Welcome to the four players, we may continue to discuss things further here.
I think I'm done, I still need to think of a little background story but would you give this profile a quick look over to see if I missed something?
I'll get an alias here shortly.
Were you ok with the background I proposed?
And also with the ZAKU II sniper model?
I'm fine with the alias, but you will not start with the sniper, that option will be available later, and you can choose the cannon sniper (Zaku II) or beam sniper (Zaku I)
Here's the alias I will be using.
Wasn't the nation called the Principality of Zeon when Degwin Zabi was in charge? I though it didn't become a republic until after the one year war.
Second question: in the character creation document it says that federation veterans are capped in certain skills. Does this not apply to us because we are zeon pilots?
Started as Republic of Zeon, until Zeon "died" more likely assassinated, then became Principality.
Sieg Zeon is also used until Garma Zabi dies.
Sorry, I edited my post with a second question just as you replied to the first.
I like to focus on close combat once we get to be more specialized
Profile created.
Picture link where it says 'Human' on the post.
EDIT : Oh, I looked over my skills, and realized I had 5 times more Reflex skills than willpower skills, and despite liking the idea of having a nearly superhuman will, I moved the 10 to the Reflex, as it seems to make more sense.
EDIT 2 : Background added to Profile.
I plan to start the war right after the Antartic Treaty. I leave you the link so you can get a quick read of what has happened so far. In the mean time I got to eat and read your character sheets.
Given the anime source, perhaps this picture would be a better one for Zzed?
How do we do equipment/personal items?
All three characters seem in order.
Now this is your mobile suit stat block.
MS-06F Zaku II
Basic Evasion: MS Pilot
MV: [REF +MS Piloting - 6] Initiative is 1 [REF(8) + MV(-7)= 1]
Initiative: [REF - 6]
Power: 6 (+1 Melee dmg, +2 Kick dmg)
MA 5 (Movement Action or space moved)
Thrusters 5 (Adds 20% to your MA for that round when used, this is your MA when in space)
Servos & Armor
2d6 2-4 5 6 7-8 9 10-12
Servo LL LA H T RA RL
SP 6 6 6 6 6 6
Kills 7 7 6 12 7 7
(Kills is your HP, while SP is damage reduction for that specific part)
Shield (DA +1; Location Right Arm; SP 5; Kills 3)
(DA means it takes 1 hit before it actually takes damage)
Standard Weapons
Type
Punch (WA +0; Range 1; Damage 2; Kills 3; Skill MS Fighting
Kick (WA +0; Range 1; Damage 4; Kills 3; Skill MS Fighting)
Shoulder Spikes (WA -2; Range 1; Damage 7; Location Left Arm; Skill MS Fighting
120mm Zaku Machine Gun (WA +0; Range 6; Damage 6; Shots 20; Location 2 Hands; Kills 9; Skill Gunnery
Heat Hawk (WA -1; Range 1; Damage 9+1HW; Location 1 Hand; Kills 9; Skill MS Melee)
Optional Weapons
90mm Machine Gun (WA +0; Range 6; Damage 5; Shots 5; Location 1 Hand; Kills 8; Skill Gunnery)
*Exchange for 120mm Zaku Machine Gun
Sturm Faust (WA -1; Range 6; Damage 14; Shots 1; Location 1 hand; Kills 7; Skill Missile (get 2)
Cracker Grenade (WA -2; Range Thrown (AH); Damage 6d6BR1+Flash; Shots 1; Skill MS Melee
Special Abilities
Space Environmental Protection
Specs
Height: 17.5mts
Standard Weight: 56.2 tons
Max Weight 74.5 tons
Generator 976 kw
Thruster Output 43300kg
Armor Type: Super-hard Steel Alloy
As for character gear everyone gets:
Weapons:
Combat Knife, Military Handgun.
Equipment:
Uniform, Rank Insignia, Normal clothing, field rations x4
Others:
MS Pilot manual
Most smaller items we can safely assume you own them, as it won't matter much yet.
Your current ranks are Ensign (the equivalent of a 2nd Lieutenant) you are at the bottom of the officers ladder, but it allows you to be a MS Pilot.
Spacenoids are normal humans, so pictures of normal people "anime styled" is what you will see if you go through the wiki characters. That guy looks more like a vampire/castlevania type character.
