after the confirmation spreadsheet was made. I didn't really understand why we had two spreadsheets anyways because if someone's not going to show up they'll just go MIA anyways so I didn't think it was that necessary. Wolf commando, I'm not too sure about though so I understand that part

[astral obsidian]

We made the second sheet to confirm who wanted to stay on, since there was a metric ton of confusion after we determined landing round 1 was a no go

I'll mark them as good for now, the medic is the last question mark

I'm currently organizing

[urban hemlock]

I was hoping we could name one of our transports GR-75 just because I thought that would be funny

[astral obsidian]

I'm also determining loads and pairings for LVs, our arty, logi, etc

I'm kind of just going off vibes here if they haven't previously said they want to pair with anyone

[urban hemlock]

Yeah wolf commandos the only one I would try to call before we start.

[urban hemlock]

Every pairing that I have already labeled on the spreadsheet was confirmed by at least one of the units. So please try to keep the units that are put together on the spreadsheet together on the transports

I tried to handle as much of the logistics before the mission as I could so he wouldn't have to worry about it now

[astral obsidian]

I'm going to try my best but I think likely all of the inf are going to have to go in the HATs and VTOL

They fit in there with the most efficiency

I intend to avoid that though

If I can

[urban hemlock]

That would really suck because we currently have the hat full of small supplies that we're going to be using to reload our logi once artillery runs out of ammo

I specifically made it so rabbit can do its own logistics for as long as possible

I would actually really like to help you with these logistics if you're okay with that

Plus, I believe we're going to run into the nesting doll issue that Shack has been complaining about. Have we asked if we're allowed to do a nesting doll situation with them? Also, I was talking to Shack yesterday and I'm pretty sure that he was saying that the hat was going to be allowed to fit inside of the transports because he didn't want them flying outside

[astral obsidian]

No. No nesting doll.

That's the issue we're going to have

[urban hemlock]

I need to head to a hospital appointment. But I'm starting a list in the spreadsheet of how I believe we should organize it. If you would like to fill it out a bit with what you have that would help me figure out what you're looking at, but it would really be best if we kept everyone with the groups

[astral obsidian]

I've already got a tab

[urban hemlock]

And the more people we have on the hat the less supplies we have. So try to avoid putting anyone on the hat if you can

If no nesting dolls are allowed, we're not allowed to put anyone in the hat anyways then

The hat is going to be transported inside of the mining. Freighter Shack told me that yesterday

[astral obsidian]

Link to confirmation please

[urban hemlock]

I don't have it

I would just need you to trust me

[astral obsidian]

Cause that will require us to use another transport

And we will need to talk to Spearhead about that

[urban hemlock]

We'll just have to do that then

S*** all right, I'm sorry I didn't ping you when he said it

[astral obsidian]

I'm not sure the total capacity but if we don't have enough capacity for both BGs there's going to be a problem

[urban hemlock]

We should be okay because isn't there under 100 capacity between the two groups, and over 100 capacity in the ships

I can handle this all after my doctor's appointment but I really have to go

[astral obsidian]

There are 12 ships with 6 space each

That is 72 total

[urban hemlock]

I was wrong then. Im sorry I'm heading out rn

[astral obsidian]

Found the thing you mentioned. Good to know. The space is a bit fluid, so I think we'll be alright.

[urban hemlock]

I'm walking into the hospital right now. If anything I might talk to Shack later today and see if he can just give us a accommodations to help us out. If not, just let me see what we can do

I'll talk to you after the appointment

[astral obsidian]

It's all good. I think we're okay, he left it pretty open that he'd be willing to fit us all in

We're fit in with only 3 extra spots from the vague 6 per craft. If Shack is as lenient as he said, we're good. I kept all the pairings as they were on the sheet. Flower is currently marked as empty because the status of the medic is currently unknown.

[vale barn]

I do wish to continue, I didn't see that until the lnk wasn't valid...

[urban hemlock]

We just had a second spreadsheet. It's okay

[vale barn]

Ah, cool. Where is that so I can finally do my part

[urban hemlock]

You're fine now it was just. Are you actually joining spreadsheet

[astral obsidian]

Right okay I’ll fix that

Easy enough

[urban hemlock]

So confirming here is okay. Top of our pins though if your curious

[astral obsidian]

Focus on your appointment man don’t worry about this atm

[vale barn]

My appointment?..

[astral obsidian]

Not you, Warthog

[vale barn]

ohhhhhhh okay.

[silk echo]

I’m willing to continue

Didn’t realise there was a sheet

My bad

[vale barn]

I'll type my info on the sheet, I got it.

[astral obsidian]

All good, this game is chaotic and is a lot to keep up on

[vale barn]

I'm going to be honest, I've only been responding to pings so far, I'll have to check in with this daily .-.

(which makes more sense lol)

[astral obsidian]

Alrighty, pairing is setup. All units that are the same color are either riding in another or being towed by each other. I didn't bother to do LM Lances or LV Pairings since I figure we'll determine those once we have the full accurate count of people on the ground when we land

I think next round we'll ask for everyone to do an order, so that we can get an accurate headcount and weed out any MIAs early on, so we can plan for the landing

[worthy cape]

will we get pinged in here when orders go live? and the latest map for our area will be posted too im guessing?

[astral obsidian]

We will do our best to ping yeah

Please do try and check in as often as you can

We can and will miss people

[worthy cape]

Ahhhh, no way to get a role assigned for the bg so you can @that when orders open?

[urban hemlock]

I wish

[worthy cape]

Or, maybe get a copy/paste ready of everyone here with their name so one of you can send that each time

Also, what will be the time period to get orders done by? It will be the same each week right?

[astral obsidian]

Sadly, there is a ping limit to prevent bots, so we will not be able to do all at once

[urban hemlock]

Looking good

[astral obsidian]

Yeah

Orders are due Sundays and Wednesdays for players

[worthy cape]

Ahh that's a shame.
Wednesday and Sundays works great for me though so this should be good. Would it be about now for the deadlines?

[astral obsidian]

Yeah, 7 minutes from now

[urban hemlock]

Everything looks really balanced in the logistics side. I'm glad we didn't get too many people

[fallen spoke]

Who is maneuvering as a unit is going to be highly dependent what we land on top of and what they are doing. Could be scattered units, could be a tight formation planning to redeploy, or could be something in between.

In other news, TF3-Fluffle appears to be having fun

[manic elm]

I am still interested. Where is the sheet I need to fill out?

[astral obsidian]

Worry not! We’ve got you down

[manic elm]

Excellent. Thank you. I’ll put in my orders shortly. I’m assuming we are still in a holding pattern right now?

