Bluey's deals with the blackmarket make them friendly to allies of Bluey.
Each of the commanders of the GAW armed forces asks for standing orders from the players assigned by BO to each of the units at "commander" rank.
Herman leads 3rd recon, lead by Dirk Diggler 3rd lvl smuggler
Swat 4 art Dune Buggy by Gilgemesh on DeviantArt Huntsville 3rd Recon Platoon x12 GAW Fast attack ground dunbuggy troups 2 smuggler soldiers each
82MDC 574SDC 120mph (same stats as guntersville smuggers, these are survivors of the destruction of Huntsville)
roof mounted 50cal w/ ramjets
2 lts lead from GAW 988 Combat Humvee 122MDC 854SDC 90mph
Caldor the commander of
HuntsVille 1st Tank Platoon, x6 GAW M1A3 Tanks with 4 smuggler soldiers each, more survivors from Huntsville.
MB 266MDC 1862SDC 60mph 500mi range 40 tons
120mm cannon 6000ft 40 Ap Rounds d4x10MDC/d4x50sdc
50cal coaxial machine gun w/ ramjets
2 lts lead and spot for the tanks from camo'd up GAW 998 Combat Humvee w/ dual 50cals with ramjets, piloted by the Riktor twins.
Halo by frankhong on DeviantArt
Bluey leads the
Guntersville 3rd Armored Company lead by Major Ban Gunter
80 soldiers in 3 26 person platoons, each platoon has 3-4 ppl on one car, 8 mad max cars with bigboss atv
GAW Mark2 Body armor 38MDC
GAW 21 Laser rifle 2 clips 20 blasts 2d6 md laser 1800ft
1 in 4 has GAW AT-6 LAW missle launcher 5d6MD x3 SDC HE round 3200ft rng
Sent from Guntersville to help retake Huntsville.
Drago leads the 9th infantry.
M113 APC by DarkWizard83 on DeviantArt Huntsville 9th Infantry Platoon
GAW M113 APC 168MD 1176 SDC
coupla railgun d4x10md/d4x50sdc 4000ft 80 bursts
x6 mini missle launcher with plasma mini missles
with 3 crewmen and 23 infantry lead by a
LT Chromium
vet smuggler full conversion borg pulling a GAW-198 155mm Howitzer
3d4x10MD plasma shells 3d4x50sdc 30ft radius
Half of infantry are very old or very young, they were the last to survive the conquest and evacuated and conscripted.
2 Bo asks Bluey to ask Sparticus to guide him as general
Bo asks to send scouts to pierce fog of war and learn of enemy units
Shiro made some great rifts hex maps! :)
North America:
http://shirosrpg.blogspot.com/2008/12/workin-on-rifts.html
Europe:
http://shirosrpg.blogspot.com/2009/05/rifts2112-europe.html
They make it easy to estimate distances between major places, and graphs a few intact post Rifts roads.
The 3rd age of Dragonwright game is currently taking place in the southern regions of this map:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/sirlarkins/scan002.jpg
I like how Shiro shows there being much more water around the area where the Mississippi drains into the gulf of mexico. I am not sure about how close Tolkeen is to chi town on this hex map. I would place Tolkeen due east of Serenity on the river on the hex map 0206 based on this map: http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/rifts/images/8/82/Riftsmap.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100328152013
Now if I overlay this map with my older map I was using this to find the locatiion of Golden Age Weaponsmiths :
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOHT1VmxxVDteRHAPv-ve3SYGt7NmVsm-ygvFL3yn5NUmnCrzLSsH0WU8M2HqJfIn1wfzMlgxffhoapS2wWWwAihCBaMrGgGY5T9dRePOtDdMRTumJWN9oKk0sMiOP8T9ye7EHFW_xXTqM/s1600/rifts_east.jpg
As of update #75, in the first Shiro's Hex Map, The old GAW city in the Huntsville ruins are in the North West of Hex 0311 (partially obscured by the river).
The land directly to the south of Huntsville is the Tennessee river and then swampy everglades type areas eventually giving into full on ocean.
Guntersville is at the South East side of Hex 0311, along the Tennessee River is the rebuilt and well concealed homes in Guntersville ruins, the only known surviving GAW settlement.
Characters recently traveled north from the Oil Refinery Army of Thunder base in Huntsville to Cincinnati to battle Nxla, now they are west of Cincinnati near the crashed jet and square 0609.
After rescuing the 5 elders of huntsville who were taken to Cincinnati to be part of the sacrifice to NXLA, the characters get GAW support.
