>In the depths of the Second Succession War, as humanity barreled toward a technological nadir, the Draconis Combine opened offensives on both the Steiner and Davion fronts, feeding ever more of its children into the ravenous maw of war. Many once-prominent samurai families, whose scions had long served the Pillar of Steel, found themselves without any living sons to carry on their legacies. A dozen of these minor noble houses, desperate for their legacies not to die with their fallen heirs, chose to train their eldest daughters in the ways of the MechWarrior. With the strong prejudice against women in the Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery in this era acting as a barrier to high achievement
huh

What's a mech that would look badass paired with a pair of Manticore tanks? I want to paint them together but don't want it to not make sense if their production years are too far apart.

>>96442313
Atlas looks badass with everything.

>Captain Sark Harkness is notable in several ways. First, he tends to separate from his company in battle, seeking single combat against the enemy, especially the Combine. Second, he pilots the Atlas that Ian Davion was driving when he was killed on Mallory’s World. When Harkness arrived at the Fourth Guards in 3030, the Atlas was in a warehouse collecting dust. It was considered jinxed, and no one wanted anything to do with it. He sought and was granted permission to put it back into service. Sporting a new head and cockpit, he proceeded to cut a swath through the Dragon’s best. (...) In 3047, he elected to modify the Atlas, believing that the First Prince would have wanted it to possess the most modern instruments of lethality. (FM: Davion pg.30)
>Furlow always had food, but getting her to share was a costly and uncomfortable exercise, so I wandered the warehouse, sipping my overly sweet, mostly melted drink. Prince Ian’s old ’Mech drew me like a magnet. Shivers ran up my spine as I spied the Atlas’ death’s-head in the pile. No one had repaired the damage Yorinaga Kurita’s shot had done to the ’Mech, and the First Prince. (Shrapnel #21, ZERO-TWO-ONE, set in 6 JULY 3066)
Sigh

>>96442463
Given how the story is about fixing the Alliance with Ian's Atlas' Vlar 300 engine, either the FM or the Shrapnel story becomes complete bullshit, so I wonder which one has higher canonicity

>>96442313
Onion

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I wonder how many people still haven't gotten their Kickstarter rewards. It's not like that product is in game store now, right? :)

What's a big brawler mech for IS that would make people shit their pants both in lore and on TT?

>>96443121
Shootest

>>96443131
Well yeah i mean it can shoot too, that's cool.

>>96443131
I'm making a fire support lance for an elite FedCom unit circa 3052. How does this look?

MAD-5S
RFL-5D
ARC-4M
JM-6DD or just JM-6S

>>96443083
It's in my LGS.

>>96443121
Devastator
Nightsky
Annihilator
Atlas is too short-ranged, in-lore it scares people but not on the tabletop.

>>96443121
An Orion.
With Alexandr Kerensky piloting it.

>>96443121
Black Knight.

Brutal weapons loadout with a good mix of range brackets and spaced out well across the entire mech. You can double fist and still fire off two of the main weapons and several auxiliaries on every configuration. No ammo bins, plenty of heat sinks, good ground speed for a 75 tonner.. You can pick any era and there is a contemporary model that fits that description. The list of mechs, regardless of weight class, that can size up a Black Knight and take it lightly is a short one.

Also a rare enough mech that just seeing one is going to give you dread.

>>96442171
>tq
>>96443131 The Shootist. That's a filler mech if ever there was one. The only variants it ever got was wobstar giving it C3i.

Also Bombardier. Down syndrome Archer just fills up pages when they even remember it exists.

>>96442689

The case is probably combustible and only the obturating case base with the primer gets ejected.

>>96443422
Yeah, BT has structurally sound combustibles, the entirety of an LRM except for the guidance system is made of explosives, including the entire outer surface. Those things get banged around in transit and still launch and detonate just fine. Caseless shells made of something similar should be easy peasy.

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>>96443422
>>96443677
You have appeased my autism. I thank you from the bottom of my mental disorder.

