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Favourite Blakist 'Mech?
>>97115330I like the Buccaneer. I think it's cute.
>>97115370it'd look funny holding an axe in its teeth.
why can't I fit a heavy gauss rifle in an arm?
>>97115403same reason i fall over if i swing my dick over my shoulder.
>>97115403Too many crits. Superheavies have double-stack crits, though so you can with them IIRC.
>>97115330Either the lagacy or toyama, they're both cool
>>97115370It should have a cutlass shaped hatchet. Comstar has the technology, they did it for the Atlas.
>>97115403>>97115421The crits aren't the problem, it's a flavor rule representing too much recoil for an arm to handle. Superheavies can mount it in an arm for the flavor reason of being much bigger and sturdier.
>>97115330I just think it's neat.
>>97115514You are right. I was thinking of artillery.>They retconned it where you can't slap Long Tom's on superheavies anymore.
>>97115560thats really fucking dumb, a heavy artillery would be a goodish use for superheavies
>>97115560It's not really a retcon so much as an omission. Since none of the things that can mount a Long Tom in core or Tac Ops even use crit slots, it wasn't assigned a crit value (it would be 30 though). Superheavies would only need 15 slots to mount it, and could do so in an arm and side torso. It just needs a rule entry somewhere that makes that official.
>>97115653Yep. I even built a tripod that could do it back before the change.
>>97115653I think it's better to use Thumpers or Snipers anyway for the sheer space saving value. At 10 tons and 4 slots each, you could put three Thumpers in one arm.
>>97115704No wait, that's Thumper Cannons. Still, you could fit up to four regular ones into a superheavy.
>>97115545I love the Celestial series. But maybe that's just because I'm a Gunda/m/ fag and I like when factions have a unified aesthetic.
>>97115545>>97115719Cortland had some taste. That's for sure.
So is there anyone Uncle Cordy tier in that new MW5 Clans DLC to meme about?
>>97115715A Hera could replace the iHG with a Long Tom Cannon and just absolutely delete things like BA. 20 area damage to the hex, 10 to the surrounding hexes.
>>97115754This thing with Arrow IV is why my Dragon II is nicknamed Toad Reaper.
>>97115760I say the Cannon specifically because it can use it on the same map sheet. It doesn't have the sheer stopping power due to its damage being broken up into 5 point clusters, but it being an AE weapon that you can fire directly or indirectly (like an LRM) makes it an interesting alternative to gauss and heavy gauss rifles.
>>97115736It was funny seeing Bjorn Jorgensson trash-talking the ComGuard.Side comment: shouldn't Focht have a German accent?Also I just realized that this is Natasha.
Where we dropping, /btg/ ?https://youtu.be/rzGKtKdQl_c?si=_ro7ymhtz14g4ULi
>>97115796But at 10 tons a Thumper, why not use Rotary AC/5s instead?
>>97115812Not bad for like 70 or whatever, but these guys SUCK at making characters that aren't bland as tapioca.
>>97115816"Tukayyid. It is an ugly planet; a comguard planet. A planet hostile to clan way of life as we know it."https://youtu.be/CIGHCoVzqtk?si=Pkn5O-unh_nx1tr6
>>97115824Long Tom Cannon, not Thumper.
>>97115829Generally yeah, they did a really good job with Ulric though
Do people still do full planetary conquest campaigns? It's been a very long time for me and I haven't heard anyone even mention one.
Drama about pride anthology? Two writers are sex offenders? Some anon on /v/ said
>>97115846>Long Tom CannonWell I've gotten one to fit on each arm of a 200 ton Superheavy, but that's a 2/3 biped...
>>97115997>Some anon on /v/Not a credible source, also only two? Seems low.
>>97115997Unsurprising, but we don't talk about them much here. That's more of a reddit thing. Fitting that you heard it on /v/.
>>97115997One of the big BT devs for a long time (Bishop, maybe?) was a sex offender. Dunno about pride anthology writers.
Did CGL ever disavow the groomer pride book?
>>97116082Qrd?
>>97116083Not that I'm aware of...
>>97116098It's a meme because he was living in Mexico and claimed he "couldn't return to the US". It's funnier to imagine he'd be arrested the moment he set foot off the plane, but we don't actually know what the situation is or if he's in legal trouble.
>>97116113Grim...
>>97115653I might be misremembering, but don't Superheavies cut down the number of necessary crit slots by half?Like iirc Clan DHS was one crit slot per heatsink on an SH and it felt stupidly good.
>>97116154Yes, and that's why it's only 15 instead of 30 (which is what really disqualifies normal mechs, since they only have 24 spread across two locations and no normal equipment can be in more than two locations unless it's atomized like the crit slots for special armor or structute). By the same rule, ISXL engines only have two slots in each side torso, just like clan ones do for normal mechs.
>>97116154>>97116179As do IS Heatsinks, two crit slots instead of three, allowing you to put on in a leg.
Having now assembled an IWM Viking, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. The only real problem is with the lower body section, it doesn't line up cleanly with the mid-body. I'll have to stuff the gaps with modeling paste and it'll have an underbite. The dual chin guns look like little t-rex arms and the actual arms look like big ears.
>>97115600It was a while ago so memory's fuzzy but it was 4v4, Lyrans vs Burds FCCW era. Rule was 1 of each weight class and 2 had to be 3025 designs no helmtech I dont remember BV. Hauptmann BThunderbolt 5SSGriffinScarabus 9TGrand Titan 13MOstsolWolverine 6MVenomThe Hauptmann and Grand Titan reenacted pic related, the Grand Titan had backed up against a cliff and I sent my Scarabus behind it. The same turn it shot my Hauptmanns engine out I kicked its damaged head off. The Venom and Wolverine went after the Thud and my Scarabus chopped the gyro out of the Venom, Thud gets a gyro crit and can't stand up anymore. Its now just my untouched Scarabus against his lightly scuffed Wolverine. I kited him around chipping away at him while he kept whiffing shots. Eventually I got his LT but he finally scored a large laser hit and took my left arm leaving me with no guns and just the hatchet and we called it.The Griffin and Ostsol had died early on they did fuck all so I dont remember much about them.
>>97115812Damn, geriatric clanners look like THAT?
>>97116321After record breaking amounts of cosmetic surgery, sure.
>>97116293I'm at the point where I consider the models to be a starting point, then I add or subtract material to make them look the way I want.
>>97115328https://battletechfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Technical_Readout:_Whetsone_Industrialhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1zepdbUAy2FbaB8TlxvPvHTNkqvyNQSSe/viewSo.. nothing?
>>97116427Your question is unclear. What are you asking and how do these links relate?
Why do you all talk about artillery cannons as if thermobaric ammo doesnt exist? aka the only reason to take an artillery cannon over an Arrow IV? 'A LTC does 20/10 damage' no it doesn't, don't try to pretend you're rolling for atmo pressure before every match.
i cant believe they paid faggots to write sodomy smut for a game aimed at preteens and teens
>>97116586CGL doesn't pay its professional writers, what are you babbling about?!
Just got my game of armored combat box. Came with a 20% off discount coupon for the CGL webstore and a 20% for ironwinds metals what should I spend my IWM coupon on? it expires at the end of the year, the CGL coupon doesn't seem to have an expiration.are there any of the mechs from IWM *you* really enjoyed, are better than the CGL ones, aren't produced in the CGL line, etc?
