Battlegroup 12 - Iron Hammer: Comms

[hazy radish]

I'd ping one for them to explain it to you, but both are (probably) asleep.

Fucking timezones.

[left thistle]

Wtf?

Where tf did that come from lmao

[hazy radish]

from you ? xD

[left thistle]

Not intentionally 😭

Hence the confusion lol

I mean yeah, where do you think the extra order of 24 toolboxes came from

[hazy radish]

OH GOD DANGIT.

See, this is why we have logistical issues in Armco.

[topaz ravine]

Also you guys owe like half a million in credit card debt

Something about 50000 cigarettes being put on the BG card

[hazy radish]

What ?!

God dangit

[left thistle]

Don’t worry boss, I’ve got a fool proof solution

We open more credit cards to pay off the previous ones!

It’s like infinite money!

[hazy radish]

https://tenor.com/view/lion-king-scar-surrounded-by-idiots-ugh-gif-5742293

[eager lichen]

We are literally splitting STORM to get more flexibility - I think the Logi BG will help.

(Mostly because new coherency rules stop you from sending just 1 person back to grab supplies - you want supplies, the entire BG needs to leave the strategic point.)

Wish you could just pop 1 person back to get supplies, but RAW, you need to send an entire BG - Logi BG is specifically to allow them to rotate through different battlefields.

Quaternary.

[left thistle]

Ahhhhhh that’s what it was! Many thanks friend!

[hazy radish]

Ay thanks for making a better argument for 'em then I can.

[hazy radish]

Quartermary me ? 👉 👈 🥺

[eager lichen]

... what are you offering?

[hazy radish]

uh

Hammers ?

[median epoch]

Y'all getting an HVTOL?

[hazy radish]

We have an HVTOL, yes.

Name's Hunter. Very nice fellow that "stole" my tank in C3 :D

[median epoch]

Hell yea. Won't need to land the ship to deploy your MBC. We've got room for them to dock as needed too.

[hazy radish]

MBC?

[median epoch]

MBT* sorry, just woke up

[hazy radish]

it's alright

[median epoch]

MBC is the orbital version. Same cannon, just in space.

And NBC is a news broadcasting network XD

[hazy radish]

Ah, okay xD

[rigid oar]

I find it funny that a VTOL can only hold 6 people not counting pilots.

[hazy radish]

It's a smoll VTOL

But it does hold supply at the same time so, that explains that.

[rigid oar]

That’s fair. We need to get R&R to work on increasing VTOL size up. I doubt their is going to be 1 transport per infantry squad and maybe it would encourage more VTOL players. Also having a logi BG and not using it to give logi to other BG is funny.

[hazy radish]

R&R ?

OH research and development

Man, there's so many acronyms it's hard to keep track tbh 🤣

[median epoch]

(R&D)*

[hazy radish]

That'd be nice to have more vtol transport tho yeah.

Like sacrificing supply for infantry, something amongst thoses lines as an upgrade maybe.

And the goal of the logi BG is to have more agency and freedom and not be confined to one singular BG 👀

[left thistle]

Honestly an upgrade that expands carry capacity at the expense of supply and a bit of speed would be pretty useful and balanced imo

[median epoch]

I could imagine dropping 1 armor for the ability to carry 2 squads

either a VTOL retrofit, or a HAT upgrade

[left thistle]

Though ig at that point we’re kinda encroaching into the role HATs are meant to play idk

[hazy radish]

Due to this you shall be thrown to the frontline in first, glory to Iron Hammer

[agile fiber]

I'm happy with my BG (Dwarf Fortress) and am I one of the shiny ones 👉 👈 🥺

[rigid oar]

But the only problem with that is realistically you are creating a BG for logi to then assign those logi to other BG’s which is basically having logi in those BG’s with extra steps. The only reason why having a logi BG would be better is if you need to call back a lot of LOGI at once and then use it for something together but I don’t know how often that happens.

The VTOL upgrade idea is cool though.

[hazy radish]

13 PAI... Hmmm... Maybe a tad shiny, but not as much as ODT or HVTOL 👀

[median epoch]

They can increase the speed of BGs if they carry them

[mighty osprey]

Also if the HVTOL had a infantry box that would be a lot of carry capacity

[median epoch]

Logi-trucks can carry 5x infantry units

[hazy radish]

The thing that's way more practical is flexibility, too.

Like, if for some reason BG X needs help because their logi are fucked, but the only groups nearby are ones who can't spare logi, there doesn't need to be a whole BG or TF dedicated to combat that moves there, you can just move the dedicated logi BG there to help.

[agile fiber]

I'm not a PAI. I'm a Light Mech with Mech-Jump Jets 👉 👈

[hazy radish]

Or fighters for rearming, they don't need to wait 47 turns for their BG to pull back at the single airport to rearm and in the mean time have to wait and do nothing, if they're in the logi BG, they can just pull back more easily since they (normally) shall not be on the frontlines.

[hazy radish]

Ooohhhh

YEAH TURTLE II

I REMEMBER THAT NAME

YOU WERE IN THE CITADEL IN C3 RIGHT ?

BESIDES SKY81 !

[agile fiber]

yes

[hazy radish]

YEEEEEEEEEEES

How have you been dude ?! :D

[sleek cedar]

This is just part of theory crafting, but if the HVTOL was able to (which they aren't because I think Bonus Pay is different than req points) get the inf box we could high risk cram the medics and an engi into it, leaving us to need only one more VTOL or IFV to be speed two.

[agile fiber]

good

[hazy radish]

Nice. :D

[hazy radish]

True, but I don't think it's worth it imo. Speed 1 is fine in my eyes.

[hazy radish]

Otherwise: Light mech is not shiny sadly.

Good to see you back Turtle II tho.

[agile fiber]

noooooo 🥺

[hazy radish]

Wonder where sky81's gone.

[rigid oar]

Does the entire BG need to move as one constantly?

[hazy radish]

Yes, unit coherency.

Basically, one BG/TF can only be on one tactical map/one point at a time.

[eager lichen]

There's already been complaints about VTOLs being too OP-

[hazy radish]

So for exemple, if we all are in Emil City, and we decided to move to another point BUT we are not all ready to move there (because, let's say, infantry is behind), one of 2 things happen:

1. We wait for our infantry to be able to move with them
2. We move anyways, killing the infantry left behind immediatly.

So, move as one.

If I'm clear

[agile fiber]

Not said a word since 26-10-2024 😔

[hazy radish]

I've thrown a ping in #meta-comm, I am very hopefull for him to come back 🙏

[rigid oar]

Ok I was unaware of that. In that case then yes it does make sense because thats how you would have to do it. Kinda a strange way of doing it but i understand for simplicity sake why it is the way it is.

[solar bear]

Morning... What did I miss??

[eager lichen]

... Nope.

[hazy radish]

We got a HVTOL, Hunter.

[solar bear]

I understand the reason for this ruling... I don't like it...

[solar bear]

Nice...

[hazy radish]

Neither do I, but it's for the best I guess.

[agile fiber]

Hunter my man 😃

[hazy radish]

I presume you already have a BG aswell turtle ? x)

[mighty osprey]

I feel like there is a way to make it less frustrating for people and the Gems both, but we’re funna have to wait till v6 to look into that I guess

[agile fiber]

Yes Dwarf Fortress (BG 4)

[left tapir]

Tbh, the solution is probably just to put all the units left behind on a reinforcement table like with enemy units.

[hazy radish]

Yeah, but that can get annoying to keep track off really quickly.

[topaz ravine]

My understanding is that the unit only declared MIA and if they begin to submit orders again they are readded to the BG

[left thistle]

I think if it’s to/from neutral/friendly territory we can kinda just move to another point regardless of where our units are on the tac-map fast-travel style, no?

[solar bear]

This puts the BG in a position of, if you have one unit that is AFK or that miss the timeline, chosing between the entirety of the BG not playing the game or killing of that unit and the person coming back just to discover that his unit is dead...

