00:58:09 Devastator: I'll get my dinner together and start.
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01:11:52 Topic for #einsteinianroulette: Do fleshorrors dream of eclectic blebs?
01:11:52 Topic set by syv [Sunday 01 March 2020, 07:55:55]
01:19:28 Devastator: if you're not away.
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01:21:45 Devastator: will be rolling the k-com turn in a bit over 40 minutes.
01:21:59 Devastator: will probably lay out things shot for shot.
01:23:51 Devastator: mmm, maybe a bit more, need to eat it too.
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02:17:06 Devastator: Time to get crackin'
02:17:25 Devastator: no mad scientists are deploying.
02:17:47 Devastator: tonk and infantry, and infantry is not fighting.
02:23:42 Piecewise: us in Discord are talking about the New Marvel heros
02:24:15 ER: I don't know why, but they are
02:24:30 Piecewise: including Safespace, Snowflake, and Screentime
02:24:58 Piecewise: Safespace and Snowflake are two non-binary black people with brightly dyed hair.
02:25:15 Piecewise: as far as we can tell...its not a parody
02:31:57 Piecewise: I honestly don't know what to make of it
02:32:42 Devastator: parody is dead anyway.
02:33:25 ER: as I said, all culture is shitposting
02:33:36 Piecewise: sometimes literally!
02:34:38 Devastator: Shadowclaw is sending.. a T-55 with his brand-new forcefield generator, on a tank that has the major drawback of shit armour compared to modern one.
02:34:55 Devastator: and no arty piece because his transport is full.
02:36:12 ER: I picked that tank because it was the cheapest way to fill up a medium slot
02:36:50 Devastator: Yeah, it's reasonable for you, but in his case the tank costs less than the forcefield generator.
02:38:03 ER: is that a mad science piece?
02:38:18 Devastator: it's what he's been working on for some time.
02:47:46 Devastator: okay, and that's everyone.
02:48:11 Devastator: two T-55s, one with extra ERA armour and one with a force-field.
02:48:15 Devastator: one modern tank, with nothing.
02:48:32 Devastator: Three infantry platoons, all with no extras.
02:48:59 ER: ah, a modern tank with nothing?
02:51:23 Devastator: I think IO had some body armour too, but no orders to put it on, so..
02:51:50 Devastator: and four artillery pieces.
02:52:18 Devastator: oh, and the USSCI has a jet in the air as well.
02:52:47 ER: did I have a spare ERA kit?
02:52:51 Devastator: There's also the weird Barracuda into assault vehicle that was on sale in the black market, and the Vampiric Death Ray Hovercar.
02:53:10 Devastator: Yeah, I see three in stock.
02:53:15 Devastator: too late now, though.
02:53:32 Devastator: it won't be the last tank.
02:53:52 ER: yes, but we probably want to kill this kaiju
02:54:04 Devastator: It'll either live and you'll get to do it later, or someone will buy another one.
02:57:06 Devastator: Okay, now the pre-battle rolls.
02:57:33 Devastator: The streets are utterly clogged with vehicles in various states of abandonment, so everything will move just that much slower.
02:57:52 Devastator: The USN jets will start their attack runs on turn 4.
03:01:00 Devastator: Your deployment goes fairly well, ending up at LaGuardia. You'll begin the battle at a range suitable for a MRLS.
03:01:51 Devastator: or one category over that of an arty piece, anyway.
03:04:59 Devastator: This Kaiju is quite a large creature, but in New York city it is still much smaller than many buildings. It ends up crawling up out of the Hudson River, around midtown, near the north end of Riverside Park.
03:06:25 Devastator: It's a large blocky creature with great chunky slabs of bony armour along most of it's body. It's quadrupedal with a short blocky tail and a fairly short, thick neck.
03:08:44 Devastator: When it emerges, it is met with the sound of what could be the largest engine ever built, transforming into an astonishingly loud screech that could be the product of a dozen bombs going off at once, causing significant damage in a large range in front of the creature. It seems to be coming from it's mouth, but the sound is almost too loud to determine that.
