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What's your favourite mercenary-built battle technology?
>>94612732I think MMLs are pretty neat.
Would the Clantech have been that much of a shock in 3050, when endo, FF, XL, pulse, Devastator and shits were being deployed? I'm not sure if the Clanbusters are necessarily better than the SLDF Royals that Comstar had at their disposal
I bought a Hornet today because it sucks. Not sure what color scheme to give it.
>>94612761I'm pretty sure Comstar didn't have many/any royals or the documentation needed to copy them. It was part of the retcon to explain why they never used any.
>>94612701i'd consider it If they didn't charge almost the same price as your order in delivery fees for non americansWeird how i can get 2kg of clay shipped to me from the US for 8 bucks but it costs 27 for 200g of plastic
>>94612761There was a brief period IRL where the writers hadn't decided that those things were in circulation by 3050, which was long enough for the flagship books of the era to be written and go to the printers. oops. If I were in charge of rewriting that stuff I would emphasize that the problem is everyone has a careful upgrade schedule and projects full replacement of all front line units by 3058 when they get the news that thirty elite regiments of delusional lunatics with warship support are coming from the place on the map labeled "grubby pirates, nothing here can threaten us". They won't win, but they will cause lots of casualties and totally fuck the political balance.
>>94612825all royals are supposed to have left with the exodys
>>94612732all the mine variations r my faves but mml's are cute and based
>>94612732Yee and/or haw.
>>94612732according to most anons in this thread, that battle armour has a large laser
>>94612911According to most anons in this thread you have a disgusting butthole and no driver license in sight, surat.
>>94612911its a 13bv1 armor, it has a flamer
>>94612973I don't think I've ever posted hole. Are you getting me confused with someone?Blue = large laser
>>94612761Star League tech is vastly inferior to Clan tech save a couple SL techs they ignored on purpose for retard LARP reasons. The Devastator you mentioned is one of a handful of uptech mechs from the Sphere that can actually go toe to toe with Clanners in 3050.
>>94613056Unless you're meme-ing on purpose, the blue is a videogame thing, novels describe the lasers as all sorts of different colors
>>94612352#Reposting here in case youre still wondering:Here are the valid C3 configs (sans C3i)As someone who runs a c3 lance the only way youre going to make it cheaper is by skimping on pilot upgrades, or using shit units. You want to leverage the networks effects to compensate for a lower G skill
What did catalyst mean by this?
>>94613235that it hates non burgers
I need Davion paint scheme recommendations. Currently torn between the normal parade guard scheme and wotan tamar march.
>>94613257Olive Drab
>>94613235It means you're buying your package a plane ticket
>>94613276I'm looking for something a little more vibrant.
>>94613291Olive Drab with yellow highlights.
>>94613291https://camospecs.com/factions/federated-suns/
>>94613291Dawn Guards (white and yellow), Davion Guards (red, white, blue), FedSun Lancers (blue and yellow)
>>94613291https://camospecs.com/unit/dawn-guard/
>when you have so much plot armor that this is somehow viable Stackpole makes Matt Ward look like Tolkien.
>>94612725COBRA KAI
>>94613364Didn't his hatchetman get wrekt just fighting some elementals?
>>94613364what's wrong with it?
>>94613235That you should live in a better country.
>>94613235Oh. When I mentioned their sale, I didn't think it would lead to things like that. The discount is irrelevant in light of numbers like that. I've never actually bought from the CGL website.
>>94613056i thought blue was PPC and large was red?
posted on the wrong god damn thread.makin 4 custom varients and fuxin shit us truly miserable, but it's payin off!(arbiter half cannon project)
>>94613592*fixin
>>94613592what is that supposed to be
>>94613626looks like a zaku
>>94613626arbiter half cannon i'm making for both me and my gundam obsessed friend
>>94612838Comstar still has a random assortment of them according to MUL, just not necessarily in large numbers. They have the royal Black Knight, Shadow Hawk, Griffin, and Catapult, among random others.
>>94613410The Hatchetman gets rekt by virtually everything, it's that fucking bad. And this is supposed to be the super prototype funded by the FedCom and the brainchild of Dr. Banzai who is a absolute meme and should be retcon'd from existence. >>94613456It's slow, no armor, and the ammo bomb in the CENTER TORSO and it's supposed to fight enemies who °360 no scope you from across a map. The Hatchetman is a expensive joke of a mech that should have gotten Team Banzai lined up against a wall and shot.
>>94613764it's a city fighter though
>>94613410Yeah, in the first turn too lol.
>>94613764okay so how do YOU or the people you play use it?
>>94613770There are VASTLY superior city fighters (Urbanmech/Firestarter/Vulcanx4ML) that are far cheaper.>>94613784Ditch the AC/10 for a better engine and more armor.
>>94613837Cheaper, but the Hatchetman is a morale boost and extremely significant in-universe.
>>94613837>/Vulcanx4MLFire Vulcan
>>94612911BOTTOM-ANON PLEASE MARRY ME
>>94612725>grayson carlyle>peak mercenaryTry again, friend.
>>94612732
>>94612770Lyran colors, and paint a skull on its face.>we have steiner scout mech at home
>>94612835A brief period of 20 years.There was LIMITED deployment of lostech before the Clan Invasion. DHS, ERPPCs, Artemis IV, ERLLs, XL engines, factories for all of these were just in construction in the 3040s, with the Marauder factory on Quentin being basically the earliest and most advanced. Huge numbers of DHS during '39 was a retcon (though I can't remember if it was FanPro of CGL).>>94612838At least one of the Divisions that went to ComStar after the Exodus was Royal. I'd imagine they had at least some special Mechs.
