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Chyll

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  1. Chyll
    Great to see this nice summary out there: I love the First Ward adversaries.


    {sidenote}
    I want those harpy claws as a costume option.

    I would also like a full body slimy skin costume option to go with the Boils aura.

    And I'd put them together and be content.
    {/sidenote}
  2. Chyll
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master View Post
    the dark armor rez does a high mag stun when you rez for like half of the time that you are untouchable

    IIRC the dark rez is mag 30 stun for almost 15 seconds and your untouchable for 15 sec, which is kinda odd
    Yep, and then if I just stand there and retoggle, there is a long pause after they stop the stun animation while they stand in a circle and stare at me. I noticed it and thought it was peculiar, but didn't give it any more thought - figured it was just my imagination or that I hadn't played the character in long enough that I just didn't recognize that it was normal.

    Then I saw this thread, and thought it may apply.
  3. Chyll
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by The_Spad_EU View Post
    I've noticed this in the last couple of weeks every time I use my WS self-rez everyone just stands there doing nothing for 15 seconds unless I attack them.
    I noticed the same with the rez in dark armor.
  4. Chyll
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Hyperstrike View Post
    Not really. Such a tank will have easily cap-able defense. But without underlying resists and heals, it's an eggshell.
    It was fun on beta.

    I'll make another live.
  5. Chyll
    Freedom Requires Each Ethusiastic Eager Entrant Enjoy Extreme Entertainment Excellence Mode
  6. Chyll
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by je_saist View Post
    Won't be happening.

    It's already been indicated that Tyrant will be the final I-trial set in Praetoria, and that after that the next series of Trials will likely deal with the Battalion.
    *shrug* So, I can keep looking forward to it and hoping it happens.
    (because it deserves too, all the criminals in Praetoria need to come to justice)
  7. Chyll
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    I sure that must comfort his hundreds of thousands of victims that died for "the greater good".

    Funny, I've said the same thing about the Resistance...

    ( I for one am looking forward to the iTrial where we storm their base of operations.)
  8. Chyll
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by VoodooGirl View Post
    horror of horrors snipped
    AH!!! MY EYES!!!

    It burns!!!!
  9. Chyll
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
    The forums are not managed or supported by either the Paragon Studios devs or community management directly. They are managed by NCSoft datacenter people. Its unclear to me if they even *read* our forums. I've been regularly communicating with Zwill as to what I'm doing, what I'm testing, what I'm seeing, and asking him to pass that information along. I suspect that Zwill is doing the community thing and censoring out the parts where I question the datacenter IT staff's parentage, genetic make up, and mating habits. But I'm assuming they know there is an actual problem.
    I miss the +rep button.
  10. Chyll
    Nice.

    I wonder when this invasion hits live?



    So, Cole is a Vigilante and not a Villain.
  11. Chyll
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Doctor_Gemini View Post
    And Dumpleberry, no, we cannot confine posts to a single thread because its pretty clear it's being ignored. Let's see how much it's ignored when we can get 50 or so active threads going at once.
    As much as I find the problem annoying, not sure I can jump on the accusation band wagon.
  12. Chyll
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dr_MechanoEU View Post
    Pans out to show the rest of the Prison before fading to black.
    I approve.
  13. Chyll
    As to the question: I *shiver* thinking about working for any of them.

    But, this is the opening of an episode I would watch and really enjoy:
    (Reminds me in flavor of the Babylon 5 ep that followed the maintenance staff rather than the usual characters during major doings around the station.)

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dr_MechanoEU View Post
    Crime was to steal a painting, this was a 'to order' crime as in we had a buyer already lined up, I remember snippets of the conversation.

    Me: Yeah boss you go have fun, me and my friend here will do the hard work.
    (Harley leaves)
    Me: I say we got five minutes before she breaks something and sets off an alarm.
    Chinese guy: I say we don't even have that...lets get the hell on with this.

    So as the Chinese guy is disabling the security systems for the area another conversation crops up.

    CG: Why are we working with her again?
    Me: Nobody else was hiring.
    CG: Yeah but surely we can do better than her...I mean she's like Joker lite and you know our policy on working with the Joker.
    Me: Well who else we gonna work for? I mean Bane ain't exactly needing in henchmen, the guys smart and tough.
    CG: Poison Ivy?
    Me: She hates men...hell she hated people period.
    CG: Penguin?
    Me: Didn't he retire to run a bar, you know me and bar work don't mix.
    (Smash, alarms going off)
    Me: Heh four minutes and thirty seconds, when we get out of here you owe me a drink.
    CG: Fine just grab the damn painting and run before 'he' shows up.
    Me: Alright, alright the cars parked out back...which floor we on in the car park again?
    CG: Second.
    Me: Just great...BOSS WE ARE LEAVING!
  14. Chyll
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Daemodand View Post
    Forum Log Out Bug 2: Log Out Bugalooo

    or

    Forum Log Out Bug 2: Log Out Harder

    "I'm sick of these monkey fighting log outs on this monkey fighting forum!" - most famous line from 'Log Outs on a Forum'.
    Second behind "You shall not log out!" from LotLO: Fellowship of the Unlogged
  15. Chyll
    Just finished "Fort Freak" the Wild Cards novel.

    Very enjoyable read.

    Wild Cards continues to just be an outstanding setting, with vivid moving characters.
  16. Chyll
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by TheBruteSquad View Post
    No I didn't. At it's height I think the empire only had a dozen legions. The marines have 25 aircraft. A day to scout the entire empire, a few hours after that to hit the camped legions. It would only take one attack craft a piece to 'pacify' a legion.
    The reforms of Augustus reduced the legions from 50 (less than full strength after the civil warfare) to 28. Reduced again to 25 after 'that incident in Germany'. I cannot remember the later reforms.