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Redpill me on the No-Dachi bros

>>96443852
It's a mediocre cavalry Mech that tries to do a bunch of things and fails. It would have been good in 3025, but...it's from the Invasion era.

>>96443852
No plastic

Our threads keep getting archived early. I blame the jannies.

>>96443852
Drac mook does mook things.

>>96442463
>the Atlas was in a warehouse collecting dust. It was considered jinxed, and no one wanted anything to do with it.
This has to be the most BS Battletech thing I've ever heard.
Hurr durr! Keep that Atlas away from me, it's cursed! I'll just stick with my Stinger!
Like give me a break. Mechwarriors would be lined up for lightyears to pilot an Atlas, jinxed reputation be damned.

I have a hard time with the worth of cbill, what can i buy with one (1) oder 100? How much can i buy with it as a civi or as a mil supplier?

>>96443852
It's pretty much built entirely around running up to things and hitting them with a katana. If you try to do anything else with it, it's mediocre, but it's pretty good at running up to things and hitting them with a katana.

>>96444097
What can you buy with about $15?

>>96444126
A pack of cigs, a lighter and a mini pack of gum or 0.7l of cheap booze and a single bottle of cola.

>>96442748
Beholde!

>>96444165
Yes, but the government you live under would prefer if you used their HouseBux™ instead so depending on your job you might be paid in those instead and probably have to pay your taxes in them. The exchange rate usually favors the C-bill though.

>>96444195
Oh, and the C-bill is backed by service while the house bills are generally backed by germanium, gold, silver, gems, hopes, dreams, and other things they assure you they have fat stacks of in their central reserves.

>>96444097
I bet there's a table of shit you can buy with C-bills in a Mechwarrior RPG source book.

>>96444207
The service in question being to send one page of plain text from your local HPG to any other HPG in range, at Comstar's convenience (which is somewhere between once every 6 hours to once every few weeks in a big batch depending on where you are). 1 C-bill will always buy you that service regardless of anything else. Sending your message further, larger amounts of data, or as an immediate priority message all cost more. All Comstar services only accept C-bills. Most other businesses also accept C-bills since they use Comstar services anyway. Thus, C-bills have value.

Writing something silly, here to ask a couple of questions about the Atlas II. How capable is it, really? It’s loaded with the cutting-edge stuff, but the design itself in-universe I don’t know how highly regarded it is. How hard could the design carry an inexperienced MechWarrior?

>>96445514
It's a good Mech, it's just not scary. Its capable of engaging targets at all ranges, but the lack of a big gun makes it less intimidating. The issue is that many assaults outperform it at any particular range: a Longbow compares well at long range, an Awesome at medium range, a Battlemaster at close range, etc.

As far as carrying an inferior pilot...well, it still has almost max armor. The ERLLs, MPLs, and LB-10X will get you favorable target numbers (ERLLs don't have a bonus, but you'll often he in a closer range bracket). You do have to watch your heat curve carefully.

Also, it's likely to be a fire magnet. In universe, it's fucking scary (at least, before 3055 or so). It's the superior, lostech version of one of the scariest Mechs around. Every single one is supposed to have gone on the Exodus, so no one has fought it enough to realize it's a Jack-of-All-Trades-Master-of-None, so they'll treat it as an Atlas BUT WORSE.

In the post-Tukayyid period, when people have seen footage of Dire Wolves and dual Gauss boats are hitting the front line, it loses a lot of its mystique and becomes a pretty solid assault. Still worthy of respect, but no longer pants-shitting.

>>96445586
This is a very comprehensive answer; thank you. How does it stack up within the Clans, particularly pre-invasion? Is it just screwed under Zellbrigen, or is it like the Gargoyle, where it benefits greatly?

>>96444207
>>96444236
I thought house currencies were backed by the C-bill, you learn something new every day

So I've got an idea that seems absolutely retarded but fun at the same time, I'm currently printing a mech-scale Broadsword dropship alongside two Firestarter's (non-omni version) and two Pirannah's. On a scale of 1-10, how dumb is this, bearing in mind there is no local scene to play in and no interest either.

