On the eternally fair basis of first come; first served?
I have somehow ended up making the rules thread for the battle Swiper has been asking for for so very long. Unfortunalty having laid down his challange Swiper fogot to pay attention to his own deadline thus enabling the Black Dragon to launch a pre-emptive attack, even if it is with Farseer Telemnar looking the other way in order to be able to deny offical involvment and dirtying his Tavern's good name.
So there are two Teams;
Black Dragon Tavern Renagade Army - BDTRA (Attacking). Made up of AWOL members from the Black Dragon Defenders.
Currently fielding: Colonel Commissar Astor, Omnicron, Hymirl, Kyrano, BladeWind, greenstuff, & Azore24.
Swiper's Grand Liberation Army Against The Foolish Farseer Telemnar -SGLAATFT (Defending). Made up of the various people pledging themselves to Swiper.
Currently fielding: Swiper & Tricodex.
And theres the randomly attending Guild of Hecklers, Farseer Hedib'vre Foxilliath, Nubis and Xiou (no longer being a loner)
The Battlefield is naturally Swiper's Shack.
Todays rules.
Post a character sheet with the following format (note, if you have a special ability from previous wars then either add it in here or don't use it in this battle and keep it a secret). As normal people making god characters will be ridiculed.
Since theres not many in Swiper's camp and we've got to be slightly fair I may limit
Game Name: (Put your name here)
Race: (Are you a tree hugging elf?)
Side: (What team are you on?)
Equipment/Powers: (Got armour? Are you psychic or shapeshifing? It all goes here)
Weapons: (Guns, knifes, bombs, sharp sticks etc...)
Background: (So, who are you?)
Each player is allowed two actions per turn. One move action and one attack action. You may trade the attack action in for an extra move action, you may also trade in any move action for a non-combat action of approximatly equivlent lenght (switch a lever, drink a beer etc).
You may always attempt to make a defensive action when you are attacked, even if you have used up your actions already.
Characters all get 5 rough grades of health as a handy guide to how they're feeling.
1 - Fine (life is good).
2 - Minor injury (I broke a nail!)
3 - Major injury (Ack! I needed that hand..)
4 - Crippled (I'm going to crawl off and hide)
5 - Corpsified! (So you're St Pete?)
Characters that are corpsified are returned to life after the battle. And probably ridiculed a bit..
Objectives.
Attacker: Slap Swiper until he stops misbehaving.
Maybe Smash the Shack up a bit
Escape without getting too many BDTRAs Corpsified.
Defender:Prevent Swiper being corpsified (and ridiculed).
Prevent damage to the shack.
Kick out the raiders from the Shack
Don't worry, I'm not actually moderating it myself because I've found a nice, reliable, unbiased, good looking and all round great guy to actually do that. I'm just helping with the donkey work to get the show on the road (since someone who's name begins with 'S' can't organise his own wars...).
I will add a list of who's on what team as they join up.
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My next post that is in one message to avoid Makenshi slapping me for double posting.
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Oh wow! Invading Swiper! That sounds fun; I'll join up.
Game Name: Hymirl.
Race: Human
Side: BDTRA
Equipment/Powers:Modifed Viligante Mk3 powered battlearmour suit.
Features; Improved Strength, Gyrostability, Jump Jets, Neural interface system, Fusion power cells, Weapons gauntlet (left) with grenade launcher, Utility gauntlet (right) with grapple gun and wrist blade. Also has built in computer systems like targeters, infrared vision, medical scanner (standard sci-fi works really). Oh, And a go faster stripe on the jump jets.
And I've picked up one of the personal shield generators that Swordwind handed out ages ago, stops most lighter ranged attacks.
Weapons: Automatic pistol, Lance rifle (beam like energy weapon), variety of grenades (smoke, frag, concussion, emp & Psyk out).
Background: Formerly a Sergeant of a hard core anime style battlemech unit, Hymirl turned merc when his unit was destroyed in a bloody doublecrossing and ordered into an pre-arranged ambush. Forsaking his home and steady paychecks; he now adventures arcoss the multiverse killing people for money, irritating people and generally living it up
Always on the winning side!