HMW: Campaign for Cybertron, round 3: Capture the Technology!
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HMW: The Campaign for Cybertron
A new way to fight the Heavy Metal War
The Scalp Hunting game the whole faction can play!
We've fought over Hydrax Plateau looking for Sharkticon reinforcements and we've fought over Tarn searching for technology to further aid us in the war, but where (and what!) will be fighting next?
Let's hand you over to one of WarPorn Industries finest fembots, Zombi Cheerleader, for some important news on the next round of the HMW: Campaign for Cybertron!
WarPorn Industries News Network; Making a profit out of a crisis!
Good evening 'bots and 'cons! Tonight we bring you an update on the recent battle for Tarn. The Decepticons may have taken control of the region, but the Autobots' incredible efforts have enabled them come away with almost as much new technology as as their ancient enemies!
Yes, you heard right, and today we are set to reveal a breakthrough in that glorious tech. Our nerds in the labs way down in the basement of WarPorn towers have been hard at work analysing all the components recovered from Tarn and believe they are close to a breakthrough in a new weapon system, comparable to any of the arms already being sold right here in the WPI Weapons Store.
...and we interrupt this cheap attempt at product placement to bring you some actual news: It has been confirmed that the 'bots have mobilised their forces and are headed to... Zone 6: Vos.
Looks like this is where the battle will be held! Will the Autobots finally win themselves a well earned victory, or will the Decepticon forces drive their old enemies back even further? The fate of Tarn's twin city is in YOUR hands!
But before this technology can be released, we bring you all this exclusive edict from our glorious senate:Senator Sustain wrote:What?! You want new weapons? Fine. If you want them, fight for them!
Unite your faction, chose a target between you and then work together to bring us the complete team of any enemy commander.
Whichever faction captures the most opposition teams in a week or the first to win three rounds (whichever takes longer) wins, and gets to name the weapon.
Get organised! There will be a limit on how many heads each factions commander can collect from each opposing team, and the opposition wont wait to begin the next round, so communication is key.
You have Iacon and Darkmount: use them!
If you're lucky and we're feeling generous, we may even let the winning faction vote for a champion to keep the prototype.
And no cheating!! Senator Burn can see which opponent you have picked, so no changing targets mid-round.
Now get off my lawn.
So there you have it, mechs!
Each faction has to pick and kill a full squad of opponents. Then, combining their weapons technology together the Senate will develop the newest weapon to be manufactured at the HMW Weapons plant.
The design, its requirements, and its payload will be up to the winning faction but there will still be limitations - more powerful weapons will need more powerful soldiers to wield them as equipping a minibot with a fusion cannon will just give you a dead minibot.
Anyway, that's enough from me - I've got a Sharkticon to go and feed a horse to.
Until next time, this is Zombi, signing off...
So, here we go!
The winning faction get to decide the new weapon to be available in the game.
Game rules:
0) Sign ups in the HMW GD forum are required to be able to count your kills in the hunt. Late sign ups are fine, but can only join the hunting from the following round onwards. Unsigned teams can be chosen as targets.
1) The two sides must pick a single team (of 12 members, so no hunting Jedi Kermit!) to target as a faction and name it in their private forum. How they choose the target is up to them but time is limited.
2) They must then, as a faction, capture that entire team in the missions. All kills count, even if the mission isn't a victory for the killing faction.
3) Once they have done this they announce the team they have captured in the game thread in GD and post the 12 kills. The round is declared over, a win is awarded, and a new team must be chosen.
4) Both factions then have from whenever the last round was declared until 6AM GMT+1 (British time) to declare their next target.
5) After a week, the faction with the most rounds won is the winner, unless the target of 3 wins isn't met, in which case the game will continue until a faction has 3 wins.
6) The hunted teams are to be kept SECRET until the relevant round has been completed.
Special notes:
- No more than 4 members of the target team can be collected by any single commander.
- Captured teams cannot be chosen a second time, but may still participate in the hunting.
