>>97424431
Factually incorrect.

I have stolen you're Butte Hold

When is the Inner Sphere going to invade the Kerensky Cluster?

>>97424490
3200.

>>97424490
Soon I hope

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Back at it again and we are rolling off the night with a match fueled completely off of animosity.
The hatred for the dragon and its various acquaintances that the Golgotha highlanders hold has been discussed before, but they had apparently not noticed that the tournament is full of Dracs.
We asked for their captain, Misinfo, to meet with us for a joint interview with our shadowy and possibly ninja like lance leader from Anon-Unknown. Both parties simply blew us off, one with slightly more slurs than the other.
But even if we can't get an interview we can show you a match, one that is looking to be hot and violent. Both teams are running a good mix of heavy hitters and decent positioning so it should be a good one.

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>>97424577
Our combat area for the match

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If David Bowie was a mechwarrior what mech would he pilot and for what faction?

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>>97424595
The match starts off with a vicious hit to the Golgotha commando from the AU's thug, blowing the torso completely off and cooking the ammo, thankfully CASE keeps the mech in the action as the two lines continue to skirmish.
Neither side is getting any decisive damage in but they continue to inch forward with small chips here and there, we'll see how the match develops now that the AU venom is gunning for the Highlanders backline.

>>97424644
The Star League.
The Imp, painted white and given a crown and cloak.

>>97424429
That's the worst looking AI art I've seen in a while

>>97424698
There's whole threads of it if you hit the 'catalog' button.

>>97424698
Not OP but I've been trying to use a local generator for a little while now, just so that I can think of battle scenarios and ideas. My engine is kinda busted lately, and I think I gotta uninstall and reinstall the whole thing.

>>97424644
Comstar, but he strikes me as more of an Aerospace Jock.
If he has to be a Mechwarrior, stick him in a Phoenix Hawk LAM.

>>97424724
Presumably they can stay in their containment threads and not ruin everyone else's.

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>>97424659
We have a surprising but major update. Fueled by their misguided, but possibly warranted, hatred for all of the DCMS, MISINFO jumps his marauder II into the midst of the AU lance screaming about how they deserved turtle bay.
Not taking kindly to this very uncouth terminology and word choice, the AU lance opens fire on the marauder II knocking it to the ground. but this fire doesn't stop a PPC round from careening into the AU Lance leader's thugs cockpit blasting a blue hued hole through the controls and taking him out of the competition.
How this will play out for the rest of the match remains to be seen, but with a source of ECM gone, its a huge boon for the Highlanders.

How do I figure out what kind of hoops I need to put my merc outfit through to get a unicorn?

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Had a rough idea for a Mechwarrior: Destiny contract idea, and had some questions.

The context being:
“(this is intended to be late 3050’s era): a somewhat infamous HPG network podcaster, (a rage-baiting shock jockey that’s like the unholy union of Jake Paul and Alex Jones) has recently gained the ire of ComStar. Apparently someone within the organization with some authority took what the little shit was saying personally and in retaliation cut off his network access. Except he’s still broadcasting his vitriol across the network. This has gotten ComStar’s attention as it means he has his own HPG tower, and that’s simply not acceptable. So ComStar wants this unauthorized generator destroyed and the podcaster and his staff captured or killed (they do have questions but will settle on his silence).”
there is a “twist” in that the neither the podcaster, nor anyone on his staff, actually know how to build an HPG tower, ComStar just flubbed activating his ban, oops

So I kinda initially thought this could result in two competing contracts: one by “Totally not a ComStar Shell company inc.” to destroy the HPG tower and kill/capture the podcaster and his staff, and another to protect the podcaster, and only the podcaster, from potential retaliation from ComStar.

But then I thought more about it and wonder if ComStar would fly such a contract?

Not because I think ComStar isn’t so petty and spiteful to do something like that, they absolutely are (if only because the alternative isn’t interesting). But I believe they’d want it to look like their above such actions, I just wonder if they wouldn’t just issue the contract to a merc company they have on retainer, or even send ComGuard dressed up as “random mercenary company” to carry it out. Thus the PCs would only see the “guard VIP” contract of this feud.

>>97424698
>AI
It's a paint from 2000, zoomer retard

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Any of you guys know about Islam? I swear it's relevant I had an idea for a merc character who was basically Azami Father Grigori. And I was wondering what an imam may say instead of child and light of lights and brother like Grigori does

>>97424776
Do you know how HPGs work?

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>>97424644
He's the goblin king so he's obviously got a horde of goblin tanks that he leads from a supped up on that removes the infantry bay and somehow fields a gauss rifle or er ppc.
>>97424742
Our round 10 update sees the Highlanders taking control of the match, as the AU venom is kicked in the CT by the Highlander standard marauder, after a brief close range firefight the Hatamoto-Hi takes a tumble is also kicked in the chest and goes down much in the same way. Only the AU komodo remains and things look bad for the AU, but its a dangerous mech and anything can still happen as we go into what appears to be the final moments of the match.

>want new Battletech/Mechwarrior game
>but not as a Mechwarrior
Does anybody else want a MechTech simulator in the style of Tank Mechanic Simulator? I'd love to get up into the guts of a Marauder or a Mantacore.

>>97424742
I refuse to accept this turn of events.

>>97424644
Definitely the fucking Clans.

>>97424788
GTFO

>>97424807
I've wanted a salvage/support command simulator for a while, dispatching coolant trucks, ammo haulers, salvagemechs, S&R teams, etc.

>>97424784
nigga the stormcrow doesn't even have the same amount of toes on each foot

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>>97424784
Oh yeah it's definitely just an """AI upscale""" of a """painting""" that by chance only exists on Tumblr

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>>97424805
And thats the final bell of this match, a smashed XL engine ends Anon-Unkown's winner side run as they lose their final mech.
The highlanders move onto the next round after a massive gamble pays off in spades as they win with a 4-0 score despite the huge damage sustained early in the match by IRISH. The tema are stepping out of their mechs screaming in joy as we have actual confirmation that ninjas are stepping out of the wrecked AU mechs and running away!
We've cut the feed as I would prefer not to have a katana in my throat, so stay tuned as we prepare to bring you the replay.
>>97424811
It wouldn't be a BT event without a Davion related force pulling off a miraculous win by doing something retarded, right?

>>97424851
Buddy, that's the cover of Battlecorps Anthology 2. I have the physical copy from the 2000's.

https://www.sarna.net/wiki/First_Strike_(anthology)

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>>97424851
Get a load of this freebirth

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>>97424859

>>97424881
This is your HUD on spheroid battle computers. Never ever.

>>97424788
All I know is the ancient muslim secret.
>Crouching Achmed.
>Hidden Pipebomb.

>>97424881
>AI doesn't recognize a Madcat (Jumping), Corvis and a Great Wyrm.
>Doesn't recognize all clan mechs and calls it an IS v. Clan image.
Of course...

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>Use my local generator to create a Battlemech.
>It came out with this.
>Of all my creations, all the sexy, perverted, pornographic ones, this is my highest rated, most saved, downloaded, and favor'd piece on Civitai.
Doesn't even have a hex to sit on.

I find it amusing in Clans that "Stravag!" is a common exclamation in frustration when it's basically the equivalent of screaming the N word after you stub your toe

>>97424941
You think anyone ever screamed the N Word at Lincoln Osis?

>>97424941
Considering their culture, it's not like FUCK makes much sense as an explicative.

>>97424941
>>97424949

They use "Freebirth" the same way.

>>97424803
More or less. It utilizes the same technology that allows for FTL travel to broadcast wireless signals at faster-than-light speeds, thus allowing for an interstellar communication network. A network that ComStar holds exclusive control over. Hence the “phone company” comparisons.

I do know that ComStar does allow adverts (and a certain pro-FedCom propaganda cartoon) to also be broadcasted over the network, so it’s not exclusively like a phone network.

But I admit that I’m not sure if it behaves more like a television broadcast, or like the internet. But I figured either way, it works for this scenario.