[hazy radish]

Yeah, if we don't have a battlemap, moving is fine.

[mighty osprey]

Oh I agree, I don’t like the rule either, it greatly limits what a lot of BGs are able to do and hinders a lot of cool ideas

[rigid oar]

Thats Honestly the real reason. With an event as big as this they want to simplify as much as they can to make it run smoothly.

[solar bear]

Is not that difficult...

[rigid oar]

Like the idea that your logi can go back to base and return to you would be cool but it then opens up the questions of "What if my unit wants to go scout they next area?" or so on and so forth which gets into tracking different battlegroups in different areas. I could understand a rule for logi units like VTOL's that was like "If the logi unit leaves the map it can return at the start of the next map you move to" kinda thing (Not fully thought out) to not overcomplicate the idea of sending logi back on its own. But again even if it seems simple having to do that for every BG might scale the complexity to a level they dont want to deal with.

[hazy radish]

Yeah...

Keepin' it simple and seeing for improvements next time after having actually ran the gauntlet

[muted eagle]

We got a HVTOL? Not gonna complain or anything but... When did we get a HVTOL? Did I miss something? 😅

[hazy radish]

Yeah, this mornin'

Or uh

Uhm

7 hours ago.

Yeah, timezones.

[solar bear]

I found our old gdoc...

[hazy radish]

hahaha

good stuff 🤣

[median epoch]

It's annoying to have to have that happen yea.

The game is gonna have 500ish players though, and asking 499 to wait another 3 days because one person didn't check in once over a three day period is pretty ridiculous.

[hazy radish]

...yeah, it's gonna be tough

[solar bear]

@hazy radish Now the order tracker is FULLY AUTOMATED

[hazy radish]

howthefu-

Perks of having you back I guess.

What does the formula do ?

[solar bear]

We don't need to change the formula EVERY SINGLE FKING TURN***...

[hazy radish]

👉 👈

[solar bear]

The formula now scan column B to see if has a name, then scan column D for the "Alive" status... If both are true them it counts for the total for of orders...

[hazy radish]

woah.

neat.

[solar bear]

I still have the problem that, if someone die on turn 3, will affect turn 1 and 2 numbers... Will see who I can fix this...

[hazy radish]

eh, we'll manage eventually

that's a problem for us in like 3 weeks.

[solar bear]

2 actually...

[hazy radish]

Maybe...

If we make like a statement

When the check is not checked, it returns "N/A", if it is checked, it returns "Valid"

Since when a person is MIA/KIA, I will remove the checkboxes, we can say that "if there is no checkbox, then remove 1"

Something like that, no ?

Like if "empty" then "-1" or something like that ?

maybe?

[solar bear]

Is doing that to grab the first number...

[mighty osprey]

just realized we can transport Large Supply now

[solar bear]

??

[mighty osprey]

HVTOL

they can cary Large Supply

[solar bear]

Ooohh

I forgot about that...

[hazy radish]

what ?

we can ? huh ?

[mighty osprey]

not sure if thats useful to us at all but we can do it

[hazy radish]

wait wait

don't we need like an engineer to put it on ?

...what would we even use large supply for ? 🤣

[old lark]

Drop it on an enemy MBT platoon. It's gotta weigh, like, a few dozens of tons right?

[hazy radish]

And could he carry and a large supply and a vehicle ?

[eager lichen]

Helping make sure that the airfield stays running?

[eager lichen]

"or"

So not both at the same time.

[hazy radish]

...i'm reading and

[eager lichen]

eyes

Ignore my bad memory, then.

But it implies that the stuff is going in an internal cargo bay, so...

[hazy radish]

scratches head

This is a whole question then.

[old lark]

Gonna point out that if it's "and" then it means that six small supplies or two squads of infantry are exactly equal to the volume of one large supply plus a vehicle.

The description is just listing the sorts of things it can carry, not the carrying capacity

[mighty osprey]

yeah im pretty sure its supposed to be or

[rigid oar]

Yeah i think its just saying you can carry vehicles and heavy objects but not both at once.

[hazy radish]

Seems like a fair assesment then.

so now do we want to carry a large supply ?

[rigid oar]

What does that do for us? as opposed to carrying a vehicle?

[hazy radish]

...dunno

Supply Flow…
Large Supply - Carried by Orbitals. Used to Supply Orbital Taskforces and Ground HQ’s
-Using 1 Large Supply in an Orbital Taskforce marks the taskforce as “Supplied” for 2 rounds. When “Supplied” taskforce / HQ has the following effect.
Logistical Units can Pull Small / Medium Supply
Units can reload / rearm / repair from appropriate bays. (Mechs from Mech Bay, Aerospace from hangers..ect)
Onboard orbital weapons can be reloaded.

...nothing ?

scratches head

[iron arrow]

don't airfields need ls to function or something

i heard that somewhere

[eager lichen]

Wait, FOUND IT!

It is "or"

[mighty osprey]

pretty sure they do, the biggest thing is where we get the LS from

[iron arrow]

couldn't we carry that around and then drop it for flying shovels when they put up their airbase

so just an instant full airbase turn 2 or 3 or whatever

[hazy radish]

We could

but

flying shovels is setting up at crossroads

[solar bear]

That is not bad idea...

[hazy radish]

so that means Hunter will need to carry a large supply for Elim and L-H

For... a good amount of turns

...is it really worth it ?

[iron arrow]

so are we?

[hazy radish]

yes, but it'll take time for us to get there

My point is that it might just render Hunter useless if he takes a large supply ?

Unless he can land, drop the large supply, then can go and help, then need to take it back again before moving

It feels like a big hassle for not much tbh

[iron arrow]

i mean if hunter is cool with just using the d2 pew pew gun for 3 turns or so

[hazy radish]

Especially since flying shovels already got plenty of hats for LS.

[eager lichen]

Can't start with an LS - I mean you pop to orbit for 1 turn.

[hazy radish]

Oh, you can't ?

[eager lichen]

"You need an LS to build the Airfield to land the HATs with the LS" problem-

[eager lichen]

Shack said no starting with LS, at least for this campaign.

[hazy radish]

guess that's one issue solved then.

[mighty osprey]

why would that render Hunter useless?

[iron arrow]

so ig someone ask hunter and if they're cool with it then time to proposition flying shovels

[hazy radish]

If he takes a large supply then that makes him unable to come and help move mechanized around if need be ?

[hazy radish]

Yeah but then where'd we get the large supply from then. 🤔

We can't spawn with it inside apparently.

[mighty osprey]

ah yeah

[iron arrow]

i'm sure someone won't mind donating one for an airbase

.....definitely

[rigid oar]

I'm sure everyone else has supplies for airbases to spare

[hazy radish]

well, definitely a whole bunch to figure out

but first thing

@simple elm AYO apparently you can carry large supply, you'd up for carrying one for flying shovels eventually ?

We'd figure out the "when" and "where the large supply comin' from" eventually. Maybe. Hopefully.

[solar bear]

Unfortunately we don't have engineers with the capability to build FOB's, so the LS is not that useful...

[rigid oar]

Does the other BG that will be at crossroads have enough engineers? We could bring for them

[steady zephyr]

9

[hazy radish]

yeah, flying shovels got plenty of engis lol

[left tapir]

Concatenate function used! Gaming!

[left tapir]

Unless we get an HQ wherever we set up, there’s not really much point…

FOBs are… medium supplies still, right?

[hazy radish]

There's an airfield getting set up in crossroads where we're gonna be

flying shovels is workin' on it

[left tapir]

Those aren’t HQ structures, are they?

[hazy radish]

I think so ? They need large supply I recon

[left tapir]

I’m going to have to fully reread everything in the v5 ruleset

Skimming has steered me wrong

[hazy radish]

Maybe ? Could always go ask the ones in question.

[left tapir]

You were correct, they are Large-Supply.

[hazy radish]

Ayyyyyyyyyy

See, this is why you read the stuff that's on your dynamites MG.

Something something, 3 meters security perimeter, something something.

