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Let's just consider, the Zentraedi were really around to fight and compete against other Zentraedi like armies, like the Meltlandi.

As anyone done a Z v. M game?

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. . . To avoid ticking people off with discussion of current geopolitics, the G.M. is encouraged to not involve any of that, though their campaign may draw parallels, or even directly from the headlines. . . That's gonna be tough; Recon's about ideals, and it will be tough to replace communism. May...

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I'd buy it while you can; Walmart is known to carry test-merchandise that have a limited-supply.

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My introduction to Palladium's Robotech was the Zentraedi-book, and from the start, I understood the different roles each type of Battle-Pod played, (Recon, Artillery etc.): I really don't see Destroids as infantry. Also, Destroids are a bit vulnerable, as are Veritechs; when running or playing Robo...

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1st generation was designed to mirror the Zentraedi, with some close-combat and a few fire-support; the Mecha of the REF, are designed to fight the Invid, which the swarm-tactic.

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The UF-14, in my mind, is always Anti-UN and a great interceptor.

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I will just use Tolkien's works for any fantasy-language.

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glitterboy2098 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 18, 2023 2:56 am . . .

the shanty town around Macross City feels really weird to me though.

The theme from District 9 played in my head when I saw those.

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Part of the problem with the Southern Cross arc was because Robotech was stitched together from three separate series, with the circumstances of the alien invasion being different in each case. It would have been a lot more difficult to make a more convoluted plot from what Macek had available(they...

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...And that gets me thinking of yet a further AU where the Tirolians/Robotech Masters arrive and discover that Earth is less awestruck/impressed by them because we'd already independently been producing vat-grown baby soldiers(I believe the original Cyberpunk RPG has a line about the future being a...

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I'm not sure, but, I can't think of which anime it came from (probably Gundam), but they had fighters very similar to Alpha's in design. I'm not too sure on how aerodynamic they would be, but if you look at an F-4 Phantom, which is proof that if you give a brick enough thrust, it will fly.

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So, it's not really a future-design, but, if you notice, most of the Macross-Mecha can be interchanged. You can, technically, install a Raider-X's arms on an Excalibur. One of these days, I'm going to have fun with Photoshop. Perhaps that's an idea for another gaming-system like Battletech, where yo...

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Ewww.....I keep trying tp wrap my head around that...."What if the SDF-1 had come down in the corporate battleground that was the Cyberpunk world?'. Provided Macross Island wasn't nuked as collateral damage or a end-spoiler of a war for monopoly on the alien tech between Araska and Militech, t...

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Once, I ran a game of Cyberpunk 2020 set in Macross-city. It was basically a cyberpunk-game, set in a Robotech-world. We had all the cyberware and gadgets of CP:2020, with a bit of the Robotech, um, tech. It was light game; we only played on session because really, only two-players actually liked Ro...

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Robotech Defenders was one of the first comics I read as a kid!!! One time, we had a Robotech vs. Robotech battle for Battletech. One side used the Macross-Mechs whereas the other side used the Dougram-mechs. Macross-side won!!! I always thought Orguss-designs were cool; they could work in the Macro...

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The Palladium, Pscionics wasn't as flushed out as in other RPGs. Louie was just speculating. It's possible, but, not useful. Once upon a time, we played a war-game where one side had access to pscionics (The Mind-Lords); using the Fuzion-rules, it was difficult for the psychics to interfere, with th...

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slade the sniper wrote:So, was this used in a game? Were you using CP2020 rules and just posted it here or did you try a Recon/Megaversal version of it?

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I'll play-test in CP:2020 first, until I feel comfortable in assigning Recon-stats for it (%). I need to develop OPFor. units so I can determine percentages.

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Interesting; I once saw a Battle-Pod with a Commander's Pod's arms on it. For the longest time, I've had this idea of competing Zentraedi Battle-Pods on a massive Pluto-like world that orbits like a comet, were several factions of Zentraedi constantly war with each other with each faction having the...

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I used hit-charts from a lot of video-games; I used one from Steel-Panthers, and Enemy-Engaged. They were percentage-charts; I remember that at best, an SA-7 had usually a 7% chance of hitting!

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Sometimes, you have to cross the streams because all you have is the Robotech Source Book, and the Rifts Source Book, no money and no internet.

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Is transformation copyrighted? In the '80's, there was GoBots, Transformers, Robotech and even Masters of the Universe had transformation. Edit: Also, ideas can't be copyrighted or trademarked, but brands identifiers can; for instance, the Depecticon logo and how a plane transforms, can be; but, if ...

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For Wilhelm II!

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I started playing Palladium with Robotech 1e so I have so I have a huge soft spot for it so yes, I agree overall 1e is better. . . . Same here; it was my first RPG and I even converted Battletech to be played by Palladium's rules (and vice-versa). I did enjoy Robotech 1e , but, I've kinda moved on....

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I read that Kevin watched like thousands of hours of Robotech to get the MDC-stats right. I was like, wow, that's a lot of cartoon-watching. I wouldn't be that picky, but there's gonna be a player that will be. I might convert to AT: Votoms (Fuzion-rules); Mekton is nice, but, serious, the rules are...

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So, in order to re-fight the Cold-War, I created this tank based of off an anime-series called SP Lazer (sp?); I derived the statistics from using Cyberpunk 2020's Maximum-Metal rules to create a vehicle. https://iili.io/rP1K92.gif Speed: 40mph Range: 177 Miles Crew: 4 Weight: 15 tons Cost: $3,519,0...