The Broadsword is hollow and the roof lifts off for storage, but I have a feeling it'll never see play. Also, any recommendations for which variants of the mech's I should lean into? Everything up to and including ilkhan era is fair game.

>>96445631
What's your fifth mech?

>>96445689
No idea yet, probably something light.Puma Prime perhaps?

When it comes to making a mech lance, I've come to hear that you have light lances, medium lances, heavy lances, and assault lances. I assume that means you can't mix mech classes for those types of lances?

I ask because having heard about the mercenary group Benito's Brawlers (https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Benito%27s_Brawlers), they were only a medium mech lance in 3071. I assume that means medium mechs only?

>>96445800
You can have any mech in any group formation you want. You can even have combat vehicles as a supporting part of a lance if you want, like the Capellans often do. Forming lances by weight or movement profiles just helps to keep things logistically and tactically simple.

>>96445800
No, you can mix weight classes. It just designates what the majority of the lance is. A Vulcan, Assassin, or even a Phoenix Hawk would not be out of place in a light lance, provided that it was the only medium mech.

>>96442171
Your what?

>>96446059

But would it still be called a medium lance if one mech surrounded by medium mechs is either a heavy mech or an assault mech?

>>96445800
Mixed classes is very common. A light lance can be lights and mediums, a medium lance 2 mediums, a light, and a 60 or 65 tonner. A heavy lance could have a 4/6 assault or even a Panther.

They classifications are general, not restrictive.

The struggle between the Inner Sphere houses has no episodes that can compare with the highs and lows of Tukayyid, Operation Bulldog/Serpent, "You dare refuse my batchall?", Leo Showers getting Shiloned, the Victor Steiner-Davion/Kai Allard-Liao gay romance, or Luthien, Twycross or Wolcott, except possibly the scene of Maximillian Liao and the wedding plates or the Steiner-Davion incest civil war. You need to go back to the Amaris coup and the SLDF exodus to find a similarly epic period with characters and incidents worthy of the era

>>96446149
Yeah, that is kind of the appeal of the Succession Wars

>>96446128

>They classifications are general, not restrictive.

Then what is considered an assault mech lance if you don't need to be exclusively assault mechs?

Figured

>>96446128
>>96446204

Please disregard the "Figured". Forgot to get rid of it since I didn't need to write it.

>>96446204
24 assaults + 0-2 heavies. And not like Quickdraws.

>>96446217

Isn't 24+ mechs a battalion?

>>96446249
2-4*

>>96445599
>How does it stack up within the Clans, particularly pre-invasion?

Badly.

Is it just screwed under Zellbrigen, or is it like the Gargoyle, where it benefits greatly?

With good versatility and lots of crit seekers, the Atlas II works best as a team player. It slots well into almost any assault lance, but is mediocre in duels because even though it can speak up a lot of damage, and can deal okay damage at any range, it doesn't excel at any range either. Low speed means that the enemy is likely to be able to at the range of the engagement, paying to their own strengths.

On the other hand, there's a lot of armor and perfectly respectable damage at every range, so it's not useless at any point.

Still, for early Clans I don't think it matches well against other Royal assaults, and it's completely outclassed by property Clan Mechs. The Clan equivalent of it thematically would be the Dire Wolf, which just curb stomps it.

>>96446296

Understood, but wouldn't it be a problem that assault mech lances need something lighter and faster to serve as recon/scout to make sure they fight efficiently? While there's the heavy Ostsol (speed of 86.4 kph) and the assault Charger C (speed of 130 kph), they're pricey if you need a recon/scout mech (and I doubt Clan Snow Raven will allow anyone else to have Charger Cs, no matter what).

>>96446368
You have to figure out, when building formations, if this is a need that will be covered in the lance or by another lance. Dropship limits come into play here, the less mechs the formation has, the more missions these mechs have to cover by themselves. Similarly, a small formation with a small dropship is unlikely to bring a dedicated assault lance.

>>96446149
Great Lee Turkey Shoot is still the best aerospace battle of the franchise.