>>94613861okay.
>>94613638That's no Zaku, boy! No Zaku!
>>94613927>At least one of the Divisions that went to ComStar after the Exodus was Royal. I'd imagine they had at least some special Mechs.Yep, Kerensky left a handful of SLDF regiments who were on the fence about leaving with Blake to help secure the HPG stations, these would later go on to form the backbone of the ComGuards.
>>94613883Based and non-bias.
>>94613927The very first version of TRO:3050 published like six months after 20 year update says that most of the stuff in it is already in production, with outliers like the Victor 9d/k and Marauder 5D close enough to production in 3039 that capturing the factory matters.Lethal Heritage characters not knowing about XL engines and ER lasers is just a fuckup.
>>94613951The only two Gundams I know are the Leo and the Zaku. It's got spiky shoulder and it doesn't look like a Leo, therefore it's a Zaku.
>>94613764The first new mech made in the IS in centuries being a mediocre machine that can't tell what it wants to do seems right to me.
>>94613987This. That's why I don't feel bad about running a full company of DVS-2 Devastators as my homebrew 3049 Lyran militia company on Bone-Norman.
>>94614023I think the Merlin has a pretty good grasp on what it is.
>>94614023I love the mission in HBS Battletech where you're trying to acquire a new super special battlemech and it's a fuckin Hatchetman. Meanwhile my lance had two King Crabs.
Show me your Mechaifu.
>>94614036Can do!
Alright /btg/, you have 2 hours to assemble and photograph a company of 12 mechs armed with with autocannons. You do have 12 mechs with autocannons, right?
>>94614032I used it in that one flashpoint where some Solaris jock challenges you to a 1v1 (and then proceeds to bring friends, predictably)I threw my best pilot in there and cleaved the fucker in half with a single swing. That alone gives it a *slightly* endearing quality to me.
>>94614052I've got a Dawn Guards company so yes.
>>94614052Can I have 2 hours starting from when I get off work tomorrow morning? Because otherwise that's not going to be a thing.
>>94613987Yes, in 3050. Which you'll note is after 3039.And you'll note I specifically mentioned the Marauder factory on Quentin as a partial exception.
>>94614052I have 4 different rifleman from random sources, so thats lance 1.My urban assault lance has a hunchback, axman and Sagittaire, so theres 3 more, plus the Yen-lo-wang from BT essentials. Lance 2 done.Then in no particular order: Enforcer, Blackjack, Atlas and King Crab. Theres the 12
>>94614036my beautiful bird bride
>>94614064>>94614074Where's the photographic proof?>>94614068If you can hold yourself to that deadline.
>>94614076>dem legs
>>94614085Oh you *actually* want results, im at work so ill need about 6 more hours
>>94614068What the fuck even is that opfor? Who puts a 6 gunnery quad artillery turret into a game and expects it to actually hit something?
>>94614096>artillery>expects it to actually hit something?It doesnt, you aim at hex coordinate and let rnjesus take the wheel>if you can predict where the shells going to land, neither can your opponent
>>94614087>dat rack
>>94614085>If you can hold yourself to that deadline.It's a matter of about 90 seconds to pull 12 AC-armed minis once I get home. The deadline isn't an issue. Working overnight shift when you're asking for pics, however, is.>*technically* speaking, there are 12 autocannon-armed units in this photo
>>94614107You vs the girl he tells you not to worry about.
>>94614108FFI. He asked for mechs.
>>94614117I'm surprised this one didn't get a name like the madcat did."Oh it's like an archer and a... rifleman. It's the Archerman."
>>94614117she got a big nose though
>>9461405218 autocannons in this picture.
>>94614134>not RiflecherDegraza
>>94613291Olive Bright.
>>94614136Why do you think that the Vulture is the favorite Sea Fox heavy Omni?
>>94614052Easy. In fact, here's 24.
>>94614219Work on your art
>>94614219Do you dip your brush in the paint pot and then apply it directly to the model?
>>94614219heavy 90s mcdonalds kids toy vibe>>94614229>>94614234to be fair, the plastic quality doesn't deserve much better
>>94613837okay but that's not saying how you use or play it.
>>94614219You fucked up kiddo, one of the mechs in that picture has no autocannon.
>>94614219looking like a bunch of z-bots
>Post pic of minis>Paint snob immediately shows up to whineEvery, single, time.
>>94613997>the only gundams.>leo and zaku.>neither of which are gundams.so uhhhhh, what the fuck?
>>94614242Bushwacker counts.
>>94614252the 20 people known collectively as paint snob
>>94614265The BJ-2 doesn't, it has ERLLs instead of ACs.
>>94614252>Post the clearly burned hamburger you had for dinner on a cooking forum>People comment on how bad it looks>It doesn't matter no one else's look like this, they are just being snobby, I will never change my methods.
>>94614290Don't you have some no games to not play?
>>94614252Maybe your painting should suck less.
>>94614052I have about 15 painted autocannon mechs, but I am also at work and won't be home for the next three or four hours.
>>94614325>>94614108>>94614095All of you are lying. You aren't at work and you don't have painted mecks
>>94614314Maybe you should just KYS since you're incapable of getting a life.
>>94614271We have a similar faggot in the infinity general who thinks everyone who's got some gripe with the game is all one insane schizo out to make his life miserable. If we suddenly get pics of shitty garish 'paintjobs', I'll know who to blame.
