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Re: Fallout: Equestria (v0.95 beta) Feather and Flame
« Reply #1170 on: January 05, 2013, 03:20:40 pm »

Its name will be remembered, in the halls of Sprite-Bot glory.

Rest in pieces, Butteryfrost.
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« Reply #1171 on: January 05, 2013, 04:02:51 pm »

Its name will be remembered, in the halls of Sprite-Bot glory.

Rest in pieces, Butteryfrost.

Oh shit, Replica. I didn't recognize you without your smartass parrot avatar.
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« Reply #1172 on: January 05, 2013, 04:16:23 pm »

To sum it up and spoil the plot for you, in the second book the butler kills Lycaeons long lost cousin, steals the diamonds and escapes with his brothers friends wife.
Nooo...my cousin! :'(

> Everyone, let's remember Butteryfrost, the armored spritebot who knocked a griffons brain in but sadly fell to her...ceasing of function a few moments later.
Good to see robot manufacturing and griffons working outside of testing. :) Rest in pieces indeed.

>  Put the horn through a hole and the ring they put it through sinches down (to accomodate horns that are thicker than others) to create an airtight seal.
Power armor was designed by earth ponies for earth ponies, and plus, unicorns don't really have the strength and toughness to make good Steel Rangers. :P
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« Reply #1173 on: January 05, 2013, 04:20:20 pm »



>  Put the horn through a hole and the ring they put it through sinches down (to accomodate horns that are thicker than others) to create an airtight seal.
Power armor was designed by earth ponies for earth ponies, and plus, unicorns don't really have the strength and toughness to make good Steel Rangers. :P

Balls to all that. The unicorns in At the Gala were buff as hell. And you can't say Shining Armor wouldn't be an unstoppable beast in power armor.
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« Reply #1174 on: January 05, 2013, 04:36:43 pm »

Oh shit, Replica. I didn't recognize you without your smartass parrot avatar.

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Balls to all that. The unicorns in At the Gala were buff as hell. And you can't say Shining Armor wouldn't be an unstoppable beast in power armor.

Its foam muscles.
Everyone knows that unicorn muscles are composed of marshmallows.
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« Reply #1175 on: January 05, 2013, 05:13:24 pm »


> I think SRs should get military versions of robots as pets and sometimes bring them to the battlefields.
Invaders will only bring mount pets to the battlefield.
Actually, goblins bring trolls.
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« Reply #1176 on: January 05, 2013, 05:19:33 pm »

Huh...I forgot about that. :-[ In that case I'll try working in some robot pets for invaders. Thanks for pointing that out!
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« Reply #1177 on: January 05, 2013, 05:29:39 pm »

Huh...I forgot about that. :-[ In that case I'll try working in some robot pets for invaders. Thanks for pointing that out!

In all honesty, when was the last time any of us played vanilla?
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« Reply #1178 on: January 05, 2013, 06:42:28 pm »

Huh...I forgot about that. :-[ In that case I'll try working in some robot pets for invaders. Thanks for pointing that out!

In all honesty, when was the last time any of us played vanilla?
I just started a vanilla fortress after being inspired by Erebor in "The Hobbit".
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« Reply #1179 on: January 05, 2013, 06:56:57 pm »

Huh...I forgot about that. :-[ In that case I'll try working in some robot pets for invaders. Thanks for pointing that out!

In all honesty, when was the last time any of us played vanilla?
I just started a vanilla fortress after being inspired by Erebor in "The Hobbit".

Is Erebor the dwarf kingdom? That entire sequence reeked of Dwarf Fortress.
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« Reply #1180 on: January 05, 2013, 07:16:09 pm »



>  Put the horn through a hole and the ring they put it through sinches down (to accomodate horns that are thicker than others) to create an airtight seal.
Power armor was designed by earth ponies for earth ponies, and plus, unicorns don't really have the strength and toughness to make good Steel Rangers. :P

Balls to all that. The unicorns in At the Gala were buff as hell. And you can't say Shining Armor wouldn't be an unstoppable beast in power armor.

Knowing the Earth ponies at the time, the way the suit would work would probably block the magic from the horn itself, they'd be a beast..But have no magic. Of course they built it in a way that Unicorns couldn't wear it to begin with though, and it'd be hard to make some Jerry-rigged modifications without causing the overall structure of the suit to weaken.
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« Reply #1181 on: January 05, 2013, 07:56:32 pm »



>  Put the horn through a hole and the ring they put it through sinches down (to accomodate horns that are thicker than others) to create an airtight seal.
Power armor was designed by earth ponies for earth ponies, and plus, unicorns don't really have the strength and toughness to make good Steel Rangers. :P

Balls to all that. The unicorns in At the Gala were buff as hell. And you can't say Shining Armor wouldn't be an unstoppable beast in power armor.

Knowing the Earth ponies at the time, the way the suit would work would probably block the magic from the horn itself, they'd be a beast..But have no magic. Of course they built it in a way that Unicorns couldn't wear it to begin with though, and it'd be hard to make some Jerry-rigged modifications without causing the overall structure of the suit to weaken.

