captain encourages DC15:1d20 + 21 ⇒ (19) + 21 = 40 engineer power to weapons DC 25:1d20 + 16 ⇒ (12) + 16 = 28 pilot manoeuvre DC 25:1d20 + 14 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 14 + 2 = 26 science target life support DC15:1d20 + 16 ⇒ (19) + 16 = 35 starboard gunner:1d20 + 14 ⇒ (1) + 14 = 15 turret gunner:1d20 + 14 ⇒ (11) + 14 = 25miss due to evade glitching:1d100 ⇒ 40Weapons arc:1d4 ⇒ 2
The corpse fleet opens fire. While its close in lasers miss by a long shot, the emp turret comes distressingly close to hitting, only Jac's desperate last minute evasion keeping you safe.
Chivix sat down at the controls to the forward weaponry and familiarized himself with them. When the enemy ship declared their intent to attack, Chivix lined them up in the crosshairs and pulled the trigger, only to be thrown sideways as Jac slewed the ship around in evasive maneuvers.
Male Barathu Soldier 8 SP 34/72 HP 60/60 | RP 10/10 | EAC 24; KAC 27 |DR 8/- |Resist Cold 5, Fire 5, Elec 5 |F+9; R+4; W+7 (+2 v spells, SLAs)| Init+2 | Perc+2, SM+4
Following Chivix’s lead, Bluuuuu has a nuke loaded into the turret’s launcher and shoots out the missile, watching as it races towards the opposing ship.
Attack:1d20 + 11 ⇒ (8) + 11 = 19
Assuming that is still on target, put missile on map
Chivix opens up with the plasma cannon, but the Congretation's deflector shields push the blast aside. miss
Donovan opens up a channel, but it seems like his taunts about death fall on an uninterested audience.
Bluu fires a missile, but a long range point defence system quickly takes it out. miss
Bugface meanwhile directs more power into your weapons, although your poor shooting makes that somewhat redundant.
Sefel tries an aggressive scan of the enemy ship.
computers DC 15:1d20 + 17 ⇒ (6) + 17 = 23
He sends a stream of information to your consoles.
The CONGREGATION OF PERPETUAL AGONIES is a Large destroyer with Speed 6; Maneuverability average (turn 2); Drift 1; with just a common crew compartment it can hold a crew of between 6 and 20.
He gets a quick overview of its defences.
AC 21; TL 19
HP 170; DT —; CT 34
Shields medium 100 (forward 30, port 25, starboard 25, aft 20)
baddies, init round 2:1d20 + 14 ⇒ (5) + 14 = 19
Status, round 2
JackoJare (pilot) Roll for init, if you don't beat a 19, then move.
Donovan (captain)
Sefel (science officer)
Chivix (gunner)
Bugface (engineer)
Bluuu (gunner)
Male damaya lashunta scholar technomancer 10 | SP 50 HP 54 | RP 7/9 | EAC 27; KAC 29 | F+3 R+7 W+9; +2 vs spells/magical effects | Init: +8 | Limited Telepathy 30’ | Perc: +12, SM: +2, Darkvision 60' | Speed 30ft | Detect Thoughts 1/1 | Tip of the Tongue 1/1 | Spell Cache 1/1 | Spells: 1st 4/6; 2nd 0/5; 3rd 2/4; 4th 3/3 | tactical autobeam rifle 34/40 | Active conditions: none
Back!
I see general info and defenses from that last scan, so:
Sefel continues scanning, this time to reveal the Agonies' weapon systems.
Computers, scan for weapons:1d20 + 17 ⇒ (12) + 17 = 29starting with the mentioned emp turret, and if I make addition 5s over the DC, then other forward weapons first.
Sefel continues his scan of the ship, finding out it has at least three weapons, an EMP cnnon in the turret, and facing forward a heavy laser net and a plasma cannon. You really don't want to end up in front of it.
Bugface directs power to weapons and Bluuu lets fly with his own weapon.
