Terk Mech & Tech

[indigo gulch]

Kickback volume increases

[hardy citrus]

Ohhhhh this is fun

Putting chain blades under "melee raleigh/stotenbeker build"

[ornate verge]

Glad I'm not the only one who thought that

[viscid snow]

Very WH40K Knight

Or maybe Armiger

[indigo gulch]

Ooo yeah armiger

[open ginkgo]

Very Wolverine

[stray thistle]

How broken would the Thresher be if it wasn't unique.

Cause I kind of want to have two of them

[tawdry jungle]

So consider the following, 2 threshers each with chain blades

Barrage

They’re not charged so the chance of maxing a dice is much higher, and you get to keep making attack, after attack, after attack, and on the dice that aren’t maximized you just use the system to make yet another attack

Now that won’t be a shit ton of damage, but it’s most certainly an insane amount of mobility which will allows you to dive into and out of literally any fight you want

[stray thistle]

Ah, noted. The khorne in me just wanted more chainsaws

[tawdry jungle]

Brother I’m right there with you

Unfortunately, it simply goes too hard

[open ginkgo]

Yeah the Treashers are a 'Uninstalling an enemy from exsistance' level already

[stray thistle]

Also, am I reading it right when it says it only looses revved after making the secondary attack.

If it makes the attack

[open ginkgo]

That how I read it as well

[stray thistle]

Cool. When I first read through the document I thought it worked like the d/d 288 and lost the charge after hitting.

[open ginkgo]

That might be the intended reading tbh

[stray thistle]

I like that you can choose to keep more dice or attack again and have to kick-start it again

Hey @covert surge , gun the engine's last line says:
If this is triggered by your own action, you may move before or after entering the Danger Zone the triggering action.
There seems to be an error at the end.

Is it entering the danger zone or the triggering action

[wraith birch]

Oh, that's hot.

[covert surge]

Gun the engine wording has been changed since to clarify things

[covert surge]

And yes you only lose rev on making the second attack, and only revved can trigger the secondary attack

[covert surge]

Just realized you can use hunter to shoot chainblades when overkilling at range

Fuckin awesome

[rain topaz]

Incredible

One of my favorite things about lancer is that like 90% of the time, you can come up with some wild combo/design idea, (the most recent one I can think of is a d/d228 goblin), then you can just go and make that decently viable

Basically everything feels like it can be good in some way

I geuss excluding the displacer

But 1 out of like 100 weapons is pretty famn good

[covert surge]

Displacer genghis, displacer lich, displacer enki

[rain topaz]

True

[covert surge]

Might work on Mordred and push Arthur and it out tonight as a package deal

[rain topaz]

Oooh

I support this idea

[wraith birch]

I, too, support this idea.

[indigo gulch]

Paracausal Displacer Saladin Intensifies

[ornate verge]

That is a horrifying idea. I'm passing it onto our resident short king pilot.

[orchid fox]

god this feels so accurate to development hell it hurts

the mech i mean

[covert surge]

“Realistic mech game”

[orchid fox]

now we just need a Scam kickstarter mech

it never actualy was developed but horus did horus things so its here anyway

[viscid snow]

Honestly, just hearing realisitc mech game makes me feel Battletech, and honestly, I'm sure this exact thing happened at some point

Shitty half baked mechs that only see the light of day cause the stars aligned

(Looking at you Charger)

[orchid fox]

god thatd be so funny

[rain topaz]

That's actually a really cool idea for a mech

Right up there with interpoints Atlanta

[orchid fox]

now im wondering what "horus did horus things" would exactly mean, my first thought is that they somehow pulled it from another/between dimensions

so its still carries a aura of unstable reality or something

[rain topaz]

Modifies damage types, shifts tags, ups and lowers damage

[orchid fox]

i was morely thinking something a little bit more controllery i suppose

using its power to conjure whisps of where it came from

[indigo gulch]

I'm surprised more people haven't heard of it. tl;dr, you can OC Loop with it due to Saladin's 8 Heat Cap as a base + High ENG Investment + Superior By Design + Heatfall. However, I personally prefer having it not as a main weapon, since Sal is gonna be using other Systems for Heat, and instead have it as a PocketRocketTM.

Of course technically there are better frames to use it on, but people who say Displacer is bad on Saladin do not understand the usage of a handheld nuke button that can be deployed at any time. Especially on a dedicated defender like Sal.

"Oh it's just a Sala- wait is that a Displacer?"

[indigo gulch]

Mood, I love mechs like Charger. It may be a piece of junk, but its my piece of junk that's oddly great at destroying tanks.

[hybrid ledge]

Togo feels like if IPS-N made Enkidu

[ornate verge]

Angry and crammed full of industrial grade rage

[covert surge]

“Gonna take a nap and then work on mordred”

close eyes

10 hours later

[indigo gulch]

lmao rip Terk

[open ginkgo]

That just means you are now j u i c e d... or something

[covert surge]

the sleep debt came due

my god i never noticed this

[indigo gulch]

two broooos, breaching in a hallway. 2 Burst apart cuz they're not gay

unless

[cerulean smelt]

How does Frundsberg's Zweihander interact with Executioner?

GIven the miss and attack, reroll against something else

How would that affect the big ol' burst area

[viscid snow]

You miss one of the attacks, you can reroll and attack someone else within range, but only for 1 of the attacks in the burst (I think)

[covert surge]

The intention is it is based on the attack roll that trigger it, you dont get to burst again

But it does let natively double up if you butst two guy, hit one guy, miss the other and re-roll against the first guy

[cerulean smelt]

Interesting, we were testng it out last night so it's good to clear that up

[covert surge]

How did it go?

[cerulean smelt]

Quite fun! Had one player mounting the Brudenell and the other mounting Frundsberg

So they ended up filling up the gaps of what they could and couldn't do

[covert surge]

any feedbacks on if anything feels clunky or overpowered?

[cerulean smelt]

I might need to test again, cause I couldn't pin-point anything that felt weak or strong

both felt incredibly balanced from the get-go

[covert surge]

💪

[wraith birch]

Your mechs are just built different.

[rain topaz]

You could even call them Superior by Design

😎

[covert surge]

I am in tune with John Cruz-Harrison

[rain topaz]

Does that make you JCH3½?

"We tried to make a backup clone but we just ended up making a guy mildly interested in the armory"

[covert surge]

draft of Aquilegia core mechanics

run around with a Smokestack or an Aegis shield generator strapped to your back

[rain topaz]

Woop woop

[viscid snow]

The Formorian Frame synergy beloved

[steep pebble]

That's my boi!

[steep pebble]

'You don't seem to understand. Knockback isn't yours to inflict.'

[raven socket]

Lmaooo

Excellent work as always

[steep pebble]

Thank you!

[spring creek]

We did some Terk testing and I ran a [wallflower spoiler] for the first time. This happened.

[covert surge]

I see a ton of rat king in there

[spring creek]

It one shot a layer

[cosmic steppe]

Rat king kinda fucked everything up

[spring creek]

30 to zero

deck sweepers at close range

[covert surge]

[spring creek]

LL4

it was awesome

[wraith birch]

Spam G. Spamton gets Drone-Spammed, eh?

[covert surge]

Good awesome or broken awesome?

[spring creek]

Tbh a lot of it was encounter failures on my part that made it overkill

it felt like it did the most in the encounter, but also none of the layers destroyed the drones well enough. Emperor gave overshield as well

[covert surge]

King and Emperor

Oh yah the aoe os can protect the drone horde and the Emp mark thing synnergize disgustingly well with 200 small potshots

[spring creek]

yeah both core powers go nuts

[cosmic steppe]

Might have been the good combo that made it so strong

Rat King did feel very strong, but first layer was fundamental which gave rat king a lot of time to set up as well

[spring creek]

Also, it was a one shot. So rat king didn't have to manage resources. All 3 turret drones, and the salvage

[rose glade]

(still had three more drones to go)

[hardy citrus]

thinking about a rat king with 1 level in goblin to get puppet system

named Ratatouille

/lh

[cerulean smelt]

Doing another playtest in a couple days, will report back here soon 👍

Got 7 players involved

[raven socket]

Thank you! Let us know how it goes

As much detail as you're comfortable going into

[cerulean smelt]

Aye aye captain!

[rain topaz]

Things heating up

[cerulean smelt]

Mentioned it to my players and one was already dead set on Brudenel

[rain topaz]

We getting some proper playtests

[cerulean smelt]

💪 💪 💪

Anything for one of my favourite homebrews

[rain topaz]

If I ever get a chance to play a higher level one-shot (not to mention any lancer) I am intent on trying out punch god

I'm just so proud of it

[cerulean smelt]

Oh wait that's the Knockback 34 build aye

[rain topaz]

Yes

My beautiful child

Technically, the minimum viable build can only do knockback 34 5 times a mission

And it needs to crit on all those

It only deals 32 without crit and agitron

[cerulean smelt]

Genuinely incredible

[rain topaz]

Significantly less

[rain topaz]

Its amazing

And you can prime it in 1 turn

You can open combat with it

[cerulean smelt]

Honestly I'd run a game online here but New Zealand timezones are scuffed

[rain topaz]

Now of course, it also requires LL9 at minimum

And you have less hp than heatcap

The build really is prime, punch, run and hide

[cerulean smelt]

Glass cannon

Glass... Hand of God?