03:08:55 Devastator: Its skin also ripples like the most recent Kaiju.
03:17:07 Devastator: Okay. First turn, damn all the vehicles in the way, because they're keeping your artillery from deploying closer to the Kaiju.
03:17:25 Devastator: One of Irony's units is mostly seperating from the others, which seems like a good idea given that massive sonic weapon.
03:18:05 Devastator: The only two units that do close the range are Stirk's Vampire Death Ray Truck, and the souped-up Barracuda.
03:18:59 Devastator: The Assault Fish has orders to close the range before opening fire, and so it doesn't shoot yet, as it's only barely entered range.
03:19:19 Devastator: But there are no such orders for the Death Ray truck, which fires first.
03:22:04 Devastator: Not a very solid hit, it mostly just seems to glance off the bony plates, and mostly skitters into the air. However, you can see an intense rippling action under the areas affected by the death ray, as something about the strange cannon seems to conflict with the Kaiju.
03:22:35 Devastator: The Kaiju, having been attacked but not yet hurt, lays into the city.
03:24:42 Devastator: Does pretty significant damage with the sonic weapon, and slams into some more apartment buildings with the tail.
03:26:43 Devastator: Turn 2, most of your vehicles get into range. The arty pieces open fire, as do the three tanks.
03:27:07 Devastator: The assault fish closes into a close range duel, at a distance of maybe a block or two.
03:29:08 Devastator: lets see.. first strike would be the Death Ray truck, because it was already in range, and second would be the assault fish. All others are in range at the same time, so shoot in random order.
03:29:53 Devastator: Both of them try to move around some to make a less-easy shot for that AoE weapon.
03:29:54 ER: *thunderous hail of cannon fire*
03:30:09 Devastator: but this is a tough boy.
03:30:29 Devastator: That's a hit, yeah.
03:30:59 Devastator: Nope, got one through anyway.
03:32:22 Devastator: still got armour, so no chance of critical damage yet.
03:32:40 Devastator: Still, that's a hit for Stirk.
03:34:54 Devastator: With another try, the truck lines up a more significant shot, grinding a good long five second burst into the side of the dragonish Kaiju. This time you can see the skin getting seared and some blood being drawn. After it's finished, you can see the rippling fighting with a large black stain that is trying to spread around the flank of the beast.
03:37:15 Devastator: I'll interpret syvs orders to NOT LET UP as to take the risk for buildings.
03:37:24 Devastator: but.. the fish just hit one instead of the Kaiju.
03:37:39 ER: just fuck everything up until the enemy dies
03:38:12 Devastator: Smashed it good, too.
03:39:50 Devastator: well, someone had to make the news.
03:40:06 ER: I think that would be the dragon
03:40:41 Devastator: but a man with a custom assault car made out of a classic Plymouth Barracuda smashing a building with a cannon still might make the news.
03:40:50 Devastator: the question is if enough others will do so too.
03:41:23 ER: hey, can your kaiju generator make gigantic catgirls
03:42:07 Devastator: if you want a gigantic catgirl, go encourage saeko to do that when she's back with you. ;-p
03:42:27 Devastator: go find that machine with 'feline' in it. ;-p
03:42:52 ER: I'm the giant catgirl who makes all the rules
03:42:57 Devastator: Anyway, everyone else shoots.
03:43:01 Devastator: first up is..
ER's tank.
03:44:46 ER: fire in volleys, that'll knock out that armor
03:45:35 Devastator: then the four artillery pieces.
03:45:56 Devastator: one of HA's is behind.
03:46:52 Devastator: order is Ares artillery, Coke Knights T-55, HA artillery, and USSCI artillery.
03:48:34 Devastator: tink for the Coke Knights, but just barely.
03:49:08 Devastator: No shot for HA artillery.
