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RL happens. Recharge and we will be here when you are ready to roll. I miss the gym too. Walking a lot but it's not the same. I have moved during the pandemic and do not have a new gym yet. And prices are much higher here than where I lived before. Unsure what I will do yet.
Can't move the ship until after pilot init. Can't know what guns we are shooting until after the piloting phase. Can't do engineering until you know the results of the gunnery phase.
This specific encounter works out like this. We win initiative a little more than half the time. When we do Noah will fly around to their back side where they cannot return fire and we try to fire through their rear shield. When the enemy wins initiative they can fire at us but we cal also fire at them. So without a lot of bad luck (missing both shots in a round.) we win - but all that means is that we make them run off. Since they are faster than us we cannot chase them down.
Not completely ignoring his captain, Noah knows the best way to get away from the faster ship is to disable it. So he comes about hard to port and maneuvers behind the enemy providing a targeting solution for both the turret and the flack thrower. I suspect their rear shield is still weak. Light them up gentlemen. He encourages.
My read is that it needs to be in arc but not in range of the ship. It's not firing on the ship. It's firing on the torpedo as the torpedo closes. Its basically an Agis fire control system on a modern destroyer. It kills missiles and drones right before they hit.
Got it. What were Ed's and Startoad's actions in the first round? And what is planning to do the second round? I have already piloted.
I honestly think the best thing to do this turn to run. If they do a 180 then they can only move 6 and if they come about it will end up about the same, maybe worse. We cannot line up any arc when we move first as we have no idea where they will be. And with our current crew I am not sure we will ever have 3 gunners. Still not sure who is doing what. And I am now lost about how the new space combat system is gonna work. And I worry that the proposed changes favor the other ship design. Not intentionally of course but the outcome will be the same. lol.
Yes, we are facing away. We are butt to butt if if you will. If you click on the ship you will see a "handle" that you can grap to to turn the ship. That handle is the way we face. So, no we will not be able to flip and fire. We lost piloting this round so we have to move first. Then they move. And THEN guns shoot. So there is almost no chance they will leave their rear shield facing us. Its both down AND they cannot target us from that facing. I suspect they will flip and come after us, but they have more move than us so they could make turns going forward and face us. But at the end of movement they will be facing us. They have good forward facing weapons, including a torpedo launcher that does twice as much damage as our best weapon. Their man gun also does more damage than our best weapon. And they will fire at us with both this turn. But we get a chance to shoot down their torpedo IF it comes at us from our rear. That is what the flack thrower really is for. We got lucky with it and critted them. Note we cannot even shoot that weapon more than 5 hexes. Other guns are like bows and crossbows and thrown weapons in that you just take minuses to hit from longer ranges.
Humm. The current enemy ourguns us by some margin. Our best chance of victory is to be in that rear arc blind spot (that we only know about because Noah rolled a nat 20 in his science roll) every time we will the piloting check. On top of that our best weapon is turret mounted and can fire into any arc. That costs a lot more than a front mount in ship's points. We just can't remove the firing arc consideration from combat. To remove it changes space combat too much and takes away our strongest tactical advantage.
Sounds better than a turn a week, on a good week. :)
From my study of Western literature I believe the expression is "Give um both barrels." Noah says from the piloting console.
Noah, believing that since his ship is more heavily shielded and slower decides to take an aggressive position. Believing that the enemy cannot fire upon them Noah does not bother with evasive maneuvers.
But not first iirc. Captain shenanigans first I think. And since they ourgun us a little bit and are faster than us, but with weaker shields we need to fight, but do so from behind them if at all possible. We need to main that turret gun at all times and maybe one other. How many crew do we have? an our "passenger" help?
Waiting for the first phase of combat to be called, which iirc is not piloting.
Noah shares his scan data. She is fast and light Ed. Faster than us but our shields are better. She outguns us easily in the forward arc so we need to stay out of that and take advantage of our turret mounted lpb. We may have to run from their torpedos but our rear firing flack thrower should help protects us as long as we can maintain some distance. Of course we area already too close.
While captain types talk Noah shifts to Science mode and scans the necro vessel.
Even Noan, who was born very recently and not good at read humans recognizes the lie and threat and bluff of sure success. One of the things their necro guys would cure is your "life". And my read is that they intend to fight no matter what we say or do. I highly recommend battle stations.
I am in pilot mode my captain. Someone else must handle the science officer responsibilities.
Best take their call. I suspect they will do something nefarious regardless though. And they may tip their hand when we talk. Regardless I will be ready. Noah settles into his ship's station and pulls up the piloting console.
Really need Cyberborn first and Ace Pilot second as its an Int bump vs a Dex bump. Scholar is less important to me for this build. But I think that means I do not get the +1 to piloting from Ace Pilot, right?
Ok. Wondering if I should choose Ace Pilot instead of Scholar. I think the only reason I did no initially was I knew I was not gonna be the pilot. Could be explained simply by having had a piloting module installed as part of Noah's initial booting. Or maybe Noah 1.0 was a scholar and Noah 2.) had the scholar chip replaced with piloting?
Yea, Looks like you are better than Noah as a pilot by 1 point. Its the most critical role imho too.
from my experience Pilot is critical in a space fight. Going last = WIN. I am happy to pilot, but don't we have an ace pilot?
Responding to Ed Noah expounds Its Eoxian. He goes on to translate the message and settles into the Science station.
Cool new roles. - Magic officer is based on mysticism, which puts Noah out of the running there. He is likely a good science officer, or engineer or gunner. His relevant stats are: COMPUTERS +13
partly why I picked up Comprehend Languages. :)
OK. Updated. Minor change: Taking Psychokinetic hand instead of Telepathic Message since we all have come units.
About to update my alias now.
I looked at Nanite Integration and may take it down the line. Very thematic for Noah. Arm Extensions gives -2 to weapon attacks but also -2 to Dex and Str based checks and skill checks - so your long arms are somewhat clumsy. Agree touch attacks are not weapon based attacks though.
Noah levels taking a 3rd level of Technomancer and a second theme of Cyberborn Level up includes:
Unsure about what feat to take. GM Recommended retraining out of Longarms to go with Arm extensions and advanced melee combat. But after reading Arm Extensions I was disappointed as they are not combat focused at all and give you negatives on your attacks. Thinking I will keep Longarms and maybe even upgrade to Heavy Weapon Proficiency with my level 3 feat. This would put me more on the battle mage track. Maybe even work towards powered armor???
Will look into it for sure. There is a spell that can grant item/weapon proficiency for a few rounds if I ever really need it.
That sounds great. Adds more character depth and does not seem too OP. Looking at options now. Thinking Cyberborn for Noah's second theme. It gives an unexciting +1 to computers but some of these computer rolls are pretty make or breaky. Seems like the general rule of full casters not multi-classing should still be in effect. While it's tempting to change over to Biohacker I think I will stay with Technomancer. He gains a new zero level and a new first level spell. Not much new here. He will take Telepathic Message for his zeros and Comprehend Language for his new First. Still gotta choose a feat...
I believe we in effect have a deed to the ship. It was gifted to us by the previous owner and we have proof of that.
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