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So, back in August, '91, I asked the local comic-shop owner (they sold RPG and I first saw Recon, there), if he could order Recon, for me. He wrote it down, but every time I checked with him, he never ordered it. Lately, I've been reading up on The Price of Freedom, which is a great concept, but I d...

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Seeing how it took me twelve-years to get a copy of Recon. Yeah.

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There are a lot of folks who lack the time, or the familiarity with the material, to do that. It's really easy though. At the time, I had only a few months experience playing Robotech and zero experience playing Battletech, but the TRO had a mathematical-rhythm to them that was easy to figure out.

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Have at him. Let me know how it goes. Yeah, the IQ is as high as it goes without something giving a bonus. What can I say? The dice were kind. I have found that, when I have a character (Mine, PC I'm running), gets a high natural score roll, they tend to be good, but have a flaw in other aspects wh...

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I never saw the point in posting mecha-stats. I mean, I spent one summer-break converting all, Battletech, Technical-Readouts, 3025, 3026 (my favorite) and 2750 to Palladium's system and then spent the rest of the summer playing Battletech to Robotech rules. Stats are easy to come up with.

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I might use Malcolm in a game; he seems like a nice-guy.

And I haven't played Robotech in not years but decades: isn't that the highest IQ possible?

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The Valivarre system, home of Fantoma and the moon of Tirol, IS the Gamma Crux system, the lowest point of the Southern Cross constellation. Therefore, 88 LY from Earth, coreward. That's real bad-news for Tirol. Gacrux is a red-giant star that's going off the main-sequence. Any planet in the habita...

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A map of the local-systems; no sure if it's the black-hole that powers the worm-holes to the other systems. It's a Tirolian map and it's in Zentraedi; hope you've brushed up on your alien-languages. https://iili.io/RZ6NCQ.gif I don't know where I got the images from: I'll have to hunt for the source.

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FASA's BattleTech was, of course, as creatively bankrupt and shamelessly derivative as they could get away up to and including actual overt copyright infringement so it's not surprising that they also went for a low-hanging fruit like "Evil Russians". I dunno; can't say they didn't do the...

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Yup... that's why it was such an awful choice. "Evil Russians" was already a largely played-out trope by the time the RPG went to print, having been almost literally beaten to death the previous year by Rocky IV and losing a lot of its sting thanks to the dramatic reduction in Cold War te...

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The EBSIS is around so everyone can carry on with the Cold-War.

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"Canon", is an optional-guide rather than a set-rule.

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My favorite definition of terrorism from St. Augustine:

Alexander the Great seized a pirate.

"What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth:, but because I do ith with a petty ship, I am called a robber. whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor."

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After the fall of the Zentraedi, there is so much Zentraedi-wreckage, that, why hasn't numerous smaller governments popped up, creating hybrids of Zentraedi-UN mecha? I mean, the Zentraedi's Battlepod PBC should be a staple in every surviving Earth's governments.

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Come to think of it, is there any real advantages to the zentraedi being giants? Would it protect them, in some measure, from atrophy in low-g? Was this all only an offensive modification since the start? Or is the "giant miner" explanation, from robotech, the only attempt to hand-waive t...

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Pre-Internet, I would use a napsack, folders and a dice bag, just like going to school; I had to be mobile with my RPG-stuff. However, post-internet, when I was living in South America, I had a laptop and .PDFs of everything; you have no idea how amazed I was that all my music and game books and mat...

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Not a twist really. The Zentreadi in the 2E RPG are based on Tirolian DNA, Dolza's history of the Zentreadi supports the notion (I don't have the quote handy, but it amounts to the Zentreadi originally being normal size but grew to their current size due to protoculture). Over the years, I kind of ...

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Now you need to flesh out the artificial aspects of it.....a more in-depth description of the colony(ies), available technology, economy, sorts of equipment in use. Is its. top-line garrison protecting very important assets, is to keep an eye on the Tirolains, or is it considered a rimp back of now...

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https://iili.io/BXZb2I.gif I used the Fractal World Generator to create a planet for Robotech/Centurion/AD&D2e; instead of making a world just for Robotech, I wanted it to be interchangeable: Notes about the design: the font is in Imperial Roman, so U's, are V's. It's Baker's World for Robotech...

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That'd be an argument better suited to the "millions" remark, TBH. That line came from a UEEF soldier who has almost certainly never set foot on Earth in his lifetime and, like Scott at the start of the New Generation, would have no idea what the actual conditions on the planet were like....

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Per Supreme Commander Leonard in Ep37 there where only 70,000 survivors, and in TSC an unnamed UEEF officer during the Briefing for the attack on Reflex Point mentions there are still several million people down on Earth in his objection to the use of the Neutron-S Missiles. From a story-perspectiv...

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Whatever (and whoever) they can find. I was thinking of the Earth the Invid would have, inherited; ruined cities, craters and people living out of Zentraedi skulls as homes. If many of the Zendtraedi were killed in the battle, the survivors would have a lifetime's supply of food from crashed Zentra...

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On an Earth, devastated by alien orbital-bombardment, what do the surviving Zentraedi eat?

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If it matters, I independently do stuff -shrug- That's what I do. People have fond memories of the TV-cartoon and enjoy it; I liked it, but I never really got into the characters; I really only liked Robotech with the RPG that had potential to be different things. m ¿Es un porteño? ¡q un boludo! Es...

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Super resource I have never heard of. Thanks. -STS There's also another great resource out there, that's down, but there might be a mirror: Extrasolarvisions.com; I used this back in the late '90's; it can generate the night-sky constellations from another star-system and I could explain/show it to...

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