    That said, I'm bored of the entire exercise. It wouldn't be a contest. Interesting, but not a contest.
    Marines by a KO.
  17. Chyll
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Hyperstrike View Post
    Remember the plates in a vest are designed to spread out the force of bullets. Stuff moving at high velocity and with a very small impact area.

    Honestly I'm not certain what'd happen if you whacked it with the edge of a sword. You'd probably, eventually, snap the plate. And you'd still have a load of blunt force trauma translating through the armor since it's not really designed to disperse that sort of force around and away from the body.
    I'd expect that the hardest that the blade would be shoved (gladius designed and trained for stab, not slash) would be with less force than that of a modern bullet hit (but I am not a physicist, nor do I play one on TV).
  18. Chyll
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Durakken View Post
    Roman archers could shoot between 100 and 300 yards... Greeks were said to have an effective range of between 64 and 600 meters... so I think the Romans could get a bit further than 300 yards honestly.
    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...7175754AAJQ2v4

    M16 has an effective firing range of 500-800 meters.

    So Romans have half to 1/8 the effective range.

    Roman Ballistas had much higher range but was most effective at 500 yards
    So not a chance against modern weapon ranges. Got it. I think we agree.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Durakken View Post
    The fact is that snipers and guns have limited ammo and even if you hit all the targets with your spread fire you're not going to being able to pick off 50,000 men before they reach their effective range which will surely kill you or severely damage your gear/vehicles... and even if you do you're not going to do it 50+ times even if you are perfect shots.
    I beg to differ. Factor in XM25, mortars, helos, heavy machine guns... and the 440,000 rounds the ground troops are carrying as standard kit (ignoring any resupply), and yeah... Romans aren't going to close any distance. At all. Roman morale will break long, long, looonnnggg before any chance of their wonderful ballista, catapults, and scary arrows get in any sort of effective range.
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Durakken View Post
    Could the Marines win in an extended fight? Possibly.
    Short fight. long fight. medium fight.... really, no contest.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rodoan View Post
    Someone pointed out the Zulu war, another good example. The Battle of Rorke's Drift, as depicted in the movie Zulu, showed the English concerns to be their limited ammo supply. I'm guessing Marines of 130 years later would have that as their one concern when facing 250,000
    Rorke's Drift certainly had ammo issues... but considering that was, what 100 versus ~3,500 it shows the advantage of technology nicely. And when you look at what Smersh linked for Ulundi... well, add 100+ years to the tech gap.

    Not to mention a conservative ammo total has an MEU carrying well over 250k rounds, just for the infantry rifles in the man carried supplies.
  19. Chyll
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Durakken View Post
    I never said that plates didn't exist but rather that they are not widely used.
    Standard gear. Every one of my marines would be wearing them.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Durakken View Post
    The romans could easily close the distance and had a lot of weapons that they generally didn't use because they didn't need to or it wasn't effective in that era.
    Easily close the distance?
    Thousands of yards of automatic weapons fire?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Durakken View Post
    Also you're arguing that close range combat would never take place... Sorry but if you are the attacking force and are a ground unit you pretty much have to close the range... otherwise you are looking at small forces going sneaking in and trying to do something which would result in them being out numbered and again be completely open to most if not all the weapons of the Romans, even if Plates for armor.
    I'd shell and fire at long range until the ranks broke.
    And when I did have to 'close' my pistols and rifles would still out range anything the Romans could fire.

    Morale would break long before I was in fisticuffs range.
  20. Chyll
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Doctor_Gemini View Post
    The MEU's problem will be numbers. A single legion outnumbers them 5 to 1. Taking one legion out...possible. Taking out two at once? Unlikely. Three or more? No chance.
    As stated earlier, the standard combat load would quite possibly have enough ST ammo to kill every member of every legion and its auxiliaries - not counting AoE attacks such as grenades, mortars, helicopters, or XM25 rifles.

    Romans would not engulf any position.
  21. Chyll
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Durakken View Post
    If you put the two groups against each other on a field of battle the Roman Empire would win as the Marines have like no defense against the Roman Legions...even though the could probably kill a good chunk of the Roman Army.
    So crazy wrong.

    Weapon ranges of thousands of yards - the Romans would never even close to combat.

    And the comments on the armor... a plate that can deflect or reduce the impact of modern alloy rounds woudn't stop a man shoved piece of low tech metal?
  22. Chyll
    1st: Liz

    2nd: Christopher Robin (the hair-blood was awesome, but that 'nooo' ruined the shot at first)

    3rd: Darth Delicious
  23. Chyll
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by BackFire View Post
    Statesman: Dead
    Citadel: Dead
    Numina: Dead
    Positron: Dead
    Manticore: Dead
    B.A.B.: Dead

    *Chyll: Dead
  24. Chyll
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by BackFire View Post
    Come on Sister Squad! Biggest comeback of all time: you CAN do it!
    *le sigh*. Synapse was already having an even bigger comeback... but I think I'll throw the towel in on this foolishness.
  25. Chyll
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane View Post
    A reasonably smart scout could observe how the Marines operate their 'boomsticks'. Then its just a matter of capturing arms and ammo and turning them against the Marines. That's a scenario that has played out for real too many times to be ignored.
    This scenario?

    Never?

    When was the last time a 20th century force - artillery, modern combat rifles, machine guns, body armor, helicopters, and mortars took on a 1st century combatant? (Heck, I'd take away the air power if I could fully load the Marine swith XM25 Rifles ... there we're talking 21st century military advances that are radically changing the current battlefield.)

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane View Post
    Technology and tactics don't make you invincible, no matter how advanced.
    True enough, but really?