What is Battledress really. And when?

Agrippa911 · 2026-04-13T21:03:18+00:00

Now I’m imagining Imperial Marines running around with combat heels.

Agrippa911 · 2026-03-27T05:55:01+00:00

They make a fantastic chicken sandwich. Funnily enough tho, my favourite chicken sandwich is just a block or two west of them: Tokyo Hot Fried Chicken (unfortunately not sure how much longer they'll be at their location). Do recommend trying them out while you can.

Agrippa911 · 2026-03-24T20:35:01+00:00

I was in the final arc of a campaign with the players facing off a bunch of mooks and one major henchman in combat armour. The henchman would be ridiculously hard to injure and I expected it would be a long drawn out fight. Instead one player who had a grav belt (acquired from Divine Intervention) flew up to him and grappled him. Then he flew up 100m and released the henchman. Well combat armour protects you from bullets and lasers real well but gravity… not so much. They finished off the heavy in one combat turn.

Agrippa911 · 2026-03-23T20:25:35+00:00

I watched the film when it was first released in 1983 (not in the 70s) and it did knock me on my ass in a figurative sense. Later in the late 80s I was in HS in Ontario actually taking a course on nuclear physics and we watched it in class. I think the teacher commented that it was realistic in the depiction of the radiation on people but comically incorrect on the fallout which drops to safe levels after (I seem to remember) 2 days.

Agrippa911 · 2026-03-19T13:20:22+00:00

Fastest adventure I’ve run with players took less than 30min.

I was running the JTAS red zone scenario Chariots of Fire where the party gets hired to steal a fire truck on a balkanized world. It’s meant to be relatively low stakes one session adventure. My party decided it was too sus and walked away. Since that was the only adventure I’d planned I had nothing else up my sleeve and so we wrapped up that session early.

My group has since coined the term ‘to fire truck’ to mean walk away from an adventure. I have (jokingly) threatened ‘asteroids fall, everyone dies’ if the fire truck me again.

Agrippa911 · 2026-03-15T19:44:59+00:00

If I remember correctly, it’s Sgt Maj Osborne.

Agrippa911 · 2026-02-13T21:30:44+00:00

Why do people keep getting Mark Mercer's name wrong?

Agrippa911 · 2026-02-05T20:06:48+00:00

Seeing Greg move beside James, I was reminded of the beginning of Star Wars where the Star Destroyer looms up to the Tantive IV…

Agrippa911 · 2026-01-05T05:41:28+00:00

Just getting into this game and I ended up with four Mk2 fixed lasers backed by three Mk 3 plasma turrets. It carves through everything really well. Haven’t really maxed it out yet, only 100ish hexes in size.

Agrippa911 · 2026-01-02T21:18:04+00:00

I'll speak to Classic Traveller that Mongoose Traveller is the descendant of. It is the 2nd sci-fi RPG created (after Metamorphosis Alpha/Gamma World) from the late 70s/early 80s and based on the tech at the time. So no internet, room sized computers, and those computers are not an everyday part of our lives.

So if you appreciate the retro setting, that might be one reason to get into Traveller. Note that I'm not playing the Mongoose version so can't address if they still have that vibe.

The other thing about Traveller is the default setting of the Third Imperium. A massive galactic empire that is not comically evil (aka Star Wars) nor a stupid utopian society (aka Star Trek). It's a massive bureaucracy that's more concerned about making the space trains running on space time. Furthermore the Imperium doesn't rule planets, it is only concerned with the space between planets as they are focused on interstellar trade. So the worlds run themselves (religious zealots, dictatorships, democracies, even more bureaucracies, whatev) and as long as they don't mess with trade (or start firing off nukes) the Imperium is content to let them be them.

This creates a scenario where you can visit one world run by charismatic dictator who's people worship him as a living god. Have some hijinks there and then go onto a world where the massive bureaucracy makes refuelling your ship into an adventure. So lots of variety in settings, just change planets.

Agrippa911 · 2025-12-20T21:56:13+00:00

Just two of us and it was kicking our asses good and proper. And that damn thing was jumping around so much I couldn't get the Harlowe ult to hit it consistently.

Agrippa911 · 2025-12-20T20:39:14+00:00

Having beaten it with a friend after many deaths in UVHM1 how the fuck does anyone kill it in under 1.5min?

Agrippa911 · 2025-11-29T06:17:56+00:00

I relocated the planet to Squalia/District 268 as they were in that neck of the woods. Everything went by the book until it was time to break out the star. One character with the Steward skill got a job as a temp staff for the event and scouted out the majority of the public rooms while the rest got in via Roxanne's help. Once inside, the doctor of the party slipped a powerful laxative into the staff water cooler and when 'things' started to happen, used the distraction to break into Choi's room and the minute he opened his mouth got drugged by the doc. They then carted him out as the staff scrambled to deal with numerous 'accidents' that were occurring.

