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>eww I stepped on a Davion!
>>96524955What a skinny fella...
If I wanted to paint some tanks in a manner close to this, but more thick tiger stripey and with a lighter gray, which faction would it represent best? Preferably Inner Sphere because there’s more figures available.
>>96525155Grey and brown says Lyrans, Tiger stripes says Capellans or Combine. Literally everyone has mostly "uses camo appropriate to the environment" units
Some quick (and sloppy) kathil uhlans I just finished.
Gonna get a game in with the playtest rules this weekend. Also, I've started a super intensive set of courses that'll get me a career where i can afford all the Battletech books I want, so I may be less active going forward. I'll still post batreps when i can squeeze them in.
>>96525788OK
>>96525788Looking forward to your review. Let CGL know too, if possible. Best of luck!
>>96525243Who does grey with blue stripes mean? I guess the pic does look brown. I mean it to be grey and blue.
>Ray 01 shows up in the BT universeHow bad do things go for all involved? Keep in mind, its only like 8 inches tall.
>>96525900Oh yeah, I've got a place to send feedback. >WAWRMYou're telling me, captcha, i live in a desert
>>96525955Given the advances in myomer technology for cybernetics, I bet there are people with model mechs that are only a couple feet tall. Probably cost as much as a car, but cars are hobbies too.
>>96525984Custom Robo is real? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-4EwKAGvqQ
>>96525997I feel like it's the kind of thing some core world with very robust industry would do. Rather than have full scale true mech arenas, have scaled down Battlebots style matches with kitbashed "toy" mechs using commercial grade lasers and handheld power tools.
>>96526014Sounds possible. But the story of Custom Robo is wild and you will not expect the direction it goes in
>>96525788When are you going to fix your scenario booklet?
>>96525155>>96525944It hits pretty close to the Ghost Bear Alpha Galaxy scheme, though most painters go with slightly more saturated blues and greys. Otherwise there are a variety of units that use a blue or grey base with the other color as highlight, but not much in the way of camo. The two colors together are most often associated with the Bears, Coyotes, or Rasalhague, but blue is a pretty common color in Lyran and Fed parade schemes and grey shows up everywhere. If you want that scheme specifically say it's an OC mercenary unit or a specialist subcommand of a House unit, like the Fox's Teeth or Sorenson's Sabres. There is an existing merc regiment, Markson's Marauders, described as using light blue, grey, and white in an urban camo pattern. That's probably as close a match as you'll get for an canon IS unit.
PRAISE BLAKE AND PASS THE NERVE GAS
Ok... where the F are these two little things supposed to attach?
>>96526449Middle of the back, but only one of them. The smaller is the smaller fin-like heat sink assembly the hatamoto is supposed to have, the larger is a great big sashimono for style points.
>>96524855Looking back I find it funny we did not see the writing on the wall that the game was already sold to paradox. Seeing how the communication with the backers dialed down to bare minimum.
>>96526478That's retarded. That would stop it from going it the box ever again.
>>96524955>GET IN HERE!
>>96524955The pharaoh's curse! Sand Davions be upon you!
Help help, hatamoto chi has fallen over and can't get up.
>>96526565Very dishonorable, commit ammo explosion.
I know this isn't /v/, but I doubt there's a better place to ask.What's the go-to best way to get the earlier Mechwarrior games running on modern windows 10? Is there a paste or infopic about them? With whatever quality of life mods might be out there. Specifically MW 2 through 4. I'm gonna try to slog through the x68000 version of the first.
>>96526600Can't, it's a htm 30t. Two heavy ppc, 2srm6, and case'd. We 3145 now.>so the mauler can be the utterly lethal mal-4r variant.
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>>96526625There is a mechwarrior quadrology floating around made by some russians. People had success with that.
>>96526643>made by some russianscan it be trusted?
>>96526646I used it and had no trouble, didn't see anyone warning against it. It's been around for a while, if it was infected people would know by now.
>>96526019that moment when you get corrected and laughed at if you say the world is round
>>96526663ok, once I find it, I'll go with that, thanks anon
>>96526704If that won't work (the thing is about 10 years old) then your best bet is to find MW2 and MW3 preservation groups separately (like mechvm.org and unmech3.org).Especially MW3 is notoriously picky has a page unmech3.org for running the old version and new fan-made unity version (work in progress).Alternatively there is PCem so running the damn thing like it's 1999.
WE DCMS UP IN THIS MOTHERFUCKER.