[rain topaz]

It's a glass boxing-glove gun

[cerulean smelt]

glass nuke

[rain topaz]

No

Its top concentrated

And it also can deal an upwards of 40 damage by accident

(Which is to say, in my quest to accrue as much knockback as possible, I forgot that attacks also deal damage)

I forget the fist was more than just a vessel for near-mach 1 punch

[cerulean smelt]

damage is irrelevant when you blow up Cradle with the impact of a Scout soaring through space at Mach-gajillion

[rain topaz]

Punch god was born fully formed, bursting from the skull of the Zheng like athena

[cerulean smelt]

that's hilarious

[rain topaz]

Yeah

It actually has a proper name outside of punch god

Lemme check

[cerulean smelt]

Oooh show show

[rain topaz]

Ah yes

Its called the "I'd Prefer You Stop Being Here"

[cerulean smelt]

lmfao

That's gold

[rain topaz]

Its continued the tradition of the main thing I use math for being game nonsense

This is technically version 2 of punch god, and I put v2 together before we had the lcp for brud, so I just spent like 10-15 minutes in coding class writing out all the stuff

I have a problem

[cerulean smelt]

The dedication is crazy

Worth it

So worth it

[rain topaz]

I havent gotten into anything the way I've gotten into lancer since I got into dnd around middle school

[cerulean smelt]

I totally get that

Hyperfixation gang

[rain topaz]

Yeah

Still need to finish my ssc queen frame

But I've been in Budapest, so no computer

[cerulean smelt]

😭

[rain topaz]

Yeah

On the plus side, I've figured out some of lore stuff about it

Unfortunately I cannot draw

[cerulean smelt]

Def tell me about it's lore, but we should hop into #homebrew-design for that

[rain topaz]

Yeah

[rain topaz]

Well, I ended up gushing about it in #lore-and-worldbuilding , so look in there if ya' wanna see

[cerulean smelt]

I love it

[raven socket]

Just sent a pickup truck with a gun on it flying through three enemies after melting through a wall

10/10

[cerulean smelt]

Gold

Let's go champion

[raven socket]

https://i.imgur.com/4q121Na.png

(the wall to the left has a big hole in it)

[cerulean smelt]

Holy smokes

Is that Foundry? What vtt is that?

[raven socket]

Foundry, aye

[cerulean smelt]

Sick

Nah tho that sounds like such fun

[raven socket]

https://i.imgur.com/q7Q5e04.png
https://i.imgur.com/uSuhA1O.png

[cerulean smelt]

lmfaooooo

[raven socket]

Also got this playing in the background
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mXorjtbUUY

Good shit

[covert surge]

Brudenell is designed as a go fast mech but it has now transformed into the 50 space knockback mech

Happy little accidents

[raven socket]

Oh I'm going fast as fuck

[rain topaz]

*34 spaces knockback mech

But yeah, I did look at "strap a bunch of rockets to a brick" and went "what if we strapped all the rockets to the bricks fist?"

[raven socket]

@covert surge https://i.imgur.com/dPdpOc1.png

Example of moving fast

[covert surge]

You may actually get more knockback by not using dd288 since charges are not spent while in core you can do like barrage, knockback using charge with first weapon, hunter lunge with charge to catch up to the knockedback enemy, and hit em with the second part of the barrage using charges again.

I should ask why is he on fire but of course he is

i may have just told players the way to break brudenell’s core

You get to super caliban with double digit numbers for a turn

[raven socket]

naturally

[raven socket]

-- HA BRUDENELL @ LL4 --
[ LICENSES ]
  HA BRUDENELL 3, IPS-N Tortuga 1
[ CORE BONUSES ]
  Superior by Design
[ TALENTS ]
  Vanguard 3, Pankrati 2, Skirmisher 1, SPACEBORN 1
[ STATS ]
  HULL:2 AGI:2 SYS:0 ENGI:2
  STRUCTURE:4 HP:16 ARMOR:1
  STRESS:4 HEATCAP:12 REPAIR:6
  TECH ATK:-2 LIMITED:+1
  SPD:4 EVA:10 EDEF:8 SENSE:3 SAVE:12
[ WEAPONS ]
  FLEX MOUNT: Deck-Sweeper Automatic Shotgun
  HEAVY MOUNT: Chicxulub Heavy Shock Gauntlet (Rocket Attachment)
[ SYSTEMS ]
  Breach Shield x4, Joint Mobility Recalibration, Personalizations

My LL4 build idea

[raven socket]

@covert surge Hey terk, question - Can you ignore involuntary movement while on full battery to take the heat but not gain more charge?

[covert surge]

🤔 🤔 🤔

Ive never had to thonk abt this

[raven socket]

lmao

I'm at full charge and want to ignore some involuntary movement with the battery

[covert surge]

I’ll say yes?

Since only the charge is capped not the action itself

[raven socket]

👌

Gotcha, thanks

[rain topaz]

Just gun the engines down

[covert surge]

drafting mordred, sherman body, enki should and salad legs

holding a sword in mordhau with a spear through the chest because battle damage

[rain topaz]

WOOOOP

[covert surge]

this thing is going to look like its has just walked through a woodchipper because its whole thing is taking even more hits than average to hit back

[rain topaz]

Woop woop

Could I suggest instead of spear, an excaliber?

Right in the chest?

[covert surge]

da myth is he got impaled on a spear

[rain topaz]

Ah ok

[covert surge]

and also a laser sword being held in place raise some questions

[rain topaz]

True

Yeah the hilt ain't that big

Do your thing art wizard

[raven socket]

Just finished my first session with the brudenell

Had a whale of a time
Just fuckin' yeeting myself and the opponents

[rain topaz]

Very nice

How much knockback we talking?

[raven socket]

May have yeeted a man offscreen, through his buddy

17

[rain topaz]

WOO

[covert surge]

This mech hits all the right buttons in people lol

[rain topaz]

I like when enemy go bye

[raven socket]

Well you get 12 just from expending 6 charges while in the danger zone

• 5 from the fist

[covert surge]

Seems like it deliver on the fantasy of a brick with too many rockets attached well

[raven socket]

Definitely

[rain topaz]

Oh yeah

How do you shorten your username

[covert surge]

this is going to sound weird but does it also deliver on the "clunkyness" vibe?

[rain topaz]

Do you prefer blue or nexa?

[raven socket]

Blue or Nexa
Most people use nexa, but I don't mind

[rain topaz]

Dope

Was just pondering

[raven socket]

It certainly doesn't feel agile

[covert surge]

dope

i got HA design on lock 😎

[covert surge]

#the-gallery message

👀

[wraith birch]

Knight!

Deus vult. Deus vult. Deus vult.

[vivid solar]

The Vlad was not ready to get jumped

[open ginkgo]

Looks amazing! Just one thing that think would really sell it is oil on the sword handle to indicate the just bashed in the head of whoever stabbed them or something

[viscid snow]

I love that so much

[covert surge]

🤔

Uno momento

fuckit gonna add some electrical fire to really hammer home this thing is meant to take hit and keep going

[viscid snow]

Rough day for that guy

[wispy lily]

https://tenor.com/view/monty-python-im-invincible-black-knight-just-a-flesh-wound-your-arms-off-gif-11996860

He’ll be good

[hushed field]

Hey, would a trait on a S2 saying that adjacent smaller characters behind it (where it's between the enemy and the friendly) can't be targeted by enemies be too strong?

Hold on, this is the wrong channel. Sorry Terk!

[indigo gulch]

Hell fucking yes terk

[indigo gulch]

What module are you using for that glowing token effect?

[open ginkgo]

That looks freaking great!

[wraith birch]

"Superior by design? Superior by deeds? More like superior by DEEZ NUTS HA GOTEM!"

Sorry, don't know what got over me there.

[raven socket]

Not entirely sure, you'll need to ask @grave mauve

[hardy citrus]

So does it come with the spear thrust through its chest when I buy it?

(Or is that just a fun addition for the art and references)

[covert surge]

it do be art

[hardy citrus]

I quite like the design differences between the two

Arthur being a lot slimmer and quicker looking and modred looking much bulkier

Seeing them side by side is really satisfying

[covert surge]

One is a high tech bespoke mech made to resemble a knight for pr purpose and meant for high speed spear tip, the other is made from wrecks of its enemies jammed together and meant to fight until its last spark and trade upward against more properly built opponent

Also, opposing diagonals

[rain topaz]

Oooh

[hardy citrus]

I really like the idea of modred cobbling instructions being available publicly on the OmniNet

[rain topaz]

Spear amd X-Caliber

[wispy lily]

That’s an aftermarket part

[rain topaz]

Mordhau and pilot sword

[hardy citrus]

So someone gets their hand on it and then polishes it up

[hardy citrus]

It's like wearing in a new pair of shoes

[covert surge]

love me some diagonals

i have consumed untold amount of Mignola's comic cover and have an irresistible urge to put diagonals behind an upright figure in my composition

[hardy citrus]

@covert surge I like to keep myself doing drawings pretty often, so I did a sketch of a Mordred on the train

Didn't finish the hands, I can still work in a little more but wanted to share it before I forgot

[covert surge]

👌

[hardy citrus]

The idea behind the blade is that it is a jointed / segmented blade you see a lot in media, a really heavy hilt, So it works kind of like a Warhammer, played in with a sorta.... Like. You know how in some animation with someone attacks with like a stabbed hammer or weapon It looks like it's bending when they move? Yea that

The "blade" and "hilt" work like a warhammer-flail

[queen jasper]

I am here!!

love all these mechs, super cool!

