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why are Blakist mechs so fun?
So, what are you spending the 400 PV on for your first campaign? Just mechs or some vehicles too? Which mechs?
Will the IS ever know any kind of lasting peace?
>>97380864Retractable blades for days
>>97380955As long as there's two men left in the galaxy, somebody's going to want someone dead.
>You will never have a grippy socks tier insane manei domini quadruple amputee protomech pilot GF
Butte held and OP is a CUTE A CUTE
Which mechs have the best ass?No protomechs don't count
>>97380864>400 PVwhat is pv
>>97380864I don't know what a PV is. 400 BV gets you like... certain varieties of Fleas? I buy a Flea.
Unfortunately my timing is horrible so just putting it out there again. 4v4 AI tournament late jihad era(3075 or just 3080) 6.5k BV looking for participants to make forces to throw into the grinder.Will be making garbage shitpost images of pre/post matches as well as mid combat reports.Really only rules beyond BV is its gotta be 4 mechs and trying to keep piloting limited to 2/3-5/6 G/P scores.
>>97380773Blakists are a fun bunch in general. They know how to party.
>>97380773They have interesting and unique tech but aren't optimized so they don't suck all the fun out of the room when you fight them with normal mechs.
>>97380864A lance of Skimmers can act as a pretty good scouting unit.
>>97381136Can we fill any extra BV with Con Vees/Infantry or are we gonna have to try to push our luck up to points? I wouldn't think of going past an Augmented Lance (4 mechs and either 2 CVs or 2 Squads BA).
What's the best MechWarrior game to get outside of nostalgia?
>>97381098>>97381128Point Value, Alpha Strike's equivalent of BV. You start the Aces campaign with 400.
What's the best way to transport a mech PlanetSide if you don't have a dropship? A truck? Train?
>>97380764>Manei Domini editionTSM vagina edition you mean
>>97381136Albatross ALB-3U 4/5 BV 1668Champion CHP-3N 4/5 BV 1400Rakshasa MDG-1B 4/5 BV 1748Shadow Hawk SHD-2Ht BV 1453Tons 285 BV 6269Naming this the "Fak U Sean" lance. Was tempted to make one of the mechs a 4/4 but nah fuck it. Thought this would be fun as is for shits and giggles. Should all fit within timeframe and in a Blakist theme.
>>97381458Praise Blake.
>>97381411Train or ship would be most effectivie, but require conveniently placed tracks or waterways. Short of those, there are tracked haulers that can move mechs. They're mostly used for hauling salvage, but could also just move an unmanned mech.If one is available, a Tonbo is ideal, as it has the space to also transport the pilot, mechtech, and astech team, and it can carry it wherever. But they're only purchasable after the Jihad.>>97381483As a medicine guy, I appreciate the internal muscle replacement detail, that'd be crucial.
>>97381411Train would be better, vehicles that can transport mechs overland are pretty ponderous.
>>97380755That works
>>97381349i see well in that case i want a mech mechs are sick
>>97381337many may not like the answer but mw5 legitimately has a lot of content these days and an active modding scene so either mw5 or maybe mw2 for the reason alot of people showed up to the setting the first time
>>97381337Mech 4: Mercenaries.
The year is 3055 and you have inherited your grandpappy's old shadow hawk 2K, how do you upgrade it?
Hey the fella who posted the art commission. How much did it cost?
>>97381252I think rolling for getting what you can out of the BV is more amusing especially since its beyond that customizable for the mechs.Really if its not a standard model I just need whats thrown on it.>>97381477nice, Also as an a head if you give me pilot portraits I can get those working for future low quality shiposts like such.
>>97381337Mechwarriors 1-4 are a hassle to get running on modern hardware. Even the MekTek install of MW4 that I've ported forwards from my old laptop to my current PC crashes a lot. 5 has some decent stuff, mostly in Clans.
>>97380864Regent PrimePack HunterBaboonLoki Mk II PrimeLegionnaire LGN-2DShogun C 2Hellspawn HSN-7DShockwave SKW-2F2x Heavy LRM Carrier2x Gray Death Heavy Suit (Sqd4)A few glaring weaknesses, but once I noticed a theme on the few mechs I was dead set on, I decided to run with it. Would swap the Hel for a Helepolis if I could find a mini I liked, but oh well. Room for expansion.