Going on the chatterweb and adding apostrophes to all the clanners contraction words!

>>97424841
>>97424851
>Zoomer retard think everything is AI because can't draw or do shit without a tablet in 2026
lol
lmao ever

Asking again is 4/6 movement with an IS XL worth it for Assaults or is the durability of 3/5 movement with a standard engine better?

>>97424968
You can laugh now freebirth. But even as we speak highly skilled warriors of the Clan Watch are tracing your posts. You can run surat, but you will only die tired. I will see to it personally.

>>97424962
It works like a fax. You give your data to comstar and they beam it to a different HPG at some point in the next week or month. Then that HPG beams it further along if it's not the final destination, at some point a week or month after they get it. All the way to the end, where it's delivered in some fashion to the recipient. Probably as a text printout or text-only data file, depending on what they have access to. Data is charged per millisecond it takes to transmit multiplied by the number of HPGs it has to go through. One millisecond is about two pages of plain text or one low resolution picture.

>>97424984
*free'birth*

>>97424962
>But I admit that I’m not sure if it behaves more like a television broadcast, or like the internet. But I figured either way, it works for this scenario.
Neither.

You go into an HPG and give Comstar the data you want them to send. They take this data and beam it to the other HPG stations which are in range. These HPG stations receive the message and then comstar gives the message to the recipient. There is no part of the process of sending an HPG where Comstar doesn't have 100% control.

In your example the guy would make his podcast and take it down to the HPG station, have it sent to a different world, then Comstar would deliver the podcast to a recipient on that different world who would then upload it or broadcast it on that world's network.

>Everything is AI because I'm unable to think by myself
You must be over 18 to post here

>>97424962
>But I admit that I’m not sure if it behaves more like a television broadcast, or like the internet. But I figured either way, it works for this scenario.

It's a burst transmission of data packets, so more like dialup internet but slower. Think the people that got video games off ham radio. Even Comstar doesn't actually use data heavy broadcasts for holovids. They ship that stuff on data crystals using their merchant fleet. The Cbill is literally good for 8 bytes of data.

>>97424980
Depends on the range of its weapons. A Gauss/ERPPC caddy will be fine being 3/5 and wants those 6 extra crits anyways. Something with a pile of pulse lasers or other short range weapons will want to be able to close the distance.

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>>97424897
For our next match we have the return of the Best bad mechs this side of the periphery in the force of Fac U Sean. These Purple bird loving mechjocks are a favorite as many are looking forward to mainstream beliefs being torn to pieces about these warhorses. Lance leader, Bane, stated that. "It doesh not matter what mechsh we were going to ushe... Only that thoshe who need to hear our messhage do."
Fierce statements, but to do so they'll have to get past the Sublime Spectral Saviors. These Draconis company wet-workers are looking to possibly clear some of the shame the dragon felt from the last matches stunning and unexpected loss and when looking over the line up, Backstab stated that, "Bad mech or good mech, it does not matter. All will crumble before the might of the Dragon." Definitely some heated words as we proceed into the next match.

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>>97425053
And of course, a look at our field. As clarification for the city being present I'm just flipping a coin.

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I have a silly idea.

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>>97425062
An update after some software issues, meaning the full replay will resume from turn 5 and the integrity of the entire competition will come into question. Backstabs' javelin takes a massive blow to the Legs but more importantly their side torso is totaled, taking out the lance leads custom javeline thanks to that XL engine.
In response, Ghost takes out CIA's leg after diving into enemy lines. taking heavy damage for her efforts, ghost rightly chooses to take out CIA befor she herself is taken out.
Feeling possibly a little too cocky, pavelheer rushes the remaining SSS mechs and is knocked over for his efforts!

>>97425133
https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Fiver_(Traveler)

>>97425133
That's not nearly as silly as me trying to figure out if I can stuff two mechbays into a Vampire II to drop an entire lance of compact mechs.

But imma let you cook.

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>>97425161
We're down to the last moments of the match as Hero is taken down by pinpoint concentrated fire from masketta and bane while pavelheer takes pot shots at both SSS mechs. However in a bout of karma, Elite blasts pavelheer's leg off and then into oblivion with an alpha strike making this a 2v1.

>>97425168
>3064
That's about a thousand years too late.

>>97424851
>Original posted by another anon still has the same mistakes that the upscale does
I don't think AI can be blamed for this one, just the usual shit BT art being shit BT art. We love it for that though.

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>>97425192
And its over! Her lack of combat experience showing, Elite holds up in a corner, which makes it easy for Bane and Masketta to lay on the fire eventually forcing the autoeject to go off with an ammo cookoff.
The SSS loses and and the bad mechs show once again bad is a subjective and honestly pretty lame take when talking about these mechs who are performing superbly!
As we move onto our next match and final top 8 winners side we look forward to seeing how these next competitors shape up.

>>97425236
>the same mistakes that the upscale does

What mistakes? The official retard that misidentified the mechs in the first place? Because those are very different but real and accurate chassis than the label.

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>>97425237
Ah, I see, two mighty Combine lances in a row having their battles afflicted with unlikely circumstances. How curious. Am I to assume a fedrat behind the scenes is behind these misfortunes?

We'll be watching the rest of the tournament closely.

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>>97425237
Good to know that having to reload into megmek fucks the replay. Turns before this were just movement and the Jav getting fucked up but not taken out despite rushing in face first.

What famous monuments still exist on Terra circa 3068? I need something that can be disassembled and stowed on like a mule or similar cargo dropper. I know the Pyramid is still there but it has way to many blocks. Maybe the Statue of Liberty would be doable?

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>>97425265
I wonder who could be behind this post?

>>97425265
Are you in fact Carmen Sandiego?

Also, go for the statue of the Duke of Wellington in Glasgow, complete with traffic cone on head.

>>97425006
> You go into an HPG and give Comstar the data you want them to send. They take this data and beam it to the other HPG stations which are in range. These HPG stations receive the message and then comstar gives the message to the recipient. There is no part of the process of sending an HPG where Comstar doesn't have 100% control.

You know, I’ve heard, now and again, IRL stories of people who are “too clever for their own good” and work in a computer-heavy industry, get themselves into trouble when they tried to over-automate their own job. Usually what happens is that they didn’t test the code throughly, or something in the process elsewhere changed and caused the whole system they cobbled together to go awry, and because the program was automating too much, the code for it would be so huge and convoluted that by the time they found the bug and “fixed” it, their mistake would’ve spiraled into a full-blown disaster.

So I’m just imagining some ComStar intern/acolyte who’s job was to receive data coming into the HPG tower, and transfer it into the sending packet (according to Sarna, low priority data is bundled together in massive packets and sent all at once) who got bored with the tedium of the job and wrote a program to automate his job so he could goof off. Except either due to the fact that nobody was actually vetting what was being received all sorts of malware and other questionable data was being bundled up and sent, or the program also automated the when the data packet was sent and he put a decimal instead of a comma, so instead of sending the data packet after it exceeds 1 terabyte of data, it sends after receiving more than 1 byte of data, or both. Probably both.

I can only imagine how much damage such recklessness can cause but I bet that intern would suddenly be very interested in taking an expense vacation to “anywhere but here”.

>>97425283
This is literally how the Whiteout spread in the Jihad.

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>>97425282
>Are you in fact Carmen Sandiego?
No. But I am a fan.
>>97425282
>Duke of Wellington in Glasgow
Not as prestigious, but definitely an achievable goal.

>>97425290
What? An idiot intern accidentally broke the system because he was too lazy to do his job right and had a “clever idea” to weasel out of it?

>>97425309
Nah, it was a deliberate attack, but it spread by being snuck into the big data packages

>>97425309
>idiot intern
We call them Adepts in the Blessed Order of Blake.

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What WarShip class is this?

Saw it in MechWarrior 5 Clans.

Xotl is it true the infantry rules are getting re written? If so can you elaborate on that at this time?