- You can not chose the same team twice in a row.
- Once chosen, the targeted team cannot be changed.
- To prevent any accusations of 'hiding', any participating teams who have a team member who remains un-activated for longer than 48 hours, that character will be considered 'captured' and will count towards the hunting teams total but NOT towards any commanders hunt limit.*
- Each team will then have until 6AM GMT+1 to declare their next target in their forum and the next round will begin. The Target can be chosen in advance, but it must be made obvious to Burn what that target is when it is declared. Note: Burn has authorised Wingz to keep him updated on the Autobots selection if he is unable to check for any reason.
- If a faction fails to declare a new target in time, the next round begins anyway giving their opposition a potential head start.
- A round will last as long as it takes to collect all 12 members of the targeted team.
- Lastly: Huge thanks to Turbomagnus for giving me the idea for this round. I'd hoped to make a bigger thing of his involvement, but RL prevented me. Sorry/thanks dude!
* This can be proven by taking a screenshot of the character page, like this.
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In-game reward: The winning faction will be able to name and request the approximate stats they want a new HMW weapon to have. The damage output will be up to the game admin. Bonus Prize: At Admin's discretion, a single 'prototype' version of the weapon may also be offered to a commander selected by the winning faction.
Begin choosing your targets and the first round begins at 6PM (GMT+1) Saturday
So what is Heavy Metal War (HMW)?
HMW is Seibertron.com's very own on-site Transformers game which will be celebrating it's 15th (yes, 15th!) anniversary in June.
It's simple.
• Choose your faction
• Create your troops (you can create up to 12)
• Deploy your troops to missions (cool kids don't use the arena)
• Beat up your enemies to earn XP and Energon
• Upgrade your bots
• Deploy, beat up, earn, upgrade, repeat.
The best part is, unlike most other Transformer based games, there are no loot boxes, you won't be attacked while you're away, you don't need to log in daily to collect bonuses, you don't need to meet expectations of overbearing alliances. In fact, unless you want to engage in the banter on the HMW Forums, you can dump and run in five minutes and then come back in an hour or so!
So join up, crush, kill, destroy!
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Posted by Bumblevivisector on March 30th, 2018 @ 9:26pm CDT
Posted by steve2275 on March 30th, 2018 @ 10:19pm CDT
Bumblevivisector wrote:Wow, thanks to my work schedule, I had no idea I'd missed round 2. And it somehow never occurred to me I'm not authorized to view Darkmount, plus I'd forget to put my medics in every 48 hours, plus my migraine...so I guess I'm out. I knew I'd failed RDD long ago.
still playing tho right?
Posted by Nexus Knight on March 30th, 2018 @ 11:35pm CDT
Burn wrote:The two sides must pick a single team (of 12 members
Team meaning one controlled by a single commander? And we need to capture (read: kill) every member of said team at least once?
Posted by steve2275 on March 31st, 2018 @ 12:37am CDT
Nexus Knight wrote:Wow, didn't catch the last event. Sorry, my fellow commanders.Burn wrote:The two sides must pick a single team (of 12 members
Team meaning one controlled by a single commander? And we need to capture (read: kill) every member of said team at least once?
like johnny cash sang one piece at a time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws-_syszg84
Posted by Deadput on March 31st, 2018 @ 12:44am CDT
tyranacons (No capital letters)
One thing that I have noticed that the Commander name is set to my old user name, is it possible to change the name to my current user name?
Posted by Psychout on March 31st, 2018 @ 1:17am CDT
Eh, we're a chilled out bunch so it's all cool Bumble.Bumblevivisector wrote:Wow, thanks to my work schedule, I had no idea I'd missed round 2. And it somehow never occurred to me I'm not authorized to view Darkmount, plus I'd forget to put my medics in every 48 hours, plus my migraine...so I guess I'm out. I knew I'd failed RDD long ago.