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>>96442171
>Use AI to generate portraits for pilots for megamek campaign
>End up having a ton of fun, generate a ton of portraits for pilots and even the support staff
>Realize I spent all my free time making cute anime pilots instead of planning for the campaign

Many such cases

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>>96447291
>>Realize I spent all my free time making cute anime pilots instead of planning for the campaign
I fail to see how this is an issue...

>>96443852
No-Dachi no!

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need a paint scheme for this merc

>>96448187
Base it off a jar of vegemite.

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>>96448196
...wuhh? Vegemite? Yellow and red and black?

thinking white and pink for this one

>>96448302
>The Gat Hawk can not hurt you...

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>>96448316
left to right: valkyrie, stinger phoenix hawk?

I'm hindsight idk why I gave the pink one a missile launcher gun. I'm not sure what I was trying to do... I have some other guns I could replace it with

>>96448316
That's a Rambo Stinger, a 3G.

>>96446125
Yes.

>>96446125
A medium lance weighs somewhere between 160 and 220 tons total.

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As with most things, we have a table.

In a mechtech at a company and recently I was caught sniffing the scout commanders seat after she got back from a sortie while working in the cockpit during service. I didn't even see that guy on that cat walk and now I have a memo from HR to see them after my shift. Im so boned dudes, they are going to dump me I know it and this is drac space. What do? Play it off like I wasnt?

>>96449451
You'll get extra cleaning duty and a recommendation for your dedication.

>>96449451
You were performing maintenance on the ejector seat as per technical manual instructions which includes checking for coolant vest circuit leaks and shock absorber gas cylinder leaks. What kinda spaz freaks out about a mechtech squirming around a cockpit?

By the way I haven't introduced myself, I'm Klein Syd Fawkes, parts and tools sales representative, at your service.

How much BV is an airlaunched Arrow IV worth? I’ve seen the techmanual table for normal bombs (12 for HE, 13 for Cluster, 20 for LGB, 16 for Inferno) but I can’t find it for air-launched Arrow IVs (homing or otherwise)
I want to run a couple Mechbusters in the next game I play, and I was looking at what weapons they can hardpoint on. I suppose I could just bring 10 HE bombs on each, but that feels less interesting

>>96449544
Bro you dont understand, I had my face burried in that seat and was sucking air like it was the last breath I was going to take. Like both hands locked on the sides and burying my head like as ostrich.
The worst part is it just smelt like old seat, this isnt even fair.
I'm try that, maybe say I was blowing out a coolent line or something. I'll update you all after the meeting if I even get the chance, man my life is so unfair I'm going to have to be a drac buttslave or something and rake a bonsai garden for the rest of my life.

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>>96449451
>"I was having hyperventilation and the closest thing I had to a paper bag was that seat!"

I finished 27 mechs this weekend. Only 15 in the collection remain undone. It won't be much longer now.

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>happily painting away on my day off
>flying ant lands on my miniature
>look up
>it's ant day

I fucking hate ant day

>>96449872
>flying ant
Ants only have wings to fly if they're a new queen looking for a place to start a new colony from. You need to kill that sucker and be on the lookout for the infestation immediately.

>>96449986
All male ants have wings.

>>96449746
Nice. Just finished priming the last of my collection, the mechs from the Hansen's Roughriders Battle Lance, myself. Now mulling over what's to be the opfor for my dracs.

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>>96450005
Don't try and pull one over on me, I've played SimAnt.

>>96450146
I'm 80% certain that there are ants with wings in SimAnt. Maybe the queen at the very beginning?

>>96450162
New Queens. You send them to other squares in the yard and house to create new colonies there. New Queens are of course, female. I believe Queens also still retain their wings, but they get too fat and never leave their breeding lair to use them again.

>>96450232
IRL queens lose their wings after starting a new colony.

>>96450360
Some definitely do. I see I typed too fast before and left out a word.
>I believe Queens also still retain their wings
I believe Queens CAN also still retain their wings.
Mainly though its nebulous. Like of course they have them when they first start breeding. It's just a matter of how long they stay on for.