>>96526749Is the mw3 unity mod playable from start to finish even though ita WIP?Also just learned that mw2 still gets matches online which is rad
>>96526915MW3 unity right now is only instant action, they are working on the campaign too though.
wait, is this real?
>>96527114Rhonda Snord had speakers on her highlander.
>>96526625I got mw3 off of some random retro games website although maybe at the risk of getting a trojan. It runs like shit on certain missions, has lots of glitches, and has no soundtrack.
>>96525788>where i can afford all the Battletech books I wantFair warning. When you reach that point, you generally lose the time and give-a-damn to actually read them.>Have a copy of every Battletech book ever made>Haven't read anything new since last year>Entire guest bedroom is filled with hundreds of minis not yet cataloged in my collection>Haven't painted anything Battletech since last year>Designed, printed and painted a statue for my company president as the last thing that used those skills last week>Spend most of my spare time keeping up on the scientific literature in my field, working on my house or wrenching on my corvetteI always make time for watching /btg/ while I'm working on other stuff, but the less time you get, the more you feel like you're wasting it flipping through pages of a pulp novel. I've gotten where I enjoy writing my own, more. Ghosts of Obeedah was the last Battletech thing I read cover-to-cover because it was released on my birthday, and I wanted time for me.
>>96527346Damn.
Golden dickplate. Very honorabu.
>>96527346This. I literally painted TWO fucking minis and that set off the household to retard out.
>>96527346A while back a friend of mine's uncle passed and his hobby was ww2 scale models. He also had a rather time consuming but lucrative career so he had dozens of models still in boxes just sitting on the shelf, waiting for him to have time he ultimately never did. I was invited over to see if there was anything I wanted (and to help him clean the house, get it ready for sale), and standing there looking at that i immediately decided that while I liked my job, I was going to work to live instead of living to work and leave plenty of time for my family and hobbies. If I'd kep going at my prior pace I'd probably have a 4th house and been a multimillionaire when real estate spiked during covid, but I'm richer in other ways.
>>96527121She had the same on her Shadow Hawk, nothing indicates it as standard equipment though.
>>96527400It's not standard. Look at the old CCG for Rhonda's Highlander. She literally has speakers hanging off of it.External speakers are standard on mechs, though. They're just more to talk to mechtechs and infantry without a radio link.
>>96527400I suspect this belief started as a combination of Rhonda's lore blurp and the tidbit mentioning outfits like Northwind Highlanders or McKinnon's Raiders playing music (or reading the bible) on comm channels as interference if they manage to get their hands on frequencies the enemy uses.The bagpipes black watch memes had something to do with it too.
anyone know where I can find the rules for how fast the different types of Mechanized Infantry move?
>>96527513Same as those motive systems on tanks.Wheeled gets you a +1 on roads.Tracked lets you get through rough terrain.Hover lets you go over water.
>>96527518good to know but im also looking for there movement MP, since I can't find it in the TW book.
>>965275353 base IIRC
>>96527535Total warfare page 213. Notice that everyone gives their infantry special dogshit vehicles that are very slow but also very low capacity, leading to small unit sizes for heavy weapons teams.
>>96527549Small unit sizes for greater dispersion in case of a nuclear attack!
>>96527549damn guess im fucking blind. That seems really slow compared to just taking foot infantry and throwing them in a APC. Thanks for the help
>>96527555If you take foot infantry they have to waste a turn disembarking. Mechanized infantry can fire on the move.
>>96527555I just assume they do a lot of abstracted small scale unit maneuvering with their organic vehicles, scouting and other operator things.As opposed to a designated APC that gets orders straight from you and guns it as fast as they can.
>>96526631Thank you, kind stranger. Not the anon who asked but I was wondering about that myself since I'm planning to put together some DCMS lances soon.
>>96527565Yeah but I assume you would be making up for that wasted turn with the speed of a seperate APC. Also its one less record sheet to have to fiddle through>>96527574not a bad way of looking at it desu
>>96527114>>96527121I do this to at least with of my mechs per deployment.
>>96526688
>>96527600its all red and gold now. its sex as fuck. and the htm 30 t hits like a fucking truck and has sfe and near max armour or some thing retarded like that. its slow 3/5... but has TWO heavy ppc and its srm6's. oh yeah, and BRA iirc. fucker bounces missiles and cannon.
>>96527685to be REALLY peak , you need to put sound system on your captured nova cat. so that you can program the fucking heat sinks and sound system and be your own fucking rave show. rock up and crank the tunes AND the light show.