>>97425323
Fucking Aerotech vidya game when?

>>97425325
Maybe

There are occasional HPGs that Comstar doesn't control, they sprung up out of the civilian Department of Communications, but the SLDF also had military HPGs and some of those were in secret bases. The real issue is finding anyone at all who can actually operate them, because it was a star league secret from the start and was never allowed to anyone except star league personnel who either left with Kerensky or became Comstar. Then once you do have one up and running, there very likely won't be another pirate station in range, so all you could do is send it to Comstar who would absolutely respond with mysteriously high powered and particularly bloodthirsty pirates.

>>97425331
The problem with an Aerotech video game is the Battletech baggage actually kinda holds you back from making a good game, and you're better off making an original space combat game

>>97425323
Pretty sure it's a Sovetskii Soyuz.

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>>97425259
For our last top8 winners match, we have a fedcom slugfest. The davion forces of Valorous Sunblade vs the Lyran mercs from the Gibbon grenadiers!
Dwingus SKMD has stated in a pre-match meeting that "there was a reason the Lyrans were the weaker half." and left without further comment.
The gibbon's, having some fights and dealings with clan forces responded with noting that the man had never done so. Citing that despite his many victories, "blowing up farmers in the periphery is fairly simple behind 9tons of armor."
With another heated match on the way, stay tuned for the action.
>>97425301
What mech does dr evil use or is he just in the HQ vehicle?

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I am going to use picrel as Liao infantry. What do you guys think, kepis or helmets?

>>97425352
>What mech does dr evil use or is he just in the HQ vehicle?
Probably a dual cockpit Atlas that mini me is piloting.

>>97425323
Essex Clan 3057 style retrofit.

>>97425319
I’m pretty sure if he did something like >>97425283 described, he’d be called “dead”.

>>97425353
I think you can still buy actual Liao infantry 3025-style from IWM. They have the entire old Battletroops line available after the molds were lost for like 20 years.

>>97425265
Moai heads? Tomb of Cyrus the Great? The Alamo?

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>>97425352
Our map for this bout.
>>97425353
Mix of both is what I would say but liao infantry typically have those goofy helmets.

>>97425341
But I want to see my favorite BattleTech warships pew pew in glorious UE5. Imagine getting to dogfight in the middle of it! Or have your squadron form up on an attack run to launch Alamo's at the perfidious Leviathan.

>>97425364
Is battletroops good and or fun?

>>97425367
>Moai heads?
Oh I like that one. Those fit pretty handily on mech recovery vees.

>>97425370
It's the RPG scale and small troop operations game. Fun, with mechs as absolute boss monsters and BA as middle bosses. Just pull up the old Clan Troops (Battletroops 2nd E) rules and see if you like it.

There's a guy with a squad laser screaming as he's raped by an elemental on the cover. That should indicate the flavor.

>>97425370
What? Infantry? Yeah, they can be fun little land mines if you know what you’re doing. It’s especially fun when your opponent doesn’t know how to deal with them and keep getting peppered by them.

>>97425368
For House Davion!

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>>97425368
The match starts off in dire straits for the grenadiers, with Monke's howlwer immediately losing its torso and Pushover getting an ammo cookoff immediately destroying the mech before getting to act. the same happens to Sandman as brawling in the city goes on with only Uncle remaining. The grenadiers only answer has been the dangerous GR jagermech but 3v1 will not be an easy summit to climb.

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>>97425371
>Finally got vacation request approved by the circuit
>Chilling on Easter Island
>Suddenly see pack of tonbos fly over and make off with some heads

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>>97425388
THIS IS A CRITICAL MOMENT FOLKS

>>97425388
Bitches don't know about my autocannons

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>>97425394
And in that critical moment, the AC20 takes huge chunks out of the wrong section of Dwingus's mech blowing off the left arm entirely and the medium lasers nearly take out teh CT. Howver with dwingus still up Uncle is focused down by his lance mates who cook the remaining AC/20 ammo and destroy her mech ending the match for in a victory for the Valorous Sunblade. I'm sure that after dwingus gets out of the assuredly large puddle of sweat his cockpit has after starting down the barrel of a hunchback's gun, he'll have a great and incredibly boring victory speech to give.
But ignoring that, this match cements our winners side semi finalists!

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>>97425427
And our replay for the match.
"Some actual 100% pure grade Davion nonsense."- me

>>97424429
timber wolf top left?
stormcrow _ right?
and what the hell is that downed mech?

>>97425171
*cough cough*
sarath (50 t Not!Ligers)
*cough cough*

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>>97425440
Here's the current bracket, may do exhibition matches for past the lower bit or start a new tourney after we give the losers a chance to have a second match. dunno yet but its there. A new tourney would only be if more people want to make lances for this shit show.

>>97425457
The issue is not the compact mechs, of which there are a variety of options, it's stuffing 2 150 ton mechbays on a 600 ton ship.

>>97425171
Daily reminder, you can fit 24 Saraths in a union.

https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Sarath

and the retards at FWL sell them off and don't use them, themselves, because they thought they could just throw them into straight slugging matches with massed armour of assault mech forces... fucking retards.

>waa waa this medium mech can't outfight a gorillion times its weight and fire power! worst mech evar REEE!

>>97425471
try the vampire III ? it has 'several' BA bays

>>97425477
>sell them off
>mul regulans, regulans, fwl (including regulans), fwl (including regulans)
Sorry, you're going to have to bite the bullet and make a Regulan Hussars force if you want Saraths.

Quirks: Bad Reputation, Compact Mech, Distracting, Narrow/Low Profile

>>97425496
you're assuming i wouldn't make a purpel birb force just to have a liger zero army.

>>97425368
Thanks, I think I will go with the helmets.
>>97425364
Thanks, I don’t know about that however I think they made Kurita and Steiner platoons but not Liao?

>>97425523
Those were the full platoon boxes. You have to buy the other factions just as the troopers in packs of 3. Which is fine if you don't need a whole bundle at once. I think they even sell whole RPG faction sets now. 1 of each sculpt including special forces and mechwarriors.

So the entire MechWarrior series is abandonware? Should I play MechWarrior 2 mercs or Mechwarrior 3?

>>97425477
>regulans
There's your problem

>>97425543
>is the Mechwarrior series, of which the latest DLC to the latest game came out last month, abandonware?

That's not what that word means; but if you want to go back and play the old games I don't think they have any remasters or rereleases, so have at.

>>97425554
I am sorry you are so uninformed about Mechwarrior.

Introduced with high hopes in 3122, the
SRTH-1O Sarath is so far the only native Regulan
OmniMech. Regulan expectations were encapsu-
lated by its name, the guise adopted by the di-
vine Krishna as the charioteer of the hero Arjuna
in the Mahabharata. A series of operational mis-
steps instead led to the Sarath being named a
disappointment within the Regulan Hussars.

Capabilities

Regulan engineers adopted a quad tur-
ret to deal with the space constraints on the
Sarath’s frame while retaining improved sta-
bility. However the turret controls proved
counter-intuitive to many BattleMech pilots
and contributed to the ’Mech’s poor recep-
tion. Triple-strength myomer and excellent
armor protection make the Sarath effective for
the close-in assaults preferred by the Regulan
Hussars, though only the B configuration is spe-
cialized for them. The primary configuration’s
PPCs make it an excellent skirmisher, while the
Sea Fox-supplied missile launchers of the A con-
figuration mark it for support missions.

Deployment

Despite a lingering lack of affection for the
Sarath in Regulan military circles it has not been
authorized for export. All production Saraths are
assigned to the Regulan Hussars. Originally most
of the units went to the prestigious First, Second,
and Fourth Hussars, but the unit’s rapid fall in
prestige has seen it distributed more evenly.
The combat debut of the Sarath in a 3124
assault on Aitutaki began promisingly. Taking
a cue from the Capellans, the Fourth Regulan
Hussars overloaded a pair of Union class
DropShips and dropped them near the plan-
etary capital. The Sarath’s compact frame let
them fill one Union with two companies of the
new ’Mech by disregarding practically all safety
considerations. The planetary militia completely
underestimated the size of the Regulan inva-
sion and, thinking it a raid, raced to engage the
landings. The Saraths subsequently played a
key role in defeating them and securing control
of the planet.

