Damocles 2017

[stormlion1]

I'd limit Damocles capability's and reach by the fact it has no support personnel (Plus the finding of the last peoples remains and story's is fun to have in the scenario) and having Damocles have severe limits in its ability to scavenge and produce new equipment. Sure it can connect with Houston or Cheyenne Mountain, Raven Rock or the University in Chicago. But what if lines are cut, the bases are destroyed or just have no power? Is a Morrow Team going to lay USB cable all the way to Chicago? The most secure is buried landlines while satellite dishes probably wouldn't have survived a war very well much less the years that have gone by. If Houston has no power the connection is for nought and come on, Cheyenne isn't going to survive. Its a high priority target. Its going to get hit until its dead. Best bet really is the facility's to produce new drones are using stockpiled parts and Damocles lacks the ability to produce new ones. Something as simple as the facility being damaged could put Damocles behind easily enough. It would limit what it could salvage and what it could assemble. Heck, it would make for good backstory If a original Damocles developer did it to avoid having Damocles go Skynet on the survivors of Earth. He pulled something that Damocles cannot replace and hid it or destroyed limiting Damocles to simple, short ranged drones.

[RandyT0001]

IMO Damocles is a tool for the PD of the game to wake up other teams to work on new modules produced by Timeline in the 80's amd to wake up new teams that are close to where the current team in your game of MP for replacements as needed. The Damocles module really does not require extensive rewriting or changes itself. However, the local environment around the facility may have changed. Instead of nice Nordic people wanting you to join them in a hot tub the area is surrounded by Razers. Maybe the Kentucky Free State has control of the area. Maybe Damocles was targeted by Russian and Chinese cyber-attacks just before the bombs fell and now Damocles itself has lost some functionality because it "self-lobotomized" a portion of it's memory and CPU's to isolate "Virus" (Suicider). This loss of functionality might be why Damocles needs the Uni computer in Chicago. (Of course it's entirely up to Jeff in the end.)

[ArmySGT.]

Originally Posted by stormlion1

I'd limit Damocles capability's and reach by the fact it has no support personnel (Plus the finding of the last peoples remains and story's is fun to have in the scenario) and having Damocles have severe limits in its ability to scavenge and produce new equipment. Sure it can connect with Houston or Cheyenne Mountain, Raven Rock or the University in Chicago. But what if lines are cut, the bases are destroyed or just have no power? Is a Morrow Team going to lay USB cable all the way to Chicago? The most secure is buried landlines while satellite dishes probably wouldn't have survived a war very well much less the years that have gone by. If Houston has no power the connection is for nought and come on, Cheyenne isn't going to survive. Its a high priority target. Its going to get hit until its dead. Best bet really is the facility's to produce new drones are using stockpiled parts and Damocles lacks the ability to produce new ones. Something as simple as the facility being damaged could put Damocles behind easily enough. It would limit what it could salvage and what it could assemble. Heck, it would make for good backstory If a original Damocles developer did it to avoid having Damocles go Skynet on the survivors of Earth. He pulled something that Damocles cannot replace and hid it or destroyed limiting Damocles to simple, short ranged drones.

According to the modules, Damocles once co-opted by the MP team will raise the comms tower and using brute force reactivate a team near a nuclear weapon that impacted without detonation. This is Operation Lucifer. Damocles will attempt often to contact National Command Authority to request new orders. Damocles will upon activation detect the operation of the Morrow Sat and use this to increase his range and opt for more signal capacity than AM wavelengths. That is from Operation Lonestar.

Damocles is the envisioned tool for the players to get the Project started without Prime Base.

[Fifty-Three-Delta]

It all depends on how much "realism" you want. In the MP campaign I'm getting ready to lunch my "Damocles" (which I don't call it that) is hooked into the cloud network currently being set up by the likes of Google and Microsoft. The team will discover a still somewhat operational Google Data Center, aka Server farm and so starts the quest.

BTW this is my first post to this forum, testing the waters shall we say

[Gelrir]

Welcome to the forum, Fifty-Three-Delta!

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Michael B.

[stormlion1]

Originally Posted by ArmySGT.

According to the modules, Damocles once co-opted by the MP team will raise the comms tower and using brute force reactivate a team near a nuclear weapon that impacted without detonation. This is Operation Lucifer. Damocles will attempt often to contact National Command Authority to request new orders. Damocles will upon activation detect the operation of the Morrow Sat and use this to increase his range and opt for more signal capacity than AM wavelengths. That is from Operation Lonestar.

Damocles is the envisioned tool for the players to get the Project started without Prime Base.

I'm going on the basis of its initial discovery and what assets it might have. Later events are up to the PD. Never did find Operation Lonestar so that scenario in an unknown to me.

[ArmySGT.]

Originally Posted by stormlion1

I'm going on the basis of its initial discovery and what assets it might have. Later events are up to the PD. Never did find Operation Lonestar so that scenario in an unknown to me.

You can buy it direct from Timeline (Chris Garland) or from Noble Knight games.

The Lonestar state is a good foil to an expanding KFS.

[stormlion1]

Have to pick it up when I get the chance. Not really germaine to our currant game but it will make good reading.

[ArmySGT.]

Originally Posted by stormlion1

Have to pick it up when I get the chance. Not really germaine to our currant game but it will make good reading.

Stats for three hover craft (MP types), M1 Abrams, M2 Bradley, T72 MBT, BMP-1 APC, AK-74, PKM machinegun, and some new black powder weapons. Some history for the SW and Meso-America.

One Snake eater is around to clue in the Team if their really not getting it.

[ArmySGT.]

The other threat to Damocles is the Maxwell's Militia.

It the "After the Module" events for "Liberation at Riverton" that can bring this scenario on fast. If Maxwell's Militia finds that the "Troops" at Riverton are no longer around to prevent it I am sure they will send someone fast to take that over. Everyone wants the munitions, the weapons, the radios, and especially the manuals............ Bunker after Bunker of munitions and 105mm tank ammuntion at that!

Maxwell's Militia is going to be on that like a pack of hyenas. Then when Damocles starts transmitting a new rival for the region is going to have to be investigated.