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I have stolen you're Butte Hold.
>>97916130>>97916152I'm having the most fun I have had with a tabletop game in years with Mechwarrior. The game me and my mate did last night was crazy fun, very tense with a lot of back and forth between units. I genuinely think people saying it's shit are just repeating a stupid opinion their favourite SlopTuber drooled out lol
Red pill me on the Steel Wolves. Are they cool?
>>97916161It's the most fun you can possibly have
>>97916161>I genuinely think people saying it's shit are just repeating a stupid opinion their favourite SlopTuber drooled out lolYou can enjoy your dead collectible gacha game all you want, I don't care. But the minis look like melted ass and it's not classic so I say it's shit, no e-celeb endorsement necessary. Blind boxes, artificial scarcity, and simplification to appeal to a lower age range are not things I care for in a game.
>>97916169They're pretty sweet. Hardcore Dark Age Clanners that try to found a new Clan, bash it out with Highlanders, invade Terra, battle the Falcons during their Desant and fight like viscous bastards on Irian. Cool colour scheme. Anastasia Kerensky is cool.I like them :)They're a faction I'd like to paint and play but I've been unlucky in Mechwarrior and only have 4 Steel Wolves tanks thus far and in Classic and AS I'm playing WoB and RotS.
>>97916181Ok buddy.
>>97916154
Does anyone have a high quality scan of Mechwarrior Technology of Destruction book? The one I found online was poopoo quality.
>>97916185Sick, a SW star would work with what you have for Classic. My buddy that is teaching me Clickytech is convinced that I like them for some reason and gave me two named characters to start so I'm going all in. I was pretty sure I told him I played Liao lol
>>97916169They're probably the clan force I'd paint up if I ever wanted a Clans force. They've a cool storyline and their scheme is interesting. Darkish brown and bright silver is fairly unique. Plus, one of my usual opponents plays Highlanders so it'd be a fluffly af faction to fight him with as the SW invade Northwind twice.
Best location to put the JJs: legs or torsos?
>>97916249Torsos if you can, if you wade into water anything under depth 1 you cannot use for jumping.
Continuing on from themes at the end of last thread:Hating on MechWarrior: Dark Age (“ClickyTech”) has become a meme rebroadcasted mostly by people who actually have no firsthand experience of it either when it was being produced or afterward. This is painfully annoying.That said, there are some big problems with the game even before you dig into the rules. Younger people probably don’t have a good sense the massive trauma Magic: The Gathering inflicted on the tabletop industry. One result was an obsession with the random, blind buy “collectible” format for selling product, and WizKids was basically founded on the idea of selling miniatures games in this format.The collectible format entails that gambling-like thrill of “cracking packs” but also serious downsides, especially over the long term, both as a matter of player frustration as well as game design.>Difficulty assembling a faction-specific force>Tons of filler game pieces choking the design space/product line>Set retirement invalidating big portions of your collection in competitive playThis is all before even considering the actual Click mechanic and other rules, which have their own problems. But these elements also had their upsides, in terms of accessibility and ease of play.Overall, it’s important to keep two points in mind:>Evaluating ClickyTech as a product range is a very different thing from evaluating ClickyTech as a game. Yes, they’re inextricably intertwined. But the greatest sin of MechWarrior Dark Age is not a matter of its game mechanics; rather it’s the collectible format.>The product line/game should also not be conflated with the Dark Age as a matter of the wider BattleTech setting. Even if you conclude that ClickyTech was and remains a piece of shit, don’t assume the in-universe era is therefore also shit.
HONOR THE DRAGON!
>>97916256Like 90% of the problems people have with MW:Dark Ag is simple: You need minis with dials to play, which means you're grabbing lots of blind-box out of print minis; which are not only out of scale with your normal minis but frankly just not very good looking.Ugly, incompatible and discontinued are big obstacles to overcome. Not only that DA mechs and BA and so on have not only IWM official sculpts that you can buy, but prints are also extremely easy to access. You don't need to play MW:DA to play DA and a lot of people therefore simply don't want.I think its performative to rag on it all the time; but it's mostly just a dead curiosity like a butterfly pinned in a box. I don't mind seeing it in the thread every once in a while, but I would find it really annoying if it got spammed regularly. It's something that's impossible to engage with beyond the surface.I got no MW:DA minis; but I do have "Mercenary Battle Armor", at least as they are now in the form of Black Wolf BA. Mine aren't painted yet so you're gonna have to settle with a promotional shot.
Questions about this map:1. Do we have better version so I can read small print?2. Dose periphery brown spots have names?3. Why magistracy feminine penis is in Martian space? Also how they managed to grow so big compared to Taurians? Gurl power perhaps?
>>979163193152 map in ilKhan's Eyes OnlyYes. Pic relatedMarians invaded MoC but is being counterattacked; The Taurians had civil war+MoC systems are spread out and sparce so the 'color' on the map looks bigger
Would the Clans have been better if they were based off the Meltrandi?
>>97916389If only the Society made Superheavy Elementals with size of the Protomechs
>>97916243>They're probably the clan force I'd paint up if I ever wanted a Clans force.I'm increasingly concerned that mine might be The Society.
>>97916337Thx. Is that book worth buying if I'm new and want info or should I get ilclan book instead?
Is it bravery, foolishness or arrogance that makes a man face down a Battlemech in Battle Armor?
>>97916455>I'm increasingly concerned that mine might be The SocietyBased.
>LAMs will never work!>Why?>Because they cant use any weight saving tech!>Why?>Because reasons! Now nuke all of them!Why was what's his face so pissed about LAMs?
>>97916566Because he's a retard.
>>97916566Transforming doesn't jive well with 'mechs that use an endoskeleton lashed together with myomer muscles.>b-but muh Macross!Fuck off, dweeb, that shit was alien magic.
>>97916576>because reasonsAgain, no good reasons why they shouldn't work. Now xl engines? Depends on how the transformation works. So, it might be a by chassis basis.
>>97916576>Fuck off, dweeb, that shit was alien magic.Trying Too Hard
>>97916243>as the SW invade Northwind twice.They also had the balls (stupidity?) to put boots on Terra in a mad bid for Ilclan-ship.
>>97916582>Again, no good reasons why they shouldn't work.I just gave you one, and engines have nothing to do with it.
>>97916576Four out of five of the QuadVees have endosteel.
>>97916566Yet he gives us the partial wing?
>>97916309>UglyA lot of the MWDA models are ugly, it’s true. But so are many of the IWM models. The truth is, a BattleTech fan can find this stuff charming. >IncompatibleShrug? MWDA models are not and were never really meant to support Classic BattleTech, so far as I can tell. MWDA is its own gaming system so whether there is cross-compatibility of components with CBT (or AS) is just irrelevant.>DiscontinuedThis is what makes MWDA interesting nowadays. It represents a bygone era. For better or worse, it’s part of BattleTech’s history. The game is especially interesting for fully integrating vehicles and infantry by default, not to mention introducing neat stuff like civilian ‘Mechs pressed into military to military service.>I would find it really annoying if it got spammed regularly.Why? This is BattleTech General and MWDA is BattleTech. It’d be best to save your health and sanity for more meaningful irritations.>>97916499Give me the details, lancemate. What happened here?
>>97916389After the death of his father, Nicholas Kerensky and his loyal harem flee the Pentagon Worlds. In exile, Nicholas conceives of a new society drawing from Mongolian traditions and niche kinks of ancient Terra. Twenty years later, he returns at the head of armies composed of later with 8-meter-tall female warriors and conquers the rebellious planets in a campaign known as Operation GIANTESS.But one of Nicholas’s most ambitious followers, Khancubine Sarah McEvedy, grows disenchanted with Nicholas’s fetish and secretly creates her own force of 10-meter-tall male warriors. For her perverted crimes, she and her followers are abjured and Nicholas calls a Trial of Annihilation against them. McEvedy and some of her followers escape, possibly back to the Inner Sphere. Even two hundred years later, even the mention of giant men drive the Clan Giantesses into a obsessive rage.
