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>post your 'Mech when it's 3067 and you realize there's a storm rising on Terra

>Made a Big Titty pilot OC.
>She gets the "Cramped Cockpit" quirk in any mech 40 tons or less.
Heh.

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Aces is really fun. I’m inspired to create my own scenarios using the automated opfor. I also really like how there are tools and ideas in Scouring Sands for more than straightforward shooting at each other.

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>>97351801
I'm not gonna make it but I am gonna ride it out.

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I've considered making a Lance with my own heraldry since it fits. Fighting lions are based.

There needs to be a mech with a double barrelled shotgun (twin lbx10's) on the right arm in a 'rifle' configuration like the beemers ppc, the phawks large laser etc.

It should be fairly fast and agile with jump jets, and fairly decently armoured.

It will totally not be called the Doommech.

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>>97351801
A storm is rising, you say?
Good thing I am with the tide.
Blake's will shall be done.

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Did they annouce if they're going to release more campaigns for their Aces autoplay system? Also, are we getting one for Classic too?

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>>97351801
Killing Blakists is a new experience for our outfit; up until now we've killed men for money; killing rabid animals is more like veterinary practice.

Man it is a bitch to get the parts for this fucker though, thanks WoBies.

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What role do you see this lance doing other than dying to side torso hits?

So now that Comstar is gone and so is the Republic, does the C-Bill hold any value? Did Alaric Ward re-institute the Star League Dollar?

>>97352200
I'm not sure to be honest. You got a 6/9/5, two 5/8/0s and a 5/8/5 sharing a berth. It seems to me like a odds-and-ends type general purpose patrol lance. It's not quick enough for recon or pursuit, it's not got enough hops for urban combat and it's too XL heavy to reliably brawl.

Give that lineup, I'd move the Clint to a faster lance and have the Komodo babysit a medium fire-support lance with a B configuration Cobra. I guess some Clints would fit in there just fine though so long as the goal is direct fire with another element keeping opfor back.

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>>97352084
New Aces boxsets are confirmed.
Next one's called Snowblind or something like that.

Alright so I finally got my pin-vice and I'm about to drill into the Mongoose Mini. How do I know when to stop, exactly? Should I measure it in millimeters or what?

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>>97352320
Its a general purpose lance yeah.
The real thing was putting C3i to match the Cobra since its an IS variant. the idea was that doing that makes it, at least in theory, decent at blasting things while another lance holds off the opfor or the komodo runs in to get in range with those lasers getting everyone the ability to blast things with their longer range weapons.
The real challenge was keeping it under 5k BV

>>97352545
I stop when it's deep enough for the pin to remain in the hole by itself. If I had to put a depth to it, it's maybe 2 or 3 mm. Doesn't have to go deep.

>>97349128
There's no way that specific point of the decline of sci-fi is true. Mass Effect was a late 2007 release. I think it does have more to do with online discourse getting more commonplace and accessible. They received more written programming that mechs bad, so they started relaying and parroting it as expected in order to continue fitting into the herd, especially if randomly asked by another member. It just so happened that "mechs cool" was the "standard" opinion of the time and so the ackshually counteropinion was the opposite, so it stuck that way instead of some middle ground.

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>>97352402
Thanks, hope they'll make a Classic version too.

>>97352638
And to follow up on this, I use paper clips for pins, so what I do is glue the whole clip into the part A and then cut it off at the length I need. Then I dry fit to part B to find the exact place to drill and basically just keep drilling into that until it fits up snug.

>>97352651
See thats me but the Sega Saturn/PS1 version.
Why the fuck do they have MW2 Mercs OST?

>>97352231
It looks like credits from Clan Sea Fox may ultimately take up the same role for sphere-wide transactions since they are taking over Comstar's role. It's currently operating under the name Fox Credits, but the name will probably transfer over to being C-Bills due to inertia for what sphere-wide currency is called, and the name "Clan-Bills" can justify the abbreviation.

>>97352794
Sea Bills.

>>97352638
>>97352661
Duly noted. I got a spare paperclip I plan on clipping to use as a pin.

>>97352794
>Fox Credits.
I wonder what the conversion rate is on that. Would they honor it at a 1:1 or punish the Sphere with a higher ratio?

>>97352559
>The real challenge was keeping it under 5k BV
Oh, that's your problem. The absolute minimum BV for a lance after 3050 is about 7500BV. Light Mechs need it that high so they can have good enough pilots to be relevant, and heavy and assaults Mechs are just that expensive. 5k BV is a value for playing introtech, not legitimate Battletech.

>>97351842
Agreed, I just wish I had a good way of playing classic solo analog.

>>97352875
Huh.

We've been averaging about 4000-5000 for our games in 3060. Then again, my group (Of about 6 of us) doesn't tend to take clan shit either and I even try to avoid XL engines when I can. My last lance was a Ostsol, Merlin, Crusader and a Quickdraw and it went well.

Do you guys ever run duplicates in a lance, like say a king crab with only crabs for support or a lance comprised of only locusts?

>>97352885
Expend, effort, market and create a group yourself, and don't live in a bumfuck rural area where there's nobody to play with. If you actually want to do social activities, you should live in or near a real city where the people are. It might even make you empathetic and more liberal while you're at it.

>>97352917
nta. I get that you are likely joking but I would rather kms than live like a cockroach in a city. I will glady take a ferry and drive an hour to play robots with such peasants if it means I get to live somewhere good.

>>97352898
5k is definitely going to lean you strongly towards skirmishes between recon elements in 3060. I respect the hustle, but even for more low-to-ground skirmishes you can probably afford to pop up to 6k.

At least notionally I think 5k is good for lance on lance action in introtech, with 6k more appropriate around CI and even FCCW. In Jihad I can see 7 to even 8k being appropriate with Dark Age being either 'cool toys hour' and staying up there or back to poverty mode in the 5-6k range. I'm not sure what to make of Illclan yet, but 8k might still be rather fair. It does depend strongly on the feel of the scenario.

Basically, 1.5k to 2k a mech opens up pretty reasonable options while making people still have to make choices and tradeoffs with their BV.