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Since this thread brought up the subject of casting for a potential Live Action Robotech film, rather than hijack that thread I figured I would start a new one. While we are at it why not cast all 3 eras, and the Shadow Chronicles. Who would you have play Miriya? Olivia Wilde. Scarlett Johannsen Ri...

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So the just do the Battlestar Galactica roll and present their weapons toward the enemy. The Ikazuchi's turrets are defensive. They get the ship to the target and defend them from attack by enemy late arrivals. All the lower decks are dedicated to launch bays for fighters and drop ships. Ikazuchi's ...

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For my setting I went with the huge resource cost of the Zent ships, both to make and to crew. The resources to make a "mid sized" Zent ship, or even just convert an existing Zent ship to a "mostly" human/micronian sized crew could instead be used to produce a dozzen smaller shi...

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You are assuming they'd actually know to build it to be invisible to the incident which we know they don't. It would be illogical to build something with a lesser power plant for no apparent reason. I am thinking that fusion is far more understood in that period, and the reflex furnaces built at th...

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The Synchro Cannons are being powered by the reflex furnaces. Without any hard data there is no way to know just how much power you need. Further more, to power the ships you are talking about (Submarines), they need significant power just to operate iirc. It would only make sense to give them a re...

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After looking through my Macros book I cannot find anything specifically stating a reflex furnace is "required" to power Zentraedi style turrets. However the only craft to have such weapons are in fact powered BY reflex furnaces so logically speaking you would need the power output equiva...

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Got a source for that? Um... the Macross Saga sourcebook, 2nd Edition? Really? Page number and which paragraph? I'm posting from my phone right now, so I'll get back to you on that. I remember looking it up last night while I was working on my brother's busted laptop. The ONLY power system mentione...

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Not sure I see how this as "not the smartest thing he could've done". Between his already existing fortune and opportunities, either it gets made and he hopefully enjoys doing it, or it doesn't and he... keeps making millions of dollars doing movies. Putting aside the fact that appearing ...

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I don't picture Leonard DiCaprio as Rick Hunter.......... More probably Roy Fokker.........

He is probably a fan, and I doesn't really have to give a damn if it pays well.

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A barbwire and razor wire enclosure backed by chain link in 2-3 ringed enclosures surrounding goats. Have a tunnel with a hidden entrance to enter the enclosure and feed or water said goats. Possibly a tower inside the enclosure and a sentry with a suppressed rifle. Burn zombies daily.

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Seto Kaiba wrote:
ArmySGT. wrote:Got a source for that?

Um... the Macross Saga sourcebook, 2nd Edition?

Really? Page number and which paragraph?

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I'm pretty sure those turrets, if you had say two that could be aimed at the same target, and fired at full rate of fire and power, could punch the crap out of most things humans can make well before it go into range to return fire. Getting enough power to the guns to sustain the fire rate and rang...

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Is or isn't, GMs choice for drama and directing the plot. Yep, but you DID ask... So there isn't a Canon answer, and it is whatever the GM needs it to be. You could say either is canon, too. Yeah, about that...... don't really see that as a problem. Typhoon http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/slbm...

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I like the thought of folding them in as needed. Doesn't a gravity well affect the accuracy of a space fold? [...] In Macross ? Yes, but you can compensate for it fairly easily if you know what you're doing. In Robotech ? We don't know for sure... it seems to in RTSC, but that was a greater-than-av...

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Put recovered fold drives on them and sit them in orbit of another less interesting planet. Program jump coordinates to a dozen orbital positions, and if an enemy shows up, fold your erstwhile orbital fortresses in and open fire on a fairly surprised enemy. You could even leave them as inhabited an...

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So the Zentraedi are the Cuirassiers, Hussars, Cossacks, the Light Brigade of the modern mecha tactics.

Acting as Cavalry they recon ahead of forces, flank the main force, and exploit gaps created by heavier units to attack into the enemies rear areas disrupting C3 and logistics.

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In the real world missiles are named, usually from their Project that went into design, testing, and implementation.

Just for fun I would like to present the players with the missile options and names besides LRM, MRM, SRM, and MM.

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Are you going to include modular accessories to improve costs or make a mecha into command models?

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Play the Carpenter Mission.

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It is not so much a protection against another empire seizing one; as a safeguard against Zentraedi insurrection. Look how far the Masters / Dolza have gone at the suggestion that a ship might be influenced by micronians... Imagine Khyron with a factory satellite. The reason Dolza went fratricidal ...

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Consider the following.

http://www.technewsdaily.com/18509-design-museum-3d-printing-exhibition.html

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This is nuts. You are trying to provide a psuedo security system to a mini factory. At most, there would be a command control key of some sort. Maybe a badge to swipe - and that's it. Programming is far out of zent's comfort zone you aren't going to get them trying something new. And if you are wor...

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There's also the fact that the factories may be hard coded to *not* make anything else. After all, if I was an up and coming robotech empire, I wouldn't want to make it easy for some lucky fellow to get a ship with a "make anything" box in it. This could be another reason for the robotech...

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mech798 wrote: (which might not be impossible-- given the fact that most zentraedi don't know a lot about how things work, it could be as simple as pulling a single circuit board).

The old "reverse the circuit board" trope?