[left tapir]

I will unlock the most powerful Jutsu, placing landmines BEFORE the structure so they bypass regulations.

[hazy radish]

inb4 HATs exploding suddenly when they land 🤣

[hazy radish]

"K-boom, be it allies or ennemies, I want boom :)"

[left tapir]

As long as we don’t actually get cited and/or court-martialed for our offenses, the CO doesn’t have to know.

[hazy radish]

the midrounds would be fabulous

...but so would the repercussions 🤣

[left tapir]

Exactly as Sherman intended

[hazy radish]

[Pin Placeholder]

[eager lichen]

FoBs use medium
HQ use large

@left tapir

[eager lichen]

Shack adds a "can't be built within 1 unit of an active minefield" clause.

[eager lichen]

"An engineer walked over the mines while setting up the Airfield. All units constructing the airfield take damage, Lose 1LS, all airfield construction lost. Airfield cannot be constructed in current location.

[dim plaza]

What does "Status" mean in the Googledoc ?

[hazy radish]

...good question

Think I put that in so you can write in "need repairs" or "KIA/MIA" eventually if it happens

Or "need ammo" etc

Didn't think too hard on it tbh

[dim plaza]

oh okay. That would make sense.

[hazy radish]

yup

[dim plaza]

I mean when i get home from work i also don´t read 400+ Messages in the coms chat. That would make it easy for a quick overview

[hazy radish]

Yeah xD

We tend to speak a lot in here :)

Just don't be afraid to ask what's happening really

[dim plaza]

i have noticed 😛 I dont mind it at all. I will just ask for a quick sitrep every other day to stay on top of things 😅

[hazy radish]

Yup, that's fine ^^

[muted eagle]

What happened while I wasn't looking 😅

[hazy radish]

WE DIED

ALL 17 OF US

https://tenor.com/view/crying-emoji-dies-gif-21956120

[muted eagle]

Huh

[hazy radish]

Just joking, nothing much, debate on HVTOL being able to carry large supply.

[muted eagle]

Ah

[rigid oar]

And what we would even do with large supply if we took it.

[hazy radish]

answer: give it to flying shovels

[median epoch]

Us. Task Forces start with a combination of Large Supply and Battlegroups.

[hazy radish]

one problem solved

[median epoch]

Atlas has 17 cargo space, which means 17 Large Supply, -4 for carrying y'all in (worth it)

Our two biggest ships are essentially heavy freighters

If HVTOL wants to be on that "supply/logistics" stuff, they'd be welcome to join Atlas, we've got an extra VTOL bay slot open.

[hazy radish]

So far he hasn't said anything x)

[iron arrow]

Right MBT unit proposed because just the VTOL and engi were practical and made sense so i couldn't allow it

[hazy radish]

?

What do you mean @iron arrow ?

[iron arrow]

I added an MBT unit to my company is what i mean

[hazy radish]

OH okay

x)

You gave me hope of a second MBT for our group for a second...

[iron arrow]

Wre have 4 days, there's still a chance

[hazy radish]

One can only hope. 🙏

[simple elm]

Yeah sure

[median epoch]

Phase 2: Build an airport, is gonna go well 😄

[median epoch]

FYI:
TF2-Atlas has picked up a Medical Corvette with a VTOL bay.
If your medics are too busy, you can send your overflow to us when we're in the AO.

This also means than if we're carrying you, you can deploy most of your units direct from space if you want, giving you tons of freedom on how to deploy once we see maps.

[hazy radish]

TF2-Atlas has picked up a Medical Corvette with a VTOL bay.
oh, neat.

[iron arrow]

@hazy radishOhh yeah should give you a heads uop too

[hazy radish]

👀

[iron arrow]

If we don't get past 21 ppl by the 20th i'm hopping on atlas's drop pod ship for the initial elim insertion so you could recruit a 21st person then

[hazy radish]

oh

[iron arrow]

thought i'd give you a heads up

[hazy radish]

b-but then

my rare armcomon

and you're the first guy that joined

man this is emotional news

how am I supposed to cope with this ?

[iron arrow]

wha- no

[hazy radish]

man is it me ???

have I done something wrong ???

[iron arrow]

i'm not leaving

[hazy radish]

IS IT THAT NEW HAMMER I BOUGHT ???

DO YOU NOT LIKE IT ANYMORE ?????????

🤣

[hazy radish]

More seriously: That is okay

[iron arrow]

no french calm down

[hazy radish]

I'm just playing with ya because I find the context funny lol

[iron arrow]

oh it was a joke

[hazy radish]

Yeah

[iron arrow]

whew

[hazy radish]

Sorry yeah, text sarcasm is hard.

I get it it's fine

But yeah getting on atlas so you can be their 4th ODT and get use out of your ODT if we're 20/20 and we can get a 21st is all right in my eyes

[median epoch]

For the record, you'd have to join atlas crew to lower Hammer's roster count.
Even when you're in Hammer, you can still use the drop pods to deploy.

[hazy radish]

Just thought I'd poke some fun because haha funni jokes.

[hazy radish]

?

and now i'm confused

did I not understand what sven said ?

i think my headache is impeding me.

[iron arrow]

I thought the ship with a drop bay and the ship with 20 free cargo were different ones though?

[median epoch]

There's two paths:
A: Join Atlas Crew, and you can use our Drop pods multiple times. We'd have to come pick you up to move from one zone to another.

B: Stay with Hammer, and you can use our Drop pods to be deployed alongside the rest of your group

We can almost deploy everyone from space using our combined planes, VTOLs, and pods

[median epoch]

doesn't matter. If you're part of a BG that's in our Fleet, you can use any of the ship's drop pods

[iron arrow]

Option B cdefinitely but if i'm on your drop pod ship i'm not taking up space or transport elswhere right

[median epoch]

correct!

(though if you hit 21 people, and want to switch, that option works too)

[hazy radish]

uhhhhh

so our limit is 21 instead of 20 thanks to Sven being a wonderfull, beautifull, lickable rare ODT ?

am I getting this right ?

[median epoch]

no, the limit is still 20

[hazy radish]

fuk.

[median epoch]

if you hit 21, Sven can switch to bring you back down to 20

[hazy radish]

okay.

[median epoch]

and he'll still be able to drop with us, but he'd have to stay with the fleet instead of the Hammers

[hazy radish]

but that would be a permanent switch to Atlas if that were to happen then ?

[median epoch]

yea

[hazy radish]

okay

I got it

@iron arrow you understand too ?

[iron arrow]

Yep

[hazy radish]

good

so, if I get this correctly

if we 21
then sven switch permanently to atlas, so we 20, but you still drop with us

yes ?

GOOD.

WEW.

And on this masterfull stroke of genius for a headache-induced brain, which is just a regular thought for a regular brain idk you do the conversions guys, I'm going to sleep 😅

[iron arrow]

Sleep well boss

!

[hazy radish]

Thanks

[mighty osprey]

do yall have any heavy drop pods?

[median epoch]

yup

we've got our own mechs tho

[mighty osprey]

darn :\

[median epoch]

we're still figuring out if it's faster to deploy from the spaceport or drop in the 2nd wave.

first wave drop is definitely the fastest

[mighty osprey]

ye

[mighty osprey]

Just realized campaign starts Saturday

[charred swift]

Hey guys, so I'm new, had a friend recommend you guys as a Battlegroup to join. Are you looking for any Light Mech's?

[storm void]

It's my fault

[left thistle]

I think everyone else is asleep (I should be too lol) but yes! Welcome!!!!

We don’t have much of a plan atm aside from “go to crossroads” but check out our bg spreadsheet in pinned messages, and if you like what you see feel free to sign up!

[median epoch]

They've got room! Use the doc to sign up

[left thistle]

All are welcome!

[charred swift]

Consider me recruited o7

[solar bear]

Welcome... I as playing R6 didn't notice the message...

[hazy radish]

Welcome in!

