nuclear assault and nuclear infiltration

[John_Oxford]

nuclear emergency is renamed to nuclear infiltration, and war mode is removed from this.

nuclear assault beefs up everyone. the crew is made immediately aware of a incoming nuclear assault team, the nukies spawn in a seperate big as fuck syndicate battle crusier, which contains two bore-class dropships that are essentially drop pods but big as fuck.

this requires 80 people to be ready at round start. it selects 14 people to play as nukies. they all get much better gear and weapons that are unique to nuclear assault and not nuclear infiltration.

in response to this blatant nuclear threat, centcomm sends a platoon of 6 marines which are all equipped somewhat decently with central gear. the ship they come on is also loaded with weapons and gear for the crew to arm themselves.

central is realigning the NWS Icarus, which according to bay lore is a gun platform with a huge as fuck arty piece on it. it will be aligned in 35 minutes. the syndicate are allowed to deploy from the battle cruiser after five minutes have passed.

the battle cruiser is heavily fortified and not normally accessible by people from space. it also has broadside short range plasma cannons, which can shell certain portions of the station every 5 minutes, via a syndicate team leaders HUD.

[Nilons]

What if we made ss13 TDM?

[kevinz000]

You would get tgstation

[Armhulen]

You would get unity

[NanookoftheNorth]

Interesting idea. The team dynamic, where everyone is permitted to have guns, without all access being handed out, that seems interesting.

I dislike the plasma cannons. The issue with the 5 minute plasma cannons is that, if a war of attrition arises, the syndicate will always win. The syndicate basically have two advantages, they choose where to attack, and they can continuously attack without consequence. I'd say either limit that to a certain number, allow the crew to invade the ship where the ship cannot reposition, or remove it entirely. I think that it would help in beginning the assault, but overall it would take away if it takes too long.

[Not-Dorsidarf]

I dont think you need to drag bay lore into this idea, just say "We lost the key to the bluespace artillery. We're sending a guy round to Joe's house to get the spare, ETA 35 minutes" or something