>>97425537
I don’t see anything Capellan on the IWM site other than the MechWarrior pack, which does have some infantrymen in it I think. But anyhow, I don’t really want those old metals, after thinking about it for a long time. The ideal proxies would be the Sedition Wars plastic Chinese. But I don’t think they ever got made.

>>97425547
yep. fucking regulans gonna regulan.


Ultimately Marik-Stewart responded
with the elite First Free Worlds Guards. Hussar
Saraths performed relatively effectively, using
their turrets to excellent effect warding off light-
er Guards ’Mechs. In a famous incident captured
on battleROM footage, a Guard Locust was oblit-
erated by PPC fire from a Sarath while it tried to
engage the OmniMech from the rear. However
the Fourth Hussars were eventually ejected
from Aitutaki and the defeat was seen as a bad
omen for the new Sarath. A decision to abbrevi-
ate the training of Sarath pilots compounded
the damage to its reputation, and soon led to a
reinforcing loop of disappointed expectations
being taken out on the unit.

notable units

Captain Ellen Cameron-Jones:
A great-grand-daughter of famed Steel Hussars commander
Gerald Cameron-Jones, Ellen Cameron-Jones
is far removed from the palace on Regulus. She
expressed some vague sentiments in favor of
reunification with the Free Worlds League but
has kept quiet since a rebuke by her distant
cousin Lester. She has devoted her energies to
rehabilitating the First Hussars and to improv-
ing the reputation of the Sarath, the ’Mech she
has driven for her entire span of service.

>>97425567
I can't fix your brain damage but I can correct you when it flares up.

The --series-- is not abandonware. Abandonware is software that is without a valid license issuer or release. Mechwarrior 4, for example is on sale on GOG. Mechwarrior 3 though, is not on sale on any official store. So if you want to play Mechwarrior or Mechwarrior 2 or Mechwarrior 3, you're going to have to pirate it, but 4 and onward are not abandonware.

>>97425597
Mechwarrior 4 is frely available to the public by permission from Microsoft because of the good people at MekTek. I'm sorry about your disability.

>>97425614
microtards allowed the licence to expire. they no longer HAVE a fucking say in MW 4

>>97425614
That, makes it "FREE" retard. That's still not what abandonware is.

>>97425547
Regulans are great at unga bunga. It's when they have to bunga before they unga that they screw up.

>>97425614
Oh my bad, GOG has made this wonderful decision to have on their website a bunch of games they do not have.

It's whatever. The 'series' is not abandonware however.

>>97425624
You may want to research the subject before talking out of your ass.

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The year is 3145, is there any way a guy can use a Toyama and not get shot on sight?

>>97425767
Yeah, be part of the Fleet of Blake. Fuck the Stoners. Blake Eliason!

>>97425767
Be a Scorpion and hold onto yours after it falls out of general use with the clan.

Is Unity City Seattle or Vancouver?

>>97425767
Give it a new designation like the clan mechs or frankenmech it up

>>97425795
Yes this is my custom mech, you see my orion got blown up so alls that's left of it was the right leg. Luckily I had this old blakist machine in the shed that I was able to get some spare parts from

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>>97425547
It could be worse.

>>97425791
It was put there by the machinations of the Count of Seattle. AFAIK, they also completely flattened whatever was in that exact location before rebuilding it with exotic space marble.

What's the story with clan nova cat? I feel like as a combine fan I should know more but from what I remember they and the combine got buddy buddy during bulldog and they were eventually integrated into the combine?
Also does this mean I can throw nova cat machines in a dcms unit?

>>97425832
They're one of the weirdo freak clans that get religious visions and then splinter repeatedly. They were in the DC for a bit, then got genocided. Lucky for them, they had a splinter faction in the FWL that was willing to let them crash on the couch.

>>97425780
I want to like the scorpions but I have trouble seeing past them being clanners. Sell me on them

>>97425809
>It was put there by the machinations of the Count of Seattle.

Lol, just like DC.

>>97425843
"IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!", and also poisonous hallucinogens.

>>97425832
Nova Cats became good little pet kitties, even more than Clan Woof in Exile.

Having a couple Nova Cat machines in a Drac unit is pretty damn reasonable. Don't forget that the Dracs also captured a lot of Smoke Jaguar Mechs from Bulldog.

>>97425832
They blew up the last LAM factory

>>97425832
Nova Cat made the mistake of getting involved in the affairs of a Great House succession dispute. More importantly, they backed the wrong candidate for Coordinator. Clan Nova Cat has ceased to be. Remnants call themselved the Spirit Cats. Clan Nova Cat tech is indeed available to the DCMS, which is really the important part.

>>97425850
And ritual knife fights

On the Rakshasa, would it have been more received had it been designed and built as an assault mech and not a heavy mech?

>Tornado becomes more available for grunt-tier operators because the Nighthawk starts seeing production again
>FWL still doesn't sell outside it's borders
FWL, why? You do it for literally every other type of unit you have. The only Battle Armor I've been able to see get sold outside your borders is the Longinus and Leonidas, and the Leonidas was made because you won't fucking sell your Battle Armor.

>>97426169
How do you even use such fragile pa(l)? Just stack up multiple squads and hope for the best? Almost any hit will kill a trooper.

>>97426117
Should have been an omni

>>97425017
Everything *IS* AI until conclusively proven otherwise.

>>97426204
Stealth spotters. If you can get a G12 instead of a G13, you're even more of a problem. When they're used to support mechs or anything with heavier guns, they can be plenty annoying.

>>97426232
Prove you are not an AI

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so how would you rewrite the preamble to the dark age? Personally I'd get rid of the society as a whole and just have it be a reasonable reaction to the retard ilkhan by forming a faction with the burrocks, coyotes, and clan exiles to start a civil war.

>>97426211

That too.

>>97426243
lmao okay anon
proof I'm not AI:
I just spent 45 seconds trying to remember if I left the stove on in 2009
I can smell my own farts and hate them
Last night I cried during a Subaru commercial because the dog looked sad
I have unresolved beef with a kid from middle school who called my Pokémon team "gay" in 2007
My joints audibly creak when I stand up after sitting for 20 minutes
I still pronounce "gif" with a hard G and will die on that hill
I once got a paper cut so bad I considered writing a suicide note with the blood
I have a drawer full of charging cables that only work if you hold them at a very specific angle
I am currently mad at my toaster for no reason

your turn fedboy, prove you're not a glowie

battletech? games? traditionally?

>>97426281
You honestly just sound like an absolute faggot

>>97426281
>I am currently mad at my toaster for no reason

Classic Clanker jealousy.

I ran the first encounter between the 1SS and Kristina Redmond in Megamek which was amusing because I remember the show had a thing going where clan mechs were basically invulnerable to IS weaponry for the first few episodes. Instead I focus fired down mook's Hunchback IIC on the first turn, almost lost Ciro's wolfie because he tripped, and loat Steiner's Axman because I tried to DFA Redmond, but not even a Mad Dog is going to eat a Mauler's firepower and live for long. No one died at least!

Show of hands, who still plays MWO?

ITT anons botpost.

>>97426284
I've been looking into why the FWL might not be selling Battle Armor abroad, and the closest thing I can figure is that the Republic era locked shit down and the FWL just sold an excessive number of Exos to whoever wanted it. The neat thing about the Exo is that it's used as a general purpose industrialmech, but the handheld weapons can turn it into a pretty decent MOD. It's the price of heavy and assault Battle Armor per unit, but you can get an MML3 with 20/16 shots or 4 RL10s with no heat tracking and move 4/6. You can even opt to bring a spare handheld so you can stay fighting. It packs the usual firepower you'd see from average Battle Armor (Small Laser, Machinegun, Flamer), but the twin LMG is also pretty capable.

