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this would've been a million times better than gothic
So a Vulcan with an AC/5 and AC/10? Isn't that just a Clint at this stage?
In a collar limited environment, each scout mech has to compete for its drop-ship space with three light vehicles, including VTOLS, hovercraft, and wiggies. Compact mechs like the locust or jackalope can bring two to the vehicular three, but is that enough? On the operational level three vtols could cover way more ground, and on the tactical level three light vehicles seem like they'll often outperform a single light mech. What's the case for scout mechs when you're counting your bays?
>>96672787You have mech bays and not vehicle bays. There's level 2 woods and also water. The terrain levels are highly vertical. The enemy has an AA unit.
>>96672787>>96672831Plus you might be operating in thin to no atmosphere.
So I realized I have three Hammerheads at this point. If you were to include them all in one Sea Fox star, what other mechs might you consider for the other two spots?
>>96672858Goodbye Ice Engines.
>Assassin with 2ML+LRM5+10 SHS+5.5t armor or>Assassin with 1LL+11 SHSWhich one will less suck?
>>96672787Remember that is is a scifi game set on distant worlds in space. The worlds can vary a lot.VTOL's (like hovercraft) only work on planets with an atmosphere. A mech is way more versatile, able to operate on airless moons, thin atmosphere worlds or on worlds with high gravity. Another factor is that Mechs are designed for planetary assault - they can also be dropped from space by a passing dropship, land (using jumpjets, jump packs and legs) and then do their mission, without risking the valuable and rare dropship. VTOLs are more defensive as they have to be carefully launched from the ground, good for defensive forces but only useful for attacking forces if their dropships have safely landed and secured an area to operate them from.
Happy weekend /btg/ friends, hope you have a good butte holding.Any bt stuff this weekend? Just playing some MW5 since I barely game and haven't finished clans let alone the new DLC.
>>96672952Tiburons. Then you can shark while you shark.
>>96673040I prefer the twin ML since you can use some alt ammo for stuff. Also those two are shorter ranged but less heat and more damage, even if not pinpoint.With the extra armor, it'll be able to run around spot and bully things with the MLs.
>>96672952There's a Hammerhaad variant designed to work alongside Kontios. Maybe you have some of those?
>>96672831>>96672858What this say to me is that the ideal scout mech should have serious jumping capability to give it mobility in terrain that ground vehicles couldn't handle (jumping vehicles are unfortunately just not reliable). Another factor in favor of the mech would be survivability, so bring a jumping mech with near-maxed armor. For other needs, bring the vees.
>>96673043Nope. Working on my car (have to remove and grease door panels plus figure out why the lock knob is out of true) and cleaning my house. Gotta mow the lawn too. Currently drinking and staying cool because fuck this summer heat in October.My usual gaming bro is slaughtering chickens this weekend, so may as well try to be kinda productive.Battletech-related. WAS there a hardcover version of the comemorative 3025 TRO? I ask because I just got mine in, and it's bound like any other TRO. The Amazon picture showed a hardback and it was labeled hardcover in the preorder.
>>96673100It's an interesting idea, though we don't have a sheet for the Hammerhead 2 and its description is pretty vague about armament.>>96673044I thought about it but was worried about the speed difference leaving the two Lights unsupported.
>>96673159Clanners don't give a shit about supporting other units. They're glory hogs.
>>96673043I am doing a batch of prints and playing a 3v3 king of the hill match against my brother on Sunday. Should be a fun afternoon.
>>96673159>we don't have a sheet for the Hammerhead 2 and its description is pretty vague about armament.I just plugged the Kontio's laser bank into SSW, gave the thing maximum efficient Hardened Armor (the last half ton adds a single point extra, not worth it) and found it still underweight, so I upgraded the uPL to an SPL and added a supercharger. Now that Hammerhead can sprint at the Kontio's unaugmented top speed.That shitter rocks as much effective armor as an Atlas while moving more than twice as fast.
olive drab or interior green for sldf?
>>96673289imo interior green
>>96665869As someone pointed out if you remove mech and ASF modes from the LAM you get basically Light Cavalry from Armored Core. Frankly, it would be a pretty brutal machine without the tonnage eaten by transformation equipment and reaction mass for ASF thrusters. Even if they would still have the 1.5+ cost modifier. But having a medium mech with 18+ WiGe movement is fucking bullshit.
>>96673043No. I get to work night shift three days in a row and am contemplating suicide
>>96673379I don't think it's that much bullshit in practice. To not crash and burn while maneuvering you need a great pilot, so the end cost is very high, so a 55 ton LAM must be competitive with much larger and shootier mechs. In some niche use cases it might be, but it can be countered by TMM decreasing weapons, artillery, bombs, etc. if you're using the full rule book. Even with the extra space from being a full-time air-mech (which is frankly the best usecase of the LAMs) I don't think it'd be overpowered.
What is so important about Sarna to name a whole wiki after it?
>>96673043Playing in an Override campaign with family. We've basically locked in the objective, nothing can catch the running mech with the pay data, so we're playing for salvage for a couple more turns. I feel good on that front, one of my mechs is beat up but speedy enough to stay safe, and my Stalker-8S is practically untouched, ready to smash up the remaining heavily battered enemy mechs.