Feel free to join in late this time around if you're feeling better, and Burn can add you to Darkmount, just drop him a PM.
Yep. Go check Iacon, one of them will he able to explainNexus Knight wrote:Wow, didn't catch the last event. Sorry, my fellow commanders.Burn wrote:The two sides must pick a single team (of 12 members
Team meaning one controlled by a single commander? And we need to capture (read: kill) every member of said team at least once?
Posted by Psychout on March 31st, 2018 @ 1:54am CDT
Deadput wrote:Wow turns out I had an "account" that I made back when I was like 12 and I had a cringy team name and edgy bio.
tyranacons (No capital letters)
One thing that I have noticed that the Commander name is set to my old user name, is it possible to change the name to my current user name?
Not currently, but that doesn't matter. We've got a few commanders with mis-matching names.
Welcome back!
Posted by Deadput on March 31st, 2018 @ 5:10am CDT
Psychout wrote:Not currently, but that doesn't matter. We've got a few commanders with mis-matching names.
Welcome back!
Thank you for the answer as well as the welcome.
Anyways that would be fine and good if I didn't dislike my previous user name.
I'll settle with naming my squad leader after my user name.
Posted by Deadput on March 31st, 2018 @ 5:27am CDT
My creativity is not infinite when it comes to good names and I want to field a squad of 11 (my fave number)
Specifically the names I want are Canopy and Trench (Both are minor characters in the Last Knight...Trench only appearing for all of 10 seconds with no voice or name mentioned in the movie)
Posted by steve2275 on March 31st, 2018 @ 5:34am CDT
Deadput wrote:Ah I was trying to find it in the main post but I was just curious if were allowed to name characters after characters in the franchise?
My creativity is not infinite when it comes to good names and I want to field a squad of 11 (my fave number)
Specifically the names I want are Canopy and Trench (Both are minor characters in the Last Knight...Trench only appearing for all of 10 seconds with no voice or name mentioned in the movie)
you can take any name that isnt already taken
Posted by Deadput on March 31st, 2018 @ 5:51am CDT
steve2275 wrote:[
you can take any name that isnt already taken
I see thank you!
Posted by Burn on March 31st, 2018 @ 5:52am CDT
Unfortunately the HMW user name is in it's own database disconnected from the forum name database.
Posted by adamsafran on March 31st, 2018 @ 6:54am CDT
Posted by Psychout on March 31st, 2018 @ 11:10am CDT
adamsafran wrote:Throwing my team in (The Incompentacons) for bowlderization
Good man. Every level covered will help!
Posted by Psychout on March 31st, 2018 @ 12:11pm CDT
Lets get it on!
Posted by Burn on April 1st, 2018 @ 6:08pm CDT
BUT ... just to give things a bit of a stir and light a fire.
Decepticons require just one more bot to be captured.
Autobots however, started off strong but have slipped behind and till require four more bots to be captured.
Will the Autobots come through with a four bot sweep? Will that one little Autobot manage to evade capture? Stay tuned ...
Posted by Psychout on April 1st, 2018 @ 6:49pm CDT
Also remember; once the round is over you only have until 6AM GMT+1 the next day to decide your next target, then the next round starts.
Please be sure to make your target clear, but you can pick it in advance!
Good luck out there!
Posted by High Command on April 1st, 2018 @ 7:45pm CDT
Mars Planetary Defence Force
Steelwall - Claimed - High Command (Sustain)
Stormmaster - Claimed - Wrath (Wrath)
Soundcaster - Claimed Valclaron (Sustain)
Ecto-1 - Claimed - Tweak (Wrath)
Uplink - Claimed - CATalyst (Burn)
Steamhook - Claimed - Facehugger (Xenos Prime)
Bodge-Job - Claimed - Chompy (Psychout)
Resolute - Claimed - Technion (Wrath)
Longarm - Claimed - Occult (Sustain)
Bumper - Claimed - Elita Nemesis (Redimus)
Anla'shok - Claimed - Twitch (Wrath)
Athena - Claimed - Opeth (Redimus)
Posted by Redimus on April 1st, 2018 @ 7:49pm CDT
Posted by Burn on April 1st, 2018 @ 7:53pm CDT
So who were the Autobots hunting? Well, some could say he brought this on himself as he was one of the organisers of this little contest, yes, the Autobots were hunting Psychout!
