Signal of Screams for SFS credit (Inactive)

Game Master DoubleGold

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Player Name: Warsor
Character Name: Mallow
Faction: Dataphiles
Day Job: ?
A monster: No preference

Player name: Adam
Character Name: Akataran
Day Job: Ticketing
Monster: Maybe a Void Hag?

Player Name: Tony
Character Name: Ezirrae Lesilos
Day Job: Security Specialist/Investigator
Monster: AHAV

Player Name: eijel
Character Name: J.U.N.K. (classification: Jettisoned Unit, source: Not Known)
SFS# for credit: 279868-704
Day Job: varies (able to use all skills untrained and will do so with Profession at any opportunity)
Monster: might be fun to face something like a Tekhoinos. I'll probably regret saying that if we do face one though.

Player Name: Ken K (Haranum)
Character Name: Netsa Documus Sam Motwol Nim Of Clan Tartma, House Gis, line of Mu
SFS Number: 152915-705
Day Job: Musician
Monster: Yithian

I'm still putting the character together, I'll finish up tonight.

If we have a choice of a ship, my choice would be the drake. More armor, more shields, more HP and some hard hitting weapons to boot.

So how are we doing starship roles? My relevant skills are Diplomacy 12 and Computers 8.

I have offered a proposal, what roles can your character fill?

I'm thinking Captain or Science Officer?

Atrios, just to let you know, this is for character level 7. Looks like your build is for a level 1.

I'd be solid in Engineer, or passable as a gunner.

With as short as combat is going to be I think more gunners is the way to go.

I'm pretty much a gunner. Salarion ain't great for Starship combat.

Netsa do you want missile launcher or the particle beam?

Sorry about that! I replied with the wrong alias...

I'll give everyone a day to figure out starship roles, I'll then post a map and start combat.
When you post actions, just use spoilers and I'll sort accordingly.

Particle bean sounds good to me.

Netsa you can shoot that I'll shoot the missiles then since we shouldn't run dry on ammo in 3-4 rounds.

Do you want us to put out entire action in spoilers, or just rolls?

@DoubleGold There seems to be a rules anomaly on the Drake Tier 6 sheet. It says the HE Missile Launcher is linked implying its two linked missile launchers but to my knowledge you could only link Direct fire weapons. What is your thoughts?

Not the end of the world, I know in the FAQ they say ships built for SFS/AP can break some rules and no reason why missile launchers couldn't be linked...i built it out and the built points add up.

yes, the missile launcher is linked.

Linked missile launchers....definitely gonna need those for my own ships in future games...

As mallow indicated earlier, these combats are just 3-4 turns. Since the winner will be the side with least damage we need to hit fast and hard the first few turns, so there is not a lot of opportunity for planning.

We likely should focus fire on one and do as much damage as possible, take down their shields and get into the hull.

Hopefully three of them can't do more damage to us than we do to one.

Does this make sense?

Makes sense to me. I'm thinking if the pilot wins initiative we can see how they move then do whatever fancy flying we need to put one target within 12 spaces of us in forward arc. Assuming all of us hit that is 4d4+8d6+16d8(linked missiles). I think we are gonna at the least wipe out one ship by combat end assuming no bad luck with piloting.

Player Name: Anxa
Character Name: Baròleg
SFS# for credit: 2352348-706
Day Job: Lawyer (+13|+17 w/ gear)
Monster: No preference, fiends/demons hold a special place from my early gaming career

Starship Roles: Captain (Diplo 16+d6|Intim +10), Science Officer (Comp +10), Gunner (BAB/Dex +6), Pilot (Pilot +6)

We can knock up the odds of hitting, Science can 'Lock-on' for +2/hit once maybe twice and Captain 'Encourage' for one gunner +2/hit. That's not a bad bump up.

Been busy, yes, I'll set up the Starship combat tonight, there is no map for the combat, so I want to put some work into it and spread the ships out and put obstacles in there too, rocky asteroids, blinding star lights, etc.

Totally cool DoubleGold. If there is any information you need from us just let us know but I think this should go pretty smooth.

Baròleg - I personally prefer 3 chances to hit instead a slightly higher chance for 1 of 2 chances to hit. Particularly with the different constants we have for this fight we should plat it out differently than I might normally.

I'm not going to tell you how to play your character though. :)

Are there any penalties for firing through the ring or over the planet?

All our weapons have a long range, so I am inclined to keep our distance, if that seems good to everyone.

I would need them within 12 hexes to ensure missiles hit each turn since we are limited on turns. So try not to back off too much and try to keep them in the forward arc. So honestly sitting still with our current facing seems to work if they comes to us and we light them up. Even at the slowest engines they should come within my range.

No penalties from firing on or over the planet, it is about 5000 miles in that 3rd D space. Rocks just lose their orbit which is why I added that small hazard. Fun fact, most of Saturns and Jupiters rings are ice rocks instead of just normal rocks, but that is why makes up almost all planet rings you see. And the rocks are usually spinning around orbiting the planet instead of just sitting there.

Good times. I am holding my actions until the Gunnery phase since I need to know what ships are in which arcs. Now would be the time if
Baròleg plans on doing science.

Yeah, I'm waiting on Junk to move the ship, so I can move enemy ships.

Already have. Only moved one hex.

Sahweet. Also I wanted to say I'm loving our team communication oog so far to make this combat smooth. And DoubleGold you are the most responsive GM I have at the moment so that is always nice too.

I'll try to add some banter and RP to my mechanical posts once the gunnery phase starts.

I second the appreciation of a present GM!

This is actually my first Starship combat. As the Captain, what should I do in my turn? I was thinking of the encourage action using Diplomacy.

Encourage is good at +2, but intimidate is +4. Only once per combat per person, but with the 3-4 turn combats might as well do it every turn and a just change the person.

Maybe the GM can put the link for the ships stats in the Champaign tab or somewhere else so we don't have to dig for it?

http://pfsprep.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?2484

Sadly I don't think Doc has a high intimidate stat.

In fact Doc has no intimidate stat! I'd be making a charisma check. Too late to change now.

You can always change roles at start of each round but I didn't see any other skills on Dr. that were especially useful for ship combat.

My vote is a new round. I'm thinking we do a flyby (DC 24; need a 6 or better on d20) through the white ship and end movement behind the yellow...if we win initiative.

I was actually thinking Flyby myself as its a great manuever. Lets see where we end up in init. If we have to go first then Flyby, otherwise make the call based on their positioning. I trust your judgement as you seem knowledgeable with the maneuvers.

There's not much Science can do to help, I posted a scan figuring the ships are all similar... I'm popping the +2 to all gunners (if it works), and I'm willing to do it again this combat.

Otherwise, System Lock - weapons??

I will wait for the piloting checks to be posted, in that case.

Now just waiting for pilot to move and make sure we all fire on the same target.