Do we know when Togo is getting an .lcp for comp con?

I saw it and i'm itching to combo it with Zheng for a barley heldd together hilbilly machine

[hushed field]

Sadly Blue is very overworked right now, she has way too much on her plate, so she's very stressed.

[open ginkgo]

Awww. Tell her it's okay to take her time- Am willing to wait here.

And hope things get less stressful

[indigo gulch]

that's rough, hopefully things get easier for ya Blue!

[hushed field]

She eep right now (It's almsot 5AM as I write this), but I'm sure she'll appreciate the comments. :)

[cerulean smelt]

Okay finished the oneshot,

had 6 players

A Brudenell
A Rat King
A Suleiman
A Frundsberg
A Painted Lady
and a Morning Cloak

All of them loved their frames, Morning Cloak player was a newbie so they weren't really involved in testing beyond helping the mission

However Painted Lady player didn't read their frame right and picked no tech and grabbed the gunslinger talent thinking they benefit thrown weapons

and ended up muttering 'fuck painted lady' the whole time

Same player is allergic to tech builds

all in all tho, don't have anything bad to report beyond the Frundsberg player using both their Fusion Pike and Zweihander to Barrage because it gives the option to in Comp/Con

[open ginkgo]

Shame about the painted lady player

[covert surge]

man playing painted lady on hard mode

[cerulean smelt]

he fully nerfed himself

Didn't read frame traits
Didn't read Thrown tag
Forgot Invades exist

And didn't realize till the last 2 rounds

[covert surge]

Why did they pick the painted lady then or are frames assigned

[cerulean smelt]

Regardless, Terk your genius is truly remarkable if you can create frames that are already so balanced

[cerulean smelt]

They picked, not sure why

[covert surge]

Its the bunny girl imagery innit >:[

[cerulean smelt]

lmfaooo

horndog bait

[cerulean smelt]

OH! Forgot one, also had a Gorshkov

The synergy was amazing

[covert surge]

Im surprised that one wasnt op w how many people are afraid of making hide frame

[rain topaz]

Maybe your just the perfect lancer homebrew designer

[covert surge]

Glance at Rat King

Yeah nah

[wraith birch]

Gorshkov is hot. That's all I have to say on the matter.

[viscid snow]

Gorshkov is the shit, Gorshkov actually gives me a stealth frame and I have never loved anything more

[wraith birch]

Seeing Gorshkov art made me port in one of my favorite characters, so I'll like it no matter what.

[raven socket]

Thank you for the feedback! Glad to hear they all worked well, shame about the painted lady player though..

This is probably our first proper playtest, so I'm glad to hear it went (mostly) well

[cerulean smelt]

Ofc!

Honestly might just try it again with a different group just to see what happens, it was super fun and my players loved it too!

[raven socket]

I'm glad! If you do, please do let us know how it goes again ^^

[cerulean smelt]

Aye aye captain

[raven socket]

And I do appreciate the comments, from earlier ^^

[ornate verge]

I mean the mag looks like it's in shibari. Ssc are a bunch of horndogs.

That aside I ran a couple missions( an escort and what my table lovingly calls a Kaiju hunt) and we had a Frundsberg, a Brudenell, a Dagon, and a Geryon. The escort got weird and fast as they had to transport a foreign dignitary through a pirate riddled area and the party got sucker punched and it turned into a rescue. Still pulled it off. The hunt though.....man that was awesome so good job on em

[rain topaz]

damn

thats a lot of big mechs

2 size 3's and 2 size 2's

[covert surge]

a stampede

any feedback on the frames or are they all peachy?

[ornate verge]

All peachy. Brudenell saw the one punch build and did that.....and yeah. It works. It absolutely works. Same as the Frundsberg he just became a fuckin melee bunker blender. Dagon did....well Dagon things. No real way to put it and the Geryon atomized a pirate captain and sloughed off half of the megafaunas health with the power of the sun

[covert surge]

banger

[ornate verge]

Though the Dagon was worried about the whole AI in the spear thing since they had hunter. They still have the AI tag if they huck the spear right?

[covert surge]

yes

I relegated the more fluffy aspect of a possessed spear like installing itself onto enemy or existing only in the spear when thrown to just that, fluff, because its ultimately a lot of uneeded mechanical overhead for what is otherwise just flavor

[ornate verge]

Okay so glad I called that right. He was a funky fella. Loved it.

[rain topaz]

As in punch god?

my beautiful child punch god

[covert surge]

One frame i hasnt seen much talked is Dragontail (egg)

[rain topaz]

yeah

i was thinking about that

i havent heard of either a duilius or a dragontail being played

or really a heruka

[covert surge]

Duilius got decent discussion mostly around terashima builds lol

[rain topaz]

ah ok

then Dragontail and Heruka

[covert surge]

Heruka also got some play and the feedback was “stronk”

[rain topaz]

ah

dang

just poor dragontail

[wraith birch]

I was thinking about making one of my characters a Heruka pilot, but I dropped it.

I do think that mech is very cool, especially because I'm a Buddhist lol.

I might still make a character out of it one day.

[rain topaz]

hey terk, is Promethean-Innovative a thing you made up?

[ornate verge]

He punched a Kaiju to the moon lol

[rain topaz]

WOOOP

can i ask, did he get the full 34 knockback?

cause if you dont crit you only deal 33

[ornate verge]

Just shy of it. It hit a hill

[rain topaz]

argh

dang hills

[covert surge]

Promethean Innovative is a thing i made up

[rain topaz]

dope

[covert surge]

Its SSC “just make weird experimental shit lmao” line

[rain topaz]

yeah

also, do you think you will end up updating the wip ranking form to include the new frames and remove the old ones that have been made?

[covert surge]

Nah at this point the order is locked unless we get like 100 new people interested in the project

[rain topaz]

what is the current ranking?

[covert surge]

And new frames arent in the wip timeline

I try to intersped new frame in between wip frame

Kishka is next

Further than that i have to get out of bed and check

[rain topaz]

ah

[wraith birch]

Arthur/Mordred?

[rain topaz]

yeah i heard word maybe arthur

dear lord writing lancer lore is hard

never written it before

now i got 7 things of fluff to fill out and a frame description

[covert surge]

Aforementioned interspeding of new frame with wip frame

Last one was brudenell so next one is new frame arthur and then wip frame kishka

[indigo gulch]

Holy fuck that painted lady player was tbe meme where the guy sticks a pipe in his bike spokes.

[tawdry jungle]

Literacy, the most powerful opponent in ttrpgs

[open ginkgo]

Indded, as a card game player I know for a fact that people don't read.

[indigo gulch]

Yeah just ask D&D 5e players any rule from the game and they'll go "what do you mean this game has rules?"

I'm bitter about 5e...

It has killed TTRPG Literacy so damn hard

[sturdy drift]

I still get unreasonably mad every time I look at the Spelljammer box set

[indigo gulch]

Hey Blue... I've started making LCPs... This somehow isn't as bad as I thought but maaaan is it long.

I did adapt a full License into it though

[open ginkgo]

..It has? 5e I mean? How? I only read homebrew and a bit of player stuff on 5e so... no idea what it like normally

[indigo gulch]

Because the playerbase it attracts has decided that "rules arent needed to have fun!" and tend to calvinball tf out of their games, and then applu that to every game system. Have you ever listened to most 5e Actual Plays

It's sooo bad

[open ginkgo]

I have not to be honest. And... yeah that seems less then fun to me. Sure it's good to have rule zero but... rules are there for a reason.

[sturdy drift]

5e Spelljammer lacks rules for Ship to Ship combat

It's 3 pages of 'that doesn't matter, get the ships closer so you can board."

[smoky meteor]

We're pretty sure that tends to be moreso out of necessity than anything.

[raven socket]

It's a mix of time consuming and actually tricky
like

You gotta make sure what you're making will actually work right in VTTs and stuff

And make sure it all works as rules text
Other than that it mostly just takes time

Speaking of making LCPs

It's TM&T v13 day

[rain topaz]

Woooop

Cant wait

[wraith birch]

WOOOOOOOO! YEAHHHHHHH!

VTOL TIME BABY!

[rain topaz]

Actually, I'm so sorry, I think its arthur

Cause we have old, new, old, new

[raven socket]

Yep, arthur

[rain topaz]

And the last was old

[wraith birch]

Oh, okay.

