Post by: Seriyu on March 31, 2012, 07:50:03 pm
(http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y371/Seriyu_Pixel/Super%20Robot%20Wars%20J%20LP/Update%201/capture_005_31032012_184827.png)
Super robot wars is a long standing turn based strategy game from japan, not entirely unlike fire emblem or shining force, although it is significantly less brutal then those games, and really more about watching well animated, well made sprites go to town on each other, and seeing how well about fifteen different giant robot anime storylines mesh when crammed together into a single game and universe. The answer? Surprisingly well! I would like to take a moment out to say YOU DO NOT HAVE TO KNOW ABOUT THESE ROBOTS OR THE SERIES THEY CAME FROM TO ENJOY THIS LP. You will largely learn enough of the plot just by reading the plot summaries I post before and after each stage. With that said there are a few more familiar serieses to you more casual people, such as gundam SEED and G gundam, and I will be posting links to the series, dubbed if possible, subbed if not.
What's this Super Robot Wars thing about anyway?
Good question! For the long answer, go here (http://springlessclock.com/seriyu/Super%20Robot%20Wars%20-%20A%20Summary.html)
For the short answer it is a long running turn based strategy game series that has mostly been released in Japan, the basic premise being "jam a bunch of giant robot shows together and see what happens" You've got gundams fighting alongside big O in some of these games. (not this one though. Gundams, but no big O. Sorry for any Big O fans out there.) You may have played Super Robot Taisen Original Generations one or two. They are from that series. They are also the only two "pure" SRW games to be released in the US. I've got a translation patch (Done by the Romhacking Aerie, as a side note) installed for SRW J so don't worry, you won't have to puzzle out japanese.
Will we get any options on progression and such during the course of this LP?
YES! I'll be allowing you guys to select route splits, the charecter we use, and the robot we use, along with "favorites". All of these will be explained as they show up. (most of them are in the first update) Feel free to ask for me to use particular robots as well, although this is no guarentee of anything, I will take your opinions into account so don't be shy.
How long is this game and what's the update schedule?
Fifty missions I believe, and the schedule is tentatively once a day, one update per segment of the mission, 3 segments per mission (Pre mission dialogue, mission itself, post mission dialogue), So, I will update 3 times, take a break for about half a week (3-4 days) and get back to it for another 3 updates.
What about the plot? I hear these games have pretty long plot segments.
I will be transcribing the plot before the mission, the mission itself, and the plot segment after the mission in seperate posts. This is actually a pretty large amount of work, hence the breaks mentioned above.
WHY ISN'T THIS A VIDEO LP YOU JERK I HATE READING
AHHHH
Also this game is well known for having TONS OF REINFORCEMENTS. It is not uncommon for a mission to take an hour and a half or longer. Most of that time in video would be navigating menus. I also don't have the right to upload videos longer then ten minutes on youtube. And finally I really have no idea how to make a decent quality video.
Yeah. It would be an amazing amount of work both to upload and to watch.
Currently available Pilots and Robots
Koji/Mazinger Z
Sayaka/Aphrodite A
David/Baybull
Roanne/Buldy
Eiji/Layzner
Aestivalises/Akito, Ryoko, Hikaru, Izumi, Akatsuki
Combattler V/Hyoma, Daisuke, Juzo, Chizuru, Kosuke
Blue Earth/Noal and Aki
Bellzelute/Calvina
Nadesico/Ruri, Yurika,Jun, Minato, Megumi
Archangel/ Murrue, Natarle, Mirallia, Sai, Tolle, Kuzzey
Strike Gundam/ Kira
Mobius Zero/Mu La Flaga
Tekkaman Blade/D-Boy
Dancouga/Shinobu, Sara, Masato, Ryo
Shining Gundam/Domon
EPISODE LIST! Click on the names for whatever part it entails.
Bonus Updates
Robot Roll Call (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3148697#msg3148697)
Starter robot & pilot overview (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3227090#msg3227090)
Arranged versions of the original pilot music (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3247954#msg3247954)
AI targeting dissection (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3253904#msg3253904)
Prologue and introduction (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3148716#msg3148716)
Episode 1 - Nadesico, take off!
Pre-mission dialogue (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3149137#msg3149137)
Battle segment (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3151790#msg3151790)
Post-mission dialogue (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3151875#msg3151875)
Intermission introduction (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3158668#msg3158668)
Episode 2 - ~VS~ The UEFA
Pre-mission dialogue (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3162308#msg3162308)
Battle Segment (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3166671#msg3166671)
Post-mission dialogue & intermission (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3169672#msg3169672)
Episode 3 - His name is Eiji
Pre-mission dialogue (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3178345#msg3178345)
Battle Segment (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3182414#msg3182414)
Post-mission dialogue & intermission (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3193644#msg3193644)
Episode 4 - Farewell, red planet
Pre-mission dialogue (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3203180#msg3203180)
Battle Segment (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3209839#msg3209839)
Post-mission dialogue (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3212986#msg3212986)
Episde 5 - Changing destinies
Pre-mission dialogue (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3224142#msg3224142)
Battle segment, part 1 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3229845#msg3229845)
Battle segment, part 2 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3235922#msg3235922)
Post-mission dialogue (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3239325#msg3239325)
Episode 6 - Collapsing land, part 1
Pre-mission dialogue (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3248275#msg3248275)
Battle segment, part 1 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3256715#msg3256715)
Battle segment, part 2 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3256716#msg3256716)
Post-mission dialogue (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3259613#msg3259613)
Episode 7 - Collapsing land, part 2
Pre-mission dialogue (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3272086#msg3272086)
Battle segment, part 1 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3282637#msg3282637)
Battle segment, part 2 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3282754#msg3282754)
Post mission dialogue (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3286075#msg3286075)
Episode 8 - Songstress of the enemy forces, part 1
Pre-mission dialogue (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3308135#msg3308135)
Battle segment, part 1 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3323125#msg3323125)
Battle segment, part 2 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3323131#msg3323131)
Post-mission dialogue (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3328639#msg3328639)
Episode 9 - Songstress of the enemy forces, part 2
Pre-mission dialogue (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3350773#msg3350773)
Battle segment,part 1 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3365450#msg3365450)
Battle segment, part 2 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3365450#msg3365450)
Post-mission dialogue (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3371415#msg3371415)
Episode 10 - The gathering darkness
Pre-mission dialogue (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3384591#msg3384591)
Battle segment, part 1 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3399356#msg3399356)
Battle segment, part 2 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3399359#msg3399359)
Post-mission dialogue, part 1 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3407868#msg3407868)
Post-mission dialogue, part 2 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106152.msg3415237#msg3415237)
With all that said I invite you to come enjoy the touching tale of a woman that comes across an alien superweapon and is thrust into an intergalactic war that threatens to destroy all life on the earth.
Post by: Seriyu on March 31, 2012, 07:50:44 pm
AESTIVALIS
(http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y371/Seriyu_Pixel/Super%20Robot%20Wars%20J%20LP/Robot%20Roll%20Call/Aestivalis-Akito.jpg)
Series: Martian Successor Nadesico
Music: GO! Aestivalis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8cK38-Nw80&feature=relmfu)
Attack animations: It's gai's, but the animations are (mostly) the same for all of them. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onuSmbLN-8g)
Pilots: Gai, Akito, Hikaru, Ryoko, Izumi, Akatsuki. They're all functionally the same.
The Aestivalis is a fairly solid real robot, decent attacks, has some nice team attacks too. The "tied to the ship" gimmick honestly helps them more then it hurts a lot of the time, but it still hurts their mobility slightly. Good evasion, solid attacks, team attacks while good, force you to use another few aestis to get the most out of some of them. Their 4 frames ensure a wide range of usefulness, including frames for space (and water indirectly, which is very helpful, as water is a very nasty terrain type for a lot of robots), air, ground, and long range attacks. A solid choice for anybody.
COMBATTLER V
(http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y371/Seriyu_Pixel/Super%20Robot%20Wars%20J%20LP/Robot%20Roll%20Call/CombattlerV.jpg)
Series: Chodenji Robo Combattler V
Music: Combattler V. Ah, for the days when opening themes didn't have titles. And by that I mean I hope they never come back. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw7HYTYSmds)
Attack Animations: Minor spoilers, we don't have some of the attacks yet (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojpvZLKeTww)
Pilots: Hyoma, Juzo, Chizuru, Daisuke, and Kosuke
Combattler V... not a terrible super robot. It's five pilots ensure you will likely never run out of spirit points. The armor is thin, but damage is very nice in comparison. Big blast makes it effective at any range, and their later team attacks are very nice for bringing down bosses. Not a terrible unit, but you've gotta be careful with it. Incidentally, the combattler plot is NOT PRESENT in super robot wars, and is treated as already having been done. So there is no combattler plot, or enemies, barring the Voltes V plotline where it functions as a "partner robot" in a sense, in this game.
BLUE EARTH
Unable to find one. Sorry!
Series: Tekkaman Blade
Music: Reason (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DDYsvzCLNE)
Attack Animations: A basic laser. That's it. Pew pew.
Pilots: Noal and Aki
Blue Earth is a joke in combat. One attack, on the weak side, that uses the energy it vitally needs to move around, since it flies and cannot land. It's only use is repairing other units, and to be fair, it does that very well. Usable for repairing, but it's hardly a required role in SRW J.
MAZINGER Z
(http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y371/Seriyu_Pixel/Super%20Robot%20Wars%20J%20LP/Robot%20Roll%20Call/1345259-mazingerz_large.jpg)
Series: majority of the mazinger series, even if not as a main robot
Music: Fire Wars (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTEPneISBJo)
Attack Animations: All pretty basic, but still nice. Can't beat a giant heat laser. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1H48I7SSdA)
Pilot: Koji
Mazinger Z is a tank of a super robot, while still capable of doleing out some decent damage. While it'll start to lag in the late game, that actually won't be an issue due to plot hijinx. One major negative however, is that it uses energy for every attack period. If it's flying or in space it uses energy to move! This is a pretty bad thing, but (sort've) luckily, mazinger z cannot fly by default. My only complaint aside from that is that Koji seems to have a fairly weak set of Spirits, but maybe I'm misremembering that.
APHRODITE A
(http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y371/Seriyu_Pixel/Super%20Robot%20Wars%20J%20LP/Robot%20Roll%20Call/female-mazinger-aphrodite.jpg)
Series: majority of the mazinger series, mostly as a sidekick kinda thing
Music: Fire Wars (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTEPneISBJo)
Attack Animations: Best I could find. Her only other attack is slapping anyway, so you're not missing much (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_87Vf_AGvSI)
Pilot: Sayaka
Much like the blue earth, except it has less movement, no barrier, can't resupply, and more attack/range. Worse as a repairer, better as a combatant. Stiiiiillll pretty bad as a combatant. I'd stick with blue earth unless you need two repairing units.
BELLZELUTE
(http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y371/Seriyu_Pixel/Super%20Robot%20Wars%20J%20LP/Robot%20Roll%20Call/Bellzelute.png)
Series: Banpresto original, so only in this game. It doesn't appear in any other super robot wars games.
Music: Revenger - It has different music if you pick Touya over Calvina (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyvBcVQgkPM) Touya's music is Fate (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph2BHV5r2NQ)
Attack Animations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36qryly4qhw
Pilot: Calvina
Bellzelute, being an original is an amazing unit in every sense of the word. It's main weakness, being a long range unit, is it's lack of post movement weapons, which can severely hamper kill counts and pilot levels. Nontheless, anything that enters it's range is no doubt going down, even if with a bit of help from another unit nearby. It doesn't seem to dodge very well either, but seems pretty well armored for a real, so that's okay. I'd reccomend upgrading weapons on this thing fairly early on, since due to it's lack of post movement weapons, there's no guarentee it'll get a second shot before it leaves it's range.
BAYBULL
(http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y371/Seriyu_Pixel/Super%20Robot%20Wars%20J%20LP/Robot%20Roll%20Call/Baybull.jpg)
Series: Blue Comet SPT Layzner
Music: Like Melos - LONELY WAY. People can't seem to decide if it's just like melos - Lonely way or Like Melos - Lonely Way. So I'm sticking with the translation patch's translation. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kWLAFAhXOQ)
Attack Animations: All the same as layzner for the most part, check his description
Pilot: David
Baybull is a side robot of blue SPT layzner, and for the most part functions as a "grunt" unit on your side, although he still has a fairly unique robot, in appearence at least. Anything baybull can do Layzner can certainly do better, barring knuckle shot, I believe. Still a decent filler robot if you don't have too many units you... actually want to use at the time. Also has a repair unit, so there's that. One of the handfull of repair units with servicable combat abilities in this game.
BULDY
(http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y371/Seriyu_Pixel/Super%20Robot%20Wars%20J%20LP/Robot%20Roll%20Call/Buldy.jpg)
Series: Blue Comet SPT Layzner
Music: Like Melos - LONELY WAY. People can't seem to decide if it's just like melos - Lonely way or Like Melos - Lonely Way. So I'm sticking with the translation patch's translation. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kWLAFAhXOQ)
Attack Animations: Again, nothing much. Hard to find attack videos for second string robots in fairly unpopular serieses unfortunatly. Not missing much though.
Pilot: Roanne
Buldy.... think baybull (It has all of it's weapons, just like layzner, but replace the knuckle shot melee attack with a 2-7 range beam attack), but range focused. For once it does something better then layzner, despite being a second stringer, as layzner's longest range attack is 1-6. Slap a few range increasers on it and it'd make a servicable sniper. The default pilot has a VERY GOOD hit score, so don't worry about hit rates. I don't think I ever saw him below 90% hit rate during the admittantly limited time I used him during my runthrough. Also has a resupply unit.
LAYZNER
(http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y371/Seriyu_Pixel/Super%20Robot%20Wars%20J%20LP/Robot%20Roll%20Call/Layzner.jpg)
Series: Blue Comet SPT Layzner
Music: Like Melos - LONELY WAY. People can't seem to decide if it's just like melos - Lonely way or Like Melos - Lonely Way. So I'm sticking with the translation patch's translation. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kWLAFAhXOQ)
Attack Animations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0y9Gzejcgk - Spoilers, not all attacks gotten yet, stop at calf missles if you don't wanna see the spoiler. Of these attacks Baybull has everything but calf missles, and Buldy has everything but calf missles with an added long range laser weapon.
Pilot: Eiji
Layzner! The A-lister of the blue SPT Layzner series, and it shows. One of the dodgiest robots we've gotten so far, and this will hold up well into the game, as a large portion of our other reals are M size, which hurts their dodging quiiiite a bit. It lacks punch, calf missles are nice, but they are limited at 4 max ammo, and not being able to use them post movement. Overall a fairly solid robot, but don't expect it to be trashing things constantly.
Strike Gundam
(http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y371/Seriyu_Pixel/Super%20Robot%20Wars%20J%20LP/Robot%20Roll%20Call/StrikeGundam.jpg)
Series: Gundam SEED
Music: Gundam Shutsugeki (Launch Gundam) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmhyl6OFSsg)
Attack Animations: Note, it's not the one Kira is piloting, but it has all the same animations. Mild spoilers for the pilot itself, and it also takes place in a later stage, but they're not attacking anyone important to the plot, so that's not a huge deal. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itZ5nc_tP8c)
Pilot: Kira
Strike gundam. It's... basically a real robot that can take a hit, thanks to it's medium size and barrier. Kind've like the Aestivalises in that sense, but it hits a lot harder, and dodges worse. A very respectable unit, especially with the Strike and Artillery Frames, both of which give it a nice heavy attack to use.
Archangel
(http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y371/Seriyu_Pixel/Super%20Robot%20Wars%20J%20LP/Robot%20Roll%20Call/260px-Archangel_class_assault_ship_archangel.jpg)
Series: Gundam SEED
Music: Gundam Shutsugeki (Launch Gundam) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmhyl6OFSsg)
Attack Animations: Couldn't find a full exhibition, but being a battleship this isn't a huge deal, as there isn't a lot of movement obviously. Have it's best attack. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zFGk6rP9F4)
Pilots: Murrue, Natarle, Mirallia, Sai, Tolle, Kuzzey
ARCHANGEL! Think the Nadesico, except with a much less useful MAP attack, and better attack strength in general. The Laminate armor is also better at defending from beam attacks as well, so if you've got a ton of beam using enemies hounding something, the archangel can cover for them pretty well.
Mobius Zero
(http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y371/Seriyu_Pixel/Super%20Robot%20Wars%20J%20LP/Robot%20Roll%20Call/260px-MobiusZero.jpg)
Series: Gundam SEED
Music: Gundam Shutsugeki (Launch Gundam) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmhyl6OFSsg)
Attack Animations: Today's Forecast - Lasers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGEAGDWYZVs)
Pilot: Mu La Flaga
MOBIUS ZERO! This thing is GREAT, on top of having an amazing pilot. Mu La Flaga is right up there with Koji and Hyoma in terms of appropriate stats for their suits, having tons of dodge and range. If you focus and wall mu la flaga (he has both and can make use of them both fairly well, units with wall tend to be supers that can't dodge, yet another reason he's awesome) he'll be fairly safe for quite a length of time. Unfortunatly Mobius Zero isn't the best suit, it has issues dodging on par with the Strike Gundam, with no phase armor to fall back on. It's attack power isn't anything to write home about either. Very mobile however, and mu la flaga has accel to take advantage of that too. If you need a suit to toss into a giant pile of inaccurate grunts (see: grunts), Mu La Flaga and the Mobius is your unit.
Tekkaman Blade
(http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y371/Seriyu_Pixel/Super%20Robot%20Wars%20J%20LP/Robot%20Roll%20Call/tekkaman_blade.jpg)
Series: Tekkaman Blade
Music:Reason (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DDYsvzCLNE)
Attack Animations: Spoilers for tekkaman blade's mid season upgrade. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xle-b-H5Ktg)
"Pilot": D-Boy
Tekkaman blade is one thing, and that is DODGY. His survivability is through the roof, his dodge stats are high, his size is small, so he gets a dodge penalty to almost everything, and once he hits 130 will he gets a long range attack that can pretty much nail you from across the map. Tekkaman blade is perhaps one of the best units in the game. About the only thing he's lacking is attack power, but besides that he's aces.
Shining Gundam
(http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y371/Seriyu_Pixel/Super%20Robot%20Wars%20J%20LP/Robot%20Roll%20Call/SHININGFINGA.jpg)
Series: G Gundam
Music:King of hearts (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C9Xgxn1WnY) And when he uses shining finger... Burn my hand (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioXI8qYnjEc)
Attack Animations:Poor audio quality, sorry. But no spoilers for once. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFwMYl-gK3k)
Pilot: Domon
Domon is kind've in an awkward position in this game. You see, in previous super robot wars games, he had the dodging of a real robot with the attack power of a super, and as a result was kind've broken. They decided to reinterprate him as a real robot with super attacks, that can't dodge. As a result he's fairly fragile and easy to get smashed up. But his advantage, which is to say, powerful attacks, is still pretty nice. As an M he's smaller then most supers, so that's kind've bad, but I believe his attacks are also a bit better to compensate. He is also one of the units that benefit the most from his mid season upgrade, so look forward to that fans. He's perfectly usable with upgrades.
Dancougar
(http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y371/Seriyu_Pixel/Super%20Robot%20Wars%20J%20LP/Robot%20Roll%20Call/dancougar.jpg)
Series: Super Beast Machine God Dancouga
Music:Burning Rage (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLLEsr7tHHA)
Attacks:Minor endgame spoilers, also mid season upgrade spoilers. Dancouga doesn't get much from them though, so. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AB5BXOvO78)
Pilots: Shinobu, Sara, Masato, Ryo
So, Dancouga. To put it simply, he's combattler with less pilots, and more attack power. And less defense... And higher will requirements. Its not quite as good as combattler on average, especially later on, when his poor upgrade leaves him even further behind combattler, but its still a decent bruiser, and fits into a long range heavy attack power unit niche. And to be fair, its higher will requirements aren't an issue, because I think all of its pilots get "Spirit" which raises the robot's will by 10 for every use. It can be on 150 will on turn one if you want it to be.
Skygrasper
(http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y371/Seriyu_Pixel/Super%20Robot%20Wars%20J%20LP/Robot%20Roll%20Call/Skygrasper.jpg)
Series: Gundam SEED
Music:Gundam Shutsugeki (Launch Gundam) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmhyl6OFSsg)
Attacks: There is only one attack worth seeing, and it is this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqxJ22DO1b0)
Pilots:Mu La Flaga
Skygrasper is basically a pile. It can't dodge very well, and the attacks are nothing to write home about either. Being a little jet it can't really take a hit either. The only time you'd ever use it is if Mu La Flaga is on earth, and you really really want to switch the strike gundam's frames mid combat. On the positive side, it is a tiny jet that can use a sword as a weapon, which you can see in the attack animation above.
Post by: Seriyu on March 31, 2012, 07:58:32 pm
"... However, humanity is still plagued with problems, struggles, and quandaries they have yet to find an answer to.
There are the genetically modified humans known as the "Coordinators". The ruins of an alien civilization buried deep
within the seabed called "Orphan". And finally, mass emigrations to a terraformed Mars.Many expected such drastic changes to usher in the dawn of a new age, but with those changes came misunderstanding, dissent, and strife.The Coordinators, gifted with faculties suited for life in space, constructed reasearch colonies known as "PLANTs".
Nontheless, those remaining on the surface grew jealous and paranoid of their genetically altered brethren, and the rift between "Natural" and "Coordinator" eventually erupted into racial violence. In the midst of all this, those caling themselves "Reclaimers" suddenly entered and established permanent residence within Orphan. Their existence is oft-rumored, but rarely documented.Then, in the 69th year of the Cosmic Era... They arrived from Jupiter, suddenly and without warning. A mysterious force of unmanned, robotic weapons invaded Mars, eventually defeating the United Earth Federation Army in a protracted battle.The Federation was left with no choice but to abandon the Martian colonists and remove its military presence. The invaders, now termed "Jovian Lizards," then dispatched numerous devices known as "Tulips" across the Earth Sphere, each capable of deploying a seemingly endless supply of unmanned weapons to anywhere in the region.The world was plunged into a constant state of warfare against these mysterious foes. With the conflict escalating daily, numerous terrorist groups and shadow organizations opted to seek profit from the chaos, furthering their own illicit causes in the process. Meanwhile, the PLANTs pushed for independence in the name of self-defense, but faced opposition from the Natural-led Atlantic Federation, whose representitives demand the forceful imposition of sanctions upon the space colonies. Now in the year 70 of the Cosmic Era... The Jovian Lizards, as enigmatic as ever, continue their conflict... Tensions between the PLANTs and the Federation rise... ... And Nergal Heavy Industries finishes construction on a new model warship, dubbed the "Nadesico". It is here our story begins."
FIRST DECISION: What charecter are we going to use? This decision effects the plot. Aside from that, there are no terribly meaningful differences.
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Toya Shiun? He's a highschool student who lost both his parents at a young age. Nothing else odd so far as we know.
OR
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Calvina Coulage? A military student who happened to be in a lunar base when an attack was set upon it, killing everyone she knew from said base. She's currently in rehab after being in the hospital for quite some time due to the attack.
After you've voted for that...
SECOND DECISION: What ROBOT are we going to use? The differences between the three will be noted. They're all very respectable robots and for the most part will have no problems with what the game throws at them. This is.... not a hard game.
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Bellzelute? A ranged "real robot" (evasion based, although armored variants exist. weaker, more accurate attacks in general. Excells against most grunts, trouble with bosses).
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Coustwell? A melee "real robot", slightly more heavily armored, less evasion. (see above)
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Granteed? A mixed "super robot", (Heavy armor, low evasion, powerful, less accurate attacks. Has trouble with grunts, excels against bosses).
AND FINALLY
THIRD DECISION: What series are we going to favorite? Favorites give units from a specific series a bonus to EXP and Money gained from enemy units defeated, on top of making their upgrade ceilings much higher.
Your choices are as such. Please pick 3.
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Banpresto originals (the robot and pilot you just picked)
| Blue Coment SPT Layzner | Brain Powerd | Dancouga - Super Beast Machine God | Full Metal Panic! |
Mobile Fighter G Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam SEED | Hades Project Zeorymer | Martian Successor Nadesico | Mazinger (Also known as Tranzor Z in the US for one of it's installments) | Combattler V | Voltes V | Tekkaman Blade |
All of the decisions have been made. Sorry!
After all that business, the story ACTUALLY begins.
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Mystery figure (bottom): Should, by chance, my efforts be in vain...
Mystery figure (top): Do you believe you can change him?
Mystery figure (bottom): ......
Mystery figure (top): The Converted lies beyond the reach of your pleas. I spoke with him. Reasoned with him. It is almost certain he will not return...
Mystery figure (bottom): Everything's moving into place. We cannot stop what's already begun at this point. That is why I mut ask for your permission. If he refuses to come back, milady, should I...
Mystery figure (top): You meanto ask if I want the Converted killed in that case, correct? Would you follow orders to kill someone so respected?
Mystery figure (bottom): I am a Knight. I will carry out my duties, as is expected of me. Many of our brethren have vanished into oblivion, but we must move forward, at the expense of our lives if necessary, for the cause and well-being of our people. That is our mission, as you already understand so well, milady.
Mystery figure (top): Indeed... I am all too familiar with your code. Within my veins flow the hopes of my parents who granted me this flesh, and the convictions of my brethren.
Mystery figure (bottom): ......
Mystery figure (top): Even if we were to reclaim that which we have lost, we would remain divided. What kind of destiny awaits us, I wonder?
Mystery figure (bottom): ...A curious question indeed.
Post by: warhammer651 on March 31, 2012, 08:05:01 pm
Post by: TempAcc on March 31, 2012, 08:07:10 pm
Post by: Seriyu on March 31, 2012, 08:10:25 pm
EDIT: Also warhammer, you can pick three favorites.
Post by: TempAcc on March 31, 2012, 08:12:41 pm
The getters are my favorite SRW robots, damn. I find the gundans to be boring, if the most realistic ones.
Post by: Seriyu on March 31, 2012, 08:15:22 pm
But hey, we've got mazinger right? He's pretty rad.
Post by: EuchreJack on March 31, 2012, 08:23:57 pm
Girl, top real robot, and gundam seed
+1 for Girl and the ranged real robot. I'm guessing it's easier to gear up for bosses than grunts, especially if reinforcements are as bad as you say. I'm afraid I can't make any suggestions about the tv series, as I've never seen any of them... :-[
Post by: TempAcc on March 31, 2012, 08:24:19 pm
For the third pick, go with gundan seed, mazinger and tekkaman
Post by: Seriyu on March 31, 2012, 08:28:10 pm
EDIT: Oh also if you do any image searching for any of these, just to be safe, I would make sure safe search is on.
We all know how the internet can be.
Post by: EuchreJack on March 31, 2012, 08:30:01 pm
Post by: Seriyu on March 31, 2012, 08:33:11 pm
Post by: Frumple on March 31, 2012, 08:35:07 pm
Anyway, rockon. I don't think I've actually finished J, but I did play through most of it and can't remember a bloody thing so yaaay.
Here's hoping you manage to get through all of it and then go on to an Alpha Gaiden playthrough :P
Post by: Boksi on March 31, 2012, 08:41:56 pm
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Granteed? A mixed "super robot", (Heavy armor, low evasion, powerful, less accurate attacks. RAPES FACE against grunts, RAPES EVEN MORE FACE against bosses).
I don't care what pilot and robot you pick, but favorites are Mazinger, G Gundam and Originals.
Post by: Seriyu on March 31, 2012, 08:48:56 pm
We're up to 3 total sets of votes. Two more.
Post by: majikero on March 31, 2012, 08:52:23 pm
Also where did you get this?
Post by: Seriyu on March 31, 2012, 08:55:54 pm
I'm off to pick up stuff for the next update.
Again VOTING FOR THE CHARECTER AND ROBOT IS NOW CLOSED! YOU CAN STILL VOTE FOR FAVORITES!
Have a rockin rendition of fire wars (Song from the Mazinger series) while you wait. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUBMi8igtf0)
EDIT: There's more text in here then I remember.
Post by: Frumple on March 31, 2012, 10:09:08 pm
Also where did you get this?You can get the translation here (http://www.romhacking.net/translations/1577/). Speaking of what to do with it is skirting the forum ToS, though. Ostensibly, Seriyu imported the japanese version, constructed a method of creating a digital copy of its data for strictly personal use, and then created said copy and either applied the patch with the appropriate tools or directly applied it with maddeningly impressive coding skills.
Post by: Furtuka on March 31, 2012, 10:14:34 pm
Post by: Seriyu on March 31, 2012, 10:35:05 pm
"... That same dream again. And with it, the same castic, horrifying emotions. It's not a nightmare, though. No. For me, it is reality. It's been a full month since, but still I dream of that fateful day. It serves as a reminder that I'll never see him again. I was taking part in live-fire testing for Ash'ari Kreutzer corp.'s weapons development division. A secret domed installation on the moon housed us. At least, until Jovian Lizards pinpointed our location. In an instant, the dome was attacked and completely obliterated. The staff, the trainees, the equipment, the data, the unit... all wiped out. Except for me. He was a co-worker of mine. Army liaison, he said. he asked me to leave the army. I obliged. I knew then. We were always going to be together. That was until I woke up in this cold hospital bed. That was until they told me I was the sole survivor. Grief-stricken, I try to remember the sound of his laughter. I envision his clear eyes, and lose myself within."
Needless to say, the female pilot has had kind've a rough time.
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Mystery figure: ...In regards to the shop, the board of directors has agreed to entrust you with its preperations until it's ready to launch. You will, of course, be duly compensated for your cooperation. Are our terms acceptable?
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to think you had some sort of evil intentions... I accept!
Mystery figure: All right, we're leaving the rest in your hands. Do your best to advance the project and achieve our goals. That is all.
Prospector: My, aren't we busy? I suppose I should start gathering talented peple for the main crew. There's no way the army's going to let us advance with the project once word breaks, so we can't settle for anything less than the cream of the crop.
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Fukube: Quite a crowd you've assembled.
Prospector: The personnel department chose to enlist them all at once. Do you have any questions about the main crew?
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Prospector: Yes, well. I'm more than sure he'll make up for that with his skills.
Fukube: Aren't all the bridge staff novices?
Prospector: They may not be in a crew that will impress an ex-admiral of the UEFA, but they're all quite talented. Especially the operateor. She's so skilled that she can control even the Nadesico's special systems single-handedly.
Fukube: Hmm... So all that remains is the combat personnel? I only see one candidate.
Prospector: The Nanbara Connection has agreed to provide some to us in exchange for monetary assistance. We are also negotiating with the Photon Power Labs, and in addition, we've selected three Aestivalis pilots from our company's colonies. Their transfer is still in progress. We also have another pilot on her way to negotiate. She's ex-UEFA, and seeks to improve her abilities through combat on Mars.
Nanbara Connection is the home base of Combattler V, Photon Power Labs is the home base of the Mazinger army.
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Fukube: Mars, eh...?
Shift view to a hospital on the lunar surface...
Calvina: I figured I'd be talking with the guy who contaced me, but I guess I was mistaken. Are you the Prospector?
Prospector: Indeed. I'm expecting a favorable reply. That's why I'm here, after all! You'll be leaving the hospital tomarrow, correct? That must be very exciting.
Calvina: I appreciate your enuthusiasm, but... Even if you emply me, I'm not going to be of any use. That won't change no matter how many times you ask.
She seems a bit down, to say the least.
Prospector: This is most unexpected... Just so you know, I'm not going to take no for an answer. Let me be blunt, Ms. Coulange. Our company wants you to lend your prowess to the Nadesico, a new model warship.
Calvina: ......
Prospector: Of course, we've already investigated your background. Ex-Federation Space Force, 2nd Lieutenant... A star student at the academy, so much so that people began to call you the "White Lynx." After being sent to Mars' garrison during the first conflicts with the Jovian Lizards, you ran up against some... troubling circumstances. Due to injuries, you were sent back to Earth, before the imminent main battle. Shortly thereafter, you unexpectedly left the military and worked under contract at the Ash'ari-Kreutzer Corporation. One month later, the dome you were assigned to for testing purposes was attacked by Jovian Lizards and annihil-
I'm... not really sure what he thought rattling off her past was gonna do for his case.
Calvina: Enough! I've seen the media coverage, and I know they're claiming no survivors... How the hell did you know I was there?!
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We know you were working on a new weapons project, and that you were striving to ascertain the value of an experimental unit when the dome was attacked. A member of your officer's training class had his eye on your testing results, and through him we were able to find you. That is all we know. We were unable to secure any further details.
Calvina: ......
Prospector: In addition, all data concerning the incident was erased and the entire project destroyed. Doesn't it almost seem like someone in the Federation didn't want this one to be solved? They've gone so far as to claim the sole survivor of the incident wasn't even there... ... I wonder why they would do such a thing?
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You better have a real good answer, or they're gonna have to prep the emergency room to put that bespectacled visage of your back together...
Yowch.
Prospector: Ah, well... Forgive my lack of courtesy! You are quite right to be angry. That was just a chat that got... out of control. What we need is your high degree of skill, knowledge and experience in battle. We don't have any other important reasons for hiring you besides that. My sincerest apologies for the misunderstanding.
He may be kind've a jerk, but let nobody say the prospector doesn't have balls.
Calvina: Well, that's a shame. I'm in no shape to pilot anything right now. Hell, it looks like I'm gonna be in rehab for months.
Prospector: We are aware of your current state, but that won't be a problem with our new Image-Feedback System. Our company developed Aestivalis can-
Calvina:I have no intention of being altered for IFS-use, Mister Prospector.
Prospector: Hmm! That is an obstacle, indeed. May I ask you, then, how you intend to fight the Jovian Lizards?
Calvina: Couldn't care less about 'em. And with that... I looks like you're out of options. Time to give up.
Prospector: No, no! How about this one? We want you to join the crew as a combat advisor. You could work as an aide to the captain on mobile weapon use!
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Prospector: Because you are an ex-soldier with first-hand combat experience. We need people like you. Including a bonus... How does this salary sound?
Calvina: ......
Prospector: Something wrong? Oh, don't worry! It will all be tax exempt, of course.
Calvina: Fine. I agre to your terms. Besides, it's not like I have anywhere to go if I decline. I'll settle for anything. When's the departure?
Meanwhile, back in the lunar city harbor...
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battle's nearby is kind've an issue, but... What's the problem with being a coward?! Fact of the matter is, if I get scared, I get scared. It's not like I do it because I LIKE it. My body just-)
Yurika: ... But Jun, are you really okay with this? You were a Lieutenant in the UEFA! You gave that up just to be by my side?
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Yurika: Huh?
Jun: That's why, I... well, er...
Yurika: I see... All right, Jun! We're gonna be the best of comrades!
Jun: Yeah... Yeah.
Akito: Whoa!
Yurika: Oh, sorry! Are you all right?!
Akito: Ahh, well...
Yurika: Oh no, my luggage is all over the place!
Akito: Sorry. My fault. Let me help you out.
Yurika: Thank you very much! ...Hm? I know this may sound a little strange, but... ... Have we met before?
Akito: Uh, what?
Yurika: I just... get the feeling we've already met, somehow.
Akito: Couldn't say.
Jun: Yurika, we're gonna be late if we don't hurry!
Yurika: Right! Thanks a lot for the help. So, if you'll excuse me... All right Jun, let's go!
Jun: Ah! Wait, Yurikaaaa!
Akito: Hey, you dropped your picture! ...Too late, she's gone. Hmm? What's this photo? ...Wait a sec, that's me! Why am I in there? Oh, I get it now. We really HAVE met before! Yeah... I know you, Yurika Misumaru. Argh, I can't let this go! I have to be sure it's her! Where did she run off to?!
Calvina: Seriously though, I never thought I was going to be in a place like this as soon as I left the hospital... Especially when you originally contacted me during my hospitalization.
Prospector: That's understandable. You'll be officially commissioned soon enough. Ah... Excuse me! What are you doing here? This is a restricted area!
Akito: I'm looking for my friend, Yurika Misumaru. Did she come through here?
Prospector: Oh, you're already registered. Mr. Akito Tenkawa... You're a survivor of the destroyed Martian Utopia Colony?!
Calvina: Unbelievable. How did you get back to Earth?
Akito:...I don't remember.
Prospector:*chuckle* You're a pilot, eh?
Akito: No, I'm a cook! And that's enough about me! Is Yurika here? I'm sure she and her father must know my parents died.
Prospector:I see... You've lived through some real hardships. Indeed, she's here. If it's all right with you, can we employ you as a cook? You'll be able to talk to her whenever you wish, that way.
Akito: Huh? Well, er... since I don't have a job yet, I guess I could-
Prospector:That settles it, then. From now on, you're the Nadesico's cook. Be sure to give it your all!
Akito enters the nadesico's hanger...
Akito:She always did love to roam... I wonder where she is now?
Gai: Let's go, Gekiganger! Hyaaahh! Take this! Final blow! GEKIGAN BLAAAAAAAADE!
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Gai:Heh, it's me! I'm Gai! This super robot - Gekiganger's - main pilot... Gai Daigoji! Nice to meet you, Professor!
Akito:(Gekiganger... Boy, that brings back memories.)
Uribatake: Who the hell's this "Professor"?! And how can you be the main pilot in a one-seat unit?! And it isn't "Gekiganger" it's "Aestivalis"! Stop giving it weirrd names like that!
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... You're a little early don't you think?
Gai:Daaahahahahaha! No way! I've been looking forward to this my whole damn life! I'm already one step ahead of you guys! Yeahhhhhhh! KABLAM! KABLOOIE!
... Daaahahahahaha?
Uribatake: What's this guy's problem? Hmm? Wait a second! It says the pilot is Jiro Yamada... This doofus isn't even the actual pilot?!
Gai:T-That's just my given name! Gai Daigoji is my SOUL'S name! The real one! Come on, you evil Jupiterians! Gai Daigoji ain't gonna let you have your way with Earth! Awwww yeah! Hahahaha! I'm so awesome, it hurts!
Akito: What're the "Jupiterians"?
Uribitake: Who knows? Nobody's ever seen 'em. The Jovian Lizards send automated robotic weapons exclusively, and those don't really count as living, so-
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Uribatake: I'm Chief Mechanic Seiya Uribatake. Nice to meetcha, cook. Hope you make some good grub! Anyway... Hey, you! Give it a break already, willya?
Uribatake's a pretty chill guy. I like him.
Gai: Hahaha, this is gonna be a special treat, just for you guys! Gai Daigoji's Ultra Super Giga Final Blow Technique! The people call it... GAI! SUPER UPPERRRR!
Uribatake: Hey, cut it out, you moron! Whoaaa!
Scene shift to the bridge.
Minato: Well, well... Looks like they're causing quite a stir in the hangar.
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Uribatake calls up to the bridge.
Uribatake: Sorry to be the one to tell you this, but that dumbass got himself a broken leg overturning the Aestivalis. Could we get someone over here to provide medical attention, please?
Minato: A broken leg? Now that you mention it, isn't he the only available pilot right now? What in the world was he thinking?
Fukube: ......
Gai: Aarrghhhh! It huuuuuurrrrts! ...Hey, kiddo... please... can you bring me my... Treasure?!
Akito: Your TREASURE? Don't tell me it's that Gekiganger doll?!
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Something of note, remember when "baka" was that one word that everyone that wanted to know japanese, that didn't know japanese, was saying? Ruri is pretty much the reason for that. her catchphrase, more or less, in nadesico, was "Idiot" which as most internet folk now know is "Baka" in japanese. Internet history! Would you believe I picked this up from wikipedia rather then watching the actual shows? Because I did.
Prospector: Hmm, it appears we have the bridge crew fully assembled. Ms. Coulange, this is the Nadesico's bridge. Have you all finished introducing yourselves?
Minato: Not at all.
Prospector: Then allow me to introduce you to one more person. This is the commanding officer, Adm. Fukube.
Fukube: Yes, ahem... Even if you're only an observer, we're still counting on you.
Calvina: (Adm. Fukube? The same one from the climactic battle on mars...?)
Prospector: Former private secretary, now main helmsman: Ms. Minato Haruka.
Minato: Nice to meet you!
Prospector: This is our communications operator, Ms. Megumi Reinard. She's a former voice actress.
Megumi: Pleased to make your acquaintance!
Prospector: This is the ship computer's operator, Ms. Ruri Hoshino.
Ruri: Nice to meet you.
Megumi: Wow, you're the girl who runs the ship's computer?!
Ruri: Seems that way, yes.
Minato: *laughs* You're an amazing girl, aren't you?
Prospector: When it comes to Image Feedback-based electronic devices, she's a genius. Since the Nadesico's main system was heavily designed for IFS use, she's the best one available... And this is our combat advisor, ex-UEFA 2nd Lt. Calvina Coulange.
Calvina Not that I have a rank anymore. Nice to meet you guys. I've heard you're all the best at what you do. I'm sure you'll do fine.
Minato: Huh. You mean we're going to be able to do something after all?
Prospector: Yes, all of the bridge crew are experts in their respective fields, and our Captain takes pride in having never lost a simulated battle in the Earth Federation Academy.
Calvina: They're the elite, then... I wonder what a captain like that would be doing out here? ... Hell, where IS the captain?
Prospector: Hm, that is strange... They should've arrived by now.
Yurika: Ah, here it is! Look, Jun! That's the bridge!
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V!
Jun: H-Hold on, Yurika!
Yurika: I'm sure to capture their hearts like this!
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Huh.
Minato: ......
Megumi: ......
Calvina: Guess that's why she isn't working for the UEFA...
Ruri: ...More idiots?
Jun: Ah, well, I... I'm her second-in-command, Jun Aoi. Pleased to meet you, everyone!
Prospector: Huh... Well, I know this may be a bit abrupt, but we have to talk about the ship's utilization rules and...
An alarm sounds off.
Calvina: An alarm?
Ruri: Jovian mobile weapons are engaging the UEFA forces directly above us.
Fukube: How's the Federation doing?
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An explosion rocks the ship.
Jun: T-They're attacking us?!
Fukube:That means they aren't after military installations exclusively. Make no mistake, their target is the Nadesico. What do you make of this, Captain?
Yurika: Mr. Prospector, are all crew members onboard?
Prospector: Most of the crew have boarded, yes... Wait. Captain, don't tell me you're going to engage the enemy?!
Another explosion rocks the ship.
Fukube: She's right. If we sit here, we're going to be destroyed. What do you intend to do, captain?
Yurika:If we go out through the tunnel above us, they're going to shoot us down... ... We'll have to use the underground gate to exit from the Lunar City. If we can get out through the 3rd gate, we'll surface behind the enemy!
Jun:That's too reckless, Yurika. This port isn't military! The only exit big enough to allow a ship to depart are those docks!
Ruri: The 3rd gate's size is adequate. It will not be easy, however. We'll have to maintain an excellent balance ration while moving... We don't want to damage the area, after all.
Yurika: Okay! I figure it'll take us about 10 minutes, but I have no idea how we're going to keep them at bay for that long, so...
Gai: That's my cue! Gai Daigoji'll keep the enemy outta here, no problem! Gahhhh! My burning passion...!
Uribatake: It's burning, all right... You can thank your newly broken leg for that.
Ruri:A decoy's already launched. It's an Aestivalis, using the upward elevator to the docks.
Megumi: Open a comm channel!
Akito: I'm sick of getting involved in things! I'm a cook! I don't want to die in a horrible place like this!
Calvina: (Isn't that the cook from before?)
Fukube:You... What's your name and designation?
Akito:Huh?! W-Well, I'm Akito Tenkawa, cook.
Jun:Yurika, he's...
Yurika:...The boy from earlier? Akito... Tenkawa?
Prospector:He came from Mars. I contracted him to work here earlier today.
Gai:Why's the cook in my Gekiganger?!
Calvina:A person under your circumstances shouldn't be mouthing off so much. Can you handle this, Akito Tenkawa?
Akito:Handle what?
Yurika:Akito... Akito... Oh! Hooray! Akito, it's been so long since I last saw you!
Akito: Huh? Me?
Yurika:Yes, you! Why'd you pretend not to know me though? Oh, I know!I bet you're still as shy as ever!
Akito: W-What the heck? What are you doing on the bridge?!
Prospector: She's the Nadesico's Captain.
Akito: Huhhhhhhh?!
Yurika: Yup, that's me! *giggle*
Jun: Hey, Yurika... Who is he?
Yurika: He's my Prince! He always comes to my rescue when I'm in trouble!
Akito: Hey, hold on a sec-!
Yurika: Akito, you can't be a decoy. It's too dangerous! I understand, though. You've made up your mind. A woman's selfishness is nothing compared to your resolve!
Akito:W-wait! Did you say "decoy"?!
Calvina: ...Wasn't that what you wanted to do?
Akito: Of course not! ...Wait a second... What decoy?!
Yurika: Don't worry, Akito, I understand! We on the Nadesico leave our lives in your hands. Be sure to come back in one piece okay?
Akito: Hey, waaaaaait!
Ruri:The elevator has reached the lunar surface.
Megumi:Hang in there!
Gai:Gimme back my gekiganger!
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Calvina: *groan* Akito Tenkawa, can you hear me? This is the ship's combat advisor, Calvina Coulange. The Nadesico's surface ETA is 10 minutes. During that time, try to keep the enemy away from the docks. Oh, and one more thing... ...Good luck.
Tomarrow, the actual combat!
Post by: UltraValican on April 01, 2012, 03:23:51 pm
MY BODY IS READY
Post by: Seriyu on April 01, 2012, 04:12:29 pm
Post by: Furtuka on April 01, 2012, 04:17:31 pm
Post by: Seriyu on April 01, 2012, 06:23:34 pm
Gundam seed 2
Tekkaman 2
Mazinger 3
brainpowerd 1
G gundam 3
Originals 2
As a fan of G Gundam, I approve greatly.
Post by: warhammer651 on April 01, 2012, 07:10:00 pm
Post by: Seriyu on April 01, 2012, 07:33:22 pm
Akito: There's no way in hell I can run for 10 minutes straight! Good luck, my ass... Dammit, this sucks!
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Alright, starting up the mission. First thing you'll note is we have a single unit vs six or so. You'd think this would be an issue, but it's actually not too bad as even the weakest units in super robot wars tend to outclass grunts by a wide margin. The single unit we have in our command right now, is a single Aestivalis, piloted by our good friend Akito, in a Zero G frame. I'll explain frames later when we have a reason to use more then one of them. The Aestivalis is a Real Robot, and as such dodges very well, doesn't take hits so well. We're currently in range of all six enemy units...
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As seen here. None of them are on any beneficial terrain so any of them are fine to go after.
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So, I move up and attack the top one on the left, Opening the weapon menu. The GUI is fairly self explantory, higher numbers are better, range is measured in tiles, as you'd expect. The circled P stands for Post Movement, you can use these weapons after moving. All of the aestivalises weapons have this quality, this is AWESOME. A big issue with using long range units, for me at least, is making sure I'm... actually in range by the time my next turn comes around. (Long range weapons, while there are exceptions, do not tend to be post movement) The circled C is a combo weapon, and Akito doesn't have the skills to use a combo weapon, so we'll leave it alone for now and explain it later.
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So, here's the Attack confirmation menu, the enemy has a 57% chance to hit me, I've got a 100% chance to hit him. This... isn't good, half a chance to get hit when three hits tops will do my only unit in can be an issue. Luckily, there's a way to circumvent this stuff.
Spirit Commands! These things are abilities that every pilot has, and what generally sets them apart. Most pilots start with two, and earn up to six as they level. As you can see below, Akito has one. He's not a combat pilot I guess, so it makes sense. You kind've feel bad for the guy after a while, really.
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Luckily, he has the one I'm interested in. Focus, as it says, increases hit rate and evasion by 30%, and uses 15 SP. Akito has 60, so he's got four uses... I'd prefer to avoid using it if I can, but I'm kind've frugal. That'd bring the enemy's hit rate down to about 20%, which I'm... much happier with. Still not entirely happy with it, and I don't want to tempt the random number gods with only one unit. What do you do? Well....
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We can move down to the lunar city. As you can see here, it raises our defense, in the case we get hit, by 30%. That's a huge boon for a real robot. It also raises our evasion by... not 30% at ALL, but it does help a little bit, and restores 20% of our HP and Energy a turn. Very nice terrain, and this will pretty much seal the first mission on it's own. So I move Akito onto it, and end the turn. Note you have to be on the ground for terrain effects to take place, obviously.
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Our enemies get their turn, and move towards Akito to attack him. However we only have a 49% chance to dodge because I assumed the terrain bonus would be enough for defensive purposes. Luckily there's a THIRD way to fix this.
Evasion! It cuts the enemy's hit rate in half, bringing it from 50% to 25%, thereabouts. No screenshot because it changed a single word on it, where the weapon name was, there is now "Evade".
Akito: Dammit! God, just give me a break already!
Poor fella. Signed up for cooking and is now being shot at by aliens.
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But wait! I've forgotten a third factor. Barriers! The Aestivalises (and the Nadesico) have a built in barrier called "The Distortion Field"(that you can't see because it flickers and I got a bad frame), It uses some energy when it activates, and cuts damage, in this case, it's reduced damage to zero which is why the Aesti doesn't seem particularly distressed that it's being shot at. Aesti's are... pretty good real robots, with their barriers, decent strength attacks, and evasion. However there's another gimmick to them that isn't currently in play here that kind've messes with them a bit. We'll get to that in the next mission. Anyway, I have Akito counterattack the only other Batta that attacks him, and he comes out of it with no damage thanks to the Distortion field.
So we've survived the first turn, and have a bunch of enemies in range, and frankly are in a pretty good position. I'll use Focus, Because we're obviously not getting anywhere if we keep dodging, and if the distortion field keeps activating we WILL eventually run out of energy, and then we're in a bad position. (We don't have to kill all the enemies to win this mission, but the experience is still nice) Akito attacks the leftmost batta in range with the Rapid Rifle.
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It does about 2100 damage, which is about 2/3rd's of the Batta's health, it counters, and misses.
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Enemy phase 2 happens, and there's more dialogue.
Gai: Oh, my beloved Gekiganger... I knew it, the cook can't fight!
Uribatake: Keep your leg still, doofus!
Prosector: He's doing the best he can. What do you think, Calvina?
Calvina: He seems to be doing fine. For a decoy, anyway...
Ruri: Doc pressurization secured. Opening subterranean gate.
Minato: Engines working fine.
Yurika: Nadesico, take off!
Ruri: Nadesico, taking off!
Redundant Dialogue! I love these games, but the amount of dialogue is massive and stuff like this isn't doing it any favors.
And, the attacks on Akito continue. Focus ensures we're pretty safe, so I'll just leave you with a few more screenshots.
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Annnd another ability activates. But this isn't exclusive to the Aestivalis! It's called counter cut, and it's occasionally used against any attacks that can be "cut" so basically anything but beam, or beam analogue weaponry, It will also only activate if the defending unit has a sword of some description, and the counter cut ability. The Aesti in this case has a knife. In this case Akito is cutting missles out of the sky before they hit them. Pretty badass for a cook.
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And akito takes down his first unit! Hoorayyyyyyyyy, this results in getting a bit of cash and increased experience. (Normal, non "death" actions result in about 10 exp and no money.)
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Akito: Heh... Heheh! Somehow, I survived...
Atta boy.
Another batta attacks Akito.
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Damn, akito's getting fancy today. This is shoot down, which is similar to counter cut, except it only works on missles. You can't very well shoot down a sword right? Unless it was being thrown I guess. But regardless, it only works on missles, will only function if the defending unit has a gun on him and has the shoot down ability. Functions otherwise identical to countercut.
Akito takes down a second batta. Four more to go, and 8 turns left to hold out. I think we're gonna finish all the enemies before even half the time limit is up at this rate. And wouldja look at this!
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Akito's got enough willpower (earned through various actions depending on pilot, I think Akito gets his from dodging attacks, and otherwise avoiding harm, and loses some when he takes a hit. Considering he's in an aestivalis, this is a good set of "will gains". Also everyone enjoys it when an enemy unit is shot down obviously and gains will from it.) to use his best solo attack! Gekigan flare! Judging by that attack rating it'll take out a unit in one shot. Let's take a look...
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KAPOW! I was right, we can clean house now.
Akito: Great! It's just like the Gekigan Punch! As long as I have that, I can do this!
I actually really like Akito when he's not freaking out over things. Which is... less often then it should be.
Another enemy phase, we've cut the enemy forces in half now. I just figured I'd mention Akito has gotten like, four "reaction" abilities (counter cut, shoot down) in two turns and I don't think I've ever seen that happen on a single unit. Things are going well I think!
Ruri: 2nd enemy wave, incoming.
Damnit.
Akito: Enemy reinforcements?! Dammit, nobody told me anything about that!
You're... in the wrong game if you don't like reinforcements kiddo.
Megumi: I wonder if he'll be all right...
Calvina: We can't help it. He's piloting that unit just fine, and he's a cook on top of that.
A little mean, sure, but we have to ask him to continue fighting.
Gai: Go, cook! Send 'em flying with the Gekigan Flare!
Calvina: I wonder, though. He might be better then the real pilot.
Yurika: Akito, do your best! For my sake!
Ruri: Unidentified heat-sources approaching at high speed.
Ffffffffff-
Prospector: It's about time they arrived.
Yurika: Oh? Are they someone you know?
Prospector: Yes. They're the reinforcements from the Outer Space Development Group and the Nanbara Connection.
fffabulous!
Gai: The Nanbara Connection?! Hooooly cow, don't tell me they sent their Ultimate 5-Part Combination Robo?!
Prospector: Yes, that's the one.
Gai: Whooooaa, for real?! This is TOO COOL. Still, that damn cook is really getting the juicy part of this deal... Lemme head out there too!
Ruri: Be quiet, Mr. Yamada.
Yurika: Let's hurry to the 3rd gate, everyone!
Combattler V appears! A super robot, with admittantly kind've thin armor for something with no evasion, but it packs a punch and will be more then enough for this.
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Daisaku: Any sign of the Federation, Hyoma?
Juzo: You gotta be kidding me. We've just arrived, and there's already a battle going on? I don't remember signing up for this crap...
Chizuru: Yeah, this is unexpected.
Now's a good time to mention, combattler V has five pilots. Daisaku, Juzo, Chizuru, they're all combattler pilots. Hyoma is another, and the main pilot. This means his stats are what goes into evasion/defense/attack calculations. The other four pilots serve as spirit command batteries, and unique spirit command lists. This is the main reason combattler is good. Spirit commands never "age", they're all flat boosts to performance, so this is nice regardless of your progression through the game.
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Noal: Aki, shouldn't Nergal's docks be around here?
Aki: There's no mistake. We're in the right place. Looks like the enemy's attacking the dock...
Noal: Damn! If things get too crazy, we're bailing.
Thanks.
Noal: That Nadesico warship we were gonna board was probably destroyed, anyway.
THANKS.
Aki: Noal, this is a mission. Stop being so pessimistic.
Noal: My motto is "Always prepare for the worst." Hey, you guys! What're you doing here?
The reinforcements from the outer space development group. Not nearly as good as combattler, but it has a special bonus, which is it can repair friendly units, and with it's high move speed and evasion, is very good at doing so. Weapons aren't really that great, but repairing gives plenty of exp, so it's not an issue usually. Also a two seater, Aki is the second pilot.
Hyoma: Same as you! Combattler was developed to fight invaders from outer space. There's no way we're just gonna watch
the Jovian Lizards trash the place! If you get the picture, then let's go!
That's the spirit!
Noal: Oooh! They theink they're hot stuff, do they?
Noal is not one to be outdone, apparently.
Noal: So, Aki? Should we just leave matters to the boys and girls here and-
Nevermind.
Aki: Noal.
Noal: All right, fine. We'll assist. I'm really not looking forward to the verbal beating the Chief's gonna give us though!
Akito: What are you guys?! You aren't... Jovian Lizards, right?
Kosuke: Look over there, everyone. That's a mobile weapon developed by Nergal: the Aestivalis. Yes, there's no question... The data indicates it's affiliated with the Nadesico.
Hyoma: It's the Nadesico's, huh? Hey, you're right Kosuke!
Kosuke is the last pilot of the Combattler, as a note.
Noal: Fair enough. Aki, open a channel that Aesti... whatever it is.
Aki: Roger.
Noal: Hey, Nergal guy! Can you hear us? This is the Blue Earth, of the Outer Space Development Group. You all right? How are your friends?
Akito: What? Who the hell are you guys?!
Aki: We're here to assist the Nadesico.
Chizuru: Same here. Are you a crew member? Tell us what happened!
Akito: You're allies, then? The Nadesico is all right... I think. I decided to remain out here in Order to buy them time to escape. If you're friendlies, then please, help me!
Hyoma: Whaddaya mean, "Remained"?
It's... it's basic english, Hyoma.
Juzo: Talk about brave and miserable. Guess he's a pilot from the Nadesico...
Akito: I'm the cook!
Naol: You're the COOK?! What the hell're you doing out here, then?!
Aki: Noal, this isn't the time to discuss this.
Daisaku: Hey, it's fine. Just leave em to us!
Akito: I'm saved...
And we finally return to combat. Let's show off the combattler and blue earth, huh? Combattler first...
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There's also one more page, with an attack called "Super EM spin, it's best attack. Requires 130 will though, which I'm fairly sure we will not be reaching in this fight. Another common theme of super robots is they tend to use energy, instead of ammo. This can be a problem in protracted battles, and is particularly evident with the Mazinger Army, who are not currently present, as they don't have a lot of "free" attacks. Also note, it has no chance to dodge. If I evaded, it may STILL not have a chance to dodge, as accuracy can overflow. Luckily, defend is an action similar to evade, it halves damage, doesn't hurt evasion rate in the slightest. Perfect for super robots and battleships.
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For anyone new to this watching, the face emerging on the right is called a cut in, and is what I'll be referring to them as in the future.
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Did about 2500 damage.
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I'm gettin lucky today.
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Now, that left the batta with like, 500 HP. now, I could use rapid rifle, and use ammo for it, or Gekigan flare and use precious energy, but the attack "immediate knife" uses no ammo or energy, at the cost of being very short range, one tile. So we'll be doing that. Managing energy and ammo supplies like this is a key to keeping long missions from being drug out, even here, in one of the easier SRW titles.
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I always thought the immediate knife animation was pretty nasty looking. What you don't get in screenshots (videos for animations will be posted in the second post, don't worry folks.) is that the aesti spends several seconds grinding the knife into the other guy. Yeesh.
Now for blue earth.
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Yeah. If combattler actually got hit, I'd be repairing him with blue earth, buuuut here we are. Note that being a... space plane? It can't land on the ground, and as such can't gain terrain bonuses. It has a 70% chance of being hit, and neither of them have evasion raising spirit commands yet. Sooooo it's using the "Accel" spirit command (raises movement rate by 3), and healing akito's like, 800 damage.
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Both pilots got 56 exp for that. It's no kill, but much better then a normal attack's value.
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Big Blast is an oddity among super robot attacks in that it has ammo, 3 shots. It's a pretty nice attack with no will requirement and huge range, so I'm not complaining. It one shots the batta. Very nice. You'll also note a basic missle attack did 1000 damage to combattler. That's .... not very good for a super robot, but it's not the end of the world. Keep a repair unit like blue earth around combattler if you intend to use it.
Combattler runs out of big blast ammo and the enemy happily runs up to him to get in range of twin lancer. Very polite of them.
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Another one shot kill. Super robots WRECK grunts, so you may be wondering why I said they're weak to them? The answer is they will whittle down a super robot, if it's taking five attacks a turn, and they will eventually stop one shotting grunts, they're gonna be dead in no time. Their accuracy will also start suffering against grunts due to the size system (more about this in a later update). It's not a problem if you keep an eye on their HP and energy, but be aware that in a pinch, real robots are much better at dodging grunt attacks, and as such keeping the super robots safe. As proof, take a look at combattler's HP after this turn.
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He defended like, half of those attacks, he took like 7. This is the first mission. Yeah. It would've helped a ton if I'd landed him on the lunar base, to be fair, but I didn't think to. Also worth noting, those same units would've likely killed akito 3-4 times over, so they're still definatly very sturdy, but don't think they're invincible.
V laser is the weakest attack of combattler, and uses energy. It is rarely worth actually using, since Super EM Yo-Yo is only one block shorter in range and uses no energy. So let's take a look at it NOW! Because it probably won't be coming back.
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More stuff explodes, Blue earth repairs combattler, Combattler lands on the base, Akito keeps trashin jerks with gekigan flare. Of note is that akito is down to 30 energy. Another flare and he's gonna be limited to his rifle and knife. This isn't a huge deal because the mission's about over. In fact the rest of it is pretty much robots one shotting mooks and the blue earth fixing up combattler. But still one last thing to go over- Resupply. Similar to repair, but it restores all of a unit's EN. Useful right? Naturally it has a cost. It costs the unit being restored ten will. Will effects stats as well as attacks, a unit at 150 will (the cap for most, and all units in this game), will have 1.5x their normal stats. Below 100 and they start taking penalties. The will hit can be a problem sometimes. Also resupply is not post movement, so a unit has to go to the blue earth to resupply. We're down to one last batta, let's finish this up!
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Victory.
OR IS IT
Akito: More reinforcements?! Dammit!
Noal: Enough with the attitude, kid! ... Damn, they're not letting up. Hey, how much time do we need to buy?!
Akito: A couple more minutes, still...
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The nadesico finally escapes the dock safe and sound.
Akito: Sorry for the wait? B-but it isn't even time yet!
Poor Akito is quite frazzled by all this business.
Yurika: Yes! I hurried for your sake!
D'awww.
Ruri: Enemy weapons are within firing range.
Yurika: Blow them to bits! Target all enemies! Gravity Blast,FIRE!
Yusssssss, that's what I like to hear.
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Takes care of that third wave! (The gravity blast is also flickery and as a result is invisible in BOTH of these screenshots. Bleh. Kind've a black, glassy looking laser beam) Battleships are in their own class, VERY heavy armor, less evasion then a super robot, very powerful, long range attacks, and on top of all this, units can dock inside of them for repairs/energy over time. This uses 10 will per turn though for the one in the battleship, so make sure you don't do it too much. What's the downside? If a battleship goes down, game over. Also they have the highest targeting priority to enemies, so if a battleship is in range, everything is gonna jump on it. They have the armor to handle this for a while, and usually several pilots, so no lack of SP and defensive skills, so they can keep this up, but again, don't think they're invincible.
Aki: Unbelievable...
Noal: Whao! That was crazy!
Hyoma: That's the Nadesico, huh?
Mission officially ends, on to the post mission dialogue! I'll be right back with that.
Final note, YOU HAVE ANOTHER HOUR OR TWO TO VOTE! WHEN THIS NEXT UPDATE GOES UP, I WILL GO BACK AND PICK FAVORITES FINALLY!IF YOU WANT YOUR VOTE, GET IT IN NOW!
Post by: warhammer651 on April 01, 2012, 07:46:32 pm
Quote
irregardless
*eye twitch*
Post by: Seriyu on April 01, 2012, 07:51:39 pm
EDIT: Fixed.
Post by: Seriyu on April 01, 2012, 08:05:29 pm
Ruri: Enemy mobile units: zero. The UEFA forces and dock suffered serious damage, but no harm came to our allied units or the Lunar City.
Calvina:Nothing serious, it sounds like.
Minato: Well, isn't that lovely? Nice one, Captain!
Fukube: Indeed. Well done.
Prospector: Impressive. Personnel from Blue Earth and Combattler, you have my thanks. We're glad to have your cooperation. Captain, tell them th-
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Prospector: Er, Captain?
Akito: D-Don't misunderstand me! It's not like I came here just to help! I merely wanted to see you and-
Yurika:Huh?! You wanted to see me?!
Akito: Well, not oriignally! It's just that I saw this picture, and-
Yurika: You came all this way to return it? Enough, Akito... I'm already in tears!
Akito: Will you s top interrupting me?! I just wanted to-
Yurika: Confess? Become my steadfast companion? Or maybe even... marry me?!
Aren't those last two kind've similar, if not the same?
Akito:No!
Juzo: What the hell's going on over there?
Hyoma: Hey, what about us?! Did you ever stop to consider that we might be tired from the battle? Hurry up and give us the order to land!
Calvina: Seems the Captain's busy right now. Think I should give them permission?
Minato: Perhaps.
Minato doesn't seem very decisive.
Ruri:Opening the hatch.
Megumi:Everybody, can you hear me? Crew members, clear the deck for landing!
Hyoma: Man, how long were you gonna keep us out there?! We go through all that trouble to get Combattler to the moon, and not only do we have to save your butts, but we only get thanks from that short, mustachioed geezer over there!
Chizuru:Watch it, Hyoma!
Juzo: Enough of this crap, you guys. I don't want to be seen together with you any more than
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Hyoma: Why the heck're you always getting on my case, Juzo?!
Chizuru:Hey, that's enough bickering, you two!
Noal: I'm beginning to have second thoughts, here. Do we really have to work with these kids, Aki? Is it too late to reconsider?
Aki:M-Maybe... That's not the point. We can't turn back, Noal. Did you forget our mission?
Wow, even Aki's second guessing this.
Noal:Rorger that. Man, why do I get the feeling we're gonna be stuck in this mess 'til the end?
Megumi:Um, we can hear you...
Noal:Whoops! Sorry 'bout that. It was a joke. A joke! Hey, don't give me that look! Let's land this thing, Aki.
Akito:But I...!
Yurika:Yes, yes! Akito, I understand exactly how you feel! You love me so much! With all your heart! Foreverrrrrr!
Gai:Oh, and gimme back my Gekiganger!
Akito: Will you LISTEN TO ME?!
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I love that line.
Minato: Really? I bet it's going to be pretty interesting!
Calvina: Whatever...
Ruri: Idiots...
MEANWHILE, AT NERGAL HQ...[/i]
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Let's begin.
Shadowy figure (top): To be frank, our current situation is... delicate. As for the matter at hand, the Atlantic Federation is always ready to act at a moment's notice. Of course, that means they're going to behave as if they were acting for the entire Federation, but...
Shadowy figure (bottom):My, what troublesome people. Those idealists striving "for the preservation of our blue and pure world" are merely jealous about their lot as incomplete humans. It almost calls to mind the discrimination of centuries ago.
Shadowy figure (top):But we can't disregard their acts. Even for an extremist organization, they have roots in the top ranks of the military, government, and economic sectors of each and every nation. If they re-focus their actions against PLANT, then...
Shadowy figure (bottom):Enough speculation. I don't even want to think about that possibility right now. It's been half a year since the first battle on mars. Soon, Project Schiaparelli will bear it's fruit. Our
priority right now is launching our fully independant investigation team to Mars. It'd be even better if we pulled out before everything starts, actually.
Shadowy figure (top):The Jovian Lizard attack was outside our predictions, unfortunately. Now that the Federation has seen its power, I doubt they're going to ignore the ship.
Shadowy figure (bottom): They'll be able to fulfil our expectations, regardless. They may have charecter problems, but each crew member is the best in their field. Hmm. For now, let's just sit back and wait to see how things develop, shall we?
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WWOOOAAAHHHH WHAT'S ALL THIS AAAA YOU'LL KNOW IN A DAY OR TWO AAAAAAAAAAAA no I'm not LPing puzzle robo. I might link some videos.
Now off to get the second post set up.
Post by: Seriyu on April 01, 2012, 08:42:40 pm
Also, the results of favorites
Gundam seed 2
Tekkaman 2
Mazinger 3
brainpowerd 1
G gundam 3
Originals 2
Three way tie for third place, I'll go ahead and say gundam seed since I haven't favorited them yet.
SO
Mazinger
G Gundam
Gundam Seed
Post by: Seriyu on April 02, 2012, 04:53:12 pm
With that said, does anyone have any criticisms you'd like me to improve on? Talking too much? Not talking enough? (pfffaaahaahaahah) Issues with how screenshots/dialogue is handled?
Lemme know! The story takes a little bit to get into the whole "six plotlines from seperate shows at the same time" stage, but it's coming.
Post by: Furtuka on April 02, 2012, 05:20:04 pm
Post by: Seriyu on April 02, 2012, 05:35:50 pm
Because you're right, a lot of the dialogue is fairly nice, interactions between the series and whatnot, and frankly just summarizing it has proven to be less work then I thought, so...
I think I'll give transcribing the entirety of the first mission dialogue, since I'm going through it again to pick favorites anyway (and replace the current posts with it, obviously), and see how that goes. This might result in slower updates, but frankly I feel I've been updating pretty quick anyway so that's probably not a huge loss. :P
Post by: EuchreJack on April 02, 2012, 05:51:31 pm
I'm really curious and excided to hear about unit updating (which I assume is where you left off). :D
Post by: Seriyu on April 02, 2012, 06:02:21 pm
And I can do that too. That actually ends up with less work (read, uploading fifteen screenshots and fiddling with image tags) for me, so I'm happy to do that. I.. think I'm gonna transcribe more of the text anyway, and maybe just summarize the fluff, though. I'm really happy with how the battle stuff turned out text/dialogue wise.
Nontheless if anyone feels differently about how I should present the pre and post mission dialogue/battles let me know! I'd like to get this nailed down as soon as possible, and after all you're the guy's reading this stuff in the end.
EDIT: Incidentally I'm about to upload a "pure transcribing" example in the third post, first story segment. Take a look if you like!
Post by: Furtuka on April 02, 2012, 06:03:36 pm
Post by: Seriyu on April 02, 2012, 06:26:45 pm
It... doesn't lower the screenshot frequency PERSAY, but it does result in you being able to read the update irregardless of if the images have loaded.
Post by: Seriyu on April 02, 2012, 09:29:08 pm
Post by: Seriyu on April 03, 2012, 06:38:23 pm
Annnnnd we're baaaaack.
I'll just go down the list here.
Pilot stats - Just take a look at pilots stats. Let's take a look at Hyoma's stats.
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Fairly standard stats for a super, although defense is a bit low, as we covered. As a side note, stat defense does not effect the damage reduction from a barrier in any way. They are entirely seperate, IE, it applies the defense of the unit, then applies the barrier reduction. On his second page, however, we have a special skill. "Potential Lv3". Potential is a VERY good skill for ANY pilot, and super robots tend to get it more then real robots what with the burning passion and whatnot. What it does is it raises all of your defensive stats and critical rate when your HP is low. If you get lucky and hit like 20 HP, this can get pretty amazing. Higher level is better, AND, since this is a natural skill, it will level up with the pilot. Pretty spiffy. Let's move on.
[Pilot Training]
Pilot training - Add points to the pilots stats. I'm fairly sure a level bumps up all the stats by a fairly hefty margin, but I've never actually looked. Let's take a look. Hyoma got 2 levels, so he has 2 points, akito has 1, so he gets one. Basic.
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I won't be adding any stats right now. You'll know why at the end of the post!
[module screenie]
Modules - Modules are in essence equips for pilots. Usually raise stats, occasionally give a rank in a specific skill. Can be handy. Do note a skill gained via module will not level up naturally.
Transfer - Here's where things get interesting. You can swap some pilots around to different robots. Unfortunatly this is not one of the game where you can switch a pilot to a robot out of their series. So only Switching people inter series. Still has some interesting possibilities. There are more limitations, like only pilots with IFS being able to pilot aestivalises.
Unit stats - same as pilot stats, but with robots! How bout that. Let's look at akito's aestivalis.
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(The 4 aesties here are all 4 of it's frames. We'll look at the space frame.)
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Terrain is general performance on that terrain. A is Air, G is Ground, W is Water, S is Space. The 0G frame does well in water and space. A B rank in a terrain isn't the end of the world, a C rank implies much lower movement speed, lowered hit/dodge rates, and general terrible things. Most units have a C rank in water, so, keep them out of the water. S ranks implied upgrade movement speed in that area, increased rates, and general good things! They do not occur naturally, but we'll get to that later. Mobility and armor do what you'd think. Movement same. SIZE! Size is interesting. An Aestivalis is S (Small). This means it gets hit rate bonuses against anything above small size, and damage penalties on anything above small size. Vice versa for anything below small size. For reference, Your average gundam is Medium sized, and a human is Extra Small (SS) Now, looking down. They also have abilities! (We'll get to parts later). Exchange is the capacity to be swapped out while loaded in a battleship with another unit that isn't currently on the field, not that any of our battleships have that ability yet. Distortion Field is the field we saw last mission, and G. Wave Antenna will be easier to explain next mission. Onwards! To the interesting part.
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UPGRADES! The main way our units are going to stay competitive as the enemies scale up! EN is the cheapest to upgrade, starting at 1000 a pop, and ending at 6000, which is good because the majority of units use EN for SOMETHING at least. (IE, first pip costs 1000, last pip costs 6000). Most expensive is mobility, starting at 5000, ending at a whopping 30 thousand. I'd say these are all fair values, as any unit with good mobility is in essence invisible because they haven't invented aim correction in these games yet. (A little reference for the cool kids.) I will not be upgrading anything yet. You may know what your decisions are now! We'll get to that later. For now, math. The way stats work is this. Your total evasion rate is evasion stat x robot evasion value. So in this sense, if you've upgraded your robot a lot, a single point can make an enormous difference. This works similarly for armor, and weapons, multiplying defense value by armor value and melee/ranged value by the weapon power. Moving on.
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WEAPON UPGRADES! Same as the other upgrades, but for offense. You upgrade all of the weapons simultainiously, so this is fairly expensive, starting at 8000, and ending at an enormous 54000. As of now our weapons are doing perfectly fine, I see no reason to upgrade them. But you're in charge. (at the end of this post)
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Parts - Parts provide various bonuses like modules, except for robots. As of now we only have two consumable parts which are useless, and worth 5000 funds, which is way more then I value them at. I'll be selling them. Aside from that when we get parts and modules you'll be picking them too. ONWARD.
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Unit Variants - How you switch frames on aestivalises. There are more units that use this later, including the gundam seed units, but overall it's at a minimum, for the best really. The menu is a nightmare to navigate without sixty hojillion units that use it. The next mission is in space so I'll be keeping the 0G frame on. I'll detail the different frames as we use them.
Change BGM - Changes the BGM for some units into BGM's for other units. I feel most of the music in this game is pretty good, so I won't be using it, and it's fairly inconsequential for you given that this is a screenshot LP anyway.
Save Data - If you don't know what this is, you may not know what a video game is and I'm kind've wondering how you got here at B12 to begin with.
Sell Items - You can sell parts for cashes. The better the part, the more money. Standard. Ends up the value for the propellant tanks and such is only 500. STILL more then I value them at.
Reference - The in game glossary. Handy, but not really relevant to the person viewing obviously.
Weapon Names - We can name the weapons on our original mech. It is coming, don't worry. I'll show the names off later, in the process of .
Puzzle Robo - A little minigame kinda thing that gives you a specific layout of units at a specific health value, with hit rates always at 100%. It's neat, but I'm terrible at it. I play it anyway because it gives out cash and parts. (Gives out more consumable parts right now so.) A new one unlocks every stage that's completed.
Next Map - Move on to the next map.
And that's that. Now, tell me what to upgrade, and what stats to upgrade on the pilots.
Don't worry about overshooting our cash, although do try to get as close as possible obviously. We currently have 14300 cash, after selling those parts and doing puzzle robo. If you want to save it up for some reason, mention that. Everyone gets a vote, be as complex or as simple as you like. Here are the specific values for each pip. Cost is per pip, not total.
As Boksi brought up If you just wanna say "upgrade this guy, and that guy", that's fine too. If you wanna go in depth, feel free! Complexity is not required, but if you enjoy going in depth, go nuts!
HP
1st pip = 2000
2nd pip = 4000
Goes up by 2000 each pip.
EN
1st pip = 1000
2nd - 3rd = 2000
1st pip is 100, from there on every two pips it goes up by 1000.
Mobility
1st pip = 5000
2nd pip = 8000
3rd = 10000
4th = 13000
5th 15000
Every first pip goes up by 3000, second pip by 2000, 3rd by 3000, etc. Alternates.
Armor
1st pip = 3000
2nd pip = 8000
3rd = 8000
4th = 10000
5th = 15000
6th = 20000
7th = 25000
Increases linearly from there.
Weapons.... are all over the place, depending on how many weapons they have. Just ask to upgrade weapons, specify before or after normal upgrades and if possible I'll throw it in. I'd save a about 15 thousand even for just the initial upgrades.
Anyway. MAKE YOUR CHOICES!
If you want to see specific stats, values for anything really, lemme know who you want to see them for, pilot or robot. I'll be keeping an eye on this thread for said request. Also note, upgrades to any of akito's frames carry over to the other frames. You have until tomarrow when I start the update. GO
Post by: Boksi on April 03, 2012, 07:17:18 pm
And at this point, I don't think you even need to upgrade anything, so I'm not going to suggest anything.
Post by: Seriyu on April 03, 2012, 07:34:11 pm
I just put all the values up there just in case.
Post by: EuchreJack on April 03, 2012, 07:35:04 pm
But to be honest, the LP thus far leads me not to want to put any money into our current units. I'd like to save up for a truly good pilot/robot combo. What I'd like to know is what are will we have to use a lot.
That being said, could be see the info for the Nadesico and Yurika?
I'm sort of tempted to dump a lot of money on the cook. My desire to powergame matches my desire to prop up the underdog.
Post by: Seriyu on April 03, 2012, 07:44:55 pm
Yurika
Melee-93 Defense-95 Evade-90
Range-144 Ability-173 Hit-128
Annnd, she has the skill "Command" at level 1, which raises the stats of units within two tiles of her, which isn't really a big concern as far as upgrades go, as it doesn't depend on her stats at all, but I figured I'd get it out there anyway. :P
Annnnnd The Nadesico.
HP-13800 EN-280
Terrain ratings Air: A Space: A
Mobility:65 Armor:1200
It has a distortion field, same as the aesties, annnd it'll regen a small amount of it's energy per turn. However, most of it's weapons and the defensive field it uses all use energy. The gravity blast uses 40, and the MAP attack version (What it used at the end of the first chapter, basically an AOE) uses 60.
The field reminds me, I forgot to mention in the update, the damage reduction from any defensive fields is not effected by stats or lack thereof in any way. It applies the normal defense of the robot, then the barrier, entirely seperately from one another.
Post by: EuchreJack on April 03, 2012, 07:55:32 pm
Post by: Seriyu on April 03, 2012, 07:59:42 pm
EDIT: I'll be back in a bit, gotta do something. Stat retrievals and such will have to wait until I get back obviously.
Post by: Frumple on April 03, 2012, 08:05:39 pm
Never was particularly fond of the Aestivalises or Combattler, so I probably wouldn't suggest bothering with them much :P
I also completely forget if J lets you sink PP into piloting abilities or not. *goes and checks* Nope! Well then. No real suggestions for training, other than a general "Improve strengths, don't bother shoring up weaknesses" thing; i.e. Range/hit/defense/ability (in that order of preference, more or less) on Yurika. Except for hit, I guess. Anyone that doesn't have strike probably wants hit.
Post by: Seriyu on April 03, 2012, 09:27:02 pm
Really I don't really consider any units "bad" in this game, mostly due to the pretty simple difficulty, (Which is not to say there are not units that demolish the competition far greater then any other robot could hope to, my no!) aside from maybe boss borot, and even then you can definatly get him to a workable state, and his "secret bonus" is actually really nice given what he is.
For those of you that don't know who boss borot is, you're in for quite the surprise! :D
Annnd for anyone new to this, strike is a spirit command that sets a unit's hit rate to 100% for the entire turn. Very handy against bosses/on super robots/battleships.
I need a teacher emote.
Post by: EuchreJack on April 03, 2012, 11:39:47 pm
Post by: Frumple on April 03, 2012, 11:42:52 pm
These requests may not run counter to one another.
I've never actually used Borot for... anything. Not even to explode. In any of the SRWs I've played. Might be interesting!
Post by: EuchreJack on April 03, 2012, 11:58:13 pm
I vote for Borot to be self-destructed in every mission possible :P Keep a running tally!
These requests may not run counter to one another.
I've never actually used Borot for... anything. Not even to explode. In any of the SRWs I've played. Might be interesting!
I approve of this idea, and find it to match the idea of powering up Borot. Power up the boom-boom!
Post by: Seriyu on April 04, 2012, 12:02:01 am
Post by: Seriyu on April 04, 2012, 04:12:07 pm
Post by: Seriyu on April 04, 2012, 06:48:33 pm
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The scene is set at a UEFA base in Panama.
Mystery Figure (bottom): Nergal really did it this time. Did you see their warship? They've taken a veritable age to build it, and now they say they want to use it for private purposes. And under our circumstances? What a joke!
Mystery Figure (top):Ha! I couldn't agree more. Still, it looks like the Captain is Misumaru's daughter. We're confident he'll be able to reason with her.
Mystery Figure (bottom):It all looks like maneuvering from those Nergal people.Our Federation cannot allow them to have their way without losing its dignity in the process. The Committee has therefore agreed to take drastic measures. Yes... The Nadesico will be ours soon enough.
Colbert:Making a private warship in a time of crisis? Dammit, Nergal, there's a time and a place for jokes, and this isn't it! We saw their battle on the lunar surface, and we can't disregard their effectiveness. What do you have to say about this, Adm. Misumaru? If I remember correctly, the Captain of the Nadesico is your daughter.
Considering a fourth or so of the attacking force got wrecked by a single aestivalis I don't think THEIR effectiveness has anything to do with it pal.
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That's misumaru, despite the name, by the way.
Colbert: That ship is stronger than the ones available to our military. Rather than have it fight the Jovian Lizards, we'll use it to intimidate PLANT. That's the final decision of Joint Operations HQ. Admiral, you are hereby ordered to capture the Nadesico by any means necessary, at the cost of your life if need be. Don't let me down!
Kochiro: ......
Meanwhile, in a montainous region of japan
UEFA Soldier (bottom): Argh, damn you Reclaimers and your Grand Chers!
So the brain power'd plot begins. It was directed and written by the director of the original gundam series, incidentally.
UEFA Soldier (top): Why do THEY get to recover the plate?!
Kanan: So that's the Plate?
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Kanan:That may be, but we have to recover all Plates, no matter what kind they are. Right?
Yuu:Well, you're certainly dilligent. Are you happy about all this, Kanan?
Kanan:I'm pleased with this Antiobody, and to be the pilot of a Grand Cher. Besides, don't your parents lead the Reclaimers, Yuu? What reason to you have to complain?
Yuu: That's n-
The ground shakes.
Yuu: Another earthquake?
Kanan: Yuu, we've recieved a new Plate reaction! I'll ask Quincy Issa for further instructions.
Yuu:"Collect each and every Plate!" is what she said, right? Let's hurry! If we enter combat with either the UEFA, or the Jovian Lizards, we're in trouble.
Scene shift to a ruined city, an explosion rocks the city, frightening a nearby person, Hime.
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Hime:W-What was that? A plate...?
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Hime:"Revive," huh? I guess that Plate can give birth to Antibodies, then...
Something happens with the plate, and a large creature emerges.
Yukio:Did one of those Grand Cher things come out?!
Hime: ...It seems a little different than the rest.
Akari: Hime, watch out!
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Hime:It's all right. I'm not getting any bad vibes from this one. His eyes are so gentle... And he was just born, so I'm sure he must be a little confused, too. Isn't that right?
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Hime:Can I enter you through here...? All right, here we are... So, what are you going to do now? What do you WANT to do? You're only a few minutes old, but you must have something in mind, right? Can you stand? Here, let me teach you!
We've got giant organic things that function similarly to robots! This is a good thing, but I'll get to that later. Much later.
Brain:......
Hime:Huh... Is there something wrong?
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The plate turned into Brain. I doubt they're gonna be happy about that.
Kanan: Yuu, look!
Yuu: No way... The Plate revived THAT soon?! Kanan, that isn't a Grand Cher!
Kanan:A brain powered... It looks like it's being adjusted by someone.
Hime:Another Antibody? What's the matter? Shhhhh... Calm down. There, there. Are those your friends?
Yuu: It's moving?! Tch... We have our mandate. All Brain Powereds must be destroyed upon Revival! Kanan! Hey. you! Over there! You shouldn't be riding that thing!
