MME Board Joint MekHQ Campaign - The Sanguine Samurai

Added! I have you down for a Grasshopper!

Edit: Note! With that the command lance is 140 tons from the cap on a Heavy lance, where I'd like to keep it in that range to begin with, so keep that in mind when you mention mech choices

I'll probably just play it out and let you all choose contracts, upgrades for skills/mechs, etc

I'm using this thread as my inspiration

www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=167593.0

Idk if I have the capacity to run an rpg or something like that right now haha

Added! I did some digging as to where Simonson's were around 3000-3015 to find somewhere for Nomad to call a home planet, but of course that is one section where there's not a lot of info where they are until they have a battle on Hun Ho in 3025. With that planet being a paradise world in combine territory with some industry, my head canon was Simonson's were stationed there for awhile for reward for what they did in 2955 for the combine. So Nomad calls the wonderful planet of Hun Ho his birthplace

I also gave you an Archer 2R so that we could fill up that 280 heavy lance weight as Shoeless has a Grasshopper and I have a warhammer so we had a lot of direct fire already. With that, the fourth person will have a 70 ton limit for their mech choice

shoeless I had your home planet as Luthien, but if you have a specific planet you want instead let me know

I gave Nomad Lt. JG as he was older than the character that was rolled for Snake Eyes who is a corporal for now, but looking for a promotion when we get a new lance.

We have a few more decisions as well! I currently have us on Outreach trying to find a contract, painted up with a generic camouflage until we decide on some unit colors. 

Here's what we need:

Name for the Outfit, right now I have it as Mega Marauders as a placeholder haha
Outfit Colors - Or should we be practical and use appropriate camouflage, but when is that fun?! Depending on the colors I'm going to try my hand at creating a new skin.
First Employer - Who should we look at for our first employer? With some history in Draconis space should we look towards them? Even if they are about to get spanked and their general disdain for mercs at this point in the timeline

Fun Facts about the outfit so far that I found intriguing:
We all have 70 ton mechs with 280 rated engines, should make maintenance a breeze for the techs. With that in mind I decided that we would have an extra 280 engine in storage just in case since so many of the mechs use that engine.
2/3 of our combat personnel hail from Draconis space (technically)

Some great thought in that break down there igloo. I picked that merc unit as its effectively disbanded but allows me to have been born into a mercenary family but now be 'free' of them without being dishonorable discharged. The birth location makes sense, very well researched there sir!

Archer sounds prefect to me, I'll have a look at the variant and check if there's any alternative ammo choices I'd consider using if they're available in the time line.

Merc name I'll need to sleep on. What's the Co's name? Any unit mantra or approach to combat?

First employer wise, I'd lean away from the combine on the basis of their attitude, then again, it may make for interesting content. If Galatea is our starting point, we've got a few good places. I'll update the post when I've had a further look at the star map.

Getting an extra engine would be sensible at some point for sure. If the moneys there perhaps straight away, but a mech with a dead engine is likely screwed in many other ways also. Could we afford to repair an engine plus everything else? If there's not a big surplus of cash, may be best to get armour, anmo and spare weapons to start with.

Great posts so far, really liking it

Shoeless, I've changed your homeworld to Marduk, good choice, it's been in and our of Fed Suns & Combine hands throughout history.
I'm digging the Convoy protection force camo! Here's our current mechs in that camo. 



Noted on the Engine, so I removed it from our warehouse. I tend to allow a starting company to start with enough spare parts to keep them going through their first contract without extra things to buy, and this loadout so far is pretty energy based. Here's a peek at our Parts In Use report along with things that are stored. 


Ignore the 7 million cbills, I'm taking that down to 2 million. I was messing around with generating contracts, because, as you can see from the log, I didn't get the memo about 47.15 having a bug that doesn't let the game automatically roll contracts for the company. So I'm going to roll this back to 47.11 and redo the company in that version of the game.

I'm not crazy about Seven Samurai as that kind of sounds like there wouldn't be alot of us. But I'm liking that train of thought. Maybe something with red or blood or fire along with Samurai or something?

Maus, as of right now my character is the CO. Mitch Grey, callsign Igloo, he hails from the Lyran Commonwealth world of Summer.

Noted on the Mech choice, but I think with a limit of 70 tons most people wouldn't choose something lighter than a medium if they didn't have to

If I can get everything moved over tonight to 47.11 I'll roll 3-4 contracts for us and post pictures. If not, I'll post something in about 36-40 hours!

It's a start though! We could go for a samurai esque name... What about Sanguine Samurai? Hence the red and white!

I'm happy to go with that. Are our employers and opponents going to expect us to follow the bushido code of honor 😁?

Better not work in Draconis space then otherwise we may be liable for a lynching lol

Added! We sure do have a lot of ex Combine in here hahaha
I have no qualms against an additional warhammer! I like the 6d for the added armor and no ammo at all haha, ever since I did this one time 



With that we have a full Heavy lance! I should be able to roll some contracts and post them here shortly!

Objective raid is likely a better option. If I recall you have higher risk of not being able to meet your obligations to fight on garrison duty missions with only a lance because of how often you get attacked versus the time to repair.

60% salvage is nice also

I vote for Guerrilla Warfare.We have a primarily energy force, as long as we make sure to buy a stockpile of LRM ammo we should be fine without access to parts. I'd also suggest another 50 tons or so of armor. We can buy these things with our advance money. We don't have transport rights which will seriously eat into our profits BUT we have 60% salvage rights and, and, most important... look at the enemy rating. Green/A. That means inexperienced pilots in high-tech units. That's where we'll make our money, friends, salvaging us some high tech stuff. We might even come up against and salvage some lostech, REAL LOSTECH!

So yeah, that job gets my vote.

From my experience with ATB that isn't the case. Battletech is certainly confusing with its letter ratings, with quality ratings being backwards to everything else, but higher letter grades for the enemy I'm confident means better quality.

Yeah. Like, planet ratings? A = best. Part quality? F = best. CGL plz.

I do like the idea of doing the guerrilla mission, but for the sake of it not being a split vote I say we stick with objective raid for now and do that one next?

I do see there's one objective raid with quality regular troops, and another with quality green troops. Probably should pick the quality green one.