~ BEST CYBORG MODEL ~ Top 5

TechnoGothic · Mon Jul 13, 2009 12:35 pm

I'm only listing the Cyborg Models that are not customizible, or very limited customizability. These are Stock Model Cyborg Models, with set features already built-in.

Please no write-ins.
You can Select 5 Borgs in the Poll.

Cybermancer · Unread post by **Cybermancer** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 5:41 pm

You didn't list "Killer" Cyborg. :lol:

Starmage21 · Unread post by **Starmage21** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 6:02 pm

I wish you wouldve listed page numbers and books on all of these.

Anthar · Unread post by **Anthar** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 6:17 pm

I voted for the Megaversal Legion Borg(Human). Borg strength, endurance and sensors but with the fun bonus of still having the nice fleshy bits so you can still feel a light summer breeze.

Mack · Unread post by **Mack** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 6:24 pm

Have to add in a model: The Cyber-Humanoid from the Bionics Sourcebook!

TechnoGothic · Unread post by **TechnoGothic** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 7:41 pm

Cybermancer wrote:You didn't list "Killer" Cyborg.

I was going off the top of my head. Which is the killer cyborg again ??

Starmage21 wrote:I wish you wouldve listed page numbers and books on all of these.

Again listed them from memory only.

New West = Cyberslingers & Mining Borg
NGR = Triax
Warlords of Russia = Solvetski, Ultraborgs (all)
South America 2 = Megaversal Legion borgs
Japan = Dragon borgs
Free Quebec = FQ borgs
China 2 = Geofront borgs

Mack wrote:Have to add in a model: The Cyber-Humanoid from the Bionics Sourcebook!

No I do not. Cyber-Humanoid is a total custom job cyborg. Which is why I left it off.
Besides it just sucks as far as borgs go anyways.

I also left out Phase World cyborgs altogether. Why is simple. Repo-bots rock too much. Star-Marshals rock too much too.

Starmage21 · Unread post by **Starmage21** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:56 pm

TechnoGothic wrote:Star-Marshals rock too much too.

Nah, the Quatoria O.C.C.'s borg options all that great. The only thing they get is a CNRRS system that doesnt run out, but runs much slower.

Shark_Force · Unread post by **Shark_Force** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 1:55 am

TechnoGothic wrote:
Cybermancer wrote:You didn't list "Killer" Cyborg.

I was going off the top of my head. Which is the killer cyborg again ??

i believe this is the killer cyborg in question

though i could, of course, be wrong...

Prettz · Unread post by **Prettz** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:04 am

Repo Bot is the only one I really like.

Cybermancer · Unread post by **Cybermancer** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:27 am

Shark_Force wrote:
TechnoGothic wrote:
Cybermancer wrote:You didn't list "Killer" Cyborg.

I was going off the top of my head. Which is the killer cyborg again ??

i believe this is the killer cyborg in question

though i could, of course, be wrong...

Nope, you nailed it. :lol:

TechnoGothic · Unread post by **TechnoGothic** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:40 pm

Prettz wrote:Repo Bot is the only one I really like.

If I was including Dimension Books (but i'm not), MY two favorite cyborgs are from Phase World.
Repo-Bots
Cyberai Cyborg Warrior (phaseworld sourcebook pg 16-19) 900 mdc, regenerates 2d6 per hour. Nano-Katanas which shifts between hand to swords.

Captain Shiva · Tue Jul 14, 2009 6:20 pm

Something everyone should remember: under RUE rules, all FCBs have robotic PS, so several of those borgs from old sourcebooks become more powerful under those rules.

runebeo · Unread post by **runebeo** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 7:02 pm

Ya i'd want to be the Russia Tiger one, but a Repo-Bot is where the power is. I wonder how much the Naruni would charge to upgrade aRifts Combat borg into a Repo-Bot?

Shark_Force · Unread post by **Shark_Force** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 9:19 pm

runebeo wrote:Ya i'd want to be the Russia Tiger one, but a Repo-Bot is where the power is. I wonder how much the Naruni would charge to upgrade aRifts Combat borg into a Repo-Bot?

oh, it's quite cheap actually. you just have to take out a large enough loan on other things, and then when the time is right they'll come find you and bring you to your appointment. you don't even have to pay off what you owed on all their other shiny toys... pretty neat, huh?

