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The small locations should be called shots. It's not logical for them to be random since in most cases they're relatively protected by main locations. I'm still looking for my Robotech Manuel. I like the idea of random hit-locations vs. called shots for smaller-locations. It's just many games have ...

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Jaymz: simple, but then again, I like more detail. I like the small-locations to be random as well.

STS: I'll have to check the manual; I don't have it with me here.

Thanks Yawl!

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Since there are only a handful of mecha for Robotech, has anyone created random to-hit tables for each mecha? Simply hitting the Main-Body unless a called shot is OK, but random locations would be better!

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http://www.solstation.com/x-objects/sag-deg.htm

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"In February 1998, a team of astronomers headed by Rosemary Wyse of John Hopkins University found that SagDEG orbits the Milky Way Galaxy in less than one billion years. Because it must have passed the dense central region of our Galaxy at least about ten times, it is surprising that the dwarf ...

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War is deception. -Sun Tzu Here's what happened: Rumors leaked of a new, unknown Invid ship*. The Zendtaedi armada's Exedore**, convinced the armada's Breetai that the Invid are, "Rubbish", their battle-pods can out perform and fight the Invid, based on mathematical principals alone, and c...

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Here's some images of the Zai-Zor;

Line-art of the ship:

https://ibb.co/K2RCgZt

And here's a screenshot of the ship in action from the MOSPEADA series:

https://ibb.co/yhLQDqW

Warning: Warning for Trolling, and Flaming/Flamebaiting. -B

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Here's an old link to the Inbit's Xai-Zor I got from my old HD. http://www.nishimizu/animie/mospedea/inbit/xaizor.html Regess energy-power = metaphysics for a children's TV-show. ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE. Caffeine is not the same has a good combat-drug; methheads. Like I stated before; letting your enem...

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Seto's kind of right; in I am at least not educating him and he doesn't speak for everyone. R1e/R2e are RPG games, not an IPhone. "Seto, if you could post articles, video or audio of Palladium quoting they had to follow HG and certain shows produced are non-cannon, that'd be great." If the...

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Good job xunk16! Remember, I am not arguing or even debating Seto; I am educating and part of education is self-discovery. As for the "Xai-Zor" ship, I had to pulled that off of a old HD I had in a box from a Compaq I had; I saved it circa, 2000-2001 in an MOSPEADA file. Back then, I saved...

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Prove you incorrect? Review your posts and you'll see. You don't seem to understand what, "Wishful" thinking is, other than your sheer arrogant-ignorance of military forces which is a flaw easily remedied by the opfor at table-top games. Zentraedi insanity table, pg. 10. Also, do you work ...

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You have trouble admitting you're wrong; you should work on that. For someone that claims to possess such a grand library, you would have understand my point of view and the capabilities of the Invid their base, the Inbit and the Zentraedi. Given there are actual tables to roll on Zentraedi insanity...

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". . . large, well-organized, and highly motivated force whose only real disadvantage was fighting with outdated equipment. . .": you've just described the Invid as represented by you in previous posts. And yes, the Invid hive-minds are different in the show, but, this is a forum about an ...

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There are Invid made genetic-mutations in the Sentinels book. Considering a military force, "Rubbish", is a good way to get defeated; say you are right and the Invid are terrible; but, the NVA were a, "Rubbish", fighting force, they lost the Tet offensive and yet, they won the wa...

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Individual Invid aren't thinkers; that's why they have hive-minds. Once you throw in metaphysical concepts like pscionics, anything is possible. Attacking exhausted military forces doesn't mean they are bad at war; it's just a good tactic. Sun Tzu would agree. Science is a form of religion. Another ...

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Honestly, all the dead Zentraedi on Earth would make great fertilizer for the flower! But in all Siriusness, M-stars don't produced enough UV and F+ stars produce too much; the flower would have to adapt and fast. I checked out the original-series the Inbit, oops, I mean Invid came from; no surprise...

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I was reading up on Unicron today; yes, it has a special-essence, but, is that what it thinks?

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"Unicorn. Zentreadi ships won't even qualify as crunching moons for him."

But their worlds will!

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jaymz wrote:I'll take Zentraedi any day of the week.......twice on Sunday if it is the Macross Zentraedi instead of the Robotech Zentraedi......

The more I think about this, the more it's gonna happen; Dolza, prepare to have your command-ship eaten!

I might covert it to Mekton.

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The Invid's flower of life needs a G or K class star to grow on an Earth-like world in the HZ. that is total speculation, as the show says nothing of the sort, nor did the old comics (which largely took the stance that FOL would grow anywhere), neither did PB's RPG's make such a claim. Science has ...

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The Zentraedi vs. Unicron; just saying!

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The Invid's flower of life needs a G or K class star to grow on an Earth-like world in the HZ. Yes, they are discovering a lot of jovian-class planets in torch orbits (that means, it formed in the outer system and moved closer, absorbing all other planets in the inner-system), but, those planets are...

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I always thought the Invid were a peaceful-species until the Masters came along and took their flower of life.

The Invid do have space-boosters so speed/range is not a problem; the Invid are more advanced in their biological and cybernetic-technologies as well as pscionics.

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If the Zentraedi could easily defeat the Invid by simply thrusting backwards out of their range, why didn't the Zentraedi wage their own, "Sentinels", campaign of annihilation against the Invid eons ago? And yes, I can see the UEEG marines use VF-1s because the USMC currently using older w...

