[SEMC] Forward Thoughts

[Tiglath]

By the magic of GM Fiat things will be fitted in as necessary.

You are assured of automatically successful delegation of tasks if you want to go off spying.

[Leitz]

By the magic of GM Fiat things will be fitted in as necessary.

You are assured of automatically successful delegation of tasks if you want to go off spying.

Not sure that applies to Prerna.

[BackworldTraveller]

• Plague
• Bloody War
• Honeymoon

Hmmm

[The Bindoner]

I was wondering if under the Unit Admin thread it might be worth each player posting their skills and any military experience (sort of a mini resume), it would be common knowledge inside the unit I would imagine (at officer level at least).

EDIT: we did have that skills spreadsheet, we could post a link to that and make sure it's up to date

Actually, a public resume of military experience would be a useful thing. Book 4 characters have an interesting service history beyond the skills and medals list. Some idea of what we've done might be useful for how we write about each other's characters IC.

[Tiglath]

By the magic of GM Fiat things will be fitted in as necessary.

You are assured of automatically successful delegation of tasks if you want to go off spying.

Not sure that applies to Prerna.

Yes, more specific to Frank and Jess but applicable to all PCs.

Delegating other people to marry either Liv or Erica because the PCs "had a thing" would likely prove a less popular call.

Although a certain single member of the Inchin nobility is surely available... and happy to marry both!

As to "Forward Thoughts" (that's in game rather than the Baron's fevered imaginings! ) there is time for a "quick" wedding or it could wait until after Avastan.

We also need to cover unit "shopping" (if any large scale purchases), recruitment and reorganisation.

I note this is in hand in other threads.

Please take any reasonable private purchases up to TL 13 as a given but please publish them either IC/OOC as convenient.

[joertexas]

Erica would murder Prerna if she tried to skip out on their honeymoon...

Mercenary companies have more than one way to open up promotion opportunities.

Funny. Very funny.

[The Bindoner]

We also need to cover unit "shopping" (if any large scale purchases), recruitment and reorganisation.

I note this is in hand in other threads.

Please take any reasonable private purchases up to TL 13 as a given but please publish them either IC/OOC as convenient.

I'm in the middle of a busy week, did I miss something? For instance, what's the budget...

[Tiglath]

Nothing missed just a pre-emptive strike on the downtime admin.

Unit PCs are greenlit for private (military) purchases "on the company" up to tens of thousands of Cr.

Anything that will amend the TO&E is likely both a wholesale purchase and a policy decision so needs discussion.

Equally any big ticket items (e.g. personal grav belt) and/or expensive and amend the TO&E (e.g. one squad's worth of PgMp 13s) will need group (command) approval for purchase.

[shaidar]

I was wondering if under the Unit Admin thread it might be worth each player posting their skills and any military experience (sort of a mini resume), it would be common knowledge inside the unit I would imagine (at officer level at least).

EDIT: we did have that skills spreadsheet, we could post a link to that and make sure it's up to date

Actually, a public resume of military experience would be a useful thing. Book 4 characters have an interesting service history beyond the skills and medals list. Some idea of what we've done might be useful for how we write about each other's characters IC.

I'll post something for Frank later.

Nothing missed just a pre-emptive strike on the downtime admin.

Unit PCs are greenlit for private (military) purchases "on the company" up to tens of thousands of Cr.

Anything that will amend the TO&E is likely both a wholesale purchase and a policy decision so needs discussion.

Equally any big ticket items (e.g. personal grav belt) and/or expensive and amend the TO&E (e.g. one squad's worth of PgMp 13s) will need group (command) approval for purchase.

Yeah, don't go crazy, if everyone spends 90k then that's getting on for 500k

[gurusql]

Posted Kit's skills to the spreadsheet and if people are looking for background information that has been mentioned (resume, Term Details, etc.) - I have posted that for Kit in the gurusql's PC Notes folder.

In terms of equipment, I will wait until he is hired . . .

[shaidar]

"PC Notes" threads are designed to be private to the player.

I think it's easier just to copy and past the data into the Unit Admin thread. Keep the thread clean with one 'resume' post per PC (or major NPC) which can the edited if it needs to be updated.

Just my thoughts.

[Tiglath]

Would a (notionally reference only) résumé thread help?

Saves rummaging about if you want to check a background reference on a comrade in arms.

[shaidar]

As we already have a Unit Admin thread I just thought using that would save another new thread.

[Leitz]

There was a mention about when to plan the wedding(s). Jakob is looking forward to giving Liv a nice one, and he's also hoping to do well for Prerna and Erica. So probably best back at Collace, after Avastan. Of course, up to the others.

[Tiglath]

That probably makes logistical sense and happily fixes in place one of the moveable "downtime events".

[shaidar]

From Unit Admin thread:

I have frozen the header row and the first two colums, so we can move along and still see what we're talking about. Do we want to add tabs by PC/NPC, or by team?

If we added a tab for each PC/NPC to the spreadsheet then that could be used for people to add any 'resume' info that people want to share, plus any other info they think is useful. I also think it would be useful to have a tab for each squad where notes can be added. This would keep everything in one place and minimise clutter.

Either that, or keep the spreadsheet just for skills tabulation and place a post in the Unit Admin thread for each of the above. The squad leader could post for each squad, which would allow them to edit it.

[joertexas]

There was a mention about when to plan the wedding(s). Jakob is looking forward to giving Liv a nice one, and he's also hoping to do well for Prerna and Erica. So probably best back at Collace, after Avastan. Of course, up to the others.

Formal event, no problem. Legal ceremony - no, nope. Not if Prerna has a say in it.

[shaidar]

So, out of a discussion Tiglath and I have been having about the new merc books, he suggested that we really should consider buying more grav-vehicles to ensure everyone is mobile, so we can be 'mounted infantry' in the more traditional sense. I agree this is a very good idea, even if we only end up buying civvy g-carriers.

But it got me thinking about our current vehicle situation, is this correct:

Brought from Collace:

Ambulance
Bus
Technical
G-carrier
TAC missile vehicle

Obtained on Inchin from the pirates:
Shuttle
2x G-carrier*

*Is this right? I thought we got 2, and named them Lethe and Styx, but one was quite badly damaged so we ended up using parts from it to get the other one working. Or is my memory wrong?

That's not a bad bunch of vehicles. With the shuttle taking over as HQ, that means the bus is freed up, but I'm assuming g-carriers are the on-mission workhorses and they are smaller and more flexible, but take less troops.

[BackworldTraveller]

but I'm assuming g-carriers are the on-mission workhorses and they are smaller and more flexible, but take less troops.

and are more battlefield mobile as they fail to immediately burn when hit like the bus would

[Tiglath]

You "cannibalised" the two pirate G carriers to leave you with one viable vehicle and a pile of spares (vehicular materiel as per the merc book).

The G carriers are lightly armoured - so proof against small arms.

They do not fare at all well vs. LAW and RAM grenades as you proved whilst storming the Bartizan.