Who's that friend who recommended us? Just wondering 👀

[charred swift]

oh it was @storm void

[hazy radish]

Ay, nice

Y'know

I have a slight feeling

That he eithers likes, or come from texas

I wonder why... 🤔

@glad hedge

[glad hedge]

Once In Hammer, Always In Hammer 🔨

[hazy radish]

Won't lie, I am a bit saddened not to have everyone from Iron Hammer, but hey, cons of making the BG later I guess.

That just means more people I get to meet !

[glad hedge]

It was your ping when the campaign was announced that made me come back! ❤️

[hazy radish]

I do my best

I've pinged a few vets from Iron Hammer aswell from time to time, but they all seem to be asleep. Dm-ed one even, no answers. :/

[glad hedge]

So is the way of life unfortunately. People move on to other things

But they will always be with us in Iron Hammer!

[hazy radish]

Lunaaaaaaaa 😭

[charred swift]

From lol

[hazy radish]

Damn, wonder how I could tell

[hazy radish]

Meanwhile, in our sheet, I made ARMCOmon a thing.

[glad hedge]

ARMCO lootboxes when?

[hazy radish]

👀

Who knows

[glad hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-stare-catstare-cat-stare-sus-catglare-cat-glare-gif-14942558849944709546

What are you not telling us Frenchie?

[hazy radish]

Sssshhh, nothing nothing.

[feral gale]

French, do you want to be able to get the list of all unit types and their counts, ordered by quantity?

[hazy radish]

I can order them by quantity after in google sheets, it's not a problem

If it doesn't take too much of your time then yeah organizing them by quantity could be nice when we run the command :)

[feral gale]

Also getting those zeros

[hazy radish]

Aye, I'd agree for that !

[feral gale]

because I have a list of every unit type that can exist

[hazy radish]

noice

gimme gimme 👀

If you got light mech, heavy mech and medium mech separated, that'd be swell too.

[feral gale]

/debug query query:SELECT * FROM unit_types

and no it doesn't distinguish them, I could make it do that, but it's complicated to do

Query result: [('ARMOREDLOGI', 0, None, None, 0), ('ARTILLERY', 1, None, None, 0), ('Banned', 0, None, None, 0), ('BOMBER', 1, None, None, 0), ('CAPTAIN', 0, 178, None, 0), ('CBTENGINEERS', 0, None, None, 0), ('COMBATMEDIC', 0, None, None, 0), ('CREW', 1, None, None, 2), ('ENGINEER', 1, None, None, 0), ('FIELDENGINEERS', 0, None, None, 0), ('FIGHTER', 1, None, None, 0), ('HAT', 1, None, None, 0), ('HEAVYGUNSHIP', 0, None, None, 0), ('HEAVYTRUCK', 0, None, None, 0), ('HEAVYVTOL', 0, None, None, 0), ('HOVERCRAFT', 0, None, None, 0), ('IFV', 1, None, None, 0), ('INFANTRY', 1, None, None, 0), ('LIGHT_VEHICLE', 1, None, None, 0), ('LOGITRUCK', 1, None, None, 0), ('MBT', 1, None, None, 0), ('MECH', 1, 130, 125, 0), ('MEDIC', 1, None, None, 0), ('MEDICALCORP', 0, None, None, 0), ('ODT', 0, None, None, 0), ('PAI', 0, None, None, 0), ('RUGGEDTRANSPORT', 0, None, None, 0), ('SHBT', 0, None, None, 0), ('SPECIALFORCES', 0, None, None, 0), ('SPECOPSVTOL', 0, None, None, 0), ('SPGARTILLERY', 0, None, None, 0), ('STOCKPILE', 0, None, None, 0), ('VTOL', 1, None, None, 0)]

[hazy radish]

Ah. :/

[neat fossil]

I guess you could get the list of upgrades and see how many medium and heavy mech chassis there are.

[feral gale]

don't mind the numbers, although you can probably guess what they mean, and Derg that would cause double counting is the issue

Now can anyone tell what all the numbers mean

[hazy radish]

@muted eagle VIVIAN

I CAN AUTOMATE IT

DONT MANUALLY CHANGE EVERY SINGLE ONE

VIVIAAAAAAAAAAN

VIVIAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNN

https://tenor.com/view/walter-white-walter-hank-walter-screaming-walter-yelling-gif-26473309

[feral gale]

You can't automate it yet, debug query is restricted

[hazy radish]

on the sheet i mean

[muted eagle]

But what if I wanted to change every single one :p

[hazy radish]

NOOOOOOOO

xD

pleaaaase

let me help youuuuu

I beg

[feral gale]

Just wait until I have the command to make it spit out a nice csv

[hazy radish]

NO SHES GOING AT IT AGAIN

HAAAAAAAAAAANK

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

https://tenor.com/view/walter-white-walter-hank-walter-screaming-walter-yelling-gif-26473309

(fuck i need to watch breaking bad one day)

[muted eagle]

And done

[hazy radish]

Alright !

[neat fossil]

We can get pretty close by subtracting the number of medium and heavy chassis from the total number of mechs to get the number of LMs.
Though it does assume that we don't have anyone with both a medium and heavy and that people with a medium or heavy always use it.
So I see your point.

[feral gale]

or you learn how to read models.py and do some query crafting for me

[neat fossil]

-# i'm incacpable of coding. i can't even type incapable

[feral gale]

you could write a query to get the counts of the highest chassis owned by any player

[hazy radish]

scratches head
there's loads of things here that say "none" yet that there are signed up/with the normal command

[muted eagle]

Right, I might do what I'm trying to do with python instead, that'd be much simpler

[feral gale]

Those None mean there might be a value there, but in that case there isn't, that data has nothing to do with the counts, that's just the data about the types themselves

The query to get the counts is more complicated

[hazy radish]

Right, so, are there any other unit types/refits that isn't in ARMCOmon yet ? 🤔

[muted eagle]

The program is done

Mind if I try add it to the sheet?

[hazy radish]

sure

[muted eagle]

It's done

The ARMCOmon lootbox has been made and added to the sheet

[hazy radish]

...WHAT xDDD

oh my god lmao

[muted eagle]

Yep, that's what I was doing

300 lines of programming

[hazy radish]

ah!

you need an authorisation to download the python script

also i don't have python so i can't run it

but omg that is genius

[muted eagle]

Ah

I see

[hazy radish]

it's here

[muted eagle]

Well, I imagine you can download python considering it's free, unless you're on a phone I guess

[hazy radish]

i'm too lazy :P

[muted eagle]

There we go

People can access it now

Damn

Only an infantry

[hazy radish]

damn.

not today I guess.

https://tenor.com/view/lets-go-gambling-gif-3937562841362806777

[muted eagle]

Yeah, you've got a 76% chance of getting uncommon or below

[neat fossil]

Infantry...

[hazy radish]

The gambling battlegroup.

Accepts only a specific amount of units, that has been gambled by the head of the battlegroup

[neat fossil]

I'm gambling on ARMCOmon Thonny

[hazy radish]

"Hey I wanna join as an mbt
-hold on let me gamble
-what?
-unfortunate, we only accept another combat engineer today"

[muted eagle]

Clearly we do the meta campaign but what you get in the lootbox is what unit you play

[hazy radish]

bwahahah

[neat fossil]

arty on 3rd try, lets go!

[muted eagle]

Damn, IFV

And another infantry...

[hazy radish]

gambling to keep the meta campaign date away

[neat fossil]

I read this, look down and I see another infantry

[muted eagle]

It's done

The dice always knows best

[charred swift]

Did your dice just call me common loot? 🤣

[hazy radish]

I, no, ehm, well... 🤣

Look at the iron hammer sheet, there's an ARMCOmon sheet now, it's nothing against you, just memes 🤣

We even got a lootbox now.

[neat fossil]

I spent the last 30 mins trying to program by keypad to run this thing on a single key press to no avail. :(

I should sleep

[hazy radish]

noooooo :(

then go sleep !

[neat fossil]

I swear KMK is busted as hell.

[muted eagle]

Yes.