Available Captures
Psychout
Parasite
Mal Practice
Chompy
Zombi Cheerleader
Nemesis Wheelie
Evil the Car
Darth Burnius
Primal Fear
Hard Wired
Tetrahydrocannabinol
Hazard
Current Round Kill Count
Jack Hollows - 3
Wingz - 2
Dragonslayer - 1
steve2275 - 2
So I'll leave it up to the hunted one himself to remind you of the next phase in this round.
Great work all!
Posted by Dragonslayer on April 1st, 2018 @ 8:00pm CDT
Posted by Psychout on April 1st, 2018 @ 8:09pm CDT
Current score is 1-0 to the cons.
Choose your next target and round 2 will kick off at 12:00PM tomorrow (Monday 2nd April) as I'll still be asleep at 6!
Im open to any and all feedback on that round as this is a brand new game for us, if you can think of ways to improve the later rounds, please do yell!
Posted by Dragonslayer on April 1st, 2018 @ 8:39pm CDT
Psychout wrote:please do yell!
IT WAS FUN! I LIKE THIS GAMETYPE!!
Posted by Wingz on April 1st, 2018 @ 9:02pm CDT
Dragonslayer wrote:Psychout wrote:please do yell!
IT WAS FUN! I LIKE THIS GAMETYPE!!
I SECOND THE NOTION!
Posted by turbomagnus on April 2nd, 2018 @ 12:01am CDT
Psychout wrote:Damn, you guys were close!! Hope you all had fun stalking me...
Current score is 1-0 to the cons.
Choose your next target and round 2 will kick off at 12:00PM tomorrow (Monday 2nd April) as I'll still be asleep at 6!
Im open to any and all feedback on that round as this is a brand new game for us, if you can think of ways to improve the later rounds, please do yell!
Checking my mission logs, if we'd had one more hour, I'd have made a claim on Primal Fear, so it would have been even closer - your little truck got out of being captured by the chips on his paintjob, he did...
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to take my captured team and go watch old episodes of Hogan's Heroes for advice on how prisoners of war are supposed to behave.
Posted by Psychout on April 2nd, 2018 @ 4:26am CDT
turbomagnus wrote:Psychout wrote:Damn, you guys were close!! Hope you all had fun stalking me...
Current score is 1-0 to the cons.
Choose your next target and round 2 will kick off at 12:00PM tomorrow (Monday 2nd April) as I'll still be asleep at 6!
Im open to any and all feedback on that round as this is a brand new game for us, if you can think of ways to improve the later rounds, please do yell!
Checking my mission logs, if we'd had one more hour, I'd have made a claim on Primal Fear, so it would have been even closer - your little truck got out of being captured by the chips on his paintjob, he did...
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to take my captured team and go watch old episodes of Hogan's Heroes for advice on how prisoners of war are supposed to behave.
The last hour of our hunt was CRAZY intense, as we'd forgotten you'd said you may be away this weekend so we we're just glued to your team page stabbing F5 and praying you'd put Ecto-1 into a mission before going back to whatever you were doing.
And Wrath kept stealing all the kills, so we had to go back and try and find other kills by the rest of us due to the 4-kill limit. (Very glad I put that in!)
Probably the most fun I've had here in a very long time.
Posted by Psychout on April 2nd, 2018 @ 4:42am CDT
Bots, you've got just over an hour to decide before it kicks off again.
Posted by steve2275 on April 2nd, 2018 @ 4:43am CDT
we got it coveredPsychout wrote:Cons have decided their target for the next round. Check in here if you want to know who it is guys
Bots, you've got just over an hour to decide before it kicks off again.