>relegated to 2nd-line while retaining a first-grade omnimech like the Dire Wolfpossible?
>>94614271no one cares about how many (YOU)'s you post
>>94614325>>94614108>>94614095You need a note from your boss attesting that you are occupied at work and you didn't bring your models with you.>>94614337(Almost) anything is possible if you win the right trials.
Retconned SL tech and robots in 2750 through 3050 was a mistake. Devastators shouldn't exist, mass deployment of Royal-tier tech shouldn't have happened. The Atlas should have been the premiere line breaker, not second fiddle to every other superior mech of the same time period.This mess needs to be all reset.
>>94614136She's got a big beautiful Clanner nose, and it's there two minutes early wherever she goes.https://youtu.be/CaNeh5UXDEU?si=usL7iLcivjsd5bYZ
>>94614337I think there was one Malthus that kept his Summoner. Though maybe you might say that is not "first grade".
>>94614219Can I see that Rifleman in the middle left?
>>94614271Yeah, I'm sure every single one of these is from a different poster. Painting minis is the least important part of Battletech. I won't apologize for having a life and not spending 18 hours per mini.
>>94614362Sure.
>>94614329I've actually posted all of my mechs here, usually right after I finish painting them. If I ever get around to basing them I'd post them again.
>>94614369Ah, nay, not that one but I do appreciate it. I meant the one beside it, on the left.
>>94614348You can just play in early eras if you want. Most people won't want to because of how limiting it is, but you can.
>>94614344Bet
>>94614379Oh. You said middle left, and all are on the left, so I thought you meant the tiger one. Well here's all of the Rifleman anyway.
>>94614369>>94614397Nta, but what'd you use for the tiger stripes? Markers? Or just single brush-strokes?
>>94614219why are you doing this
>>94614409Feeling threatened that someone is being an even bigger fag than you are?
>>94614408Single brush strokes. Tried the same thing for the pink and black one, but I guess the brush I used that time wasn't quite as good.
>>94614418Interesting, thanks
>>94614410Are you an IMAX? Cause you sure are doing a lot of projection there.
>>94614410yes. every group of bottoms has the most submissive and breedable bottom as the alpha. I'm concerned.no like, does the person have eye problems? are they a psychopath? has anon trapped those Mormons he photographed and locked them in his basement? are they the ones who painted these? why is any of this happening? what's going on?am I meant to pity these miniatures? get mad? tell me how I'm meant to react to this because I'm just very very confused.
>>94614363Who the fuck spends 18 hours on a mini? You can have table-ready in less than 2
>>94614419You're welcome.
>>94614384They retroactively affect other eras, in case you haven't noticed. These are machines inserted after the fact. Minor compared to Gundam OYW syndrome where a war winning superweapon was apparently finished every month in secret, but a significant problem nonetheless.
>>94614363>having a life and not spending 18 hours per mini.Skill issue. This guy spent 30 minutes per mini and came out with something impossibly better than the shit you produced. archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/92935064/#92942397Maybe you should actually try to improve instead of whining.
>>94614437Somebody here.>>94614436>I'm just very very confused.Yeah. We know. You always are.
>>94614444Oh, you're the one that's always dick riding NEA. Yeah, I don't care about anything you have to say.
>>94614437Not me, I can do slightly more than one per hour on a good day.
>>94614439If you are actually mad about stuff like the Guillotine 4L or Flashman 7K, which exist to let people use their models, I think you have brain problems and will never be happy, but if you find someone willing to play introtech with you it shouldn't be that much more of a stretch to further restrict it to TRO:3025 only.
>>94614437Someone who wants more than "table ready".Even though BattleTech is an actual wargame instead of a mini painting hobby, some people still like to spend a lot of time and effort on a particular mini. And small army sizes make it more reasonable to spend extra time.
>>94614397My bad, I meant far left, middle row. I just word it wrong. Thank you.I like it, I really do. That Rifleman's pilot and the one on the right are good buddies.
What's wrong spending a lot of time on a mini? I can spend an hour or two on one, because I want it to look nice.
>>94614504If you spend an hour or two trying to make something look nice, or take pride in your work, you're literally hitler or lying and actually spent 18 hours because you're a loser with nothing better to do, apparently.
>>94614509Im not 18 hour guy, I just want em to look nice.
>>94614513Post mechs.
>>94614509I've spent upwards of 40 hours on a single mini every once and a while. sometimes I've painted the same mini 3~4 times. I like painting, it's fun.
>>94614454It doesn't matter who did them. It matters that it doesn't take hours and hours to paint a single mini if you even slightly try to improve. You just want to feel like a victim. You're just another typical weak liberal.
>>94614516nein
>>94614444>Maybe you should actually try to improve instead of whining.Quads of truth, anon. Shut your face and go learn to paint better.
>>94614523Yeah ok, that's because you need 16 more hours to finish, I'm onto you buddy.
>>94614523post your mechs, nazianon
>>94614521It DOES matter who did it. If NEA did something, then it's bad and wrong and I'm not going to accept it as an example. Fuck him and fuck you for not hating him.
Everyone's just throwing all the bait in the water tonight.
>>94614523Mechs, now!
>>94614518Ok Hitler, try to tone it down with the fascist dogwhistles.
Post terrain
>>94614498And im glad they take pride and satisfaction in that bit of extra effort. However, it doesnt give them any ground to stand on when criticizing anyone else who is satisfies with good enough for TT.