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>>96450496
There's a bunch of bug names out there that still haven't been used. The Ant should be a 20 ton quad mech. I also want a mech named after the Praying Mantis. It would hold 2 swords.

>>96450520
The Harvest Ant is an industrialmech.

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>>96450540
>sluuuuuurp

I hate when I get all the stuff together for a specific unit and then think of something else I want to do with some of it.

Oh, and it seems they stopped including the flight stands for the Saxon hover APC at some point. The older red card blisters have it, the new blue cards don't. Great.

>>96449451
>>96449676
okay fine but what did it smell like?

>>96442463
>an Atlas setting in a fucking warehouse
BULLFUCKINGSHIT. Especially a Mech that their First Prince died in, FedSuns pilots would be knifefighting each other to use it to avenge him.

how big are warehouses or mech hangers?

>>96443121
Fucking KING Crab.

>>96449451
Easy, claim that you smelled coolant (which is toxic) and fear that your CO's cooling vest had a leak.

>>96443170
Annihilator seems badly underarmored and too slow unless it somehow teleports into close range of you in an open field.

>>96451005
Big. Like sports stadium or IRL large chain store warehouses.

>>96451208
4 LBX10's, 4 ERPPC's or 4 UAC5's give absolutely zero fucks about your range.

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>>96443852
It's a good mech. But if you banzai charge your opponent will simply gun it down. I use it to discourage the enemy from closing with my line and to bully light mechs with its 28 damage kick.

>>96451225
That doesn't sound like a brawler mech but also the annihilator will start caring about return fire when opponents realize it has the overall durability of a mech 25 tons lighter and can't maneuver.
It's more of a semi-mobile area denial turret than a brawler.
>4 ERPPCs
>4 UAC5s
There is no such annihlator variant equipped with either of those configurations.

Atlas II AS7-D-H2 or Highlander HGN-732b?

>>96451586
Royal Highlander. No I will not explain my reasoning.

>>96451604
No one ever needs to justify using a Highlander.

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>>96451150
But what even is a King Crab?

>>96451150
Funny enough, I played a match recently where a KKrab made it right next to my Crusader, which at this late stage of the match had gone undamaged as 2 of it's comrades had exploded next to it, and aimed it's AC/20 only for it to jam. I think I'm going to paint a cross on this guy because he is protected by the Lord.
Said Krab also got boiled earlier by my late vulture A by 32 heat worth of infernos and somehow survived (and wasted the vulture)

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>>96449986
I've been vacuuming them up periodically.

>>96451586
Highlander by lots

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The girls are ready for deployment. I always pictured the St. Fiacre of Breuil to be the kind of place that would make River City Girls.

As a mercenary in the big '55 who needs a stalker, what's the best variant available?

>>96451901
Looking to do some bug squashing eh?

>>96451901
3fk
Double heat sinks
Artemis fcs
Streak srms

Which should I take for a competitive campaign: Catapult C1 or C4C?

>>96442171
>Battlemechs are basically Armored Cores capable of dodging shots
>First prototype looked like this
I would've made it look a little sleeker personally...

>>96451604
>>96451717
NTA, but can I ask you guys to elaborate please? Is the jumpjet that good? (I assume that's the major difference between those two mechs)

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>>96452314
Forgot the picture.

>>96452351
The Highlander will be putting rounds down range while the Atlas II is still waddling up the first LOS blocking hill, and the Highlander has FCS for its missiles.

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>>96452351
JJs are cool and all, but it's not that. The Highlander is just a real piece of work. The 732b variant? You just can't go wrong with it. I mean look at it! It's glorious.

>>96451340
>no variants
That's why you build one. Or just puss out and grab the C2.

>>96451673
Something you don't want near you. Go ask the Not Named Clan what happens when the Great Father drops a pair on top of you.

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>>96452314
>>96452458
Much of modern battletech is informed by the art for anything that wasn't directly from an anime being total fucking ass for years and years, regardless of if they make any sense at all. Half of the designs didn't even have hips and then they'd tell you it could jog cross country at 80 kilometers.