>>97425448
Timber wolf jumping in the background. The mech on the right is the Corvis, and the downed mech is a Great Wyrm.

>>97426298
I played MW5 but the campaign economics and timeline was both too slow and too fast if you can understand that. The DLCs force you to speedrun at certain times. The difficulty curve is retarded where you just accept having a nearly crippled mech, tossing it to the repair bay and using your other, equally kitted out medium for the rest of the run, then switching that out when it's damage et cetera. Not to mention the game is incredibly fucking miserly about handing out any assault mechs of any kind so you're stuck with what a scout lance or a standard lance would use for a solid 15 missions.

>>97426312
>the emote
nigger fingers are typing these posts.

>>97426307
I ain't talking about MW5 although that has merit too. I'm talking about Mechwarrior Online.

>>97426312
That is very disturbing.

>mech with cargo attached to it's back can't be unloaded by another mech and it must be done by infantry
why

>>97426367
I made an Assassin mech that had a cargo container. It was a police unit, whose job it was to catch crooks and shove them into the cargo container on its crotch. With no chairs or supports in their, itd be a bumpy ride.

>>97425465
This is turning into a rather entertaining semi-final.

What's a good color for generic planetary defense force militiamechs?

>>97426404
Olive green or gunmetal gray. Simple and easy to have colors a generic militia would have.

>>97426404
If they're a planetary defense force there is every reason in the world to be camouflaged to match the terrain they're never expected to leave.

>>97426232
You must be over 18 to here, underage.

>>97426404
rain pattern like the GDR.

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>>97426250
so I was thinking, if you'll consider this idea, is that a civil war between the more liberal clans like Coyote or Burrock and any minor clan that might not like the whole "reaving anyone who disagrees with me" status quo, and the clan exiles. Opposing them is the current assholes in charge. Coyote gets convinced by a assembly of science caste, dark caste and civilians to oppose the assholes, on the basis that clearly things aren't working and eventually this warrior sperg system will lead to everyone dying or a collapse. The tech the society brings on gets used by this faction (because the society doesn't even get created) and prepares until eventually getting discovered by jade falcon brownnosers. They use scout lances filled with ATM's, cyber warfare, bioweapons being unleashed in ships and civilian centres, all to destabilze the current power structure. The civil war drags on but eventually stalls due to the lines being put to a deadlock. The clans not aligned with coyote take greater losses even after the lessons learn from tukkayid, so a programme not too dissimilar to the Entwicklung or E-series that Germany attempted is done. Every assault and medium mech is streamlined, simplified and encheapened in cost to produce as many as possible.

>>97426375
I remember that thread. Really should do something with Police Mech Academy.

>>97426117
The Rakshasa is a great mech. It's just not a Timber Wolf.

>>97426250
The idea of a Scientist Caste rebellion had been teased since at least Warriors of Kerensky.

>>97426307
But, that's literally how it doesn't play? DLC starts are balanced for attrition in a one-shot DLC playthrough, it's intentional. Normal starts are a borefest after you're richer than noble house lords.

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>>97424662
Considering the 2nd SLDF brought an Imp in Task Force Serpent this works.
>>97425341
Kind of what killed the Aerotech game being developed on the Freespace engine. It just wasn't fun to play when testing it.
>>97425353
Silly helmets.
>>97425614
Only MW4 Mercs was allowed to be released and then only the mektek version. Microsoft of course doesn't give enough of a shit about the IP to shut down any uploads of the other games.
>>97426117
It's legit fine the way it is.

>>97424751
We found a secret cache
/done

>>97424751
Play Mechwarrior 3rd edition and in late childhood lifepath pick backwoods and roll an 11.

>>97424751
Hire a shifty mechtech who is suspiciously good at everything
Work for a local monarch who is suspiciously lucky
Stumble upon a suspiciously placed Brian Cache with suspicious automated defenses
Abscond with your suspicious unicorn robot while being watched very suspiciously

>>97426502
but that's literally not how it plays? DLC starts are shit and balanced for someone who already has money, it's intentional. Normal starts are unplayable unless you go for max payout and even then you hit the assault mech wall that enemies begin deploying en masse because it's a fake simulacrum of battletech where magically every opposing force across the universe is psionically aware of your growth and deploy lances accordingly, meaning shit you don't have and what your own mechs will get horribly crippled trying to stop.

>>97426534
But that's literally not how it plays. MW5M is piss easy, it even has options to make it pisser easier in every aspect.

>>97426540
I accept you have no actual argument other then joking.

>>97425323
wish we had more ship stages in Clans

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Would the Chinese stealth suit from Fallout make a good basis for some advanced SLDF/Clan/WoB neurohelmet and cooling suit prototype? Full body, sleek and makes you look like an alien when compared to the old clunky helmet, cooling jacket and boxers combo.

>>97426742
Chunky suits > sleek

>>97425323
>>97425350
>>97425358
hmmm i checked and it doesn't appear to be a sovetskii soyuz or essex refit, those both appear too and look different

>>97426540
I remember MW4M had options for infinite ammo and infinite HP just like microsoft combat flight simulator did.

TSM is honestly something you would think would be standard on most mechs by now. Besides being slightly bulkier and expensive it doesnt have any real downside.

>>97426885
The real question is how no one has invented a version that is less finicky to use, whether with computer control or physical heaters of some sort. Huge amounts of money and effort go into cutting down engine weight.

>>97426885
Today I will remind them that TSM is more expensive than normal Myomer and with the number of weight saving technologies that cost critical slots "6-slots" is not "slightly bulkier"; it can and will completely preclude mechs from installing it.

>>97426960
Sure, lets install heaters in the mech. I'm sure that's what all battlemechs need, the ability to run even hotter. It's not like you can't get that done with ER small lasers (or literally any weapon) and jumping jacks. If the mech really needs help, the pilot can already disable heat sinks in operation.

>>97426991
Things being bulkier is purely for game balance and in a lot of ways, holds the setting back from any true tech advancement.

>>97427012
Bulk really is finicky yeah, like how capes take up 6 slots iirc, which is fucking stupid.

>>97426991
Letting waste heat from weapons fire accumulate in the cooling system to the point it bleeds out into the part you want heated is a succession wars ass solution. It's the black and white part of the commercial before the hapless rube asks for a solution and the announcer gives it to them.

>>97427023
It'd be cool if the TSM actively sucked up heat like an extra heatsink, but obviously that would be unbalanced.
The devs seem loathe to add any more myomer options as it is because of how wildly they can mess with game balance.

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>>97427019
>FF armor takes up more INTERNAL space, despite being on the OUTSIDE of a mech

>>97426991
mechs getting so unrealistically hot even in open voids of space or arctic planets is because they decided in-game mechanics should be lore, which is retarded. If that's the case there should be liquid-cooling tanks within the machines that spray out on the outer paneling like cars with window wipers. They should have lasers that actually have functional heat panel absorption. Blatantly all this stems from people in the 80s and 90s not knowing how lasers actually work.

>>97427061
>FF armor takes up only one space for clan vehicles but several for clan mechs
>even totem/assault

it's even more retarded when you realize clan tech is supposed to be more sophisticated

>>97427079
It's very easy to get hot in space because vacuum is a really good insulator. Space is technically cold, but that doesn't matter much if you have no way of getting heat off you.

>>97427012
Say that first thing again, but really fucking loud so people actually get it this time.

If you want TSM on your 'advanced mech', you allocate the slots and pay the cost for the Myomer. We've even seen in the past few threads what TSM can do for a mech, so if you think it's worth slotting in then you should also know that its worth paying for.

>>97426495
How was it teased?

>>97427061
It has to attach to the frame using the same lego studs you stick weapons to

>>97427079
I thought it all stemmed from Battletech's founding mechanics coming from a naval warship game?

Would it have been better if the pseudo-resource mechs play with was power consumption rather than heat?

