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wow, bears really are the coolest clan...
>>97336552Dommy Mommy edition?
Is it chalcas to unjam your firearm on your own instead of bringing it to a technician? Are technicians allowed to load, clear and fire weaponry to ascertain functionality or must they have a warrior accompany them for those steps?Is experimental equipment produced by scientists or commissioned to trusted merchants?Would hunting dangerous wildlife for food and resources fall under the purview of warriors, laborers or merchants?
>>97336612Butte Hold Edition anon, always has been.
>>97336313We know it exists in the Federated Suns at least.This is apparently from Shrapnel #14's "Great Work", where a Ghost Bear is complaining about an Osiris they captured from a Federated Suns pilot.
Whats the longest in game mekHQ game you've run? When to when?
>>97336637I always figured that the warrior caste would have technicians that function as their personal caddy.
>>97336560Those are some really goddamn small elementals.
>>97336888The clans use freebirth infantry troo
>>97336952They sent freebirths to represent them at the martial Olympiad?
https://battletech.com/playtest-battletech/
What's the best way to use the firestarter omnimech?
>>97337672Like a Phoenix Hawk
>>97336552Need Ghost Bear Mommy
>>97336774B-anons final form.
>>97336774>fishnet tummy cutoutgood taste
>>97337545Ik shit's old and such but battletech is not going to go the Warhammer way with an endless, ever faster update cycle I hope?
>>97337672ambushes and traps
Can conventional fighters go in aerospace bays?
>>97338020hot
>>97338193from my megamek testing of shoving mechbusters in a union, yes
>>97336552FOR THE SILVER ROOT!
>>97338233She can suck my root any day. What an absolute semen daemon.
>>97338210They make ASF with AC20's you know. Do you just hate your pilots?
Your favorite Clan will NEVER be featured in a game as anything but a stepping stone or namedrop.
>>97337992What? No, don't be an idiot. Battletech has used the same ruleset for 40 years, with an increasing number of subsystems and special rules grafted onto it. Doing a major rules overhaul every 40 years is fine. It's not what GW is doing at all.>you weren't applying the +1 heat for attempting to stand anyway, so who cares if they get rid of it?
>>97338321asf is rare, conventional fighters are cheap
Looking into it, isn't the Mechbuster actually relatively rare since it looks like it only had 1-2 manufacturers towards the coreward of the Inner Sphere? Wouldn't you be more likely to get a Meteor instead?
>>97338342Yes, but for a force coming from outside ASF is better because it can be used on every step of the invasion. Conventional fighters can only be used after you have already reached the planet surface. Mercenary handbook also mentioned conventional craft must be adjusted to differences in atmosphere so they might not be available right away.Definitely a good choice for garrison forces.
>>97338330Anon what are you talking about?? Jade Falcons get plenty attention?
>>97338384They'd be good for a low end merc force that hasn't been able to even hope for asf support. Medium strike fighters are surprisingly cheap and can carry enough bombs to support objective completion.
>>97336552She kinda reminds me of Vanessa KirbyWhat mech does she pilot?
>>973369633067 wasn’t exactly the high point for anyone but Word of Blake…
>>97338334>>you weren't applying the +1 heat for attempting to stand anyway, so who cares if they get rid of itcompletely fair, it's a stupid bloat rule that adds nothing but extra lines on the page.
>>97338334Thank you for clarifying, anon! I'm only getting up to speed with modern Battletech since I got the agoac box and a Battletech manual for Christmas and I am not that familiar with cgl. I have not played in a few years but the newest edition I have is from the 2003 Classic Battletech box and before that a 4th edition agoac. I guess I can get a new rulebook when it releases or just keep using the rules we have always used
>>97338321I love the mechbuster
>>97336552was it just me or was wolves of tukayyid a downgrade in terms of character model quality and animation?
>>97336552For me? It's Akari ito.
>>97338606I think the Wolves DLC was quickly sharted out to try and make MW5 Clans profitable for the next quarter.