>>96452534
The dick lasers will never not be funny.
>makes them yellow (in lore you can do this)
>PISS LASER
I wonder what the first Dracs felt as they watched their forces get routed by piss lasers and stompy feet.

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>>96452351
I like Highlanders

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the black cockpit looks so weird

>>96452743
>the black cockpit looks so weird
Make it metallic red with orange-yellow highlights.

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>>96452845
monoeye?

Damn, wonder what makes the Pillager PLG-3Z so fucking expensive BVwise.

>>96452992
Looks good.

>>96453010
probably cause it's a max armor jumping 100 tonner with two gauss rifles and a bunch of lasers

>>96452472
NTA, but as much I I don't like Highlanders my BiL took one on the weekend and headshot a Helios with it. One hit kill with the Gauss rifle. Best I got was waxing a Tiang-Zhong with an AC10 from a Centurion. Left torso crit, rolled gauss rifle, another 15 pts of damage fragged it because of XL engine. Actually, that Centurion was pretty much the MVP. Just marched up the center of the board and blew the leg off a raven and crippled it, shot up the Helios and stripped most of the armor, kicked a Sha-yu and killed the TZ.
Honorable mention to the Guillotine though, took a -ton- of damage and only ended up with a single point of structure damage... and nearly killed itself with a headbutt of incredible violence against the TZ. Seriously, no armor left there after the charge. I'm gonna call that one Ogryn.

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>>96452534
Shame too cause Anime usually has the best and most grounded mechs

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>>96453010

>>96453533
Interesting. So despite of the Thunder Hawk having one more gauss it costs less because of the speed factor multiplier then; Damn the JJs are expensive

>>96451005
A modern day hangar for a commercial aircraft could quite comfortably house upwards of a company worth of mechs and their respective work bays.

>>96453896
I understand that the form factor would make anything but a Zeppelin hangar a real hassle to use.

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>>96454110

>>96453947
Mechs are usually depicted as being able to remain standing even when powered down. Modern hangars and warehouses often have 9-10 meter ceilings anyway, it's not too much trouble to build a little taller.

>>96451685
You can only gain 15 heat from external sources.

>>96454159
Their doors are lower than their ceiling is the issue.

>>96446322
Suffers from the Master Of None issue, I got it. Either way, thank you again for a really comprehensive answer that honestly is better than what my stupid writing project of an OC Donut Steel Clan really warrants.

>>96454540
Mechs can duck.

>>96455014
can ducks mech?

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Playing SRW has made me wonder how you would write in other series to mesh with BT and vice versa.

>>96455309
Armored Core would be pretty easy. Mechs are already better than tanks because they can dodge shots instead of just trying to absorb the blow and AC’s operate on the same logic.

>>96454673
You may be interested to know that Nicky rode an Atlas II.

Tell us what you're looking for in your Mech, and we can try to recommend something.

>>96455630
>Nicky rode an Atlas II
That is kind of the reason why I chose the Atlas II. Some Dark Caste youngsters, sick of living under bandit lord tyranny, go exploring and find an old Exodus-era DropShip containing a single 'Mech, an Atlas II. It's a bit messed up but will run, and upon taking their revenge, Clan Ghost Bear shows up and they get their first interactions with the Clans. Seeing them as a better option than everyone else, and through proving their mettle, they get to be given an impossible task back at Strana Mechty in order to become a "Clan" (not really, more a Free Guild at the end of the day) - the one who is to be their kaKhan has to take a Trial of Position and earn the position by defeating six opponents, with Clans Jade Falcon, Blood Spirit, Smoke Jaguar, Ice Hellion, Steel Viper and Fire Mandrill providing opponents.

Yeah, it's nonsense, but I wanted a means to have a semi-independent group that still follows Clan norms and thus can be a sort of viewpoint group for a tour guide to the Clans during 3015 and onwards.

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>>96455309
FASAnomics vs Rape Dollar Economics vs whatever centrally planned economic system keeps Macross Colony Fleets going

Real Ultimate Showdown.

Besides the Fedsuns, who uses Valkyries? How come they never made any other variants during the Succession wars?

