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Absent the Vanguard, I'd say a full conversion borg with HtH: Commando would be hard to beat.

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Really? How do you get that. Because that is not what the OP asked. Though that could be your interpretation of how to weigh what he asked. It asked who is the deadliest. As I said, I was presuming a weighted average, however that needn't be the case. The one who can cause the most death is the one...

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How is it answering the question? No Seriously, how does this answer the question? It just answers the question for one sub-set of one kind of fight. Wrong. It totals up the enemies of the Coalition and determines which person can kill the highest weighted number of them, regardless of what type of...

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Not, because while it's able to deal massive damage it's a one-shot weapon so it's little different than a portable missile launcher where you have to reload after each shot and dealing roughly the same amount of damage but without the blast radius. Even if a GM let you run it off a power pack it's...

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eliakon wrote:Which is great....as long as you are not going up against snipers, or mages, or psychics, or.......

...and yet we insist on answering the question asked, and not the one you are addressing.

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And those 'specific sets' all have different criteria. Fighting Xictic in Canada requires a different set of combat traits than fighting Tolkeen retribution squads in the burbs. Neither of which is like fighting vampires in Arizona nor Pecos raiders, nor handling Entities, or people using Naruni te...

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The most deadly combatant is the one who has the skill/weapon/ability that happens to line up with their foes weakness. A juicer is utterly deadly in melee against foes that are vulnerable to their weapons....but not so good against a ranged attacker A sniper is deadly against single targets from a...

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I'd argue the button pusher is a combatant. They are simply not in melee combat.

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Size and Shape: Typically humanoid in shape and form, but usually oversized, robotic construct that towers 7-10 feet tall and bristles with weapons and moving parts. Most power armors will accept pilots up to 7' tall, even the classic dead-boy SAMAS is 8' tall, so a 7' pilot should, in theory, fit....

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Killer Cyborg wrote:I suppose, but I think that would be unusual.

I dunno...I suspect SAMAS that is stolen at a cost lower than the cost of manufacture is pretty much the standard for SAMAS sold on the black market.

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I'd go borg. The armor is cheap, they're cheaper to repair, you don't have to get in and out of them, and while most cities will allow a borg into the city limits, robot vehicles and power armor are often disallowed therein.

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*sigh*

Either they shouldn't have hit points or they should have SDC.

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If we go with no missiles, then we have to say no rail guns or other ranged weapons.

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Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne, In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie, One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, One ring to bring them all an...

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It occurs to me that a psychic could confirm that the person is in fact not possessed but just got hosed.

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I don't link rune efficacy with size. I'd relate it to how it was made.

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Except for more MDC to absorb the blast, more PPE to cast defensive spells to counter the damage, and more chances to take action (APM) than if they were first level. Collectively, Atlantis troops could easily utilize Tolkeen like tactics and cast Swallowing Rift/Rift Triangular Defense combos (Ass...

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Slight001 wrote:On a semi related note... can Psi-Stalkers get magic tattoos?

Ugh. They'd be food for any of their compadres and they'd have a predator response thinking of themselves. I see a lot of problems with this.

...but ole Splynny would probably think it was hilarious.

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Even if the CS were limited by such, they could churn out millions of Skelebots.

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Ceding air supremacy to an opponent, especially one like the CS, is a very bad idea. Air power's effect on the principles of war is astounding. For example, there's a CS aircraft that carries 250 mini-missiles (which can be launched in large volleys) and has a max altitude of 60,000 feet. It would ...

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Yeah. I'd rather have a Glitterboy.

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Why wouldn't they? Cat's-Eye and Snow Lizard Dragon Hatchlings have a bonuses to save vs. possession in particular (+2 and +4 respectively). The Royal Frilled Dragon Hatchling has a specific bonus to save vs. mind control, though possession is not mentioned in particular, the presumption is that the...

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1. Talisman PPE batteries: I usually carry around a deck of cards with each card a PPE battery. 54 cards (2 jokers plus 13 or each suit) with 30 PPE each is 1620PPE. If you cut a thumb-width gap in the side of the box, you can touch all 54 cards at the same time. Clever, but I'd use a tarot rather ...

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As a player in this sort of campaign, I'd sign up for a few years as a Juicer with the deal being that I'd get to be a full conversion Borg when I was done with my three years.

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That said, I would not be opposed to a Talisman Mage OCC but it would have to be carefully designed to avoid turning the mystic forces of the cosmos into a commodity and ending up with an effective unlimited PPE and Spell Base. I'm not sure that talismans would have that high of a value as a commod...

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Well, if the briefcase is destroyed, then the GM has to make a ruling about what happens to the contents of a dimensional pocket if the item the dimensional pocket is anchored to is destroyed (the spell description does not address this issue). Worst case: I lose everything in the briefcase (which ...