>>96527801"Let's hear it for the Purple Tailfeathers, everyone!"
>>96527801If you ain't playing Prophecy of the Lazer Witch, you ain't doing it right.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwc5JAWYpKg
you are all wrong, of course.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erb4n8PW2qw
This is what laser heat sinks are for
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGBhQbmPwH8
>>96527801>>96527808>>96527856>>96527939https://youtu.be/ymNFyxvIdaM
>>96527961i see i shall have to break out the big guns.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f2g4RMfhS0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wRHBLwpASwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0ffIJ7ZO4U
>>96527424>*Quoting Blake while purging infidels intensifies
>>96527424>The bagpipes black watch memes had something to do with it too.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G88ZTO1RXRs
RAC unjamming while being able to shoot other guns is going to be great for mechs that aren't just built around 1 RAC.
>>96528929Especially for Mechs built around TWO RACs!
>>96529027The only RAC mechs I've used are the twin RAC rifleman and Jagermech.
>>96529035There is also the Hunchback IIC-4!
>>96529035Bringing a KGC-007 to this weekends game!
Gonna make a Bugs & Thugs lancewhat bugs pair best with thugs?
>>96529222Royal Stingers.
>>96529035The quad RAC/2 mauler is a fun time.
>>96528570There's a dude who literally does this in Embers of War.
>>96529222Seconding Stingers, preferably with good drivers.
>>96529222Yeah something like the Stinger, the 3G if you don't want a Royal. They act as decent bodyguards.
>>96529271that stinger has killed 2 Marauders, a Rifleman, a Banshee(?), and a Warhammer?????
>>96529609Master of Backshots
>>96529609This is from Tales of Black Widow Company, so it can't be a Banshee only unseen mechs.So it might be a Crusader.
>>96529609It's piloted by Alex Ward of the Black Widow Company. The driver of that Warhammer kneeling before him is the First Lady of Death herself.
>Battlefield Support: Grenadier & Kanazuchi Battle Armor Platoons (Quarter 4 2024 release)• Grenider x4• Kanazuchi x4>War of Reaving Pack (Quarter 1 2025 release)• Cephalus Prime• Septicemia E• Osteon• Satyr Protomech• Basilisk Quad Protomech• Roc Protomech• Boggart Protomech• Sprite Protomech>Premium Hobgoblin Protomech (Quarter 1 2025)>Clan Wolf Star (Quarter 1 2025)• Orion IIC• Glass Spider (Galahad)• Phantom Prime• Lobo• Ice Ferret D>Ilclan Star (Quarter 1 2025)• Wulfen Prime• Amarok• Dominator• Night Wolf• Nova J>Word of Blake Celestials Level II (Quarter 2 2025 release) All are Invictus configuration• Malak• Preta• Grigori• Deva• Seraph• Archangel>Battlefield Support: Black Wolf & Raiden Battle Armor Platoons (Quarter 2 2025 release)• Black Wolf Battle Armor x5• Raiden Battle Armor x4 >Clan Jade Falcon Star (Quarter 2 2025 release)• Gyrfalcon• Eyrie• Jupiter• Shrike• Cougar (Repose/New Variant)>House Steiner Pack 1 (Quarter 3 2025 Release)• Berserker BRZ-A3• Hollander BZK-F3• Uziel UZL-3S• Axman AXM-2N (Repose)>House Steiner Pack 2 (Quarter 3 2025 Release)• Fafnir FNR-5• Thunder Fox L8• Rawhide• Zeus-X ZEU-X4>Premium Blitzkrieg (Quarter 3 2025 release)>Ares Salvage Box (Quarter 4 2025 Release)• Includes arms for all 7 Super Heavy Tripod configurations>Clan Hell's Horse Star (Quarter 4 2025 Release)• Adder A• Doom Courser• Cygnus• Hellstar• Hellbringer E• Epona x2>Battlefield Support Clan Vehicles (Quarter 4 2025 Release)• Donar x2• Joust Medium Tank x2• Athena Combat x2• Mars Assault Tank x2>Illcian Lancers Pack (Barnes & Nobles exclusive, Quarter 4 2025 release)• Scarabus SCB-9A• Ostroc OSR-3M• Ostsol STL-9R• OstwarWonder how many of these will make it by next year
>>96529697where's the IS?
>>96529697>plastic hellstar The end times are upon us.