>>97116585No one actually knows how anything in tacops works. It's a book of theoretical rules that have never been played, least of all by the people writing them.
Who are the greatest mech techs, other than Fahad?
>>97116585An LTC does 20/10 regardless of atmosphere and also does it at like range 5-20 instead of the next mapsheet over
>>97116661Thermobaric ammo isnt even in tacops, its new home is IntOps AltEras. Upgrade your LTC to 30/20/10 for the low, low price of never fighting in a vacuum, which you never did anyway and don't try to tell me otherwise.Using the direct or on-map indirect rules for artillery with an AIV is a better use of crits and tonnage in any other case than fuel-air arty cannons.Not enough people using the actual fun alternate munitions for weapons. Acid SRMs. Swarm LRMs. Tandem-charge. Thunder anything. Play Clan Coyote as an excuse to field magpulse iATMs. Precision ammo makes LAC/5s good. Thermobarics do the same for arty cannons!
>>97116705Technically you can't use any of the fun ammo for artillery cannons, because whoever wrote their tacops rule hates fun. They left the door open for arty cannons to get special ammo by saying they could get it in a different book at some point, but they can't use any of the tacops stuff.Vacuums don't affect cannons at all. Regular tube artillery has its range reduced, and that's it. If the ammo flops, then that's on the ammo, not the gun.
>>97116586what are you even on about
>>97116664Based big dog Yang Virtanen
>>97116654IWM costs more because metal, I would get mechs not available in plastic of I was doing that.For CGL get the IS Battle or Command they round out AGOAC into a full company really well.
>>97116721>>97116699IntOps AltEras Pg.159. Artillery cannons are specifically called out as being able to use thermobaric ammo. LTC to 30, SnC to 20, ThC to 10. Stuff it in a bomb bay if you want. Half damage in thin atmo. No damage in thinner. Normal ammo is unaffected by pressure yes, but that means less-than-standard atmo is the only reason to ever use it, unless your BV is so tight you cant afford a multiplier on a few tons of ammo.There is otherwise no reason to use an arty cannon over an AIV.
Just so we're all clear on what we're even talking aboutArtillery Cannons are cut down versions of tube artillery. They count as autocannons for the purposes of whatever rules care about gun types. Their range is measured in hexes. They can directly target units or hexes, and can indirectly fire using the same rules as LRMs. They only have one ammo type, generic artillery cannon rounds. Regardless of what they aim at or how, their generic ammo hits a whole hex as an area effect weapon, using normal artillery rules. That means that their damage is broken up into 5 point clusters, and everything in the hex takes that damage. The next row of hexes out takes damage-10, still in 5 point clusters, still applied to everything in those hexes. Since Thumper and Sniper do 5 and 10 damage respectively, they do not do any damage to the surrounding hexes. Long Tom does 20, and so it does 10 to the surrounding hexes. If it did 25, it would also do 5 damage to a third group. Atmosphere only impacts them if it would impact autocannons or indirect LRMs.
>>97116767Except for where IntOps finally gives them a new ammo type. Hooray.>>97116758They're a lot better than AIV if you want to shoot at something on the same hex map as yourself. Battle Armor that just got zoomed in by some annoying little 12/18/XX omnimech, for example
>>97116539they are links to a copy of the pdffor the fan made TRO I wrote.i was asking what you thought of it?
>>97116733https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Pride_Anthology_2025>John Edgar Hoover Supports Transgender Lesbian Terrorists
>>97116772Artillery performs on-map attacks between 6 and 17 hexes at like +4. Might be line-of-sight only? But it means an AIV isn't exactly bad for this either. That's the same as firing an arty cannon at its long range bracket, which you will be doing most of the tike since of them only the LTC has decent range (and is as fat as an AIV, or fatter if you're Clan)
>>97116792We didn't really have artwork for it so we just kind of shoehorned some clip art in it. One of the pictures is a shot of my mech in MWO
Why does the original Taurus give me Battletech vibes?
>>97116805who cares? its fan fiction.
>>97116854It's not quite a Rotunda, but they're probably on the same used car lot.
>>97116654Get yourself a groovy Stalker.
there is ONE battletech writer who is provably a convicted sex offender, but he hasn't been involved in anything in over a decade, and that's Warner Doles. there are other rumors, some of which could even be true, but nobody has ever provided anything to substantiate the claims
>>97116895But there's a list of four or five of them that it would be a lot funnier if they were, so we're going with that.
>>97116895Honestly the fact that there's ever one is kinda funny.>>97116875>20 tonsMotherfucker must be made of osmium or something.
>>97116805>transgender lesbianAka middle age man in a bad wig looking to groom troubled kids
Guys, can you help me with something? I have some difficulty with discerning colors/shades. Could you guys tell me which of these will be the best match for the SLDF green, CapCon green, Jade Falcon green and the Deneb/Arkab tan?
>>97116979SLDF 015Capcon 022Jade Falcon 028Arkab 018
>>97116945https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVo1e6Cwkkg
>>97117046While that video is cute, someone's going to watch that video and think that the Rotunda is crap, when the fluff makes it clear that it was actually considered to be very effective.
>>97116293Fug, I just bought this mech at my FLGS' Black Friday blowout sale. Am I in for a bad time?
>>97116705>Precision ammo makes LAC/5s good.What do you think I use on my BJ-4?!
>>97117166Nah, it's not that bad. The weakest point is definitely where the legs meet the body since it's just two little ball joints, and if you're going to pin, that's the place to do it, but basically everything else either has significant surface contact or built in pegs. The ones on the bottom of the legs were a little too long, but all the fiddly little guns fit snugly into holes where they're supposed to.
Mech scale Rattler mini, good idea?
>>97117232I guess if you wanted to use it as a literal battleground? It ends up being about the size of a single mapsheet.
>>97116855>”mad” about fan fictionI suspect no one is actually mad about this at all and masquerading as if they were is just some lame attempt at social engineering
>>97116293It's a nice little model and the guns are on the undersides so it should hold together well enough.My problem is that painting metaltechs kind of sucks because they're all flat and boxy, but also covered in ridges and bumps. You don't have any flat ground but then the lines are so thin that it's hard to ink them in. I almost want to take putty all over them and de-vein the surfaces. >>97117253I read it because I'd be perfectly fine with gay love in the robot wars and it fucking sucks. The writing is embarrassing fanfic tier and you could tell many of them knew nothing about battletech before they actually later admitting they indeed knew nothing about battletech and don't care about it. It's fanfic without the fan. It's just 'fic.
>>97117259Really? I find that I prefer painting the crisper metal minis rather than the plastic ones. The brush just clings betters, no stray marks.
>>97117259>>97117275I also read a number of the stories from the various yearly anthologies and, on balance, they are no better or worse than a lot of official stuff. Moreover, it’s clear to me that the fan fic authors I read were at least as much as fans as BT as the authors writing the official stuff, if not more so.If there were any shred of evidence that the anthologies are some kind of psyop to destroy BT, I guess I could get mad at that; but there really isn’t any such evidence. As such, I’m more inclined to believe that the kind of people who describe BT as “game aimed at preteens and teens” are the ones actually [trying to] run a psyop here.
Please say a prayer for Alexa O’Shea, who provided the voice acting for notable Our Girl, Mia Smoke Jaguar. O’Shea was recently diagnosed with brain cancer. Other than her inability to properly pronounce the word “jaguar,” O’Shea did great work depicting Mia and the Clan way.