Boom
Can someone provide actions for Jack and Chivix.
Status, round 2
JackoJare (pilot) move ship and stunt.
Chivix (gunner)
Donovan (captain) encouraged Bluuu
Enemy has moved but not otherwise acted.
Sefel (science officer) (Scanned)
Bugface (engineer) (diverted power to weapons)
Bluuu (gunner) (fired 31 damage, exactly where depends on your final postion and orientation)
Male damaya lashunta scholar technomancer 10 | SP 50 HP 54 | RP 7/9 | EAC 27; KAC 29 | F+3 R+7 W+9; +2 vs spells/magical effects | Init: +8 | Limited Telepathy 30’ | Perc: +12, SM: +2, Darkvision 60' | Speed 30ft | Detect Thoughts 1/1 | Tip of the Tongue 1/1 | Spell Cache 1/1 | Spells: 1st 4/6; 2nd 0/5; 3rd 2/4; 4th 3/3 | tactical autobeam rifle 34/40 | Active conditions: none
Is the green arrow Jackojare's previous ship movement or something he intended for this turn? If this turn, it looks like we're just missing two more movement for the round.
Just check as you are in the front arc of the other ship. I realised the arrow was facing in the wrong direction. I'll do an update in a couple of hours, but give you time to relocate if you wanted.
Male Barathu Soldier 8 SP 34/72 HP 60/60 | RP 10/10 | EAC 24; KAC 27 |DR 8/- |Resist Cold 5, Fire 5, Elec 5 |F+9; R+4; W+7 (+2 v spells, SLAs)| Init+2 | Perc+2, SM+4
If they are anything like us (fair guess, were at least from the same manufacturer :p ) I’d suggest trying to keep out of their front arc as much as possible while still being able to face them.]
The ships opens fire with its formidable front weaponry. However it looks like the gunner was a little too entheusastic, and Jack manages to narrowly avoid the barrage.
The EMP cannon however gets a direct hit on your life support, which is now glitching!
Status, round 3; Your life support is glitching. What would you expect from a corpse fleet ship?
JackoJare (pilot) init - if you don't beat a 31 then also move
Chivix (gunner)
Donovan (captain) e
Sefel (science officer)
Bugface (engineer)
Bluuu (gunner)
init:18 + 1d20 ⇒ 18 + (4) = 22 Well, it is is a good thing we didn't get to close to the enemy ship. I'm afraid if I lose init to many times, being too close makes it easier for enemy to get behind me or for the enemy to get out of our firing arc. piloting backup manuever:1d20 + 18 ⇒ (14) + 18 = 32
The "Congregation of Perpetual Agonies" powers forward, opening up with all its forward weapons!
It's weapons tear through your forward shields, causing quite a bit of damage.
Your Forward shields are on zero, 14 hull damage. Note this happens during the gunnery phase, so divert is not an option for you. If you chose to balance to bolster your front shields, I'll rework the damage.
Status, round 3; Your life support is glitching. What would you expect from a corpse fleet ship?
Chivix (gunner)
Donovan (captain) (glitching life support, -2 to skill checks)
Sefel (science officer)
Bugface (engineer)
Bluuu (gunner)
JackoJare (pilot) init for next round if you want. But don't do any moves.
Male damaya lashunta scholar technomancer 10 | SP 50 HP 54 | RP 7/9 | EAC 27; KAC 29 | F+3 R+7 W+9; +2 vs spells/magical effects | Init: +8 | Limited Telepathy 30’ | Perc: +12, SM: +2, Darkvision 60' | Speed 30ft | Detect Thoughts 1/1 | Tip of the Tongue 1/1 | Spell Cache 1/1 | Spells: 1st 4/6; 2nd 0/5; 3rd 2/4; 4th 3/3 | tactical autobeam rifle 34/40 | Active conditions: none
Sefel sends out a telepathic missive to his teammates, containing palpable anxiety.