[rigid oar]

That seems like pain

[left thistle]

I just woke up and my bg has devolved into gambling and techno-wizardry… all is right with the world

[neat fossil]

I got it to the point where it should run, and then it just didn’t. It just friggen decided not to. There weren’t even any bugs, it just decided not to run the function when I hit the key.

[hazy radish]

LET'S GO GAMBLING

[muted eagle]

https://tenor.com/view/gamblecore-stickman-casino-gamble-gif-7118676210396292522

[hazy radish]

damn :(

[neat fossil]

Aw dang it.

[hazy radish]

See, this is what happens when an Operation has nothing to do for a few days

It devolves into memes and gambling.

[sleek cedar]

I see I lost my Unique status, it was fun while it lasted lol

[hazy radish]

Time to convert to a rugged hat to be unique 🧠

[solar bear]

I went to sleep and you guys start gambling??

https://tenor.com/view/disappointed-zac-efron-im-not-mad-upset-hurt-gif-14717203

[hazy radish]

LETS GO GAMBLIIIINNNNNNG

[solar bear]

https://tenor.com/view/randy-orton-summerslam-wwe-raw-rko-gif-22805484

[glad hedge]

LETS GOOOOO

Best Python code ever btw

[hazy radish]

LETS GOOOOOOO BABYYYYYYYYYYY

https://tenor.com/view/money-dinero-plata-penger-rich-gif-18441716717394063664

[muted eagle]

Hell yeah

[hazy radish]

How many pulls for each ? 🤣

[muted eagle]

Dunno

Haven't been counting

Atleast 30 though

[solar bear]

https://tenor.com/view/sheldoncooper-bigbangtheory-awful-humanity-weep-gif-4896955

[glad hedge]

Just do

while True:
    exec(open("ARMCOmonLootboxes.py").read())

Trust me

-# Dont actually do this if you dont know how to manually stop Python

[hazy radish]

lmaooo

[hazy radish]

THAT'S @sleek cedar !

HEY LOOK, YOU'RE IN THE GAMBLING MACHINE !

[muted eagle]

Damn, two in a row

[hazy radish]

woah

leaks of your name and last name

beware

or whoever's name and last name that is

[muted eagle]

I'm not particularly bothered by it tbh

[hazy radish]

alr just making sure

otherwise POG DOUBLE ULTRA RARE

[mighty osprey]

what

huh

when did we get a slot machine?

[hazy radish]

weeeeeeeeeeeeeell

I did ARMCOmon

Then McFat proposed "a lootbox"

One thing led to another and BOOM, ARMCO lootboxes babyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[mighty osprey]

how do i play...?

[hazy radish]

fuckin' hell we're all going into gambling now 🤣

In the iron hammer sheet, the "armcomon" sheet, then there should be a doc, get on it, then python script to download and to run on your machine

[left thistle]

On a side note, I just opened the sheet for the first time not on mobile in like a week... I had no idea how cluttered it's gotten lmao

[hazy radish]

yeah 🤣

we be speakin'

[left thistle]

What a bunch of yappers

-# half of it was me

[hazy radish]

-# other half was me

[mighty osprey]

-# yet a third half was me

[hazy radish]

-# wait if we have 3 halves doesn't that make 150% ?

[mighty osprey]

-# shhhhhhh

[glad hedge]

That math aint mathing

[hazy radish]

Yes it is !

You go 50 + 50 + 50

then you like remove 2

add 7

multiply by "some amount"

and boom 100%

I'm great at math.

[left thistle]

Nahhh we're over achievers here in Iron Hammer

Why settle for 100% when we could have 200%... or 1000%

[hazy radish]

Yeah ! You tell 'em !

Okay, I gotta be honnest

I wanna give some VTOLs (with consent) to 212th Logi, and I wanna give an engi (with consent) to Phalanx, so one can form their battlegroup and the other can, actually survive a little bit longer, especially considering the amount of mechanized they have.

Thing is, I've no idea for the 212th Logi if it'll be formed, and if it isn't at the last moment and we recruit more and our VTOLs come back because 212th logi wasn't able to form, we're fcked for atlas transport

As for Phalanx, I have an idea of like asking them "give us an MBT, we give you an engi" for the fun of it

But all of theses require consent and I don't know how you guys are feeling about all this.

(with consent)

^ important

[hazy radish]

@jolly cloud @ivory goblet @south ether @sleek cedar @left tapir
Worthy of a ping since you guys are directly concerned by this 👀

If you guys have any opinions about this. Note I won't force anyone to switch or join anything else, everything needs consent, I just wish to contribute to other BGs who need units and can't find them because I'm a kind guy.

[left tapir]

I am pinged

I will check out what phalanx is up to for transfer

[rigid oar]

Arnt orders due in 3 days?

[iron arrow]

no the campaign starts on the 22nd and orders in on the 25th or 24th-26th whatever timezones are weird

[rigid oar]

Ok I misunderstood

[sleek cedar]

It seems MG may depart so I will stick around for now

[hazy radish]

We keep our ultra rare ARMCOmon !

[left thistle]

Aww we’re losing an engi?

[hazy radish]

If he consents, yes, but we will gain an MBT in the process

And besides, it's for the good of ARMCO, Phalanx literally have no engineers despite having 11 vehicles, I'd be extremely appreciate of MG if he switches (and is willing)

We'll still have one engi which should suffice as we are still a majority of non-mechanized units.
There are VTOLs and Light Mechs yes, but thoses can run away and fallback easier then most I recon. 👀

I mean if you guys don't want anyone to leave, do voice it, but ultimately it is their personnal choice to agree (or not) with what I said. I am not forcing anyone to switch over if they don't want to.

#1382148654596489388 message @fierce dirge I've seen you salute, say no more, get in there !

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ytrV7iCxoqhiUcwDLLMdm4KIjlj7tNLzE48gtdv1Uh4/edit?gid=0#gid=0

[fierce dirge]

🙂

[hazy radish]

Goodbye @left tapir and thank you once again for switching over to Phalanx

[hazy radish]

And welcome in !

yay dirt dirt dirt dirt dirt dirt

You're already fitting right in 🤣

[fierce dirge]

Status is= alive? or unit activate in chat?

[hazy radish]

Status is whatever you want it to be during the campaign basically, so you can write in "alive" like the others, but I intended for it to be mostly like "need repairs" or "help needed", "need healing" etc

Flexes back

https://tenor.com/view/flexing-my-muscles-hulk-hogan-mr-mcmahon-showing-my-guns-showing-off-my-strength-gif-17093933950370519082

[fierce dirge]

watch me frickin explode gloriously in the first round

[left tapir]

[hazy radish]

DON'T YOU DARE, WE EXPLODE TOGETHER, OR WE DON'T !

[hazy radish]

You can still stick around here if you want 👉 👈

[muted eagle]

Communal exploding? Hell yeah

[hazy radish]

Oh yeah, also Dynagrum, we got gambling.

[solar bear]

And you need to update the gdoc @hazy radish

[fierce dirge]

I love gambling (with high yield explosives)!!!!

[hazy radish]

It has been updated

[fallow dome]

How about you all try communal surviving. I heard it is in fashion.

[left thistle]

Nahhh round 1 wipes only here

[muted eagle]

How about communal gambling?

[solar bear]

Agreed... Trending on X even...

[hazy radish]

OH, true

[left thistle]

We already got that on lock

[muted eagle]

I definitely won't develop a gambling addiction later in life and definitely don't already have one

[solar bear]

https://tenor.com/view/facepalm-really-stressed-mad-angry-gif-16109475

[left thistle]

99% of gamblers stop before they hit the jackpot, never forget that

[muted eagle]

True

[left thistle]

Don’t be like the 99%! Chase bigger things!

[hazy radish]

Oh god dangit xD

Can we at least welcome Dynagrum for 5 seconds without talking about GAMBLING ?! xD

[left tapir]

Ye!

[mighty osprey]

sorry boss, but the gambling is more important

also i cant wait for us all to get wiped turn 1

[muted eagle]

Wanna roll a dice to see if we do?