>>97117321*Alea (fuck autocorrect forever)
>>97117249It'd only be most of a single mapsheet
>>97117300>they are no better or worse than a lot of official stuff>Moreover, it’s clear to me that the fan fic authors I read were at least as much as fans as BT as the authors writing the official stuff, if not more soThat's the worst condemnation of the official stuff because this was awful. I'd say half were below even YA fiction. If someone said that I'd assume they just didn't like battletech's writing at all and were trying to get all "well it all sucks anyway so who cares?"
>>97117483To the contrary, my point is the fan fic stuff isn’t (all) so bad as culture war axe grinders make it out to be.
>>97117483>That's the worst condemnation of the official stuff because this was awful. I'd say half were below even YA fiction.Yes, that's official Battletech fiction for you.
What's more important. Swag, or function?>mech has two snub nose ppc's in one arm>has heatsinks in the other armWould it attract your autism to know they could have easily been one in each arm?I personally like the character of asymmetric designs.
>>97117321A shame she isn't a real Smoke Jaguar, because then it wouldn't really make a difference.Also, the Clan would have the ability to fix the tumor, but they wouldn't.
>>97117566It would definitely activate my almonds, but it's not like I would target it specifically or anything. >cries in cataphract
>>97117491Even reddit can't pretend it's good. It's "brave" or "valid". Never seen a single person ever say one was their favorite. Even regular BT books have their fans.
>>97115330Omega. Yes, I know its a prototype, I just think its cool. Honourable 2nd place goes to the Revenant.
>>97117566>I personally like the character of asymmetric designs.Blasphemy!
>>97117591Asymmetry is beautiful and I'm tired of pretending it's not!
Relating this to my question in the last thread about Janos Marik's Rifleman, is it possible to use heavier calibers for AC/2s like how you can go as far as 120mm for AC/5s?
Is this some meta joke where clan wolf is known for being dolled up sluts and bimbos? I haven't seen eye shadow this thick since middle school.
>It will be raining for at least another week>can't sprayfuck Pacific NW
>>97117630It's just the game's style. See for example this Jaguar >>97117321
>>97117652My friend in Seattle told me the following joke:>A man visits Seattle. He's been there a week and it's been raining the whole time. He sees a little boy riding a bike down the street and flags him down, asking, "Hey, kid! Does it ever stop raining here?">The kid shrugs, saying, "How should I know? I'm only 6."[Spoiler]it was sunny and warm the entire week I was visiting. Apparently September is the time to go.[/spoiler]
>>97117662My friend in Seattle told me the following joke:>A man visits Seattle. He's been there a week and it's been raining the whole time. He sees a little boy riding a bike down the street and flags him down, asking, "Hey, kid! Does it ever stop raining here?">The kid shrugs, saying, "How should I know? I'm only 6."it was sunny and warm the entire week I was visiting. Apparently September is the time to go.
Huh, it won't let me delete.
>>97117566I love asymmetry, but an arm full of heatsinks sounds off unless it was designed as like a box with a sub arm coming off it. Feels like it shouldn't be a real limb if it's a heat vent location. So one big gun arm, and then a supportive arm would be fine.>>97117652I keep a bottle of airbrush primer because you can brush paint it on as well.
>>97117573I enjoy reading official BT fiction but it’s the literary equivalent of Taco Bell.And, in making that comparison, I am talking about the better novels.I think the best one can generally hope for in BT novels is plot and character work; theme and insight are non starters for even the best-loved BT authors.And yes, by these standards some of the Pride Month fan fics are alright.
>>97116767if you want to be clear on what you're talking about maybe read the rules
Does anyone have a compilation image of the plagiarized Unseen 'mechs compared to the originals taken from anime?Got to think of them while watching Combat Mecha Xabungle which has some really gritty looking mecha (not like the main one pictured here) that evoked BT for me.
>>97117968I think this is the most thorough. Not counting general tracing, lots of later mechs traced limbs and posture.
>>97117993I vaguely remember the atlas to share a silhouette with a scopedog
>>97117993Thank you elstar
>>97117999Yeah, it happens a lot.
So the Jade Falcon DLC will be about the Refusal War. Because Ulric was dezgra traitor piss upon him.
>>97117954>read the rulesfag
>>97117968>the plagiarized Unseen 'mechsIt's not really plagiarism when the whole point of the game was to play with those designs since they were never going to get used in the US in the first place. The creators only found out about them because they were on Japan, not because they saw them in the US, because those designs weren't in the US at all. They specifically sought out and tried to license those designs, because they wanted to use them. It's was just the shit state of copyright law between two nations that fucked everything up.
>>971180282 arms, 2 legs, bilateral symmetry and a distinct torso and the same poseyeah, that's plagiarism all right 2 things can't just stand the same way on accident
Phelan Kell is a freeborn bastard who has no claim to the Ward name. No claim at all
>>97118340Will it feature femboys though?
>>97118377This aint canopus.
>>97118358Yes.
>>97117899>pride stories alrightBegone groomer
>>97117899It's fucked up that battletech prides itself off on not being anime but if you read any of it, it's just shitty genre fiction and the original gundam series still blows it all out of the water.
>>97117968I sill have the original cardboard standees and they were all lifted from anime.
>>97117899>Pride Month fan ficsOnly the queerest of fags open one of those, much less read the fucking thing, faggot.
>>97118028>Pitaban typeIs this what they named Pitban engines after?
>>97115370I like the Buccaneer too. I wish there was a better model of it however. The IWM is passable, if a tad dorky. And there aren't any good fan recreations.
>>97117596Your Chirality is SINISTER and WILL BE YOUR UNDOING!!!
>>97117415>onlyreminds me of some rich 40k fag getting a tau plane big enough it could be used as its own killteam scenario
>>97117321>play fictional character who gets enhanced imaging>suffer consequences of enhanced imaging in real lifeThat's rough
What do you guys think about the goonhammer light mech rankings? Anything they missed or that you'd add? I don't really like ilclan and most of the entries were just reinforcing why going past 3067 was a bad idea.
How is the Wraith Ubiquitous if it's only made by Capellans? It's not even that widely available. Does it use some parts from an actual Ubiquitous mech like the Bandersnatch does? I could maybe see it use Wolverine actuators or other parts
>>97119897It was first made by the FWL in the era where they were selling everything to everyone. The Capellans only got it later.
>>97119876The Goonhammer overviews are a decent place to start if you know nothing about the mech, and they usually grade the mechs alright. Some of the articles end up heavily biased though (banshee and marauder) and they’re written by a group of like 3 or 4 people so you’ll sometimes see inconsistent ratings across overviews.
>>97119919I'm trying to think of mechs they weren't freely selling and I'm coming up with... Albatross? That one Awesome variant meant for the DCMS and FWLM only? Maybe the Emperor?
>>97119940I don't like how they seem to make the more obnoxious mechs more common. I think a lot of people are just looking at the lists, picking the highest rated one, and going from there.