When called to help defeat NXLA the GAW soldiers that accompany the party traveled this far north via boat from Huntsville, https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjo51wxnd2Ilt9GnarN5WCgh5wipishqH9w09fg0NTVlMflI4J-BvYxhvMU3AQgSbt2L3_v6RAVo0BzcvKLlWkJaXiHm7iule1Af7UoS88Es8-EVUZSLOfTkWcKBOK5Km2kjpD-fCclscE/s1600/northamericanwater.jpg
(Looking at the maps, whew there actually is a water way that goes this far north, that makes plot continuity on how GAW managed to move multiple tanks and heavy equipment across hostile wilderness alot easier :)
Loose ends to tie up in between sessions:
Herman:
2) Dirk Diggler wants standing orders for the 3rd recon squad of dune buggy troops.
3) Herman's Driver Kail AKA NUX the ferocious wants orders
Herman sends many of Dirk's men out on patrol, some are attacked by strange wolves and the GAW men are slain. Later the party goes to find the missing men and herman has to fight off the wolves, NUX has his throat ripped out and his body is left behind with a dune buggy the wolves diabled. Herman's dune buggy has its tire bitten off by the wolves, but herman is able to fix it. Herman shot at the wolves and later used his magic swords on them, seriously injuring one. The wolves seem to escape when they realize herman is no easy prey.
Bluey:
1) Major Ban Gunter wants standing orders for his Guntersville 3rd Armored Company, Bluey tells them to hold position with the rest of the squads. The order is Infantry, then armored company, then tanks as they drive down the road.
Tin Duhk's head stays wired to blueys bike's nuke power plant which is all thats keeping the head powered and alive.
Caldor:
Rides on one of his tanks until the men go missing in the Dune buggy. Lets
Bo, Merl, Riki stay in one of the tanks.
Drago:
1) LT Chromium asks for standing orders for his the Huntsville 9th Infantry Platoon (ordered to stay back at the front of the convoy while drago goes ahead alone)
2) Denali is at Drago's side
3) Magic pidgeon
4) Rogue the Dead Girl tries to break free of Drago's undead enslaving control magic.
Sparticus:
1) Lida, Seth, Lt Fifo Partino, Jizzel lane stay nearby.
Drago sensed the rift opening to the south.
After the men go missing Drago went forward.
Caldor sees and starts sniping some flying kitani vehicles. Caldor blasts the head sensor of one to bits with a sniper shot.
They land, and out pours some slave soldiers, giants, troll, ogres.
They throw up their hands and say they want no part in this battle and that they are slaves just wanting freedom.
From behind bellows a balrog "FIGHT YOU WEAKLINGS, OR DIE!"...
Drago manages to petrify the Balrog, realizing that NXLA is now trapped in the elemental plane of Earth drago fights off NXLA's presence as he reaches out to the earth plane to gather magic ane petrify the demon (saves vs mental posession, or does he?)
Nearby a sucubus with a brass lamp gestures and a huge tornadow whips up, and starts smashing into the ranks of GAW.
Caldor hides in a Tank and rides out the storm.
Herman and Bluey escape outside the area of the tornadow on their fast vehicles.
Sparticus pulled his men back before the storm hit and is north of the area.
Drago was hit by the winds but his protection wards hold.
Eventually the winds die down and there is no sign of the demons... Only the statue of the Balrog remains.
Many of the GAW troops are dead or destroyed by the Tornado and the screams of the wounded echo across the field of battle. #77 will start with surveying the wounded and remaining troops and equipment, it doesn't look good.
XP
Drago 9th Level Hatchling 127330
+500 showing up
+25 making phoenix empire slave warriors surrender
+50 petrify balrog +50 skills
+100 gives XL69E1 machine gun to Rogue
128005
Sparticus 9th Level Energy Master Psi warrior in training 89950
+25 making phoenix empire slave warriors surrender
+500 showing up +25 witness balrog petrification +50 skills
90550
Caldor 9th Level Kreeghor Bounty Hunter 87526
+25 making phoenix empire slave warriors surrender
+500 showing up +25 witness balrog petrification
+100 survive tornado inside now trashed tank +50 snipes sensor
88226
Herman 7th Level Juicer 51831
+25 making phoenix empire slave warriors surrender
+750 showing up
+100 fight wolves +25 witness balrog petrification +50 skills +50 escape tornado +50 use sword +100 fails to save nux who has his throat ripped out by wolves...
52981
Bluey the 7th Level Dog Pack Line Walker 43550
+25 making phoenix empire slave warriors surrender
+750 showing up +25 flying around
+25 witness balrog petrification +50 skills
44425
Rogue the Dead Girl 6th level Super Spy Revenant
(uses dragon xp table instead of gaining levels every 50 years like the book states)
31350xp needs 50000 +1000 showing up
+25 witness balrog petrification
32375
Tow Jam the 5th Level Guntersville Smuggler Borg
16890xp needs 24881 to level
+1000 showing up
+25 making phoenix empire slave warriors surrender
+25 witness balrog petrification +50 miss with missiles +75 skills +100 accept job from bo to follow bluey
18165
Each of the commanders of the GAW armed forces asks for standing orders from the players assigned by BO to each of the units at "commander" rank.
