Kill The Clanner, Ste-, I mean, "Salvage" all their shit.

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QOTT: Who do you side with in the Dominion Civil War?
Hard Mode: No Snide Answers
Nightmare Mode: No Contrarian Non-Answers

>>97778068
Looks like that Kodiak is trying to give them a hug.

>>97778088
Go back to the home worlds where you belong trashborn.

>>97778088
Denier without question. The concept of the ilclan is insanely fake and even if it wasn't the ilclan trial ended in 3060 with the great refusal. Also Alaric seems like an insane moron.

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>>97778088
any IS insurgency that rises up against the clanner filth and fights for a sphere free of the soulless flesh automata

>>97778121
>beat Hard Mode
>beat Nightmare Mode
Nice work, anon

>>97778122
t. eternal serf
It's rly funny when spheroids call someone soulless.

>>97778088
As a noob I know shit about lore but I see cool Grizzly so it has to be them.

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>>97778122

>>97778121
>Also Alaric seems like an insane moron.
Well he is the blood of Katrina Steiner so it makes sense? Really no idea why she wasn't locked up in a nun convent.

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Gotta burn edges but that's the intended effect.

>>97778344
Yo is that Blood Spirit Alpha galaxy? Looks rad man!

Still sad that they took so many Ls to the point of Annihilation, I was hoping to see them rising back up like a second coming of the Wolverines - foolish me.
>remain as one of the few in the Homeworld
>fail to increase in size
>lose few (read: just the Snow Ravens) allies
>lose secret colony system
>fail to pull a Minnesota Tribe escape during the Annihilation

I still want to believe that some CBS people survived, if not in Clan HWs, at least along the Exodus Road in this or that outpost.

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How many metal pieces is the Yao Lien come in?

>>97778612
4, plus an extra right arm for some reason.

>>97778599
There's some vague hints they did pull a Minnesota Tribe. Some of their DropShips were hiding on the planets in the Colleen system after the colonies had been annihilated, only being detected and destroyed when they for some reason lifted off and tried heading to space. Since DSs can't travel out of system there's very little reason for them to do that unless they were expecting to rondeauvue with a friendly JumpShip somewhere in the system. There's also rumors of CBS ships being sighted in the deep Periphery some time during the Dark Age, and implication that some of their survivors somehow ended up in the Green Ghosts.
Also, in the WoR book whenever a Clan is destroyed their logo is removed from the page margins. The CBS logo is the only exception, as it is just faded out but remains still visible even at the end of the book.

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>>97778068
Can't have a civil war without Marik and the Free Worlds League!
Death to Marik, Glory to Mark!

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>>97778599
Wip Clan Cloud Cobra. Can't remember the name.

>>97778896
Looks like its on its way to an 80's disco?

>>97778612
Who cares? That model is shit and you shouldn't buy one anyway. A literal monkey could make a better version you could 3d print.

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>>97778808
I'm willing to believe all of this

>>97779143
Weird clan. Cool logo, interesting idea behind, ugly mechs.

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>>97778851

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Batrep: Davion Girls vs. Liao Raiders
Davion Girls
VTR-9B 4/4, Lysa "Hoops" Cooper [Lance Leader]
ARC-2R 4/6, Rebecca "Becca" Anderson
CRD-3R 4/6, Orabella "Belle" Waghella
LCT-1M 6/2, Danni "Roadrunner" Vinyard
LCT-1M 4/4, Rachel "Coyote" Koy

Liao Raiders
VTR-9B 4/5
GHR-5H 4/5
HBK-4SP
CN9-AL 4/5
SRM2 Vehicle 4/5, BV ~100

Setup
A lance of Capellans have dropped onto a Davion planet to raid it. They expected an easy time, but unknown to them, the system they were raiding was home to St. Fiacre of Breuil High School for Girls; a school that was dedicated to training girls that inherited mechs into becoming battle ready mechwarriors. The level of talent varies between the students and they are far from fully trained, but when the Liao Raiders arrived, they were the only force on the planet able to immediately respond, so they powered up their mechs and sortied for some live-fire training.

Real Life Setup
It's a work night and we're meeting up at a LGS, but we've all got enough time to stay until the store closes, so 5 hours. There was a last minute change of a new guy showing up, so it turned into an inadvertent teaching game. Naturally this slowed down the pace of the game. The overall objective of the game was simply that we wanted to smash some mechs together after work on a weeknight. As a result, tactics took a backseat to getting some action done.

Rules wise, we used a lot of the newer rules and made our decisions as we went. The most notable ones that mattered were using -1 to hit for both kicks and punches, max 20 damage for ammo explosions, floating crits, and +1 to initiative rolls on the next roll for each lost initiative roll until you win one.

Turn 1 start & end pictured.
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Turn 1
Everyone starts off the board and has to move on to it. Every shot the Capellans take misses. The Davion Girls get a strong start.

Coyote hits the Centurion with 2LRM to plink the armor.
Hoops lands a long range AC20 shot on the Hunchback that hits the LA. The Hunchback passes its PS roll and stays standing.
Roadrunner rushes up to the vehicle and manages to crush it underfoot immediately.

Turn 2
Liao won intiative.

On turn 2, the newguy was given complete control of the Liao Raiders. He was given free reign for all the mech movements, but was very heavily guided with what the Hunchback should probably do. He really wanted the Hunchback to walk backwards to try and stay safe after the damaged arm, but we convinced him to charge forward and be more aggressive, for explosive results.

On the eastern front, Coyote runs around in a circle and ends in heavy cover before plinking the Centurion with 3LRM. Coyote drew the fire of the Liao Victor and Centurion, managing to dodge all the Liao attacks.

The Liao Grasshopper decided to abandon the highground to walk down into the river, prompting Roadrunner to run across the bridge and around to get behind it. As a result of this, Roadrunner lands a ML hit and a kick. The Grasshopper's RA is hit and crit, destroying a heat sink and the Upper Arm Actuator. While minor, the UAA crit and the aim penalty for 1 of its ML would cause it to miss an attack on later turns that would have otherwise hit. Roadrunner did not get away unscathed however, as the Grasshopper landed an attack that hit the LA, which of course destroyed it.

Turn 2 pictured. Turn 2 continued in next post.

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Turn 2 continued.

The biggest action this turn happened with the Hunchback running forward to get into the rear arc of the Belle's Crusader. The Liao Hunchback landed a crit on the rear of the LT resulting in an ammo explosion. Since we were using the new rules, this led to a 20 damage maximum. So instead of the Crusader being completely destroyed, it lost its LA, LT, and took serious CT damage instead. An SRM also happened to hit the head from this attack and the Crusader did fall over from the damage. When all was said and done, Belle had taken 3 Mechwarrior injuries and the Crusader was down to less than half strength. Yet this was still better than complete destruction. The ammo explosion rule change would prove to change the entire outcome of the battle.

Turn 3
Davion Girls won the initiative.

Roadrunner harnessed protagonist energy to land a secondary ML shot on the Victor while missing the LRM shot on the rear of the Centurion. Coyote also missed all of her shots. The Liao Victor alpha strikes Roadrunner, landing a single weapon hit that crits Roadrunner's engine and leaves 1 point of structure on the CT.

The Liao Grasshopper attacked the Archer, hitting with 2ML. 1 of the ML missed due to the damaged UAA on the RA from Roadrunner's earlier crit.

The Hunchback attacked Belle, while Belle, Hoops, and Becca all unloaded on it. They were out for blood on the Hunchback and looking to bring it down. While Belle took even more damage, leaving the Crusader dangerously battered, she survived while standing. The Liao Hunchback however, lost its other arm, a torso, and a leg from getting kicked by both Belle's Crusader and Hoops's Victor. The Liao Hunchback was removed from the board, most effectively dead.

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Turn 4, Final Turn
Davion Girls won the initiative.

Yep, just 4 turns. The game moved slow due to teaching and limited time, but we knew at the start of this turn that it would be the last one.