Kanan: Get out of there! It's dangerous!
Hime:Why?! Aren't your Grand Chers Antibodies just like him?!
Yuu: Brain Powereds are not to be used! If you won't abandon it, I'll have to destroy it! H-Hold on, Kanan!
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Apparently very capable despite being born just recently.
Kanan: That Brain Powered... I can't believe how strong it is!
Hime: Oh, wow! You were incredible, Brain!
Yuu: ...D-Damn you!
Hime: My name isn't "damn you"! It's Hime Utsumiya! This little guy was just born. He was ready to try flying! Why did you come out of nowhere and attack him?!
Yuu: The Grand Chers enforce the will of Orphan!
Hime:Get a grip! Isn't Orphan some kind of ruin that's causing earthquakes around the world?!
Yuu:Orphan's ways aren't for you to understand!
Hime: What kind of attitude is THAT?! According to the news, all you Reclaimers do is obsessively fly around the world collecting the Plates in launches! Why?!
Yuu: Tch!
Kanan: Yuu, we're out of time. Let's head back! A battalion from the UEFA is on its way. If we engage them, the Jovian Lizards will probably show up, too.
Yuu: Hmph...
Yuu is obviously taken aback. Yuu and Kanan vanish.
Hime: He disappeared? he must be around my age, but he pilots a Grand Cher and works for the Reclaimers... Just who WAS that boy?
Back to the Nadesico finally. The prospector is talking to Akito about using the Aestivalis without permission.
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a decoy for our launch, so, ah... We're not going to reprimand you. We aren't soldiers, after all.
Akito:Thank you.
Prospector: In exchange, we want you to act as our reserve pilot. It pays better than being a cook!
Gai: Aren't you gonna yell at him or something?! He took my place and launched on his own!
Calvina: Weren't you the one who gave himself a broken leg?
Gai: Uh, well... He doesn't give the Captain the respect her rank deserves, either!
Give it up Gai. Roll with it.
Calvina:They're acquaintances. If we were the army we may have been unable to overlook that, but we're not, so we won't. Let's not sweat the small stuff, okay? Akito Tenkawa, what kind of combat experience do you have?
Akito: That was my first time, actually...
Calvina:You have good instincts. I'd say you just signed up for a lecture on Jovian Lizard mobile weapons and tactics. Meet me on the bridge later.
Akito:Wait, wh-?
Calvina:Why? Because that's my job. I don't need another reason.
Akito: B-But, I'm a cook... That's all I signed up for!
Calvina: Well, it's not like I don't understand how you must feel, but...
Noal: Man, what the hell's up with him?
Oh hey, kinda forgot about Noal.
Prospector Outer Space Development Group personnel! Nanbara Connection personnel! Welcome to the Nadesico!
Aki: The pleasure's ours. Thanks for bearing with us.
Megumi: New arrivals are entering the hangar. Please be careful.
Gai: Whooooooa! Is that the legendary Steel Fortress, Mazinger Z?!
Steel fortress is right. We'll get to that when we use him in combat though.
Hyoma: Aphrodite A's here, too!
Chizuru: Looks like Koji and the others are coming along for the ride, too.
Prospector: Well, you were certainly expedient. I never imagined you would get here so quickly.
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Koji here is the pilot of the Mazinger Z. Mazinger Z is the benchmark series for Super Robots, much as the original gundam was the benchmark series for real robots. Mazinger Z fired the first rocket punch, Mazinger Z had the first mysterious mostly unexplained power source (I think), it's all there.
Hyoma: What, are you guys coming along for the ride? Don't tell me Prof. Yumi took Nergal's contract hook, line and sinker?
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Yurika: Um, why are you guys still in the hangar?
Hyoma: Well, we just came aboard, so it's not like we know left from right...
Yurika: I see, I see! In that case, I'll have someone to show you to your rooms.
Chizuru: Please do. And er... Who are you?
Yurika: I'm Capt. Yurika Misumaru! Hello, everybody! Welcome to the Nadesico!
Noal: Captain?! Weren't you the one who was... wait a sec...
Hyoma: I don't believe it...
Koji: What's everyone standing around slack-jawed for?
Akito: ......
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We finally reunite after all these years, and now you seem to hate me... What happened on Mars? Why are you so angry?
[b[Akito:[/b] If you really want to know then I'll tell you. My parents... were mudered!They died the same day your family left Mars, just as I was watching you leave.
Yurika: Huh...? No way, dad didn't say anything about that!
Akito: I want to learn the truth. Someone killed my parents for a reason. But... there's a chance I may be killed before I can learn the truth.
Yurika:Akito, I don't believe it... This dark and serious air of yours... ...It's too cool!
Akito:Huh?
Megumi:Captain! Captain, where are you?
Yurika: Hmmm?!
Megumi: Geez, stop leaving your post so often! Something's about to be announced. Please return to the bridge.
Minato: ... Those folks from the Outer Space Development Group weren't combat personnel.
Ruri:True. The Blue Earth isn't a fighter craft, either.
Clearly.
Megumi:Then... what are they doing here?
Prospector: That's a reasonable question. Ms. Hoshino, please activate the ship's internal broadcasting system, please.
Ruri:As you wish.
Prospector: Er, hello, everyone! Due to the pressure of the army's investigations, I'm afraid we're unable to divulge serious details on the Nadesico's objective for now. Rest assured, Nergal built this particular warship for precise purposes. and a very particular reason. From this moment on, this ship will pursue the goals of Project Sciaparelli, with no ties whatsoever to the military.
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Megumi: Mars?!
Calvina:Nergal was planning another one of their outrageous stunts, huh?
Jun:Yurika, did you know about this?!
Yurika: Of course! I AM the Captain, after all! *giggle*
Akito:(Mars... So, I'm going to Mars again...?)
Jun: Doesn't that mean Nergal is ignoring the current problems on Earth, though?
Prospector: Several colonists were sent to Mars - the same people who were abandoned by the Federation when they decided to focus on protecting the Earth Sphere. PLANT, the Anti-Federation Nations and even Orb are staying silent about the Mars situation. At this rate, the people of Mars are going to-
Ruri: They're all dead, aren't they?
Prospector: We don't know, but we have every intention of finding out.
Akito: I'm sure they must be alive! There's no way they'd just... up and die like that!
Megumi:Is that why you guys are here, then?
Hyoma: Well, sorta... we're here to kick some Jovian Lizard butt, either way!
Koji: Yeah, and we aren't about to abandon the people on Mars, either!
Aki: The "Cosmic Culture Club" was a Federation-backed cultural exchange program for children. The OSDG sponsored a trip to Mars for several members of the program before everything fell apart. As such, we're tagging along to find out if they survived, and report the results to their families.
Noal: And if the brats ARE still alive, we're duty-bound to bring 'em back. That's the reason our Chief agreed immediately when he got word from Nergal. We were the ones sent for the job, but I never thouht we would be on a ship quite like this!
Gai: Comrades who march to a gruelling battle for the sake of Mars! Ooh, my blood is burning! Can you feel it?! Can you feel the blaze of justice burning in my SOUL?!
Ruri: ...Idiot.
Prospector: Well, that's it for introductions. After we finish the final departure procedures, we'll set course for Mars. I'm counting on each and everyone of you!
Fukube:In that case... Please continue with the departure procedures, Captain.
Yurika: Understood! Whoa! I was so busy I didn't even get to talk with Akito...
Ruri:Captain.
Yurika: Maybe... Maybe he doesn't want to see me because he's gotta show respect to me as the ship's Captain! Yeah, that must be it!
Ruri: Captain... Captain!
Yurika: Yes?
Ruri: A UEFA fleet is approaching.
Yurika: Just leave them be, Ruri. I'm in the middle of a br-
Ruri:Even if they're surrounding the Nadesico?
Welp.
Yurika: Huh? They're surrounding us? Why?
Megumi: Captain, incoming transmission from a Federation ship. I'm putting it onscreen.
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Ooooooh! You seem to be doing great, Yurika!
Yurika: What is it, Father?
Kochiro: Command has decreed the Nadesico be put under military command. This is an order. Please forgive me... Your dear old dad is just as upset as you are.
Prospector: Well, that's strange... I was sure we finished negotiating the whole deal with the UEFA, didn't we? The Nadesico is Nergal's private property, and is to be used as we see fit.
Kochiro: To be perfectly honest, the army desperately needs a weapon to both fight the Jovian Lizards and suppress PLANT's arbitrary actions. Please surrender the ship at once. Resistance is meaningless and will be met with force. ... Or at least, that's what they wanted me to say. Come on, Yurika! Just listen to your dad like the wonderful girl that you are!
Jun: Yurika... The Admiral's right. They're totally ignoring the situation on Earth by sending this warship out to Mars.
Fukube:We're not soldiers. We have no obligation to comply.
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It would appear Fukube has a bit of a history.
Fukube: ......
Koichiro: So, Yurika... -Please- hand over the ship, okay?
Yurika: Understood... But before that, I have one thing to ask you, Father.
Prospector:Stop, Captain! That's a contract violation. The Nadesico is exclusive property of Nergal! To consent to it's restraint and capture is-
Koichiro:Oh, you're going to hand it over? Thank goodness... Ask away, my dear!
Yurika:It's about the Tenkawa family... They were our neighbors on Mars.
She explains the situation of Akito's Family.
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I would have caught word of the incident by now if-
Yurika: Please, tell me the truth!
Koichiro: Hmmm... I may have heard a thing or two about this. Telling you was only going to make you cry, however, so I, er...
Yurika:I understand, Father.
Koichiro:Oh, you do? Well, in that case, I'll be right over to grab the master key, and-
Yurika: Minato, raise the engines' output to full! Ruri, activate the Distortion Field!
Koichiro:Y-Yurika?!
Yurika:I don't care if we get a little beat up! Force our way through the Federation fleet's formation!
Jun: Wait, what are you doing, Yurika?!
Minato: Ah, the Captain's an extreme girl, I see... The engines are ready!
Ruri:Distortion Field activated. Breaking through the enemy's formation!
Megumi:Wow, little Ruri! Did you just crack a smile?
Ruri:Not really, no...
Yurika:All personnel, take anti-shock positions! Full speed ahead!
Koichiro:Yurika, wait! Yurika!
Yurika:I'm a captain. I can't just abandon my ship at the first sign of trouble! That's what you taught me, Father!
Koichiro:YURIKAAAAAAAA!
Koji: We're breaking through the Federation fleet?!
Sayaka: Another outrageous stunt from the Captain, I guess...
Noal:Seriously? How incredibly reckless! What the hell's rattling around inside our Captain's head, anyway?
Gai: Whoa, that's some burning passion right there! Yeah, definitely... That's the way things should be DONE!
Calvina:We can't turn back ow. The army is going to use force next time, and they're probably going to come at us with everything they've got.
Hyoma:That'll be our cue, then!
Koji:Doesn't seem like we've got much of a choice, that's for sure.
Chizuru:Still... are we really going to make the UEFA our enemies?
Calvina:Our alternative was to hand over the ship. Not exactly an acceptable choice.
AkitoI just want to help Mars. The military only thinks about the Earth. That's why I have to-
Gai:There you are, cook! Whoooooaa, can you feel that?! Our blood burns! ...For JUSTICE!
Lemme just say when you're transcribing 18000 letters worth of text, you hate it whenever Gai shows up.
Ruri: Captain, a Tulip has been sighted dead ahead. It completely swallowed the intercepting Federation warship, Crocus. It is also deploying Jovian mobile weapons.
Fukube: Blast... They're going to breach our perimeter, Captain.
Yurika:Okay, then! All personnel, assume battle positions! Once we take care of the Jovian Lizards, we'll be free to go to Mars!
Tomorrow, Mazinger Z vs The Federation Army! Also other guys.
Post by: Furtuka on April 04, 2012, 07:06:39 pm
Post by: Seriyu on April 04, 2012, 07:22:22 pm
Anyway, brief loadout of what we've seen so far. The aestivalises, Gai, Akito, Nergal, The prospector, Yurika, Uribatake, Ruri, that entire crew, Yurika's dad, All nadesico. Jovian Lizards are an enemy from Nadesico. Just remember the Jovian part, the entire enemy thing has nothing to do with lizards, in robot design or otherwise. It's an odd name.
Calvina is an original obviously, since she was picked.
Mazinger Z is from Mazinger, obviously, Sayaka/Koji both from Mazinger.
Combattler V is Combattler obviously, including all it's pilots (Hyoma, Juzo, Chizuru, Daisuke, and Kosuke)
Noal and Aki and by extension the blue earth (forgot to introduce this series too, actually), is from tekkaman blade.
UEFA in general is I thiiiiiink gundam seed? Colbert is, I think. If any gundam seed specialists wanna clarify, feel free. A lot of real robot shows have a generic earth federation kinda thing though, and I dunno if gundam seed specifically used UEFA.
Brain, Hime, those kids with her, Yuu, and Kanan, and the grand chers and antibodies are from brain power'd (Yes, the missing e is intentional, I'm not sure why.)
Good thing you brought this up now, because the next few missions kick the plot crossover factor up quite a bit. :P
If you (Or anyone else!) have any more questions, please let me know, I'd be happy to clarify. I enjoy doing it, in fact!
EDIT: I just realized I forgot to assign pilot points. I'll specify what I added to who at the beginning of the next update.
Post by: Seriyu on April 05, 2012, 08:21:50 pm
We're only on mission two and we've already got an update that takes me 4 hours to do. :P
EDIT: That mission could not have ended better.
EDIT2: AAAHHHHHH I FORGOT TO TURN ON IRFANVIEW I'M THE KING OF IDIOTS. Luckily this just means I need screenshots, the easiest part. Gimme a bit longer.
Post by: Seriyu on April 05, 2012, 10:00:32 pm
Also I'm an idjit and had to go back and get screenshots, so there may be some minor inconsistancies. I got rid of most of the big ones.
ON TO THE DEATH GAMES
But first more talking
Gai:Okay, let's go!
Calvina: What about your broken leg?
Gai: They gave me a ton of painkillers! Once they wear off, I'll be screaming like a little girl!
He's tenacious, you've gotta give him that. Incidentally Gai, the Nadesico, the prospector, all of the pilots of the nadesico (it has five, Yurika, Ruri, Jun, Minato, and Megumi), Yurika's dad, and any aestivalises are from the series "Martian successor Nadesico", as I think I forgot to mention this stuff earlier.
Calvina:Is that so? ...Fine.
Uribatake:Once you launch, be sure not to move away from the Nadesico's Gravity Wave Beam. It's represented by a grid of yellow squares on your HUD and- ...Hey, are you even listening?!
Gai:Now's my time to shine! Tenkawa, you stay here on standby! All right, Professor! Open the Lab barrier!
I know Gai is trying to sound like an anime badass but most of the time he seems to come across as a genuine "ranting on the street corner" crazy person.
Juzo:Who the hell's this "Professor"?!
Chizuru:Sounds like he thinks he's launching from the Connection...
[Ropet intro]
... COMBINE OK, COMBINE OK!
This here's Ropet, from Choudenji Robo Combattler V.(Super electromagnetic robo Combattler V). Being a robot he talks in all caps as robots are very rude and yell a lot. As far as I'm aware he initiates the "combining" part of combattler that is always done off camera because the five vehicles used to combine together into combattler V are not technically in the game.
Hyoma:All right, here we go! LET'S! COMBINE!
They go through the motions but nothing actually happens on the screen during this, don't worry, you're not missin nothin. And now we pick units to deploy! However our robot amount is still below the required amount for this mission, so we have to deploy them all.
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Scramble is "Start fight", "Change units" takes us back to the unit selection screen, and "Change Position" let's us change the starting unit positions.
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As such. But wait, there's more! Text.
Hyoma:COMBATTLERRRRRR V!
Gai:Oh my God, you guys are so damn awesome! I'm gonna go for it, too! Let's Gekiga IN! SPACE! GANGERRRRRR!
Uribatake: I already told you! It's not "Space Ganger", it's "Aestivalis"!
Noal: Aki, leave close-range combat to me. You concentrate on support.
Aki: Roger!
Gai: Listen up, Evil Jupiter Empire! I'll show you how a True Hero fights!
Koji:*groan* "True Hero"? Whatever.
Hyoma:We're not gonna let him leave us behind! Let's go!
Ruri:What is the "Evil Jupiter Empire," anyway?
TURN ONE!
I was originally gonna keep overviews and maps of each turn but due to stupid on my part, this would be inconsistant for this update. I'll start it on the next update.
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More observant viewers may have noticed Uribitake mentioned a "gravity wave beam", and that it matches up pretty well that the "G. Wave Antenna" ability the aestivalis during the intermission update. This is it. As long as an aesti is in the yellow squares, it, in effect, has infinite energy. If it's out of the squares, it loses energy normally. An Aesti has less and uses more EN then your average real robot, so it's a good idea to keep them in the yellow squares. Annnnyway.
I move everyone as far up as they'll go, and Mazinger is the only one that can actually manage to attack.
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This is your average early game super robot battle screen. 100% on both sides. Mazinger Z is a medium sized robot, and batta(Martian Successor Nadesico) is small, so on top of super robots being terrible dodgers, they're usually gonna be hit with a size penalty to dodging/hitting too Mazinger Z is actually one of the smaller super robots, but even so. Anyway, rocket punch!
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Didn't quite one shot it like I'd hoped, but whatcha gonna do. Mazinger took 700 or so damage in that scuffle, so we're gonna move blue earth(Tekkaman Blade) up to heal him. And we do.
One of the enemy's battleships, a Katonbo (Martian successor nadesico) attacks. Enemy battleships tend to be similar to our warships, but less good. Of course this means they get more, so it kind've evens out. They tend to even have a chance to miss on super robots. This is largely because of the size penalty, as it's an XL to Mazingers M, and as such is taking a pretty hefty accuracy penalty. An equal real robot would probably be down to about 40%, if not lower.
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A batta rushes up to attack mazinger. He defends, because I kind've get the idea he's gonna get pounded this turn, what with being out in the front of the rest of the guys and all.
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Breast fire eh? Well... just this once.
[I didn't manage to get a screenie on the second runthrough. I'll get a set on another stage. The video below is a much better version of it anyway. Take a look!]
Have a video of it from Z2, as it is a very pretty game, even as super robot wars games go. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tloSO6olREQ)
Breast fire is mazinger's best attack, and being a super robot, with already heavy attacks, it's very nasty indeed, as you can see. BUT it uses 30 energy, and this early in the game mazinger Z doesn't have the EN to do it a ton, Maybe 3 times, on top of litterally every one of his weapons using said EN pool, so we're gonna hold back for now.
More enemies bounce ineffectively off of Mazinger Z. If Combattler is the glass cannon of the super robots, Mazinger Z is the tank.
A batta tries takes a shot at combattler V, and gets one shotted by big blast in return, as if to prove my point.
And finally, the only batta in range of the battleship beelines for it, landing between Mazinger Z, and combattler. Enemies will suicidally charge battleships, for good reason, because if they die, we lose. It doesn't have much luck.
TURN TWO!
I have Gai cast "wall" (reduces the next attack to ten damage) because gai is a super robot pilot in a real robot, and as such he doesn't really dodge very well. Luckily he has "Guts" which refills a unit's health to max, to make up for it. He's usable, but kinda quirky. If only I could put him in a super robot, but alas, martian successor nadesico has none. A pity, because he's really made for one. He takes hits GREAT despite being in a real robot.
Gai dodges to prove me wrong, and I couldn't be happier. Noal and Sayaka in the Aphrodite A, heal Mazinger (Aphrodite A and Mazinger both in Mazinger), and he attacks a batta with iron cutter. Iron cutter is basically a shorter range rocket punch with more attack power and more EN consumption. Only 20 to rocket punch's 15 though, so it's not too bad. The animation is the same as rocket punch, except it has knives on the sides of the fist. It one shots the batta. The Nadesico attacks a batta, with a 90% chance to hit! This is pretty nuts given that the Nadesico is an XL and the Batta is a Small, and gravity blast doesn't have a ton of + hit to it. It one shots it.
The Combattler one shots a batta with twin lancer too. The first few missions are like this, you just one shot every little thing. It will stop soon, don't you worry. Then my commentary will get a bit more interesting. Enemy phase. The aphrodite is attacked! It dodges about as well as mazinger, only it has less armor and HP. The Aphrodite A is similar to the blue earth in that it is really not meant for combat. I have her attack anyway because she has the health to take it, and it'll expedite things.
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Boob missles.
Yep.
A Katonbo attacks the Nadesico, and gets a chunk taken out of it by the gravity blast for it's trouble. Something of note is that the Katonbo's have a distortion field too, which is supposedly very rare tech on earth. HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. Curious.
I missed this, but Mazinger's passive ability, MAZINPOWER activated because Koji hit 120 will. This ability increases his damage.
Ruri: Unknown heat signature approaching.
Reinforcements, as per usual.
Yurika:Huh? Just more Jovian Lizards, right?
Ruri:No. There it is.
Humm...
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(All three of em are originals. You know what that meaaaannnsss.)
Katia:At this rate they're just going to shoot us down... Up for a gamble? Sure, it's lucky that we ran into them, but if they're the UEFA, we're probably only going to get arrested...
Festenia:Aw, geez! That sucks, Katia! Still... not like we've got any other options.
Katia:Right, so... let's go.
It takes one step forward. It doesn't appear to be moving very well.
Ruri:Emergency call from the unknown unit.
Yurika:Oh?
Megumi:They're requesting permission to land. What should we do, Captain?
Yurika:I'm not sure! They're in the way, though, so... we might as well let them in. Calvina, please take a look at the landing deck. Report back on the situation, but be sure to restrain the pilots if need be.
Calvina:Roger.
It lands.
Ruri:Landing complete... More unknown units approaching.
Yurika:Wha...? More?
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A strange group of units appears.
(More originals)
Squire (top):The unmanned weapons and that new warship... They appear to be fighting.
Squire (bottom): What should we do, milord?
Ja-Mu:Dammit. The weapons don't really matter, but that warship is an... unknown factor. We can't use -it- on them now, which puts us in a questionable situation. Let's pull back. After all, that good-for-nothing unit is a failed experiement... Nothing more.
Squire (bottom):But... the Knight Lord said to destroy it if we were unable to capture-
Ja-Mu:I didn't receive permission to engage OTHER forces while I was at it. It's my fault they made it this far without being shot down, so... it'll be fine.
Squire (bottom):But milord-
Ja-Mu:Seal your lips! I already admitted my transgression. I didn't think he'd be late, but that traitorous "war hero" is the same Knight that used to be his master, after all. Plus, both units are originals. Even if Al-Van prevails, we'll be in serious trouble if he loses his machine. My own unit is a prototype, and ensuring its safety is far more important then going after those girls... All the more reason to just leave, honestly. Let's go!
They vanish.
Ruri:The unknown units have dissappeared.
Minato: What in the world?!
Yurika:So, uh... What now?
Festenia: They ran away... I wonder why?
]Melua:They're going back to that spooky place... I wonder why he helped us?
Katia:We weren't able to do anything, in the end...
Uribatake:Ooh, who's this bad boy?! Just lookit that design! The finishing touches are a touch on the boring side, sure, but that's one mean lookin' unit!
Calvina:I've never seen a machine like this before. Pilot, can you hear me? Shut down the machine and open the hatch!
KatiaThanks for letting us land. Now, then...
The robot briefly calculates something, and a flash of light occurs[/b]
Calvina:Keep your hands where I can see 'em... You three were piloting this thing?
Festenia:A-Are you guys from the Federation?
Calvina:No.
Melua:Thank goodness...
Katia: We're not out of the woods yet, Melua.
Calvina: You seem to be around the same age as those Combattler kids... ...Maybe a little older. Doesn't sound like you're federation, either. Who the hell are you?
The battle continues!
TURN THREE
The nadesico gravity blasts the battleship,and it's finished off with a SUPER EM SPIN! Combattler V's best attack, with a whopping 4300 damage rating, compared to the 3200 Breast burn had. Let's take a look!
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Have another video. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74FGN1EAp1I)
Overkill. We get a servo motor for our troubles. More on that later! We move Gai out of the gravity wave beam range, and smash up the last batta with a gekigan flare, leaving a single Katanbo battleship. Enemy phase. The lone katanbo attacks Combattler V for 809 while it was defending. Yeesh.
TURN FOUR!
Long story short, dogpile on the katanbo. It still doesn't die, because hey, battleship.
Enemy phase. It attacks the Nadesico.
TURN FIVE!
We finish it. No map required, I think. Gai finishes it, and gets a booster. Hoho.
Ruri: No enemies detected. While we were engaging enemy units, however, another fleet caught up. It's not the 4th Federation Fleet.
Fukube: What is it, then?
Ruri:Confirmed. The approaching force is comprised of Federation mobile weapons. Incoming.
Fukube:I suppose it was foolish to think they would let us leave without a fight.
Prospector: And they never gave us a legitimate reason for their demands, either. Thet's just the way they run things...
The federation arrives at the other side of the map. Sigh.
Hyoma: What? Geez, those UEFA guys are really itching for a fight!
Gai:Let them come... We itch for JUSTICE!
Megumi:Incoming transmission!
Colbert:Nadesico, please reply. This is Gen. Colbert. The UEFA had every intention of peacable settling this matter. That has since proven impossible, as our demands to your vessel were refused by Nergal. The offensive awaits my command. This is your last warning... Stop the ship and surrender!
Yurika:But we're going to save the people on Mars! Oh, I would ever so happy if you'd just let us go on with the mission!
Colbert:Mars?! Stop joking around! I'll never permit that!
Yurika:In that case, there's no need for further discussion!
Colbert:Blast! That brings everything out into the open. The Nadesico is our enemy! All units, commence attack! Destroy the ship if you have to... Just make sure you stop their advance!
Megumi:What a violent man!
Yurika:Then there's no holding back on you, either! Take 'em down, guys!
Akito:All we want to do is help the people of Mars! Why are you getting in our way?!
Uribatake:What the heck're you doing, kid?!
Calvina: Tenkawa? Didn't you hear me when I said you weren't ready for space combat?
Uribatake:All crew members, evacuate the flight deck! We've got a moron with a deathwish!
Akito:Huh? Whoooooooaaa?!
Akito leaves the flight deck and flies forward straight towards the enemy forces, leaving him way ahead of everyone else. Bad news for him.
Calvina: Well, that was a poor showing... Hm, I can't exactly leave him to die out there.
Uribatake:But there's no unit available for you to bail his ass out with, either!
Festenia:(... You thinkin' what I'm thinkin' Katia?)
Katia:(Fine by me. This way we can confirm it.)
Festenia:Are you a pilot? Use this robot. It's called Bellzelute. We wanna help him out, too!
As most of you probably guessed, the original unit has arrived! Original units tend to be amazingly strong compared to other units, and are a fine choice for anyone.
Calvina:Me? Piloting THAT? You must be joking! Sorry to tell you this, but I already quit the piloting business. I'm just into sightseeing now. If you really want to help him, then go by yourselves. We'll let you stay on the ship if you do.
Katia: We can barely move it on our own, so fighting is out of the question.
Festenia: But if you're with us, we should be able to control it. Couldja give it a shot and hop inside? Pleeeeeeeeease?
Calvina:What do you mean? Why would I be able to-
Festenia:Hurry! That guy's gonna get himself killed at this rate!
Calvina Well, if you insist... But if we all die, I'm not accepting any complaints. The name's Calvina. Calvina Coulange. You?
Festenia:Festenia. The name's Festenia Muse, Calvina!
Calvina It's a two-seater, huh... (This cockpit... It's the same as the project's... How can this be? Will I actually be able to control this thing?)
It would appear she has encountered at the very least a similar unit to the bellzelute.
Festenia: (With normal people, the Cytron Control Linkage rate will always be low. ...But as I expected, Calvina is different!) Let's go!
It enters the field
Ruri:The unknown unit has taken off. It appears ms. Coulange is piloting it.
Minato:Huh? I could've sworn she was still in rehab...
Prospector:She's acting recklessly, then.
Yurika: What? You're going to save my dear Akito, Ms. Coulange?! D-Don't tell me she has a thing for him too...?!
Jun:I don't think you're quite on the mark about that...
Ruri:What an idiot...
Calvina:The foundations are the same... We can do this! And our first order of business is to have a nice little chat with our pursuers...
Festenia:Aw, this soon?! ...Well, as long as it's a real short chat, I guess.
Calvina:There's a good chance of missing the target altogether though, and during a battle a miss, more often than not, is fatal. Please prepare yourself because I'm... I'm...!
She's developed a phobia of combat. Understandably, given her past experiences. This would also explain her insistance to avoid piloting anything back in the hospital.
Festenia:I get it... You were hurt, huh Calvina? It's all right. Follow my lead, and Bellzelute will move just the way you want!
Calvina:If we can't do this, then we're going to die. Akito Tenkawa, stop your reckless behavior and get yourself as far away from the enemy as you can! We're going to cover you!
Akito: R-Roger!
Calvina: So... Shall we give this a shot?
Yurika:Listen up, everyone! That wierd-looking robot that just launched has Ms. Coulange inside! It was no ID code, so be careful. Don't attack it by accident!
Ruri: Friendly units' signals confirmed. They appear to be from nergal. There are three in total.
Prospector: Looks like they made it in time.
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We came to help!
Koji: What the heck?
Kyosuke: Those are Aestivalis. They're our allies for sure!
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You may call us... The Reinforcemints. Heheheheh... Hahahaha!
Izumi makes a lot of bizzare jokes. Also all three of these folks are from Martian Successor Nadesico.
Yurika:Um... Seriously?
Hyoma:What's with them?
Ryoko: Hey, Izumi! Lay off the wierdness!
Hikaru: Shucks, we didn't even agree on the name! You gotta consult us next time!
Ryoko: What? Well, anything goes, I guess. Let's do this!
In fact Ryoko is probably the only sane one. All three of them have very high evade, so they're excellent Aesti pilots.
Ruri:...Another bunch of idiots?
And we're back in combat! Now, I was GONNA let people hang back at the far end of the map, and get everyone repaired as much as possible, as combattler and mazinger got pretty banged up, and the Nadesico isn't doing much better; but the bellzelute went up to akito so we've gotta rush up to them it looks like. Now, let's get a look at the bellzelute.
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Note we're attacking from outside the moebius's(Gundam SEED) attack range, and as such there is no counterattack! Nice. I left the animations off on accident. Attack screenshots next time! At any rate, it one shots the moebius. A real robot doing that, even to another real robot is semi-rare.
Calvina:The movements are so light... It truly does move as I want it to. With this, I can finally...!
Festenia:See, Didn't I tell ya it would be all right? Just sit back and follow my lead!
Calvina:This is different from Image Feedback... What the hell IS this unit?
Gai:Professor! We'll use the Ganger-Cross Operation! Send out the Space-Ganger Heavy Weapons Type!
Ruri: I think Mr. Yamada is trying to tell you something.
Uribatake: Yeah, whatever. Leave him be.
Akito focuses and attacks a moebius with rapid rifle. Only a 28% chance to be hit, even with focus... I'm not very happy with this, and we don't have any convinient terrain bonuses to take advantage of either. Not even any asteroids nearby. This could get dicey, but we'll probably be fine. The moebius misses, thankfully, but we've got another two turns to hold out. I'll definatly be sending Ryoko and the gang down to help them out.
Enemy phase. The Delphinium (Martian Successor Nadesico, I think, new unit. Haven't seen any yet.) stay put, and the moebiuses close in on Akito. With evade defense, only 11% to hit. Yeah, we'll be fine. When the mobiuses stop using their missles and start using their unique attack, I'll actually take some pictures. Akito counterattacks the moebius he attacked last turn, and finishes the job. One rushes up point blank to the bellzelute, which is actually a pretty solid idea, and uses linear gun.
We get hit, and only take about 1500 damage. Not bad for a real robot, but another couple of hits like that, and we'll be down. Another moebius follows suit. We evade because I don't trust a 50% chance to get hit.
Damnit, we got hit again. Things are suddenly back to being dicey. Luckily the right side delphinuses stay put too, so we're safe.
TURN SIX!
Our main force is still back up at the top. They're on the way, but it'll take some time. Until then, we're FOCUSING CALVINA JEEZ. Luckily Festenia has Guts, it restores all HP. Only enough SP to use it once though. Luckily we shouldn't need it again, with enough units to form a decent wall nearby now. Let's ACTUALLY get a look at O rifle N now, howzabout.
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Yowza. That's a big gun. Incidentally I've only used Granteed, and Coustwell, so this is gonna be as much a surprise for you as it is for me. Akito pulls a moebius off the Bellzelute with immeduate knife, and the Aesti trio pulls in and starts hammering on the left side of the enemy formation. Both Sayaka and Noal/Aki get a level from repairing. Izumi attacks the only moebius left on the left side, and countercut's it's counterattack. Incidentally I'm pretty sure Izumi has a TON of ability because she procs reaction abilities like crazy.
Enemy phase. The delphinium pull up to the left of the Aesti trio, no attacks. They must lack post movement attacks. If I recall, they're basically a light battleship, so that'd line up pretty well. Ryoko takes a hit, and only takes 700 damage because distortion field is fabulous. A moebius attacks Bellzelute, and we have enough will to use O Rifle B now, so.
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Shoot many guns. Another oneshot. It really bugs me how it seems like every grunt unit has a missle attack, because they seem to spam it to spite you. Use something cool, come on. Delphinium on the left pull up, no attack again.
TURN SEVEN!
We might finish the reinforcements before the main force gets here. Huh. Anyway, Bellzelute also attacks a Delphinium from outside it's range. You now see the strength of artillery robots. Not in dodging or armor, rather in attacking from a position that allows you to avoid all of that junk. Doesn't quite finish it, but Akito is happy to oblige, gaining a level and Alert in the process. Alert is a 100% chance to dodge one attack. The Aesti trio kills a mobius and Delphinium. Four Delphinium's left. The main force arrives, and will get to act next turn. Hurrah! It's in the bag.
Enemy phase. Two delphiniums attack Ryoko and get hits in, as with akito. Back to being slightly nervous.
TURN EIGHT!
I moved gai down before taking these, my bad. We're starting this off with Bellzelute's best attack, O rifle A. I'm hoping for a one hit kill on a delphinus with it. Llllllet's FIND OUT!
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... Almost. Still very nice. Nice animation too! Mazinger hauls in and attacks a Delphinium with Iron cutter. He's almost out of energy though. The aestis help him out resulting in finishing off the entire left wing. Akito finishes the delphinum calvina weakened. One more left!
Enemy Phase. The lone delphinum misses.
TURN EIGHT!
One more delphinum. Gai flies in near akito, and weakens it with rapid rifle. We're gonna finish this with a bit of... flare. 8)
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DOUBLE GEKIGAN FLAAAAAAARE! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh7_ONHVSDA)
Ruri:The Federation forces show no intention of coninuing the pursuit. No Jovian Lizard forces in sight, either. The battle is over.
Yeah, after that I don't blame them. :D
Yurika:Round everyone up. After we're finished, set course for Mars! We're leaving the Earth Sphere!
Prospector: Time to refocus on our original goal...
With that, it ends. Tomorrow, more plot, and more decisions for you people.
Sorry for the screenshot mishaps! Won't happen again.
Post by: Frumple on April 05, 2012, 10:29:11 pm
On the other hand, tomorrow. I used to do that relatively often, too, so it really bugs me nowadays :P
Looking forward to a properly screenshotted update, yeah. Should be even better, heh.
Post by: Seriyu on April 05, 2012, 10:38:38 pm
Post by: Furtuka on April 05, 2012, 10:45:38 pm
Wait a second is this the game with the-
*runs off to check Tvtropes*
*feels some regret for not voting for the male character
Post by: Frumple on April 05, 2012, 10:50:52 pm
E: Wait, wait. Are we talking about the same thing?
Post by: Seriyu on April 05, 2012, 11:15:15 pm
And put it in spoiler tags, for serious.
Post by: Furtuka on April 05, 2012, 11:23:24 pm
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Post by: Seriyu on April 05, 2012, 11:33:49 pm
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Post by: Furtuka on April 05, 2012, 11:34:32 pm
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Post by: Seriyu on April 05, 2012, 11:39:38 pm
Post by: Seriyu on April 06, 2012, 06:53:18 pm
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preperations for us?! All right, fine. First a shower, then some grub.
Hyoma:Hey, what are you going on about? Y'know, people usually introduce themselves when they first meet.
Ryoko:Pfffft! If I'm in for a lecture, at least tell me your name!
JuzoWell, she's a wild one, alllll right.
Hyoma:Tch... I'm Hyoma Aoi, Combattler V's main pilot.
Ryoko:Oh, THAT huge bucket 'o bolts? And you're just a kid on top of that, huh? ...I'm Ryoko Subaru. As you can see, I was employed by Nergal to be an Aestivalis pilot. So uh, where are the showers? Anyone?
Hikaru:Why, helloooooo! I'm Hikaru Amano, pilot! 18 years old! I love to eat pizza and - at times - dry senbei! Nice to meetchaaaaaa!
Okay, Hikaru probably isn't loopy so much as kind've airheaded.
Izumi: Heheh... Ahahahaha! The air... It tastes delicious!
One can not be so kind about Izumi, however.
Ryoko:Oh, and this is Izumi Maki. As you can see, she's... way out there. Are you all seriously pilots? There are some here that look... lost.
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Hyoma:He makes up for it by being smart. Kyosuke here's already graduated from the Federation University!
Ryoko:Whoa, for real?! He's more than your average brat, then!
Akito:I'm a pilot, too! ...But I'm really just the cook.
Hikaru: Oooh, I knew it! You just don't... LOOK like a pilot, y'know?
Akito: What's wrong with that? And w-what's so bad about being a cook?!
Ryoko: Oh, don't get upset. It must have been a real pain for you to switch gears like that, right? Damn, will somebody please tell me where the showers are? Now?
Time passes...
Noal: So those were the remaining pilots? Man, they look so unreliable. That Prospector geezer sure knows how to gather himself some goofballs.
Aki:Perhaps, but the fact is that everyone here is highly skilled.
Koji:Besides, we're only employed for the trip to Mars. We'll just have to bear with it 'til we get back.
Sayaka:They're all pretty strange, sure, but I hear they're top-notch pilots!
Aki:The problem now is that unknown unit...
Scene shift to cafeteria
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guys in that robot, but... you don't know anything about who they were, or what they wanted?
Katia:Sorry. All we know is how to move Bellzelute. That's it.
Festenia:S looooong time ago, we were kidnapped from our homes and taken to this bizarre institution. Once there, we were experimented on by these weirdos for... God, I don't even know. The guy who bailed us out seemed like he was in a fight with the rest of the guys who locked us up in the first place, though. He gave us Bellzelute and told us to run for it while he stayed behind and bought time.
Prospector:And what happened to him?
Katia:He's probably dead... If only we had kept our cool and analyzed the situation...
Pessimistic much?
Festenia: He DDEFINITELY told us to protect Bellzelute, though! That was the only reason we were able to escape at all, really!
Yurika:Hmmm! I'm not sure what to make of this. What do you think, Calvina?
Calvina: I only have one question... Does that robot of yours have any connection to Ash'ari-Kreutzer Corporation?
Festenia:Whatzat?
Melua:I don't remember hearing that name anywhere... What about you, Katia?
Katia:Me neither. Sorry.
Calvina:I see... Well, that's good, then.
Yurika:Hm... Is that all you're going to ask them, Calvina?
Calvina:Considering their circumstances, it's safe to say I have no connection to that unit of theirs. They should be fine. The real question is... what are we going to do now?
Prospector:Well, you were able to use their robot in battle. Considering you were in no condition to pilot anything beforehand, that poses a rather interesting quandry...
Calvina:......
Fukube:...What would you like to do, Captain?
Yurika:They don't seem bad to me! Let's keep them aboard the ship. I have to warn you though, girls... You're probably going with us on our trip to Mars at this rate.
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Festenia:You guys're real lifesavers!
Melua:Nice to meet you!
Prospector: You'll have to earn your keep here. We're a bit lacking in the firepower department at the moment, so we'll want to use your unit in combat at some point. Allow that, and we should be able to keep you aboard, no questions asked. In fact, you may even end up with a little extra money on the side...
Katia: If Calvina helps us out, then I don't see why not.
Festenia: Hmm... Well, we can't fight alone, that's for darn sure.
Prospector: What do you say, Ms Coulange? You've proven you can use their unit in battle, even if the exact reasons are unclear... You can go back to the time when they called you the "White Lynx." I'm sure you're intimately familiar with our current position in these matters, as well. You only have to agree, and then we can change your contract to that of a pilot...
Calvina:...Fine, I don't mind. Do it.
Prospector: All right, then. Come with me! I already planned for you to join as a pilot from the beginning. You're going to be the squad leader, too! Oh, and in addition, you'll be in charge of keeping an eye on the girls. I hope you understand.
MORE time passes.
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Nothing's happened since then... Hey Chizuru, where're Koji and the others?
Chizuru:He's exploring the ship with Sayaka, I think.
Hyoma: Hmph... Sounds like they're having a date.
Kosuke:While the Nadesico is a warship, it was designed to include several built-in facilities tailored specfically to civilian use. They even have a complete recreational area!
Hyoma:Heh, I guess we're gonna have to take a peek around too.
Chizuru: Yeah, let's! By the way, where's Calvina?
Calvina: Oh, wandering around. Just taking care of a few things.
Uribatake: Hey, nice timing, Calvina. What about those girls?
Calvina:They're in the bathhouse. Firt time they've ever seen a bath that large, so they're pretty content at the moment. They've been visiting it constantly since they first saw it yesterday, as a matter of fact. Pretty understandable, really. I never would've dreamed of seeing something like that in a spacefaring warship.
Chizuru:It definitely looked like a great bathhouse... And it sure felt great, too!
Uribatake:The bathhhouse, huh... Nah, guys, that's not what I wanted to talk about. That Bellzelute thing! Combattler and Mazinger both have manuals to help us with maintenance, but I have no idea what to do with Bellzelute. Dunno who made it, but that thing is full of security measures keeping me from doing my job. My pride as a chief mechanic is hanging in the balance!
Calvina:If there are any issues with the machine, we'll find out about them soon enough. The unit also seems to have a diagnostics and self-check system of some kind, but I don't know how to use it quite yet. Might be worth looking into.
Uribatake: Wait a sec... Self-check system? What's it like? How does it work?!
Calvina:Who knows. Don't know much about the basics, but it seems like a piece of hardware that checks over them ech's systems and makes adjustments automatically.
Uribatake:Sounds like I've been made obsolete... *sigh*
Poor Uribatake.
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Gai:This is a legendary masterpiece of robot animation... Gekiganger 3! I wonder if watching it can get even that blood of yours to boil... Why, I bet it'll have your soul roaring in no time! Do you think you can truly comprehend its beauty?! Well?! DO YOU?!
Let the meta begin.
Akito:Gai, enough! I know all about this show! I watched it back when I was a kid on Mars. It made even me want to become an ally of justice...
Gai:Whaaaaat?! You understand it too?! You do! All right, then! I'm gonna let you see a special prize of mine...
Calvina:...Looks like some kind of video.
Kosuke:Seems... interesting.
Hyoma:What? Kosuke, are you into that kind of thing, too?
Chizuru:You really ARE just a little kid!
Kosuke: N-No! I was just thinking... Maybe I can get some ideas for new weapons from it!
D'aww.
To the bridge!
Megumi: Receiving light-wave communication from Nergal. Ruri, please decode.
Ruri:Omoikane, please decode and reproduce on the main screen.
Omoikane is the main computer of the Nadesico. (From martian successor nadesico obviously) It has it's own portrait, but isn't shown here. You would do well to remember this thing, because it's more prevelant then you'd think!
Calvina:This is...
Fukube:Heh... So it's finally begun.
Megumi: No way...
Yurika: This can't be... What's the meaning of this?!
Ruri: It's just as you see. In opposition to PLANT's independance, the UEFA carried out a nuclear attack on the agricultural Plant "Junius Seven." The Plant collapsed as a result of the attack, with civilian casualties of around 240,000. PLANT's governing council immediatelygave approval to retaliate. ZAFT has deployed Neutron Jammers on the Moon and Earth, causing a serious energy shortage on the planet's surface. After that, ZAFT invaded the Moon. At the Endymion Crater's Grimaldi front, ZAFT's mobile suit battalions completely annihilatedthe 4th Federation Space Armada. The PLANTs and the Federation are now embroiled in an all-out war.
Minato: ... This is terrible!
Prospector:That explains why they were so eager to take the Nadesico by force. We're fortunate to have escaped before war broke out in the Earth Sphere.
Yurika:Fortunate? Why?
Prospector:If we were delayed, we could've been atacked by ZAFT, too.
Yurika:But...
Fukube:Captain, we won't be able to do anything about it until we return. More importantly, with the hostilities between ZAFT and the Federation being what they are, our roles are now all the more important. There's no chance of the Earth Sphere sending anyone to Mars in the near future.
Yurika:Oh, you're right!
Calvina:That's strange...
Ruri:Yes, it is.
Yurika:Huh? What is?
Ruri: Even with the beginning of hostilities, there was no Jovian presence at the Grimaldi front. They always gathered there before the conflict.
Yurika:Hmm. Is it me, or does it seem like they didn't want to get caught in the cross-fire? Maybe the lizards decided that it would be better to let us kill each other.
Ruri:But that would suggest they're capable of high-level tactical judgment.
I dunno about high level. Seems pretty basic to me.
Fukube:Is it possible they're learning?
Ruri: It is. Taking that theory into account, I believe they will not try to attack us seriously until we reach Mars. What do you think, Captain?
Yurika:Well... Ruri, you say lots of serious stuff, Especially for a child...
Ruri: I'm not a child. I'm a young lady.
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Minato: Buuuut... what if it was all a coincidence?
Ruri: Yes. There is also a chance of that being the case.
Yurika:Hm... Oh, yeah, what are those Neutron Jammer things you mentioned?
Ruri:They appear to be ZAFT's new weapons. They have the power to nullify nuclear fission within its effective range in addition to causing electromagnetic interference. The principle they work upon is unknown. They effectively nullified the UEFA's nuclear weapons, and have created power and food crises across the globe.
Yurika:I see. Well, atl east it'll stop both sides from killing themselves in brightly-colored nuclear flashes!
Prospector:Yes, I suppose that is a relief.
Megumi:Well, er... I think I'm going to enter this information into the ship's internal network. Here we go...
And there we have it! CHOICES!
We have 42935 cash.
And we have a servo motor and a Booster to add to a robot or two. Some have 2 slots, some have 4. Generally the worse a robot is, the more likely it is to have 4 slots. The servo adds 5 to mobility (dodging, remember) and the booster adds 1 to the movement score.
Upgrade cash chart here. Once more, feel free to be as complex or shallow as you like. I've got a (tenuously defined) system, don't you worry.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
GO TO IT!
EDIT: Also, robot roll call updated, and you have two days to do this. ANNNND of course if you want any unit information, just say so.
Post by: EuchreJack on April 06, 2012, 09:37:12 pm
Anyone else tend to default to hearing Calvina as Motoko? I'm sure it's not accurate, but it's what I do when reading Calvina talk.
Post by: Seriyu on April 06, 2012, 10:46:20 pm
Calvina
Melee - 149 Defense - 97 Evade -127
Range - 154 Ability - 177 Hit - 142
Spirit commands are currently focus and nothing else
Annnd a whole bevvy of abilities!
Hit&Away - Allows you to move after attacking, perfect for long range fighters
Potential lv1 - Lower HP = Higher Defensive stats
Supp. Def. lv1 - Can take a hit for another charecter, there was an example of this in the first version of mission 2, but oh well, each level makes the unit capable of performing one more defensive support a turn
Command lv1 - Raises stats of units within two squares of her unit
Combo lv1 - A complicated skill that has no use on her, as she has no combo weapons! I'll explain it when it comes up in the game.
Bellzelute
HP 3800/3800 EN 160/160
Terrain Air:A Ground:A Water:C Space:A
Movement 7, Size medium
Mobility 115, armor 1000
Repair cost 5000, no special abilities. Another thing I noted while looking at all this is all of it's O Rifle abilities use energy, the energy usage doesn't get too rediculous, even with the best attack, O Rifle A, but still something to consider. It also has weapons with ammo to fall back on too.
Post by: Seriyu on April 07, 2012, 09:42:04 pm
Post by: Frumple on April 07, 2012, 09:53:21 pm
Maybe some EN for Maizinger and Belz along with the weapon boost for Belz, too.
I miiiight have a bit of a hardon for not running out of dakka and go juice :P
Though it helps that EN's one of the cheaper upgrades, heh.
Post by: EuchreJack on April 08, 2012, 01:34:30 am
A bit more info about those items we got would help. From the sound of things, Nadeiseco probably would benefit most by a movement boost.
Post by: Seriyu on April 08, 2012, 08:02:46 pm
And another minor announcement, I MAY be posting updates a few hours later from here on out due to life stuff. Ideally it won't effect anything, and I will never actually post one later then I have been, but if I do happen to start posting them later, that's why. Update still scheduled for tomarrow, though!
Currently I'll be adding... I think 2, (About a 100 "power score" boost to each weapon), and throw a pip or two of EN on beelzelute, Mazinger Z, and Nadesico. If there are any MAJOR objections to this specific layout, lemme know.
Post by: Seriyu on April 09, 2012, 03:51:37 pm
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Ruri: The Nadesico's operation systems are highly automated. We don't need anyone present unless it's an emergency. The only operators on duty right now are Megumi from communications and myself.
Megumi: Honestly, it just leaves us with a lot of free time. What did you two want to ask?
Sayaka:It's been several days since we learned that PLANT and the Federation are at war. I was wondering if we had recieved any more news of the conflict.
Ruri:We've lost communications with the Earth Sphere. Since Nergal's relay base was on the Moon, there's a good chance it was destroyed by either ZAFT or the Jovian Lizards.
Koji:So we're in the dark 'til we get back to Earth?
Sayaka:I see... I wonder if Dad's all right...
Ruri: Enemy attack.
Sayaka: Huh?!
A blue pulse appears and recedes
Ruri: The Distortion Field is working at peak performance. We needn't worry about minor attacks. It should remain this way until we reach Mars.
Meanwhile in the hangar..
Calvina:...So I really can't get it to move on my own, huh?
Festenia:What're you up to, Calvina? Still wanna train?
Katia:We already told you Bellzelute can't be piloted alone.
Calvina: You're serious. Does it use a system akin to Combattler's brain-wave reader, then?
Katia:It's called Cytron Control. Using it, we link ourselves with Bellzelute. We're the only ones who can do it. Us... And them.
Calvina:The same ones who locked you three up in some kind of bizarre institution?
Katia: Correct... Maybe that's why. We don't know any of the details, but they did a lot of things to us while we were there. Still, now we're free, and we've taken Bellzelute as compensation.
Festenia: Well yeah, sure, but the first time we moved around in this thing was when that mystery man busted us out of there. Before that, we never even knew Cytron Control existed.
Melua: That's right. And we weren't permitted to ask any questions, either.
Calvina: Well, it's been proven that as long as you're with me, we can fight. Assuming we keep that in mind, the rest can wait. From what I can gather, though, you'd give your lives to protect this machine. If I fight with it, there's a chance it might get destroyed in battle. You... are aware of that, right?
Katia: That's a necessary evil. I understood the risk when I first saw you enter Bellzelute and suddenly understood how to pilot it. This machine can give you the power to fight again. In exchange, you'll have to protect both it and us.
Calvina: No guarantees. I'm not particularly attached to my life at the moment, unfortunately.
Kind've a downer.
Gai: Why the hell not?!
Calvina:Yama- ...Gai. This doesn't concern you.
GaiYou may have deceived all the others in that battle against the Federation, but Gai Daigoji's Eye of Justice will not be misled! I don't know anything about you bein an ex-UEFA ace pilot, but I saw immediately that you lack a warrior's spirit! Yes! I'm talking about the burning passion that overflows in a warrior's SOUL!
Calvina:...So what?
Gai:W-Well, I'm just sayin' that if you don't want to fight, then why're you going with us to Mars? I mean, y'know...
Calvina:Just because I don't care for my own life doesn't mean I don't care for the lives of the people around me. Don't worry. I'll do my job.
Gai:No no no! That's not what I'm talking about! I'm saying you need something to PROTECT! ...Well, at least you're gonna give it your best shot. You know what I mean! We'll protect the Green Earth from all those that would dare harm it! We'll stride into battle and-
Calvina: I'm sick of you AND that "Green Earth" garbage. Now scram!
Poor Gai was just trying to help the only way he knew how.
Festenia:Calvina, back there, on the moon...
Calvina:So you know about what happened to me, right? That Cytron thing did its job, all right.
Festenia:Maybe... I'm not so sure. I only found out all that stuff when I went inside Bellzelute with you.
Calvina: Don't bring it up again. Sometimes, people have things they'd rather not remember. I don't care what you make of the information, but... I won't forgive you if you mention it in public. Keep that in mind.
Festenia: Oh, um... Sorry! I won't talk about it anymore, so please don't be angry, Calvina. Pleeeeeaaase?
Melua: Stop this! I can't stand to watch you threaten Tenia like that!
Calvina: Just when I thought you were all being a little too quiet... ...Even Festenia's acting kinda weird. What is it with you kids, anyway?
Katia:Sorry. We'll do our best not to mention anything we learn about you, but... We have our own secrets to keep. too, so we wouldn't do something like that in the first place. Melua and tenia have their own fair share of awful memories. We didn't mean to hurt you by bringing it up, but-
Calvina:I know. That just came out wrong... I'm sure we're both having a hard time coping with all this.
Calvina isn't a terrible person, just kinda prickly. Understandable, given the circumstances.
The Nadesico approaches Mars...
Yurika: Akiitooooo! We're going to be arriving at Mars soon! Do you want to join me in the br- ...Are you doing something in there?! ...I'm coming in!
uhhhh
Yurika:What are you two doing?! And why are you clinging together like that?!
UHHHHH
Akito:Joe... *sniff* I can't believe he's dead! Gekiganger... I... *sob* ...I had no idea this show was so -good-!
Oh.
Yurika:Wha-?
Gai:That's the way a real man should die! In battle, protecting his friends... Man, I cry like a baby every time I watch it!
Yurika:Whaaaa...
Meanwhile on the bridge...
Ruri: We'll be reaching Mars' upper atmosphere soon.
Prospector:It's been almost two weeks since we left the Earth Sphere. We've done well to make it this far.
Akito:(I'm finally back on Mars. Hang in there, everyone...)
Noal:The only problem is knowing when the enemy's gonna attack us for real.
Megumi:What's that? It's almost like Mars is glittering...
Koji:Maybe it's an attack?!
Calvina:Those are nanomachine colonies. Been a while since I last saw 'em.
Festenia"Nao-whaaaat?
Ruri: Nanomachines. Small, self-replicating machines. They were built in order to change the atmosphere of Mars to be more like Earth's.
Kosuke:They don't just purify the atmosphere. They also keep out harmful cosmic radiation!
Prospector:They also improved the soil. They keep doing their work without even a word of thanks. I learned that when I was appointed sub-manager of Nergal's Mars branch.
The ship shakes.
Ryoko: Whoa, enemy attack?!
Yurika:Ruri, the Field!
Ruri:In working order... No damage. Still, this attack is different from the others. Mid-sized enemy ship detected. Presence of mobile weapons also confirmed. We need to counterattack.
Yurika:Battle stations, everyone! Ruri, put the Gravity Blast on standby! Let's blow em to bits! All pilots, head out as soon as you're ready!
Calvina:The target is the enemy warship. Ryoko, you take the Aestivalis squadron. The rest of you are to follow my lead. Numerous enemy units have been detected, so take care when deploying.
Ryoko:Roger that! *chuckle* This is great... I love this feeling of tension at the beginning of a battle. Let's go, guys! Formation Cluster Amaryllis!
Gai:[music note]Our dreams are calling out! For tomarrowwwwwww![music note] Gai Daigoji'll take mars back! Let's go! GAI! SUPER! UPPERRRRRR!
Gai smashes into the mazinger accidentally while grandstanding. Luckily it's a hefty thing and suffers no meaningful damage.
Koji:Whoa! What was that?!
Ryoko:Urgh, that Gekiga-dumbass! What the hell are you doing, you jerk?!
Izumi:This is Mars' upper atmosphere... a hellish, frozen vacuum. Why do I feel such excitement at the prospect of slaughtering those insect-lice machines...? Why...? Come on already. Scatter about and die, all of you!
Juzo:Hey, that chick in the Aestivalis is muttering to herself again!
Hikaru:Seems like Izumi got HARD BOILED all of a sudden!
Ryoko:Oh, she's a wierd one, all right! Better to just leave her be, if you ask me!
Akito:How can you people be having so much fun at a time like this?!
Minato:Well, I don't know... Maybe it helps to relieve tension?
Ruri:Idiots.
An offscreen battle is occuring during this conversation
Fukube:Captain, call them back. At this rate, the enemy ship will...
Yurika: Don't worry about it. Fight, Akito! You can do this!
Prospector:The enemy warship is equipped with a Gravity Blast Cannon, so take care to stay out of its firing range. That said, I think we're going to do fine when we get to Mars. With Nadesico's Phase Transition Engines, the Aestivalis, Mazinger Z, and Combattler V, along with Bellzelute, we should be able to defend against any assault.
The battle successful, they move on to mars.
Minato: We've passed the nanomachine colony. Descending into Mars' atmosphere.
Ruri:No enemy signatures for 30km.
Yurika:So we finally made it to Mars... Now what?
Ruri:Scanning from theupper atmosphere reveals there are no remaining lifeforms in the cities. The shelters also came up as destroyed.
Prospector:Nergal has a research institute at Olympus Mons. Its central structure is deep underground and possesses an excellent shelter. It's undoubtedly the best place to look for survivors.
Sayaka: What were they researching?
Prospector: You'll see when we get there. That place was the origin of the Nadesico... 30 years ago, when we discovered... "It."
Megumi: It...? Captain, we're receiving some kind of transmission. It's very weak, however, so don't expect clarity.
Akito:A transmission?! So there really ARE some survivors!
Yurika: Ruri, you can handle this one!
Ruri: Omoikane, play the message back, applying voice amplification and noise removal.
Omoikane:...UEFA warship, can you hear me? THis is Elizabeth Clabery of the Outer Space Development Group. UEFA warship, pelase respond!
Aki:Doctor Elizabeth?!
Yurika:You know her?
Noal: She's a member of the "Cosmic Culture Club" and... It seems she's all right. Man... I'm happy to hear that!
The ship heads for the distress beacon.
Noal:So these are all the survivors?!
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The practical class students, the staff, and everybody else were... Well...
Aki:No way... Only six people?!
Akito: What about the colonists from the city?!
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Simone:That's when we lucked into your descending ship.
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Roanne:I understand you're happy about being rescued arthur, but I don't think that's the only reason this ship is here, especially since they aren't affilliated with the military, but with Nergal. I don't think we're going back to Earth very soon... ...Isn't that right, Miss Captain?
Okay, big load of people here. Simone,David, Roanne, Anna, and Arthur are from Blue Comet SPT Layzner.
Yurika: That's right! We came to save the people of Mars. Please, tell us the location of the shelter!
Elizabeth: Before you think about that... I'm worried that the Jovian Lizards will-
Uribatake: Hey, there's a robot inside this thing! There's also a jerk-ass kid! He's not letting me get close, and he's carrying a gun, to boot!
Aki: What?!
Koji:Heh! These Outer Space Development people are pretty incredible, huh? I wonder when they had the time to put a robot together?
I like Koji, he's a nice fella and all, but he isn't terribly bright. Most super robot pilots aren't though, to be fair.
Noal: Oh gimme a break... I never heard anything about this!
Fukube: Dispatch a security detail at once.
David:P-Please, hold on!
Prospector: Do you have an explanation for this, Dr. Elizabeth?
Elizabeth: ...The only reason we're still alive is because of that boy and his weapon... ...An SPT called "Layzner". His name's Eiji Asuka. He has the blood of both Earth and Grados flowing in his veins... He's also our friend, a brave youth who abandoned his allegiance to his planet in order to save complete strangers like us.
Ruri:...What's this "Grados" thing?
Time passes as Elizabeth explains what Grados is.
Akito:So our enemy, the Jovian Lizards, are... humans?!
Hyoma:Dang... And I was so sure they were aliens chasing after the Earth, too!
Incidentally the plot of Combattler V (which is already completed at the beginning of the game), delt with combattler and defending the earth from aliens. Which is why Hyoma is so nutty about chasing down aliens.
Chizuru: So grandpa was right all along!
Prospector:Are you talking about the departed Prof. Nanbara?
Gai:Finally, the truth of the Evil Space Empire is revealed before our very eyes! Oooooh, this is makin' my passion burn hotter than ever!
Ryoko:Will you shut up?! Things are confusing enough without your commentary!
Calvina:We're the first ones to learn about their identities from the people of Mars. But I wonder... All Jovian weapons are unamnned, so why the change?
Elizabeth:That was also what we thought until two weeks ago... When they appeared. There were many survivors at the shelters until Then. But, after that...
David: ...The Gradosian Army appeared, to finish off any remaining survivors. Their Skullgunners searched for and massacred any humans they found. We were just about to die, too, when Eiji saved us. Because of that, we trust Eiji with our lives. He put his own life in danger to save ours.
Simone:After that was nothing but running, running, running... We ran for our lives. All we had left to believe in was the possibility of returning to Earth with Eiji.
Fukube:You're from Grados, eh... That means you're the same foe who destroyed Mars.
Akito:You're... the one who destroyed our Mars?! Dammit, let me at 'im!
Juzo:Hey! Don't do anything you'll regret later! Hyoma, help me out here! Hngh!
Akito:Grr... Because of you, Mars was...!
David:No, Eiji is our friend!
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Eiji is the main charecter of Blue SPT layzner. And he is an awesome fella. He's probably one of the most level headed and rational people in this game.
Earthling. Half the blood flowing through my veins is the same as yours.
Noal:Heh. Yeah, right! If you already betrayed your friends once, it's only a matter of time before you do it again!
Noal is kind've a dick again.
Aki: Noal, he wants to help us!
Eiji:...Then let me tell you that Grados is pursuing the Earth. They hide behind their unmanned weapons to instigate conflict. But once you exhaust your resources battling each other, their invasion will begin. We must return to Earth at once, and draft a plan to counter the Gradosians' advance. The Earth is my ancestral homeland. I want to spare it from further conflict, if only briefly.
Megumi:Oh my gosh, that means...
Ruri:...It's too late. The Earth Sphere is already immersed in conflict.
Elizabeth:What?! Aki, is that true?!
Aki: Just as we left the Earth Sphere, PLANT declared war on the Federation.
Anna:No way... What about the war against the Jovian Lizards?! Besides... Why would they...
Simone:...Because the guy leading the military is a dimwitted numbskull!
Jun:......
Minato:Anyoen who won't stand down is the enemy. That's the thought process you get when people like Gen. Colbert are in charge.
Chizuru:He even attacked us...
They leave the ship and explore the underground shelter below.
Megumi: So Akito, your hometown was in a place like this, huh? Wow... Were you the Captain's nighbor?
Akito:She was the daughter of a military official. I was... Just a regular student. Nothing special.
Megumi:But that doesn't matter when you're children! Honestly I'm a little worried about you and the Captain.
Akito: Huh...? No, I... Yurika and I are just childhood friends...
Hyoma:What're you just hanging around for?! Let's go!
They find more survivors.
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From Martian Successor Nadesico.
party for coming this far, but I'm afraid this is all we can manage at the moment. We do have some coffee, however.
Koji:This is it...? This is all that remains of the people living on Mars?!
Inez: That's right. These hundred people are all that remain. Allow me to explain. With the exception of this shelter (established and built by Nergal), the rest of the planet has been swept clean by new enemy weapons which have appeared relentlessly since two weeks ago. They intend to wipe us out, right down to the last.
Sayaka:How horrible...
Akito:But isn't this great?! There are still survivors! Listen, everyone! We came here to save you! We're going to take all of you back to Earth!
Megumi:Isn't it wonderful, Akito?
Hyoma:Now that we're here, everything's gonna be all right! You can rest easy, now!
Inez:(Really? I wonder about that...)
Yurika:N-No way! Why?
Inez:It's as I said. I'm the one who drafted the basic design plans for the Nadesico and sent them to Earth. That's how I know. She's an excellent ship, but... To think a single vessel is capable of taking on the Jovian Lizards (or perhaps it's more accurate to call them the Gradosian Army?)... At any rate, you simply can't win. Hence: why we have no intention of coming aboard this ship.
Yurika:But we've been fighting off the Jovian Lizards this whole time!
Akito:You just don't believe in us!
Inez:You truly don't know anything, do you? That half-blooded boy over there may know about the Tulip. Eiji, do you know what its relation is with the unmanned weapons?
EijiNo... The first time I saw it was when I arrivved here. I never saw anything like that on Grados, anyway. There's no record of them in my SPT's computer, either.
Inez:I see,I see... That's the extent of the trust our enemy holds for a half-blood soldier, I take it. It's almost as if they didn't want you along for the ride.
David:What did you say?!
Koji:W-Wait a sec!
Inez:I know what you're going to say. You're going to tell me this boy smuggled himself onto their warship and stole their new weapon single-handedly... And all for the Earth's sake. You people believe that, unlike the military, the Nadesico is powerful enough to save Mars all by itself? Ahhh, the incredible recklessness of ignorance!
Yurika:Um... Could you hold on just a moment, Ms. Fressange?
Inez:Don't mistake the folly of youth for the ability to do the impossible. No one here is a hero.
Hyoma:What's your problem, lady?! You think we're gonna just keep quiet while you breate us?!
Anna:How can you say such terrible things?! Eiji nearly died fighting for us!
Gai:Waiit a second! Are you doubting that I, Gai, am the destined hero of this age?!
Hikaru:Yes, yes, we get it. Now be quiet!
Wow, even Hikaru's yelling at him.
Ruri:Idiot.
Noal:If some of them want to remain here, fine. We came to confirm if there were survivors, And we'll take on anyone who wants to come with us.
Aki:Noal, don't tell me th-
An alarm goes off.
Ruri: Enemy attack. 5 large warships, 30 smaller models detected.
Yurika:Prepare to attack. Gravity Blast, standby!
Ruri:A Tulip 40km ahead of us is deploying reinforcements.
Calvina: A sizable number of ships, I see.
Hyoma:What the?! How the heck can they carry so many of those things?!
Inez:They're not being "carried." They're simply coming out... And there isn't going to be an end to them. Every last one of those enemy weapons is coming from somewhere else. No matter how strong you are, you simply can't beat that many units. Developing an effective operation without a clear idea of the enemy's true power is impossible. Well? What are you going to do now?
Noal:Hey, don't treat our situation like it's some kind of game!
I'm beginning to think Noal is just irritated that the series he represents doesn't have any good units in it yet.
Yurika:Ruri, deploy the Distortion Field immediately!
Megumi:Wait! If we deploy the Field now, the terrain below the ship will be crushed! All the survivors are still down there!
Yurika:Then I dunno, lift off and deploy it or something!
Minato:We can't. After we land, the ship needs time to prep for launch. We can't do it immediately.
Yurika:This can't be happening...
Ruri:The enemy ships are taking position directly above the Nadesico. Reinforcements continue to materialize from the Tulip.
Inez: Deploy the Field or take the attack head on. You can only choose one.
Prospector:Captain! Deploy the Field! Now!
Megumi:But Akito promised them! He promised we'd save the people down there, and bring them back! We have to!
Yurika:......
Akito:......
Koji:Dammit!
Ruri:Gravitational wave detected from enemy ship. Incoming Gravity Blast.
Calvina: I know it's difficult, but we don't have time to hesitate. Captain, do you intend to lead this ship and its crew to their deaths? Your indecision could cost us our lives!
Seems like a bad situation doesn't it?
Yurika:...Do it.
It is.
Ruri:Understood.
The Distortion field activates, and crushes the shelter below the nadesico
Yurika: Ugh...
Elizabeth: I can't believe it...
Inez:It was only a matter of time. Even if we hadn't deployed the Field, nobody could have survived an attack of that magnitude. At least we're alive. ...It seems you couldn't become heroes, after all.
Akito:......
Hyoma: Guh... This... SUCKS!
Chizuru: Hyoma...
Ruri:The enemy isn't pursuing.
Minato:But our regular engines took heavy damage. We're unable to leave the atmosphere without repairing them first. What are we going to do now?
Uribatake:THis is a disaster! C'mon, we have to figure something out!
Ruri:Mobile weapons descending from the upper atmosphere. No data found. They are probably the same as Mr. Asuka's SPT. Here's the image.
David:Dammit... They came. Roanne, Eiji!
Roanne:That's right. We have no other option but to take them on.
Sayaka:So that's the enemy...
Eiji:The Greimkaiser... It's Gale. We'll launch, too. I have to fight him. ...Please, Captain! Say something!
Ruri:Captain. Come on, Captain. We don't have time for you to feel sad.
Fukube:She's in no condition to do this. I'll take the command.
Yurika:I-I'm all right. Proceed with the attack! Scramble!
Calvina:The Gradosian Army's SPTs... They're manned weapons, I take it? We should greet them Katia, Get ready. We're launching.
Note we're using a different subpilot now, Katia, as opposed to Festenia. More on this later!
Katia:Right.
Mission tomarrow, featuring several new units, including a new A-lister, our new pal, Eiji! Stay tuned.
Post by: Seriyu on April 09, 2012, 09:59:16 pm
EDIT: Yeah, it's gonna be late. I may have to take a break for a day too, due to how my schedule's lined up. Fair warning.
Post by: Seriyu on April 10, 2012, 08:43:59 pm
Post by: Seriyu on April 10, 2012, 09:33:43 pm
Katia:Commencing ignition sequence. Starting up OS. Initiating Orgone Extractor activation. Cytron activation confirmed. Linkage rate is within tolerated levels. Output stabilized... Systems are all green! Bellzelute's activation is complete. We can launch whenever you want.
Calvina:Bellzelute, preparing for launch. Eiji Asuka... We've never fought an enemy like this before. We'll be counting on you for help.
Eiji:Understood.
Grados Sold.:Looks like the hairy monkeys are running away!
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but you also joined up with one of their warships! That ship was able to make it this far... We can't underestimate them!
Eiji:Gale...
Gale:Eiji, can you hear me? While we can overlook you smuggling yourself aboard one of our ships, the crime of stealing an SPT is another matter entirely. I can still intervene in your favor. As your brother-in-law, I don't want to think of you as a traitor. If you surrender now, it's not too late to redeem yourself.
Eiji:Forgive me, Gale. I can't.
Gale:Don't make me suffer, Eiji. You're confused! You've deluded yourself into thinking the Earthlings are your friends, but remember your heritage. You were born on the fertile plains of Grados. You're a Gradosian, Eiji!
Eiji:But half my blood is that of an Earthling!
Gale:There's nothing I can do, is there? I'll just have to take you back by force! All units commence attack. Exterminate the Earthlings!
Eiji:Enemy forces are beginning their attack. We have to intercept!
TURN ONE!
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Annnd we start. This mission will also be introducing another small mechanic, that I'll introduce when I pull off. We have four new units, the Baybull, a short-mid range real, The Buldy , a mid-long range real, ala coustwell with less attacks. Annnnd the SPT Eiji stole, Layzner. A very dodgy flexible mostly ranged real robot. All from Blue Comet SPT Layzner. The Aestivalises also aren't using their ground frames. Luckily I can fix this by moving them into the nadesico and switching frames there via the "exchange" option. Takes a turn and ten will, but given that there's no water on this map at all, it's probably worth the tradeoff. Nothing particularly flashy happens, so no screenshots. They also don't change appearence for this form, but they do for others.
I land everyone that does well on the ground, and move to the left to smash up that segment of the enemy force. Nobody gets in range, so turn end.
ENEMY PHASE
A skullgunner(Blue comet SPT layzner) attacks the nadesico, using AP cannon. The Nadesico also actually has a chance to miss it. THis is where the game stops messing around with you. The enemy robots actually have meaningful amounts of stats, admittantly not amazing amounts at this point, but it'll go up quick. On top of that we have an enemy boss unit. We'll get to him when we get there.
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The skullgunner gets what you'd expect for attacking a battleship. Meanwhile a battta attacks the baybull, with a 40% chance to hit without him evading, and thereby proves it is already becoming dangerously outdated. Poor thing. At least it had the sense to attack outside of it's attack range. Admittantly it's not hard to do, considering it's longest range weapon is 4 spaces, but I'm gonna let it have this.
Naturally, despite all my yammering, it still manages to hit. Another skullgunner does the exact same thing it's predecessor did and explodes for its trouble. Meanwhile, Eiji gets his first combat round! Let's watch.
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As you can see, Eiji is easily our dodgiest fellow right now. He's our first "real" real robot, in that his primary defense is not a barrier, like the aestivalis, but it's evasive maneuvers. It being a small size also helps. Now for Eiji's strongest attack, Calf Missle.
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This is an excellent start.
TURN TWO!
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Bellzelute attacks the batta that managed to nick Baybull last turn.
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Still no kill. Hmm. I suppose it was a middle strength attack, and it still almost one shotted it. Attack power is probably fine. Baybull finishes it with Knuckle Shot. Baybull's best attack, it also uses no ammo or energy! Pretty nice.
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Eiji almost picks off another batta with Calf Missle. Yeah, Bellzelute's attack power is doing fine, matching up with other units pretty well. Buldy gets his first turn and finishes off Eiji's batta. As seen here.
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Shoulder cannon has a range of 2-7, and hits like a truck. Pretty nice. Baybull and Buldy can also repair, as a note. Blue Earth flies in and repairs baybull. Aphrodite does the same thing. Nadesico heads down and smacks around a skullgunner with it's missles, almost killing it, and unloads the ground frames. All five pilots gain a level from this.
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Note, Akito here is using immediate knife, which is a melee attack. Since the ground frames can't fly, the vast majority of it's melee attacks can't hit flying enemies, like the greyed out skullgunner there. It has one exception.
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Wired knuckle! One of the only melee attacks that works on air units. The rest of the Aesti's deploy, and wreck three of the enemy units. Here is Gai demonstrating.
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The famed Gai Super Upper. Was it worth it? Eh. Mazinger moves up and bashes a Batta with a Rocket Punch.
ENEMY PHASE
The commander's vanguard in the lower left corner start to move towards our forces. A katonbo attacks Ryoko, and misses.
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Note the "gai:1/1" in the lower right hand corner. This means he'll hop in and take a hit for Mazinger. 1/1 is how many times he can do this a turn, in this case once. Since he's got a pretty hefty barrier, I'll take him up on that.
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Definatly worth it. A batta leaps into the fray, attacking mazinger and getting roasted with photon beam for the trouble.
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Perhaps the ideal eye laser weapon. I approve. More dudes jump Mazinger. Let's get a decent shot of Breast Fire while we're at this.
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One shotted again.Koji get's a level for it. A batta leaps at Mazinger and gets wrecked, activating MAZINPOWER. Still no shot. The text is up for a startlingly small amount of time. It raises his offense by 25%. Activates at 120 will. Very nice.
TURN THREE!
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I move the Nadesico and Aesties towards the "elite" units in the lower left. The Nadesico tags the rightmost Katanbo with some missles. The Aesties move in and pound the crap out of it with wired fist attacks, with Mazinger landing the killing blow with rocket punch. As a note, Hikaru took a hit, and took about 2.5k damage. Gai took a hit, and took about 800 damage. This is the difference a charecter that is well statted for the defense it is using makes.
Calvina and Katia move in and attack a braver with shot launcher. It has a 22% chance to get hit by the braver, as opposed to the 60% it was having last match against a batta. HMMMM. Maybe size difference.
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Takes out the majority of his health, despite being our second strongest attack. Nice. Maybe battas are just heavily armored. Baybull heads south, and nails a katanbo with his lasered Rifle. A common attack among most humanoid blue comet SPT layzner units.
Aphrodite A moves in and finishes healing Baybull, blue earth moves down towards the main force. Layzner and combattler finish off the right end of the enemy forces.
ENEMY PHASE
A braver, (blue comet SPT Layzner) one of the "elite grunts" moves in on the Nadesico and Knuckle Shot's it.
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Being an elite grunt isn't all it's cracked up to be, at this point. The rest of the bravers dogpile the Nadesico, killing two of thme, and setting up the other two to be finished off next turn.
The remaining katanbo attacks Aphrodite A, David takes the attack, and she counters with missles. A dimage rushes in and attacks Aphrodite again. David can't take this one for her, so she defends.
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Note that this mech has a notable pilot. THis makes all the difference. The Greimkaiser rushes Aphrodite A too, she defends again. Not Sayaka's lucky day I guess.
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TURN FOUR!
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Now, for a secret. A secret is an event, that, after performing a ton of other related activities throughout the game, will unlock a secret unit later in the game. THis is the first step in this particular secret. Let Eiji talk to gale.
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Eiji:Gale, please! You have to stop this!
Gale:Eiji, if you're not going to surrender, then I've no choice but to shoot you down. Please, don't make me do it...
Eiji:I just... I can't abandon them, Gale!
Gale:You fool! I'll bring you back alive for Julia's sake, but nothing says you have to be unharmed. Prepare yourself, Eiji!
Eiji:Gale, why?!
After that exchange, the secret is completed for this stage. Some stages have more then one secret, and they are often subtly hinted at through the plot and usually result in "non canon" activities that didn't happen in the show.
Bellzelute fires off O rifle A at the Dimage, hits, and nearly one shots it. Yep, we're doing fine on firepower. Baybull finishes the job, and being a plot important charecter, Karla escapes, rather then exploding.
Buldy hits the katanbo with shoulder cannon, contributing to whittling it down. Meanwhile, combattler attacks a braver, and finishes it.
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Izumi finishes off the last braver, and Gai attacks Gale, with Gekigan shot.
Gai: I'm gonna return peace with my own two hands! As long as Gai Daigoji is here, the evil Gradosians'll never have their way! LET'S GO, GEKIGANGER!
Gale:Blasted Earthlings! You think you can beat me with raw power? Fools!
Many units will have special dialogue with notable enemy pilots. It's usually pretty good stuff. I'll be noting what I see during the playthrough. Gai is destroyed in the counterattack, and misses his attack, thereby resulting in our first loss of the game! Hooraaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy, wait
While Koji would be in range of gale after moving, he has a 52% chance to hit him, and no accuracy increasing spirits right now. this is the big drawback of super robots, and koji inparticular. As a result he just moves up towards the katanbo and doesn't take a shot at Gale. Akito attacks Gale, and...
Akito:Because of you... Because of you, Mars is...! Damn!
Gale: Hmph! Your moves are far too imprecise. This is as far as you go, it seems.
Akito hits gale, and while he had a 14% chance or so to be hit, still gets hit. He barely survives. RNG is upset at something I see. Ryoko follows Akito's lead, maybe she'll be more fortunate...
Ryoko:You're the real face of the Jovian Lizards?! You bastard!
Gale:We can't let anyone who sees us, return alive. You may be a woman, but I will show you no mercy!
She is ALSO HIT at a 34% chance, but causes him to retreat. by reducing his HP into the "danger zone", usually 10% or lower. I meant to get a set of screenshots for the "Final battle" but it can be hard to tell when he's going to run early or run after he loses all his HP. Oh well.
Gale:Looks like this is as far as I go. Eiji... I see how determined you are to follow your own path, but there will be no mercy next time. All units, retreat.
The remaining Katanbo and Gale fall back.
Eiji:Forgive me, Gale...
Ruri:Second wave, approaching.
[Rei intro]
Rei is the computer of the Layzner, Blue comet SPT Layzner obviously, and well that's about it.
Eiji:What?!
Several ships teleport in.
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Thanks to you, I get to spend some quality time monkey hunting! Hyaahahaha!
Eiji:Lt. Gosterro?!
Gosterro:Earthlings are miserable insects with no place in the universe. First I'll destroy your ship, and then I'll kill every last one of you. ...Slowly. I'm gonna enjoy gutting you and ripping you to shreds! Hyaahahaha! Eiji, it's time for you to realize how pointless this all was!
Eiji:I only want to prevent a meaningless war!
Gosterro:Enough with the speeches! Don't lump me together with Gale, who gets all soft after just a few words! You're here, and you're going to DIE! Gyahahhah! I can hardly wait to see Julia's sobbing face when she finds out!
Yeah, gosterro's kind've a freak.
Second wave, as usual. I'll be hanging back and doing what repairing I can, besides, with all the cliffs around it's a pretty nice position anyway.
ENEMY PHASE
Everything moves closer to us. I'm gonna just fast forward to when they've made contact, as I'm not gonna be doing anything aside from minor positioning and repairing. SOOOOO...
One turn later, an AP gunner attacks combattler and gets one shotted in return with big blast. A batta attacks nadesico, and similarly, is one shotted. More enemies dive into the grinder! Have some screenshots I guess.
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I mean really, they're not even doing much damage to combattler.
TURN SIX!
[missed this set of maps because they looked litterally exactly the same as the next map screen, and I thought I got a copy accidentally. Huh.]
A few units had already moved, I forgot I was getting a map shot. Most of them didn't move much, only ones that did anything much were the two northmost ones, David and Eiji.
Bellzelute fires at a distant skullgunner, and misses with a 90% chance to hit. I rush Eiji and David (Baybull) up to a nearby cliff and one shot two battas with knuckle shot. After that, I end turn.
ENEMY PHASE
A skullgunner flies up and is one shotted by combattler's EM Yoyo. Then a Katonbo flies up and does the sime, minus being one shotted.Batta attacks Nadesico, One shotted. Both Combattler pilots and nadesico pilots gained a level from this. Megumi got Break, which is an interesting skill that will be very useful later on. I'll explain it when what it breaks actually shows up. Another skullgunner suicides combattler. The second katanbo charges at him too, I have him defend since he's at about 1/3rd his max health at this point. Another batta kills himself on the Nadesico. Calvina one shots a skullgunner, levels up. Katia gains break too! I'll be. Buldy almost oneshots a skullgunner. I have blue earth finish off buldy's for him, and noal and aki level up for it! Noal finally gets focus, his first directly defensive skill.
So, in a turn, the entire enemy force litterally threw itself into combattler and exploded.
Again, this does get a bit rougher later on, and you'll just have to trust me on this, it'll get interesting here in a few missions, when bosses with special abilities and such show up. Really all gale had going for him was that he hit damn hard and dodged just as well. Eventually even grunts will be dodging and taking hits better, and then things will get more interesting. I pass the turn to repair more while gosterro and his two "Braver" buddies close the distance, as the aestivalises are still in bad shape.
ENEMY PHASE
Both katanbos attack the nadesico and get half their max HP chopped off in retaliation. Excellent.
TURN EIGHT!
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Bellzelute attacks a katanbo with O Rifle A. Bellzelute is really pretty awesome for holding a defensive position, and what with all the reinforcements we'll be getting, and my poor defensive habits this'll likely come in handy.
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Not quite a one shot, but it is a battleship, with a barrier to boot. I have mazinger Z rust hurricane the very same katanbo, lowering it's armor. Eiji And David take his lead and finish it off, and start work on the second katanbo. I then have Combattler V's pilot, Daisuke, use Guts, which restores all of a robot's health, then rush it with EM spin, finishing it. All that's left is Gosterro and his two buddies. More repairing occurs.
ENEMY PHASE
One of the bravers hits Layzner, and attacks with a lasered rifle.
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Eiji counters and almost kills it. Again, your generic grunt is going to be closer to your "elite grunt" in just a few missions, and I feel that's about where it should be.
TURN NINE!
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I MOVED AGAIN DAMNIT, Calvina moved up and attacked the weakened braver with shot launcher, since no one was in range of any O rifle attacks. The rest repaired, and I don't think they moved at all. Incidentally it's situations like this where the Aestivalis suffers. They can't leave the battleship for long if they don't want their damage to suffer, So in defensive battles they just kinda have to hang back and wait for enemies to come to them, which usually doesn't happen due to all the other robots. They have an artillery frame for exactly this reason, and while the range is nice, it's not nice enough to outrange the intercepting units very often. And equipping it makes them less effective at breaking into the terrain. Trade off, and all that.