[astral obsidian]

Yeah. We’ll see what happens. We won’t be deploying for 2 or 3 turns I think, but we’ll be requiring orders from now to make sure we’ve still got everyone’s attention

[urban hemlock]

Here's a TTS version of Rabbit that I made if anyone would like to join the server lmk

thank you @rough leaf

I accidentally gave mover the wrong icon but I'll change it when we do next orders

I did put a lot of work into my files for the photo editor I was using so I may end up using that as well but TTS seems like a a better way to show battlefield maps so

I may just use it for those

Actually this might work out. Kind of well, @astral obsidian if you want I can let you handle the overworld maps and I can do the battles with TTS

Your overworld map seemed to look nicer anyways

[astral obsidian]

Roger that, works for me

[urban hemlock]

Now I'm going to look for a warthog icon that I can use lol

I wonder if Shack would let me use warthogs for all the light vehicles?

Well I changed my icon to a gauss hog to make it more obvious that it's an autocannon and because I get to finally use the warthog

if anyone has any requests for what they would like their units or vehicles to look like lmk I'll also have to find a mod kit that has the 3D model though so it may not work. Either that or just make the 3D model myself

[astral obsidian]

I think he probably prefers the icons he can recognize but the call signs are the important bit

[manic elm]

Alright, if it’s okay, I’m going to put my order in now. I know I’m late, and I do apologize. Will put it in early for next time.

[urban hemlock]

that's fair

[urban hemlock]

Would love if this could get pinned

Though I'm not sure how often we're going to be using these frigates

[astral obsidian]

We'll see

Depends on where we end up moving

And if anyone else needs them

[astral obsidian]

Setup my MIA/order tracker on a new tab in the sheet

Will do my best to keep it up to date, and track who's MIA

[urban hemlock]

I don't think we should actualy mark people as MIA for not putting in a hold order on a transport but they should get some sort of slap on the wrist or warning

[astral obsidian]

Disagree. We need to make sure everyone is here. This round, I'm doing pings. If people don't pay attention now, that's their problem.

I do not want to be dealing with missing people later in the campaign, better to weed them out now if any

Hopefully none

[urban hemlock]

that's fair

[astral obsidian]

I'm gonna get our tac-map finished up here

[urban hemlock]

so are we doing hold orders since we're on the frigates or are we doing advance/rush ordsers since we are boarding the mining frigates

[astral obsidian]

Don't think it matters

[urban hemlock]

backflip order

[astral obsidian]

@urban hemlock any glaring errors? I'll attach the screenshot of the sheet I sent above with my map in the thread

[urban hemlock]

the text box is kinda hard to read.if we are sticking to official meta campaign rules try to keep all roleplay to under 3 paragraphs long. besides that it looks perfect

although I see that its RP from 2 different people so that makes sense why it's so long

[astral obsidian]

Hmm. I'll try a different font

[urban hemlock]

yeah definilty make the text larger

the font is fine

the text on the right is a good size for example

[astral obsidian]

The font is the issue sadly, it's got annoying scaling

the large amount of text makes it difficult but I'll sort it

[urban hemlock]

I think some of the RP needs to be trimmed, maybe just post the RP from rabbit and let spearheads RP stay with them

[astral obsidian]

Spearhead suggested this, on the basis that Shack will only want to deal with it on one map

I figured that made sense

[urban hemlock]

shack is still going to read through our orders the tac map is mainly just for our intentions

[astral obsidian]

That is false

He doesn't read orders lol

[urban hemlock]

spearhead is still posting a map right?

he did last time

[astral obsidian]

When was last time?

[urban hemlock]

1 sec

[astral obsidian]

There are going to be over 500 players, Shack will not be reading them all

[urban hemlock]

oh right that was when someone posted the RP in the chat as you have. either way I do suggest trimming the amount of RP in the tac map it should be the bare minimum if possible. I would even suggest that the only RP that should be posted is RP that can affect the story like when Fluffle asked the transports to go through the gate or something that clarifies a confusing map like I did when I said that rabbit intends to board the mining transports. If you put too much fluff in the tac maps hes going to stop reading those aswell

[astral obsidian]

I mean, this is RP that affects the story, lol

Dunno what you want from me lol

[urban hemlock]

not really

[astral obsidian]

Ah, right, the RP that gets us the transports our entire plan is based upon, is "not really" affecting the story

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[urban hemlock]

thank you for understanding

[astral obsidian]

Tac-map is submitted

[urban hemlock]

thats definitly easier to read

I like that font too

Ill try to use that for my maps aswell

[astral obsidian]

Had to do some shenanigans with the spacing

It's Adobe's "Stencil" but I'm sure most editors have a similar version, it's timeless

[urban hemlock]

I was going to use a similar font for the spray paint tag icon I was wanting to make but I may save that for another battlegroup/taskforce

With the pay from this I plan on upgrading my LV to be an armored/autocannon , then getting a screener machine gun ship with the rest of the moneyt. and as a bonus if I dont survive I can just put more money into my spaceship lol

[astral obsidian]

We'll be having almost the same LV after hehe, I'll also be getting a small supply trailer though

If we win™ and I survive™

[urban hemlock]

the supply trailer is definitely incising

[sturdy thorn]

I see you folks have been productive

[rich salmon]

woohoo we're on the transports

[astral obsidian]

SPEED 3!

We are in business folks

Pending what happens to the orbital above elim, we may be landing next turn

[sturdy thorn]

Let’s gooo

Finally we’re getting boots on the ground

[rose tiger]

That would be awesome. Shovelers will cheer you on from the station!

[wicked summit]

https://tenor.com/view/star-citizen-crusader-industries-tanks-nova-gif-25674311

[silk echo]

is the next round of orders mandatory then?

i need to make sure i dont go mia on the first day

[astral obsidian]

Correct, yes, it is likely we will be landing, and even if we aren’t, we will be requiring orders so we can make sure we have everyone

[urban hemlock]

I kind of want to do an evasive scout ahead order if I can

Kind of stinks that we can't see the map though

[astral obsidian]

We have the general idea from the strat map. Plus, Shack will likely give us something to work with

[urban hemlock]

That's good

[silk echo]

and are they tomorow?

or another day?

[astral obsidian]

Well the orders themselves will be due Sunday

[silk echo]

ok

thanks!

[astral obsidian]

Just check in here, we’ll try to ping when it’s important

[silk echo]

great!