Posted by Psychout on April 2nd, 2018 @ 4:55am CDT
And looking at my logs properly this morning, if we hadn't clinched it last last night you'd have had the win.
You and Jack smashed my namesake and Stampy finally got his girl
Hope the next round is this intense!
Posted by steve2275 on April 2nd, 2018 @ 5:24am CDT
Psychout wrote:Good work guys.
And looking at my logs properly this morning, if we hadn't clinched it last last night you'd have had the win.
You and Jack smashed my namesake and Stampy finally got his girl
Hope the next round is this intense!
https://imgflip.com/memetemplate/122327 ... -homer-doh
Posted by Psychout on April 2nd, 2018 @ 5:24am CDT
https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwa ... _id=510135
#51035
Go go go!!
Posted by steve2275 on April 2nd, 2018 @ 5:27am CDT
Psychout wrote:Round 2 will begin with mission:
https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwa ... _id=510135
#51035
Go go go!!
the cr chamber wont let me
Posted by Burn on April 2nd, 2018 @ 3:14pm CDT
This round is incredibly close ...
Posted by Wingz on April 3rd, 2018 @ 6:38am CDT
Black-Op. Elves Reloaded
Bun-Bun claimed by Dragonslayer
Disillusioned claimed by Jack Hollows
Lilith claimed by Wingz
Dark Claw claimed by Dragonslayer
Tracer claimed by Turbo
Bunzirra claimed by Servant of Light
Gremlatron claimed by Wingz
Kludge claimed by Wingz
Necropsy claimed by Steve2275
Portent claimed by ThunderThruster
StealSchlong claimed by Wingz
Killerpunch claimed by Wrecking Poof
Great work, all! Looks like most of us got at least one kill in there! As a professional Bun-Bun hunter, it pleases me to say we've won this round Good game, though! This one was a lot of fun
Come get some revenge
Posted by Burn on April 3rd, 2018 @ 6:42am CDT
Target 2 - Servant of Light
Team: Be Ye Transformed [DPG]
Behemoth - Open target
Graverobber - Claimed - Tracer (Bun-Bun)
Leviathan of Job - Claimed - Cardinal HighCommand (High Command)
A.R.K. 2099 - Open target
Word of God - Claimed - Kludge (Bun-Bun)
Boglin Puppet - Claimed - Hazard (Psychout)
White Horse - Claimed - Bio Titan (Xenos Prime)
Red Horse - Claimed - Paydirt (Overwatch)
Black Horse - Claimed - Cardinal HighCommand (High Command)
Pale Horse - Claimed - Neptune (The Potentate)
Dave RAMsey - Claimed - Danger Plane (Kick Axe)
Rusted Moth - Claimed Distortion (Overwatch)
Posted by Psychout on April 3rd, 2018 @ 6:51am CDT
Why did itake us nearly 15 years to discover it?
Congratulations Bots! A hard fought victory there. Current score is 1-1.
As it's 12:50pm over here, you guys have all got nearly 24 hours break before the next round and then we're back to it.
Posted by Burn on April 3rd, 2018 @ 7:07am CDT
Psychout wrote:As it's 12:50pm over here, you guys have all got nearly 24 hours break before the next round and then we're back to it.
A lull in the war ... or is that lulz?
ABSOLUTE ZERO! GET YOUR FUCKING OLD ARSE TO THE BATTLEFRONT! I DEMAND COMPETITION! BRING STEVE THE LACKEY! BRING OTHER LACKEYS! FIGHT MEEEEEEEEEEE
-edit-
Would just like to add that AZ picked a top time of the year to return, or is it a case of he has risen?
Truly it is a sign that AZ is the Autobot Saviour they have been longing for!
Rise up AZ, smite me down and take your place as the one true Autobot leader!