>>97427530
Mechs are powered by literal fusion, so no.

>>97427551
Well yeah, but that doesn't mean they have infinite wattage to play with.

Could make it so you have to devote 3 power to firing a medium laser, or 8 to a large laser. Walking takes 1, running takes 2, etc. But without some of the heat related weirdness.

>>97427587
That 'heat related weirdness' is baked into the system for a reason. It makes the accumulation of heat an important factor in play, where mechs that run with a large number of hot systems have to manage how far they're going to push the mech's systems between rounds or if they're going to run generally cold. Some designs become valuable and useful precisely because they run colder, while others have value because they can alpha out a more impressive array of weaponry at the expense of having to wait to cool or risk damage.

Having a power or wattage system is just heat without turn-by-turn tracking (power supply by definition must be instantaneous) and 0 ability to overheat. You can simulate the result of this change by just playing mechs and never going over 0 heat and you'll find the experience will be miserable outside of oversinked wank-boxes, which don't need any help seeing play on the table.

>>97427667
You're right. Heat is a better approach, point conceded.

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>>97427468

A Certain Naval game you say?!

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>>97427744
Well it is fun. Best part of this game was when the german battleship Frederick had seven torpedoes coming for it, dodged four via maneuver, and then got lucky and blocked the other three with flak.

Factional Approaches to Protomech Pilots:
>Clans: "Lets engineer a seperate Pilot Caste small enough to fit inside the Protomech Cockpit!"
>Blakists: "Lets remove the limbs of Manei Domini Agents and connect them to the chassis through a VDNI!"
>Inner Sphere: "Hear me out...what if we just used really short people?"

Protomechs should be the upgrades versions of the old Clan/Inner Sphere battle armors at some point, limited to elite soldier for reasons of in-universe cost and off-universe balance.

>>97427916
>After all these years.
>The Midgets have come to roost.
>Battletech: 3200: Munchgin attack.
>Oompah. (2T)
>Loompah. (3T)
>Imp. (4T)
>Goblin. (5T)
>Gnome. (6T)
>Kobold. (7T)
>Halfling. (8T)
>Dwarf. (9T)

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>>97427994
Protomechs should be piloted by sibkos who are yet to fully understand mech piloting, then when they're fully trained they move up to light mechs and are placed in scout lances.

>>97428139
Thats... Actually not a bad idea. Mechs with training wheels.

>>97428139
Ghost Bears should create a protomech named the Cub that follows around designs like the Kodiak.

>>97428232
What are its stats?

>>97428232
already exists via the bear cub. It's a all-rounder.

>>97428262
Bear Cum?

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How would you handle a generational mekHQ campaign to prevent massive power spikes as the campaign progresses?
Currently doing salvage only for mechs at the moment since I started with tanks but even then thanks to scraps I have a full lance.

>>97427916
>Inner Sphere: "Hear me out...what if we just used really short people?"
You mean to say that the Davions will field them in the future?

>>97428326
If I had the power to program, I would set it to be based on a combat multiplier so that as the campaign came on and, depending on settings, the multiplier would allocate more battle value and battlemechs accordingly. A normal difficulty would be a x1.5 multiplier for example, which would be multiplied by the player's total forces value. If you had a combined total of say, five mechs and five tanks, I'd have it swing more in favor of the tanks, since they should be more what you face besides just mechs. Up the difficulty, up the multiplier.

>>97428326
realistically speaking in the scenario if you've taken out entire lances, the enemy should be deploying assault mechs and LRM-boats with expensive equipment. That's how it's countered, have the enemy be more difficult.

>>97428326
Blakist Buttrape Squads

>>97428326
Sudden and unexpected betrayals, combined with internal political strife, I guess?

>>97428326
>generational
People retire. Your hyper elite soldiers aren't fighting for the sake of fighting, they've got things they'd like to do with their huge piles of blood money, and if they own their own machine, someone to give it to who might not be interested in working for you.

As I am not as versed in Battletech lore as I am in others, I just want to ask this to get a feel for what it takes to make things happen in the setting:

Between the canonical sources, novels, video games, etc… what are some of the dumbest, pettiest, and/or immature reasons for open combat breaking out? This doesn’t necessarily have to be a major IS-spanning conflict, even a small brushfire war is still worth noting.

>>97428848
most of the more retarded wars were started by clanners. Sucession wars were just generic territorial claims and border skirmishes. What IS retarded is the mass bombing of factories knowing full well their value.

>>97429015
As long as they factory exists it's value is going to the enemy and the longer it goes to the enemy the worse the arithmetic is for you. Destroying the factory levels the playing field. While it would be desirable to capture it, denying it to yourself and the enemy is better than it wholly benefiting the enemy.

>>97429015
>>97429028
Besides that, during the 1st and 2nd succession war, even if the factories were ordered destroyed, the higher ups were probably okay with it because at that time the thinking would’ve been “unfortunate, but we can always build another factory once we secure the planet”.

And the funny thing is… until the 3rd succession war, they were right to think that.

Whats the easier route stealing clan iron wombs and hiring canopian geneticists or convincing clan scientists to defect to start my own eugenics program?

>>97429270
You'd have to interview them and their psychiatrists
Oh wait, it's all a fantasy and nothing like that has been determined in the lore SO USE YOUR FUCKING IMAGINATION FOR YOUR EROTIC FANFICTION

>>97426679
If heavy gear 2 can have mech space combat why can't we?

>>97424429
I've never seen this art before it's kick ass.

>>97429322
Because that is where aerospace fighters live, it's no place for a mech.

>>97429322
Oh look, a newfag who doesn't actually know anything about the game.

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>>97425017
Accusing this of being AI is more charitable than assuming an artist drew this and thought "Yeah that's a timber wolf"

>>97429392
https://youtu.be/XgP1HxpkmHo

>>97429270
a mix between the canopians and clan scientists.
hell, pitch the idea to ghost bear or wolf and they may even support the idea. Reunify the species sort of deal. Otherwise, simply challenge them for some gene-tweakin bondsman.

>>97429392
What are the Black Hawk-KU-U and Firestarter-OU?

>>97429270
Rat girl mech-techs when?

>>97429409
>Otherwise, simply challenge them for some gene-tweakin bondsman.
You know sometimes I forget that the clans have a built in mechanism for getting stuff you want from them. I will however need a way to be considered of standing worth to engage in a trial since I believe bondesque super villains most closely relates to the Dark Caste.

>>97429398
ive gotten a decent enforcer from ai. Closer than that Timby.
But in general yeah it dont do mechs too good unless supper specifically trained

>>97429448
Generally yes, but if you show up and do some honorable shit.
Trade honestly (least for wolf and bear)
Pass some information to them.
Merc work from your group, both for them and hiring them as their cadets and young warriors will sometimes go out to hone their skills.
Pretty easy to get on their good side.

except jade falcon, fuck those guys. They are like the capelians and kurita had a baby.

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>>97426298
Been playing it the last 4 years. Still very much alive and able to find games. Enjoying slaying shitter mechdads.

They just added the Naga 3 days ago, first mech with Arrows (they're kinda whelming rn but will probably get buffed)

>>97429501
>hiring them as their cadets and young warriors will sometimes go out to hone their skills.
Surely clanners dont hire themselves out? At the very least they cant possibly call it that? I could certainly pass them information but what clan would willing engage with such dezgra freebirth criminals not counting the Burrocks?

>>97429525
>Arrows.
>But no Melee.
Curse you PGI!

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>>97429554
Jank ass engine limitations + most of their devs working on mw5c stuff.
They couldn't even get the arrow to have a AOE explosion, so instead it homes in on CT and does artificial splash damage to surrounded components

>>97424841
Imagine not knowing what a Corvis is...

>>97429530
> Surely clanners dont hire themselves out? At the very least they cant possibly call it that? I could certainly pass them information but what clan would willing engage with such dezgra freebirth criminals not counting the Burrocks?
Clan Wolf and Clan Jade Falcon I believe.