>>94614569Best I can do is WIP's
>>94614570unpainted plastic is "good enough for TT"
>>94614542Plays the game >bad and wrongPaints minis well>bad and wrongHelps newbies>bad and wrongGood at teaching>bad and wrongMakes the community better by his presence >bad and wrongYeah, that sounds like you definitely practice what you preach, since your clearly none of those things
>>94614504Nothing, its when talking shit about other peoples stuff that makes you a dick
>>94614583Print faster
>>94614564Sometimes I spend 20~30 minutes painting a mini.Any amount of time spent painting is good for you. It's relaxing. The important thing is that you enjoy yourself.
>>94614583Unless you just bought that forcepack at the store today, then no, it really isnt
>>94614589I would, but i gotta turn down the print speed or it wobbles cause i need a real workbench instead of throwing the printer on my computer desk
>>94614593Try to make it the rest of the year without invading poland, painter man. Effort or any kind of self improvement is literally fascist and you should feel bad for not considering the impact your words and actions have on the differently abled.
>>94614588This is 4chan. If you can't take people talking shit about your stuff then you shouldn't be here. This isn't your safe space.
>>94614606>any kind of self improvement is literally fascistAnd here I though "exercise is right-wing" was a fucking meme
>>94614608Correct, works both ways too, if you can't handle being called a pretentious snob online, you shouldn't be here
>>94614605Put a flat folded cardboard box or other sheet of corrugated carboard underneath the printer. Works really well at absorbing the vibrations.>>94614610I think you might be getting baited.
>>94614588Define talking shit.
>>94614606I didn't even say you need to improve tho. I just said you should enjoy yourself. Some people have hard jobs or family situations and if they're too tired to try to consciously improve while painting that's fine. Heck, I don't even mind playing versus unpainted minis (or standees), or painting a lance or two for a friend if they're too busy/want me to paint something.But with anon's paint jobs I don't get it. They're like, crazy bad? Like, intentionally very badly painted & displeasing to the eye? It doesn't bother me it just makes me feel a bit sad. Like the person wants me to be annoyed with the minis? I don't understand why someone would want that.
>>94614627Saying that it needs improvement.
>>94614610>>94614627>>94614641Did you even consider the plight of those people who are unable to go to a gym because of their social anxiety? Recently arrived refugees who face a fascist language barrier? The women who are subjected to and subjugated by the male gaze? BIPOCs who are literally threatened with microaggressions when attempting to enter these male dominated patriarchal spaces? Of course you didn't, fascist pig. What's more, everything above can be equally applied to battletech, which is a moderately expensive hobby that requires free funds, free time, and access to transportation. You fascist scumbags laugh at these paintjobs, but did you ever consider that these people might be neurodivergent? Ocularly impaired? Inflicted with cerebral palsy or some sort of muscular wasting disease or other long term illness like HIV that prevents them from being able to paint up to your white male standards? No you don't, you didn't consider that at all, just like you mock those who are unable to afford a car and have to rely on sorely underfunded public transportation to have a chance to play battletech. Consider the less fortunate, and do better next time. It's almost 2025 for crying out loud. Y'all need to figure it out.
>>94614606>>94614610
>94614661come on man you can bait better than this
>>94614661I'll print this post and hang it in my room as my workout motivation. Thanks, nazianon.
>>94614619>Put a flat folded cardboard box or other sheet of corrugated carboard underneath the printer.Never considered that, hafta try sometime
>>94614668Poe's law.
>>94614661I am literally neurodivergent, ocularly impaired (short and nearsighted, and not even in a cool balanced way, it's way off balance and gives me migraines when I don't have corrective lenses), and have a long term disease that requires significant active attention. I was even in a foreign country once and didn't speak a lick of their language.Git gud.
>>94614661
>>94614610you need to be 18 to post here
>>94614698>ocularly impaired (short and nearsighted>I have Myopia and MyopiaWell I certainly believe you're neurodivergent (retarded.)
>>94614661haha I'm retarded and sometimes I'll barf or faint if I get too nervous and also my brain doesn't work good
>>94614708Exactly 18? Or is 24 okay
Hey guys how big are your mechs
>>94614710I typed short and farsighted and the stupid autocorrect fucked it up. brb, gonna go kill an AI programmer and then myself.
>>94614712Probably for the best your defective genes won't be passed on then.
>>94614720Just the right size.
>>94614720Compensating for something?
>>94614720small. leave me alone.
>>94613364I mostly like what I've read of Stackpole. I found the plot armor in Grey Death Legion a lot fucking worse.l
I can barely remember last time there was this much fishing on btg
>>94614724>short and farsightedHow does that work? Shortsighted in one eye, farsighted in the other?
>>94614787That'd be really fucked up. Might as well just wear an eyepatch at that point.
>>94614782It's been enjoyable. We'll get back to the usual arguments tomorrow.
>>94614787Yep. It's called antimetropia. If they're equal, it actually balances out to normal vision as long as both eyes are open. But mine are fucked up in different amounts (fucking AI tried to autocorrect amounts to antimicrobial even though I fucking spelled it correctly) so it's a jarring contrast. Also one of my eyes is worse at adjusting to low light conditions and takes way longer than the other, and there's no fix for that.
>>94614826Neat. Might as well decouple your eyes entirely and go full chameleon.