Posted by Bun-Bun on April 3rd, 2018 @ 7:44am CDT
Wingz wrote:Come get some revenge
I would but I can't find you so far... #ChickenOfTheSea
Don't worry I've got a tuna can with your name on it once I find ya!
Good job Bots.
Now you just got to find another target that plays as recklessly as I do
Posted by Dragonslayer on April 3rd, 2018 @ 8:18am CDT
Great job Bots!! Good fight Cons! Now we play the Waiting Game...
Posted by S.o.L. on April 3rd, 2018 @ 8:19am CDT
Good game. Game. Game. Game. Game. Good game. Game.
Posted by High Command on April 3rd, 2018 @ 12:07pm CDT
Bun-Bun wrote:Wingz wrote:Come get some revenge
I would but I can't find you so far... #ChickenOfTheSea
Don't worry I've got a tuna can with your name on it once I find ya!
Good job Bots.
Now you just got to find another target that plays as recklessly as I do
Gulp!
Posted by Psychout on April 3rd, 2018 @ 5:48pm CDT
WPNN: Like the Oasis, but slightly less Spielberg.
Well boys and girls, it looks like both factions are off to a flying start!
My BFF Cons took the early lead by munching on Turbo's Mars bars whilst the 'Bots were busy chasing WarPorn's own gobshite Cassetticon fearless and fantastic leader around the place, but in the second round the Bots got their well-deserved revenge by snagging themselves an Easter Bun-Bunny of their own, leaving the Cons in the Jurassic era in their hunt of Servant of Light's low-level heavies.
Now we're nearly onto round 3 which is, like... amazing, and so we're offering the floor to you - yes you, our carefully selected sheep beloved viewers. GD has been buzzing and I can tell you that our cozy little Darkmount has been ablaze with activity and action over the last few days. We want you to write in and tell us, how do you think this little tournament the boss dreamed up is going, and how has it affected you and your team?
Three days still to go in the tourney before it moves into extra time, so enjoy tonights break before we head back into the glorious chaos!
Eat ya laters!
#HMW #roundthree #thishitlinkstoinstagramright? #Iloveeatingrabbit
Posted by Bun-Bun on April 3rd, 2018 @ 7:26pm CDT
There's constant counseling and talking about feelings. The TV only gets PBS and they've been doing a pledge drive all day. It's all worse than torture.
Somebody bust me outta this place before they turn me into some kinda tofu eating hippy!
Posted by Dragonslayer on April 3rd, 2018 @ 7:43pm CDT
Posted by -Soundwave- on April 3rd, 2018 @ 7:49pm CDT
Dragonslayer wrote:via Imgflip Meme Generator
Posted by Bun-Bun on April 3rd, 2018 @ 7:59pm CDT
Stop making me paddle you as a punishment!
It makes me feel so dirty.
I'll shut up & eat the damn tofu just pull your pants back up & put the paddle away!
Posted by Redimus on April 4th, 2018 @ 6:17am CDT
Posted by Burn on April 4th, 2018 @ 6:20am CDT
Perfect mission to start on too given who's already in it.
Posted by ThunderThruster on April 4th, 2018 @ 6:33am CDT
Posted by S.o.L. on April 4th, 2018 @ 8:36am CDT
Bun-Bun wrote:Autobot POW camps suck
There's constant counseling and talking about feelings. The TV only gets PBS and they've been doing a pledge drive all day. It's all worse than torture.
Somebody bust me outta this place before they turn me into some kinda tofu eating hippy!
Security video of SoL in charge of recess time:
SoL: And I got this toy for my birthday, and one time, okay one time Optimus was a truck and he was all "I'm going to hit the bad guys today." And he went vroom vroom! and he hit the airplane man! And over there a dog dug up a lego and I was wondering whose lego that was and maybe it was my lego, and that's the tree where the kite got stuck and it was up there every day and one day it was on the ground and it was broken...
Bun: They ever let you play in traffic, kid?
SoL: Ha ha, good one!
Bun: (GROOOOOOOOOOOAANNNN...)