Does anyone know which ‘Mech this represents? I was thinking Opossum but the missile rack is throwing me off.
>>97916648partial wing, ijj clan pulse boats that bring back the very worst of lamfaggotry waac-tardation he supposedly hates...
furthermore, partial wing, ijj, pulse boats that benefit from all the weight savings of clan xlfe and endo to pack in massive ammounts of clpl and cmpl spam with shit like targeting computers or angel fucking ecm and watchdog cews bla bla bla to be a billion times worse than lams ever were...
>>97916760Its a case of>its ok when I do it
>>97916744Fortress sells it as "IndustrialMech with Variant Arm", I guess it represents nothing except itself.
>>97916744>>97916808I am thinking it’s a Carbine CON-9M-J.
>>97916733>McEvedy and some of her followers escape, possibly back to the Inner Sphere.Would explain how the WoB got the technology!
>>97916159
>>97916873
>>97916860Is it that time again?
>>97916882No. Post 'mechs.
>>97916925That's not a mech that's a 55 ton walking pile of disappointment produced in a factory of sadness!
>>97916925Hunch: onlineHunch: onlineAll systems: hunching
Trying to figure out if these guys are done (minus basing).
>>97916991Kill yourself fat faggot
>>97917030Rude
>>97916154>The Falcon Descends! EditionFuck yeah, I’ve got a Jade Hawk that just came off the printer last night that I’m going to start painting up today. Going for another Star of Falcons with a Black Lanner, Fire Falcon, Summoner, Jade Hawk, and Loki Mk II.
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>>97916973>That's not a mech that's a 55 ton walking pile of disappointment produced in a factory of sadness!Hmm, griffin?
>>97917020Look cool, now turn on the light for pictures pls.
>>97917079Posting my Falcons, one slot open and I was thinking Ion Sparrow but still not sure. Theme is all have jump.Also bases are yay or nay?
>>97917287> Also bases are yay or nay?Eh? Bases are fine.Where are your elementals? You’re gonna need elementals. Ask anyone who plays clan a lot, elementals are invaluable for clan builds.
>>97917287A heavy mech would round things out pretty well there I think. I’d go with a Summoner or Night Gyr if you want something that’s all-eras appropriate and keeps on the jump jets theme, but Jade Hawk, Flamberge, or even a Black Python would work if you want something a little rarer.
>>97917332You can use protomechs as initiative filler instead. Cheaper, faster and longer range than Battle armor. If BA counted for initiative when mounted up or at least kept their tmm when disembarking they'd be a lot more usable.
>>97917460They're only appropriate historically for a very small slice of the game, though.
>>97917493They come into use in the tail end of the clan invasion era and technically continue to be used by some clans all the way to ilclan.
>>97917540>continue to be used by some clans all the way to ilclan.Like who?
>>97917460They’re not just initiative filler, those cluster attacks they spam can pack quite a nasty punch. Plus the mere threat of swarming a mech can make some, less experienced, players act funny around them.But more importantly, they’re actually something in the clan arsenal that’s actually inexpensive, at least if you are using BV. Something that in smaller games becomes critical.
>>97917551Hell's horses and snow ravens.
>>97917568>>97917540Use by the Smoke Jaguars once, and then use by two irrrelevant clans who never do anything, is what I meant by "a small slice of the game"
>>97917573>two irrrelevant clans who never do anythingHey man you better watch it, all 3 of us Snow Raven players will get you
>>97917493>>97917540>>97917551>>97917568>>97917573>>97917582Gotta be honest, it took me too long to realize that you all were talking about Protomechs and not Elementals. Kinda had me thinking I’d gone crazy, or entered the Twilight Zone.
>>97917573They were used by the majority of clans that existed at some point or another by the time protomechs were invented, including jade falcon and steel viper.
>>97917566Not to mention that a point of elementals can be a goddamn pain in the ass to get rid of if you’re not packing the right gear.
>>97917566Protomechs are cheaper than a point of Battle Armor so the BV savings argument is incorrect.Noob stomping is not an aspiration most units or players should really be gunning for, let alone a unit that might do something maybe if they panic and make a colossal mistake. The moment your opponents graduate from gullible idiots who don't know wtf they're doing this argument goes right in the bin.Battle armor can admittedly do decent damage if they A) get there in the first place, B) survive in range long enough to matter.
>>97917605Hang on. My understanding of Protomechs was that they were a extreme stop-gap measure Clan Smoke Jaguar concocted and deployed following Tukayyid because their numbers were too depleted to spam elementals anymore, and no longer had (or likely never did have) the industry to quickly replace all the ‘mechs they’d lost. So they developed the protomech as something in between battle armor and a ‘mech that they could produce in large numbers.But never fully gained popularity among the other clans because they encapsulated the worst aspects of both mechs and battle armor, plus adding new problems unique to the protomech.
>>97917647Yes, but the majority of clans ended up using them anyway before their popularity fell off.
>>97917079These look great! Very dangerous!>>97917287Love these too!>>97917281Eh you can see them well enough. Fun to see 32nd-century Omega Galaxy rocking around in a Coyotl.
>>97917632> Battle armor can admittedly do decent damage if they A) get there in the first place, B) survive in range long enough to matter.That’s why you put them on your fastest omnimech and run that fucker over to prime tactical positions as fast as you can.
>>97917662Of course, but now they aren't serving as an initiative sink and have to spend a full turn at +0 TMM before they can even shoot.You can't claim you're taking them for a cheap BV initiative filler and carry them around on an omni.
>fusion engines get heavier as they get more powerful>not bigger, just heavier
>>97917714They technically do get bigger if they exceed a rating of 400.
>>97917714The engine is almost the exact same size, but the shielding around it gets denser and denser to keep it contained. XL engines are also almost the exact same size, but use a lot more of much less dense shielding.
>>97917710>fling your jump 7+ mech as far up the board as you can on turn 1>drop elementals into trees or behind a hillTurn one is the designated “nobody hits anything” turn, you really don’t need to initiative sink that badly on the first turn of the game since everything will be happening at long range and probably with high TMMs. You should be able to have the elementals in position by turn 2 at the latest, which should leave plenty of game time for them to sink initiative and clog up board space.
>>97917710> You can't claim you're taking them for a cheap BV initiative filler and carry them around on an omni.I’m not. I’m taking them to wreck shit at an affordable BV so I can field more than 2 points of stuff against, what is likely, a reinforced Lance kitted to the nines. You picking up what I’m putting down?
>>97917714Ngl an xxxl engine that fills the torsos and reaches into the limbs would be funny. If for no other reason than how terrifying an 8/12 charger with masc and supercharger would be.
>>97917742Yeah, this is why I always insist that having more crit spaces doesn’t mean the equipment is “bigger” just that it’s more delicate and finicky. I know some of you are saying “no shit, Sherlock” but I have met people who genuinely equate: more crit spaces=bigger equipment. And will do all kinds of logical backflips to explain why an XL engine is bigger than a standard engine despite being lighter.
>>97917742And it costs a quarter of a billion c-bills, generates 10 heat standing still and 15 on a walk, and dies as soon as anything looks at it funny.
>>97917762XLs take up space in the side torsos where a standard engine does not, it literally is physically larger.
>>97917734If you are 7+ tiles up the board even the IS is in medium or close range if they want to be which they probably will if you're dropping elementals off that aggressively.Oh well, I suppose if you run a star of elementals it probably works due to target saturation. I should see if 5+ elemental/omni drops works on turn 1.
>>97917810That’s why you dump them behind level 1 hills. The carrier mech moved 7+ at a jump and is probably sitting at +4 TMM, and the elementals should be out of LoS because they can get full cover from a single level 1 hill. Next turn you can jump the elementals around as usual so they don’t get shot up as easily on the drop-off turn.