Got a couple questions regarding the Cluster Hitter ability as we are doing a campaign and i'm running a sort of long range HAG sniper.First question for example if i hit with the aimed shot with a HAG-20 and hit center torso is all the damage consider 1 hit or 4 5 point hits in the center torso?2. It says use all the rules for the Marksman rules so I'm guessing I get benefits from Targeting Computer when I do so?3. If it works that way does the benefits apply to Missile Weapons and LBXs?
>>97338334>you weren't applying the +1 heat for attempting to stand anywayWait. Thats a rule?
So I learned today that the opfor can hit a force deployed to the AO more than once before it returns. I now get to enjoy a fight with damaged mechs, but fortunately no wounded pilots. Additionally my support elements are caught up in it although I plan to just flee my salvage trucks. Honestly I am pretty stoked.
The Sai and Defender are shown using the same art, but both are really different since one is a missile conventional fighter while the other is an energy aerospace fighter. The art all shows being missile fighters, so does that mean the art should be for the Defender and the Sai is TBD, or something else?
>>97338761Wtf are those "runes" on her pyjamas? I can see a treble clef and wine glasses. Is she a bard or clown?
So in ATB its a mission where I can capture a DS, but I literally get no option to select it as salvage. How do you handle that?
>>97339019There are Sai models with SRMs in the wings, the Sai's art is just one of those.
>>97338761SEXOOOO
>>97339330But they look exactly the same
What do FWLeaguers do when they lose an eye, nose, or a limb or something? 'Fuck it I'm still not going to get a new hand to fap?'
>>97339557They get cybernetics, it's a stigma, not a ban. At least on most worlds. Also, medically necessary cybernetics are a lot less disliked than elective enhancements.
I took a break from playing Battletech to play XCOM again. I didn't forget that XCOM is a harder game, but I forgot the feeling of how much harder it is. 2 game overs on the 1st mission already and this 3rd playthrough feels like it's going to be a loss now that I've had a full party wipe. Lost both of my new Corporals. Battletech made has made me overconfident.
>>97339557Cyber limbs to replace a missing one? They're okCyber limbs to "improve" your body (aka chop your arms like the mechfags and iron hands of wh40k)? Degenerancy, even for clannershttps://www.sarna.net/wiki/Artificial_Limbs
>>97339720Biological replacements even exist, don't they? You don't need to commit to machine replacements
>>97339780Limbs cloning yeah, it's more common in clanners though, but probably such technology was replicated somewhere in the inner sphere at some point
>>97339846~Do you want to be a Catgirl?
>>97339332this gothic waterly?
>>97339884>Do you want to see how deep the dr moreau rabbit hole goes?No
>>97340082Yes I would like to see that. Manmade horrors beyond imagination are just the best.
>>97340101Abominations in base battletech when
What is the most Canadian mech? I want to paint one red and white
>>97340101>>97340140That's basically Battletech Gothic with stuff like pic related, official artwork of Golden Unity (AKA Capellan Confederation in the main universe)
>>97339884As a staunch transhumanist IRL i would be well at home there. the body is just a meat mech for your brain
>>97340202But I don't want Gothic, I want even more horrors beyond comprehension in Battletech
>>97340202The lizard thing on the right looks like something straight out of an old Heavy Metal magazine
>>97340205wrong. your entire corporeal existence is just a life of mortality , free will, granted your soul by god, existence. for which you can love God, praise and believe in god, and have the life everlasting after your mortal life is done with.
>>97340221I think satan is better
>>97340209This. We have Necromo Nightmare. Give me moar.
>>97340233I'm sure he'll remind you of this moment when you get there. He's a bit of a cunt that way.
>In Battletech Gothic universe, the Golden Unity (Capellan Confederation) has embraced "the inner beast" literally, making use of monsters to reach their new ideals of purity
>>97340217Lizardmen in space is a recurring thing in darker sci-fi comics
>>97340259
Scouring Sands Sortie 1
Guys someone make him stop. He's trying to westernize our serious military thriller trad anime mecha game!
