Imagine dropping 20 million C-bills on overengineered omnimech just to get cored in a single blast by a Demolisher I spent a tenth as much on lmaothis post was made by Free Worlds League gang
>>62879726Where is the dakka in this?
>>62879747>Where is the dakka in this?The Demolisher IS the dakka.
>>62879726Battletech mechanical design is the fucking worst
>>62879941Except that it has inspired everything from the '90s Jeep Cherokee to the Stryker, sure.
>>62879726Imagine buying that overpriced piece of Trellshire shit when Quikscell is literally just as good.
>>62879726>Gets blown up by an LRM carrierGood luck hitting me, I'm behind 7 hills.
>>62879726The tracks aren't following the contours of the groundenjoy your shitty leaf spring suspension asshaul league LMAO>posted from my Atlas ll Omnimech
>>62879726>spheroid threatsI can not imagine a more freeborn and dezgra comment
>>62879726I had a dream where I was a locust pilot doing infantry support, running around and ripping enemy infantry and artillery to shreds while everyone thanked me.
>>62881075And then everyone on the dropship clapped and a bird named "proper fealty to your legal sovereign" swooped down and shed a tear
>>62881080Yeah… how did you know?Seriously though the locust is pretty good so long as it’s used in its proper role not for walking tank battles.
>>62881075>infantry support>not using warcrimesant
>>6287972620mil..Time to buy 200 Savannah Masters that can do 200km/h!>pew pew pew intensifies
>>62881474I don't like using mechs when committing warcrimes. Lasers are too quick. You don't get to savor the little emotions.
>>62881075We all know if we ever got mechs it's going to look like the locust.
>>62881509I always preferred the Harasser. Slightly slower, but still stupid fast, and with enough SRMs to make anything light have a terrible day and anything heavy fear for its rear armor.There's also the LFE variant that tops out at an incredibly silly 280km/h.
>>62881474U mean warmcrimesAnd why not get. Firestarter then?Also the dream was set in the succession wars. The life of someone who inherits a locust as a family mech isn’t a bad one
>>62881641Jenner makes sense as a hard counter to locusts
>>62881641I'm ok with this>>62881753The Bandit is a solid choice too, actually just be a complete bastard and get heavy missile carriers for maximum fuck
>>62880152>Quikscellwho needs to worry about penetration of the hull, when it comes pre-supplied with more holes than your can count!I love the fact that 50% /k/ is tactical highspeed lowdrag meal team six operators operating operationally, as part of the Gravy Seals, S.T.A.L.K.I.N.G anomalies in high-risk life or death moist nugget action.... and for whom Weapons is srious bznss, and in their po-faced miserable deluded life, they cant possibly enjoy a game, because real life is not a game, it's a battlefield.... aaaaand then there's this one reprobate corner of /k/ who love battletech, and completely embrace how stupid as fuck it all is and laugh at all that bullshit.
Alacorn or bust.
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>>62882298Dont ever go on /tg/, where they think battletech is "speculative fiction" KEK....
>>62883373Battletech is the future we want and deserve
>>62881539When the Draconis Combine was allowed to be cool, back in the days of the 80s, before weebs and when Americans were panicked about a resurgent Japan. I read so many books written in the 80s about Japan starting WW3 and invading Russian and China and America having to say them. It's crazy to me how american military fiction writers seem to love Russia and China so much and hate their allies so much, why is that?
>>62883658>It's crazy to me how american military fiction writers seem to love Russia and China so much and hate their allies so much, why is that?They're the nations America is panicking about now, just as America panicked about Japan in the 80s. Military fiction writers pick up on these fears, and use them to write compelling stories. Or they totally phone it in, depends on the quality of the writer. The point is: contemporary concerns inform the shit people write about, and how they write about them.
