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[ScubaV]

G - CBC for camo purposes
For 2 and 3 I think AA or BB have the best synergy (pick someone off with great positioning or melee bruiser that can survive hits) so I'll pick AA which works best with our fault lines ability.
D - assuming the cockpit is in the head as long as we're alive in the mech we'll always have a weapon.

GAAD

 

[Azira]

DACD

 

[Esquilax]

Count me as another one for Lambchop's configuration. Speed works really well with our powers of perception and reflexes, along with a melee attack. Eye lasers would provide us with at least some versatility so that we're not fucked once things start getting hairy.

GABD

 

[ScubaV]

I'm not seeing the logic behind AB for 2/3. For one-on-one fights I can definitely see it being useful if we get inside an enemy's effective range, but in larger combats those mechs will get torn up. Light mechs that have to get into melee range when there's someone else to plink them from behind/the side? gg no re

Remember this isn't just future planning for Senya. Actual armies will use these mechs if they follow our recommendations.

 

[Azira]

It's the prototype, to show off what this kind of weapon can do. Where does it say that the Shinar army will only feature mechs with our proposed outload?

[EDIT]
Nevermind. I apparently cannot into reading comprehension. It's only the last choice which pertains to this particular prototype..
That said, mobility can be a great help when it comes to avoiding incoming fire. Suppose that this kind of tech is backed up by ECM and ECCM, you cannot be sure that you'll automatically hit with all ranged weaponry without any skill involved.
If the pilots are skilled in evasion, you can conceivably quicker close the distance and wreak havoc, if you have an agile mech.

But I can see the merit of going CBC in the choice of armaments. I've changed my vote accordingly.

 

[Bloodshifter]

AABD

Edit bring in a tally soon​

 

[Kipeci]

GCCF

 

[GreyViper]

AABD next thing we should go for is MIRVS for the Missile Massacre ability.

 

[TOME]

Why do you guys go for XXBD? Optimizing for melee but upgrading ranged weapons next seems like a retarded choice.

 

[ScubaV]

I may flop to 3C if it has a chance of beating 3B. I think you guys are making a mistake with AB.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

Why do you guys go for XXBD? Optimizing for melee but upgrading ranged weapons next seems like a retarded choice.

Because even the best melee fighter needs a ranged weapon every now and then. Plus eye lasers can be used close range as practically a free action as well. Bombs and missiles can't without damaging us. Drills can, but can't be used at a distance as well.

ScubaV, 3c is attractive, but I worry that not specializing will give us a watered down mech that's not especially good at either shooting or melee.

 

[Bloodshifter]

So I heard you want A Tally?​

1st Choice
A. Black-6
B. Blue-1
C. Red-1
D. White-1
E. Gold-0
F. Hot Pink-1
G. I change my preferred colours on a case-by-case (CBC) basis.-3

2nd Choice
A. Mobility-8
B. Armor-2
C. CBC is the way-3

3rd Choice
A. Shooting-3
B. Melee-4
C. I like to do things CBC-6

4th Choice
A. Rocket punches-0
B. Breast missiles-1
C. Crotch bombs-3
D. Eye lasers-7
E. Drills everywhere.-1
F. It must be CBC-1

 

[aleam iacis]

1C There was some famous red gundam guy. Also, red ones go faster, don't they? Honestly anything other than hot pink and blue is a cool mech color.
2A
3A (I assume we can attack the weak points we detect with ranged weapons too) This is a real robot type anime, right? Why would melee be more effective? Even if there are nano-edged blades, can't we just turn them into flechettes for a gun? Plus our ability gives us super accuracy as we saw with our ranged tentacle use.
4D

Mobility plus ranged lets us and our armies get into the best positioning, surround enemies, stay out of their range while keeping them in ours, etc. In mechwarrior games I prefer heavy mechs armed to the teeth, but that's because the enemies hardly evade :D

 

[treave]

Don't worry about the choices fucking up future production lines. This is a prototype machine that is the first of its kind for Higashi and ISC, so it's still going to be more general purpose than specialist. As tradition demands the protagonist get shoved into a robot via plot contrivance by the end of the first episode, we'll be doing some piloting soon.

 

[Zwist]

That would be AACD.
Sensible outcome actually. So I change my vote accordingly.
Now, melee would probably be better for us, as we have the abilities to use it effectively. But for the average grunt? Mobility and firepower win the day.
Pure close-quarter makes it way to hard to control the type and place of battle, if combined with armour it even turns into a "sitting duck" situation.

 

[Baltika9]

we can just use our abilities to shoot out all the lights from the sky before they strike us and plot perfect courses for our projectiles and they will make the enemy fight under the shades, for they will be endless

we should be a walking fortress not a fucking emo ballerina

Flopping to BBAE. We are the Iron Fist of the Emperor's rule! A velvet glove would serve no purpose! ...except diplomacy, peace and trade; but now is a time for WAR!

So, what were we doing over the break? Did we at least get some training done with Butterfield and was Kyrie playing the Adventures of Ean with us (and did we at least get one answer right)?
Edit: also, how strong is nationalist sentiment in the Empire? Do some still believe that the seceded nations belong with them? Not that I'm suggesting anything yet, just for future reference.