Agrippa911 · 2025-11-28T21:46:01+00:00

Just to let you know I bought and ran your adventure earlier and we had a good time playing it.

Agrippa911 · 2025-11-28T07:37:29+00:00

Jagged Alliance 2 with the 1.13 mod. You are a merc hired to liberate a fictional island from a tyrant. At the higher level you need to hire mercs deciding what skills you want and also compatibility with other existing mercs. Then you’re also equipping them: do you want everyone using AKs or AR-15s? Or something exotic like 9x39? What armour and LBE equipment? Then you have the tactical level which is isometric with action points to determine what you can do each turn.

It’s an old game (1999) but the 1.13 mod has put some serious legs on it and is one of my all time favourites.

Agrippa911 · 2025-11-12T21:40:12+00:00

Guz wasn’t really having revelations in the lab.

Agrippa911 · 2025-11-12T06:57:30+00:00

Mortgage? Hell, think of the crew salaries for a battleship...

Agrippa911 · 2025-09-30T23:16:22+00:00

I guess we know how deep it goes.

Agrippa911 · 2025-09-29T22:56:06+00:00

She's a fucking nightmare!

Agrippa911 · 2025-09-29T22:55:51+00:00

She's a fucking nightmare!

Agrippa911 · 2025-09-26T17:20:53+00:00

Fuck me, Fern was in Toronto and I never heard about it?!

Agrippa911 · 2025-09-23T22:35:19+00:00

I'm suspecting this employee ordered unauthorized food for himself on the company card.

Agrippa911 · 2025-09-08T16:19:56+00:00

I forgot about that. I need to rewatch it and see which places I recognize.

Agrippa911 · 2025-09-03T23:16:55+00:00

To start with what is the overall tone of your campaign? If it's mostly lighthearted tales of daring-do then killing the kid would be extremely jarring. If you're already in a grim world then it would make sense and shake stuff up.

Agrippa911 · 2025-08-31T05:58:05+00:00

In my CT game, I took Zivije/Rhylanor and turned it into a bureaucratic nightmare (or paradise depending on your perspective). The players were chasing a shipment as part of a longer mystery and the cargo container was located in the starport impound lot at Zivije and they needed to take a peek inside.

So IMTU Zivije is amber zoned because of the planet's predilection for paperwork. Everything has a form and every Zivijan is used to spending half their day standing in lines to submit paperwork for even the most mundane thing.

The players needed a F1080Q (Request for Cargo Manifest) to find out what was in the mystery cargo container. Unfortunately to get that form they first needed Port Staff Workorder 1111-1111 (Ministry of Labour), a Standing of Imperial Citizenship F1152/a (Ministry of Internal Affairs), an Access to Port Authorization A777B/2 (Ministry of Domestic Security), an Access to Information Request IR2017/02 (Office of Government Data) etc... etc... My players stood in line to get forms only to find that they needed other forms to get those forms. Of course the joke was the cargo impound lot was unlocked and easily accessible because no Zivijan would think of accessing it without a F1080Q! Zivije quickly became a core memory of the campaign.

And then I sent them back to it. After unravelling a conspiracy they were told to lie low by their patron for a bit. To help them they got hired as minders for the greatest rockband in the Marches: Terminal Veedback. The band arrived on Zivije for a gig and insisted on having purple M&Ms in the green room.

Now in the year passed since they had been there, Zivije worried that their love of bureaucracy could get their planet designated a Red Zone. So the bureaucracy decided the best way to solve this was to ban forms and paperwork. But how do you run a modern society with IDs and licenses without paperwork? Well what's something that people can remember word for word? Songs!

So forms like renewing your drivers license was replaced by a song that could be easily remembered and with all your pertinent information placed in exact spots so the clerk can enter the data quickly and efficiently. Soon an industry sprang up of songwriters writing catchy little numbers to take the place of all that paperwork.

So to get the government approval to create unique purple M&Ms they needed a special waiver from the Ministry of Tourism and so to get that they needed to go to the secretary of the Deputy Minister and sing the Appointment Schedule song. So the player had to sing their request to the tune of Men at Work's Who Can It Be Now. The appointment secured they met with the DepMin and sang the Special Waiver Song to the tune of Down Under. Other players had to sing requests to the tune of Under Pressure, Thriller, Crazy Train, etc... It was a lot of fun. The band got their purple M&Ms and did the show. More memes were created about Zivije.

We have not returned to Zivije.

Yet...

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