Still cool.

[rain topaz]

Yeah

My big thing

First ever terk alt frame

[wraith birch]

KNIGHT TIME BABY!

DEUS VULT DEUS VULT DEUS VULT

[rain topaz]

Plus, we have our first rkf frame in the supplement now

[hushed field]

Hi. :3

terkmc (Comm open) ↩️

[Reply to:](#1150099146620018708 message) Duilius got decent discussion mostly around terashima builds lol

Also, the Frundsberg at work:
https://youtu.be/PHDpO4QZrzs

Darnet, now I want a one-shot that's a 4-pack of Frundsbergs.

[rain topaz]

Just 4 peeps standing in a circle immobilized, stabbing anyone that gets remotely close

[covert surge]

pike square

[autumn crescent]

Just a bunch of guys being dudes

[raven socket]

A meme from my last session

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1123707323764973691/1181626710379212880/Bowling.jpg?ex=6581bea1&is=656f49a1&hm=ff3786f7c33063dc078cba89d4aacbac9261d5435d3d4e485555467270798ac8&

[rain topaz]

ha

any eta on when the new lcp will be out?

[raven socket]

I don't really do ETAs
Just whenever I get around to it (but I'm aiming for today)

ETAs are stress and I'm trying to avoid stress as much as possible atm

[rain topaz]

My bad, np

Prob wont be awake when it comes out

Could I ask what timezone your in?

[raven socket]

GMT but my sleep schedule's fucked

[queen jasper]

I'm gonna assume Blue is whoever makes them .lcp, I hope she frees up soon and feels better 🙂

[queen jasper]

the what

what is there that give 33 Knockback?

[viscid snow]

Brudenell + D/D288 is the combo

[viscid snow]

Theres the math

Most of it comes from the Brudenell and D/D288

[rain topaz]

Yeah

About 28 of it

[viscid snow]

Yeah, but thats too easy

Gotta squeeze those last bits out

[rain topaz]

Of course

This build is nothing if not epitomized by the fact it takes an entire core bonus because it incidentally gives +1 knockback on knockback stuff

In addition to injecting yourself with exotic drugs to get another +1

WAIT

ITS 35

I didnt factor in titanomachy mesh

The build has increased in power tenfold

[rain topaz]

Hey terk,

If the movement you convert into charges exceeds your charge cap, do you get to move the remaining un-consumed spaces?

[covert surge]

Conversion is all or nothing

So you dont get the unconsumed spaces

[rain topaz]

I figured

Also, I may have figured out how to pop punch god in the first round if combat without popping your core

[formal juniper]

The only way to make one of these bad boys better is some harquebusiers on either side, rotating their shots and reloads.

Good old Tercio.

[lament palm]

where is commando from? sorry for the necro >.<

[pliant token]

No worries! https://discord.com/channels/426286410496999425/1126330640904753322

Supplement focused on NPCs and making your pilots a little more versatile outside their mechs

But not really any less squishy

[pliant token]

Though honestly with the upcoming nerf to the Legion Nexus and the new offensive drone options from the Kidd altframe ofg of https://discord.com/channels/426286410496999425/1179990837661278330 I may have to redo this build

https://youtu.be/i8ju_10NkGY?si=_Fm7XGUG27Ce_CSd

[hardy citrus]

again, i dont think this relates to terk v much

the build doesnt use anything from terk.... im not really sure why is being brought up here, no harm or anything

[cosmic steppe]

The Bligh is reminiscent of the Rat King

Though Ralf gave up on the idea of giving the drones your weapon and just made some standardized weapons they use

[covert surge]

hmm i wonder what terk favorite mech head design is

[rain topaz]

No idea

[cerulean smelt]

Wait a fuckin minute is that Arthur on Comp/Con

[raven socket]

perhaps

[rain topaz]

I imagine terk is testing it

[raven socket]

coughs

[cerulean smelt]

The excitement is insurmountable

[rain topaz]

I've cracked the code

I've just discovered the legion nexus nerfs, so I'm going through the stages of greif

[raven socket]

Oh no, what'd they do?

[rain topaz]

Look how they massacred my boy

[covert surge]

@here the Arthur and the Mordred is now released to the LCP. Check em here: https://bluenexa.itch.io/terk-mech-and-tech

[rain topaz]

WOOOP

[raven socket]

Also Rydon

Take a look around the LCP

You may notice something :P

[rain topaz]

Did the rat king stuff make it in?

[raven socket]

Take a look

[rain topaz]

It looks like it, though in its description is still says k-pg where it should say rk-pg, and micro forge still says it triggers on full repair

[raven socket]

I intentionally left those two out

[rain topaz]

Ah ok

Nevermind then

[raven socket]

Everything else should be in though

[rain topaz]

But thank you, I feel very special

I honestly cant remember every specific duilius one I did, I combed through that thing

My big thing is Autonomous edge alignment from the arthur

Very pog

I must away to dream town however, as it approaches the witching hour

[raven socket]

Sleep well!

And thank you for the help

[rain topaz]

Np, Its deeply satisfying to be able to nitpick without it being dick-ish

[sudden cargo]

Taking a read through. The Blackjack Cabled Dagger stuck out to me as a threat 5 weapon- that's a pretty crazy Overwatch range, even at the cost of being Loading. Thinking about building a controller Raleigh that uses it.

[covert surge]

yeah i really want to do more loading melee that isn't "loading so big damage"

[sudden cargo]

it's extremely cool

[raven socket]

Changelog posted and emails put out

[sudden cargo]

im reading the arthur now
I love bolster synergy ngl

edge of tomorrow is really interesting

hmm
can you double skirmish with edge of tomorrow?

[covert surge]

Yes since its a free action

[sudden cargo]

rad

[covert surge]

Its the intended play to allow it to delay to double skirmish or overcharge to double barrage

And it comes with an intergrated SHeavy so nudge nudge wink wink

[winter temple]

-- HA ARTHUR @ LL6 -- [ LICENSES ] HA ARTHUR 2, HA Tokugawa 1, HA Sherman 3 [ CORE BONUSES ] Heatfall Coolant System, Superior by Design [ TALENTS ] Siege Specialist 3, Heavy Gunner 3, Nuclear Cavalier 2, Spaceborn 1 [ STATS ] HULL:4 AGI:0 SYS:0 ENGI:4 STRUCTURE:4 HP:21 ARMOR:1 STRESS:4 HEATCAP:14 REPAIR:6 TECH ATK:0 LIMITED:+2 SPD:3 EVA:8 EDEF:8 SENSE:10 SAVE:13 [ WEAPONS ] Integrated: X-Caliber Plasmacore FLEX MOUNT: Annihilator HEAVY MOUNT: ANDROMEDA-Pattern Heavy Laser Rifle [ SYSTEMS ] ASURA-Class NHP x3, Ultracharger, External Batteries, Personalizations, Armament Redundancy

RAZER BEAMMMMMMMMMMM

[cerulean smelt]

LET'S GOOOOOO ARTHUR

Wait double Barrage?

How is that possible

Did I miss something

[sudden cargo]

Edge of Tomorrow turn 1 -> turn 2 Barrage plus overcharge a Edge of Tomorrow'd Barrage

[cerulean smelt]

ooooh yeah that's right

doy

[wraith birch]

WOOHOO YEAHHHHHHHHHH

[pliant token]

I wonder if there's a way to combine that with the "one burning eye" IPSN head design in a way that makes it clear the resulting head/faceplate is a mix of the two

[spring creek]

what's RKF, as in the RKF mordred?

[cosmic steppe]

royal karrakin foundry

[spring creek]

ah

[wraith birch]

First attempt at building an Arthur.

[ LICENSES ]
  HA ARTHUR 3, SSC Emperor 2, HA Sherman 1
[ CORE BONUSES ]
  Heatfall Coolant System, Auto-Stabilizing Hardpoints
[ TALENTS ]
  Executioner 3, Combined Arms 2, Sysop 2, Exemplar 2
[ STATS ]
  HULL:4 AGI:0 SYS:2 ENGI:2
  STRUCTURE:4 HP:19 ARMOR:1
  STRESS:4 HEATCAP:10 REPAIR:6
  TECH ATK:+2 LIMITED:+1
  SPD:3 EVA:8 EDEF:10 SENSE:10 SAVE:13
[ WEAPONS ]
  Integrated: X-Caliber Plasmacore
  FLEX MOUNT: SOL-Pattern Laser Rifle
  HEAVY MOUNT: Clarent (Autonomous Edge Alignment) // Auto-Stabilizing Hardpoints
[ SYSTEMS ]
  Ultracharger, Avalon Generator x3, Shahnameh x4```

[sudden cargo]

thinking about a fade cloak arthur

[wraith birch]

That would fit in pretty well with the Avalon.

I thought about making another invis Arthur, but by god I've been building so many invis mechs lately.

[covert surge]

Excited to see playtest feedback on it

[queen jasper]

hihi i dont mean to be evil or vile, love the new mech very cool

are we not getting an .lcp for Togo? or is it a wip

[covert surge]

Things take time

So yes eventually

[queen jasper]

Ah yes ok ❤️ thank you

[wraith birch]

The best you'll get out of me is an ad post in the cantina, chief.