Good for breaking into some nice terrain bonuses, but not so good otherwise.
ANYWAY, Eiji one shots the remaining Braver with his calf missles. Gosterro is all that's left.
ENEMY PHASE
Gosterro rushes up and attacks Eiji. He's got a 67% chance to hit eiji, so that's pretty worrysome. We have him evade. I feel if it hits, it might one shot eiji, so I definatly don't want that happening, as that'll end the mission.
Eiji:How dare you kill people for fun, Gosterro!
Gosterro:Ha! If it isn't the traitor's cub! You can play innocent all you want, but I'll still tear you limb from limb!
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Luckily, he dodges. 30% is definatly in that range of "almost threatening, but not quite enough to be reliable", so those ironically are the situations you dislike the most. You can't really predict it, which is a key factor in a lot of these games.
TURN TEN!
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Let's finish this up! Bellzelute attacks with O Rifle A, which should Kill him. And it does.
Calvina:Argh... THis one's strong, too!
Gosterro:Oooh, let's have some fun, girl! Heeeeeheeheehee!
She got a level from that combat, and got Snipe, which increases range of all weapons except ones with 1 range, by 2. Very nice for bellzelute. She also gets a level in support attack, which is of questionable usefulness.
Gosterro: What?! Dammit... You monkeys have more luck than you know what to do with! Don't worry, though... I'll return the favor twice over!
He escapes.
Ruri:Enemy units in surrounding area: zero.
Prospector:Well, well... It seems we've overstayed our welcome.
Elizabeth: Yes, but what choice do we have?
Minato: That was the Gradosian Army, huh...
Perhaps the least competant army I have EVER SEEN. at least 70% of the attacking force crashed into combattler and exploded.
Inez:You can bet they'll be back with reinforcements.
Fukube: Captain.
Yurika: Recover all units. Advance at maximum speed while deploying the Field.
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So, Gai went down so we have to pay 4000 cash to repair his unit. Oh well.
Following this post, a brief note for future updates!
Post by: Seriyu on April 10, 2012, 09:36:30 pm
My distraction also ended up taking longer then I thought it would, and there's still a few days of it left this week, SO, no more updates for another... three days. Luckily after this week I'll be able to get back to doing this "full time", and I can continue. So, until then!
Sorry for the abruptness of this, but it did kind've swoop in on me. Nothing serious though, so don't worry about that.
While we're in this break, if you have any criticisms about my current update layout, (Too many pictures, not enough, too much yammering, not enough, etc) lemme know! I'll take them into account.
Post by: EuchreJack on April 11, 2012, 12:12:02 am
Aside from the repair costs, what are the penalties for losing a unit?
I know in some games they take away all experience earned in mission, do they do that here?
Post by: Seriyu on April 11, 2012, 03:57:54 pm
Post by: Seriyu on April 13, 2012, 06:57:09 pm
Post by: Seriyu on April 14, 2012, 04:36:26 pm
Post by: Seriyu on April 14, 2012, 04:52:24 pm
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Just being in their presence makes me a little misty-eyed...
Noal: Damn, though! Who would've thought you kids could fight like that?
David:It was too hard for Eiji to protect us by himself so he taught us how to pilot SPTs.
Roanne: Right. Eiji captured 3 units, but he's only one man. We've done our best to help him by training ourselves in SPT combat.
Gai: Nice! You kids have some serious guts! And guts? Why, that's what TRUE passion's all about!
Festenia:Great job, guys! You were awesome out there!
Katia:Hmm? What's the matter, Calvina?
Calvina:Can I speak to you for a moment, Eiji Asuka?
Eiji:...What is it?
Calvina:You gave the enemy several chances to escape during your attacks. I understand how you feel about your former comrades, and I admire your skill in even being able to pull something like that off, but if you continue, you're only going to get yourself killed.
Eiji:I know, but please, allow me to explain...
Chizuru:So... Everyone who lived on Mars is now dead...
Aki:Yes... It's such a shame that things turned out this way. The worst part was that horrible situation Capt. Misumaru got thrown into...
Ryoko:Yeah, that's for sure.
Noal: Hey bridge. This is Noal. The Captain there?
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Noal:Well, it's like... I was worried from the start about your dependability. Hell, it wouldn't be a stretch to say that I was a total jackass! So I mean, I wanted to apologize. You're one helluva Captain, and lemme tell you: what happened earlier wasn't your fault! Whatever you do, don't let it drag you down, okay?
Eyyy, Noal isn't so bad after all.
Yurika:Yeah... Thanks for your concern.
Noal:Geez, she's in a funk, all right. Hey, Akito, go cheer her up!
Akito: W-why me?!
Sayaka:Isn't it obvious? You're the only one here who can console the Captain.
Koji:Yeah, you saw how depressed she is. C'mon!
Ryoko:Just go talk to her already, Tenkawa!
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Yurika:Akito... What did we come to Mars for? I'm sorry... So, so sorry. I couldn't help anyone...
Akito:Yurika... We were able to save David, Anna and the others. Ms. Inez, too. We also met up with Eiji and discovered the true identity of our enemy. Nothing we've done has been even close to a waste. We're doing the right thing.
Yurika:Thank you for saying that, Akito... THis is the first time you've shown me that wonderful, caring side of you since you boarded the Nadesico.
Akito:You dummy, I'm just... ...Hold on. THis isn't like you.
Yurika:Akito, you... love me, right?
Akito:W-What are you talking about?! This isn't the time for that!
Yurika:Will you tell me to keep going? Just like long ago, when you looked at me with those gentle eyes of yours and told me to keep going... If you tell me that now, I think I'll be able to hang in there for just a little longer...
Akito:(Just like... long ago? I don't remember saying that, Yurika. You need to stop twisting your memories just to suit yourself. ...Oh, whatever. Fine.) Yurika, keep on going. I'll help you as much as I can. Let's take the Nadesico back to earth and show the world what we can do! Please, Yurika... Hang in there!
D'aww.
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END. We currently have....
A servo motor - Mobility +5, raises dodging ability. For reference your average mobility score is 100 or so, so 5 is a larger boost then you'd think. Still not terribly amazing. Is a part, so equips to robots.
A Chobham Armor - Adds 500 HP, and 100 armor. Average armor score is 1000. Also a part.
Annnd we have two modules, a defense +5 and an Evade +5. They equip to pilots and both do exactly what they say. +5 to defense and evade.
And on top of all this, 44270 credits to spend.
Annd I'll just go ahead and assign BP, because I keep forgetting about it, and really there's nothing too neat you can do with it aside from, like frumple said, work on strengths. For the next intermission I'll get us a nice chart of units that have upgrades, and how much.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
MAKE YOUR DECISIONS! This will resume in two days. (Which is also conviniently when the severe weather around here will stop.)
Post by: Frumple on April 14, 2012, 11:55:33 pm
Anyway, remember that guy (E... something. Names, bah.) being pretty helpful throughout, so a little cash thrown 'is mech's way probably wouldn't hurt.
Item wise, just throw whatever where'er. The lower number stuff's never really been particularly noticeable t'me. I usually dump chobhams on whatever has the lowest HP (That I actually intend to launch, anyway.). Maybe the blue earth or whatev'.
Post by: Seriyu on April 15, 2012, 04:35:55 pm
No time for a full update actually, but I'll go ahead and update the robot roll call, as I've just realized I forgot that yesterday.
Robot roll call is up! More wonderful animations.
Post by: TempAcc on April 17, 2012, 04:21:21 pm
Still an enjoyable LP though.
Post by: Seriyu on April 17, 2012, 05:06:55 pm
And yeah, mazinger has been in, I'm pretty sure every single super robot wars game, seeing the plot get played out so often is kinda getting old. It could skip a game or two, as much as I like the design of it. :P
Post by: Seriyu on April 17, 2012, 07:23:43 pm
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Simone:We don't have a choice, Arthur. Everyone else is in shock, too, so stop whining.
Arthur:But just when I thought we were saved, we... Oh God, WHY?!
Geez, dude, chill. You do have several giant robots onboard. It could be worse.
Anna:...What are we going to do now?
David:It'll be all right, anna. Don't worry. As long as Eiji is with us, we'll be fine.
Anna:Yeah...
Prospector:If it's any consolation, we're not just waiting around.
Fukube:You have a plan then?
Prospector:We'll head to a Nergal reasearch institute at the North Pole. Confirming its condition was one of our goals, but we've been unable to check it out so far for obvious reasons. I believe heading there now will be the best chance we have to find spare parts for our engines.
Minato:But the North Pole is so far away...
Kouji:Not to mention that the Tulips and SPTs will be all over us. Can we really do it?
If Kouji's worried about it, you know it's serious. Maybe Arthur was right to be so worried. Hmm.
Elizabeth:Eiji, what do you think?
Eiji:The SPT force deployed on Mars is only an advance force, with clearing out the survivors as their primary mission. It should be impossible for a force that small to cover the entire planet, so I think we have a good chance. Still, the longer we wait around, the sooner their main force will arrive. We have to return to Earth before that happens!
Katia:No matter which path we take, we'll either meet with the enemy or be unable to escape the Martian Sphere. I think the time has come for a gamble.
Calvina:I want to get out of here, and this is the only real plan we've got. I'm for it.
Gai:Even you kids are rising up to answer our desperate plea! A daring and dangerous gamble to save us from death in the nick of time! Oh my GOD, it's just one BLAZING situation after the other!
Uribitake:Who're the "kids" in this situation, exactly?
Hyoma:All right, then. What are we going to do, Captain?
Yurika:Well, dying here is out of the question, so... Let's do it, everyone! Don't you agree, Admiral?
Fukube:Fine. I'll follow your lead, Captain.
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David:You said it! We have to return to Earth with Eiji at all costs!
Simone:Yeah! There's no way we'll give up now!
Roanne: We've only been scraping by so far... From here on, we'll be taking our chances.
Aki:We also have to return to warn the Earth Sphere of the Gradosians' advance force.
Yurika:That's right! And it's all for the sake of the love between me and Akito!
Akito:Huh? What the heck are you talking about?!
Noal:Hey, Akito. I know that sometimes a guy just needs encouragement, but... ...Your lady's a little bonkers, isn't she?
Megumi: How tactless! Seriously though, Akito... Is the Captain telling the truth?!
Ryoko:Yeah, hey! Explain yourself, Tenkawa!
Akito:I-I didn't say anything!
Yurika:He doesn't need to say a word. His love for me is self-evident! That's why I'll do my best to protect the Nadesico... For the sake of our love!
Akito:Heyyyy, wait a minute!
Hikaru:I'm just wondering how far you two have already gone with this... Wink, wink!
Megumi:Ooh, I want to know, too! Akito, please! Tell us everything!
Ryoko:Tenkawa, you dog!
Incidentally, there are little bonuses in combat segments, one of them is a "love bonus", akito and yurika have one for each other, Ryoko has one for Akito, but Akito only has a "friend" bonus for Ryoko. So if you've been getting that vibe from Ryoko, you're dead on! I'll be going more in depth about those bonuses in the next combat segment.
Akito:I didn't do anything! ...And quit elbowing me in the ribs, Hikaru!
Sayaka:Seems like the Captain's back to being herself. That's a relief!
Hyoma:Yup! Small consolation at a time like this, but whatever.
Juzo:If you ask me, I think she may have regressed a little TOO much...
Jun:Oh, Yurika...
Chizuru:I don't think Capt. Misumaru is a bad person, but...
Kouji:...She isn't totally sane, either. An interesting girl, that's for sure.
Ruri:Nothing but idiots...
Anna: Huh? Ruri, did you say something?
Ruri:No one here seems to understand the severity of our situation.
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I'd like to mention, Simone is a lady, in case the portrait is throwing you off.
Ruri:It's because I'm already an adult. You wouldn't understand.
Meanwhile, near the... vending machines? On a warship? Well whatever I guess.
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Melua:Really? What makes you say that?
Noal:Seriously, kiddo. I figured something like this would happen from the start... I know this may seem short-sighted, but we were only able to rescue seven people in the end. That means we technically fulfilled our duty, but...
Calvina:Everything will be fine if we manage to get back to Earth. That's all we can do at the moment, anyway. It's just like Inez said... Nobody can become a hero here. (That's right... I've come to realize that for myself yet again. Just like that day I fought on Mars...)
Aki:Why are you on the Nadesico, Calvina?
Calvina:I had nothing better to do with my life, so I accepted the contract. Along the way I've ended up with these girls and Bellzelute in my protection. That's about it. Whether I live or die... *shrug*
Festenia:Oh, don't say that! You're gonna return to Earth with us, so just hang in there, Calvina! Please, you gotta help us protect Bellzelute!
Calvina:I've already told you. There's no guarantees. Besides, we're not exactly in an exceptionally positive situation right now.
Festenia:But-!
Noal:Give it a rest, sweetie. So... Aki, whaddaya say to you and me sneaking into a shelter all alone and becoming Mars' new Adam and Eve? Eh? Eh?
Aki:Noal, now isn't the time for jokes.
Katia:Besides, if you leave the Nadesico now, the gradosian anti-personnel weapons will get you for sure.
Noal:Hey, way to give a guy a cold shower... Sheesh! I can't even tell a joke 'round these parts!
Aki:Still, I'm sure we'll be all right. Capt. Misumaru was so upbeat...
Calvina:Despite her character problems, the girl is strong.
Noal:That doesn't sound a little negative to you? "Despite being crazy"...
Calvina:I'm confident it's not worth worrying about. There aren't many people out there who can control their emotions the way she can. I... I definatly can't, for example...
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Off to the cafeteria.
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Hyoma:What about my Martian Bowl, Akito?
Gai:Don't forget mine, too! The burning passion is building within me! ...Wait, no. Just hunger.
Festenia:Me too! Me too!
Katia:You want even MORE, Tenia?
Akito:All right, All right! Just hang on, okay?! I'm only one man!
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Uhhh, kay.
Bunny Yurika:It's time for "The How and Why of the Nadesico"!
Koji:W-What the?!
Sayaka:Is... Is that Ruri and the Captain...?
Big sis Ruri:Do all of you know how the Nadesico moves?
Bunny Yurika:This rabbit here doesn't have the slightest idea! Hey, Sis! Tell me! How does it move?
Jun:Aww, they're adorable... ...No way! What the heck is THAT supposed to be?
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Poor Eiji.
Inez:Go on, Eiji! You're doing great!
David:Eiji?! They roped him into this, too?!
Simone:Yow! Look at that, Anna! Eiji's so shy. Who knew he had a cute side?
In the communications room...
Noal:Looks like Ms. Fressange caused a real uproar with this little project of hers.
Prospector:It's a waste of precious energy. Considering our current circumstances, we should be saving it. Frugality is essential. If we make it through this, I'm cutting your little experiment from the operating budget!
Aki:Still, I never thought she'd be the type to put this kind of thing together...
You can say that again.
Bunny Yurika:Guys, please don't scold me! You should be defending my actions before the crew!
Noal:But... This is... Man, I don't even have the words.
Bunny Yurika:I-I... C-Can't you see how much work we put into this?!
Aki:...Well it's got some decent production values, I guess.
Bunny Yurika:...?!
Eiji:Heheheheh... Hahahaha! I can't stop laughing Eiji, the look on your face was precious! I mean, good grief! Who convinced you to get in THAT costume?! What if a Gradosian saw you wearing that?!
Costume not pictured.
Eiji:No, you don't understand. I... I said I wanted to help.
Bunny Yurika:Anyway, Prof. Fressange is the one responsible, so-
Inez:This isn't what I had in mind at all.
Big Sis Ruri: Idiot.
Bunny Yurika: Huh?
Inez:I simply wanted to answer a few questions the crew might have had about the Nadesico, and I asked for Eiji's cooperation to help explain a few facts about the Gradosians and SPTs.
Prospector:Is that so? ...I approve, but please try not to waste so much energy next time... I beg of you!
Inez:Despite the problems with the show, we managed to explain our current situation.
Hyoma:Wow, you were responsible for that mess? Not something I'd admit to, but hey...
Inez:Just so you know, I'm different from those... half-hearted people. Next time will be much better.
Koji:No need to tell us! We know. You're different, all right.
Sayaka:H-Hold on, Koji...
Inez:I lost my memories when I was but a little girl. I was discovered in the Martian desert, and knew not a soul... In the end, I almost lost my will to live. That's why I have no intention of returning to Mars, despite living most of my life here...
Chizuru:Oh, no... That's horrible Ms. Fressange!
Festenia:(... Maybe Calvina is the same way? What happened on the Moon musta drained her will to live... But then, what can I do to help her...?
Inez:But that doesn't mean I won't cooperate. Besides, you're Mr. Tenkawa's son, are you not? The one from Utopia Colony?
Akito: You knew him?
Inez: Yes. You're the reason I chose to board this ship.
Akito:... What do you mean? What does me being here have to do with you coming along?
Inez: Today's not the time to explain. Just remember. This ship is one of a great many mysteries...
Meanwhile, on the bridge.
Megumi: Looks like we made it to the North Pole in one piece! Minato, did you understand anything in that show we saw earlier?
Minato:Hmm... Not much! Still, it was a real surprise to find out the Nadesico was made from technology found right here on Mars! Ruri was adorable, too!
Ruri:...Idiot. ...Captain, we've picked up a Federation ship's ID code. Confirmed. It's the escort vessel, Crocus.
Remember that? Check the second battle update if you don't! It got sucked into a Tulip before the battle started.
Yurika:The Crocus...? I remember hearing that name before, but... ...Jun, what's the matter?
Jun:Come on, Yurika. That was the same ship that got sucked into a Tulip just before we left the Earth Sphere, wasn't it?!
Megumi:But then... What's it doing here on Mars?
Inez:Allow me to explain. As I said before, the Tulip acts as a wormhole. Think of it as a kind of gate. No surprise that a ship swallowed by a Tulip on Earth would turn up here on Mars.
Roanne:Interesting. Perhaps we'll find something useful? Let's send a team to investigate.
Prospector: We can't permit that. We have an objective to complete. Besides, if the nearby Tulip sends anything at us...
Yurika:But we have to look for survivors!
Fukube:Wait, Captain. Mr. Prospector, you make several good points, but I have the final say. Let's search the Crocus. Is it all right if the Blue Earth leads the charge?
Noal:I'm fine with the investigation part. Leave me out of the rest, though...
Akito:.....
Yurika:Akito, hurry!
Akito:...Admiral, there's something I have to ask you. It concerns the Supreme Commander of the first Martian engagement all those years ago...
Yurika:What's wrong, Akito? Everybody knows it was Adm. Fukube here!
Akito:Yes, I know. He was the great hero who shot down the Tulip. But, at the same time... Thanks to him, the Tulip fell and wiped out an entire colony! Thanks to this bastard, my hometown was reduced to rubble!
Inside the Crocus...
Noal: Wow! Just look at this place!
Inez:Indeed. It's as if the Crocus was frozen solid before its disappearance from the Earth Sphere. I don't think we'll find any survivors...
Aki:Still... I wonder what happened?
Akito:...Why the hell did you have to take me along?!
Fukube:I believe it is to make amends for trying to assault me, Mr. Tenkawa.
Megumi:Not good! We've confirmed an approaching enemy armada! SPT's are being deployed from the upper atmosphere... It's only going to get worse from here, so please return as soon as you can!
Akito: Dammit, why did you make us come out here?!
Noal:We don't have time for this. Let's hurry back to the Blue Earth!
Fukube: Feel free. I'll be staying behind.
Aki:Admiral, what are you planning to do?
Fukube: If I can manage to start up the Crocus, our firepower will increase exponentially.
Aki: But that's too dangerous!
Fukube: I've already made up my mind. Hurry!
Koji:They came, did they? Gradosian bastards!
Gai:Far as I can tell, this is something of a serious problem for us! With my blazing fury, and undying friendship, however, we shall overcome it with ease!
Calvina: Katia, prepare to scramble.
Katia: We're ready on this end. Melua will head out with you.
Calvina: Are you all right with that, Melua?
Melua:Yes. Start-up complete. We can go as soon as you're ready!
Calvina: That's not what I'm talking about. I'm asking about YOU. This could turn into a serious battle. You sure you're okay with that?
Melua: Yes. I'll do my best!
Calvina: ...All right then. All units, launch!
There we are. The next update will be out.... two days from now. I have something to do tomorrow, and I kinda wanted to try something different for the upcoming battle update anyway.
This next one is the last "prologue" stage, in my opinion. The plot is gonna kick up after this mission!
Post by: Seriyu on April 18, 2012, 05:36:51 pm
I was intending to do half the update one day, and finish it the next day, because I felt that my commentary kinda lags near the end of it, and that may be due to fatigue more then the game's fault, so I was trying to seperate it a bit and see if that helps. SO.
Would you prefer to wait until friday maybe for an update, or would you like me to post the first half of the update when I get done with it, then post the second half when I get done with that, be it on friday or thursday?
I'll need an opinion by the end of the day, so.
Post by: Seriyu on April 19, 2012, 07:18:58 pm
Yurika: Ruri, is that the same unit from the last battle?
Ruri:Yes. The Greimkaiser. Mr. Asuka said its pilot is a man named Gale.
Yurika:All right, everyone! We have to overcome this! All units, launch!
And we get our first unit selection screen! As of now we still don't have enough units to have to actually, uh, select them, but it'll come into play soon enough.
Melua:......
Calvina:Melua, are you sure about this?
Melua:Y-Yes, I'm fine. I just... Don't like this very much...
Calvina:Of course not. We still have to do this, though. Even if you don't like it, if you want to survive and protect Bellzelute, we have to fight. I'm counting on you, Melua.
Melua:Yes!
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Eiji:...Loud and clear.
Gale:I'll try to reason with you one last time. If you don't surrender, you will be branded a traitor and killed. Julia will be very sad to hear that.
Eiji:...She doesn't have anything to do with this.
Gale: But that doesn't change the fact that your death will sadden her greatly. I don't want to kill you, either, of course. Eiji, please! Surrender and come back home!
Eiji:I accept, as long as Grados ends its plan to invade the Earth.
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Do you honestly believe you can change that at this point?! Commander, he has no intention of surrendering. We're waisting our time. He shall be dealt with in the same manner befitting all Earthlings!
Gale:Be silent, Liutenant. Eiji... Why don't you just give up?
Eiji:...Forgive me, Gale. In order to protect these children, I have to go to the Earth. That is my cause.
Gale:You will come to regret this, Eiji.
Eiji:Perhaps, but until then...
Gale:(Julia... Can you forgive me for losing your younger brother?) Eiji, you and the Earthings cannot be allowed to escape. If you're that determined to leave Mars, then I'm afraid I won't be able to hold back, either. You'll be exterminated along with the rest of them. Is that clear?
Eiji: I'm ready.
Gale:...Karla, give the attack signal.
Karla: Yes, sir!
Calvina: Okay, let's begin. All units, engage the enemy. If you want to return to Earth, don't let the enemy get close to the Nadesico! Is that clear? Good luck!
Despite that "Don't let enemies get close to the Ndesico" thing, this is still a standard mission with standard objectives. Also of note is, if you pick Touya, he is not the commander of your forces, he's just kinda around.
TURN ONE!
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First things first, I land all my units that can be landed. Why? Because if you're moving through the air, you use energy, that can be used for other valuble things, such as attacks or barriers. I've been doing this before too, I just forgot to bring it up. Probably better that I kind've ration information anyway. There is one reason to leave them in the air, and that is if they have a better rank in air terrain then they do on the ground, which rarely happens unless you: 1. Can't land them at all, or 2. Have equipped them with a part that gives them a better rank in the air. There's no denying how useful flight can BE, don't get me wrong, there just aren't a lot of those situations in these games, and certainly not in this map, where it's almost all flat normal terrain. Anyway, moving on...
... To skip the turn and let them approach, since they're pretty close to me already, and why not get the first shot off? Well, okay, I moved the nadesico up a little.
ENEMY PHASE
A skullgunner pulls in and attacks combattler.
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Yep. I guess it did fairly decent damage this time, so good on him for that. A second skullgunner attacks aphrodite, damaging it for about 1.2k and getting countered for the majority of it's health. A batta does the same. Aphrodite's actually in pretty bad shape now, given it's only turn two. I need to start putting softer units on the inside of the formation at the start of the turn.
TURN TWO!
I missed the overview somehow. Basically all the enemy units moved down and to the right.
Let's discuss those companion bonuses I was talking about earlier. Look at this image here.
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You'll note the blue dots and heart. Blue dot is a friendship bonus, they give a small bonus to hit and evade, The hearts give a large bonus. Frankly, I've never noticed any huge change, but to be fair I've never really looked for it either. Let's see how much this effects things, eh? First akito attacks a skullgunner, with rapid rifle. 100% chance to hit, 55 chance for the enemy to hit. We cancel that move, and move ryoko up and attack with rapid rifle. 100% to hit, 100% enemy to hit. She attacks, hits it, almsot kills it, gets smacked in return. Kay. Now remember, ryoko gets a love bonus from Akito, but Akito gets a friendship bonus from Ryoko. So let's see how much friendship effects these things...
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Yow. That's not too bad. And that's just friendship! We'll see what love bonuses can do, next turn. Akito finishes the skullgunner depicted off. Buldy blasts a Batta, nearly kills it, Bellzelute finishes it off.
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Mazinger Z one shots a batta with breast fire. I suppose when I said Mazinger Z was a tank, I wasn't entirely honest, because it still hits pretty damn hard too, and hits comparably with Combattler V after Mazinpower activates, sometimes even harder. Really it's only weakness is a lack of movement, which all supers have to some degree. The Nadesico blows up a batta with a gravity cannon. Still a hit rate of 100%, too. Again, prologue stages, for the most part. Annnd aphrodite finishes off a skullgunner that took a shot at her last turn. Blue earth flies up to Ryoko and heals her, with the intent of getting to aphrodite next turn, although I think she'll be fine. Layzner hammers a batta, and shoots down the missles it fires in retaliation. Combattler V finishes it off for him with twin lancer.
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Baybull attacks a skullgunner, and does just above half his health, on top of having a 48% chance to be hit. That's fine for these first few stages, since the bosses don't really require more then a unit or two to kill, but it's something we'll have to get over faaaaairly soon. Izumi and Gai smack around a batta near Aphrodite A, lowering the enemy count near her to one. She'll prolly be fine presuming the AI doesn't pull a fast one.
ENEMY PHASE
A katanbo attacks Combattler V, and gets a big blast in the... hull, I guess, as a prize. Only 1.8k damage. Part of this is because the distortion field they (and we, on some units) have is one of the stronger barriers in the game, knocking off 800 of standard attacks, and a decent 1000 off of beam attacks. A Skullgunner attacks Combattler V, and he counters with the rarely seen, V laser. Let's take a look.
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.... Wow. V laser could've almost one shotted him. How did that happen? I'm beginning to think there's some modifier for beam weapons that adds to their lethality somehow. Maybe they ignore a portion of armor? Hmm. I'll look into this. Anyway, it explodes in standard fashion.
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As seen here. Combattler is attacked again, and one shotted in response. Big Blast is now out of ammo. I love that thing, it has such good coverage for counterattacks. Can hit flying enemies, has excellent attack pwer, has a very long range on it, pretty much a free counter. Only 3 ammo is it's main downside, and I don't think it's quite worth chucking ten will for another set of them. Mazinger is attacked by a katanbo, and counters with rocket punch. 1.5k damage. Heading back to normalcy, a batta attacks combattler V. Combattler is already at 2.9k HP, out of 7500. We'll pull him back to be repaired after this turn. Combattler defends. The final batta attacks aprhodite A, and gets knocked off the mortal coil for the trouble. The right side of the map is now clear, we could probably set up shop on that ridge there. It has a nice terrain bonus to it. Sayaka gets a level for the kill, she's at 5 now, which I think is actually more then most of our combat pilots now.
Karla in her dimage, runs up and attacks baybull with knuckle shot. Since she's got a 43% chance to hit, I evade, as she could prolly one shot him, if not set him up for a oneshot by another guy (Probably gale.)
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He gets hit anyway. Eeeeeeeeee.
Luckily gale stays back, leaving baybull safe. Secondary charecters, I tell yah. Still ate a "sub boss" attack, so that's not bad.
TURN THREE!
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Now, let's see. I move Nadesico north, and have focus hikaru and have her attack a braver near Karla. Nearly gets him. I alert Akito (100% chance to dodge one attack), and have him finish off said braver. Works out.I focus and move coustwell up near the ridge, so Calvina can have some nice defensive terrain to attack from, and attack a katanbo with shot launcher while I'm at it. I forgot that Daisaku (one of the combattler V pilots) had "Guts" which restores all HP, so I have him use that instead of pulling it back for repairs. 5000 HP gained. Lovely. I move it to the left and clear otu the last batta, in an attempt to keep enemies from dogpiling it next turn, and immediately undoing that 40 SP's worth of healing. Eiji blasts a braver with calf missles, and baybull FOCUSES (30% to hit and evade, in case some of you less aquainted folks have forgotten, I hope this'll turn out to be enough to keep him safe in the coming turn) and finshes it off. I also move Mazinger up to help cover Baybull, he misses the iron cutter though. Gai casts wall, and hits Karla with a Gai Super Upper in return for getting knocked out by her last map. Izumi contributes to the effort, and takes her out. She escapes again. We get a Chobham Armor, a Cartridge, a Melee +5, and a Support Def+1 for the trouble. Ryoko finishes off the turn attacking the damaged katanbo with Wired Fist.
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Ryoko's a pretty solid melee aesti pilot, if you hate Gai's tendency to get hit. Basically less damage for more dodge.
ENEMY PHASE!
The braver that dodged Mazinger Z's rocket punch last turn tempts fate and attacks him again.
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It is a fatal mistake. Koji Levels up to five, and gets his first defensive spirit in the Wall spirit (Lowers damage from one attack to ten, a really nice spirit in a real or a dodgy super.) Mazinpower also activates. Another braver attacks Mazinger Z, and gets trashed for it. A Katanbo decides to have a shootout with the Nadesico, and takes a lump for it. The second Katanbo follows suit. Gale rushes up and attacks Mazinger Z, considering Koji's got a 38% chance to hit Gale, I defend.
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Koji as ever remains optimistic. Good man. He worked excellently as cover.
TURN FOUR!
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Three more units. Time to clean up. Let's test out that love bonus. With no love, ryoko has a 50% chance to be hit by a katanbo, and a 100% chance to hit. With love... ...A 46% chance to be hit, and a 100% chance to hit? That seems a little wonky. Hmmmm. Maybe it goes the other way, being near a person that loves a unit, rather then a unit that loves the one near it, gives a bigger bonus. Hmm. Either way, got something out of this. As a note friendship/Love bonuses CAN STACK! So Akito between Ryoko and Nadesico, while surrounded by Aestivalises would be getting a pretty amazing boost.
Anyway, Ryoko attacks the katanbo, gets hit, and the offensive support by baybull finishes it off. I have Koji use guts, as he was pretty banged up (Of note, Koji has like, 80 SP at this point, it's a rediculous amount at this level. Really nice.) Eiji, Combattler, and Koji soften up the remaining katanbo, (leaving it with 5 HP, wow) and Baybull finishes it off. Only Gale now. Calvina takes a shot, has a 57% chance to hit, but no counterattack. Let's see how that goes.
Calvina:The Greimkaiser... So you're the enemy ace, Ahmos Gale. Let's see how I fare against you.
Gale:Seems like that's an Earthling command unit... Interesting! I'm interested in seeing how well you can fight.
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A spark appears on gale's robot
Gale:I've taken too much damage. I can't control the unit! Their combat ability is admittedly fairly good, but they won't be able to take me out... Yes, I can still withdraw. Give the attack order to the 2nd wave!
Ruri:Enemy command unit still active.
Eiji:Gale!
Ruri:2nd wave approaching.
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Look who it is!
Gale:What? Gosterro, is that you?! What's the meaning of this?! You should be under arrest for going against regulations during the last battle. Why are you here?!
Gosterro:You want to know, eh? Heheheh... I'm here for THIS!
He fires on gale's unit
Ruri: The new enemy nits are attacking the command unit.
Yurika:Huh? What?
Gale:What do you think you're doing?!
Gosterro: Ha! I'll just tell them you died in battle, shot down tragically by stupid Earth monkeys! Hyaaahahahaha! I'll take both you and that hussy Julia down with this!
He fires again, and gale's unit turns yellow, indicating neutrality.
Gale:Guh...
Ryoko:What the hell?!
Koji:They're fighting amongst themselves?!
Eiji:Gale?! Gale, please answer me! Gale!
GosterroHaaahahaha! So, Eiji! Want to go with him too? I've got one-way passes for the both of you... A trip to hell, first-class!
Eiji:You're... Gosterro?! Why did you shoot him?! He's your ally!
Gosterro: Gahahahahah... Quit your prattling! I just want to kill. There are no allies or enemies to me! Although... maybe I should finish gale's work? He was such a BORE, really... Killing you is all I care about, Eiji! Hyahahahahahaha!
Eiji:Rrghh... I'll never forget this, Gosterro!
Hyoma:What a nutjob! He doesn't care if his target is friend or foe?!
Gale:Ugh... Why... Where am I?
Eiji:Gale!
Gosterro:Tch! You're still alive, eh?! THis time I'll send you straight to hell!
Eiji:Stop, please! Everyone, we have to save Gale!
Noal:You want us to help the enemy commander? C'mon, kid! Don't you remember?! He tried to kill US, too!
David:Eiji...
Ruri:Captain, what are we going to do?
Yurika:We'll help him! What's that saying? "The enemy of my enemy is my friend"?
Gai:Oooh, that's right! I can feel the fire burning!
Ryoko:Hey, this is serious, Gai!
Prospector:But Captain, that kind of simplicity is just... *sigh*
Yurika:Even if we help him, we can't be any worse off then we are now.
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I would normally let you guys pick this, but it's linked to a secret. So, approve.
Calvina:Well, I see no problem with it.
Akito:Don't even joke! I'm against it! He's the enemy... the same foe who committed genocide on the people of Mars! Why the hell do we have to save him now?!
Juzo: Saving him could come in handy later. Right, guys?
Ryoko:Hey, who knows? Guess this means we can't let them shoot down that command unit, huh?
Eiji: I'm counting on you everyone!
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And as they said, we now can't let gale shot down. He is immobile and won't counterattack. I believe he will constantly evade. Autopilot I guess? Who knows. Anyway, this CAN be hard, if you manage to kill Gale with a huge longrange attack from far away so his unit lands quite a distance away from you, because if the enemy forces get to him before you do, you're pretty much done, as he only has ten HP left. Luckily we are fairly close and can get our units in front of him before the enemy gets to him, which pretty much neuters the threat, depending on how far away we engage from Gale. Needless to say it can get dicey if they're fairly close to him, but even then it's just more important to push forward uniformly through the enemy forces, so a random batta can't slip past us and kill him, rather then just kinda clubbing the hell out of the center of them, and leaving two "wings" on our sides enveloping us like we've been doing recently. Anyway.
ENEMY PHASE
Buncha stuff moves up towards us. No attacks.
TURN FIVE!
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Moved a few units again. The three dark ones moved straight up as far as they could, as they were pretty far out. Gonna have to move bellzelute off of that perch, given where Gale landed. Oh well. I move everyone up a bit.
ENEMY PHASE
A batta gets one shotted by a gravity cannon, and one attacks hikaru from out of her attack range in an amazing display of favorable tactical decision making. A skullgunner attacks the Nadesico too. The nadesico took no damage from either of these attacks. Its will has gone up, so it takes less damage, so the barrier it has can reduce damage to nothing now. Nice. All five Nadesico pilots get a level. No new spirits.
Another batta attacks hikaru from out of range, and a second batta bounces off of the nadesico ineffectually and explodes. A batta, following the good example of the other two, attacks akito from out of his attack range. Unfortunatly for him, he has litterally no chance to hit him.
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Akito shoots down the attack anyway, presumably to make the batta feel a bit better about himself. Skullgunner bounces off the nadesico, and gets one shotted by MISSLES of all things. Wow. However, this is a good time to explain the IFS, Image Feedback System, the ability that Ruri, and all of the aestivalis pilots have. Basically, a normal unit, when its will goes up, gains very small amounts of all around stats. Maybe 1 per ten will. Nothing major, but a nice bonus on top of unlocking their better attacks, such as double gekigan flare. An IFS unit gains much better stats, +1 to every stat, for every five morale. Much better! Keep in mind stats act as multipliers for armor/mobility stats of mechs, and you'll realize how nice this can be. Ergo, by now, the missles are doing much more damage due to the increased stats from will improvements. I dunno if IFS is coming into play for the Nadesico, since Ruri is not the main pilot. I don't THINK it is. Anyway. Gosterro's small group of bravers pull closer, but gosterro stays put. He knows what's up.
TURN SIX!
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They're pulling in closer, time to start round two. I have Aphrodite A, Blue Earth, and Buldy repair Baybull, for all the kills he pulled off at low HP during the last combat turns. He's almost back to max. I also arrange the girls, Hikaru, Izumi, and Ryoko for a team attack. Ranged attack formation!
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Nothing too flashy, but it gets the job done, wasting that skullgunner. Now that we have the morale for it, as long as these three stay in the nadesico's gravity wave beam field, they can spam them with no downside. We will be doing just that. Gai moves into position with Akito, and one shots a Batta with rapid rifle. I unfortunatly, next turn, find out since we're in the ground frames, they can't use any melee team attacks on flying enemies, unfortunatly. Oh well. Akito takes a shot at one shotting a batta with rapid rifle, but it's left with 500 HP. Oh well. I guess Gai has nice ranged stats too. Not bad. Mazinger Z hauls up and one shots a batta with photon beam. Yeah, this is a curbstomp. Because we are rad as hell. Nadesico pulls up and finishes off a batta, leaving only the one with 500 HP.
ENEMY PHASE!
A katanbo pulls up and attacks Mazinger Z, who counters with rust hurricane, so as to make it a bit softer for the others. The first few missions really just toss battleships all over the place, it's kinda nuts.
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He does the same to the second Katanbo. Mazinger does not care about your armor. Incidentally his energy is looking a little low. Hmm. Two skullgunners attack Combattler V, getting oneshotted. All of the combattler V pilots get another level, up to six. No new spirits. A batta fires some missles at the Nadesico, actually managing to do some damage this time. Insanity! Maybe the batta's have prevail, for... some reason. No more left to check unfortunatly. A skullgunner pulls up and is once more one shotted by photon beam. Not a good day to be a grunt.
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Gosterro finally gets moving after his entire vanguard is in pieces. Good move there, fella.
TURN SEVEN!
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Only have the overview for... some reason. Hmm. Most of the enemies are in the frame anyway. Two bravers up and to the left, along with gosterro.
I have Aphrodite, Buldy, and Blue Earth repair combattler, and have Melua use Trust (2000 HP to any unit on your side, pretty nice.) on Bellzelute, on top of Calvina focusing. Bellzelute then rushes into the fray, and blasts a katanbo with shot launcher, as it's out of range AGAIN, and it's about time it got a decent shot off I feel. IIIII am not good with sniper units sometimes. I have Mazinger fall back to Baybull, and have him resupply Mazinger, getting 145 energy back for ten will from Koji. I dunno how worth it it was, given that he had 30 energy left, and he had, so far, been one shotting enemies with photon beam, which only costs five, but eh. David got a level out of it, level five, no new spirits. Eiji pew pews a katanbo with lasered rifle, only a 9% chance to be hit with no focus on Eiji. His evasion is still holding up very nicely. Combattler V attempts to finish off the Katanbo with Super EM-YoYo, but unfortunatly, Combattler does not have a Mazinpower equivelent, and as such is kind've lagging on damage this late in the stage. Oh well. He's still not nearly as energy dependant as Mazinger, and has five pilots worth of SP on top of it. Another ranged formation attack from Hikaru takes down the Katanbo, (A team attack only uses the turn of the person that initiated it, incidentally, but takes the energy required from all pilots, 40 in this case. Every pilot also needs to have the requisite will to pull it off.) leaving one more. Ryoko fires off a Ranged formation attack, doing 4000 damage to the weakened katanbo, and Izumi launches another one, leaving the Nadesico's gravity wave beam field briefly to do so, unfortunatly not quite destroying it. The Nadesico pulls up, getting Izumi back into the field, and attacks the katanbo with missles. Still not dead. Gai rushes in and finishes it with a Gai Super Upper. He gains a level and a support attack. Maybe gai'll turn out okay after all.
Akito follows his lead, and blasts a braver with rapid rifle, not quite one shotting it. Hmm. If we want to keep using Akito, a small weapon upgrade couldn't hurt him, maybe a pip or two.
ENEMY PHASE!
The braver akito attacked then uses guts and heals all the damage he did. This is part of the reason. More advanced grunts, and commanders/people with unique portraits can have spirits, and are not shy about using them, when they do have them. It then closes in and attacks the Nadesico.
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Wow, two hundred damage, and he got one shotted in return. Nadesico pilots even got a level from it. Level six, no new spirits. The second braver does the SAME THING AS THE FIRST ONE, AND SOMEHOW MANAGES TO DO LESS DAMAGE. WE EVEN GET A PROPELLANT TANK FROM HIM FOR SOME REASON. Gosterro attacks Akito, being, presumably, wiser then his compatriots.
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Welp.
Gosterro:What?! How dare you! Damn, when I'm done with you... There won't even be a trace of you left!
TURN EIGHT!
No overview because there's one guy, and I get the feeling it'll only take one attack to finish this up. Also because I forgot.
That was not enough to make him pull back, despite his temper tantrum there. Bellzelute attacks him, since it hasn't had much luck this battle.
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Finishing him. Well done. Melua get's a level, she's level five now. No new spirits. We get a Servo motor, and a Range +5
Gosterro:D-Dammit! No way in hell're you killing me here! I'll be back! Back to tear every last one of you apart, limb by limb!
He retreats.
Eiji:Gale, are you all right?!
Gale:Eiji...? You're still alive... I must have fainted. It seems your friends held Gosterro off.
Eiji:Gale, they helped you!
Gale:I... I see.
Looks like he's having second thoughts about this.
Several bravers teleport in and surround him.
Hikaru:No way, more?!
Akito:See?! That's the thanks we get for saving him!
Gale:Cease your attack. Earth forces commander, I am Cdr. Ahmos Gale. You cannot escape from Mars. I'm advising you to give up. We will not mistreat you. Drop your weapons and surrender.
Or not.
Yurika:This is the captain of the High Mobile Battleship Nadesico, Yurika Misumaru. I'm sorry, Cdr. Gale, but we have to refuse. Our duty is to return to Earth, and we'll be taking Mr. Asuka and the others back alive, too!
Gale:...Understood. Exactly what I'd expect from a proud, young soldier. In 10 minutes, we will launch a concentrated attack on your forces, one you have no hope of surviving. If you change your mind, ask Eiji to put you in contact with me. That is all.
He teleports away. Looks like they're gonna stop messing around.
Eiji: Gale, why...?
Tomorrow, ACTION TEXT!
Post by: Seriyu on April 20, 2012, 07:56:49 pm
We begin in the Gradosian Army's SPT Tripod Carrier, whatever that is.
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Fleet command has given us explicit orders to annhilate Eiji and th e Earthlings. There was no word about the possibility of taking them prisoner.
Gale:...What do you think of them, Karla?
Karla:They're a bunch of traitors and Earthlings, Commander.
Gale:Is that all you see in them? I believe they're humans, just like us.
Karla:I'm at a loss for what kind of point you're trying to make, sir.
Gale:...We'll recommence the attack in 10 minutes. Get ready. I'm counting on you.
Karla:Yes, sir!
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they might have fallen back after the loss of their command unit!
Yurika:I'm sorry, Akito, but I can't fight like that.
Prospector:To reward us for sparing him, he chose to hold back the attack for 10 minutes. Well, at least we bought ourselves some time...
Juzo:But that's practically no time at all!
Ruri:Several mobile weapons have launched from the enemy ship. They're surrounding us.
Koji:Damn! There are way too many!
Simone:It's all over. There are times in life when you have to raise the white flag, even when you've done everything possible to avoid it...
Arthur:Whoa, I think I've heard that before, Simone... Was that Shakespeare or somethin'?
Simone:No, Arthur... Just some advice my father gave me, once.
Prospector:Your father's the head of the reflann royal family, is he not? Those are words of serious consequence, especially at a time like this. Still, we cannot surrender. Even if we do, there's no guarantee we'll be spared.
Festenia:Wait, whaddaya mean by that?!
Inez:Allow me to explain. They annihilated the entire Martian population. That means they see no worth in the existence of Earthlings, at least as far as "Earthlings living on Mars" are concerned. Why they suddenly decided to try and capture us is beyond me, but we can't trust their word. On top of that, the order seems to have been issued on the judgement of Cdr. Gale, who happens to be a relative of Eiji's. I don't believe he would lie to us, but his commanders may not be so lenient. Since they seem to use a military chain of command akin to the UEFA's, there's no guarentee his order won't be overridden by high command.
Inez is basically the mandated plot dump charecter.
Megumi:(Don't tell me... She loves explanations?)
Eiji:...I'll go out in Layzner, to act as a decoy. Use that time to break the circle.
David:What? No! Eiji, even if you're ready to give up your life, I can't let you do that!
Roanne: I agree! Aren't we all in this together, as friends?
Gai:That's right! Nobody's gettin' a cooler death than me! Especially you, Eiji! Just the thought of you having a totally rad death is enough to make me break out in hives! ...And that's why I'm not gonna let you die!
Simone:...What the hell is he talking about?
Ruri:He's always like that. Just ignore him.
Eiji:But, at this rate...!
Izumi:I can see the Grim Reaper. Heheheheh...
Ryoko:Izumi, don't say such stupid, ominous things!
Calvina:So, Capt. Misumaru, what do you want to do? Are we going to resist?
Yurika:Hmm. Admiral, wha- Hey! Where's Adm. Fukube?
Jun: He's still on the Crocus. I thought you knew, Yurika!
Ruri: ...The Crocus has begun to move. It's approaching the Nadesico.
Prospector:Impressive, Admiral. We've got a little more firepower, now.
The ship shakes from an attack.
Aki:Aah! The enemy's recommenced their attack?!
Ruri:No. That was a shell from the Crocus.
Lovely.
Koji: Huh?!
Hyoma: What's he doing?!
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If you don't... The next shot will be a direct hit.
Yurika:Admiral...? All right. I understand. All hands, take anti-shock positions! The Nadesico will be entering the Tulip!
Akito:Wait, Yurika! What are you thinking?!
Prospector:That's too reckless! The loss from a decision like that would be... incalculable!
Noal:And won't we end up just like the crew of the Crocus?! Do you want to kill us all?!
Well we could get shot from thirty different directions if you prefer.
Inez: The Nadesico has the Distortion Field. The Crocus didn't.
Also that.
Yurika:Admiral... You're doing this so we can escape, aren't you?
Akito:As if! He's just doing what's convenient for him! He wants us to take the blame for the mission's failure while he escapes on his own!
well you see sir the Nadesico flew into a tulip inexplicibly and then I defeated the gradosian army with a single ship, medal please
Chizuru:But if he stays, the enemy will kill him.
Kosuke:Or he'll be made a prisoner, at the very least.
Minato:We're entering the Tulip. I wonder if we'll survive this one?
The ship shakes again.
Ruri:The enemy's begun attacking. The Crocus is turning around. It's covering us.
Yurika:Admiral, I neeeeeed you! You can't die here! I'll be totally helpless!
Fukube:I don't have anything more to teach you. I'm only doing this to protect something important... Something hidden inside each and every one of you.
Akito:And what's THAT?!
Fukube:I cannot say. But all of you definitely have it. I'm sure that someday you will discover this for yourselves. I wasn't a good Admiral. I wasn't even a good person. Let me tell you this, though: The Nadesico is your ship. Its anger, hatred, sadness, happiness, and love... ...All of that is now yours.
Ruri:The Crocus has exploded. The enemy force is firing on us.
Well, there went our cover. I think this is the only time an anime monologue has directly endangered the protagonists.
Yurika:Oh, no... Admiral...!
Inez: The explosion has damaged the Tulip. The gate will close soon.
Calvina:...We won't make it. We'll be hit by a Gravity blast before we get through. Well, so much for that. We lost the gamble.
Festenia:We'll make it! I know we can, I know we can, I know we can...
Ruri:An Aestivalis has launched from the stern deck.
Three guesses as to who it is.
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Akito:Gai?!
Ryoko: When did he...?!
Gai:Leave this to me. Y'see this Nadesico here, alien scumbags? You're not gonna shoot it down without taking Gai Daigoji's life first! Ooh, I'm on fire! On fire, I tells ya!
Akito: Wait, Gai! What are you going to do?!
Gai: Final Blow! Gekigan Final Attack! I'm gonna take this Artillery Frame and Detonate it on top of the enemy ship! That should give you enough time to get the Nadesico out of here! Target Acquired! Here I come! Finaaaaaaaaal Blooooooooow! Gekigan Final ATTAAAAAAACK!
It explodes.
Koji:He did it!
Akito:That was great, Gai!
Ruri: He's stuck there.
Gai:Gah! Now, Uribatake! Send in a Zero-G Battle Frame! I'll use a Cross Crusher and return in the nick of time!
Uribitake:Uh, what? "Cross Crusher"?! The hell are you talking about?! Besides, there's no way I can send you anything in here!
Gai:Whaaaaaaaat?!
Another Explosion.
Akito: Guh... Gai?!
Inez:The entrance has closed. The enemy can no longer follow us... It appears that, at least for the time being, we're saved. Now the question is... What are we going to do?
Ruri:Thanks to Mr. Yamada, the Nadesico is safe. But, it seems his operation failed.
Akito:GAAAAAAAIIIIIII!
I genuinely kinda feel bad for Akito here.
Yurika: Akito... I don't know what's going to happen from here, but... ...All hands, remain on standby!
We've lost both Gai and Fukube, unfortunatly. Maybe we'll see them again someday...
ANYWAY. Standard selections. We have....
82405 money. ANy upgrades to be done?
Modules are - Melee+5 Range+5 Support defense +1 (gives another support defense slot)
Parts are - Servo Motor, HE Radar, Chobham armor.
HE Radar adds one range to every attack that doesn't have a range of 1 to begin with, or is a MAP attack. Probably our first really significant part. Now, for charts. I'm adding a chart of units that have upgrades, and what stuff they currently have. If a section is blank, they don't have anything added in that section.
Upgrade costs:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Unit Upgrades/Parts/Modules:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
And finally
I ramble about concerns and whatnot with our current robot situation.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I'll see you all in a few days! Lemme know opinions and such. especially on that HE radar, as it's actually uhh, meaningful. Not that upgrades aren't, of course.
Post by: EuchreJack on April 20, 2012, 08:07:26 pm
Strap an armor part on Aphrodite A, no sense wasting actual money on it.
I'm not certain I want to spend money on the Aestivalis. Will there be maximum unit numbers in future missions? If so, the Aestivalis seems to be a "use all or none" type of robot. As stated, Akito would probably rock if he was surrounded by Aestivalis, and we've seen the power of the three Aestivalis ladies together, but we're talking four units that need to be deployed.
Despite all that, I'm sort of tempted to help Akito out. But how much will reliance on the Aestivalis force cripple us?
Post by: Seriyu on April 20, 2012, 08:33:31 pm
But yes, the only way you're going to get major damage out of aestivalises is team attacks, due to their small size they take a damage penalty on most enemies (most enemies are M), and Akito just lost his team attack partner. We will eventually have an upper limit on units.
However...
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Post by: Seriyu on April 23, 2012, 02:19:41 am
EDIT: IT will be tomorrow indeed.
Post by: Seriyu on April 24, 2012, 05:01:55 pm
Melee +5 going onto Hyoma
Range +5 going onto Calvina
Annnd Koji gets a support defense +1.
Post by: Seriyu on April 24, 2012, 06:19:46 pm
Short text this time.
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Wake up, everyone. Hey, you. Helloooooooo... Wake up, everyone. Captain, this is no place to take a nap. Wake up.
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Mostly to note that this font has a "heart" charecter.
Ruri:Captain... Captain! Wake up, Captain!
Yurika:Huh?! Ah... Why, good morning Ruri... What happened? Where are we?
Ruri:We've returned to normal space. No abnormalities detected. It appears we've returned to the Earth Sphere without any serious issues.
Megumi: Ugh.... Whoa, we're back? We've returned in one piece?!
Prospector:So it appears...
The ship moves closer to earth...
David:We've returned, huh... Hahahaha, take a good look at that! We made it back to Earth, guys!
Arthur: I can't believe it! I never thought I would live to see it again! Have we REALLY been saved?!
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I'm terrified that I'm going to wake up back on Mars any minute now.
Uhhh... Maybe supposed to be pinch? Hmm. U is right next to I on the keyboard.
Arthur:P-Please don't says stuff like that, Roanne. David's an awfully suggestible guy...
Simone:*chuckle* You guys are just too much! Still, if we've really managed to make it back, then...
Eiji:So... That planet is Earth.
Anna:That's right, Eiji!
Aki:That's our homeland, the planet you wanted to see so much.
Koji:*chuckle* So, how do you feel?
Eiji:Happy. Truly happy. It's a beautiful planet, just as I expected. I came here to ensure that it retains that sparkle.
Yurika:Too bad it's in such a dire state right now, but aaaaanyway... ...Mr. Eiji Asuka, allow me to welcome you to our planet!
You don't know the half of it. Or the tenth of it, for that matter.
Inez:I think it's still a little early for that, Captain.
Noal: Yeah. The Jovian Lizards ae roaming the Earth Sphere, and there's also the PLANT-Federation war going on. I wonder what's going on back on that blue orb of ours...?
Ruri:Still confirming.
Calvina:Well, there's the Earth...
Festenia: ...You don't seem to happy to see it again, Calvina.
Calvina: It's not that I'm unhappy to be back, it's just that...
Melua:Just... what?
Calvina:...Returning here doesn't have much meaning for me.
Katia:......
Akito:Wha...? Hey, where's Akito?
Juzo:Isn't he locked up in his room? He's sure been through a lot, lately.
Megumi:Yes, especially after what happened to Mr. Yamada...
Yurika:Akito... The only one who can comfort him is me, his lover. Wait for me, sweetie! I'm coming! Wait. Ruri, what was that just now?
Ruri:Seems a nearby UEFA battalion is engaged in battle.
Ryoko:Already?! So who're the opponents? Jovian Lizards? Or maybe ZAFT?!
Noal:Doesn't matter who it is. We gotta avoid contact with the UEFA, no matter what.
Prospector: Indeed.
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Yurika:They're fighting amongst THEMSELVES, then? Well, since this is Nergal's only warship and all...
That's an.... odd conclusion to come to.
Koji:Don't forget that the Mechabeasts and Reclaimers can't get into outer space.
Note: Mechabeasts are the primary antagonist of the Mazinger series, we haven't seen any yet. If we'd picked Touya, the first mission would've been fighting them with the Mazinger crew. Reclaimers are from Brain Powerd, and are hunting those plates that the random cutscene earlier with hime and brain was detailing. Yuu was a reclaimer. Anyway.
Ruri:Living heat signitures detected. Whatever it is that's fighting the army isn't comprised of mobile weapons. They're probably lifeforms.
HMMM.
Aki:Lifeforms? What do you mean?
Izumi:Aggressive movement from the still-life-forms... How strange... Heh... Hahahahahaah!
Ryoko:Enough with the... whatever you call that, Izumi!
Inez:They seem to be some kind of unknown lifeforms, native to space. Or... perhaps they're some kind of biological weapon?
Hikaru:Maybe they're the REAL Jovian Lizards!
It's kind've troubling to me that Hikaru of all people came up with the most stable, logical answer.
Prospector: I'm not so sure about that...
David: Eiji?
Eiji:No, they definately aren't Gradosian.
Yurika;Sooooo... What are they?
Ruri:Federation forces annihilated... They're coming our way.
Time to find out!
Hyoma:They're going to attack us?!
Yurika:Well, yeah, isn't that obvious?! Phase Transition Engines, full power! We have to escape!
Minato:No good! The engines are still heavily damaged from our time on Mars!
Ruri:Output at half capacity. We cannot run away.
Yurika:Hmph... In that case, prepare for combat at once! Concentrate engine output in order to maintain the Field. All hands, to battle stations! Be ready to attack the enemy as soon as they're in range!
In the hangar...
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Ryoko:Maybe you should come to the bridge next time, dumbass! It's the enemy! Some unknowns are attacking the ship!
Akito:Enemy? Unknowns? Ryoko, what do you mean?! Aren't they just some Jovian Lizards or something?
Koji: That's exactly why we're so confused. First they trashed some Feddies, and now they're gunning for us. Seems like they're some kinda space lifeforms or somethin'.
Akito:Space lifeforms?!
Noal:We don't have time to discuss this now! We'll straighten everything out once we get back to the Outer Space Development Group! For now, all we know is they're coming for our heads, and we gotta defend the ship!
David:Eiji, Roanne, you come too! You've finally made it back to the Earth you yearned for so desperately. There's no damn way you'reg onna die now!
Eiji:Roger!
Calvina: Prepare for takeoff. I don't care who, just get out there!
Katia:Calvina...
Calvina:What is it?
Katia: I suspect you already know this, but we simply act as your interface with the machine's system. All we can do is follow your lead, one at a time.
Calvina: Yeah, I gathered.
Katia: But since you're the most battle-hardened person out of the four of us, we want you to choose which one of us goes with you. That okay?
Calvina:Oh, I see... Understood.
Festenia:So uh, do I get to go today? Huh? Huh?
Yep! New choice. Pick one of the three. We will be using the one you pick for the entire game, because if I recall correctly, if we don't we lose a decent attack later down the line. They're all decent decisions frankly. And yes they're all wearing rediculous clothes.
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Spirits are...
Melua: Cheer - Give an ally double exp for their next action (Primarily used to increase exp from bosses. Excellent, but I often forget to use it.) Trust - Give an ally 2000 HP. She adds 300 armor and 1 movement. Movement is always nice, and armor isn't terrible either. Not terribly relevent to Bellzelute as a mech, but still nothing horrible. Melua is a "support" subpilot, having a lot of buffs and general enhancing spirits.
Katia: Bless - Give an ally double credits for their next action. See cheer. Break - An EXCELLENT spirit, that bypasses any defensive subskills for a single attack. For instance, break would go through the distortion field katanbo's have. Wonderful Wonderful Wwwwwwonderful spirit. Adds 1 Weapon range and +10 mobility. Obviously the most immediately relevent for Bellzelute.Katia is... honestly kind've supporty, with some kinda odd offensive spirits. Somewhere in the middle maybe? I've never used her.
Festenia: Guts - Restores HP to max. Fury - Causes all attacks on the turn to be a critical hit. Fairly decent offensive spirit, and Guts, while not terribly good for a real robot (You could probably get close to a full heal in most cases with trust, for half the SP, with how low their HP is, and bellzelute is no exception, with a startlingly low 3800 max HP) is still an excellent safety net if the RNG decides to smack you upside the head via hitting you with a 3% chance to hit, which will happen way too often. (Which is to say, like, twice, maybe) Adds 200 weapon strength, and 10%(?) to crit rate. Obviously the offensive subpilot, not a terrible choice. I'm willing to bet she will get the best spirit in the game for offense, which we will cover when we get there.
Make your decisions! They each have different spirits, and each give a different bonus to the robot. I'll be back in a couple of days. This IS the last major decision for a bit, so don't worry. We'll be back to killin stuff right after this decision.
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on April 24, 2012, 08:02:02 pm
Post by: Burnt Pies on April 24, 2012, 08:30:19 pm
Post by: EuchreJack on April 24, 2012, 09:42:48 pm
Post by: Frumple on April 25, 2012, 01:04:30 am
There's definitely times when some stacked up movement bonuses can make things particularly silly, though. Just... not as silly as stacked weapon range bonuses. Yesh I wants to hit from like thirteen squares away, wheeee. Yeah, yeah, I could probably have a higher effective striking range with more movement, but I think I'd rather sit on this 30% EN regen tile and just spew death at you from over here.
Post by: Seriyu on April 25, 2012, 06:08:51 pm
Anyone that has not voted yet can still vote!
Post by: Seriyu on April 25, 2012, 07:46:28 pm
Namely, the other starter robots.
BELLZELUTE
As we all know Bellzelute is a ranged real robot, and it is a mighty fine one at that. You can see its animations and image in the robot roll call in the second post if you've managed to miss all the screenshots of it so far somehow. Primary weaknesses include a lack of post movement weapons, which can make it kind've painful to move around once you run out of targets, either having to risk moving past the defensive line and taking a few knocks to ensure having SOMETHING to hit next turn, or hanging behind the defensive line and risking not managing to hit anything because the supers have already kicked around everything nearby. Overall excells early on in the stage when the opposing units are still closing in on you and the super robots haven't managed to start killing off a unit a turn a piece yet. Generally something to keep things under control in the early parts of the stage, basically keeping real robots a little more secure while your more defensive robots rack up the will for the bonus defensive stats required to really tank stuff.
COUSTWELL
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Coustwell! Probably my favorite of the starting robots, a melee based real robot. Higher movement, more mobile then Granteed, the other melee based robot (not that it helps it that much, but we'll get to that in the Granteed section. Ohhhh will we.),uses evasion as it's primary defensive stat, but still can take a hit, doesn't hit quite as hard, but still hits plenty hard for a real robot. Very similar statistically to the G gundam units that have not appeared in the main LP up to this point, namely less evasion then your average real, but much more damage and heavy melee damage capability. Fairly useful for the entire length of the stage, as it has plenty of post movement abilities, and they are all fairly accurate and damaging. Overall, the weakness is, natch, a lack of specaliziation. It tries to take hits, and dodge, and do close range damage all at hte same time, and as a result is fairly sub par in all of them, compared to the other two original robot selections. Probably, from a minmaxing point of view, the worst original robot, because real robots need some serious armor to even think about taking more then two hits, and coustwell is no exception. As a result the splitting of the defensive stats between evasion and armor REALLY hurts it. Still dangerous enough to serve you plenty well through the entire game however, as a sub par original robot is still an excellent robot.
GRANTEED
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUmSYFNNVdc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUmSYFNNVdc) - Kind've clogged up with enemy animations too, sorry. Only video I could find.
GRANTEED. This thing is a monster of the highest calibur, and perhaps the most ridiculous original robot in the history of super robot wars, and note, original robots have a history of being amazing amazing units, and if not that, at least in the top five. The IDEA behind Granteed was to be a generic super robot. Heavy armor, high attack power, can't evade worth junk, low movement. Where did it take a turn for the crazy? It's armor is TOO HEAVY. If you are upgrading granteed's armor, weapons and HP, as you should be, the thing can litterally tank an entire stage and one shot every unit, barring perhaps the boss, MAYBE, in one counterattack each, usually with the one mid range weapon that doesn't use energy, which also contributes to the problem. Weakness? Well, if the design plan had stayed sane, like every super robot, large amounts of grunts, getting worn down over time, running out of energy etc. You've seen this with mazinger, usually running out of energy by the end of the stage, and thus leaving him defenseless. On top of this, the subpilot most suited for granteed, Melua, adds MORE ARMOR (a negligible amount, though), and ONE MOVEMENT. Which ups his movement rate from 6 to 7, seven being the average movement rate of a real robot. There went his only legit weakness. Slap a couple of boosters on him to invalidate every other memeber of your team, barring perhaps Mazinger as a pinch hitter for nasty situations, which is what granteed should've been more like, as a note, if they wanted him to be sane. Heavy armor, decent attack power that becomes respectable when mazinpower activates.
If you wanna smash through this game with no effort, Granteed is your robot.
Annnd this is shorter then I thought so let's go over the original pilots, which the differences between are, frankly, kind've underwhelming.
Calvina is obviously meant to be a real robot pilot, what with having a history in the military and seemingly being far more grounded and logical then your average GIGA DRILL BREAAAAAK BREAST FIAAAAAHHHH GETTA BEAAAAAAAAAAM GOLDION HAAMMAAAAAAAHHHHH DIVIDING DRIIVVAAAAAHHHH super robot pilot. However, the fact is Calvina's spirit commands would've CHANGED to accomodate granteed if we'd picked them. So, really, unfortunatly, Calvina and Touya are, statistically at least, mostly the same.
With that said, Touya takes less of an upfront role in the plot, he does not become the commander of the nadesico's forces, and instead basically hangs back and grapples with the concept that he has been thrust into a war that he has very little comprehension of, on top of the story starting with the original robot litterally FALLING OUT OF THE SKY AND CRUSHING HIS SCHOOL BENEATH IT. Plotwise, he's a... little bit more Super Robotty, but really, he seems to be more gundamey then anything.
And with all that said, the LP continues tomorrow, with any luck.
Post by: Seriyu on April 26, 2012, 04:57:05 pm
Post by: Seriyu on April 26, 2012, 06:53:55 pm
We select Katia.
Calvina: No, Tenia. Katia, hurry up and get ready to launch. We're scrambling shortly.
Katia: Right!
Akito: (Dammit, what's everyone doing?!) A transmission?
Megumi:Akito, are you all right?
Akito: Megumi?
Megumi:Don't worry! Other people can't see this transmission. That dear ol' Prospector found a message in the Admiral's quarters that seems to be adressed to you. Looks like he intended to die on Mars right from the start, and also-
For some reason the idea that they have to specify when a private radio band (Is that the right term? Signal maybe?) is being used is hilarious to me.
Akito:Is that supposed to make everything all right? Am I supposed to FORGIVE him?! He should have lived! He should have lived in shame for what he did to the people of Mars! Hell, he even managed to get Gai caught up in his mess!
Akito is kind've at an emotional high right now, understandably.
Megumi:Akito...
Akito:Dying to protect friends... That happened in Gekiganger, too. That's what that TV show was all about. Sure, he saved our lives, but...
Megumi:.....
Akito: The way everyone's acting... It's bizzare! They're not even sad about what happened. Gai was our friend! HE sacrificed his life for our sakes, but everybody's just so happy to be alive that they can't even find time to give a damn about him! I don't even see anyone wanting to do their best on his behalf! I'm the only one who's busy grieving... ...It's the worst!
Megumi:That's not true, Akito! You aren't alone! It's been incredibly painful for me, too. But, if you weren't here, Akito, I... I don't know what I'd do...
Akito: Megumi, I...
The battle is joined!
Simone: They caught up to us, huh? They must really want the ship!
Ruri:Omoikane's analysis has finished. They're definitely alive. And... ...They also definitely aren't from Earth.
Jun:Genuine space monsters, then?!
Yurika:The enemies are confirmed to be space monsters, everyone! Don't worry about how weird they look! Just make sure to give them a good spanking! Beat 'em to death, too, while you're at it!
Yurika as always, chooses... interesting terms, to say the least.
Another unit select screen shows up, but again, we don't have enough units for it to be an actual decision, so much as "hit the A button twelve times". Our predeployed units this mission are Akito. Being predeployed primarily means that you cannot swap him out of the battle. You can however stow him away in the Nadesico. Handy if you haven't been leveling a predeployed unit up.
Katia: Calvina, They'll be heading straight for us soon enough. There's no mistake... It's an attack! We don't know who they are, but there's no doubt they're the enemy!
Just another reminder that the enemy is, in fact, the enemy, I guess.
Calvina:So I can feel things that I shouldn't be able to when I'm with you, huh... Understood. I'll believe in you. All units, those are our enemies! We're not sure what they're capable of, so attack with full strength!
The whole "not sure what they're capable of" thing is actually very relevent, as we really won't be sure what the hell this enemy type is doing for the plot until waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy at the end of it. Also other things, we'll get to that later, as usual.
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Slightly different objectives now, still very self explanitory. We will get some decently complex missions later on, but even so they're fairly rare. This game is really more of a slugfest.
TURN ONE!
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For once the enemies are fairly close. I don't like Akito being out in the front there, especially since, being an aesti, the gravity wave beam is very handy to have him in, so we'll pull him back and skip the turn. Incidentally our O Rifle A attack has a range of 3-10, and our O Rifle N attack has a range of 4-10. Nice. Also of note is O Rifle B, at 2-7. Excellent.
ENEMY PHASE
They all close in. None of them get an attack, as expected. The mystery space monsters here tend to have fairly short range attacks. However, their attacks pack a bit extra as we'll find out in a bit.
TURN TWO!
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We start the turn by sniping one of the quadroped "Radam Beasts"(Tekkaman Blade), with O rifle N. They're the ones with the kind've.. crests. The ones that don't look like metroids on the minimap. They do have a notable difference from each other, so keep that in mind. Even at a whopping 10 squares away, we're still hitting 100% of the time. The Radam don't dodge very well.
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We have Eiji attack a nearby "hovering" radam beast (the ones that look like metroids on the minimap), and reveal one of their attacks.
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Naturally I got no shots with the actual venom projectile in it. Oh well.
Venom, as seen here, has the side effect of lowering mobility. Needless to say if you manage to get a real hit by it more then a few times, he's more or less out of comission for a few turns. It can be nasty, but due to the naturally dodgy nature of most Real Robots it makes it kind've difficult to land that initial attack. We have the Blue Earth swoop in and finish off the Radam beast Eiji attacked, because hey, free kill.
Akito: *huff*... *huff*... *huff*...
Ruri: Aestivalis, Akito unit is displaying abnormalities.
Yurika:What's wrong, Akito?!
Megumi: A-Akito!
Akito: Dammit! What the hell's wrong with me? I should be able to cope with the stress by now... I shouldn't be so afraid! Move! Move, dammit!
It would appear Akito is harboring a secret.
Calvina: Tenkawa, you're remaining stationary far too often. The enemy will have an easy-
Akito:W-Whooooooa!
Akito flies to the far end of the radam "wall". Just like old times...
Yurika:Akito?! What's happening to you?!
Inez:Allow me to explain. I heard he was mortally afraid of battles, and while at first glance he may appear to have overcome his chronic fear of combat, the terror buried deep within his heart is not so easily assuaged. Yes... His old fears have resurfaced in light of his recent experiences... Especially the trauma of Jiro Yamada's death. That, along with the recent events on Mars, has prompted this complex of his to manifest itself once again.
Megumi: No... You have to come back, Akito! Akitooooo!
Calvina:Well, there's no better time than the present, I suppose...
Another Aestivalis appears and approaches Akito!
Akito: Huh...?
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Akatsuki (Martian successor Nadesico) flies Akito back to the Nadesico
Akatsuki: Please take this one in, Nadesico.
Akito docks in the Nadesico. We can't get him back out, incidentally.
Prospector:That's definitely an Aestivalis, but...
Yurika:Who are you?
Akatsuki:You should state your name, before asking for someone else's! ...Is what I wanted to say, but we don't have time for that kind of nonsense, either. I'm Akatsuki Nagare, assistant. Think of me as... A man who fights for the flag of freedom, so to speak.
Sixmone:...Who IS this guy?
Ruri:...Another idiot?
Elizabeth:Do you know what those monsters out there are?
Akatsuki:They're a new kind of enemy which appeared on Earth while your crew was away. They're aliens.
Koji:Aliens?!
Uribatake:All right, Tenkawa unit recovered. Don't worry, the pilot's fine! Dr. Elizabeth is looking after him in the infirmary as we speak.
Akatsuki: Having a difficult battle, are we? The rest of you seem to be doing fine, at least.
Hyoma:Who the heck are you?!
Akatsuki: You should listen more carefully, my friend. As I already said: I'm an assistant. An employee of Nergal, just like you.
Hikaru: But I've never even seen a frame like yours!
Ryoko: Yeah, there's nothing on you that proves you're our friend!
Akatsuki: My, Aren't we fierce today? At any rate, it would be best to leave your questions for later. We have to take care of these monsters right now. Does that suit you, Captain?
Yurika: Understood. All right, everyone! Treat him like an ally and concentrate on defeating those monsters!
SO, after that monster of a text wall, we now have professional cool dude akatsuki on our side and control to us is returned. Buldy snipes a Hovering Radam. I also then stuff all the Aesti's besides akatsuki's into the nadesico to switch frames, because they all have ground frames on which obviously do not work well in space. Forgetting to switch frames during the intermission is something I keep forgetting to do. Frankly a B rank in space is a much bigger malus then you'd think, so it's good to stay on top of your terrain rankings.
Baybull attacks a Crawling Radam with lasered rifle and gets counterattacked. Poor baybull. What are we gonna do with you? Mazinger heads in and finishes one off with photon beam, and gains a level in the process. Level six, no new spirits. Aphrodite A repairs baybull, and gains a level for the trouble. Level six, she gains a level of support defense, which is honestly pretty handy given she's gonna be adjacent to damaged units most of the time, and being a super robot she takes hits... decently. But we've been over her armor/HP deficiency. Combattler V moves in and smashes up the radam buldy sniped with super EM yoyo, finishing it, and ending our turn.
ENEMY PHASE
A radam runs up and attacks Mazinger Z with "tentacle" which I forgot to turn battle animations on for. BUT, Tentacle is the much worse attack of the two radam attacks, in that it lowers movement. So Mazinger just lost a single point of movement for a few turns. That can get nasty really fast on a more fragile super like Combattler. Luckily Mazinger is about as solid as they come, so it shouldn't be an issue. Three more radam pile on Mazinger Z, and all are counterattacked, two with rust hurricane, and one with rocket punch. Mazinger's down to about.... 3500 HP I wanna say?
Combattler is attacked by FIVE radam, two of which are killed in a counterattack, because it really only takes about three will for combattler to start one shotting stuff. The other two are mostly crippled, however, combattler lost three movement in this scuffle, and he's kinda far away frolm the group. He's at about 3800 HP. HMMMM.
TURN THREE!
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As said above, buldy is moved down and knocks a Radam off of combattler. I take a moment to note that combattler currently has TWO movement. Hopefully that big clump of Radam off to his left doesn't decide to take advantage of this opportunity. I pull him back two squares and kill one of the radam on his retreat, activating Mazinpower for Mazinger. Blue Earth repairs Mazinger, and Aphrodite A heads over to combattler.
Bellzelute moves down a bit and one shots a wounded Radam from quite a distance, as it's range is currently 1-6. Boosting the range was a good decision. Calvina gains a level, and a.... propellant tank? From the alien? Uhh. Well okay. Maybe he got it from one of the UEFA troops. The Nadesico blows away another Radam with the Gravity cannon, triggering a comment from Ruri.
Ruri: We've detected another enemy force approaching. Please be careful.
So, the same thing that's happened every other mission. Check. The reinforcements haven't arrived yet, she's just giving a heads up. Izumi flies out of the ship and kills a Radam, gaining a level, and a level of support defense. Level six now. Ryoko does the same, no level though.
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Of note is that the organic Radam still explode in a ball of fire. Huh. Oh well. Hikaru ALSO one shots a wounded Radam. We're on a roll. Meanwhile Akatsuki moves directly south because he is too far away to do anything. Tsk tsk. Something of note is that even though they made a big deal about his frame, it's no different statistically. Baybull hauls in and attacks a Radam with knuckle shot, halving it's health, and dodging the counterattack. Mazinger Z heads up and one shots the full health Radam Baybull didn't attack.
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Ending the turn with one half health radam left. Oh well. Maybe we can get it on the counterattack.
ENEMY PHASE
It attacks Mazinger Z. Whew.
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Baybull takes the attack for Mazinger. As you can see the Radam don't do much damage. Mazinger proceeds to finish it with his weakest attack. Lovely.
The second wave Ruri was talking about appears.
Koji: There they are. Damned monsters!
A mysterious unit appears!
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It proceeds to freak the hell out and kill three radam in one go.
Noal: W-What the heck is that?!
Kosuke:It's humanoid, and it's also obviously different from those aliens.
On top of, you know, attacking them.
Yurika: But... What is it?
A question that will be answered NEXT TIME!
Post by: Seriyu on April 27, 2012, 07:15:05 pm
Post by: Seriyu on April 28, 2012, 05:35:32 pm
Akatsuki: Sorry, but I don't know either. What I DO know is that humanoid weapon isn't from Nergal, the Federation, or ZAFT.
Aki: But it's fighting against the aliens, right?
Calvina: What do you want to do, Captain?!
Megumi:I tried contacting it, but... there's no answer.
Yurika: Let's just see how things play out. Maybe he's a good monster! As long as he doesn't try to attack us, I don't see a problem. Everyone, please be careful!
Akatsuki: Well, it's not like we can do anything else, eh?
All the radam move STRAIGHT for blade. They clearly don't like each other very much.
NEUTRAL PHASE
Blade moves up and attacks a Radam.
Have some theme music. This is also the theme music for the Blue Earth, incidentally. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DDYsvzCLNE)
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This animation has so many bright white flashes in it, it's kinda hard to get a decent set of shots. I had like, three, that were just pure white, I'll try to get a better set as time goes on, because Blade's animations are some of the best in the game.
Rockin.
TURN FOUR!
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We just move everyone down towards blade and the remaining Radam, repairing damaged units (Combattler V and Baybull to be specific) along the way.
ENEMY PHASE
The first three radam attack blade and... end up hitting him twice, killing him. Huh. Kind've underwhelming given the unit they were dealing with, but whatcha gonna do. Luckily blade dying was not a lose condition and as such we will not fail the mission because of it.
Blade:(Nngh! Attacks like that aren't enough to beat me! I... I can't die yet!)
Ruri:...Looks like he was shot down.
Yurika:Ruri, can you recover him?
Ruri:Isn't that a little reckless at the moment? I'll continue tracking him for the time being, though.
The rest of the radam head our way, none make any contact.
TURN FIVE!
I move the Nadesico left and down a bit, in an attempt to set something up. Hopefully it pays off! We also repair units as usual. Roanne gets a level from it, and gains the Focus spirit! Noal also gains a level and gets "luck" which if I recall doubles your money for the next turn. It can be very lucrative if you use it well. Aki also gained a level, no spirit though.
Have a picture of the current layout, and let's see if you can pick out what I'm trying to do! With... no knowledge of the type of attack I'm going to do. Oh well. MIGHT HAPPEN ANYWAY.
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There's even more radam down off the bottom of the screen. Nadesico is the kinda spider walkery lookin thing in the top center. Let's see how this works out...
ENEMY PHASE
They all move up towards the nadesico, and are kind've offcenter for what I'm gonna do. Should still be decent...
TURN SIX!
[map&overview]
OH NO, I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH WILL ON NADESICO FOR IT. Hmm. Only need two kills, should be managable...
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Thank you. Now....
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This here is a MAP attack. The red area is all the squares that will be attacked, so in this case we are hitting four radam in one attack, for 20 more energy then a normal Gravity Cannon. These things are NOTORIOUSLY difficult to set up, with only one unit in the entire history of Super Robot Wars having a post movement MAP attack (that didn't hit allies, that guy was kind've rediculous), and most of them hitting allied units as well as enemy units in the AOE. This is a REALLY GOOD MAP attack setup, and you probably won't see it often aside from times like this when enemies are on the approach, and you can afford to wait for it. I'd wait another turn, but with where Mazinger is, I think they'd lump up around him rather then the Nadesico and then I'd lose my shot. But enough prattle, let's show this thing off.
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Damn. I was hoping it'd one shot them. Oh well, still an excellent deal for 50 energy. Incidentally Bellzelute has a MAP attack too, let's see if we can't get a crossfire kinda thing set up.
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Now, HOPFULLY the Radam will move into that kinda empty segment there between the two groups, and the Gravity blast MAP will get them, along with Bellzelute's A rifle MAP attack. LET'S WATCH!
ENEMY PHASE
A few on the far far left move up towards Mazinger, which is acceptable, but the ones directly to the south of Mazinger have decided to snipe him as opposed to move up, and I fear the majority of the guys there are gonna try to do that, rather then move anywhere, and I am unfortunatly correct. We can hit a few more with gravity blast MAP, as a few just moved straight right as opposed to straight and up towards the nadesico, but Bellzelute's O Rifle A can only hit one, and really, we may as well just shoot it with the normal O Rifle A, as it does more damage. Not a FAILURE persay, but it definatly didn't go as well as I thought, which is a common thing when you're trying to utilize MAP attacks.
Oh well, got another four. Pretty good. And it took out all 4 of them which is RAD. Katia gets a level from picking off that Radam with normal O Rifle, no spirits. After this everything fans out and smashes up the remaining six or so Radam left. You'll note that even with the sub par results it immediately resulted in a huge shift in things for your side, so even in a situation where you've got a few allies in the way, it can be worth it to blast them if there are a ton of dudes mixed in with them. Incidentally, Wall and Alert andFocus and everything wil lstill effect their dodge rates ofthe allied attack, so it's fairly simple to remove the negative to blasting an ally. Anyway, Levels people got during the final mop up segment Hikaru got one, she's level 4 now (Yeah, I know, kinda low level huh? It surprised me.), Eiji got one, Level 5.
Ruri:No aliens detected.
Yurika:Ruri, what about that humanoid from earlier?
Yeah, I'm interested in that too. He seemed pretty rad.
Ruri:Still within tracking. He appears to be adrift.
Yurika:Recover him. Someone bring him back to the ship!
WHAT WILL HAPPEN? WILL HE BE AN ALLY? OR WILL HE GO BERSERK AND MURDER EVERYONE ON THE SHIP PREMATURLY ENDING THE GAME?
WHO CAN SAY?!
Me.
BUT I WON'T!
Post by: Seriyu on April 29, 2012, 06:18:20 pm
Post by: Seriyu on April 29, 2012, 07:09:24 pm
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Man, if you get freaked out about Tekkaman blade you're gonna flip later on.
Noal:What's the matter? It's just the thing I picke- W-What the hell?!
Hyoma:No way! He's a HUMAN?!
Juzo:Who IS this guy?!
Uribitake:That's what I want to know, too. There was a flash of light just a second ago, and now this guy is lying here! Where'd that humanoid creature go? I think this calls for a little investigation...
...Really? It's not THAT complex. Didn't you ever watch power rangers when you were a kid? It's... basically the same concept.
Kosuke: It can't be... That means...!
Noal:So, he's really a human? H-Hey, Aki! Don't get too close to him!
Aki: ...It's all right. He seems very weak. Someone call Dr. Elizabeth! Daisaku, please take him him to the infirmary.
Daisaku:W-Why do I have to carry him?!
Don't be a wuss, come on. He's mostly unconscious.
Later on...
Akatsuki: My, what an uproar that was. In the end, the monster turned out to be human! I wonder what kind of technology he used... So. Who -- or what -- was that guy, exactly?
Koji:We don't know.
Juzo: Yeah, we've got some questions we wanna ask, too.
Akatsuki:I see. Hey, chief mechanic! Make sure to take the utmost care when maintaining my machine, all right?
I was originally gonna call him stuck up for asking that, but really wanting the thing that's keeping you from the horrible vacuum of space in top working order isn't really that unreasonable.
Uribitake: Just leave it to me! Lemme see here... Oooh?! Is this a new model frame?! The head's different, too! And the generators are so compact! And the plating... ...why, it's as smooth as a baby's behind!
Ryoko:Will you drop dead?
Hikaru:But aren't our little Aesties the latest model? If they've already been made obsolete that's... kinda sad, actually.
CURIOUS. Some of you may have already guessed what happened. No points if you already played the game.
Akatsuki: A simple misunderstanding. In the 8 months since you disappeared, the Earth Sphere has undergone a host of changes. That includes the appearence of a new alien threat, among other things.
This is what happens when you fly all willy nilly into a space time portal.
Katia:Huh?
Calvina:Akatsuki Nagare, correct? Could you repeat that?
Festenia: Something about us going missing on Mars HOW many months ago...?
Akatsuki:We lost all contact with you on Mars 8 months ago. It's been almost 9 months since you departed from the Moon. During that time, the war raged on without you. Why does it seem so strange that they would roll out a new model Aestivalis in the meantime?
Koji: But... 8 months?! That can't be!
Sayaka:That's right! How could that happen?
Meanwhile, on the bridge, Inez is talking about science again.