This part of the FoE mythos rubs me the wrong way.
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« Reply #1182 on: January 05, 2013, 10:23:26 pm »

Strong Hoof was a Unicorn, who had a custom-made suit of Power Armour and a horn "compact" enough to fit inside the helmet. I think "Broken Steel", or whatever is the name of that gun porn fanfic about a giant mech Krogoth, also had a Unicorn in Power Armour. Other than that, I'm for PA training only being for EPs. Scorpion Power Armour should be Pegasan only, but allowing it for EPs is fine. Unicorns have enough things going for them: good skill rates, shield wall and spells. Maybe, just maybe, UPs could be able to use SPA, as it already has some structural weaknesses (like removable goggles), but I'm not sure about it.

In-fluff the problem with drilling a hole in the helmet to put a horn is that it no longer has 100% coverage; the horn is vulnerable. To counteract this, you'd have to make a steel cone, put that over the horn and screw it to the helmet. This might affect UP's magic. If MAS and MWT worked long enough, they would probably come up with gem-encrusted armoured power horn that actually amplifies magic as part of the design, but it never happened.

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« Reply #1183 on: January 06, 2013, 02:53:33 am »

In my Napoleonic model of Equestria's military, I've long had horned helmets as standard issue kit. It fills the role of a bayonet for the average musketpony, which is needed since ponies can't use bayoneted weapons on a battle saddle rig.

If you're worried about magic not being usable due to coned protection, simple fix. Widen the cone out to give the horn breathing room and cut off the tip of the cone so the upper part of the horn is exposed. The possibilities of pony combat has long fascinated me. With how enchanting works, it's possible to make firearms that don't need gunpowder, just lead balls fed by a hopper. Equestrian artillery would be COMPLETELY devastating. Combine enchanted magical shells with intelligence gathered by quick flying pegasi and you can launch devastating coordinated attacks without the need for radios.

I played the original pony Victoria 2 mod over the summer after the end of the first season, it was fin coming up for the pony equivalents of infantry, cavalry, dragoons, and how everything would work together. How does an earth pony reload a blackpowder weapon? I theorized a reloading system based on how the US military organized itself in World War Z, they fight around caches of ammunition and rifles with a team or reloaders. On the attack, ponies make their way to the front one row at a time. First fire, second moves up. Second fires, 3rd moves up, and so on. Meanwhile behind the regiment there are ponies busy at work reloading new rifles and moving munitions forward to keep pace with the lineponies. Ponies at the back get both of their rifles (one on each side of a battle saddle) replaced with a fresh reloaded one and wait for their turn to fire, weapons are constantly being reloaded to provide a continual rate of fire. The next evolution on this tactic is for the unit to adopt a more loose formation to allow freshly reloaded ponies to move directly to the first rank instead of waiting. Defensive and retreating maneuvers are also in my book of pony tactics but they all function similarly to the offensive model, relies heavily on well coordinated support and harmony.

After reading a bit of Fallout Equestria I instantly knew that mouth fired guns are dumbfucktarded. However my solution to it is a bit complicated, or rather more complicated than it needs to be. It's akin to the many strange gun patents of the late 1800s and early 1900s that never saw production or even the light of day. I didn't know how it would work exactly but the pistol would be strapped on the shin of a foreleg. In order to fire a pony would have to first extend their leg forward and then flex a shoulder muscle to fire. How this would work, I don't really know but it would solve nearly all instances of accidental misfire since two specific actions have to first be made that aren't done in normal walking or interacting. Not being equine I lack the necessary point of view needed to conceptualize a practical pistol. Well except for a pistol mounted on a pony's head and fired with a standard trigger bit, but that'd look silly. Also damage sensitive pony ears if gunpowder is the propellant.

I consider myself an expert in theoretical pony warfare, mostly since I haven't seen anyone else try to come up with tactics or hardware solutions from a pony perspective rather than force human concepts onto them. Except for Kkat. The trigger bit and battlesaddle are genius. I'm very confident I wouldn't have thought of them.
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« Reply #1184 on: January 06, 2013, 03:12:13 am »

I've always just pictured pony firearms to be specially designed for hoof/mouth operating.
Like, pistols and rifles would have larger grips and "levers" instead of smaller triggers that had to be pressed to fire the weapon designed that way to allow fully armored ponies (in modern combat armor that protects the entire face with a mask) to use firearms as well.
To me battle saddles have always been strictly for larger rifles and heavy weapons.
Pistols, carbines and smaller weapons would always be operated by hoof and mouth and carried around the neck in a shoulder strap of some type.
Ponies CAN stand on their rear legs fairly well in most forms of fiction and their strength would allow them to fire weapons effortlessly with one hoof/leg that our arms would need a steady grip to control, so human concepts aren't all that unthinkable.

But in truth unicorns would be the only race of pony suited to operate firearms at all, they don't have the same limitations as earth ponies and pegasi do and can operate practically any firearm, human or pony, with their magic.

The whole idea of pony weapons though is a bit like non-unicorn manipulation of items, picking up a cup with a hoof sounds great in fiction, but it is hard to imagine in practice, no matter how hard you try to.
Firing lines with reloading behind lines sounds alright, but it wouldn't work in smaller scale battles where ponies and weapons are scarce, and most battles have less than 100 participants in them.
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