Because I thought I remember something during the dark age where whatshername Steiner effectively hired those clans to serve the Lyrans as mercenaries during the war with the FWL.

It stuck out to be because the whole “alliance” went south when they discovered that the Lyran Commonwealth was broke I don’t know how that happens, I was of the impression that Lyrans shat solid gold bricks or something and Steiner planned to screw them out of payment and they went apeshit.

>>97428848
Forgetting to pay your internet may cause some serious trouble

>>97429612
Man thats gay. Do the Arrows in Mech5 at least deal AoE damage?

>>97425767
>>Be you
>>Be friends with your clone, a marine, Saladin, El Cid, and a German day trader.
>>You get high with your mates and your spirit animals tell you to rob a museum.
>>You rollup in a Killdozer, an early 2000's Ford Fiesta, a Lamborghini Countach, a Tesla with working MindLink, and a half-burnt Toyota Hilux with a Bofors strapped to the back.
>>You subdue the guards easily and escape with your loot: the first Nintendo WiiU.
>>Your clone wants more credit for the heist than you, so you strip down, chain your arms together and have a knife fight in a Denny's parking lot at 1am.
>>Wake up the next day and do it again.

>>97429934
Meant for >>97425843

>>97429904
Oh yeah they rape in mw5c and pretty regularly back core people with all the splash lol

>>97429952
Damn I wish I could get that. I'm having trouble right now on the last mission of the first world of the Smoke Jaguar campaign. My Star-Mates are complete morons and we keep getting overwhelmed and crushed.

>>97427916
That was the IS solution to BA too. If you're looking for someone who's one in a million and your population it 100 billion, you get 100,000 people.

>>97429934
Stop making the clans cool you degenerate!

Can I get a quick rundown on the different iterations of clan wolf. Namely in-exile and the jade wolves

>>97429530
they dont call it that no but there have been several cases.

>>97429934
Next day you can go for a 3ds, those are nasty rare and expensive these days. Day three a virtual boy just for Nintendo shit's and giggles hattrick.

>>97429322
Because aerospace is a mech's natural predator.

>>97427916
Still more elegant than what the IoM did for their protomech equivalent
> “first we’re gonna stuff you into this battle armor we got off Temu that’s older than your entire civilization, then we’re gonna strap you onto the front of the protomech like a giant baby! No it’s not an enclosed cockpit, but it does have an armored diaper-harness”

>>97429988
Pretty sure the IS’s response to BA was
> “hey! I think if we moved some of these straps and sensors around, we could probably rig this thing up to allow a normal dude to pilot it”

>>97429934
clans have clones?

>>97430061
He doesn't know. No one tell him.

>>97430017
After the clan invasion collapses the politician in charge of jade falcon invents an extremely bullshit reason to fight the wolves. The wolf khan attempts to use the conflict to kill off all his radicals and preserve his moderates. The Jade Falcons declare victory despite never winning against the moderates, and also declare retroactively what they just fought was a trial of absorption, trampling on what passes for clan law. The Jade Wolves exist for about three weeks as a subsection of the falcons before the rest of the clans call a meeting and slap down the falcons by letting the wolves secede. The whole thing is a preview of the wars of reaving, because everything is just calvinball somewhat based on who wins duels. Seeing what a shit show clan society is, the wolves in exile stay on the kell hound's couch.

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*sigh*

>>97430137
What are you sad about, you have a nice cigar to enjoy.

>>97430171
I will never ever sit in his cockpit taking in the flavor of a freshly burned independent mixed with hardjel and funpowder with each breath i take.

>>97430244
Fair enough anon, legit reason to be depressed. I have a sad now too.

>>97430266
Yeah i plan to make a tin lance with only Hauptmann. That is as close as i can get, except i missed some novel

So it is possible as a mustache twirling villain to access clan resources if I can offer things or services of value and am able to use like a front as a veneer of honorability?

>>97430340
only if your mechs are in miku camo

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>>97430361
There is only one camo evil enough for my outfit.

>>97430372
I've run this before in mega mek it actually works pretty well.

Can you create custom scenarios for use in mekhq?

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Opinions on the arctic wolf?

>>97430372
do it, do it now! this is sexual tyrannosaurus levels of masculinity

>>97430340
No. The clans that actually believe in their honour code bullshit will butcher you for being a dezgra surrat or whatever. And the ones that don't will lead you along just long enough for you death to be useful for them.

>>97430411
Yeah that sounds much closer to my expectations. So rapid raid for iron wombs and Canopian scientists it is.

>>97425265
I don't think the eiffel tower was ever destroyed but it was moved to japan.

Stiletto 4A or Javelin 11B? The rest of the lance is 7/11, which makes me lean towards the stil, but it's also not lyran (it's drac) so idk how to justify it besides I think it looks cool

>>97430571
I'd vote for the Javelin JVN-11B. That BAP and ECM will be very useful for your lance.

>>97430372
are your mechs scratch and sniff?

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>>97430624
Are you a narc?

>>97430628
my mech is really nice, like really nice,
https://youtu.be/nw_kbcDdGto

I'm fucking about in a mech creator looking to make an 'inexpensive' 70t heavy in the clan invasion era. The only advanced tech it'll have will be DHS, but I had a couple of questions about SRM's.

First off, I want it to have both regular and inferno SRM's. I understand that its in 1t lots (As in, I have to have 1 of each) but do the SRM launchers have the option of switching between loads like autocannons? Secondly, because this is partially being made to give people something to answer Elementals, SRM2's seem to be super popular for whacking BA, so this mech is gonna have 4 x SRM2's rather than say 2 x SRM4's.
If it matters, the other weapons load was intended to be 2 x Lrg Lasers, 2 x Med Lasers and 2 x Flamers and a single Small laser (I had .5t left over in the current version) The intention was to have it be a real bastard to fight the closer you get with it while being decently nimble. Currently 5/8.

what are the best 3050 clan mechs for recon or striker stars?

What mech does best make me feel like i'm a 'viking' high on shrooms?
https://youtu.be/QRg_8NNPTD8

>>97430571
>Stiletto
Man they really fucked up not making that an omnimech. The field manual it appeared in suggested it could have been one and frankly I'd be okay if there was a retcon that made it so cause whoever was responsible for deciding it shouldn't be was fucking retarded since its a cool looking design but doesn't stand out at all as a battlemech where as being an omni it would actually fill a niche.
As for what to choose, really either or as both are designs that are on the open mercenary market and the Dracs could have easily been gifted them by Victor funny enough as part of Bulldog. Without more data I'd say the Javelin is the safer bet especially since it costs less BV and the JJ could be useful as well in addition to what the anon said above.

>>97430651
Yes, weapons can select from any valid ammo bin when they fire.

Splitting SRMs like that is fairly common for some designs for exactly the reason you're suggesting; though it used to be for SSRMs back when you could jam infernos in them. 4 SRM2s sounds like overkill, but there's no kill like overkill.

>>97430651
From what I remember the srm2 is a holdover from the old rules where only 2 packs could fire inferno rounds. The go to nowadays is the 6 since it gives you the best odds of landing the 3 hits needed to pop a BA. And as far as I know as long as you have ammo you can declare the launcher is firing from bin A or bin B no problem

>>97430760
Oh that's right, I for some reason thought infernos always popped 1 suit if they hit; yeah nah 4s or 6s are the way to go then.

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>>97430749
Well it just happens that the 11B is the like one javalin that forgoes jump jets

If I want to go full Lords of War during the third succ where am I most likely to find corrupt quartermasters to fill my dropship with bugmechs and other merch?

>>97430903
and I legit had it in my head did. Well going to go kill myself now anons, have a nice night.

>>97430915
It might be the cappies, they seem to have a pretty loose grasp on their materiel when it comes to supplying allied mercenaries. Just don't get on their shit list.