Inez: Allow me to explain. When we entered the Tulip, we observed photons and Bohr particles enlarging a "Boson." For the moment, we'll refer to this phenomenon as "Boson Jumping." The Boson Jump is capable of transporting mass through space, but it's dangerous to our bodies. The most obvious problem is that sending physical matter through space via a Tulip results in a jump that doesn't necessarily follow the flow of time.
Kosuke:Oh, I see... Yeah, that must be it! The key was the Crocus! Noal said the ship seemed like it had arrived on Mars a long time ago, and he was more right than he knew. When it was swallowed up by the Tulip back in the Earth Sphere, the Crocus arrived on Mars via a time axis situated long before we set out.
Inez: Correct. Based on these facts, it's no wonder the Nadesico entered the Earth Sphere 8 months later. Hmph... Best to just leave the details to the researchers.
Koji: What the hell...
Aki: Oh, hello, Dr. Elizabeth. How is he?
Elizabeth: Still unconscious. To be perfectly honest, however, he's incredibly similar to an Earthling. Mabe he's a being from a similar situation to Eiji's? I just don't know what to do...
Eiji:......
Noal: Geez! There's way too much we don't know anything about!
Prospector: Hello, everyone. Thanks for waiting. I've made contact with Nergal HQ. Indeed, it appears that 8 months have passed. During that time, the state of affairs in the Earth Sphere has changed significantly. The PLANT-Federation war still rages on! However, soon after ZAFT began its surface landing operation, those aliens we just encountered appeared from nowhre. Since ZAFT is splitting its resources to fight both these new aliens and the Jovian Lizards, the war has reached a stalemate. At first, ZAFT deployed Neutron Jammers, followed by their newest weapons, known as "mobile suits." Their intention was to force surrender after gaining the upper hand... ...but alas, it was not to be.
Another plot dump. They're kind've nessacery, given there's like 12 plots running side by side in the same universe, in an already fairly complex medium that likes randomly portioning out plot information.
Minato: That definitely doesn't sound good...
Eiji:What about the Gradosians?
Yurika: Of course! Since we confirmed Gradosian forces mixed in with Jovian Lizards and their plan to attack Earth, the warning's been passed along. Nergal will warn the Federation, PLANT and Anti-Federation States. They must be in quite the uproar over the announcement, I'm sure.
Eiji:I see... Thank you very much.
Prospector: Naturally. We didn't have much of a choice after listening to your tale, after all. We're busy trying to suss out their invasion plans as we speak. Both the PLANTs and the Federation are beset by their own host of problems, however. It also seems there's a group of individuals sowing hatred towards the Coordinators, and their actions are already beginning to bear fruit. It's a shame, but it appears that asking the Earth to unite and battle the Gradosians as a whole is, perhaps, asking a little too much. That said, our fine company will do its best to assist!
Eiji:I believe in you.
David:This is great, Eiji! You've finally achieved your goal!
Akatsuki: What a shock! So the Jovian Lizards were nothing more than weapons, and the real enemy was hidden this entire time? Like we needed another threat besides the PLANT war and the recent alien invasion. You may not have heard about it just yet, but those aliens have already made it to the Earth's surface. Those who evade interception burrow deep underground and grow into these bizzare... foliage, you might say? There are entire forests of the damn things. Since they've shown no immediate threat to humanity, however, we've opted to let sleeping plants lie for the time being.
Kay, so the earth currently has three major planetary issues plaguing it right now. Could be better.
Aki:Plants?!
Noal:Sounds creepy!
Yurika:Er... all right. We should also tell you about our current situation...
Prospector:Definitely. Because of the dire circumstances across the Earth Sphere, Nergal has dropped its policy of neutrality and is openly assisting the Federation on a united front. And before i forget again: that means the Nadesico has been incorporated into the UEFA. The details still need to be sorted out, however.
Hyoma:The Federation, huh... Doesn't that mean we'll be marching to the beat of total creeps? That crusty creep, Colbert, for example! Why the hell would we accept that?!
Juzo:Were you even listening dumbass? Didn't you hear how messed up the Earth Sphere is right now?!
Chizuru:The Federation and the PLANTs are waging a war... This is no time for fellow humans to be fighting!
Noal:Yeah, but we can't exactly do much about it at this point, right?
Minato:Does that mean we're all soldiers now?
Akatsuki:No, no. Not quite. Because we just got back, we'll only be assisting them for the time being.
Akito: Mars... What about Mars?!
I'm not sure why he's so concerned about a planet that he hasn't lived on for years that currently has no humans we know of left on it, but hey.
Prospector:The Gradosian army has conquered the entire planet. Do you actually think we can attack them again and triumph? Trying again now that there aren't any survivors is an utterly futile gesture!
Jun:That seems sound from a strategic viewpoint, but...
Ryoko:We're at war with them too, then?
Make that four major issues.
Akatsuki:If you don't like it, feel free to get off the ship. The contracts have changed, but the decision is still yours to make.
Akito:......
Calvina:Indeed. The will of civilians is to be respected, after all.
Akatsuki:Ah, that is so. You are Calvina Coulange, the "White Lynx" are you not? You have a wild quality about you to match your reputation. Am I correct in assuming you'll be staying with us? It would truly be an honor to fight alongside a pilot of such distinguished skill and beauty.
Calvina: I don't know yet. But I -also- don't remember giving out my old nickname.
Bam.
Akatsuki:*laughs* I'm just a little interested in Mars, is all. I did my fair share of research... ...That was in the first battle against the Jovian Lizards, of course.
Koji:Hey, wait a sec! What about us?
Sayaka:We only tagged along as free agents, right?
Prospector:Indeed. Since your original mission is over, you're all free to return from whence you came. Excellent work!
Hyoma:Still, being tossed out here would be a real problem...
Prospector:We will do no such thing, of course. We'll be heading to the neutral satellite colony "Heliopolis" first to get some repairs done on the Nadesico. You'll be able to arrange transport to the Earth's surface from there. We depart to eastern Asia after that, and everyone has permission to stay on the ship until we get there.
Hyoma:What a relief... Roger that!
They approach the space station Heliopolis.
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as the Captain finishes anchoring the ship. For details, consult your communicators. Have a nice vacation, everyone.
Wait a minute, Megumi is the communications officer, why isn't she using the PA system and making announcements?
Hikaru:Whaaaaat?! They're letting the crew go in the middle of repairs?! What's the point of leaving us on standby, then?! Boy, that's cruel.
Calvina:Since Orb is a neutral territory, we don't have to worry about the Federation-PLANT war. However, that doesn't apply to the Jovian Lizards and the aliens. Since the Nadesico can't move while it's undergoing repairs, they just gave us permission to leave the ship, instead.
If you didn't know, Heliopolis is a space station owned by Orb, the neutral territory mentioned. As such, it too is neutral territory.
Izumi:The ground crew's day off has been... grounded. Heheheheheheheh...
Koji:Well, if we're getting permission to leave, let's make sure to paint the town red!
Arthur:Yeah! We just went through a lot... But now we can finally kick back and relax!
Sayaka:We also left the Moon as soon as we arrived. We didn't get to go shopping!
Simone:*laughs* I'm lookin' forward to this! Anna, you come too! It's been months since we went shopping!
Anna:I... I don't know if I can...
Roanne:If you're worried about Eiji, don't worry. He'll be fine. We all have our mission, so just remember that we're in this together.
Koji:Sayaka, don't tell me you're going to drag me along, too?!
You're the guy that brought it up.
Sayaka: What are you talking about, Koji? Of course I am!
Noal: Doctor. Aki. Get ready to depart.
Juzo:Where are you guys going?
Aki:To a branch of the OSDG. We haven't had a chance to report the events on Mars to the Chief, and there are some things he's sure to want to look into. We also need to get more information about the aliens. If it weren't for this, we'd be going shopping with you, of course. Sorry, but... We have work to do.
Hyoma: The aliens... Those guys we fought earier? Just what were those things, anyway?
Noal:For sure. We've gotta discover their true intentions.
Chizuru:Aki, just tell me if you want anything, and I'll be sure to buy it for you.
Aki:Oh... Why yes, thank you! You're a lifesaver, Chizuru.
Meanwhile, on the bridge of the Vesalius, a ZAFT Battleship...
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headed for Mars. We discovered it was missing after the fact.
Creuset: It's the warship equipped with Phase Transition Engines. The Nadesico. They've returned in one piece, then. It appears I truly am an unfortunate man. Hm, no... Perhaps this is a stroke of good luck, instead.
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Creuset:Nergal and the Federation have joined forces. Once it returns, that ship will probably join forces with the UEFA. Yes... The warship Nadesico is our enemy! Still, to go to and return from Mars just like that... Those naturals are certainly a frightful enemy. Something wrong, Athrun Zala? You seem... troubled.
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Creuset:No, it will. I've already informed them of my plans. Besides, Orb was the one who broke the agreement in the first place. There's also the matter of what's inside morgenroete. So much for a supposed "neutral" nation... ...If we leave them be, we may end up paying the price with our lives.
Nicol:But the citizens of Heliopolis will be...
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Athrun:......
I'll introduce the series these guys are in soon, the last one I'm waiting for is just taking his sweet time showing up.
Crueset: Nergal's warship Nadesico and the Federation's new mobile weapons... ...We must deal with them at once.
Or he won't show up at all right now. ANYWAY, they were all from Gundam SEED.
Normal decisions. We have... 120555 money. No new parts. One new module (Defense +5).
What upgrades? Any upgrades? Lemme know!
Cash required for upgrades:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Current upgrades (Now with a list of current robot stats! Also what pilot pilots what robot.):
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
And finally, current state of affairs:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I'll see you all in a few days. Make my decisions for me, because I cannot.
Post by: Seriyu on April 30, 2012, 04:10:27 pm
Post by: EuchreJack on April 30, 2012, 04:21:30 pm
I was going to say something about boosting Aphrodite A's mobility, since it's from a favored series, and cheap I guess. But we've got three repair units, so we should save our money. Go go Gundam!
Post by: Frumple on April 30, 2012, 04:36:34 pm
Anyway, general suggestion is a kind of "more of the same, as needed." EN for folks getting short on it, weapons on those that are hitting a lot but not quite hard enough, etc.
I love me some artillery, so maybe an EN and weapon pip for anyone with a weapon say range seven or over? Providing said weapon actually uses energy, anyway.
Post by: Seriyu on April 30, 2012, 10:04:51 pm
Post by: EuchreJack on May 01, 2012, 12:21:32 pm
Post by: Seriyu on May 01, 2012, 06:37:51 pm
It does do a good job of keeping things interesting though, despite being so long, so don't worry about that part.
EDIT: I did just realize I didn't mention that in the OP though, so I'll edit that in.
Post by: Seriyu on May 02, 2012, 03:57:01 pm
Fate (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOVvgGMCTUs) - Take note, being something involving anime on the internet, this includes semi risque images of the 3 subpilots. If you're not okay with that/would rather people currently around you not see this, I would hold off. Couldn't find another video of the arranged version unfortunatly. Touya's theme, by the way.
Revenger (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXWRVMDOxs4) - Luckily this video does not have such a problem.
Both really fantastic songs, incidentally. Anyway, on to the update for me.
Post by: Seriyu on May 02, 2012, 06:06:29 pm
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Details regarding the forces we met on Mars can be found in Dr. Elizabeth's report.
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From Tekkaman Blade I believe. Also the head of the Outer Space Development Group, which is about what it sounds like.
developments. I'll take care of the rest. I want you to stay on the Nadesico and escort the remaining students back to Earth. I think you'll agree with my decision, since the circumstances aren't especially favorable for solo actions.
Aki: Roger.
Noal:Roger that. Say, Chief... What about those aliens?
Freeman: To be perfectly honest, we don't know what their goals are. What we do know is that they possess fearsome strength, and are capable of undergoing a bizzarre metamorphosis after dropping to Earth. Once on the surface, they burrow underground and transform into some kind of vegetation.
Noal:Geez, Chief! If even you don't know what the heck these things are, we're toast!
Freeman: It's unfortunate, but that's all the data yielded from our analysis. Doctor, what have you found out about that mysterious boy you discovered earlier?
Elizabeth: We conducted a detailed examination and found him to be identical to human beings in every regard. Besides that, we found him encased in some kind of heterogeneous crystal... He was able to transform into a human via unknown means. When you consider that Eiji and the Gradosians appear to be just like us on the surface, it's logical to conclude that he could also be a human from beyond the Solar System.
Aki: At present, he's still in the middle of recovery, so we weren't able to conduct any further tests. Maybe there are differences on the genetic level?
Freeman: Do you suspect he isn't an Earthlings, then? A demon who fights aliens... We can begin questioning him once he recovers consciousness. Nergal's sure to want answers, as well. No matter what happens, make sure to take that boy back with you by any means necessary.
Foreshadowing! To the very end of the game! See if you can find it.
Aki: Roger!
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Pleased to make your acquaintance, Captain.
Martian Successor Nadesico. Seems nice enough.
Yurika: Likewise! I know this is very sudden, but I'm going on a date with Akito, just the two of us. Sooooo.... you can go ahead and introduce yourselves in the meantime!
Megumi:Captain! Um... what am I supposed to do now?
Erina: Wait! You're leaving the ship for a DATE?! You ARE aware of our circumstances, are you not?
Yurika: Of course! Since Akito's on leave from the ship today, he's sure to be waiting for me inside the colony somewhere!
So... wait, hang on. It's not so much a date as stalking Akito? And then springing it on him. Huh. You start to feel bad for the guy after a while.
Erina:That's not what I'm talking about! I'm sure you've heard that a Federation ship has docked in this port. Do you have any idea what the true motivations for it being here are? And aren't yo uaware the Jovian Lizards and alien invaders could attack us at any moment?!
Also that I guess. I honestly think she's worrying a bit too much about it, but a relevant concern.
Yurika: But... isn't this a neutral port? What's wrong with a Federation ship docking here? Besides, the Nadesico's undergoing repairs right now...
Erina: Then shouldn't you all be here in the event of an enemy attack?! What are we going to do if they strike in your abscence?!
I dunno, Ruri seems pretty on top of things, really.
Yurika: But Akito and I have to-
Erina: I simply must ask you to be a bit more conscious of our situation! This isn't the time for you to be having some sordid love affair, Captain!
Jun:That's the co-helmswoman, huh? She seems like an imposing and self-important woman...
You don't know the half of it Jun m'boy.
Prospector: Why, no wonder... She's the ex-personal secretary to Nergal's president. Why did they even decide to send her if she's just going to cause trouble?
Tenure?
Ruri:"Why did they even decide to send her?"
Prospector: This is none of your concern, Ruri!
Meanwhile.
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So, what's up?
Erina:I already checked the ship's memory from during the jump. The Nadesico actually succeeded in Boson Jumping from Mars. That boy, Mr. Akito Tenkawa, is the key. He must be!
Akatsuki:Well, well! He's certainly a popular guy at the moment. Just leave it to me. Oh, and by the way... What of the Federation's special mission?
Erina:They're at Morgenroete. A bunchof it's higher-ups have connections with people in the Atlantic Federation. according to our intelligence, there's talk of a new weapon designed deliberately for anti-mobile suit combat.
Now's a good time to mention, Morgenroete is from gundam seed, and is a military contracter that is currently aligned with ORB, the neutral state. Also since I forgot it, Nergal Heavy Industries is from Nadesico, made the Aestivalises and the Nadesico, and has strong ties to the Earth Government.
Akatsuki: My, that sounds like a troublesome development, doesn't it? As soon as we're finished with the repairs, we have to get out of here. If we lose the 2nd ship, Cosmos, then all of our preparations will have been for naught.
Later, at a Lab in Heliopolis...
By the way, everyone introduced in this segment, unless stated otherwise, is from Gundam Seed. Kira is the main charecter of Gundam seed. Yes, we finally got to the gundams.
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was still some work left for him at Morgenroete... Hey, what's that?
Kira:I analyzed the program. Looks like it's control module for some kind of large-scale mechanism
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Kira:Hey, Tolle.... Who's the girl?
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Okay, brief derail moment. As a kid, before I was as well versed in gundam as I am now, I always got Zechs and Char confused, because they both had a mask, that looked very similar, on top of the fact that I only ever really saw commercials for the shows rather then the shows themselves. Also I think they were both blonde? I've just noticed Creuset here has all these factors too. Is this a "thing" in the gundam franchise, or is this just co-incidence? I'm genuinely curious, if there are any gundam veterans "in the house". EDIT: Frumple has confirmed that the blonde masked guy is indeed "A thing" in the gundam series. Thanks!
infiltration by now... Captain, move the Vesalius, and commence operation. Don't let even one Federation warship leave. Also, make sure to take care of the mobile suit squadron in Nergal's docks. Our foremost goals are to capture the new Federation units and take out the Nadesico.
Generic Captain portrait: Yes, sir! Vesalius, departing. Mobile suit squadron, prepare for take off! Miguel Aiman will support you once you're inside. Is that clear?
Meanwhile, in the Nadesico.
Akito: Gai... What am I suppose to do now?
Hey, wait, Akito isn't in town at all, aaaahaahaahahaahahahah, that's pretty great actually. :D
Akatsuki: Sorry for the interruption, but I knocked and you didn't answer the door. I'm not sure I understand your situation, to be honest.
"So I just came inside, because I'm kind've an asshole like that."
Akito: What do you mean?
Akatsuki: You hate warfare, and yet you assist the army, correct? If you truly enjoy trash like Gekiganger, then you should be itching for a good fight! The truth is, however, that you have a morbid fear of battles. Despite that fear, you still went to Mars and fought there. Please, feel free to tell me I'm wrong.
Akito:I was only doing what I could to help... Why are YOU here?
Akatsuki:I simply like fighting. I suspect that, deep down, you and I aren't too different. Why else would you have agreed to use the Image Feedback System to fight on Mars?
Akito: I hate fighting, plain and simple! I... I didn't fight because I LIKED it! What's wrong with wanting to live without war?!
Akatsuki:And yet... Now that you have the chance to leave this warship, you insist on staying... Or perhaps you're afraid that you don't have a place to go back to? Go ahead. Tell me the truth.
Akito:Are you trying to pick a fight with me? I... The alarm?
Akatsuki:There's intrigue afoot... We'll resume this chat later, Mr. Tenkawa. You'd better get ready to scramble in the meantime.
Akito:......
In the research section of Heliopolis...
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Sai:Everybody, hurry up! It looks like ZAFT's attacking the docks! There're even rumors that mobile suits have invaded the colony interior!
Kuzzey:No way! Isn't heliopolis neutral?! As if the Jovian Lizards weren't enough, now ZAFT's attacking us, too?!
Sai:I have no idea why they're attacking Kuzzey. Calm down.
Tolle:Alarm level 7? We've gotta get to a shelter!
Cagalli:Tch...
Kira:Hey, you! Where are you going?!
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Kira: I'll only take a minute. I'm going after that girl and bringing her back.
He chases after her.
Kira:Hey, you can't go in there!
Cagalli:Quit following me! Hurry up and escape!
An explosion rocks the station.
Cagalli:Ugh...
Kira: The explosion took the entire passage out?!
Cagalli: Shoot... Now that the passage is blocked off, I can't-
Kira:It's okay! There's still a way through. I'm sure there's a good shelter near the factory... ...Yeah, c'mon! It's over here!
Cagalli:Lemme go! Who do you think you are, trying to push me around?!
Meanwhile, at a Morgenroete Lab on Heliopolis
UEFA Soldier: Lt. Ramius! ZAFT's mobile suits have penetrated the colony! We've lost communications with the ship!
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our warship and the Nadesico... Their goal must be somewhere in here. Move the X Numbers! We have to get out of here!
Kira unknowingly approaches said lab
Kira: Is this one of Morgenroete's factories? And are those... mobile suits?!
Cagalli:...I knew it. This is where they developed the Federation's new mobile weapons... *sob* ...Father, you traitor!
Another explosion.
Kira: Quit crying, and RUN! We have to get to the shelter!
At said factory...
Yzak: Heh... Just as Cdr. Creuset said.
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Those Naturals really are idiots!
Incidentally, space racism is a fairly large plot point of most gundam series if I recall correctly. Also Dearka is the guy I was waiting for last session and he's from Gundam Seed too.
Miguel: This is Miguel. Looks like I've found our "treasure". I'm impressed, Yzak. You guys really hustled.
Yzak: Provide support for the mobile suit team. If we get backed into a corner, destroy all parts and the factory. The report says there are 5 units, but 2 of them are still in the middle of development.
Athrun:I'll go with Rusty.
Rusty is a no name charecter that shows up here, never speaks, and is immediately shoved out of the plot promptly. You may wonder how this will happen, and I'll give you a hint. His squad is called the "Red coats". Yep. This is the only mention he gets in this game.
Yzak: Okay, I'll leave it to you. Dearka, Nicol. You come with me, and take the 3 remaining units.
Megumi: Approaching ZAFT vessel, please respond! Your ship's actions are a breach of treaty! Please cease all military actions at once! ZAFT vessel, please respond!
An explosion rocks the Nadesico.
Ruri: Strong electromagnetic interference detected from the ZAFT vessel. It's no use talking. they don't want to listen.
Prospector: What a pain in the behind!
Koji:Dammit, why the hell are those ZAFT punks doing this?!
Hyoma: Wasn't this place supposed to be neutral?!
Ryoko: Oh, shut up! Tell that to THEM, why don't you?!
Another explosion.
Minato: The exit's become blocked off. What now, Captain?
Arthur: No way! We finally get back to the Earth Sphere, and now THIS happens? Why, God, why?!
David: Geez, seriously. Sorry about this, Eiji. Hate to say it, but this is just how things are on Earth right now.
Eiji: No, David... There's no need to apologize.
Once more, Eiji proves to be the coolest dude.
Akatsuki: You may not be especially pleased to witness this, but I bet you didn't think you would get to see things like this first hand! I wonder if they came here to capture those new Federation weapons...
Akito:......
Calvina: (The Federation's new weapons, huh? If that's true, then it's nowonder that unit is ready for deployment... Argh, dammit! How can I still remember that? Is that... Something I can never forget?)
Akatsuki: This is the state of affairs in the Earth Sphere right now... The reality you didn't know about. What are you going to do now, Mr. Akito Tenkawa? I wonder... Can you get out of here without fighting?
Yet another explosion. Zaft is laying into the Nadesico, apparently.
Yurika: Please help evacuate the workers! ...Are all crew members onboard?
Prospector: For the time being. We still haven't finished confirming the state of the contract renovations, but...
Yurika: This is an emergency! Pilots, prepare to launch! Nadesico, emergency take off! If we can't do anything here, we'll just have to go in THERE!
Erina:There you are! Captain, don't tell me you're going to take the ship inside the colony?! Didn't you cause enough trouble when you took the Nadesico inside the Lunar Dome?!
Yurika: The citizens were issued a Level 7 alert, so they should all be in their shelters by now. It'll be fine!
Ruri: But ZAFT's mobile suits are inside, as well.
Yurika: When we get to the middle of the colony, we'll be able to activate the Distortion Field. We can't do that here!
Which leads us into the combat section. Next time, GUNDAAAAAM!!!
Post by: Frumple on May 02, 2012, 06:39:37 pm
Crueset's something of a one-off, though, iirc. Unlike char and zechs, Cruset's just plain batshit insane and never really does any good-guy side helping stuff. At least, I think. Pretty much my entire knowledge of seed comes from fanfiction, heh.
Also, it's a little bit more than just space racism -- there's some genetic engineering stuff going on at the base of it. Other SRWs that include that subplot also throw the enhanced evolution/psychic power thing (read:Newtypes)in there, but that's not involved in Seed and G, so I don't think it comes up much in J. It's actually kind of interesting; the fear on the part of naturals of being replaced vs. the space born's resource issues. Neat (if somewhat standard) sci-fi plot.
Post by: Seriyu on May 02, 2012, 06:57:27 pm
Interesting stuff about the mask thing too, I'd always wondered about that. Thanks!
Post by: Seriyu on May 03, 2012, 04:23:42 pm
EDIT: Yeah, it'll be out tomarrow. The mission dialogue before any combat occurs is already rivaling that of a normal dialogue update, so yeah! GUNDAAAAM tomarrow. Also Zaku analogues. For those of you that don't know what a Zaku is, I will not explain (until the update tomarrow), but I will give you this.
I love these little guys. (http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y371/Seriyu_Pixel/Random%20Junk/ZAKU_by_nippori.gif)
Zaku supremecy. (Gif made by nippori on deviantart if you're curious.)
Post by: Frumple on May 04, 2012, 01:55:56 pm
Spoiler: Captain Zaku (warning, slightly large) (click to show/hide)
But yeah. Zaku's one of the best mechs to come out of gundam, really. So much love.
Post by: Burnt Pies on May 04, 2012, 02:46:40 pm
Mobile Suit: Gundam is pretty much the only Mecha Anime I've got round to watching. If they turn up in other series and become more badass, then I apologise.
Post by: Frumple on May 04, 2012, 02:59:50 pm
Or, to put it another way, the Zaku is basically what kicked the ever-loving out of conventional military (and managed to stomp fed mobile suits for a while, too) before the first gundam series started, and continued to be (or be the primary design inspiration for) the military workhorse of choice for a number of superpowers throughout gundam's history.
So basically they're awesome but author fiat screws them over in most of shows, with a few exceptions. Most importantly, they look hella' more awesome than the gundams themselves :P
Post by: Seriyu on May 04, 2012, 06:10:03 pm
Also, I approve of ZakuChat.
And yeah, my primary reason for loving the things is just how they look, I always liked the head and the heat axe thing (Heat hawk?). Always used one before shining gundam got unlocked in the various dynasty warriors gundam games. Anyway, back to work.
EDIT: All right, yep. Gonna get it out tomarrow for sure, though, don't worry about that. Mini update coming up later today also! Minor technical difficulties but we'll go over them tomarrow when I post the update. Nothing that effects the schedule of the update at all, and only effects the content of the update in a minor way. :P
Post by: Seriyu on May 04, 2012, 07:27:04 pm
You see, the primary deciding factor in what an enemy targets is the chance for the enemy to hit the unit. Combattler, being a super, usually has no chance to dodge, especially against real grunts, which tend to be smaller and more accurate. On top of this, max HP is taken into account. Combattler has the highest max HP of any unit in our army now, barring battleships. Ditto. Armor is oddly enough NOT taken into account, neither are barriers.
THis is why, occasionally when attacking a real, damaging it, and nearly killing it, the rest of the grunts will charge right past it and attack a super robot right behind it, promptly getting countered and murdered, six times in a row, rather then one of them just taking a potshot at the real robot that they have a decent chance of finishing off, on top of not getting mauled because again, reals have a hard time one shotting dudes.
Now, the one thing that bypasses all this junk is battleships. If you've ever played advance wars 1, and known about that whole "spam APC's and nothing will ever attack anything that's NOT an APC" AI quirk, it's like that, except you can't pump out three battleships a turn and clog the enemy up with them. Also the notable problem of if the battleship is shot down, you're done. I'm not sure if the game has a specific "ALWAYS TARGET BATTLESHIP" code line in there somewhere, or it's just because battleships tend to be 2L size and as such don't tend to dodge much. They also have a metric ton of HP.
Frankly, I think this AI is actually pretty decent, but it'd go from decent to kinda nasty if it took armor into account too, specifically going after soft units like combattler, and also removed the whole binary "100% chance to hit = Always attack this even if it has 2000 armor" thing. Most of the lack of difficulty in this game comes from the fact that your dudes just drastically overpower grunts even if unupgraded, and when upgraded will curbstomp most bosses as well.
Anyway, there's the mini update for you. New real update tomorrow for serious.
Post by: Seriyu on May 05, 2012, 05:10:45 pm
(It really will, don't worry)
EDIT: Posting it now!
Post by: Seriyu on May 05, 2012, 07:22:12 pm
Several mobile suits teleport in, and three of the "X-Numbers" (the anti-mobile suit weapons, IE gundams, being developed on Heliopolis) have been taken over by ZAFT. They fire on the factory to test their weapons.
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developing a workable movement OS... How about you, Dearka?
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Reconstructing system... Calibration complete. I'm ready to move.
Now's the time to mention, coordinators are genetically altered humans. They can be stronger, faster, smarter and generally better then your average human, hence the fact that Dearka and the rest were able to recode an entire movement OS in a minute or two. They're a lot like Augments from Star Trek, if you know about them. Although as a side note, Coordinators are hated because they are envied, rather then anything that they actually did.
Yzak: Nicol?
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Dearka: Athrun and Rusty are late.
Yzak:Heh... They'll be fine. At any rate, we should go ahead and take these 3 units back. We can't let them get trashed before we return to the ship... Let's go!
The three gundams escape.
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Kira: Watch out!
Murrue: Gah! A child?! What are you doing here?!
Kira:I escorted some girl to a shelter, but they were full, so I had to stay out here. I'm heading to block No. 5's shelter.
Murrue: It's already been taken out... Over here!
I forget if I mentioned it, but it won't hurt to repeat; Murrue is from Gundam Seed.
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Murrue: Argh!
Kira:They got you?! Are you okay?! ...Huh?!
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Kira's kind've got a case of the uguuu going on here.
Athrun:Kira... Is that you?
Murrue:Dammit!
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Murrue: Please, get behind the seat! I have to save this unit at the very least! ...Okay, I should be able to move it.
Kira: (Was that... Athrun? No way... What's he doing here?)
Athrun: Can't help it...
Miguel:Athrun, what happened?!
The Strike and Aegis gundams activate, the Strike being controlled by Murrue, and Aegis by Athrun.
Miguel: Here they come. Stop lagging behind, Rusty! Hurry up and fall back!
Athrun: Rusty's dead. A Federation officer's piloting that unit.
As is tradition, nobody cares about the redshirt.
Miguel: Damn! I'll capture it, then. You go ahead and escape.
Athrun: Understood. (...I don't believe. That guy looked like Kira Yamato, but there's no way he would do something like that...)
Aegis escapes.
Murrue: There are so many GINNs...
So, to clarify, right now the Strike Gundam is surrounded by 11 GINN's (Mobile suit grunts, Gundam seed), along with a.... I believe a Bcue? Which is basically an upgraded GINN, Being piloted by a commander. On top of this, the strike is mostly unequipped (it uses a frame system like the Aestivalises), and it's movement OS isn't working very well.
Miguel: Commence attack!
But it still has one ace in the hole.
Murrue: What?! Quickly! Activate the Phase Shift armor!
It is fired on, and takes no damage from the attack, thanks to said phase shift armor.
Murrue: Nngh...
Miguel: Impossible! No damage?! What the hell kind of armor is that?!
Kira:S-So this is Phase Shift armor?
Note again, gundam is a very fleshed out series, Phase Shift armor is not some kind of mega secret weapon, it's used in the Bloody Valentine war, that takes place before the game or SEED itself even starts, but that doesn't make it any less impressive. It absorbs any kind of physical impact, making it fairly useful against explosives and traditional gunfire, along with any physical blades or clubs something may be using on it.
Miriallia:Ahhhhh!
Sai: They're fighting inside the colony!
Kira:Sai?! Kuzzey, Tolle, and Mirrallia, too?! What are you all doing here?! Hey, you! There are some friends of mine directly below us! Please, get this thing away from them!
Murrue: I can't... This is all I can do with the OS in its current state.
Miguel: Oh, I get it... Its OS is still incomplete, huh? All units, surround that machine! They can't move, so let's bag it and get out of here!
A refreshingly direct approach. Just grab the thing and take off since it can't really move.
Kira:Well of COURSE we can't move it with an OS like this... It's a wonder this thing can move at all.
Burn.
Murrue: Well, no! The OS hasn't been finished yet, after all! (Just who IS this boy?)
The Nadesico arrives.
Miguel: What? A warship?!
Ruri: ZAFT mobile suits confirmed. It seems they're engaging an unknown unit.
Yurika: Let's just tear right past them!
Murrue: That's Nergal's mobile warship?! I guess they were attacked by ZAFT, too... I think we can consider them friends for now. Unidentified Nergal warship, can you hear me? This is Murrue Ramius of the UEFA's 5th Special Division. I demand that you rescue us.
Kira: Could you change places with me, please?
Murrue: Huh? What are you-
Kira: Hurry up! I can't let them capture everybody else, too!
Murrue:W-What are you d-
Yurika: This is Yurika Misumaru, Captain of the Nadesico. Forgive me, Ms. Ramius, but I refuse to start a battle inside a colony.
Murrue: Misumaru? Don't tell me you're Adm. Misumaru's...
Yurika: ...Yp! I'm his daughter!
Murrue: I see. I've heard some rumors... Capt. Misumaru, this is an emergency. All ways out are blocked. This is going to get ugly whether you like it or not! That's why I'm demanding you rescue us! It's extremely important!
Yurika: But if we fight inside the colony...
Murrue: This is no time for hesitation! Things will only get worse if they capture this mobile suit!
Ruri: Captain, that unit doesn't appear to be military standard.
Akatsuki: It's a prototype unit. One of the Federation's new weapons. A mobile suit designed for the purposes of total combat. Those folks at morgenroete earned their paychecks, all right...
Miguel: Dammit, those are the Nergal warship's units. They escaped the team headed for the docks, so we'll just have to take 'em down here!
Hyoma:Argh, they're coming after us?!
Ruri: We're not the enemy, but... It appears no one bothered to inform them.
Minato:Then let's just help those federation people! We can't abandon them now!
Calvina: I don't want to start a battle inside the colony either, Captain, but we're out of options.
Yurika: Understood. All units, take off! I'm begging you! Try to limit damage to the colony!
The units are deployed. We still have under the threshold, so they all go out.
Koji:Time's up, ZAFT! It's time for you to meet your Mazinger!
I love that line so much, you have no idea, ohhh my god. :D
Hyoma: Let's go, everyone! There's no way I'm gonna let them get away with this!
Juzo: Wow, Hyoma! Save that fighting spirit for kicking their sorry asses!
Ryoko: So this is war... Aren't the coordinators fellow Earthlings too?! Dammit, why did thngs have to turn out like this?!
Akatsuki: There's no such thing as co-ordinators or Naturals, I'm afraid. As long as people exist, they will always cause conflict amongst themselves. We simply have to do What we can to help. Isn't that right... Mr. Tenkawa?
Akito:Shut up, Shut UP! I'll protect the Nadesico and everybody onboard! There's no need to even think about it!
Atta boy. Looks like he's, at least grudgingly, snapped out of his funk.
David: After we became friends with Eiji, it's kinda sad to see that the rest of humanity can't understand each other. Sorry Eiji... Just when you finally got to see the earth, we have to go and get caught up in the thick of things.
Eiji: It's all right, David. Please, don't worry about it.
Noal: Well, we're still alive, so... Let's do our best to get outta here!
Aki:Yes... We must!
Calvina: (What a mess. No matter what you believe, in the end you're nothing more then a pilot who anticipates only the battlefield. Fighting and defeating the enemy, whoever they may be, is all you can do...) Hmph. Maybe that's for the best. Fighting across endless battlefields, waiting only for your death... Guess it could be worse.
Katia: What was that, Calvina?
Calvina: Nothing. they're right in front of us, so stay sharp!
Katia: Right... We have to give this our all. We entrust everything to you!
Calvina: Good. I've worked too hard for you girls to bail out now. We're past the point of no return!
Miguel: Those are the guys Cdr. Creuset warned me about... All units, take down the Naturals!
Murrue: Those are the Nadesico's troops? ...Impressive.
Kira: ...Reboot complete. Here we go!
Murrue: Huh?! Wait a second!
Kira: Those are my friends over there! We can't fight with them nearby, can we?! Everybody, get out of here! Hurry!
Tolle: That voice...!
Sai: Is Kira piloting that thing?!
Mirallia: We were looking for you, Kira! What happened?!
Kira: I'm not sure, but... This is how things turned out. Get out of here and find shelter!
Sai: Understood! Kira, take care!
Tolle: Don't do anything reckless, buddy!
Kira: Weapons... Where are the weapons?!
Murrue:(Don't tell me he reconstructed the entire system while talking to his friends? This kid is something else...!)
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That kinda kept going didn't it? Jeez. Anyway.
TURN ONE!
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KAY. That one blue dot down there in the base is the strike, and if it goes down, we lose. This was the first mission I lost because I was an incredible doof and did not move the strike into some safe terrain. Once you do that, this is pretty easy. Although, as of note, RIGHT NOW? The strike is an enormous wuss. The only bonus it has is phase shift armor, which is a decent barrier that activates on physical attacks, absorbing 800 damage. That is it. It'll get much better when it manages to get a hold of a frame, but until then we've kinda gotta baby it. But anyway, let's discuss gundams in general.
Gundams, despite being a real robot, are actually kind've somewhere in the middle. They can dodge fairly well, they can usually take a hit pretty well (preferably with the help of a barrier of some kind), they hit pretty hard for a real, they're fairly accurate, they're a medium sized robot, etcetcetc. More than anything, gundams require a decent pilot to be decent, they reflect their pilot's stats VERY well, as they're a pretty even ground to be operating on. THis is part of the reason that any time Amuro shows up in a super robot wars game, he is damn good, because Amuro (The pilot of the original gundam, not appearing in this game) is a damn fine pilot. Perhaps not quite that much could be said of Kira, but he does well enough.
Back to the note that frameless strike is a huge wuss, it's strongest attack is 2400 damage, at a 1-3 range, and that is all he has, aside from "Igelstellung"'s which are basically head vulcans, which anyone that has seen a gundam show knows are horribly useless in mobile suit combat.
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Again though, strike will get MUCH better when it gets a frame on it. Anyway, we move it up onto a military base (30% defese 30% evade 20% HP regen 20% EN regen, the best terrain in the game) and attack a GINN.
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Note Strike took greatly reduced damage, phase shift armor+defensive terrain makes strike into a (decent) tank. Also of note, the GINN! Gundam has always had excellent grunt suit design, and SEED is no exception. Also note it looks similar to a kinda fancied up Zaku.(The Zaku was the original gundam grunt unit, again not appearing here. Design is notably popular.) Of note is that the GINN has mostly if not entirely physical weapons, making the strike a particularly effective weapon against them! It's easy to lose the original intent of these machines in the sea of various other series'. Anyway, the cavalry moves out. AND I FORGOT TO SWITCH FRAMES AGAIN SOMEHOW. I SWORE I CHANGED THEM AT THE END OF THE LAST UPDATE AAAAA oh well. We'll switch them to air frames to show them off. Decreases HP, EN, and Armor, increases the aesti's movement to 7 and gives mobility a small boost as well. Of note, however, is they cannot land, not that it's an issue with the gravity wave beam. Combattler hammers a GINN. Also of note, the GINN's only beam weapon, and if I recall it's long range and decent damage too, so it's unfortunatly a fairly effective weapon. As long as Strike stays up in things faces it's not a huge issue though.
ENEMY PHASE!
The GINN's generally just kind've move in the direction of the main force. One takes a potshot at the strike as it goes by.
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Thanks to defense, strike takes zero damage. The strike taking zero damage is something you'll see a lot. Keeping a resupply unit nearby and pumping it's energy is definitely worthwhile. One ginn is counter killed by combattler, using V laser no less, and another loses about 95% HP from a big blast counterattack. Same ole same ole. Almost everything else attacks strike and either does zero damage, or dodges, two ginn's managed to get a hit in and didn't do more then 500 damage. I'm beginning to feel I missed a great unit in my first playthrough by skipping over strike. Remember, it's still missing a frame, and most of them ADD defensive stats! Also Miguel, the commander, is still hanging back.
TURN TWO!
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Now, we land everybody currently hovering over those littlte white buildings. They are ALL +30% defense/evade and +20% HP and EN regen. That big central area strike is currently in is an excellent staging area. For now we'll have to make do with the area most of our units are hovering nearby, but we can move in there fairly quickly. Baybull finishes off a heavily wounded GINN and David gets a level out of it. Level 5, no new spirits. Of note was the fact that even Baybull had a 30% chance of being hit in this terrain, so it's definately really nice. Bellzelute picks off a GINN with shot launcher from 6 squares away, while moving into position. That HE radar was a good idea, I'll admit. Combattler charges headlong into the GINN's, halving one of them. Aphrodite/Blue Earth both heal him, and both get levels. No new spirits. Of note is Kira's spirits - Focus(30% to dodge and hit rate for one turn) for 15 SP, and Accel (+3 to movement for one move command) for 5 SP, along with Murrue's(She's currently in the strike too, remember. This is the only time she'll be in here, but we'll get to that.), Wall - 15 SP(recieve 10 damage for one attack, if you dodge it's not used up), and Focus - 15 SP. Anyway, now that we've gotten that out of the way, the strike finishes a damaged GINN.
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Or not. You now see how bad the igellestung's are. Naturally I will be trying to finish off all the units I can with them. The Nadesico finally arrives on the scene, missling a full health GINN, and deploys the five Aesties. Let's check out the air frame with old Akito.
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Kind've a color mismatch. Looks great on Gai's aesti, but well, yeah. Air Aesti gains no new moves from 0G Aesti, just looks different, and gains some evasiveness/Loses some armor/HP. Akatsuki finishes off the remaining GINN above the strike, and the girls move in to the two below the road connecting the two factories. Taking out... one of them. The GINN is a fairly heavily armored grunt compared to what we've seen so I'm not too surprised. This ends the turn.
ENEMY PHASE
A Ginn attacks the strike, it dodges. Another attacks the Nadesico, the blue earth takes the hit for them, the barrier on it absorbs the brunt of the attack, did about 200 damage. I may have to revise the robot roll call for blue earth when I add strike. Anyway, Nadesico counters, killing it in the process, and gaining a level. All pilots level 7, no new spirits. The last two GINNs fire at one of the Aestivalis' and strike, both dodge. Miguel moves up. I've got a plan for him...
TURN THREE!
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Only four more left for this wave. Mission is actually pretty short, I just underestimated the opening dialogue. Anyway, we lift bellzelute off, and move it as close to miguel as we can.
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That should do nicely, presuming he doesn't get in under the minimum range of bellzelute. More repairs to combattler. Most folk except mazinger move towards the remaining GINN's. Mazinger moves south, and eiji casts accel, takes off, and catches up with everyone else. Strike moves in and attacks the second southernmost GINN, doubling as bait for miguel. The Nadesico moves south and finishes the GINN with missles. Combattler moves south with Mazinger, and the Aesties attack the southernmost GINN. They finish it in two attacks with Distortion punches. Akatsuki moves in and attacks the final reamining GINN with Distortion punch.
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But wait! Miguel took that hit! And the generic GINN attacked back! Enemies are officially starting to support defend each other, although typically a unit will only support defend a commander/a commander will only support defend a unit. We don't have to worry about seas of grunts support defending each other and spreading damage out over themselves optimally. Also it would appear Miguel is in a GINN, not a Bcue. The map symbols are very similar. Luckily Miguel can only support defend ONCE, so akito manages to get in a decent hit on the remaining GINN, annnnd takes a hit in return for about 2400 damage, over half his health, with distortion field activated. Yow, that ion cannon hits HARD. This ends the turn.
ENEMY PHASE
Luckily one of the GINN's feels it's a better better decision to shoot at Mazinger Z and do about 700 damage rather then try to hit akito again, so everything is okay. Miguel goes for strike, as anticipated.
Miguel:Even with all that armor, do you really think you can win with those moves?!
Kira: Not here! Stop!
He misses.
TURN FOUR!
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Time to finish up this wave. Akatsuki and Akito hurry back to the Gravity Wave beam. Akatsuki takes a potshot at the remaining Grunt, but Miguel takes the hit. At least it ate his support defense. We're gonna TRY to finish this without moving anybody from the southern part of our formation into the right side, but I'm not sure how possible that is since the GINN and Miguel are camping out on defensive terrain. Worth a shot. Strike halves the HP of the generic GINN, and Eiji makes his appearence by finishing him off.
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The perils of screencapping explosions.
I put trust in Baybull to hit Miguel, with a 71% chance to hit, and a 44% chance to BE hit. Miguel is also using the Heavy Ion Cannon so this could very well one shot him, or at least nearly so, if it hits.
Miguel: Tch! Out of the way, you impertinent Natural!
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A smashing success. Good work fella. Of note was that baybull was in the air, so he wasn't getting any defensive bonuses. Miguel isn't quite soft enough to finish off yet, since bellzelute only has O Rifle N available right now, so we let buldy take a similar gamble.
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A similar success. Hell yeah. Next up we use Focus and attack Miguel with O Rifle N. Hopefully it'll hit and end this. Since Miguel is VERY evasive, we have Ruri use Scan(5 SP, it will reveal info on the weapons/stats of a unit if no one has attacked him yet, and lower mobility by 10%) on him. With both Focus and Scan active, we have a nice 87% chance to hit. It's in the bag.
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DAMN. IT. Luckily we were out of range, so we didn't get a nasty counterattack. Guess we'll have to move in the Aestis to finish this up. Oh well. Of note is that, even though we missed Scan is still active and will be active for the rest of the turn I believe. We move Bellzelute down with the rest to hopefully get it in position for later. Hikaru hits, doing about 700 damage, dodges the counterattack. The next attack should be it...
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And Izumi with the finisher. She gains a level, level 7 now, and a level of support attack. Nice. We get a Booster, and two selling fodder from Miguel.
Miguel:System frozen?! Gah! Do I have to punch out?!
He escapes, and another battleship arrives.
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The battleship is one tile down and to the right of the cursor now if you can't spot it.
Murrue:The Archangel!
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...Wait, X-105 is active?! X-105, do you copy? Who's the pilot?!
Murrue:This is the X-105 Strike. Lt. Murrue Ramius speaking.
Natarle: Lt. Ramius?! This is Lt. Natarle Badgiruel. I'm glad to see you're all right, but... what happened?
Murrue: Lt. Badgiruel? Why are you...
Natarle: The ship's all right... ...but all other high-ranking officers, including the Captain, died in the attack.
Murrue: No, it can't be...!
Calvina:Another warship, huh. Is it the Federation's?
Yurika: Uh, what are you going to do now?
Murrue: That's the special assault ship, Archangel, which I've been assigned to. Kira, please take me there.
Kira: Understood.
The rest next post. Exceeded the charecter limit, wow. No images, so you'll probably see them both anyway.
Post by: Seriyu on May 05, 2012, 07:22:41 pm
Calvina:That's the Federation's Moebius Zero mobile armor, I take it...
Mu: Man, what a day! Two ships inside the colony, even. This is Lt. Mu La Flaga of the 7th mobile fleet. Nadesico and Archangel, do you copy?
Akatsuki: Mu La Flaga? Why, I didn't know the "Hawk of Endymion" was stationed here.
Yurika: He's a "Hawk"...? Why do they call him that?
Akatsuki: The man's a famous ace of the Grimaldi front line. That's why.
Ruri: The Grimaldi front line... ...That was where the first battle broke out just before we headed for Mars, correct?
Akatsuki: That's right. The Moebius and Delphiniums didn't do much good in anti-mobile suit combat. In fact, the Federation was overwhelmed by them. It's said that in the end, he was the only man left standing on our side, piloting the Moebius Zero.
Mu:I don't know who you are, but uh... I'd prefer it if you didn't dredge up that kinda stuff. Also, I hate to tell you this, but the nearby Federation armada was annihilated. Oh, did I mention there's another ZAFT battalion on the way? To get caught with egg on our faces at a time like this would be a disaster.
Murrue: What did you say?
An explosion rocks Heliopolis. Not good.
Simone: What was that?!
Ruri:Outer colony wall damaged. It appears to be an attack from ZAFT. Moving alert to level 9. Shelters locked.
Erina:Their commander wants to destroy the colony?! This is a neutral area!
This is really your first major hint at the mental state of creusent, incidentally. "You mean they were making weapons in secret? Well we'll steal them, AND BLOW UP THE ENTIRE THING!" Stealing them yes, blowing up a primarily civilian colony, no. I guess it could be to prevent future weapons development, but it's not like it holds any significance now that they know it was being done in heliopolis in secret. They wouldn't be able to get away with it again. Maybe as an example? Who can say.
Ruri: But it was developing new weapons for the Federation. Mobile suits were confirmed entering via the dome hole in the outer wall.
Yurika: Let's take 'em down!
Murrue: Lt. Badgiruel!
Natarle: The most experienced officer here is you, Lt. Ramius. I thought I might act as your proxy from now on.
Murrue: Me? Understood. Archangel, take off and return fire! Kira, make sure you equip the Sword Striker pack when you get a chance!
Kira: Hold up, please! At this rate Heliopolis is going to fall apart!
Murrue: I know! But what are we supposed to do about it?!
Kira:...Understood. At the very least, please take in my friends! We're at level 9 alert, so they can't enter the shelters anymore!
Natarle: Captain, just what are you trying to do?
Murrue: ...Fine. Lieutenant, there are some children and civilians who were unable to get to the shelters. Please accommodate them.
Natarle: Captain, are you sure? This ship is-
Murrue:Do it!
Natarle: ...Understood.
Murrue:We'll take off as soon as they're inside.
More GINNs arrive.
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Take out the Federation's new weapon, as well as Nergal's forces! I see, now... It seems a noisy fly is flitting around in here, too.
Mu: What the-?!
Creuset:Can you sense me, too? You've been burdened with an unfortunate destiny, Mu La Flaga!
Mu:Gah! Rau Le Creuset?!
Creuset:You always get in my way... Of course, I often do the same to you!
The sword strike emerges. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKLQtPNigaA)
Kira:The Sword Strike... It's equipped with a blade? Everyone should be accommodated by now. Seriously, though... Why am I doing this?
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New conditions. The strike can be shot down, since it's been secured and is firmly in federation hands, annnnd the primary goal is to get Le Creuset shot down. Two new units, the Archangel is a fairly standard battleship, has an anti beam coat on it (Laminate armor), better then the phase shift armor and distortion field, at 1200 damage removed, but only works on beam weapons. The Moebius Zero (Mu), is a real robot that honestly looks pretty cool, and is pretty nice to boot, partially due to the fact that Mu is just a really good pilot. Dodges very well, has two attacks, but they're nice ones. We start this with Ryoko attacking a GINN with distortion fist, and the Nadesico gravity beaming another to death. Combattler finishes the GINN Ryoko finished, and Mazinger moves into the military base permiter.
ENEMY PHASE
A GINN attacks Combattler and is counterkilled with Big Blast as is tradition. Ryoko takes the hit and recieves no damage. Another attacks Ryoko directly, getting counterattacked after she dodges it. Well done. A GINN heads up to the Archangel and attacks it with Heavy Machine Gun (So Laminate Armor won't activate). Let's take a look. It's countering with "Gottfried MK.71"
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Kinda took it on the chin, but the counterattack more then makes up for it. Two more GINN's suicide on Combattler V, and another rushes up to Mu and attacks him. Let's take a look at this too, ey?
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Wire guided gunbarrels, also known as really big funnels. (Funnels are weapons on a lot of suits in early gundam series, basically tiny guns that fly around independantly of the suit and attack things nearby. Like bees that shoot lasers, lets' say.) Another Ginn attacks, with similar results. Takes out about half of the max HP. More GINN's shuffle around and Creuset is jumping right into the action, attacking Ryoko from halfway across the map with shield vulcan. He still has a 50% chance to hit. Creuset is a pretty nasty pilot to be up against. He hits, and does 900 damage or so. Could be worse.
*record scratch*
IT'S TIME FOR ANOTHER EPISODE OF STUPID THINGS I DO! I accidentally exited the map after this action without saving. Luckily, this doesn't really effect you, the viewer, terribly much. Basically there'll be a few inconsistancies, all the previous screenshots are still perfectly valid and in general basically some robots may be in better or worse states compared to what was happening before. Nothing too much to worry about. Anyway, onward.
TURN FIVE!
Meanwhile, in an alternate reality...
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Alright, Strike's got the Sword pack, which prevents him from flying, but gives him a powerful melee attack, called the Schwert Gewehr. Let's take a look.
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Stylin. And one shotted a GINN to boot. Not bad at all. Baybull heads down and attacks a GINN with a lasered rifle. He's dodging these guys pretty well suddenly, I wonder why. Not quite acceptable yet, but still better then the 50% or whatever it was last mission. It cripples the GINN, he dodges the counterattack. Mazinger follows up with photon beam and finishes the GINN off. Gets a level in the process, level 8, still no new spirits. The Nadesico heads in to get in position for a hopefully killer MAP gravity blast, as seen here.
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Combattler heads in and attacks a GINN to the south of the Nadesico, and is immediately repaired by Aphrodite A. Of note is Combattler is still perfectly servicable without a horde of repairbots following it around, it just means if they're not there, he'll have to actually, you know, use SP on healing and defensive spirits. Anyway, Eiji heads in and plinks at a GINN in the big hopefully soon to be gravity blasted cluster to the right of the Nadesico. Bellzelute heads in and shot launcher's the one combattler weakened, it unfortunatly could not get into position for a MAP, but whatcha gonna do. The Aesti's head to the south of the Nadesico and generally wreak havoc down there. Of note is the fact that Izumi has 76 HP, so I focus her before this. She has a habit of getting knocked down to double digit HP in my playthroughs, it's kind've odd. In the chaos they do not manage to shoot down any of the GINNs, but they do manage to weaken several. It may be time for a firepower upgrade if we intend to keep using the Aesties. More on this in the robot discussion at the end of the chapter. Mu heads down from his starting point and blasts a GINN with Linear Gun.
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He dodges the counterattack. Blue Earth heads south and blasts a GINN, Buldy heads south and manages to accomplish nothing.
ENEMY PHASE
Two GINNs attack Combattler and Nadesico, I defend both attacks. Another attacks the Archangel, prompting a sledgehammer counterattack.
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Huh. Nifty. Also of note, the Laminate Armor in action. Absorbed most of that Ion Cannon. Nice. The GINN right behind the previous one tries the EXACT SAME THING, and is killed for it. Three more GINN's attack the Nadesico, and are defended against, resulting in zero damage. Two more attack ryoko, she dodges. the only GINN near Mu attacks him, and is killed in the counterattack. He did not hit. Incidentally Linear Gun and Wire Guided Gunbarrels are the only two attacks the Moebius Zero has. Creuset heads towards Mu for... some reason. Maybe they put in some special targeting clauses for Creuset and Mu, that'd be neat.
TURN FIVE!
Missing map&Overview despite remembering taking it. Hmm. Oh well, nothing much had moved from the last turn, everything basically stood still and shot at each other.
None of the five GINN's moved. Goodbye half of the enemy force. Two Aesties in range, I focus them so they won't be mauled in the blast. I also Gain[2x EXP on self] Nadesico and Bless[2x Money on an ally or yourself] it with Katia. It will be getting 2x EXP and Money from five kills. HOLD ON TO YOUR BUTTS.
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All five killed, Neither Aesti was hit. Excellent. 8000 money, 550 exp for each person. A normal kill typically rewards 100. Everybody hits level 8 in the Nadesico, and is well on their way to the second one. That MAP attack could not have gone better. With that great success, let's finish this up. Strike Accel's and one shots another GINN with the Schwert Gewehr. Mazinger follows up with a rocket punch, and gains mazinpower in the process. A... little late. Mazinger was kind've crippled in this fight because it can't fly, and the terrain is very rough in the beginning of this map, so it was crawling along more then usual. Movement speed can be a real issue for it. Anyway, Ryoko heads in and finishes off Mazinger's GINN, and now all that's left is Creuset. The Aesties move in as they're closest...
Akito:You son of a bitch! Why did you..?!
Creuset:One of Nergal's Aestivalis... Is it time for me to destroy you?
Huh, Akito has unique dialogue with Creuset. Neat.
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Note that did only 1600 or so damage, Creuset is very heavily armored. Akatsuki follows up Akito.
Akatsuki: Rau le Creuset of ZAFT... Rumors say you're a member of the elite, in addition to leading the accomplished Creuset team... This might be rough.
Creuset:Nergal's Aestivalis... You use an Image Feedback System, I take it? Interesting. Let me see the power of a nanomachine enhanced natural!
This is actually sort've an interesting hint at what the similarities between IFS and Co-ordinator are statistically, which we'll get to next mission, because I kind've have to spread out things to talk about. Akatsuki hits. Of note is the fact that Creuset has a very high "Counter" skill. Counter allows an enemy or yourself to take an attack before the opponant, even if they're initiating the attack. It's a very lethal skill in the right hands, and while Creuset doesn't have the firepower to make optimum use of it, he still uses it very well. Anyway, Mu heads in, hoping to land the final hit on Creuset. I cast Focus and Wall for him beforehand because again, Creuset is a pretty nasty boss. Not the nastiest by any means, but he's up there. Naturally, they have dialogue.
Creuset:I'd be all too happy to wipe you out right here, Mu!
Mu:Damn you, Creuset! I won't let you get away with this!
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And he misses. Still some interesting battle dialogue. Counter activates AGAIN, also. I'm serious about the high counter level. Eiji heads in next.
Rei:ALARM MESSAGE. ENEMY UNIT APPROACHING AT HIGH SPEED.
Eiji:This one's strong... He's almost as good as Gale. Can I take him on even at full power?
Creuset:Well done, unknown mobile weapon... Just who are you?
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Not enough to finish him off. NEXT! Combattler. I wall and Strike him because he had like a 40% chance to hit Creuset. Size modifier + Pilot skill can be a nasty mix at times.
Hyoma:Dammit! Why did you attack the colony, you bastard?! I'll never forgive you!
Creuset:What are you going to do about it? Will you try to stop me with that abominable machine of yours?!
Creuset's kind've a smug bastard. Of note, the way they explain super robots compared to real robots in this super robot wars is typically very advanced technology along with a small team of dedicated engineers/scientists. So in other words, Super robots are typically well acknowledged even by the military "In canon". The fact that Creuset just kinda turns his nose up at them as another sign of his mental state.
Incidentally, Creuset has a lot of unique dialogue. Maybe I'll have to make a bonus update of all of it. Hmm.
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Not quite dead...
Creuset:Perhaps I spent too much time playing around... All units, fall back at once! ...It sppears we will need to treat them seriously.
But enough to make him pull back. This was just a test, incidentally, so, yeah. ZAFT is a fairly large organization, make no mistake.
Ruri:ZAFT mobile suits, retreating.
Yurika:Ruri, how's Heliopolis faring?
Ruri:The atmosphere is barely within tolerable levels, but it's fine for the time being. All remaining citizens seem to have already taken refuge in the shelters.
Megumi:Thank goodness!
Murrue:(Their battle strength is way above normal. It seems all those rumors of them going to Mars and back wasn't just talk after all.) Capt. Misumaru, thank you for your assistance. It appears the enemy is waiting for us outside. I planned for us to leave Heliopolis after we finished ascertaining the condition of our ship, but we're short on crew and pilots thanks to the previous battle. May we accompany you, if at all possible?
Natarle:But, Capt. Ramius...
Murrue:Quiet.
Yurika:Hmm... Our ship is still undergoing repairs. We also didn't finish resupplying.
Akatsuki:Why don't we head to the Lunar dock?
Erina:That would be the safest thing to do, yes.
Noal:Can't we just head back to earth and be done with it?
Aki:No, Noal. Look at the data the Chief sent. Those giant aliens are blanketing the atmosphere.
Akatsuki:Yes, the "Demons of the Stratosphere." They're a serious obstacle, to be sure. We can't face them now.
Murrue:Of course. There's a federation base on the moon, too. I'm sure we could get them to cooperate with you if we asked.
Jun:Yurika, ZAFT is coming after us too. At this rate...
Yurika:Understood. Fellow travelers have to look after each other. We'll go with you!
Natarle:(What a mess. We have civilians running around the ship during battle and now those people... And on top of that, they're incredibly strong! I wonder if we're in even more danger now...)
FINALLY! Quite a mission. Still like it a lot.
Post by: Frumple on May 05, 2012, 08:53:16 pm
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Anyway, BuCue are those four legged dog-like mechs. S'a mission in that relatively recently translated SD Gundam MMO thing that consists basically of blowing up junkloads of them. Big Zam smash, heeheeheeee.
Post by: Seriyu on May 05, 2012, 09:29:39 pm
Also I just realized I missed a map/unit overview image in there, better patch that up. :o EDIT: Or it's just missing, huh. Oh well.
Also for anyone that's enjoying Gundam SEED, don't worry, there's like 3 more missions of it if I recall, before we get to another plot. I don't think they're gonna be as long as this one, dialogue wise, since they were setting up all the SEED plot in this one (On top of me having a lot to say about the series itself, this being the first one I'm terribly familiar with, ON TOP OF AGAIN the fact that gundams are in a kind've interesting place mechanics wise, so there was a lot of technobabble about that), but nontheless you might be ready to wait a few days for mission updates, just in case. SEED, as with most gundam serieses, is kinda wordy.
Post by: Seriyu on May 06, 2012, 05:37:26 pm
Of note, I'm changing up the way people will vote for upgrades, since most people weren't saying specific amounts of pips anyway (And I'm fine with that!), and I feel the extra complexity was probably scaring people away. This new system also prevents me from pasting three huge charts at the end of every post mission dialogue.
So, be sure to re-read the upgrade voting section at the end to see how it works. It's not complicated, but still.
Post by: Seriyu on May 06, 2012, 05:41:22 pm
On the bridge of the archangel...
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Kira: Sai... Everyone... I'm glad you're all right.
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Murdoch, Gundam Seed, Kind've a throwaway charecter.
Natarle:Capt. Ramius, would you care to explain?
Mu: Heh, what a surprise! This is Lt. Mu La Flaga, requesting permission to join as a crew member. The ship I was assigned to got destroyed, so...
Murrue:Granted.
Mu:Right, so who is he?
Murrue: ...Just a civilian boy. When the attack came, he was nearby in the factory, so I let him inside the "G" with me. His name is Kira Yamato.
Mu:*chuckle* Is that so?
Murrue:T-Thanks to him, we were able to save the unit, at least.
Mu:I qualified for candidacy with the X Numbers, but I could barely move the damn thing! A total pain in the ass in the simulator, anyway. I... guess that means you're a co-ordinator, huh?
Kira:...Yes.
Murrue:(I knew it...)
Mu is okay with this because he is a cool dude, Murrue is sort've middling on it. and Natarle?
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Yep.
Sai:Wait, please!
Tolle:Even if he IS a Coordinator, he isn't an enemy! Didn't you see what he just did?! What are you thinking?!
Miriallia:That's right! Kira's a precious friend of ours!
Murrue:...Also, Heliopolis is neutral ground. It doesn't have anything to do with the PLANT-Federation war, so it isn't out of the question to find a Coordinator onboard. Right?
Kira: Yeah... I AM a First Generation Coordinator, after all.
Which means he was born naturally as a coordinator, rather then made into a coordinator. Which given the amount of amazing things coordinators can do doesn't really make any sense from a biological standpoint, barring a set of amazing cooincidences, but whatever, it's Gundam.
Mu:So your parents were Naturals... Sorry, kid. I just wanted to know, is all. All right, I'm gonna go adjust my Zero. I need a break from this drama.
Murrue:Actually... I wanted to ask if you'd be willing to command this ship, Lt. Flaga.
Mu:I may be more experienced than you, sure, but onthe other hand I don't know the first thing about this ship. You're the Captain, and I'm the pilot. I'll strut my stuff out there on the battlefield, thank you very much.
Murrue:......
Mu:I don't think we have time to hesitate. Even if we tag along with the Nadesico, the Creuset Squadron is waiting outside, and they're bad news. If we're not at full strength, we're gonna be in trouble.
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Creuset:Ah, sorry about that. The data from Miguel got from the enemy was certainly helpful. If it weren't for that, I would be the laughingstock of our forces!
Yzak: Tch! Who would have expected those damn Naturals to do so well?
Dearka:We can't fall back now. Let the rest of us scramble next time, Commander.
Creuset: I intended to do so. As you already know, the OS in the new Federation weapons is inadequate. I still don't know how that unit in there managed to move like that. Counting that unit with Phase Shift armor, the new ship and that squadron from Nergal, they're far stronger than anticipated. It is also plainly obvious that we cannot allow them to leave Heliopolis. Once you're finished extracting the data from those 4 units, prepare to scramble!
And it ends, perhaps to make up for the enormous mission. Oh well.
NEW UPGRADE STUFF
Basically, you get three votes. You can either vote for three seperate suits, with seperate stats, for instance
Strike - Armor
Mazinger Z - EN
Layzner - Mobility
or you can choose to hammer it into one robot as such
Strike - Armor
Strike - Mobility
Strike - Weapons
And finally, you can vote for a single category more hen once, as such
Strike - Armor
Strike - Armor
Strike - Armor
So. Annnd we have a booster. Decide who it goes on. Prime candidates are basically any super robot, Mazinger Z is an excellent choice as we saw last mission, most real robots move perfectly fine, but it's got some minor use on a sniping unit, although there are usually better choices for them. It can also be handy on a battleship, if you need to get it close enough to a damaged unit to pull it in, or let some slower units ride along in it. Now, for more detailed stuff. If you're still confused about how the strike works and where it falls in, be sure to look at this thing!
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So, with all that, Make your votes! I'll see you in a few days.
Post by: Seriyu on May 09, 2012, 04:33:58 pm
Post by: Frumple on May 09, 2012, 10:10:08 pm
Post by: Korbac on May 10, 2012, 09:59:24 am
Post by: Seriyu on May 10, 2012, 04:28:29 pm
I also need to get around to an update list in the OP sometime too.
Post by: Frumple on May 10, 2012, 04:30:30 pm
Post by: Seriyu on May 10, 2012, 04:55:30 pm
Also votes are taken into account, just as confirmation, because I am addicted to words.
EDIT: Also as a note, no one said anything about the booster we have and what to attach it to. The time limit isn't quite as tight to get a vote in as you think as I'm gonna start accepting votes during the pre mission dialogue, as it's really not a big deal to rush through it again if someone has another vote to toss in.
EDIT2: Oh, also we have a hit rate+5 to attach too, because I forgot to do puzzle robo before ending the last update. If anyone has an opinion on that piddly thing. If not I'll just throw it on some super.
Post by: EuchreJack on May 10, 2012, 06:10:29 pm
Bank rest. (I can do that, right? :o ??? )
Post by: Seriyu on May 10, 2012, 06:17:43 pm
Also do you want a specific Pilot's Aestivalis, or just one of them?
Post by: EuchreJack on May 10, 2012, 06:44:24 pm
Post by: Seriyu on May 10, 2012, 06:49:24 pm
Gotta upgrade all the seperate pilot's Aesties on their own though.
Also update being posted now! Still got another day of voting period though.
Post by: Seriyu on May 10, 2012, 06:55:53 pm
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Mirallia:He must have been exhausted...
Tolle: He's definitely been through his fair share of trouble today.
Kuzzey:He sure IS a lot of trouble, anyway.
Sai:What do you mean by that?
Kuzzey: What do you think? He fought alongside those Nadesico people. Not only that, but they're saying he even rewrote a new unit's OS. You know what that means...
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Sai:...What?
Kuzzey:You don't know about Kira, do you? He's a Coordinator... ...No wonder he's way above us average people.
Sai:It'd be best if you just forgot about it.
Kuzzey:But...!
Elsewhere, on the bridge
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Yurika:Well, we've decided to tag along with the Archangel and head to the Moon. It may be a teensy bit difficult, but we're counting on all of you!
Hyoma:I didn't think we'd have to cooperate with the UEFA this soon!
Chizuru:We can't help it this time.
Juzo:Hey, whatever. At least we stand a better chance of repelling Jovian Lizard attacks with them on our side.
Koji:What happened back there is water under the bridge, huh... ...Guess we're just gonna have to accept it!
Sayaka:Dad must be worried sick about us...
Brief sidetrack, this makes more sense in the Touya missions because you start with Koji and Sayaka and cover the reason they're on the nadesico to begin with. Basically, Dr. Hell attacks the highschool (Touya goes to the same highschool as Koji and Sayaka and Boss and such), and Sayaka's Dad, the head scientist at the photon power labs (where mazinger and aphrodite and all mazinger series giant robots were made) go to the Nadesico to keep from getting in trouble with the UEFA for breaking out giant robots in a civilian area. Koji also calls the UEFA "those feddie assholes" which I find particularly funny.
Prospector:Well, jumping off an evacuating ship wouldn't be much help, either. Even if you did, there's still a ZAFT warship waiting outside. As an outstanding case, I'm asking all of you to help us as much as you can... At least until we get to the moon.
Akatsuki:That's all there is to it, folks. No matter what happens, we have to hold tight and fight on.
Ruri:That's fine, but I wonder if those onboard the Archangel will be all right.
Erina:The Archangel?
Ruri: Yes. All they have is that Strike mobile suit, and a Moebius Zero. Their only mobile suit pilot is a civilian Coordinator. While that doesn't matter much to us, they're a military detatchment. I assume it will cause problems for them.
Calvina:Indeed, but it's not like worrying about it will help anyone, either. We have to do what we can, and that's that.
Akatsuki:Correct. It has nothing to do with us.
Yurika:Well, all right then! We'll depart from Heliopolis as soon as preperations are finished. Please hang on just a little bit longer and take out all those pesky ZAFT guys that stand in our way!
Meanwhile on the Archangel...
Murrue:We're seriously lacking personnel and materials. We barely managed to find people to man the bridge.
Natarle: We'll have to recruit some of the new faces and train them on the spot. If we don't, we're just going to die. That's war.
Mu:Not much of a choice, is there? Guess that's just how bad things are right now... I'll do my best to assist, though.
Murrue:What are you contemplating, Lieutenant?
Mu:Oh, just the data we got from the Nadesico. That warship has some serious firepower! It's equipped with a Distortion Field and a Gravity Blast, too, just like the Jovian Lizards. It's also playing host to several of the Far East's most powerful robots: Mazinger Z, Combattler V, and five of Nergal's Aestivalis units. The data also indicates that the ship is currently hosting a private unit of some kind, and 3 alien mobile weapons.
We're kind've a big deal at this point.
Natarle:That doesn't mean much with a captain like that...
Mu:But their performance has been seriously incredible, even IF the entire crew is made up of civilians! Look at this... Most of the pilots are teenagers! And while the ship's full of kids, their captain's superb. She's the sole daughter of the 3rd Fleet's Adm. Misumaru, AND she's barely 20 years old! She topped the scores at the Federation Military Academy, so she could have easily entered the military... But she chose to go to Nergal, instead.
Natarle: that may be, but...
Mu: ...Plus, they all made it to Mars and back, didn't they? That's impressive any way you slice it. That warship has performed far better than the majority of the army's troop divisions.
Murrue:Indeed. We have to be thankful they docked in Heliopolis when they did.
Natarle:But isn't it also true that they use Jovian and Gradosian weapons? I just can't trust them. They even have a half-alien in their crew!
Murrue: You're speaking of Eiji Asuka, correct? I hear he helped them return from Mars.
Natarle:And that's what I can't believe. They are indeed powerful, but the situations changed so much since they left...
Mu:Not much they can do about that. What matters is now is that Nergal's assisting us.
Murrue:Did you see that broadcast the OSDG put together? The one about the Gradosians and their plans to sow conflict in the Earth Sphere?
Natarle:Central HQ still hasn't said anything about it...
Mu:Hm? That pilot... Calvina Coulange... Don't tell me she's 2nd Lt. Coulange?! That's definitely a nice surprise... Didn't know she was alive. Coulda sworn I heard something about her dying in battle right before the war.
Murrue:Do you know her?
Mu:Nah, not really. But haven't you heard any rumors abot her? She's the "White Lynx"!
Murrue:The same one who passed every tactics and combat test in the Academy with a perfect score? I heard that while she has a top ace's piloting skills, she was removed from the Martian defensive line because of charecter problems... And I guess she's with Nergal, now.
Mu:She returned before the first Martian engagement. I heard from the squadron I was assigned to that she disagreed with the command back there. Word is she got fed up with the establishment and left.
Murrue:Her, or the "Hawk of Endymion"... Who's better?
Mu: No thanks, Captain. Comparing myself with allies isn't a hobby of mine. End of story.
Mu is a strong contender for the coolest dude.
Natarle:All right... What do you intend to do with those students we have onboard?
Murrue:We'll just have to take them with us for now.
Mu: It's not like we could send them to the shelters at this point, could we? You confident we'll be able to escape with this crew? The fighting's gonna get really fierce out there...
Murrue: We can't count on the Nadesico's strength to take us out of here. I believe we may have to once again rely on the strike to see us through.
Mu:You want to use that kid again, huh... I don't see any issue with that, provided he agrees.
Murrue:Well...
Natarle:We can't leave such an important unit in the hands of a civilian, much less a Coordinator! Can't you pilot it, Cdr. Flaga?
Mu:There's no way I can operate that thing. Did you see how that kid rewrote most of the OS data? A normal human simply can't handle that machine anymore.
Natarle:Then just reverse engineer it, and-!
Mu:And who's gonna do th at? You? There's no way in hell I'm up to the task.
They head to the Residential section of the Archangel and confront Kira
Kira: ...I refuse. Please, don't involve us any further!
Murrue:Kira...
Kira:We know all about the current situation in the Earth Sphere, including the crises besides the PLANT-Federation war. We know there are some aliens out there, and that the Jovian Lizards are our enemies, but we-
An alarm goes off. Bad news.
Sai:The alarm?! Don't tell me...
Murrue:Yes?
Mu:Captain, it's the enemy! Hurry up and take command of the bridge! Those scumbags are still trying to enter the colony and cause all kinds of chaos... ...The Nadesico's on the move, too! We gotta hurry!
Murrue:I'll be right back! So. As you just witnessed, we're going to have another battle. Since all the shelters are currently locked down, you can't leave this ship. If you really want to get out of here alive, then you'll have to...
Miriallia:No...!
Tolle:It'll be all right, Miriallia.
Kira:...You're all a bunch of cowards! Besides, isn't there anyone else on this damn ship that can use a mobile suit?!
Emotions are running high for obvious reasons.
Elsewhere, on the Nadesico's bridge
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Yurika:We're departing, Capt. Ramius. Please follow the Nadesico!
Murrue: Understood. We're counting on you.
Yurika: Ruri, activate Distortion Field. Full speed ahead! All pilots, launch!
Mu: Hold on... That would be a bad idea.
Murrue: Huh?
Yurika: What do you mean?
Mu: Look at the ZAFT mobile suits. They're equipped for heavy bombing. If they use that equipment here...
Yurika:... Then?
Ruri:Heliopolis will be annihilated.
Murrue:Rrghh...
Yurika:But that can't be...!
Erina:I don't believe this! Hasn't their commander ever heard of a clean fight?!
Akatsuki:There are no "clean" fights in a war, you know.
Hyoma:They want to take us out, along with the colony?! Who are these guys, and why do they suck so much?!
Burn.
Calvina:We're too strong for them to take out on their own, huh? If it's a surprise attack they're after, they'll have to hit us fast and hard.
Natarle:Indeed. If the Nadesico wasn't here, I doubt the enemy would be this aggressive.
Yurika:So, that means this is all our fault...
Natarle:Correct. If you weren't this powerful, they would have just wiped us out and been done with it. But now? Things are more complicated.
Natarle is kind've an asshole.
Megumi: Still, a lot of people were saved because of us, too!
Sayaka:That's right! You should listen to what Megumi's saying, Captain!
Megumi:Oh no, it's nothing realy...
Natarle:......
Elsewhere, in Heliopolis, Miguel is chattering to his unit.
Miguel:Just die, already! Don't let them escape! Let's show 'em what happens when we really go all out! Blow 'em away, and take the colony down with 'em if you have to!
On the Nadescio, an explosion rocks the ship
Ruri:The enemy is attacking.
Murrue:If we could at least prevent a battle from breaking out inside the colony, then...
Natarle:So what are we going to do? Do you intend to just sit around while they destroy the colony?!
Yurika:Of course not! Let's break through to the outside!
Minato:Sure thing! Sounds like a good plan to me.
Natarle:That's just... reckless.
Another explosion
Yurika:We have the Distortion Field! Open a hole in the enemy formation and rush it at full speed! As soon as we break free from the colony, dispatch our units! I'm counting on all of you!
And the battle for Heliopolis begins. You still have until tomorrow to vote, but it looks like most of you got your two cents in.
Post by: Seriyu on May 10, 2012, 07:10:26 pm
EDIT: Robot roll call updated with pilots. List of currently accessible robots in the OP coming up next!
EDIT: And now that's done too. Hurrah!
Post by: EuchreJack on May 10, 2012, 07:43:32 pm
Yeah, he's the worst pilot in the world, but that's why I'm rooting for him!
But, didn't you say Akito gets a better Aestivalis? Then what happens to the upgrades on this one? If the upgrades are lost, then shift the upgrades to Ryoko (she's the one with a crush on Akito, right? If not, shift to that girl).
Post by: Seriyu on May 10, 2012, 07:49:30 pm
Post by: Burnt Pies on May 10, 2012, 08:09:04 pm
Post by: Seriyu on May 10, 2012, 09:09:02 pm
Fielding 3 aesties in every mission is kind've restrictive on your unit caps when they come into play (Any mission now, incidentally), so unless you just love them to death it's usually better to just upgrade one of them and let them go to town. And as mentioned, Akito will get a better Aesti later on in the plot, which is good if we're just upgrading him, as team attacks are tied to the mech, not the pilot. (IE, the new mech wouldn't be able to team attack with Gai ANYWAY, so he's basically on his own, with a better mech.)
Post by: Seriyu on May 11, 2012, 04:31:18 pm
EDIT: I FORGOT THE MOBIUS ZERO IN THE ROBOT ROLL CALL ARGH, I'll get it in later.
Post by: EuchreJack on May 11, 2012, 05:51:03 pm
One can easily imagine the following dialog in most missions:
Akito: AH! Taking damage!
Yurika: WHO DARES HURT MY AKITO!
*Nadesico fires Gravity Beam!*
*Enemy disappears in a blinding light!*
Post by: Seriyu on May 11, 2012, 06:08:33 pm
And on another note, with all the Akito love in this thread I'm kinda wishing J covered the movie of Martian Successor Nadesico (Martian Successor Nadesico: the prince of darkness) wherin Akito becomes a stone cold badass, unfortunately mostly due to his terrible luck again.
And on a final note, all I'll say is that if we do things right, Akito will not be missing a team attack for the entire game. While he will be missing it for the majority of the game, it's very cathartic when he gets one back. :D
Post by: EuchreJack on May 11, 2012, 06:16:25 pm
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Oh, and you goofed with the Robot Roll call, the Gundam stuff is repeated.
Post by: Seriyu on May 11, 2012, 07:05:45 pm
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And did I? Huh. I'll take a look at it, need to add Mobius Zero anyway.
EDIT: I certainly did. Fixed. Now on to Mobius.
EDIT2: more update writing. About halfway through now, but the big dialogue segment is done for the mission, so an update tomarrow is still possible, although I'm still not comfortable guaranteeing it.
Post by: Seriyu on May 13, 2012, 06:02:45 pm
Have
It's a tad bloody so I'll be leaving it as a hyperlink. Not too bad though. (http://i.imgur.com/9n6fV.gif)
Also, maybe no update today after all.
Post by: Frumple on May 13, 2012, 06:16:34 pm
Being fair, it was a badass gouf that kicked some protagonists around like tenpens, but it innit a Zaku, heh. Pretty close, though, they were apparently intended as the next step up. Kind of a squad leader or low rank officer/NCO level machine to the Zaku's standard infantryman.
So... you could say you made a small gouf goof. *badum tish*
E: Goufs were pretty sexy too, but they had a sillier name, weren't green, and were a bit more innuendo laden. Still great, far better than most silly gundams :P
Post by: Seriyu on May 13, 2012, 07:06:37 pm
And the update may not be today actually, as the bosses of this stage are proving to be a fair bit more sturdy then I expected. Definitely tomorrow however. Just have the four boss units (with defensive skills and abilities coming out the ass) and the, if I recall correctly, long ass post battle dialogue.
EDIT: Oooh, yeah I see, the gouf has a little spike on it's head. Huh. And the visor is slightly different.
Post by: Frumple on May 13, 2012, 07:51:22 pm
Zaku do come in more colors than green, but that particular shade of blue is mostly a Gouf thing in most of the series that Zaku play a part in. Gundam likes to color code a little, sometimes.
As for the horn, iirc at least one of Char's custom Zakus get that, too. It seems to be a Zeon commander type thing (which, military wise is a little silly -- it's sniper bait, basically -- but so is a lot of things in gundam so eh.) in a lot of cases. The genuine Zeon grunt suits usually don't have the horn.
Post by: Seriyu on May 14, 2012, 05:11:59 pm
I've stuck the booster on Mazinger. as we're about to hit a lot more ground stages, which can hamper his movement pretty badly if there's bad terrain. And upgrades, we had a 7 way tie (which I see happening frequently), so this is how it works, we keep at least 100k on hand for boss borot, because as mentioned he's gonna need it if we're gonna use him as we plan to, and the rest will be used on the voted for categories, as well as can be done at least. We managed to fit in all of them this time, so Akito got a single pip of weapons, Mazinger got a single pip of EN, Weapons, and Armor, Combattler got a single pip of Armor and Weapons, and Strike got a single pip of armor.
Ruri: Escape successful. The Archangel took only slight damage. Heliopolis is on the brink of collapse, however.
This first gundam SEED segment is the perfect example of "when it rains, it pours".
Yurika:At least we're out! Trash the bad guys, everyone! Ruri, charge the Gravity Blast!
Murrue:Heh... What a ship.
Natarle:That was clever of them, but I don't believe for a second that Capt. Misumaru is actually capable of sound tactical thought.
Murrue:She got us out of there. Cdr. Flaga?
Mu:We're all okay. It seems like the kid's gonna give it a try, too. Mu La Flaga, launching. Don't die 'til I get back!
Murdoch: Aile Strike, exchange complete! You're good to go, kid!
Murrue:Thank you. I'm counting on you, Kira.
Kira:I'm not doing this for your sake. I have to fight, or my friends on the ship will die!
Murrue: I realize that, but I'm thankful nontheless.
Natarle:......
No snarky comment about that I guess.
Calvina: We should deploy too, Captain.
Yurika:Yes, please do! Make sure to do your best!
Calvina:Roger. Listen, the defense of the Nadesico and Archangel comes first. Got it?! All units, launch!
A ton of GINN's show up near heliopolis.
Miguel:Tch! Damn Naturals... You can't run!
TURN ONE!
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Okay. You see the big tube thing? That is ALL beneficial terrain, around 10% evade and defense. Obviously keeping the majority of the enemy force off it is a decent idea, so we'll be rushing up to them instead of just kinda shuffling around and getting in position. Nothing much happens, everything just moves north and to the left.
ENEMY PHASE
All the enemies move towards us. The majority manage to land on the colony, unfortunatly, but we should be able to push them off and at least keep Miguel off, who is a surprisingly dodgy unit, even though he only uses a GINN.
TURN TWO!
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Aile makes first contact with a GINN, which is my cue to go over the Aile frame. Aile is largely concerned with mobility and versatility above all else, it doesn't have a heavy attack on it, and just has a beam rifle and sword. It lacks punch, but it also gains an extra point of movement for equipping it, making it handy in that sense at least. Some units that'll show up a bit later in the game will make switching frames on the fly easier. It's also perfectly servicable in every terrain except water, and can hit flying enemies with it's melee attack, making it a viable alternative to Sword Strike Gundam on air unit heavy maps. Anyway, he attacks with his beam rifle, and has a 33% chance to be hit. Still not quite where I'd like it, but much better.
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Of course he gets hit anyway. Nothing evasive maneuvers next turn and a bit of repairing can't fix. Note that barely did half to a GINN, Aile is really not meant for doing damage. Mu moves up near Kira, and I have Aki Accel the blue earth and rush up to repair kira, along with provide him defensive cover. Everyone else moves up, this coming enemy phase will officially put us into the thick of it.
ENEMY PHASE
While evading, a 6% chance for the strike to be hit. Excellent. Admittantly this is with the GINN using a Heavy Ion Cannon, a notoriously inaccurate attack. But still. Naturally this means every GINN tries to snipe something with it, none of them breaking 20% accuracy on any of them, barring mazinger, which is still 73%. On MAZINGER. To add insult to injury, he misses Mazinger anyway. No hits at all. Good show.