>>97119919But wasn't the FWL factory destroyed? The Kallon armor is still coming from the FWL, but the Cappies can't be selling it at nearly the levels needed to be Ubiquitous by themselves, especially since their variants are pretty much for themselves. The only thing I can think of is there being parts from an actual Ubiquitous mech, there were other factories contracted to make it that are unlisted, or the FWL somehow got a trade deal when Curtiss sold the design to the Cappies that has the Cappies stuck with making a fuck ton of them while the FWL gets resellers to distribute them wherever in the Sphere. That last one might explain why it's in the Periphery and Drac space, maybe the deal was to get a mech to forces that'd fight the Fedsuns and Lyrans.
>>97119966Quirks are assigned when the mech is first detailed, and when it was detailed it was made by a FWL factory that sells to anyone and everyone. Ubiquitous isn't like Obsolete where it has a date range.
>>97119966I assume that when Curtiss Hydroponics' mech division went bankrupt and sold their designs to the Capellans, as part of the deal they required the Capellans to provide a percentage of the production to FWL. The government probably wouldn't have allowed the deal to go through otherwise, given the historical animosity between FWL and Capellans.
>>97120015That seems to be the most reasonable implied way that parts could still be getting out there. Thinking about it, the FWL are probably getting a great deal out of it because they don't need to worry about a main factory in their space being attacked, but they still get to sell whatever they'd like from the Wraith however they'd want. If the TR6 and TR7 have the same quirks and availability as the rest of the Wraiths, the FWL would be able to sell advanced tech Wraiths without having to spend resources on making the expensive stuff.
>>97115330I like how pointy celestials are.
>>97119963The people that are going to meta-chase mechs were going to do it without a cute article on it. It's not like it takes a lot of searching to find degenerate or strong strategies.
>AeroTech: Amaris Civil Warbased if real?
>>97115330The three SNES mechs. Nexus, Raijin and Grand Crusader.Also Red Shift
>>97118353>because those designs weren't in the US at all.Communism is when the rich don't have the money to buy 4chan passes for their bots.
>>97120304Only if it features LAMs. But ideally not the Screamer, we need models that can be used for more than literally one scenario that ends when they crash.Or go full retard and put a bunch of warships in it. Coward marks if the Amaris side isn't just three Caspars.
>>97117968Funny you say that, as the thug is pretty reminiscent of a machine from Xabungle.
Thoughts on this for a setup where players pick objectives?>Underdog>Your lightest non-infantry unit is the Underdog. Your opponent's heaviest unit is the Top Dog. In the case of ties, you choose one. >Destroy or cripple the Top Dog with the Underdog. [75]>Do the above and have the Underdog end the battle not destroyed. [150]
>>97116311>9mm
>>97115330I have a hard time choosing but my Seraph is a repeat MVP with multiple retractable blade kills.
>The Pillager was built by HildCo in 2594>HildCo was founded in 2770the fuck?
>>97120639I think it’s intriguing but there may be an inverse correlation between how likely a player is to choose this objective and how interesting the resulting game will be.
>>97115330Gurkha
Which mechs has the greatest divorced dad energy?
>>97121146Shadow Hawk. Easy.
>>97120491Hey, dumbfuck, Robotech came out in 1985. The Weismans trip to Japan and the decision to start work in Battletech started was in 1982-3. Wanna guess how much stuff for Macross/Dougram was in the US in 1982-3 when they made the choices >>97118353 was talking about?If you aren't going to learn the history, shut up and don't post.
>>97121146Atlas and Timber Wolf
>>97121146axeman without a doubt. it looks like it just burst through the door yelling>where are you bitch!!!! I'm gonna make you sorry for cheating!!!!!!!
At least they checked the sourcebooks
>>97121324The field uniform doesn't look great in 3d, but the dress uniform is snazzy.
>>97121146The Emperor is the divorced dad who used to play football in high school and is still kind of husky, but is now trending more toward fat than muscular.
>>97121324Say what you will about PGI, at least they can hire artists who generally know what they're doing.
>>97121254The fact they have an axeman with out an axe makes me angry. I would like to see a post invasion Drac one with a sword since sure we're teaming up to fight these guys but ... still fuck you Steiner.>>97121458High dad bod energy I like it.>>97121470I was never a fan of the IIC anime era art, but that's just me. Yeah this new art is pretty good.
the current CGL production quality is really good on most stuff. the rule books and boxed sets are really nice quality.
>>97115330Grand Titan.
have they done a forcepack for the Celestial series?
>>97121767No. It's on the to-do list.
>>97115812>Side comment: shouldn't Focht have a German accent?yeah
>>97121833German or Italian? Didn't he spend most of his younger life getting groomed by lestrade?
>97122022>how can i mention grooming today...
>>97122022No he spoke German and didn't have a great grasp of Italian:>He [Focht] pulled up a chair and lowered himself into it. "I recall once, a very long time ago, when I was on Summer. The Lestrade family had instituted the practice of speaking Italian in their home, where I was a guest. I wanted a glass of water, and I wanted it cold. I told the servant I wanted it kalt, but the man did not understand me. I pantomimed cold and repeated kalt several times. When I thought he had it, I let him go on his way. Imagine my surprise when he returned with a steaming glass of hot water because the Italian word for cold is freddo, while the word for hot is caldo. He thought I was miming shivers because I was cold and that I wanted my water caldo."
>>97122071how do you remember a random blurb from a BT book?
>>97122092autism
>>97121833>>97122071He probably took speech lessons in ComStar to change his accent to help hide his identity. Otherwise it would be super obvious that he was a noble Lyran and it wouldn't be hard to figure out who he was.Hell, there's probably a specific accent like British RP that rich Lyrans learn at fancy schools.
>>97119940what's the weird "s-is-highest" grading system?
>>97122152It's an anime thing. In Japan, "S" is the highest grade, above A.
>>9712219730 years ago, nowadays the S-A-B-C-etc system is pretty ubiquitous everywhere and Japan has added SS and SSS (or S+, SS+, SSS+, S++, etc) over and above S.
What's a good jump assault?
>>97115816Hell. To do what needs to be done.https://youtu.be/ZuzzPQCKGhc
>>97122152>>97122197As I understand it, it comes from the rating system for tuna. Standard letters A-F are for the normal distribution properties for sale in restaurants and grocery stores. S grade is for rare high value fish that exceed the standards for A and cannot be counted on for regular supply.
>>97122232Iron Cheetah B
>>97122227>>97122325No, like, in Japan on school tests and stuff, they do S as highest. Instead of A>B>C>D>F, they have S>A>B>C>F
>>97122121Did anyone figure out about his past after Focht became public? They noticed but turned blind eye and pretend?
>>97122382Phelan did in Blood of Kerensky.I have to assume that Lyran Intelligence knew. The Dracs knew because they're the ones who gave him to ComStar.
>>97121622Shut up, shill
>>97119446method acting.
>>97121622Now that I think about it, I do not think I have read a single word that CGL has published. All the books and novels I've read are from the FASA/Fanpro/wizkid eras. I have the newer plastic models, and they're of... acceptable quality considering I paid ~$5 each.
>>97122485You don't have the BMM?
>>97122511Nope, I got a copy of TW about 20 years ago and haven't bothered picking up anything since.
>>97122551You and I might be playing a slightly different game then
>>97122551What are your thoughts on the Partial Cover change from the BMR?
Quick question; you're not suppose to boil the 3D prints like you do with resin to clean up, right?
>>97122716No, resin prints cure from UV light rather than temperature
The Hatamoto-Suna model is nice, big chunky pegs in the arms and from the torso to waist. Again, the legs to waist is just a ball joint, but it's a bit shaped for better contact.