Reading about the origins of the Combine's state-mandated weebism.It was rumored that Coordinator Urizen Kurita II had stopped his aircar when he had seen a remarkable stand of bamboo on Luthien, thinking it would make a fine tea ceremony ladle. Just after he had descended from the car to cut off a piece of the bamboo, Urizen's car was blown up by a bomb secretly planted by a rival. The Coordinator was, fortunately, already well away from it. Tradition had it that because something utterly Japanese had saved the Coordinator's life, Urizen instituted the reforms that raised medieval Japanese culture to become the heart and soul of the Draconis Combine.
>>94614842It seems to me that the leader of a nation personally leaving his motorcade to harvest some bamboo is already pretty advanced weebery. Surely that is actually a story about the importance of doing things yourself sometimes.
>>94614787you can actually have both at the same time on the same eye and it sucks harder than anything you could imagine
>>94614606>Effort or any kind of self improvement is literally fascistI am so glad /pol/fags are bullied out of gyms to the point where they'll try to scare people away from them like this.
Named/Custom Unique variants: Only good for when you play as that era, that faction and that dude in semi-historical scenario?
>>94615030Pretty much. You can handwave it with "My character read about Natasha Kerensky's widowmaker configuration and had his techs copy it" or whatever, but for the most part they should stay unique.
>>94615030I don't think I've ever seen one on the table at all. The only real use cases I can see is if you're playing an exact canon scenario that guy was at or you're playing BV only with zero fluff logic at all and don't care even a little bit about what makes sense.Most of my groups games are loosely fluffy and lean on the MUL or RATs alongside BV, but don't represent one specific canon event. There probably wouldn't be objections to bringing one named custom, but nobody's ever done it that I know of.
Anybody have the premium BattleMaster by any chance? Heard it got sold at offline event but can't fimd any picture, especially pre-assembled parts (curious if the srm rack is separate piece or not)
>>94615030The vast majority of them aren't even good, and parallel development can explain the ones that are. Mech customization simply isn't that hard. This goes x10 for omnis like widomaker and prometheus.
>"I don't know why I'm doing this, either, Justin. Suffice it to say that I'm very attracted to you." She glanced back over her shoulder at the garish red and yellow phosphoron facade of the Morpheus Hotel. "I will not have you stay in that place. Need you more of an explanation?"This is what Stackpole thinks a woman flirting with a guy is like.
>>94613770It's an air superiority unit, actually.
>>94615103For those of us who aren't fucking ugly, that *is* what women flirting is like. You, obviously, wouldn't know.
>>94615030dude i once played against someone with 4 of those trio lbx10 dire wolfs just to realize days later it was a unique variant specifically for one character, that there's no variants that allow that many lb10's slots otherwise
>>94615103it actually is tho, are you retarded or just never got any game without begging for it?
>>94615103That is precisely how a confident adult woman flirts. Sorry that you've clearly only had experience with underage girls. Or with women as a business transaction.
>>94615110You can shove 4 of 'em into a Dire Wolf actually, with 12.5 tons for ammo and support. Because Clan LB-10Xs are only 5 crits, you can actually double up in the arms or torso if you want. Like am Annihilator, but only allow instead of very slow.
>>94615123>>94615114>>94615109Yall must have only dated autistic chicks then, because women irl aren't that direct.
>>94614325And here they are. I also included the Patriot because the only variant I'll probably ever use on it has an LBX/20.
>>94614839I have a different problem in that my eyes can no longer properly focus on a single object past a short distance, not even if I try to consciously cross eye. Thought that getting new lens for my now much weaker eye to get them both on par with each other would fix the problem, but it didn't. Seeing double basically all the time but I've gotten so used to it I guess I've forgotten how to point them inwards.
>>94615103He's not an amazing writer
>>94615162Yeah, reading Warrior Trilogy and can tell the man has the correct type of 'tism for Battletech
>>94615136Oh, and the Merlin doesn't actually belong. No ACs in any variant that I know of. But it was already on my desk, so whatever. It's still more than a company's worth of mechs even discarding the Merlin and Patriot.
If mech design and customization wasn't hard, why do the scientists and engineers consistently fail to count the heat points and install enough sinks?
>>94615187Being afraid of the heat scale is for cowards
>>94615187Because heat-neutral mechs are undergunned
>>94615136saved. nice paints, anon
>>94615134you never had a woman who was into you>>94615127As a custom config, yes anon, but who's even actually playing with customs? i never met someone who actually gets games that doesn't look down on custom cheesing. You pick a pattern for your alt and thats it
>>94615356I've only done customs in campaigns where it's Earned Customization. Bringing a custom to a pickup game is just odd.
>>94615291The standard hellstar is a heat neutral mech.
>>94615367Yeah, under-gunned. Could fit at least 2 more PPC'S on that bad boy
>>94615370Guns you cannot consistently use effectively do not exist.
>>94615373So all of them then
>>94615373When you're using about a quarter of the heat sinks you need, yeah.
>>94615359the same people who wants customs on random games its the guy who brings 5 savannah's
>>94615373Cranky because you failed your shutdown roll, aren't you, surat?
>>94614219Oh hey, it's TMNT anon. How's the progress on painting skill going?>>946140522 hours once I'm home from hell work right?
>>94615356One-off configs from computer games are hardly better.
I just want my Warhammer to have slightly less MG ammo and slightly more armor...
>>94615543Warhammer 6D
>>94615103Duncan Kalma and Rod Trane flirted more convincingly in Star Lord.
>>94615543-6D and -7M fit that bill.