Stats and skills done (I hope)
Let me know if anything need correcting.
Background will be finished tomorrow, need to sleep now.
Just to get an understanding about the skills is the WA where we insert our skill modifier?
Punch (WA +0; Range 1; Damage 2; Kills 3; Skill MS Fighting)
Would that one be a +3 from MS fighting and 12 from my reflex? Maybe I just read over it in the documents.
Your Reflex inside an MS is hampered. Zaku II have a MV of -7 so you'd subtract that from your Reflex to get your MR (mecha reflex) of 5
I reformated my character sheet to look like Edel's. Now, however, there are some places where I wrote down "??" since I'm not sure how to calculate those things.
If someone would like to look over that and give me the math formula for them I would really appreciate.
I stole your way to right up my profile Roldy, had troubles finding my own way to write the statistics up for this :)
Hope I've typed in everything right otherwise please correct me.
I stole it from Edel. =)
Waiting for a review/correction myself.
MA for the Zaku is 5, it's the movement like saying it moves 5 squares, Thrusters is also 5 (that's how many it has). In earth terrain is a temporary boost to your Movement if you use it of 20%. In space it's your movement since you can't really walk or run.
MS-06F Zaku II has MV of -6. MS-05B Zaku I has MV of -7.
MV is kind of your evasion on the Mobile Suit.
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Punch (WA +0; Range 1; Damage 2; Kills 3; Skill MS Fighting)
WA = Weapon Accuracy. This is just a modifier towards your attack.
For example: Reflex 8 + MS Fighting 4 + WA 0 = 12
Ensing Dhavana attacks with a punch 2d6+12 and does 2 damage.
Stability is your Willpower x 2.5
It's basically how difficult it is to convince you of something, scare you, or sway you their way just to name a few of the things it is for. The higher the will the harder it is to trick you or scare you, perhaps because you are stubborn ;)
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Working on character sorry for the delay.. get on it as soon as I can post... what's our current character roster?
I don't want to make another Amuro Rey if we have one already... though one of the many ultra-sexy hotties that Char Aznable get's killed might be... interesting. Especially if I can keep her alive! lol!
Ok, there we go. Everything should be ok! I think I got all the calculation right and the background is done.
I'm as ready as I'll ever be!!
I think the character is correct at this point, please advise.
Is the following equipment list ok?
Skin Suit (Space Suit, also Pilot Suit)
Longsword
Maine Gauche
Laser Pistol
Rifle with Scope
Clothes Toiletries
Tablet w Rules & Regulations, Mecha Specs
Hacking Kit
Infiltration Kit
Chalk
Communicator
I assumed a sniper rifle would be out of bounds, but hopefully a regular rifle with a scope is ok. My assumption is Zzed would be considered something of a candidate for special forces mecha assaults, as he has good skills both in and out of a mech.
Laser Pistol is out of the question, that needs some rank.
While you can be considered the top of your class, you are just a 2nd Lt. so you will be given standard gear above with little room to move until you are battle tested.
Remember you are in a military chain of command, no one is going to let you have prettier toys than proper to your rank, or before you prove it in combat.
Ok, I have no way of knowing what is considered 'proper' or what is not. I asked earlier and the response was very vague and ended with 'just assume you can have other stuff that's not too much'.
If our equipment is very restricted, can you please come up with a list of what we can and cannot have?
Probably the stuff that was already posted + personal belongings like books, religious items, an mp3 player, etc.
Ok.. working on HER now.. a future love-interest, dead, hottie for Char.. like all the femme-fatales of GUNDAM seem to turn up.. but Kanoe' will have her own secrets!
I'll be getting stats rolled latter tonight...
I'll think I will roll a random background for this one just to try and see my luck
Weapons:
Combat Knife, Military Handgun.
Equipment:
Uniform, Rank Insignia, Normal clothing, field rations x4, MS Pilot manual
Others:
Personal stuff, like a phone, books, laptop/computer, religious object, simple jewelry nothing fancy. This is the kind of things I meant as additional things you can have.
Remember your "issued" gear can change depending on the mission, and as your rank increases it will come with it's perks and responsibilities.