>>97917573And the Society, and the Word of Blake, and the Homeworld Clans.
>>97917835The way this conversation is going, I think the root problem is that anon doesn’t know how to use battle armor.
I'm starting to really like the Ilclan era. Chuds and chudites, please help. I don't want it to end like this. Not like this...
>>97917929It's just dark age+ man I don't get it.
>>97917658Are you seriously suggesting that the Clans are so dense that every single clan had to devote time, resources, and manpower to field a Star or more of Protomechs to learn that they were shit? That not a single khan was capable of observing them being fielded in other Clans and draw the conclusion on their own: “hey these things seem to be shit, I’m probably better off not bothering with them”?… don’t answer that.
Should 'PPC on the HD' trigger the Forced Withdrawal?
>>97917936Trying Too Hard
>>9791774250% of post ilclan clan mechs will use this, that and Improved Heavy ER Pulse Lasers.
>>97917950>This revolutionary new standard of mech costs 5000bv and loses to two Urbies and a spunky VTOL but is 0.1% better in 1v1sYeah that sounds like clanners to me.
>>97917936Well it wasn't every single clan, but most of them did.Smoke jaguar, blood spirit, goliath scorpion, jade falcon, steel viper, coyote, cloud cobra, fire mandrill, hell's horses, ice hellion and snow raven.Protomechs were still in widespread use by the clans as late as the jihad, with their popularity falling off sharply after that, nova cat using them briefly longer, goliath scorpion using them all the way into the dark age, and hell's horses and snow raven never ceasing their production and deployment.
>>97917079>>97917287Oh I forgot to post my original emerald stravags
>>97916656>Give me the details, lancemate. What happened here?After fighting my Dragon's Fury Shiro in melee, the heavily damaged Spirit Cats Warhammer IIC backed away across the board to put some distance between him and the weeb mech. After pushing his mech, activating it again at the cost of more heat, he shot my Shiro and managed to deal a good amount of damage. I pushed my formation of Purifier and Infiltrator MKII Battle Armour infantry forward, ignoring his tank and BA, to get more shots on the crippled mech hoping to kill it. While I did a some damage to it, ignoring his non-mech units meant my lads were left standing in the face of numerous Gray Death and Purifier units who had not activated. The resulting shooting attacks from my opponent shredded my infantry and I lost many bases of Battle Armor. It was worth it though. While many proud daughters of the Amaterasu were gunned down in the name of the Dragon, the damage dealt to the Warhammer IIC meant the next attack finally brought it down.
>>97918030The infantry side of the match was a fucking meat grinder from beginning to end. Trike Squads blasted to dust by the Warhammer, bases of BA smacking the shit out of each other all across the left side of the board, my Shiro carving a path through squads of infantry with his ability to divide 5 damage between three targets per turn and so on.
>>97918030>Spirit Cats>>97918023>nova catNEVER TRUST A CAT!
Still not 100% done, but really liken how these came out
>>97917936Protomechs aren't actually shit and had huge potential if it was expanded on.The Society made great leaps and bounds with Protomech technology.
>>97917989Actually within the correct and honorable range band its a whole 2.5% better
>>97918086They seem like a concept that was given up on game design wise.
>>97918109Not really, but ok.
>>97918120Im glad you agree.
Alright lads, need your guidance.I have an idea of a campaign set on a true backwater scale where, centered on infantry platoons but including some small very simple vehicles.But I’m not quite sure what to think about really small vehicles like picrel, the Scout ATV. For example, a stand of infantry represents a platoon (4x 7-man squads) … but does picrel represent a single ATV?Like one single man driving a glorified dirtbike with a mounted heavy grenade launcher?
>>97918122I don't, but ok.
>>97918136Sorry forgot the pic —>>97918071They’re looking even better now! My latest are these >>97917020
>>97918140I know you do, you said so already.
>>97918147I didn't, but ok.
>>97918023True, the sharks never ran them.I assume they fell out of use because the mandatory DI present in protomeks as well as the number of replacement pilots amd meks they needed to fill a similar role to actual mech pilots surpassed even the Clans' low standards for battlefield life expectancy of a soldier.
>>97918149I know you did, you said so already.
>97918122>97918147>97918161Cringe
It's a bit odd that Hell's Horses don't have their own stupid horse quad protomech. It seems like that would be right up their alley even more than the flying horse chad.
>>97916337>Marians invaded MoC
>>97918181It isn't, but ok.
>97918120>97918140>97918149Also cringe what is wrong with you retards
>>97918202Marian's pretty much kiled any power they had when they sided with the Wobbies.
>>97918262You get what you pay for.
>>97918264Was that before or after they digested the Lothian League?
>>97918264>lorelet
>>97918264I'm here for a good time, not a long time, anon.
They should really have made Davion's main color scheme yellow, instead of green or blue with stripes and shits
>>97917332I don't have any, yet.>>97917403I have Summoner and Python and I like later more, gotta try making list with him.>>97917660Thx, but you asked what to add and it's hard to say for me when they are this dark.>>97918027Nice, give out toxic frog vibe.
>>97918537That's why the Dawn Guards are getting focus these days, they're a Davion unit who's actually yellow
Name this unit? I like this scheme very much.
>>97918548I'd say the 5th Crucis Lancers
My guess? The Final Annihilation that occurs in the Ilclan era will be the 3rd Star League wiping out the last of Clan Nova Cat in the Clan Protectorate and those who followed the Mystic Kisho into the stars.
>>97916154Is the flying mech an actual model? That looks sick.
>>97918611It's a Jade Hawk.
>>97918623FUCK that's not the image i meant to attach GOD damn it.
>>97918623>>97918630
>>97918611Jade Hawk. Is cool.
>>97917403Black Python dose indeed fit my point limit. Ty.Only problem is that they stopped using it for some fucking reason.Also I'm being tempted by Ravens, they too have cool bird mechs.
>>97918623>>97918630I can appreciate the feel of the older pieces, but I honestly think a lot of the mech proportions just look to wonky to my eye.
>>97918688even things that are more recent but still old also appeal to me
>>97918688The scale of that Elemental flying near the Atlas's knee is FUUUUUCKED lolLil' nigga be Protomech sized
>>97918577Fed suns, God damn.
>>97918688Who the fuck do you have to piss off to be the assigned a role in the infantry fighting in a battle involving multiple Atlas and Timber Wolves?
Sounds like a great story. Gotta start reading
>>97918710You have committed the grevious crime of: Not being born to wealth.
>>97918710>Here's your SMG, recruit. Now, go stand in the shadow of numerous metal gods of war that most interstellar nations would fight wars to possess.>Sorry, sir?>I said fuck you.
>>97918688>Atlas with LRM10 on LT and RTwhy is this not a thing
>>97916495go to the OP, look for a word there that rhymes with stove
>>97918710Not everyone has the kind of budget to field “oops, all mechs” divisions.Just look at the Reunification War
>>97918688A standard goy stepping onto a battlefield with numerous Atlas and TWolves fighting it out probably has worse chances of survival than someone standing directly infront of a detonating nuke lmao
>>97918710You go to war with the Infantry you have. Not the Mechs you want, at least until you manage to steal some mechs.
>>97918817Actually, you should read the TW chapter on infantry. They’re more effective than you might think
>>97918873Actually, you should learn to realise when something is a joke. It'll make you less of an insufferable cunt.
>>97918902Dude, chill.
I love Spirit Cats! :3
>>97918934Don’t you mean “Nova Cats”?
>>97918606My guess is Ravens, because they're almost out of control and represent a PR nightmare and threat to Alaric. They decided to glass an entire city after he asked them to "take care" of Daoshen and he has no real ability to stop them from taking the same kind of care with him. He could spin Bulldog II: Revengeance as a way to show that his star league is serious and that it's not just clanners playing dressup, because clanners wouldn't ever go after each other for something like that but a star league would.
