Welcome to Project Flamesail! Quite a bit of work to still do, but I wanted somewhere a bit more official to post project updates. Hopefully one day this will be a proper tabletop game everyone can enjoy, but for now it's still heavily a WIP. I hope you will stick around!

APC An Armored Personnel Carrier, outfitted to both carry troops and supply other ground units. As a result of the extensive internal storage, it’s unarmed. However, it is incredibly cheap to produce, and shrugs off light caliber fire, requiring a slightly more concentrated effort to bring down. Deploy Cost: 4000 RP Unit Type: Tank Movement Type: Tracks Movement Range: 6 Fuel: 50 Daily Fuel Cost: 2 Vision: 1 Ability: Troop Transport Gains the actions of “Load” and “Drop”. Can transport one Soldier unit. A Soldier unit can load itself into the APC on their turn as an end-of-turn Action. If the Soldier unit has not moved the same Day it is dropped by the APC, it can take a turn. Ability: Supply Transfer Gains the end-of-turn Action of “Supply”, allowing the APC to fully replenish the fuel and ammo of any ground unit within a 1 range square around it. Tip: Being the only ground vehicle that can supply on the go, these are vital for keeping up frontline pressure.

why do i ask you people anything

So I have a bunch of stat blocks done for various army units, but no imagery work done yet. Would y'all be interested in just posts with the stat blocks or would you prefer to wait for images to be drawn up?

somehow I never end up starting with faction leaders, I just pick someone and start working

re-establishing that I do not have factory autism to a discord friend

you know what, next lore bit might be on Scrapers

gonna refrain from commenting on the current Ace Combat situation, even if its VERY tempting

Lore Bit - Artificial Intelligence While they are referred to as AIs, these digital constructs do far more than something like ChatGPT, functioning as plug-and-play databases, uplink/downlink modules, and operational networking. Notably, out of all the factions, GUSION is the only one that does not operate any kind of AI, having had to destroy theirs when it went rogue and not making any attempts in the field since. HELHAUND operates basic AIs for menial work on board their sailing vessels, leaving combat operations management to organics. Said organics are usually Felidrix and Impalares. TAURASC is the primary user of such AI, with the four pictured below all belonging to them. LINK is simply a datalink for mass-operation aircraft and keeps the fleets organized. RAIDEN is a specialized unit given to special operations units and is designed to analyze new targets, cross-reference existing ones, and is generally one of the most advanced pieces of recon kit available. SAGES exists for when fighters move to the ground war, and is able to pull up satellite mapping, building blueprints, and even work with other fireteam members to triangulate audio and optical input for exact rangefinding. GUARDIAN is a unique case, having been designed from the ground up with civic duties in mind instead of combat. Operating out of a supercooled tower in the Antarctic regions of Earth, she usually manages macro-scale affairs like city planning and orbital logistics. as for NORN.... Their main deployment of an AI was a malicious program designated as the "Corruptive Human Annihilation Operating System", known simply as CHAOS. Disguised as a basic maintenance update, it was injected into GUARDIAN and began to sap her of processing power and electrical flow. It continued draining her resources and growing more powerful until it was able to completely rewrite her personality and behavior. After doing so, the CHAOS-infected GUARDIAN began to weaponize Earth's defenses against its populace, raining destruction upon the land. The abomination eventually broke away and escaped cyberspace until it was destroyed on an orbital resource moon by the FEY-401 Pauldron and the XYZ-100 Atomic Tyrant. After this event, Earth patched together and recompiled the remains of GUARDIAN's code into GUARDIAN II, while CHAOS's prototype code was repurposed and modified for the Godgoyle Project.

inventing lore for want of a sexy chinese doctor

buying the deluxe edition of Ace8 like the consoomer i am

if I win the lottery I won't tell anyone, but there will be signs.

Don't really know where I'll go if this account gets hit too. Maybe write a book? Maybe just quietly give up my dreams.

well lore bit coming soon, I guess

sometimes things slip through the cracks in the parallel that were not meant to.

might as well repost these TAURASC ai frames since the last time I posted them was ~340 followers ago