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Kaiseror Since: Jul, 2016
#1626: Aug 6th 2025 at 6:13:31 AM

Old MO has been passed. New MO is to liberate all planets in Nanos Sector from Automaton control to protect Sanctuary City on Emeria.

blkwhtrbbt The Dragon of the Eastern Sea from Doesn't take orders from Vladimir Putin Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
The Dragon of the Eastern Sea
#1627: Aug 6th 2025 at 6:26:02 AM

I seem to have a massive framerate boost lately. Guess the Arrowhead vacation must be over

Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for you
DoubleOG (Apprentice)
#1628: Aug 6th 2025 at 6:37:21 AM

[up] We did have a patch yesterday so that helped.

[up][up] You forget the other part of the MO, which is to kill 2.5 million bots with the railgun stratagem.

ReginaldOgron5 Est Ut Squimplex Ut from Two blocks down from the Undead Burg Since: Mar, 2022 Relationship Status: I want you to want me
Est Ut Squimplex Ut
#1629: Aug 6th 2025 at 7:58:07 AM

[up] I'm already noticing a problem, which is that Troopers are very much on the low end of Railcannon Strike priority targets. You essentially need to find a group of nothing but Troopers in an open field in order to hit one of them with it.

Wenn sie die Ente hierein lassen, lasse ich das Wasser hieraus!
theLibrarian Since: Jul, 2009
#1630: Aug 6th 2025 at 9:04:38 AM

Is it Troopers specifically, or Automatons in general?

ReginaldOgron5 Est Ut Squimplex Ut from Two blocks down from the Undead Burg Since: Mar, 2022 Relationship Status: I want you to want me
Est Ut Squimplex Ut
#1631: Aug 6th 2025 at 9:11:47 AM

[up] It says Troopers in the MO, and I don't think it's a typo?

Wenn sie die Ente hierein lassen, lasse ich das Wasser hieraus!
theLibrarian Since: Jul, 2009
#1632: Aug 6th 2025 at 10:24:13 AM

Yeah, it does, what the heck o.o

Why that individual unit? That's not even really an area-of-effect stratagem.

DoubleOG (Apprentice)
#1633: Aug 6th 2025 at 10:43:21 AM

It does have AOE, but it's small.

ShirowShirow Dinosaur Hunter from Land of Maple Syrup (Old as dirt)
Dinosaur Hunter
#1634: Aug 6th 2025 at 10:47:40 AM

I've killed 6+ enemies at once with the railcannon because sometimes they're clustered around a hulk, yeah.

You are not alone.
Kaiseror Since: Jul, 2016
#1635: Aug 6th 2025 at 10:52:28 AM

It seems like you'd only be able to reliable pull this off in lower challenge missions.

theLibrarian Since: Jul, 2009
#1636: Aug 6th 2025 at 11:08:48 AM

Yeah, I've just gotten done doing a Level 4 mission for this.

ReginaldOgron5 Est Ut Squimplex Ut from Two blocks down from the Undead Burg Since: Mar, 2022 Relationship Status: I want you to want me
Est Ut Squimplex Ut
#1637: Aug 6th 2025 at 1:48:05 PM

[up] x5 I think the idea behind it is that it's supposed to be a sillier There Is No Kill Like Overkill gag objective, since it's kind of like killing a wasp in your house with a 12-gauge. Not exactly sure why it's tie to this MO specifically, but...

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VutherA Since: Jul, 2009
#1638: Aug 6th 2025 at 1:52:40 PM

If we don't use up all of our Orbital Railcannon rounds, they'll reduce our Orbital Railcannon budget for next year.

SgtRicko Since: Jul, 2009
#1639: Aug 6th 2025 at 2:20:23 PM

Pretty sure that Orbital Railcannon goal against Troopers is meant to be a gag, there's no way we're gonna be able to meet that quota in time. As it stands the cannon can only fire about 10 or so times during a 40 min session, and that's assuming you're using it as soon as the Stratagem becomes available.

blkwhtrbbt The Dragon of the Eastern Sea from Doesn't take orders from Vladimir Putin Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
The Dragon of the Eastern Sea
#1640: Aug 6th 2025 at 2:37:41 PM

We're sure they're not talking about the Railgun strategem weapon? It's definitely the orbital rail cannon?

Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for you
theLibrarian Since: Jul, 2009
#1641: Aug 6th 2025 at 4:16:13 PM

Yes. It specifically says "Orbital Railcannon Shot".

blkwhtrbbt The Dragon of the Eastern Sea from Doesn't take orders from Vladimir Putin Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
The Dragon of the Eastern Sea
#1642: Aug 6th 2025 at 7:06:39 PM

This HAS to be a joke

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ShirowShirow Dinosaur Hunter from Land of Maple Syrup (Old as dirt)
Dinosaur Hunter
#1643: Aug 6th 2025 at 7:11:34 PM

Super Earth using a horribly inappropriate weapon against an enemy as pointless posturing?

They'd never do that.

Edited by ShirowShirow on Aug 6th 2025 at 7:12:08 AM

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Kaiseror Since: Jul, 2016
#1644: Aug 7th 2025 at 5:23:06 AM

Update: if we capture Charbal-VII, we can gain Intel on troop movement.

VutherA Since: Jul, 2009
#1645: Aug 7th 2025 at 10:59:19 AM

It'd better be specifically Trooper movement so we can find more clumps of them to shoot at with Orbital Railcannons

Kaiseror Since: Jul, 2016
#1646: Aug 7th 2025 at 12:11:13 PM

To me, it looks like a ploy to prolong this MO since it was only three low resistance planet's we needed to liberate and we've gotten one in a single day. It's already slowed progress on Julheim to a halt now that nearly half the players went to Charbal. Not enough to actually liberate it though.

Edited by Kaiseror on Aug 7th 2025 at 2:11:43 PM

Kaiseror Since: Jul, 2016
#1647: Aug 11th 2025 at 10:06:05 AM

We've successfully liberated the required planets, but it looks like a good chunk of the players have given up on the railstrike part, as we're only two-thirds through it but around half the players went to Phact Bay.

Edited by Kaiseror on Aug 11th 2025 at 4:21:59 AM

blkwhtrbbt The Dragon of the Eastern Sea from Doesn't take orders from Vladimir Putin Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
The Dragon of the Eastern Sea
#1648: Aug 11th 2025 at 11:26:26 AM

honestly, it's no surprise.

The challenge is Not Challenging, and Not Fun.

It's funny like the first thirty strikes, and then it's tremendously unfunny after

Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for you
theLibrarian Since: Jul, 2009
#1649: Aug 11th 2025 at 1:37:38 PM

Yeah, having to do it, even if we get double railcannon strikes and a shorter cooldown, doesn't really work.

Kaiseror Since: Jul, 2016
#1650: Aug 12th 2025 at 3:19:25 AM

Huh,to my surprise, the MO has been won. Now I just hope everyone doesn't immediately abandon the planet they're on, since we're close to liberating it.


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