High noble
Something has happened to one or more parents
So :
Skin Suit (Space Suit, also Pilot Suit, you can't do space combat without a suit to protect you from vacuum if you get a leak)
Maine Gauche (AKA Combat Knife with a knuckle duster guard)
.45 Pistol
Clothes & Toiletries
Tablet w Rules & Regulations, Mecha Specs, Pilot Manual, Various strategy books
Chalk
Communicator
In case no-one's ever seen a combat knife with a knuckle guard. It's designed to protect the hand in case things devolve into a knife fight, and also improves grip making it harder to lose your grip on the knife while using it for other purposes (like cutting or digging inanimate objects). Also works well for punching people in the nose without using the knife to kill them. :)
danm it, it submitted post when I previewed, gonna wrtie it in word and updte my profile :)
Nice Blade Zzed.. think Kanoe' would like something like that too!
No problems.
I've seen knuckle guards they are pretty nasty in the right hands.
I think I should be ready for beginning play now.
Ok.. working on HER now.. a future love-interest, dead, hottie for Char.. like all the femme-fatales of GUNDAM seem to turn up.. but Kanoe' will have her own secrets!
Love-interest... romance... I don't see it happening anytime soon for my character. He's the guy that even the ugly stick don't want to touch!
I'm also done. I also rolled that I'm already spoken for, though hopefully the GM doesn't need us getting into to many details. I assume my off-mission life will be mostly uninteresting. My character seems to be a mostly normal well-functioning human bean.
So here comes the fun part.
Invasion of Earth:
0079.02.17 First wave Central Asia and then splits into conquering
-Asia - North or South?
-Eurpoe
-Middle east
0079.03.07 Unit sent to take central america
0079.03.09 2 deployments, one on the US west coast and the other in the east coast to take over all north america(mexico, US, canada)
Are you asking us which one we want to be a part of? Or just telling us the possible places we could be stationed?
Which one you want to start your campaign in, since it will matter a lot as you may end up dying or killing important federation characters from the series.
Remember the federation will start deploying mobile suits in July.
I would suggest going in the first wave so you can then choose to spread to Europe, middle east or north/south asia.
Then I personally suggest either east or west coast US.
From a metagame perspective, most of the players are, I think, in the US, that means we can cut down on issues like not understanding the local customs, etc, unless we want to actually do so on purpose as part of RP rather than an accidental mistake.
Beyond that, it also allows us to play in areas that I believe were less concentrated on in the Anime, which if I understand was mostly centered around the activity in and near Japan and South America, if I remember the history you showed us. That means we can be less likely to use player knowledge (for those of us that have it). Just my $0.02 worth.
It's been years since I watched Gundam don't remember very much, I think the first wave seems to give us more options to choose between what we'll do and when we do it.
I really don't have any input having never seen the source material.
Ok.. here is Kanoe'. I'm familiar with GUNDAM.. A LOT!!! :) so I'll vote for First Wave - North Asia.
Her history is still int he writing but basically she comes form a family of career Federation Military.. but they are middle class. Her father was a Federation Officer but he retired due to a combat injury. Her mother is a computer software designer... on military projects.
Kanoe went to college ROTC track and did her boot camp in Jaburo Base Central Africa. Her home being in South Africa. After graduating with honors she wanted to do what many coleg kids do.. travel and see the world before settling into her career and enlisting in the Federation Army. but she always wanted to see space so she went on a 'walk-about' on the Sides... travelling to see as many of the in a year's sabatacle hitching rides and and working her way across the colonies.
Well... to say the least She was APPALLED and horrified about how the Earth Federation mistreated the colonies. Her father had always taught her to stand up for what she felt was right even when it was an unpopular point of view. She got to Side 5 and the philosophies and political views of Zeon Zum Deikun inspired her and she procrastinated for another 4 months but eventually sent a letter home to her parents telling them of her choice.. and enlisted in the Dutchy Military of the Principality of Zeon as a MS rookie pilot. She honestly feels the Zeon cause is just and worth fighting for... even dying for if that is what is required by Honor!
Hey Warlord .. will you please add me to the players and character list?
Hey Warlord .. will you please add me to the players and character list?
Go write a post in Gameplay and delete it after then you automatic shows up in the player/characeter lists