Two months ago I stumbled upon an anouncement on a german computermagazin webside, that ToS is released as Freeware. After downloading and getting used to the game interface, I realised, that this is a game of strategic warefare with great depth and challenging ai. OK the graphics are old-school, the colours and presentation of the menus and the bot-apperance could be much more pretty.
But the strategic and rpg part. It resembles the first time playing Jagged Alliance 2. Learning how to use the weapons effectivly, and which weapons do complement on one... Knocking one Enemy with the BLR, following with a few AC 4s from afar and than raining death from multitude LRMs makes ones day.
For my copy of JA i paid 1 Euro and therefore stated that playing JA is the cheapest hobby on earth. And you gave this wonderful game for free. [&o] Sorry, that I never heard before of it. Not quite shure how to use the NB. Everytime, when i hit I get one of the two messages "...hit..." or "...was not affected" or the like comes up . Never got the enemy to loose one hitpoint. Do you need a called shot for the NB to work? Or are the ranks involved?
Apropos ranks, a strange thing happend. One of my jocks Katharina (the Great) earned a rank even she had not the xp for it. Is it a bug? Or because of that she was on the killing spree in the last game? Perhaps I should not pounder the enemy jocks to death, but I feel unsuffiant, if they jump out of there titans before i can kill them. But with just a few parts of the Titan remaining before one jock manages the final shot to the head or torso the salvage is real low.
Here the stats of my Business Maid (for a girl, she is a real impressive stature) for the ones interested followed by the stats of her killing tool. (So less Titans with little requirements for beginners in the database)
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Jock: Katharina aka Katharina
Squad: Newborn Seekers
Race: HUMAN [FEMALE]
Age: 26 years 2 months
Height: 180 cm
Weight: 80 kg
Rank: CRACK [6]
Salary: 11771 $ / month
Titan: Soldier-I [140.0 t]
Battles: 21 [Wins/Losses: 21/00]
Hit ratio: 59 %
Kills: 16
XP: 43873 / 81250
DP: Pilot: 001 / Combat: 010 / Other: 000
Manager: Purchase discount 01%
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Attributes:
INTELLIGENCE: 15
NEURAL SENSE: 12
REACTION: 17
INSTINCT: 12
DEXTERITY: 17
CONSTITUTION: 09 HP: 81
CHARISMA: 13
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Skills:
RECON/LIGHT: 055 % [085]
MEDIUM/HEAVY: 060 % [070]
ASSAULT: 029 % [070] -
JUMP: 050 % [085]
SCOUTING: 050 % [066]
CLOSE COMBAT: 030 % [070]
GUIDED MSL.: 005 % [069] ---
UNGUIDED MSL.: 019 % [085] --
CANNON: 085 % [085] ++
ENERGY WEAPON: 074 % [085] +
INDIRECT FIRE: 013 % [066] --
EL. WARFARE: 030 % [069]
SCANNER: 069 % [069]
DEFENSIVE: 034 % [081]
DMG. CONTROL: 025 % [079] -
LEADERSHIP: 026 % [069] -
BUSINESS: 071 % [071] +
SURVIVAL: 027 % [054] -
MEDICAL: 010 % [063] --
Titan Name: Soldier-I Medium Range Heavy Titan
Chassis: Durania H4 Design: Frankieboy
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Weight: 140.0t (140t maximum) Height : 13 [meter]
Bmt : 27 (44 kph) Reduce Heat: -3.91C/sec.
Jmt : 12 (100 kph) for 42 secs Cost : 298189($)
Equipment:
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Component/Type/Location
Engine : Triton T2 [Engine 2] [CT ]
HeatReg.: Triton H8 [Heat 8]
Flares : FL Military [Flare3] [CT ]
LifeSup.: Livotto [Life 1] [CT ]
Scanner : Mark X-S [Scan. 6] [CBT ]
Computer: Mark BC-X [Comp. 6] [Head]
E.C.M. : Lios [E.C.M. 2] [LowT]
JumpPort: Morola MJ [Jump 4]
Weapons:
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Location/Weapon/Ammunition/Slots
[RT ] AUTO CANNON 4 (044) [2]
[RT ] AUTO CANNON 4 (044) [2]
[LT ] AUTO CANNON 4 (044) [2]
[LT ] AUTO CANNON 4 (044) [2]
[RA ] GAUSS CANNON (030) [2]
[LA ] GAUSS CANNON (030) [2]
Armor:
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Loc/Internal/Armor/Status/Points/mm
[Head] (13) Dullaroy HMAX 024 [035mm]
[RT ] (27) Titanium (W) 041 [075mm]
[CT ] (27) Vicenium (S) 045 [075mm]
[CBT ] (15) Vicenium (W) 012 [020mm]
[LT ] (27) Titanium (W) 041 [075mm]
[RA ] (25) Titanium (W) 039 [071mm]
[LA ] (25) Titanium (W) 039 [071mm]
[LowT] (15) Vicenium (W) 042 [070mm]
[RL ] (21) Millenia (W) 038 [076mm]
[LL ] (21) Millenia (W) 038 [076mm]
Armor Index: 4.11 [Total APts/T]
Internal: 216 [APts]
External: 359 [APts] Max:[093mm]
Total Armor: 575 [APts]
JOCK requirements:
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Piloting: Heavy Titan incl. Jump
Weapons : Cannon
Warfare : Defense Scanner Warfare(ECM)
Skills : Medic
Mostly she accompanies the Missile Boat and the Plasma Gunner for Short Range assistence, when needed (such a great game, one time three small "jumpers" appeared directly beside my lr-troops and closed the gap of one/two hex really fast. With altogether 5 SLs and 2 PGs and 2 LRM6 I had a hard time keeping alive. I had a celebration when the biggest (70t)of these bastards died in the burning wood in a manifold of ammunition explosions.[:D] Thank God the ai-stragglers draw some fire and helped me defending)
Thank you for the thrilling last two months and sorry for mixing different topics. Now I must convince my friend of this game. I hope he finds it not too complicated. Gets some time to get used to, but is rewarding. Perhaps I find a way to improve the apperance of the bots. Just altering tos04-15.tga may work. So many things to do ...
Feel free to move this thread to the one, where Larkin in wondering if anyone is playing ToS