>>94615553>slightly less ammo slightly more armorI will have my tech perform this customization and if you do not like this you can call for a trial.
>>94615565
HONOR THE DRAGON!!
>>94615593
>>94615593Dragon status: Honored
Here we see two beautiful, fully grown dropships tending to their clutch of eggs. Careful to protect their young from aerospace fighters eager to raid the nest, they work hard to keep their eggs safe and have plenty of hydrogen to feed them upon hatching. What majestic creatures.
>>94615619Most esteemed Coordinator Kurita, First among Houses and rightful ruler of the Star League! By your will let it be known that Naginata Battalion has served the Combine with honor! Let their enemies flee from them! Let their foes' resolve be shattered! Let their planets and resources be taken! Naginata honors the Dragon!
>>94615658Naginata's honoring of the Dragon is continually rewarded with new, advanced machines that glorify the Combine as a whole.
>>94615668>yfw 1st Somerset box arrives on Friday
>>94615668Good the Mauler looks terrible.
>>94615679Your mum looks terrible
DroSTs aren't much of a thing by the Clan invasion, right?
>>94615752They were never a thing, anon. A meme at best.
>>94615752Something like a Condor, Seeker or Triumph would definitely be preferred to a stock DroST because they have actual bays, but the whole thing with Drosts is supposed to be they've been around for ages and customized and copied a lot, and explicitly there were still a bunch kicking around in the succession wars, presumably with whatever bays the owners wanted.
>>94612911according to most anons in this thread, you're an utter fucking retard
>>94615842>>94615752Do you see any of them in the novels or the fiction? Not in the Grey Death books? Not in the Kell Hounds or Wolfs Dragoons or Snores Irregulars sourcebooks? Not even in TRO 3025 or 3050? No? Well then why would you think they were around during the clan invasion?
>>94612878Haha fedoras are lame
What did the Canopians get from the ching changs in exchange for aiding them in putting a military junta loyal to the Liaos in charge of the Concordat?
>>94612732The Marauder II.
>>94615853I must have missed the parts of those books where Dr Manhattan shows up and uses his omniscience to list out the exact TOE for every unit in the universe, thus preventing any later writers from adding to the setting.
>>94613764CT ammo bomb is an acceptable tradeoff pre-CASE, particularly on thin skinned lights or mediums. That's no excuse for how generally shit the rest of the Hatchetman is, though.
>>94615872Well you see, literally no one handed a copy of the helm core by Grayson Carlyle thought to themselves, "I should go to Space Vegas, where they ennoble people for extraordinary service to the state"
>>94615894Then maybe you should read more carefully.
>>94615872A fair bit. First, they got long-term technical advisors to get lostech factories actually up and running; the MOC had Helm Core copies but didn't have the industrial knowledge base to create the industrial to actually use most of the Cores military relevant data. And the Capcon advisors stuck around to keep them running until the MOC had a core of trained technical staff with experience behind them. This not only allowed the Detroit factory to work, but the MOC techs that got training were able to go back to the rest of the MOC and bring other military factories online. It was basically the technical jumpstart required to restart "modern" military manufacturing in the MOC entirely. That's a huge thing.The MOC also got help setting up a full fledged military training institute.They also got a mutual defense pact, and IIRC they got access to Capcon aerospace resources that let them stamp out quite a lot of the local pirates. Both sides of the Trinity Alliance got what they wanted: the Cappies got expendable troops and hot and cold running whores, while the MOC paid a blood price to bootstrap themselves from having practically no Mech production and literally no aerospace production, to having a fairly thriving industry in both those things.
>>94615872I can only wonder at the Taurian chimpout if they find out what was done to them. Though hopefully this time they'll actually calmly and carefully plan their retaliation.
>>94615947If they were capable of doing that, they wouldn't be Taurians, would they?
>>94614252Ignore emIt's a hobby and not a painting competition
>>94614569Will work on this today Hopefully I'll be able to finish it
What were the earliest mechs with jump jets? I know the Stinger was first. I think the Icarus was early, too?
>>94616069Wasp was first.
What's your fav character art from the BattleTech Legends books?For me, it's Lizzie Sneede.
>>94616122Pretty sure this girl made a pass at my girlfriend at a concert last month.
>>94616122She looks like she was formerly Chuck, iykwim.
>>94616122that Raven girl
>>94616122probably this one. I find most of the BT Legends portraits sorta miss the mark or try to exaggerate the character a bit too far.
>>94616168She most definitely was.
>>94616168>>94616247>t. guys who constantly have trannies on the brain
>>94616255More like on my dick, I'm a chaser.
>>94616275>When BansheeLord forgets to namefag
>>94616291How dare you, I'm a degenerate, not a filthy namefag.
What mechs would they pilot?
>>94613844>morale boost Yeah, for the CLANS.>MW5:Clans>sees Hatchetman >oh no>me in my ice ferret>a ERPPC and a Streak hit>ammo bom >anyway I nearly choked when they shittalked it for just carrying a fucking stick. >if the Hatchetman were ACTUALLY dangerous >x4ML(LT/RT)x2Flamers(LH) and a 270 engine >fireman (srm6/inferno/regular/2flamer/270 engine)
>>94613987>looks at design >yay no ammo bomb!>SRM-2Y spheroids like this?>also x2 ER PPC Flip the design, 2 LPL and 1ERPPC, and it becomes a terrifying brawler with some sniping abilities.
>>94614241I turn it from a city fighter/ambusher and ADD the ability to become a Striker/Calvary mech.
