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FIRST!
HONOR THE DRAGON!

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SECOND!
BATTLETECH IS FOR EVERYONE!

Watching Gundam 079.
Playing Battletech.
Painting Heavy Gear Centaur Golems.
Reading Titandeath.
Just as Jesus "Big Stompy Robots Are Based" Christ intended.
Life is good.

The Dragon is the most honorable mech. That is all.

>>98095390
Jealous :/

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>>98095345
They should move the IlClan mechs onto a new, standard techbase. BAR 11 armor, 1 slot DHS, multi slot triple heat sinks, no slot endosteel, new lasers and ACs for the armor, IJJs standard, reduced slot XL engines.

Same rules otherwise. Just a more mobile and lethal version of the game to reflect the changes that the new, more peaceful era allowed to progress to. For an historical wargame analog, it would be like moving on from late-WW2 and into the height of the Cold War.

This is a horrible idea for a thousand reasons, but it's my idea and I think it would be neat. What retardedly drastic changes would you guys make?

>>98095472
>What retardedly drastic changes would you guys make?
...What kind of changes we talking?

>>98095482
Whatever you want, anon.

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>>98095490
...Are you SURE about that?

>>98095371
>We
>We
>We
Well, I won't accept trannies in MY Battletech so you can gtfu thanks <3

>>98095472
Remove protomechs entirely. Remove LAMS/Quadvees entirely. Make abominations a periphery core after Marian discover a memory core while in a germanium mine. Aboms range from 5-25tons absorbing all flexibility of lams and protomechs. Re-introduce mecha dominae alongside exclusively drone operated quadvees that are firmly 20-45 tons.

Reveal through novels that the dominae shadow divisions were railroading the marians toward the abomination memory core and were recruiting dark caste and solahma to undergo hybridization using the abomination tech and cybernetics.

Fever pitch, BLAKE IS BACK IN A BIG WAY. Let the body horror hit the floor and consume the periphery states on the west of the sphere calling themselves roman gods. Super space cocaine filled cybernetic clanners rampage toward terra to retake it from the false crusaders.

tl;dr: consolidate rules for lams and protomechs into abominations. Advance the periphery. Restrict quadvees to drone tech only.

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>>98095614
>Remove protomechs entirely
BITCH?!

>>98095472
For the lore hard reboot to the formation of the Second Star League who decide to fully wipe out the clans. Operation Bulldog attacks all clans and drives them from the IS at a massive price but they double down and instead of the Great Refusal they full invade clan space in a costly war. Between mounting losses and infighting the second star league collapses but with the clans driven from the IS they're no longer seen as an immediate threat and houses try to get clan warriors by offering them worlds if they support them. Cue the fifth succession war now with clans joining in. Overall I prefer the cycles of succession wars over the crisis of the week that the Fedcom Civil War, Jihad, and Blackout felt like. Hell alternatively have the clans win outright, Great houses submit and the clans immediately fall to infighting over who will be the new Ilkhan/First Lord with the Great Houses joining in on the new chaos as an alternative.

Less extreme and with no retcon kill off or the Jaguars, Gray Death Legion, Eridani Light Horse, and Free Worlds League. I liked all of those factions but if you're gonna kill them off in the first place man up and keep them dead, don't bring them back, it makes the changes in the setting seem pointless.

As for your idea I don't think the Ilkhanate is meant to represent an era of peace nor do I think that peace results in technological advancement is the theme of battletech. While the succession wars saw technological regression the first star league didn't see much technological advancement in military hardware while the clams advanced while fighting endemic wars and once the damage of the first succession war had been undone the inner sphere also began seeing genuine technological advancement like rotary weapons, enhanced lrms, and extended range LRMs, heavy light ferro fibrous armor (whether or not it's a true improvement over clan ferro fibrous), light and heavy gauss rifles, light and heavy ppcs, and MMLs.

>>98095614
What is an abomination?

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>>98095631
>the first star league didn't see much technological advancement in military hardware

>>98095617
Hey I recognize the little fella in the middle. Use them as Mechanicus robots in epic armageddon.

Yo, BLP video on the Hetzer?

>>98095632
A protomech without the silly shoehorning small humans that go into a rage in the belly. It's just a vore fetishist outlet.

Aboms come from gothic. They spliced human DNA with animals and made walking hitler sharks with autocannons for arms. They require a tard rangler or they go feral. The tech made spliced mechwarriors too which are like clanners in skill but mentally stunted.

They serve the same purpose as protomechs but Aboms are just more fun and have more creative range. A squad of kuritan conscripts facing off against a swarm of monkeybirds with machineguns for arms in the hinterlands kinda fun.

>IMPOSSIBRU

>>98095639
He is kind of right though. A lot of the advanced SLDF equipment was available by the end of the Reunification War and despite what they wrote for the next 150 years they more or less sat on their fucking ass tech wise. It makes very little sense why the Star League didn't develop weapons like the ER lasers, SSRM, LBX and UAC in all classes long before the Amaris Coup when they had so much time to churn them out.

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>>98095644
I've tons of proxy Battle Armor units for my WoB since I somehow ended with models from a load of different companies and games at the same time and decided to make use of them.

>>98095652
Yo, BLP metastasizes tongue cancer?

I'd love to know why the no-verification required fights with no valid captcha. Shit's annoying as fuck.

>>98095639
It really wasn't that big of an improvement. What did you get over two centuries, diuble heat sinks, endosteel, and fibroferrous armour? The IS made bigger leaps within 50 years after recovering the Helm memory core.

>>98095688
>>98095665
Ah, I see. So the bait for this thread is "the Star League made no significant technological advances and wasn't the height of human achievement when it came to science despite the lore making this clear in literally every single line relating to the Star League."
I see.
Have a (You), I am out. Buh Bye.