On the Roadrunner front, he had become super focused on trying to bring her down. To his credit, he did land a shot that forced her to eject, an AC20 shot actually. Roadrunner down.

Our newguy has the spirt of a Clanner warrior in him. He wanted to duel and so let his Grasshopper stay atop the mountain as Becca moved her Archer up to join him. Coyote gladly shot the Grasshopper's rear and landed a ML and 3LRM shots. Hoops in her Victor, had a disappointing turn of landing 2SRM shots and whiffing everything else. Becca's attacks were equally ineffective. The Liao Grasshopper foccused Belle again and did some damage, but she remained standing. Belle fired back and managed to get a double crit on the CT that hit the engine and gyro, which caused the Grasshopper to fall over.

Game Over.

Final Analysis
The new guy felt the swing of emotions that is Battletech. He accused my Archer of having protagonist powers for shrugging off 2ML shots the turn after he blew up half of the Crusader. We ribbed him about that to help give him some perspective. A win was declared for the Davion Schoolgirls, but it was impossible not to acknowledge that it was because of the limited ammo explosion damage rule. It was Belle's Crusader that helped take out the Hunchback and scored the crits on the Grasshopper at the end that disabled it. If it were the old ammo explosion rules, none of that would have happened and Liao would have certainly taken the win off the early momentum of taking out a Crusader so quickly.

Ultimately though, a new guy was taught the ropes of the game, some mechs were smashed together, and did some cool things. A good time was had by all.

Batrep Concluded.

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>>97779198
They made the one beautiful gunbrick that matters: the Blood Kite

>>97778808
>There's also rumors of CBS ships being sighted in the deep Periphery some time during the Dark Age,
source?

>>97778752
Epic, thanks anin. Don't have a pic of the sprue/bits do you?

>>97779257
>Turn 1. Every shot the Capellans take misses.
Its the Capellan Commies vs Davion Tomboys all over again!
>1M Locusts rage baiting the enemy
Did you at least go meep meep?
>>97779266
>Ammo explosion rule saved the Crusader
I was legit curious to see how the Crusader would fair with such a rule in place. Guess it is indeed a considerable buff to the mech.
>>97779281
>Capellans get bullied by Davion Locusts so hyperfixate on them while the rest of their forces get picked apart
Sounds like the Locusts really did their job and the Capellan guy got himself baited hard.

>>97778088
Absolutely Denier, and if the OpFor in the Snowblind box are Deniers, then I'll run OpFor for my community every time. You know how you sometimes don't vote for a candidate you like but for a more favorable environment? I believe you can also fight for a more favorable environment for Hogmancipation.

>>97779293
That's one of them uglies.
>>97779247
>>97779257
>>97779266
>>97779281
Thx for the battrep, it was joy to read. I'm starting my own campain soon and I'm sooo excited.
Hinterlands chaos campain, my force is Cougar prime and Battle Cobra H and we do some mercs contracts.

>>97779410
>Did you at least go meep meep?
Yes. I dropped a meep meep in the game.
>I was legit curious to see how the Crusader would fair with such a rule in place. Guess it is indeed a considerable buff to the mech.
I've never taken a Crusader and had it not die suddenly to a violent ammo explosion. This was a first. I have mixed feelings about it.
>Sounds like the Locusts really did their job and the Capellan guy got himself baited hard.
Yes, but it was his first game ever, so we'll forgive him.

>>97779451
You're welcome. With common decency reactions like this I may just start posting them on the regular again.

>>97778088
Lean mercenary so largely whoever pays me more. Though I treat any Denier bids as worth about 10% more than the raw value so they'll have a bit of an easier time winning the contract.

>>97778808
Didn't they join forces with the Goliath Scorpions?

>>97779584
I would like to but do it at Euro hours, Contrarian/AS-hater anon is US so its safe now.

>>97779686
Thinking only one anon hates AS is some very naive newfag shit, lurk moar kid.

>>97779584
>>Did you at least go meep meep?
>Yes. I dropped a meep meep in the game.
Not him, but my local group played through Aces and named their merc company the Roadrunners. Aces is graduating to a Hinterlands campaign, and we're gonna have the Roadrunners as one merc cooperative against another, which inevitably got named the Coyotes.

Still waiting for the Raven Alliance to make the first Clan grade LAM.

>>97779759
That's next level.

>>97779762
You'll be waiting a while. While Herb and his bizarre and probably sexual hatred of LAMs no longer has the influence in the studio he had in the 2000s, nobody at CGL seems to love LAMs enough to push for a new one.

>>97779768
It was kind of obligatory given we play in New Mexico.

>>97778808
>There's also rumors of CBS ships being sighted in the deep Periphery some time during the Dark Age,
Source?

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Apparently the dragon II kit comes with a schnoz so you can model it as a a normal Grand Dragon

>>97779853
That's a nice touch.

>>97779776
They did include LAM battlefield support cards, so they aren't completely dead. However, LAMs need a massive rule revision before new ones can be made. Airmech mode simultaneously has a ton of unique exceptions to try and nerf it, but simultaneously ends up overpowered.
If they were to bring it back, maybe they could start with a new version of Bimodal that's cheaper weight-wise to the current triple form, and giving that specific form access to Endo Steel, Ferro-Fibrous, etc. Then when they figure out how to get AirMech to a reasonable state, reintroduce triple changers. Maybe making some Bimodal variants of Mech-Airmech and Airmech-Aerospace.

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>>97779293
which hole do I stick my dick in?

>>97779776
In that case you need Speedy Gonzalez and Sylvester the Cat.

>>97779953
any hole's a goal anon

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HONOR THE DRAGON!

>>97779762
LAMs suck, rules-wise. I love Macross and Transformers, but I don't feel the need for more LAM stuff in BT under the current rules.

>>97779776
It was enough to begrudgingly give us the Urbie LAM.
>>97779929
They are already taking steps never before taken with the Core rulebook. A rules overhaul for LAMs is now in the cards, that's the point. All they need is a justification, a catalyst in and out of universe.

>>97779762
>>97780281
I’m in the camp that even if you could make LAMs work rules-wise, I’d prefer them to be an experimental, niche form of mech at the absolute most. I’d hardly call for their outright erasure, they’re just not what I want out of Battletech.

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1000 hours in MSPaint

>>97779762
RA doing for LAMs what Hell's Horses did for quads would be on brand and personally very, very based.

>>97780295
LAMs already had a massive rules overhaul, WiGE didn't even exist when the first iteration of LAM rules was written and all the grogs shit their pants about fast jumpers without access to pulse lasers. It's very precedented.

>>97780512
No one uses ekranoplans either.

>>97780190
The dragon is gay

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>clans sometimes have srms on their mechs
>when their LRMs dont have a minimum rage requirement

>>97780653
Clan SRMs are stupid light. A standard SRM6 is 1.5 tons.
A streak 6 is still only 3. A 20 pack has the same average damage output, but is heavier and hotter.

>>97778088
No side. Vatborns and vatborn lovers can go to Hell. May the Dragon bring its fury upon them.

>>97780653
I feel like you're a new player that doesn't understand what's the main purpose of SRMs and LRMs.

New ilClan variants for the Uziel, Mad Cat MK2, Rakshasa and HEAVY GAUSS Hollander coming out

>>97780653

SRM, LRM... all mogged by iATM!

>>97780833
Unsurprising, the Uziel never even got dark age variants.

>>97779953
Depends on the total armor and structure your dick has:
>is it above 10?
>any of the 3 ERLLs
>is it below 10 but above 2?
>any single of the 3 SRM launchers
>is it below 2 but above 1?
>go mektek and get your dick uparmored cause this shit is absolutely a disgrace to any self respect
>then shove your dick in the LRM of shame

97779752
Told you before, you and your furrsona aren't people.

>>97780853
The Rakshasa barely even got a Jihad variant, and it's just a standardized refit.
If the new box is meant to support ilclan, then everything in it will have ilclan support.