[fierce dirge]

Uh what? I was opening TF2 lootboxes

[hazy radish]

God dang it, I got a batllegroup of gamblers. 🤣

[mighty osprey]

No you made a battlgroup of gamblers

[muted eagle]

I roll a D12 and the number on the dice is the amount of turns we survive

[mighty osprey]

you started this

[hazy radish]

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-anakin-skywalker-what-have-i-done-confused-sad-gif-3575836

Technically, @glad hedge did by asking about lootboxes.

I didn't ask about 'em.

[muted eagle]

The dice says we'll survive 8 turns

[hazy radish]

neat.

ALSO ALSO ALSO GUUYS GUYS GUYS

[mighty osprey]

Yeah but you gave everything ratings

[hazy radish]

I GOT AN MBT FRIEND

IM NOT ALONE

[muted eagle]

Hell yeah!

[hazy radish]

https://tenor.com/view/bgyc-bgycfam-bgycmeme-champagne-gif-27387565

[fierce dirge]

Lol, I used to do lootboxes on TF2, but then I learned that Vampire Survivors exists and my eyes went 👁️ 👁️

[muted eagle]

More people to get into gambling

[mighty osprey]

who wants to bet if the dice is right or not, 2-1 odds, cash only

[left thistle]

Yeahhhh this is mostly on you buddy

[muted eagle]

Time to roll a D2 then, 1 is it's right, 2 is it's wrong

[hazy radish]

I swear, you better stop being into gambling once the campaign starts !

[muted eagle]

It's a 2

[hazy radish]

I am not losing units because you guys want to gamble your lives away 🤣

[mighty osprey]

dammit vivian no one put any bets in!

[muted eagle]

:p

[muted eagle]

If the dice tells me to jump in front of a tank, then I jump in front of the tank

[mighty osprey]

ahhh we'll be fine boss, remember you gotta loose money to loose money I MEAN MAKE MONEY, FUCK!

[mighty osprey]

guys i think VIvian has a dice problem

[hazy radish]

GOD DANGIT

[muted eagle]

I've been playing d&d and my character is literally all about rolling dice and getting random effects from those dice 😅

And besides, the dice always knows

I've had some absolutely amazing things with those random effects

[rigid oar]

As intended. I’m sure my unit will be wiped right beside yours.

[fierce dirge]

Glad to be here 🙂 and to bring in the steel that bends backs and shatters armor
The Warwolf will be wherever there is something as heavy or heavier than the Warwolf 😈

[hazy radish]

Stark contrast to my ol' Leclerc it seems 🤣

[left thistle]

Wild magic sorcerer?

[muted eagle]

Nah, homebrew

[sleek cedar]

Had a DM that had 100 permanent effects assigned to a percentile die and when we were knocked we had to roll. I was a party face and the first time I went down I got a permanent disfigurement that reduced my Charisma so I don't gamble much anymore lol

[muted eagle]

Our DM has over like, 400 wild magic tables

[muted eagle]

Fair enough

[hazy radish]

Oof, no more gambling.

[muted eagle]

I rolled a d100 for a random effect and it creates flowers, which is all nice and all ~~The issue is what happened next, because of the situation it was in, it led to my character getting siblings ~~

[left thistle]

Oh…

[fierce dirge]

What happened to good ol' Leclerc? >.>

[rigid oar]

That reminds me of the warhammer ttrpg that had a d100 table for warp changes if you failed a spell or got too heretical.

[fierce dirge]

roll 100 twice >:)

[hazy radish]

Oh it's a good ol' machine, still works like a charm. Just gotta pay the bills to repair and maintain it... xD

[muted eagle]

36 and 25

[fierce dirge]

damnit, your making me open up the book

[muted eagle]

You don't just mention a d100 table and expect me to not roll a d100

[rigid oar]

I know that tomb of annihilation? Also has a permanent effects table.

[fierce dirge]

Daemonic Mask: For a fleeting moment, the psyker takes on a daemonic appearance and gains the Fear (1) trait until the start of the
next turn. However, he also gains 1 Corruption point.

Haunting Breeze: Winds whip up around the psyker for a few moments, blowing light objects around and guttering fires within
3d10 metres.

[muted eagle]

That's 16 metres

[fierce dirge]

Your neighbor's house burns down and all the animals are frightened of you

[muted eagle]

Shrugs Could've been worse

[fierce dirge]

It really could XD

[glad hedge]

Officially, I am not part of this BG, so I can;t be held accountable

[muted eagle]

I accidentally unleashed a monsoon, a blizzard and fog that made you forget things into a massive refugee camp one time

[fierce dirge]

My favorite one: Dark Foreboding: A faint breeze blows past the psyker and those near him, and everyone gets the feeling that somewhere in the galaxy
something unfortunate just happened.

[muted eagle]

And by massive I mean massive, the thing was like, miles large

[hazy radish]

:(

[hazy radish]

hoho that one's funny. We used to play some wh40k ttrpg, forgot the name of it, but it was fun

[left thistle]

Mannnnn now I wanna get back into dnd 😭

[fierce dirge]

Dark Heresy?

[hazy radish]

I think yes

[fierce dirge]

That is the Inquisition one

[hazy radish]

I should maybe ask, I forgot the exact name of it

[muted eagle]

I've recently been getting into rogue trader

My character is really scary in combat

[hazy radish]

Anyways, I'll let you guys be, I got a gym to attend to MUSCLE UP 💪

Cya in a few hours lads

[muted eagle]

They've managed to kill literally everything our gm throws at us in a single turn

[muted eagle]

See you later

[glad hedge]

That MBT turret ain't gonna turn itself!

[mighty osprey]

we've got light mechs and spaceships and laser cannons, but we're still using manual turret rotation!?!?!?

[south ether]

i am willing to move to 212 if that puts that at 15

[warped axle]

This might be solved already (im at work so I cant read all the messages), but TF2 has vtol bay space, and I wouldn't be surprised if TF1 and TF3 did as well (cant check right this minute), so if the 212th doesn't hit the min, we could, with the consent of the VTOL folks, of course, find homes for them, neat and tidy. Alrighty, ill let you degens get back to your gambling machine

[rigid oar]

I know Dark Heresy has a pysker/perils of the warp thing

I know now they have a totally new one made by another company called wrath and glory, they have an AoS one, and they just released a new version of Warhammer RPG.

[hazy radish]

Noted !

[hazy radish]

Alright, let's hope so.

GAMBLINNNNNNNNNNG

[muted eagle]

Gambling!

[rigid oar]

Gambling?

[muted eagle]

We clearly need to expand the lootbox operation

[glad hedge]

When this campaign is over we need to organise a poker night and play with req points

[muted eagle]

Or, we clearly make the lootboxes cost req points and we profit

:p

[hazy radish]

No monetization guys xD

I'm not sure @feral gale would allow it, let alone shack...

[rigid oar]

Gambling sounds more fun then loot boxes even though loot boxes are gambling.

[muted eagle]

I know

Just messing around a bit

[glad hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/13-карт-gif-14026559412000478194

For legal reasons

[feral gale]

If you want to try and make Sam PCI compliant, have fun
-# doing so would require hacking into my network though

[hazy radish]

Aight boys.

We need a hero hacker.

Who knows coding ?

[muted eagle]

I do!

[hazy radish]

Perfect !

I'm hacking into the matrix guys 😎

just, don't look at the website's name

it's real coding guys

100%

[muted eagle]

Nice, he's learning :p

[hazy radish]

ye :)

[neat fossil]

I’m so tempted to improve ARMCOmon’s code to make it actually readable.

[hazy radish]

nothing's stopping you 👀

I mean, maybe your lack of free time, work or studies to do.

But I know I'm not.

[neat fossil]

I mean, I could make it a real function, learn how to use arrays or matrixes or whatever its called to make it work cleanly…

[rigid oar]

I know coding

[neat fossil]

I know 2 nubs in info about coding.

