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jedi078 wrote:So....I'm really not buying all your doubts. Especially since I just debunked them.

Oh no........... I guess I will throw my Class A CDL in the trash then......... Some guys opinion made it invalid......

OK.

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Seems like a lot of trouble to go to, why not just use a baby? Because you have to wait nine months for a replacement? You could use a farming method! A dozen or so women always pregnant so you don't have to wait the nine months. You would still have to wait for the baby to be born but you would ha...

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Operating a LAV or Stryker would be more akin to driving a Class B straight frame like a garbage truck, 40' box van, or cement mixer. There should probably be a heavy wheeled vehicle skill. I think garbage trucks and cement mixers would full under the category of the 'Pilot Truck' skill. An LAV or ...

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My mistake - I was confusing diesel/biodiesel engines with gasoline/ethanol engines (If my assumption was correct of course...). Turbines are already by their nature multifuel engines. If it can be sprayed into a vapor before the compressor it will burn. M1s eat JP-8, benzene, gasoline, JP-4, home ...

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Nice find! I think it bears pointing out that modern military armored fighting vehicles actually have MDC armor. Too many players (and GM's) ignore the fact that you can shoot them all day long with a pistol or rifle and the rounds will just bounce off. Now if you use something like a .50 cal or 14...

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BTW if you need a tank or something else post apocalypse just look for an Army or Marine Corps Depot.

Such as Sierra Army Depot outside Herlong, CA............ Literally hundreds of vehicles of all types parked in nice neat rows.

Google Earth this.

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Because this is so, these museum pieces may become a valuable resource if even for a massive supply of spare parts to keep a smaller fleet running, especially since there are at least a thousand M60 Patton tanks of various variants and conditions displayed across the United States. To what purpose?...

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You don't need to re-engineer any diesel engine to burn biodiesel. You just have to have sufficient quantities of vegetable oil to catalyze with lye. You would have to give up food for fuel, though.

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I use Google Earth with the .kmz overlay that makes the image into topographic maps. This way I can flip back and forth. I can see all the good stuff and players have only the knowledge that a person on the ground would have. A phone book, road maps, NPCs rumors, a direction to run in. I set games i...

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GreenGhost wrote:Does anyone know where to find some decent and inexpensive 28mm Zombie Miniatures?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

http://wargamesfactory.com/webstore/dark-futures

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There is several large problems with armored vehicles. 1) The are maintenance intensive. Like one hour of maintenance for X hours operating, more so if it is tracked. This varies considerably be vehicle type and individual system requiring maintenance. Aircraft are even worse some requiring ten hour...

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Alrik Vas wrote:I don't need stats or anything, but what is the premise of the Pretty Zombie?

It is surprise and shock. The PC thinks he is helping a beautiful woman survivor. Then the woman tries to eat his face.

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The 5.56mm round got its label as a "tumbling round" during the Vietnam Conflict. The original M16 rifle had a 1:14 inch rifling twist and the ballistics led to a slightly unstable flight path which facilitated the round tumbling upon the slightest contact with a surface. Over time, in an...

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Really, I think it was a missed opportunity for the RDF sourcebook to make a complex and more setting accurate missile table. GMs could use it or continue with the simple table from the original book. Light or heavy is a personal rules preference. I like the equipment information to be detailed myse...

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So what you are saying is you'd rather have images of missiles than simplify it for the vast majority if people likely don't care that a uedf short range high explosive air to air missile is not the same as a anti un one. Could you rephrase this? I don't know what you meant. You do realize that mos...

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The RPG had the opportunity to define the missiles we see in the series (and supplemental ones we don't that would make sense to exist) in a specific, detailed example. Instead we got the Rifts missile chat (which to be fair was at one time the Robotech missile chart) with its generic missiles and ...

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Apparently don't need us then. Carry on. Of course we need you! SOMEBODY's got to supervise the robot bulldozers and earthmoving gear used to help bury the SDF-1 and SDF-2! I have the skill sets to accomplish that. However, I am from this Earth, and not the one that had the Global Civil war. This p...

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time on target barrages. been in use since 1942. Time on Target is not the same as simultaneous impact. Time on Target specifies a specific time the impacts from a barrage begins. If a unit on the attack is counting on a barrage to suppress the enemy at the start of the attack then the first impact...

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Apparently don't need us then. Carry on.

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This doesn't factor in that modern artillery systems can fire their own salvos with the rounds from one howitzer regardless of it is two, four, or six; all landing simultaneously. This is accomplished by the M109A6 Paladin, Czech DANA, PanzerHaubitze 2000. A feature I would expect the Monster II to ...

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I meant as in replacing the categories short medium long range and mini. My list above has different warheads in each as well Anti armour would essentially be surface to surface types Anti missile could be a surface to air type The others you list would fall under my warhead catch all This doesn't ...

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Happy Birthday, Dude!

Forum says your 40....... Metamucil replaces Tang, and you will find Depends in the pharmacy aisle.

Have a good one.

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I completely recategorized the Missile table. Air to Air (or Space to Space as the case may be) Air to Surface Surface to Surface Surface to Air Micro (for robotech/macross use) Mini Bombs Torpedoes Warheads (special purpose IE cruise missiles, ICBMs etc) Anti Armor (HEAT works differently than HEP...

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40K Terminator suits............. Karbarrans would love those.

