Lt. Vendrek Richter's Ravagers (and battle report)

[sabotage]

This is my current band (or at least the one I've played in my two games thus far). I'm using standard template mercs, and so far it's 2-0, both games pretty damn close. The first was against more standard template mercs in a robbery scenario where my opponent was the robber, and the second was against an Elite Human Gunsel Assassin and an Elite Nikkar Headtaker Brute. I'll throw in a bit of fluff too.

The story behind this band is it is commanded by Lt. Vendrek Richter, who was a former Naval Boarding Officer. When he was a naval boarding officer for the military of a small galactic empire he ended up boarding and taking an enemy ship with some of his men, but while doing so his ship (and thus the vast majority of his regiment) was destroyed by another enemy vessel in the vast naval conflict that was occurring. In the process of taking the enemy Vessel he ran into a special investigative magistrate (essentially secret police) by the name of Kurt Sturmfielder. After fighting side by side and taking the ship, he was invited to join Kurt's retinue.

He served as Kurt's second in command and bodyguard for five years, they tangled with a genius (and crazed) Techno-Cultist named Kithek. The investigation and battle that ensued led to most of Kurt's Retinue being killed and caused cataclysmic events that eventually lead to the downfall of the empire. After this occured Kurt and Vendrek swore revenge for their fallen comrades and the loss of their beloved empire. Since then they have been trying to build up a base of power and hunt down Kithik, serving as mercenaries and bounty hunters in the meanwhile to fund their objective.

As Kurt's second in command, Vendrek often leads bands of Kurt's (new) retinue to complete objectives(Kurt will also have a band in the form of Bounty Hunters).

The current Incarnation of Vendrek's last raiding party looks like this:

1. Lt. Vendrek Richter, Vet. Human Sergeant, Inspiring, Blooded Warrior
- Articulated Weapon Harness
- Particle Rifle
-Armored Suit (-1 m, +2 A)

2. Linimex- Reg Limax Heavy Hitter
- Heavy Armored Suit
-Rocket Launcher (Sometimes switches for a HRF Slugthrower with auto-reloader instead of these gear choices)

3. Meric Danerithan, Reg Human Sniper, Hunter (X)
- Cybernetic Arms
- Cloaking Field (-1 one to be hit by ranged attacks)

4. Riffi and Gafirr (Graffi Hired Guns)
-LRF Slugthrower
-Light Armored Suit

5. Regar and Arthigas (Arges Fresh Meat)
-Swords
-Mono-wire weapons

And a bit of fluff from the last battle.

And this had all start simply looking for goddamn clues Vendrek thought. Who thought they would have chanced upon two of the, if not the, most reknown bounty hunters in the system. To top things out they had it out for his blood, as well of the blood of his men, which had been spilled in plentiful quantity. Meric lay behind Vendrek on the second story of a ruined building they had been taking cover in. He drew swallow, ragged breaths, and blood bubbled out of the hole in his chest and his cybernetic arm smoked. Graxxis, one of the hunters who had it out for them had charged the building they were in after Meric put a laser through his right arm. He had riddles Meric with shots and Meric had fallen from his third floor perch though a hole in the level down to the second. The man would need a medic and soon if he had expected to live. Vendrek remember the satisfaction of blowing Graxxis' head with a volley of return fire in retaliation for Meric.

At the moment he had bigger problems however. He limped over towards the edge of the level of ruin he was on to get a better look at that Nikkar bastard who was in the process of slaughtering his team. Graxxis had put a lucky round between the leg plates of Vendrek's armor and his wounded thigh was not making the movement easy. The Nikkar was huge, even by Nikkar standards. Vendrek had already pumped laser after laser into him and he was still fighting. The thing bled from where one of his rounds had torn the left side of it's face off, a large gut wound, and where one of his shots had taken it's left hand completely off. ,R'thor, that's what this stupid beast was called, and he had heard of it's durability, but had dismissed the stories as the kind of talk a Chort would mutter after it had consumed it's weight in grain liquors. In fact, he had probably heard those stories from said Chort.

R'thor had easily dispatched Riffi and Gaffir, who lay in multiple pieces on the ground below the ruin. The bastard had proceeded to mangle Linimex, who looked to be dead about 30 yards off behind a barricade. Vendrek had served with Linimex for four years and he was a hell of ally, friend even, he better be breathing or there would be hell to pay contemplated Vendrek.

He kneeled as he saw the beast charging Regar and Arthigas. He twitched and shrugged off the pain in his leg as his heavy black armor settled on his kneeling form. Vendrek adjusted the respirator mask portion of his full helmet and lined his rifle up, taking aim. The beast bounded forward and after two strides Vendrek let fly a well placed shot, the lenses of his helm compensating for the bright muzzle flash of the laser. The beam struck home in the creatures throat, and arterial spray began to spurt out rapidly. The creature was obviously losing momentum, but with it's last breathes it had closed and smashed Arthigas' skull. R'thor then collapsed.

Vendrek keyed his microbead "Boss, this is Vendrek, we need emergency med-evac"

"Oh? Already on the way Lieutenant. What's the situation?" Replied Kurt.

"You know those hunters we ran into? Serious news, you'll have to see for yourself. Least the bastards had bounties on them." Vendrek clicked his microbead off as he saw the stab-lights of the evac ship approach. He worked his way down the ladder and to the body of the Nikkar, shrugging off the pain. He emptied the remaining shots of his power cell into it.


So that's the last battle report, or at least the summary. Any feedback on the list (which will have to be filled with fresh bodies, haha), or the fluff is much appreciated. Thanks!

[dijit80]

That looks a pretty decent crew. Cybernetic arms rather than scope is a bit of a no brainer (why two items when they both do the same, but one gives an additional bonus?), and cloaking field as well is nice on a sniper. My own sniper has an electrolaser with hot shot pack (but then is a hero sniper with assassin). I also like you use of the green choice, Arges gives them a bonus in combat that allows you to use them as throw away bait, but if they survive can still do some damage. I like it, a nice well rounded crew by the looks of it.
Duncan

[abbysdad]

Cool stuff. Thanks for sharing.

[macnam]

Good force. The Fresh Meat build is particularly nice, nice way to get some mileage out of your Greens instead of trading the slot away.

Cybernetic arms rather than scope is a bit of a no brainer (why two items when they both do the same, but one gives an additional bonus?)

In this case, no reason, but many sniper types want Cybernetic Eyes. Since you can only have one Augmentation, that leaves you looking for other options to avoid long range penalties.

[dijit80]

Aug 26, 2010 9:22:46 GMT -5 macnam said:

Cybernetic arms rather than scope is a bit of a no brainer (why two items when they both do the same, but one gives an additional bonus?)

In this case, no reason, but many sniper types want Cybernetic Eyes. Since you can only have one Augmentation, that leaves you looking for other options to avoid long range penalties.

ahh, good point, yes. It would be nice though that each item was of a more or less equal worth to similiar items, another example would be cybernetic legs and anti-gravity belt.

[sabotage]

Thanks for the feedback folks! Yes, I have found the Arges Fresh Meat to be a really good choice. They end up with a decent combat score due to swords and their racial bonus, and the monowire helps with their low strength. I tend to use them to load my Heavy's gun until enemies approach and them charge with them. They made short work of a pair of cutters the other day surprisingly. Unstoppable is really nice too, as even is they lose the melee they still tie up the enemy and get another shot at doing some damage.