[rigid oar]

What nubs are those?

[neat fossil]

I can read stuff and I have ideas of what the computer needs to do, just not knowing how to tell the computer to do it.

[hazy radish]

Ay, coding experience I guess.

[neat fossil]

Whenever I code I’m just like, let me friggen trigger this line of code when I want to! Then I have to search online, figure out what I write to make it do that.

[rigid oar]

Yeah but that’s the joy in it right? The figuring it out and see it work. At least for me. But yeah I have spent my fair share of time on stack overflow.

[iron arrow]

i see we've got a new MBT

i assume thats your doing French?

[hazy radish]

Yeees.

We've given off, consensually, our engi MG to Phalanx, and in exchange they gave us a shiny MBT.

Why to Phalanx ?

They were begging, nay, dying for an engineer, and no one wanted to chime in.

Not even the Flying Shovels with their 9 engis

So I went:

https://tenor.com/view/thanos-gif-25117042

[neat fossil]

I do get addicted when I try… but damn can it get annoying. I suppose its just like learning a language.

[hazy radish]

And I did.

[iron arrow]

ik they've been asking for onwe for ages

[hazy radish]

Well, no more !

For the good of ARMCO !

[rigid oar]

I mean it IS learning a language and just like learning normal languages the more you learn the easy it gets to learn another. But yeah it can be ANNOYING like downright awful sometimes if you can’t find the bug or problem your looking for.

[muted eagle]

Logic errors are the worst

[neat fossil]

Stares at the unending chain of if statements

[hazy radish]

1 + 1 = 3

shit.

[muted eagle]

Yeah, I'll probably make some improvements on it tomorrow

[hazy radish]

logic error.

[hazy radish]

Gambling 2.0 let's gooooooooooooooo

[muted eagle]

There's absolutely a better way to do it than I did

I just need to get back into programming

[neat fossil]

I think an array or matrix would be the thing to use. I dunno the difference.

Also please just select the mon after the pause, that was so many extra lines

[hazy radish]

Small 15 minute coding adventure.

[neat fossil]

Only 15 mins !?

[muted eagle]

It was more a style choice tbh

[neat fossil]

cries in way too many lines

[rigid oar]

Naw some obscure syntax errors for languages your learning are worst

[muted eagle]

Atleast visual studio code tends to know and tell me where they are

[rigid oar]

Fair. IDE are helpful but sometimes even they don’t point out syntax problems or if they do they don’t tell you how to fix them and that becomes a whole new problem. Ideally logic issues within your code shrink over time but I know that’s not always the case.

[muted eagle]

For me they just seem to increase over time instead 😅

Well, I should get some sleep

So goodnight everyone

[rigid oar]

Goodnight, don’t let the logic problems invade your dreams.

[hazy radish]

Good night vivian !

[median epoch]

Hell yea, Hammer

congrats on the second tank

Happy to be a Rare Armcomon, lol

[hazy radish]

Yeah, thanks to a tradedeal with Phalanx

[hazy radish]

Nice :D

We even got gambling now.

[median epoch]

If I knew anything about python I'd give it a whirl, but alas, I'm no wizard.

Also, Operation "Deuce" (for when shit hits the fan) is prepped just in case we can't dock with the spaceport as soon as we get there.

It has everyone but your heavy vehicles down in one turn.
And everyone down by the 2nd.

Between the two of us, we've got enough VTOLs and HATs to drop your infantry

We'd have to borrow the HVTOLs from storm, but it's doable

[hazy radish]

Juuust the two of us~

[left thistle]

We have one hvtol in hammer so we could get a single mbt down round one right?

[median epoch]

exactly

[hazy radish]

Oh true, but which one ?

[left thistle]

I have a feeling we’re gonna need the ap

[median epoch]

the full rundown is in our doc

under "Elim Assault"

[left thistle]

Randomize it

[hazy radish]

GAMBLINNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGG

[median epoch]

it's very much a "last resort" kinda plan, so no need to pick now

just wanted to let you know

[left thistle]

Gamble every tactical decision, what could possibly go wrong?

[hazy radish]

@median epoch my intrusive thoughts won

[median epoch]

We can make it if we tryyyy

[hazy radish]

God please no xD

[median epoch]

It's fine, it's not like every single BG is counting on us to keep the port open

.>

[rigid oar]

Just the two of us is one of my favorite songs. I know the lyrics by heart. Also is that you singing french?

[hazy radish]

...yes 👉 👈

I like singing. :D

[median epoch]

hell yea brother, me too

(I'm a professional opera chorister IRL)

[rigid oar]

Thats nice. I remeber singing just the two of us at a college party and bombing halfway through due to all eyes being on me. I wanted to crawl in a hole and die.

[hazy radish]

Way back #meta-comm message <- here I wanted to sing that joke but, the song literally prooved too difficult for me lol

[hazy radish]

Yup, no pressure AT ALL.

[rigid oar]

Who says you cant be a professional opera chorister in ARMCO too? We need an army band right?

[hazy radish]

Ooo nice.

[median epoch]

Hey, if they add a bard class, I'm joining up

[rigid oar]

Actual footage of me testing code when i ran out of ideas.

[median epoch]

Hmm... Which unit is the bard?

[hazy radish]

Bard class
0 req refit

+8 moral

[rigid oar]

Add speakers to a tank

[hazy radish]

"But sir, moral isn't a thing in the rules yet!
-I know.
-So what does it do ?
-Nothing."

[rigid oar]

Like the old spore units in civ stage would blast sermons or something

[median epoch]

core memory unlocked lol

[hazy radish]

ooooooo

riight

[rigid oar]

Or as they say in spore SLORBEN GLORBEN.

That sound is forever stuck in my head.

[mighty osprey]

I remember always remembering having to make sure to awlays kill a certain ammount of people so i didnt have to play religious in that stage

[median epoch]

it was super tedious yea

plus having to design the damn vehicles over and over

[hazy radish]

I think I never played religious, maybe once for fun but military & trade ftw

[mighty osprey]

Oh i loved that

[glad hedge]

Frenchie voice reveal pog

[rigid oar]

I always remember making sure NOT to kill to many people because i thought the agressive game plan was to boring.

[hazy radish]

I had my dad design TOOOOOONS of my toy cars on that game.

[mighty osprey]

designing the vehicles was my facourite part

[hazy radish]

Wait uh

Guys

[rigid oar]

Yeah i spent hours designing space ships and tanks

[mighty osprey]

economic is by far the best one

[hazy radish]

Armco, meta campaign.

😅

[mighty osprey]

hmm?

[hazy radish]

...we're a bit too far strayed I feel 😅

[rigid oar]

Ah we must be le moderated

[median epoch]

I loved the spaceship designing part (which makes sense at least)

[hazy radish]

At least a tiny bit !

I'm fine with some memes and jokes but we literally went onto a whole other different game guys 🤣

[median epoch]

yea, so about that... business?

[mighty osprey]

you mean the gambling?

[hazy radish]

Conversations must relate to said missions. Stay on topic.
#1364169464056250429 message

[rigid oar]

No gambling. Also sorry i started it.

[hazy radish]

But I'm lax with it, a bit.

(very much so)

[median epoch]

I mean, imagine getting recruited by a boring BG

no fun allowed

[hazy radish]

Yeah, imagine smh

Couldn't be me

[mighty osprey]

yeah, so glad i joined Iron Hammer

[rigid oar]

Side note every tank, mech, plane, and ship in ARMCO should have spore design. I think it would increase moral.

[median epoch]

Hey, nothing's stopping you from posting it in meta chat

tag me if you want, haven't played spore in ages

[mighty osprey]

that would actually be a cool way to make your own unit designs

[hazy radish]

I know some guys who used stormworks images, you can use spore images to say "that's how my unit looks like" ofc

That'd be super fun

I mean there's literally a guy who's MBT is a fucking pirate ship 🤣

[median epoch]

Like heroforge for D&D characters

I guess there are a bunch of real world tanks you could pick from

IFV with full AC is literally a Puma

[rigid oar]

Yeah and spore is like super cheap its only 5 bucks. Also yeah its like the people who use the character creator from baldurs gate 3 for their table top characters

[hazy radish]

Got a Leclerc. :)

[median epoch]

tres bien

[hazy radish]

Lack of accent is pardonned if you have a qwerty keyboard or one who doesn't have "è"

[left thistle]

Ahhhh electrohalo right?