>>96529772We'll have plastic Ares soon enough
>>96529697>Wolf Empire Star (Quarter 1 2026 release)• Warwolf• Alpha Wolf• Blood Reaper• Firestorm• Stormwolf>Alyina Mercantile League Star (Quarter 1 2026 release)• Butcherbird (Ion Sparrow)• Jade Phoenix• Hierofalcon• Hellcat (Hellhound II)• Summoner (Alternate pose and variant)>Battlefield Support: Fenrir & Gnome Battle Armor Platoons (Quarter 1 2026)• Fenrir Battle Armor x4• Gnome Battle Armor x5>Clan Sea Fox Star (Quarter 2 2026)• Tiburon• Solitaire• Mad Cat MK II• Regent A• Hammerhead 2>Clan Ghost Bear Star (Quarter 2 2026)• Thresher• Ursus• Arcas• Guillotine IIC• Kodiak 5>Rasalhague Dominion Star (Quarter 2 2026 release)• Karhu• Mastadon• Konito• Bear Cub• Mongoose (New pose and variant)>Battlefield Support: Rogue Bear & Kage Battle Armor Platoons (Listed as Quarter 2 2027)• Rogue Bear Battle Armor x5• Kage Battle Armor x5
>>96529781I'm not as concerned about that, I've played using an Ares myself.But there are a couple of 40k goons of the worst variety orbiting my group and I just know they're going to try and greytide Hellstars, they engage in the kind of retarded theorycrafting that suggests such a move. The entire reason they're currently Battletech tertiaries is that they couldn't keep up with the competitive churn over there on the smelly side of the store.
>>96529815>The entire reason they're currently Battletech tertiaries is that they couldn't keep up with the competitive churn over there on the smelly side of the store.They're Wolfnet?!
>>96529886>they're WolfnetThat's OPSEC. How do I know you're not Wolfnet?
>>96529968that sounds like something Wolfnet would say
>>96529697>>96529805Raven Alliance star whenNeed War Crow
Girlfriend is coming over for the weekend, going to try and convince her to help me playtest the new proposed rules instead of just fucking. Wish me luck.
>>96530360I need you to take a picture that rivals this one.
>>96530395What's that green disc on the mountain?
>>96530457pie plate
>>96530457Blast template.
>>96530340Aces box 4
Suppose CW's warrior John Kerensky got captured, then adopted to CGB. When he dies, does he get to add his genes to CGB pool? It's just that future CGB bois with his gene don't get to use his bloodname?
>>96530530Ghost Bear would have to trial separately to use his genetic material at all, and Wolf would probably bid very lopsided because of how special the kerensky genes are supposed to be.
>>96530530For a Bloodname as famous as Kerensky, I wager there would be Trials to win him back from the Bears before he even got to the gene pool stage. The Wolves take that shit seriously.
>>96530478>>96530465What game are these for?
>>96530688namely Warhammer, older editions
>>96529697>>96529805Are these new dates adjusted for new production/shipping/tariff realities or the same dates leaked months ago?
>>96530753obviously at least a year delayed
>>96530360No. I don't think I will. You will just have to make love to your girlfriend.
>>96530395Unpaid army and terrible terrain. You are lucky that chick was already into you my man.
>>96530732Those are nicely painted. I particularly enjoy the hellbringer and regent.
>>96526625The “mektek files” on moddb works fine for the (I believe?) latest Mektek release of MW4 mercs, very minimal tweaking may be required but it runs fine on windows 11. Vanilla Vengeance and Black Knight are also easy to find, but I haven’t really bothered with them.DOS versions of MW2 are easy to find, run them in dosbox.Mechwarrior 3 is a bitch to get running on a modern machine, but you can install it then get the Unity remake of the game, unmech3, which as far as I know does run smoothly
>>96530688Looks like Warmahordes to me.
>>96530897t. anon's girlfriend.
>>96529805>>Wolf Empire Star (Quarter 1 2026 release)>• Warwolf>• Alpha Wolf>• Blood Reaper>• Firestorm>• StormwolfSpace wolf looking motherfuckers. What is it about wolf themed factions and needing to slap wolf on everything?
>>96530913>unpaid armyWhat and how the hell are you going to pay a necron?
>>96531561
>>96531561Furries writing their lore, probably.
Under what circumstance would you need to evacuate your dropship without your lance off the planet/even system, and operate on your own for a while?
>>96531660When I get to keep all the money.
>>96531660When you're doing a deep insertion for guerilla or spec ops. Your dropship could do multiple false insertions to obfuscate your location and then fuck off for a predetermined time to get fuel, more supplies, or retrieve your lance.