>>97122644Anytime someone says "they changed that rule." I say "Oh, ok" and just roll with it. I am pretty sure I have absorbed most of the errata just from playing.>>97122692I like the new rules about it being a +1 to hit and leg hits being negated. The older ones where you rolled on the punch table made partial cover a risk instead of just always being better.
>>97119267With 3D printing, something like a Rattler at mech scale wouldn't be too expensive.
>>97122692makes hull-down quads very good
Are the Ryuken-ni still kicking in ilclan or were they one of the regiments left to die in the dragon's tongue?
Writerbros from the last thread, I delivered and posted my fanfic on Spacebattles and Questionable Questing. (I'll post it elsewhere in the future. I'm on the cool down period on FFN and AO3 waiting till I'm allowed to post.)https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/like-fine-wine-battletech.1273925/Enjoy!
>>97122966Cool, I'll give it a read.
>>97122966Is the scorpion machine gun port a hold over from the japanese design? odd that they didn't remove it with the ppc srm6 loadout.
>>97122966>>97122994I like the 'Tank destroyer' quad layouts.
>>97122232Big fan of the Phoenix Hawk IIC, but that's more of a fat heavy in principle. The 7 moves 4/6/6 and has a pair each of LB-10Xs, ER Mediums, and Streak SRM 4s, it's the one I use most often.
Is this was Clanners look like
>>97123133Yes, except the fake tits. Clanners don't do that. It's engineered.
>>97121146The Annihilator has beer-gut dad-bod so that's gonna be my pick
>>97117993Man, the entire clan lineup at the bottom there just mogs the shit out of everything else on the page. Look at the goddamn poses on those things, so cool.
>>97123133They look like this to seduce unsuspecting freebirths into bondsman.
how come batteltech has alot of 80s energy. the clanner beefcakes, the car styles
Nobody tell him
>>97123324The real life 1980s were actually inspired by Battletech.
>>97123324
>>97121146That no one brought up the Banshee yet is a crime
>>97122966will read, ty
Before I dunk this to IPA, can you guys tell which unit I was trying to paint?
>>97123503Because the Banshee is boring vanilla, tiny dick energy, and a generally shit Mech, that nobody actually wants unless they've been stuck with it and can't figure out a way to upgrade or find something better.
>>97123618You've only (badly) used the 3E?
>>97123557Some circus themed wouldbe my guess.
>>97123503Its chad energy though?
>>97121324I am disappointed they didn't show the full fursuit that is the ceremonial outfit.
>>97121358The field uniform in the game doesn't have the 80's padding in the sections to give it the correct shape. They just made them seams.
>>97121358Main problem with the field uniform is they just made all those lines look to be printed on, the illustration looks like they should be seams from how it's stitched together.
>>97123557WoB 47th Shadow Division (or whatever number Apollyon's Chosen were). Red base that fades to black towards the legs, and gold details.
>>97124391Fiddy-Two
Great shot of Wimmer having a woman moment in the ending, also nice to see saKhan Kabrinski and Jonathan again
>>97122117Unironically I'm on the spectrum. I remember stuff from books, even random blurbs, that I've read years ago and can recall them easily.Got kicked from the OF for criticising the lack of simple ctrl-f fact-checking they do for novels and sourcebooks.
>>97122382>>97122391Initially the plot after Tukayyid was going to be that Focht's past went public, but they dropped that in the next few Stackpole novels.
I was thinking about how the VTR-9B is basically a jumping HBK-4G and I had the idea to see how some of the other introtech Hunchback variants scaled to 80 tons at 4/6/4. I started with the HBK-4J and ended up with a lot more free tonnage than I expected, upgraded the LRMs to 15s, and realized that this was looking like a Super Catapult in a different shape. Anyways, there's 1 ton left, where would you guys put it? Upgrade the armor to make it a little less embarrassing for an 80 ton mech since it won't be hiding the entire way in like a normal victor? Add another ton of LRM-15 ammo so it can stay at range longer than the base Catapult? Another Heatsink?
What was the point of the Refusal War if you're just going to have Vlad Ward kill the Jade Falcon leadership and declare Wolf independence again?What was the point of splitting Clan Wolf into Warden and Crusader when they were eventually reunited again?What was the point of wiping out Smoke Jaguar if they are going to be resuscitated again by the IlClan era? What was the point of uniting the Lyran Commonwealth and Federated Suns if you're just going to break it up again after the FedCom civil war?What was the point of renaming it to the Lyran Alliance if Adam Steiner is just going to rename it back to the Lyran Commonwealth?What was the point of the Blakist Jihad if Comstar was going to lose and nothing changes?What was the point of the Dark Age when everyone would eventually recover to the same level of technology and there were no meaningful territorial changes to the Great Houses?What was the point of the Republic of the Sphere when it was just going to fall apart the moment Devlin Stone died and the IS went back to fighting among itself?What was the point of Operation Revival failing if Clan Wolf was just going to come in and win one hundred years later?
>>97125037To sell books
>>97124894>Got kicked from the OF for criticising the lack of simple ctrl-f fact-checking they do for novels and sourcebooks.Was this you Anon?
>>97125144I've never read anything quite so pathetic
>>97122988>>97123508Thanks, hope you enjoy it anons.>>97122994It is, yes. It's more like a tank with a crew in Dougram. PicrelIt doesn't get used in the story (only gets mentioned in passing at one part that's easy to miss), but I restored that weapon port with an ER Medium Laser in the custom Scorpion featured in my fanfic. Maybe in the future I'll try taking a crack at another custom build with a Dual Cockpit reflecting the crew from the Blizzard Gunner?>>97123034I do too. That art piece is one of my favorites. Love the toothy grin painted on the canopy.
>>97125037>what was the point of Germany beating France in 1870 if they were just going to lose in 1918?>what was the point of Yugoslavia if they were all just going to separate anyway?
>>97123618>yeah the question was about divorced dad energy ya dumbo
>>97124861Weaver and the Jaguars getting smoked was fun, I like the Aiden Pryde cameo at the end too.
>>97125144still can't believe the dumb reason he got booted lol
>>97125542It was genuinely for that facebook rant. Openly insulting the customers by calling them basement dwellers will get you canned in any business. Calling them a "flatulating butthead" just makes you look like a nine year old in the process.
>>97125549It was because of the psycho called Faith stalking him and posing as a woman. Pardoe called him out and everyone turned on him. Then after Pardoe lost his job the little psycho admitted they’d been lying and disappeared, but not before getting a story published lolWe really do have a crazy fandom. “Faith” probably came from here because he spouted nonsense I’ve only heard here and never on the BT forum or subreddits
>>97124894I didn't say it as a joke. Autism rewires the brain in a way that ruins social skills but leaves some intellectual super powers. Eidetic memory is very commonly a symptom.
>>97125576Weird that Coleman embezzles company money and he’s fine, but one of the foundational writers of the series points out a nutcase is stalking him (Faith plead guilty to sending threats) and his own company shitcans him.
>>97125576>>97125584"Faith" sending threats wasn't what got him canned, it was his Facebook rant. CGL doesn't give a shit if freelance writers are getting harassed, but insulting customers can hurt the bottom line.
>>97125576>>97125584Facts. CGL even said it was Faith thing and how he'd handled it. Then when the truth was known, they never retracted anything.