>>94614241I don't, it's a shitbox. If I was going to use it I'd start by making it 55 tons minimum and get it up to 5/8/5. I'd also make it run only energy weapons secondary.
>>94614348>no lostech Do you know why this happened? Because Clans kept sweeping tables to the point nobody wanted to play against them, so fans asked for more lostech and Clan players agreed.
>>94614661Dude set yourself on fire already because you can't be less of a flaming faggot.
>>94615103Stackpole has never been inside a military vehicle or a woman and it shows.
>>94616473kek
Lasers > every other weapon
>>94615437Absolute zozzle>>94616500*overheats*
>>94615947>>94615957>be Taurians >plan out a extensive defense plan that held off the STAR LEAGUE for 20 years >also Taurians >get pulled into a scooby do style chase and get your own nukes used against you >get suckered into such a blatantly unfair alliance that 30IQ people question it Man the Taurians are the IP's punching bag aren't they?>finds a pristine SLDF ship (Tarpitz)>yay!>Cumstar finds out (somefuckinghow)>they nuke it >some Mary Sue Authors Pet (HBS Battletech) finds a Castle Brian >Taurians take it>yay! >Queen Stupid Bitch nukes it>Cumstar doesn't even curbstomp her for rolling around in a SLDF super dropship HBS Battletech was a bad game and you can't convince me otherwise.
>>94616520HBS BT was a decent game, the main story was just abhorrent.
>>94616498Military vehicles are UNCOMFORTABLE AS FUCK to ride in, and women are nice to ride in ;)
>>94616122Normally I can't stand characters who look too "anime" or whatever who are supposed to be battle hardened career soldiers, but if anybody was going to have a cute, murderous, probably huge bislut alt-girl piloting a Mech it would be Snord's Irregulars.
>>94616556>alt-girlwhat does this even mean? a man?
>>94616567Alt as in "alternative". Anons just talk about big tiddy goth mech pilots
>>94616530>be a TAURIAN CONCORDAT colony >bitch starts the game dickriding the STAR LEAGUE >said bitch backs a group of nobles so corrupt that they can't even defend themselves from pirates >she's little more than a cats paw for the Canopians who's military is a running gag >she somehow wins while being outnumbered, outgunned, and out thought I wish there was a mod that you could have joined the Directorate.
>>94616598She somehow wins because they have the main character's mercenary lance that is capable of punching up three to four times their weight. Anybody can win with those odds.
>>94616648>3 to 4x More like 15 to 20 times.
turdians
>>94616456Do you know why that happened? Because they were too shortsighted to not see the necessity for a BV system while inventing the Clams. We could have avoided the schizo timeline of SL military technology if they had done this one thing right the first go around.
>>94616598I'm pretty sure at least three of the main NPCs and probably more were secretly working for Comstar. Probably all from different branches who had no idea the others were plants, too.
>>94616520>tripitz>literal warship>50 NACs>five-zero naval autocannons>1,180 total barrel rating>argo >fat>slow>helpless>less guns than the average succession wars lance>can't enter atmosphere>armored with cardboard and spit>takes up at least two collars but usually more than that because its multi-dock is a boondoggle>has a swimming pool>run by a rom asset anywayGee, I wonder why Comstar wasn't as eager to blow up a fancy but bad dropship that can't even attach to most jumpships while doing its main gimmick when they were willing to blow up a genuine compact jump drive toting warship.
>>94616736>has sldf depot data on board That alone kills you.>multiple collars is a boondoggleWhat.
>>94616736>Argo>with manufacturing and refit facilities on board >not valuable Nani?
>>94616813>That alone kills youThat doesn't unless that depot is known to contain a significant data core or warship. People find SLDF caches and depots all the fucking time. Comstar does not care as long as the stuff they find doesn't lead to a change in the status quo. Don't go trying to start up a factory for it or use it to nuke a successor lord and you will never get ROM'd.>whatThe MDCS system that allows other dropships to dock with the Argo and ride along on jumps also requires the Argo to occupy as many jump collars as all of them would individually. The Argo itself takes up two because it's so big (and no, it's not the first one to do that, Behemoth class droppers have been taking up two slots for irl decades). That means with just a Leopard, you're completely filling up all of the jump capacity on the average jumpship. A fully loaded Argo requires nothing less than 5 of the 6 slots of a Star Lord. It's pointless while in transit.
>>94616840Any dropship with a mech bay has "manufacturing and refit facilities". You can fabricate parts in any military dropship. ROM doesn't go after Unions.
Comstar doesn't go after the HBS BT players because you're already their asset. The real Kamea died when her dropship was destroyed in the prologue and the woman you're working for is an imposter. Dr. Murad is your handler on her behalf.
A hatchetman built like a jumping CN9-AL would be a genuine threat.
>>94616518>overheatsI can't hear you over my double heatsinks!
>>94615187"It's fine. I'll just dip and weave while the heat goes down."
>>94616867The Argo is implied to have some pretty advanced facilities, tbf. IIRC Yang says in one of the upgrade dialogues that he activated something by mistake and by the time he could even figure out how to turn it back off the machine had fabricated an entire arm from stock material. I can think of a few industry suits that would kill to get a look at machinery like that.
>>94616520That's pretty suspect, nuclear exchanges are strictly forbidden as written in the Ares Acc-Oh right.
>>94617047>done by a mercenary group>from a faction who abides by the Ares conventions >against civilians The Roughriders should have been declared outlaws and the MRB should have put a "Shoot these motherfuckers on sight" permanent contract on them for that shit.