>>96531660It's a hot drop and they're going the distance on foot anyway. A lance might get missed in the wilderness, at the very least they're going to have to get in there and search for them manually. A dropship is easier to spot.
>>96531660Rather than evacuate you just didn't make it back to the dropper in time when friendlies were pulling out.
>>96531660When your forces are strapped for dropship support, especially in the event they are part of an insurgency or rebellion.I had it in my mind that my partisans spent much of the war 'dropship sharing' where sufficiently fast lances would be operating in the field in staggered deployments with a single dropship taxiing two or more lances to and from an FOB and in-out of AoOs.
>>96530709>namely Warhammer, older editionsUntil the Dark Times...>>96531561What is it about wolf themed factions and needing to slap wolf on everything?Autism.
>>96530925Thank you. The regent is quite messy up close, but I was just fiddling around with colours. A lot of my minis I only spend one or two hours on so they tend to be pretty messy. Hellbringer was probably 6~7 hours over 3 days.This (picrel) is my favourite new paint trick and I find it really saves a ton of time. Basically oil wash. I apply all over and let sit for 10~20 minutes and then poke at the mini with a makeup q-tip to remove it from the panels. good for greebling and adding some shading. The red version of the paint, Fire Breath I used on the red firefly in that picture and it only took one coat over a thin pink base, so definitely interesting and versatile paint. Only issue is that if you wanna do multiple coats of it, you'll probably want a matte varnish between them. since they can reactivate. and you need a special thinner (I bought a large container of an odorless one instead of the smaller stinky expensive bottle AK sells).
had a longer step by step for this one typed out but lost it bc phone posting retard. basically... base coat gunmetal, lay in colours with markers and then use AK dark wash, then highlight with brush, do chrome, and then another final dark wash.paint markers are based
>>96529697>>96529805God damn it, all this clan shit.Out of all that? Maybe some Grenadier armor, the Steiner pack 1. Maybe, maybe the Wobbies Celestials. Where the fuck is anything like the Cappellan or PURPLE BURD lances?
Wtf is up with the fact that MechWarrior 5 Mercs: Shadow of Kerensky is on GOG but MechWarrior 5 Clans is not?
>>96532247Summer 2026; Aces 2 is the Capellan box
>>96532254Am... am I blind? I don't see that listed there. Or is there another list?
>>96532247Unfortunately they used kickstarter swag numbers to determine which factions go first, and as you might imagine, Wolves, Falcons, Suns, and Steiners were top of that pile. It's a self-fulfilling cycle where they ignore the FWL so their vocal fans don't latch onto them so they don't make anything for them. But at least that leaves us forever GMs and actual players alone.
>>96532277I didn't think the clanners were that popular. They're always the last thing left on the shelf around here... but then I'm an Ausfag so fuck knows what its like anywhere else.
>>96532293>I didn't think the clanners were that popular.They're the go to faction for autistic speds because the tech advantage is too hard for them to ignore.
>>96532293They're big among secondaries due to their strong video game presence and extreme culture that can't be written off as "real country innnnnnn spaaaaaaaace". Plus they have some of the most iconic mechs in the setting. Lots of people who just read lore and collect shelf decorations love the clans.
>>96532306They also cut both ways since Stars are 5 mechs and it activates the stupid centers of the brain into thinking "I GET TO BRING MORE MECHS THAN THEY DO" and that never irons out completely.
>>96532253MW5 was already on gog.And because .to
Does anyone prefer succession wars? Maybe it's just because I'm still new but I find succession wars to be simple and comfy, later eras add so much extra tech and idk if it's the right word but OP kinda shit. Idk game just feels a little different, I probably just need to learn more and get better.
>>96532379Yeah, madmaxtech is pretty comfy
I got into the game by the middle of May, now I wish the Alaricfag League a dearly Total Wolf DeathAlso I want the Homeworld Clans back, is too much to ask?
>>96532425Yes. The Homeworld Nobodies should fuck off and die. They should have gotten Blake'd hard into extinction. Not that the IS clans deserve any better.
>>96532275the list was announced before they announced the Aces and the Gothic
>>96532473As much as I like a couple of the Homeworld clans, I would have liked for the Wobbies to have had some success. Perhaps that was why their IS attack was less 'complete' because they sent all their shadow divisions to the damn homeworlds to scourge and purge the vatborn.