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>>97780315
>he doesn't want Gunheds having running battles against Veritechs in a torus-tyoe space colony

>>97780838
Dezgra nerds get out reeeeeeeeeee

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sucks to be that Hammerhead pilot

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Apparently they're going with over the shoulder view illusts now

>>97780920
Holy shit that asshole looks like a faggot

>>97780920
Why has he dipped his facial hair into a jug of kool aid?

>>97780971
His mom didn't allow him to paint his hair green.

>>97779100
>yao lien
I like it, and I want to add an Eidolon to my WoB.

>>97781002
So the asshole is a faggot and a pedophile one at that who needs to insert his fetishes into a kids game.

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>>97781002
>Not always a baldie with a beard, but somehow always a baldie with a beard

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Played for the first time last Saturday, guys. We played really stupidly and made bad decisions, we overheated everything but it was fun as all hell. We played a simple 2v2, I think I'm gonna add a Scorpion on each side next time.

It looks like CGL is pushing the Regent as the posterboi of the ilClan era, like the Atlas and the Mad Cat for the previous

>>97781101
And remember the project phoenix Beemer

>>97781101
Honestly, it's one of my least favorite mechs. I know it's a haha funny meme mech, but something about it as an actual mech just rubs me the wrong way.

>>97781101
I wonder if they passed over the Ares because it's a superheavy. Although they are putting superheavies (and tripods) in their new "core book".

>>97781002
How are trans people even real in Battletech, just go to Terra or Canopus and get actual new organs. Unless you're Liao ig lmao enjoy no food idk.

>>97779655
You sure you aren't thinking of the Ice Hellions?

>>97781119
What makes the regent a meme mech? Just the fact that the pope piloted one for a little bit?

>>97781201
That too, but the fact that it's literally a meme of a Hauptmann and Awesome frankenmech. As in, it started as a literal joke of someone saying "haha, I mixed an Awesome and a Hauptmann! Awesomemann!" and then they went and bothered the devs until they made it canon. The joke isn't even what bothers me, it's a fun mashup. I just don't like the way it feels on the table.

>>97781101
Why though? It looks fucking ugly and derpy? Is there really nothing better from that era they could choose?

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>>97781201

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>>97778808
No, EVERYBODY hates the wolverines
Everybody HATES minnesota

>>97781158
Travel by jumpship is long and expensive if you are anything more than 1 jump away, and Terra was locked down by first Comstar, then the Word of Blake until 3067, and later from the Fortress Republic to the present day.

>>97781095
Should put those sheets in page protectors (or laminate them) and mark with dry-erase

>>97781303
Wolverines are the best clan, Ghost Bears second best.

>>97781158
IRL leftypol must be inserted into every IP that exists.

>>97781277
Should've been the Inferno, Mastodon or Dominator.

>>97781101
>>97781119
It lacks charisma.
It's just a decent but bland design. Filler material. Nothing interesting. There's way more visually distinct designs even within the era that convey the 'feel' of the time better.
Like the Atlas just absolutely sells that early era in just being a big beefy dude ready to just break shit. Mad Cat in its complete inhuman, sleek, over-gunned in all the options look sells the hell out of the clan invasion feel.
Regent? Just a big brick awesome/hunchback smush looking thing. In an era of weird and wild shit where stuff has like partial wings and claws on the regular. it looks like it could have been a (modern redraw of) a 3060s mech. Which it is basically is since the Hauptmann's (which at least had that cheeky cigar even if the rest of it was a bit gack) miniature was so ass it got quietly left to go extinct (my theory anyway).

>>97781474
>Inferno
Would’ve been peak

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>>97781002
>Hanse and child bride
Ok I guess you have a point here
>Joanna and Aiden
Absolutely kino, fuck off

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>>97781002
1) In BT, nobility clearly is an incorporated personality you pass down to your children, considering that none of the ruling families have a direct line to their founder. Your dog could probably become the next lord of your planet if you passed the patent of nobility to it.
2) Homosexuality is apparently unproblematic in BT
3) It's an arrange marriage, it literally wouldn't matter if she were a horse.

Rusty's simply YA novel brained and shouldn't write scifi.

>>97781358
Sounds like a fun quest doesn't it.
>>97781418
See that's the thing right there. I'm a raging communist and I want both middle america karens to stop hating trans people and media to stop putting trans people in the crosshairs by making them victims in fiction, they have enough trouble irl already.

>>97781002
He's right and you people are coping hard. Your ok with pedos as long as it's your guy doing it.

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>>97781605
>Your ok with pedos as long as it's your guy doing it.

>>97781002
Man the 'modern' House Lords being too old and yet not interested in getting married/having children is absurd. They are feudal lords. They gotta have arranged marriage when they are 18, fuck like rabbits and produce heirs

>>97781537
I don't think it's prominent enough. I don't really think the Regent is either, honestly. This is shaping up to be a very mercenary forward era, so it should be something strong, meant for frontline combat, and widely available to everyone and their mothers. And ideally new for the era, or at least from the late dark age.

>>97781605
This modern idea of "pedo" being applied when a woman is post-pubescent is just as culturally new as trannyism.
For MILLENIA the totally natural attraction to biologically developed females has been the norm in EVERY culture on earth, because it's the biological programming we evolved with.
So yes, people aren't repulsed by it like they are repulsed by trannies.
Mostly only aging women object, but subjectively the fucking moment a woman starts to bleed they ALL try to attract sexual atention and start breeding, they only get offended on a personal level about it when they get replaced because they sat on the carousel too long thinking the ride was eternal.

riot mob stats/rules in the new aces box
kentares anybody?

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>>97781605
Hi Valk!

>>97781775
>the gender you were assigned
Gender is not assigned you drooling fuckwit, it is a genetic property, you are what you are.

>>97781775
The setting doesnt have genetic therapy tech to "make you a women". The meme "Canopian Catgirls" come from a picture showing cyborgs. The most canon extreme genetic modification were some poor guys that were given gills, and without continual treatment they are basically mutanting into something inhuman.

>>97781864
Modified animals are not "you will become a women".

>>97781845
Can't genetically rebuild your lifetime of mental development as a male.

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Everyone will always know that this is a Pizza Hut.

>>97781864
Were not made by genetically altering already born horses. Tinkering with a zygote and hand picking modified sperm to go into handpicked modified eggs is very, very, very different from altering the genetics of something that's currently alive. It might theoretically be possible to make it so one person appears to be genetically identical to another (but all those Comstar body doubles that got genetically tested could have also just compromised the testing labs to show what Comstar wanted seen, we don't actually know for sure), but things like the fish people or elementals or any of the wacky super predators clan scientists made for a laugh are done by fucking with their genetics before they were even conceived.

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I like these cardboard buildings

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>>97781910

>>97781910
Physical terrain in Battletech is retarded.
Almost none of it has hexes marked on topside surfaces and absolutely none of it has hex information marked on it.
And kike, hexes of trees for woods and jungles? Great, now my mech can't physically occupy the hex
>just remove the tree tile then put it back when your mech moves
That's retarded.
The maps already have everything marked down.
Purely height based terrain is acceptable, but I still expect hex info to be marked on the tops.
All gaming pieces from terrain to mech minis, are non-requisite extras, it is unacceptable for any of it to interfere with or obstruct game info.

>>97781967
>happens IN NATURE.
Temporarily as a survival mechanism, and it is natural to that species.
It is not something humans can do.
Trying to defend your surgical horrors as "natural" is massive cope.

>>97781967
Not matter your wish for it, neither the BT universe, nor the real world have the tech to make you into women Troon Anon. Keep seething and malding.

>>97781967
>An animal with half of its mass dedicated to eking nutrition out of GRASS.
We got Pandas IRL, who're struggling with being carnivores cursed to eat stone grass.

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>>97781910

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>>97782010

Could a spheroid with myomer implants beat an elemental in a fist fight?
What about a knife fight?
Assuming both are highly skilled and neither have plot armor.
Is the elemental supersoldierness too much to overcome?
How strong actually is an elemental?
Are they actually superhuman supersoldiers or are they just a way to mass produce people like bjorn haffthor or that one dutch guy and raise them from birth to use their physique for fighting?
I know there's examples of protags slicing and dicing elementals but idk if people think that's valid or bullshit.

