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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Titan Arms Race - Side A
« on: April 01, 2020, 06:42:20 pm »
Turn -4 : Design Phase
Design: Zeus Titan Arm (Average)
2 + 1 = 3 : Buggy mess
The Zeus should work. It doesn’t. That’s what it comes down to. The concept is good, the science is acceptably firm, but the engineering didn’t hold up. While the arm can generate the electricity, it’s ability to condense it, and contain it once condensed, is not so good. This causes leaking voltage to randomly surge out from the arm whenever it’s in use, causing the Titan equipped with said arm the same EMP problems it was supposed to give to the enemy. And speaking of enemies, the lack of consistent condensation and high enough charge makes the actual ability of the arm to attack be highly in doubt. The shots tend to just dissipate into the surroundings instead of forming into proper ball lightning, greatly degrading the arms range, and even when it does hit something the voltage is often too lacking to have a real effect beyond a light show.
All in all, while promising, this arm needs more work.
Zeus Titan Arm : Cost 1
Design: Parrot Support Drone (Average)
4 + 1 = 5 : Average
The Parrot works. That’s the long and short of it. It’s a helicopter, it flies acceptably, it doesn’t have bad (or good) fuel efficiency, it’s not going to randomly break, and so on. It doesn’t have a weapon either, but that was in the design documents so it’s not really a flaw. And it does have some nice big ol sensor baffling arrays, just as requested.
On long ranged scans the Parrot doesn’t really look so much like a Titan as like a Titan sized blob of heat and radar returns, but that’s still enough to force the enemy to wonder which giant blob of long ranged sensor returns is the real Titan. Of course, once an enemy gets within line of sight the jig is up, as there’s no such thing as an invisible Titan. (Yet)
But the Parrot still forces the enemy to be unsure of where the Titan is until they see it with their own eyes, and wasn’t that the design goal?
Parrot Support Drone : Cost 1
It is now the Revision Phase. During the prep phases you get 2 revisions per turn. At the end of the revision phase we will have an extra phase for voting on Side names and stuff.
Design: Zeus Titan Arm (Average)
The Zeus Titan Arm is a simple concept; most Titans are mechanical in nature. Electricity really fucks with electronics. Also, electricity can look badass. The Zeus is a moderately armored arm that is mundane in most capacities - except for it's main and only armament, the Thunder Cannon. The thunder cannon condenses large amounts of lightning into a ball, using an electromagnetic field to contain it, and then fires it at the enemy at high speed. While the weapon is not the most effective against armor - it does it's damage, but when it lands on exposed parts, it acts as a local EMP, frying and disrupting electric systems and possibly shutting down an otherwise intact limb or section of torso.
2 + 1 = 3 : Buggy mess
The Zeus should work. It doesn’t. That’s what it comes down to. The concept is good, the science is acceptably firm, but the engineering didn’t hold up. While the arm can generate the electricity, it’s ability to condense it, and contain it once condensed, is not so good. This causes leaking voltage to randomly surge out from the arm whenever it’s in use, causing the Titan equipped with said arm the same EMP problems it was supposed to give to the enemy. And speaking of enemies, the lack of consistent condensation and high enough charge makes the actual ability of the arm to attack be highly in doubt. The shots tend to just dissipate into the surroundings instead of forming into proper ball lightning, greatly degrading the arms range, and even when it does hit something the voltage is often too lacking to have a real effect beyond a light show.
All in all, while promising, this arm needs more work.
Zeus Titan Arm : Cost 1
Design: Parrot Support Drone (Average)
On the battlefields of Titan there is One Rule, and that is that Titans are the core of any battlegroup. However, even the greatest combatant can be enhanced in potency many times over with an excellent support group. The Parrot intends to fulfill that role. The Parrot is a rotary aircraft; a 'helicopter' for those using less fancy and precise phrasing. The Parrot bears no armament; it's role is not to attack. No, the Parrot's role is similar to its namesake, it uses sophisticated technology to imitate a contact much larger than it actually is through a variety of sensors; between throwing back Radar waves when struck by them to enhance the 'echo', to having intentionally poor heat mitigation but efficient convection to its surroundings to create a massive thermal outline; the Parrots intended purpose is to ideally fool enemy weapon systems into treating it as if it were a Titan.
While the Parrot obviously cannot survive the punishment of the arms it hopes to have target it, its small size compared to what said arms typically target should allow it some evasive options; and every Titan-Class Attack directed towards a Parrot is one less that our Titan has to deal with. And if one needs a distraction; surely sending a Parrot right up to the enemy Titan's sensor array while blaring at full capacity will constitute one.
4 + 1 = 5 : Average
The Parrot works. That’s the long and short of it. It’s a helicopter, it flies acceptably, it doesn’t have bad (or good) fuel efficiency, it’s not going to randomly break, and so on. It doesn’t have a weapon either, but that was in the design documents so it’s not really a flaw. And it does have some nice big ol sensor baffling arrays, just as requested.
On long ranged scans the Parrot doesn’t really look so much like a Titan as like a Titan sized blob of heat and radar returns, but that’s still enough to force the enemy to wonder which giant blob of long ranged sensor returns is the real Titan. Of course, once an enemy gets within line of sight the jig is up, as there’s no such thing as an invisible Titan. (Yet)
But the Parrot still forces the enemy to be unsure of where the Titan is until they see it with their own eyes, and wasn’t that the design goal?
Parrot Support Drone : Cost 1
It is now the Revision Phase. During the prep phases you get 2 revisions per turn. At the end of the revision phase we will have an extra phase for voting on Side names and stuff.