>>97381577I tried looking up but forced 'download as .webp' made me gave up
>>97381713There's a firefox extension to disable that.>but I'm on chromeChrome is a keylogger disguised as a barely functional browser. Switch to firefox.
>>97381483Katawa shoujo fan spotted in the wild
>>97381577
>>973813375 is pretty damn good considering the hellscape that is "modern gaming". Mercs has 9000 mods for it so you can tune your experience just the way you'd like it. Hope you like being stuck at mostly 3025 though.
>>97380864I brought a maxim and three platoons of jump infantry. The maxim got annihilated, but those infantry (2/3 of them) are still kicking after two missions… I think I made a mistake, these new vehicle crit tables are brutal
>>97381684What OS are you using? The MW4 games run pretty effortlessly on windows 11. Mechwarrior 2 is no problem with dosbox, but 3 is a bit of a bitch.
>>97381655Prototype equipment allowed? Cause might be able to rustle up a ghetto 3K if the MRM or larger SSRM launchers are available?
>>97381757Nah, but I miss the artist and this character in particular.
reposting from last thread
>>97381671>if you give me pilot portraits I can get those working for future low quality shiposts like such.I'll see if I can think of any. Was more focused on building a possible second lance out of mechs Sean from sarna thinks are bad.
>>97381655Obviously we ER that PPC and then replace 7 SHS with a NARC and an SSRM-2. Use the half ton left over for head mounted machine gun ammo.
>>97381803I'm on windows 11 as well.>>97381890The bad mechs articles should've ended after like, 4 of them. He's been pretty obviously scraping the barrel lately.
>>97381890A man after my own heart. I'm running a decked out Clint so that's one you don't have to use.
>>97381844How much did it cost, and did ttsalmo make it?
>>97381844@ArtClodBruce was the artist i paid him 150$
>>97381927Just had a thought, upgrade the PPC to an ER PPC, dump the SHS for doubles and use the weight saved to get a C3 Master? If you want to go full min max could add FF and go full 5/8/5, and armor and C.A.S.E. though even without for that era that's a potentially useful C3 command unit?
>>97382019>>97382071oops
>>97382078>getting dhs>in 305x draconis combineListen, real samurai redline from firing one (1) weapon while standing still. The pinnacle of bushido is to risk an ammo explosion because you moved and fired at the same time.
>>97382071That's actually pretty damn good for $150 these days. I routinely pay... well, paid more for porn.
>>97381757
>>97382085How long did it take?
>>97381754What's the extension called?
Summarize your opinion on every great house in one sentence
>>97382185Davion: BadMarik: BadSteiner: BadLiao: BadKurita: Truly the best, rightful and destined ruler of all mankind. All others should bow before them.
>>97382185In order clockwise starting at SteinerCool mechs and alright fluff who I used to like a lotMy favorites They're okay but I don't care much about themGenuinely rage inducingGenerally overrated
>>97382185Not enough lolis mechwarriors.
>>97382161two weeks
>>97382269Much quicker than my last commission of almost four months. Hell yeah, I'ma save up and have him draw... Shit, I don't know. Morena, Yoshabel, or my Shadow Hawk pilot, who pilots the Doominator.
>>97381959>The bad mechs articles should've ended after like, 4 of them. He's been pretty obviously scraping the barrel lately.Been scraping it for a while. It was fine when he was doing the lore bad articles but he is out of his depth when he goes past that. It comes across he's trying to copy what other people are saying without understanding what they are saying. Cougar article is probably a prime example of this where people would agree its a bad choice to bring but he hasn't fully understood the context.
>>97381794
>>97382285either post it here if you do
>>97382367Alright but its not Battletech related. Not even /tg/. Its /v/, my character from World of Warcraft. Four months, and the person kept expanding the scope and asking for more money, like "Oh well I've already sketched this so...?" and being the kind person I was, I did it. Again, and again, and again. I only learned when they were done that they were a furry artist and I was their first human-ish commission, and they took several weeks getting the cloak right. Which I didn't even want that fuzzy to begin with.I ended up getting a second commission of the guy and it was done within eight days. Almost $200.