I'm trying to come up with some fluff for the company I'm working on.

>>97779929
>Airmech mode simultaneously has a ton of unique exceptions to try and nerf it, but simultaneously ends up overpowered.
How one can, in an era of partial wing jumpers full of clantech that can dump huge amounts of damage downrange, claim an airmech LAM, that cannot pack half the firepower into its frame, is limited in weight, expends tons on transformation gear, and lacks anywhere near the flexibility, is overpowered, I do not know. The only thing broken about LAM's is their ability to perform after Herb beat them with the nerfbat, and he would have gone further if the test players had not militantly intervened.
LAM's need a buff, at least let them take weight saving gear and rise over woods and such for free.

>>97782010
No matter what you will eternally have to identify yourself as "not a real woman", by whichever terminology, or risk hospitallization/murder for the transgression.

>>97782140
Spheroids without implants have beaten elementals in knife fights. Spheroids without implants have beaten fully armored and equipped elementals in knife fights (using very high tech knives). Elementals are very big and strong, but they're not much tougher than a normal person. They die when you kill them and they bleed when they're cut.

>>97782105
Does BT have the cure for body/gender dysmorphia? No? Do you want trannies in BT then? No? Go buy the license from Topps then. Not enough money? Well there is no pleasing you, is there. It'd be a perfectly fine compromise to just have every tranny undergo gene therapy or organ growth and implant and make it a non issue. But you have to make it an issue don't you, because you're obsessed, show me your tabs, fastfap.

>>97782173
Making them prominently trans with prominent modern trans issues is, in fact, making it an issue. Just like the merchant who complained about racism, now racism has suddenly become an issue even though it didn't have to be one at all. If you don't want it to be an issue, stop projecting modern angst over the subject in the stories.

>>97782173
Troon Anon, you are the one talking about gene therapy to become a women beign a thing in BT.

Go be a tourist to other fandom.

>>97782173
>Does BT have the cure for body/gender dysmorphia?
They canonically have technology that makes people sexually identify as giant robots.

>>97782216
If anything, this is a pro-dysmorphia setting. It only adds more dysmorphia, it doesn't cure it. You are free to not know if you should have a penis, vagina, or laser between your legs.

>>97782168
>They die when you kill them

I would certainly hope so

>>97782112
The guy on the right thinking about his life choices.

>>97782269
Kinda looks like he's sad he failed his audition as Ted Cruz's body double. I would be too, that's a lot of free trips to Cancun he's missing out on.

>>97782266
ANIME JA NAI

>>97781631
it really does make 0 fucking sense.

>>97782202
I agree, which is why I said way above that writers need to stop putting trannies up as a target by writing them into everything instead of leaving them alone. I too think Factor Marena is a retard.
>>97782204
And yet the double of Janos Marik passed genetic testing, and so many others through the setting. Sure we can't tell if it was just C* fucking with the tests or actual genetic treatment but doesn't seem out of reach at all.
>>97782216
I have to concede to you because you get the point of the setting, I'm sorry I made a fuss about it.

>>97780809
NTA but I am a new player, what should I know?

I think trannies really just feel like an aspect of the modern west more than they do anything else necessarily, so they can be jarring to see in settings which aren't modern and western. It feels very artificial, which is funny cause that's how people feel they seem here.

I'm not saying people with autistic sexual neuroses or hermaphrodites didn't exist in the past and they won't in the future, just that they weren't and probably won't be the lockstep stereotype of what trannies are today.

Weird religious figures like those indian troons? Probably.
Individuals destroyed by degenerate sadists like Sporus? Sure.
Faggolas lusting after other guys like Oscar Wilde? Probably.
I'm sure canopian men are probably emasculated or effete.

But a widespread secular masturbation movement to the idea of being the futa in a rule34 1girl 1futa image, that gets pissed off if you don't encourage them? Idk, its not impossible, but seems kinda unlikely, especially as the backlash grows.

>>97782329
SRMS are unguided but do more damage with a shorter range.
LRMS are long range, guided, but do less damage individually than SRMS
Clan LRMS do not have a minimum range like normal ones do, so they can sort of serve dual purpose, but the damage up close is reduced compared to just taking an SRM.

>>97782328
>And yet the double of Janos Marik passed genetic testing
Thomas, not Janos. And we actually have no idea how that went down, because the two of them were parent trapping the FWL super hard. It might have actually been real Thomas who took the tests, or false Thomas could have had that level of extensive alteration or Comstar could have just tampered with the results by intercepting it or having a ROM agent run the tests. They had an infinite black budget for this operation.

>>97782354
>SRMS are unguided
SRMs are still guided, they just can't indirect fire. MWO is not a particularly accurate depiction of the setting.

>>97782329
Main difference is SRMs do damage in clusters of 2, while LRMs do damage in 5s. So srms give you more individual damage instances, but tend to spread damage more than LRMs.

During the early clan invasion, how crazy into zelbrigen were the clanners really?
I heard they accepted a football match with rasalhague, is that accurate?
How far does stuff like that extend? Shouldn't they want to at least keep the dueling and betting to mechs and such?

>>97782438
Sorry I meant Joshua not Janos, the one the FedSuns fucked up with.

>>97782470
Clans dueling rules is that you can bid down or bid weird as long as it's a contest of skill and combat-adjacent. Some clanners might accept something like a chess match, others might insist that it has to at least be a physical competition, still others might insist that it has to be directly head to head (so football is good because those dudes are tackling each other and dodging and weaving other players, but a foot race might not be because each racer is just doing their own thing at the same time as the other racers). The main concern is whether you believe the opposition will actually abide by the rules and remain honorable. A planet that says they don't have a military but are willing to fight how they can is a much more tolerable football duel than a world with entire regiments waiting in the wings, because you know they aren't going to throw a tantrum and attack if they lose.

>>97779584
Don't worry about that. Having posted actual content, contrarian-anon will eventually turn up to mass report your posts as spam ans off topic bla bla bla.

>>97782328
>Janos Marik passed genetic testing
Uh?

Joshua was in New Avalon when he died, and the double was still there when SAFE got the info about the real one death.

>>97781398
The mech sheet are laminated. I could only laminate two mech sheets in a big A3 sheet together but they fold in the middle pretty ok.

>>97781939
dawg that's some lovely heroquest furniture

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>>97781777
Needs a Shawn Michaels paintjob

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>>97782905
Steal the looks

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Regent also getting a 100mm, too

>ilclan shit now in every product sold

>>97782991
That is the Sexy Boy Paint Job
The Showstopper/Mr. Solaris Arena is this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHvw3H8FueU

>>97783119
You need to understand, everyone respects space Charles II of Spain.
Everyone must respect space Charles II of Spain

>>97783119
Doesn't bother me, I've been making all my forces forwards and backwards compatible.

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>>97783119
All cool mechs rook same to me, kokujin.
Era be damned.

>>97781596
>Sounds like a fun quest doesn't it.
It can be one, but when you factor the population of the Inner Sphere is 6 trillion, even if the number of Trans individuals is 0.1%, that's still 6 billion. And the estimated percentages for their population IRL has a lowball of 0.3%. Go with a highball estimate of 1%, you hit a number 5x the current IRL population of Earth.
Bit more than a quest can handle, especially with Jump Ships only being in the 10s of thousands even with that 10x multiplier to the original FASA numbers.

>>97783169
So you only use SW mechs and ilclan shit is wasted money.

>>97782155
The overpowered aspect purely comes from them able to pump the numbers of how hard they are to hit to extreme levels while also having little to no heat buildup. They can hardly deal any damage, but they also can't be hit so you get attritioned out in a feels bad stall.

>>97782168
>Elementals are very big and strong, but they're not much tougher than a normal person
That would be rather bad writing honestly because actual regular people are a lot weaker than hypothetical people with 300 pounds of muscle that are 7 feet tall.