>>97125576>>97125584>>97125651faith was the one harassing NEA toofucking bragged about it on X
>>97125651Post where they said it? I've never seen this and I want more proof of CGL's evils.
>>97125576>>97125584Pardoe has a loooong history of being confrontational, he'd get into shouting matches and rant at co-workers, reviewers, random critics, and anyone else he disagreed with. It caught up to him. The "Faith" thing (not that dude's real name) and this Facebook one were just the most recent of literal decades of this behavior. Freelancers are let go on a whim, he's lucky he got this far when he could have been booted at any time in any year beginning with 20 for his behavior.
>>97125651CGL said it was "online activities which do not align with Catalyst’s publishing vision." which is fairly obviously insulting customers on facebook.
>>97125762It was also over a year after the fake tranny thing, but a couple business weeks after the facebook one, iirc.
On todays episode of nobody likely cares I think PGI did a good job at illustrating the Clan Wolf characters in their latest DLC>Ranna craves that forbidden freebirth cock>Natasha is an angry gilf>Ulric is a tired old school principle who has given up trying to tard wrangle everyone>Phalen is shown as an Inner Sphere basedboy who is constantly getting pushed around>Wingus and Dingus perfectly illustrate they hypocrisy of the Wolves especially the Crusaders as they talk shit about freebirths and the Inner Sphere corruption while consuming Spheroid beer and not living up the standards of said freebirths>Vlad comes across as a pretty likeable character who is uncompromising in his beliefs and is tired of the Clan political bullshit and the hypocrisy of his fellow Wolves, even to go so far as to call out Dingus for being a piece of shit>Elemental guy also comes across as likeable calling Phalen out for being an ungrateful piece of shit who was celebrating the deaths of his fellow Clans, I think he unironically would be a good drinking buddy for Uncle Cordy.
>>97125724Pretty sure their X and blog was wiped after they settled out of court with Pardoe. I remember it was posted here but I didn’t save the screen cap. I’ll check the archive.>>97125735Pardoe is definitely a spas and an ass, but it bothered me that a troll could fuck a BT author’s career and get away with it while Loren Coleman gets to enjoy his porch. To say nothing of the years of fucking annoying harassment of NEA here, who no one can argue deserved it.
>>97125807I care, I love the games. The Smoke Jaguar campaign was great, but the Ghost Bear one was fucking peak. My clan rocking shit, giving hating the paw.
>>97125807If I ever have time for video games again I'll probably put a few hours into it. But all my game time goes to tabletops...
>>97125829they're BEARY cute :3
>>97125819>could fuck an author's careerHe did it to himself. He was already being shielded from his own ranting and raving, they could have stopped hiring him to freelance the first time he got in a screaming match with his boss. Or the first time he got in a screaming match with a critic. Or a fan. Or the editors. Or other authors. Or his boss again. Or again. Or again. Or again, but now it's under Topps and they call themselves CGL. Or again but it's been over a decade of this. Or again. Or again but it's getting posted on social media. Or again. Or again. Or- oh, that one with the Urbanmech IIC and calling one of the customers a "flatulating butthead" followed by an insulting rant. Yeah, that's the one.
>>97125819we get an insane amount of trolls here, like the dishonest fag above my post
qrd on the money theft from loren and the trannies taking over CGL?is CGL even faggyer than GW?
A POS author got baited by a POS troll into finally lighting the match after years piling up the fuel. CLG stood by and watch for years and did nothing. Fuck 'em all.I just want to play with my plastic robots.
>>97125903Lurk more.
>>97125903Coleman mingled personal and company funds in the same account and bought a porch using company money. Then he got a slap on the wrist because all the company leadership are Mormons, while most of the freelancers didn't get paid for that period and a ton of projects were shelved due to no funding.
>pardoe was an innocent angel and it was the big mean fake tranny whose case was settled out of court over a year beforehand that really got him fired, not his open ranting and raving against customers three weeks ago
>>97125807Are the DLC protagonists not all dezgra pussies like in the base game campaign?
>>97125944Shut up faggot.
>>97125956Get off the internet and go outside, Blaine.
>>97125829The Bear one is better than this although I do think PGI are getting better with cutscenes. Two of them are where credit is due are well very well done even if the voice acting is extremely phoned in in places.>>97125844PGI decided to troll the players just in case you are wondering as there's a mission where you have to take on a naval warship but parked it outside the map boundary at a distance that is just outside the range of the ER Small Laser meaning all those fags who were cheesing the game with ER Small Novas can't complete the mission. Its pretty hilarious to watch to be honest.>>97125846The characters are back to looking a bit like meth heads.>>97125945Well they're Wolves so they're always going to be dezgra pussies. They're more like a bunch of arrogant assholes sniffing their own farts which I guess is a very accurate take on the Wolves.
Imagine being so whiny that you still go on /btg/ to cry about getting fired years ago. Come on Blaine, this is just sad.
>>97125846So how do I get these two to make out on screen for me
>>97122994Lorewise it's a leftover barrelshroud from an attempt to also mount another gun, either a Small Laser or a Machine Gun. The weapon couldn't be mounted due to tonnage restrictions but they left the tube in place on the production model for some reason.
>>97125807Ulric has pure boomer dad/coach energy
>>97125807>Ulric is a tired old school principle who has given up trying to tard wrangle everyoneNovel Ulric seemed to be pretty contend knowing that he had fucked over all the other Clans and that the Wolves were NUMBA 1.
I'm sick of every major event being decided by some Mary Sue protagonist like Victor Steiner Davion, Kai Allard Liao, Phelan Kell, Vlad Ward, Aiden Pryde, Adam Steiner, Devlin Stone and Alaric Ward
>>97126099That was my second take on him as well.>>97126108In the DLC he comes across as very tired trying to make the best of a bad situation and is more disappointed in the other Clans than anything.
>>97126193Even the haircut. Right now there is a guy who looks just like that buying pipe fasteners in an Ace Hardware
>>97126180Would you prefer there just not be characters?
>>97126285All characters with any traits are shitty Mary Sues. The only good characters are flat featureless agents for organizations. Fiction shouldn't be about people.
>>97126285NTA but I would prefer actual well developed characters rather than one dimensional archetype piece of cardboard.>>97126340You suck.
>>97126367If that's your desire you might try serious fiction rather than bavkground pieces for toy robot fights
>>97126367The writers' idea of a well developed character is a black merchant caste woman trying to survive in the supposedly racist and sexist clan jade falcon.
>>97126397I tried reading some of the BT novels years ago and found them weak. I grew up with my mother reading me Arthur C Clark and Robert A Heinlein. When I got good enough at reading, I picked up Clive Clussler, Andre Norton, and Frank Herbert. I like Battletech because I like the game and I like the ability to build and modify mechs and vehicles to use in the game. (I like the FASA era art too.)
>>97126468Frankly, Heinlein isn't much for well developed characters either. And Herbert's are all one dimensional too.
>>97126508>And Herbert's are all one dimensional too.Read Destination: Void and The White Plague. While I like Dune, it's not his best work IMO.
>>97125201Have you seen Bryan Young 5 star review of his book he posted on amazon saying he thinks it deserved 5 stars?
>>97125002Being intro I really shy from a HS, granted it's not a bad idea. I'd aim for armor honestly. Better brawl than a cat, while you aimed for a hunchie 4j you basically got a fat a pult.Semi on topic, I like the 4n, it's a forgotten back.