>>96532513>Snow Raven invasionorbital bombardments fall, everyone dies
>>96532379It's 100% subjective. It really depends on what you want from BT. Me, I'm a younger guy who thinks the tech part of battletech is equally important to the battle portion. So my favorite eras are the FCCW and Jihad.
>>96532379I'm pretty mech only interested in the Late Succ War, skimped over all other eras and looking at the ilClan now only because it's the most recent stuffs and things like the Hot Spots, Aces are based on it
>>96532379For certain factions and certain BV levels I find a lot of merit in bringing a succwar/introtech unit to a darkage/ilclan era game. Mechs like the Banshee 3S, Devastator 1D and Highlander 733 are a good fit for poverty Great House units or Periphery units. Gameplay-wise they give you something cheap but still incredibly survivable and decently armed, especially if you give them precision ammo. They free up BV for you to use on more advanced stuff while having confusing threat perception for your opponent who can't afford to ignore but also can't afford to overcommit to destroying your 3039 era shitbox
>>96531594God damn it, now I can't unsee two Timber Wolves, two Wulfens and a Warwolf combining into an Alpha Wolf like Voltron. Or Wolftron, if you will.>I'm calling it - let's form a giant robot and waste him
>>96533027I believe that combination would lead to the fabled "Wolfing Wolf"
>>96532425Honestly, I don't mind the Homeworlders dying. Most of them were kind of boring, and it weird to have an entire subsetting that was almost completely disconnected. I don't like the Scorpion Empire either, especially because it came out of nowhere and feels like someone just liked the Scorpions so found a random way to save them without making them important enough to need permission.>>96532521>>Snow Raven invasion>orbital bombardments fall, everyone diesThey do carry the McKenna name...
>>96533113The only good picture of James McKenna in existence.
>>96532239That's not a Marauder right? Trying to remember what it is. Also, your red lines are clean. That's nice. The white is iffy. Were you using actual white or did you pick an off-white with more opacity, saving the real white for highlights only?
>>96533286That's a...Falconer
>>96532239What is that Frankenmech looking thing between the catapult and the locust?
>>96533656Looks like a Hellspawn.
>>96533027>I will form the head, quiaff
>>96525155Make them yourdudes oc merc company
I miss the /btg MegaMek simulations in which everyone created characters and rolled for mechs. So I'm going to see about setting one up, but with a twist, I'll just use my own minis. So there won't be rolling on the RAT, but there will still be randomness. First things first however, we need to choose a scenario. There will be 2 rounds to this, first for determining tech level, then if necessary, the factions involved. So here they are.1) Clan Wolf star vs. Clan Jade Falcon Star (Battle of possession to claim the other clan's mechs.)2) Clan Star vs. 2 Inner Sphere Lances (Clan Invasion era. Factions involved would be rolled for afterwards.)3) 3rd Succession War. Inner Sphere skirmish of 2 lances vs. 2 lances. (Factions involved would be rolled for afterwards.)
>>96533848My vote is for IS v IS, as that is the most units on the table, thus the most people can join.
There any images of what the female clan asf pehenotype looks like?
>>96533848Be sure to use the play test suitability rules.
>>96534093*survivability
>>96533848Casting my vote for 2 Lances>>96534067Here's your womanlet
>>96534190Ever since someone pointed out that all the new character portraits look like methheads I can't unsee it
>reinstall HBS battletech>spend two hours making zero progress because every mission is a cakewalk with no loot or getting dropped in shitty terrain in front of an ambush>the last 1.5 skull mission i tried was 3 commandos, 2 jenners and 3 LRM locusts directly in front of the drop site, which was in the middle of a lake>the rewards for this mission would be light mech salvage and 300,000 cbillsThis game seems like an unbelievable waste of time, I can't believe I ever finished the campaign to begin with
>>96534556HBSBT dropship pilots are both terrible and amazing at the same time.
>>96534573Impeccable landing.
What are some mechs you guys have fun playing but fucking think it absolutely sucks to look at?
VGH….. the illyrian palatinate……. Gone too soon
>>96534556BTA is fun at least
>>96534641Ingrates. No one ever appreciates it when the legions bring the light of civilization to their barbarous worlds.
>>96534556Yes, the consensus was the best way to enjoy the game is to sprinkle it with more variety through one of the rebelancing mods.
>>96534556Strongly recommending BEX as a mod. It runs on a potato and doesn't stray far from the core gameplay, mainly fixes the most egregious omissions and errors. BTA and RogueTech are also out there but RogueTech is resource intensive. I haven't played BTA, another anon may be able to help with that one.