Dead Boy · Unread post by **Dead Boy** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:01 pm

What? No Naruni Repo-Bot? No CS models from that one exceptional Rifter article? Lame!!!

Aramanthus · Unread post by **Aramanthus** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:47 am

I did vote. I know I'm happy watching the results as they pile up. Some of the ones I voted for are doing very well and a few aren't.

TechnoGothic · Unread post by **TechnoGothic** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:01 am

TOP 5 as of July 21.... 12:55 am Eastern Time (USA)

TRIAX "Manhunter" RED BORG = 14*
Megaversal Legion Borg (human) = 11
White Tiger Ultraborg = 9*
Triax Maurader Borg = 8*
Avenging Angel Ultraborg = 8

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I voted for 3* out of 5 of the top choices so far. Interesting.

TechnoGothic · Unread post by **TechnoGothic** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:55 am

"The Kid" Cyberslinger 2% [ 3 ]
Super-Slinger Cyberslinger 4% [ 6 ]
Mining Borg 3% [ 4 ] x
Triax Red Borg "Manhunter" 10% [ 14 ] x
Triax Blue Borg "Stopper" 1% [ 2 ]
Triax Gold Borg "Slasher" 2% [ 3 ]
Triax Monster Borg 4% [ 6 ]
Triax Maurader Borg 6% [ 9 ] x
Triax Prowler Borg 3% [ 5 ]
Solvetski Heavy Machine 2% [ 3 ]
Solvetski Thunderstrike Ultraborg 2% [ 3 ]
Solvetski Thunderhammer Ultraborg 1% [ 2 ]
Solvetski Thunderstorm Ultraborg 3% [ 4 ] x
Tempest Ultraborg 1% [ 1 ]
The Butcher Ultraborg 1% [ 1 ]
Ripper Ultraborg 1% [ 1 ]
White Tiger Ultraborg 7% [ 10 ] x
Holocaust Ultraborg 2% [ 3 ]
Aftermath Ultraborg 1% [ 2 ]
Avenging Angel Ultraborg 5% [ 8 ]
Mantis Ultraborg 3% [ 4 ]
Demonfist Ultraborg 1% [ 2 ]
Megaversal Legion Borg (human) 8% [ 11 ]
Megaversal Legion Destroyer Borg 4% [ 6 ]
FQ Leviathan Borg (underwater) 1% [ 2 ]
FQ Imprimer Borg 0% [ 0 ]
FQ Dervish Borg 2% [ 3 ]
Geofront Lion Borg 1% [ 2 ]
Geofront Demon-Eater Borg 2% [ 3 ]
Geofront Assault Borg 1% [ 1 ]
Japan Dragon Borg "Tsunami" 5% [ 7 ]
Japan Dragon Borg "Wing Blade" 5% [ 7 ]
Japan Dragon Borg "Imperial" 3% [ 4 ]
Japan Dragon Borg "Flame Cloud" 3% [ 4 ]

Total votes : 146

TechnoGothic · Sat Oct 03, 2009 11:16 pm

Iron Manticore wrote:Man, not a lot of love for the Aftermath...that thing is awesome!

FQ Imprimer Borg 0% [ 0 ]
Thats no love..."0" votes so far. must be the artwork's fault.

Danger · Unread post by **Danger** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 4:45 pm

The Super Slinger, hands down.

Lenwen · Unread post by **Lenwen** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:50 pm

I said the Megaversal Legion Destroyer Borg.

None of the other listed Borg's in a straight up fight stand a chance in my opinion against the Destroyer Borg.

grandmaster z0b · Wed Oct 07, 2009 12:15 am

No Japanese Ninja Borg?

Lenwen · Unread post by **Lenwen** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 12:19 am

grandmaster z0b wrote:No Japanese Ninja Borg?

Anything the Japanese Ninja Borg can do ..

The Megaversal Legion Destroyer borg can do in spades ..

And in a straight up fight .. The Destroyer borg would work that Ninja Borg rather easily .

in my opinion.