>>97919008The final strike of Herb's warship hatred is to annihilate the Warship faction
>>97919008Also Alaric loves fucking over his allies and the Ravens have so far gone completely unfucked.
>>97919008>>97918606>>97919021>>97919025As long as the Hell's Horses endure I am happy :)
>>97917929I'm just waiting on Alaric to go mad with power and the corrupt decaying empire for the real ludo to begin.
>>97919039This is a reference to something. But for the life of me I don’t know what
>>97919060NOBODYTELLHIM!
>>97919084cast him in
>>97918766>>Atlas with LRM10 on LT and RT>why is this not a thingIt's actually the LRM20, some Atlas depictions it is split between LT and RT. I think Mechwarrior 3 had it that way in the intro cinematic.
>>97919060>he doesn't know
>>97917074Right? That's almost as rude as posting nudes on a gaming forum in a discussion thread about tactical turn based stompy robot fights.Kill yourself
>>97919142>That's almost as rude as posting nudes on a gaming forum in a discussion thread about tactical turn based stompy robot fights.Wtf?
>>97919114Few know the truth.
>>97916169> redpillWhat is this, 2016? Grow a pair of balls and learn how to talk like a person. Your faggotry is more welcomed by Succession Wars players
>>97919060Legacy of Kain
>>97917929Besides that pants oh head retarded plot to actually make the Wolves win the battle the new era is fine. It is the "dog actually catches the tail and doesn't know what to do".I'll forever hate whoever wrote the JF invasion of South America. They don't have the ability to check a map and see that Amazon is 3000 km away From São Paulo
People always say they dont like my photos, idk why
>>97919271Do you live in Antarctica?
My Crusader from last thread in a better scene
>>97918606My guess is the clan Wolf itself. The first clanners to actually set foot in Terra are the Smoke Jaguars and they didn't use this plot yet besides the novel it reveals it.The Third League is also being placed as totally opposed to the current Clan Wolf. I can see the SL saying that the Wolves actually broke the law and must be annihilated
Working on an adhoc lance from left over mechs. Going to do a Shadowhawk next and not sure what the last lancemate will be. Thinking another medium
>>97919271>>97919279>Lego 3D terrainneat. might steal that
>>97919249>pants oh head retarded plot to actually make the Wolves win the battlecan you elaborate?
Thinking about getting some of the map packs printed out and I'm wondering about portability. Some people seem to suggest that you print stuff as an 18in. x 24in. poster and stored them rolled up in a poster tube, but that's bulky. I would like to keep them in a portfolio or something else I can throw in a backpack, which seems better for printing them on normal 8.5in x 11in. paper (but I'm told this fucks up the scale). What is the best way to make the maps portable, but still keep the right scale?
Steiner garrison forceI have been playing lots of games in the immediate leadup to the Clan Invasion, you get mostly SuccWar flavor but can sprinkle in a ln upgraded mech here and there for flavor's sake.It helps a lot of the early IS "upgrades" are straight up bad
FedCom elite task forceVery high BV lance but I made them as OpFor that the players would not want to have a protracted battle with for a campaign game. Pilots are 3/4 and leader in the Banshee is 2/2. Also a decent lance to bring against Clanners without needing to run a Level II or padding BV too much. All of those mechs get serious upgrades post Helm too.
WIP Purple Birds Have an Orion already, probably gonna toss in an Archer to round it out
>>97919145Tr00ns itt routinely post pr0n shit. And the mods and jannies, being ghey fag00ts, never do anything about it.
The family and I are moving to Utah come the end of May and was just wondering what the scene is like down there?
>>97919433What part?
>>97918071I see you went with reverse red arm gang.
>>97917929The best thing about the ilclan era is they're making sure everyone's favourite classics have really fucking neato ilclan era variants.
>>97919437Moving to North Salt Lake.
2 Handsome lads for Green Bird.
Imagine if, upon his day of coronation (or whatever big ceremony the clans do to mark the ascension of an Ilkhan) Alaric received among his gifts, a plush Wolverine and an attached message inside reading: “we lived bitch”.Think that might stir the pot a bit? Get a few jimmies rustled?
What does he pilot?
>>97919330Wolf and Jade Falco in 3150 are as small and weak as they've ever been but large portions of the narrative treats them attacking a larger force with equal technology in the most fortified place in the universe as if it's the second wave of the clan invasion.
>see the battleaxe mentioned a couple threads ago>get a hair up my ass and mess around with what a succ wars era junkyard special version of it would be>PPCs are expensive, ditch those>graft on the arm of a centurion-L with the large and small laser>toss an AC/5 in the other arm>drop the SRM 4>toss in a medium laser>bump it up to 16 heat sinks>10.5 tons of armor>accidentally made a zeus except 10 tons lighter I was going for intentionally sub-optimal weapon choices and still wound up here. I remember reading that someone from FASA did more or less the same with the Battlemaster.Engine weight scaling really is a mother fucker
>>97919554Also, just realized this, but by that time, the inner sphere would’ve been dealing with the clans, in one form or another, for a century. They’re not exactly going to be “mysterious” or “enigmatic” anymore. Basically, the houses would, by then, be fully aware of the clans, their history, their customs, their tactics, and their tech. So they should have at least developed some new tactics for fighting them that would counter some of their bullshit. Making fighting them more manageable
>>97919547Probably a Warhammer.
RED ARM GANGS REPRESENT
>>97919547Griffin.
What mech does The Lightbringer pilot though?
>>97919330NTA but realistically it should have been impossible to actually take Terra by just showing up in some ships and dropping mechs. Think about the amount of resources available to the Republic of the Sphere, the amount of time they had to prepare for an invasion the Clans have been talking about openly for more than a century, the entire scale of effort they would have put into defending the single most important location in the entire galaxy. Nukes would have been used.All kinds of bullshit electronic warfare shenanigans would have ensued. You cannot believe that the Republic was capable of setting up The Wall, considered destroying KF drives an acceptable price and had literally no fucking backup plans. No directed radiation weapons that would just cook pilots through their cockpit glass. No weather control devices to disrupt landing zones. No layers and layers of remote and automated defenses.Mechs would have been completely invalid as weapons at that point because the ships they arrived in would be slag before they even got past Luna.
>>97919145The fag posting pink mechs here did exactly that, so his cry of "rude" is hypocritical shit.
>>97919639Probably a Black Knight panted all white.He would call it the Lightbringer's White Knight or something weird.
>>97919661Doesn’t he already have a mech? I don’t know, it’s been years since I’ve watched one of his videos
>>97919713Most likely a Zord since he's a huge Power Rangers nerd.
>>97919754No, wasn’t like “metallo” or something? Some giant robot from a golden-age comic?
>>97919554Equal technology is being a bit generous when the most advanced and expensive mechs in the republic's arsenal only had partial clantech weapon loadouts, everything on the mechs besides those weapons being IS tech.
>>97919271>>97919282>>97919292>>97919345>>97919379>>97919388Bro. No judging your painting at all, we all could paint better, but turn your fucking flash off; or whatever maglight you're currently holding in your teeth that's blasting everything with hard shadows.It doesn't matter how good you paint them they will look like garbage if you're lighting them like they're a possum you found in your trashcans at 3am. If you have nothing better, get some light printer paper and use it as a ghetto diffuser.
>>97918071Hell yeah anon>>97918027Nice~! I think I'm gonna strip and repaint my pouncer in CJF as well>>97918141I suggest going with some 3d prints or... Whatever that 6mm irl wargame website that MCA got his vees from? They sell a lot of stuff that'll work for CBT.>>97919379your lighting is atrocious, very hard to parse these photos.>>97919653>Fan mailHave a (You).I didn't even post >>97917074. lol? I haven't posted in btg in a while, yet the hatin' has been much more intense recently and Nazi-anon has been following me into /wip/ and has become easily identifiable as (one of the) "craftsperg" anons.... Also I'm not fat and I have been working out and my hips and butt are doing just fine. So hrmpf.