>>97783264
>And the estimated percentages for their population IRL has a lowball of 0.3%
Based on the fact that the cultures of the inner sphere aren't possessed by the very recent mania that impacts our own that made people even aware they existed in the first place, that the inner sphere's medical industry seemingly doesn't have some absurdist subculture that encourages children to become those, the number should be vastly lower than that.

>>97783303
>>97782168
The Elemental doesn't even have to try, really. They just have to grab you and fall on top of you and you're fucked.

>>97783280
No, I just have substitutes. My pirate lance is led by a Grasshopper when the Mortis doesn't exist.

Favorite BT content creator?
>Hard mode. No BPL.

>>97783368
Is the joke here that the Grasshopper barely exists?

>>97783303
Yes, but 300 pound people who are 7 feet tall still bleed out and die when you slice open the wrong artery. Their lungs collapse when their chest is caved in, their brains die when starved of oxygen.

>>97783381
Grasshoppers are prized and kept running for as long as possible. They outnumber stuff like the King Crab by orders of magnitude even if you ascribe to madmaxtech (I don't, because those numbers are absurd and preclude more than one mech of any variety being in any battle that isn't a major invasion).

>>97783340
0.3% is not based purely upon Western Culture. That's the global estimate that includes regions like the Middle East, China, Russia, etc. The highball is the estimate weighs Western cultures significantly more strongly, and areas like Europe or California even moreso.

>>97783373
Sven and Nerdy

>>97783373
Masaka3D

>>97783389
The problem being how you're going to approach trying to slice a vital artery on someone that has multiple feet of reach over you and is a warrior that has trained their entire life to beat the shit out of people in close combat.

>>97783373
I'll go with EeZeE Company today.

>>97783373
Masaka made some good btech animations.

>>97783340
It's a flat 0% because rhey all kill tgemselves and also can't reproduce so the indoctrination cult can't survive a thousand years.

>>97783408
And that was a fraction of what it is now everywhere just a few decades ago. It was effectively nonexistent for most of human history.

>>97783416
>>97783457
Isnt he collabing with the BPL on the highlander vid?

>>97783441
It's really bad to get knife wounds on your wrists and forearms, and the people killing elementals with knives are almost always professional soldiers themselves.

Hypothetical:

If an incident were to happen in the Battletech timeline that were to echo the “incident” at Waco TX, which factions feel like the most likely to play the role of: “creepy doomsday cult that’s up to no good, just not the specific bad things their being immediately accused of”, and who would fall into the role of: “hapless Feds who manage to bungle their entire raid so monumentally that one wonders if a concussed gerbil could’ve done better”?

Personally, I can either see it play out in one of two ways:

A cult from the Taurian Concordat getting raided by FedSuns over colonizing a disputed planet and shit going pear shaped.

Or

Cult’s a cult of a cult of Wobbie fanatics and get raided by Lyran Forces who find a way to fuck it up despite having near-infinite resources.

What do you think?

>>97783441
It's actually really hard to win a knife fight, most of the time the winner is whoever lost less badly. Often both parties lose because every time they attack their wrists are within knifing range and there's very little they can do to prevent that without putting their other wrist in knifing range.

>>97783503
That argument depends on how big your knife is. Mine is 15"

>>97783471
Getting a good stab or slice on someones wrist when they are vastly stronger than you and trained to fight without you yourself getting an equal or worse injury requires a lot of luck because all that strength also makes them a lot faster than you in general.
It's not some video game where you're going to have more dex because you're built like a pile of spaghetti.

>>97783464
So were conjoined twins as a side effect of low odds.
But because the Inner Sphere population is a 6 trillion, the 1 in 50000 odds of Conjoined Twins would have there be 120 million and if you go with the lower 1 in 100000 odds that's still 60 million. Otherwise known as nearly the population of France (69.1 million).
When numbers get large enough, large populations become inevitable even with insanely rare odds.

>>97783525
Elementals are repeatedly shown to have speed and dexterity issues. More to the point, stories often follow people who are lucky in situations like that because it's not very interesting to read about the people who catches a bomb or bullet in their second battle.

>>97783538
That's still like, 100 or less per planet.
Statisticslly negligible.

>>97783538
>So were conjoined twins as a side effect of low odds
It was a fraction of what is is now by %, not total. They were far less common in the early 2000's than they are now, they were far less common in the 80's than the 2000's, etc.

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>>97783464
>It was effectively nonexistent for most of human history.
It's still effectively nonexistent today. I know of only two kids who don't present or identify as their birth sex, born more than a decade apart from each other, meanwhile I've made the acquaintance with probably four to six homosexuals and one bisexual.

>>97783564
>stories often follow people who are lucky in situations like that because it's not very interesting to read about the people who catches a bomb or bullet in their second battle
That's not really demonstrating elementals aren't tougher than regular people, that's just exceptional circumstances.

Randall's having QnA so you guys might want to ask him there

>>97783607
Faggot fanfic doesnt count

>>97783566
Incorrect. For there to be 100 per planet would need to be about 60000 inhabited planets in the Inner Sphere for the lower estimate. That's 30x the actual number of 2000. You are hitting 3000-6000 per individual world, which due to world-to-world variation can very easily hit the high tens of thousands because sufficiently large numbers just do that.

Huh, we are getting 2 ASF forcepacks by this fall

>>97783675
Mentally mathed that off. It's not 60k needed to hit 100 per planet. It's 600k planets. So hit a 10x multiplier on all that.

>>97783607
Can we get rid of him like DC did with Dan DiDio and Bob Harras and things got better?

>>97783597
They are tough in the way a big guy is tough, but that doesn't let the meaningfully resist typical weapons the way a high end cyborg can

>>97783502
Waco wasn't just bungled. It was deliberately SNAFU'd. The dude they were ostensibly after was at multiple times prior, walking about town unarmed etc, with agents shadowing him, with an active warrant they just refused to serve then and there, where they could have just snatched him up at any freaking time.

No one wins a knife fight.

The loser dies in the gutter.
The winner dies in the ambulance.

>>97783538
>But because the Inner Sphere population is a 6 trillion
3.5 billion people per planet on average sounds extremely high, given the provided numbers for most worlds don't seem to break one billion, with many of them under one million.

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>>97781956
Fucking truth nuke holy shit I've been saying this at my LGS for months

>>97783714
> Waco wasn't just bungled
I know, I was just being polite.

I’m listening to Wendigoon’s video on the incident, not only did Koresh go about town, playing at various bars with his band. But ATF agents didn’t actually need a warrant at all. The guy openly invited agents to come and search the compound themselves.

But this was in the shadow of the Ruby Ridge incident, so the ATF was so desperate for a big win that… they, well, they somehow found a way to fuck it up even worse. On oh-so-many levels.

That’s not to say David Koresh was not a wicked man, guy was a grade A creep. But he wasn’t guilty of the specific shit the ATF was accusing him and his cult of.

>>97783081
Wow a Steiner Air Pack before a Steiner Mech Pack!

>>97783081
Immediately breaking the idea of ilclan being in everything, here comes a pack where the most recent base model is from the 2800s.

>>97783765
3.5 is just an average, some planets are going to have twice that many number while other planets are much lower especially when you start hitting pushing towards the Periphery.


Also just a heads up, if Captcha and 4chan in general continues with this retarded shit my time here will be much shorter then it already is. Its a frustrating effort just to make posts let alone continue to contribute to the community.

>>97783858
>if Captcha and 4chan in general continues with this retarded shit
The captchas themselves or the wait time?

>>97783858
Captcha gets better the longer you have cookies for it. I've been posting with an instant captcha that lets me through without any puzzle at all more often than not and a basic "which of these three objects is not the same as the other two" puzzle once in a while.