>>97382458This was the secondary I commissioned during the great span between the first and its completion. He got the shoulders right. >Hey those aren't the shoulders I asked for.>Yeeah they aren't BUT don't they look cool? Hes a Death Knight, right? He needs big shoulderpads, just like that tier set from Cataclysm!Yeah but the drawing I gave you didn't have those. Just hints of them.Double check and make sure the artist you aren't commissioning isn't a furry.
On the topic of bad reviews I'm not too big a fan of goonhammer's system either. They treat having ammo or an XL engine as practically a death sentence. Also most all the variants are discussed in the same article so a mech that's good in 3025 is going to have its score pulled down because it gets DHS and CASE in the 3050s
>>97382501>>97382475oh sorry dude i meant the bt one when ever you get it made
>>97382563Oh. Well dont I have egg on my face. Well I will, just need to save up.
>>97382185Kurita: Counter-intuitively, I view them as the China of the setting.Davion: Being the designated "good guys" of the IS makes these guys dull as dishwaterLiao: Just fucking dumb.Marik: God what a mess, but I can't ever look awaySteiner: The most reliably fun great house because they're allowed to be believably dumb
>>97382218>Kurita: Truly the best, rightful and destined ruler of all mankind. All others should bow before them.Man they can barely manage the Combine!
Making a lance for Dwingus davion as pictured above. Whats the MOST Fedsun lance you can think of in jihad era?
Why do mechs like the hollander and fireball have the codes BZK and ALM respectively instead of the normal mech abbreviation scheme?
>>97382846There is no solid answer for this question.
>>97382737>Being the designated "good guys" They definitely weren't that pre-clan invasion at least
So what sorta dumb shit would come from someone making an in-universe equivalent of Five Nights at Freddy's using Mecha for the animatronics?
>>973828394 fukken jagermechs
>>97382846Mech names are downstream from model designation, so the real question you should be asking is why they named the ALM "Fireball".
WoB has cool mechs and cyborg tech, but aside from "we should be in charge" and "the prophecies say we should be in charge, reee" it's never really clear what's driving them ideologically. That combined with how much material and skilled manpower they seemingly pull out of their ass to kick off the jihad makes them less interesting, I don't mind if they're crazy and evil, but they could have cool villainous reasons. Transhumanism, anti-feudalism, a positive sense of the future, there are vibes but it'd be nice to have something more than a villainous war crimes Rorschach blot.Also the Banshee-8S rocks, amazing idea to put TSM and a hatchet on a banshee.
>>97382912They've been good guys for the entire setting history, the difference is how that gets them treated by the writers.
>>97381136Thug THG-12K 4/4Hatamoto-Hi HTM-27U 4/4Komodo KIM-2C 4/4Venom SDR-9K 3/5
What if the firestarter had more than 10 heat sinks?
>>97383075What if it just had Double Heat Sinks?
>>97381136Ironed out a mercenary force that I think works; they're 'my dudes', so I'll give you the short version.The Snow Rat SOG (Special Operation Group) is the main chapter of several smaller mercenary commands founded during the Federated Commonwealth Civil War; initially defectors from the Lyran 5th Donegal. With their command establishing seed-companies focused on skill development and training, the SOG enjoyed a relatively high operational standard from its feeder companies until the Jihad wiped out six of their eight commands, leaving only the SOG and the 3rd Instructional. With the 3rd sheltering in the Periphery (where they would remain for the duration of the conflict), the SOG would take the fight directly to the Blakists and allied forces, wherever and whenever possible. Their unconventional partisan and guerilla attack doctrine makes exact details of their deployment impossible, the only certainty is that following Operation SCOUR no surviving members of the SOG could be located.
>>97383084A compelling argument, what if it didn't have the ass flamer?
>>97383105It needs the ass flamer, where else will it expend its the heat generated from its Taco Bell fuel rods?
In terms of color scheme/visual, was there anything that differentiated SLDF Regular and Royal? Other than the Blackwatch tartan
>>97383118You jest but I had mexican today and have proceeded to shit like 3 times. It's whatever they put in the hot sauce, that's what does it. And on the topic of the ass blaster does the flamer act as enough of a deterrent to rear attackers given its short range?