Mack · Unread post by **Mack** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 7:13 pm

TechnoGothic wrote:
Iron Manticore wrote:Man, not a lot of love for the Aftermath...that thing is awesome!

FQ Imprimer Borg 0% [ 0 ]
Thats no love..."0" votes so far. must be the artwork's fault.

The Imprimer suffers in this poll because it doesn't have any unique traits. It's a solid build, but it's also a vanilla one.

Lenwen · Unread post by **Lenwen** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 7:29 pm

I am honestly shocked at how little love the Ojahee and the Megaversal Legion Destroyer Cyborgs are getting ..

Those are two of the baddest Cyborgs in all of the books to date..

This must be a which one looks prettier .. type of a thread .. not a which one is actually the best in a combat scenario type question.

grandmaster z0b · Thu Oct 08, 2009 6:45 pm

Lenwen wrote:
grandmaster z0b wrote:No Japanese Ninja Borg?

Anything the Japanese Ninja Borg can do ..

The Megaversal Legion Destroyer borg can do in spades ..

And in a straight up fight .. The Destroyer borg would work that Ninja Borg rather easily .

in my opinion.

A ninja borg isn't designed for pure combat but for stealth, that's why it has those noise cancelling devices. In any case the poll simply asks for best cyborg, not who would win in a fight.

Crucible · Unread post by **Crucible** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 6:49 pm

Lenwen wrote:I am honestly shocked at how little love the Ojahee and the Megaversal Legion Destroyer Cyborgs are getting ..

Those are two of the baddest Cyborgs in all of the books to date..

This must be a which one looks prettier .. type of a thread .. not a which one is actually the best in a combat scenario type question.

I chose ML (human) borg...

Lenwen · Unread post by **Lenwen** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 1:09 pm

In Combat out of all these Cyborgs ..

The two Megaversal Legion Borgs are the baddest Cyborgs around .

Kagashi · Unread post by **Kagashi** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 6:44 pm

Captain Shiva wrote:Something everyone should remember: under RUE rules, all FCBs have robotic PS, so several of those borgs from old sourcebooks become more powerful under those rules.

Has this been reflected in the new Triax reprint? The Slasher in the reprint of Free Quebec does not state one way or another.

Shark_Force · Unread post by **Shark_Force** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 5:19 pm

TrumbachD wrote:
Rogue_Scientist wrote:
Mack wrote:Have to add in a model: The Cyber-Humanoid from the Bionics Sourcebook!

My favorite.

Mine Too!
I'm shocked it wasn't in the original poll
Just because it's not Combat oriented.
It's Stealth/Espionage oriented, wich when played right can be alot more fun than just blowing stuff up!

you say that as if being stealth-oriented doesn't mean you get to blow things up...

Lenwen · Unread post by **Lenwen** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 7:23 pm

I guess I just do not understand why ANY borg would be a "Stealth" orientated borg.

In my opinion the only reason to even undergo such a dramatic an overpowering transformation would be not to "Sneak" around .. Soft tissue bodies are better at that then any Cyborg could ever be ..

In my opinion the Cyborg is a nearly unstoppable front line combat type of class .. not a sneek around an stab you in the back type ..

This is just how I view Cyborgs tho ..

Shark_Force · Unread post by **Shark_Force** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 10:38 pm

well, that depends. it's true for the typical rifts concept of a 'borg, which is a hulking brute who's traded in their meat for a shiny new robotic body.

it's not so true for, say, the cyberpunk genre, where you can get implants that make you supernaturally agile and fast... like, makes the juicer look like he's a clumsy, morbidly obese kid kind of fast. (in shadowrun, for example, you can get 4 times as many attacks and set your agility and reaction to 1.5 times the maximum possible for your race... imagine the equivalent in rifts... )

and that's assuming you don't have a natural aptitude for those attributes, genetic modification to increase your maximum, and also assuming you're not a cyberzombie (which increases your augmented maximum) or the 'brain in a jar' type of cyborg (which can attain dicepools comparable to the cyberzombie and get a 5th multiple of number of attacks. yeah. 5 attacks. in 3 seconds. and you can do 2 short bursts or single shots per attack). and with their agility high enough, and their stealth skills cybernetically augmented so that they could probably sneak up on you in an open field in broad daylight. and i haven't even started talking ruthenium polymer skin or built-in white noise generators or thermal dampening yet.

so when you consider that the only reason you think of a stealth cyborg as being silly is that you're limiting your concept of cyborg to the rifts combat cyborg... a stealth cyborg suddenly doesn't seem so ridiculous.