>>97783525
My initial question wasn't about spaghetti civilians or mechwarriors even though
It was about if you had a spheroid commando type of guy with stuff like subdermal myomer and a pain shunt vs an elemental of similarly elite status

>>97783675
The exact math was not performed as it doesnt fucking matter, you could have 5000 per planet and it would be an outlying statistical accident.
But trannies are self-exterminating, you won't exist in ten years and without unsupervised access to other peoples children your derangement will not spread.

>>97783819
Terrain for battletech also takes up ridiculous space, not needing it at all is one of the huge upsides to mapsheets in the first place.

>>97781956
I think it's okay for actually impassible terrain, like really dense jungle and trees and for massive buildings with mech navigable interiors. Otherwise I like stacking height terrain too.

>>97783933
The elemental would lose, because elementals are just big. They don't enhance them with cybernetics, only applying them as replacements for lost body parts. An elemental with a robot arm will have that arm tuned to be as close to his original arm as possible. The commando can have a micro-flamethrower and armor in his cybernetic arm, with enough grip strength to break other people's arms.

>>97783929
This, I've been posting long enough I get a single challenge and usually I don't need to verify for almost an hour or two at a time after.

It unironically gets better.

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Guess who tripped and punched a hole in the pillar outside of the battletech tables :)

>>97784023
Burgermutt construction is fucking embarrassing.

>>97781605
Pure projection tbqh

>>97783929
I don't get that and i haven't cleared cookies for 4chan in a good long while. Hell I just had to jump through some friggen hoops because IP bans.

>>97783880
All of it.

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They have hidden my destruction

>>97784061
Snord, it gets bad enough, you just say so and I'll buy you a fucking pass. You've done great things for us and earned.

>>97784071
>facade over a broken facade
America in a single image.

>>97784061
>jump through some friggen hoops because IP bans.
That's what resets it.

>>97784075
I appreciate the offer but i'm good thank you.

>>97781956
Eh, Hextech generally feels pretty good for indicating hexes without strictly marking it out.
Cardboard buildings and standees are pretty obviously Alpha Strike stuff, so it naturally wouldn't be setup for a hex grid. Really hard to get the square or rectangles to look good on a hex grid, after all.

>>97784102
>>97784033
My thirdiebrown brother, this level of obsession cannot be healthy.

>>97784137
Cope.

>>97784131
The hill pieces made for the maps are usable, but just one mapsheet of those takes up more space than probably any single anons mech collection.

>>97784139
Someday your country will be able to afford spare facades and you'll look very silly.

>>97784170
Try to fall into a European pillar and you'll break your face.

>>97784185
>and you'll break your face.
And then you'd be waiting 10 years to get it fixed, no where is perfect

>>97784194
Maybe don't be so fat you can't see where you're putting your feet.

>>97784218
I'm not the guy that fell face first into some "pillar" at his LGS (why does his LGS have a hollow pillar in thefirst place) so i'm not a fatass. But you're probably a welfare baby since you're a third worldist europoor so we all have our faults

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>>97784226
Real men don't live in paper mache popsicle stick doll houses.
Punch my walls and you'll break your hand.

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>>97784257
>Real men don't-
live as welfare baby parasites but that's europe for ya!
>Punch my walls
I'd rather not be near you, but thanks for the offer!

>>97784280
That sounds like projection, NEET

>>97784237
>>97784246
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>>97784269
>Nova Cat, Jihad and colored Graphic Novels
>Celestial Force pack
>Maybe on BattleTroops
WE'RE SO BA-
>MW RPG Delayed
>No RPG conversions
>No MCIII or Blood Kite
FUCK

>>97784285
Evil, foreboding even

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What scheme is VSD's Prometheus supposed to be? I assume FedCrom RCTs but I don't recognize the Regimental Insignia which looks like a skeleton with a raised sword and shield

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Played the first 2 missions (sorry, sorties) or Scouring Sands today. Really good fun, the AI flows smooth and the missions are very thematic. Good shit.

>>97779198
As a Nova Cat, I'm a fan of Clanners who stuck to their guns even though it killed them. Blood Spirits, you guys are alright with me. Plus they made some excellent stuff (Stooping Hawk D is one of the most stupidly resilient zombie mechs I've ever come across) and went heavy into protomechs.

>>97780833
Tangential, but the rules rework getting rid of PSR for HGR isn't much fun.

>>97781101
Yeah it's not a great pick. It's just a bunch of boxes. It's fine, but definitely not posterchild material.

>>97784341
>Scouring Sands
Finally got a box for myself today, it's in the mail and I'm hyped. Finding one in Ireland was damn near impossible.

Newfag here. Can a lore master red pill me in QRD format on House Marik/Free worlds league in the lead up to the clan invasion?

>>97784362
As effective and united as WWI Austria Hungary. They can't make many PPCs due to limited factories but the ones they CAN make go into their seemingly favorite mech, the Awesome. They recently got out of a civil war between Janos and Anton Marik with Janos, the legitimate Captain-General, winning. Purple Bird :)

>>97784369
Thank u

>>97783448
>2 videos to tell you that you can't take a Huntsman

>>97784374
NP, the FWL is also made up of many constituent states so it's ripe for /yourdudes/ imo

>>97784382
The three you always have to watch out for are Regulans, Anduriens, and Silver Hawks. Regulans are hotheads who get real angry, Anduriens have never seen a back they wouldn't stab, and Silver Hawks act first and think never.

>>97784382
I stick with Steiner, they pay better.

>>97784382
with Marian and Canopus nearby no less

>>97784259
>The 3250 Timeskip was planned but will be changed
Thank fuck. We only just got past the consequences of an 80 year Timeskip, we'd be back to square 1 with a 100 year jump.

Stop me if I'm wrong.

But a survival crafting game,

But you can build and manage your Battlemech and scavenge for supplies.

Recruit a lance and build your base.

>>97784491
There’s already something like that.

It’s called: “survival: Alien Dawn”

>>97784491
Maybe on a shitheap world like Antallos, but survival crafting is so played out that it's an immediate no from me.

>>97784513
>survival: Alien Dawn
Nope, First Person style shooter you can board your mech destroy buildings or go on foot and explore them. Scavenge destroyed battlemechs and restore them back to working order.

Work with your friends as a lance or go solo.

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Hmmm new Solaris season at the lgs what style should I go for.

I picked. Brigand again for my starting mech, a boring pick yes but you gotta understand at 6/9/6 with dhs and 2 er med and 2 mpl its suuuuch a good mech for racking up the cash and points in the early couple rounds before everything opens up more you get a nice pile to basicaly build whatever build you actually want for the rest of the season. 10/10 mech for that reason alone

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>>97784491
RTS styled like Emperor: Battle for Dune
The Great Houses' Mechs must march.
>>97784551
Whenever playing Solaris, I always get into the spirit of things and go Melee. Up close and personal.

>>97784641
>RTS styled like Emperor: Battle for Dune
>The Great Houses' Mechs must march.
Based

>>97783502
Check the Coterie. They were a "Waco-style" cult.

>>97784695
Waco wasn't cult (well, no more than any christcuck) they were just a family that didn't want to be meddled with by zog.

>>97784721
And as such, had to be exterminated.

Just like any country that do3snt want to have a
>central bank (rothschilds)
running it and subordinating it to the
>'international bank of monetary settlements'(rothschilds)
...
...

See; LIBYA.
Nothing that shit Gaddafi did was evil ENOUGH for the world to do anything about.
But then he tried to get Libya off the central bank system. So Hillary Klanton had the fuck exterminated. And now Libya is the world's biggest open air slave market.

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>>97783296
You have clearly never had to deal with an Ion Sparrow, or any of the other partial wing jumpers, all of which can easily hit high AMM's plus jump into cover with no penalty AND pack a ton of firepower. From experience, it sucks, and you can throw dozens of shots and not hit once whilst they carve you up.

My LGS is having a strange escalation style tourney next month so I have a question. What exactly falls under "Introductory" level rules? Do vehicles? Cuz round 1 of the tourney is 3025 Introductory level rules at 2,600 BV, which is like two mechs. I'm thinking of taking tanks if I can instead.