[urban hemlock]

I kind of want to make attack map of how we want to deploy in crossroads

I was basically just thinking we should deploy near where the airfield's going to be and then advanced towards either the city or the northern passage

[astral obsidian]

Our goal is to recon as much of the map as we can, so that hopefully we can get Shovels and the 212th in the next turn

[urban hemlock]

I would like to make attack map of us landing as fast as we can as soon as we get to crossroads and then using our light vehicles and mechs to evasive towards the city to scout it out

Do you think he would allow that??

We're also going to need the orders for that

[astral obsidian]

Yes lol, now is the part where we have to talk between all the players and see what’s up

[urban hemlock]

I would honestly suggest that we leave our logistics trucks and artillery inside of the frigates until we've confirmed that the area near the airstrip is going to be clear

I just sent a message to shovels to see if I can get the map

I should have downloaded that

[astral obsidian]

Shack sent it at some point

I’m away atm and mobile discord search sucks, if you haven’t found it when I’m back I’ll look

[urban hemlock]

I'm pretty sure I posted one in this channel actually. I wish we would have gotten that pinned

I gave us some obvious objectives for the map

Not great for a tac map

[astral obsidian]

We’ll just wait and see what Shack does after this round

Once he’s done he’ll probably be happy to answer our questions or provide things

[urban hemlock]

Well, if we're able to deploy from the frigates once they land on this turn, it would be nice to be able to move out instead of waiting for the next turn to do it

Oh right yeah I forgot he has so much to cover every mid-Round

I thought it was done

[astral obsidian]

Yeah we don’t even know how deploying works

If it costs speed, etc

[urban hemlock]

Well, even if it does cost speed, we should be able to explore with a pretty good amount of movement. And if we go over the speed limit that Shack sets he'll just put us a little bit further behind than we expected to be. Or at least that's how it's been so far

[astral obsidian]

I mean we should make our map accurate as we can. Our current list of questions is

• can we have a blank map of Crossroads
• how does unloading from these Mining ships work? Does it cost speed?

[urban hemlock]

It's also going to cost half of the mining ships movement speed in order to get to the ground

[astral obsidian]

Ah. Then we will not be landing next turn in any case, then

[worthy cape]

least it gives us a chance to look at the map in that case when we arrive above

[urban hemlock]

Well I'm glad we discussed it then

Lol

Also, since we'll be above the map before we land, we could technically land anywhere instead of just landing with shovels and the 212th we could drop on the other side of the map and destroy any bases that the automatons may have already created

[astral obsidian]

Shovels is hanging back until we've secured it

That's my current understanding

[urban hemlock]

That makes sense nevermind that idea then

[stable ginkgo]

Put me in coach im ready!

[fallen spoke]

What's the capacity of the mining ships we're planning to land in?

[astral obsidian]

It's a little fluid, stated capacity is 6 but Shack said he's going to be lenient and let us squeeze in

[fallen spoke]

Think we could get away with 5 mechs, 1 LV, and a squad of engineers in a ship?

If so, we could load two ships like that, then land each ship slightly further out on each flank of our primary landing spot. That would give us two screening forces on opposite sides of the main landing. The rest of the LVs can roll out from the center without us tripping over each other and let the other assets deploy with some minimal level of security. Spreading out the landing a little bit also prevents us from being artillery bait, should the bots have any in our AO.

That's my initial thought anyway.

[astral obsidian]

Here are the Freighter compositions that I created

I tried to spread everything out so that if a single transport was destroyed, a significant portion of things was not lost.

[shrewd pine]

oh joy we’re moving out

[shrewd pine]

I’d note that pinging @ here and @ everyone in threads only pings the people following said threads

so maybe you could ask a mod to do that?

[astral obsidian]

Perhaps, but I think they probably won't want to do that for everyone

[astral obsidian]

Indeed, next round we travel to above our drop zone, and then the round after we drop

[shrewd pine]

so we start ground combat at around turn 6?

[astral obsidian]

Barring no interruptions, enemy anti-orbital fire, enemy orbitals in general, etc, yes

[dim thorn]

dont ping either, Everyone will bring the entire server into this thread, adn time you out, and Here with just straight up time you out because you're actively pinging Shack

[shrewd pine]

I’m pretty sure it does not bring the entire server into the thread

I did this in another server and it worked like I said

[dim thorn]

if you ping someone not in a thread, it brings them in

[shrewd pine]

yeah for specific people

not the mass pings

though obviously we wouldn’t be doing it, which is why I specified mods

[dim thorn]

either way, you'd get timed out for pinging a memeber of Fleet Command

[shrewd pine]

the shack pinging is a fair point though

[dim thorn]

guess how i know pinging "here" will time you out?

[shrewd pine]

I just think it would be less of a hassle than pinging all 50 something rabbit members individually you know

[dim thorn]

#1382037555876331722 message

oh, it would be, yes, but...

[verbal moat]

I will be protecting that logi truck with my life

Until i ran out of LRM rockets

[shrewd pine]

so maybe you could ask a mod to do that

[dim thorn]

the only people with the perms is Tabby and Shack, in this thread

[shrewd pine]

the mods can’t either?

dang

[dim thorn]

we HAVE no mods already in this thread

[shrewd pine]

okay but couldn’t we just ask very nicely

[dim thorn]

i mean, i think Tabby wouldn't mind doing it, but... i'm trying to decide who

[astral obsidian]

We’ll see what the formation ends up like on the ground. Here’s to hoping our turn above gives us some basic intel

I don’t think we need anyone to do anything guys, it would also ping the people joined in the thread to observe. I know the ping message limit is 10, Jack said it himself. I’ll be able to get it done. Don’t worry.

[shrewd pine]

commander jack or dres

[dim thorn]

i'll be doing Many CAS Runs, methinks

[shrewd pine]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

this reminds me I need to get around to writing my RP order

[steel shell]

Shouldn't Logis Carrot and MZ be able to carry their respective INF and 5 SS? Since each takes up 1 Cargo Slot and they each have two?