03:49:58 Devastator: tink for the USSCI.
03:54:12 Devastator: Kaiju next, and it's been hurt twice.. but which one does it go for?
03:55:07 Devastator: The hovercar that hurt it more, or the cluster of 3 tanks?
03:55:29 Devastator: Sadly, it does know it has an AoE weapon, so it's going for the group.
03:56:22 ER: hey, stop clustering my tank with other tanks >:|
03:56:35 Devastator: sorry, you had an identical tank and no orders to try and split up.
03:56:46 Devastator: all three of them are basically the same speed.
04:02:41 Devastator: The CK one with the FF generator lives, but it got thrown around and hit hard.
04:03:36 Devastator: HA's gets through unscathed.
04:04:01 Devastator: well, it got hit, but it essentially bounced. Didn't get that much sound comparably.
04:06:18 Devastator: welp, so much for the assault barracuda.
04:07:42 Devastator: next turn, ugh, I'll go take a break and get back at it.
05:08:49 Devastator: I'll et going again soon.
05:15:46 Devastator: Kaiju tries to regen, fails due to death ray aftereffects.
05:18:12 Devastator: Arty spreads out some.
05:18:15 Devastator: surviving tanks split up.
05:18:50 Devastator:
syv's jet was waiting for someone to get shot, so it enters range.
05:20:16 Devastator: firing line is basically everyone but the infantry.
05:25:28 Devastator: Jet had to enter range, so it fires last.
05:25:33 Devastator: everything else was in range to begin with.
05:28:09 Devastator: order is.. Death ray hovercar, CK T-55, HA Artillery Piece 1, HA Modern Tank, HA Arty 2, Ares Artillery, and finally
ER's Artillery.
05:30:44 Devastator: Death ray has a shot and.. mmm.
05:31:15 Devastator: that's a hell of a shot, but is it soaked?
05:31:42 Devastator: Does it hurt anyway?
05:32:33 Devastator: and.. dang, that's the heaviest hit I've seen soaked so far this game.
05:34:38 Devastator: CK's T-55 doesn't have a shot, risking buildings
05:35:01 Devastator: HA's arty is ok, but it mostly misses.
05:35:31 Devastator: modern tank is good.
05:35:47 Devastator: Another solid shot.
05:35:58 Devastator: HA's got hot dice today, that's a hit.
05:37:19 Devastator: HA's other arty misses just like the first one.
05:37:48 Devastator: clean shot, but bounced.
05:38:55 Devastator: It's good, got a really square hit and it felt it.
05:39:45 Devastator: No clean shot, negative.
05:40:21 Devastator: Ok, then the kaiju.
05:40:35 Devastator: HA's tank and your arty both did hits.
05:40:43 Devastator: but it's been hurt by HA's tank before so it goes for that one.
05:41:23 Devastator: It's.. currently alone.
05:41:36 Devastator: Kaiju has no shot, but that just means it fires anyway.
05:42:12 Devastator: but it can't get at HA's tank.
05:42:33 Devastator: Nothing closer than HA's tank again, so chaaarge.
05:43:09 Devastator: Can close the distance some.
05:43:54 Devastator: Kaiju then regens, on to turn 4.
05:44:45 Devastator: These cars are murder on the infantry.
05:44:57 Devastator: they still have quite some time to enter combat.
05:48:20 Devastator: Ok, firing turn, eight this time, same as above +
syv's jet.
05:48:30 Devastator: I'll have the naval jets fire after you guys because they arrive this turn.
05:52:00 Devastator: mmm, probably after the kaiju too. They're NPCs after all.
05:52:23 Devastator: 8 to attack. Order this turn is..
05:53:36 Devastator: Dangit, that was
syv's arty, not yours last turn.
05:53:38 Devastator: let me correct that.
05:54:32 Devastator: HA arty 2, Syv's arty,
syv's combat jet..
05:55:16 Devastator: Ares arty, HA's arty 1..