TURN THREE!
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Miguel moved, but is still not on heliopolis. He's behind a barricade of GINN's though, so it's looking like we might not make it. I have blue earth finish up strike's repairs, I focus it, and it's off again. We have it attack a GINN with it's beam saber. Rule one of gundams: They all have beam sabers. Even G gundam, the oddball of the gundam franchise.
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Nice. We might be able to wedge ourselves in there and block off Miguel if this goes well. Mu snipes a GINN with his gunbarrels, and with an Accel from Juzo, combattler gets into the action, finishing off that first GINN Kira weakened, gaining a level in the process for all of the pilots. No new spirits. Mazinger Rocket Punches a GINN, officially weakening every one of the barricade that's keeping us from blocking off Miguel. Bellzelute and the Nadesico manage to take out two of the barricade, and akito attacks the final one, not quite killing it, BECAUSE HE IS IN HIS AIR FRAME BECAUSE I FORGOT TO SWITCH BECAUSE I'M A DUNCE AAAAHHHHHHHHH; Ryoko picks up the slack for him and finishes it off. The rest of the Aesties move in and plink at various GINNs. We haven't quite blocked him off, but it might be enough if his AI decides to take a swing at us instead of moving.
ENEMY PHASE
The Nazca Class cruiser takes a shot at akito, and misses. I'll get a shot of it next time, I skipped the animation on accident. A Ginn takes a shot at akito with a the heavy ion cannon, with akito having the chance to counterattack with a missle pod (aerial frame only weapon). I decide to take the chance (34% chance to be hit), and he takes the hit, going down to single digit health. Eeeeeeeee. He dodges the next shot and the Ginn after that generously decides to go after the Nadesico. As is tradition it one shots it in return.
Ruri:Another ZAFT batalion is approaching. The'll make contact soon.
Another warning for incoming reinforcements. They tend to trigger after killing x amount of dudes. More nadesico counter murdering. Enough to trigger the next chattering segment.
Kira:They're all over the Archangel! I can't let it be destroyed...!
Koji:Hey, are you Kira?
Kira:Huh?
Koji: I'm Koji Kabuto. I heard you're a Coordinator. That's really something! I don't get why you're fighting on our side, but we're glad to have the help!
Kira:I just...
Koji: What's eating you?
Sayaka:Koji, haven't you figured it out? That boy doesn't want to fight. I'm sure that must be hard for you to comprehend, but...
Miguel:There you are! Let's concentrate our attacks on their warships! It's time to show them how these Federation mobile suits were meant to be used!
Athrun:(That mobile suit shouldn't be ready for battle yet, but... That skill! It definitely isn't a Natural's. Kira... is that really you?)
Nicol:Athrun, is something bothering you?
Athrun:...It's nothing. All units, let's go!
Yzak:Don't let Athrun hold you up, Dearka.
Dearka: Heh! Not on my watch!
Natarle: Those are... X numbers?! Impossible!
Murrue:No way... They've already finished readying those units for combat?!
Ruri: Our opponents are Coordinators, so that's hardly a surprise.
Yurika: Using the enemy's captured weapons in battle is the oldest trick in the book! So uh... can we just destroy them?
Murrue:Huh... I wonder.
Mu:Those mobile suits are now the enemy. It's kill or be killed.
Athrun:(I have to make sure of it...)
The Aegis zips over to the strike
Kira:That's the... X-303 Aegis?!
Yzak:Tch! That Athrun... He wants to get his mobile suit smashed up that badly?
Dearka:What the hell is wrong with him?!
Athrun: Whoever's piloting the X-105... Can you hear me? Kira... is that you?
Kira: A-Athrun?!
Athrun:It really IS you!
Kira:Athrun Zala... Why are you here?!
Athrun: You took the words right out of my mouth! Why are you piloting that thing?!
Kira:Because ZAFT chose to attack Heliopolis!
Athrun:Kira, you aren't my enemy, right? We're both Coordinators, so there's no reason for us to fight. Why are you with the UEFA? Why did you side with the Naturals?!
Kira: I'm not with the army, but all my friends are aboard that ship! I have to protect it! Besides, why are YOU fighting for ZAFT?! Didn't you tell me you hate war?!
Athrun:That's what I believed! But... my mother died in the "bloody valentine"! Junius Seven was just a regular agricultural PLANT, but those damn Naturals... ...They nuked the colony, anyway!
Kira: Athrun...
Yzak: What are you babbling about, Athrun?! Just take him down!
Mu:What's wrong, kid?
Athrun:Kira, come with me! We don't need to fight each other!
Kira:You want me to go with you? To ZAFT?!
Athrun:Kira, you're a coordinator! We should be allies!
Kira:No! I'll never join ZAFT!
Athrun:Cut it out, already!Come on, Kira! If you won't comply... ...D-Do you want me to have to shoot you down?!
Kira:I-I know, but, I...
Yzak:Stop screwing around, Athrun! What the hell are you doing?! You got a death wish?!
Nicol: Athrun, it's too dangerous! Fall back!
Athrun:Tch...
And there we have a plot. Anyway, carrying on with the violence. A GINN once more attempts to assault Combattler in vain.
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This is 90% of combattler's defensive turns, as a note, minus the defensive support by Blue Earth. Although... Keeping blue earth around combattler to support him defensively and repair him sounds like an awesome idea. Miguel takes the bait and attacks strike instead of moving onto the colony.
Miguel: They said if we couldn't capture that unit, we should just shoot it down! Here I go!
He misses. It's what you get for attacking a gundam with a low accuracy weapon, even one as slow as the strike. Meanwhile the battalion on the right side starts moving onto the colony. I should probably start getting some units over thataway to see if I can't keep the gundams off of the thing to give us a bit of an edge, as the X-Numbers are actually kind've nasty boss charecters. Still not anything to be TERRIBLY worried about but I definitely wouldn't under estimate them. None of them do anything meaningful aside from get onto the colony. Luckily we have two battleships now...
TURN FOUR!
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Kay, current plan is to send the strike over to the right, along with Eiji, Aphrodite A, Buldy, Baybull, Mobius Zero, and Bellzelute, while Combattler V, Mazinger Z, the Blue Earth, and all of the aesties deal with the remnants of the left side. Ideally this'll clear out the grunts on the right while we finish up the left side, and let our entire army deal with the four gundams. Eiji and Buldy take out a GINN with a one two punch, the blue earth heads up and repairs the heavily battered Akito, and we toss all the Aesties into the Nadesico to swap them into 0G frames, as it's actually a fairly nice boost, and we may as well do it when Mazinger Z and Combattler are still in good shape and can take on the rest of the left side. On top of this Akito could really use the health he gets for being in a ship. (10% HP and EN for every turn a unit is in the ship) Mazinger takes a swipe at Miguel.
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He hammers him pretty hard. HE had a 65% chance to hit it, so this is pretty fortunate. Let's see if Combattler V can't finish the job.
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Hell yeah.
Miguel:Tch... Is this my limit?! I'm falling back!
He escapes. With him taken care of, we move Nadesico up into position to start hammering that Nazca-Class (Gundam SEED), which I don't believe has gotten a screenshot yet.
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Battleships are starting to hit harder, but I doubt it can match up with a Gravity Cannon, now that we're in position for it. I decide to keep Bellzelute on this side and move it up to start helping out with the Nazca Class. It finishes a GINN on the way and Calvina gets a level. No spirits.
ENEMY PHASE!
The Nazca Class decides to take fire on Combattler, who, while defending, only takes 1200 damage! Not bad! That defense upgrade DID help. The only GINN remaining decides life is not worth living without Miguel and wrecks himself on the Nadesico. Mazinger takes the hit for it, to boot. The uppermost Nazca class on the right is heading over to the left side, presumably to keep our forces on the left occupied, that's.... actually a pretty clever move, wow. And the southernmost right side Nazca class (wow, they brought two battleships and four gundams? Jeez.) attacks the Archangel.
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Couple of notes, the Nazca Class calls the Archangel "The Legged Ship", You'll be seeing that in dialogue segments so remember that. And apparently the archangel has unique dialogue for Nazca Class battleship attacks! Neat. Anyway the GINN's move in to attack Archangel. Unfortunatly Lohengrin has a pretty restrictive minimum range on it, and enemies will frequently rush in under it, so it won't be one shot KOing enemies on counterattacks as much, but eh. Still will usually set them up for a kill next turn. Anyway Sayaka takes the hit for the Archangel, and it counters with the gottfrieds and does almost enough damage to one shot it, natch. A northern GINN rushes over to the left side offense. I... have underestimated the AI. ... Well given that it attacked the Nadesico and got one shot in return, maybe not. But points for effort! Nadesico gets a level, no new spirits. Another GINN attacks the archangel, in range of it's lohengrins and... does not get one shotted. Hmm. Almost though, again. A GINN rushes to the left side, and attacks mu on the way, hitting him, cutting his HP down to half, and hitting the GINN in return, doing the same. Another GINN attacks the Archangel and is one shotted in return for it. I guess the Lohengrin is right on the cusp. Murrue gets a level off of it. A GINN decides to go for the strike.
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It goes poorly. Another two GINN's destroy themselves on the archangel. Natarle gets a level out of it. And all of the enemy gundams take this as a sign to get on the colony for the defensive boost. Dammit. Oh well.
TURN FIVE!
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So, as of now since I'm pretty sure every unit on them ap except for one nazca class is on heliopolis I find it prudent to reunite our forces near the center, and also wipe out the four GINN's hovering around in there. The Nadesico heads in first and destroys a GINN with missles, and proceeds to deploy the Aesties like an enormous swarm of angry giant robot bees. They wreck the GINNs in the center, and Akatsuki gets a level off it. Ryoko attacks the nazca class to the north and gets hammered for it. I take this as a warning and focus Akito before he attacks. It works out for me. I focus Mu and attack the northern Nazca Class with wire guided gunbarrels. It is just now half dead. These are REAL battleships, not like those half assed Katanbos from before. Bellzelute moves in and attacks the very same Katanbo. So do mazinger and combattler. Combattler ends up finally killing it, gaining a level in the process. No new spirit commands. Blue earth moves in and repairs Combattler.
Archangel fires Lohengrin at a nearby Nazca Class. The Nazca class counterattack doesn't do any damage through the Archangel's Laminate armor. Very nice. I Focus Kira and send him at the Duel Gundam, piloted by Yzak. This thing has a special feature that we'll go over later in the mission.
Kira:Dammit!
Yzak:Is this how you fight?!
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Very well, apparently. Also the beam coat wasn't what I was referring to so don't get excited yet. Buldy fires a shoulder cannon at the rightmost Nazca Class. We then use hit and away to get him in position for firing at gundams. Layzner fires off calf missles at a Nazca Class nearby. And Aphrodite A repairs baybull, ending the turn.
ENEMY PHASE
A Nazca class fires it's beam cannons at the Archangel, who is defending. Aphrodite A takes the attack for the archangel, making an attack that probably would've done 0 damage, maybe 500 damage tops, into an attack that does 1100 damage. This is why you have to pay attention to defensive supports. Yzak also rushes at the Archangel.
Natarle: The Duel? I'd rather shoot you down than let the enemy use it!
Yzak:You can't run! I'm taking you down!
His beam rifle somehow pierces the Laminate armor, and he takes a one thousand something damage hit on the chin for it. Dearka in the Buster Gundam rushes up to the Strike.
Dearka:That's the sole remaining unit. I'll make short work of you!
Editor note:I think he means X-unit, not unit unit.
Kira:I can't let you destroy the Archangel!
Dearka misses the strike and strike nails it with a counterattack. The Buster gundam in the show is an artillery unit, so much like the bellzelute it has a ton of long range attacks. Unlike the Bellzelute, Dearka is not terribly good at hitting things, so firing at such a long range does bad things to his accuracy. He's probably the least threatening of the four, although he does have a habit of busting out a nasty MAP attack when you're not expecting it. Nicol in the blitz gundam decides to go after Izumi. We evade as he has a 63% chance of hitting her, and that's pretty nasty, given how hard the blitz can hit.
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Roanne ends up taking the hit for Izumi, and taking it pretty well honestly. I think he's a size category larger then an Aesti, so that'd prolly be why. The Blitz gundam's special ability will be revealed at a later date, as it factors into a pretty major plot point later on. And last but not least, Athrun, in the Aegis goes after Izumi, with a beam rifle. Izumi has a distortion field which again is better against beam weapons, so I think she can take it if she does get hit, so we'll go with a counterattack on this one.
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Excellent. The Aegis is a "commander type unit" so athrun is in essence the "real boss" here. If we kill him the rest go down. Of course, that would be the wuss way out, so we'll be taking out his buddies first. In the show this just means the Aegis is made to a higher specification then the rest of thme, and as a result is just kind've BETTER. If you're curious the strike gundam was designed for versatility.
TURN SIX!
Missed the map and overview for this turn. Sorry!
We'll start this turn out with a BANG. Ryoko and Akito attack the Nazca class tailing them, Along with Mazinger, who gets counterkilled in the process. This officially means that I am BAD AT VIDEO GAMES. Again, it was no fault of the suit or pilot, I just forgot to heal it. Admittantly it took that attack pretty hard, at 2000 damage. Hmm.
But nontheless. It's time for an attack we haven't seen in a while...
SUPER ELECTROMAGNETIC SPIIIIIN! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=z2WzzSJ4QyA#t=250s) Watch until the end of that specific animation for the desired effect, not the rest of the video.
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I love that attack animation. The more dramatic closeups the better in my opinion. Anyway, takes care of that Nazca. Blue Earth repairs ryoko because she is doing poorly. The Nadesico gravity blast's the blitz gunda at a 58% chance to hit, with no counterattack. This hasn't really come up until now, but the Nadesico's lack of a good accuracy boosting spirit basically relegates it to cleanup duty with missles sometimes. Luckily this will be remedied in the near future.
Nicol:If I can just take out their engines...
It misses, but due to something called "the mirage colloid", rather then a dodge. Mysterious. I knew I should've used break. We'll go over the colloid later. Bellzelute picks off a Nazca class from across the map with O Rifle A. Just the gundams now. Katia gains a level as a result. We move bellzelute back a bit to get them into a better position for gundam shootin'. Mu plinks at the blitz gundam. Can't beat no counterattack. We focus buldy, and attack the blitz gundam. He does 700 damage (bad) and is killed by the counterattack (worse). Like I said, the Gundam bosses are about where the game stops messing around. Although if you play carefully (unlike me; RIP AND TEAR) it's usually not an issue. Anyway we focus Hikaru and attack Blitz. And manage to do decent damage, at about 2500 HP's worth. Bout damn time. Another good hit like that and we'll be rid of the blitz. Aphrodite repairs the archangel, and Izumi Focuses and Breaks (break; aptly enough, breaks through defensive skills the enemy has, like phase shift armor and the Mirage colloid. Gundams have defensive skills coming out of the ass so this is valuble here)
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Excellent. Izumi gains a level and gets a level of support attack from it. Nifty. And a Support Atk +1 Module explodes out of the wreckage, I suppose.
Nicol:Ungh... This is getting out of hand! Falling back!
You betta run. We've got three gundams left, and five units left to act this turn. Let's see if we can't bring another down... Duel gundam is kinda battered, maybe we can finish him up. This coming dialogue occurs after the attack, incidentally.
Yzak: What the hell?! Dammit, how dare you Natural bastards do this to me!
And then he... retreats before dying? Huh. Didn't know they'd do that in this mission. This also means we cannot cover Duel Gundam's MYSTERIOUS SECRET. Given what it is it's kinda dumb that he retreated at that point, is all I'll say. On to the Buster Gundam!
Natarle: Nngh... Don't let the enemy get any closer to the ship!
Dearka:Damn! Armed to the teeth, aren't 'cha?!
Takes him down to about 2k. Next hit oughta get him to pull back.
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Dearka: Tch! I'm going down?! I'll be sure to sink you next time!
He retreats
Dearka manages to shoot down eiji in litterally the first time I've ever seen it happen. Once more, gundams can be nasty. He had a 26% chance to dodge, which, in hindsight is a liiiiitttlee high. I didn't think he'd one shot him though, damn. Still, Eiji got the job done at least. Now for the Aegis. Akatsuki takes a shot at him but misses. Akatsuki has the same problem as the Nadesico, namely he doesn't have any accuracy boosting spirits. With that said, with him being a smaller category it's less of an issue. The fact that the Aegis is dodging just as well as an Aesti with a size disadvantage says somethin. Baybull heads in with focus.
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DAMN! Got hit again at 20%. The game is not treating me well. Also yes the Aegis turned into a giant cannon. Distant relative of megatron?
ENEMY PHASE!
Aegis attacks about four units with his MAP.
It hits Akatsuki and nearly kills him too. Yeesh. No other damage.
TURN SEVEN!
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I have blue earth and aphrodite heal random dudes toget some exp. Noal and Aki gain levels from it, no new spirits. Time to finish this up.
Kira:Athrun, why?!
Athrun:Stop it, Kira! We don't have to fight... So I'll... I'll...!
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Of note is that Athrun had no counterattack because he has no close range weapons. It is possible to sneak in under enemy ranges sometimes, but not often enough to be worth it. Odd that it was a gundam of all things to show this off. But he's not quite out yet.
Calvina: The military's new weapons... Our foes are Coordinators, so there's no margin for error on this one.
Katia:Is it really okay to be fighting them?
Calvina:The enemy's using them, so I'll just have to take 'em out! Let's go!
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And so this pile of broken robots ends in our victory. Calvina and Katia gain a level from this. Post mission dialogue after this post! Stupid character limit.
Post by: Seriyu on May 14, 2012, 05:49:42 pm
Kira:(Athrun...)
Ruri:All enemies have retreated.
Natarle:Is that so... AL divisions, report for damage!
Murrue:Looks like we made it through with a few scrapes, at worst.
Yurika:Huh? Ruri, does Heliopolis look... wierd to you?
The colony shudders.
Ruri:It appears the colony has reached its limit. Its shelters were locked down. It has now begun ejecting its lifeboats. Heliopolis is collapsing. If we don't retreat soon, we'll be caught in the collapse, as well.
Murrue:What did you say?!
Prospector:A colony of this size and stability going down? A loss of this magnitude is... incalculable!
Akito:No... This can't be!
Koji:No, I don't believe it... Argh! Damn you, ZAFT!
A neat detail is if a pilot is shot down during a fight, whenever he talks in a cutscene, he'll be talking from the capital ship he is assigned to, so in Koji's case, the Nadesico.
Hyoma:How dare they!
Akatsuki:Well, it wasn't our fault, so there's littler we can do about it.
An explosion rocks Heliopolis
Kira: Heliopolis is crumbling?! But, why did they...
Mu:Dammit! They took it down so easily, too!
Total losses on our end are 12600. Yowch. Still have plenty of extra but still.
I hope this trend doesn't carry through to the actually hard stages.
Post by: Seriyu on May 15, 2012, 06:24:28 pm
On the bridge of the Archangel.
Natarle: What do you mean by that?!
Murrue: What's wrong, Ensign?
Natarle:Kira Yamato just reported that he brought in a lifeboat from Heliopolis. We can't afford to take it in during an emergency of this magnitude. Besides, the rescue ship will be arriving soon. Leave it. I don't care where you put it, just don't bring it here!
Kira: But the propulsion system is damaged. I can't leave them out here!
Yurika:Yes! That would be far too cruel!
Natarle:Capt. Misumaru, do you understand the gravity of our current situation? We're still in great danger. We cannot afford to accommodate more civilians!
Yurika: Understood. In that case, we'll be taking them in! Is that all right, Mr. Prospector?
Prospector: We've no choice. From a humanitarian point of view, we can't even consider abandoning them.
Natarle:But...
Murrue: Fine, do it.
Natarle: Capt. Ramius!
Murrue:We don't have time to argue about this right now.
Yurika:Okay! Mr. Kira Yamato, please take the pod to the Nadesico.
In the Nadesico's hangar...
Koji:Oh, there it is. Nice work, Kira!
Koji is a stand up guy.
Chizuru:You're Kira Yamato, the Coordinator, right? I'm Chizuru Nanbara. Nice to meet you!
Kira:Oh uh... Yeah, that's me.
Juzo:Come on, there's no reason to feel shy around us! I'm Juzo Naniwa. That was the second time you piloted that thing, right? Man, that was awesome! You're really something else, you know that?
Everyone else is pretty awesome too.
Kira: No, I'm not, I just...
Hikaru:Yeaaaaaah! You were sooooooo adorable, too! All those flustered pauses and whatnot!
Hyoma:You look like you're exhausted. I'm Hyoma, and uh, that's all you're gonna get out of me until you can get away from this crowd. Later!
Festenia:And me? I'm Festenia Muse! Hey, are you a student from Heliopolis? How come you got to pilot that thing?
Kira: Well... Things just started to happen. When ZAFT attacked, I was assisting with research at Morgenroete. And then...
Uribitake:Oooooh, so this is the mobile suit that Morgenroete developed! It can exchange weapons?! Oooh, I love those lines! That face! Those legs! It has the kind of unmatched beauty only a new mech can lay claim to! And on top of that it's just stupidly cool! Still... I could've sworn it had a little more color during the battle...
Morgenroete is actually a really big deal in the "aglamation universe". Whenever there's some new mega advanced THING, Morgenroete or Nergal is usually all over it.
Kosuke: The color comes out with the activation of the unit's Phase Shift armor. This is how it looks when it's turned off.
Inez: Allow me to explain. The Phase Shift armor, developed by Morgenroete, is unlike the Nadesico's Phase Transition Engines in that...
If you're actually interested in the technobabble she was about to fire off, read this! If not, keep going. Phase shift armor is actually activated via an electric current (hence the energy requirement). So far as I can tell it'd be most similar in real life to a material that hardens when electric current is applied, which does actually exist in the world, although I don't know of any METALS that do it. The reason it can't do the same to beam weapons is that it's just too "pure" a form of energy or something of the sort. Thank you to the gundam wiki for most of this. Anyway, carrying on.
David: Nobody's listening.
Dick.
Kira: Um... I...
Sayaka: Sorry about that. We just have a lot of noisy people around here. They must have given you quite the scare!
Kira:No... No, not at all.
Elizabeth: Mr. Kira Yamato, it's imperative that you meet the Captain! If it's all right with you, could you come to the bridge later?
Ryoko: Hey, a little help with the escape pod? Here, open the hatch!
Aki:Please don't worry. This is a warship and Nergal Heavy Industries called the Nadesico. We all have a duty to take you to a safe place. Please form two lines for registration.
Kira: Flay? Flay Allster?! So, you were inside that escape pod...
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Kira: Oh, well... You're all right now. You'll be able to see Sai and Miriallia soon.
Flay:Seriously?! But this is Nergal's warship... What are you doing here?
Roanne: Sounds like you know her.
Kira:Yeah... She's from the same university as me.
Koji: Damn, what a babe! I'm Koji Kabuto. The pleasure's mine!
I find that if you must hit on someone with your not quite but may as well be girlfriend right next to you it's best to not say "Damn, what a babe!" beforehand.
Sayaka: Koji!
Aki:Your other friends are on the Archangel, right?
Kira:Yes.
Aki: If that's the case, I think it would be best for you to take her back there.
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A neat little note, Heliopolis is flat out not there, even on the map, anymore. Little things.
Miguel:Commander, the council will not stand for the destruction of a neutral colony!
Creuset:Where was their neutrality when they developed mobile suits for the Federation? Besides, most of the colony's citizens already escaped in the pods, so it's hardly a serious concern. At least... not when compared to the "Bloody Valentine."
Dearka: That's true.
Creuset: Can we catch the Nadesico and the Legged Ship?
Nicol: Do you still want to follow them, Cdr. Creuset?
Creuset: Didn't I already tell you? If we don't take them down while we still have a chance, it's impossible to say when they'll return for our lives. We must finish this here!
Nicol:But, aren't we also-
Yzak:Don't be such a wuss, Nicol! We can't let such powerful Naturals escape!
Creuset: Now, will they drop to the Earth, or head for the Moon...?
Meanwhile, back on the archangel
Flay: Sai!
Sai: Flay, you're all right! Thanks a lot, Kira!
Kira: Oh, uh... Yeah.
Tolle: So, how was the Nadesico? That was the same ship that departed from the Moon a few months back to rescue the people on Mars, right? Did you manage to speak with them?
Kira: Yeah... There are a lot of people areound our age onboard. That was definitely a surprise. They're also kinda... funny. I didn't really feel like I was on a military warship at all. There were some people there that they rescued back on Mars, too.
Miriallia: *giggle* Really? It would be great if they let us go there.
Tolle: But then Kira would be all alone over here...
Miriallia: Oh, that's right... Flay, since ZAFT is after both this ship and the Nadesico, I don't think they're going to let us off for the time being.
Flay:Huh? Then that means... Being here is even MORE dangerous?! N-No way!
Miriallia: What, you think it would be safer in a broken down escape pod?
Flay:T-That's not what I was trying to say, but...
Mu: Chief Engineer Murdoch's pretty upset with you, Kira. He said that if you intend to continue using the Strike, you'll also have to service it! Unlike the Nadesico, we're short on hands at the moment, so we're counting on you to do your part, too.
Kira:Cdr. Flaga... Are you telling me it's my unit, now?
Mu:That's just how things turned out. You're the only one who can actually use it.
Kira:But I've only used it twice, and I...
Mu:Do you want those to be your last words when you die in the next battle? The only ones who can protect this ship are you and me, y'know.
Kira:What about the Nadesico? Even if I don't help, things should be all right.
Mu:Hey, we're counting on them, too, but their own ship is more important to them than ours. Don't count on them to protect us while the Nadesico is in danger. That's a responsibility only you can take care of. We have to do what we can.
Kira: But I...
Mu: As I'm sure you've seen firsthand on their ship, being a civilian or a child shouldn't prevent you from working for the military... Right?
Kira:I know, but...
Mu:Isn't it possible that you're overthinking things?
Kira: ......
Elsewhere, in the residential area of the archangel.
Flay:Say... That boy, Kira. Why is he piloting a mobile suit? From the conversation I overheard back there, he made it sound like he's fighting against his will.
Kuzzey:it's because he's different from us. He's a Coordinator.
Kuzzey still has his hangups.
Flay:Oh my gosh! So he's... He's from ZAFT?!
Tolle:Kuzzey! You shouldn't have said that!
Kuzzey: But... isn't it true?
Sai:Yes, Kira's a Coordinator, but... he isn't from ZAFT.
Miriallia:Yeah, he's a dear friend of ours, too!
Flay:...I see.
In the viewing room...
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Kira has a robot bird. Athrun made it for him before all this business occured. Also Athrun is really good at making these kinda small machines. Mostly flavor stuff but eh.
Kira: Birdy... Even if I have to pilot a mobile suit, I still hate war. Athrun, I... *sob*
On the bridge of the Nadesico...
Yurika: After conferring with Capt. Ramius, we've decided that in order to avoid battle with the Jovian Lizards and lose ZAFT's scent, we will first head to the debris fields and from there, set course to the Moon. We've plotted our course accordingly.
Festenia:Why go through the debris fields?! Isn't that where the colonies leave their trash and stuff?! I mean... Won't it be dangerous to head through there?
Katia:We're forcing them to guess. We could be going to either Earth or the Moon if we head through there.
Calvina:I don't know much about the PLANTs, but... Is ZAFT really coming after us?
Erina: Yes. They've gone so far as to destroy a neutral colony. I suspect Orb must be pressuring PLANT's supreme council into opening a strict investigation into the matter. They may press the chase even more, now.
The idea of course to be to catch the strike before they are officially obligated to stop dickin around with orb's stuff, lest orb try to fuck them up. While ZAFT is quite a force, Orb is still an entire nation, and it's no slouch, with Moergenroete on their side.
Yurika:I don't know for sure, but we have to act under the assumption that they're still pursuing us. Please regard the situation accordingly, everyone. Mr Uribitake, you take care of the unit adjustments and repairs!
Uribitake:Yeah, just leave it to me!
Akito: ......
Koji: Hey, Akito...
Akito:...What is it, Koji?
Koji:I heard from Megumi that you think we don't care about Gai. Is that true?
David:Yeah... It's thanks to him that we made it back to Earth safely.
Eiji: I know I'll never forget him.
Akito:Yeah...
Hyoma:It's thanks to him that we were able to return from Mars with our lives. The Earth Sphere is still in dire straits, though! We have to fight the Gradosians and the other aliens in his stead, too! And don't forget about those ZAFT jerks, either!
Akito: That's right... I understand, now. Akatsuki, I'll remain on the Nadesico even after we reach the Moon.
Akatsuki:Ah, I see. You have a burning passion inside you...
I'm unsure if Akatsuki is secretly a huge gekiganger fan. They never come out and say it, but he keeps throwing hints. I'm getting mixed signals here.
Akito:I finally know what the important thing I have to protect is!
Hikaru:*chuckle* What're you suggesting, Akito?!
Yurika:Why, Akito's talking about me, of course! Me! ...Right?!
Megumi:(It would be so wonderful if it was me...)
Akito:I'm talking about... Gai!
Waaahaahahaahaha, lovely.
Megumi: ...Huh?!
Yurika:Hey... waaaaaaaiit a second...
Festenia:What the heck?!
Akito:In order to protect something, we must sacrifice others. That's the way the military does things, and I hate it! They fight to protect the Earth, but war is the only thing the military knows how to make! That's why I have to fight! That's why I have to see the truth with my own eyes!
I'm gettin a kinda gurren lagaan-ey feel outta that. Maybe it's just me.
Hikaru:Seriously?
Ryoko:All right, that was much more in character. I'm a little relieved.
Akatsuki:I see. Well, that's fine too... Mr. Tenkawa.
Make your votes! Pick up to three robots and as many stats as robots. If there's a clear winner, we'll just upgrade it, if it's a six way tie or whatever I will upgrade until we risk dropping below 100k. AS FOR MODULES! WE NEED TO DECIDE WHICH PILOT TO PUT SUPPORT ATTACK +1 ON. I reccomend someone with low survivability. I'd say Strike is probably the most suitable candidate at this point, but it's up to you folks. They're not exactly RARE, but they do make a decent difference in a unit, so I'm letting you guys decide. No other notable parts or modules.
Let's talk robots.
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If you're new to this upgrading business and don't quite get it, have a tutorial.
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More gundam seed next time. For those of you that are getting tired of gundam, don't worry, the map after next introduces a new, highly amazing unit. The legend of the man that broke three microphones in a single recording session lives on.
Anyway, enough babbling. Back to D2 with me.
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on May 15, 2012, 06:44:00 pm
Mu: As I'm sure you've seen firsthand on their ship, being a civilian or a child shouldn't prevent you from working for the military... Right?
Somebody clearly hasn't heard about all those anti-child soldier laws...
Post by: Frumple on May 15, 2012, 06:59:15 pm
Also entirely possibly that earth alliance doesn't care in the case of the kids they've got in the ship -- iirc, they're from a different country (Orb) and one of them (Kira) probably doesn't even have general human rights in the EA (or won't, once they go all genocidal on coordinators).
Anyway, mecha. Support attack I'd probably stick on whatever is most likely to be able to actually use it to a sexy degree -- i.e. someone with a hefty attack. Dunno about strike, at least not until you get ahold of the sword pack which hits a bit harder. I'd almost say maybe the combattler. Can the thing be ripped out and stuck in something else, later?
As for vote, throw two HPs in the layzer because hohoho and then, uh. A point of EN into the archangel, I guess.
Post by: EuchreJack on May 15, 2012, 07:13:15 pm
In this case, it seems more like a "we have no choice" scenario.
Maybe I'm optimistic. Although, the "kids" are older than 12, right? In that case, some cultures treat them as adults (like Dwarf Fortress, I should mention).
Here is my selection for mecha:
Akito's Aesti: Evasion
Strike Gundam: Armor
Bank rest (I guess this is a vote for reserving more credits than you have already earmarked)
Post by: Seriyu on May 15, 2012, 07:32:55 pm
And yes we can relocate the support attack module (and any module/part for that matter) later on. Combattler is actually a really good choice for that thing too, what with its low armor. It's kinda funny because I've been playing super robot wars W lately and it just has a TON of people that would be excellent candidates for that thing, and yet here there's almost none (as of yet. There's another fragile hard hitting super robot (and real robot eeee) coming up so we'll definitely have more candidates later.) in J.
EDIT: I always enjoy when the gundam wiki says "Fictional giant robot". As opposed to all the non fictional ones. :P
EDIT2: OH also. I'll try to get a chapter list set up in the OP, with links to each update over this break, and as a result it may be a little longer then usual depending on how much work it is. I doubt it'll be too bad but just a potential heads up.
Post by: EuchreJack on May 15, 2012, 07:38:52 pm
Post by: Frumple on May 15, 2012, 07:56:59 pm
Generally, if a country actually cares about preventing child labor, they prevent child labor regardless of the country of origin of the child, at least officially.Yeah... it's kind of a "at least officially" thing. The archangel itself, as well as the gundams were... basically black ops. They were EA prototype weapon platforms being researched and constructed on a neutral colony (Think switzerland researching and building nukes for germany back in WWII as a hypothetical parallel, basically.), and the Earth Alliance already had a history of genocidal actions* (Dunno if it's come up in game yet or not, though -- checking over the text it looks like not. Still, it's backstory more than direct plot related.).
In this case, it seems more like a "we have no choice" scenario.
Maybe I'm optimistic. Although, the "kids" are older than 12, right? In that case, some cultures treat them as adults (like Dwarf Fortress, I should mention).
Things even up on the asshole scale later into the series, but right now... EA's basically genocidal racist assholes that wrecked some civvies and then got their teeth kicked in by superior ZAFT technology. Murrue and Mu's actually fairly decent individuals, but they're also basically officers in a close equivalent to the Nazi military -- though again, things even up later in the series on the asshole scale.
Which basically boils down to the EA being jerkwads and probably not caring about child soldiers (and wait until later in the series, ahaha :-\ -- also, the EA officers technically have/will have a mandate to murder Kira. Good thing for him he's useful ::)), but some of the Archangel's command staff probably do. Right now it's a last resort kind of thing, but in SRW plot especially it doesn't really pan out. They could have someone drop the kids off somewhere pretty easily.
As for actual legality... I've not actually seen enough of SEED to know if it came up in the show, but gundam being gundam probably not. Still... EA probably does have child soldier laws, going by support staff and enemy combatants and suchlike, and likely something closer to US law than anything else. ZAFT probably has a lower age limit, though. Unlike the AA crew that got shanghai'd, Athrun and crew are trained military elite and in roughly the same age group. There's also some other pressures on ZAFT for younger military (lower population, slower pop growth, etc. Plus the whole gene engineering thing. They go for more quality over quantity.).
And... I've now officially wrote too much, methinks. Still, general ramblings out, whee.
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Post by: Seriyu on May 16, 2012, 05:43:39 pm
Post by: Seriyu on May 17, 2012, 04:34:52 pm
EDIT: Actually, I just realized, I'll be doing something for the next two days (I knew this ahead of time), but I'll have much more time to do things after these two days, so I'll push back the update until that's done. I normally wouldn't do this, but gundam SEED can be pretty wordy, and I would hate for a dialogue transcribing thing to take more then a day if I can help it. So, see you then. Two more days to vote obviously.
EDIT2: Wait, maybe 3 days? When the weekend is over
EDIT3: Update tomorrow for serious!
Post by: Seriyu on May 21, 2012, 04:46:09 pm
EDIT: So much goddamn text. I'll be glad when this little gundam SEED torrent is over.
EDIT2: Yeah, update tomarrow. Luckily after next mission gundam SEED will be over for a while and the exposition should be lowered. I... think.
Post by: Seriyu on May 22, 2012, 05:36:04 pm
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... That explains why it was able to move so fluidly.
Athrun:Forgive my conduct, Commander. I was extremely shocked by the revelation... Hence my failure to report it until now.
Creuset:No... You were understandably disturbed. War is rife with ironies. I take it this Kira Yamato must have been a good friend of yours?
Athrun:...Yes.
Creuset:Does this also mean you won't be able to fire on him now that he's become our enemy?
Athrun:Kira is being used by the Naturals. I'm sure of it! I knew him as a kid. He's good-natured and naive... But he's also a Coordinator. That's why I have to speak with him... I know I'll be able to reason with him, Commander!
Creuset:And if he refuses to listen?
Athrun:Then... I'll kill him.
Creuset:I can see you're determined, but I have a special mission for you.
Athrun:But commander, I still have to-
Creuset:The last ship we met with didn't arrive to support us. More importantly, it left to search for the Supreme Council Charmain's daughter and PLANT's songstress, lady Lacus Clyne... ...Your fiancee, if I'm not mistaken.
Athrun:I... I see.
Creuset:They lost contact while overseeing the Junius Seven memorial service in the debris field. There's a good chance they met with either Jovian Lizards or those alien monsters. Orders have since been given to search for her.
Athrun:Then we should move together with the search party. The debris field is also one of the paths that the enemy ships are expected to take. We could pursue them and...
Creuset:My, my... What a cold man you are! I have no intention of dropping our pursuit because of a single little girl. We are soldiers, after all. The Vesalius will continue the chase, but only you will take part in the search. Your father, Chairman Zala of the National Defense Comittee, personally requested that you take part.
Athrun:They want me to save her and return as a triumphant hero, I take it?
Creuset:Clutching her dead body and wailing bloody murder is also acceptable.
...Wow.
Athrun:......
Creuset:It will serve as a strong emotional appeal to the citizens. I know how you must feel, but your father is the Chairman of National Defense. I cannot overrule him.
Back to the Archangel.
Hyoma:I knew this was the gathering place for space junk, but holy cow! I mean, this can't be sustainable, guys!
Kosuke:It's only gotten worse since the battle with the Jovian Lizards began. The wreckage of ships and fighters increased significantly, and they even say the leftover refuse of destroyed colonies ends up here!
Noal: Man... Space junk, indeed!
Akatsuki:This is an important job, too. If we can't resupply the ammo and materials we used up, the Nadesico and the Archangel won't be able to last much longer.
Mu:Sorry for making you help out with this. I'm glad you can handle the small salvage craft, at least. We really appreciate you helping us out!
Katia: It's almost like a space graveyard.
Calvina:And that makes us grave robbers. Specifically, we're here to pillage the containers of sunken warships.
Mu:Man, don't say that, 2nd Lieutenant. We can't help it.
Calvina:...Former 2nd Lieutenant, Cdr. Flaga. I'm not a soldier anymore.
Mu:Yeah, that's right... Sorry about that. Let's go.
Izumi:...Here they come. The spirits of the soldiers, seeking revenge.
Ryoko:W-Will you s-stop saying crap like that, Izumi?!
Koji:Don't tell me you're scared of ghosts, Ryoko?!
Akito:Ha! I knew it! Sweet little Ryoko is a girl after all! How cute!
Ryoko: Y-You too, Tenkawa! Where do you get off saying "I knew it," anyway?! Quit running your mouth and WORK!
Hikaru:Touchy, touchy...
Ryoko:Shut up!
David: By the way, where's Kira's Strike?
Eiji:I think I saw him heading for that patch of debris over there.
Kira:Sorry for the delay. I just returned, and... I think I found another escape pod.
Mu:Hm. Looks like a one-seater. You think a body'll spring out at us if we open it? ...Wait a sec. Isn't this a PLANT pod?
Murrue:Commander, are you sure?
Mu: I think so... What now, Captain? If the person inside is alive, they're not going to recieve any assistance in a place like this. Maybe we should take it to the Nadesico?
Murrue:...Hm. No, that won't be necessary. Bring it back here.
Koji:An escape pod! Let's go take a look.
Hyoma:Heh, I'm looking forward to seeing who's inside.
David: Maybe when we open it, a Princess will come out and give us a kiss for saving her?
... Uh. Kay.
Hyoma:Isn't it PLANT's? I don't think they've got any princesses over there.
Chizuru: Keep it down, you three.
Meanwhile, in the Archangel's Hangar.
Murrue: This is the PLANT escape pod?
Natarle:Looks like we've found ourselves in another sticky situation... ...Sgt. Murdoch, how's it coming?
Murdoch: Just a little more and... There we go! It's all yours.
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Lacus Clyne here is from Gundam SEED.
Kira: Uh... what?
Lacus: Huh? What's wrong?
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yessssssssss, haro. Haro is the stand in for the adorable mascot in Gundam, and as a result appears in most Gundam serieses. Little flying ball robot things. Mostly bounce around and look adorable. Although there are some instances of Haro's piloting mobile suits. (Some is kind've an understatement, I think in at least one series all of the opposing enemy grunt suits are piloted by Haros. Think of them as AI's.)
Akatsuki: Well, well... What a surprise.
Lacus: Wait, isn't this a ZAFt ship?
Haro:YEAH!
I seriously cannot get enough of these things.
Natarle:......
Murrue:...N-Not quite.
Mu:Well, uh... We're from the UEFA. And... who are you?
Lacus: I see. Thank you very much for rescuing my pod. My name is Lacus Clyne, and this is my friend, Haro.
Athrun made this Haro as well, as a note.
Haro:HARO, HARO! AND HARO TO YOU, TOO!
eeeheeheeheehee
Akatsuki: Clyne, right? I'm pretty sure i've heard that name before... Ah, yes, that's right. The current Chairman of PLANT's Supreme Council is a man by the name of Siegel Clyne, if I'm not mistaken.
Lacus:Siegel Clyne is my father. Do you know him?
Natarle:What?! You're the daughter of the man heading PLANT's Supreme Council?!
Mu: Seriously...
Hyoma:She's a genuine Princess after all, guys!
Koji:Y-Yeah...
Sayaka:But she's a Coordinator, too... ...Koji, stop staring!
Murrue:*chuckle* So, what were you doing in a place like this, Ms. Clyne?
Lacus:I was overseeing the Junius Seven memorial service, but the ship I was in came under attack. The crew stuffed me inside that pod and said I had to escape, at the very least.
Natarle:Attacked? By whom?
Lacus:I'm not too sure, but... I think they may have been from the Federation.
Mu: Could it have been the Jovian Lizards or the aliens?
Off to the Archangel Cafeteria
David:Oh, hey... Here's the caeteria, guys!
Sayaka:The Nadesico's is a lot bigger and more comfortable.
Akito:Yeah, compared to the Nadesico, this screams "army."
Roanne:That's true. The Nadescio's definitely outside the norm when it comes to creature comforts on a warship.
Koji:Oof... This place is cramped as hell! I bet the food's a lot better on the Nadesico, too.
Sai:Yeah, I bet the Nadescio must be great, huh?
Hyoma:Oh, you're the students staying on this ship? Are these your friends, Kira?
Kira:Yeah.
Miriallia: I'm still getting over the shock. We heard from him that most of the people over on the Nadesico were close to the same age as ours. Are all of you really pilots?
Sayaka:Yes. Really.
David:Well, unlike Koji and Hyoma here, Roanne and I had to fight tooth and nail just to make it back from Mars in one piece.
The life of a B-lister.
Sai:It's true, then? That rumor about aliens being mixed with Earthlings?
Roanne:You mean Eiji? It's true. He didn't come with us today, but it's thanks to him that we were able to return to Earth alive.
Lacus:Um, excuse me, but... What are you talking about?
Kira:Huh?!
Lacus:Sorry, did I surprise you? I was hungry, so I came out to look for some food.
Haro:FEELIN' FINE!
Kira:H-Hold on!
Flay:No way! Why's ZAFT's idol getting to walk around the ship?!
Juzo: Hey, weren't you locked up? Man, the security in this place must really suck!
Lacus:I'm not from ZAFT. ZAFT is the name of the milit-
Flay:But you MUST be with them! After all, you're a Coordinator!
Kira:......
Lacus: I'm not a part of the military. You're not a soldier either, right? That means you're the same as me! Sorry for the belated introduction. I am Lac-
Flay:Stop it! Stlop talking to me! Why would I become friends with a space monster like you?! You're a Coordinator! Don't try acting friendly to me! I know what you're really up to!
Flay really starts to take a turn for the less reasonable around here, but more on that later.
Kira:......!
Sai:Flay!
Flay:W-What?! I didn't mean it, Kira...
Chizuru: Kira, please take Lacus back to her room. I'll bring some drinks for her later.
Kira:... Yeah, okay. Sorry for the trouble.
Time passes...
Sayaka:Goodness, Flay... Are you a member of that extremist group, "Blue Cosmos"?
Flay:No, I'm not. But, despite the bad things thehy've done, what they say isn't wrong. Messing around with people's genes to create better humans... ...The existence of Coordinators is wrong!
Akito:There may be some truth to that, but it's thanks to genetic engineering that I was able to live a peaceful existance on Mars, just like everyone else!
Flay:B-But...!
Miriallia:Don't you feel bad about Kira, though? You should go apologize to him later.
Flay:...All right.
Kuzzey:Um, Guys... Are we really safe now?
Juzo:What do you mean?
Kuzzey:I mean ZAFT is still after us. I heard we won't be safe until we get to the Moon. I didn't hear all the details, but...
Sai:Kuzzey, they aren't going to tell us anything new.
Hyoma:It's all right. That's what we're fighting for. Kira, too! He's doing the best to protect the Archangel, all for the sake of his friends!
Tolle:Kira...
Sayaka:You guys get restless pretty easily... Why don't you find something to do? Kira isn't just sitting around worrying, you know!
Koji:Yeah, Sayaka's right. If you want things to turn out all right, you gotta help too!
Kuzzey:But if we do that, we'll just slow everyone else down...
Roanne:It was the same way with David and me. Eiji protected us for a while, until we realized that we were only running away from our problems. That's when we decided to do something about them.
David:Right. We weren't happy with Eiji fighting to protect us on his own, so we asked him to teach us how to be pilots. We did that to survive. If you don't do what you can, then you're only going to regret it later. Trust me.
Roanne:To be honest, I was petrified by the thought of fighting until recently. I only fought in order to return to Earth as soon as possible. But now that all is said and done, I have to agree with David.
Yet more time passes.
Tolle:If there's something you can do, then do it, huh?
Sai:Kira and Cdr. Flaga said the same thing.
Tolle:Yeah... I deinitely don't think letting Kira do all the work is the right thing to do.
Miriallia:For sure. Kira risks his life while we just sit around and do nothing.
Sai:You know... Capt. Ramius said the bridge was short on hands.
Kuzzey: B-But can we really do that kind of job?
Tolle:It may be a little out of our league at first, but I bet we can help out!
Kira:Please don't leave your room again. Since this is a UEFA ship, there aren't many people who are fond of Coordinators. I'll bring your food later.
Lacus:That's too bad... I wanted to talk to everyone. Still, you're treating me kindly, aren't you?
Kira:...That's because I'm a Coordinator, too.
Lacus:I can tell it's in your nature to be kind. What's your name?
Kira:It's Kira. Kira Yamato.
Lacus: I see. Thank you, Kira.
Haro: YOU TOO!
He leaves the room and walks down a passage.
Kira:......
Sai:Hey, Kira.
Kira:Oh, hi guys... What's with the uniforms?
Tolle:We have to wear them if we want to enter the bridge. We figured it wasn't right to leave all the work up to you, Kira. So we joined up! Still, it kinda sucks... ...There's not even a rank insignia on these things!
Mirallia:Well, that's just how things are. We have to do what we can!
Kira:You guys...
Sai:Sorry for before. Flay didn't mean any harm. Besides... I love Lacus' songs, and her voice is beautiful!
In my opinion Macross I think it was, did the whole space pop star thing better but eh. Just kinda feels tacked on here.
Kira:Yeah...
Sai:Although... Isn't her voice a result of genetic modification, too?
Kira:Well, um...
Sai:Either way, we'll be on the bridge. See you later!
Kira:......
Mu:A pink-haired Princess, eh? Things just refuse to settle down, don't they?
Akatsuki:We've little choice in the matter, Commander. That said, she may end up becoming a high card for us.
Erina:Right. We can always use her as a bargaining chip with ZAFT.
Yurika:But isn't that the kinda thing the bad guys would do?!
Erina:Oh, don't say that. What difference is there if we get taken down? I mean, if ZAFT destroys the Archangel, she'll die all the same.
Natarle:I'm of the same opinion as Akatsuki. We can use her presence here to our advantage.
Murrue: But she's only a child! And a civilian, to boot!
Natarle:Have you already forgotten? The same goes for the crew of the Nadesico. IN addition we're counting on the children and Kira Yamato to cooperate, so I don't see why she should be any exception. Besides, she's the daughter of the Chairman. A "normal" civilian? Hardly!
Murrue:......
Ruri:...I hate this.
Megumi:Yeah, no joke... Argh, how did things end up like this?!
Miriallia:Lt. Badgigruel, we've recieved a trasmission from a friendly ship.
Natarle: What?
Time passes.
Yurika:Well? What did they want?
Murrue:It seems the 8th Fleet sent an advance force to resupply and finish manning the Archangel. We're to meet up with them soon.
Yurika:The 8th Fleet... Adm. Halberton's, right?
Murrue:Yes. The man behind the "G" Project's development.
G project, gundam seed. Created the X numbers and the Archangel Class ship.
Prospector:After we meet with them, the Archangel is going to come under the command of the 8th Fleet. That means it'll be good-bye for us.
In the archangel cafeteria
Tolle: I just heard that Secretary Allster from Foreign Affairs is coming along with the 8th Fleet. Looks like they're bringing a supplemental crew, too.
Flay:Dad's coming?!
Sai:Isn't that great, Flay?
Flay:Yeah. Thanks, Sai.
Kuzzey: That means we'll be safe, too!
Miriallia:... Probably.
Kira:Whew...
Murdoch: They're sending pilots too, but you're still responsible for the Strike until they're safely onboard. Go do a full check of the unit in the meantime. Who knows? Maybe you'll have a change of heart at the last minute.
Kira:...Don't joke about that.
Meanwhile, on the bridge of the Archangel, people finally stop repeating themselves
Murrue:What?! The advance force is under attack?!
Ruri:Yes. There's no mistake. They are currently engaged in battle with ZAFT.
Mu: Tch... The Creuset Squadron found us. What a persistant son of a bitch!
Yurika: Let's assist them as soon as possible!
Murrue:Gah...
Natarle:That's too dangerous, Captain. This means the ZAFT forces on the path to the Moon may not be present anymore.
Yurika:Please hear me out! If the enemy is the Creuset Squadron, then those four special units must be there, too. They'll be too much for the advanced force to handle, won't they?
Ruri:Based on a data analysis, the advance fleet stands no chance of victory. No chance at all.
Yurika:Are you telling us to abandon our friends and run just to save ourselves?!
Natarle: ...Our mission is to take this ship and the Strike safely back to HQ. Avoiding battle is a top priority.
Yurika: But that's so... cruel!
Natarle: Cruelty is not the issue, Captain.
Murrue:......
Yurika:Understood. The Nadesico will assist the advance force independently.
Natarle:What?
Erina:Wait, Captain! Do you want to put the Nadesico in danger THAT badly?!
Yurika:I just can't abandon them. That's all... All right, let's go help!
Murrue:...Even if we escape the Creuset Squadron's pursuit now, we'll be an easy target for the Jovian Lizards and aliens without the Nadesico's backup. Mr. Yamato and Cdr. Flaga won't be able to handle them on their own. The Archangel will assist, too!
Natarle:...This will be going on your record, Captain.
Murrue:Do as you please. Unless we return alive, it's all meaningless, anyway.
Archangel, residential section
Flay:Kira, wait!
Kira:Flay... I have to launch. Please remain in your room. It's dangerous here!
Flay:A battle? What about the advance party? They're all right, aren't they? Dad's ship is all right... Right?!
Kira:...It's fine, Flay. We're here, after all.
Flay:Please, Kira! Wipe out ZAFT and save my dad! You promise?
Kira:...Yeah.
FINALLY!
Post by: Seriyu on May 23, 2012, 04:45:21 pm
EDIT: Miiight get done by tomorrow, but I'm gonna go ahead and say it'll prolly be done the day after.
EDIT2: Due to technical difficulties (and by that I mean I'm an idiot and forgot to turn irfanview on again), push everything back by a day. Luckily I realized before I hit the end so the update will still make sense and mesh perfectly well, I just basically lost a day of work. Frankly I'm okay with this.
Post by: Seriyu on May 26, 2012, 04:38:00 pm
EDIT: Update being posted now! Also tomorrow typo fixed. Damnit.
Post by: Seriyu on May 27, 2012, 07:32:22 pm
Yurika:Ruri, how's the advance force?
Ruri:No problems yet, but ZAFT mobile suits are coming our way. We can't join up with them.
Two gundams, a battleship, and a load of GINNs appear.
Yzak:The Nadesico and the Legged Ship?! There's no way we can ignore it after they killed all those friends of ours!
Dearka:Isn't this for the best? Now we can take them all out in one shot! Heheh... Stupid Naturals!
Yzak:*Yzak* That's true. Let's go, Dearka! This time, they're going down!
Miriallia:Catapault standby. Strike, launch! Take care, Kira!
Kira:Miriallia? Why are you...
Miriallia:From now on, I'll be your controller. Pleased to make your acquaintance!
Sai:Kira, Flay's Dad is with the advance force. Make sure you save them!
Kira:I know.
Mu:If we don't finish those guys here, then we can't get to the advance force. So uh, try not to waste to much time, okay?
And with that, we can deploy. Also, new things. We now have 4 new pilots worth of SP in the Archangel. Sai, with Scan, Tolle, with Accel and Alert, Miriallia, with Cheer, And Kuzzey with luck. (Scan = Reveal enemy stats, lower evasion by 10%, Accel = Movement +3 for one turn, Alert = 100% to evade, Cheer = Ally gets 2x EXP for one fight, unless he misses, in whichcase it persists, Luck = user gets 2x money unless you miss, in whichcase it persists) So, the Archangel has officially come into it's own. Also, Kira is still in the Aile pack, as it's really the only one that works that well in space.
TURN ONE!
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We've actually got a pretty nice defensive position here, with the belt of asteroids at our starting point, so, as usual, I'm just gonna let them come and get us while we get adjusted.
ENEMY PHASE!
Everything moves closer to us.
TURN TWO!
I'm not gonna bother with maps for turns where nothing particularly complicated is happening. We just get more oriented. In fact, I'm just gonna skip forward until units make contact. See you in a turn.
TIME PASSES
TURN FOUR!
Okay, the mass of GINNs are nearby enough for Bellzelute to start this off.
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He's too far away to counter. Nadesico pastes a GINN with a Gravity blast, and a little help from Mu. Mu follows this up by attacking a GINN, no counter. Cut it's HP in half or so. I move Strike to a Debris Field near the GINNs and finish the one Mu attacked. Almost. It has double digit health now. Mazinger Z moves in next to Strike to provide a bit of cover and additional firepower. I also send blue earth up closer for the repairs that will no doubt be nessacery next turn. Turn's over.
ENEMY PHASE!
Two GINNs get countered by Mazinger for most of their health. Then one of the mostly wrecked one attacks Strike. Let's see how this plays out.
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Nice. Three more GINN's attack Mazinger and are smashed up in return. Then a GINN manages to smash himself up on Combattler V from about 9 tiles away. Two more GINNs attack a defending Mazinger, then the Buster Gundam heads up and goes after the Strike.
Kira:I have to finish this quick and save the advance party!
Dearka:Damn, you've got some real spirit! There's no way you're gonna get past me, though!
Mazinger takes the hit for Strike and Strike lands a hit in return. Miguel attacks Mazinger as well. He's got about 700 HP left. WILL HE LIVE?! He damn well better. I will not brook the shame of losing Mazinger Z two missions in a row.
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Excellent. Also there's Koji's "low HP in Mazinger" message.
TURN FIVE!
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We pull Mazinger and Strike back after doing some nice damage to the GINN squad, mostly to get Mazinger repaired. Everyone that can repair, repairs mazinger. Bellzelute takes a shot at sniping the buster gundam.
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Surprsingly not enough to make him retreat. I'm gonna take this as an excuse to show off exactly how Amazing mu can be. Mu uses Focus and Wall and moves up to take out the Buster gundam. He has a 100% chance to hit, and a 15% chance to be hit by the Gundam. That's fairly impressive already.
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Note the kind've funny back and forth between Mu and Dearka. Mu, being a big time ace in the military, was supposed to be getting one of the X numbers, and well, he's clearly still kind've irritated about this turn of events. Anyway, didn't kill Dearka, but we're not here to show off his offensive skills, because that's definitely his weak point. The Nadesico and Combattler snipe a GINN and finish one off each. We'll end turn here.
ENEMY PHASE!
First up, the Nazca Class attacks Mu. No chance to hit, 100% chance to be hit. The obvious happens. A generic GINN attacks Mu. 7% chance to hit, 100% chance to be countered. What you expect, happens. a GINN with miguel support has no chance to hit, and 100% chance to be countered. He attacks, Misses, and is killed in the counterattack, preventing miguel from supporting him. Mu gains a level, and gets another level of Potential, He has 2 now. GINN three attacks mu, 0% chance to hit, 100% chance to be countered. What you think happens, happens. He dies in the counterattack. A GINN, seeing the futility of trying to attack a Focused Mu, goes after the archangel. And dies in the counterattack anyway. Murrue and Natarle gain levels. Nothing special happens. A GINN, following the previous one's lead, attacks the Strike instead of Mu. Misses. But he DOESN'T DIE. Smart man. Another attacks the Strike with similar results. The final one attacks Mu. 0% chance to hit, 100% chance to be countered. More then half his HP is lost in the counterattack. The Duel Gundam flies past Mu and attacks the blue earth instead. Manages to hit it, but takes a hit in return. Dearka, feeling sassy, tries to hit Mu again. 16% chance to hit, 100% chance to be counterattacked.
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Hard to tell, but he did dodge that.
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Eiji avenged. I feel better about that now. He gets a level from the officer kill, and an EN Chip (ooohhh, this is nice, we'll be going over it later) and a propellant tank. Miguel attacks Mu, capping this turn with his 27% hit rate, the highest of any of the enemy units. Miguel is apparently the best pilot here. Huh. 100% chance to be countered.
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Dodged.
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Yep. He dodged every single attack on that turn, killed about four gins, a single officer, and damaged the rest that attacked him. And I remind you, during this entire turn, he had wall activated. So if he did somehow manage to get hit, he only would've taken ten damage.
This is why Mu is an awesome pilot. Incidentally this is fairly true to the series too, Mu is fairly well known for going toe to toe with gundams and Mobile Suits (IE GINNS, giant robots that aren't Gundams in the gundam series) in a very outdated and under equipped unit. (the Mobius Zero)
TURN SIX!
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Alright, we'll move everyone up since the vast majority of the threat is wrecked. Bellzelute leads the charge (by shooting at someone from a standstill, naturally)
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I've come to like the bellzelute more as time has gone on. Good if you can get a defensive line of sorts set up, and shot launcher has enough of a range that you can at least pop a few weaker shots off if you can't stop moving your units around for whatever reason. Anyway, after that we move her up near a GINN, to see if we can't make use of that command aura she has, and to get her set up for the future. Kira takes out a GINN with a little help from Mu.
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As you may have noticed, that little "Mu vs the world" drained his energy pretty heavily. Luckily his Linear Gun runs off ammo, and not energy, so he's hardly defenselses. Just can't snipe dudes until we resupply him. Kira gains a level and gets alert out of it. (Alert = 100% chance to dodge one attack)
Ruri: The advance force is in danger. At this rate, they're all going to be destroyed.
And if it sounds rediculous that they took them out so fast, remember, they do have Rau Le Creuset and a gundam with them. We are very much the exception to the rule in this, in that we have a bunch of well known and proven pilots that can fend off higher grade military tech (arguably, but we'll get into that more when we get into some of the super robot plotlines), and the rest of the military is basically running off of a less powerful version of the mobius zero, and very few of them are anywhere near Mu's skill with the thing. A gundam, partially due to plot wizardry and partially due to advanced tech, is actually a pretty nasty weapon, especially when the other side effectively only has maybe three weapons that can stand up to them in any way. And remember GINN's also heavily outclass the Moebius! Basically the Federation is very much relying on superior numbers, rather then superior tech, and it's starting to backfire now that ZAFT managed to steal their aces in the hole, not that they were doing amazing before that happened.
This has been your random plot jibber jabber for the day.
Yurika:Push the Field to maximum power! Full speed ahead! Break their formation!
Minato:It's no use! We're still in the middle of repairs!
Yurika:Gah... Hurry up, everyone!
Reinforcement warning, as per usual. I don't think there's a single map in the game that doesn't have at least two waves of enemies. Anyway. The Archangel nukes a GINN, and the Nadesico pulls up so the Aesties can head in and mop up, while taking a potshot at Miguel. They finish him off. Izumi, laggign a bit behind the rest of the Aesties heads in and attacks Yzak.
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Damn, hit him pretty hard too. Hikaru heads in and wrecks the remaining GINN, and the rest of the Aesties head towards the Nazca class. Buldy takes a shot at the Duel Gundam.
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I didn't think to get a damage screen for this. It didn't kill him.
Leaving him with 18 HP. Nice. Eiji moves in to finish him.
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Eiji gains a level, revealing he's only level 6. I'll have to make a note to let him get more combat. Annnd Yzak's gimmick didn't activate. I'll just explain, the Duel gundam is very heavily armored for a gundam, typically taking very little damage, and having a beam coat (reduces damage from beams) and I BELIEVE a shield (Cuts physical damage in half if it activates), along with phase shift armor. Which makes it all the more nasty when he dies, he doesn't "die", he ejects the highly damaged outer armor, increasing his mobility and greatly reducing his armor. You in essence have to kill a tank, then a an average gundam. Dunno why it hasn't been activating. Anyway, we need to finish that Nazca class. Mu takes a potshot at it, does about 600 damage. End of the turn.
ENEMY PHASE!
The Nazca Class takes a gamble and uses it's MAP attack on the Baybull and the Moebius Zero, about a 25% chance to hit both. Annnd misses both, natch.
TURN SEVEN!
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Bellzelute leads us off as usual, and nails the Nazca class with a 3.5k hit from the O rifle A. Ryoko attacks it with a rapid rifle, 25% chance to be hit, and is hit in return, getting one shotted through the distortion field. I'd be more concerned about this, but it was a small robot with about 3.5k HP (pretty low, overall) attacking a 2L, the largest size category, as opposed to Eiji's situation last battle which was I believe an M attacking an S. The damage bonuses were pretty massive. Still something to take note of if you want us to use that particular Aesti in the future. Most people seem to like Akito more though. Anyway. The Nadesico moves in and launches missles, not quite finishing it. Akito moves in...
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And finishes it. Nice. Now, mental breakdown.
Next post.
Post by: Seriyu on May 27, 2012, 07:35:59 pm
Flay: Dad's ship... Where's Dad's ship? WHERE IS IT?!
Murrue:We're in the middle of a battle! All non-military personnel, stay off the bridge!
Sai:Flay, stop!
Flay:Let me go! That boy, Kira... What's he doing?! He said it would be all right! He said if we helped it would be all right!
Mirallia:Flay, please...
Murrue:Argh...
Ruri:Advance party, all ships destroyed. Searching for escape pods.
Natarle:All destroyed...?!
Flay:What the... It can't be! D-Dad?!
Sai:Flay, c'mon!
Flay:I-I don't believe it! It's NOT TRUE! NOOOOOOOOOO!
Yurika:Oh, no... We didn't make it in time?
Murrue:...Capt. Misumaru, let's depart from this area.
Natarle:Did you really think we would make it in time?!
Several GINNs and a Nazca-Class appear.
Creuset:This might be pushing our luck, but you can never have too many trophies... Can Nicol still use his unit?
Generic Captain: It's currently hidden with its Mirage Colloid, sir. Additionally, Athrun Zala has informed us that he's abandoning his search for Lady Clyne. He will be here shortly to assist us.
Creuset:Hmph... I see. How will this play out, I wonder?
Kay, this reveals that the mirage colloid, as it's name implies, is a cloaking device. In battle this just functions as a 50% chance to miss him irregardless of hit rate. Also the victory condition has changed, we can either shoot down Rau Le Creuset, or the Nazca-Class they brought. A fairly small second wave to boot. Should be over in a couple more turns. We'll be hanging out down here in the center, getting folks repaired and waiting for them to come to us as usual. Roanne gains a level from repairs, no new skills. More repairs and shuffling about. I'll get back to you when the enemy units make contact.
Meanwhile...
David gains a level, no new spirits, from resupplying Mu.
Later..
TURN NINE!
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Bellzelute one shots a GINN from across the map, Mu attacks another from a similar range, cuts it about in half. Combattler V rushes the same GINN and finishes it.
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And does. Also note robot bouncing off the space ground somehow. Huh. The Archangel attacks a GINN nearby Baybull, and Blue Earth heads in and finishes it off. Eiji focuses and heads in to smash up a GINN. Now, let's see how kira does with those like, 7 GINNs.
ENEMY PHASE
A Nazca-Class attacks him and he dodges it, because 2L vs M is not good accuracy odds for the 2L. Let's just ignore that ryoko got one shotted by one earlier, and was smaller then M. Another GINN attacks Combattler. Big Blast Counterattack commences, doesn't quite kill it. Another GINN attacks combattler, he defends because I realized he's in a similar situation to Kira. Another GINN attacks Kira, 2% chance to hit. I think he's gonna be fine. Another GINN attacks Mazinger Z, gets nearly oneshotted with rust hurricane on the counterattack. Yet another GINN attacks Mazinger. An Aesti takes the hit for him and doesn't take any damage from it. ANOTHER GINN attacks Mazinger. Let's get some images to break up GINNfest 2012.
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Koji gets a level from that, he's level 9. And gained a fourth level of potential. A GINN attacks Combattler V and another attacks Baybull. Combattler Defends, Baybull evades. Both take hits. Creuset Attacks Combattler. They're down to 2140 HP, and I'm kind've worried about Combattler here, so they'll be defending.
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They managed to avoid being murdered, luckily.
TURN TEN!
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First thing we do, have Daisaku use Guts, recovering all of combattlers HP. Now, they cast Wall and Strike and move in to show Creuset how you finish a fight. 8)
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Take that you nutty Char knockoff. This is why Combattler is AWESOME. Once he gets 150 will, a strike cast and Super EM spin will decimate most real robot bosses, and take a huge chunk out of super robot bosses. And when a... buddy of Combattler's shows up, it's gonna get even better. All the combattler pilots gain a level, and Chizuru gets the Luck spirit.
Creuset:You're certainly giving me quite a bit of trouble... Time to use it!
Athrun appears.
Athrun:Captain, how goes the battle?
He just got totally fucked up is what.
Creuset:Ah, there you are, Athrun. Nicol is about to take down the Legged Ship. All that remains is the Nadesico.
Oh wait, the Blitz Gundam was cloaked wasn't it?
Nicol:...Gotcha!
The Archangel shakes.
Natarle: Where did that come from!?
Murrue: Ugh... What just happened?!
The Blitz gundam appears next to the Archangel
Nicol:Checkmate. I can destroy the bridge from here with one shot. Please, surrender!
Something of note is that Nicol is similar to Kira in the sense that he would rather everyone just stop duking it out and get along for once. An idealist in a very extremist world and all that.
Natarle:The Blitz?!
Murrue:It was hidden with the Mirage Colloid?! I don't believe this...!
Nicol:We have no desire to spill unnecessary blood. That is why I'm asking you to surrender or be destroyed. Please, don't make me do it! Suspend the battle and surrender!
Kira:The Archangel's in danger?!
Creuset:Heh, Nicol is too soft. Why didn't he just take out the bridge and be done with it?
Inez:The Mirage Colloid... The technology which enables that mobile suit to completely evade radar and visual detection, I take it.
Kosuke:Wow, there's already something like that?
Ruri:The Archangel can't escape from this. Captain, what are we going to do?
Erina:Surrender? What a joke! We have no reason to listen to them, Captain!
Yurika:But...
Hyoma:Hey, why don't you people think a little, for once? Why didn't you assume they would use this on us?!
That is a really good point actually.
Natarle:It's a military secret! There's no way we could've known they'd use it on us beforehand!
It's a military secret = Never use military secret or people will KNOW ABOUT IT. Not buying it.
Ryoko: And THIS is the result! Thanks a bunch, sister! You're a GREAT soldier!
Natarle:We have something to break this stalemate... Attention all ZAFT units! This is the UEFA warship Archangel. We currently have Lacus Clyne, the daughter of PLANT Supreme Councilman Siegel Clyne, in our custody. Cease your attack if you want her to live!
Nicol:Huh?
Athrun: What did she say?!
Murrue:Wait, Lt. Badgiruel! We can't use her to-
Natarle:As it was the humane thing to do, we resuced her life pod and treated her well. However we will recognize any hostile actions on your part as a forfeit of her life. Any obligation we have towards her well-being will be relinquished, and she will be dealt with accordingly.
Kira:No way... Why are you doing this?!
Akatsuki:Hm... I had a feeling it would turn out like this.
Yurika:Lt. Badgiruel, that's going too far!
Ruri:It's almost like we're the villains.
Aki:What an unbelievable situation...
Koji:Enough, Lieutenant! This isn't happening!
Hyoma:Hey, Juzo, what're they doing?!
Juzo:Pay attention, screw-up! That overbearing Lieutenant is threatening to kill the Princess!
Akito:They're using that girl as a hostage?! What the hell are you thinking?!
Calvina:No other choice, huh? Honestly, Lieutenant...
Creuset:(Getting caught by the enemy... What a troublesome woman.)
Nicol:It can't be.... Ms. Clyne's been taken hostage?! Athrun, we have to do something!
Athrun:Guh... You cowards!
Creuset:They have an advantage we can't overcome. As much as I hate to admit it, we're powerless in this situation. All units ,retreat for the time being! (Really, though... Going to these lengths for the life of one girl? How bothersome.)
This is about the point a lot of people didn't like the plot turns Gundam SEED was taking. This is the most extreme case of it, fortunatly.
Nicol:Roger.
Athrun:Kira... Did you hear that, Kira?!
Kira:Athrun, I...
Athrun:You're using a civilian your people saved as a hostage! Is fighting for those cowards your idea of justice?! I WILL save her... Mark my words!
The opposing army vanishes. You better run!
Kira:......
Natarle:Capt. Ramius, the enemy cannot be allowed to have the Strike or the Archangel.
Murrue:...I know, Natarle.
As a fan of Combattler myself I couldn't be happier with how this ended.
Post by: Seriyu on May 28, 2012, 05:50:09 pm
Post by: USEC_OFFICER on May 28, 2012, 05:53:33 pm
Update tomorrow.
Excellent.
Post by: Seriyu on May 29, 2012, 05:00:22 pm
Murdoch:Hey, what's the deal?! You can't just bust on in here all at once! You gotta land in the other ship!
Koji:What's the meaning of this, Captain?!
Kira:Is taking little girls hostage the way the UEFA does things?!
Sayaka:We're not abiding by it, either!
Mu:Think about our circumstances before you complain. Or are you going to dump the Archangel and escape with the Nadesico? That would leave a bad taste in our mouths, too.
Kira:But-!
Mu:Besides, aren't your friends here? Were you going to silently watch them become POWs at the hands of the enemy? Hell, this whole ship could've been destroyed, with them onboard!
Kira:Guh...
Akito:You army scumbags are always like this!
Akatsuki:Stop it. This bickering achieves nothing.
Noal:It's only natural, isn't it?
Hyoma:What, are you saying it's all right for them to use such a dirty trick?!
Akatsuki:No, I'm not, but the Captain's right; We had no other options. Everyone here wishes there was a better way to settle this.
Except maybe Natarle, let's be honest.
Akito:Anything goes for you guys, then?!
Koji:Yeah, what gives?! We bought time for you to escape!
Akatsuki:Listen. You can complain all you want, but it won't change our situation. What's done is done, and the result is that we escaped safely and unharmed. Can any of you claim you could've done the same?
Ryoko: Then... Are you saying what they did was all right?! That's dirty pool!
Akatsuki:I'm not condoning their actions. I'm saying you need to examine the situation with some foresight and maturity. Everyone here is trying to survive, just like you.
Akito:What do you mean by that?! Just because they're fighting doesn't mean that-
Akatsuki:Yes, sure... Keep on shouting. I wonder what that's going to change? None of you have any right to condemn Lt. Badgiruel and Capt. Ramius. You can do nothing but bemoan what's already been done. It's time for you to move on!
Koji:We refuse to accept it, that's all!
Noal:Same here. I don't think there's a soul onboard who feels satisfied with the outcome.
I just realized it's been AGES since Noal said something. Huh.
Akatsuki:That's right. Instead of standing here shouting, why don't you go take in some recreation? That should give you some quality time to think.
Sayaka:I can't believe your attitude...!
Akatsuki: Don't you get it already?! We're all worthy of shame in this situation!
Akito:How can you look so proud when you say that?!
Mu:Everyone here needs to calm down. I believe that Akatsuki's advice is the best we've heard, so far. All I'm going to add is that we had to do what we did to come out of this alive. Don't forget that.
Nearby....
Kira:Miri... Flay is...
Miriallia:Kira, I'm sorry...
Flay:Hey, Kira! How's Dad's ship, huh?! Well? Hey, come on! You lied! You LIED about my dad's ship!
Sai:Flay, calm down.
Kira:......
Flay:You LIAR! Didn't you say it would be all right?! Why didn't you protect his ship?! Why didn't you kill every last one of those mutant bastards?!
Miriallia:Flay, Kira risked his life and fought to the bes-
Flay:But he was the one who said it would be all right! You... You didn't fight for real because they were Coordinators! That's it, isn't it?!
Kira:Wh-?!
Miriallia:How could you even suggest that, Flay?!
Flay:But... But... Because of him, Dad is....! ...Dad's DEAD because of you!
In the Archangel's viewing room.
Kira:Unngghhh....
Birdy:Birdy!
Kira:*sob**sob* Uwaaaaaahhh! Uhh.... Uwaaaaaahhh!
I'm not saying it's an unreasonable reaction given the situation he's in, but Kira is kind've an unlikable charecter when you realize up to this point he's said maybe 3 sentences, all of which amount to complaining. Luckily Mu is here to be rad. And Kira gets a bit better later too if I recall.
Lacus:What's the matter?
Kira:Lacus Clyne? What are you...
Lacus:Lil' Pinkie here just loves a walk. Even if they seal the door, he just opens the lock again and goes out on his own.
As much as I like haro's, you'd think that'd be a pretty huge security concern.
Haro: I WON'T ACCEPT THAT! I WON'T ACCEPT THAT!
I can't stay mad at you.
Lacus:You look so sad...
Kira:I-I don't want to fight ZAFT...
Kira:...I'm a Coordinator, but I was good friends with Athrun, too!
Lacus:Athrun?
Kira:Athrun Zala. He became a ZAFT mobile suit pilot, and now we have (to?) fight each other...
Lacus:I wonder why? You're both such nice people!
Kira:You know Athrun, too?
Lacus: Why, yes! I'm engaged to him, you know.
Kira:Huh...?
Lacus:He's a quiet man with a gentle soul. He gave this Haro to me as a present.
Kira:...He's still the same as ever, I see. He made my Birdy, too.
Birdy:Birdy!
Lacus:Oh, is that so? It would be wonderful if you two didn't have to fight each other anymore...
ALRIGHT! We have some decisions to make
Modules to decide on:
Counter - Grants the counter ability. Fairly simple, pretty much anyone can benefit from this, but units with high attack and low defense will benefit more obviously. A list of units that already have the counter skill is as follows.
David - Baybull
Ryoko - Aesti
So don't bother giving it to them.
Parts to decide on:
EN Chip - Reduces energy costs of attacks by 10%
Solar Panel - 10% EN regeneration each turn
Both of these are obviously best on units that suck up a lot of energy. Nadesico, maybe Mu, I could go for archangel, Mazinger obviously, etc. Of course, feel free to put it on whatever. Putting it on an aesti is obviously a bad idea since it gets it's energy maxed out every turn anyway.
Robot suggestions:
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With all that, state your update votes! We'll be back in a week or so as usual.
Post by: Seriyu on June 02, 2012, 06:16:00 pm
Post by: Korbac on June 03, 2012, 07:22:38 am
Post by: Seriyu on June 03, 2012, 09:18:38 pm
Post by: Seriyu on June 04, 2012, 05:46:45 pm
Next mission will be introducing a new unit! One of the best defensive units in the game, to boot. But we'll go over that when we get there.
Post by: EuchreJack on June 05, 2012, 08:53:17 am
Matzinger would benefit from the Solar Panel, because it has enough armor for independent action and it has ammo weapons which gives its energy time to recharge.
Counter to Akito! He can't take a hit, but should be better able to deal damage after our boosting of his weapons. And boost his weapons. He can team up with Ryoko, who also has the counter ability and loves the guy. That should make her happy.
Strike could use an armor boost. Bank my third upgrade option so we can invest in the new Robot, maybe (I have to see it first!).
Post by: Seriyu on June 06, 2012, 05:41:55 pm
Post by: Seriyu on June 06, 2012, 07:00:43 pm
Had to take Chobham armor off of mazinger to get the Solar Panel on, and as such relocated it to Akito.
We're also starting this mission by swapping strike gundam to launcher strike pack. Gains a lot of long range attacks, and a pretty decent heavy attack to boot, but loses mobility and movement, without gaining much defensively. Typical sniper unit. Onward!
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Sai:You were on the bridge, so you saw how things turned out. We were all fighting to the death, pushed right up against the wall.
Kuzzey:Yeah,the Nadesico, too. Still, Kira's behavior has me wondering.
Tolle:About what?
Kuzzey:I overheard Kira talkin' with that Lacus girl. It sounds like one of the enemy pilots is an old friend of his. Even worse, Kira said they used to be really close... ...Heck, he even told her that he didn't want to fight him!
The fact that this is even the beginning of reasonable concern is a testament to how much co-ordinator/human relations are fucked up right now.
Miriallia:No way...
Sai: ...Are you trying to suggest that Kira wasn't fighting seriously?
To be fair, he didn't do too horrible much last fight. But the Strike doesn't really stack up very well to our other robots in the Aile frame, so there's not so much he can do in that frame that isn't plinking away at random grunts.
Tolle:Eeegh... I can't eve imagine having to make that decision.
Miriallia:Kuzzey, make sure you don't mention this in front of Flay. If she found out, it would only make her do something she'd regret later, especially since she's still in shock.
Flay:(...A pilot from ZAFT is... his friend?!)
Well shit.
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As poorly as super robot wars J handles the gundam SEED plot (It's basically played straight entirely through the game, which... isn't really what super robot wars fans hang around for), this is actually a really neat contrast. In the series, the Lacus situation comes off as a TERRIBLE HORRIBLE THING, and while it is BAD, the backlash from what amounts to about 5 teenagers yelling at military officials about being pushed into a corner and being forced to do something unsavory just comes as really jarring in the show. Meanwhile, in super robot wars J, you've got an entire other ship filled with super robot pilots that are very unhappy about this and actually have the weight to throw around to do something about it. It seems like a genuine situation, even if the Nadesico is largely being fairly unreasonable about it.
Natarle:We may have evaded danger for now, but all we've done is buy time. We still have to devise a solution to our predicament.
Murrue:Yes... I'm well aware.
Jun:That ZAFT ship is still following us... Our firepower will increase quite a bit if we choose to join up with the main fleet, though. What do you intend to do now, Capt. Ramius?
Natarle:You're an ex-Lieutenant from the UEFA in addition to being second in command of the Nadesico... Where's your Captain?
Jun:Well, you know... SHe's very busy right now, so I'm here in her stead.
Murrue:I wonder if that's because she hates us... ...Regardless, our only option right now is to join up with the 8th Fleet. I doubt your Captain has a wealth of options to consider, either.
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It doesn't carry very well through text obviously but if I recall he just grabbed Anna by the throat. Also he's from Tekkaman Blade.
Simone:Wha... What are you doing to Anna!? Release her, NOW!
Mysterious Boy:Don't move! Any sudden movements and she dies! Are you Radam or are you Earthlings?! Answer me!
Noal:"Radam"? What's that?
Mysterious Boy:The aliens. They fall upon the Earth even as we speak.
Noal:Radam, huh? Well, we've exchanged a greeting or two, yeah. I guess that means... Maybe you really ARE friends with 'em!
Aki:You fought with them, remember? After you lost conciousness, we recovered you and brought you aboard this ship.
Mysterious Boy:All right, so you aren't Radam... But I still can't trust you.
Aki:You helped us back there, didn't you? Please, stop this! Release Anna!
Mysterious Boy: ...Fine.
Anna: Oh, Simone!
Simone:It's all right, Anna. Honestly, though! I can't believe this guy!
Noal:So, who are you, freak? Seems like you understand our language pretty well. You from Earth?
Mysterious Boy:My appearance should answer that question for you.
Noal:Yeah, sure thing, pal. You were using some kinda powered suit to fight the aliens, though, weren't you? I don't remember ever seeing anything quite like that on Earth.
Mysterious Boy:...Trust me. I'm an Earthling.
Aki:We'll just have to believe you for now. So... what's your name? Where are you from?
Myaterious Boy: ...I can't remember. I've forgotten everything.
Elizabeth:What?!
Noal:Are you kiddin' me!?
Mysterious Boy:This is a military ship, right? You fight the Radam, correct?
Aki:Yes, we've been fighting with the aliens this whole time... The Radam, I mean. Currently, we're heading to the Moon while being pursued by ZAFT.
Mysterious Boy: The Moon? No. We must head to the Earth and combat the Radam. What we've seen so far is only the first wave. We have to beat them back before their true invasion begins... Ugh!
Elizabeth: You're still not fully recovered. If you're merely an Earthling, then there's no way you can do something that reckless in your condition. I'd advise you to rest a little longer.
Noal:For an Earthling, you sure know a lot about those aliens! There's also the matter of your transformation, and why you were fighting them in the first place... ...Could you tell us about that?
Mysterious Boy:I just want to defeat the Radam. That's all. Now let me go.
Aki:H-Hold on!
Mysterious Boy: Let go of me!
Aki:Eek!
Noal:You bastard!
Mysterious Boy:Out of the way! Ugh... Dammit...!
Time passes.
Noal:How's he doing?
Elizabeth:Fine. He only lost consciousness. It appears he overworked himself.
Simone:I wonder who he really is?
Noal:Whoever he is, he's a violent son of a bitch! Heh, yeah... ...I think I'm gonna call him "D-Boy" from now on.
Anna:Uh, D-Boy?
Noal:"Dangerous Boy"... Pretty genius-level material, if I do say so myself.
Noal is pretty great.
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Noal:Plus, he just said he can't remember a thing! Friggin' lame!
Yurika:There's not much we can do about him losing his memories, is there?
David:Captain, we don't even know if that part of his story is true.
Ryoko:Whatever. For now, if he says he's fighting those aliens, I'll buy it.
Yurika:So... That makes him ou friend!
Erina:Enough with the naivete, Captain.
Calvina:"Radam," huh? Does that mean he knows the true identity of the aliens? And their goals, too, perhaps?
Katia:We can't help but believe him.
Festenia:But it's ALSO totally possible that he doesn't know anything!
Prospector:We should ask for more details the next time he wakes up. ...If he doesn't decide to escape, that is.
Jun:By the way... Where are Koji and the others? Aren't they usually around here, scoping out the gossip?
Ruri:They've gone back to the Archangel. I wonder what they have in mind.
On the archangel...
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Koji:Yo, Kira! Where you headin'?
Lacus:Oh, hello! Is there a reason you're not in uniform, everyone?
Kira:Why... Why are you all here?
Hyoma:We heard from Sai that you were acting strange...
Koji:...So uh, we figured you were planning to help the girl escape.
Kira:Please, let me go. I don't want anything to do with this.
Koji:We know. We think taking a little girl hostage is nothing to laugh at, either!
Hyoma:Seriously. What are you hanging around for? Hurry up! Don't let them catch you trying to escape!
Kira:Huh...?
Juzo:Taking a little girl hostage is bad guy behavior, plain and simple! I've got no reason to continue fighting for people who would do something like that, so we're gonna tag along. Goin' on the run all by yourselves'll probably be pretty dangerous, right?
Daisuke:We want to help you, too!
