10-19-2020, 12:54 PM | #11 | |
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Location: Snohomish, WA
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I use this design (or a slight variation): Rainbow Bay Raider -- Compact, Heavy chassis, Heavy suspension, Large power plant, 4 Steelbelted Puncture-Resistant Radial tires, Driver w/TC and BA and PFE, Light Laser in Turret, Recoilless Rifle Front w/10 shots HEAT, Plastic Armor: F22, L17, R17, B17, T16, U4, Gear Allocation: [72 lbs. @ Accel 5/Top Speed 117.5], Acceleration 10, Top Speed 120, HC 4, 3998 lbs., $14834 This has been refined at games at conventions over the last decade. (About eight separate eight-player games with different players each year). It gives the players a few options without being overwhelming (LL vs RR. Acceleration 10 simplifies speed, HC is decent enough to play around with. Chances of fire aren't huge (engine damage) and PFE for an extra decision. Armor is in the Goldilocks zone for enough to take a hit or two, but can be breached in a reasonable time. Weight keeps them in 2/3 damage for collisions, making them less effective, but still moderately so. Tires have a decent chance of surviving a hit. No hand weapons. Not a lot of wonky gear. And it works pretty well - I can usually run an 8-player game in a few hours.
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10-19-2020, 04:10 PM | #12 |
Join Date: Dec 2007
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True --tho' for my part, I use the _Sargasso_.
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10-20-2020, 11:17 AM | #13 | |
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: CA
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Can't argue with experience. Seems very forgiving for new players... and there's some good loot! Does it look like a shark with friggin' laser beams attached to its head? ;)
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11-07-2020, 10:45 AM | #14 |
Join Date: May 2019
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After doing a few intro games for people at this point, I have decided that I prefer to do a little scenario rather than an arena fight. Something with a bit of a narrative.
Last time I ran a game, I started the scenario as a standard Division 5 battle, but I, the referee ran a car that was cheating (a compact with a concealed, IR targeting laser, cyberlink and an ejection seat/rocket pack combo) that the other players had to team up to defeat. When they finally got him, he ejected and flew away, firing his machine pistol. This kept the game down to less than an hour and a half and everyone had fun. The time before that I had an "OGRE" like scenario where one player was a van hired by Gold Cross to storm into a biker gang hideout to rescue the corpse of a would-be vigilante. The other two players played the biker gang. I am going to propose my "Ruins of Cleveland" Car Wars RPG campaign once the other guys want to take a break from Shadowrun. I'm statting out a Mk I OGRE in Car Wars just for the occasion :) Last edited by PeteC; 11-07-2020 at 10:50 AM. Reason: Haven't actually finished statting out OGRE |
11-07-2020, 10:56 AM | #15 |
Join Date: May 2020
Location: Winnipeg, Canada
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11-07-2020, 11:22 AM | #16 | |
Join Date: May 2019
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At 300 spaces and 300000 lbs it won't be driving over too many bridges, but can crawl along the ocean floor powered by 3 nuclear truck power plants from UACFH :) |
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11-07-2020, 11:57 AM | #17 |
Join Date: May 2020
Location: Winnipeg, Canada
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11-07-2020, 02:12 PM | #18 |
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Please don't -- I had to deal with one of those in NOVA; it wasn't fun. In fact, I had to nuke the player's entire organization in order to prevent it. (It's part of what got me thrown out of NOVA in the end -- I had to explain to them: "Right now, the only threat to New Omaha is *all of you*!")
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11-09-2020, 12:22 PM | #19 | |
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: CA
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A brilliant engineer friend tried to design the most expensive tank possible - as I recall it had at least two Magnetic Cannons. He called it the 'Congress' and stated that there was a part from each Congressional district lol
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11-09-2020, 02:00 PM | #20 | |
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Anti-Armor Hardened Penetration Bombs do *NOT* do nice things to Tanks. >:)
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