>>96455816
Not really much you can do with it that won't make it a copy of another mech. The lrm-10 is kinda unique. You could swap out the weapons for a large laser and srm2 to have a faster, weaker panther. You could swap the lrms for SRMs and have a slower, jumpier, better protected commando.

>>96452534
Wide Mackie my beloved

>>96455816
Outside the occasional salvage, until the FedCom became a thing and they shared with the Lyrans nobody really used Valks because the only factory existed in the FedSuns. As for the lack of variants during the Succession Wars a lot of it is because any sort of factory level stuff was impossible, the Valk plant was completely automated and they didn't know how it worked and didn't want to fuck with it and accidentally break something.

>>96456109
That makes sense.

Will apollo fire control system work with activated stealth armor?

what does a pirate mech look like?

>>96457097
Imagine an Atlas with a biggol tricorne and an eyepatch.

>>96454110
>>96454113
>40K at home with mechs as the focus

Will we ever get any media that shows off the battlemechs accurately?

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do mechs need to have a lil sit down when they get tired?

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>>96457097
liek this

>>96455423
>Armored Core would be pretty easy.
https://youtu.be/-_VhG52wlEE

>>96457424
That's a ROUGH looking repose.

>>96457558
yeah I didn't really know what I was doing. am trying to practice so it doesn't look as bad lol.

will green stuff it up eventually. Might make a franken mech but don't have inspiration rn

>>96457424
Why do you have it half off the base?

>>96457512
There's a close analogous link between the Great War between AC4/For Answer and V/Verdict Day is to the Amaris Civil War and the fall of the Star League.

>>96457677
cause that's where the peg is for the foot and I didn't wanna glue it down yet. the mech can fit on the base but the right knee is off the ground a bit. was thinking of putting a crushed tank under it or a limb or something.

>>96457782
Cut the peg?

>>96457800
... I will? I didn't wanna glue it down until I have the tank or whatever on the base.

it not done.

I'd repose the knees more differently (with greenstuff?) but I don't really understand how these legs would work? >w<

I don't like it. But I don't like awesomes so it's nbd ig

>>96457666
>>96457838
You need to enlarge the radius of the cut at the upper thigh so it covers more of the knee, and slightly straighten the forward leg so it's closer to vertical. Or you can dig out the upper knee joint and turn the thigh into a nub so the plates on either side of the knee joint cover the joint. It's a bad sculpt for that pose.

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Started painting my mechs.

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Wonder what's going on in here. Thought both of those were iconic Cappie mechs

>>96458854
Cataphract gets stolen by feddies early into its existence, and that looks like one of the CMM schemes. Maybe based off of this Valexa CMM from Camospecs?

The question I want to know at the moment is concerning Battletech: Gothic, not the grimdark gothic shit, if I want that I have 40k. But does Gothic run on the same mechanic as Total Warfare? And if so, how does the game treat the kaiju monsters gothic features? Are they just mechs by a different name? Or do they have their own special mechanic? Or do the giant monsters exist only in the lore and actual gameplay is just mech-on-mech combat? I’ve heard some limited preorders have been released so I was curious what people are saying.

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>>96458910
This one

>>96458854
Cataphract is also an iconic Fed Sun mech, given that they stole the factory almost immediately after it was built

>>96458925
iirc, the monsters have simplified stats somewhat like BA or protomechs. The game mechanics are the same as regular BT with the monsters as a new unit type and a few new bits of equipment. The monster creation rules do exist, but are not in the box or available to the public. They may release them at some point.

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I'm nearly certain this image was by one of the guys who did the first few BT sourcebooks
even got the OG neurohelmet

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>>96459127
for points you can use AS or BSP cards. No BV given for some reason

>>96459146
"Battle Value is HARD!" -Herb

>>96459212
From what I can see, they're probably cheaper than BA given their small health pools and limited weapons.

>>96458812
pizza time? they look good

>>96459146
Apparetnly the people in CGL who usually calculate BV for thing were busy and Herb could not be bothered.