Herman leads 3rd recon, lead by Dirk Diggler 3rd lvl smuggler
Swat 4 art Dune Buggy by Gilgemesh on DeviantArt Huntsville 3rd Recon Platoon x12 GAW Fast attack ground dunbuggy troups 2 smuggler soldiers each
82MDC 574SDC 120mph (same stats as guntersville smuggers, these are survivors of the destruction of Huntsville)
roof mounted 50cal w/ ramjets
2 lts lead from GAW 988 Combat Humvee 122MDC 854SDC 90mph
Caldor the commander of
HuntsVille 1st Tank Platoon, x6 GAW M1A3 Tanks with 4 smuggler soldiers each, more survivors from Huntsville.
MB 266MDC 1862SDC 60mph 500mi range 40 tons
120mm cannon 6000ft 40 Ap Rounds d4x10MDC/d4x50sdc
50cal coaxial machine gun w/ ramjets
2 lts lead and spot for the tanks from camo'd up GAW 998 Combat Humvee w/ dual 50cals with ramjets, piloted by the Riktor twins.
Halo by frankhong on DeviantArt
Bluey leads the
Guntersville 3rd Armored Company lead by Major Ban Gunter
80 soldiers in 3 26 person platoons, each platoon has 3-4 ppl on one car, 8 mad max cars with bigboss atv
GAW Mark2 Body armor 38MDC
GAW 21 Laser rifle 2 clips 20 blasts 2d6 md laser 1800ft
1 in 4 has GAW AT-6 LAW missle launcher 5d6MD x3 SDC HE round 3200ft rng
Sent from Guntersville to help retake Huntsville.
Drago leads the 9th infantry.
M113 APC by DarkWizard83 on DeviantArt Huntsville 9th Infantry Platoon
GAW M113 APC 168MD 1176 SDC
coupla railgun d4x10md/d4x50sdc 4000ft 80 bursts
x6 mini missle launcher with plasma mini missles
with 3 crewmen and 23 infantry lead by a
LT Chromium
vet smuggler full conversion borg pulling a GAW-198 155mm Howitzer
3d4x10MD plasma shells 3d4x50sdc 30ft radius
Half of infantry are very old or very young, they were the last to survive the conquest and evacuated and conscripted.
2 Bo asks Bluey to ask Sparticus to guide him as general
Bo asks to send scouts to pierce fog of war and learn of enemy units
Shiro made some great rifts hex maps! :)
North America:
http://shirosrpg.blogspot.com/2008/12/workin-on-rifts.html
Europe:
http://shirosrpg.blogspot.com/2009/05/rifts2112-europe.html
They make it easy to estimate distances between major places, and graphs a few intact post Rifts roads.
The 3rd age of Dragonwright game is currently taking place in the southern regions of this map:
I like how Shiro shows there being much more water around the area where the Mississippi drains into the gulf of mexico. I am not sure about how close Tolkeen is to chi town on this hex map. I would place Tolkeen due east of Serenity on the river on the hex map 0206 based on this map: http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/rifts/images/8/82/Riftsmap.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100328152013
Now if I overlay this map with my older map I was using this to find the locatiion of Golden Age Weaponsmiths :
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOHT1VmxxVDteRHAPv-ve3SYGt7NmVsm-ygvFL3yn5NUmnCrzLSsH0WU8M2HqJfIn1wfzMlgxffhoapS2wWWwAihCBaMrGgGY5T9dRePOtDdMRTumJWN9oKk0sMiOP8T9ye7EHFW_xXTqM/s1600/rifts_east.jpg
As of update #75, in the first Shiro's Hex Map, The old GAW city in the Huntsville ruins are in the North West of Hex 0311 (partially obscured by the river).
The land directly to the south of Huntsville is the Tennessee river and then swampy everglades type areas eventually giving into full on ocean.
Guntersville is at the South East side of Hex 0311, along the Tennessee River is the rebuilt and well concealed homes in Guntersville ruins, the only known surviving GAW settlement.
Characters recently traveled north from the Oil Refinery Army of Thunder base in Huntsville to Cincinnati to battle Nxla, now they are west of Cincinnati near the crashed jet and square 0609.
After rescuing the 5 elders of huntsville who were taken to Cincinnati to be part of the sacrifice to NXLA, the characters get GAW support.