TechnoGothic · Unread post by **TechnoGothic** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 3:01 am

Dead Boy wrote:What? No Naruni Repo-Bot? No CS models from that one exceptional Rifter article? Lame!!!

I did not list Any CS borg. No Rifter borgs either on the list.

Subjugator · Unread post by **Subjugator** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 2:40 pm

I love the Mantis borg so much it's unhealthy. I guess our secret is out now, so we can elope.

/Sub

DtMK · Unread post by **DtMK** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 12:58 am

I was kinda hoping the Gringo from New West would be in here. Vibro-blades, chest cannon and shoulder mini-missile launchers on top of wielding other firearms? It's a good one for the American market!

The Megaversal Legion 'borgs are probably the best, followed by the Geofront, then a tossup between the Japan Dragon 'Borgs and the Russian models in my opinion.

TechnoGothic · Unread post by **TechnoGothic** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 3:21 am

RPGMAN wrote:Megaversal Legion all the way baby..... "Destroyer" rather says it all, heh heh.

Destroyer Borgs have CHEAP vactions. VR systems.
Be cool if you could place yourself into a Movie in the VR kinda like the Holo-deck from ST.

londonbaz · Unread post by **londonbaz** » Tue Jan 05, 2010 9:42 am

I only voted for 2 models - the FQ-Dervish and the Sovietski Heavy Machine. The combo of stats and artwork just does it for me there.

jaymz · Unread post by **jaymz** » Tue Jan 05, 2010 10:36 am

Gotta go witht he old trusty and reliable Red Manhunter. Versatile noto bulky can carry enough armour to make it a threat to any othr borg out there as well as carry weapons to do the same and isn;t a rare-ish conversion to get by comparison to many on the list.

londonbaz · Unread post by **londonbaz** » Tue Jan 05, 2010 11:19 am

As an aside, would you guys allow a player to select a chasis model instead of a custom job if they were playing a combat borg? I mean, there are OCCs for russian machines, quebec machines, TRIAX machines, CS standard (un-named chassis) which might be applicable to any given game, but what about just a bog standard combat borg who wanted, say, a gold borg chassis or a gringo one? Do you really make them just buy it later?

Captain Shiva · Tue Jan 05, 2010 11:36 am

londonbaz wrote:As an aside, would you guys allow a player to select a chasis model instead of a custom job if they were playing a combat borg? I mean, there are OCCs for russian machines, quebec machines, TRIAX machines, CS standard (un-named chassis) which might be applicable to any given game, but what about just a bog standard combat borg who wanted, say, a gold borg chassis or a gringo one? Do you really make them just buy it later?

I would let them do it,within reason.Within reason meaning a reasonable chance of being available in the region they operate in,and not ridiculously overpowered.

TechnoGothic · Unread post by **TechnoGothic** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 8:11 pm

Wow. Look at the ones in the lead now.

Wildfire · Unread post by **Wildfire** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 7:13 am

My favs are the old school Red Borg and the Slinger borgs
The slingers especially after the last swim suit issue of the Rifter

They are essentially the Cyber humanoid borgs just stated out even though all borgs can have the hide away holsters in the legs something about a sexy senorita poping out two pistols and saving your ass is hot, while your singing "Save a horse, Ride a cowboy" or some other country song and hiding behind a table

Wildfire · Unread post by **Wildfire** » Tue Jan 26, 2010 1:37 am

Correct me if I am wrong but isn't the Repo borg more like a robot with the memory ingrams (or something like that) of the best Naurani repoman ever implanted inthe borg to ensure it will allways be true to its one true master the Naurani

TechnoGothic · Sat Jan 30, 2010 12:20 am

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