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just need to do the basing. messed up a bunch of stuff and struggled a lot, paint is too thick and I should strip it but w/e... bleh.

>>96459017
I figured, and I wasn’t asking for much, so I’m just glad that they did something different with the concept and not just a reskinned mech with the names changed, because that would’ve been boring.

>>96459127
>>96459146
Yes, YES! Mwahahaha! mine is an evil laugh

>>96459212
I mean, seems pretty straightforward to me. Just a bit time-consuming to calculate.


Okay, next question: what mech is best for punching not-Cthulhu in his stupid, maddening, squid-face?

I also propose an exterminator variant that replaces the AMS with a pesticide sprayer

>>96459019
That's fron the 1970s TV series Battlestar Galactica. The helmets are meant to look like Egyptian headdresses.

>>96459212
Battle Value is hard.

But also, Herb, this is literally your fucking job. You have time to invent Subcapital Weapons and lawndart rolls but not to stat out some bullshit?

>>96458925
Most of what I've heard people saying is they want kaiju and don't really care for the gothic stuff. I wonder if CGL is hearing that?

>>96459829
I don’t want Kaiju or Gothic

>>96458910
>Cataphract gets stolen by feddies early into its existence

Also the Raven!

I love that the Fedrats were like, "You know what? Sometimes those Cappies have good ideas. YOINK!"

>>96459644
>what mech is best for punching not-Cthulhu in his stupid, maddening, squid-face?
Canonically a rigged mast boat.

>>96459834
Me neither, but I'm talking about what I've heard people actually interested in this box set say.

>>96459834
Next you'll say that you don't want 8 more weapons that have weirdly complicated rules and are objectively slightly worse than standard weapons.

>>96459826
>But also, Herb, this is literally your fucking job.
"BUT MATH HARD!!!"
-Far too many 'Game developers'

>>96459836
Can't have SHIT in the capellan confederation.

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4th Succ War; unjust war of Davion aggression, or the Cappies/Max fully deserved it?

>>96459930
Cappies usually deserve it, but it definitely laid the seeds for the FedCom Civil War at the end of the day.

>tfw Tex DMs you out of the blue

>>96459964
send a t&a pic quick before he realizes you're retarded

>>96459478
the'v show all those guys the door

I dislike having two mechs in the same colors with the same pose, so I decided to try reposing this Battlemaster.

>>96459930
It’s, in fact, the third, unspoken, choice:
> the high lords are acting like toddlers, again.

It’s got to be exhausting at some point.

>>96454491
We choose to ignore that rule

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>>96459839
Yes, but this is Battletech, we CAN do better than that!

>>96460418
They really should have just redesigned instead of insisting 'it's handheld gun but it's not'

>>96460418
I don't get what's up with the joints? They uh... Don't look good.

Frustrates me to no end how static all the poses are though.

are you going to try to sink the magnets in?

>>96460612
I had to leave them exposed to give it some extra length so it could actually put get its arms around the torso so it could put its other hand around the forward grip on the PPC. Once I finalize the position I want it in, I'll sand the magnets to the best fitting angle then I'll detach the arms to prime and basecoat, put them back on, and then see about adding some putty to build out the actuators.

>>96459826
Aerotech didn't always have lawndart checks?

>>96459930
>max kidnapped and tortured hanse and almost replaced him with a brainwashed sleeper agent

4SW was completely unjustified aggression!

Though in fairness, almost noone in-universe knows about that.

>>96460489
A jumpship who has rigged its jump sail for propulsion?

>>96460669
you should use greenstuff before you add paint so that it adheres to the plastic instead of the primer

>>96460303
The problem is that without that rule it's not hard to stunlock a Mech and that's not very fun.

>>96460716
Good tip, I'll change things around.

>>96460723
>t. Clannerfaggot who doesnt like you stunlocking his 3000 bv ultra mech and demands you let him keep jumping it around at range putting gauss and ppc into you.
>t. And this is my nightstar lance

>>96460752
Yeah, it's the clanner with his 2 slot DHS complaining and not the IS guy with the ARC-2R with 10 heat sinks.