>>97919645I'm sorry can you point to the mech-scale microwave weapons, weather control systems and massive automated defense systems that the Sphere was supposed to have built? Like, obviously I'm not asking you to point to the empty space where they didn't exist, but like other examples in the lore of these things being made by comparable powers. See, cause so far as I know, only that last one even fucking exists in setting, unless you're proposing RotS was just going to build massive HPG arrays to irradiate large swaths of Terra at HYSTERICAL COSTS and EXTREME DAMAGE to the planet's biosphere.Not to mention the automated drone defenses you propose would have been extremely politically unpopular, given that the Republic was established in the place of the psychotic religious fundamentalists who used those kinds of defenses in the final desperate days of their reign; and before that the only other system of comparable scale is spoken of with the same kind of horrified reverence as the boogieman, as these AI systems spiraled out of control and became threats to friend as well as foe.If you're going to start an argument with the word "Realistically", maybe we should take a look at the 'Reality' of the Inner Sphere first instead of just going off half cocked.
>>97919661Religious mechs did you say?DEUS VULT MOFO.
>>97919888Stormcrow, Pouncer, battle cobra, cougar, adder.
>>97919922The seams are too visible. When it was convenient to the plot, the RoTS was able to complete break core setting paradigms by doing things like shutting down FTL travel. When it's time for the republic to fall, suddenly all of their fortification is useless and they can't possibly resist an attack perhaps a quarter the size of the one that Stone led.
So, why isnt there a RAC 10 yet?
>>97920022I'll concede if the invasion force is in fact that much smaller, it shouldn't have been an easy campaign.
>>97920039Mw4 mektek rac10 and rac20. Fuck yes.
>>97919888>I haven't posted in btg in a whileWhat do you gain by lying like that?
When is CGL gonna put out more Clan Elemental Stars? It seems like they’re perpetually out of stock everywhere.
>>97920109-or, barring getting the “correct” minis, I did see these in an online miniatures store, store says they’re supposed to be 6mm power armor, but I think they look bulky enough to pass for BA.I’m just not familiar enough with BA variants to know if they visually resemble any particular Clan or IS variants.I could use help with identifying which BA they would best proxy.
>>97920266That looks more like PA(L) than BA to me, but a lot of PA(L) and BA have pretty bulky "backpacks" with big antenna or at least fat humps in them. It could also just be regular infantry with heavy armor.
>>97920066It was and Clan Wolf did not do anything special to win. They didn't debut Double Enhanced Imaging or use some novel tactic. They just got to show up with their ships close enough to drop in Battlemechs and piloted them super good. And the best defense against the Republic of the Sphere had come up with was to also just try and pilot mechs even better.I was making up random examples of shit that RISC should have had prepared for this very, very foreseeable invasion because they literally just handled it like every piss ant backwater planet that got hit almost a century ago just at larger scale. No wacky prototype weapons were deployed. No "fuck it if we lose Terra we lose everything, just use the super weapon!" moments. No repatriating Blakists or dumping out prisons full of mercs and saying 'shoot every furry you see and we can talk later'.Look at the absolutely insane battle plans drawn up during the Cold War for an idea of what a superpower is willing to do with it's back up against the wall. The RotS should have 100% been willing to deploy nuclear weapons as an opening volley.Is it insane and completely illegal?Yes.Do you think someone in the position of Stone would have given a solitary fuck what people thought about him using them if it meant not losing the single most important planet in the galaxy to the Clans?
Will be trying out Aces for classic tomorrow. I'll post updates
>>97920109They said they are remaking the Elemental sculpt and will release a new boxand the other BA/infantry got infinite hold due to how bad the ISBA turned out to be
>>97920266I agree with >>97920299Those are a little light even to be IS Standards or similar; but you could make a case for something like a P12 Tornado; which is basically a trooper-ized Nighthawk. It's light and doesn't have any weapons stapled to it (except for the G13s), so it kinda matches them carrying big-ass BA rifles.
>>97920314Stone intended to lose. The Republic couldn't last, but a new star league might. Losing was his victory.
>>97920320> and the other BA/infantry got infinite hold due to how bad the ISBA turned out to beYeah, never did pick up a box of ISBA, 1) didn’t know what they were supposed to be (only recently learning that they are called “IS standard”), let alone know where to find their stats2) BA just feels out of place among the Inner Sphere forces. Just kinda seems like mostly a Clan thing.3) I could, without knowing anything about the ISBA, could predict a number of problems with them. Most notably, Clans have a variety of ways to move Battle Armor around the battlefield, that the IS doesn’t really have and would struggle with.
>>97920415Do you want to know how I know you are extremely new to this setting?
>>97920415BA can hitch a ride on any omnimech, omnimechs started being produced by the great houses a couple years after the clan invasion began. The capellans also invented magnetic clamps in 3062 so that BA equipped with them could even ride non-omnimechs as well.
>>97920487Not to mention the patron saint of PBI deployment, the Karnov, is available since forever.
>>97920494And the other patron saint, the Maxim got both a field refit and factory rebuild just for BA.
>>97920107I post mechs?
>>97920325>>97920299Got it.By the way, same site also has these in 6mm:They’d probably make good Roc protomech proxies that don’t look cartoonish. Well, the one on the left does at any rate… I’m sure there’s a protomech that also has an arm-mounted gun and 2… SRM2s
>>97919888Get fucked faggot, I've been in /wip/ for years.If you want to spread your infection, take your shit to reddit.
Would it be possible to pull a covert ops with mechs... in 3025?
>>97920700Night time insertion via a deep river, laser weapons are silent.
>>97920700CUMSTAIN. constantly.
>>97920567They're a little small for Protomechs from what I got. They're a good size for heavy/assault Battle Armor
Lasers poke holds in the atmosphere, which closes with clapping noises, scaling up to thunder for the vehicle models
>>97920494Does air-dropping from a VTOL work just like hopping off an omnimech? Like the Karnov flies across the map and then the BA get placed in the same hex and that's it?
>>97920700The entire reason Comstar uses all white for their military is that all white is ironically the black ops color. If you get hit by plain white mechs with no markings, no serial numbers, and no ID on the pilots, then you're on the wrong end of a black op. Comguard had a particularly good black op while painted all white and some dipshit thought it was so nice that they kept it going forward even after unveiling themselves publicly, which should have been yet another big giant red flag to add onto the entire pile of big suspicious red flags comstar was waving in everyone's faces, because white is the sneaky underhanded warcrime color.
>>97920756By the time the Com guard revealed themselves everyone who mattered knew comstar was basically the sixth successor state.
>>97920729That might be due to a lack of a reference of scale.Which is hard to judge.Best I can find on the site is this photo showing them next to other 6mm minis.
>>97920735As long as the BA has jump jets, then yeah, pretty much.Without the JJ, the karnov would have to land before unloading the BA.
>>97920766I bought some, they're smaller than you're probably thinking. The minis I got are very detailed, but they're only about as big as the IWM Leonidas sculpt. That does make them pretty sizable, but they're still smaller than the other Protomech minis.
>>97920771I guess that's effectively paying 499 BV to teleport your BA into place on Turn 1, but I don't know if that's worth it outside of some specific campaign mission where you need BA to secure something as early as possible.
>>97920722Please explain what you mean by this
>>97920784The trick to the BA Karnov I suppose is that dropping the BA is easy; picking them back up again is the hard part.There are cheaper options even in the Karnov itself if you don't want (or need) defensive weapons or ECM; but you get quite what you pay for.Honestly I think Cavalrys are substantially meatier and faster, though the BA Karnov is plenty cheaper in Cbills. For cost effectiveness though Warrior H-10s are even better than the Karnov though.