>>97340233you are free to choose damnation. an eternity in the void without the grace of god shielding your soul from the demons out there.we, i choose to be humbly contrite and earnest in my love for my creator who has allowed me this life.why tonight i had a lovely steak dinner that i shared with my adorable rottwieler, who is a perfect good girl.He let me have that. He let me have a neat job i love too.thank heaven for small mercies and all that, after all.
>>97340281scouring sands has carboard terrain standees?fuck! i will have to buy two boxes. god dammit.
>>97340281That terrain looks really goof for papercraft(?) terrain.
What is scouring sands?
>>97340289One box of Alphas Strike and one box of Scouring Sands are enough to play all the Scouring Sands missions.SS comes with a pretty good amount of hills but it also has a single bridge and river system, and you might want two of those for setting up your own scenarios.SS also comes with tokens to represent turrets, conventional infantry, and transports.
>Battletech Gothic Urbanmech and Stone GiantWell fuck, that shit it's huge
>>97340293Yeah the Scouring Sands and Alpha Strike terrain is very good for what it is.>>97340294Scouring Sands is the first “Aces” boxed set for Alpha Strike, meaning a solo/co-op campaign packaged with terrain, an opfor (in this case, second line CJF remnants), and a card system for automating the opfor.Scouring Sands is themed for the Hinterlands or Tamar Rising books (can’t remember exactly which, but both books are about the CJF OZ as abandoned by Malvina). The next Aces set will be themed for Dominion Divided (focusing on the CGB civil war triggered by Alaric rejecting the Rasalhague Dominion joining the IlClan).
>>97340300that's why i'll need two boxes. i want to play terrain dense maps, lots of hills and buildings and shit. i like the challenge of 'hard' maps.plus that really changes the dynamic from gauss and ppc walling on an open field boring.i went out of my way to pick up one of those token and building etc. packs too. since they were selling them separately as well as the full AS box.https://www.amazon.com.au/Catalyst-Game-Labs-BattleTech-Pack-Alpha/dp/B0C3DDHBTH
>>97340309That is a painted pre-production model. The commercially available models will much smaller (I think most if not all Abominations are smaller than Assault ‘Mechs).
>>97340316Yeah just FYI (may not matter to you) but the tokens in that expansion pack are IMO better than the ones that come in the AS boxed set because they have numbers printed on the TMM tokens (the boxed set ones just distinguish between ground, jump, sprint, and stand still). I mean, I prefer the dice but just in case you didn’t know!
>>97340323>commercially available models will much smallerThey really fucked up with no construction rules or Kaiju sized aboms. I dont think anything would have made Gothic "viable:. But CGL isnt really helping themselves.
>>97340309>>97340323And I almost got excited
What if they release a big abomination like that Stone Giant eventually?
I had great luck with my AC/20s this game, I cored two almost pristine mechs by AC/20 to the CT
>>97340356I'd prefer if it was a new abomination with new stats since the Stone Giant already has stats. A Kaiju sized abomination would be buy worthy if they use superheavy rules to stat it. If they were really nuts they'd make an abomination using mobile structure rules and make it mech scale. That'd be prohibitively expensive, but it'd be really awesome.
>>97340384I'm glad you bagged two Wasps anon.
>>97340340>>97340346I quite like Gothic and, with the Abomination ForcePack supposedly en route, I am very happy with it as a thematic side project.
>>97340356They would have to make it a new unit type since the current ones have no provision for being multiple hexes in size.Wouldn't be difficult, we already have big support vehicles and mobile structures, but it would be more work than just throwing up a new set of stats.
>>97340397I do think there's neat stuff in Gothic, but I just wish more energy was spent on putting neat things into the base universe
>>97340415To me, I am more irritated in that regard by the likes of Fox Patrol than Gothic.I don’t have much of an axe to grind against Fox Patrol either. But I dislike it a lot more than Gothic precisely because it is mainline BattleTech.