[viscid snow]

Omg I love the Arthur

-- HA ARTHUR @ LL6 --
[ LICENSES ]
HA ARTHUR 3, IPS-N Nelson 3
[ CORE BONUSES ]
Gyges Frame, Overpower Caliber
[ TALENTS ]
Executioner 3, Sysop 3, Exemplar 2, Brawler 1
[ STATS ]
HULL:4 AGI:2 SYS:0 ENGI:2
STRUCTURE:4 HP:21 ARMOR:1
STRESS:4 HEATCAP:10 REPAIR:6
TECH ATK:0 LIMITED:+1
SPD:4 EVA:10 EDEF:8 SENSE:10 SAVE:13
[ WEAPONS ]
Integrated: X-Caliber Plasmacore
FLEX MOUNT: War Pike
HEAVY MOUNT: Clarent (Autonomous Edge Alignment) // Overpower Caliber
[ SYSTEMS ]
Ramjet, Ultracharger, Bulwark Mods, Personalizations

Cooked this one up in 10

(Also lmao, Threat 5 X-Caliber)

[covert surge]

The widest arc cleave

[viscid snow]

Also, this is the first chassis I have ever even considered takin Sysop on

[cerulean smelt]

You know a license is good when it makes you consider talents you've never touched

[ornate verge]

I did another one shot with that one, a manticore, and a minotaur......They fuel air bombed a capital ship.

[covert surge]

lmao

theres intentional tension between its SSC-bias fluff about how they are not brutish flame weapons likes other mech and instead of a pyrotechnical artist

but its at the end of the day, a firebombing mech

[ornate verge]

That's putting it lightly.....they killed like 40 dudes in the first half of the mission.

[indigo gulch]

Look, if it looks like an egg, walks like a mech, and burns like a Genghis, it's a Dragontail that is rapidly approaching your location artsy shit be dammned.

oops wrong person I meant to reply to terk rip

ah well

[ornate verge]

Lol . Though yeah. It's a beast at horde clear. Especially if it's got teammates for CC. Also it's terrifying with stuff from the Baronic Defense Force LCP. The Khanda electric smoke grenades in particular.

[indigo gulch]

God I had to check the license to remind myself just how goofy it looks. i love it but man I cannot take it seriously, it's like SSC tried to make a Genghis but ate a bad batch of hardboiled eggs and hallucinated hard.

Not trying to shit on the art, I just find it very funny to look at.

...it's mostly the head. It looks like a turtle trying to peep out of its shell.

[ornate verge]

Lol don't let it fool you though. It's often the silly ones/joke weapons that often turn out to be some of the nastiest ones.

[indigo gulch]

ur telling me, I'm a proud Urbanmech enjoyer

I love me trashcan

[covert surge]

its somewhat intentional

SSC tries really hard to "sand the edges off" of what is ultimate a firebomber

its looks round and harmless, its fluff and marketting downplay its usage of fire

but its still a firebomber

[indigo gulch]

yeah the level of aoe firespeading this guy does is enough to make a Worldkiller blush

[covert surge]

speaking of eggs shaped mechs

[rain topaz]

Ooooh

[indigo gulch]

https://tenor.com/view/space-tim-curry-gif-7935778

[covert surge]

got the jaws of life

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AfZgFyZxi9dV0Hik8lLhIRiPFMa0mbaVRCZXxRRvf1I/edit?usp=sharing

the HA Arthur spike lmao

[rain topaz]

Ha

[ornate verge]

Okay that's pretty cool. He's a kinda first responder mech. That's actually kinda cool. Take it in conjunction with a Noah NHP/Saladin license and the Medic talent from maximum threat and you're golden

[covert surge]

HAtriot here reminding people that HA does do humanitarian stuff, on a big scale infact, and doesnt exclusively make weapons :P

[covert surge]

List of Terk Mechs that are spherical grows

[spring creek]

He can’t keep getting away with this

[ornate verge]

I already have a name for the fire team/squad.
"Fuck it. We Ball." Or alternatively "Ball is Life."

[indigo gulch]

"The Ballbreakers"

Now we just need a spherical HORUS mech and the quadrant is complete

Aight terk you've done it: you've added to the growing list of HA Huggable Mechs.

I fuckin love Baldwin. I unironically would run this, because I love dedicated defender/support frames

And I agree with Bloodhound, combining this with Saladin's license would make an absolute unit of a defender/support build.

[winter temple]

"Music Of The Spher(oid)s"

[terse marsh]

My favorite design-wise is the Dragontail, but I love the idea of Tukhachevsky

[ornate verge]

Hacking your shit six billion passwords a second

[pliant token]

I blame you for this - I'm certain the algorithm somehow knew I read this sentence and that's why this was on top of my YouTube recommendations page just now

https://youtu.be/jOzvS4Bx-yw?si=DXTd9glHkoPtd0Ft

[ornate verge]

What can I say? I have almost cryptid like abilities lol

[wraith birch]

Oh my god that looks so cool!

[whole topaz]

wait a minute, Lord is done? If so where can i find it?

[wraith birch]

Nope, not in LCP yet.

[rain topaz]

Looking at the Lord just makes me so happy i dont know why

[hardy citrus]

trustfall really lets me carry around smash bros final destination in my pocket

love it

i love this very positionals focused, forcing solutions into place, form of support

[sudden cargo]

Pulse nexus is extremely cool

Centimane gaming

[covert surge]

no centimane gaming

it specifically does not do damage and does not roll so you can fish for centimane in a burst 3

[sudden cargo]

oh hmm
I initially understood it as effectively being an attack that does 0 damage- that didn't quite come across clearly to me

oh wait it's like gravity gun

I see

[rain topaz]

i cant wwait till we get the phasma

(no im not biased, yes, ssc is the best corpro)

[covert surge]

yeah its basically reverse gravity gun on a main

[rain topaz]

oh yeah, do you have any idea when the phasma might enter the rotation?

cause i know kishka is next

then a newer one, so i geuss possibly the Subutai, the Togo, the Baldwin, or the Phasma

(right?)

[covert surge]

Yes

[rain topaz]

dope

25% chance of Phasma aint too bad

(theoretically)

[ornate verge]

I have a buddy of mine. I showed the kishka to and dear god, he made meme of drive me closer. I want to hit them with my sword because he had a thought of someone in a kishka hooking on to a Tokugawa

[raven socket]

-- HA BRUDENELL @ LL4 --
[ LICENSES ]
  HA BRUDENELL 3, IPS-N Tortuga 1
[ CORE BONUSES ]
  Superior by Design
[ TALENTS ]
  Vanguard 3, Skirmisher 2, SPACEBORN 1
[ STATS ]
  HULL:2 AGI:2 SYS:0 ENGI:2
  STRUCTURE:4 HP:16 ARMOR:1
  STRESS:4 HEATCAP:12 REPAIR:6
  TECH ATK:-2 LIMITED:+1
  SPD:4 EVA:10 EDEF:8 SENSE:3 SAVE:12
[ WEAPONS ]
  FLEX MOUNT: Deck-Sweeper Automatic Shotgun
  HEAVY MOUNT: Chicxulub Heavy Shock Gauntlet (Rocket Attachment)
[ SYSTEMS ]
  Breach Shield x4, Joint Mobility Recalibration, Personalizations

We finally reached LL4, and I'm unsure what to do for my last talent point

Any thoughts?

[rain topaz]

Not at my computer right now, so I'm not sure

[raven socket]

That's alright!

[wraith birch]

Skirmisher 3 seems like a safe choice there, I think.

But there might be a better idea.

[covert surge]

Ace is good

[pliant knot]

it baffles me how good arthurs avalon generator is on an enkidu

[open ginkgo]

Question: The Catalyst charges for the Dragontail, all they do is slow things down/impair? Just asking because according to name/fluff seems like it would do more, if that makes sense.

[covert surge]

Huge aoe impair

Which does make burn clearing and failing saves more likely

[open ginkgo]

ah yeah that makes sense ty- just trying to theory craft some stuff for them.

I mean come up with some builds

[covert surge]

With the dragontail trait it create a burst 3 lingering area of impairment

[covert surge]

yeah its in LL3 for a reason its a super HDA on harsher pacer

[open ginkgo]

-- SSC DRAGONTAIL @ LL7 --
[ LICENSES ]
SSC DRAGONTAIL 3, HA Barbarossa 2, IPS-N Raleigh 2
[ CORE BONUSES ]
Neurolink Targeting, Mount Retrofitting
[ TALENTS ]
Stormbringer 3, Gunslinger 3, Engineer 3, Walking Armory 1
[ STATS ]
HULL:0 AGI:0 SYS:6 ENGI:3
STRUCTURE:4 HP:14 ARMOR:0
STRESS:4 HEATCAP:9 REPAIR:5
TECH ATK:+6 LIMITED:+1
SPD:5 EVA:10 EDEF:12 SENSE:10 SAVE:14
[ WEAPONS ]
Integrated: Thermobaric Cloud Deployment Rail
Integrated: Prototype Weapon III
RETROFITTED MOUNT: Hou Yi Gauss Crossbow / Flare Gun // Mount Retrofitting
MAIN/AUX MOUNT: Hou Yi Gauss Crossbow / Flare Gun
[ SYSTEMS ]
Autoloader Drone x2, Siege Stabilizers, Catalyst Charges x4, Moths to a Flame, Thermal Shock

Not sure how to properly format this but... here is a build for the DragonTail. More focused on long range attacking, but still pretty decent I think- Able to hit targets from at least 23 spaces away

Twice, with a Barriage.