>>97430915
DCMS Procurement department is noted as taking bribes

>>97430670
I mean, I don't know about best, but off the top of my head;
>Shadow Cat-B
>Fire Moth-A
>Kit Fox-C
>Arctic Cheetah-C
>Incubus-2
Seems like a pretty robust scout/recon star

It looks like the powers that be may be doing a rework of infantry. Can you fine gentleman point out whats wrong with them, and what reasonable steps could be taken to address those issues.

>>97431004
How can a squad of infantrymen deal actual damage to Battlemechs, Aerospace Fighters, Dropships, and Armored Vehicles using just AK-47s and HE Grenades?

>>97431006
You have to know how the rules work before making suggestions.

>>97431011
I'm of a mind that, if regular weaponry can damage Warships but their weapons are divided by 10, then we should do the same to infantry.
Machine gun does 1 damage? Nope. 0.1 to one point of armor.

>>97431031
That seems to be needless record keeping. If your intent is to have small arms not damage bar 10 armor it would be preferable to have them do 0 damage to it. Keeping the support weapons unaffected would allow infantry to damage BAR 10 with weapons that make sense to do so.

>>97431006
how can an irl infantryman delete an irl tank with a non-HE fragmentation grenade?

>>97431072
Well theres a number a way a HE Grenade can damage a tank. Shove it in the barrel, make it explode and inoperable. Ram it into a track, blow off that track. Immobilize it. Shove it in the compressor in the back for the engine, boom. Engine fire. Be creative.
>>97431046
Y'know what, fair. That would force them to bring at least one Support Laser/PPC/HMG(which deals 1 damage), LRM/SRM/MRM, or even man a few field guns.

>>97431004
Infantry in general is a pain in the ass to deal with because most of the weapons that are good against them have the same or even shorter range than they do, and anything that's not good against them (IE, almost everything) barely does anything at all since they can only kill 1-3 troopers per turn. A Locust will lose against a couple platoons of regular infantry.

>>97431084
>That would force them to bring at least one Support Laser/PPC/HMG(which deals 1 damage)
Thats not how the damage works out, but the out put wouldn't be great. Maybe 8 points or so if everybody hits in a foot platoon with 2 support weapons. It wouldn't be a lot. Field guns are a whole nother deal. Those things verge on unbalanced by bv.

>>97431087
Would it still be an issue if damage drops to around 8-4 pts of dmg depending on platoon size and number of support weapons carried?

>>97431084
>Shove it in the barrel, make it explode and inoperable. Ram it into a track, blow off that track. Immobilize it. Shove it in the compressor in the back for the engine
so you've answered your own question, jam the HE into a joint, weapon casing/barrel or a split in the armor plates.
A tank has one point of articulation weak to this, a mech has many.

>>97431171
That the thing though, the thing stopping the infantry is that they need to be able to CLIMB onto the tank. A tank at full speed, half speed, or even a quarter speed will still outpace a running infantry man, and if he tries to lob that HE grenade, it could bounce, roll off, or explode on the wrong spot, wasting it. You try aiming for a joint when in the heat of battle you're doing this and that, dodging shells and trying not to get your head lased.

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>>97431084
>>97431171
>>97431208
That's an anti-mech attack, which is an entirely different beast using an entirely different principle from standing in a treeline and shooting at the mech using your .23 damage per trooper gun. It's what the other number next to gunnery is for on infantry record sheets, and involves jamming satchel charges and AT grenades into funny places that mechs and tanks don't want those kinds of things jammed.

>>97431004
I think the case against infantry is overblown by a combination of individual problems that could be solved simply if they were addressed individually rather than as a complicated mess.

The first is initiative sinking; where infantry if they fit into the standard initiative are useful for getting the big boys to move further back in the line. This is easily solved by adjusting how initiative works with infantry present. Radically I would suggest front loading motorized and mechanized infantry (including field guns) and backloading foot and jump infantry, the latter only to keep swarm and leg attacks more viable.

The second is damage, which comes from something of a misunderstanding both in the numbers of infantry that should be involved in a fight, the damage they do and the presence and use of anti-infantry weaponry. People complain about the damage that infantry do, but don't take into account the grouping and the risk posed to troopers: Infantry do damage in 2 point groupings which causes them at best to behave like machine guns or LBX, and at worse causes them to sand-blast to little effect and die horribly on the crack-back. Their durability evaporates against small pulses, machine guns, flamers and infernos which are present on a massive number of canon designs, one need only to include them . Additionally their short range should be something people should respect more; their reputation as landmines are well founded because very often you must STEP on them to have them deal very much damage to you at all.

I will go on.

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>>97431208
Sounds like they're not putting enough elbow grease into it

>>97431239
>machine guns, flamers and infernos which are present on a massive number of canon designs, one need only to include them . Additionally their short range should be something people should respect more; their reputation as landmines are well founded because very often you must enter the range of the only weapon you have that can hurt them on them to have them deal very much damage to you at all.
Fixed. If you can machine gun or flamer them, they can rifle you.

>>97431208
You know they have special equipment for engaging in anti-mech attacks right? They dont use a "grenade" either.

>>97431239
The case against infantry is that they're game warping and you have to go out of your way to specially deal with them, unlike almost any other unit type that exists on the same mapsheet as mechs. You can use your normal weapons against mechs, tanks, BA, VTOLs, WiGEs, boats, planes, trains, and automobiles.
Most of those weapons won't do diddly against conventional infantry, and the weapons that do all do random damage and suck against everything else. Your infantry muncher could roll snake eyes on troopers killed and then get sandblasted and the rest of your units can't even go avenge it unless they're specifically built to fight infantry.

>>97431208
>CLIMB onto the tank
or you put two HE exlosives on either end of a cable and throw it at the mech, the boom-bola takes care of that climbing thing.
But also sometimes yes, they can and will climb, mechs have ladder type handhold structures built into them for techs and pilots

>>97431208
This anon doesn't know about grapple rods or gripper gloves.

>>97431261
A movement value exceeding 3 is game warping? You can litterally walk away from them. Thats not even getting into using infernos, artillery, lbx cluster, plasmarifle/cannon, lrm fragmentation, ac flak, or any aoe bomb slung under an ASF. It sounds more like you just dont know how to deal with them.

>>97431282
Its infantry, there are going to be a lot of people who dont know how they work or how to interact with a rarely encountered unit type.

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What's the best enforcer variant?

>>97431261
Even just limited to TW there's ammo to kill infantry for both missiles and ACs. Quite frankly the fact that only laser boats struggle against infantry is good game balance even though it's probably unintentional.

>>97431283
A damage/10 effect is game warping, yes. Of the things you listed, only infernos are common and some of them aren't even that good. An LB/X is what, damage/10+2? Ooh, you killed three troopers instead of one, they're surely quaking in their boots on the objective that you're not on because your special anti-infantry mech is tied up elsewhere or randomly rolled low or just missed.

Infantry is not game warping because of speed or damage potential, they're game warping because of their special defensive potential that nothing else gets.

>>97431244
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>>97431307
>An LB/X is what, damage/10+2?
Cluster is 1:1 per pellet.

>>97431302
>powergamer
gaaaaaaaaay

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>>97431314
You fucking wish.

>>97431309
Yeah, cause 6 tons + ammo is so convenient, especially for anyone prior to 3068.

>>97431320
Hmm. 1 divide by 10 to .1 +1. 1.1 a pellet. Round to 1. 1 pellet is one damage. 1:1

>>97431333
Cute, but no.

>>97431309
This is the way. It's my favorite wrapon because it works against literally everything and the ammo does not explode. It is further proof that the Celestial Wisdom knows all the solutions to life's problems.

>>Infantry/BA trying to crawl on you? Plasma Rifle.
>>Vehicles hounding you? Plasma Rifle.
>>Clanner trying to batchall you? Plasma Rifle.
>>The perfidious Davionman trying to steal our rightful clay? Believe it or not, Plasma Rifle.

>>97431329
Can't wait for you to find out about the AC/10!

>>97431346
But anon we cant use flak ammo, that would render my argument moot!