Koji:What's our status, Tenkawa?
Akito:We're in the clear, and ready to depart as soon as you are! Kira, hurry up!
Sai: The Strike is clear to launch.
Kira:Sai... I'm so-
Sai:No need to tell me. I know.
Miriallia:Kira, take care.
Lacus:Thank you very much, everyone. I'm sure we shall meet again!
Sai:I wonder about that...
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Koji:Damn, we've been spotted! Let's go, guys!
Sai:Go on, Kira! But... be sure to come back.
Kira:Right... We'll only be a few minutes, Sai.
Hyoma:Just leave it to us! He'll come back even if we have to drag him. It's all well and good to return the girl, but they'll send mobile suits after us as soon as that's over with, I'm sure.
Murdoch:Bridge! Come in, bridge! The boys are takin' the little lady away!
And we end on that! Next time, a bit more Gundam Seed and we finally get back to introducing new units. Well. Unit.
Post by: Seriyu on June 06, 2012, 07:09:29 pm
Post by: Seriyu on June 07, 2012, 05:30:07 pm
Post by: Seriyu on June 09, 2012, 06:37:24 pm
EDIT: Incorrect. Update tomarrow definitely however.
Post by: Seriyu on June 11, 2012, 07:56:51 pm
Creuset: Hmm... They intend to use the girl as a shield, do they?
Yzak:Tch, those damn Naturals are playing dirty!
Dearka:All we can do is retreat. What a joke!
Athrun: ......
Murrue: Those boys took it upon themselves to do this...
Natarle:Ugh, this isn't happening! Kira! Kira Yamato! What are you trying to do?! Return at once!
Koji:*chuckle* A little late for that Lieutenant!
Akito:We don't approve of taking hostages!
Erina:What do you mean?! And what are you planning to do?!
Ruri:Strike, Aestivalis Tenkawa unit, Mazinger Z and Combattler V have deployed.
Kira:ZAFT ship, come in. Can you hear me? We are returning Lacus Clyne.
Athrun:(Kira? Why are you doing this...?)
Kira:Please send the pilot of the Aegis to retrieve her. Alone. If we detect any other units, I won't be able to guarantee her life.
Nicol:He requested you specifically, Athrun?
Dearka:Pffft. What are these idiots up to now? It's obviously a trap!
Athrun:...Please let me go, Commander.
Yzak:What the hell do you think you're doing, Athrun?!
Creuset:...Fine. Permission granted.
Athrun:You have my gratitude, sir.
Festenia:Hm... That's some serious guts they've got, right there! (Serious stupidity, too!)
*Ba dum pssh*
Calvina:I wonder what they think this is going to accomplish?
Ryoko:Ha! They're actually going to do it?
Hikaru:They're that set on doing the right thing, are they?
Akatsuki:My, there's nothing like youth, is there?
Erina:How dare they do something so selfish... What are you going to do, Captain?! We have to stop them, and quick!
Yurika:It's fine. I approve of what they're doing. There's no way I could have left things as they were.
Erina:What?! Captain, are you sure you understand what you're saying?!
Yurika:Taking that little girl hostage is sapping the crew of their will to fight! I'm only trying to counter the negative influence on morale!
Ruri:What are we going to do when the enemy attacks, though?
Miguel:Is this really all right, Commander?
Creuset:This has certainly metamorphosed into a prime opportunity. Their pilots are still quite young and inexperienced, so prepare to scramble. Also.... ready my CGUE.
Yeah, that'll go over well. Combattler is RIGHT THERE man. Haw.
Athrun:Athrun Zala, Aegis, launching.
The Aegis approaches the Strike.
Natarle:This is our only chance. Captain, attack! If we act now, we may at least be able to take the Aegis down!
Mu:But if we do that, we'll be engaged in a two-front battle!
This is kind've an odd statement, but I think he's referring to the fact that there are Radam and Jovian Lizards and they might attack while it's going down. Which could've happened in any other space mission, really. Maybe because they're near earth, and ZAFT has forces on earth that could support them? That might be it.
Natarle:Ugh...
Athrun:Kira...
Kira:......
Athrun:I want to confirm that it's really her.
Lacus:Good day, Athrun. It's been quite some time, hasn't it?
Athrun:...Confirmed. It's Lacus Clyne. Come on.
Lacus:Thank you, Kira... And everyone else, too.
Koji:*chuckle* Oh, it was nothing!
Athrun:Those Naturals... Kira, with the Strike's mobility you'd be able to escape easily! Why did you come out here? Tell me, Kira! Why do you continue to fight for the Federation?!
Kira:I don't want to fight you. My friends are on that ship. That's why I must protect it!
Athrun:I have no choice, then. Next time we fight, I'll have to shoot you down...
The Aegis heads back to their ship.
Kira:...Likewise, Athrun.
Hyoma:Seems like they really know each other...
Chizuru:Yes. It must be hard for Kira... and for Athrun, too.
Creuset:Athrun, is Lady Lacus in your care?
Athrun:Yes, Commander.
Creuset:I see. In that case...
Several GINNS, and three gundams appear in a semicircle surrounding the Strike. IT'S NOT THE END OF GUNDAM SEED AT ALLLLLL WAAAHAHAHA
Kira:Huh...?
Akito:What are they doing?! Those dirty, rotten bastards!
Calvina:Well, this was bound to happen...
That's a really good line, Hahaha. "Welp"
Festenia:Still, talk about underhanded!
Mu:Damn, I knew it was going to turn out like this!
Creuset:You should fall back, Athrun. Be thankful they chose to hand over the hostage. Let's sink them once and for all!
Athrun: Wait, Captain! Please!
Mu:Hold on, kids! I'm heading out!
Kira:Cdr. Flaga?!
Mu:You guys fell for their trick! Unless you're trying to tell me you EXPECTED this to happen?!
Kira: Ugh...
Juzo:Hey, they're not exactly leaving us much of a choice!
Hyoma:Yeah, let's take these guys out!
Murrue:We can't turn back now. Engage!
Natarle:Lohengrin, aligned!
Yurika:Ruri, activate the Field. Gravity Blast, standby!
Ruri:Roger. Gravity Blast, charging.
Lacus:Can you hear me, Cdr. Rau Le Creuset? Please, cease this engagement. Or do you intend to make this place a battlefield? As a representative of the Memorial Committee, I would advise against it.
Athrun:Lacus?
Creuset:(Tch... What's she talking about now?)
Lacus:I cannot allow this! Please, cease all fighting at once! Is that clear, Cdr. Creuset?
Creuset:(What a bothersome girl. Fair enough. All we can do now is leave them to the Jovian Lizards.) Understood, Lacus Clyne. All units, retreat.
The GINNS, gundams, and battleships retreat. I was messin with you, we're done with Gundam SEED for now. And more importantly, done with fighting entire maps filled with GINNs. Later gundam SEED missions are much better about variety.
Ruri:It appears ZAFT has retreated.
Juzo:No mistake this time. The little lady must have had a hand in this!
Koji:Ain't Lacus just great?
Akatsuki:A surprising turn of events... The girl, too, has defied expectations.
Murrue: ......
Mu:I dunno... Looks like we're safe for now, atl east. Come on back, kids! Seriously, though. That Princess was somethin' else.
Kira:Athrun...
Koji:Well, we returned the girl and there're no enemies around... May as well return to ship!
An alarm goes off on the Nadesico.
Erina:What?!
Yurika:Ruri, what's going on?
Ruri:Just a moment... Aliens approaching.
Several Radam appear on both sides of the map.
Murrue:The invaders...
Natarle:At a time like this?!
Mu:Damn. We'll have to take them down if we want to escape!
Kira:Those are.... The invaders?
Calvina:We'll have to assist them after all. Captain, I'm heading out!
Okay, we start this out by adjusting the Aestivalises to be closer to each other at the start of the fight, because I do really need to start doing that. No sense in not using those friendship bonuses, especially with how fragile the aesties are. They need all the evasion they can get.
TURN ONE!
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Akito is kinda stranded up in the center but this isn't as bad as it seems, as all units regain five energy a turn at least, leaving enough for movement, even if he runs out. We'll just have to avoid using energy attacks and stick to the rapid rifle or immediate knife. Anyway, we move everyone near the earth at the bottom up to the center and everyone in the center off to the side. Akito will stay put for now so he can move in formation with the rest of the Aesties, as it made it up to him in one turn, as seen here.
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Annnyway, Mazinger starts off the fight with a Rocket Punch, heavily damaging a Radam. We'll be moving him, combattler,a repair unit, the archangel, and the baybull to the right, and the rest to the left. Being supers they should be able to provide all the offense required to waste that side, but I'd rather be safe then sorry, because this mission signals the first arrival of a boss that is actually fairly dangerous to a super. We don't want them kicking around at a quarter health when he shows up. But we'll get to that later.
ENEMY PHASE!
The radam, with their low movement speed, meander up to the robots. A few get some hits off on Mazinger, and we shift to defense for him because he's already looking kinda worse for wear after 2 attacks, and he's in range of about 6. He's already at half health but the blue earth should be able to fix that up.
TURN TWO!
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First things first, the Blue earth rushes up and heals Mazinger. Gaining Noal and Aki a level, Aki gained the Alert spirit. (100% evade for one attack) They're both at level 8 now. Combattler heads up and finishes a radam for Mazinger, and Mazinger follows up with a Breast Fire on another Radam.
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Didn't finish it off like I was hoping, but whatcha gonna do. Baybull and Archangel move up to support, but don't quite get in range. Meanwhile, on the left side, we'll be showing off the Strike Gundam's Launch frame. A long range artillery frame, this thing will.... frankly probably not see much use outside of space, because we have plenty of sniper units already, and Bellzelute does the job far better then Strike can. But on the bright side, it gets a 3300, 2-7 ranged attack right out of the gate with no will requirements. Not bad at all. Let's take a look.
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Laser Bazooka. Nice. The Bellzelute finishes Strike's target off for him with O Rifle N, and moves to a more appropriate position behind the lines of other, more suitably defensive robots. It's never really come up again because the Bellzelute has never been in close range again, since that first mission we got it in, but it does still only have about 3800 HP, and it's evasion is pretty bad. Eiji heads in and blasts a Radam with Lasered Rifle, cutting it in half. Buldy finishes it off.
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Doesn't quite finish it off, but both of em are set up to be knocked over like bowling pins next turn.
ENEMY PHASE!
A radam on the left side, to the north of our forces, moves down and attacks Izumi with Tentacle. I went over this stuff last time, but it's been a while so I'll do it again: Tentacle lowers the movement rate of a robot. This is a bad thing for real robots, that tend to get banged up pretty easy. One solid hit with tentacle can sometimes result in the thing not having enough movement to pull back safely, leaving it with little HP with too many radam nearby. Luckily in this case, Izumi dodges, and counters the thing for about half it's HP. Izumi is a pretty nice offensive pilot, but can have a nasty habit of getting kicked around if she gets a couple of bad rolls. She gains a level, and nothing else. A radam tries its luck with the Nadesico, and gets wasted in return, boosting Kouji's will to 125, and activating Mazinpower (Boosts Mazingers attack power by 25%, on top of the will bonus already in effect). That should speed up the right side efforts. Another radam takes a swing at Izumi, and she follows up with distortion punch. It kills a radam from almost max HP. Pretty nice. Meanwhile, on the right side, Combattler uses his abilities of enemy attraction to get attacked by every single one of the opposing radam, killing one in the process, and crippling many others, and keeping Kouji safe to get repaired in the process. Well, one of them attacks Kouji, and he one shots it with rocket punch in response. Mazinpower at work, folks.
TURN THREE!
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On the left side, Akito starts us off with Gekigan Flare, supported by Rapid Rifle from Ryoko. In other news, the Nadesico series, has a surprising amount of R sounds in it.
Let's see how it goes. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ypTjw4ZYRE) (Now is a good time to mention, sidebar videos related to SRWJ may possibly contain spoilers, so don't go clicking willy nilly if you're interested in the plots of these games. Fair warning.)
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Nice. Aestivalises are really at their best supporting each other, I've been using them terribly up until now. Akito also gets a much needed level, he's only at six. I need to keep him up front for a while. Strike moves up and attacks a Radam with "Anti-Ship Vulcan Gun", with support from Izumi.
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I managed to get the like, one frame where it still displays the GUI info for strike being hit, so yeah, Izumi didn't randomly take damage and lose movement there, it's just still hovering there.
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Excellent. Strike is having some defensive troubles, but luckily there's only one radam left on the left side, and it should be trivial to finish off. As a side note, the reason Izumi is so down about things sometimes is because, if I recall correctly, she's had something like, six husbands, all of which have died or been killed or something along those lines. Anyway, Sayaka moves up and repairs Akito, and Mu cuts a Radam's HP in half with wire-guided gunbarrels. I've just noticed Ryoko and Hikaru are also surprisingly low leveled, let's fix that. Yurika Cheers Ryoko (2x EXP from the next fight), and she heads up to finish off the one radam left.
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She gains a level, and reveals she has a unique animation for Distortion punch. Now, off to the right side! Archangel starts things out with a bang by finishing a Radam with Lohengrin.
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Bravo. Blue Earth repairs Mazinger again, and Baybull finally launches into the action.
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He gains a level out of it, revealing he's at level 6 too. Maybe it's not so much underleveled as underused. Akito still needs to get up there, because Akito has been decreed as important by the audiance. Not that I mind this, I like Akito. Anyway, Daisaku (Combattler V, remember) uses Guts and fully restores combattler's HP. Combattler meanders up to a radam and finishes it, WHEN SUDDENLY
Mysterious Boy:What?! They're here...!
Elizabeth:You've come to your senses, I see. No, stay in bed for now. You're still-
Mysterious Boy: It's him. He's coming.
Simone:Him? Who are you talking about?!
Anna:O-Oh...!
That's just a shocked noise, there's no hostage taking going on again.
Simone:Hey, hold up! What are you going to do?!
Mysterious Boy: I have to go out!
Uribatake:Hey, who IS that?! Someone's entered the airlock!
Ruri:Opening airlock.
Yurika:H-Hey, what are you doing?! You're going to die!
Mysterious Boy:I wonder... No... I can't die here! TEK SETTER! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV7M7fSMbgg)
Blade:TEKKAMAN BLADE! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DDYsvzCLNE)
Badass. Meet our new unit! We'll go over him when he gets into combat, because there's more plot to be had.
Aki:Is that...?
Noal:It's him, all right. He transformed again.
More radam appear, with a human figure at the center of the formation...
Natarle: Guh, there's more of them?
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Tekkaman Dagger, from Tekkaman Blade
Blade:You're the one who's going to die, Tekkaman Dagger! I'm going to crush you and your ambitions! You can be sure of that!
Kouji:What's that?! Hey guys, another monster showed up!
Ruri:...A "Tekkaman"?
Noal:Hey, who the hell are you?! Answer me!
Blade:I have to fight them, and that's all there is to it. Don't get in my way!
Katia:"The enemy of my enemy is my friend," right?
Calvina:Agreed. Looks like we'll just have to help out. Captain, is that all right with you?
Yurika:Yeah! I'm not sure who he is, but if he isn't the enemy then it's all right by me! I'm counting on all of you to cooperate for the time being!
Mu:Hey, come on! Could someone PLEASE explain what's going on here?!
Murrue:Capt. Misumaru, what is that creature?
Yurika:He's some nameless monster guy we picked up right before entering Heliopolis. It looks like he's an enemy of the aliens!
Ruri:...Are you sure that's all, Captain?
Noal:Tch! Hey, just so you know, there's no way in hell we're trusting you. If you attack us, I'm shooting you down. I don't give a damn whose side you're on!
Blade:I'll fight as I must. You're free to do what you like. Come on, Dagger!
Dagger:Heh! Likewise, Blade! I'll kill you first, and polish off your friends for seconds!
Blade:Grrrahhhh!
All right! We've got a new unit, we're back in the swing of things. And we got a 70's superhero to supervillan trash talking segment, that's pretty great too. We unfortunatly cannot get blade to attack something on this turn, but nontheless we'll move our units up, to hopefully block the new reinforcements from interfering with our forces that are currently dealing with what's left of the right side. We definitely don't want dagger to mix it up with combattler and mazinger right now, for reasons that will become apparent on the enemy's turn. Mostly everyone moves up and to the right slightly, and buldy repairs akatsuki. Mazinger also wastes a radam. Onto the enemy turn, let's see what the new guy can do.
ENEMY PHASE!
First, the two radam on the right attack combattler, and get V lasered to death on the counter. So much for worrying about the right side. Northern radam move south, and one attacks Bellzelute, in what is probably the first time it's been attacked since the second mission of the game. It's also got a 62% chance to hit, we'll prolly have to pull Bellzelute back after this turn. I don't want dagger getting to Bellzelute, he'd tear it up. This radam is probably fine, though. Bellzelute takes a hit, taking off just under half it's health, and one shots the Radam on the counterattack, with O rifle N. We'll get buldy up there to repair it and move the defensive line up a bit, to keep them off Bellz. Calvina gets a level off that, gaining a level of potential in the process. Potential raises stats when HP is low, it's pretty much one of the best skills to have. A level in it, especially in a unit with such bad defensive stats, is great. The rest of the radam move down, and dagger stays put. Good.
TURN FOUR!
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Alllllllllrighty. Let's take a look at blade.
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The first thing you should notice on the top screen, is that blade has 120 mobility, unupgraded. 100 is the average. This is pretty nice, nothing to write home about, but with a good evasion score on the pilot (who is also tekkaman blade, this thing isn't a robot, it's like, an exoskeleton thing) it'll make dodging a hell of a lot easier. For reference, Strike, in launcher frame, has 90 mobility.Prolly has somewhere around 110 in aile. Maybe 100. He also has 1000 armor. Average armor.
BUT!
Take a look at that bottom screenshot, and take note of the size modifier. S. Small units are smaller then most units in the game, and as such get an evasion bonus, and a damage reduction. This combined with his 120 base mobility, and 134 base evade score, means that if we upgrade his mobility, he will be nigh impossible to hit while focused. This is what makes tekkaman blade good. He also has surprisingly decent attack power for a "real robot", although he needs to get more will before he can bust that out.
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
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Look at his special abilities (and ignore combine, the game is bad at foreshadowing). HP and EN regen S. Being mostly organic (yes, he's not piloting a robot so much as being a cyborg guy, it was actually kind've controversial if I recall) he regains about 5-10, maybe even 15% of his max HP and EN back every turn. This, on top of him being a dodgy little sucker means unless you kill him in one turn, he's probably gonna come back from whatever hits him. His spirits also include focus and wall, like Mu. So you can focus him and wall him like we did Mu in the previous mission and get similar results. He also has potential as a skill, but being a real robot with regeneration, and an exceptionally fragile one at that, he will probably never get to use it too much, although it's nice when it activates, rather then him just, ya know, dying. But enough blabber about stats and numbers, let's see this guy in action.
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33% chance to be hit, with no upgrades. Very nice. A focus cast would drop that to 3%. VERY nice.
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Awesome animations for this guy, I highly reccomend checking out the video I post in the robot roll call for him when it goes up. Some of the best animation work in the game. I also really like his dialogue. Music is great too. I am a fan, to say the least. Anyway, Bellzelute finishes the thing off for him. And Katia gets a level off it. Kira attacks a radam, doesn't quite kill it, and gets hit in return, despite casting focus beforehand. Kira is not in a good way this mission, seriously. Nadesico takes an opportunity and MAP gravity blasts 3 radam.
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It cripples 2, and kills one. Nice. Yurika gets a level and the "Daunt" spirit, which is very interesting. It lowers an enemy's will by 10. This obviously has the effect of lowering their stat bonus from the will, and possibly locking them out of their good attacks. It can be useful. Everyone else gets a level but no spirits. Eiji whacks a Radam and Aphrodite repairs Strike gundam, getting a level and a level of support attack in the process. Meanwhile, the Aestis smash up 4 radam, one each, and Hikaru gains a level off it. Also another level of support attack. Akatsuki doesn't manage a kill, but there kinda weren't any left after the carnage. The supers off to the right trudge up to the center as well, and Mazinger gets a repair from the blue earth on the way. Mu pulls up from behind. Things are lookin' good.
ENEMY PHASE!
All radam move south or attack, litterally nothing comes of it. They're all dodged or absorbed entirely by a field. Yawn. But dagger has moved south and attacked Tekkaman Blade! And.... huh.
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That looks.... like bad odds. Luckily since Tekkaman Dagger is also a small unit, blade shouldn't be one shotted by him. I'm defending Tekkaman Blade to be safe.
Dagger:You won't escape, Tekkaman Blade! Die!
Blade:I won't lose! Not until I take down every last one of you!
He misses. Whew.
TURN FIVE!
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All right. Tekkaman Dagger pretty much has all the same defensive aces that tekkaman blade has, and about 18k HP on top of it, because he's a boss. Luckily he also has all the offensive weakness. Accuracy is gonna be an issue. Dodging is also gonna be an issue. He will plink things to death, so we wanna approach this using an actual strategy, even if it's a fairly simple one, namely, we tear up all the remaining radam, get all the units clustered up around him and just try to stomp him out in one turn. Akatsuki and the Nadesico tear one up, the remaining aestivalises set up to the left of blade. Eiji and Blade manage to finish another one off, Eiji gets a level out of it, no new spirits or skills. Strike gundam is patched up by aphrodite and buldy, and he's pretty much back in perfect shape. Hopefully he'll do better this round. Buldy gains a level off it, nothin new. Bellzelute moves up to dagger and blasts a Radam with shot launcher on the way. Strike follows suit, and finishes off Bellzelute's radam for it. Now, the right side is left. With any luck Combattler and Mazinger will manage to finish off the two remaining radam and we can get started on dagger next turn. The archangel pulls up and attacks one of them, halving it. Baybull finishes it for them. Annnndddd mazinger finishes the final one with breast fire. Nice. On to the enemy phase.
ENEMY PHASE!
Thank you. Tekkaman dagger officially has his best move unlocked, R. Cosmo Bowgun. Blade can counter with his best attack, Voltekka. Let's take a look.
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Nice. Incidentally, that attack there, Voltekka, in the (japanese) show, the voice actor for tekkaman blade managed to break THREE microphones in ONE recording session, presumably by screaming VOLTEKKAAAAAAAAAA into them too passionately or something. Crazy.
Another post like always.
Post by: Seriyu on June 11, 2012, 07:57:59 pm
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Alright. This turn ends it. We start off with O Rifle A from Bellzelute. Even focused, we've only got a 65% chance to hit. Luckily he's down to 22%, so it's still decent odds.
Dagger:Out of my way, Earthlings! I'll easily dispose of you once I'm finished with him!
Calvina:So this is the alien commander? If so...!
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And of course the RNG laughs in my STUPID STUPID FACE for counting on it. Oh well, losing the "main charecter", unlike most TBS games, doesn't end the stage, at least in this case. Time to stop fucking around. Combattler V, Strike, Wall, Super EM spin. Gonna mess him up for what he just did.
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Take that you little asshole. Since the nadesico is a 2L size category, and has no accuracy boosting spirits, we just have Ruri scan him to lower his evasion, and leave them be. Meanwhile, good ole Eiji, takes a shot, and clearly displays his dodging and accuracy dominance amongst the rest of our crew.
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He dodged. Been a while since I had a screenshot fail like this.
Not much damage, but whatcha gonna do, he's a real, and the same size category as dagger to boot. Next up, we focus and alert Kira, and see if he can't redeem himself. It certainly seems like he might at 76% accuracy.
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He gets a level out of it. No new spiritual maguffins or statistical doodads. GOOD WORK! He is not QUITE DEAD, oddly enough. Let's see if Blade can't finish him off...
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... LEAVING HIM WITH 85 HP. So much for a dramatic finish.
Akito, show him the door. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP1_qtn8TN0)
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He gains a level and a level of support defense. We also get like, seven parts/modules from him, jesus. He was just packed full of machinery for some reason.
Dagger:How can this be?! Arrrrrrrgh!
He retreats.
Murrue:Hm... It seems we were able to repel them, somehow.
Natarle:Yes, but what's that?
Ruri:Captain, we have detected a large force of Jovian Lizards approaching. We're surrounded.
Yurika: How many?
Ruri:Do you really want to know?
When it rains, it pours.
Yurika:Hmmmmm... Just give me a ballpark figure.
Ruri:A lot.
Mu:Must be why that son of a bitch let us go...
Natarle:What do you mean, Lieutenant?
Mu:We wasted too much time near a live Tulip during that last fight.
Murrue:Jovian Lizards and those alien monsters... This is going to be challenging, but we have to break their encirclement!
And we lose 5000 funds for Bellzelute's death. Could be worse, Tekkaman Blade's repair cost is like, 12k or something. Which makes sense, given that he's a, ya know, bizzare cyborg thing.
And that ends that.
Post by: Seriyu on June 12, 2012, 07:02:06 pm
Post by: Korbac on June 12, 2012, 07:55:05 pm
Post by: Seriyu on June 13, 2012, 06:07:17 pm
ANyway, update is being posted now!
Post by: Seriyu on June 13, 2012, 06:11:06 pm
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Yurika:It's going to be a real pain, but we're out of options.
Murrue:...Understood. We have only one other choice, then.
Yurika:Hmm?
Murrue: We have to make an atmospheric drop. Kira, Lt. Flaga, please return!
Erina:Wait, atmospheric re-entry is too dangerous...!
Yurika:Yeah, and won't there be more of those devilish invaders down there?
Murrue:We don't have time to discuss that!
Akatsuki:Indeed. The Jovian Lizards are too numerous to handle. A drop may be our only option.
Ruri:Gravitational wave detected from the enemy fleet. Gravity Blast, incoming.
Well, that decides it I suppose.
Yurika:Understood! Capt. Ramius, we're heading to Earth. All units, return to the ship immediately! The Archangel and the Nadesico will be re-entering the Earth's atmosphere!
An explosion rocks the ship...
David:Dammit, those Grados guys have us on the run again!
Roanne:And just when the Earth is right before our eyes, too...
Uribatake:Hurry up! We might take a real beating while we're in the stratosphere!
Blade:......
Ryoko:Hey, what's the matter with him? Why won't he change back?
Noal:Oh, geez... Hey, who are you?! Answer me!
A wave of energy passes through the local area
Sayaka:He changed back again...
Mysterious Boy:Ugghhh....
Aki:Hold on, D-Boy!
Mysterious Boy:H-Hey, give me some food...
Festenia:This isn't the time for a snack, Y'know!
Mysterious Boy:The Tekkaman System really eats up my body's energy reserves. My stomach is practically consuming itself.
Katia: Tekkaman... You said that during the last battle, too.
Calvina:Right.
Noal:So wait... Those robo-lookin' monster things are called Tekkaman, D-Boy?
Mysterious Boy:Yes.... Who's "D-Boy"?
Noal:That's your name! "Dangerous Boy," or D-Boy for short. It's a pain in the ass to not have a name to call you by, so tell us your real name if you don't like it!
And a pain in the ass to type out Mysterious Boy every time he talks to boot.
D-Boy:Not necessary. That name works for me.
Hyoma:Hey, that practically TELLS us he's lying, doesn't it?!
Juzo:Back off, Hyoma. Let's hear him out.
Noal:Who are you really, and what are those Radam things? And... Wwhat are those "Tekkamen," while you're at it? Can you at least tell us SOMETHING about them?
Akatsuki:You're an enemy of the Tekkaman, correct? Are they the Alien commanders? Who are they, really? And, of course, why did you choose to be our ally?
Koji:Man, I can't take this. If you're really an Earthling like you say you are, then say SOMETHING, for cryin' out loud!
D-boy:I'm an Earthling. It's just that I forgot everything else. I lost my memory, you know.
Ryoko:Huh? What are you talking about? You seriously expect us to buy that amnesiac BS?
Hikaru:Even a kid could tell a more convincing lie!
D-Boy: If I forgot everything, there's nothing I can do about it. All I remember is that I must battle the Radam as a Tekkaman. That's it.
Noal:You son of a bitch!
D-Boy:I only speak the truth.
Aki:Noal, if he forgot, then... there's nothing we can do.
Akito: If he really lost his memories, that is.
David:It does sound an awful lot like a lie, though...
Roanne:Yeah.
Another explosion
Uribatake:Hey, leave the interrogation for later! We're out of time!
On the bridge...
Yurika:How's the Field, Ruri?
Ruri:Still fine.
Calvina:Captain, report?
Yurika:We're entering the atmosphere from here. How's the Archangel?
Ruri:They're managing to follow us. The enemy fleet has stopped. It appears we were able to shake them off.
Prospector:Now the only problem is the invaders.
Minato:Entering stratosphere.
A brief plot reminder, as it was mentioned once, like five missions back, keep in mind the Radam at this point in time are so numerous they are more or less coating the stratosphere. Onward.
Ruri:Aliens confirmed. Are those the "Devils of the Stratosphere," Captain?
Yurika: Oh no, they're here...!
Erina:This isn't the time to crawl into the fetal position Captain.
Prospector:That said, there's no way we can protect the Archangel in this condition.
Another explosion hammers the ship.
Yurika:Y-You're right... Let's open a way through with a Gravity Blast. Ruri, you have the honors!
Ruri:We're unable to rapidly fire... Archangel is now under attack. They have missed their target landing point.
Yurika:Aim the Gravity Blast at a trajectory above the Archangel! Fire!
Erina:We've calculated the Archangel's landing point... It's Africa. The area is under ZAFT's sphere of influence, and there are also those purple alien woods to deal with. On top of that, it's a dangerous area full of Tulips. What are we going to do, Captain?
Prospector:Quite the conundrum...
Another explosion rattles the distortion field. The Radam aren't exactly being deterred by the thing.
Ruri:Field output dropping.
Yurika:Adjust course! Keep us in front of the Archangel!
Jun:Do you intend to take us with them to Africa, Yurika?!
They manage to reach the planet, around the center of Africa as mentioned.
Natarle:Transmission from the Nadesico. There are no enemies in their vicinity.
Murrue:I see. Please issue a damage report, Lieutenant.
Natarle:Roger.
Mu:Damn, what a nasty place to fall into. This is DEFINITELY going to be a problem for us. We're safe thanks to the Nadesico, at least, but getting out of here is probably gonna cripple us.
Murrue:It does look that way, yes...
Meanwhile, in the residential section of the Archangel
Tolle:I see. The pilot of the Aegis was his friend, huh?
Miriallia:Seems like it. I heard about it from Mr. Kabuto. Apparently he asked Kira to defect to ZAFT and he refused... ...Oh, hello, Flay. I didn't see you-
Flay:I heard you helped that Coordinator girl escape, Sai.
Sai:Yah, the Nadesico didn't seem to like taking her hostage, either. You okay, Flay? Want to get something to eat?
Flay:I'm fine. Hmm.... How's Kira?
Sai:He's over in the hangar. Seems like he's really suffering...
Flay:I see... (I can't leave things like this...)
On the ZAFT battleship, the Vesalius
Athrun:Are you all right, Lacus?
Lacus:Yes, I'm fine. I even met a friend of yours on that ship!
Haro:FEELIN' FINE!
Athrun: I see...
Lacus: Mr. Yamato was a very kindhearted person.
Haro:YOU ARE TOO!
Athrun:He's a fool. He doesn't have anything to do with the UEFA, but he did what he did anyway. He's only being used by the Naturals! Friend or not, that's just how it is.
Lacus:But he said he didn't want to fight you.
Athrun:I feel the same way, but he-!
Lacus:You always have such a stern callous look on your face, nowadays.
Athrun:...War doesn't leave much room for laughter, I've found.
Lacus:Ah, yes... It's been trying, hasn't it? I wonder... ...What are you really fighting against, Athrun?
And with that mysterious quote, we end this update.
MAKE YOUR UPGRADE VOTES! And as for modules and parts, notable things (IE things I want you to vote on, are...
DUSTPROOF = Land terrain rating becomes an S rank. S ranks are very important things because they both increase movement on that terrain (I believe), and also give a hefty defensive bonus in both evasion and defense. It also makes your weapons more effective on this terrain. So obviously select something that can't fly, or at the very least can operate well on the ground. Mazinger Z, and most super robots are decent choices for this, but it would hardly be wasted on a real robot, as long as it can land, again. If the unit CANNOT LAND, then it will be entirely wasted. It won't gain the ability to land. No battleships roaming the deserts like a land shark.
If you have any suggestions on the matter, or need help deciding lemme know.
Dustproof is really the only one you should vote on, but another part is a HIGH-EFFICIENCY OS, which raises the critical rate of all weapons of the unit it is equipped on by 20%. Not a bad part, but not exactly a game changer either.
In terms of modules, we've actually got a lot of important ones.
POTENTIAL +1 - Adds one level of potential. Potential is a VERY powerful skill. Even one level can make a decent difference. Works on pretty much anything that doesn't get routinely one shot, or doesn't completely shrug off every attack. Seems to me like it'd be good on an Aestivalis, due to that barrier of theirs.
NEXT UP, a very exciting part...
COMBO+1 - Now, what's a combo Ser, you may be asking. And I would not respond, as I likely cannot hear you from so far away. But I will answer anyway, as I am kind and psychic. Combo attacks (attacks with a little C next to them), usually are melee attacks, although there are some ranged combo attacks, can attack MORE THEN ONE ENEMY AT ONCE! It's pretty nice. The issue being that... ONE, combo attacks tend to be weaker then their non combo counterparts. IE a melee attack that can combo will have another "melee" attack that can't combo but hits harder. That's barely a downside. TWO, Combo attacks will only do full damage to the first enemy they hit. The rest recieve half damage. Not too bad either. THREE is the clincher. Enemies have to be adjacent to each other to combo into them. That's the main restriction.
With all that said, Combo 1 allows you to attack two enemies at once, presuming they're next to each other. It can pretty much go on anyone, I think all our units barring our battleships and blue earth have at least one combo attack. Obviously it'd do better on a bruiser like Mazinger or Combattler, but it has its uses on lighter robots. It definitely opens up a lot of offensive possibilities.
AND FINALLY...
Hit&Away - Lets a unit attack and then move. Handy on anything, mostly useful on snipers (which usually get the skill on their own anyway Bellzelute and I believe Buldy have it already for instance). I would suggest tekkaman blade, as voltekka positioning can be an issue, given all of his other attacks are melee range, and voltekka is something like 2-8 ranged.
So that's all of em. MAKE YOUR DECISIONS! I'll be back in a few days and we can get to the next mission, which introduces TWO NEW UNITS! One of them is the best ever and probably my favorite series in this show, it's great, eeeeeee, I'll finally have something to gush about like a proper nerd. They also both add some much needed heavy offense, Combattler won't need to carry the entire team when it comes to huge single hit damage anymore, although he will still probably be king of smashin up jerks.
Post by: Seriyu on June 15, 2012, 04:38:18 pm
Post by: Korbac on June 15, 2012, 06:58:03 pm
Post by: Seriyu on June 15, 2012, 07:50:23 pm
Post by: Korbac on June 17, 2012, 03:05:27 pm
Gai got left behind on mars (in the best cast scenario) a while back. Although he did have an Aesti. :P
NOOOO! THE SUPER UPPER GONE! NOOOO!!!
Uhh... Akito, I guess? He's a cheesy bloke. ;)
Post by: Seriyu on June 17, 2012, 04:45:48 pm
Update tomarrow, by the way.
Post by: Neonivek on June 17, 2012, 08:07:13 pm
While in Dynasty Gundam Warriors (whatever) all the robots are transported to one universe... which creates weird situations where Amano piloting the "Gundam" is fending off the Mark:II, The Shining Gundam, or the Wing Zero (and this is ignoring the Gundams that can wipe out whole planets)... which is odd given that this was before Gundams were outright supperior. This is ignoring, of course, the size differences between some of these robots.
So the fact that all these things can fight on equal terms, somewhat, at least makes sense in this game.
Its too bad one of my favorite gundams will never be in this game (doesn't help that this one was from SD Gundam force). Why you gotta hate Knight Gundam? (I don't remember his actual name... it was the Knight Gundam with magical powers)
Post by: Seriyu on June 18, 2012, 05:29:29 pm
And yeah, they tend to do a good job of making the plots mesh together well, and make the interactions between the series make sense without fudging stuff. There's an example of this later in the game (I forget how much later but I think it's a ways off) that involves Full Metal Panic! and Mazinger that's pretty great.
Also, starting update now. I think this dialogue update is fairly short so it shouldn't take too long, but my track record with remembering things isn't very good either, so.
EDIT: I was wrong, but the update is being posted now anyway.
Post by: Seriyu on June 18, 2012, 07:08:42 pm
We also switch the Strike gundam to the Strike frame as we'll be on solid ground for the first time in a while, which isn't to say the launch from is bad on the ground, I just like to mix it up. We also switch all the Aesties to the ground frames.
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On the surface, they've discovered a rather expansive Radam forest. As a reminder, the radam turn into purple trees once they land on earth. They don't appear to be doing anything yet, but it's still pretty fishy.
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Sayaka:Wow, they're even more impressive up close...
Festenia:Speaking personally, these things creep me out... a lot.
Akito:What the hell ARE these things?
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the invaders "Radam, it only makes sense that we should call them "Radam Trees". (Missed a screencap here, that's not exact, but it's close enough to the original dialogue)
Aki:Scan complete.
Noal:How's it lookin', Aki?
Aki:Atmospheric pressure and composition normal. No radioactivity detected. No enviromental abnormalities either.
Akatsuki:Didn't I tell you? They're making these things all over the world, but they've done no harm so far.
Katia:I wonder what their goal is...
Akatsuki:If D-Boy would tell us the truth, then we could ask him, but he'll just say that he doesn't know, or throw out another lie, saying it worries him all the same.
Noal:Maybe we should start worrying about these purple potatoes, too. For all we know these things are his whole diet!
Melua:Wanna try taking a bite out of one of them?
Since it feels like Melua hasn't said a lot lately, she's a member of the original cast in this game.
Noal:Whoa, let's not get carried away! I'm only kidding!
Aki:Still, seeing these on Earth... It almost seems like a totally different planet.
Koji:Don't get depressed about it. We were on Mars when it happened, after all.
Akatsuki:All right, that ends our little field trip. Now that we have an idea of where we stand, we should head back.
Back on the archangel...
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Murdoch:It isn't any worse than what we already expected, but even if we took some of the Nadesico's crew to help, it's still gonna take a while to repair.
Natarle:We simply lack manpower, then?
Murdoch:It'd take even longer on our own, but yeah, we'd finish eventually.
Murrue:No, it's fine. I approve. I'll ask Capt. Misumaru about borrowing crew members to help with the repairs.
Natarle:But Captain, you can't let them enter certain sections of the ship...
Murrue:Because it's supposed to be a military secret, correct? I don't think this is the time to worry about that. ZAFT, the aliens, or even the Jovian Lizards could show up at any time. Our priority is to arrive at a Federation base safe and sound. End of story.
Time passes.
Uribatake:Okay, if we focus on repairing this plate first, we can exchange those and...
Murdoch:Heheh! I gotcha. That'd really speed up the repairs, huh?
Murrue:That's our main concern. Thanks for agreeing to help us out, Mr. Uribatake.
Uribatake:Come on, girl! A man gets a request to mess around with the thing he loves best by a babe-rageous Captain. How am I NOT supposed to dig that?
Murrue:I-I see. Sgt. Murdoch will assist, so... I'm counting on the both of you!
Uribatake: Yeah, yeah. Just leave the mechs and the hangars to me! All right, let's get to work!
Meanwhile, in the cafeteria.
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Kira:......
Flay:Yeah, sure! But... Kira, I'm sorry about what I said before. I was really scared. I said some awful things to you, and I'm sorry.
Kira:Flay... It's all right.
Flay:I just hate war, and... I hope it ends soon!
Kira:Same here.
Flay:Kira, please! Do your best and get revenge for my dad! Take them all out for him!
You may note it seems odd she was against war just a second ago, and is now asking for Kira to totally kick the shit out of the bad dudes. It's semi understandable, given she lost her dad, and is likely confused, but uhh... well, give it a minute.
Kira:Hmmmmm...
Flay:(That's right... No matter how much you hate it, you have to keep fighting. You have to keep killing them until they kill you. Otherwise, I'll never be able to forgive you...!)
Huh. Yeah, she's pretty much gone full tilt nuts at this point.
In the hangar...
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I bet you're excited to see them in action. (See above.)
Murdoch:Definitely. We've got a practice simulator, too. I'd reccomend leafing through the manual before trying to fly one of em, though.
They're talking about a new unit Mu will be piloting for this mission, and pretty much any earth mission for a while. It's worse then his Mobius, but the Mobius also can't be piloted on earth, due to, well, gravity. It's not exactly aerodynamic after all, and I don't see any rotors. The new unit has some special features worth noting, but we'll get to them when we get to the mission.
Mu: Of course. I'm not looking to kill myself, after all. What's this I hear about them being able to hold Striker Packs, though? THey'd really boost the firepower on one of these things, sure, but aren't they for the boy to use?
Murdoch:Lieutenant, as long as it's you in that thing, our bases are covered. Heck, once the adjustments are finished, I think it'll be ready for you to take it out for a test flight!
Mu:Damn, I'm gonna be busy!
Or they'll go over it now.
The new units, Skygraspers, can equip frames like the strike gundam. This is decent, but generally they don't add a ton of firepower to the unit. (Although they hit really lightly so anything helps if you want to actually use them.)
The real THING about them is that can also repair, resupply, and on top of this, can "deliver" a frame to the strike. So for instance, the launch strike has an enemy close in on it, it's in a terrible position, but hey, you've got a skygrasper flying around with a strike pack equipped. The Launch strike ejects the Launch pack, and the skygrasper flies up, adjacent to it, and gives it the strike pack. Now it can bash the unit that got up in it's face with impugnity. You can even switch back to launch if you move the skygrasper back into a battleship and get the launch pack back out. It's pretty neat! Arguably not terribly useful, but part of the fun of SRW is seeing how they impliment the various doodads and complicated stuff in the series they show. It can also be used to pull off some fancy fancy stuff.
Uribatake:Hey! What are you guys talking about? You gotta let me in on this!
Murdoch:Oh, uh, well... Good job with the repairs! Let's take a break.
Of course, it's still a military secret.
Time passes...
Akatsuki:Taking a nap?
Uribatake:Well, if it isn't the resident ladies man, Dr. Nagare Akatsuki! What're you doing in here? Don't tell me you're chasing after that blooming flower of a Captain, along with that bitchy 2nd Lt.?
Akatsuki: Please! Don't talk about people behind their backs. It's simply not good form. Of course, the Captain DID get my attention with that amazing chest of hers, but...
Japan being Japan. Don't think about it too much.
Mu:Hey!
Luckily Mu at the very least, is classy about it.
Akatsuki:My apologies! I speak only in jest. I'm merely concerned about what happened after we let that little Princess escape. I've been walking around the ship, hoping to hear some news on the subject.
Mu:Oh. If you're still wondering about that situation, it's already been wrapped up. The boy and his friends aren't military personnel. They didn't get away without reprimand, of course, but they also didn't go to the firing squad. Hell, the boy got out with just a warning! 'Course, that means Lt. Badgiruel's even angrier then usual, but there you go.
Akatsuki:That's to be expected, yes.
Mu:That stunt they pulled was bold, all right. What do they think being in the military is all about, anyway? They can't just defy orders like that on a regular basis...
Akatsuki:No one was happy about what they had to do, but they made a compromise. I'm more worried about that Coordinator boy, to be perfectly honest.
Mu:He said an acquaintance of his is part of the Creuset Squadron, so I'm sure he must be itching to get the hell off this ship... It'd be nice if he understood our predicament a little better.
Uribatake:Why the hell are you worried about that kid, Akatsuki?
Akatsuki:A Coordinator assisting the Federation is incredibly significant, especially considering the kind of assistance he can give to our forces. I want him to keep up the good work. That's all.
Mu:Hey, if you're gonna rely on the kid like that, at least have the common sense not to say so in front of him, okay?
On the Nadesico a discussion is occuring.
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D-Boy:I only want to fight the Radam. I don't care about ZAFT or anyone else.
Hyoma:What a jerk...
There is kind've a subtle plot interaction going on here. Combattler was built to fight aliens that were invading earth. The Radam are very similar to this situation, so Hyoma is really not buying this whole "I'm really from earth I can just turn into a cyborg honest" thing, and generally suspicious of the whole situation. Luckily, Juzo and the other more uhh, grounded, members of the Combattler team tend to keep him in check.
Yurika:We have to fight the Radam too, so why don't you tag along?
Chizuru:Do you have a place to stay if you leave the ship?
D-Boy:Not really.
Yurika:It's settled, then. You're coming with us! Ah, er... Is that all right with you?
D-Boy: I'm not following anyone's orders. You're facing far more than just the Radam. Fighting your battles doesn't interest me.
D-Boy is still kind've prickly about the whole situation himself.
Erina:Are you saying you don't have anything to do with this? I'm sure you're aware of the state the Earth Sphere is in! If you're really an Earthling, you can't ignore the Gradosian army and the PLANT-Federation war!
D-Boy:I don't care about either of them. I already have my hands full with the Radam.
Noal:Radam this, Radam that. This guy's a total Radam fanboy... Creepy!
Noal, as always, is a class act.
Aki:But D-Boy, it's going to be difficult to fight them all alone. If you stay with us, then we should be able to help you out.
Juzo:Yeah, like when we collected your carcass the first time we met you!
D-Boy:......
Ruri:We barely know anything about the Radam. If you come with us, we'll be able to learn more about them. You may be free to do what you like, but you don't even have a place to call home. What do you think you can accomplish under these conditions?
D-Boy:I just...
I missed all four of these screenshots, I'm beginning to think irfanview is bugging out or something. Anyway, Elizabeth goes on and mentions that there's still a lot they don't know about the Radam, like what those enemy Tekkamen are doing, how they're different, what the radam trees will do, what makes the enemy Tekkamen different, and how D-Boy, a normal human, can transform into a Tekkaman.
D-Boy:For the answer to that, you should take a look at this Tek Crystal.
Inez:It's no use. We simply can't figure out how it works with our current technology.
D-Boy:...I see. I'm sorry to hear about that. I was curious about it, too.
Yurika:Huh?
Yurika speaks for us all. The tekkaman plot can be kinda... dense. It'll make sense eventually.
Erina:At any rate, you'll need backup when fighting the Radam. No matter how strong you may be, you're still made of flesh and blood. You'll have to assist the UEFA anyway at some point, so why not come with us?
D-Boy:The UEFA's efforts will be useless against the Radam. You're different, but...
Captain:...Captain.
Yurika:What is it?
Ruri:It appears a battle has broken out in the vincinity. Numerous Jovian Lizards detected.
Calvina:We have to investigate this immediately. Who are they fighting against?
Ruri:I don't know. I'm confident they aren't the invaders. They appear to be some kind of mobile weapons.
Ryoko:Are they the Federation's?
Inez:This area is within ZAFT's sphere of influence, so chances are slim.
Yurika:Unknown units, huh... Megumi, please inform Capt. Ramius at once! Should we send out some scouts?
Calvina:I'll go. How many should I take with me?
Yurika:Let me choose the team. We can't get careless now!
Calvina:Understood. Go ahead.
Annnd that's the end of that. Next time, my favorite gundam ever.
Post by: Seriyu on June 19, 2012, 04:46:43 pm
Post by: Neonivek on June 20, 2012, 01:52:54 am
Huh, I'll be. Not a single super robot wars game has an SD Gundam series in it, as far as I can tell. That's kinda bizzare, super robot wars loves gundam. And the robots are already in kinda SD style (which is to say kinda squashed together). Very odd. Maybe in the future.
Not that unusual given that only one "All the gundams in one game" game... had a SD gundam.
Post by: Seriyu on June 20, 2012, 04:02:14 am
Time will tell, I suppose.
Also random note since I haven't mentioned it, if anyone has any issues with the way I'm discussing the game, please lemme know. I feel like the battle segments kinda drag when nothing especially exciting is going on, and I'm thinking of how to fix that. If you've got your own two cents, feel free to chip in, anyone.
EDIT: The update will be a tad bit later then usual due to a staggering case of incompetance on my part.
Post by: Seriyu on June 21, 2012, 05:22:21 pm
And on top of this I'm speeding up the update schedule, because as of now, if I keep going at this rate, it'll take like a year before I finish. I was kind've horrified at it when I actually did the math, so yeah. Still breaks between updates but only a day or two, unless the previous update was just brutal on me for whatever reason.
So yeah.
EDIT: Oh also, I'll be cutting down on map images, because things don't really change that much from turn to turn I've noticed. Maybe just one after every major map event.
EDIT2: I'd just like to say this experiment was a staggering success and updates should be much less work for me from now on. So faster updates will abound. Hurrah!
Post by: Frumple on June 22, 2012, 02:39:45 pm
Huh, I'll be. Not a single super robot wars game has an SD Gundam series in it, as far as I can tell. That's kinda bizzare, super robot wars loves gundam. And the robots are already in kinda SD style (which is to say kinda squashed together). Very odd. Maybe in the future.There are a few SRW style SD Gundam games, though. They're just, uh. All in japanese. And not SRW games, just turn based strategy blatantly ripping off the SRW style :-\
Or at least there's one on the SNES. Tried playing it. Was very interesting, but had no idea what blazes was doing and couldn't really get very far. Not actually sure if it was based off that SD Gundam show that popped up a while back in english, though.
Post by: Seriyu on June 22, 2012, 06:51:30 pm
Sorry about the update taking so long, but this mission is actually pretty long, and the fact that it takes place on earth means getting around the map takes a bit longer due to terrain movement rate modifications and such. However a TON happens, so don't worry, this is gonna be worth it.
Also I actually wasn't aware there were SRW "knockoffs", although in hindsight it seems obvious. Do you happen to remember the name?
Post by: Frumple on June 22, 2012, 09:01:14 pm
E: Check out the SD Gundam Generation stuff.
E2: I think this (http://www.gamefaqs.com/snes/571274-shin-sd-sengokuden-taishou-gun-retsuden/images) was the SD gundam SRW knockoff I was remembering. Barring that, there's a few explicit dragon quest knockoff games featuring SD Gundam on the SNES.
Post by: Seriyu on June 22, 2012, 09:33:07 pm
Annnd to add another little note on the update, I wanna say it'll be out tomorrow, but the boss in this stage is actually kinda rough and if I end up screwing it up it might end up taking another day. Yeah, the next stage is actually kinda hard a little bit! Crazy.
Post by: Seriyu on June 23, 2012, 06:46:56 pm
it ends in such an anticlimactic way oh my god, it's honestly hilarious
Post by: Seriyu on June 24, 2012, 03:05:38 pm
Soldiers of sorrow (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-os2z0JFwCM)
Post by: Seriyu on June 24, 2012, 04:28:28 pm
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Calvina:Cdr. Flaga, why are you joining us? You afraid to leave this in our hands?
Mu:Of course not. Don't take this the wrong way, 2nd Lieutenant. I'm mostly tagging along to make sure this new unit's tuned up and ready to go.
Calvina:I'm not sure I told you I'm not a 2nd Lieutenant anymore, Commander.
Mu:Hey, no reason to get upset! If you really hate me calling you that, I'll stop. How about I call you Calvina, instead?
Calvina:Tch!
Mu:Something wrong?
Calvina:...Don't even joke about that!
Mu:You don't have to get so mad Calvina...
Calvina:There's only one person who's allowed to call me that.
Mu:Heh! Your prince charming, huh? Where is he now?
Calvina:He's gone... And he's never coming back.
Mu:...Sorry I asked. All right... Looks like the explosion came from over there!
Koji:Yeah. Don't hold me to this, but it looks like they're still fighting.
Ryoko:All right, let's go!
A few Battas and some strange units teleport into the area.
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He destroys the three battas, and six more replace them.
Ja-Mu:You have no chance of victory, yet you still come at me?! This is why I hate unmanned units...
Another unit appears in a cloud of green particles.
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Did you forget that?
Ja-Mu:My apologies, Lord Al-Van. They attacked me.
Al-Van:We don't have time for your reckless stunts. Just finish them off, already.
Ja-Mu:Yes, milord! Forgive me!
Al-Van:We'll use the Larseilam. After you destroy them, we're pulling out.
Ja-Mu:Understood.
Al-Van:Six units remaining. Cytron accumulated. Orgone Extractor output rising. Engaging Larseilam.
A brief flash of green light emits from Al-Van's unit
Ja-Mu:Frozen solid... Isn't that right, you stupid, unmanned trash?!
Al-Van: ...Stasis confirmed. Ja-Mu, deal with them.
Ja-Mu:Yes, milord! ...This is it for you!
They approach on three of the six battas, and destroy them. Meanwhile, on the opposite end of the map, Bellzelute and the gang have approached the combat site.
Koji:Over there! It looks like they're fighting some Gradosian unmanned weapons.
Mu:Yeah, but those guys aren't from the Federation... Don't think they're from ZAFT, either.
Akito:Who the hell are they, then?
Observant viewers may remember! They're the original units that were chasing the Bellzelute when we got it. The fact that they have a stasis device on hand that is apparently fairly trivial to use doesn't sound good for us.
Mu:Can't say.
Ryoko:Those Battas aren't moving... It's almost like those unknowns froze them in place.
They destroy the remaining three battas.
Al-Van:Hmm...? We've been discovered. I cannot allow them to escape. Deal with them, Ja-Mu.
Ja-Mu:Lord Al-Van, isn't that...
And they remember us.
Al-Van:Well, well, well... The escaped unit. It's still in one piece, I see! It appears the "experiments" are here, too... Strange. I'm almost positive that unit was incapable of engaging in actual combat.
Ja-Mu:F-Forgive me, milord. Because of the mess I caused, they-
Al-Van:It's of little concern. We'll be able to capture it for certain, now. There's no need to risk our lives over it this time. We'll use the Larseilam and then go for the capture. Dispose of the others first.
Yeah, there's not a cooldown on that thing. Well hmm. Seems like we won't be in Africa for very long.
Katia:W-What's that...?
Calvina:What's the matter, Katia?
Katia:Please, we have to run! Even if we're the only ones who get away, we have to...
Calvina: What's wrong? Tell me!
Mu:They're the enemy, right?
Ryoko:You know them, then?
Calvina: Tch?! That unit... No way, it can't be...!
Al-Van:Preperations complete. Forgive me. It was merely your misfortune to be in this place at this time. The lease I can do for you is end this, free of fear or pain.
The Larseilem is activated again.
Calvina:What was that...?
But wait!
Ja-Mu:All right, Lord Al-Van. I'll dispose of them!
Calvina:They're up to something, aren't they? You told me to run away, but retreating now is only going to make this worse. Listen up, everyone! We're going to size up their capabilities first!
Koji:......
Koji usually doesn't elipses at us...
Akito:......
Or Akito...
Ryoko:......
Mu:......
Or either of them. Hmmmmm. Maybe it wasn't entirely ineffective.
Calvina:W-What's going on?! Why isn't anyone moving?! Koji, Akito, Ryoko! Cdr. Flaga, please respond! ...What in the world is this?! Why aren't they moving?!
Katia:It's moving on its' own? I see, so that's what Bellzelute was built for. They have the power to simply turn us off, which is why he helped us escape...
Calvina:Katia, what's happening?!
Katia:Please leave this to me. I understand now... The unknowns froze Koji and the others, but Bellzelute can unfreeze them! Now I know... We have to hurry, or they'll kill us all!
And the Bellzelute's grand secret is revealed! Also the reason it was actually, ya know, being pursued. I mean really, so what if a generic robot landed on the earth, we already have thousands of them in this timeline.
Calvina:The Cytron told you that, I take it? Fine, I'll leave it to you. Just tell me what I have to do.
Katia:Concentrate on the foremost enemy unit. Ugh... This should do it!
A red wave of energy bursts from Bellzelute, causing Al-Vans' mech to spark slightly.
Al-Van:Hm? What was that?
Ja-Mu and his squadron move forward to engage.
Al-Van:...Wait, Ja-Mu. I cannot confirm stasis. What is the meaning of this?!
Katia:Ugh...
Calvina:Katia, are you all right?
Katia:Thanks. I'm fine. The others will be able to move soon, too. But... can we win against these numbers?
Koji:They're here already? They really want a piece of us, don't they?!
Ryoko:What are we going to do, Commander?
Mu:Well, if we don't take at least some of them down, then we can't escape!
Ja-Mu:They're moving?! Impossible! Lord Al-Van, what is the meaning of this?!
Al-Van:I knew it. It appears they are resistant to the Larseilam's effects. This is an old unit, so it must be running at less then peak performance. I'll look into it when we return.
Needless to say, they're kinda freaked out that their win button has suddenly "malfunctioned".
Ja-Mu:What about them?
Al-Van:Do it. They can't defeat us with those units alone. Strike them down, but don't be careless! Your unit is important... And irreplaceable.
Ja-Mu:Yes, milord!
Squire:Understood, milord.
Akito:It's too fast!
It strikes Akito. No animation, as is the case with most of these cutscenes.
Akito:Whoa! What the hell are they?!
Ryoko:Tenkawa?! Damn! Kabuto, watch your ass!
Another approaches Mazinger.
Koji:Leave it to me!
Koji attacks...
Koji:Missed?! You sonuva-!
...misses, and is struck in return.
Koji:Damn! Be careful, Calvina! They're crazy strong!
It would appear that despite having and using a stasis device, these mysterious folks are hardly pushovers, however.
Calvina:Guh... We can move, but we're still helpless against them!
Ja-Mu:You were allowed to run away last time, but now you have to face me, you faulty prototype! Come! This will be all too pleasurable, I'm sure!
Ja-Mu attacks Bellzelute.
Calvina:Ugh! They scored a direct hit on me?! At this rate...!
Mu:This isn't good... How about this?!
Mu rushes the commander and manages to hit him, but the attack is intercepted by a sickly green field. These things have barriers too! To say we're outgunned is an understatement.
Mu:Damn, I didn't even scratch it!
Al-Van:It will take more than that to overcome my Orgone Cloud! Forgive me. Your death is at hand!
Suddenly, a barrage of explosive projectiles strike the ground near Ja-Mu! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLLEsr7tHHA)
Ja-Mu:Tch... There are still more of them?!
A new unit appears!
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These guys are the pilots of Dancouga! There's another couple we haven't seen yet. From Dancouga: Super beast machine god, obviously.
Al-Van:Only one unit?
Ja-Mu: Lord Al-Van, please leave them to me. I'll destroy them in but a moment!
He rushes in the direction of Dancouga.
Akito:They came to help?
Mu:Another unknown unit? It's providing cover, so I don't think they're the enemy...
Ja-Mu approaches Dancouga!
Shinobu:A little closer, pal! I've still got one hell of a neat trick up my sleeve...[/i]
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And look who else is there! Cagalli, from Gundam SEED. Good to see she's still kickin around. Masato and Ryo are also Dancouga pilots.
Ja-Mu:Heh... You won't run, eh? In that case... I'll take you down in one shot!
The ground around Ja-Mu explodes!
Ja-Mu:What?!
Masato:We did it!
Ja-Mu:A trap?! Aren't you something... Still, this much damage won't be enough to stop me!
Al-Van:Ja-Mu, retreat.
Ja-Mu:But-!
Al-Van:Don't do anything reckless here. We have yet to find the source of the Larselam's malfunction. Ensuring that it is in proper working order is essential.
Ja-Mu:You're going to let that unit go, too?!
Al-Van:Just as you reported, it is stronger than it should be... However, this will not be the last chance to take it back. Withdraw!
Ja-Mu: ...Yes, milord!
Al-Van:(Its' pilot concerns me.. The test subjects alone aren't enough to nullify the Larseilam... Is there a human that can use the Cytron?! ...Impossible!)
They leave the area in the same cloud of green mist that blocked Mu's attack earlier.
Akito:They're gone?!
Ryoko:No way! Was that spatial displacement?!
Mu:What's that? I've never heard of it.
Katia:......
Calvina:They retreated...? Everyone seems to have forgotten what happened earlier... (There's no mistake. They may have been improved and repaired, but there's no question those were the same two units from the project. Still, what was that sensation? What were they, and what were those units? They must have some kind of connection with the project...)
And it would appear Calvina's past is related to these mysterious people as well, or at the very least their robots.
Mu:Wow, those guys ended up being pretty fierce... Hey, thanks for the help! Everything good on your end? What's that unit of yours?
Sara:All right, looks like everything turned out fight! Right, Cagalli?
Cagalli:Yeah, no msitake about it. They're with the Nadesico and Archangel. We have to confirm their ships' location.
Time passes, and they discuss their situations.
Koji:You're the resistance, I take it?
Cagalli:That's the name we use when we're fighting against ZAFT, yeah.
Mu:So what do you have to say about this robot, here? I can't believe this thing!
Ryo:Why do I feel like I've seen you before...?
Mu:Well, I'm pretty sure I have no acquaintances in this part of the world, but hey. ...I'm Lt. Mu La Flaga of the UEFA.
Ryo:I see... The "Hawk of Endymion."
Ryoko:*chuckle* A real celebrity, huh?
Mu:I wonder about that... Sorry for the suspicion, but you guys are incredibly well-equipped for a rag-tag resistance!
Shinobu:Yeah, what can I say? We're special. This unit and the four of us are the Cyber-Beast Force. You can call us the "CBF" for short. We don't represent the resistance all by ourselves, though.
Sara:Yup. We were sent here to back up the resistance efforts, as a matter of fact.
Mu:The "Cyber-Beast Force" huh? Who sent you? You're not with the Federation, that's for sure!
Shinobu:We were sent by... "Mithril."
Calvina:Heh... Never would've imaged that they really exist.
Akito:What do you mean?
Calvina:They're an independent, heavily armed organization that doesn't belong to any country... Or so the rumors went while I was in the army. They claim to be some kind of... allies of justice. Not that anyone would believe that.
Ryo:Yeah, that kind of sums them up.
The Nadesico arrives on the scene.
Akito:The Nadesico?
Yurika:Hey, everybody! What are you up to over there? The Radam are coming down soon! We have to escape!
Yes, we've litterally become the victim of an attack because they TALKED TOO MUCH. Another one of the things SRW likes to do is poke fun at giant robot tropes, and this is a (perhaps unintentional) example of such a thing.
Shinobu:Wait! "Radam"? What the heck're those?!
Ryoko:The invaders. The space lifeforms that turn into those wierd trees... ...You know! The aliens!
Masato:We know about the tree thing, bu this "Radam" part's new to us.
The Radam appear near the purple forests at the north end of the map.
Shinobu:Grr... Just looking at those aliens pisses me off! Let's do this!
Sara:Cagalli, you have to get out of here!
Cagalli:...Understood.
Kira leaves the Nadesico in the Strike gundam.
Kira:Cdr. Flaga, are you all right?
Mu:Heh! You came, too? I was a little concerned about you, kid, but...
Kira:I trust you... And I have to do what I can. Even thought I dislike it, I will fight if necessary.
D-Boy:Do your worst, Radam! TEK SETTER!
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Blade:Tekkaman Blade!
Noal:He's been in high spirits since the Radam showed up. Do your best, D-Boy!
Blade:No need to tell me. I WILL defeat the Radam
I just love how he talks similarly to an 80's superhero.
And there's the thing. We've officially hit our unit limit. We have 7 slots left, and 9 units. NOW, the way I'm gonna do this, is I'm gonna shuffle them around so ideally everyone gets a decent amount of screentime. Now, you do want some regulars around to fall back on if things get hairy. Bellzelute will be one of them, because main charecter, Boss Borot will be one of them, because we're gonna use him, and try to turn him into a killing machine, and the new unit that has yet to appear will be one of them because it's my favorite thing ever, and he shows up in plot segments a ton, so we want him a decent level anyway. That will leave about two, maybe three more units to field regularly, we'll leave the rest of the slots for me to shuffle. We're gonna wait for a little bit before we open up voting on those two (there'll be a poll), because not even like, 2/3rds of the units have been introduced yet. When we have all of them introduced, we'll run the poll. We've still got the issue that you won't see the unit upgrades later on in the game that pretty much every main liner robot gets, but by the time they're over with, we only have like 15 missions left anyway so we'll just have to deal.
For this mission we are bringing (besides the predeployed guys IE, everyone in the cutscene)... Aphrodite A, the three remaining aestivalises, Layzner, Bayull, and Combattler (mostly to show combo, more because this stage can actually be threatening later on, and combattler has been a grade A unit so far. We'll explain that later).
SO.
TURN ONE!
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Radam are up there at the top, and we're kinda seperated. Also of note is that anyone that took a hit in the cutscene is damaged when the stage starts. It's the little touches. I'll be keeping the groups as they are for now, as Aestivalises have plenty of no energy requirement weapons. We land and move everyone north. The dunes you can see here
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Provide a minor defense and dodge bonus. Good stuff. Now that we're on the earth the terrain effects are gonna get a little more interesting. Deserts for instance, are slow to move through, as sand does not support giant hundred ton robots very well, but have dunes that give defensive bonuses, as I just said.
ENEMY PHASE
All of the radam move south as well, except the fliers. I'm not sure why, they're not terribly different statistically from the four legged ones.
TURN TWO!
Anyway, we move the nadesico and Izumi up a bit, as they were lagging behind, and then keep everyone still. THis is mostly to get aligned. We'll be moving again next turn, although there's an important reason we DON'T WANT TO BE IN THE BOTTOM CENTER OF THE MAP later.
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Calvina draws first blood with that rediculous range of hers.
ENEMY PHASE
More moving south by the radam, the fliers are on the move now too.
TURN THREE!
We're fairly well set up so we move together towards the middle of the map. Again, not the LOWER MIDDLE, above that.
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Calvina keeps showing off. No kills yet by the way, but we've damaged two. Not that it helps with the Radam's regeneration, now that I think about it, oh well.
ENEMY PHASE
More radam move towards the center, as we've managed to gather up there. We get two kills, and one damaged radam and all of the radam attacks are dodged or of negligible damage.
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TURN FOUR!
Alrighty, we're on to actual combat now. Let's take a look at Dancouga.
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Wow, two pages of attacks. Of note is most of these require will, so dancouga is very dependant on that. The first few attacks are kinda iffy, but once it hits 120 will or so it'll start kicking teeth in. Inparticular Dancouga does TONS of damage, but is even more fragile then combattler, and takes longer to get worked up. Combattler is still probably our front line bruiser, but Dancouga's long range attacks are an asset that can't be ignored either. Just be careful if it's near a ton of enemy units, as it may not make it out alive.
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Not bad for a 2700 attack. Let's finish it off and check out our other new guy, Skygrasper.
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Yep. Not a lot of firepower, it can't repair or resupply like I thought earlier either. Probably one of the worst units in the game, if it weren't for it's frame delivery thing. Still not amazing even with that.
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Still nasty enough to finish off a crippled Radam. Support craft fits it pretty nicely I think, it's there to finish off stuff, not break them in half outta the gate. And then with all our new units outta the way, we go on a rampage on the Radam.
New attack, throw lancer. Tekkaman blade's weakest attack, but has slightly more range then most of his low will attacks. I use it to finish off a radam that was otherwise just out of his range.
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Neat. Laser hookshot. Back to short screenshot carnage.
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Of note is that the gravity blast will universally one shot lesser radam even at this early point in the game. It's nice.
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Akito gets a level outta that, and a level of support attack. He's shaping up! Also, new attack, Ground frame's Wired Fist. Notable because it's one of the few melee attacks on a non flying (as in cannot fly period, not currently on the ground) unit that can hit a flying unit. I managed to forget to get a screenshot set of it. It'll show in a sec. Aphrodite A takes this time to repair Ryoko. Baybull attacks a radam and takes a nasty counterattack in return, seriously like half his health. Baybull's usefulness is largely dependant on if he dodges it seems.
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Ahahah, "This thing has a Rocket Punch, how nostalgic!". As you may know by now, Rocket punches were largely limited to old time super robot shows like Mazinger. They went out of style quickly. Except if Mazinger is using them I guess. Look up Big Bang Punch Shin Mazinger on youtube, you won't be dissapointed. :D Also he got a level, nothing new though.
ENEMY PHASE!
Radam do what they do best, attack indiscriminantly. And get murdered or crippled on the counterattack. No kills, but we do lower pretty much all of them to 2000 or less, setting them up for a finisher on the next turn.
TURN FIVE!
Looks like the end of the radam right here and now. But wait, Combattler will outdo our previous efforts.
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Rad. With that I'll just say every other attack results in a death this turn. People that got kills were Calvina, Akito, Kira, and blade. Also Sayaka repairs Akito.
Ruri: All Radam destroyed.
Yurika:Great job, everyone! Hey, Akito, what's that robot?
Akito:Looks like they're people from some organization called mithril. They're assisting this area's resistance.
Erina:Mithril?! Is that really what they said?!
Calvina:Indeed. They haven't said much, but they confirmed that point, at least.
Akatsuki:Impressive. Who would have thought they'd have an official presence here?
Yurika:Do you know about them?
Akatsuki:Hmm... Just rumors.
Ruri:Captain, something's approaching.
Several strange mobile suits appear.
Yurika:What are those? Mobile suits?
Ropet: NO. IT APPERS THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THEM.
Reminder, Ropet is the robot combattler uses to combine.
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OH GOD WE'VE GOT GIANT ZOMBIE ROBOTS SHIT SHIT SHIT
Hyoma:Looks like they want a piece of us, too! Be careful, everyone!
Ryoko:Hey, longhair! You're the well-informed guy around here, so uh... ...Do you know what those things are?
Akatsuki:Unfortunately, no. I'm glad to hear you think so highly of me, but there's a lot I don't know. I have to agree with Hyoma, though. They don't appear to be very friendly.
Zombies usually aren't, no.
David:What a crazy, screwed-up mess the Earth turnd into while we were away! Weird things just keep popping up one after the other!
That pretty much sums it up, yep. Helllllooooooo giant robot based biblical apocalypse.
Blade:......
Noal:Hey, D-Boy! Don't tell me you're finished now that we trashed all the Radam?!
Blade:...I don't mind fighting some more... Assuming there's a meal waiting for me at the end.
And with that we're back in. I'm willing to bet most of you (that haven't seen G-Gundam) were not expecting giant robot zombies. I hope this has not dissapointed. Before we take a swing at one however, let's get people fixed up, as the radam kinda banged up mazinger, inparticularly. Also we'll be sending the skygrasper back to get the artillery frame for the strike, because with the strike's shakey defense, he really has no business being close to those guys. But we'll get to that next turn. Or so I thought, on the right side, the only defense is combattler, and while he's been an ace so far, I don't think he can handle so many of them. I have baybull use guts to restore HP, and focus to hopefully prevent him from being pounded to death and do this.
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Hopefully their supports will keep them safe long enough to pull closer to the center. Eiji is also nearby in case things get hairy, but the Aestivalises you see will have to pull closer to the Nadesico, because we don't want their distortion fields giving out on these guys. As you've probably gathered, they hit pretty hard for grunt enemies. We attack one, then look at it's stats to make sure I'm not making this up.
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Metal pole only does 2200, but it's melee stat is 5 points over it's ranged. That does mean it'll do more damage, obviously but I dunno if it'll do THAT much more. We'll see I guess. Also it's name is Death Army. This thing is a collective apparently. CURIOUS. In any case these guys aren't the threatening thing I was talking about earlier. That has yet to arrive. Anyway, back on the left side I load the Launcher strike pack onto the skygrasper, turning it into the Launch Grasper. We won't be keeping launch grasper for long, but we'll be swapping it for the strike pack, so we will have a jet with a giant sword. How will it use it? Good question. Anyway turn ends to let the Death Army draw closer. But first, let's get a new map picture to let you know how the new enemy units stand in locations.
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ENEMY PHASE
The left side is hampered by the rough terrain, and doesn't actually make it into range of our units. the Death Army is very much a short range unit collective dealie. Anyway through all this combattler gets one kill on the counter attack that I forgot to screenshot, and the rest of the death army fail to do more then 1000 damage. These guys are actually wusses, I misremembered this in a big way. Oh well, we'll need all the momentum we can get for the boss coming up. ARE YOU EXCITED YET?! :D
TURN SIX!
Alrighty, the left side is primed for some long range murderin by Bellzelute, launch strike, and Dancouga. So let's take care of that first.
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THis attack activates Instinct on Dancouga, which is basically Mazinpower (+25% to attack) only it activates at 120 will instead of 130. Let's use this to take a look at DancouCannon.
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Didn't quite get him, somehow. Maybe he's on a dune.
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Nope, just lucky as hell. Huh.
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Haven't seen the nadesico's missles in a while. Now let's swap out strike's frame. You place him adjacent like so, and select the exchange command.
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That gives strike the launch, but didn't give skygrasper the strike pack like I wanted. Oh well. Minor sidetrack.
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Blade took a swing at a Death Army but didn't quite get it, Akito'll finish it off for him.
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And that ends it for the left side! Kouji got a level and the Strike spirit (100% chance to hit for one turn) from it. Off to the right side, which is all clumped up and highly weakened. Combo on combattler was an excellent idea.
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My only regret is that he does not have more levels in it. Combattler uses Guts beforehand also. And Hyoma gains a level from that! We get an entirely new spirit, Assault! It allows you to use any attack after moving, even non post movemrnt attacks. This basically gives combattler the ability to snipe with big blast while on the move. Awesome. Everyone else gains a level but no other new spirits.
And that's it for our turn. We'll prolly clean this up on the next turn.
ENEMY PHASE
Of course, there's always the possibility the death army will kill themselves on me. I certainly hope not though... We're also getting a little heavy on screenshots, so I may start summarizing again. There's clearly some tweaking to be done. Ryoko kills one, two more survive her counters. Whew. On the right, all but one is killed by combattler.
Post by: Seriyu on June 24, 2012, 04:28:50 pm
Kira moves in and finishes one off, launching a cutscene suddenly!
Four Death army units and a gigantic..... thing appear.
Koji:More of 'em?!
Ryoko:What's that monster?!
Sara:Shinobu, isn't that guy...
Shinobu:Oh, hey! It's the same one old man Hazuki warned us about. Who'd have thought he'd turn up here of all places?
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Well.... that's.... huh. (Kyoji is from G gundam)
A gundam appears just to the south of the thing and the Death Army.
Eiji:Another one.
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Grrahhhhhhhhh!
He uses a spirit that increases his Will to 150, activating something called Super Mode, and attacks the death army! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C9Xgxn1WnY)
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That warship is from Nergal! I'm sure of it!
Domon:So what? Listen up! I'm going to defeat the Devil Gundam myself! Now that we're clear on that point, scram! If you get in my way, I won't hold back!
He's talking to the Nadesico, by the way, not Rain.
To say Domon is confrontational is like saying water is wet.
Rain:Domon!
Hyoma:What the?!
Koji:Who's this jerk?!
Sara:Got a real superiority compelx, don't you?
Shinobu:You're our enemy, huh... Fair enough. If that's what you want, we'll kick your sorry ass!
Chizuru: Hey, what are you bickering about at a time like this?!
Ruri:They're going to seriously injure that man.
I find that line really funny.
Inez:Did he say... The Devil Gundam...?
Yurika: Everyone, please calm down! Why are you even thinking about getting into a fight at a time like this? And, um, by the way... Who are you?
She makes an excellent point this time, because the devil gundam is NASTY. Hard boss incoming. Luckily I know it's major trick so we should be fine.
Domon:I'm the king of hearts, Domon Kasshu. Come on, Devil Gundam! It's go time!
Yurika:H-Hold on!
Ruri:I recognize this pattern of behavior.
Noal:Geez, don't even joke about that. Look, D-Boy! Another guy just like you has popped up! He bashes into stuff head-on, probably without a safety helmet! That's one thing you got right, at least, huh?
Blade:......
Mu:Does that mean he'll end up fighting for us in the end?
Noal:Well yeah, we hope! Not like I really care if that idiot goes down in flames...
Koji: Let's do it! We'll show this moron what we're all about!
Meet my favorite unit in this game, mostly because the show is awesome! G Gundam is the gundam franchise attempt at a genuine super robot show ,and it worked REALLY WELL, while still making it obvious it's a gundam show. A staggering success in all respects.
In game Domon is unfortunately not terribly good. In other games he was a tiny god, and they decided to tone it down. Basically, he is a super robot in a real robot's body. Which means, he does a TON OF DAMAGE, and can barely dodge. But he can't really take a hit either. His defenses are fairly shoddy, I'd put him on par with the Strike with defenses, probably lower, since he doesn't have a barrier. He's the definition of a glass cannon, but if you take care of him he'll eventually get a bunch of amazing attacks. He's also mostly useless until he gets enough Will to activate super mode at 120 (125?) will, which unlocks all his other attacks.
Another special condition this time too. Domon can't be shot down, this is what you'd call a PROBLEM. Domon is RIGHT NEXT to the Devil Gundam, which can and will wipe his ass off the map in two turns, because while the shining gundam is not an amazing unit in this game, it is still workable. Unfortunately, his defense is NOT one of the things that makes him good. He also has no pure defensive spirits at this point, so I can't just spam alert or wall or something. We need to get him into a battleship so we can approach this a bit more intelligently with him. So I'm gonna move the Nadesico straight down towards the devil gundam, and activate alert and wall.It'll be another turn before he can get into the Nadesico but it should be enough. Anyway, we finish off the Death Armies that aren't near the Devil Gundam.Daniel got a level, no new spirits. We're also gonna scan the devil gundam with Ruri before moving the Nadesico, because we're gonna have to make sure we stay out of range of a particular attack...
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Namely that one. It's a MAP attack with him at the center. 5 tiles in every direction, it can easily hit your entire army at once if you're not aware it exists, cutting your more fragile people in half, and taking a smaller chunk out of supers, and it DID my first time through, leading to me scrambling people into battleships and making horrible noises while I tried to salvage the situation. As long as we can avoid that, all we have to do is make sure that 3000 damage attack at the bottom there doesn't wreck us and we should be fine, although the Death Army attack is pretty nasty too. First, let's put Aesties into the nadesico and switch them to artillery frames. They CANNOT get close to that thing. Then, let's move everyone south and hopefully give Domon some cover so he can wreak havoc. Also of note is the fact that the devil gundam has 40k HP, and regenerates a large chunk of that per turn. Definitely a super robot boss. We move the Nadesico south and batter a Death Army with missles, and move domon up to finish it off with his signiture move, The Shining Finger! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioXI8qYnjEc)
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Now, let's see how this goes. One death army goes for Dancouger, good. Also new attack.
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Simple, but effective. I like it. The next death army goes after Domon.... We have him evade. Even then, with focus on, he has a 32% chance to be hit. Yeah. Luckily it misses. And then the Devil Gundam hauls up with Diff. Particle Cannon, which I doubt will one shot him, but I defend to be safe.
Domon:KYOJIIIIIIIII!
Kyoji:Haaaaaaahahahahaa....!
It misses. Whew.
TURN EIGHT!
Now we begin our plan. While this thing is a monster and will blow your army to bits if it can, if you keep supers in range of it's MAP, and a lot of them, it'll use the MAP and ignore reals outside of it's range. The supers can't exactly shrug it off, but they can handle it for longer, leaving long range reals to hammer on it from outside the MAP range. Domon really can't handle the devil gundam at this point without upgrades so barring a last minute shining finger sword to try to finish him off, he'll have to chill out, outside of it's range. The nadesico gravity blasts it, only for it to recieve 3000 damage. This thing has high defense to boot. Calvina takes her shot...
Calvina: Damn monster! If you insist on fighting us, then we'll just have to show you a few tricks of our own!
And does a bit more. Gonna take a few turns, I think, with that regen. Mu and Sayaka finish off the final death army, and we gather up people on the border of the MAP. We've had aton of screenshots so far and this fight'll take a while, so I'm holding off for now, by the way.
ENEMY PHASE
Devil Gundam starts off with the MAP, hitting Sayaka and Eiji. Eiji has a 23% chance to be hit, and Aphrodite has a 0% chance (due to the alert I casted before moving her last turn).
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It misses both, luckily.
TURN NINE!
Now we can Get this started for real. Except... the Aestivalises have to be in range of the MAP to attack. Damnit. We creep them up in hopes of managing to keep them out of it. I have Sayaka repair Akito, as we needed to put him in the MAP. We continue battering the thing.
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Yowch, cut dancouga in half with that counterattack. Hmm. More, non new attack artillery takes place. Mu also focuses and walls and takes a shot.
Mu:Seriously? How are we supposed to fight this thing?
Very carefully, as it turns out. The right side moves in, Baybull is too damaged to keep in the fight so he heads towards sayaka to hopefully get a repair before this ends. Combattler attacks with Wall active to end the turn.
ENEMY PHASE
As expected, MAP. All the supers can take a hit, and have ot be able to since they have a 100% chance of being hit. None of the reals have any chance of being hit, so we're in luck. We should be able to end this next turn! The attack does more damage then I expected, nearly finishing combattler and Mazinger, and doing more then half of Sayaka's HP. This is getting dicey.
TURN TEN!
Generic artillery occurs. This thing has regenerated well above the 15k mark, so maybe this ISN'T the end yet. I also realize I SOMEHOW FORGOT TO SWITCH THE AESTIES OUT OF GROUND FRAMES AAUAGAGAGAHAHAHAHAH YOU'D SWEAR I'VE NEVER PLAYED THIS GAME BEFORE GOD DAMN, oh well, we have them charge in, with defensive spirits. They reveal that they do decent damage with gekigan flare and distortion punches, and have a really good chance of evading. Perhaps this was a blessing in disguise. Hikaru starts off with a ranged formation attack, and GETS HIT AND ALMOST DIES EEE I FORGOT SPIRITS. The other two follow up with their own, leaving this thing at like 2k HP. NICE. I'm gonna weaken it a bit more with mu, because I'm not sure domon can quite finish it off, as if I remember right, the devil gundam is 2L, which is a pretty nice damage reduction for an attacking M unit.
Annnnd it knocks it below the threshold with like 800 damage and makes the event activate. GOD DAMNIT. Oh well. SKYGRASPER IS CHAMPION OF THE DAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!!! Sorry Domon. Maybe next time. Anway it regenerates back to max HP. Wait, wha-
Ruri:Regeneration?
Inez:Seems that way. Quite the impressive ability...
Yurika:This is no time to admire that thing!
Domon:Ugh! Wait, Kyoji!
Ruri:The monster termed the Devil Gundam is retreating rapidly from this area. Should we pursue?
Know's when he's beat. By a tiny support craft. I'd be embaressed too.
Yurika:Let's throw in the towel for now. We're all exhausted! Please return, everyone. We have to get back to the Archangel.
Akito:Wait, Yurika. What about him?
Domon:Rain, we're continuing the pursuit!
Rain:Hold on, Domon! Your Shining Gundam is already at its limit... ...Continuing now would be incredibly reckless.
Domon:But to let him escape...!
Rain:Please understand, Domon... This lone struggle of yours can't sustain itself.
Domon:That's not true!
The shining gundam sparks.
Domon:Guh! This isn't the time for malfunctions!
Rain:If you don't stop and let me make some adjustments to your machine, it won't be able to move. Why don't explain our situation to those people? They might even be able to lend us a hand... Okay?
Domon:But Rain, I-!
Rain:Cut this out, Domon! If you're only going to ignore what I have to say, then I'm ending our partnership here and now!
Domon:...Do as you please!
Ruri:It seems they're having a shouting match.
Yurika:Um... Would you two care to explain what you're yelling about?
Which ends this update. Keep an eye out later today for a brief update noting the plot of G Gundam as SRWJ basically skips over the first chunk of the show and I'd like to go over it, as it makes a few things make a liiiiitle bit more sense.
Post by: Neonivek on June 25, 2012, 03:52:15 am
Post by: Seriyu on June 25, 2012, 05:37:00 am
A lot of this stuff showed up stateside in the form of action figure things, but they also had different names. Nadesico was also showed on Toonami way back in the day too. Annnnd it's barely related to the subject I'm adressing anymore, but the creator of combattler V went on to make Golion, better known in the US as Voltron.
Also: G gundam plot explanation now.