[urban hemlock]

They are

Oh good catch

For carrot

[steel shell]

Mhm. Would hate for y'all to be out of 5 x2 SS cuz you forgot to note it down. Multiple of our VTOLs kept forgetting

[astral obsidian]

Good catch

[silk echo]

hey, i was wondering if one of our infantry units would be willing to become a dedicated spotter for my arti?

its not super necessary, but i would like a player to more directly cooperate with for direct attacks and bombardment

[astral obsidian]

it’s up to them! I imagine you’ll have plenty of intelligence considering the speed of our LVs

[silk echo]

right

i forgot we have armor too

[astral obsidian]

but feel free to ping some of them and ask

[silk echo]

nah

[astral obsidian]

the mechs are also quick and good at spotting

[silk echo]

that seems a little rude tbh

i kinda forgot how many fast units we have lol

[astral obsidian]

It’s our entire concept hehe

[silk echo]

im very tired rn

[astral obsidian]

fair enough

[silk echo]

do bg's stay between campaigns?

i want to make a really stupid orbital with nothing but heavy drop pods and a shit ton of lv's and pa infantry

so this kind of strategy would synergise quite well with that

ultimate qrf gaming

[rose tiger]

no, they form newly every campaign. For example I was part of Rabbit last campaign

[silk echo]

i see

that orbital is definitely my long term goal

it would be fucking hilarious thats for sure

[rose tiger]

But very likely that we will see a QRF again next campaign

Just might be other people that propose the BG

[silk echo]

fair enough

[astral obsidian]

The group of people does not, but concepts might

As shown with Rabbit here

[silk echo]

tbh im already so excited for what might be the stupidest orbital build ever

and we havent even started this campaign in earnest

[astral obsidian]

As long as I play this game and am in the big campaigns, Rabbit will exist

[silk echo]

awesome!

[astral obsidian]

The hop hop legacy shall continue

[rose tiger]

huh I thought you were interested in an orbital?

[silk echo]

i feel like the idea of being able to appear instantly anywhere on the tac map is just so perfect for this bg

[silk echo]

im playing arti for my first campaign, but an orbital is a long term goal for me

[astral obsidian]

Me?

[rose tiger]

Yeah you

[silk echo]

oops

thought you were talking to me

lol

[astral obsidian]

I mean I would like to bring the Lightning back to it’s Haven configuration, but first I want to own every LV upgrade, which is going to take a bit of time lol

[rose tiger]

oh god yeah that will take time 😅

[silk echo]

i wish you got like, 2 req for your first unit

it would feel a lot better imo

[rose tiger]

I might go orbital combat engineer. If a TF focused on boarding gets established

[astral obsidian]

Meh, disagree, need to start small

Want upgrades to feel valuable

[silk echo]

yeah, but having access to even a small upgrade would make playing for only 1 campaign more interesting

[astral obsidian]

Plus, jobs are going to be hopefully higher paying from now on

[silk echo]

thats good to know

[astral obsidian]

What’s the point of having base units then?

[silk echo]

2 different units would still share the same base stats

[astral obsidian]

My view is that you have to start at the bottom to appreciate when you get to the top

[silk echo]

i agree, but i think even a small taste of the top would be good for the start

thats just my opinion though

[worthy cape]

I just wish I didn't need fist upgrade before melee weapons upgrade. Makes no sense

But also, hope that jump thrusters let me me navigate Space, so I can try to board another ship from my mech by jetting over to it then ripping a hole in its hull

[urban hemlock]

As a recon group spotting should be no issue lol

[urban hemlock]

I may be doing something like that next game I already have friends planning on going melee PAI and flamethrower so we could end up with a super powerful boarding craft

[rose tiger]

That would be cool

[urban hemlock]

I was originally planning on going all machine guns for a screening cruiser but I'm leaving towards VTOL bay boarding pod now with that idea in mind

[urban hemlock]

Any chance I can get you to join a 501st battle group that we could run along side 212th some time in the future?

[vernal brook]

Just slowly turn armco into star wars lol

[astral obsidian]

I’m gonna stick with rabbit most likely

[urban hemlock]

Theirs just a lot of clone trooper company's in the meta campaign dossiers so they do well

[urban hemlock]

Understandable I'll probably be their next time to and we can duo with armoured autocannons

[vernal brook]

I guess you can run PAI as commandos as easily as Spartans

[rose tiger]

Wesmas (ConPete in Storm) would probably fit for an ODT TF too.
At least that is his intention

[urban hemlock]

Exactly 💯 my guy was going for more of a Darth Vader type

Iirc

[vernal brook]

Ohh nice

[wicked summit]

alright fellow rabbits, how it go? we ready to do this?

[urban hemlock]

Yes everyone needs to start putting in orders

[wicked summit]

We are just riding the transports curently correct?

[urban hemlock]

Yep yep, so far

[wicked summit]

how should we do orders then, same as before?

[urban hemlock]

I mean technically you can do whatever you like

You'll still be stuck on the transport though

Kek

[wicked summit]

has the person controlling thumper put any orders in or anything, I haven't seen them active in here i don't think

[vernal brook]

Well looks like crossroads is gonna be a fun landing

[woven spindle]

It'll be fiiine, what's the worst that could happen?

[urban hemlock]

I'm getting a bit worried that we might not have proper equipment to deal with anti-air

We have very limited ammo

That fighter would have been really helpful

[astral obsidian]

I haven’t seen them talk ever, they have 2 total messages, last one being 23 days ago

[vernal brook]

The problem with the fighter was resupplying though

[astral obsidian]

It would’ve been useless after a turn or two

[urban hemlock]

@lunar lark some people were wanting to meet you to discuss your orders for the first round, Fist or "STINGER" for his callsign is going to be your driver for the mission. You also have a squad of infantry all equipped with rockets callsign "PIGEON" so you'll be well protected for this mission.

[woven spindle]

I assume this turn we put in a hold order, then after Sunday we disembark Transport 1, and I board Stinger's ALV to hang out until theres something to shoot

[astral obsidian]

Thats the working idea, well hopefully know more from hanging out in high orbit

[wicked summit]

wouldn't pigeon just be on board right away?

[urban hemlock]

@rocky anvil and @verbal moat your going to be our first mechanic team, not to mention our rocket artillery

Our second team is composed of @rich salmon and @rancid idol

Both teams should start discussing your orders with each other as soon as we're able to land

[astral obsidian]

Can’t nesting doll inside sadly

Have to pop out, and immediately get in/attach the arty

[wicked summit]

shame

[urban hemlock]

That's depending on where we land, if we're surrounded, it would probably be better to just start firing

[astral obsidian]

There’s a third engi LV pairing no? Am I crazy from heat lol

[urban hemlock]

My bad lol

Well, they're already talking to each other so I didn't think we had to mention them

[astral obsidian]

Yeah. Theoretically we can choose where we land, so that’s cool

[urban hemlock]

I really hope some of us can get on high ground turn one

[astral obsidian]

We’ll see. We have some insane mobility, so we can spread out quickly, and make our presence very well known

[urban hemlock]

We should vote on where people want to land so we can form groups of players, let me find those objectives that I drew earlier.

Would we be able to split up the frigates into different groups in crossroads?