05:56:19 Devastator: HA's modern tank, and the Death Ray Hovercar.
05:56:58 Devastator: no shot for HA's arty 2.
05:58:06 Devastator: Clean shot for
syv's arty, does damage.
05:58:21 Devastator: no wait, sorry, missed that.
05:59:01 Devastator:
Syv's jet has a shot this time.
06:00:01 Devastator: Right in the face, but it's soaked again. Do those fancy warheads punch some through?
06:01:13 Devastator: Sweet jebus, the hovercar may have hit it harder, but those jet missiles have the best AP so far. Another lucky escape.
06:01:32 Devastator: it was more likely to take damage than not.
06:03:38 Devastator: lots of explosions, but it's just tanking everythign.
06:03:54 Devastator: It is quite noticeably wounded, for the record.
06:04:19 Devastator: CK T-55 has no shot.
06:05:02 Devastator: HA's tank does, shoots, tinks.
06:05:11 Devastator: ..and the Death Ray Hovercar.
06:06:19 Devastator: just scorched it, couldn't make it stick.
06:06:35 Devastator: not a good hit like the one last round, or like those jet missiles.
06:07:41 Devastator: algorithm defaults to the only thing that's hurt it which it hasn't shot back at, so the Death Ray hovercar.
06:08:21 Devastator: It's in range, so..
06:11:19 Devastator: Theoretically recoverable, but I suspect Stirk won't do that.
06:12:08 Devastator: Closest target is HA's modern tank again.
06:12:48 Devastator: Nope, no progress. HA's tank is able to reopen the range if desired, which it does.
06:14:35 Devastator: 3 jets in first pass.
06:15:46 Devastator: They're slightly less capable than the fancy warheads
syv has, but they have one meaningful extra thing going for them that your jets don't.
06:15:57 Devastator: but it's comparable, really.
06:18:33 Devastator: "Two of the three salvos are noticeably off-target once launched. You think they're headed for a near-miss, but at the last moment several missiles abort as indicated by their terminal guidance systems. Some of the missiles head off and self-destruct, but some more head back to hit the Kaiju from behind."
06:20:21 Devastator: Some damage is done, there were a few hits. Hardly fatal, but it adds up.
06:21:13 Devastator: ..the underskin rippling motion indicating regeneration ceases..
06:23:15 Devastator: That same rippling motion begins anew once more, but it didn't do any noticeable work while it was halted.
06:23:57 Devastator: One of the three navy jets sticks around for another pass.
06:24:02 Devastator: the next batch of 3 arrive next turn.
06:24:43 Devastator: Infantry finally enter range.
06:25:02 Devastator: firing line is.. infantry last, but everyone else now.
06:25:24 Devastator: that's 7, with the loss of the Death Ray Hovercar.
06:27:06 Devastator: Ares arty, CK T-55, HA's Modern Tank, HA Arty 2, USSCI Arty, USSCI Jet, HA Arty 1.
06:28:10 Devastator: no shot for Ares Arty, CK T-55 hits for one.
06:28:13 Devastator: it's definately weaker now.
06:29:06 Devastator: Tink for HA's Modern Tank.
06:29:42 Devastator: HA arty 2 takes a risky shot, and hits the kaiju.
06:30:13 Devastator: No shot for the USSCI arty.
06:30:27 Devastator: Ooh, looks like that pilot wants a promotion.
06:30:34 Devastator: it's lined up nicely.
06:31:41 Devastator: almost saved, but the dual-warhead missiles make the difference.
06:31:50 Devastator: Drew some more blood.
06:33:36 Devastator: Kaiju turn.. it didn't liek that jet.
06:33:46 Devastator: and sadly, it can bring down the AoE to it.
06:35:04 Devastator: so.. no dodge, I'm afraid.
06:35:27 Devastator: and no, not blocked by a building.
06:37:33 Devastator: Damn. Jet takes.. just enough to be downed.
06:37:56 Devastator: Unusually powerful attack, but it almost held together anyway.