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If you could get someone to apply silver runes to them, they would be indestructible. 54 silver runes? Sounds expensive... Why would silver runes make something invulnerable? My knowledge of magic is limited at best so I've probably missed many tidbits of knowledge... anyone care to share a book an...

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1. Talisman PPE batteries: I usually carry around a deck of cards with each card a PPE battery. 54 cards (2 jokers plus 13 or each suit) with 30 PPE each is 1620PPE. If you cut a thumb-width gap in the side of the box, you can touch all 54 cards at the same time. Clever, but I'd use a tarot rather ...

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I'd go with:

A. 2 Wild Weasel SAMAS (ECMs for the win!)
B. 2 Kittani Raptor PA
C. Eight Silverhawks

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It doesn't say that they're immune to Horror Factor. Yeah...it says whenever a human/mortal encounters one of those terrors [creatures]. Given that mortality means something can die, I'd say we're in a spot where most beings can still be horrified. I doubt demons and such can though. /Sub A Horror ...

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I'm curious: how many people are in this hypothetical medium sized kingdom?

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It doesn't say that they're immune to Horror Factor. Yeah...it says whenever a human/mortal encounters one of those terrors [creatures]. Given that mortality means something can die, I'd say we're in a spot where most beings can still be horrified. I doubt demons and such can though. /Sub A Horror ...

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First thing that pops into my mind for why an otherwise HF immune being to need a bonus to save would be for the rare times that a class or race has a HF specifically directed at such beings. For me, it was spells. But if they're immune to HF, they'd still be immune to it caused by a spell. It does...

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Oddly enough its not relevant in RUE. Unlike the various other games, or the RMB version of Rifts, in RUE Horror Factor explicitly only affects humans and mortals. (RUE pg. 367) As such no supernatural creature, creature of magic, or immortal being is affected by horror factor anymore (Unless they ...

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Hm...missile killer tanks like juicer killer armor. I like this idea!

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The trees those tanks were going through were eight to ten inches thick. I was thinking of trees that are thirty inches thick.

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They could do it to avoid offing a hero.

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Greetings and Salutations. Very true, and to add to that thought: Splugorth (some big bads of the supernatural) as well as the various Demons (Hades) and Deevils (Dyval) also have bonuses to Save vs. Horror Factor. A bonus to horror factor, by no stretch of the imagination, means impervious. It act...

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Frankly, I think the CS would exterminate them all. There would be considerable paranoia about the Splugorth playing an even deeper game, using the returning soldiers to sneak in infiltrators and brainwashed operatives turned and altered using methods most inhuman and unknown to the CS. Karl knows ...

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Actually, as was mentioned before, Necromancers have a Horror Factor and have a bonus to save against it, indicating that they have to save against Horror Factor from time to time.

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The CS nukes the site from orbit...only way to be sure. This would never work. If Tolkeen can prevent such bombardment, it's a sure thing that Splynncryth can as well. Then they "CLEANSE! PURGE! KILL!" the soldiers & personnel aflicted with the "heretical taint of the reviled spl...

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A rather annoying factor might be to spam Magic Pigeons (20 PPE, trivial if on a Ley Line IIRC) to send messages to CS troops, even outside the battlefield. The trick is getting the name(s) of said troop(s) to harass. Messages should be designed to invoke mistrust in the target(s) by their fellows....

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Since horror factor in general requires affronting someone with the sheer appalling evil of something, shocking them to their core, then creatures like vampires with horror factor should be immune to it since they're thoroughly supernaturally evil and being exposed to such is like 'oh but that feel...

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This gets to the core of the issue for me. It's a minimum of 800 credits a pop to recharge an e-clip?! It costs HOW MUCH to repair that bot? As I see it, the only adventurers out there would be mages, because nobody else could afford it! /Sub Not if they get shot up regularly, and expend a lot of a...

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This gets to the core of the issue for me. It's a minimum of 800 credits a pop to recharge an e-clip?! It costs HOW MUCH to repair that bot? As I see it, the only adventurers out there would be mages, because nobody else could afford it! /Sub Not if they get shot up regularly, and expend a lot of a...

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I have more issue with the idea that somehow creatures with horror factor can somehow horrify each other than that the rules don't generally handle having multiple creatures with HF attacking at the same time. I just don't see how you can inflict horror on something that naturally radiates horror i...

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Hell, an 8th level warlock can summon a greater elemental with 16,000MD!

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An Undead Slayer gets the ability to raise dead at level 1. Is this all that much worse?

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I'd give it a limit, though.

11 vampires isn't really scarier than 10 of them.

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*wonders what this static cost of off-site missile support is supposed to be, but fathoms the low cost of bots/borgs/PA in comparison to bots. Well, I assumed a cost of 10M credits, which is pretty generous given that a man-portable medium range missiles (with reduced range but full damage) cost a ...

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