OOC Thread The 2nd

[dusty]

Yeah he probably doesn't know. Of he does, h doesn't care. He likes to do his own thing, like playing an elite with an UNSC sniper rifle.

[caster]

I appreciate your insight, Nex. But nothing had to charge up, the pulse laser turrets were left online, all other ship board weapon systems are powered off to conserve power. That was in the original post of defenses back on page 1.

Elando, I understand where you are coming from about knowing where the attack is but, you guys provided me with everything I needed to know they were coming. If human soldiers saw a patrol coming to check, and the humans could distinctly hear a grenade going off, it would be fair to say that the incoming patrol, who is equally as far out although approaching from a different direction would hear the same thing. The grenade tipped off the incoming patrol, Sam Murphy said was checking the area. They retreated and advised the charity. Then the defenses hardened. Thanks for the info on the lasers, I did misunderstand how they operated.

I could have done better in explaining all that, but I have been super busy and my posts have suffered a bit. I apologise for that. If this still sounds like modding, I will modify my posts with suggestions when I have time next.

Edit:

I went back and read over my post. I can see where things got muddled. The targetting of the laser turrets would have only been on the area of the interference. Once they moved and were spotted it would have taken a moment for the turrets to realize it. Depending on how narrow the ridge Sam was on at the time, they may have made it out of the kill zone. The shooting of four grunt shade gunners was still outstanding shots...

As far as their casualties, I could see it as feasable since the turrets got one, and there may not be a pursuit team after them.

[nex]

Well, since the outcomes the same
(Murphey's got a man seriously injured)
shall we just play on? I presume theres more than the 4 shades there anyway, so that doesn't matter as much.

[Soulstep]

Either way the UNSC is still fucked

Looks like we'll finally get some posting done in space once they realise its all FUBAR.

[nex]

Yeah. Methinks we should get back to the pelicans. If someone feels the need to update the status to the fleet, i'll start appropriate measures.

[Soulstep]

Commence Operation: UNSC Running Away, Version 2!

[nex]

Not quite yet. Me was just planning on some well aimed missile strikes.

[Soulstep]

Can't get much more well aimed than a Longsword strafing run :3

[nex]

You wouldn't get 'Swords past those point defense lasers. Too noticable. I was thinking some MAKO-Drones.

With the shields offline, a couple of archer's from those will take out the point defences/ or the wraiths in the hangers.

[Soulstep]

Thats why we send in every Longsword/Shortsword/Armed Pelican we can get our greasy hands on XD

[nex]

Screw it, we should just give them a couple of MAC rounds. We can salvage the wreckage with minimal losses.

[Soulstep]

Aww, but imagine how badass 200-ish Longswords/Shortswords/Pelicans blowing the shit out of everything would be

[nex]

But one or two of them might get shot down. Imagine how bad-ass it would be just pwn a ship with 20/30 MAC guns all at once.

[dusty]

You realize if we fired 20 to 30 mac rounds at it, the ship would be reduced to molecules, and the planet would likely die? Becuase 20 to 30 mac rounds would hammer the planet, fire off a shitload of volcanic activty, and probably go very deep in it. Everyone on it, would probably die from the concussive shock waves, and those who didn't would fall in the magma flow. It would be more awesome then nuking, but the damage would be so much more.

[usefuldave]

...And who cares about the planet?

As for the idea of scraping up every LS/Peli and just charging, thats a tad... futile?

Divert power to even light shields, take what are most likely AGSMs without much of a scratch, power up the pulseys and PEW PEW PEW.

[dusty]

I say if the mission fails, every ship fires a single shiva, and the missles have a race to the planet lol

[caster]

Charty's shields are only running at 10%.......It wouldn't take too much to knock them out. The repair process happens faster with the added power saved.

[Soulstep]

Ok, maybe have one of the Mirages fire a single MAC to knock out the shields, (maybe 2 if needed) so THEN the fighters can attack. And anyway, this mission is practically ONI lead, and since when has ONI ever shown the slightest bit remorse at just throwing people into plasma XD

[nex]

...when theres ONI people on the ground. I'm a valuable asset.

[usefuldave]

Feb 15, 2010 3:21:44 GMT -6 @nex said:

...when theres ONI people on the ground. I'm a valuable asset.