>>97784721
>>97784800
>da joooooos
109.....yet nothing changed. You /pol/worms have yet to explain.

>>97784899
Introductory rules are basically what's in AGoAC. ACs, lasers, PPC, LRM, SRM, no prefixes or suffixes for any of them. Standard engines, standard armor, standard structure, standard gyro, standard jump jets.

>>97784939
Darn, I wanted to run a shreck :(

>>97783296
Even if they're trashing their own hits they're still on average hitting far more often with pulse lasers than you're going to be able to hit them. It's not so much a stall tactic as they can pick the lightest thing you have, pick it to pieces and mathematically never take a reprisal kill.

Objective play and stuff can cut down on it some; so long as the objective isn't football (guess what else a mech that flies so fast it practically teleports is good at doing?), but its still rough. What's commonly attributed to LAMs is what IJJ Partial Wings do without any fiddly rules or magical exceptions directly intended to nerf them.

Basically do not play with people spamming these with high skill pilots.

>>97784899
Yeah intro rules are basically what comes in the starter box and nothing else.
>instead
Do not do that. If you like tanks take some tanks but take at least one mech or you're going to regret it.

>>97784954
>but take at least one mech or you're going to regret it.
Me and my buddies have concocted that two 3/4 Charger 1L is like 12 BV under the limit so I'm going with that for round 1. Round 2 is 3055 so I have more wiggle room

>>97784864
>amm
This is, one of, if not THE most infuriating mechanics of Battletech, you're telling me that with fucking LASERS you can't hit targets less than a kilometer away? Motherfucker in MW5/MWO that AMM bullshit goes right out the window the second a LBX or Streak comes into view.

>>97784962
>you can't hit targets less than a kilometer away?
Friendly reminder that table top ranges are not real, and that MWO is a terrible representation of the setting.

>>97784864
>Ion Sparrow
Shit, is this one really that bad? I had an STL for it already and was going to print one for a Jade Falcon star. I was planning on running it as the one with the MG arrays but if it’s that miserable to play against I will likely reconsider.

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Just finished painting 2 Urbies for the Capellan Federation (will base when i get home). Wat do?

>>97785039
It's probably the least offensive variant, given the fairly lackluster firepower, but having a +5 defense mod on tap is pretty gnarly.

>>97785039
As long as you don't blow its pilot up to godly levels I don't think anyone is going to turn down a game over a single ion sparrow, but if you slapped 3 Cs on the table people are going to start having questions.

>>97783824
If it weren't for Bill Clinton the ATF would have disappeared. The ATF, from it's very inception was a unconstitutional and outright treasonous act.

>>97784864
Ion Sparrow is strong, certainly. But it's got a Jump of 10. A Phoenix Hawk LAM's Airmech mode is 15/23, and a Wasp LAM's Airmech is 18/27, and that's with limited heat cost.

>>97785203
And turning costs. And height change costs. And double movement cost for each hex if they aren't exactly one hex above the ground. And without the default ability to punch their WiGE movement into overdrive that all regular WiGEs have but LAMs don't. And with all the optional air skidding rules in play even if they're turned off for normal WiGEs (implying anyone ever plays with normal WiGEs).

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“My Brother in Kerensky! I swear these Word of Blake Zealots get nuttier every time I run into them”
- unknown Jade Falcon Mechwarrior

When I got ahold of a few Gothic salvage boxes, the Wobbies were the only ones in the Prime timeline I could see dressing up battlemechs into walking chapels.

>>97785227
Not the Knights Defensor?

>>97785217
Oh certainly, there's all that to nerf them. Doesn't stop the raw numbers often meaning:
>I win initiative, it is behind all of your mechs and what few might be able to get a shot due to Rifleman or extended torso twist abilities have a really hard to hit modifier
>I lose initiative, it is on the other side of the map out of range of all but your longest range guns and a hard to hit modifier on top of the range penalty.

>>97785227
SOME of the Gothic aesthetic is pretty fucking neat, the Atlas, King Crab, Phoenix Hawk, and Urbanmech are legitimately good designs.
>everything else
WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK IS THAT RIFLEMAN!?

>>97785230
… nah. The knights seem too much like the Swiss Guard. Devout, dedicated, loyal, but with two feet firmly planted on the ground.

Wobbies are absolutely lost in the sauce.

>>97785253
> WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK IS THAT RIFLEMAN!?

To be 100% honest, probably the most menacing Riflemen I’ve ever seen.

>>97785227
I can see some pirates going for a few of the aesthetics, if instead of gold you do something like turn the crenelation-like bits into bloody spikes and the like.

>>97785267
Their leader piloted a golden Regent until he got promoted to pope.

>>97785247
If it expends 5 MP or more (spoiler, all WiGE must expend at least 5 MP in every turn or they land or crash), it has to make a PSR at +4 (or worse, best case scenario of a medium LAM on a bright sunny day is +4) for every hex face it wants to turn without also moving forward at least one or two hexes. Failure results can include wildly uncontrollable skidding and coming to a dead stop. An Ion Sparrow decides that being nine hexes in front of you isn't as good as being directly behind you, then it is directly behind you, facing your ass.

>>97785274
That’s why some people at my LGS referred to the regent as the “pope mobile”

Regardless I stand by what I said. The Knights Defensor would probably see the mechs as “equipment” and venerating them as moving chapels as something sacrilegious. Word of Blake just seems like the loons who would treat them this way.

Regent looks bad because its too skinny, exacerbated by its overly wide hips. It doesn't look its weight class.

>>97785282
And that's a truly golden +4. A LAM trying to pull a partial wing style assblast by going over your head and spinning to face you could be making two PSRs in a row at +8. No, that is not a typo. Plus. Eight. Swinging wide will still result in at least one. Swinging wide enough to not incur the wrath of a turn mode spurned will result in making multiple "you dared try to turn and move in flank mode" sideslip PSRs instead, because you're not doing that in Cruise.

>>97782155
>How one can, in an era of partial wing jumpers full of clantech that can dump huge amounts of damage downrange, claim an airmech LAM, that cannot pack half the firepower into its frame, is limited in weight, expends tons on transformation gear, and lacks anywhere near the flexibility, is overpowered, I do not know
Because fuck LAMs and fuck LAMfags. Anime doesn't belong in Battletech. Get your tranime shit out of our hobby.

>>97785417
Get some new material.

>>97785489
No. Kill yourself.

>>97785271
Yeah, but the pilot can't see shit, and the whole purpose of a Rifleman is to shoot once, overheat, and die.

>>97785509
Normally, and I agree that the Rifleman normally is… well… hot garbage.

But I have that one listed as a 5CS (which ComStar was using circa invasion era) so…

It’s somewhat more capable than a rifleman has any right to be.

>>97781095
Cool! I only started recently myself
What map issat?

>>97785563
It's from the "alien worlds" map pack

>>97781002
This man had an apocalyptic meltdown when Valk was removed from the DEMO team for being a complete fucking nightmare to the brand to the point she was getting people to send hourly emails to TOPPS demanding why they support a tranny threatening to bring a loaded firearm to a family evdnt. He threatened to quit battletech forever and was told "Fine. Quit." And then he quietly remained a battletech creator because his ego permits nothing else.

>>97785547
>mech designs
It's honestly baffling how many mechs are simply unusable, not suboptimal or even clumsy but flat out suicidal to use. Even in it's given role of antiaircraft it's terrible, and the setting wants you to believe that these mechs have served for centuries?

>>97785625

I remember that shit lmao.

The fact that there are people sho are allegedly "in" with the CGL leadership and don't act like they aren't money hungry gypsies that'd sell your mother for a porch...

>>97785417
I know you think you're being funny, but take a chance on doing something genuinely or taking a real interest in something sometime. We only have so much time on this planet and I'd hate for you to look back on this and regret it.

>>97784982
>it's not real
Then 2/3 of the available weapons suddenly become useless. MWO is the most realistic depiction of Battletech.

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>>97785731
>MWO is the most realistic depiction of Battletech.

Because it's the only MechWarrior game to have every single type of combat weapon, right?