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Near if not at the top of my list for new variants for both the LACV and Janissary vehicles is a mortar carrier; mortars and infantry go together like peanut butter and jelly. The one in the TZ cluster is probably a fair place to start on Robotech mortar stats, although don’t get me started on the ...

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it's also a great way for high tech bandits to surprise players in their Destroids or Veritechs.....

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well, if he shows up, he'll double the number of active members with his sockpuppets.. Including more female members. What we need, then, is an equivalent thread to the IMU, for your kitbashes of common Robotech vehicles, without actually turning the vehicle into mecha. Although, I admit that my ce...

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Yes, it is entirely possible to “update” present day designs…or, actually, near-past designs would be better, Robotech’s timeline clearly diverged from the real world decades ago…and use them in the game. It isn’t my preferred modus operandi for a variety of reasons, though one of the main ones is ...

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glitterboy2098 wrote:well, if he shows up, he'll double the number of active members with his sockpuppets..

CombaX--Xeform.borg (replace x1 with T, x2 with R) is ridiculous in its slavish devotion to the M113. (No official name).

Sockpuppets did make me laugh.

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There's also the long-running controversy over calling the design the Gavin , promoted primarily by a self-styled military essayist who's been the subject of quite a lot of controversy himself over his claimed credentials and behavior. Unfortunately, it seems a number of visitors to his websites ha...

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I should think you can take anything you want and modernize it. Take any tank and say due to costs for maintenance, training and operation the model is still available now with Robotechnology super alloys giving an MDC hull. The 120mm main gun has been upgraded with these alloys to contain pressures...

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Book and pages cited?

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A penal planet for Zentraedi too independent to follow orders, or for experimental programs to improve Zentraedi stock. A Tirolian clone program dumping ground. A Tirolian weapons program testing area. The planet is an impact area and dangerous munitions from handgrenades to fusion bombs litter the ...

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dargo83 wrote:if any of anyone used a baby as bait in my game they would be shot to death then there corpse burned to ash the the ashes burned

Oh now I have to use it!

And, did I say one baby? Better make it two, just to be sure.

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I'm perplexed you felt a need to say this. Yet, this is the ROBOTECH roleplaying game...... The MACROSS roleplaying game does NOT exist. Everyone keeps repeating this........ Yet, you insist on.. Macross. Macross. Macross. Macross. Macross. Macross. Macross. Macross. Macross. Macross. Macross. Macr...

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Tor wrote:Seems like a lot of trouble to go to, why not just use a baby?

Because you have to wait nine months for a replacement?

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Unless the bulk of the trebuchet is under cover. Dig trenches and extend your siege in a close as necessary. Portable shields call Mantlets were used by Sappers in Napoleonic period siege warfare. The Mantlets fully protected a standing man at ground level as trench works were dug.

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MikelAmroni wrote: (The settlers call it New Colorado; it has a Tirolian name) and they have rebuilt New Denver. I'm open to other names besides New Colorado - it's just the first one that came to mind.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zareba

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Robotech, 1st Ed, Page 103. [...] Unfortunately, there are a LOT of fairly major inaccuracies in that segment you quoted. The standard of research in Palladium's Robotech and Macross II was not very good... well, it wouldn't be unfair to call it abysmal. Yet, this is the ROBOTECH roleplaying game.....

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Admiral Gloval. The tension lightening comedic value he brings to the script is his own charm.

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Robotech, 1st Edition, page 103, A.R.M.D Specific aircraft listed were the seventy-eight SF-3A Lancer II and two hundred seventy "all condition, unmanned fighter QF-3000E Ghost". Has this been changed for 2nd Edition? Yes, the human ships all got massively NERF'd in 2nd Edition. The RT2E ...

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It is my impression that the majority of the fighter complement is unmanned, i.e. the QF-3000 Ghost and the Lancer II. Either of these space control fighters should chew up any Invid, if programmed correctly. ARMD-01 was mostly carrying QF-3000s and SF-3As, but by all accounts an ARMD is also equal...

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I know I would have them continue in service well into the Shadow Chronicles. Simply because they are a known quantity, fully understood technology, and probably economical. Quite... it's a shame the official material is written the way it is, since it would make a LOT of sense for there to be a fa...

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I know I would have them continue in service well into the Shadow Chronicles. Simply because they are a known quantity, fully understood technology, and probably economical. Maybe a fold drive is added, and maybe a fold capable ship scoops it up and drags it along. However, the ARMD make a nice stat...

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DhAkael wrote: Miley Cyrus as Lisa Hayes

LOL

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Seto Kaiba wrote:Seriously, take it somewhere else before I decide that you need to be reported.

That was my actual laugh out loud moment of the day.

Practice, as you would preach.

Warning: Let's keep the commentary on the posts rather than each other.

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I really feel the Beta allows the Alpha to keep up with the Fleet until absolutely necessary for them to separate and begin dogfighting enemy mecha. But there was no Beta for a long time..... Which leads to the necessity of holding your screening force of fighters onboard until the last possible mo...

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I don't agree with the wing hard points...... all performance indicators and armaments indicate the Alpha is a short range defensive fighter. It protects the fleet capital ships against enemy mecha and fighters in close to the hulls. The capital ships fire and missile barrages deal with further away...

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Have you re-purposed the 1st Ed Strike Force Mecha in your games? The veritech car is a MP/Security forces rig in mine... it is unobtrusive and blends. Others are mecha made by other factions such as the Merchant Republic or SovBuilt export mecha.

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Your marriage has more problems then your hobby gaming......

Look into that first.

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