Tsuki - Alienmech Assault Pattern Destroyer

[Twin]

This is Tsuki, one of the twins heading the Alienmech faction. The mech is based around getting to my opponent as fast as possible, while blasting away with the redicolusly powerful Pulsar Blasters. Once at the enemy, up comes the Giga-CCW Discs of Doom, which (if it manages to hit..) should shred stuff to pieces rather neatly. The alienmechs are all tooled up to boot with the latest high-tech equipment, aka loads of special upgrades.

The Alientechers believe in singularity through duality or something like that, yin yang and balance, so they will often 'balance' their mechs weapons on either side. Not only does it look cool, it's more powerful than pairing, it grants a very graceful balance point and if a mechpilot believes he has come up with the perfect weapon.... why not make two!?

So, I present:

Tsuki - Alienmech Assault Pattern Destroyer[/b][/u]

Body[/b][/u]

Chassis	Sp	As	Rn	Pr	Ar	Ht	Re	At	Ps
Super-Heavy	6	4	7	6	10	160	3	5	7

Chassis: Super-Heavy [165 cogs]

Characteristic upgrades: 19x; [166 cogs]

Locomotion: Bipedal, Retrograde [20 cogs]

Reactor: Daemonheart (Count-as alien core emitting Alien scrambling signal) [50 cogs]

Upgrades: [345 cogs]
Afterburners
Counter-Impulse System
Wheeled (Count-as; legboosters)
Data Node
Smoke Emitters
Engineer (Count-as; Semi-regenamer)
Scrambler
Target Designator
Advanced Sensors
Locust Mines; 6*
Directional Shoulder-Mounts
Spotter

Modulus Arm (Right)
Modulus Arm (Left)

Total body cost: [746 cogs]

Weapons:[/b][/u] (All names are subject to change. Definitely.)

Right Arm+Left Arm:

Discs of the Extraterrestrial - [262 cogs]

Class	As	Str	Pw	At	Type
Meele	5	4D6	10(16)	5	Giga, Lance, Combat Master, Paired

Right Arm

Nucleus Pattern Pulsar Blaster A - [120 cogs]

Class	Range	Strength	AP	Shots	Type
Alien	24"	3D6(4)	6	4	Heavy, Alien, Surge

Left Arm

Nucleus Pattern Pulsar Blaster B - [120 cogs]

Class	Range	Strength	AP	Shots	Type
Alien	24"	3D6(4)	6	4	Heavy, Alien, Surge

Shoulder:

Striker Pattern Missiles A - [131 cogs]

Class	Range	Strength	AP	Shots	Type
Missiles	24"	2D10	6	4(6)	Heavy, Salvo, Paired

Striker Pattern Missiles B - [131 cogs]

Class	Range	Strength	AP	Shots	Type
Missiles	24"	2D10	6	4(6)	Heavy, Salvo, Paired

Body:

Locust Hive - [90 cogs*]
6 Locust Mines

Body Mounted Alientech Shield Generator - [Estimated: 150 cogs]
Special Rules: Soon to come

Total weapons cost - [914 cogs][/u]

Total COGs = 1660[/b][/u]

[Adam]

Sheesh... you're good at this, aren't you??

Locust mines = your spider mine idea, yes?

This thing is awesome. Can't see it holding two big spinning discs in its hands, mind, unless it has some kind of transformation ability. I like your fluff too. 150 cogs? That shield generator's going to be brutally overpowered, isn't it? ;D

The ninety tons of upgrades approach is something I hadn't thought of with regards to elite forces. I'm starting to see a way to differ these guys from the Opalites and Etherium. Bear with me while I muse...

So the Opalites are like Warmachine's (or rather Hordes's) Circle of Orboros, or a well played 40K Eldar army. You go to attack them and suddenly they're not there. Utter tactical superiority. Their mechs are nice, powerful, efficient, but not uber-super-mega (well, except for Opal).

The Etherium. Well they're sporting daemon bits everywhere. Cannons nobody knows how to work, daemonheart engines, scary-as-hell mechs. Elite, offensive army with a lot of powerful stuff... See that's exactly what the alien guys are like. (Etherium daemon weapons would obviously count as alien ones...)

Wait. What if we simply made them the same faction? As in wrote fluff for both, but made them otherwise identical apart from a) different reactors and b) special characters? Otherwise, gameplay-wise it's going to be really hard to differentiate them. Help me here 'cos I don't really want to do half a faction (and I like the Etherium a lot, I want them to be unique, and same with the alien guys. Who we never did come up with a name for...).

[Twin]

That shield generator's going to be brutally overpowered, isn't it? ;D

Dude, I have three mechs. Do you think I intend to let any of them die? ;D

Yup, the locust mine idea stays pretty much the same. Going to model really small cool looking Locust mines on small bases. However, do you think I'm overusing them? Since I'm not really strong in numbers, I thought I'd bolster the number of things to shuffle around as much as I could. And as Soru will be quite isolated (with Tsuki running off to slash things and Cath sitting in a forest) he needs every bit of defence he can get... I'll drop Soku's around him, and Tsuki will drop his as he advances, mainly between enemy meelemechs and Soku. So, do you think it's spamming or not?

The Discs just sounded cool, atleast at 1:30 in the night... When modelled it'll be more like sleek alien lance-blades or something... so I might need to revise the name her as well. Also, "of the Extraterrestrial" sounds... just lul.


Mhmmmn... not to keen on merging with the Etherium, for several reason. Mainly that I have grown quite fond of this alien faction, and I've got a lot of ideas that wouldn't fit too well with the daemon-oriented Etherium. Also, I think I can come up with very different fluff/special rules too. Maybe not playstyle as much, but we'll see...

[Adam]

Jun 23, 2008 10:40:31 GMT -5 Twin said:

Dude, I have three mechs. Do you think I intend to let any of them die? ;D

;D

Jun 23, 2008 10:40:31 GMT -5 Twin said:

Yup, the locust mine idea stays pretty much the same. Going to model really small cool looking Locust mines on small bases. However, do you think I'm overusing them? Since I'm not really strong in numbers, I thought I'd bolster the number of things to shuffle around as much as I could. And as Soru will be quite isolated (with Tsuki running off to slash things and Cath sitting in a forest) he needs every bit of defence he can get... I'll drop Soku's around him, and Tsuki will drop his as he advances, mainly between enemy meelemechs and Soku. So, do you think it's spamming or not?

Not really... nah, especially not on only three mechs. It's a good idea actually. It can help block Soku and Cath from assaulters, certainly. If you deploy Tsuki's in front of the other two as well, and Soku in front of Cath, the enemy'll have to go through three waves of spider mines to assault the indirect fire mech.

Jun 23, 2008 10:40:31 GMT -5 Twin said:

The Discs just sounded cool, atleast at 1:30 in the night...

Discs of Caffeine?

Jun 23, 2008 10:40:31 GMT -5 Twin said:

Mhmmmn... not to keen on merging with the Etherium, for several reason. Mainly that I have grown quite fond of this alien faction, and I've got a lot of ideas that wouldn't fit too well with the daemon-oriented Etherium. Also, I think I can come up with very different fluff/special rules too. Maybe not playstyle as much, but we'll see...

Yeah, we'll see what we (and the rest of the community, all one of him) can come up with. Playstyle is important though. All of the factions need to be reasonably different. I don't want to fall into MEQ syndrome where half the armies in a game are more or less identical.