[cloud lotus]

Slowly, all of my players are becoming mech made by you

We have burndell a morden and a hekuka

[raven socket]

Our evil plan is working
Soon every frame in use across the world's lancer sessions will be one of Terk's

(Seriously though, that's really cool to hear)

(How's that going so far?)

[cloud lotus]

Pretty good my player really likes the burndell who just structured and ultra three times in one round (with set up and CorePower, of course) and hekuka has been consistent but the player really wants to move more

But that’s a trade-off

We just leveled up, so the Arthur is new

[rain topaz]

As it should be

[covert surge]

How many people did you punt that ultra through with the shock gaunt lol

[cloud lotus]

Oh, we didn’t do that if it just knocked back 13 feet away and set on fire

He still ll 2 with the Burndell had to get some Tokugawa levels

[pliant token]

Terk Mech & Tech: "It's Basically Canon!(™)"

[covert surge]

Togo Pilot doodle

[rain topaz]

Damn, did some prototyping on the dude aswell

[covert surge]

Lost legs in a combat incident, got cybernetic while waiting for medical treatment, ended up liking it because it doesn't feel pain, doesn't tire, and you can just switch to a new pair of legs as the situation demands

became an "improvement junkie" chasing the high of being able to do something faster better stronger and new, both reflected in perfectionism in honing their skill, getting more cybernetics and grabbing the Togo because "cutting edge"

[rain topaz]

Damn, on the slippery slop to total decorp

[indigo gulch]

I love how the legs aren't even attached to the stumps, they're mounted to a belt

ig it's one way to avoid sweaty prosthetics and chafing

[covert surge]

Its mounted up a thingimajing that runs from the belt up to the back so the weight gets distributed to the back

[indigo gulch]

gucci

my man goin full tech priest

[covert surge]

Plus this way the entire leg movement is servo’ed instead of just the knees and ankles

Also it got blades cuz i just rewatched the 1st Kingsman

[indigo gulch]

Kingsman is great

the Freebird scene is one of the best and most brutal action sequences in an action film

[covert surge]

Just out of nowhere too the film up to that point has little blood and even the bisection dont got gore

And then bam

[indigo gulch]

free bird solo accompanied by meaty thunks

[hardy citrus]

Oh those prosthetics fuck, i love that

[ornate verge]

On the subject of freebird I had that playing while the Flaming doom egg was doing his thang. Was glorious.

[indigo gulch]

hell yeah

[ornate verge]

Yeah he did it with a shed load of grenades, the launcher, and a super heavy mount plasma thrower from the Genghis....it was pure glorious carnage.

[covert surge]

https://tenor.com/view/fire-gif-10341555270454130792

[indigo gulch]

"The Fireman Smiles."

[ornate verge]

Also. Duilious, Tortuga, caliban, and a Pharos(Ips-n sniper mech built for space borne boarding actions) make for a helluva boarding team.

[covert surge]

wait until Yermak

its in lore that its a "Surprise Safety Inspection" is a tactic commonly used where a Yermak with a Mule Harness will have some caliban hitch a ride while it floats up to a ship, cut through the bulkhead because its a ship-cutter salvager mech, and deposit Caliban dirrectly into the deck

as a surprise, because despite being size 3 its still small compared to a ship and can get by unnoticed

[indigo gulch]

I feel like deploying a Baldwin alongside those would be even more nutty

also I cannot wait for Yermak

[ornate verge]

God a Yermak and a Pharos combo would be heinous. Pharos for a long range external breach with it's boarding auger and then use the Yermak to cut through the interior.
Also while they didn't kill as many as the other guys the sheer speed of the ship capture was obscene.

[covert surge]

Baldwin is a wholesome mech uwu it wont participate

[ornate verge]

Nah he's there in case of surprise rescue op. Honestly having a Baldwin would have helped them get their bonus objective. I randomized the mission both times. The first group had a capture and decapitation strike. Group two had a capture and hostage rescue. A Baldwin would have made a world of difference.

[hushed field]

The Baldwin is a lil' fella! :D

[hardy citrus]

My partner loves the Pharos omg

[ornate verge]

It's beautiful. Especially for a situation/op like that. God he saved them I don't know how many times. That harpoon gun is brutal. Doesn't help that he had ace and crackshot so he was just flying like a madman and landing bonkers shots

[covert surge]

Just a little blorbo who can do no harm

[indigo gulch]

just a silly lil' guy

not very big at all

in fact, quite smol

[ornate verge]

But yeah it took the first group like 2 and a half hours to do the sitrep. Group 2 did it in like an hour. The joke was high speed shotgun violence.

[steep pebble]

@covert surge @raven socket

[covert surge]

The fuckin

Pegasus as the horse

[covert surge]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SJ0B8tH0MfJqtNx5D_wtO2w5EXqpPBeaZ5NvFt_4DZI/edit?usp=sharing

bed soon but heres the draft of Aquilegia

[pliant token]

YES

HONOURE AND CHIVALRIE

[rain topaz]

WOOOOOO

[pliant token]

Ok so here's my concept pitch for a future RKF frame - I will couch it by saying it's top-down purely vibes/aesthetics based at this point

a frame based on the marginalia in medieval manuscripts

[pliant knot]

i made this arthur frame custom recolor for an eventual session, the frame prob my new favorite to tinker with especially edge of tomorrow

[wraith birch]

Oh my god that is hot.

Literally and figuratively.

[rain topaz]

Wow that's amazing

[covert surge]

🔥

[alpine kayak]

That’s truly amazing

[covert surge]

Might make aquilegia albatross- related so I only have to make 1 more to have an albatross frame for every manufacturer

[rain topaz]

Trying to get the horus albatross out of the way I see

Very sneaky

[covert surge]

Horus 2 spooki

Though a dragon themed horus would fit albatross but eh no idea for that one that isnt super obvious cone burn frame

Fun fact the Geryon was originally Horus Dragon before i have a brain blast while concepting the frame

[rain topaz]

Horus unicorn

[wraith birch]

Albatross frame from every manufacturer would be pretty fun ngl.

[covert surge]

Tank SSC albatross lmao

[wraith birch]

Oh no.

[rain topaz]

Honestly it feels like if ssc made an albatross frame it would be like a humanitarian focused frame of some sort

Like a symbol of glorious hope type deal

[covert surge]

Nelson as close range striker, Aquilegia support, Arthur despite being sword themed can play artillery perfectly nicely like Tokugawa

Ultra charger charging nexus and general double skirmish/barrage fuckery with a giant gun

OC loop Siege Cannon

[rain topaz]

Finally my beautiful dd/288 without overcharging

[covert surge]

OC prime edge of tmr, stabilize to load

OC barrage in direct fire using edge and then normal barrage to unload

[rain topaz]

Right now I'm putting together a build I'm calling the "Errant", using the lycan and its dropping its armor, and flavoring it as dropping the armor and pulling out 2 knives

[covert surge]

Granted much heat very spicy but HA frame lmao

[rain topaz]

Using some arthur and brudenell stuff to fill out my weapon roster

[cerulean smelt]

this fucks

[raven socket]

Dear god that is awesome

[alpine kayak]

I wish something like the Arthur was core lol

[wraith birch]

That's what I like about this supplement, a lot of this stuff feels like a "vanilla+" kinda deal.

[cerulean smelt]

Effortlessly a staple LCP

[rain topaz]

Oh deffo

[wraith birch]

The only reason I would hesitate is the rat king spam or the Brudenell "I just yeeted the boss off the fucking map again. Hasta la vista, baby."

[rain topaz]

Tbf, it does take a ll9-12 brud to pull it off

[wraith birch]

True.

[rain topaz]

To achieve a full 35 knock you have to be atleast ll11, cause otherwise your charge cap is below 10

[wraith birch]

I already wrote this into one of the campaign's NPCs/factions, so I feel like it's an obligatory inclusion now.

[rain topaz]

Which thing?

[wraith birch]

The entire supplement?

[rain topaz]

No, like what thing did you write into a thing?

[wraith birch]

I have multiple characters posting in the cantina that I'll throw into my campaign as NPCs and factions(because I'll never get to play this unless I'm the GM)

https://discordapp.com/channels/426286410496999425/645137498577698833/1164087569936547870

Schaderin Jägers have the Gorshkov and Metalmark as standard.

[rain topaz]

Ah ok

Frankly the only thing that breaks the immersion of terk for me is that the whole lcp has capitalised frame names

But it would take so much fucking effort to change them all so I do not suggest it

[wraith birch]

To be fair, it's really minor. You really wouldn't notice that a lot of the time.