>>96533848Following up. 3 unanimous votes is probably good enough and I would like to get moving along. So next step.Which factions are facing off against eachother? All 5 of the great houses are available.Also, vote for terrain awhile. I will be using either the basic Grasslands or Desert mapsheets, in some combination that I haven't decided yet. But you get to weigh in on where the fight will take place.
>>96534734Must have Davion
>>96534734Houses Steiner raids Timbiqui for a Dropship full of liquor, the local militia has opinions about that. A skirmish breaks out near a pumping station in the desert. Destruction of said pumping station is a loss condition for both sides.
>>96534734Fwl, on grasslands.I still hate the desert maps for that weirdly misprinted/misplaced building hex on aerobase 1 (1403 iirc)
>>96534724As much as I prefer BEX, starting with version 2.0 is a huge slog, compared to 1.9.
>>96534745Who would you like the Davions to face and would you prefer Grasslands or Desert?>>96534759So I'll call Timbiqui the Mariks/FWL for this situation.>>96534784Who would you like the FWL to face off against?
>>96534832Taurians and Davions on a desert.
Anyone knows of an EU shop which sells plastic mechs in singles?
>>96534666>No one ever appreciates>bring the light>666Yeah, waah waah waah. Nobody appreciates you. We've heard it before Satan. You shouldn't have rebelled against God.
>>96534724You legitimately have to be a no lifer to have the time to spend on RogueTech. It turns basic missions into 45+ minute slogs with low rewards and a good chance of the mission freezing or mission critical NPCs getting stuck in a pathfinding loop. I guess the devs consider IRL time wasting to be part of the difficulty?
>>96534901They are more concerned about how their pet factions are doing in their online war.
Why is the Sword and the Dagger so ill-reputed?
>>96535009You can't get it anymore.
Hello there.After twenty years of absence, I got bit by the BattleTech bug abain, got myself pic related and now want to paint them.Problem is, I don't know shit. I will, without a doubt, fuck something up. So I'm inclined to do some prep research.So here are my two questions for you.1) how can I strip these plastic minis without melting them, and2) which paints work for that?
>>96534916This anon is correct. I got tired of the slog and the stupid little online war, went back to BEX. Now I can just play one or two missions after the kids are asleep and relax and enjoy.
>>96535009Has some weird stuff. Also sour grapes as it was never digitized so the most expensive print novel. Old Iron Pants at the start is peak ASF pilot, though. I've resold like 3 copies in the last decade, upgrading mine and grabbing some stuff out of random scifi book lots. I probably should unbind one and get it back in the mainstream with a good scan.On that note, we need somebody to scan the in-page novel art and the old intro and TRO stuff like Mike Stackpole in the 31st Century intros that have been stripped from the current iterations. I look at the leatherbound copies I have of the Warrior Trilogy and they are so much less than my FASA first editions. They just feel so sterile and empty.
>>96534832FWL to fight in order of preference: the FWL, capellans or Lyrans
ESL question; why is it the 'Heir to the Dragon,' not 'Heir of the Dragon?' What is the difference?
>>96535466Dragon is the Combine, not a person. So you can't be its relative.
>>96535070For plastic, use 90% Isopropyl Alcohol if you need to strip the paint. You'll wanna be careful because these are generally assembled with a kind of superglue, but they do them pretty tight to begin with and if they come apart they'll glue right back together without any damage.For paints, the easiest choice is acrylic paints over an acrylic primer. Then you're best off sealing with a gloss polyurethane varnish for durability. Some people prefer matte or satin, but I've been told these can be less durable, so when I matte back up the non-shiny parts of the mech, I do so with a top coat of matte over the gloss.Some other tips: A lot of the minis have a lot of greebles and recesses that will shade up very nicely if you use a shade/pin wash or panel liner/ink. Be careful if you decide on a panel liner because many of them are enamel: you will want to do them after a coat of the polyurethane to protect the paint and plastic beneath.I also prime with a 'zenithal' prime of a white primer sprayed from above over a coat of black primer which makes the light-facing surfaces start white and the undersides/shadows start black. This can give your minis more depth especially if you're using rather transparent paints.However you finally decide to paint, I at the very least strongly recommend the 'paint sandwich' of primer, paint and varnish to get the nicest looking, most durable play pieces you can make.
>>96535466Both make sense, but "to" sort of depersonalizes things. The usual construction is "heir to the ____ fortune". Theodore is the heir of Takashi, but he is heir to the combine as a whole.