>>97785639
> Even in its given role of antiaircraft it's terrible, and the setting wants you to believe that these mechs have served for centuries?
Much like the charger, a lot of mech designs that “served” for centuries throughout the succession wars, really didn’t serve as you would apply that term. More accurately, they were pushed to the very back of the motor pool and quietly forgotten, and only started seeing real battlefield use as reserves ran low and the great houses had to resort to “throw whatever’s left at the front and figure it out” type strategies.

Basically they served because all the actually “good” mech designs got blown up already.

Ironically this was what made ComStar & WoB so damn scary to fight. They still had all those actually good mechs from the star league era everyone thought were long gone.

Ironically, if the Clanners hadn’t settled into the IS, and their “even more advanced than Star League era” tech wasn’t starting to disseminate into the other factions, the Jihad would’ve been an even bigger disaster for the houses.

>>97785771
MWO? Still don't have Rifles, Chem Lasers, Meele, Infernos.... am I missing something?

>>97785625
If it's the same thing I'm remembering, Valk wasn't the one who was getting people to send in emails it was Minis and Dumbbells doing it about Valk. All Valk did was laugh because they know exactly what the gun laws are and never planned to take one anyway.

>>97784982
Ironically if you were afflicted with the same mechanical difficulties of aiming and hitting targets in MWO as in the fluff the abstracted ranges would be a lot more reasonable.
Like real life accuracy was pathetic enough even in tank on tank engagements before they were able to put computers in the things that did the gunner's job for him, there's no way anyone would be hitting shit if they have to eyeball everything while their target is effectively dancing constantly.
>all of your controls feel like they're submerged in molasses and the atlas is juking like shaq and you're gunning based on vibe so it really is a 50/50 whether you'll hit him with an AC/20 under 100 meters

>>97785788
Beggars cannot be choosers anon. A lot of "bad" mechs served in a very serious sense because that is what mechwarriors had. Remember also that Battletech's history is not a series of BV matched 1v1s; some mechs were very effective on battlefields completely devoid of other mechs and were workhorses in that role. The inexpensive nature of the Locust and the Urbanmech saw both pushed into frontline service with tiny garrisons (and large police precincts) where HAVING the Battlemech was doing its job. The Charger too was saved from obscurity from having been built and ready at a bargain price when the DCMS needed beef for their thinned out formations.

Also a lot of value judgements made by players are irrelevant to the mech's actual service in universe; and a good thing too, a lot of players are very bad at judging mechs objectively outside a very narrow competitive context.

>>97785639
There's a titanic disconnect between the fluff and the crunch.
The most obvious example is that no mech that carries ammo is going to exist for more than a few battles when any shot can randomly TAC ammo and the mech instantly ceases to be. Another being the mackie wouldn't be all that tough wading through entire companies of armor and infantry if a platoon of men can shred the fucking thing with their AR's alone.
There's no way to completely reconcile the two, battletech the setting and battletech the game are simply not the same thing, they're merely related. Headcanon the game as a not entirely accurate in-universe wargame or something.

>>97785788
>Jihad
I'm honestly shocked that they didn't do more damage. If anything the WOB should have had BETTER technology than the Clans, shit that would make the Society call them hax. Shit like Rotery AC10/20's, UltraLBX, UltraGuass, Multilasers (Rotery lasers, ER and P) Phased Plasma Rifles (essentially ER Plasma Rifles with no ammo) Arrow V's, and sonic electronic ball busters.

>>97785830
> Also a lot of value judgements made by players are irrelevant to the mech's actual service in universe; and a good thing too, a lot of players are very bad at judging mechs objectively outside a very narrow competitive context.
Yeah, I know. I was, seemingly, one of the first players at my LGS to start incorporating infantry (or even battle armor) into my battle forces and it was honestly weird to see players genuinely not know what to do about them as all the mechs they took were geared to fight other mechs.

>>97785843
>TAC's
Are fucking stupid. Unless you're rocking above 10 damage weapons, AP, or tandam warheads, just somehow phasing through the fucking armor BY RANDOM CHANCE is levels of bullshit that I expect out of GW.

>>97785866
>infantry
I'm kind of torn on infantry. On one hand the ability to just magdump spess AK/AR/G/FAL's into a armored vehicle and cause appreciable damage is goofy as fuck, but at the same time a bunch of PBI doing Agincourt Reenactment to a Mechwarrior is really fucking cool.

>>97785872
THIS. no tacs at my table. you EARN your fucking armour penetration.

also, fuck insta-lawndarting. PSR's to avoid crashing must be made much harder to inflict.

>>97785417
eat all the penis, Herb you faglord. LAM's are cool.

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>>97785892
>insta lawndarting
The mental image of a ASF pilot being such a premadonna that their precious fighter got scratched (ASF pilots are even more rare than Mechwarriors) that they have full on Russian Minecraft Kid nervous breakdown and kill themselves will never not make me laugh.
>meanwhile in real life
>one wing and one engine? idgaf

>>97785914
On the flip side you had that F-35 that crashed because of contaminated hydraulic fluid. So real life fighters are also one malfunction from lawndarts.

>>97785884
If it worked the same in universe that all you needed to defeat a mech was to magdump it with your AR-15, mechs(and all armored vehicles really) would kind of just be walking jokes pretending to be war machines.
Also, longbows overwhelmingly did next to nothing to contemporary heavy armor, the french being defeated more by trying to wade through hundreds of feet of mud that could defeat their warhorses, not to mention a moderately burdened man on foot.

>>97785914
don't forget the guy in his crusader?
>Oh? I forgot to fold the wings down before takeoff? sorry, I didn't notice. doo dee doo, let me go round, land again, fold the wings and take off again. sorry. I'll remember to have wings next time.

>>97785933
>hydraulic fluid
Anon that's a critical function.

>>97785933
that's not real life fighters, that's the f35 being a horribly shit fucking mega-tarded, MIC pork-barrelling, boondoggle made of fuck.

they still have yet to come up with any scenario in which the cannon they made for and mounted to the f-35 would have any use case at all. at all.

think about that shit. the fucking gun alone is hundreds of millions of dollars of RnD... and they have no fucking clue how it would ever be of fucking use at all.

>>97785933
>So real life fighters are also one malfunction from lawndarts
They're really not most of the time, they're actually exceptional when particular models acquire a reputation for crashing often for one reason or another. Not having a high chance of nosediving into the ground because a .22 plinked off the engine cowling is pretty common across most combat aircraft since pretty much the beginning of fixed wing combat aircraft.

>>97785942
>the plate armor vs longbow again
Anon a knight simply couldn't be covered in full plate, but longbows would absolutely go through chainmail and helmets.

>>97785952
>still spouting this garbage
Retard.

>>97785963
>Anon a knight simply couldn't be covered in full plate
Most of them were wealthy enough to be so well covered as to be almost completely safe from killing blows or even wounding shots from longbows, many of them being protected enough that they willingly went without shields entirely. And the overwhelming majority of the french forces did reach the english line, they were just debilitated by the muddy trek and were an easy fight for the fresh english.
>but longbows would absolutely go through chainmail and helmets
Any decent helmet is stopping a longbow's arrow most of the time, it's not like they arbitrarily decides all of their helmets should be made out of thin steel of inferior quality.
The battle was decided up close, not by the french melee troops being cut down in swathes at range.

>>97780920
>>97780965
Going to pick up the CR, but I give literally no fucks about the Starter Box or the big box. All the 'mechs suck or I already have them.

>>97783343
Didn't occur to the one Kai Allard-Liao choked out.

>>97783373
Sven for lore, Wargamer Stories and DFA for batreps.

>>97783702
There are far more egregious mutants at CGL than Randall that need banishing

>>97783081
So dies this mean air assets are suddenly going to be important beyond battlefield support?
t. owns 4 Shilones and 6 Visigoths so far

>>97785048
Decals

>>97786027
It's crazy that kai could canonically beat an actual gorilla in hand to hand combat.