>>97920784It's great for slow BA like the Kanazuchi that only move 1. Without the ability to pre-deploy them, they can't reach the combat zone on their own, and a VTOL solves that.The Kanazuchi lacks jump jets, but there's a rule to deal with that in TacOps: You can deploy them via zipline harpoons launched from the helicopter. Yes, it's as over the top and ridiculous as it sounds.
>>97920859He's being weird and is referring to comstar.
>>97920868I wonder why he can't just use normal people words. Do you think he talks like this to people in person?
>>97920781Since I’ve at least purchased the basic infantry from this once already as well, so I know how tall they appear, it kinda makes it sound more like IWM’s battle armor minis are grossly out-of-scale.Which I can believe. I remember some people at my LGS once complaining about how oversized some of the mechs they bought from IWM were.And to be honest. Pictures of IWM elementals, when compared to CGL’s plastic elementals, also look wildly oversized while the plastic ones look mostly in-scale.
>>97920871Who can say?
>>97920882Yeah, they're 10mm-12mm scale compared to the mechs being 6mm. If I remember right, Protomechs are also out of scale, so it's all out of whack. I was considering kitbashing the khurasan 6mm mechs into being Grey Death Heavies since no one's made minis of those yet.
>>97920864I think the Warrior H-10 is the only one I'd use in a pick-up game due to BV squeeze.
>>97920897>>97920882I have a guy in my local group who insists that Battletech was originally a 10mm scale game and got retconned to 6mm. He's never provided anything to back that up though, and I know he's an idiot for other reasons.
>>97920907I don't know about that, but I do know pretty damn well that the metal Battle Armor at least is 10mm-12mm because the metal minis I got have Inner Sphere Battle Armor taller than any other 6mm infantry by nearly twice as much.
>>97920912Which is just disgraceful if you ask me. I mean, I know other companies do it, like GHQ has their 1:286 infantry scaled slightly bigger than true scale to get more detail, but the difference is so small you actually have to pull up photos of the real thing with people standing next to it to spot the scale difference. Having battle armor be so out-of-whack it’s nearly at a completely different scale is just obscene.
>>97920936I'd be willing to headcanon that some of the generic suits or Inner Sphere suits are big because they had to use unconventional methods to be able to compete with Clan Elementals, but it does get ridiculous as you get more minis.
On the subject of BA, what is their most useful role in all-purpose force? I haven't really found what I want to use them for, but I've got a ton of the little fuckers, enough for every faction force I have.
>>97920882Almost nothing is in scale as far as Battletech minis go. The CGL heavies and assaults are in a larger scale than their lights and mediums so they're even more biggerer than they should be, and of course IWM stuff is all over the place. It's not like the game board is actually meant to be a birds eye view of the real battle, it's more like a tactical plotting table. Probably a hologram or something in the command room of the unit's dropship.
WoB guy from a thread or two agoStill trying to decide what to put in my first company. I'm happy with some WoB classics. Can you do Celestials without Manei Domini?
Damn
>>97920299> PA(L)Hey, um…Where are the actual rules for Power Armor (Light) for classic Battletech?I assumed they’d be in TW, but… surprisingly no… or at least I’m not finding them in the Infantry Chapter.So which book are they in? also, Mechanized Infantry rules are still hard to follow
>>97921000Celestials are all equipped with small cockpits, anyone can pilot them, the militia were given a few. But, owing to the small cockpit, it would be unwise to give them anything short of an above average pilot to counteract the PSR penalty.
>>97920907Probably an idiot since the mechs were the 1st thing ever made for the game, and they’ve never been massive.
>>97921027PA(L) are the worst kind of battle armor instead of being the best kind of infantry.
I want Battletech comics soon
>>97921033This, PA(L) are lumped with Battlearmor rules.
>>97921027They use the same rules as Battle Armor. They're like ultralight BA, which means they're actually pretty shitty. Tornadoes have like two pips of armor, one infantry rifle per suit, and aren't any faster than normal infantry. And they come in groups of six, so they don't even shoot as hard as a squad of rifle infantry (because that's seven rifles). They can be good spotters due to being hard to hit from a distance and could sit in a building if that's an objective but they're not good for much else. If it didn't warp initiative really badly, I'd say take whole platoons/level IIs of them, but I personally wouldn't do that without houseruling their initiative so they move by platoon rather than by squad.
>>97921033For the individual PA(L) trooper, at the very least they don't get strafed by machineguns by the dozen
>>97919425>Instagram/TikTok spellingsFucking KYS
>>97920415>BA just feels out of place among the Inner Sphere forceRetard.
>>97921156NTA, but pron was used on old 4chan because it's a common keyboarding mistake, and ghey goes back to at least dial-up AOL chat rooms. Substituting numbers for letters to avoid language filters I'm pretty sure is a gamer chat thing. Troon is the only buzzword that was popularized after Instagram and Tik Tok were created, the others are all pre-web 2.0
>>97921190>>97921156
Anastasia Kerensky is almost 50 during the Battle of Terra and Alaric Ward was 40. But the Clans still listen to and follow them. I thought the clans loathed old people and saw them as worthless due to not dying with honor?
>>97921194If you're going to shit on someone you should do your best to be technically correct. Ascribing ancient memes to current era bugbears just makes you look underage.
>>97921203underage fag00ts love pretending they're not.
>>97921205>>97921156
>>97921200The Clans respect success. They're not a death cult, you don't have to die young, it's just that if you live a long life without earning distinction then are you even trying? Such people should have the decency not to use up valuable clan resources to perpetuate their mediocrity, so dying in battle is seen as at least providing value while preserving honor. Your blood-named rockstars get respect at all ages because they are blood-named rockstars. They provide value that would be irresponsible to waste, and they will be respected as long as that remains true.
>>97918710I would imagine the average soldier in the inner sphere is an infantryman. Mechs should be somewhat rare actually.
>>97921200It's a really aggressive form of up or out where you need to be constantly being promoted, It's fine for blood named senior officers to be old as long as they keep winning. If they ever lose obviously they are too old and need to have their throats cut by their subordinates right away.
>>97921200The Clans loathe old people that haven't proven themselves and earned sufficient glory. Like a BloodName. If you were just Anon, aged 30, then your ass is getting a solahma posting. But if you were Anon Moot, who had earned his BloodName in the Trial of BloodRight, then you are getting the respect you deserve as a decorated veteran who sits as part of the Clan Council of Clan 4Chan. And as long as you're in a posting where you get sufficient action, none will question it. If you don't, then you're expected to have to retake your Trial of Position to prove that you're still fit for duty to the Clan. All that is of course discounting your peers and those above and below you trying to start shit for their own gain.
Quick question, does anybody know how to get NOVA team settings to work in Megamek? Because I set the group up, just like I would for a C3 group and then it just forgets it.
>>97921051>>97921056Wait. I think I saw something in TW saying…… saying that Inner Sphere Battle Armor squads are organized into groups of 4… just as if they were tiny mechs…… and if PA(L) is still using infantry-scale weapons and not the mech-scale weapons like true BA…… WTF is 4 goddamn rifles supposed to do? Tickle the mechs?! I need to look into this deeper in the morning.
>>97921497Why do you......type like......a faggot...?
>>97921497Ack on the cockpit glass in hope that mechwarrior will trip and fall.Next trooper in line picks up the rifle/armour and ack again.Very economic warfare for IS as it dosnt use ammo.
>>97921497PA(L) is special forces gear intended for commando missions, not trying to directly fight mechs. It's got stealth armor and electric warfare equipment. If it's spotted by the enemy, something has already gone wrong.
>>97916337Why is the Wolf Empire still on this map? Shouldn’t Clan Wolf’s abandonment of that territory be reflected in the same way that Clan Jade Falcon’s abandonment of the CJF Occupation Zone is reflected?