>>96535466Heir to implies that they're the heir who will get the Dragon or get to be the owner of the Dragon or something like that. The Heir of the Dragon would imply that the Dragon itself is a being with an heir.The heir to the kingdom is the next king. The heir of the king is also the next king.
>>96535466The Dragon implies the state of the Combine while of just implies the Coordinator.
The dragon is gay.
>>96535828>Has been having children through heterosexual marriages for 600 years plus lots of bastardsYou are mistaken. It is their arch-enemy, Clan Faguar that is the most gay.
What are they smoking?
>>96536090Unironically retarded enough they don't need any help. Read Heretic's Faith.
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>>96535502chewable.
>>96536100>Centuries ago, Minoru Kurita abandoned his noble name and heritage when he was adopted by Clan Nova Cat, who utilized Minoru's psychic abilities to create a powerful new breed of warrior: the Mystic Caste, a secretive spiritual branch of the Clan led by their exalted Oathmaster...Holy Blake
>>96536417>Only winds up being 5 people>4 of whom are fuckups the Bounty Hunter kills>The last one disappears for like 20 years while the rest of his clan is murdered
>>96533848>>96534734Following up to this.I am looking to make this an 8v8. After you declare your faction, you may roll a D1000 to see what you get. Please make sure to give your Mechwarrior/Pilot a name and if you like, a brief backstory. The theme of this battle is that the people in it are taking it seriously, despite it being about a silly thing. So not played purely for laughs, but it can't be taken all that seriously either.
>>96536638After you've rolled your mech, use this table to roll your pilot's stats. We'll just be playing this one straight with no modifiers.
Rolled 100 (1d1000)>>96536638FWL.
Rolled 2, 4, 5, 4 = 15 (4d6)>>96536669Stinger 3R, let's go~!
Rolled 761 (1d1000)>>96536638Purple Birds Together Strong!
>>96536638Ah, right, I nearly forgot to clarify something a little different about rolling for mechs this time around. Since this battle will be simulated on the tabletop and not in Megamek, the list of what's available is limited, mainly by the color schemes I gave them. Some mechs are in-line with their faction, others are not. What can I say, my brain thinks a Highlander should be purple.So when you roll a mech, you're rolling for the mini. That means that duplicates aren't an option, except in some cases. For some of them, you'll notice that the mech is listed twice, such as Enforcer/Enforcer. That's because I have 2 available for that faction in its colors. So it can be duplicated once.This next part will not affect the very first people that roll for a mech, but it's more likely to come up as more mechs get rolled. If you roll a mech that's already been claimed, instead of re-rolling, you take the next mech up the list. (The entry that is next lowest.)Example. You want to roll a unit for the FWL. You roll a 784, a Rifleman. But someone has already rolled the Rifleman, so that means you go to the next up the list, the Quickdraw. If the Quickdraw has also already been taken, you get the Manticore Heavy Tank. And so on and so forth until you get an open one.
Rolled 3, 3, 2, 1 = 9 (4d6)>>96536694>Rifleman 3NBy the power of Gray Noton!
>>96536680FWL, Stinger-3R, 3/4.call sign: Arfenrolled in the local academy at 25 after flunking out of school, somehow did well enough to place into Mech piloting. Got caught looking at Clan Wolf themed furry porn in the barracks.
>>965367144/6Mooktastic!
You guys are quick I see.>>96536680So you got a Stinger at 3/5.>>96536714And you got a Rifleman at 4/6.
>>96536732>Got caught looking at Clan Wolf themed furry porn in the barracks.Hate to have to retcon your backstory, but this takes place in 3049, before the clan invasion. So we'll have to say it was just regular furry porn.
>>96536714>>96536733Mechwarrior Steve always hated fucking Elsies as a kid under his father in the Iron Guard. His purpose in life is killing ASF and tanks as God and Kerensky intended with the Rifleman. Kinda a problem in the mech combat he finds himself in more often than not. There he just runs the heat up, then flops down into depressions to cool down.
dice+1d1000>>96536638FOR THE BLUE FISThttps://youtu.be/OGIpNH4JuKs?si=79pv67Jk9D7Yy3ok&t=4
>>96536792whoops
>>96536792Oh dear. Please see the instructions here>>96536643 about how to roll properly.
Rolled 787 (1d1000)>>96536638Lyrans!
Rolled 3, 5, 2, 2 = 12 (4d6)>>96536818Axeman-1N? :o
Rolled 444 (1d1000)>>96536638Yeah alright. Clocking in for the Lyrans then.