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I meant an random scenario generator like the one I have for Battletech that creates random units for pen and paper games; however, there's a enough from the books I can do a few random-encounters between in I and the Z. Invid-brains do have an IQ score of 17 and are pscionic so who knows. I always ...

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That would be Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy, sailing past the Milky-Way. Itself is composed of mostly first and second generation stars with a low-metallicity(that means, most of the stars are M-class (red-dwarfs) with no planets and if they do have planets, they'll be the size of Mars or the ...

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DP9 is nice, but I want something that I can create on my computer; all I have are DC tiles that really don't look, "Zentraedi". I know, the Regent won't have to worry about his Inorganics going rouge, just like the Alliance in the movie based off of P.Dick's short-story, "Second-Vari...

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I like the modular-designs. Perhaps destroids are too small, but I can always try! But, it is doubtful I will ever run a Robotech-game again. I love critical-hit charts too, but I want to get the show on the road. My favorite tactic to take down mecha is right from Tiberian Sun; no player would ever...

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Yeah: I know the 1e Zentraedi and Ghost-ship have deck-plans, but I want detailed maps like Crusader or Starcraft; at least at the late '90's graphics. AvP2 had a great level-editor but I could never get it to work! Yeah: Principled would be best, but I just went with the Z1e book. Yes, AI can be un...

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If the Zentraedi ships were automated with respect to repairs, why not just have the Zentraedi replaced by machines? You're probably right; there are repair/damage-control/tech OCCs that weren't covered in 1e. I took a quick glance at 1e and they had to roll for alignment, only four options, which w...

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ShadowLogan wrote:
If you want to stay away from Critical hit Charts, then simply have the weapon (and/or features) knocked out when it takes some percentage of damage.

I thought of Cyberpunk's ACPA rules of chances of systems-failing due to damage, but less rolls the better.

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Yeah; I pulled out my Zentraedi source-book today; Zentraedi warships were so packed with crews and soldiers, it's like a game of Star Control. One question I do have is, who repairs and runs the ships? The only OCC for a Zentraedi PC is soldier. Do they run the ships until they can no longer fight ...

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JO was game-images I downloaded in '05.

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In the Zentraedi source-book, I believe it stated that every Zentraedi is issued a battle-pod; that's how many they have.

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For the Mecha with additional crew, I was only thinking of destroids; any of the other books beyond Macross I usually disregard (save for the Invid). I want to stray away from critical-hit charts: I've had combat rounds like for a whole hour (almost as bad as Battletech). Double-damage is nice, but ...

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I've been thinking of a few ideas: On a natural roll of a 20, the section hit is knocked out; it's not destroyed unless the MDC is depleted. For PBCs, on a natural roll of 19 or 20 knocks out the section due to EMP effect; unless of course, the to-hit-roll is a 20! Some common sense should be applie...

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I know the math is in the Zentraedi's favor, but, if numbers won wars, "mathematicians would be kings".* What if the Invid had better tactics or actually fought the Zentraedi 24:1? If you all have ever played Battletech, you know that Innersphere vs. Clans usually ends with the Clans winni...

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RR is Revised Recon; I've been to White Wolf's forums and I got in the habit of abbreviating RPG-books; CP:2020, CB, would be, "Cyberpunk 2020: Chrome-Berets. BTW: I've always disagreed with Starship Troopers and Star-Trek on naming spaceships after naval units; i.e., destroyers, cutters, carri...

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Has anyone actually play-tested the Zentraedi vs. the Invid using the Robotech rules?

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jaymz wrote:Votoms is just a derivative version of Mekton zeta with a few hero system character elements thrown in.

It was produced by R.Talsorian as well.

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Reminds me of Chome-Berets a bit: I like the Large Unit Resolution in RR; it works!

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This thread is too long to read every post and someone may have already mentioned this, but, the Zentraedi and the Invid come from two different anime lines that are not compatible; both were designed to fight a different enemy. Only the Macross saga and what every anime-saga the Invid came from can...

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Zer0 Kay wrote:PB cant do mini combat well. We'd be better off switching to Mekton.

I recommend Mekton, but, I have Mekton II, and it's written as if Maximum-Mike was doing meth when he wrote it; I also have Votoms, which is easier to understand when reading the rules.

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Leviathan is very similar to Robotech fleet-battles but it can take a long, long time to resolve; just use Full Thrust and adapt it to Robotech. I have Chameleon Electric's Babylon 5: Earth Force Source book and it uses a variation of Full Thrust; check it out on the web (ship sheets). Full Thrust I...

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I've still got my Officer's Battle Pod, the only thing in the model/ toy series I ever bought. I have a few metal minis for the BattleTech game, though, and always played a Marauder pilot. I have tons of painted metal miniatures for Battletech; a company of Robotech-style mechs, a platoon of Kurita...

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Jefffar wrote:File this one with how many licks to get to the center of the tootsie pop - the world may never know

Purdue University did a study: Average was 364 licks.

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Also, the artillery-thing did cross my mind once.

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There are some plot holes I have to work on; I started that map in '07 and come hell or high-water, I was going to finish it when I started it up again in Feb. It takes a long, long, long time to make one of those maps and my mind really wants to move on to other projects. It's inspired by a game ca...

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