>>97126617Not a huge fan of the N, it just doesn't have the punch I expect from a Hunch. My weapon of choice is the H.
>>97126617I like the 6P and its radical nipples.
Any suggestions for objective "markers"?Mobile HQMASH unitDowned VTOLSoft skinned vehicles?
>>97126795All those noncombat vehicle minis they've started putting in packs, plus the Objectives kit.
>>97125549>It was genuinely for that facebook rant.Not specifically for that rant, but I think it's probably a great example of how caustic Pardoe could be.>>97125735>It caught up to him.Yeah, he'd been banned from the Official Forums because of shit like this.>>97125819>it bothered me that a troll could fuck a BT author’s career and get away with it while Loren Coleman gets to enjoy his porch.It's a huge hypocrisy, sure, but if any type of author can bounce back from it, it's Pardoe's curmudgeonly locomotive.Doesn't he have some kind of insane throughput of like, a whole book a year?>>97126708BRESTO... FIRE!!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPHkDHLh7bU
>>97126795I'm assuming you're talking about a narrative driven scenario? Here's some of the one's I've loved over the years.Things involving drop ships is always awesome. Rescuing one under siege, recovering a crashed one, trying to catch an enemy one on the ground before it can lift off are a few examples.Classic military objectives are always a great options. Comms and logistics are always excellent targets.One of the coolest campaigns I was apart of had a few missions where we acted as support for a special forces/spy team. Some of the missions were insertion and extraction actions, distraction and covering actions, and one time where I stole an enemy mech and made a run for it.
>>97115330The Mongoose because the Blakist chick drives it.
>>97126933Man i forgot all about Blakist-Chan
>>97126938You'll see something soon.
Do they have BA Solaris games?
>>97126960Yeah, Solaris goes from industrial exosuits through battle armor to mechs. The BA isn't as popular though, so there's less money in it.
>>97126943My favorite was the whole angle with Manei Domini girl as her rival, and the idea that when both her and Blakist Chan face a choice of one of the two having to die on Terra while the other escapes, Manei Domini girl pushes Blakist Chan towards her boy and says "You go. You still have something to live for."
>>97127011I would love to play a few rounds of that.
>>97126617I always wanted to see the SRMback revisited. Even if all you do is swap to DHS it frees up enough tonnage to mount four SRM-6s and be able to both run and fire all of them without heat buildup. If you throw in an XL and Ferro-Fibrous you're looking at a 5/8 with 10 tons of armor, 24 SRM tubes and 4 MLs. Not many mechs are going to want to get stuck in a brawl with that.
>>97127050You've made a Kintaro with extra steps.
>>97127026That's not canon.
>>97127173Yes my dude, we're talking about fanfiction. None of it's canon.
JR7-DJR7-FSDR-5VRecommendations on a 4th for this scout lance?
>>97127422Get a Locust and arm it with TAG and Narc. You will be hated but you will kick ass.
>>97127422I assume you want jump jets and want 7/11 or better?
>>97127480Unfortunately it's 3025 and the telecom company won't let me have TAGs>>97127521Si
>>97127537Your choices are the Assassin, Ostscout, or more Spiders and Jenners.With that lance if they will let you get away with it a JR7-A Jenner. At least you get a long range hole puncher.
Opinions on the falcon?
>>97127572I can't get over the fact it shoots bullets out its ass!
Is the atlas II any good? I'm making a SLDF unit and it's a toss up right now between one or a highlander
>>97127638It actually is pretty good especially for its BV which manages to work out cheaper than the Highlanders if talking D-H. If you are really stuck with what to take it should make a good showing of itself.
>>97125807There seems to be other named/previous characters appearing backscreen like Aidan('s last stand), Trent, Jonathan and Aletha, etc. Have the Cobalt Star got mentioned somewhere?
>>97127638ERLLs and lack of Artemis hurts a lot IMO
>>97126795I'm thinking about buying these, but it's from Europe so I dunno how the custom gonna fuck it up
>>97127688They show up in the ending cutscene but are not mentioned.
>>97126690It's not a good mech, so I don't blame you. the H is a lot of fun. The old school 4g is always a winner. I've played with one with a HGR now that's a giggle, it's not good but it's cool.>>971267086p is really good, and really fun... and sexy.>>97127422Hot take, ppc cicada
>>97127572Looks like a monkey, not a falcon
>>97127182Let the dude make his thing.
>>97127688>Have the Cobalt Star got mentioned somewhere?Probably not, to keep their ending ambiguous (but we all know my boi sided with the jags)
>>97127768Damn, so the Crusader ending is canon then?
https://youtu.be/TJRsGLWm3EY?si=Knc0IZXMODk9tuW_Ulric DOES look very tired
>>97127694ERLLs are NOT bad
>>97128067ISER everything is all garbage
>>97127769based cicadabro
>>97127688>Have the Cobalt Star got mentioned somewhere?No, we just get to see Alex Hoyt who substituted for Ezra on the Crusader path and our old middle manager Emilie Wimmer.
>>97127572Not a big fan of its silly looking head, but I like this concept art for a possible MWO version. The cockpit is much more reasonably scaled for a light Mech.
>>97127572Shawty head built like a Chevrolet.
My metal mini has arrived!How do I attach the arms!
>>97128646with glue
>>97128646If it has good surface contact, just superglue. If it doesn't, then you're going to want to learn how to pin. Hand drills are easy to learn, and bits cut off paperclips make for good pins.
>>97128667Lol.>>97128693I'm gonna do just that, pin it. I think I've got a driver that's small enough to drill something tiny to fill in the pins.
>>97128765I use one of these, the back piece spins freely so you can hold it against your palm and turn it. I'm sure there's a ton of different brands that are all the same thing.
What's a good complementary mech for the following lance?Quickdraw -5M, Merlin -1B and a Ostsol -5MI'm trying to keep the points cost down, but I'd really like to take those mechs. Maybe total 4500bv, Which leaves 790 to play with. I've got wiggle room to 'downgrade' the models of Quickdraw and Ostsol, but realistically nothing past 3060. I was thinking the Clint -2-3T(Denton) because I really like the LL idea and swapping out the other two heavies for cheaper versions. Otherwise, the stock Clint would work okay. Thoughts?
new nogames, inviting a buddy over for our first game tomorrow trying to make two lances with the mechs I haveLance 1>shadow hawk 2H>catapult k2>archer 2r>commando 2DLance 2>thunderbolt 5s>wolverine 6m>catapult 2C>locust 1VI know these two lances are very close in BV, but are these reasonably fair for two 1st timers? pic related, painted up the first lance
>>97125037>What was the point of the Refusal War if you're just going to have Vlad Ward kill the Jade Falcon leadership and declare Wolf independence again?They're Vlad's Wolves after that, not Ulric's Wolves. Also the Jade Falcons take their political gains making use of the Warden/Crusader split to the point of hubris, and that one great feat and illustrating the inability to maintain it or profit by it is one of the points of it all.
>>97128915Firestarter to give you some speed.
>>97128973The Wolverine blows the Shadow Hawk out of the water. It might not really matter though if the BV is close.I'd bump everything up to 3/4 since 4/5 deathmatch is pretty sluggish.