06:38:12 Devastator: Pilot does ok on a crash-landing, so recoverable.
06:38:48 Devastator: (The navy jet that did the damage was one of the two that scooched.)
06:39:14 Devastator: (If it had stuck around, it'd be 50-50 on which one it went for.)
06:43:25 Devastator: Hurts it more, but it's still hanging on.
06:44:22 Devastator: Oh, and the infantry.
06:45:04 Devastator: looks like Ares, HA, and then the USSCI platoon.
06:45:21 Devastator: no shot available to HA.
06:45:42 Devastator: no damage for small arms.
06:45:53 Devastator: no damage from rockets.
06:46:11 Devastator: no damage from small arms.
06:46:37 Devastator: and they finish it off with rockets.
06:47:23 Devastator: I'll do loot and a writeup later this week.
06:47:44 Devastator: Next Kaiju will be normal strength.
06:49:24 Devastator: and that AoE weapon needs more.. AoE.
08:54:27 Devastator: mmm, any questions,
syv?
08:56:05 Devastator: maybe I should say all fliers can't be recovered.
08:58:19 Devastator: Nah, I'll just formalize having to crash-land it.
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09:19:05 syv: Please let the second bonus I get from being from an Air Force apply to Aircraft. O.O
09:20:24 syv: If military org recovery bonus applies only to ground troops, that encourages using ground troops over air troops... but I already chose to focus on air troops long before that recovery bonus was even added.
09:20:55 syv: Also, this is a game where I can make jets fly faster by modifying them to flap their wings.
09:21:19 syv: Yes, it's a bit silly for them to be recoverable on a crash as a tank, but the game is inherently silly.
09:22:52 syv: Two pairs of doubled letters.
09:23:30 syv: Anyway, I eagerly await the post.
09:24:02 syv: I'm not eager to do an after action, but I've already seen some stuff that has implications on our strategy.
09:27:13 Devastator: two double letters.
09:27:26 Devastator: Nah, I think I'll just make air recoveries harder, but you bonus will still apply to them.
09:27:34 Devastator: just formalizing what I rolled for you.
09:28:58 Devastator: post might take some time.. rolling that out took a while.
09:29:14 Devastator: I've got it logged, so no worries about losing it, and found a proper way to organize my scoring notes.
09:29:49 syv: Did tinks count for the dealing damage bonus?
09:30:10 syv: It seemed like there weren't too many actual hits, but then the Kaiju had seemed pretty wounded, so I'm unsure.
09:30:47 syv: Alsoalso, do I get a bonus for my infantry landing the killing blow? :D
09:31:33 Devastator: Ironyowl gets that sort of info..
09:31:45 Devastator: tinks aren't good for much. Always lots of tinks.
09:32:00 Devastator: it's mostly because you guys are mostly using weakish weapons.
09:32:20 syv: I'm happy with how the jet did.
09:32:24 Devastator: what I should have done for that kaiju was up the AoE to the next level after it got an upgraded AoE weapon. That would have made it a properly brutal fight.
09:32:35 Devastator: Yeah, the dual-warheads scored well.
09:32:44 syv: I'm fine with you not doing that~
09:34:04 Devastator: I'll probably just tweak it a bittish.
09:35:09 syv: Can I actually promote that pilot?
09:36:01 Devastator: Feel free to write fluff for that pilot.
09:44:16 Devastator: you do get the penalty for city damage as the only person who knocked down a building.
09:44:33 Devastator: it was going to be one penalty among everyone who did damage..
09:54:19 Devastator: and 1/1 means.. you.
09:56:16 Devastator: no budget change until after the next battle, anyway.
10:03:05 Devastator: so one more crack at it.
10:05:43 syv: Well. Two jets next time, hopefully.
11:05:02 Devastator: Are those orders clear in Cabal now,
Piecewise?
11:09:00 Devastator: maybe friday or saturday to write up the update.
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