[astral obsidian]

You mean deploy the 5 frigates in different places? I don’t see why not

[urban hemlock]

We definitely need to secure The landing field first, but we can form groups that have certain roles in crossroads

[junior sorrel]

Honestly all this depends on how big the landing zones are, spacing for everyone and all

[proud siren]

RABBIT,

Check, where do you intend to land and when?

[junior sorrel]

Do we even have a map of the station,cause I am not seeing it

[astral obsidian]

No hostiles, so there isn’t one currently

[astral obsidian]

Pending no orbital changes (such as orbitals over crossroads) we’re going to be arriving over Crossroads T5 (next turn) and landing T6.

[proud siren]

Be advised, local intelligence suggests that AO Crossroads is currently a bot stronghold. They are currently building a structure.

#midround-events message

[astral obsidian]

Something to keep in mind now, Tig pointed it out to me

“Bots all over”

[vernal brook]

Yup thats why I said it's gonna be fun lol

[woven spindle]

Good catch

[astral obsidian]

It’s going to be a contested landing now

So we’re gonna want to readjust

Especially if we get intel hopefully

I have a sinking feeling those orbitals that Fluffle just saw are going to show up over Crossroads

[urban hemlock]

They do have a convoy there already though, we could save their military

[astral obsidian]

They did seem to imply there may be friendlies left

But they also heavily implied it was a very bad situation

[urban hemlock]

I would love to have as many friendlies as possible

Ok

[wicked summit]

https://tenor.com/view/space-marine-for-the-emperor-into-the-fires-of-battle-warhammer-40k-join-me-brother-gif-17902993242544165360

[vernal brook]

I have a feeling we go mines and bird nest and clear out the landing for other friendlies. That leaves us with a relatively even split of 3 and 2 with one engi team between both groups

[urban hemlock]

I need to finish reading it my apologies

[dim thorn]

@sturdy thorn just an FYI, we're going in on a Hot LZ, gonna take advantage of my rappelling gear to deploy you, tand gunning bot infantry/forces dumb enough to get inrange

[astral obsidian]

So nobody here asks again. No map until we have eyes. Hopefully Fluffle can scan or us being in high orbit counts. We’ll see.

[verbal moat]

Where do we all land first though?

[astral obsidian]

We simply don’t know yet

[verbal moat]

Hmmm

@rocky anvil we should link up with the second team when we land and then transport engis where they are needed

[sturdy thorn]

Let’s just hope we don’t get shot down right?

[urban hemlock]

We could have a vote We should be entering the map from the area highlighted yellow or the mines ⛏️ since that's the route from ELIM city but it will change if we aren't taking a direct route

[dim thorn]

hence why i wanna be in top left corner, little chance of AA being in range

[proud siren]

You go through high orbit, you can pick any location on the ground map as long as you are over the transfer point.

[dim thorn]

we'll be coming in from Orbit, not the planetary Routes

[proud siren]

Bah, you have 7 transports with quite a few hits, what's the worst that could happen-

(Said moments before disaster)

[astral obsidian]

We have 5 to be clear

Spearhead has the other 7

[dim thorn]

I'm also hoping to be dropping in from orbit, not being packed into a Cargo Bay

[astral obsidian]

Can’t do that.

You’re gonna be coming out of the bays with the rest of us

[urban hemlock]

We should have had him deploy outside of the frigate fleet. Once we left the NPC shuttles.

If that would have been allowed

[astral obsidian]

Shack said no.

That’s when I asked about that solving our space issue with the frigates, and he said that was a no, but he’d let us squeeze in due to it

[dim thorn]

pouts

oh well, there goes that idea, lol

hm... two options we'll be facing: Bots have fully garrisoned and have the possible airfield spot in the western side locked, or they're over on the Eastern side

[proud siren]

Oops, got it backwards-

[urban hemlock]

I'm going to try to get their convoy to join ours so we can get as much Intel as possible, and any extra vehicles if they're willing to join

[proud siren]

Secret third option. The bots have the entirety of Crossroads garrisoned.

IMO, having locked down East Side with forward positions in the west is most likely.

[dim thorn]

indeed

[rocky anvil]

Absolutely

[dawn compass]

@urban hemlock where is rabbit planning to go?

Cross roads right?

[urban hemlock]

I don't believe we have a destination at the moment I just put up a vote

I saw what you said in Victorum though

[astral obsidian]

The current intention is Crossroads

[dawn compass]

I definitely can’t help you if you don’t have a destination

[astral obsidian]

The current location within crossroads is unknown, I think that’s what Warthog means

[wooden venture]

While I agree with out with current data on flight paths Rabbit should out run that fleet.

There in lies the problem. Current Data.

We have found two new flight paths in these last 4 rounds of fighting. We do not know if there is a hidden flight path from H-H to cross roads either.

I will let you guys work this out though.

[rose tiger]

Just wanna add in here if Cross Roads is to hotly contested Shovels will probably look for the second best spot to build it. So don’t over commit for it

[urban hemlock]

Understood

[dawn compass]

These new routes have only been added to single points
They aren’t new paths between locations

[proud siren]

2 new flight paths?

Federal Listening Post was a (single node) POI (to move along plot and stop all 10BGs form landing on the same point), yes.
What was the other?

[wooden venture]

I have been in the process of moving, and using my phone to keep updated. I will double check my data and get back if I miss count/remember.

[dawn compass]

But, if rabbit is worried about being intercepted. They can go to where we know enemy orbitals aren’t

Victorum isn’t fast or able to really be an escosrt

We can just respond if you run into something

Being the combat TF we have a lot of requests for airsupport.
We can’t cover everywhere people are worried about.

We however can respond if something bad happens

[wooden venture]

Yeah belay my last on that, I mis remembered. Less panic in the disco on that end. I will let you all discuss. As always toss us any possible requests. We haven't even begun to discuss Fluffles next move, other than last turn we planned to drop into low orbit on the mine we are at and scout it.

[wooden venture]

On a sidenote, if that is a enemy battleship.

I just pictured Primo Victoria would love a worthy opponent.

https://tenor.com/view/legendary-battle-worthy-opponent-finally-a-worthy-opponent-our-battle-will-be-legendary-gif-14616660

[rich salmon]

@wary cave @rancid idol Any specific plans/priorities once we drop? I will be most likely be going in under evasive.

[urban hemlock]

We could just land in the ground route to Elim City and send the frigates back to collect friendlys

[urban hemlock]

That's what I assume most people will be doing since we don't know what the area looks like yet.