>>62879726Even after all these years I still don't understand the off center second cannon.Also the Alicorn is better, three fucking gauss rifles, on one platform
>>62881474>warcrimesThat's no Kontio
>As a general rule, it is common for a planetary militia to fieldonly a single company of unarmored infantry and atmosphericfighters, plus two companies of combat vehicles, for every onebillion planetary inhabitants. If the system is advanced or importantenough to have BattleMechs within its militia, however, a good ruleof thumb is to assign approximately one lance per full one billioninhabitants. The quality of the soldiers can run the gamut fromGreen to Veteran, as retired veterans or new graduates from thenearest training center often staff these forces.>Objectives: Lyran Alliance sourcebookBattletech is literally Peacetech. The factions of the Inner Sphere are absurdly unmilitarized per capita compared to almost any existing nation on earth at any time in history. It is canon that the little lance vs lance battles you take part in on tabletop might actually be enough to take a planet. From this point of view, "war" for the average civilian is practically non-existent as long as the WOB isn't nuking you from orbit. Some noise happens, you wake up and see the flag at the local palace has changed, whatever, the new boss is the same as the old boss. Funnily accurate for a feudal medieval-esque society.
>>62886020>"war" for the average civilian is practically non-existentIt's only that way because the conflicts during the starleague and early succession wars could be positively fucking apocalyptic if they got out of hand. Especially the first succession war.
>>62886058Even the numbers for the Amaris Coup are weirdly small. The Rim Worlds Republic was said to have about 100 mech regiments, with 108-180 mechs being the IS standard for regiments. This number is described as "gigantic." However, ~15,000 mechs is not a lot when you consider that this was a war fought across many planets, and ~300,000 tanks were deployed in WW2, which was fought just on one.
>>62879726lol. imagine piloting a warmachine that doesn't let you cook eggs on its dash. this post brought to you by the ah fuck I forgot to override the emergency shutdown gang
>>62886020Sounds like the middle ages where armies often numbered in the hundreds
>>62886058Didn't the Amaris Civil War have less men under arms than WW2
>>62886134I'm honestly not sure. They've always kind of kept the numbers vague for the Civil War. The final battle for earth just says "millions dead, millions more displaced" more or less. The real crazy shit comes after the Exodus, during the 1st Succession War. Basically the 90s post soviet conflicts but everyone has space ships, near inexhaustible piles of nuclear weapons, and is expending their soviet inheritance so frivolously that you've got nations singling out college campuses for nuclear strikes just to prevent their neighbors from retaining the know how to repair clock radios and produce ball bearings.
>>62879726WHY ARE AUTOCANNONS SO FUCKING HEAVY GODFUCKING DAMN.
>>62886122That's what they're going for yeah.
>>62886134Don't need that many men when pressing a button deleted half the planet
>>62887706Balance. Back in the '80's, AC's were for the most part balanced against energy weapons. Example:>ac/10 weighs 12 tons, requires 3 tons of shs to go heat neutral and 2 tons of ammo = 17 tons>ppc weighs 7 tons, requires 10 tons of shs to go heat neutral = 17 tonsIt wasn't quite balanced though. PPC's don't explode and every mech has at least 10 heat sinks for free, so it would be dumb not to throw a medium laser or two on there to utilize that heat sinking, even with an AC heavy design...and most 3025 designs feature this to some degree. Once you have a few medium lasers on there to utilize your basic heat sinking, AC's are almost balanced vs. energy. Almost.Shit started getting stupid with power creep. The AC's got a little better, the energy weapons got a lot better, and DHS made extra heat much less of a burden. Exotic ammunition was an (unsuccessful) effort to restore balance. Rebalancing across every era would be desirable, but that would require coming up with a new BV system and recalculating the BV on every existing design going back to 3025, and we both know that Catalyst is incapable of an effort like that, even if they were willing to try.
>>62886112You're not supposed to shoot them all at once, anon. It was designed as an Elemental hauler (hence lack of torso weapons in its prime configuration) and originally didn't have a torso twist. Mounting the arsenal that you're actually supposed to shoot, in duplicate, on each arm made a lot of sense under these conditions...at least until BV was introduced. I don't think that I've seen one of these on the tabletop since the early 90's.>configuration s is the sane version of the prime
>>62887706Because autocannon weight was set before double heat sinks were a thing, and energy weapons were still very significantly handicapped by their heat generation relative to ballistics.
>>62886122wasn't there a war in the middle ages that lasted for decades and had like a dozen men on each side?
>>62882298Inside my body there are two wolves. One seeks only the most grounded, gritty, and realistic depictions of weapons and war in my media, and throws an autistic fit every time some guy talks about needing more "clips" for his Glock.The other enjoys gun kata, Bayformers, and Cowadooty.
>>62886482>singling out college campuses for nuclear strikes just to prevent their neighbors from retaining the know how to repair clock radios and produce ball bearingsWe could be so lucky.