>>94617231The trick if they don't do that is to do it yourself. Offer a huge prize for dead (confirmed ID only) and bigger for alive. Torture any taken alive to death and send out the vid for free via HPG.
>>94616353Crabs.
Im pretty new to battletech. I bought a few minis and have started painting them. Im coming from gunpla and painting, so not exactly new to this, but these are pretty difficult due to size and not being able to take the mech apart. Any advide? I have been spraying them with primer then a metallic coat, using masking liquid then doing color. Would it just be easier to hand brush? Also who makes decals for these? Only see ebay and its all from the uk it seems.
>>94617483You're new but you've done a good job. That Blood Asp is sick.
>>94617450Considering the Shangri-La, I reckon you're right.
>>94612770Yellow and brown.
>>94614535Heт.
>>94617450Custom Crabs, loaded with stolen Clan technology. Harry would make use of the DNI system.
>>94617483Fighting Piranha does the official decals, although it's a small operation and stock comes and goes pretty much arbitrarily.Hand brushing is what most people do in this hobby, with some people airbrushing the majority of their stuff and just touching up edges and creases with a small brush. There is a ton of advice out there for it and a bunch of techniques. I still put stock in the older style of using thin coats of normal acrylic brush on paints to layer up the colors I want. We've also got specialty products like speedpaints/contrast paints which are highly transparent, very high pigment washes designed to go over a light primer in one single coat that settles into recesses and off of high points to create high and lowlights automatically.Yours is coming out pretty well though.
>>94617621>>94617989Thanks. I have mr hobby colors, tamiya and some years old vallejo mecha laying around. My process was to spray a black primer then did a metallic color coat, then masking and a color over that. Guess I need to color in the cockpit glass and maybe do the laser lens/barrels whatever theyre called. How can you get them off the base without snapping the pegs? Tried a blow dryer but the pegs still broke. Just something to not care about and glue it back down?
>>94618132Either just glue it back down, or paint it on the base. The pegs aren't really necessary, most models have plenty of contact area.
>>94617669Post mechs, zigger.
>>94618132Yeah, like the other guy said, the pegs aren't necessary for most of these models. If you do want something interlocked like that, you can pin them. I dunno if gunpla gets pinned or not, but it would be easy with such big feet. You just drill a shallow hole, insert a short length of paper clip, put a dab of paint on it, put the model down where you want it, use the paint drop on the base as the guide for a hole in that, then replace the short paperclip with one that extends a secure distance into both parts and superglue it all. For something like a base you don't even need that much precision and could just go straight to the final length.
>>94616960I've built that, I tend to make it more a slow phoenix hawk, going 5/8/5 with a lorge laser, 12 heatsinks and 2 medium lasers lets you have near max armor, and the speed lets you keep up with most targets.
>looking at Ostsol OTL-4D (Ragnar), Scorpion SCP-1N (Wendall)>IT TOOK THEM TILL 3051/3030 TO JUST TURN MLs FOWARD/SWAP PPC WITH LL>ONLY AVAILABLE ON NAMED UNIQUE VARIANTS ON TOP OF THATSeriously?
>>94617450Their own custom Crab-S
>>94618376Swapping weapons forward is a bottom tier refit, down there with shaving a bit of armor off and replacing a weapon with an identical weapon from a different manufacturer. I think you can even do it in the field with just one technician and something capable of physically holding the gun up while it's outside of the mech.
>>94618376Yeah. But as the other anon said, turning weapons around is a field refit. Swapping out a weapon is a facility refit. They're not complicated and were likely done off the record.
>>94618404how the fuck is turning guns around less of a refit than swapping guns? you'd have to bore entirely new housing in the armor and re-route any ammo/energy feedsit's like saying taking a casemate's coaxial MG and putting it on the ass of the tank is a cheeky lunchtime project
>>94618417Skill issue
>>94618376Screw that, I would use those as generic since "No one thought of doing those kind of refits for centuries" is plain retarded
>>94618417You just put the laser bullets the other way and fire it a few times under supervision to pierce the armor from the weak side.
>>94614454This was my last post. Congrats on tearing eachother apart while I was gone. You all deserve eachother.
>>94618417There's already a gun shaped cavity on the inside. Seal up the barrel hole, cut out a new barrel hole, flip that bitch over, divide the ammo feed by a star league ton and voilà,
>>94616212>khan of clan snow raven>"that raven girl"
So this guy is someone's PC, right?
Oh, they really did just run out of characters and start using writers' PCs.
>>94618625I think they ran out of characters that pilots a mech/vehicle that's getting released in the Kickstarter/Forcepack along with the book
>>94618625Ah yes, Young´s fetish character, along the underage clan girl.
>>94618492Cute kitty retard.
more like vlad of clan fivehead
>>94618132You've done an excellent job. Oh yes, make sure to paint the canopy for the cockpit. As for the barrels, some are very deep, where's others have their lenses out and exposed. Its up to interpretation.
>>94618555Well she's a girl, she's from the CSR>and she pleases old men for money... I mean her Clan
>>94616122Snord should have been a Goliath Scorpion bloodname
>>94618658who?
New thread >>94619199>>94619199
So if I buy the 40th AGoAC box and/or the Battlemech Manual w/40th logo now, will those have all the erratas applied?
>>94616122some chad out there really was like "lets fill this fuckin book with baddies but also, completely normal people" and I thank them for it