[rain topaz]

Except all the license notes show it

[wraith birch]

Since a lot of stuff in COMP/CON's UI gets capitalized by default.

[rain topaz]

So believe me, I notice

But I think I'm prob the outlier

[wraith birch]

I did notice it too, but I wasn't bothered too much.

Especially since the first time I noticed was on the Frundsberg and seeing FRUNDSBERG for the size three giant is appropriate.

[rain topaz]

I also sometimes, when reading a homebrew supplement, will start putting together what I think would be a better way of writing a thing in my head, so I think I'm just very aware of formatting

[raven socket]

To be honest, that happened because of some weirdness in the editor

I was planning on fixing it for the eventual full release

My only worry is I can't guarantee existing-frame-compatability if I change it. Might be fine, might not

It'd take like 10 mins, so if people want it fixed I can fix it now

[rain topaz]

That might be nice

[cerulean smelt]

reminds me of those coders that left a png of a coconut or something in their code because whenever they tried to remove it the code was unusable

but I doubt it's the same issue

[raven socket]

If you want the actual reason why it happened

I originally used the proper capitalisation, but when I went to select the licence to add stuff to, that made it show just the new stuff in proper case and all the vanilla content in all caps

[rain topaz]

Yeah I noticed that

[raven socket]

So I assumed it must be convention to use all caps

[rain topaz]

But I think it's just a thing in the lcp maker or something

[raven socket]

Aye

[steep pebble]

It already knows everything.

[covert surge]

:O

[rain topaz]

Wooooooooooooooooop

[hardy citrus]

:0

[hushed field]

:O

[cerulean smelt]

:OOOOOO

[vivid solar]

Yo

Baller

[lament palm]

yo that's awesome <3 deserve the boost for sure

[indigo gulch]

That's fuckin sick af!

[orchid fox]

oh thats super cool!

but honestly this entire supplement is a banger, nice art+cool concepts+fun descriptions give me the happy brain chemicals

[rain topaz]

Truly one of the greats

[hollow chasm]

less gooooo

[cobalt sonnet]

so, questions about rat king

1. ive seen a lot of back and forth about whether or note sputnik drones benefit from your talents. do they benefit from systems? from core bonuses (outside of the ones that apply to mount ofc)?

2. can they use actions provided by a weapon. if i give the an assault cannon, can they spin it up. if i give them a terashima blade, can they change stances?

3. im presuming this wouldnt work - would paracausal mod mitigate the dealing half damage, burn and heat. line in sputnik desc?

that is a damage reduction. but. im assuming thats not how this works.

its applied before the attack, etc

[dull quest]

popping over here to at least say that for (3)- precedent is that paracausal doesn't negate "deal half damage" clauses in general. See faq here:
https://lancer-faq.netlify.app/#814dd6

[cobalt sonnet]

word

[sudden cargo]

1. my read is that they don't benefit from anything except weapon mods (which they explicitly benefit from)
2. I don't see anything that would let them take those actions, however it seems(?) that the state of the weapon is preserved when you send out the drone, so they use your assault cannon in the mode it was when you deployed the drone? I think?

[cobalt sonnet]

if 2 is the case, that means some like assault cannon wouldnt work, cause i dont believe you can start scene with the revved stance

terashimas still on the table

[sudden cargo]

well, not without some work (spin up cannon, deploy a non-drone and spend 1 hp to make a sputnik drone with the spun-up cannon)

[cobalt sonnet]

nope. they take your mount at the start of the scene

At the start of the scene, select one of your mounts that does not contain a superheavy or loading weapon and then deploy a Sputnik Drone in an adjacent free space; your sputnik drones are equipped with the weapons from that mount

[sudden cargo]

I'm looking at the third paragraph in compcon:

Every time you deploy a non-Sputnik drone, you may spend 1 HP to deploy another Sputnik Drone at an adjacent free space.

[cobalt sonnet]

yeah thats just talking about how you spawn em

they all have the same weapon

[sudden cargo]

OH

I didn't put that together

I was thinking they each used a different mount

And you needed Improved Armament to get them to work

I get it now

[cobalt sonnet]

yeah

[covert surge]

They dont have access to weapon action

That save me a ton of headache and future proofing

And they dont benefit from talent system cb except weapon mods, mount-targeted effect and other effect that explicitly affect drone like centimane

[cobalt sonnet]

so opcal/autostab wouldnt work?

oh except mount targeted effect

my bad i cant read

question 4) do the attacks from the sputnik drones count as your attacks for the purpose of Orator?

because assuming the previous, i'm going to assume not? which might mean Orator may be pretty based on this thing

[covert surge]

It does not count as your attack

[cobalt sonnet]

Word

[cosmic steppe]

For Autonomous Edge Alignment, it doesn't list when the reliable goes away, though I asssume its at the end of the attack

Cus otherwise you could keep attacking to build the reliable up a bunch

Also I was really sad when I realized Autonomous Edge Alignment can't go on Aux weapons. I was so close to a TH2 tomohawk build that would've given my GM a heart attack

[rain topaz]

Tbf, reliable 6 on an aux would be wild

Actually, I think the max would be reliable 7, cause pistol gets 1 reliable

[cosmic steppe]

6 accuracy?

[rain topaz]

You use the value of the highest accuracy dice

So a max of +6 reliable

[cosmic steppe]

Oh! That is not how I thought that worked!

[rain topaz]

Yeah I figured

[cosmic steppe]

I thought it was If you have +1 accuracy its reliable 1, +2 accuracy reliable 2 etc

[rain topaz]

I think that's one of the reasons clarent has accurate, so it can always trigger autonmous edge

[cosmic steppe]

yeah

That makes a lot more sense

[rain topaz]

Glad I could clear it up

[cosmic steppe]

tyty

[wraith birch]

Wait, does autonomous edge alignment stack with native reliable?

[rain topaz]

Yes

There's in fact a specification that it does in it

[wraith birch]

Oh okay.

[cobalt sonnet]

alright, think im done cooking, tell me how i did

[ LICENSES ]
  HORUS RAT KING 2, HORUS Hydra 3, SSC Dusk Wing 2, HORUS Gorgon 1, IPS-N Tortuga 1, HORUS Manticore 1
[ CORE BONUSES ]
  Auto-Stabilizing Hardpoints, The Lesson of the Held Image, Mount Retrofitting
[ TALENTS ]
  Drone Commander 3, Vanguard 3, Centimane 2, House Guard 2, Skirmisher 2, Spotter 1
[ STATS ]
  HULL:6 AGI:0 SYS:6 ENGI:0
  STRUCTURE:4 HP:25 ARMOR:0
  STRESS:4 HEATCAP:4 REPAIR:8
  TECH ATK:+7 LIMITED:+0
  SPD:5 EVA:12 EDEF:16 SENSE:10 SAVE:15
[ WEAPONS ]
  RETROFITTED MOUNT: Deck-Sweeper Automatic Shotgun / Catalyst Pistol // Auto-Stabilizing Hardpoints, Mount Retrofitting
[ SYSTEMS ]
  PUPPETMASTER, Flicker Field Projector, Armament Redundancy, Personalizations, Sentinel Drone, Sentinel Drone, Assassin Drone, Salvager Drone, Flash Combat Data, Turret Drones x3```

[rain topaz]

That catalyst pistols gonna instantly kill you

You take all the heat your drones might

[cobalt sonnet]

oh you do?

i was under the impression it got converted to energy damage

[covert surge]

heat is dealt to the drone yes

its still going to kill you in a roundabout way because its going to kill your drones and Rat King is very fragile without drones to teleport to

[cobalt sonnet]

thats what the invigorate is for

if these things dont have overshield when i use that, i'm failing my mission

although, i may end up swapping to thermal pistol to play it safe

its absolutely the most contentious thing on the sheet

[hushed field]

Full speed Rat King! :D

[cobalt sonnet]

so. I DID get to play this

it was certainly An Experience. definitely not a negative one. the rat king is quite fun. absolutely buck wild, but fun

the biggest problem was our team comp. our party consisted of a pure support Lancaster & a homebrew artillery frame, so I was the only one on the front lines

it was just us 3. big contributing factor

I really had to learn by the second combat encounter to use my drones as my squad. I had to realize that those fuckers were the allies I never had. once I cracked that code, it started to click for sure

I kept playing it like a hydra without realizing it. I had to learn to realize I needed to think a lot bigger & treat all of my drones as if they were myself

[covert surge]

the only one you can trust is yourself (and your pal sputnik)

[cobalt sonnet]

once I figured it out I had a lot of fun. was absolutely fucked by resources in the second fight though due to no time to rest lmao

[covert surge]

and yeah the intention was to make a pseudo NPC Squad in mech form

[cobalt sonnet]

I was playing the first encounter WAY too fast & loose with drone spawns

I should have conserved systems a lot more than I did

also. probably shouldn't have gone 0 eng. pretty bad idea on my part.