G gundam is based around the idea that the planet earth has gone to complete shit, and anybody worth anything period lives on space stations. These space stations are divided by nation, so japan has a space station, etc. These space stations are referred to as "Neo (country name)" Now, to prevent enormous wars between the space stations, they decided on a more civil (kinda sorta maybe a little bit) way of doing things... GUNDAM FIGHT! In essence, each nation sends down a representative. They pilot a gundam in a sort've 1v1 brawl on the earth. The winner of the Gundam fight gains the rights to rule over the other nations as they please until someone else wins a gundam fight. Domon is the representative of Neo Japan, and unfortunately this whole Devil Gundam thing has put a damper on the Gundam Fight ceremonies. We'll be seeing other representatives later.
In reality it's a biiiit more complex then this, but that's about all you need to know for the SRWJ plot. (Technically, all you needed to know what a gundam fight was, but, I feel it's an interesting take on gundam plots.) If anyone wants to correct me/explain the plot more in depth, be my guest.
Post by: Neonivek on June 25, 2012, 03:14:39 pm
and yet they STILL arn't the most powerful Gundams (That award goes to the Butterfly Gundam)
Post by: Seriyu on June 25, 2012, 06:49:27 pm
Something that even it's sucessor in many ways, Gundam SEED astray didn't do (although a giant robot in a gianter robot wielding a katana that is 100 meters long to slice battleships in half is certainly scraping the concept of logic)
Also no update today, I need to study for a thing.
EDIT: So the thing ended up taking longer then I thought which lead to me sleeping in because I stayed up all night and did it in the morning. So update tomarrow. For serious this time.
Post by: Seriyu on June 27, 2012, 06:58:57 pm
Post by: Seriyu on June 27, 2012, 07:25:00 pm
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(Missed a screenshot, he mentions that the aliens and lizards and such are currently running amok, near the resistance, basically a minor recap.)
Masato:The resistance is now in a precarious situation. The city they operate out of is surrounded by an alien forest, and ZAFT has cut off their supply route. They're in serious trouble, to put it mildly.
Yurika:Mmhmm... I see.
Mu:And what did you intend when you assisted us?
Sara:It's a give and take. Think of that last battle as a free service. We can only give you plenty of intel on the area, but in exchange we want to tag along with you when you escape. The N-Jammer interference in this area is especially terrible, and we've been unable to contact our allies, so...
Prospector:Understood. That doesn't sound like a bad deal to me. By the by... Is this little lady here a part of Mithril, too?
Cagalli:No, I'm just-
Sara:She's just assisting us. Right, Cagalli?
Cagalli:Y-Yeah...
Erina:What are we going to do, Captain?
Yurika:If that's all you want, then I'll grant you permission to tag along. Please explain the details to the crew of the Archangel when we join up. ...Oh, and who are you two?
Domon:......
Rain:Hey, Domon! Answer her! ...I have to apologize for him. We're pursuing the Devil Gundam.
Inez:You said that before. Could you please explain something to us, first? Just what IS the Devil Gundam?
Rain:It was originally developed by Domon's father, Prof. Kasshu, in the colonies. It was a device whose sole intended purpose was to regenerate the Earth's enviroment. However...
Kousuke:Something went awry and now it's running amok, correct?
Kousuke knows the score.
Rain:Yes... That's about the size of it.
Kosuke:NOW I remember where I heard that name before! Prof. Yotsuya mentioned it... Dr. Kasshu was the scientist working on the "Ultimate Project," if I'm not mistaken.
Domon's father is a pretty big wheel then. (Professor Yotsuya is the guy that made combattler, and as such is from combattler V)
Hyoma:The "Ultimate Project"? Kosuke, what's that?
Kosuke:Well, from the south of things, it was a project to develop a self-regenerating, self-evolving and self-multiplying autonomous machine in order to regenerate the Earth's enviroment. I know it was designed to operate on its own, at the very least...
Rain:It was supposed to be the Ultimate Gundam... But now it's out of control, destroying all it comes into contact with on the surface and spreading its evil machines along the way.
Inez:Which means it's now the "Devil Gundam"? That sounds like a rather extreme about face, to put it mildly.
Ryo:Mithril HQ recognized its existance. It's the first time I've heard the name "Devil Gundam," but... Well, we all saw the huge amount of damage it did.
Inez:What happened on that colony to make something like this happen, I wonder?
Rain:I don't know any of the details, but Kyoji was spotted riding that monster...
Yurika:Kyoji?
Rain:He's Domon's big brother. We were told that he tried to steal the Ultimate Gundam, turning it berserk. And now Domon is here in order to stop him...
Anna:Oh, no... A battle between brothers?
D-Boy:......
Domon:Thanks to him, Mom's dead, and Dad's being held responsible! He's no longer my brother... I'll crush him AND that Devil Gundam of his!
D-Boy:......
Aki:Hey, hold on, D-Boy! I wonder what that was about...
Noal:Leave him alone, Aki. Guess he hates his relatives... Or something. Beats me.
Yurika:Understood. So, what are you planning to do now?
Rain:We were instructed to join the Federation in pursuit of the Devil Gundam. Thanks to the way things have turned out, though, there are far more enemies to fight than we anticipated. Domon's Shining Gundam is in a pretty dicey state, too. We haven't been able to make adjustments ore repairs to it for quite some time now...
Prospector:Now that you mention it, we're in the same boat.
Domon:Heh, fine. Rain, we're wasting time here. Let's continue our pursuit!
Rain:Hold on, Domon!
Yurika:Mr. Prospector, you look like you want to say something.
Prospector:Ah, yes... Please hear me out. While we're in no position to do charity, it is our assumption that you could improve your situation by joining with us. Does that work for you, Captain?
Yurika:Yes, that's perfect!
Rain:I see... Thank you very much! Hey, Domon!
Domon:I don't care what you say. If I see the Devil Gundam, taking it down comes first. Besides that, I have no complaints with the arrangement. You don't have any problems with us coming aboard?
Domon's a prickly fellow, but not TOO unreasonable.
Yurika:Of course we don't! All righty, then... ...Let's make this the start of a beautiful partnership!
Domon:...Fine. Just don't screw with us. Rain, go take care of Shining's maintenance.
Rain:Oh, that Domon...
Mu:Capt. Misumaru doesn't seem to be worried about taking all those people along with us.
Erina:Honestly... It's just one thing after another with that girl! I seriously wonder what's going through her head at a time like this...
Akatsuki:It's not like complaining is going to help, Ms. Won.
Erina:......
Yurika:This is just the position we're in. Besides, I don't think any of them are bad people or anything. If we get into trouble, it's best to have lots of friends to rely on!
Mu:I see. That's a concept we military folk are... rather unable to grasp, unfortunately.
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Flay:Ah... Kira, welcome back!
Kira:Something wrong, Flay?
Flay:I was worried about you. Are you all right? Did you get hurt out there?
Kira:Flay... Thank you. I'm fine.
Flay:Thank God...
Kira:What about Sai and the others?
Flay:They're all on the bridge. Kira, how about we go to the cafeteria and grab something to eat?
Sara:Wow, get a load of this ship!
Cagalli:This is the UEFA's new model, the archangel, developed by Morgenroete. I've seen its design plan before, actually...
Murdoch:What? Are you the resistance people we were supposed to meet up with?
Sara:Oh, hello. We're the Cyber-Beast Force. Nice to meet you.
Cagalli:Wha-?! It's you!
Kira:You... You were at Morgenroete back when Heliopolis got attacked!
Cagalli:You're the Strike's pilot?! Why are you piloting that thing?!
Kira:Huh...? Ugh! What the hell are you doing?! Why'd you punch me?!
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT
Cagalli:Shut up, dumbass! Do you have any idea what you're doing?!
Flay:(What's up with that girl...?)
Back on the Nadesico...
Yurika:And that's that!
Murrue: ...Hmph. Fine. We do need intel on the area, after all.
Natarle:......
Mu:Yeah, so what about the Cyber-Beast Force? I'd like to hear the details on those guys.
Time passes as they explain themselves.
Shinobu:...And that's about the size of it.
Ryo:Yeah. Too bad the rest of us didn't put on much of a show...
Shinobu:...You lookin' for a fight, Ryo?!
Shinobu here is very short tempered.
Sara:Calm down, Shinobu! Are you trying to embarrass us even more then usual?
Hyoma:What a short-tempered guy!
Juzo:Hey, look who's talking!
Murrue:Still... Our circumstances are worse than expected. I guess it's no use trying to break into the Pacific Ocean and head to Gibraltar Base.
Ryo:Indeed, especially since Africa's government has thrown their lot in with PLANT. South Africa abandoned the Federation altogether, resulting in the entire continent falling under ZAFT's sphere of influence. Nontheless, ZAFT has taken significant damage from invader attacks and the Jovian Lizards. Plus, the N-Jammers have this area covered as far as the eye can see. It's bad news all around.
Well, at least they're well informed.
Mu: It'll be no use trying to break out from the north or the east, then. Sounds like we're in deep trouble, guys... ...So, how about that intel you got on the positions of ZAFT and the Tulips?
Sara:As far as we've seen, well... While we're pretty sure the information's good for the Tulips, we're not so sure about ZAFT.
Murrue:Capt. Misumaru, what do you think?
Yurika:Hmm... This is hard!
Natarle:I propose we make a break through ZAFT's territory, and then shoot across the Indian Ocean up to the Equator. We should be able to get to the Pacific Ocean from there. Our main goal right now is to return to Alaska HQ, and I believe this plan poses the smallest possible risk for doing so.
Time passes.
Cagalli:Hey, Kira. Sorry for what I said back there. I didn't want to punch you, but... ...It was kinda spur of the moment. Sorry.
Kira:Oh... Gotcha. It's all right. Don't worry about it.
Cagalli:I was really concerned about you... I was wondering what happened to you after you left me back at heliopolis. Why are you piloting that thing?
Kira:A lot happened... And I mean a -lot-. You found your way here and ended up joining the resistance, right?
Cagalli:Y-Yeah... Kinda.
And again, Time passes.
Ruri:What are we going to do, Captain?
Yurika:How about this? the Nadesico will head to the Mediterranean and act as a decoy for ZAFT. After we've distracted 'em, we'll change course and head to Eastern Asia. The Archangel should make a run for the Indian Ocean in the meantime. I'm sure we'll be able to pull it off somehow. The Nadesico won't let us down!
Jun:Sounds like a good plan, Yurika, but are you sure it's wise to divide our firepower?
Yurika:If we move together, ZAFT will concentrate their forces on us, putting the Archangel in even more danger. Even with us acting solo as a decoy, our chances of a successful escape seem pretty low.
Murrue:But... All we have is Lt. Flaga and Mr. Yamato. Is that going to be enough?
Mu:Good question. Even for a man who makes the impossible possible, this might be a little too reckless! I mean, I'm still up for it, but...
Yurika:Don't worry! That's why I gave this some seeeeeeeeerious thought! V!
Shinobu:...Huh?
Masato:Haha! She seems like a pretty amusing Captain... Aaaand she's a real looker on top of that! I'm liking this Nadesico thing already!
Yurika:Yay!
Cagalli:(...You were able to return from Mars? It's a wonder this ship's in one piece with her in command...)
To be fair, the return from mars was mostly a fluke.
David:(There have been some issues, sure, but don't doubt the girl. She's always come through for us so far.)
Natarle:*cough*
Mu:Yeah, so... What do you think about the plan?
Yurika:If you ask me, the Archangel should head to the Pacific and stay close to Orb's coastal waters. The Nadesico is full of Orb civilians, and we'd like you to take them aboard the Archangel, if possible.
Natarle:You're asking usto accomodate civilians? That's just being selfish, Captain! We have no obligation to deliver them to Orb!
Wait, asking you to help people is selfish? I'm.... not following.
Yurika:I see... Well, I WAS thinking of sending everyone from the OSDG along too, assuming that Eiji and the others agree to act as an escort. Dr. Elizabeth and Noal have expressed a desire to contact their branch while at Orb, so they've requested to tag along with you until you reach the Atlantic Federation, anyway.
OSDG is outer space development group, a reminder.
Noal:Damn straight! Besides, the way things are now, we'd be forced to drop all the Orb stragglers near Eastern Asia instead. I wonder how they'd be able to return to Orb at that rate, y'know? Eiji just wants to tag along. Right, Aki?
Annnd according to Gundam Wiki, for reference, ORB is a pacific island nation, presumably near New Zealand, Australia, and Papau New Guinea, if not litterally them.
Aki:Right.
Eiji:You can count on me.
Murrue:I see. The Blue Earth would only be useful in a support capacity, but having Mr. Asuka and Mr. Rutherford's SPTs will boost our firepower significantly.
Natarle:Captain! As if the civilians weren't enough, you also want to take on children? Even worse, if what they've said is true, then that boy is an enemy alien, to boot!
Mu:That may be, Lieutenant, but do we have any choice? We're far too weak to pull it off by our lonesome.
Natarle:......
David:Eiji's our friend. Besides, isn't Kira fighting on our side despite being a Coordinator?
Kira:......
Simone:After all Eiji's done for us, calling him an enemy alien is uncalled for!
Murrue:Agreed. Our priority is to deliver the Archangel and the Strike to their destinations safe and sound.
Yurika:It's settled, then?
Murrue:Yes. We'll give it a shot. Thank you very much, Capt. Misumaru.
Aki:D-Boy, I want you to come with us, too. It would be best for you to be under the protection of the OSDG, along with Eiji and the others. Is that fine with you, Capt. Ramius?
Murrue:The... Tekkaman, right? I don't mind.
Natarle:If the Captain has already given permission, then I don't mind, either... Remember, however, that there will be no independent action during our journey. The Archangel is a Federation ship. You will follow our orders.
D-Boy:I couldn't care less about following your orders, and I don't want any friends. I don't need your protection, either!
Noal:Hey, D-Boy! Cut it out, willya?
D-Boy:However... I will do my best to fight the Radam. I need to feed myself.
Aki:D-Boy...
Ryoko:He's a wild one, all right...
In the residential section of the Nadesico.
Ruri:Oh, hello.
Festenia:Time to change shifts, Ruri?
Ruri:Yes.
Calvina:...Something up?
Ruri:Well... Your attitude has changed considerably, Calvina. It's completely different from before we returned to the Earth Sphere, and now I get the feeling you're starting to change even more...
Calvina:You really think so?
Ruri:Really.
Festenia:Hm... I've been thinkin about that, too, actually.
Calvina:I see... You may very well be right.
In the cafeteria...
Prospector:Ah, so this is where you've been!
Sayaka:What's going on, Mr. Prospector?
Prospector:The CBF and Mr. Kasshu will be coming with the Nadesico. We have plenty of firepower, but I was considering lending some to the army. They'll owe us one, is my thought.
Koji:Sorry guys, but our top priority right now is to return to the Labs.
Chizuru:I'm sure everyone must be worried sick about us!
Prospector:I'm aware. That's why I'm asking YOU, Calvina.
Calvina:We have a contract, so I don't particularly care if you want to send me over to the Archangel. Can't speak for the girls, though.
Festenia:Hmm... I don't mind, either!
Katia:No complaints here.
Calvina:Things are going to be more challenging over there. Capt. Ramius and Lt. Flaga are fine, but Lt. Badgiruel, well...
Prospector:Yes, I know. That's why it's such a challenging question to ask... What do you say?
Festenia:What're we going to do? We'll leave the decision to you, okay?
SO. We've got our first route choice.I will NOT be doing both route splits, because IMO it feels more natural to do one, and leave the other behind. Also It's another option for a vote. SO. VOTE! Are we going with the Archangel?
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Or the Nadesico?
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The series listed are the ones GOING WITH that particular ship. The stages will be ENTIRELY DIFFERENT. On top of this, certain secrets are only on certain routes. I'll be listing what the secrets are and which route they're on in spoilers, for people that would rather be surprised. Feel free to look at them if you need help making your decision, however. They may also reference serieses that haven't showed up yet. The routes will also eventually rejoin. So don't worry about that, we won't permanantly lose anything, aside from secrets. Also go ahead and VOTE FOR YOUR DESIRED UPGRADES. I don'tthink we got any amazing parts last mission, so I'll just take care of them.
So.... VOTE ON THE ROUTE! THIS IS THE IMPORTANT ONE, DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT! also VOTE ON UPGRADES! This one is less important and if you don't feel particularly strongly, feel free to ignore it, as per usual. Now, let's look at them secrets.
Another note, there are very minor PLOT spoilers in the spoilers below, just the stuff we unlock. There may be minor minor MINOR plot spoilers in there, but nothing you'd really care about usually, on top of being tenuously considered "plot".
Nadesico route secrets
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Archangel route secrets
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Obviously, if we take one route, we automatically forfeit the other route's secrets. So, make ye decision. I'll give you three days, because this is an important decision and I wanna give you time to think.
I'll see you all then.
Post by: Seriyu on June 27, 2012, 07:26:53 pm
Post by: Seriyu on June 27, 2012, 08:02:27 pm
http://t.co/84EqH6qQ (http://t.co/84EqH6qQ)
I cannot see I am laughing so hard send help
Post by: Korbac on June 27, 2012, 09:06:22 pm
So uhh, japan is apparently actually making a gundam. Not like, hundreds of tons 30 story robot but.
http://t.co/84EqH6qQ (http://t.co/84EqH6qQ)
I cannot see I am laughing so hard send help
WTF?!? XD HAHAHAHAHAHA
Also, Nadiesco. COMBATTLER COMBATTLER COMBATTLER
Post by: Neonivek on June 27, 2012, 11:59:57 pm
Also I find it funny the the routes pay off the opposite of what you would want from them.
Post by: Seriyu on June 28, 2012, 05:11:43 pm
But on top of this, eventually G gundam becomes a "flex option" which is to say, it just goes wherever you go, because it's kind've both super and real, from a statistical viewpoint. So sooner or later it'll be easier to just pick "all gundams".
Also I will either fill out the robot roll call later today or tomorrow because it is just so damn hot over here and I cannot muster the effort.
Post by: Seriyu on June 29, 2012, 07:11:13 pm
Also a reminder to me that I need to work on the robot roll call.
EDIT: Which is now updated. Hurrah.
Post by: Frumple on June 30, 2012, 07:47:25 am
Would mean missing out on the FMP stuff for a while, I guess, but the only thing I really remember about those is <nice sniper>, heh.
Though I did stick main-character fellow into the longest range one, most of the time, iirc. His normal suit was usually just too slow to really keep up with the battle line, so some extra range let 'im stay useful.
Post by: Burnt Pies on June 30, 2012, 09:55:35 am
Post by: Seriyu on June 30, 2012, 05:28:59 pm
I'll finish up the rest of the dialogue update today, so it'll prolly be a bit short, but I'm also gonna be touching up the robot roll call because the formatting there is all inconsistant and aaaaaaa it drives me crazy.
Future route splits may include the pre battle dialogue of the next chapter, I'm still kind've deciding.
Post by: Seriyu on June 30, 2012, 06:03:53 pm
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Meanwhile, in unnamed foothills.
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These two guys are from gundam SEED.
Waltfeld:Hm?
DaCosta:Is something wrong, sir?
Waltfeld:Oh? No, it's just this coffee. Seems like they changed the blend again....
DaCosta:Er, well....
Waltfeld:It's exceptional... Really raised my spirits. So, Mr. DaCosta? Shall we return and commence with the preparations?
DaCosta:Yes, sir, of course...
Waltfeld:Both of those ships maanged to give the Creuset Squadron the slip. I don't like 'em, but I won't make the mistake of underestimating anyone who gave those guys a hard time. We have to analyze their strength and capabilities carefully, or they're gonna give us the slip, too. Can't have that, can we? We'll make the first strike, and see how they react.
Why the Creuset Squadron underestimated a ship containing some of the most advanced technology on earth or the colonies, we may never know. (The real answer is that they wanted to play the plot straight for this game for whatever reason, which is kind've a letdown, because they've done some really awesome stuff with the gundam SEED plot in the past. Including shinji ikari from evangelion sitting down and having a talk with kira after he had become more badass and less whiny due to the plot of evangelion intersecting with the plot of..... zeta gundam I believe? Super robot wars plots are the best sometimes.)
Meanwhile, in a mysterious place that we cannot see due to plot jammers
Al-Van: Are you certain there are no problems?
Squire:Absolutely, milord. The Larseilam is operating without issue. Just to be on the safe side, I examined its data side-by-side with that of Lady Fu-Lu and Lord Gu-Landon's units, but there were no abnormalities.
Al-Van:Still, I'm almost positive I was unable to develop a time stasis field... What could it all mean?
Squire:Forgive me, milord, but I am at a loss, as well.
Al-Van:(Don't tell me that unit's what I think it is... HE developed it, yes, but still...!)
Well now that they know that for sure, they're probably not going to immediately pull out the next time they show up. Noted.
And that ends that. Not only was I right about not getting any good parts or modules, we didn't get any at all, someho- wait a minute, Devil Gundam gave us som- BUT SKYGRASPER KILLED IT. SO THE ARCHANGEL TOOK THE PARTS?
EVEN INTO REALITY THAT INCIDENT HAUNTS ME.
DDDDDAMNIT.
Oh well. Vote for upgrades if you want, you've only got until tomarrow when I start the update, so I'd make it quick if you have any votes!
Post by: Seriyu on July 01, 2012, 04:54:27 pm
EDIT: Update coming up! I hope you're excited, G Gundam people. Because you should be. Also FMP! people, should they exist yet.
Post by: Seriyu on July 01, 2012, 07:10:44 pm
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Hikaru:We've kinda been takin' our time, though. The enemies just keep coming!
Koji:The opposition from ZAFT was bad enough, and just when we thought we could escape to the Mediterranean, we ran into a swarm of Radam, and after -that- came the Gradosian unmanned weapons! We did a good job of holding out, that's for sure.
Sayaka:No need for the recap. We'll be home soon, so just hang in there, Koji!
Koji:Yeah, tell me about it, Sayaka...
Festenia:It's chow time, guys!
Katia:I'll have the potato croquette special, please.
This is the point in every japanese thing where they talk about food for a moment, for some reason. I hope you're not hungry.
Festenia:And I want a big ol' portion of chow mein!
Katia:...No matter what you think about our situation, at least the meal breaks are fun.
Koji:Huh, only you two are here? Where're Melua and Calvina?
Katia:In the hangar.
Festenia:Shinobu and Domon were at each other's throats again, y'know. Calvina tried to stop 'em, but...
The two angry guys are getting into fights? How about that.
Akito:Sorry, Tenia. We're out of chow mein.
Akito was also hired as the cook, remember. Plot consistancy!
Festenia:Huh?! You gotta be kiddin' me! How can you fly a warship without noodles?!
Izumi:They can throw anything at us, but the Nadesico is still the best... More like... the NaBESTico! Hehehehehe....
That was.... barely wordplay.
Festenia:Ugh, I can't believe I have to eat this junk instead...
Izumi:Don't spit out perfectly good food...
Ryoko:That's just immature, Tenia! And are those two really at it AGAIN? Dammit, we're surrounded by hot-blooded guys on this ship!
Akito:Well, it's not like we have a shortage of hot-blooded girls, either...
Ryoko:W-What're you tryin' to suggest, dumbass?!
Hikaru:Both the Cyber-Beast Force and Domon are strong, but there's not an ounce of cooperative spirit between them. All it takes is one bad joke to set 'em off...
Juzo:They've been a huge help, though. I wonder if the Archangel is doin' all right?
Chizuru:Yeah... Even if we drew the brunt of ZAFT's forces away from them, that's not exactly a guarantee. If they meet with the Radam and the Gradosian Army like we did...
Hyoma:No use just sitting here thinkin' about it. Kira and Eiji are with them, so I'm sure they'll manage it somehow.
Koji:Come to think of it... We were so busy here that I completely forgot about those wierdos we ran into back in Africa! Now I'm wondering what kind of guys they were...
Juzo:Who are you talking about, again?
Koji:Those guys who attacked us right after we landed on Earth. The ones who like, froze us, remember?
Ryoko:Oh yeah, those guys... They're bad news, all right.
Koji:I wonder what they're all about... Katia, can you tell us what you know about them?
Katia:...Sure.
Time passes.
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Katia:Yes, and we were trapped there until shortly before we met you. Still... we have no idea what they're up to.
Ryoko:These guys sound nuts! All right, lemme get this straight. You took Bellzelute and escaped while the guy who opened the way for you stayed behind and died, but... You have no idea why you were there in the first place?
Festenia:Right...
The Nadesico moves out of northern africa and across lower asia.
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Akatsuki:If I remember correctly, that area fell within ZAFT's sphere of influence shortly before I embarked to the Nadesico.
Prospector:I'm afraid you're mistaken. While ZAFT took Kaoshun initially, Gradosian unmanned weapons soon forced their withdrawal.
Jun:The UEFA requested that we take it back, then?!
Erina:How are we supposed to accomplish that if they can transport in as many unmanned units as they need?
Inez:It appears the Gradosians are trying a new tactic, actually.
Yurika:I heard about that! Sounds like they deployed some kind of incredible new weapon...
Ruri:The army codenamed it "The Walking Stick." It's an enormous ultra long-range weapon, currently located in a strategic firing position near Kaoshun bay. The data indicates that all three Federation Special Task Forces sent to disable it have failed miserably, so... ...Gues it's our turn to get sent to our deaths.
Optimistic outlook, I see.
Calvina:...We're being sent to take it out?
Yurika: Right! Nergal said we have to follow the military's orders, and since we were already nearby... We're going to take it down!
Megumi:But even the military failed, and the Nadesico still needs a lot of repairs...
Yurika: We'll be all right, Megumi! We have Domon and the rest of the guys from the CBF, and we can blow it up with a long range Gravity Blast if we have to!
Prospector:From a purely economic point of view, I approve.
Megumi:That is, if everyone will be out of harm's way...
Minato:You mean Akito, right?
Megumi:Y-Yes...
Hey guys I think Akito is a part of a love quadrangle.
Yurika:Don't worry, Akito's fine! Let's make it happen!
Ruri:The Captain certainly seems to be enjoying herself.
The Nadesico moves towards the southeastern corner of asia. I think it's the eastern corner. I'm kind've bad with directions. ... Near Australia. We also shift scene to the bridge of the Tuatha De Danann, a submarine.
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Full Metal Panic! has arrived! All these people are from Full Metal Panic!, and the "Arm Slaves" are this series name for giant robot. I'll go over what makes FMP! so neat in the battle segment because I need as much to talk about in them as I can get. I think most of you will approve. In my eyes, they are the most "real" real robot. But we will discuss this later. Also yes, the ! is a part of the series name.
Tessa:Splendid! By the way... A warship from Nergal being ordered to cooperate with the UEFA? It's all rather unexpected, isn't it?
Mardukas:They have Eastern Asia's Cyber-Beast Force with them. We're confident they'll perform admirably.
Tessa:I wonder if this was all Prof. Hazuki's idea? Kaoshun base... Hm. When the Nadesico approaches the new Jovian Weapon, the Gravity-Wave Railgun, they'll be forced to make an emergency landing, correct?
Kalinin:Yes. Even their touted Distortion Field can't handle an attack that powerful.
Reminder, the Distortion field is specifically designed to deal with gravity based attacks, and to a lesser extent beam attacks. So that thing is packing some punch! As you'd expect from a railgun. Also of note is that these guys are all business.
Tessa:If we're to believe the report, the weapon launches micri-black holes as a means of attack... Truly fearsome. Perhaps the aliens deserve praise for coming up with this kind of technology? Either way, if we leave things up to the UEFA, their probability of success will remain dangerously low. We're going to support them on land and proceed to close in and destroy the weapon.
Higgs Boson joke. Also, mentioning it now, Tessa is like, 16 or something. And yes, she is the captain. This will make sense later, but as always prepare for a bit of anime plot device. Even FMP! isn't free of it. I honestly feel it's a pretty well executed device, but we'll see when we get there. Then again I think Yurika is only like, 20, so it's not too far off, honestly.
Kalinin:An excellent strategy. They don't have many disciplined soldiers with long march experience like we do. Sure, the Nadesico's pilots have significant combat experience, but most of it comes from aerial battles, not land operations like this one. They could really stand to improve their training program honestly.
Tessa:They still managed to return from Mars, and the CBF was hand-picked for their exceptional aptitude and combat experience.
Mardukas:True, but they can be unreliable in extreme circumstances.
Tessa:On that subject, it seems the Nadesico's Captain is a 20-year-old girl. Our intel also states that she's the daughter of the UEFA's Adm. Misumaru.
Mardukas:I don't know what those civilians are thinking... No matter hwo good they may be, that crew of theirs is nothing but trouble.
Tessa:Hmph... If you say so.
Mardukas:You're a special case, Captain. Not only can you command this ship, but you have exceptional skills in a wide-range of fields, as well.
Tessa: That you for saying so, but... I want to meet her. I want to meet Capt. Yurika Misumaru of the Nadescio, and its operator, Ms Ruri Hoshino.
Time passes.
Kalinin:30 seconds. Urzu 2, stand by at the catapult.
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Kurz is basically a kinda pervvy frat boy. Mao is actually.... very normal and fairly human for a giant robot anime charecter! And Sosuke isn't too bad either, although he can get a bit robotty.
Mao:Give me a break, Kurz. Do you EVER let up on the ladies man act?
Kurz:Heheheh! C'mon, don't act like you don't like it, Mao!
Mao: Don't do anything unnecessary, either, Sosuke.
Sosuke: No problem.
Kalinin:It's time.
Mao:Urzu 2, launch! 6,7! Don't lag behind! THis aint' exactly trigonometry, but let your guard down and they'll send you running home to your mommies!
Mardukas:Flight deck closed, Captain.No problems.
Tessa:Excellent work. As planned ,let's submerge to 100m and circle the area. Flood main ballast tank! Submersion angle, 10 degrees. Speed, 10 knots and accelerating!
Mardukas:Aye aye, ma'am! Main ballast tank flooded, submersion angle at 10 degrees. Current speed set at 10 knots.
Later, on the surface.
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Calvina:Mithril seems like an incredibly powerful organization... I'm Calvina Coulange, the operation commander. It's a pleasure to meet all of you.
Kurz: No, the pleasure is all mine! I'm ah, looking forward to deepening our friendship while on guard tonight...(heart) *wink* *wink* Oof!
The *wink* *wink* is actually there, I didn't make that up.
Mao:You'll want to ignore this idiot, if possible. I heard the Nadesico's forces were comprised solely of civilian pilots, but you seem to have recieved military training.
Akatsuki:Good guess. She's an ex-2nd Lieutenant of the UEFA's space forces.
Mao:A specialist in space combat, huh? You made it back from Mars, so I figure you must be pretty good.
Ryoko:Hey, are these really the guys they sent to help us?
Ryo:They're Mithril's elite... All of them are specialists in one field or another. They're not all nessacerily great pilots, mind you, but I'm sure we'll benefit from their experience during this operation.
Ryoko:They're the cream of the crop? *whistle*
Hikaru:MSgt. Mao, sure... But the happy-go-lucky blonde surfer dude? That frownster next to him doesn't exactly strike me as the reliable type, either!
Shinobu:Mao. You made it.
Mao:Huh! That supposed to be a greeting? Nice to see you too, Shinobu.
Kurz:Oh, don't say that. Yo, Sara! It's been a long time, baby! I spent a lot of restless nights thinkin' bout how badly I wanted to see you again...
Sara:...You really ARE a screw up, just like the crew of the Danann warned me! I wonder how Mao puts up with your idiocy...
Kurz:You know I like my women like I like my candy! Fireballs! Nuclear Warheads! You can only try to keep me out of your life, girl!
Mao:It was an order. Just try to keep away from each other's throats, you two!
Masato:Hey, what about me, Mao?
Kurz:Oh, my... Now that I'm paying attention, I can't help but be distracted by all the sexful foxes around here... Please, forgive my lack of manners! I am Kurz Weber, noble warrior of Mithril, 'specially dispatced to your aid, O Beautiful Princesses!
Kurz is officially making up words.
Sayaka:What's wrong with this guy?
Mao:Kurz! Cut it out, already!
Juzo:Are we really gonna be all right with these guys in charge?
Sosuke:I assure you, it won't be a problem.
Kosuke: You're all equipped with Arm Slaves... ...Looks like they're new models, improved over the M6, too.
Mao:You're a very knowledgeable boy.
Chizuru:Kosuke's good pilot, too!
Mao:I'm extremely familiar with the back story of the Combattler team, Ms. Chizuru Nanbara. Those are M9s, kid. They're the latest model, capable of overcoming even ZAFT mobile suits. We're the only ones on the block piloting 'em.
Kosuke: That booster is for emergency cruise missle launch... How did you get here?
Akatsuki:I wanted to ask about that, too. Does it have anything to do with the contact point being so far away from the Nadesico?
Mao:Heh, that's classified!
Shinobu:Aren't we running out of time? How long do you intend to stand there, anyway?!
Calvina:Let's discuss the details and leave in 10 minutes. Based on our intel, the next shot from the Walking Stick is in 12 hours. We need to destroy it at about 0600 tomarrow, so we'll want to make it to Kaoshun one hour before that deadline. 0500 is our time limit.
Mao:Okay. Leave the pathfinding to us. Sosuke, you take care of the final details.
Time passes.
Sosuke:I think we may have been infiltrated.
Calvina:What makes you say that, Sergeant?
Sosuke:Quiet... Now!
Death Army:HOOOOOWWWWWLLLLL!
Calvina:Those are... The monsters allied with the Devil Gundam?! What are they doing here?! Sergeant, wake up the others!
The death army attacks them!
Calvina:Tch?!
Sosuke:What was that?!
Hyoma:H-Hey, where'd that explosion come from?!
Mao:Look alive, Sosuke!
Sosuke:It's an attack! Wake up and get in your units! Hey, you! Don't move!
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Sosuke:Who are you? Throw down your weapons.
? ? ?:Are you pointing your gun at me? Or... perhaps you're just trying to distract me from your sniper?
Calvina:A sniper? Don't tell me...
? ? ?:Yes. He's perched from that tree.
Sosuke:He knew Kurz was there all along?!
Kurz:(Are you kidding me?! How did he figure out I was up here?!)
? ? ?:No matter. I'm coming out now. As you can see, I'm unarmed.
Sosuke:Don't lie. You were the one who destroyed those EX-2s.
So the mystery figure took out two zombie robot things with his BARE HANDS.
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Master Asia! From G-Gundam. He's kind've a badass. We will see to what depths he is in the future.
Mao:Fine. Either way, don't come any closer, and no suspicious moves!
Domon:H-Hold on! You're... Master Asia! Master, it's you!
And he is Domon's martial arts master.
Ryoko:Huhhhhhhhh?
Sara:You know this suspicious old man?
Master Asia:Answer me, Domon! The School of the Undefeated of the East! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAizwLfZbUA&feature=player_detailpage#t=141s)
Domon:The Winds of the King!
Master AsiaZenshin!
Domon:Keiretsu!
Master Asia:Tenpa!
Domon:Kyoran!
Master Asia:Look!
Domon:The East is burning red!
Hell yes.
Juzo:...What the heck was that?
Master Asia:It's bene a long time, Domon... No, my acknowledged King of Hearts!
This "King of Hearts" thing will make sense later, although not due to the game. I'll explain it when the time comes.
Domon:Master... I'm so glad to see you again!
Master Asia:What's wrong? You're no longer a child. Enough tears.
Akito:Those two seem to be up to something, don't they?
Izumi:What if Master Asia stopped laughing? ...He'd be no laughing master! Hehehehehe....
Kurz:Man, I'm starting to get a bad feeling about this!
On the bridge of the Nadesico...
Calvina:...And that's the story. The officers Mithril sent are extremely familiar with the area's geography, and an old man, Mr Kasshu's master, is coming along with us.
Yurika:I get it! He must be looking for the Devil Gundam in the area, too! Well, if anything unexpected happens, you'll just have to take care of it.
Calvina:Roger. We have nothing left to report. End of transmission.
Rain:Domon's master...
Megumi:Not only do they have to face the Gradosians, but now the Devil Gundam's there, too... ...I wonder if Akito will be all right?
Minato:Still, the things they said about Domon's master... Didn't it sound a little strange to you?
Rain:That man trained Domon ever since he was a child.
Yurika:Buuuuuuut... Doesn't any of what they said strike you as being kinda wierd? Like that Master guy taking down those zombie robots with his BARE HANDS?
Ruri:...Suspend your disbelief, Captain.
Meanwhile, Near Kaoshun
Master Asia:Behold... Kaoshun Base!
Koji:And that huge thing must be the Walking Stick...
Mao:What's our timeframe lookin' like?
Calvina:We're fine. We made it here quickly, so we have plenty of time left.
Ryoko:Man, that was a pain in the ass, though... The Battas and Death Army should be on us any minute now.
Chizuru:I wonder why the Death Army isn't fighting with the Gradosians?
Hyoma:Maybe they haven't run into each other yet?
Domon:...Master, where are they?
Master Asia:I don't know. For now, we must focus on that which is in sight. That weapon is too dangerous to be left intact.
Domon:Right! You're amazing, Master!
Shinobu:Tch... It's all right to have respect for a guy, but this is too much.
Ryoko:Akito, Longhair, you handle the external batteries!
Presumably for operating outside the range of the Nadesico.
Akito:These are the last ones we have.
Calvina:All right, let's begin. I'm counting on all of you!
Master Asia:In that case... I'll excuse myself.
Domon:Master, where are you going?
Master Asia:I'm going to try to see if I can take down the Walking Stick by myself, in my own way. I won't impede you, so there's no need to worry.
And there we have it. Next time, a kind've interesting mission! Sorta.
Post by: Neonivek on July 01, 2012, 07:18:06 pm
Post by: Seriyu on July 02, 2012, 06:06:00 pm
Also started the update, few days, hurkgagbal.
I have to say this every time, or I will combust.
Post by: Neonivek on July 02, 2012, 10:22:21 pm
Question mark face man is a central character to the plot. Unfortunately you never find out who he is.
He is Question Mark Face Man... That is him. That is his identity.
Post by: Frumple on July 03, 2012, 08:02:33 am
Post by: Seriyu on July 03, 2012, 06:55:11 pm
Haro Supremecy. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQQw6creb8c)
Update's about half done by the way.
EDIT: Took a day off on the fourth, and back to work today. Update should be out tomarrow.
Post by: Seriyu on July 06, 2012, 06:27:17 pm
Post by: Neonivek on July 06, 2012, 10:23:37 pm
Post by: Seriyu on July 07, 2012, 02:03:25 am
As for female main characters, there are actually two, sort've. They're central to the plot, but one doesn't really do much, and the other is more of a supporting role. Tessa is the supporting one, and the other has yet to show up.
You may also be referring to full metal panic fumoffu, which is also (very minorly, it has one mech and no plot, and it's a secret) in this game, and has a different opening. I didn't hear any sax on that opening either though. I think it changes openings a few times too, so it's kinda hard to say.
If there was highschool stuff (Sosuke like, guards the second female main to show up for plot reasons that I won't divulge here) + giant robots, then chances are it was Full Metal Panic.
Pretty hefty spoilers for the full metal panic plot, be sure to avoid if you don't want to risk spoiling future stuff. It'll definitely be showing up as a major plot point in the game later.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Post by: Neonivek on July 07, 2012, 09:35:14 am
I know EXACTLY what theme I am thinking of.
Post by: Seriyu on July 07, 2012, 05:31:19 pm
Also getting the update posted now!
Post by: EuchreJack on July 07, 2012, 05:33:14 pm
Cowboy Bebop (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6zDfxZ4NcE)
By the way, Cowboy Bebop isn't a mecha show (mostly, although Faye's spacecraft comes close).
Big O intro (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdA6iRk94Hc)
It's probably not the Big O intro, but it could be the ending music.
Big O ending (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAg3qLkLPLU)
Ok, maybe not, it's more piano than sax.
Yup, my bet is Cowboy Bebop intro.
Post by: Seriyu on July 07, 2012, 06:33:05 pm
Several battas appear around the Walking Stick. Remember those guys? They haven't gotten much better.
Hyoma:There're those annoying Gradosian unmanned units!
Kurz:All right! ...It's almost like they realized they have to protect that thing. How nice of them! Let's return the favor and send 'em to the trash heap!
Mao:Don't get cocky, dumbass.
Calvina:Our goal is the Walking Stick's destruction. Close in and destroy it. All units, follow the procedure outlined in the mission briefing. Also take into consideration that flying is neutralized. If you get shot down, withdraw and remain on standby. Got it?
Sosuke:Roger.
Sara:You don't even have to ask!
Shinobu:Grr... We won't let those Gradosian bastards get away with this!
TURN ONE!
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Okay, this is actually kind've interesting. The thing the conditions doesn't mention is that, like Calvina said, we litterally can't fly. If you equipped flight frames on aestivalises before this mission, like I did the first time, you have inadvertantly gimped them. Luckily it's not TOO bad. Also we just have to make it to the walking stick, no need to kill all the battas, although it will probably happen anyway.
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Not a very intimidating sight. Those are all battas. Should be simple enough for the first wave anyway. Not a lot of combat in the first few turns either. All of our units will be going on the upper path. The water will slow us down a WHOLE lot, along with having other nasty effects, such as reducing beam weapons to uselessness. So beam rifles and stuff are reduced to 10 damage, the minimum. I think beam swords hold together a bit better but it's still pretty grim. You'd have a hard time breaking 2k damage in the water with a beam sword. Naturally we'll be keeping Domon out of the water, as his only weapon (Vulcans DO NOT COUNT) until he hits decent will levels is a beam sword.
ENEMY PHASE!
None of the Battas move, except the five on the lower left side of the walking stick. They've got a mission, and they're sticking to it.
TURN TWO!
We move everyone up farther. Exciting!
ENEMY PHASE!
Annnd they finally make contact. And they make the stupid decision of getting up in Sosuke's face. The guy that has a giant robot shotgun. Appropriately named "The Shotcannon"
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That's that. Pretty much a shotgun. FMP! is not a flashy series (yet). This also reveals a point about FMP!. You may be noticing that they seem to be using fairly human weapons. This is because, in the manga (Super Robot Wars uses the anime version), the "giant robots" were actually only slightly larger then humans, more powered exoskeletons. So they just used normal weapons. For the TV show they upsized everything, to about the size of a small gundam. In both the show and manga I believe the arm slaves are used as tank hunters, which I believe is a neat, and fairly realistic use for smaller giant robots. "Fairly". Of course being an anime, they never actually attack any tanks but that's the intended use, anyway.
The rest of the battas charge him, and he riddles them all with bullets while dodging their attacks. Arm Slaves are fairly dodgy robots. They're S size, by the way. On top of this they have no beam weapons. So if you must have someone in the water, ArmSlaves are a decent choice. This is good, because barring adding flight parts to them(Which isn't a terrible idea honestly), they cannot fly at all.
TURN THREE!
Also of note, All three M9's have different weapons. Kurz has a sniper rifle, Sousuke has a knife and shotcannon, and I believe mao has a wierd chainsaw knife that's better then a normal knife. They all have an anti personel rifles (I'm presuming they mean giant robot "personel", except sosuke, which is their best weapon. The shotcannon is sosuke's best weapon. As a result sosuke is kind've limited to short range combat. And a generic assault rifle that I think everyone has. All these run off bullets except the knives, obviously. Enough words, we need a giant robot knife fight.
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It honestly looks more like a short sword. Huh. Either way. More Batta savaging. This time Kurz shows off a bit, with the sniper rifle.
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Kurz, I think you have more bullets then most people have friends. Unless you're only counting sniper rifle bullets I guess. Also it's a robot. As a side note, like any good sniper, Kurz has hit and run.
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Of note - Mao's unit has a little fin on the top of it. In this game, it IS just for show, BUT in the show and some Super robot wars games, the fin acts as a "jammer". Which is an ability that causes the unit to dodge 50% of the time, regardless of hit rate. It's a neat little touch, and one of the few times when a "B lister" (She's honestly not that far behind sosuke but) is better then an A lister.
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One shotted that one. Dancougar doesn't mess around.
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Not quite a one shot. Takes a lump in return. As a note, the range boosts on bellzelute have been incredibly helpful, so good on you folks for voting for Katia and the sniper parts. Those shot launchers are damn handy. Combattler finishes the last batta from the attack wave off as well. This thing is incredibly poorly defended. I mean... fourteen battas is all you've got?
Really?
ENEMY PHASE
None of them move. They're smart ones.
TURN FOUR!
I move Domon forward and end the turn. He was falling behind the group, and, since he has so many plot missions in this game, and his bosses are fairly rough, it's important he's, at the very least, at a decent level, if not upgraded a bit. I'll be putting a booster on him next time we get one.
ENEMY PHASE
The remaining battas move forward. I'll wait for them here, and patch up what little damage we've taken while domon gets into position.
TURN FIVE!
Sayaka repairs Bellzelute. Domon, Bellzelute, and the M9's get into position.
ENEMY PHASE
Battas make contact with Domon, as expected. He has defensive support from Mao, which is important.
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Almost one shots him, which isn't bad given how light the beam sword hits. Also of note is M9's actually take hits pretty well too, probably better then a gundam, if you forget the fact that most gundams have barriers. They're technically grunt mechs but they're pretty high class ones, to be sure. Domon almost kills two more battas, and takes a defended long range hit from another. Now the pins are set up.
TURN SIX!
Using the assault rifles of two of the M9's, we take out two battas. then Kurz moves a bit closer, and reveals... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTxvHUEDQs0)
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Urzu strike! The only thing the M9's use energy for. This is actually quite a boon, because M9's are stronger then Aesties, our only other team attacking units so far, so this can actually put the hurt on bosses and such if you really want to field the M9s against them. The combined efforts of Bellzelute and Combattler V take down another Batta, and Sayaka repairs domon. Domon then proceeds to one shot a Batta, and activate super mode. Now he's cookin. Everyone else moves forward. We're making some nice progress towards the walking stick, only a couple of battas in the way.
ENEMY PHASE
The only enemy attacks Dancougar with missles, and does less then 1000 damage. Pretty bad.
TURN SEVEN!
Akito, not to be shown up by all the one shotting going on, pastes a batta himself and gains a level.
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All that's left is to have an agile unit rush in and take the walking stick. Unfortunately most of our agile units are on the Archangel. I'll leave it to Dancougar since they've been getting kind've neglected, mostly just due to positioning. Also because they've got accel. Everyone else hangs behind, and gets patched up. I wonder why? HMMM.
ENEMY PHASE
Nobody moves.
TURN EIGHT!
Dancougar rushes the three battas defending the walking stick, and dispatches one with it's awesome martial arts abilities.
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And... doesn't actually kill it. Huh. Maybe it's on defensive terrain. At any rate, it activates instinct for them, so that should make future attacks more lethal.
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Huh. Wild damage variance, I'll be.
ENEMY PHASE
All three battas attack Dancouga.
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They got a level out of that. No new nothin. Also the last batta actually dodged. I wasn't expecting it, so I didn't get a picture.
TURN NINE!
Dancouga moves onto the walking stick, while simultainiously one shotting the remaining batta.
Sara:Shinobu, what are you screwing around for? We're here, so hurry up and finish it off!
Shinobu:Will you shut up already?! Here I come!
Calvina:Enemy annihilation confirmed. Proceeding to destroy the Walking Stick.
The walking stick explodes.
Domon:Heh, we did it, huh... What?! It's regenerating?! No way, are those DG Cells?! That means THEY'RE responsible...!
An explosion on the mountainside nearby occurs! - Also, reminder, DG cells cause regeneration in pretty much anything they're put into ,not just organic materials.
Koji:W-What the?!
The ground rumbles!
Akito:An earthquake?!
Another explosion occurs, and the Devil Gundam emerges from the mountain!
Kyoji:Heheheheheheh... Haaaahahahahaah!
Calvina:That's...
Domon:...The Devil Gundam?! You finally dare to stand before me, Kyoji!?
Mao:Dammit! Who would have thought it was hidden here, of all places?
Calvina:Do you know anything about that thing?
Sosuke:Affirmative. It's been a target of Mithril for quite some time.
Masato:But... What's it doing HERE?
Domon:That doesn't matter! You won't be escaping today, Kyoji... I WILL take you down! Listen up, everyone! Stay back! I'll take him down myself!
At least he's gotten a bit more polite about it.
Master Asia:(Heheheheheh, yes... Come on, Domon. A little further... Just a little further...)
An explosion occurs in the forest beneath the mountainside!
? ? ?: Wait, Domon Kasshu!
Master Asia:What?!
Four gundams appear!
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Koji:W-Who are those guys?!
Joker:Domon, you will not move even one step. This is all a trap designed by Master Asia.
Master Asia:Grrrrrr... How dare you!
Domon:Master?!
Masato:That old man was hidden there this whole time!
Master Asia:Delicious... Truly delicious! If you'd only played along a little longer, you could have been my ally...
Domon:What are you talking about, Master?!
Master Asia:You fool! You still haven't realized my true identity?!
A small Squadron of Death Army appear around Master Asia and the Devil Gundam.
Hyoma:Don't tell me...
Akatsuki:What the hell's happening?! We were completely certain the Walking Stick was a Gradosian weapon!
Kosuke:This is highly improbable!
Joker:Yes, the Devil Gundam was responsible for this... ...With its power, they managed to control that alien weapon.
Shinobu:What?!
Ace:And then he followed you...
Spades:...All in order to buy time for this trap...
Jack:...Which you were more than willing to help him with!
Domon:No! Master, the noble former King of Hearts, is helping the Devil Gundam?! You're lying!
Joker:Our words are true.
Master Asia:I don't care if you're surprised. I don't care if you believe it. This is reality. Despair, Domon! Or maybe you're... enraged? This is the true face of your master! Believe in me, and you will be saved. I will always be with you, so come here... ...The Devil Gundam and your brother are waiting!
Domon:My brother is waiting... with Master...
Akito:Domon?!
Shinobu:Tch! That geezer had the wool pulled over our eyes this whole time... Hey, what are you doing?! Domon Kasshu, answer me!
Joker flies near Domon.
Joker: Leave this to me. Haah!
A wave of light emerges from Joker's gundam.
Domon:Ugh... What happened...?
Master Asia:Grah, damn you!
Joker:Master Asia, there can be no forgiveness for your deeds!
Ace:How dare you sully the name of the Alliance like this!
Spades:As your former friends, we find this to be intolerable!
Jack:And for your crimes, you will pay with your life!
Master Asia:You dare say that to me after all these years?! You dare say that to your former leader, the ex-King of Hearts, the Undefeated of the East?!
Joker:Precisely.
Master Asia:Ridiculous!
Joker:Master, I take it that you're challenging us to a battle? If that is the case...
Domon:W-Wait, members of the Shuffle Alliance! Let us take care of this!
Hikaru:Us?
Juzo:Why the hell is he including US now?
Kurz:This guy is wack...
Ace:What now, Joker?
Joker:Fine. Let us see if Domon Kasshu is truly worthy of bearing the true Crest of the King of Hearts. Will our seed bear fruit? We will find out soon enough.
Spades:Shall we do some sightseeing, then?
Jack:Let's.
The Shuffle Alliance leaves.
Master Asia:Hehehehehe.... Do you truly believe you can defeat me by simply borrowing the power of those irrelevant fools? Let me see the abilities that took you this far in battle!
Domon:Shut up! My Master isn't a man who would commit these atrocities! You're nothing more than a fake seeking to tarnish his name! I will defeat you AND the Devil Gundam alike!
Master Asia:I'm a fake, am I? Then come! Let's see if you still believe that when I shove my fist down your throat! Your feeble techniques will never work on me... ...Come on, then! You, and the rest of your weakling friends!
Katia:What are we going to do now?
Calvina:We still haven't completed our mission objective. If we don't defeat that thing, then we can't destroy the Walking Stick completely. All units, is that clear? Neutralize Master Asia and the Devil Gundam!
So yeah, super robot wars J even includes the shuffle alliance, rather then just Domon. It's pretty comprehensive usually. Incidentally the shuffle alliance is an organization dedicated to stopping war when it happens etcetc yadda yadda. Gundam Fight has in essence replaced war in the G Gundam timeline, so it doesn't count.
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The death army hasn't really gotten any more threatening, but the devil gundam and another boss is up there, so yeah. We're gonna hang back for a turn until they decide to move, so we don't have to put people at risk of running into Devil Gundam attacks.
ENEMY PHASE
About half of the death army moves forward. Should be out of range of Devil Gundam's long range attacks now, so we're probably safe.
TURN TEN!
We start up the brawl. Most of our units are gonna be in that forest the shuffle alliance inexplicibly exploded out of, as they provide decent defensive bonuses.
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Note, the counterattack from the death army did ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THREE DAMAGE. Don't think those armor upgrades are going to waste. I think Mazinger could probably take on all the grunts in this stage on his own at this point, without repairs. On that note, shortly after this Sayaka repairs someone and gains a level and strike out of the deal. Dunno how useful it'll be, but hey.
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After those two kills (Yeah, mazinger didn't one shot his somehow.), it's time to show off the shining gundam's ultimate attack. That SHOULD'VE finished off the devil gundam last stage. Ahem.
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Shining finger sword! You need to build up a little bit of will even after super mode activates but it's definitely worth it.
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And with that, we end the turn, after moving some people farther up.
ENEMY PHASE
The death army kinda piles onto Akito, but he takes absolutely no damage from any of them, with a little help from mazinger, because he's a boss. Aditionally one attacks domon in range of his shining finger sword, presumably because he is tired of being alive.
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Sadly enough, it does not kill him somehow. He is doomed to life. For now. Master Asia in his Master Gundam decides he wants to throw in his two cents on this, however, and attacks Domon.
Domon:With these fists of mine... I will take back my Master!
Master Asia:Foolish disciple!
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Master Asia's gundam can clone itself and teleport. It is litterally magical. It's not quite as hard hitting as the Devil Gundam, but it's also only size M. I'd say he's probably not quite as big a threat, just because he doesn't have a nasty MAP attack. He's still not something to mess around with though, so we'll get sayaka and a defensive supporter up there right away.
TURN TWELVE!
Domon chews through the death army from the previous turn with his beam sabers, after using Guts. Gained a level, no spirits. Dancouga also rushes in after using Guts, and one shots a death army. As such.
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More carnage occurs afterwords.
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With how fast units have been dropping in this mission, the shot launchers have been very handy. Akatsuki kills another death army after that, bringing Mazinger into Mazinpower. We move everyone else up and prepare to take on Master Asia.
ENEMY PHASE
A death army attacks HIkaru, misses, and is countered. The Devil gundam snipes Dancougar with death army. Hits him, and they miss the counterattack. This was from like, 8 squares away so I'm not terribly surprised. And Master gundam goes after Domon again with the same attack.
TURN THIRTEEN!
We start off the attack on Master Asia with Bellzelute.
Calvina:I was the one stupid enough to let you come with us. Time to take responsibility!
Master Asia:Heheheheh, fool! I've already seen through your attack patterns!
She nails him and dodges the counterattack. So much for that. Dancouga activates guard and takes a swing themselves, and nails him. Sosuke shanks a death army, and kills it, and Kurz snipes Master Asia.
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Master asia is not faring very well. Hyoma does his part.
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And reveals a new Master Gundam attack, Darkness finger. Luckily wall was activated. Koji up to bat...
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He's at about half HP at this point. The Aestivalises follow it up with a barrage of their own attacks, and unfortunately hikaru gets one shotted. Such is the woe of being a small robot in a super robot heavy stage. Izumi gains a level out of all this as well. Akatsuki does too, gaining a support defense level on top of it. But Akito is the one to finish this aestivalis charge off...
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He's out of energy, and so is master asia. Also new attack, Master Cloth. No more darkness fingers! But he still has a combo attack, and it cuts Ryoko in half to boot. Hmm. He's down to a few thousand HP, I think it's time to end this. In the only way Domon knows how.
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It doesn't quite finish him though! Whatever will we do?! He apparently still had a darkness finger in him too, that was pretty dramatic. I'm pretty sad that didn't finish him.
ENEMY PHASE
The devil gundam attacks Koji again, he defends. As a note, despite the stage saying we need to kill Master Asia, and The devil gundam, I'm pretty sure we just have to finish Master Asia. If not this is gonna take another day! And Master Asia takes a swing at domon with Darkness finger. Let's try this again. Maybe we need some music. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny24zPeQLks)
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Beautiful.
Master Asia:What?! Ugh, how dare you do this to me... I've little choice. I must retreat for now, but the next time we meet, I will take all of your lives as payment!
Master Asia and the Devil Gundam fall back.
Domon:Dammit, wait!
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These four are, in order, from top to bottom, The Neo America gundam fight participant, the Neo France gundam fight participant, the Neo China gundam fight participant, and the neo russia gundam fight participant.
Domon:What?! D-Don't tell me you guys got taken over too...?!
A set of death army appears near them.
Chibodee:Seems that way.
George:We don't have time to be your opponents today... What a pity.
Sai Saici:If only we had a little more time to waste.
Argo:Farewell. We shall meet again.
The gundams retreat.
Domon:I can't believe it... Why are they-?
The shuffle alliance reappears.
Joker:It appears you still lack experience.
Ace:We're going to pursue those friends of yours, along with Master Asia.
Spades:The rest of you are to complete your original goal.
Jack:Destroy that thing before it's given enough time to regenerate!
Domon:Please, wait! My friends are being controlled by Master!
Joker:We don't like unnecessary bloodshed... ...But we also see no way to wrest their control back from Master Asia.
Calvina:Wait. Just who the hell are you?
Joker:We are the Shuffle Alliance, the ones who protect the order of the Fight. The history of mankind is a sad one, founded upon countless battles. As mandkinds strongest, we bear the Shuffle Crest so that we may prevent mankind from annihilating itself in the flames of war. Now, however, Master Asia is the one who is trying to immerse the Earth Sphere in yet another chaotic tempest. As his former comrades, we must see to it that he is stopped.
Domon:But-!
Ace:Joker, let's hurry.
Joker:We are leaving this place to you, warriors! Although it is aided by DG Cells, you should be able to destroy the alien weapon on your own.
Domon:Guh! Why... Why did you do that, Master?! ...Master!
Calvina:We still have to destroy the Walking Stick. All units, crush the remaining enemies!
And so it continues. We're getting into real "too many reinforcements" territory here.I'll just summarize the rest of the stage, because there's no boss left at the end of this I believe, we already beat master asia. Sosuke tanks five hits from the death army group, and counters all of them, setting them up to be finished off. Koji, Domon, and Mao finish off one each, and Kurz uses Snipe (+2 range to all non 1 range weapons) to pick off another at 11 squares away. Sosuke manages to polish off one, along with Combattler. Three left. Luckily it's not a huge wave, so. The Combined efforts of Izumi and Ryoko manage to bring down another one, and Ryoko gains a level, and not much else, out of it. Akito pulls up and Akatsuki takes a pot shot at another. Two more.
ENEMY PHASE!
Ryoko survives an almost certain death attack by a Death Army, thanks to akito's defensive support, and finishes it off in counter. She defends against the last one. Let's finish this FOR REAL THIS TIME.
TURN FOURTEEN!
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AGGHH HOW DID IT SURVIVE THAT DIE DIE DIE
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Thank you combattler. They all got a level and nothing else out of that.
Calvina:Death Army destruction confirmed. It seems we're finally done... All units, attack the Walking Stick at once with everything you have! We can't afford to let it regenerate again!
And thus ends the tale of one of the only fairly bog standard military organizations in an anime that is not staggeringly incompetant/secretly evil.
Post by: Neonivek on July 07, 2012, 06:36:29 pm
Though I will say I will be surprised if none of the mechs from that series show up here or in any of these games... though it is hardly impossible. (Though to my knowledge one of these games even included the Megazord). Though here is the deal, if at any point the mechs from that series show, I will tell you.
I have to say one thing about Super Mechs... They certainly know how to make a really cool scene. A few of the "real mechs" are rather boring to watch.
Post by: Seriyu on July 07, 2012, 07:33:21 pm
I actually don't think megazords and the power rangers ever showed up in super robot wars, but it'd be neat to see them. It may be a liscensing issue, like why the transformers and zoids haven't shown up in there. (Zoids actually showed up once, so maybe transformers will be along eventually. I would love to see that.)
Also, guessing on the series.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Post by: Neonivek on July 07, 2012, 11:11:52 pm
I'll tell you anyhow... Just because it is just so terrible
It was the Neo Genesis theme.
Post by: Seriyu on July 08, 2012, 01:32:58 am
Post by: Neonivek on July 08, 2012, 05:33:00 pm
Eh, Neon Genesis Evangelion isn't that bad, although the movies seem to have improved a lot. If you didn't mean that I'm actually not aware of what it is. :P
Ohh no I know everyone knew. The issue was that my clues were entirely inaccurate because I was remembering a scene from Madlax interlaced with the Neon Genesis theme.
"Ive got more bullets then you got friends"
It is very easy to outnumber a zero.
Post by: Seriyu on July 08, 2012, 06:04:25 pm
Also update tomorrow, today is kinda busy.
Post by: Seriyu on July 09, 2012, 07:38:46 pm
Koji:Damn, those guys were RIDICULOUS!
Sayaka:Yeah, but at least we managed to destroy the Walking Stick... That's a relief.
Hyoma: The operation was a big success!
Ryoko:But Kaoshun Base was totally trashed during the battle... I doubt we can use this place now.
Juzo:The lesser of two evils Ryoko. With all the carnage that went down, did we have any choice?
Akatsuki:True. We accomplished the UEFA's request by destroying that thing. There should be no complaints.
Masato:But... What's he going to do now?
Calvina:He?
Sara:Domon. He seesm really down about his master being a sociopath.
Ryo:I thought he'd have a little more backbone. A miscalculation on my part.
Koji:Those guys that showed up with the Death Army are some kinda... ...acquaintances of his?
Mao:I never imagined there would be fellow humans working under that monster.
Domon:(...Master, what have you done? Those years of strenuous training were intended to give me the soul of a fighter... Right? Master, why?!)
Sosuke:Mao, it's time.
Mao:Huh? Already?
Akito:Time for what?
Mao:Sorry, but we have to get going. Our ride is about to arrive!
Sosuke:Excellent work. I doubted your capacity in the beginning, but you made a good team. That goes for you as well, Ex-2nd Lieutenant. You're a superb commander.
Calvina:I see. Should I... thank you?
Mao: No reason not to. This guy doesn't exactly give out compliments on a regular basis!
Kurz:Awright! I can hardly wait to see you again, ladies! (And these photoes I secretly took? You're a genius, Kurz!)
Wait what time did he even have to do that? Is... Is Kurz a wi- wait, they slept before the attack on the walking stick okay. EVERYTHING CHECKS OUT NO FAULTS IN REALITY HERE CARRY ON
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Prospector:But all those terrible things happened during the course of the operation!
And they kicked the shit out of all of them, I don't see the problem.
Ruri: I wonder what's going to happen now?
Rain:Who would have thought that Domon's Master would be an ally of the Devil Gundam... I wonder what he's up to? (And... I wonder if Domon is all right...)
Yurika:Mr. Uribatake, how are the repairs going?
Uribatake:Yeah, uh.... We should be able to fly, but the Phase Transition Engines aren't lookin' too good. One solid hit, and we're done!
Minato:Does that mean we have to fly using only the regular engines?
Ruri:Even with the Distortion Field, we'll have to be extremely cautious.
Erina:It's going to be quite a struggle to arrive at Nergal's dock in Yokosuka under these conditions. We need to proceed quickly, but carefully.
Yurika:Yep. All right, let's meet with Akito and the others. After that, we'll head back to base!
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Mao:MSgt. Melissa Mao, Sgt. Kurz Weber and Sgt. Sosuke Sagara reporting in.
Kalinin:This is your next mission.
Kurz:What, already?! It's been barely 3 hours since we returned! You're a real slave driver, you know that? Oof!
Mao:Shut up.
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Kalinin: That was taken 4 years ago. She's 16 years old, now.
Wait, so the picture was of her when she was 12? Kurz, what the fuck?!
Kurz:And? ...What's with the look, Mao?
Mao:Dumbass.
Luckily the game (and the series itself) aknowledges that this is indeed, kind've fucked up. They tend to play it more for humor but it's better then just ignoring it and pretend nothing wierd is going on, at least.
Kalinin:There are several organizations that may be trying to kidnap this girl. The Eastern Asia Commonwealth has asked, via the UEFA, that we supply her with protection around the clock. That's where you come in.
Kurz:Just the three of us? Talk about rough!
Kalinin:That's why I chose you three in particular.
Mao:Requesting class B equipment, sir.
Kalinin:Granted.
Kurz:You're even gonna send in our Arm Slaves?!
Yeah, in Full Metal Panic universe the giant robots are pretty high class equipment and not the standard loadout! It's a nice change of pace.
Kalinin:We can use their Electromagnetic Interference Camouflage to maximum effect in this situation. Since the target is a schoolgirl, she will spend roughly half her day in school. Fortunately, since both of you are of the appropriate age, we may be able to post one of you on site within the school.
Mao:We need to forge official documents for him, first. You take his picture Kurz.
Kurz:Yes, ma'am! *click*
Sosuke:Documents? A picture? Major, what are these for?
Sosuke:What else? ...It's decided, then! You'll be moving in shortly.
Yet more time passes.
Kurz:Seriously, though. Sending you to infiltrate a school? Have you even BEEN to a school before? I wonder if things'll go as smoothly as we're hoping...
Sosuke:It's a place of study. Even if I've never been to one before, I forsee no problems. I'll do my best.
Mao:Tessa's going to worry about you Sosuke.
Sosuke:The Captain? There's no need. I'm well aware of this mission's importance.
Kurz:...I give up.
So this is the more meaty part of full metal panic the anime, watching over a highschooler (there's a good reason for it, don't worry). Luckily there is still a pretty excellent amount of giant robot stuff. Also, as always, vote for upgrades! We don't have access to the full metal panic units for upgrading yet, so don't bother upgrading them.
Post by: Seriyu on July 10, 2012, 05:55:25 pm
Post by: Korbac on July 10, 2012, 06:03:30 pm
Post by: Burnt Pies on July 10, 2012, 06:04:01 pm
Post by: Seriyu on July 10, 2012, 10:09:22 pm
And check, I'll upgrade Domon's weapons a bit.
Post by: Korbac on July 10, 2012, 10:27:39 pm
Post by: Seriyu on July 10, 2012, 11:18:43 pm
Check!
Post by: Seriyu on July 12, 2012, 06:23:57 pm
EDIT: Update started!
EDIT2: Update not quite finished. Tomorrow!
Post by: Seriyu on July 14, 2012, 06:43:53 pm
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Ruri:Yes, just for a bit. Mr. Tenkawa, I'll have one chicken rice bowl, please.
More talkin about food.
Akito:Sure thing! Where are we now, by the way?
Ruri:We'll be arriving at Yokosuka soon.
Masato:I was a little worried we'd get attacked in the middle of the ocean, but it looks like we made it through, safe and sound.
Ruri:Yes. That is a relief.
Sara:The Nadesico's engines somehow made it this far, too!
Masato:Yeah, I guess this'll be goodbye for everyone, then. Still, it was a godsend to get stationed on a ship this comfortable. It's a real shame we have to leave it behind...
Shinobu:You're the only one bitching about having to leave, Masato. I gotta admit the food was top-notch, though. Way better then army fare.
Koji:You guys are really leaving, huh?
Sara:Yeah, we have to report to our operations division.
Shinobu:I heard you guys aren't part of the regular crew, either. Does that mean you're gonna leave the ship once we get to Yokosuka?
Sayaka:Yes, that's right.
Sara:It was great meeting you guys, if only for a short period of time. We still have to take care of unit maintenance, though. Let's take care of that after we finish eating. Masato, Shinobu, is that all right with you?
Sayaka:Katia, what are you and the others going to do?
Katia:Calvina, you renewed your contract on Heliopolis, so we're with you.
Koji:You're gonna stay here, huh?
Festenia:Yeah. It's not like we've got anywhere to go, right? And... even if we did, it's not like there's anyone waiting for us...
Sayaka:Oh... Sorry to bring it up...
Melua:We have Calvina with us now, though, so we're fine.
The Nadesico arrives at Yokosuka
Megumi:Yokosuka dock manager, this is the Nadesico. Dock preparations complete.
Ruri:Recieving guide beacon.
Minato:Roger.
Prospector:Well, we're finally back home. Things have been hectic since we left for Mars, but all of you have performed most excellently!
Erina:That's right. The Nadesico is all right, too. I'm so relieved...
Ropet:YES! I, TOO, AM GLAD TO BE BACK IN YOKOSUKA!
Time passes.
Ruri:The Nadesico has docked.
Minato:Engines stopped.
Yurika:Great job, everyone!
Megumi:Now we can be relieved for sure, Akito!
Akito:Yeah. We haven't had many chances to relax since we left for Mars...
Koji:We're finally back! Man, I never imagined things would turn out like they did.
Prospector:Calvina performed admirably, as well. We were right to ask for your assistance.
First plot arc, complete! Achievement unl- nah
Calvina:Don't flatter me. I only did what was necessary to accomplish my job. I didn't do it just because you asked, anyway. That much I'm sure of.
Melua:Really?
Prospector:Fair enough. While I'm sure all of you have your own plans at this point, know that our company still has a need for you. We will continue to count on you from here on out.
Hyoma:Seriously, though, that was one heck of a trip! We're gonna return to the Connection soon and report to ol' Yotsuya.
Note, Yotsuya is the professor that made Combattler V.
Kosuke:Combattler will need to have its default equipment restocked soon, too.
Daisaku:That's for sure.
Chizuru:We won't be able to take it easy under those circumstances, though.
Ryoko:Definitely. I bet you guys are gonna have to do your best, too!
Calvina:...Where have Akatsuki and Erina gone off to?
Yurika:Huh? Now that you mention it... They aren't here!
Ruri:If you're looking for them, they left as soon as the ship finished docking.
Yurika:Huh? What? Where?
Ruri:I don't know, Captain.
Izumi:Those two on their own... Suspicious.
Prospector:I'm confident they went to report to the main office about what happened along the way. Captain, we must also make haste to file our report.
Yurika:Alllll riiiiight.... Oh, there's one more thing I want to make sure of before I leave. What are all of you going to do now?
Akito:Can't we all just stay here as the Nadesico's crew?
Yurika:Oh, sure, but I'm talking about the others!
Juzo:Like we said, we're going back to the Nanbara Connection.
Koji:Sayaka and I will be heading back to the Photon Power Labs. We were away for far too long, and I doubt that bastardly Dr. Hell has been behaving himself...
As far as made up words go, bastardly is one of the better ones. Also Doctor hell is the main villan in the Mazinger Series.
Sayaka:Agreed. I heard everyone's all right, but I want to see Dad!
Prospector:All right, then. Please send my regards to Yumi and Prof. Yotsuya.
Yurika:The combined firepower of Mazinger and Combattler was a big help! Oh, and before I forget, what are the Cyber-Beast Force and Domon going to do?
Masato:I wonder. Things really took a turn for the wierd...
Sara:To tell you the truth, we should have said farewell to this ship a while ago, but we were told to wait in Yokosuka with the rest of the Nadesico's crew. I wonder if that means they're going to send us on another mission...?
Yurika:Another mission? What do you think it'll be?
Shinobu:No idea. For now, I think we're to remain on the Nadesico. Dammit, old man Hazuki is definitely playing with our heads! I wonder why we put up with him...
Ryo:Give it up, Shinobu. Your simple mind just can't comprehend the complexity of our situation.
Shinobu:Tch!
Prospector: It seems our company and your organization have opened talks. We'll let you know if anything comes out of it, later.
Domon:As for me...
Rain:(Oh, Domon... You're still thinking of your master, along with Chibodee and the others...) Well, we still have to pursue the Devil Gundam, but we don't know where it's hidden right now.
Yurika:In that case, you can tag along with us until you find it! If you do, I'm sure we'll get word on it thanks to the military and Nergal's combined information networks. Does that work for you?
Prospector:Domon will add to our firepower, and Rain's medical and mechanical skills should prove quite useful, as well. I see no reason to refuse.
Uribatake:Damn straight! You've been a big help in the hangar, girl!
Rain:Sorry for the trouble... We'll try to stay out of your way. Hey, Domon!
Domon:...I have no interest in owing anything to you people. You got that? The first one to say "thanks" gets a punch in the face. I can get some much-needed training in that way... It'll be like killing two birds with one stone. (Yes... And after I defeat the Devil Gundam, I will bring back Master with my own hands!)
Ryoko:What's his problem, anyway?
We leave the Nadesico for a while, and move over to the Photon Power Labs with Koji and Sayaka
Koji:... Things are that bad on Earth, huh?
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Dr. Yumi is NOT the person that made Mazinger Z, for once, but he's still a giant robot professor guy. Also a Mazinger series character.Also the father of Sayaka.
Sayaka: It's not like we have a choice in times like these...
Koji:Yeah... Well, I guess it's nice that the Federation's helping out, but they aren't capable of much. What's Dr. Hell been up to?
Dr. Yumi:When the surface became engulfed in chaos, he increased his activity. Even as we speak, Tetsuya is supporting the army against the Mechabeasts.
Koji:Seriously, Professor?! Hey, you're right! Tetsuya and the others aren't here! We're going, too!
Dr. Yumi:No, you should all get some rest for the time being.
Sayaka:Yeah, Koji... We've been gone for a long time, so let's relax and do some shopping!
Koji:Buy Sayaka...!
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There's our man. For the uninformed, we will be focusing on Boss's robot in this playthrough, mostly. More on it when it shows up. From the Mazinger series.
Sayaka:Well, if it isn't Boss... You don't seem to be any worse for wear.
Koji:What the hell are you doing here?!
Boss:Screw you, Kabuto! I'll have you know I've been VERY busy taking down Mechabeasts and aliens during your long absence... And I did it all while you and Sayaka were away. See?! I can do ust fine without you! There was no need for you to come back!
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These two are bosses cronies, and the other good thing about Boss. More on them much much muuuuch later.
Boss:D-Dammit, guys! What'd I tell you NEVER to say?!
Sayaka:Oh, Boss... Looks like you were really worried about us, after all!
Koji:Sorry, boss. Still, now we know we can count on you!
Boss:R-Right! That means... I won't let you push me around any longer!
Nuke:Wow, that's so unlike you, Boss!
Boss:W-Willya SHADDUP?!
Time passes.
Sayaka:By the way, about the cakes and chocolate we bought for Melua... She ate all of them right then and there! You should have seen the look on her face. Katia, Calvina and the others loved what we bought them, too!
Koji:Those girls were in those bastards' hands ever since they were little, and all they've done is fight since they escaped. I bet they're just glad to have a chance to relax. It sure makes me feel good knowing that we helped 'em escape.
Sayaka:Oh, hello, Dad!
Dr. Yumi:How was the Nadesico, Sayaka?
Sayaka:They said the repairs were aleady finished. Since Nergal entered into an assistance pact with the UEFA, the Nadesico is now officially under military control. I think the military may have mistakenly thought that Bellzelute and the CBF would be under Nergal's wing, though.
Koji:Yeah, still. The Nadesico, under military control? Not the best turn of events, if you ask me.
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Tetsuya here is pretty rad. He's a character from Great Mazinger, and Mazinkaiser. Not mazinger Z.
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Lori here is also a Mazinger character. I think she's a background character in all of them except maaaaybe great mazinger.
Tetsuya:Those sly bastards! Jun, how's Great Mazinger?!
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Jun is the Sayaka to Tetsuya's Koji. Great Mazinger and Mazinkaiser.
Koji:*chuckle* That makes this our call, Tetsuya. I'll be departing in Mazinger Z, Professor!
Dr. Yumi:Koji, we still don't know why they surfaced near Atami. Please, be careful.
Koji:Fine, sure, whatever! Rocket Punch this, Breast Fire that... ...Piece of cake!
Sayaka:Wait up, Koji! Boss, let's go too!
Boss:Yeah! Tetsuya, you can relax. Leave the rest to us!
Tetsuya:Huh, as long as you don't get taken down while we're on break...
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Loru is the identical sister of Lori, and shows up everywhere she does mostly. Mazinger Z and Mazinkaiser.
Koji:Just leave it to me, Loru! Heheh... It's been a while since I got to make my big entrance!
Sayaka:Stop acting all lovestruck over Ms. Loru, you jerk! Hmph!
Koji:N-No, Sayaka! Don't misunderstand! That was then, this is now!
Sayaka:It SURE is, Koji!
Thereby ending this update. Next time, New stuff! And more enemy types to fight, more importantly.
Post by: Seriyu on July 17, 2012, 08:00:54 pm
EDIT: Update tomarrow almost certainly! Unless there's a just enormous ton of text. But I'd put my money on it bein tomorrow.
EDIT2: Much to be done today, update tomorrow for sure, I'll just have to hook up all the images and post it.
Post by: Seriyu on July 21, 2012, 06:11:52 pm
Explosions erupt from a nearby town!
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Ashura here is from Mazinger Z, and is kind've the "field general" of Dr. Hell's armies. He was also made from the bodies of two seperate people from an ancient civilization called Mycenae, which is incidentally where most of the giant robot designs in mazinger come from. Yes, the giant robots in Mazinger are greecian. Mazinger is actually supposed to be similar to Zeus, if I recall. But that's beside the point, because the two bodies were seperate genders. And also before they died, they were husband and wife. So Ashura is two genders, and indeed, two people at once. They don't really play up that aspect, but it's there. It's honestly mostly an excuse in the show for him to talk in two voices at once.
Mazinger, Boss Borot, and Aphrodite A appear! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTEPneISBJo)
(Side note, Fire wars is the theme for the collective "mazinger army", IE any robot from Mazinger. More specific themes will be used with specific robots show up, but fire wars is the only mazinger music actually in the game.)
Koji:Hold it, Baron Ashura! Now that I'm back, your evil schemes are stoppin' dead in their tracks! Gimme your best shot, Mechabeasts!
Ashura:Heheheheh! THERE you are Koji Kabuto! I didn't think this operation to lure you out would work, but I'm not going to complain...
Boss:Yeah! Today, we're gonna kick your transgendered butt!
Ashura:Koji Kabuto and Sayaka Yumi... I knew you survived your return from Mars, but I will have your life for daring to obstruct the path of Dr. Hell!
Koji:You'll have my life? Listen, I know I've told you to get a life before, but that's not what I meant!
*laughtrack*
Seriously, you can do better then that.
Sayaka:Prepare yourself, Baron Ashura!
Boss:H-How dare that two-faced sonuvabitch ignore me! Unforgivable!
Don't worry boss, you'll get some respect this time. Or it'll crash and burn, but I'm gonna try.
That's the end of the dialogue, so let's just go over Boss Borot now, the focus of our upgrades through this LP. (I'll still allow other upgrades, but in general I will at least be upgrading boss one pip a stage.) Boss Borot is a joke robot. His only redeeming quality is that it only takes 10 funds to repair. He has the armor of a real robot (Much worse, actually) and the dodging of a super, and his attacks, while they aren't terrible, aren't amazing either. None of them use energy, all are melee, and he can't fly, so he can't hit flying enemies, unless we equip him with a flight drive, which we probably will, because he has litterally no other use for energy. Most of his spirits are overpriced for what they are. In series, his robot is litterally made of scrap metal. His best attack, while it's pretty awesome, involves killing himself. So we will be doing just that. I'm gonna try to self destruct boss borot once a stage. I will keep a counter. And maybe if boss does well enough I'll do something neat at the end of the game. Time will tell.
TURN ONE!
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Alrighty, three units, only one of them worth a damn at this point in time, versus like 10 heavy grunts (Grunts with more HP and armor then evasion, typically they come from super robot serieses like Mazinger). Even for Mazinger, this might be a bit much. We'll do what we can. The first step is to keep them bunched up, mostly for bosses and aphrodite's sake.
ENEMY PHASE
Mechabeasts move up.
TURN TWO!
More moving forward.
ENEMY PHASE
The Garada here makes contact, whoop.
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And now for the doublas.
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He gains a level out of that, nothing fancy though. Another tosses itself at mazinger with predictable results.
TURN THREE!
Alright, let's take a look at what boss can do. BOROT CHAIN ATTACK GOOOOOO!
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2000 something damage. Not bad. Also of note is that Boss Borot can repair and resupply. Koji blasts another Mechabeast, and Sayaka repairs him.
ENEMY PHASE
Basically all of them rush Mazinger, as seen here.
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Unfortunatly for them, all of them is two of them. I missed the first screenshots, and the second one died. This is going very well.
TURN FOUR!
Boss Borot starts us off with
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Well, the same thing. I'm not quite brave enough yet to use anything other then his best attack, because if he doesn't finish it off he'll probably get cut in half at least on the counterattack. But he does. Boss's amazing show of bravado activates Mazinpower for Mazinger. Which he immediately uses to great effect.
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And that ends our turn.
ENEMY PHASE
Bumbling enemy squad GO
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TURN FIVE!
Once more, boss will lead us off with BOROT IRON FIST!
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Boss Borot is the best. The pilots gain a level from that. Mazinger finishes off the other guy in follow up. Now it's just Ashura in his Ghoul.
ENEMY PHASE
Ashura makes contact. He can't be too bad, right? He missed, so no. (Accidentally skipped the attack scene, damnit, luckily he's not very fancy. Just flies overhead and drops bombs.) This failed attack provokes a monologue for some reason.
Ashura:Heheheheh.... Now! Rise, Mechabeasts!
A lone garuda spawns at the far end of the map.
Koji:There are more?!
Koji is horrified at the prospect of a single garuda for some reason.
Sayaka:Koji, leave it to me!
Koji:Be careful, Sayaka!
Sayaka:Here I come!
Another spawns nearby.
Sayaka:Huh? ore of-?!
I dunno, I think Sayaka could handle both of them, if only barely. Now if it were boss, we'd be in trouble.
Boss:Sayaka,watch out!
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Sayaka:Eeeeeeek?!
The other mechabeast approaches and immobilizes the aphrodite A!
Sayaka:Ugh, damn... Let go!
A small explosion emerges from the aphrodite A!
Sayaka:Agh?!
Koji:Sayaka?!
Boss:Dammit, what're you doin' to Sayaka?!
Ashura:Haahahaahahah! Cease your resistance, Koji Kabuto, or I will slay Sayaka Yumi myself! If you want to save her, then bow to my will!
Koji:Ugh...
Boss:W-What are you doing, Kabutoooooooo?!
Ashura:Sooo... What is your decision?
Koji:Fine... But please! Spare Sayaka!
Boss:K-Kabutooooo!
Sayaka:Ungh... N-No, Koji... I'm fine! You have to-
Ashura:Grrr, shut up!
Another small ball of flame erupts from the Aphrodite A
Sayaka:Eeeeeek!
Koji:Stop! Please, stop this, Baron Ashura! I'm not resisting!
Ashura:Hahah, fine! Defeating you was far too easy... No amusement at all. I will claim your Mazinger Z as my own, and you will be punished by Dr. Hell himself!
The Ghoul approaches and loads the Mazinger Z onto it!
Ashura:Bound and helpless, just as I've always desired... ...Hahaha! Dr. Hell will be overjoyed!
Koji:Ugh... You promised, Baron Ashura! Let Sayaka go!
Ashura:Idiot! Do it Mechabeasts! Destroy Aphrodite A! Bwahahahahaahahah!
Koji:What?! Dammit, Baron Ashura... You coward!
Boss:Sayakaaaaaaa!
Great mazinger appears! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCFkRfvO350)
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Koji:Tetsuya?!
Ashura:That's... You're here already, Great Mazinger?! Curse you!
Tetsuya:That's right... The Great Hero has arrived! Thunder Breeeeeeaaaaaak!
He one shots one of the mechabeasts holding aprhodite A captive.
Ashura:Damn you, Tetsuya Tsurugi! How dare you get in my way again?! Mechabeasts, hurry! Kill Sayaka Yumi!
And an old friend also appears. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgcYnZ8wJzQ)
Hyoma:That's not going to happen! Big Blast!
Combattler finishes off the other mechabeast!
Ashura:Curses... Combattler V, too?!
Hyoma:Heh, this is it for you, Baron Ashura!
Chizuru:Sayaka, are you all right?!
Sayaka:I-I'm fine. But, Mazinger Z and Koji are...