We aren't sure if we're going to be hot dropping yet; but if we are, artillery may want to prepare to fire. If we're not hot dropping then they need to immediately board their vehicles aswell, same for all of our infantry and field support

[dawn compass]

We will. But we want to pick them off. It looks like they’re retreating to swarm Victorum. We could meet them at Ziyal if we wanted. But we seem like we’re going to look deeper into bot space

[rich salmon]

@urban hemlock sorry if this has already been asked, but can we land at Crossroads? Or are we landing at Elim City and then driving over there

[dawn compass]

For any Victorum questions pop back into the Victorum comms.
I’m always happy to have a ping.

[rich salmon]

I just realized we have no fleet over Crossroads yet, so maybe that question doesnt have a good answer yet

[urban hemlock]

We are currently still planning on heading to the crossroads we may need to make a new vote but we need to see what Victorum is planning to do. There's a few different routes that we can approach crossroads.

[astral obsidian]

Confirmed standard landing rules for the transports

[urban hemlock]

Are we still trying to land this turn?

[astral obsidian]

We can’t

T6 we can

As usual, it all depends on intel and what others are doing

[manic elm]

Now all I have is Sabaton’s song Primo Victoria playing in my head.

[wise turret]

Remember when I made the funny joke about there big some ultimate heavy mech that will wipe out half the BG turn 1?

I'm now very worried that's might be true

[wicked summit]

https://tenor.com/view/space-marine-for-the-emperor-into-the-fires-of-battle-warhammer-40k-join-me-brother-gif-17902993242544165360

[worthy cape]

Can we getninformaton from that convoy about where this construction is happening in crossroads?
If it's where we wanted our airfield that could be a big problem

[rancid idol]

I dont know. Once we drop I´ll have to see what the situation looks like.

Propably not digging in in any case.

[sturdy thorn]

One of the transports get vaporized with all hands the second we enter the AO

[forest otter]

Are we hitting the deck this round if so how long until orders need to be in?

[astral obsidian]

Orders due Sunday

[forest otter]

cool for deploying to the deck or still rp?

[astral obsidian]

Still RP, we can’t quite land this turn

But do make sure you do one, we’re enforcing it this turn to keep everyone engaged

[rancid idol]

Btw @urban hemlock, you're assigning Bailey as my vic then? My previoys vic was @wise turret so I wanna make sure we're all in the clear.

I'm open to change fyi if its makes things easier, just wanna make sure.

[urban hemlock]

No I was mistaken with that sorry for the confusion

[wicked summit]

Alright got my order in

[tired atlas]

What route are you guys taking to get to Crossroads?

Iron Hammer is going L-H this round and Crossroads the turn after. Are you going to be there first or at the same time (if things go to plan)

[urban hemlock]

We are attempting to head that way now but we are going from orbit, our path isn't set in stone yet because we're waiting to see Victorum's plan forst

[astral obsidian]

Either way I do think we will end up landing the same time y’all arrive

[tired atlas]

I guess the question is do people want to guarantee the groups arrive together by taking the same route or do you want to ensure someone makes it in 2 turns in case one group gets waylaid.

[astral obsidian]

I mean, we’re on our transports so we’re basically guaranteed

However, orbitals above crossroads would essentially prevent us from landing there

We’d have to go to another tile and then drive to crossroads

[rancid idol]

@wise turret any specific ideas you got for how we should operate?

[red spire]

HELLO RABBIT !

Sorry, said I'd give a shout here.

[astral obsidian]

https://tenor.com/view/smiling-cassian-andor-andor-smirk-pleased-gif-667447246046561056

[red spire]

Oh, you're here too, more informed then I am !

[vale barn]

Wait a minute, why are both medics on the same Frigate, what happened to not putting all of your eggs in on basket?

[astral obsidian]

We only have one medic

So that’s quite literally not possible

It’s just you

Unless there’s a phantom medic that I’ve somehow missed this entire time

Oh I think I see the confusion, it’s how I notated what Flower, the LV, is carrying

[vale barn]

Is flower not a medic?

Ohhhhhhhhh wait, Flower LV ,Medic Flower is a light vehicle carrying my medics. Riggggggght

[astral obsidian]

They are the LV you’re riding in

Sorry, that’s on me, didn’t notate it very clearly

[vale barn]

No it's okay, you did fine, I forgot what LV meant, I was too focused on looking at the "SS" XD

(With mild confusion)

[astral obsidian]

An unfortunate acronym

lol

[rose tiger]

You‘re not the only one 😅

[vale barn]

Does it stand for "Super Soldier"?

[vale barn]

One could also argue an unfortunate history.

[astral obsidian]

Small supply

[vale barn]

Small supply?

what about little box?

[astral obsidian]

I mean small supply is what the rules call it, want to try and make it as non confusing as possible

[vale barn]

[Hat, 25 SS]

https://tenor.com/view/the-cat-in-the-hat-i-got-nothing-i-dont-know-mike-myers-im-lost-gif-21119475

[urban hemlock]

I think flower might be flaking they're the only person that hasn't responded to me. I can Carry W medic if we need to

[mental isle]

Hey, I think one of your LMs made it to Elim early???

[astral obsidian]

Huh?

[astral obsidian]

You had me actually worried

That’s just the BG mascot, we weren’t able to stop her from going ahead

[mental isle]

Otherwise, just hopping in to say we're happy to refill your logi-trucks any time we're in the same AO, its Atlas' primary function.

[urban hemlock]

We may need to change that, out of everyone I added they're the only one that seems to be flat out giving up

[astral obsidian]

No response at all?

I probably shouldn’t carry them, I do plan to do quite a bit of long range scouting

[urban hemlock]

Im mainly worried about doing it because I may do a risky charge into the enemy with our medics aboard but they can ride with me if they want to

I have a feeling you'll be a safer trip

@eternal eagle @manic elm would either of you like to carry our medic their driver is flaking

[dim thorn]

please have one of our TacComms spam me in DMs when orders for us actually landing open up, i'm rather busy these days

[urban hemlock]

I will

[astral obsidian]

Do submit one if you haven’t at all this round

We’re enforcing it this round

You’ll be counted as MIA otherwise

[vernal brook]

This is a new round of orders, right? Even if we posted an RP one before?

[urban hemlock]

Yes

[vernal brook]

Sounds good

[sturdy thorn]

I guess I’ll post an order tomorrow then because I gotta sleep

Can’t believe they’re making me do stuff in the campaign now

[wary sand]

The construction happening in the crossroads is the airfield. We can build it and fortifications the turn our engies arrive. -shovels

[vernal brook]

Wait so the bots are building their own airfield?