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The issue i have with this is you are saying Alphas have advanced technology in them, when we all know they're made of plywood, rocks, hopes and dreams. Now a cyclone, yeah, 8 years minimum. Did I mention I despise the Alpha fighter and its ugly cousin the Beta? The Alpha on its best day is a short...

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Seto Kaiba wrote:
jaymz wrote: EDIT: Does this mean Tommy Yune is Sauron?

More akin to Saruman......... Aspires to power but, it just isn't as capable as he dreamt.

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That's how I read it, however that is only two ships out of 6 (Flag, Cmd, Landing, Destroyer, Scout, Monitor), and the case may be different depending on the class. I can see the Command Ship being similar to the flagship (in scope, if not volume) and the Destoryer and Scout being similar to, the L...

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All of that is very confusing...... Are you asking where can you get miniatures made that you have listed?

Try http://wargamesfactory.com/league

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I got as far as maybe paragraph two in the first story......... dry, disjointed, and adjective sparse. I did not care for it myself.

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Additionally I plan to use some as independent AI controlled turrets that protect asteroid rock mining or prevent someone else from doing so..... Which runs merry adventures of faulty AIs, mutineer miners, and IFF code mix ups.

A tactic from the RTS game "Homeworld"

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Alrik Vas wrote:If the asteroid defenders aren't up to task, aren't you more or less giving your opponent really large bombs to drop on your planet?

Additionally when I think an attacker has destroyed one of these, the asteroid has been shattered into small pieces. An impressive meteor show.

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If the asteroid defenders aren't up to task, aren't you more or less giving your opponent really large bombs to drop on your planet? LaGrange points are stable and pretty far out. Think of them as eddies where stuff collects. I would not put them in actual high, mid, or low orbit for that reason. W...

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Commanded by remotely by uplink..... Dedicated laser comms are unaffected by ECM. Probably the safest way to go about it, though directed laser communications are vulnerable to interruption by other means (especially atmospheric phenomena, if the control station is planetside) and has a fairly shor...

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Actually I was thinking of space folding nickel iron asteroids into a LaGrange point then outfitting same with radar, lidar, and space fold sensors, using Zentraedi turrets and long range missiles in vertical launch system installations as the offensive firepower. Hm... an interesting idea, but I'm...

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This probably means the housing for it is enormous. Remember the 'barrel' retracts when not being fired, so you have a 20m deep storage for each gun. Takes up a crap ton of space on a human ship. Closer to 35m, since the storage "well" for the gun has to accommodate both the focusing wave...

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This probably means the housing for it is enormous. Remember the 'barrel' retracts when not being fired, so you have a 20m deep storage for each gun. Takes up a crap ton of space on a human ship. If it is going to stay on a Ship that doesn't enter an atmosphere at all then, dispensing with the equi...

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the "dome part" is roughly the hieght of a Vf-1 in Battroid mode. You'll have to get a hold of some of the earlier episodes of Macross True / Robotech Series 1 but there are a couple of quick flashes of a Vf or two standing close to one of the turrets. Then again, this series was animated...

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What are the dimensions for the Zentraedi retractable laser turret? The Zentraedi book by Palladium doesn't give any physical dimensions or power requirements... and I would like to retrofit them onto something else.

These turrets Zentraedi Retractable Laser Turret

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This is pretty much awesome from the word go!

Do you have a tutorial or a copy I can download and dissect?

I would love to make a random Zombie, normal human, and NPC generator for Dead Reign and a random Soldier, NCO, Officer generator for Recon.

Thanks!

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I admit to being curious about what roles were filled, versus what practical roles a corvette mod for a Gnerl (which again, I still can't see the actual need for) could fulfill. VFs are going to have "short legs" for space patrol.... Granted Q versions are a strong option. A corvette give...

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This ongoing thread derailment was tiresome two pages ago. To be fair, the actual discussion topic ended roughly five and a half pages ago... No....... to be fair any possible discussion is usually quashed by your long diatribes against anything that departs from YOUR OWN strict interpretation of t...

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This ongoing thread derailment was tiresome two pages ago.

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this is a question that popped up in a game recently, and i thought worth asking, for curiosity if nothing else. since destroying missiles in flight has a good chance of making all the missiles in a volley blow up, what happens if you destroy a missile launcher or for some units, a bodypart that ha...

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Just make notes of which tables you access during a game...... mostly combat and skill tables. Put a check mark next to it... Then you will know which ones you do actually use , and if it is frequent enough to want to add to a screen. Now a days,,,,,, my laptop is my GM screen, I remake the tables i...

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Horror cover art for the players side........ The Walking Dead comics are here and there on the internet.

Cut and paste into a collage.

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Then, you guys have made a strong case for why it has not been done, or ever will be.............

So why then carry on complaining about it?

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It is neither tank from the RPG based upon the in game descriptions.

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The up-sized Macross and Masters books need more crammed into them in addition to the errata to be worth it. They really need to do the rest of the ASC cruisers and artwork as well as fixing the mountain of errors/typos and other gaffes. As a community we should prepare one document with the errors...

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So thirty years later....... You don't see a VF-1A_E1/2/3/4/5/6 (Block) with uprated engines that now can push velocities greater than Mach 6 and achieve orbit? Not in Robotech , anyway... or, at least, not in the current, official Robotech animated continuity. The old comics made for the Sentinels...

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