When called to help defeat NXLA the GAW soldiers that accompany the party traveled this far north via boat from Huntsville, https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjo51wxnd2Ilt9GnarN5WCgh5wipishqH9w09fg0NTVlMflI4J-BvYxhvMU3AQgSbt2L3_v6RAVo0BzcvKLlWkJaXiHm7iule1Af7UoS88Es8-EVUZSLOfTkWcKBOK5Km2kjpD-fCclscE/s1600/northamericanwater.jpg
(Looking at the maps, whew there actually is a water way that goes this far north, that makes plot continuity on how GAW managed to move multiple tanks and heavy equipment across hostile wilderness alot easier :)
Loose ends to tie up in between sessions:
Herman:
2) Dirk Diggler wants standing orders for the 3rd recon squad of dune buggy troops.
3) Herman's Driver Kail AKA NUX the ferocious wants orders
Herman sends many of Dirk's men out on patrol, some are attacked by strange wolves and the GAW men are slain. Later the party goes to find the missing men and herman has to fight off the wolves, NUX has his throat ripped out and his body is left behind with a dune buggy the wolves diabled. Herman's dune buggy has its tire bitten off by the wolves, but herman is able to fix it. Herman shot at the wolves and later used his magic swords on them, seriously injuring one. The wolves seem to escape when they realize herman is no easy prey.
Bluey:
1) Major Ban Gunter wants standing orders for his Guntersville 3rd Armored Company, Bluey tells them to hold position with the rest of the squads. The order is Infantry, then armored company, then tanks as they drive down the road.
Tin Duhk's head stays wired to blueys bike's nuke power plant which is all thats keeping the head powered and alive.
Caldor:
Rides on one of his tanks until the men go missing in the Dune buggy. Lets
Bo, Merl, Riki stay in one of the tanks.
Drago:
1) LT Chromium asks for standing orders for his the Huntsville 9th Infantry Platoon (ordered to stay back at the front of the convoy while drago goes ahead alone)
2) Denali is at Drago's side
3) Magic pidgeon
4) Rogue the Dead Girl tries to break free of Drago's undead enslaving control magic.
Sparticus:
1) Lida, Seth, Lt Fifo Partino, Jizzel lane stay nearby.
Drago sensed the rift opening to the south.
After the men go missing Drago went forward.
Caldor sees and starts sniping some flying kitani vehicles. Caldor blasts the head sensor of one to bits with a sniper shot.
They land, and out pours some slave soldiers, giants, troll, ogres.
They throw up their hands and say they want no part in this battle and that they are slaves just wanting freedom.
From behind bellows a balrog "FIGHT YOU WEAKLINGS, OR DIE!"...
Drago manages to petrify the Balrog, realizing that NXLA is now trapped in the elemental plane of Earth drago fights off NXLA's presence as he reaches out to the earth plane to gather magic ane petrify the demon (saves vs mental posession, or does he?)
Nearby a sucubus with a brass lamp gestures and a huge tornadow whips up, and starts smashing into the ranks of GAW.
Caldor hides in a Tank and rides out the storm.
Herman and Bluey escape outside the area of the tornadow on their fast vehicles.
Sparticus pulled his men back before the storm hit and is north of the area.
Drago was hit by the winds but his protection wards hold.
Eventually the winds die down and there is no sign of the demons... Only the statue of the Balrog remains.
Many of the GAW troops are dead or destroyed by the Tornado and the screams of the wounded echo across the field of battle. #77 will start with surveying the wounded and remaining troops and equipment, it doesn't look good.
XP
Drago 9th Level Hatchling 127330
+500 showing up
+25 making phoenix empire slave warriors surrender
+50 petrify balrog +50 skills
+100 gives XL69E1 machine gun to Rogue
128005
Sparticus 9th Level Energy Master Psi warrior in training 89950
+25 making phoenix empire slave warriors surrender
+500 showing up +25 witness balrog petrification +50 skills
90550
Caldor 9th Level Kreeghor Bounty Hunter 87526
+25 making phoenix empire slave warriors surrender
+500 showing up +25 witness balrog petrification
+100 survive tornado inside now trashed tank +50 snipes sensor
88226
Herman 7th Level Juicer 51831
+25 making phoenix empire slave warriors surrender
+750 showing up
+100 fight wolves +25 witness balrog petrification +50 skills +50 escape tornado +50 use sword +100 fails to save nux who has his throat ripped out by wolves...
52981
Bluey the 7th Level Dog Pack Line Walker 43550
+25 making phoenix empire slave warriors surrender
+750 showing up +25 flying around
+25 witness balrog petrification +50 skills
44425
Rogue the Dead Girl 6th level Super Spy Revenant
(uses dragon xp table instead of gaining levels every 50 years like the book states)
31350xp needs 50000 +1000 showing up
+25 witness balrog petrification
32375
Tow Jam the 5th Level Guntersville Smuggler Borg
16890xp needs 24881 to level
+1000 showing up
+25 making phoenix empire slave warriors surrender
+25 witness balrog petrification +50 miss with missiles +75 skills +100 accept job from bo to follow bluey
18165