So unless you have heat sinks in the mech's feet, you don't benefit much from being in water coolingwise, unlike in vidyas?

>>98095701
Society advancing in general =/= technologically advancing for military applications. If you look at specific military advances during the star league it's not much, and if the clans never showed up on could claim that the game has a theme of technological decline cause by military conflict. However after the clanners showed up technology increased by leaps and bounds.

Tell me which do you think would be a bigger mismatch
>Star league mechs vs pre star league mechs
>3141 mechs vs star league mechs

>>98095613
They've always been in Battletech anon. I'm sorry but those are the facts.

>>98095771
NTA but you mean furries, anon. There is a lot of overlap, but it is not the same thing.

>>98095652
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEh_hmWBD0A

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HONOR THE DRAGON!

>>98095737
>laughs in invisible gauss boat

A lot of royals are extremely competent against Republic and ilClan designs. This notion that they're somehow inferior is absurd.

We can compare 1:1 the Archer 2Rb to the Archer 9R and find they're within 50 BV of each other (absent C3 BV).

The 2Rb Star League Royal is a relatively independent Art IV LRM platform, while the 9R Republic of the Sphere design is an extreme range networked equivalent using ELRMs for a more indirect-fire specialized mission.

"But internet retard" you'll say "What about the Archer 7C?" You mean the bleeding edge hanger-queen mixtech abomination Archer that costs 10MCbills more than the Royal raw? before any acquisition problems born on the Clantech? Lets get real that Mech is a custom waiting for a novel protagonist to find his ass to the seat; At 2408 BV with a 4/5 pilot it's not a fair comparison even with F(F* to start with) availability. It's a Dragoons hotrod; it would be stupid to treat it as equivalent even to Royals.

>>98095472
>What retardedly drastic changes would you guys make?
more weapons, for example a 3ton weapon for clanners similar to IS Light PPC but in a decidedly clan flavor.
have the ilclan era be a cold war of mercenary fights alongside military advancement and refinement as houses and clans try to get the upper hand/not be outdone. it keeps fighting but not to the level of nuclear warhead induced decline like the succession wars but allows for more stuff to be added and improved.

>>98095990
The Crusader 2R still stands as the best crud and that angers me

Man, the more I think about it, the more I wonder how the Great Houses survived as long as they have. They should have fallen apart forever ago.

>>98095979
What do you mean?

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>>98096031
Duty to the realm, Faith in the Five Pillars, and Clarity of purpose in the eyes of the Dragon

>>98095990
>The Panther is a relatively independent 75mm gun platform, while the Scorpion Light Tank is an extreme mobility equivalent using a 105mm gun to rely on shaped charges
>"But internet retard" you'll say "What about the Leopard 2?" You mean the bleeding edge hanger-queen abomination tank that costs 5 million more more than the Panther?
Oh no newer tech is more expensive.

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Alpha Strike tonight, honoring the Dragon against honorless Fedrats.

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>>98096139
There is not a single coherent point of comparison between what I said and whatever you just vomited up over tanks.

Like honestly if this is supposed to be shitposting I don't know where to even start.

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Heroic last stand of the Drac Recon Last!

Just fucking drunk posting right now, but I'm writing a Battletech/Halo crossover right now. I know, "Halo!?, come on Battletech would stomp Halo and it's not funny." But the more I looked into Halo I realized that Halo is actually broken as fuck compared to Battletech. Ignoring WarShips (because the lowest tier of UNSC/Covenant warships weigh x4 of a fucking Leviathan and pull 40g's while pulling out of drydock while throwing megaton level firepower like fucking candy) but on the vehicle/infantry scale Halo can easily hold it's own, if not outright surpass Battletech. Again drunk posting, but I've come to ask for advice.

>>98096031
Because you wouldn't have a game then. That's why.

>>98096139
What in the fuck is this comparison?

>>98096221
Halo wields Star Trek-tier cheat tech, sober up and stop making bad comparisons

>>98096211
>ass'in >jenny' >PHawk
>vs
>a fucking Victor or Enforcer (IDK)
>a Marauder
>a Cent
>spoder and a locust
Holy shit Dracs why do you insist on turning good pilots into fucking hamburger?

>>98096247
Oh, then what would be a good crossover? The Expanse?

>>98096253
From the look of things in the starting photo, the Dracs brought conventionals along with the 'mechs and got curbstomped by an all-'mech FedSuns unit with bigger guns and bigger 'mechs and hotter dice

>>98096287
Yeah. The fucking Draconis Combine could curbstomp everyone in the setting if it weren't for the tendency for their leadership to do absolutely the worst possible decisions at all times. But then it wouldn't be the Draconis Combine.

>>98096285
Battlestar Galactica. Has nukes, bombs, missiles, FTL jumps, railguns, autocannons, artillery, CIWS, ECM. Battletech has a slight edge because BSG doesn't have lasers and ppc's

>>98096285
>>98096370
The problem with crossovers is that BT sits in this sweet spot zone of being low-high tech. They have energy weapons and FTL but no ray shields. Nearly everything you compare it to is either going to fall short of BT's tech and be hopelessly disadvantaged, or leapfrog over it exponentially in tech and render BT helpless against it.

>>98096285
Marvel universe

>>98096370
>BSG
Yeah but Battlestars CAN tank nukes on the chin while Battletech ships get fucked by backpack nukes. The Pegasus could throw out autocannon fire that would be NAC40 at least, and unlike Battletech the BSG says "fuck your Mary Sue ASF pilots" and turns half a table into flak each turn.