>>97921764Clan Wolf isn't allowed to lose even when they do lose. You should know that by now?
>>97921907The day we stop calling it out is the day the win forever
>>97921764Theres still some forces there and it takes time especially with hiw slow interstellar travel is. That map is a year after the RotS took the knot, the FWL didnt start chewing through until after the Goons got their shit together AFTER the battle for Terra.Itd be nice if Trillian got her shit together for once and announced a Lyran reconquista or some shit. Id like the Lyrans to get some of their worlds back and the Hinterlands and the border with the Wolf Empire offers a lot of opportunity for player campaigns that are Lyran funded expeditions into these areas.
>>97921013Yeah man
flyingdebris seems to be bulk uploading/reuploading items to his deviantart recently including some concept art.
>>97920567The less stylized look would be good for representing the Society versions that came with Mag-Clamps.
>>97922370This artstyle seems familiar... is this the same guy who does the early Front Mission stuff for Square?
>>97922621Couldn't tell ya. Might be Amano.
Did anything ever come from the plotline of all those Smoke Jags coming to the Brotherhood of Randis? I know there was some blurbs about a bunch of warriors showing up but not admited yet.
>>97922502Them getting rid of him is the height of stupidity. One of your main guys developing new mechs for a mech based games.Sad though that probably never getting the Kingfisher.
>>97923085I don't think there's any plot related to getting rank and file clanners, but a clanner became their leader at one point and his leadership had a big impact on their effectiveness.
>>97923092Page 234, Master and Minions-Star corps.> in recent years beckett has stepped up his recruitment of former Clan warriors. The most well known of these is brother nyleith, a former Coyote. While a large number of former smoke Jaguars have arrived on randis, their names have not appeared on the rolls of the brotherhood. There are rumors of a third battalion being raised and trained on restrict-ed areas of the planet, but nothing has been confirmed.So we know he has two former Clanners who become members, but nothing is said about all of these guys who have shown up as well.
Walk into the pub and this guy slaps your lass's ass. Wat do?
>>97923145Ask him if he's formally trialing for her. If no, call him dezgra and insult his genemother. If yes, use my status as challengee to make it a trial I'm good at.
What era should I do my ATB campaign in? If I am thinking on it, I have only ever done Succession wars with it so wanting something new but stumped on what I should do. Thoughts?
>>97923128That's what I mean, there's no plot related to them being there, only to the boss clanners.
>>97923173Do peak Dark Age and start with a bunch of IndustrialMechs and battle armor
I just realized that new periphery book will probably have at least a little bit on the Brotherhood of Randis, since it's supposed to go up to at least around Filtvelt. Maybe Operation Trident will even get some meat to it finally. If that ever gets a focus, that's going to be my campaign.
Dark Age-era Jade Falcons are cool.
>>97923285They're just slightly more crazy than any other era Jade Falcons.
>>97923308>>97923285They’ve always been cartoon villains.
I dont know how the homeworld clans live with themselves, letting the IS clans disgrace clan civilization like that.
>>97923432I'm confident that once the Star Adders get done devouring the others they'll be coming to do something about that.
>>97923432They shot themselves out of protest and then anyone else infected by IS taint!
>>97923476>Clan adder is now a super clan>Invades the IS>Great houses use this to retake their planets>Claners all dieBased
>>97923089Wasn't just mechs he was making and it is going to hurt them massively in the long run. PGI mechwarrior games are really lacking on enemies that aren't mechs. As for the Kingfisher yeah would have been interested to see his take on that myself.
>>97923476Adder Crusader will run head long into the neo-blakist turbojihad.
>>97923089PGI Mechwarrior won't live past 2027 at this rate. Getting rid of your head artist is a huge red flag.
>>97923685I am just impressed they managed to last this long considering their plan was originally to become World of Tanks mechwarrior edition and then do absolutely everything in their power to fuck it up at every turn.
>>97923732To be fair, speaking from recent experience, mechwarrior online is an infinitely more enjoyable experience than the nightmare that is modern world of tanks.You'd have to pay me to play current world of tanks.
>>97923089He was a pedo.
Well hopefully we can get a wider range of vidya out of this than yet another sluggish sim.
>>97919922> I'm sorry can you point to the mech-scale microwave weapons,There’s no such thing. It’s just an old myth.There was this one FedCom Mechwarrior who piloted a CPK-65 that was an absolute menace among the DCMS, ComGuard/WoB, and Clans. Their pilots were the ones who started inventing stories about this pilot having a modified Copper, that it had some “experimental anti-pilot mazer beam” or some similar tall tail. None of which is true.All that happened was that he figured out that among the DCMS and ComGuard, between 75%-80% of mechwarriors were tested as neurodivergent, and among the Clans, it was suspected that the number was closer to 90%. So when he came up against them, he’d just turn on the twin searchlights to their maximum brightness and point them directly into the cockpit of the opponent mech. The neurodivergent pilot would flip the fuck out and either eject, or be rendered completely incapable of properly operating their mech allowing other pilots to bring the mech down.Guy wound up starting quite the successful mercenary company using all the mechs he’d capture that way.Anyway, the myths about the guy spread, and some units within the RotS also would pull the same trick.
>>97923841Trying Too Hard
>>97923851
I want to call my Nova/Spirit Cat Protomechs "The Kittens" but it makes me sound like a Discord Mod Kid Toucher and so I'm thinking about giving them another name.
>>97922145They also said that the Hinterlands small factions won't go away
>>97923924This pic does not say that.
>>97923851>>97923874Prove me wrong
Progress … ?
>>97923941Yes, because it was from different QnA session
>>97923945What, that writing "Trying too hard" over several threads is low tier bait?
>>97923947No decals?
>>97923969I never use ‘em
Debating a black wash on the legs and calling it done (= on to basing).
>>97923973Pity, those could use them. Also, mark your hex fronts.
>>97923981Top should be more yellow, bottom more grey.
>>97923812>TW:BT>Protomech action game>RPG based off of the Intelligence/Covert Operations sourcebooksImagine
>>97923997I've been thinking about an XCOM style anti-blakist resistance game for a while. Although it could also be a more tactically oriented mech game where you're trying to get in and out quickly in your retrotech shitbox and maybe a handful of infantry and light vehicle elements before they airdrop a level II on your head.
>>97923988Top is staying as-is at this point, the camo is right where I want it
>>97923841That is just evil
>>97923988Oh maybe you thought this is Beta Galaxy? It’s Delta. They aren’t so ochre up top.
I'm thinking out painting up a Steel Wolves force and can't decide which mech I want to paint up to represent Anastasia Kerensky.Before forming the Wolf Hunters or joining Clan Wolf, see piloted a Ryoken II, Legionnaire and Mangonel (although I only remember the Legionnaire only be used in one or two battles in the books).So far I'm leaning towards the Legionnaire. He's my favourite in terms of appearance and seems fun, but Mangonel's are pretty badass as well.
>>97924094It's luftwaffe
>>97918030>>97918039Very cool.
Luv being a Davion man, sitting in my Jagermech, one shotying Kuritan scum.in their shitty light mechs
>>97923981>>97924373>Nazi-anonI knew it lmao, how are you even more of an attention whoring faggot than I am?
>>97924482Trying Too Hard.
>>97924427Uhh… you do know that the combine does have heavy-> -Shhh! Little shit needs to learn this on his own.
>>97924482That's cgl plastic and not even an attempt at jewelling, clearly not the nazi, faggot.
>>97924317Not the Savage Wolf?
>>97924559That's AK after she founds the Wolf Hunters/ joins Clan Wolf, I believe.
>>97924570You are correct.
>>97924482No, I’m not that guy. I’m just doing a star of Clan Wolf Delta Galaxy to fight against some Shadow Division guys.Frankly, I don’t even like Clan Wolf.