They have made a gaping hole in our forward shields! I will borrow from the others and patch them up, but it seems they have the capability to tear through our defenses quickly!
Cryptwarden Tier 7: 15 + 1.5×7 ⇒ DC25 for balance shields Shields Medium 100; forward 30, port 25, starboard 25, aft 30
I think the aft shield value you had was a typo. It should likely have been 20. Given the 100 max shields. If you rebalance to make they all the same you will have 70/4=17 in each, and 19 in front. .
Male Barathu Soldier 8 SP 34/72 HP 60/60 | RP 10/10 | EAC 24; KAC 27 |DR 8/- |Resist Cold 5, Fire 5, Elec 5 |F+9; R+4; W+7 (+2 v spells, SLAs)| Init+2 | Perc+2, SM+4
I did forget the +2 from the captain, but thought that even when Broadsiding, each weapon could only be fired once in a round (and Chivix shot the plasma cannon)
Also while the laser net seems like it would have destroyed the nuke anyway, as a missile its going after their TL, which based on an earlier scan their TL is just 19, so even if they Evaded successfully I think that would've normally hit? Unless I'm missing something. Again, not relevant this time because of the net, but if Bluuuuu noticed something weird that may affect his future rounds' plans.
Male damaya lashunta scholar technomancer 10 | SP 50 HP 54 | RP 7/9 | EAC 27; KAC 29 | F+3 R+7 W+9; +2 vs spells/magical effects | Init: +8 | Limited Telepathy 30’ | Perc: +12, SM: +2, Darkvision 60' | Speed 30ft | Detect Thoughts 1/1 | Tip of the Tongue 1/1 | Spell Cache 1/1 | Spells: 1st 4/6; 2nd 0/5; 3rd 2/4; 4th 3/3 | tactical autobeam rifle 34/40 | Active conditions: none
GM Aerondor wrote:
I think the aft shield value you had was a typo. It should likely have been 20. Given the 100 max shields. If you rebalance to make they all the same you will have 70/4=17 in each, and 19 in front. .
Ah, I definitely missed that typo when I copied that from the slides. Wouldn't it have been 25 (four shields into 100)? Or were they already unbalanced? Otherwise, yes, whatever was left that level balancing with remainder to forward shield is what I intended.
I missed Chiv, that will add a bit of damage. Good point about the missile, even with an evade, it would have hit without that point defense.
@Sefel, I'll take the unbalanced shields as a 'error in SF favor' and have the extra in the forward quadrant, which helps you a bit more as otherwise there would be give more damage to your hull With the initial 33 damage from the plasma cannon, that would have burned through the front shields first. So an extra crit...
COPA, don't peek:
Shields (fixed from last time) 18/7/25/20
Hull 139/170
round 3 SF Plasma cannon 31 damage
Shields (fixed from last time) 0/7/25/20
Hull 126/170
crit:1d100 ⇒ 93 power core glitching
ruond 3 SF Crit with lasers
Hull 111/170
crit from crit hit:1d100 ⇒ 16 life support glitching
Total:
Shields end of round 3 0/7/25/20
Hull 111/170
Glitching Power (engineer), life support (captain)
Your ship:
Shields (T:70) 19/17/17/17
Hull: 156/170
Glitching life support. What else would you expect from a corpse fleet ship?
Status, round 3;
Bugface (engineer)
baddy has acted.
JackoJare (pilot)init 31 for round 4
Sefel (science officer) balanced shields
Donovan (captain) (glitching life support, -2 to skill checks) encouraged Bluu
Bluuu (gunner) fired
Chivix (gunner) fired
I could do a flyby or an evade. I suspect he has good rear guns as well, so I stay there and evade. piloting evade:18 + 1d20 ⇒ 18 + (5) = 23 evade stay in place
I am not sure if we have had an excellent scan yet. the barathu exclaims. But they do see remarkably similar to us. And if that is the case, I think their rear may be quite exposed.