Tetsuya:That's... Damn! Kabuto, can't you escape?!
Koji:No! I'm compeletely locked up in here! I can't even use a Rocket Punch!
Juzo:What?!
Kosuke:Uh oh...
The Nadesico appears. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZjOjPvvAxQ) The cavalry has arrived!
Boss:Whoa?! W-What's that!
Sayaka: Oh... The Nadesico, too? They're friends, Boss. They've come to help us!
Yurika:Hey, everybodyyyyy! Are you all right?! Now that we're here, you can relax! Let's just blow all these bad guys away! Ruri, put the Gravity Blast on standby! Target the flying enemy fortress!
Ruri:Captain, they've captured Mazinger Z. I'm afraid you can't shoot them down.
Yurika:that's no problem for us! We'll just... Huuuuuhhhh?!
Festenia:They caught Koji?!
Calvina:Well, that's unfortunate.
Erina:What's that boy doing?! How could he let them capture him?!
Akito:There's no way he would get taken down just like that... What happened?!
Sayaka: They took me hostage, so... Koji had to...
Akatsuki:He let himself get taken by the enemy? My, my... Naive as ever.
Akatsuki is a dick, as always.
Yurika:I knew it! Taking hostages... That's totally bad guy behavior! Right?!
Jun:Yurika, now isn't the time.
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The silly looking fellow here is an Iron Mask, which is a generic grunt on Dr. Hell's side.
Ashura:Urrrrrgh... So, that's the Nadesico?! Rrrrrghhhh! We'll have to settle for capturing Mazinger Z and Koji Kabuto. Ghoul, retreat!
Iron Mask:Yes, sir!
Hyoma:Argh! Hold up, Baron Ashura!
Ryoko:Hey Kabuto, can't you get your ass outta there?!
NO HE'S CHAINED UP PAY ATTENTION TO THE PLOT DAMN
Akito:Koji, you can do it!
Koji:Damn! Even though they all came for me, I'm still stuck in here...
Tetsuya:Kabuto... I hate to say this, but you'll have to abandon Mazinger. We'll attack the Ghoul and stop it. Take this opportunity to escape in the Pilder!
Note, the Pilder is a little flying jet thing that docks into Mazinger Z's head and acts as a cockpit. The great mazinger's equivelent is the "brain condor".
Koji:Abandon Mazinger?! Don't even joke about that!
Sayaka:Koji, Tetsuya is right! At this rate, you're going to die!
Koji:Mazinger Z and I... We're one! I'm not gonna just leave Z to die! Dammit! Move, Z! Mazinger Z, I'm begging you... Please, MOVE!
Ashura:Hahahaha! Go, Mechabeasts!
20 more mechabeasts approach the battlefield!
Tetsuya:Tch! They still had that many left?!
Ashura:You'll just have to take them on yourself! Hahahahaha!
The ghoul leaves the battlefield.
Ruri:...Enemy flying fortress has fled the combat zone. They took Mazinger Z with them.
Inez:Well, well...
Tetsuya:Kabutoooooooo!
Hyoma:W-What are we going to do?!
Shinobu:Enough with the drama! We gotta smash those Mechabeasts and chase after 'em!
Shinobu, I like you.[/b]
Calvina:There's no other way, eh? Captain, we're going too.
That's also a pretty solid response.
Yurika:Yes! Annihilate the Mechabeasts and save Koji!
Chizuru:Captain, Sayaka is unable to fight, as well. Please recover her.
Yurika:Understood. Minato, go ahead!
Minato:Rogerrrrrr (music note)
Yurika:Please launch, everyone!
ANYWAY, continuing with the enemy phase, we still have Boss Borot, have gained our regulars, and gained Great Mazinger which we'll go over in a few. Unfortunately, since Mazinger and Sayaka have left the field, Boss Borot has lost his cover. I'm gonna just defend with him and hope he holds out. Luckily at this early stage, he only takes about 800 damage from a defended attack, so he should be fine.
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Barely.
TURN SIX!
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Luckily boss has guts, and can heal his damage. ALL HAIL BOSS. We move Great Mazinger and Combattler down to start. The Nadesico crew moves straight down the street. We also cast alert, wall, and fury (next attack is a guarenteed critical) on boss, in an attempt to get a kill on this next attack, and prime him for detonation. LET'S SEE HOW IT GOES
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No. Not even close. Oh well. Crits aren't very powerful in super robot wars.
ENEMY PHASE
More enemies continue to hammer boss borot. But he's got the will for self destruct. Can he pull it off before he gets destroyed?!
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Yes. Farewell brave astronaut.
Boss Borot Self Destruct Counter: 1
Some more stuff happened after this but it's mostly nothing much. Moment of Silence.
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TURN SEVEN!
Let's start this off by taking a look at great mazinger.
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He also has one more attack called "Great Booster" that's at a 5200 attack rating, but only has one ammo. Great Mazinger is in essence a better Mazinger Z, which is good considering we lost him. I think Great Mazinger may not be quite as sturdy as Mazinger Z, but if he isn't it's not by much. Great Mazinger can also fly, as opposed to Mazinger Z. Let's start off with a THUNDER BREAK! His best attack.
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Not bad. The fact that thunder break is basically a stronger, long range breast fire adds a lot to his offensive capabilities, even if it's not post movement.
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That somehow didn't kill him. Oh well. We need to get the Nadesico gang up to support Great Mazinger and Combattler V, because I'm not sure how long they can hold out against a mob of that size. Luckily they're pretty close.
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Snipin enemies from across the map, ain't no thang for Calvina
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Imagine four more of these, with different aesties. That's what happened.
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That gave him a level, and gave him a DECENT defensive spirit in Wall.
ENEMY PHASE
Enemies trudge towards our army, and try to attack Combattler V again. Even for this game's kind've streaky AI, this is really wierd. Maybe they're jealous. One attacks Dancougar from out of his range...
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And another one gets totally punked by Ryoko.
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A counter activation and a dodge. Nice. A doublas tries to correct this amazing fuck up by the first one, and...
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Well, he took less damage at least, I guess. Also, that missle attack is an aesti air frame attack, missle pod. The weakest one, but it has nice range at 2-6. Next up, a rare instance of the wild V laser taking down it's prey.
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After this point combattler is getting pretty banged up, so I defend all future attacks for him. After this the rest decide to go after the Nadesico, and almost universally get one shotted by it. This gets the nadesico pilots a level. Jun gets Trust out of it. Never bad having another healer onboard. More Nadesico beatings later, and their phase ends.
TURN EIGHT!
Domon starts us off by killing another Doublas with his beam sword. Still not in super mode, this is kind've his main issue. Calvina and Tetsuya follow suit. Then combattler does what he does best. Combo attacks.
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Dancouga tries to finish off another Doublas and doesn't quite make it. Aestis attack some grunts in front of the Nadesico, forming up in hopes of attracting more into the Nadesico's MAP attack.
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As such.
ENEMY PHASE
To start off, Combattler manages to kill another enemy with V laser, somehow, and Great Mazinger does his best Emperor Palpatine impression on a nearby Doublas.
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Luckily he is infinitely more deadly. Domon is very impressed and activates super mode in response. Another load of grunts try to take down the Nadesico and mostly get one shotted because they are chumps. Domon also manages to get hit twice at a 25% chance to get hit. He's been having a rough few days. And to end their phase on another poor note, a doublas attacks combattler in range of Big Blast again. I really wish that thing had more then 3 ammo.
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Hurrah!
TURN NINE!
The formation proved to be a failurem, as not only did it not attrct anyone, but it managed to kill everyone in range of the MAP. Oh well. The Nadesico one shots another generic grunt, when a transmission occurs!
Loru:Tetsuya, do you copy? We detected the Pilder escaping from Baron Ashura's Ghoul, but we think it was attacked. We haven't detected any movement from it since.
Tetsuya:What?! That Kabuto...!
Loru:Maybe he was shot down? We have to hurry and dispose of those mechabeasts! We'll begin our search afterwards!
Tetsuya:Roger!
So, Koji got shot down maybe. Huh. Bad news to be certain. We'll clean this stuff up and be off then. Calvina is more then happy to oblige with an O Rifle N.
Combattler follows up by pasting a random chump. I don't show the animation because while I love combattler, we've seen a lot of it lately. The Aestivalis squadron follows up and takes out all but the last unit. Which Domon will be happy to finish in style. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny24zPeQLks)
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Still not quite one shotting them, but gettin close enough. Domon is kind've the master of finishing stages, due to his high will ratings for his decent attacks, and the amount of force they can put out if upgraded.
Ruri:All enemies annihilated. There are no units remaining.
Tetsuya:This is Tetsuya Tsurugi in Great Mazinger. Thanks for your cooperation. Sorry, but I'll be going ahead... Wait for me, Koji! Scramble Dash!
Boss:Heyyyyy, Tetsuyaaaaaa! Wait up! ...All right, just leave this to me!
Nuke:Boss, d-do you think Kabuto's a-all right?!
Boss:Don't even suggest otherwise, jerkwad!
Yurika:It took us a while to fight those things... Units in need of resupply, please come back and recharge! Those that don't join the search for Koji at once!
Annnd all we had to spend on repairs is 10 credits for boss. Sorry this took so long by the way!
Post by: Neonivek on July 22, 2012, 02:05:21 am
Violins and sax... Could it go wrong?
Post by: Seriyu on July 22, 2012, 06:12:15 pm
Post by: Neonivek on July 22, 2012, 06:34:36 pm
I'll admit, they struck gold with the idea of smooth jazz to go with face explosions. It's up there for my favorite "Shit's goin down" music. Although Getter Robo Armageddon has an honorable mention as well. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92-iROXtd6A)
Kinda makes me want to make a list of the top: 10 (In no order) of "Stuff going down" in anime.
Unfortunately I'd just have to include Pokemon's Guitar changing dirrection theme. You just knew a battle was getting awsome when you heard that music. Hmm now that I think about it a LOT of animes had really awsome "Turn about" themes.
Dang it Western Animation get turn about themes!
Post by: Seriyu on July 23, 2012, 11:26:12 am
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Yurika:No, we're the ones who should be sorry. We looked far and wide, but found no sign of him.
Jun:This is the Photon Power Labs! Pilder, please respond! Koji! Koji... ...Oh, it's no use.
Loru:Just to be on the safe side, let's keep calling him every 5 minutes.
Jun:All right.
Festenia:Oh, Koji... I wonder if you're all right?
Katia:Either way, if we can't reach him, we can't find him. I don't get it... Did they shoot him down? Did he land? Or maybe... Maybe they captured him again? If he crashed in the ocean there probably won't be any witnesses who can help us.
Calvina:The situation is certainly dire.
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That's Shiro, Koji's little brother. In Great Mazinger, I think, he has his own robot. If I recall it uses baseball bats and baseballs as a weapon. It's comparable to boss borot in effectiveness. I'm not joking.
Katia:Sorry. It seems I struck a nerve...
Dr. Yumi:I made sure to ask around the military channels, but they have no idea, either. You have to return to the Nadesico... We're going to keep searching, in the meantime.
Yurika:Sorry for not being able to help.
Tetsuya:Damn! If only Great and I got there a little faster...
Dr. Yumi:This isn't your fault, Tetsuya.
Sayaka:Where's Koji?! Did you find him?!
Boss:A-Are you all right, Sayaka?
Sayaka:That was nothing! Dad, where's Koji?
Dr. Yumi:...We don't know.
Sayaka:It was my fault, so I'll search for him! I'll find you soon, Koji... That's right! I'm going to save you!
Chizuru:But, Aphrodite is still-
Sayaka:I'll go by bike!
Shiro:Sayaka, take me along too!
Boss:I'll take Boss Borot out to search! Kabuto... That jerk... There's no way he's already six feet under!
Hyoma:Well, we'll have to delay our return. Chizuru, go ahead and contact the Connection.
Chizuru:Right.
Juzo:Fine, all right, I give up! Let's go help out in the Battle Machines...
Note, battle machines are the component parts of Combattler V. They're small, prolly no bigger then large cars or fighter jets, and aren't featured in this game terribly much. Some games like Super Robot Wars Alpha Gaiden have them as seperate units, and they aren't terribly amazing. But the thought is nice.
Tetsuya:Professor, I'm going too. Please, let me go!
Dr. Yumi:I can't allow you to do that, Tetsuya.
Tetsuya:But-!
Dr. Yumi:I'm sure you already know why, Tetsuya. The problem isn't just the Mechabeasts, but the ever-present threat of attack by the Radam or the Gradosians. That's why I'm asking you to stay here on standby.
Tetsuya:Guh...
Ashura:You will be delighted to know, Dr. Hell, that while Koji Kabuto has escaped, we managed to capture Mazinger Z!
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Meet the primary villan of the Mazinger series! I bet you never guessed with a name like Dr. Hell.
Ashura:Ha... Haha! Please forgive me, Dr. Hell!
Dr. HellBesides, Combattler and the people of the Nadesico managed to return! What kind of deed do you think you've accomplished in the face of their interference?!
Ashura:F-Forgive me...
Dr. Hell:...Long ago, the ancestors of the Greeks, the Mycenaeans, built giants that spat fire from their breasts to protect their homeland, Bardos Island, from invasion. That is how the legend of the Aegis Sea's Bardos Giants began... Thanks to a change in the Earth's crust, I managed to uncover one of those giant soldiers in a ruin. And so, you now behold my discovery... The Mechabeasts! It matters not if the Earth Federation and the Coordinators fight for power, as my Mechabeast Army will rule all of the Earth Sphere, and I will be the one to protect this planet from those invaders!
Ashura:A most noble intent, Dr. Hell...
Dr. Hell:But the Earth Sphere is already nearly beyond saving... I'll have to make my Mechabeast Army far stronger than it is currently.
Ashura:Please use me, your humble servant Ashura, as you wish, sire! I'll do anything to help you achieve your goals!
Dr. Hell:I want you to investigate the alien technology that resides in that warship they call the Nadesico. They have many powerful robots that were not developed by Nergal. You've already acquired Mazinger Z. Do the same for Great, Combattler, and Nergal's warship, as well as the rest of those mysterious robots. Use any means necessary.
Ashura:A-Any means necessary... To what do you refer, sire?
Dr. Hell: The "Tekkoryu" ... Contact the ones who bear the name "Hau Dragon"!
Ashura:W-Who are they?
Dr. Hell:A secret soceity... I don't know their goals, but they're definitely dangerous, and in posesion of a powerful robot army. 15 years ago, they were betrayed by the person who built their robotic weapons, Masaki Kihara, and have lay dormant in the soil ever since. However, they have recently shown signs of activity once more.
Tekkoryu isn't Mazinger stuff, it's Hades Project Zeorymer stuff. We'll get to them soon.
Ashura:I see... So you want me to use them to achieve our goals?
Dr. Hell:Precisely. Go forth and conquer, Ashura!
Ashura:Yes, sire! Leave it to me!
Upgrade votes now. We don't have any new robots yet, so the same roster is available for voting as before. Great Mazinger and the gang will join us directly soon but today is not that day. Also as always feel free to let me know of any feedback you have.
I'll see you in two or three days!
Post by: Seriyu on July 26, 2012, 06:06:24 pm
Post by: Neonivek on July 26, 2012, 07:14:09 pm
The groans!
Post by: Seriyu on July 27, 2012, 04:12:57 am
Post by: Neonivek on July 27, 2012, 12:36:02 pm
Maaaaaan, wait until you see the conclusion of the Mazinkaiser plot line. :D
If he plunges everyone into hell where satan or some sort of devil has his own robot... Then his name is rightfully justified.
Post by: Seriyu on July 27, 2012, 07:16:42 pm
Also update started, expect it tomorrow.
EDIT: You know, looking at this, I think I may have ended the previous update prematurely like an enormous doof. If so I'll just post the rest, we'll kep the votes we have now (which is to say none), and carry on from there.
EDIT: YEP. I'M KING DOOF. I will post the rest of the update today, and carry on from there. No new voting segment because it's like 20 lines of text. Barely more then 1000 characters.
Post by: Seriyu on July 27, 2012, 07:35:54 pm
Soldier:THis is an order. Come with us, boy.
Masato:What do you soldiers want from me...?! Ugh!
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Kinda creepy female lead, check.
Masato:....H-How do you know my name?
Miku:Zeorymer is awakening...
Masato:Zeo...rymer...?
Miku:Yes. That's why... If you don't come with us, we'll be in trouble. We don't require your consent.
Masato:What do you want? Ugh?!
A brief pulse of light occurs.
Soldier:H-Hey, is he all right? Don't tell me he's...
Miku:No, he's only fainted.
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All three of these people are from Hades Project Zeorymer.
Miku:I'm done. We're returning now.
Oki:Understood.
Miku:All right, let's take him back... to Last Guardian.
Post by: Seriyu on July 29, 2012, 07:40:45 pm
Post by: Seriyu on July 30, 2012, 08:30:01 pm
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Calvina:So, have the Photon Power Labs sent word yet?
Megumi: No.... There's still no sign of Koji. I'm sure they'd send word right away if they found him, so...
Erina:They haven't the slightest idea where he is, but what's really strange is they didn't even find an sign of the Pilder. We can only speculate about his situation.
Note again, the Pilder is the thing that docks into mazinger's head. It's basically a cockpit that doubles as a small jet.
Minato:I guess he really WAS taken away by the enemy...
Yurika:Whew...
Jun:Welcome back, Yurika. How was the central office?
Yurika:About that... We're to stay here for the moment. I think they want us to be here on standby to depart mmediately at the military's request...
Prospector:The UEFA didn't Spare many troops to protect Eastern Asia, after all.
Ruri:And since we're under the army's control, we have to do their job instead.
Prospector:Well, yes... You could say that.
Erina:Did they mention anything else?
Yurika:Why yes, they did! As a matter of fact, it looks like International Electronic Brains' main building was destroyed...
Hades Project Zeorymer? I think. Not really sure. If it is it's pretty minor.
Minato:International Electronic Brains... They're a multinational corporation like Nergal, but with a focus on computer hardware and networking, right? Their headquarters got blown up, huh?
Prospector:So it appears... It's not as if our company is aghast at the thought of our rivals being decimated, anyway.
Calvina:Were they attacked by the Radam or the Gradosians?
Yurika:Well... They didn't seem to sure about what actually attacked them. All they know is... they were.
Sara:Hey, did you guys hear what happened to IEB?
Yurika:Oh, why hello, Sara! We were talking about it just now. I heard about it from the... Huh? Hey, how come did you already know about that?
Sara:We just got word of it from our operations division. I'm not sure if Nergal already knows it or not, but a lot of shady enterprises were housed in there, to the point where even Mithril had them marked. Of course, that means Nergal's even SHADIER, but... I'm sure they've been keeping a close eye on them.
Erina:Who are YOU calling shady?! Nergal's practices in regards to industrial secrecy are barely worth commenting on!
You know a company is professional and well meaning when their liason does nothing but yell complaints about attacking things and have slap fights with other people onboard the ship.
Festenia:No need to get all worked up over it...
Megumi:Well, Ms. Won IS the ex-secretary to the president, after all...
Erina:Do you realize that you're speaking ill of the company you work for?!
Prospector:All right, all right. We get it. So, what did Mithril find out about them?
Shinobu:From what we heard, it seems there was some kind of ridiculous secret society hidden inside. It's not clear if they have anything to do with the main building's destruction, but we better be careful, at least.
Yurika:A secret.... society? That's amazing!
Erina:If you knew that, then I guess that makes Mithril the shadiest of them all, hm?
Masato:I don't know about that but Mithril's information gathering skills are definitely as good as the UEFA's.
Ruri:Is there any reason for us to be concerned about this?
Sara:Based on Mithril's intel, whoever's responsible is capable of stoking the fires of rebellion in Eastern Asia... the kind the Nadesico can't put out.
Yurika:Whaaaaat?! We've already got our hands full, and now there's this on top of the pile, too?! I... I need a third hand!
[i[Meanwhile, at "Last Guardian"...[/i]
Oki:How are you feeling, Mr. Masato Akitsu?
Masato: Please, let me go! Why did you lock me up in here?! Let me go!
Oki: Sorry to break it to you, but I can't. You can relax, though. There's no one looking for you. After all... They weren't your parents.
Hades Project Zeorymer is a very happy and upbeat series as you can see.
Masato:What do you mean?! Don't tell me you took my parents, too?!
Oki: You misunderstood me. Their duty is finished, so they'll be receiving appropriate compensation for their hard work. That includes money to cover child-rearing expenses and beyond... They were never your parents, Masato.
Masato:T-That's a lie! My parents loved me and...
Oki:Well, your disbelief is to be expected. All right, then, let me reveal the truth to you... Pick up that phone.
Time passes.
Masato:No... It can't be. Father... Mother... Why?
Oki:Satisfied?
Masato:I-I'm just a regular kid! Why the hell are you locking me in here?! What does the army want with me?!
Oki:You already know the position you're in, soI think it would be best for you to be more obedient from now on.
Masato:Wha.... What do you mean?! What do you want with me?!
Miku:... You're special.
Masato:You... You're that girl from before...!
Oki:All right, Mr. Akitsu. Just stay put for a little longer...
Masato:Wait! Please, wait! Let me go! Wh... Why are you doing this?!
More time passes.
Miku: Is this all right? A little and we could have gotten his cooperation.
Oki:It's gone as planned, but we don't have time to spare. They've already begun to move, and there's no question thehy're going to try to recapture it... We can't let them get their hands on that machine. No matter what happens, we must use it to defend the Earth Sphere. Please take care of it, Miku.
Miku:I will. This, too, is my fate...
Meanwhile...
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Taiha: All that remains is to retreive Zeorymer of the Skies.
Yuratei:Who shall rise up among our prided Tekkoryu warriors, the Hakkeshu, for this task?
Giso:Leave this duty to Giso, and Burrstone of the Mountains.
Shi-Aen:Wouldn't it be better to leave it to the twins, Bryst of the Fires...
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Taiha:Please leave Tekkoryu's very first victory to Taiha, and Lanstar of the Winds.
Yuratei:......
Taiha:......
Ritsu:Please lend this task to Ritsu, and Rose C'est La Vie of the Moon. We will accomplish it for certain!
Yuratei: How about you,Saiga?
Saiga:My Omzack of the Thunder isn't yet complete, but it still effortlessly surpasses all the other Hakkeshu robots!
Yuratei:......
Taiha:......
Yuratei:Lanstar of the Winds. Currently Zeorymer is being held in a nation of the Earth Federation. We believe it is under the control of the Eastern Asia Commonwealth. I hereby order you to capture or destroy that machine, by any means necessary!
Taiha:Yes, your highness!
Yuratei:Someone called Dr. Hell requested our cooperation. He posesses a most powerful robot army... While his request cannot be easily dismissed, having his support also means we have greater liberty to act in Eastern Asia. Use his forces as you see fit to locate Zeorymer of the Skies. The rest is up to you.
Taiha:As you wish.
More time passes. After that clown car of an introduction set, they're all from Hades Project Zeorymer.
Saiga:Choosing to send your own lover to his death... What a cold-blooded decision. Heheheh...
Shi-Aen:Hmhmhm...
Ritsu:I was hoping beyond hope I would be the one chosen.
Rockfell:That damn Saiga! Recieving favors from his beloved... Hmph!
Giso:We cannot oppose Yuratei's word.
Shi-Aen:But in Eastern Asia...
Shi-Tau:...Are Mazinger Z, Great Mazinger and Combattler V, correct?
Saiga:And it apepars a warship from Nergal, rumored to be the strongest warship in all the Earth Federation is stationed there, as well.
Lurahn:It seems that ship uses the same technology as the Jovian Lizards... An extraordinary enemy if I ever saw one.
Rockfell: I also heard an organization called Mithril has uncovered the truth about our plans and is on the move to destroy us.
Ritsu:We may have recovered on our own, but we've amassed a terrifying number of enemies. I wonder if we can really retrieve those 15 lost years... ...That is something Lord Taiha must prove to us himself.
Meanwhile, at the Photon Power Labs
Tetsuya:Jun, report.
Jun:A recently surfaced Mechabeast Army is heading directly our way. They were intercepted by an M6 Squadron from the UEFA, but they were unable to stop them.
Loru:Well, even against ZAFT's GINNs, it's not like they can win one-on-one.
Dr. Yumi:In times like these, Koji would have had some reassuring words for us.
Tetsuya:My Great Mazinger can stop them, Professor!
Dr. Yumi:Call Hyoma and the others! They're still searching for Koji, and I'm sure the army has already dispatched the Nadesico. Please hold on until then!
Tetsuya:Just leave it to us!
Lori: There's a different unit in the middle of the Mechabeast Army. Please be careful!
Nearby, at the Last Guardian Hangar...
Masato:What are you trying to do?! What IS this place?!
Miku:Welcome to Last Guardian, Masato.
Masato:Y-You?! What do you want?! What are you going to do with me?!
Miku: You are to be Zeorymer's pilot.
Masato:Zeorymer... Where have I heard that before...?
Miku: Behold. Zeorymer!
Masato:...A giant robot?! So that's Zeorymer... And I'm supposed to pilot it?!
Oki:That's the reason you were born.
Masato:Wha-?!
A loud crashing noise commences.
Oki:What is it?
Miku:Video surveillance shows one of Dr. Hell's Mechabeast legions surfacing nearby. Their target looks to be the Photon Power Labs...
Oki:No... Wait. What is THAT?!
Miku:That isn't a Mechabeast...?
Oki:Where have I seen that before... Impossible! That was in his data... Is it a Hakkeshu robot?!
Miku:Does that mean...
Oki:It's (a?) Hau Dragon! So, they've finally begun to move, have they?!
Masato:Hau... Dragon?
Oki:They're a secret soceity, also known as "Tekkoryu" ... If they're with Dr. Hell's forces in an attack on the Photon Power Labs, then their goal must be to capture Prof. Yumi and learn the location of Last Guardian from him. I can't think of any other explanation. We can't delay any longer, Miku.
Miku:Right. Let's try it. There's no time, Masato! We're boarding Zeorymer right now!
Masato:You can make all the demands you want, but I... Whoooooa?!
Miku:Zeorymer sensed Masato's presence?!
Oki:...The time of its awakening has finally arrived.
Miku:Yes.
Masato wakes up.
Masato:Ugh... I-Is this..?
Miku:Masato.
Masato:Oh, it's you... Where am I?
Miku:You're inside a pod in that giant robot. Two pilots are required to control Zeorymer.
Masato:What? How?! There's no way I'll be able to control this thing!
Miku:Let's go!
So that's Hades Project Zeorymer. Incidentally if you're trying to follow with some of these serieses, do note Hades Project Zeorymer can be pretty R rated, and it's kind've a horrifying disgusting example of R rated to boot. The giant robot parts are nice, it knows what it's doing and how to keep people interested, and it doesn't overstay it's welcome, but be aware of the R rated bits.
Anyway. Until next time.
Post by: Neonivek on July 30, 2012, 09:01:58 pm
Lets see how effective this newfound tactic, never before witnessed, works out.
No wait sorry everyone... False alarm. The Villains are still sending enemies at us one by one hoping we will somehow be defeated.
Post by: Seriyu on July 30, 2012, 09:56:09 pm
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Post by: Neonivek on July 30, 2012, 10:34:22 pm
Even if you are the ONLY opposition to the villains, they will be content to only sending meagre forces with the loosest semblence of a strategy. You have to pound on them until they get their rears in gear and actually decide to do something... productive.
Heck even Suikeoden 2 did that and it is the best at this kind of storyline (To be fair... you did pull victory out of your butt multiple times. So them not taking you seriously until later makes sense)
Post by: Seriyu on July 31, 2012, 07:56:36 pm
Also I woke up late today and tomorrow a friend is visiting so I'll just go ahead and start this update after tomorrow. So until then!
Post by: Seriyu on August 02, 2012, 07:59:04 pm
EDIT: Started this earlier, by the way.
Post by: Seriyu on August 07, 2012, 08:58:32 pm
Just giving a heads up, it might be a bit!
EDIT: Just finished the first "half". The second "half" is a little shorter though. It's basically two stages in one in this stage, though so be ready for a bit more of a wait.
Post by: Seriyu on August 16, 2012, 06:03:44 pm
EDIT: Done typing it up! End character total (without picture URLs) is 36279. I think B12 has a limit of 40k to a post, so two posts should be possible, but on the other hand, there are a LOT of screenshots.... We'll see.
EDIT2: Overall a very interesting update though, two sorta difficult bosses, and a new robot.
EDIT3: So I just closed the tab I was working on the update in, where I'd been copying image links into for an hour and a half now. The update has been postponed until tomorrow! Sorry.
I need to work out a better system for this. I just can't think of a better one unless I want to add even more work to the whole thing by needing to type the url tags out manually for each and every one of the three hundred or so images in this update.
Post by: Seriyu on August 19, 2012, 06:22:49 pm
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Four mechabeasts appear near the labs and Great Mazinger emerges! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCFkRfvO350)
Tetsuya:Come on, you damn Mechabeasts! As long as Great Mazinger and myself are here, we'll crush you every time!
Jun:Tetsuya, I've received word from the Combattler Team. They'll be here soon.
Tetsuya:Heh, for a bunch of riffraff like these, my Great is plenty!
Dr. Yumi:Tetsuya, that mysterious robot and the rest of the Mechabeasts haven't arrived yet. Please don't do anything reckless.
Tetsuya:...Got it.
One unit against four. No matter the situation, this is kind've a lopsided matchup, but we have Great Mazinger and several tiles of the best terrain score in the game, soooooo yeah. This really isn't a fight, but it'll still smack Great Mazinger around a tad.
TURN ONE!
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That grey blob in the center is the photon power labs, and it provides 30 defense and 20% HP/EN regen every turn, and it is the primary reason we will be able to deal with a lot of this stage. Probably one of the harder stages in the game, although it's still not very tough. The Zeorymer bosses remain consistantly pretty nasty in this game, and there's a special surprise waiting for us at the end to boot. Anyway, Great moves down to the lower right corner of photon power labs and waits for them.
ENEMY PHASE
Enemies make their way towards us, but the forest slows them down and keeps them from making contact. At the end of their turn, Combattler V rises from the ocean! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oQuDCS1P4c)
Hyoma:We made it. Let's go, everyone!
Chizuru:Right!
Tetsuya:So here they are... Aoi, what about Sayaka? Has she found Kabuto yet?
Hyoma: Sayaka and the others are heading back here as fast as they can. Hate to say it, but we didn't see any sign of Koji or his Pilder...
Tetsuya:...I see. Our first order of business is to crush those things. Got that?
Hyoma:Understood!
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So, Combattler V picked a good place to show up, namely behind the enemies. He's there under the cursor, he's just blinking. So now we've got them in a nice pincer. For all that counts for, flanking isn't really a thing in this game. And enemies will never retreat. You are not playing super robot wars for difficult strategic situtions, just like you aren't watching G Gundam for hard hitting political commentary.
TURN TWO!]
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Both of them got about cut in half for that. End goal is to get Combattler onto the Photon Power Labs, as a fragile super like him gets major benefits from it.
ENEMY PHASE
Incompetance reigns.
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And then it happened again with a doublas. Yes, great Mazinger dodged two attacks at a 20% chance to dodge. And killed one of them on the counterattack. Badass. He gained a level, nothing fancy out of it though.
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And again with a doublas. Combattler got no kill out of it however.
TURN THREE!
We move combattler V up towards the photon power labs some more, and take out the Doublas he almost killed last turn. Great continues blowing up jerks with thunder break, and nets another kill. This is why Great Mazinger is the best, thunder break gives him some much needed range.
ENEMY PHASE
Annnnd the final enemy suicides on Combattler V, as is tradition. STAGE IS OVER GUYS THAT WAS HARD H-
Hyoma:Heh, piece of cake.
Tetsuya:Don't get cocky. Now the real fight starts!
Loru:Watch out, everyone! Here they come!
About twenty mechabeasts and a Hakkeshu appear. This could... be an issue if we only get Great and Combattler.
Hyoma: W-What's THAT?!
Kosuke:That definitely isn't a Mechabeast!
Tetsuya:Damn that Dr. Hell... He gave his mechabeasts a boost, did he?
Dr. Yumi:We don't know what it's capable of. Tetsuya, Hyoma, be careful!
Taiha:Behold, Yuratei! The love I hold for you makes me the strongest Hakkeshu of all! And it will be proven to you when Lanstar of the Winds and I grasp victory!
Lanstar rushes forward to the photon power labs
Tetsuya:What's this thing doing?!
Taiha:Gennosuke Yumi, can you hear me? I'm Taiha, one of the Tekkoryu's Hakkeshu. Tell me the location of Last Guardian!
Dr. Yumi:The Tekkoryu?! Impossible! But, if you're really here, then...
Loru:Professor? What is this "Tekkoryu"...?
Dr. Yumi:All the more reason not to tell you. IF that monster is really at Last Guardian like they said, then...
Taiha:Hmm, it seems that moody hermaphrodite was right... You know about it, no mistake. You aren't going to talk, hm? Fine. Behold the power of Lanstar of the Winds!
Hyoma:Argh, hold on!
Juzo:Don't you dare ignore us!
Tetsuya:You're up against us! As long as Great Mazinger is here, no matter who you are, you'll never get away with this!
Great and Combattler form up around Lanstar!
Tetsuya:Thunderrrrrr Breeeeeeeak!
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Tetsuya:What?!
Taiha:Heheheheh... Fool! You dare challenge Lanstar? Know your place! O, wind! Tear them asunder!
Both Great and Combattler are hit simultainiously!
Hyoma:Argh!
Tetsuya:Guuuuuhh!
Taiha:Go, Blade Wind!
And again!
Chizuru:Eeeek!
Hyoma:Ugh.... Chizuru, are you all right?!
Tetsuya:Damn, that's just.... absurd! Its power is way above that of a Mechabeast...
Taiha:What's the matter? Where are your hard work and guts now?!
Juzo:Hyoma, we have to do something!
Hyoma:S-Sure, but making it happen is another story altogether...
Tetsuya:There's no other way. Aoi, buy me some time!
Hyoma:R-Right!
Taiha:That won't happen! Bone Gale!
Bone gale hammers both of them!
Hyoma:Aarrghhhh! Move, Combattler!
Tetsuya:Guh, this isn't happening... Move! We have to move, Great!
It would appear things aren't looking good.
Taiha:How foolish. So these are Great Mazinger and Combattler V? The weapons that can repel even aliens and make Dr. Hell tremble in fear?! In the end they're the same rabble as the UEFA. No enemy is capable of withstanding Lanstar of the Winds. Now, then... ALlow me to finish you off!
Dr. Yumi:No!
Jun:Tetsuya, run!
Loru:Hyoma!
But wait! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkF13YQkPx0)
Taiha:What?!
Dr. Yumi:Is that...? No, it can't be...
Tetsuya:Ugh... What IS that...?
Taiha:....I've finally found you, Zeorymer of the Skies. But, how can you be moving...?
Masato:Huh... What?! A-A robot?!
Miku:That's a Hakkeshu robot from Hau-Dragon, with some of Dr. Hell's Mechabeasts along for the ride. They're our enemy!
Masato:Our enemy...? So you want me to fight them?! No way!
Miku:As long as you're inside Zeorymer, you can do it!
Taiha:Lanstar of the Winds took 15 long years to complete. It's totally different from your traitorous garbage!
Lanstar charges!
Miku:It's coming, Masato!
Taiha:You won't escape. Go, Bone Gale!
Masato:Whooooooaaa!
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Zeorymer shrugs off the attack that crippled both Great and Combattler!
Taiha:What? Guh.... What power! Is THAT the power of the Skies?! This saves me the time I would have spent searching for it, at least... Mechabeasts, take care of the rest. I'll be taking this one on myself!
He then promptly returns to his position at the bottom of the screen. Uhh. Kay.
Masato:Why... Why can I control this thing? When... No, that shouldn't be possible!
Miku:Yes, just like that, Masato!
Hyoma:I don't know who you are, but you saved us! Let's regroup, everyone!
Daisaku:Got it!
Tetsuya:Guh... Just who are you? And what IS that...?
Miku:Zeorymer.
Kosuke:Zeo...rymer?
Miku:I am Miku Himuro and the other pilot is Masato Akitsu. We're your allies.
Dr. Yumi:I knew it... So that's really Zeorymer?
Loru:Professor, incoming transmission.
Oki:Forgive me for not making contact beforehand, Professor. We made it in time, somehow.
Dr. Yumi:Oki? What is the meaning of this?! Wasn't that thing sealed up under Last Guardian's custody? No one should be able to move it! Or was there something you forgot to tell me?!
Oki:The time has finally come. Because of the current state of the Earth Sphere, we felt it necessary to awaken a powerful weapon. Don't you understand? This means we've finally acquired Zeorymer for ourselves.
Dr. Yumi:Impossible! Even Prof. Juzo Kabuto and I were unable to analyze its systems! It's too dangerous!
Side note, Juzo Kabuto is Koji's grandfather, and the guy that made Mazinger Z. He died shortly thereafter.
Oki: After 15 long years, we finally acquired the pilot. Yes, Zeorymer's final "part," left by Masaki Kihara... The one born to control Zeorymer!
Masaki Kihara is the guy that made Zeorymer and the other opposing robots, the Hakkeshu. He's VERY important to what makes the Zeorymer plot so neat, so I'd advise you to remember, since he's dead.
Dr. Yumi:......
Doctor Yumi is understandably upset about having to be rescued by a robot that is more or less using people as parts rather then being piloted. I believe they aren't litterally hooked up to the machine but it's pretty heavily implied the machine is mentally interfacing with them in some way, so it's pretty shady.
Tetsuya:Professor, no matter the background, that thing's an ally. Leave this discussion for after we beat them back.
Dr. Yumi:....Indeed. Tetsuya, Hyoma, please take care of it!
Jun:Great and Combattler have taken too much damage. The Nadesico will be arriving soon, so don't do anything reckless!
Hyoma:Roger that! We'll pull this off, somehow!
Tetsuya:Akitsu, right? You're pretty good, too.
Masato:P-Please wait a moment! I...
Miku:Let's go, Masato!
The Nadesico arrives! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_HgF0kdmqY)
Lori:Prof. Yumi, it's the Nadesico!
Dr. Yumi: They're here!
Yurika:Sorry for the wait, Prof. Yumi! All right, everyone! Let's take 'em out with a big ol' KABOOM!
Ruri:...Incoming data from the Photon Power Labs. The unit called Zeorymer is registered as an ally. It seems there is a robot, termed a Hakkeshu, mixed in with the rest of the Mechabeasts. It's incredibly dangerous.
Yurika: That doesn't matter one bit! We aren't scared of just one 'ol robot!
Erina:Could you save it for after we see what it's capable of, Captain?!
Calvina:Captain, we're ready to scramble.
Yurika:In that case... Please launch, everyone!
OKAY. Welcome to Hades Project Zeorymer. Zeorymer here is, befitting his reputation, one of the most rediculous units in the game. He has an excellent shield called DCS, the "Dimensional Coupler System", pretty nice attacks, a 50% chance to dodge independant of hit rate when he hits above 130 will, when he's at that value he can also walk through enemy units. He also regenerates HP and Energy. However as a result he doesn't really get a mid season upgrade. So what you see is what you get for the rest of the game, and frankly that's not an issue. He also has an excellent MAP attack. This is a unit that, properly upgraded and positioned, can take on armies. I will say his armor is a liiiiiittle thin for a super to start, but it's still nothing like boss's armor, and on top of this, he's one of the more evasive supers. And a few armor upgrades will sort that out right quick anyway.
Anyway, we send out everyone and even the odds. The enemeis still outnumber us, and given that these guys can actually take a hit they are marginally more threatening then the gundam SEED grunts and Radam of the past. I'm still not terribly woried. However, Lanstar is kind've a handful, although thankfully not to the degree the cutscene made him out to be. We'll get to him in detail later though.
Hyoma:Hey, thanks for noticing. You sure took your sweet time getting over here!
Chizuru:Well, that's why we're in such deep trouble, isn't it?
Taiha:So those are the forces of the High Mobile Battleship Nadesico... The situation looks to be stacked against me. Nontheless, I will not lose, and I will not surrender! For the sake of my love, I will not... Nay, cannot lose!
Most of the mechabeasts move up and one attacks combattler, which is BAD because Lanstar's assault took him from a dangerous but managable 1640 HP to an almost certainly gonna get fucked up by a stiff breeze 820. We may be looking at Combattler's first recieved takedown here. We defend....
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WHEW.
TURN FOUR!
We immediately cast guts on Combattler and take a look at the map.
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Some of the enemies moved out of formation and the one unit in the far north is Zeorymer, so it'll take a while for him to get in the fight. We accellerate him and move him directly south. Great Mazinger starts the party.
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Note, Great's rocket punch is called atomic punch for no particular reason. The refreshed Combattler V continues the festivities and doesn't quite finish the doublas Great weakened. However, Domon is happy to oblige via his beam sword.
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Bellzelute is still around of course. Remember Bellzelute guys?
Guys?
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Artillery Aestivalises are pretty nice actually. They can't fly, but as far as sniper units go, they're nice and sturdy thanks to the distortion field. It also gives them some much needed firepower. With that kill netted, we move on to...
ENEMY PHASE
Combattler Counter Cuts a Doublas's missle strike, and whacks it in return, annnd Dancougar takes a two hits, already down to half HP. Which moves us on to...
TURN FIVE!
Zeorymer arrives on the scene and starts showing off.
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Almost finishes off a half health Doublas and takes negligible damage from the counterattack, thanks to the DCS. Combattler finishes it off for him, and gains a level. Nothing notable. And Great blows up another with thunder break. If we hadn't seen it like four times this mission I would've screenshotted it. It's just so useful. Akatsuki weakens a Garada with missles and Domon swoops in to finish it. And finally, Dancouga attacks a unit with punch, weakening it.
ENEMY PHASE
A Garada starts off their turn with.... Combattler again.
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Well, at least it's another chance to see V laser in action. I really like that animation and I dunno why. Another Garada takes a swing and goddamnit if I see Super EM Yo-Yo one more time I'm gonna start cuttin throats. He takes a lump and cuts the opponant in half as per usual. The next Garada decides to go after Zeorymer, which is a nice change of pace.
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Generic energy beam. Fair enough. Another Doublas tries the same thing, and a Garada goes after Dancougar, activating instinct for them. A doublas goes after Domon, we evade as he's out of range for any of Domon's attacks. Afterwords? Lanstar springs into action!
Taiha:Zeorymer... I will now disable you!
Miku:Masato, here he comes!
Taiha:Grrrrraaaahhhhhh!
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Uhh. Masato, you're looking... smug. Huh.
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So yes, one of Zeorymer's abilities is to make things explode because he wants them to explode.(Not an in canon explanation.) I will admit, they were setting up a mega overpowered hellmonster of a robot and they did not dissapoint. He took a pretty big lump right there though, and he doesn't have Guts. Survivability is one of Zeorymer's only weaknesses. If you wanna use this guy at all, I'd reccomend armor upgrades immediately. We have a couple of people trust (2000 HP to any ally on the map) him though and he's fine. We also have Yurika Daunt the enemies (which lowers every enemy's hit rate on the map by half.) As I'd like to finish up the peanut gallery this turn, and not having to worry about counterattacks is a big boon to this. Anyway, Combattler Combo's some jerks and hopefully kills both of them.
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Imagine a second instance of that here, I managed to botch the screesnhot.
And he does. Combattler gives no fucks. I then scroll down and notice there are four more units then I thought. Well, we won't be finishing them this turn I don't think. Oh well. Domon finishes a crippled doublas and still hasn't activated hyper mode. Soon, hopefully. Bellzelute manages to snipe one of the southern enemies and as if to prove me wrong, Domon activates hyper mode and Great activates Mazinpower. We take this as enough enemies shot down and begin hammering on Lanstar. First up, let's show off Great Booster, finally. We activate wall because Lanstar doesn't fuck around, but it ends up he has a 51% chance to hit, even on great, so that's nice.
Tetsuya:As if I could lose!
Taiha:Great Mazinger... This is your end!
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Great Jumps onto a giant rocket-missle plane thing and punches the dude square in the face, while the plane slams into him too. Hardcore. Also great dodged. A success by all respects.People continue their assault.
Shinobu: Damn, that's one of the Tekkoryu?! Let's do this!
Taiha:That robot is from Mithril is it?! Damn them...!
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Side note, unless otherwise stated or shown, Lanstar uses Death Dragon Tornado.
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Like any good super robot he mostly shrugs off missles. The rest of the Aesties launch their own set. The Nadesico does as well. Zeorymer will end us off this turn...
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Unforunatly his giant robot thought explosions can miss. And they do. Alas.
ENEMY PHASE
Generic enemies doing generic things. Of note is one managed to MISS the nadesico. Daunt is a powerful tool indeed. Costs like, 50 SP though. And now for ol Lanstar. As plot dictates, he goes after Zeorymer.
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The Hakkeshu don't fuck around and they will probably be our main antagonist that can actually do crap against us for the length of the game.
TURN SEVEN!
Alright, three more grunts and Lanstar. Domon mops up the Doublas and gets a level, Calvina Snipes a Garada, along with the Nadesico, and Calvina gains a level off it. Now it's just Lanstar. We trust up Zeorymer first. Then we cast Wall and Strike on him, and attack lanstar (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkF13YQkPx0), with a little help from Combattler.
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Yusss. Masato and Miku get a level off that, nothing fancy off it, and a load of parts. Also of note is that guy is actually dead now. In Zeorymer the enemies actually die when they're defeated, and do not miraculously escape sixteen times before arbitrarily exploding because their escape macguffin malfunctioned.
More next post!
Post by: Seriyu on August 19, 2012, 06:27:39 pm
Jun:Destruction of Tekkoryu's Hakkeshu robot confirmed.
Dr. Yumi: We did it...?
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A wave of energy receeds back into zeorymer.
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Miku:Masato, are you injured?
Masato:Please tell me... What is Zeorymer?! And what the hell am I?!
Miku:I will tell you, but we have to return to Last Guardian first. This battle isn't over yet, Masato.
Masato:You want me to fight again?!
Miku:Yes, that's right... This is your life, after all.
Masato: I don't believe this...
More Mechabeasts and Baron Ashura's Ghoul appear off to the left of the Photon Power Labs! We're not done yet!
Ashura:Grrrr, that stupid Hakkeshu robot! All he had was a big mouth, and now he's dead!
Ruri:Enemy sky fortress detected.
Tetsuya:It's Baron Ashura!?
Hyoma:That jerk... What is he doing, sightseeing?!
Ashura:*Chuckle* But no matter. They took suitable damage from our Mechabeasts and the Hakkeshu robot. Now's our chance to finish them in one fell swoop! Go, Mechabeasts!
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Kay, new map layout. Baron Ashura decided it was prime time to try and finish off the Photon Power labs, and of course, he is wrong. We move everyone in the general direction of the photon power labs and end our turn.
ENEMY PHASE
The four rightmost enemy units move forward straight for the labs.
TURN EIGHT!
The Nadesico opens our offensive with a barrage of missles to a Garada. Then a two man team up attack on the same Garada by Great Mazinger and Combattler V leads to its destruction.
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Tetsuya gains a level off it. Dancouga punches a Doublas and Zeorymer swoops in to finish it for him.
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Then Calvina and the Aesties finish off another Garada, revealing that most of the aesti pilots are still like, level ten. Jeez. Hikaru gains a level as well as Katia. Combattler finishes us off by attacking the remaining Garada near the Photon Power Labs.
ENEMY PHASE
The back row of enemies approaches, and the remaining front line enemy attacks Zeorymer.
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And responds by destroying him. Good man.
TURN NINE!
The Aestivalis team starts us off with a barrage of generic missles and artillery gun shots and wipes out two units on thier own. being a low level is clearly not a huge issue for these guys. Dancouga rushes up and melees a guy...
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Then Zeorymer rushes up and blows it up via D Coupler Cannon, which we've seen like fifteen times this update, so I didn't get it. Miku got a level, nothing new out of it. As much as I like the animation for D. Coupler Cannon for sheer badass, it is kind've the only move you use with Zeorymer regularly. Zeorymer is now at 146 Morale, so his "walk through enemies" ability has activated, complete with a neat little animation for it. I'll try to get it but it's pretty quick. He's also activated his ultimate attack, which needs 150 will.
Annnd much like before combattler ends us off.
ENEMY PHASE
An enemy does a very stupid thing edition. Attacks Zeorymer, with his ultimate ready.
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It doesn't carry across in screenshots, but near the end there he teleports up even further for dramatic flare. And obviously not in screenshots, near the end, at te exact moment when the hand orbs and chest orb touch together, you can hear this loud, really deep rumbling voice say something unintelligeble if you pay attention. Sounds like it's saying Mei-oh which is the japanese name of Hades Attack, the ultimate. At any rate, Super robot wars does really well with these small details, I'm tellin yah.
ENEMY PHASE
Baron Ashura's Ghoul, the only unit left, charges Zeorymer in a final desperate attempt.
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I mean that litterally by the way.
TURN TEN!
Let's finish this up. The Nadesico starts us off.
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Not terrible, although I expect more from the gravity blast. Maybe it's time to upgrade the Nadesico's weapons a tad. And now for Domon, who has seen surprisingly little action this stage.
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3.2k, not bad, especially against a heavy armored enemy like the ghoul. Also it ends up being a good thing that I casted wall, because I have no doubt that probably would've one shotted domon if not. Next up, Calvina.
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Nice. Dancouga...
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That gave em all a level. And now I'm promptly ending the turn because I'd like to see if Great Mazinger can't get a finisher on him.
ENEMY PHASE
Baron ashura uses depth charge on Domon again, and indeed almost one shots him. He hit him at a 19% chance to hit too. Damn.
TURN ELEVEN!
LET'S SEE IF THIS WORKS OUT
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AAAAWWWWWWWW, damn. Also great Mazinger has a breast fire equivelent. Fact, the Breast Fire/Breast Burn attacks are heatsinks for the robot that double as heat beams. Not joking. If only lasers worked like that... But hmm. Who is a mainliner I have completely forgotten about for forever, and needs some levels?
Oh right. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn9-Fqop1D0)
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He got a level out of that obviously. I was hoping for more, but whatcha gonna do. I'll need to focus on Akito more from now on. He's easy to forget in the sea of aestivalises.
Yurika:We did it?!
Ruri:Enemy flying fortress's destruction confirmed. ...There's still something there.
Yurika:What?
Baron Ashura rises from the wreckage, having taken control of Mazinger Z!
Ashura:Bwahahahahahaahahahahaah! You underestimated me, foolish humans! Go! Breast Fiiiiiiiiire!
He attacks the photon power labs, and an explosion rocks the barrier surrounding it!
Dr. Yumi:Breast Fire?! I-Is that...
Jun:...Mazinger Z?!
Tetsuya:Impossible!
Ruri:...No. Look, above its head. Baron Ashura is riding it.
Yurika:Huh?!
Ryoko:Damn! Not only did the enemy swipe it, but they turned it into one of their own, too!
Ashura:Baaaahaahahahahaha! You humans will be annihilated by your former ally, Mazinger Z! Go, Ashura Mazinger!
Yurika:P-Prof. Yumi, what are we going to do?!
Dr. Yumi:There's no other way. That robot isn't Mazinger anymore. We have to destroy it.
Yurika:B-But that's Koji's robot...
Akito:Yurika... I feel sorry for Koji, too, but there's no other way.
Yurika:...Understood. I know all of you are upset by this turn of events, but... ...Destroy Mazinger Z.
Ruri:Captain, something is heading towards the Labs. What is that...?
A mysterious robot appears near the lab!
Tetsuya:I-Is that...?
Loru:C-Could it be?!
Dr. Yumi:M-Mazinkaiser...
To put it into perspective, if Mazinger Z is the prototype, Mazinkaiser is the finished model.
Jun:Mazinkaiser...? Professor, is that really...?
Ashura:Grrrr, I don't know who you are, but I WON'T let you interfere!
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Yow.
Domon:It's so strong...
Dr. Yumi:I wonder who built it?! Don't tell me... No, that's not possible... It shouldn't be possible!
Calvina:It's a Mazinger, right? Does that mean it's our ally?
Dr. Yumi:I don't know. Who's piloting it?
Lori:This is the Photon Power Labs. Can you hear me? Pilot, please respond!
It approaches the labs...
Jun: Huh...?
And attacks them! The forcefield around the labs flickers with the force of the attack!
Loru:Eeeeeeeeek!
Tetsuya:What in the world?!
Yurika:Huh... Huh?! Wait, Why?!
Ruri:It seems Mazinkaiser is attacking the Labs.
Erina:I guess that means it's an enemy after all.
Megumi:No way... Isn't that a Mazinger?!
Dr. Yumi:Ugh... Are you all right, everyone?
Lori:Y-Yes.
Jun:Prof. Yumi, the barrier won't hold any longer!
Nearby, Boss Borot appears!
Sayaka:Stop! Stop it!
Shiro:What are you doing, jerkface?!
Another reminder because I can't remember if he's been around before, Shiro is Koji's little brother.
Boss:Hey, don't you know where you are?!
Sayaka:Please, stop! Stop the attack!
Yurika:...Sayaka?
Ruri:Does she know who's inside that robot?
Sayaka:Please stop, Koji!
Dr. Yumi:Koji?!
Tetsuya:Kabuto's in there...?!
Juzo:W-What the hell?!
Hyoma:Hey, that can't be...!
Yurika:Huh? Koji...? Wait, then that means... Whaaaaaaaat?!
Akito:That can't be! Why would Koji be attacking the Labs?!
Sayaka:I don't know! But there's no mistake... He's the pilot! I saw it!
Boss:Yeah, I saw it too, clear as day... Ain't no way that wasn't Kabuto!
Mazinkaiser's next attack slams the labs directly, shaking the building!
Jun:Auuuuugh!
Dr. Yumi:No, at this rate...!
Tetsuya:Have you gone MAD, Kabuto!?
Shiro:Big Brother, stooooooop!
Tetsuya:Even if it IS ou, I can't forgive these acts!
Ashura:Hngh? What in the world is happening?! A new Mazinger model is attacking the Labs?! Heheheh... Then I don't care if he's our enemy either. How very convenient!
Domon:Impossible... Could he be under the influence of the DG Cells?
Sayaka:No, this isn't happening!
Ryoko: D-Don't joke around about that, Domon!
Katia:What a mess... If it's really him in there, then that means we can't attack. What are we going to do?
Calvina:We have to be careful to wound it without destroying it. Just like any other robot, I'm sure its legs will stop working after enough damage. Did you all get that?!
Shinobu:Seems like there's no way around it...
Sara:It'll become obvious whether he's contaminated with DG Cells if we damage him.
Domon:Ah, that's right! He should be able to regenerate the damage if he's infected.
Ryo:Still, its firepower is nothing to scoff at.
Tetsuya:Dammit.... Kabutooooooooo!
So, third wave. In order to finish the mission (for serious this time), we have to lower Mazinkaiser's HP to 10% or less. Mazinkaiser is actually kind've a monster. It has all of the bonuses that Mazinger had, barring Mazinpower, and it's defense is a bit lower, but it also has like tens of thousands of HP. And all of it's attacks are much better. About the only weakness it has is that it has no MAP attacks. And the Ashura Mazinger is in a very similar place except it's also slightly weaker with much more HP. So with all this said, let's open out with a bang. An old friend we haven't seen for a few missions...
Ashura:Damn you, Combattler V! Fall before Ashura Mazinger!
Kosuke:Hyoma, watch out! That's a really powered up version of Mazinger Z!
Hyoma:I can see that! Sorry Koji, but I'll have to put an end to this!
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And that took a decent chunk out of him. Still not huge damage. This is gonna be a drawn out thing.Oh well. Now for the ranged formation attack, from the aestivalises!
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It's hard to carry across in screenshots, but Ashura Mazinger kind've like... shudders before he attacks, unlike when Koji was using it. More neat little touches. Anyway we slam him with another one, and a missle attack because team attacks work like that. Akatsuki throws in his two cents too, and gains a level out of it, including a level of support attack. The Nadesico throws its hat into the ring...
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The Ashura Mazinger is already looking worse for wear. Luckily sheer numbers help quite a bit when it's as extreme as this, and neither of the enemy units has a MAP. Domon is up to bat.
Domon:Mazinger Z taken by the enemy? It's almost like the Devil Gundam all over again... Fine by me. That means there'll be no mercy! I'll crush you!
Ashura:Grrrr, what are you planning...?!
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Not quite. But maybe Dancouga can pick up the slack. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cBdIXiRu9Q&feature=related)
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And that gains the Dancouga crew a level. Sara gets the Spirit spirit command, which raises all pilots (Ones in dancouga, anyway) will by 10.
Ashura:Grrrrrr.... We can't do anything about this now! Retreat! I will be sure to get revenge for this... Remember the name of Baron Ashura, fools!
He falls back.
Ruri:All Mechabeasts confirmed destroyed.
Akatsuki:Damn, I thought we were going to die for sure...
Sayaka:Koji, please answer me! Koji!
Shinobu:Son of a bitch... He isn't going to stop?!
Akito:Dammit! Does that mean we aren't done yet?!
Yurika:There's no other way. We have to attack him! Everybody, please hang on for just a little while longer!
Managed to get a picture of Zeorymer teleporting.
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Pretty sharp lookin for a GBA game. And now the only robot we have left, and is currently right next to Mazinkaiser, and is specialized in ranged combat. We Pull Bellzelute back, and nail him with the shot launchers. Cannot tell you how useful they are with the increased range, again.
Calvina:Please bear me no ill will for harming you, but... I have to put an end to this!
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Barely nicked him, but oh well.
NEUTRAL PHASE
I just realized I forgot to get a new image of the map. Mazinkaiser counts as neutral, anyway, so he'd attack both us and the enemy. Neutral units are Yellow on the map. Anyway, Mazinkaiser attacks Zeorymer. We defend, and he only takes 240 damage.
TURN TWELVE!
Mazinkaiser does indeed have regeneration, because he regenerated that shot launcher attack from last turn. Hmm. The Aesties swoop in and nail Mazinkaiser with a missle barrage.
Akito:What the hell happened to you, Koji!?
No images, because missle attacks are boring. The rest of the team barrages Mazinkaiser with attacks, and I'm not taking screenshots because damn this update is long as is, and I'd rather not have to split it into three posts. People are somehow having accuracy issues against Mazinkaiser and I can only assume it's because of the terrain he's on. He's also activated Mazinpower which is... not helping. Dancouga is low on HP, and lacks enough SP for defensive spirits, so I have boss repair them before they jump in.
Masato:Hey, Shinobu, what are you doing?! Don't tell me you're really going to take him down?!
Shinobu:If we don't try, then nothing will change. That's just the kind of crisis we're in right now!
Mazinkaisers return attack knocked him into "one hit kill" territory, so here's hoping he doesn't decide to pick on them again.
NEUTRAL PHASE
Luckily he decides to go after Zeorymer for some reason. He gets a hades attack to the face for his trouble.
TURN THIRTEEN!
A set of Formation attacks hammers mazinkaiser and ryoko gains a level for it, and gets the Guts spirit out of the deal. Ryoko seems to be a super robot pilot in a real robot. Akito and Akatsuki nail him with 120mm cannons, and... Calvina moves in to end the fight and disable MazinKaiser.... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyvBcVQgkPM)
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Hurrah!
Tetsuya: Kabutooooo!
Mazinkaiser sparks...
Ruri:Mazinkaiser's movement has ceased.
Juni:We did it?!
Koji:A-Aaaaaarrghhh!
Hyoma:Koji?!
Sayaka:Koji, please!
Koji:Ugh... W-Where... Where am I...?
Tetsuya:Kabuto! What the hell were you up to?! Choose your words carefully, or I may never forgive you!
Koji:Tetsuya? Everybody... What was I...? Yes, that's right. Back there, I...
Shiro:Big Brother...?
Yurika:Hmm... I don't get this. Not one bit.
Inez:Allow me to explain. It is my belief that up until now, he was completely unconcscious. That means he probably wasn't using Mazinkaiser to attack the Labs of his own will. Most likely, the machine was simply running amok.
Inez serves as the plot dump character once again.
Yurika:Oohhhhh... I get it.
Koji:Ugh...
Sayaka:Koji!? Koji!
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Post by: Neonivek on August 19, 2012, 09:43:03 pm
Post by: Seriyu on August 19, 2012, 11:20:36 pm
Post by: Seriyu on August 21, 2012, 05:53:22 pm
Post by: Seriyu on August 23, 2012, 03:20:25 pm
Dr. Yumi:Well done, everyone. It's thanks to your efforts that we were able to succeed.
Yurika:Yes. Even if we came here on orders from the army, that was truly horrible... For a second there, I thought we weren't going to make it.
Akito:Is Mr. Kabuto all right?
Lori:He seems to have fainted... He's resting in the infirmary.
Ryoko:Man, he just lets us worry about him...
Rain:Still, it's wonderful that he wasn't contaminated by DG Cells.
Dr. Yumi:Mazinkaiser is being examined by our staff as we speak.
Tetsuya:Professor, what IS Mazinkaiser?
Dr. Yumi:Hmmm, well... To tell you the truth, this is the first time I've seen it, but I heard the concept from the late Prof. Kabuto. As soon as I saw it, I remembered his words... A Mazinger to surpass all Mazingers.
Tetsuya:"To surpass all Mazingers..."
Yurika:By the way, what about that other unit? The Ze-Whiner, was it?
Jun:It's Zeorymer, Yurika.
Dr. Yumi:I'm sure they're already back at last guardian.
Akatsuki:This is the first I've heard of that thing, as well. Could you give us some more details about it?
Loru:Yes, we've never seen it before, either.
Dr. Yumi:I don't know all the details about them, unfortunatly. There's an organization bent on domination of the Earth Sphere called Tekkoryu... Or rather, Hau-Dragon, and it was there that they built their greatest weapon, Zeorymer. Around 15 years ago, one of their own escaped as an act of betrayal, along with Zeorymer itself. At the time, the Eastern Asia Commonwealth was desperate for power, so they built an underground installation in the middle of the forest called Last Gaurdian. It was there that they hid Zeorymer.
So yeah, the evil guy organization in Zeorymer is called both Hau Dragon and Tekkoryu, so they're basically interchangable.
Yurika:The Tekkoryu... Who are they? they're from the Earth, right?
Dr. Yumi:There's no mistake about that. I believe what they wanted this time was the total destruction of those currently in posession of Zeorymer. We may have prevented that, but we can be certain they'll return to capture it once more.
Chizuru:How can you be so sure about that, Professor?
Dr. Yumi: Around 10 years ago, I went to Last Guardian to analyze Zeorymer.
Erina:Hold on... You're saying they didn't use that thing before, but now, with the Earth Sphere in its current condition, they have no qualms about sending it into battle?! This can't be just because Tekkoryu is on the move, I'm sure.
Dr. Yumi:I can't comment on that, Ms. Won. All I know is that no one was able to move Zeorymer when I was there 10 years ago. No... Rather, Kou Oki said something strange about the one who should be able to control it. The pilot... Or, as he put it, the "Last Part."
Tetsuya:Masato Akitsu, and Miku Himuro. Those were the names they gave us. They should be about the same age as Kabuto and the others.
Inez:...So to sum up, those two were born at around the same time the army got their hands on Zeorymer. An interesting coincidence.
Akito:But classifying humans as "parts"? How horrific!
Yurika:Yeah...
Meanwhile, nearby in Last Guardian.
Oki:Take a good look. That's you, Mr. Masato Akitsu. This image and the fetus made inside that test tube... They're both you.
Masato:That's me? What do you mean? Are you telling me I'm a Coordinator? Is that what this is all about?
Oki:While you are a human developed via genetic engineering, I wouldn't call you a Coordinator. You posess exceptional latent abilities, but you're different from the people of PLANT.
I find it interesting that he doesn't go out of his way to say "You're so much better then coordinators!". Or even mention it. Implying that coordinators are perhaps not quite as far off from the hell robot as you'd think. Seeing how this stuff interacts is neat.
Masato:What do you mean?
Oki:You're a unique individual in the Earth Sphere who possesses a clear goal.
Masato:Wh-
Miku:Yes... That goal is to pilot Zeorymer. There's no other reason for your existence.
Masato:No... No, does that mean I'm...?!
Miku:Ah, Masato! Come back!
Masato:(Zeorymer... I was bred only to control it, huh? Miku, too... If the sperm or the ovum of the donor are the same, that means she could be my sister...)
Miku:So, there you are!
Masato:......
Miku:Did Oki tell you about the Tekkoryu?
Masato:He did. But if they want Zeorymer back, then it doesn't have anything to do with me. The Mechabeasts, aliens, and Jovian Lizards are the army's problem!
Miku:But you have to fight them by piloting Zeorymer. That's your destiny.
Masato:How? How can you be so calm when you say that?!
Miku:Huh?
Masato:That's what I'm talking about! Knowing that the only reason you haveto live is to fight in some robot... How can you agree to being made for that sole purpose?!
Miku:Don't you believe all humans are born with some kind of destiny?
Masato:But... Still, I...
Time passes.
Oki: ...Yes. Yes, that's right. Yes... But that's... Understood. I'll see to it.
Miku:......
Oki:There's no way around this, is there...?
Miku:What happened?
Oki:We're under pressure from the federation. It's all because they've discovered the Eastern Asia Commonwealth has been holding Zeorymer, a most powerful weapon, in secret. Hmph. It's all within our expectations.
Miku:But if we get absorbed into the UEFA, then we can't fight the Tekkoryu! Don't they see that?
Oki:Of course they do. Based on recent reports, however, it seems the UEFA has no qualms about forming guerrilla forces. That means you'll have to cooperate with them for some time... I'm sure that squadron you were posted to will meet with the Tekkoryu once more.
Miku:A powerful Federation guerrilla force...? Are they referring to...
Oki:... Yes. Nergal's High Mobile Battleship, the Nadesico.
Annnd that's that. Parts to vote on...
Potential+1 - Goes on a pilot. Raises their potential skill by one. It is a very powerful skill and raises stats considerably when a unit goes into critical HP. (And a little bit as HP lowers)
Solar Panel - Raises EN by 10% every turn. Good on energy guzzlers obviously.
Mega Booster - +2 Movement.
Flight Unit - Lets the enemy fly, and raises his terrain rank to S. I'm putting this one on Boss Borot, so don't vote on this one, there'll be more later.
Water Jet - Raises a unit's terrain rank in water to S. VERY valuble. Pretty much anything with beam weapons will benefit greatly from this, as it'll raise the beam weapon's rank from rank C (guarenteed 10 damage in that terrain) to rank S (Performing above expectations). Unfortunatly since we're with the super robots now, we don't have a lot of amazing candidates. The other guys will be back soon, don't worry.
Hovercraft - Allows units to hover over water (IE, treat water as the ground type(I think), and hover on it's surface.)
Dustproof - Raises ground rating to S.
Otherwise, do your three upgrades! Updates will continue in a couple of days.
Post by: Seriyu on August 26, 2012, 04:51:40 pm
EDIT: Something has cropped up, and the update will be delayed by a day. Voting time is extended in a similar fashion.
EDIT2: LOTTA TEXT! Still working on it. If it's not done today it will be out tomorrow, I guarantee it.
EDIT3: I should stop guaranteeing things. It'll be ready when it's ready. Up to 15k letters. Two new robot introductions. One is only sorta new to be fair. You can say a lot of things about Super Robot Wars, but "not enough things happening" is never one of them.
Post by: Seriyu on September 02, 2012, 03:54:58 pm
Post by: Seriyu on September 09, 2012, 05:43:15 pm
Post by: Seriyu on September 16, 2012, 06:30:08 pm
EDIT 9/23/12: Maybe next week. Feeling better about it but again, I don't wanna jump in half cocked.
EDIT: 9/30/12: See above. Gettin there.
EDIT: 10/7/12 Sooner or later.
EDIT: 10/14/12 Not quiiiiite yet, but I'm starting to feel it again. Within a couple of weeks prolly.
EDIT: 10/22/12 Not quite yet, soon.
EDIT: 10/29/12 Only so much I can say. It draws near. How near, who can say.
EDIT: 11/04/12 See above.
EDIT: 11/11/12 Again. I may stop updating this on sundays as I really am feeling like I'l lbe back into this fairly soon, and this post is getting kind've sad. I'll prolly just post again when I've got another update. Until then!
Post by: Seriyu on November 17, 2012, 05:44:24 pm
Post by: Seriyu on November 18, 2012, 07:18:43 pm
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He's clearly upset about having another enemy faction to keep track of.
Sayaka:Koji, are you awake?!
Koji:Sayaka...?
Sayaka:Thank God! I was worried you'd never wake up!
Koji:Whooooa! W-Wait, Sayaka!
Shiro:Sayaka, those Nergal guys came here to check on how my Bro's do- ...W-Whoa!
Boss:D-Damn you, Kabuto!
Ryoko:W-What the hell are you two doing together on the bed like that?!
Akito:I know the urges can be hard to control, Koji, but this is hardly the time or place...
Shiro:I saw it! I saw it! Heheh, you're never gonna live this one down, Bro!
Boss:Damn, I'm jealous, Kabuto!
Koji:N-No, it's all right... We weren't doing anything!
Sayaka:T-That's right! N-Nothing at all!
Ryoko:You both seem to be in rather good spirits... I guess there was no need to check on you, huh?
Koji:Man, everyone's here! Akito, Roanne... Even Melua?!
Akito:Yurika was really worried about you, so she told Calvina to come in her place. Melua asked to tag along to see how you were doing, too.
Melua:Um, are you going to eat those chocolates? We bought them just for you...
Koji:Huh?
Melua: There's also come candy... It's really tasty... I-I hope you get better soon!
Melua is basically a foodie.
Ryoko:I was wondering what that mountain of things you bought for him was! You're really somethin' else, Melua, you know that?
Koji:A-Ah... No, it's all right, Melua. Really!
Melua:...Really?
Sayaka:Koji!
Koji:Oh, uh, I mean.... Thank you, I really appreciate it... But I, ah, just ate lunch. Sorry! I'll be sure to take a few bites of this when I get hungry, though.
Shiro:Bro, you realize you were sleeping for 3 days straight, right? We were all worried sick about you!
Akito:Still, at this point we're just glad you're okay.
Koji:3 days...
Boss:Yeah. We were searching high and low for you, and then you just show up piloting that wild and crazy robot! What happened, Kabuto?
Sayaka:That's right! Tell us what happened, Koji!
Koji: I was searching for a place to land the Pilder safely after it got shot down. Suddenly, the controls stopped working and it started flying itself! Then...
Meanwhile, on the nadesico...
Oki:...And that's what happened. Thanks to several unresolved issues, I can't leave Last Guardian. We were oredered to assist you to the best of our abilities, however, so for the time being, I was thinking of leaving Zeorymer under this ship's command. Sorry for the trouble, Ms. Yurika Misumaru.
Yurika:.......
Oki:...Is there a problem?
Erina:Hey, Captain! Answer the man!
Yurika:Huh?! Oh uh, right... Sorry about that! We'd be happy to assist you! I believe that you'll turn out to be a great ally! Oh, and um, nice to meet you too, Miku. Let's both do our best!
Miku:I've heard so much about the Nadesico, the ship that returned from Mars. It's a pleasure to meet you all!
On another part of the bridge...
Ruri:Thinking about something?
Minato:I'm sure you must be wondering about it too, Ruri. It's about Akito. I was just thinking... Why did Ryoko insist on going with him to the Photon Power Labs?
Hikaru:Is it me, or does something smell fishy in here?
Sara:Perhaps our Captain would like to take a look into that?
Megumi:Well, that's something I can't condone... What a strange girl.
And back to Oki and Erina and such.
Akatsuki:If you want my opinion, I think they're simply going to visit Mr. Kabuto as fellow pilots, and nothing more. Although... Perhaps there IS something going on with those two, after all?
Erina:You think the backer of International Electronc Brains was that secret organization, the Tekkoryu? Because it sounds a little hard to believe...
Oki:When their main building was destroyed, we confirmed the silhouettes of several Hakkeshu robots. There's no mistake. Now that they're acting openly, there's no need for their disguise.
Inez:...There's more to it then that.
Yurika:What do you mean?
Inez:I don't think they used IEB soley to acquire money for their robots. Their hardware and network techology are widely used on both colonies and the Moon. If what you say is true, then their main goal probably lies somewhere within the telecommunications framework IEB developed...
Brief note, that is unchanged from the series, Hades Project Zeorymer features an organization that builds devil robots powered by the bodies of genetically engineered children (in a way), that doubles as a hardware and network technology firm. They must have some excellent lawyers.
Oki:That can't be... You think their products were developed to achieve some kind of hidden goal?
Inez:There's a good chance of that being the case. In fact, it's extremely likely. Consider, for example, that all attempts by Nergal to reverse-engineer their equipment failed. Just like Zeorymer, when we couldn't even analyze it. Even if we're certain they're up to something secret, nobody can be sure what their goal is.
Prospector:Still, even knowing what we know, we can't simply wave our hands and phase out the use of their products across the Earth Sphere.
Inez:That's why issuing a warning would be meaningless. There's no way we can put a stop to such a widespread plan. Our only option is to give up.
Yurika:N-No way!
Oki:They lurked in secrecy for 15 years... I'm sure they didn't waste that time sitting around.
Yurika:Oh, hell Calvina! We were just talking about Zeorymer's... Hey, what's with the serious face?
Calvina:Captain, we've recieved word from the army. Adm. Misumaru's 3rd Fleet is engaged in combat with some kind of alien-like force.
Yurika:"Alien-LIKE"?! Engaged with Dad's fleet?! Oh no, don't tell me... ...Are they the Gradosians' main force?!
Calvina:I don't know. They didn't provide any details. It appears they were unable to confirm any SPTs, however. What we know is they easily broke through our lines and fell into the atmosphere... After that, we lost track of them. If they end up coming down around here, there's a good chance we'll need to scramble.
Yurika:Yeah, and we'll be ready to fight 'em! If they're the Gradosians, then we'll make sure to win this time!
Oki:The Gradosians... they're the aliens you encountered on Mars, correct?
Inez:But if that's really them, then there's no explanation for them not sending any SPTs out. I think they may be another enemy.
Erina:Hey, don't even joke about that! We already have our hands full with all these enemies, and now you're saying there are MORE?!
After all that excitement, back to the photon power labs...
Dr. Yumi:...And this is the readout of Mazinkaiser's technical specifications.
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Meet Professor Yotsuya! He did NOT make Combattler V, but he is his successor. In super robot wars universe he's typically portrayed as being buddy buddy with the photon power labs and also the saotome labs if getter's around. Them 70's super robot shows gotta stick together, ya know.
Dr. Yumi:I don't know. From what Koji could remember, it was stored in some kind of secret hangar.
Tetsuya:Why would the Pilder fly by itself to Kaiser's hangar, though?
Dr. Yumi:That's probably the work of Prof. Kabuto. Perhaps it's some kind of system installed in Mazinger Z that activates in the event of extreme danger?
Kosuke:Yes, that sounds plausible. It's certainly a valid explanation for why it didn't respond to Koji's commands.
Hyoma:Dang, that Prof. Kabuto was seriously amazing!
Shiro:By the way, Bro, was Grandpa there?
Koji:I only saw his hologram when he told me about Kaiser. Rest assured, nobody was in that hangar for a looooooong time.
Shiro:......
Koji:Is Kaiser safe to use now, Professor? We never know when the enemy's gonna pop up again.
Dr. Yumi:Based on our analysis, Mazinkaiser's control systems were slightly defective, which ended up damaging your body. The result was your loss of consciousness, and subsequent loss of control over Kaiser. With some training, however, I'm sure you'll be able to pilot it.
Sayaka:Koji, don't do anything reckless. We have everybody here with us. We'll be able to take care of things around here for the forseeable future...
Koji:But that doesn't mean I'm in any position to just kick back and relax, Sayaka!
Dr. Yumi:Be that as it may, you're going to have to recover from your wounds, first. After that, you'll need to train dilligently to control Mazinkaiser.
Hyoma:We'll help you. That's why we came here today, after all. The sooner Kaiser gets added to our ranks, the better!
Sayaka:Father, about Aphrodite...
Dr. Yumi: I'm sorry, but... It's done for. I'll be speeding up the development of its successor. Please focus on supporting Koji until it's complete.
Time passes.
Yotsuya:Giant Missle, Turbo Smasher Punch, and Rust Tornado?! It has a Fire Blaster, too?! If we're going up against something like this, I'll have to work extra hard with Kosuke to finalize Combattler's power-up plans. We have to finish them soon, and they're going to have to compete with this thing?!
Ropet:THAT'S TRUE. IT WOULD BE BEST FOR YOU TO STAY AWAY FROM THE BOTTLE UNTIL THEN.
Yeah, Yotsuya's an alcoholic too.
Lori:Oh, my! I thought you went sober, Prof. Yotsuya!
Yotsuya: Drinking is my lifeline! If I quit, I die!
Loru:Still, you might want to ease up a little...
Yotsuya:That's none of your business!
Dr. Yumi: It seems like there's something bothering you, Prof. Yotsuya.
Yotsuya:I've spoken with the Federation. It seems they've gone ahead with the 2nd Combattler project. Prof. Nanbara did an excellent job of gathering people like Hyoma and the others. He even went so far as to select his own granddaughter to be a member of the combat personnel... From his research we realized that the five pilots would need to be young in order to synchronize their brain waves. What a world we live in...
Meanwhile, at a place called "Big Falcon"...
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Hamaguchi:And we turned those children into demons as a result.
Mitsuyo:I had to, for their sake. We must think only of the survival of the Earth from now on.
That seems like a kind've bullshit excuse. For THEIR sake? Uhhh. Not buyin it. For the EARTH'S sake? Sure!
Hamaguchi:You just want them to survive these upcoming battles, don't you?
Mitsuyo:That's right.
Hamaguchi:The time has finally come for the next Super Electromagnetic Machine, following in Combattler's footsteps, to make itself known. Unfortunately, Prof. Nanbara hid the truth from Yotsuya, and ended up losing his life to the Jovian Lizards. We'll have to talk to Mr. Yotsuya about it, before long.
Prof. Nanbara is the guy that made combattler V, but ended up dying, and declaring Professor Yotsuya his successor. Mitsuyo is the mother of a few characters that are litterally going to show up in a second.
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(meanwhile a long blue haired fella named Ippei comes in and whines about how bad the training was and how horrible it was and whine whine whine. Not that everyone else didn't do it but he yaks about it longer. Dunno how I missed the one screenshot in the set that tied it all together, but here we are.)
I think we found the whiny one.
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FINALLY. All five of those people are the new Combattler V team. Although they're not going in the current combattler V as you know if you've been paying attention.
Hamaguchi: We couldn't speak to you about the situation before this moment. That's why we called you here today.
Ippei:Fine, then spill it! I don't mind having to fight the Jovian Lizards or the aliens, but if you don't tell us the reason for this chaos we've had to live through, my bullwhip's gonna have some serious words with you!
Yep, he's the whiny one.
Mitsuyo:You must all be aware of the condition the Earth is in right now. However... We posess knowledge of another alien species that was after Earth long before our current enemies set their sights on it.
Kenichi: More aliens?!
Megumi:I've already heard about the Gradosians, but... I can't believe there are more aliens!
Mitsuyo: There's no mistake about it. They've already been to Earth several times in the past, and now they're ready for a full-scale invasion. With the Earth already busy fighting ZAFT, the Gradosians and numerous other enemies, we're the only ones who can concentrate on THESE aliens, the Boazanians!
Hamaguchi:All of you were chosen as warriors, and trained specifically for this task. Look at the screen. THAT is what you will use to protect this planet!
Kenichi:What the...
Hiyoshi:Is that... a robot?!
Megumi:The resemblence to Combattler is uncanny...
Hamaguchi:Yes. It was entrusted to me by the father of Kenichi and the others, the now missing Prof. Go, as well as Prof. Mitsuyo. It is the other Super Electromagnetic Machine: Voltes!
Kenichi:Voltes...
[b[Hamaguchi:[/b]Voltes V (pronounced "five")!
I'm not sure if that parenthesis was a translator note or what.
Kenichi:Incredible... Just incredible. With this robot, we can take on the Jovian Lizards any day!
Mitsuyo: Of course... But you are to also repel the first wave of the Baozanian forces. Is that understood?
Daijiro:We're going to pilot that thing, Mother?
Hiyoshi:M-Me too?
Mitsuyo:That's right. Voltes is a battle mech formed from the combination of five individual machines. Each of you will pilot one. Mr. Mine will take No. 2, Kenichi No. 1, Daijirou No. 3, Hiyoshi No. 4 and Ms. Oka No. 5. Quickly! Get inside them!
Kenichi:Right now?!
Ippei:We don't even know the first thing about this crazy contraption!
Mitsuyo:And just what do you think all that training was for? Quit talking and get inside!
Daijiro:But we don't know how to control it...
Mitsuyo:We never know when the Boazanians will attack. That's why we're beginning your final lessons now. Hurry!
MEANWHILE BACK AT THE PHOTON POWER LABS AGAIN
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There's a flash of light and an explosion.
Boss:Daaaaaaaamn! That was nuts!
Nuke:S-Sorry, guys... I've gotta take a bathroom break...!
Hyoma:Koji, are you all right?
Koji:Argh, this isn't working at all! My head's killin' me already, and all I did was fire a Photon Beam! Attacking is a totally different story than just controlling it...
Sayaka:Koji, can you hear me? We're going to have to cut training short for today.
Koji:What? Don't give me that crap, Sayaka! From here on, the real battle is only-
Sayaka:We just detected some kind of unknown force in the area. The Nadesico is already on its way, and they've requested that Great and Combattler provide support in the battle, too.
I guess Great Mazinger and Combattler are on hand for the off chance Mazinkaiser goes nuts again.
Tetsuya:Unknown force, you say?
Hyoma:Just those Tekkoryu wackos, right?
Sayaka:I don't know... It looks like they're also sending Zeorymer out, but we're unable to confirm the identity of the enemy at this time.
Juzo:In that case, let's go take a peek at them!
Kosuke:We'll be going, too. Sayaka, please send me their data.
Koji:Professor, let me and Kaiser go, too!
Dr. Yumi:No! If you fight with Kaiser in your current condition, there's a good chance you could lose your life! I won't allow it!
Also a berserk robot trashing everyone else but that's a good point too, I'll admit.
Tetsuya:Don't be so sure of yourself, Kabuto. Right now, you'd be nothing more than a burden.
Hyoma:Just leave this to us!
Chizuru:We'll make sure to fight for you and Sayaka!
Boss:Yeah! Boss Borot'll go, too, so you can just take a nap, okay?
Tetsuya:Who said YOU were coming?!
Boss: There's no way I'm stayin' behind, Tetsuya! We'll hitch a ride on Great's back or somethin'!
Tetsuya:Get in my way, and you'll be sorry. Just stick to your role as support, and we won't have any problems.
Dayum.
Nearby, at the "Bousou Peninsula".
Kenichi: All right...
Ippei:This has gotta be some kinda bad joke. There's no other explanation for why your machine would be higher-leveled than mine!
Kenichi:Yeah, yeah. Keep complaining. See if I care!
Hiyoshi:Well, at least we've got a bunch of practice for this, Big Brother!
Kenichi:Volt Cruiser speaking.
Hamaguchi:This is Hamaguchi. Moments ago, we received a report on the sighting of that mysterious force, confirmed by Big Falcon's systems. There's no question that they're the Boazinians! It seems they've dropped to the surface so hurry and intercept them!
Big Falcon is the base of Voltes V, it's their photon power labs or whathaveyou. The Boazinians we'll see in a bit, and they are actually kind've notable. But again, we'll get to that.
Megumi:No way...
Ippei:We're diving head first into a battle?!
Mitsuyo:Correct. I won't excuse any violations of orders, either.
Kenichi:As long as we're fighting to protect the Earth, I can't complain. Come on, everyone! Let's see what we can do!
And that's the end of that. Next time, the first stage in the game that gave me trouble. Not a whole ton, but we'll go over it when we get there.