[hazy radish]

Yeees !

I was with him in dashing with snow, real fun guy

[median epoch]

yes, apologies for my boring american keyboard

[hazy radish]

You are excused

[left thistle]

I remember that from the two minutes I was also in dashing through the snow lol

[mighty osprey]

I always imagined my Light mech to like like something in between a Barbarossa from lancer and a Locust from mech warriors

[median epoch]

I'm partial to the ARL 44 myself.

[left thistle]

Also, just circling back on this. You have a great voice French!

[hazy radish]

Ooooh, very good choice !

Good taste sir

[hazy radish]

Thanks ! ❤️

Honnestly really happy about the voice compliment

[mighty osprey]

it is a lovely voice boss

[rigid oar]

LANCER MENTIONED BASED DEPARTMENT.

[hazy radish]

Like, most of my friends that I sing they're like "oh yeah it's good, I like it", you know, good vibes

[mighty osprey]

lol

[hazy radish]

And I showed it to one of my friends at some point who didn't hear me singing

[left thistle]

Hey gotta give credit where credit is due

[hazy radish]

I think the comment I had was "what the fuck was that, this is a torture instrument"

I was not fucking ready for that

[left thistle]

Oh

[hazy radish]

...that took me down a peg 😅

So thanks ❤️

[left thistle]

That would actually crush me

[rigid oar]

Also it just means french has to give us a good battle cry since they have a good voice.

[median epoch]

yea dude, sounds good

[hazy radish]

"HELP"
"That's a torture weapon you've got here"

her exact words translated into english

SOOOOOOOOOOOO yeaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh 🤣

The good news is, I've found the second person who doesn't like me singing

Bad news, she said it in the worst possible fucking way 🤣

[hazy radish]

OH FUCK THAT MAKES ME THINK

I had to make the chirpadeesquirp battlecry for pathfinders but I forgot

Remind me of that tomorrow guys

(fucking using you guys as an alarm 🤣)

[hazy radish]

It did a bit 😅

[iron arrow]

On phone so I can't keep up with the convo but I uh... sixth? The good voice comment

[rigid oar]

PATHFINDER MENTIONED. Sorry but im currently running a PF2e game so i had to.

[mighty osprey]

Our comms really do feel like its a bunch of mercs sitting in a room waiting for deployment

[hazy radish]

Because IT IS

[mighty osprey]

yeah but like everyone else is plannin and stuff

[solar bear]

I'm playing at the moment too kkk

[solar bear]

Good old Iron Hammer...

[median epoch]

Eh, not planning so much as "being an active person who's willing to say hi to new recruits"

[hazy radish]

You guys are getting new recruits ?!

[median epoch]

occasionally

[hazy radish]

I feel like now it's been dryed enough, we're only getting maybe 5-10 people more in the campaign lol.

[median epoch]

there's sometimes a rush on the saturday before the deadline

[hazy radish]

...we'll see

If we're under 20/at 20 saturday 23h55 i'll close the recruitment

so, say about 44 hours from now

approximated

[hazy radish]

And if we're above, hey I heard pathfinders are gonna keep at 20 so they can be transported just incase. Hurray ? 👀

[median epoch]

I'm hoping we can take you regardless, you're bringing the heat and the funnies

[hazy radish]

ye :)

Pathfinders is also bringing heat.

And cute animals >w<

Sorry, Pathfinders creepin' in.

Don't downplay Pathfinders, they're fun lads too 👀

[atomic basalt]

Hello! I just signed up for the battlegroup!

[median epoch]

https://tenor.com/view/happy-tank-gif-24556905

[left thistle]

Eyyyyyyy welcome!!!

@hazy radish you’ve got another mbt buddy!

[solar bear]

Welcome my friend...

[mighty osprey]

we're pretty mechanised now

[old lark]

Hey! We resemble that remark!

[left thistle]

We rly need that ap tbf

[mighty osprey]

yeah im pretty glad, 3 MBT's is such a big force multiplier

[neat fossil]

But I’m in the middle of upgrading ARMCOmon :(

[muted eagle]

Oh cool, we got a third MBT

[fading badge]

…ok wow

[neat fossil]

I’ve finally cleaned up the ARMCOmon code. Its so much easier to expand now.

Now I just need some more features…

[muted eagle]

Nice

I would look however doing that on phone is a pain

[neat fossil]

I got 2 ultra rares when developing and testing. swear I didn't rig this!

[hazy radish]

Welcome!

[hazy radish]

YAAAAAAY MBT FWIEND

[hazy radish]

Advanced gambling pog

Also, if we didn't trade that engi to Phalanx who needed one for an MBT, we'd thanks to luck have gotten an MBT buddy for me.
Aren't we lucky, getting everything we need eventually?

[muted eagle]

I call this a win for gambling

[hazy radish]

https://tenor.com/view/luigi-casino-gif-18158832090148544636

It's what happend in C3 too so 🤣

Now it'd be funny to have an arty or more IFVs, but we'll see

[warped axle]

damn, yall are looking nice and chonky now w/ 3 MBTs

[hazy radish]

Looks at the graph

[warped axle]

Chonkier than before!

[hazy radish]

https://tenor.com/view/kronk-its-all-coming-together-gif-15058130

5 infantry with 2 medics to help them, alongwith 2 IFVs & 3 VTOLs for transport

3 MBTs & 2 IFVs who both have the auto-canon that gives them extra range (and is AP I think), along with 1 engi to help repair and 1 HVTOL for deployment/extraction/HELPPLEASE

3 light mechs for recon/quick deployment of help

This ought to be looking fantastic !

All I'd say we need is 3 more IFVs so we can be mechanized and go speed 2, and all is well and done !

...btw we are at 20 so, if we do recruit 2 more and the 212th logi isn't formed, we're not getting atlas transport

should prob' go update them

[fierce dirge]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/buiik-M1JE8?feature=share

Me doin a little dance of celebration:

[hazy radish]

Ooooh Zenturion, a man of culture I see

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/990748665071153184/1144890534364713010/But_hes_a_jolly.mp4?ex=685659e6&is=68550866&hm=17323aad86a3ac6ebf5ed9253c444f8d934572c1be7697557edd3680fda54537&

Me, following Dynagrum's dance of celebration:

[neat fossil]

WTF?! I swear I'm not changing the RNG here.

I roll again for testing and I get a friggen combat medic?!
Ok, a mech... A COMBAT ENGI?!? WTF

[round mesa]

How the heck do we have a card game before a dating simulator?

[hazy radish]

You fucked up the RNG derg I think 🤣

[neat fossil]

uhhhh, why would we have a dating sim??

[hazy radish]

That's what one week of waiting does to a battlegroup

We invent ways to entertain ourselves

...notably gambling

[neat fossil]

oh god... I've fucked up the RNG somehow.

[fierce dirge]

I was more thinking about those shitty personality quizz to see what unit you would be.

[hazy radish]

Ohhhhh

Oh yeah but we gotta make it really nonsensical.

Alright, who knows how to make a website ? 🤣

[fierce dirge]

oh no >.>

[autumn grail]

Can I have a joke

Please

[hazy radish]

go forth

jokes are allowed here

[neat fossil]

you can always use google sites. its easy as hell to use

[hazy radish]

ah I dunno x)

[neat fossil]

i used friggen set brackets instead of square brackets for a list. i dum dum.

[hazy radish]

rip

[glad hedge]

Do you use sets often? In my 8 years of coding in Python I have never used them lol

[neat fossil]

I'm new to coding in general. They're kinda useful. i feel like lists are better though.

This RNG is reasonable right?