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[Darrian Wolffe]

[Hat]

I'm flexible on the missions, but would really prefer not the final one against FedSuns and would lean against the first one that has 1.25 Earth Gravity.

[Ice]

all of these require a rather large amount of time to get to

the first choice would be to skip and see what happens if not do the FRR or against the dracs

thats not taking into account any of the money situation so if someone thinks better options are there plz say so

[Darrian Wolffe]

These are all extremely rough missions.

Planetary Assault missions start with a hot-drop about 50% of the time, and the enemy gets a weight class bonus.  Lots of Stand Up missions where the point is simply to kill or be killed, and the ability to fill an objective and "declare victory" is more limited.  Lots of enemy defensive installations AND your command type is almost always House Command, which simply eats up your ability to reroll battle conditions (you fight when and where your employer tells you to).

Security Duty is a defensive contract to guard a particular installation, and can involve defending against hot-drops.  If the installation is destroyed or captured, you auto-lose the contract.  The nice thing is that it commonly defends a factory (which means you get factory repair mods and can sometimes buy the factory product for cheap), but in this specific case, there's noting of significant import on the planet.  "Rebels" can pull from civilian RATs or any Successor State RAT, so it's a huge variety of OPFOR.

Guerrilla Warfare means that you have EXTREMELY limited access to acquisition rolls, no access to unit or personnel market at all, and all repairs are considered "in the field".  There's *lots* of Random Bonuses for winning it, though.

Diversionary Raids are basically you guys dropping in front of a major force and saying "hey look! We're a distraction!", and letting them chase you around while another unit is either rescued from the planet, or uses your distraction to achieve an objective.  You're on the run for the majority of the contract, though it can end early quite often and, again, employers are generous with Random Bonuses and Employer Awards for your service.  And in the case of Victoria specifically, the surface is mostly desert and the cities are all underground, which means we're going to likely see the subterranean maps come out (ie, Ishayama Arena maps in a company-sized engagement).

[Ice]

These are all extremely rough missions.

Planetary Assault missions start with a hot-drop about 50% of the time, and the enemy gets a weight class bonus.  Lots of Stand Up missions where the point is simply to kill or be killed, and the ability to fill an objective and "declare victory" is more limited.  Lots of enemy defensive installations AND your command type is almost always House Command, which simply eats up your ability to reroll battle conditions (you fight when and where your employer tells you to).

Security Duty is a defensive contract to guard a particular installation, and can involve defending against hot-drops.  If the installation is destroyed or captured, you auto-lose the contract.  The nice thing is that it commonly defends a factory (which means you get factory repair mods and can sometimes buy the factory product for cheap), but in this specific case, there's noting of significant import on the planet.  "Rebels" can pull from civilian RATs or any Successor State RAT, so it's a huge variety of OPFOR.

Guerrilla Warfare means that you have EXTREMELY limited access to acquisition rolls, no access to unit or personnel market at all, and all repairs are considered "in the field".  There's *lots* of Random Bonuses for winning it, though.

Diversionary Raids are basically you guys dropping in front of a major force and saying "hey look! We're a distraction!", and letting them chase you around while another unit is either rescued from the planet, or uses your distraction to achieve an objective.  You're on the run for the majority of the contract, though it can end early quite often and, again, employers are generous with Random Bonuses and Employer Awards for your service.  And in the case of Victoria specifically, the surface is mostly desert and the cities are all underground, which means we're going to likely see the subterranean maps come out (ie, Ishayama Arena maps in a company-sized engagement).

I vote pass

[Hat]

If we pass on these, we have to get a contract next month, correct?  What’s the chance of being in worse shape next month?  I’m fine to pass if we have a great chance of equal or better options next month.

[Darrian Wolffe]

If we pass on these, we have to get a contract next month, correct?  What’s the chance of being in worse shape next month?  I’m fine to pass if we have a great chance of equal or better options next month.

No, you guys don't have to.  Technically speaking, you can sit around and wait until you run out of money.

As to whether or not they'll be better, that's not up to me.  These are procedurally-generated contracts.  I have no idea what's coming up next.  The only thing I do with the contracts is to prune them down to about 6 contracts total by removing the *clearly* crappy or actively suicidal ones.  There was a planetary assault onto Luthien against Elite/A opponents with terrible base pay rate, 0% salvage, 0% BLC, and 0% Transportation, last year, for example, that got the immediate "Remove" treatment.

[Timberwolfd]

A question, Victoria has an Earthwerks factory. I assume we would not be allowed to access the factory while on mission, what about after? Will the CC be mad with us...?

[Timberwolfd]

Also, what kind of tradeoffs are there in renegotiaion? I am looking at TOWN SQUARE and renegotiating the transport %, I assume all values can change(?).

[Darrian Wolffe]

Also, what kind of tradeoffs are there in renegotiaion? I am looking at TOWN SQUARE and renegotiating the transport %, I assume all values can change(?).

It's just a reroll to the value.

A question, Victoria has an Earthwerks factory. I assume we would not be allowed to access the factory while on mission, what about after?

No, in both cases.

[Timberwolfd]

A question, Victoria has an Earthwerks factory. I assume we would not be allowed to access the factory while on mission, what about after?

No, in both cases.

Consider interest killed.

Okay, off to Atreus or Wallis. If the Patron IndustrialMech facility counts as a mech factory, we go to Atreus, otherwise we go to Wallis.
Contracts for June, here we come.

[Darrian Wolffe]

Okay, off to Atreus or Wallis. If the Patron IndustrialMech facility counts as a mech factory, we go to Atreus, otherwise we go to Wallis.
Contracts for June, here we come.

You're going to Wallis, then.

Departing 30-weight on 1 May.  I'll update AtB and get back to this later tonight.  This will end up refreshing the markets to June, so get your May business done and decided with a quickness.

[Timberwolfd]

Okay, off to Atreus or Wallis. If the Patron IndustrialMech facility counts as a mech factory, we go to Atreus, otherwise we go to Wallis.
Contracts for June, here we come.

You're going to Wallis, then.

Departing 30-weight on 1 May.  I'll update AtB and get back to this later tonight.  This will end up refreshing the markets to June, so get your May business done and decided with a quickness.

I already allocated the hires, since there wasn't much there anyway.

[Darrian Wolffe]

Are you even looking for contracts in June?  Or are you taking that month for factory-level refits?

[Timberwolfd]

It should only be ~21 days of travel, both 30-weight and Wallis are short hops to the jump point. So we should be able to catch June contracts by the 15th if any are good/great.