 

[treave]

1. A - 7, B - 1, C - 1, D - 1, G - 4
2. A - 9, B - 3, C - 2
3. A - 4, B - 4, C - 6
4. B - 1, C - 1, D - 9, E - 2, F - 1

Updating for flops, the winner appears to be AACD. Prepping update.

So, what were we doing over the break? Did we at least get some training done with Butterfield and was Kyrie playing the Adventures of Ean with us (and did we at least get one answer right)?
Edit: also, how strong is nationalist sentiment in the Empire? Do some still believe that the seceded nations belong with them? Not that I'm suggesting anything yet, just for future reference.

It's about half a year since you got your powers now. You're getting close to peak 16/17 year old by now. You've picked up a bit of basic CQC from Butterfield, and as for the text adventure you're currently up to the part where you kill Sargon, and you're stuck because you have no fucking idea why Ean would do that, judging from what his legend paints him as.

Nationalist sentiment isn't very strong in the Neo Shinar Empire. There are nutter nationalist fascist groups but they aren't very popular. You'd have taken control of those to do your bidding if you had embarked on the AI path.

 

[Baltika9]

Nationalist sentiment isn't very strong in the Neo Shinar Empire. There are nutter nationalist fascist groups but they aren't very popular. You'd have taken control of those to do your bidding if you had embarked on the AI path.

You mean if we can actually mobilize them, we can play "SHINARI EMPRAHRIE STRONG!!! Remove Wrost Race Treitors and Masters From Premises! The LP?" (Serbia's territory is technically part of the Empire, right?) Fuck yeah.

and as for the text adventure you're currently up to the part where you kill Sargon, and you're stuck because you have no fucking idea why Ean would do that, judging from what his legend paints him as.

Yeah, Ean was a "complicated" figure in his early life. And middle. And late. I bet the two will be sitting there and wondering "what the fuck is wrong with this guy?" Seriously, though, does the game tell him everything that transpired, or is the interdimensional stuff with Masters and Gieloth missing?

And we would have been playing it with Shulgi had we went to talk to the Dunamis. Along with getting piss-drunk and learning all kinds of things from Uncle Awesome.

 

[treave]

No, the Baltic states are part of Skane I think. The nutcases will eagerly believe the patriotic bullshit you sell them, but it's not in character for you to believe a word of it yourself. Heck, you'd be hiding your face whenever you talk to them because you're not even a Shinari. Mysterious masked terrorist mastermind. Also, producing downgraded, crippled Yua clones and secretly selling them in the black market for the advantage of the criminal underworld, which in turn puts you in control of their secrets. That's the sort of thing a Yua path would involve.

You can assume, for now, that the text adventure appears to be just like the text adventure I've typed out over the past six months. And it's probably better off that you guys are far away from Shulgi. For his sake.

 

[Baltika9]

No, the Baltic states are part of Skane I think.

Ahem

If the Empire stretches over the Balkans, then it should be.

And it's probably better off that you guys are far away from Shulgi. For his sake.

No, no it isn't.

 

[treave]

3425 A.C.
The Great Civil War ends with the independence of most of the client kingdoms of the Shinari. The Old Empire is reduced to the kingdoms of Assyro-Babylonia, Egypt and Hatti.

And it's probably better off that you guys are far away from Shulgi. For his sake.

No, no it isn't.

I just don't want to deal with the pussy bitch-fit and wailing when you guys inevitably get Shulgi killed because of wrong assumptions like the one I just showed above about Baltic states and the Empire.

Another reminder:

Even then, his powers are slowly fading away, as mentioned in the updates, and after his constant failures he's kinda had enough.

His connection to the Master was a double-edged sword - it granted him even more power and knowledge, but when Naram-Master cut it off Shulgi found that he kept weakening over time.

 

[Baltika9]

Serbia is located on the Balkan Peninsula, also known as that place where Greece (was) located. Not throwing a pussy bitch-fit here, just pointing out the mistake. Relax man, just shooting the shit here.
The Baltics house Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and those other places. But I suppose since the whole damned place is apparently dead and unclaimed, it doesn't matter.

Another reminder:

Even then, his powers are slowly fading away, as mentioned in the updates, and after his constant failures he's kinda had enough.

His connection to the Master was a double-edged sword - it granted him even more power and knowledge, but when Naram-Master cut it off Shulgi found that he kept weakening over time.

Oh, so that's pretty much a confirmation, eh? Good, time to fuck his shit up and get him to do Innana extract. I'm curious to see the results.

 

[treave]

My derp, I mixed up Balkan and Baltic. Welp, you're the Baltic expert. It's not unclaimed, just everything north of Olympus is Skane.

Get him to do flower drugs? Yeah, you guys will kill him. Shulgi goes into the background now.

 

[Baltika9]

Get him to do flower drugs? Yeah, you guys will kill him. Shulgi goes into the background now.

I'll consider that as divine intervention.
"As Shulgi was contemplating on whether or not to bring the young buck along with him to look for Erika, he suddenly heard a cry from beyond the grave "No, don't do it, bro. Don't! The got me, they'll get you too! Run!" That was all the argument he needed."

Who said the God-Emperor doesn't protect? Too bad the Hivemind cannot be stopped. In other words: "target= acquired."

 

[TOME]

His connection to the Master was a double-edged sword - it granted him even more power and knowledge, but when Naram-Master cut it off Shulgi found that he kept weakening over time.

Why didn't Shulgi fix the connection and regain his powers? Or would that mean the masters would find Earth again?