Ah yes, Davion mechs such as>Rifleman>Rifleman but worse>Rifleman but Medium mech>Centurion>enturion but bigger with a Jetpack>Centurion with two guns>Stinger with an LRM>Stinger with no guns and an two SRMs>whatever shitboxes they stole from the Capellans this month>Devastator
>>97924591I quite dislike the Ryoken so I guess it's a coin toss between the Mangonel and the Legionnaire then.
>>97924635>Argus>Stealth>Nightstar>Falconer>Templar III>Phoenix Hawk 3PL>Penetrator>Axeman 4DI hate the Fedrats as much as any other guy, but they have a lot more than just Rifleman and Centurion knockoffs.
>>97923614From what I gather there is still stuff present that he worked on, so probably has a decent backlog before they run out.>>97923685Going to say at least 2028 on my end. Think they got enough of a backlog of stuff to last a bit longer. Who knows maybe they will hire everyone back if the next dlcs are profitable.
>>97924712>Who knows maybe they will hire everyone back if the next dlcs are profitable.
>>97924685>PenetratorDreadful name for a mech. Just simply awful.
>>97924791Second most sexual mech name ever.
>>97924791uwu
Crude
>>97924819Exactly!How do you expect a mechwarrior to carry on a discussion about the penetrator without punctuating every sentence with either “giggity” or a sharp pelvic thrust?
>>97924791Tom we've already been over this. Penetrator was a good compromise because Allen wouldn't let go of Schlonger, Donginator, or Lasercock as names.
>>97924791>>97924819>>97925109>>97925132I am severely disappointed none of you posted this yet.
>>97924685Ilclan-era jaegermech is fucking pure evil.
>>97924883Fuckoff trannyfaggot.
>>97925132Why was Allen even on the design team to begin with?
>>97924482>anonymously posting a mini is attention whoring????
>>97925170>fanmail(You)>>97925274>Heavy craft paints>Blocky chalky colours>Nazi paint scheme>buttmad. _.
>>97925331When are you going to join the 41%?Oh wait, isn't it up over 50% now?
>>9792535150% of what?
>>97925331>Blocky chalky coloursGlass houses much?
>>97925331>he used a generic historical camo scheme and didn't paint it the way I like so he's attention whoring???>buttmadnigger you're the one getting buttmad about it
>>97925373Do you really think you are fooling anyone right now?
>97924482Thats not his paint style and it's a cgl mini, not a print, you fat ugly retarded tool. Kys
>>97925356Yes. It was 41% then it became 46%, and ita on track to hit about 52% soon (tm)
>>97925331Lookout everyone, we got nazimechs over here!
>>97925391FEAR THE NAZIMECHS! oh the horror!
>>97925601I suggest we post all our desert camo schemes, our giraffe camo schemes mechs just to fuck with the retard.I just know some of you HAVE to have flecktarn mechs, because flecktarn is freaking fuckawesome.
>>97925749Percentages of what?
>>97925765>>97925758>>97925752Why do you point a maglite at your minis while you take pictures of them?
>>97924317I vote the Legionnaire, its a cool little mech.
>>97925765That faggot can't tell the difference between these and what that other anon posted earlier.
>>97925794To annoy you, specifically, of course. Obviously.
>>97925983The thread tranny/Gaylords have variously accused me of being you, manic, old namefags... on and on.They just hate battletech and will post anything hoping to kill threads.>archer buttlasers.
>>97925752>>97925758>>97925765>>97925983>>97925992>Nuln-oil anon and Nazi-anon share the same IP cooldown and are therefore confirmed to be gay loversWhy did I ever expect anything less?
>>97925215He's like the eighth cousin of the First Prince, the hell if I know.
suck my dick
>>97926005>literally incapable of making any post without bringing gay sex into itAnd you have the gall to wonder why this place hates you so fucking much
>>97926133Come at me with a reasonable argument.
>>97926151It's more an objective observation that you are more obnoxious and toxic for the general than a literal nazi.You seemingly don't even like battletech if you actively and knowingly make a space for discussing it worse by your posts and behavior.You've handily taken the place of worst poster in the general from manic, which is incredible.
>>97926459Nuln still has the position of worst poster after manic, especially since he's a cowardly, dishonorable, schizophrenic, nogames, contrarian-anon
>>97926488I've never seen manic or nuln intentionally and regularly post nudes in /btg/.
>>97926459
>>97926510That just gives you the scale of how badly the grumpy dumpys nuln has had in the past to make him worse than the nude poster
>>97926520ok, contrarian-anon.
>>97926512Ugly male.
>>97926530
I'm convinced nazi-anon and bottomfag are samefag because i refuse to believe someone is retarded enough to keep replying to bottomfag instead of just ignoring him successfully like everyone else is currently doing and watching him get desperate and start mass replying to try and get (you)'s
>>97926546seywa twothkun,in kewensky's name we sawute does about to frotuwu7
>>97926520Don't forget that nuln also refused a batchall multiple times despite the fact he said he would go to Adelaide or Melbourne for a game
what mechs would the grammaton clerics pilot
>>97926546That's because only the newfags who think that "(you)'s have no value" are the ones responding to them instead of ignoring them like the majority
>>97926587Probably exterminator 6CS.
>>97926587Star League dual PPC machines like Marauders, Warhammers and Thugs.
>>97926579no i fucking did not. not even remotely.
>>97926635See? Even now it's lying.
>>97926601the most painful thing to attention whores in general is indifference
>>97926635>no I didn't>https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/93372992/#93373055
>>97926675AIsloppa doesn't count fuckwit
>>97926638i explicitly have said driving for fucking hours to go to to adelaide or melbourne for A game is fucktarded
>>97926689
>>97926675>https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/93372992/#93373055and what part of that says anything at all about GOING to either place?its fucking obvious to any fucking australian that saying adelaide AND melbourne are the equidistantly closest cities puts you in the fucking middle of nowhere.
>>97926689don't bother. he is using something which explicitly says the fucking opposite as "proof". He's some retarded citydwelling fuck who failed grade school geography and cant look at a fucking map.
>>97926697Goalpost moving, contrarian behaviour as usual
>>97926706>Hey guys, say where you'll go to play>Says where they'll go>Gets challenged>N-no, I didn't mean that far!!!
>>97926720>>97926715are you genuinely retarded? the post washttps://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/93372992/#q93373017"Alright /btg/, it's once again time to prove that you're not a terminally online loser who doesn't actually play battletech! Respond to this post with the nearest major city and see if you can find someone near enough to play with!"
>>97926720you ARE a giant retard. wow.
>>97926757>>97926760>samefagging this hard
>>97926706But you're not equidistant to either. You're closer to Adelaide than Melbourne, or was that claim also a lie?
How dose clan mechwarrior gets assigned his/her mech?Is it random?
>>97926882Trial by Penis
>>97926882I assumed it was a case of the more talented/skilled you are the more choice you have
>>97926882Trial or a superior simply assigns them whatever's currently unused in inventory and deemed suitable for the mechwarrior.
How do Trueborn get their first name? Is it randomly assigned by the scientist cracking their moist, supple, quivering birth pod open?
>>97926938Hence why getting a Naga back in the day was considered a massive insult?
!!!NEW THREAD!!!>>97926970>>97926970>>97926970!!!NEW THREAD!!!
>>97926963It's not like any clan warrior would want to trial for a dedicated artillery mech, and any superior would be perfectly aware of that.
>>97926979yet more proof clanners are retarded.>our lrms work at point blank range>oh no, this mech with a gazillionty lrms.... nooooo how awful, whatever shall i do as I delete lighter mechs in a single Fing salvo.>woe is me, noooooooo. laterally a fate worse than death!>star commander is worse than amaris Nuuuuuuuuuuu
>>97927009The Naga has two AIV launchers, not lrms. Idiot.Also it's mainly the indirect fire that makes it dishonourable