Since we're getting advice, I'm working on some dracs, so far I've settled on a Hatamoto-X, Mad Cat III, and Vulcan for mechs, and two Maxims, two Scimitars, and three Raiden squads for support.I need to pick an omnimech to taxi out the third Raiden squad.
Back in the early 90s, a friend of mine created and ran a campaign that incorporated a full spectrum strategic campaign where most of the players were mercenary companies trying to defend a system from a clan invasion. We full on had Aerotech combat for air supremacy, hot drops with drop ships, complex logistics, the whole nine yards. Since then, I have heard a few people mention this type of play a couple of times but I haven't heard of anyone doing this in at least two decades. Does anyone still do this?
WTH-0 or HBK-4SP?
>>97129286TBT-5S
>>97129085Raptor?
>>97129286What are you aiming on doing? Mass murder - WTHActually useful HBK.
Can you salvage a BA? I mean, there gotta be an Elemental BA made for 'small for an Elemental' people. Wonder if 'Huge for Spheroid' could fit it there and use it
>>97129362Elementals are 8ft tall. I don't think there's a salvage use for their armor as far as putting them back into the field.
>>97129362>>97129389The suit can be modified for regular humans somehow, they do it for one of the big name characters who's just a regular dude. It might require factory conditions though.
>>97129362I think, and don't quote me on this, that elemental armor can be piloted by normies with some adaptors, it'll just be clunky and unwieldly compared to when the intended pilots use it
>>97129389>>97129362Elemental suits are canonically adjustible to a fairly wide range, with several spheroids having worn them. It seems possible that the designers just figured that freebirths would be put in them at some point.You can recover elemental suits from the battlefield if anything kills the guy inside but leaves the suit merely damaged. Like if you have one where the head got taken off and another where both legs got taken off, you can build a functional one out of that. It's how the Inner Sphere went from no battle armor to functional mass produced copies in under two years
>>97129362>>97129389The size probably isn't too much of an issue, it'd be getting enough of a Toad intact to get it working again...
>>97125674Screenshots or it didn't happen
>>97129362Yes. Battle Armor is Salvageable and can be pilot by non-elementals. >>97129389Elemental suits can be adjusted for people of smaller stature. Kai was 5'11" when he wore one on Alyina.
>>97128973Dont do lance v lance for brand new players, 2v2 at most and minimize how many systems need to be learned.
>>97125807did the dlcs fix the base game's issue where once the tonnage cap maxes out anything lighter than 4 dires and a timby is suicide? the lack of mechs compounded with the game being balanced around max tonnage for the entire back half wore me out
>>97129516You already know the answer is no. Mechwarrior is fundamentally bigger is better and 100t is max so 500t is the end game. They'd have to fundamentally redesign how mech combat works to give lighter mechs purpose. If the last 20 years of mechwarrior hasn't done it, theres no hope future ones will.I would like to see a much more crunchy, role based, approach too, but know the fandom would revolt that the game feels different from mechwarrior 2.>ew is ubiquitous and can only be equipped on lighter mechs>target tracking similar to eve online where big guns have a harder time tracking smaller targets effectively simulating tmm>light guns for light targets, heavy guns for heavy targets>mechs actually move like big clunky fuckers and their hit boxes are erratic at speed(shooting from them is slightly less erratic but still noticeable)>jumping is much less static and has way more impulse, lower height depending on speed>mechs can kick finally, and we bring back knockdowns>blowing everything up is rarely the sole objective, and there are actually story missions where firing your weapons may in fact be rare
>>97129468I'm not sure how they could have such a wide range for human heights, the users knee needs to roughly match up to the suit's knee joint, otherwise he's getting his shin broken in half. Same for the user's elbow and the suit's elbow joint.At best, you would need to fabricate an entirely new lower leg and lower arm for each suit tailored to a small range of user heights.It's really only the kind of BA where the user is housed entirely within the torso that wide height ranges without modification can make sense.
>>97128973Reminds me of this
>>97129622Call me a purist, but mechs are piloted. BAs are worn. If the primary actuation of the suits limbs aren't your limbs, or youre sitting in a control seat of some kind, youre in a vehicle/mech. I think a lot of the heavier BA are silly tiny mechs and not actually powered exosuits.>inb4 what about g Gundam reference by diogenes>behold! A power suit!
>>97129623>Sarah Gunderson>Gunderson>son
>>97129704
Clanner submitting to Big Spheroid Cock.jpg>Poor Vlad gettting NTRed
>>97129590The advantage of lights is fundamentally not possible to do well in real time gameplay because it would require diceroll bad kinds of missing from the AI opponents, much less human ones. Even with a random spread applied to any weapon you would have to get to a silly extreme in order to simulate what lights could potentially do on the tabletop in scenarios.MW gameplay simulates lore combat more accurately. An Atlas is worth a battalion of Stingers because they just aren't that hard to hit and can one shot or cripple them with every pass.
>>97129990The game map is the entire balance for mechwarrior. If they had more low hills and buildings and not just entirely rolling fields, skyscrapers, mech sized walls and sheer cliff faces, smaller mechs would be in partial cover more often. Too often you're either on the other side of a mountain, or everyone is standing out in the open.
Like I've seen other people say they need to make the zeroing of weapons not instantaneous.
>>97130001Most late game missions in most battletech games are throwing so much tonnage at you that you'd never get anything done in a reasonable amount of time with the firepower light mechs bring, god help you if the mission has a time sensitive objective of some sort.
When does someone become solahma? How did people not become solahma before the invasion? How did the wardens have ilkhans if they just sat back at the homeworlds?
>>97129669That's a very Clanner mindset you have there
>>97130097>When does someone become solahma?30+ without earning or having a chance of earning a blood name. Some people want a specific blood name so if they're waiting for one then it's considered okay if they're still in their 30s without one but they have to be talented enough that everyone knows they have a good shot at it.
Actually that reminds me even if a Clan takes a Bondsmen they still have to trial for the right to use their DNA right?
>>97127944Its the two pilots that remain with the Jags no matter what appear so they leave it open whether the Crusader or Warden path is the way they go.>>97129516The only thing that is different is that ranged weapons can be a lot more important on a consistent basis so boating a bunch of short ranged weapons isn't always exactly great.
>>97129886She seems more dominant. I definitely think a pegging has been involved at some point.
>>97130424Pegging is probably mandatory for bondsmen. Especially for spheroid bondsmen. I dont know how you break someone so thoroughly they agree to submit to the invading force against their neighbors otherwise. I find bondsmen to be vicerally repulsive. Relishing in treachery and servitude. Death is better.Feel like bondsmen and solahma only exist so clan players have a lore reason for 4/5 units.
>>97129704>>97129819Outside of Iceland the patronymic/matronymic naming convention has fallen out of favor centuries ago, and those names just because normal surnames. So it's not particularly unusual for, say, a Swedish woman to have Magnusson or something as a surname, since it no longer indicates that you're the son of a guy called Magnus and is instead just a generic surname. Same thing as people being called Smith but not actually working as blacksmiths. Månsdottir is still weird, though, since as far as I know it's only patronymic names that have been turned into regular surnames.
>>97130462Do Ghost Bears give spankings though?
>>97129286WTH-1S all day erryday
>>97126838The MASH looks derpy, kek
>>97125807That beer was rightfully taken isorla
>>97130734What about the Butte Hold?
new thread? new thread!>>97130781