I DID get stressed by my ally shooting me with a gun that dealt heat (witch moment!)

it was quite fun though. will probably revisit this frame in the future

[covert surge]

glad to hear the Rat King didn't break anything for once :P

[cobalt sonnet]

really enjoyed the character I cooked up

UNIT 036 - ROYALE
PILOTING - THE PERFECT ROSE
A maddened unshackled NHP obsessed with the idea of hierarchy - one who takes pieces from those bigger than itself to salvage into more and more knights for its army, because if it kills enough things higher up the chain than it, it will naturally become a king

I hope you do not mind, but I ended up recoloring the base art pretty heavily because I needed tokens for myself and all my goons. they came out great, but I understand if you don't want me to post, since it is your art & all

[covert surge]

i dont mind

[cobalt sonnet]

here is my beloved

you may thoroughly enjoy the drone art. i will save the sputnik for last

in order: sentinel, assassin, salvager, turret

[covert surge]

man got reddit gold

[cobalt sonnet]

and, best of all, the top of the class

the sputnik

brother is truly gods most faithful soldier

[covert surge]

pffff

[cobalt sonnet]

the assassin drone just having a pistol sticking out the side of the cloak is also a real standout. god I love those things.

whenever i spawned a sputnik drone, I would hand my deck sweeper to my drone, and then pull out another one from God Knows Where

every time I swapped places with a drone, I would pop out of its head & crawl out like Faust in guilty gear

I loved those lil bastards

the rat king is definitely a lot of fun. absolutely is my favorite flavor of psycho build. I could probably break the balance like a toothpick with this thing

I feel like if my GM let me cook a little more & didn't put a rainmaker in scene 1, I'd have already done that

I loved the sheer gremlin energy of this thing too. having THIS many incredibly kickable minions just gets the brain in the right spot

this is how it feels to play rat king

[raven socket]

Oooo
I love this!

[raven socket]

This too & the sputnik

Very well done

[formal juniper]

Glory to the Omnissiah with those colors

[cobalt sonnet]

glory to the omnissiah.

[covert surge]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10Tvn0DnRF5MfDwEzHJTj2MEK2u0UxtM4NhkyU9FE9QU/edit?usp=sharing

first draft of Kishka

[rain topaz]

Oh no

You've made the flak cannon depressed

How could you

In seriousness though, might I suggest making the base flak cannon called the raised flak cannon

Also, eyes in the skies calls the invisibility thing a check

Is that correct?

[covert surge]

re-roll roll i guess

since Invisible never actually specifiy if you flip a coin or roll a d6 and seee if its 1-3 or 4-6

[rain topaz]

Yeah, I got stuck trying to figure out a rewording

[rain topaz]

Or even roll a d20 and decided 1-10, 11-20

Just calling it a check seems wrong

Currently not at home, but I may end up combing through brudenell and arthur for little things when I get home

[cerulean smelt]

Good news, might be able to slip in another playtest soon!!

[cerulean smelt]

hehehgehkekeke this looks SO good

I am in love with the chaingun

[covert surge]

Minigun 3 electric boogaloo

[wraith birch]

I have passed the point of no return in writing lore for my campaign.
(Excerpt)

So far, the Central Martial Order's approved standard knight licensing schemes are as follows:
From IPS-Northstar(IPS-N):
-Blackbeard
-Nelson
-Vlad
From Smith-Shimano Corpro(SSC):
-Atlas
-Metalmark
-Painted Lady
From Harrison Armory(HA):
-Arthur
-Brudenell
-Frundsberg
From Royal Karrakin Foundries(RKF):
-Mordred
-Calendula
-Aquilegia```

TMT is now a required supplement in my game, whenever I get to run it.

[rain topaz]

Love that the HA is fully terk

No, terk does not have an Ha bias, what would make you think that

Also, a note, mordred is not officially rkf

[wraith birch]

Oh yeah, it's from the Ungrateful.

[rain topaz]

No

Rkf makes it

Its the same as the hecaton

[wraith birch]

Huh, I guess I need to reread the lore.

[rain topaz]

Officially, the ktb has no idea where those came from, yes it's a complete coincidence that every mordred seems to be in use by people fighting ha-aligned forces

[wraith birch]

Yeah, I wanted to include it here because it's a knight frame and I wanted it for the knight faction.

I might do a modified version of Terk's lore and just says that RKF can provide it(or a copy of it) or something.

[rain topaz]

Or that the CMO just has some laying around

[wraith birch]

CMO is officially situated out of KTB space.

[rain topaz]

Still

[wraith birch]

Since this is part of Solace's Grave(which is my own setting.)

[wraith birch]

I didn't do HORUS because technically HORUS isn't just a corp you can buy licenses from.

And this is official government entity.

[rain topaz]

You could also just give the mordred a different name, and just put mordred in parenthesis

[cobalt sonnet]

where is my government issued rat king

[wraith birch]

Calendula technically is HORUS, but I added it in with RKF.

[cobalt sonnet]

it came free with my social security card

[rain topaz]

Go find a trash compactor drone

[wraith birch]

This is the whole thing, by the way.

The Central Martial Order of Questing Knights and Knight-Errants of Galia(Shortened to Central Martial Order: CMO) offers a large variety of standard licensing schemes to its members, procured independently of standard Galian Regional Security Services and Solacian Planetary Defense Force procurement programs. All Knight-Errants are issued three level of licenses, picked from the approved licensing schemes, free of charge: one when they passed selections and joined the service as a Squire, the second when they are promoted to the rank of Knight, and the third when they are promoted to the rank of Banneret.

All Knight-Errants may choose to exchange their standard issue licensing scheme for any other approved licensing scheme at anytime, though they must stay within the same licensing scheme for all three issued license levels. However, it is a widespread practice among the knights to obtain additional licenses from any number of manufacturers at their own expense and buy, salvage, or trade equipment from other sources to supplement their own standard-issued one.

Upon promotion to Banneret, knights may also choose to pick up additional licenses from an alternative standard-issued licensing scheme directly from the Central Martial Order for additional costs.

Due to an agreement between the SPDF and Union 747th Auxiliary Detachment's High Command, pilots of the 747th operating within Galia are also eligible for acquiring equipment and approved licensing schemes through the Central Martial Order at a decreased price.

So far, the Central Martial Order's approved standard knight licensing schemes are as follows:
From IPS-Northstar(IPS-N):
-Blackbeard
-Nelson
-Vlad
From Smith-Shimano Corpro(SSC):
-Atlas
-Metalmark
-Painted Lady
From Harrison Armory(HA):
-Arthur
-Brudenell
-Frundsberg
From Royal Karrakin Foundries(RKF):
-Mordred
-Calendula
-Aquilegia```

So you get context for how CMO source their license. The "buy, salvage, or trade" clause is my reasoning for why you can get other licenses(HORUS ones included)

Sometimes there's just shit lying around.

[rain topaz]

I mean, the only manufactured part of the mordred is its special core thing

The rest is made from scrap and Sherman's and stuff

If I could suggest, the taraxum could replace the mordred in rkf

So then you still have 3 in each category

[wraith birch]

Where's Taraxum from?

[rain topaz]

Lemme check which one it is real quick

[wraith birch]

I really would rather not grab additional supplements right now.

Might just reflavor the lore as I said, or just remove Mordred entirely.

[rain topaz]

Upcoming shadow of the wolf

[wraith birch]

Oh yeah, the playtest one.

[rain topaz]

So it is official

[wraith birch]

We'll see. This part of the lore is not set to be used until later, so maybe it'll release by then.

[rain topaz]

And you do have aquilega, which is a terk playtest right now

[wraith birch]

That's also part of why I included the Aquilega.

[rain topaz]

You could also just remove the rkf section

[wraith birch]

Probably.

[rain topaz]

Since, outside the aquilega, most official rkf frames are either deniable asset, or like special for the ktb armies

Cause like, you cant really just get s calendula I dont think

[wraith birch]

Oh shit, I forgot to include Orchis in the SSC list.

[rain topaz]

Ssc had to steal stuff from it I think

Replace mordredwith orchis

I must eat food

I will return

[hushed field]

Hey there! In the Frundsberg LL2, is the "Iron Hand" heat shunt a reference to Götz von Berlichingen?

[covert surge]

Ding ding

Yes

[raven socket]

https://bluenexa.itch.io/terk-mech-and-tech/devlog/651981/tmt-01310-patched-a-potential-kinetic-battery-exploit

[covert surge]

Atlas alt i cooked up in my free time as procastination

hook more into the terrain stuff than prone

[rain topaz]

Very cool

[covert surge]

summon spooky sand statue to hide near, wall run off and throw shuriken at

[cerulean smelt]

Woahh ngl

that's really sick

[ornate verge]

Soooooo ran a quick Smash and Grab Sitrep with a Decapitation Strike bonus objective and had a dulius, Tortuga, and a caliban run it. The three of them proceed to pull a collective gimli and legolas and bicker over who got the most kills while utterly devastating everything......I love my guys

Also god the dulius can set up targets like a mother trucker. Especially with the heavy arc projector and it's stun module.

[covert surge]

now that's a breach and clear team and a half