If we can take it that would be hilarious

[astral obsidian]

That’s just not true

We do not know what the bots are building

[astral obsidian]

We do not know anything about it

[vernal brook]

Still if we can capture whatever they're building that would be fun

[astral obsidian]

Hopefully

[wary sand]

I misunderstood, i thought “the construction” was a reference to the shovels coming in to construct an airfield. Not the bots, my bad.

[manic elm]

I would if he’s still available to be taken.

[urban hemlock]

That would be very helpful

[manic elm]

Yeah, no problem. What’s their unit name so I can use it in the RP?

[dim thorn]

W Medics, or something like that

Iirc

[hollow brook]

I wait diligently for the RP.

[wise turret]

Very much comes down to what we find during 1st turn

[astral obsidian]

Hey Rabbits!

Our Turn 4 RP/check in orders are due TODAY, at <t:1751839200:R>

If you do not submit an order you will be counted as MIA.

Those who I ping are the ones who still need to submit orders:
@lunar lark
@limber tusk
@raven ermine
@quartz parrot
@shrewd pine
@verbal moat
@rotund surge
@kind fox
@restive nimbus
@vale barn

[worthy cape]

oof could be 10 men down before we even start. hope thats not the case

[wise turret]

Nah a cheeky ping will wake most of em up

prob be 2 down my guess

[sturdy thorn]

Let’s hope everyone wakes up

[dim thorn]

indeed

Disappears into the Sands of Arrakis

[mental isle]

Y'all got this one here? None of Atlas is nearby

[astral obsidian]

Huh?

We’re not in Elim or going to be in Elim

[mental isle]

Oh, my bad, meant for Redwall

[sturdy thorn]

silly

[restive nimbus]

Ooof I'm late... Is everything alright?

We still on hold right

[silk echo]

ATREIDES!!

[restive nimbus]

That is for 6 hours.. or 6 o'clock regional time... I'm cooked in the brain 😅

The ping

[dim thorn]

Actually, I prefer Harkonnen, but only because their shit look awesome AF...but the Atreides uniform does look niiiiiice

[silk echo]

the harkonned planet has amazing vibes. reminds me of layer 7 from ultrakill

but yeah, the atreides uniform is SWEET

[astral obsidian]

6 remain without orders

[urban hemlock]

I'm going to start dming people

[kind fox]

I'm here- gimme a minute.

[urban hemlock]

I'm glad to see you're here. This would have been a lot harder without you

I know insafe is good for it too. I think he was just confused with all this transport we have to do

[astral obsidian]

5 remain. I'm not optimistic about Flower

[urban hemlock]

Yeah they talk to me and said they're they aren't exactly interested in it. I've been dming everyone

I'm pretty sure Riot wants to, but he's got a full-time job and full-time college so he's probably just busy

[astral obsidian]

Okay, they're confirmed MIA and off the list

Flower that is

[urban hemlock]

Yeah I know insafe wants to

Yesterday our medic was talking with us so I don't see why they wouldn't want to. They just didn't get the memo that they needed to post orders

Same with insafe

Then after that all we're missing is Crux right?

[astral obsidian]

The Medic

[urban hemlock]

I dm'd them too, but I don't think they're at their discord

Wolf commando I believe

[astral obsidian]

Indeed

[urban hemlock]

They still have 3 hours right?

[rose tiger]

Just the reminder you can accept orders after deadline if you feel like you have the time. Did the same for Shovels

[urban hemlock]

Well that's good

I was hoping there'd be some leniency

Last campaign I had to go to the hospital and they didn't let me on my phone so

It would have really sucked if I lost the game just because I couldn't access my discord

[rose tiger]

Just shouldn’t be the norm and is your decision

[astral obsidian]

4

[astral obsidian]

Indeed

[rose tiger]

Tbf right now there is the luxury of time

[astral obsidian]

Our map is not super complex and is just a strategic movement, so this is gonna be the one round where it can slide

[urban hemlock]

Yeah, as much as I hate being strict, I'm definitely going to have to drop people if they're not reporting for my turns

Because my maps are going to be a lot more complex and if Shack misses them then well they're just not getting in I guess

[rose tiger]

Got one player completely MIA too. Worst thing they are a vtol who we needed for full self deployment. Lucky that 212 had room

[astral obsidian]

Dang. Unlucky

[urban hemlock]

Yeah if our logistics cut out we could be boned

[rose tiger]

On the other side another person that is MIA with notice (without signal till mid July). 212 to the rescue again

And that was fine since I knew about it from the start

[urban hemlock]

Hey, even Shack posted their orders not a minute ago so keep your hopes up lol

If I ever managed to DM a campaign that Shack attends with the endurance. I want to have a rival support ship with the captain titled Eel O'Neal lol

[rose tiger]

Feels weird having him as a player again 😅😂

[urban hemlock]

Just because the amount of times my voice to text has corrected Shack to Shaq

[urban hemlock]

Especially since he's the DM

[rose tiger]

Does the Endurance have crew members or is it just Shack?

[urban hemlock]

he's a drop ship so he may have already deployed his crew

[astral obsidian]

Okay folks it’s serious

Two missed rounds in a row and you’re out of here

[urban hemlock]

ok that's a bit easier to deal with, just dont go missing for a full week

please post orders every turn though

[shrewd pine]

hey i feel like fucking ass right now can you just mark me as present

please i dom’t tjimk i can thpe an order in three hours

[astral obsidian]

You responded so you’re all good, hope you feel better man

[urban hemlock]

Never feel pressured to do an entire role-played order, there are a lot of new players this game as well. So there's going to be plenty of people who just post bare Bones orders

[shrewd pine]

nah like indon’t teven. think i can cooy padte rn

[urban hemlock]

Oh fair

Well good luck to you

[shrewd pine]

woke up sick and morningd atre the worst ror illness

good luck rabbits

[urban hemlock]

Oh hell, well please drink plenty of water and get plenty of rest.

[manic elm]

Putting order in basically now.

[urban hemlock]

I should probably make the formation for rabbit based on one of the things that Shack just said

[astral obsidian]

Better safe than sorry, even if we aren’t landing yet

[urban hemlock]

That's the thing right now. Our formation is just five freighters flying through space

Atm

I'll see what I can do

[astral obsidian]

We’ll also see if us being above gives us a map

Judging from comments, I don’t think so

[urban hemlock]

It also sounds like the bots are building something there so shack's not going to want to unveil that until we assault it

Just speaking from a dramatic point of view

Hopefully that vehicle convoy can give us some information

[worthy cape]

Has someone made a proper order requesting information from that convoy?