Lets see, three SPARTANs, a handful of ONI spec Ops/Operators and a company of Marines... Versus quite possibly the co-ordinates for dozens of human colonies.

Yea, not much of a contest there.

As for throwing people into the plasma, theres a difference between a suicide mission with a chance of success and a good strategic outcome, and just getting them killed because it ever so slightly might work.

The shields might 'only' be at 10%, but when we're talking about 10% from a vessel capable of surviving at least two MAC rounds to the shields, that isn't exactly something to be sniffed at.

Mirage has a total of 9 Longswords and 54 Pelicans between them, should those be thrown away just to sprinkle the AC with a few AGSMs? Consider the missiles payload, likely a few thousand pounds of HE at most. 12 ANVIL IIs per Pelican, 4 AGSMs per Longsword. Assuming 100lbs for the AGSM and 500lbs for the AGSMs, that'd be a total of 64,800lbs for the Pelicans and 18,000lbs for the Longswords. 82,800 pounds all added up, convert that into tons and we get about 36, 37 tons of HE.

A MAC round delivers kinetic energy equivilent to 38 kilotons of TNT using even the lower numbers for it. 10% of that would still be far out of the range of the single-ship strike force we have available, and yet when the ACs shields can take over two MAC rounds...

See where I'm coming from?

I hope you packed ear-plugs and sun-screen.

[nex]

So, lets pull our troops and just MAC the bastards?

Edit: But with 10% shields (It being able to take two before them dropping), a single MAC round would do pretty heavy damage. And then theres the fact the shields would have to be lowered around sections for the turrets (And the wraiths) to fire. So don't rule out a strategic strike yet.

[elando]

Oh god, I don't read the posts for a few days and it all goes to shit again... >_>

Well, no 2nd chances. Maxii and the rest of his platoon who thought it was a good idea to assault the crator even after Caster made it perfectly clear that it would be a stupid idea and by disobeying a superior officer you're basically screwed your characters unless you can think of a way to shield them from the point defence, wraiths, turrets, enemy squads ect. Remember your spartans don't have shields and that point defence is designed to rip apart Longsword sized targets in seconds, even burn through Titainium-A plating.

You are going to take alot of casualties if you carry on with the assault with only a platoon sized force but you're still going to take casualties even if you retreat now. You'll have wounded at the very least.

The plan was for everyone to go over at the same time but that changed when the Point Defence was turned on us. We had a plan to carry on with the assault and deal with the point defence but you've now kinda screwed yourself, so ya... >_>

[zim565]

I agree with Elando,come on guys we were doing it incredibly good! I think we still have time to fix this...if you stop charging like crazy! And some Spartans stop trying to be Master Chief

[elando]

I expect some of you to get wounded by this crazy charge. You can either pull out and most will survive or keep pushing in which case you'll all die because I sure as hell ain't sending my squads in to save you when theres pertentially a Nuke/MAC/whatever Dave has planned coming.

[Soulstep]

Doesn't Nex's supply drop contain nukes?

Do me and SC need to pull back too, or are we fine for now?

[elando]

You do realise that the supply drop isn't here yet.

Once it is it'll contain 3 - 4 Fury Nukes which are basically the size of American Footballs but have about a 800 kilaton yield, about 6 SPNKrs, maybe 1 - 2 flamethrowers, ammo and extra nades, a load of C7 spray and some C12 blocks, 1 plasma cutter for each squad going into the AC and that should be about it.

The supply drop will come in soon, around about the time Daves suprise does.

[usefuldave]

Well, while the contents might not be exact, it should be enough for whatever survivors remain to make a mess of the ACs interior.

[SuperCommando]

Feb 19, 2010 12:23:28 GMT -6 Soulstep said:

Do me and SC need to pull back too, or are we fine for now?

In addition, Shotgun Swan Dive hasn't even logged in since that last RP post of his a week ago. What are we supposed to do if he dosn't post? Just move on and ignore him? (No offense Shotgun.)

[Soulstep]

He's probably busy, and this site went months without an rp once, I think we can last a couple weeks waiting for 1 person

[usefuldave]

Feb 19, 2010 13:36:13 GMT -6 Soulstep said:

He's probably busy, and this site went months without an rp once, I think we can last a couple weeks waiting for 1 person

Well, wouldn't help if everyone got zapped in the meantime should Caster reply.