Knowing where this construction is seems important

[urban hemlock]

That was the first thing I did when the orders got dropped

[astral obsidian]

Jackrabbit did, and we’ll see if putting it on the tacmap gets it any attention

[urban hemlock]

I've been pretty sparse with orders recently because I've been trying to focus on taccom situations, but that seemed mandatory

I swear I'll stop adding to the playlist eventually lol

[woven spindle]

Nah, the playlist really sets the mood for when I'm catching up on what's been going on, 10/10 idea. Appreciated

[astral obsidian]

@vale barn @limber tusk you two are the only ones without orders.

If you do not submit this week and then not next week, you will be counted MIA for the campaign and receive zero pay.

[vale barn]

Uh, can I get a map?

[astral obsidian]

There’s no map this round

We’re still onboard transport

[vale barn]

Then I uh... Check Medical supplies, and make sure everyone has some light bandages?

[astral obsidian]

Submit an order please

[astral obsidian]

You can just copy the template, fill your info in, and put N/A for most things

[vale barn]

Rodger Rodger

Wait uh, I mean....
Yes sir?

[vale barn]

For current location, should I put that I am in Frigate three or that I am in Rabbit Frigate three?

[astral obsidian]

Doesn’t really matter either works

[vale barn]

Aight

(Did you get my joke earlier?)

[astral obsidian]

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-rex-captain-roger-gif-19584908

[vale barn]

https://tenor.com/view/clanker-live-clanker-reaction-funny-star-wars-meme-gif-11113166429984925562

[astral obsidian]

So just Crux is left

All orders in but 1 is pretty good. I’ll take that. Not counting the person who tapped out

[rich salmon]

Yipee

[wicked summit]

who tapped out

[astral obsidian]

Flower, one of the LVs

So we’re down to 6

[wicked summit]

gotchaa

[astral obsidian]

If memory serves

[urban hemlock]

Hopefully Crux speaks up

[astral obsidian]

Well orders are closed, and I’m going to make the map tonight (even though nobody is on it)

They received several pings and a DM judging by what you said

No more chances

[stable ginkgo]

Was i too late to submit?

[astral obsidian]

No you’re good

I counted your previous order to be safe

We’ve not been on a strict schedule

Now we are

[stable ginkgo]

ok, thank yo Rex!

[astral obsidian]

Tis our job to keep this rabble coordinated

[stable ginkgo]

I can still edit for rp purposes correct

[astral obsidian]

editing isn’t allowed on combat orders

So get into a habit of no editing

[stable ginkgo]

ah

[urban hemlock]

strue

The last person to add music to the playlist added it a month ago. I can't believe we've been in these freighters for a month lol jkjk

[limber tusk]

I didn't receive a dm and both pings were today but understood.

[astral obsidian]

Ah well @urban hemlock thought you did that but all good

[astral obsidian]

As long as you are present next round, you're good

[urban hemlock]

I did

He should be done though he'll just be mia for this round

[limber tusk]

I didn't receive any notification nor did it appear on any list, clicking on your profile and then messages shows me what seems like a regular message with this on the bottom.

[dim thorn]

hit accept DM ob that, means he tried to DM you, but your settings sent it to "Message Requests" instead

[limber tusk]

I have never seen message requests before, didn't even know that existed.

[urban hemlock]

oh I see

[dim thorn]

honestly, it is a relatively new feature

[woven spindle]

Armco has been a bit of a crash course in how Discord works tbh

[mental isle]

Heya, doing some pre-coordinating with 212. Are you all headed to crossroads this turn or next?

[astral obsidian]

We'll be in high orbit over Crossroads this turn. Next turn we land.

[mental isle]

copy, thanks!

Atlas, 212, Shovels, and Iron Hammer will be right behind you

[astral obsidian]

Tac-Map is submitted

[mental isle]

When the time comes, if you need to dock to Atlas for supply/repairs/whatever...
Atlas ATC

[fallen spoke]

https://tenor.com/view/mechwarrior-battletech-gif-10658808

[wise turret]

https://tenor.com/view/patlabor-mecha-anime-robot-mech-gif-4686850035808044730

[wicked summit]

https://tenor.com/view/star-citizen-crusader-industries-tanks-nova-gif-25674311

[urban hemlock]

https://tenor.com/view/halo-halo-game-halo-wars-warthog-halo-warthog-gif-13467779305201486557

[dim thorn]

that'd be Storm

[dim thorn]

that's more like us, lol

[stable ginkgo]

https://tenor.com/view/b52-nuclear-bomber-gif-7970221868193675634

[wise phoenix]

https://tenor.com/view/suma-gif-16257598894995243798

[verbal moat]

Where we dropping boys??

[urban hemlock]

Hopefully crossroads

[sturdy thorn]

Tomato town

[fallen spoke]

Question: will we get a somewhat more updated map of Crossroads prior to the next orders due date?

[rose tiger]

Depends if the transports have scanners right?

[astral obsidian]

Unknown. I doubt it

It’ll likely be deployment by formation for us

[rose tiger]

That will be interesting

Maybe IH will spot sth already from L-H

[fallen spoke]

I'm not expecting a detailed view of individual units. But if there's a building missing or a giant ass AA gun you could see from low orbit, that would be useful information to have on approach.

[astral obsidian]

We’ll just see what Shack gives us

[sturdy thorn]

I for one just hope we don’t get dropped into several overlapping lanes of fire

[fallen spoke]

https://tenor.com/view/unspeakable-violence-unspeakable-violence-gif-25206571

[wise turret]

I for one hope that we do all the kills and all the glory

[red spire]

You guys are airlifted ?

[forest otter]

looks like we've got some targets

[sturdy thorn]

We got shuttles

Think i’ll die if I attempt to drop right onto one of those mystery structures?

[vernal brook]

Ohh those look like factories

Anyone bring extra explosives? Lol

[mental isle]

You think you're gonna need any reinforcements other than the 3BGs coming in?

[wary cave]

“valhalla i am coming”

[mental isle]

we're discussing "Mass Airstrike then Leave"

[vernal brook]

Tbf im not sure if any of those questions marks are civilians, or, worse for you, anti air

[wary cave]

Seems like grid 3918** would be defensible, if we can land safely and clear it.. do we plan on setting up a FOB?

[vernal brook]

Putting the map in here so people dont have to flip back and forth

[vernal brook]

I like 3917 using the mountain to block us some and getting an extra hex away from whatever that big question mark is

Only downside is it's pretty open for infantry

[wise phoenix]

3817 is also a good place if we get some cover from buildings (can someone confirm), also allows to move to 3818 to peek / flank

[kindred imp]

do note iron hammer is comming in from the northwest