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POST FALCONS
PRAISE BLAKE!!!
>>98106081YOU DARE REFUSE MY BATCHALL?
>>98105624She is not the only one who is back.
Green retard birds are the stupidest motherfuckers.
>>98106274t.Adam Steiner
You DO have Jade Falcons to post, don’t you??
I hope they still have enough money to cough out a refusal war and operation bulldog dlc
>>98106327Depends? I still think we need to fully design a Jade Falcon Chan
>>98106081They made one mistake.THEY ATTACKED MY.HOME.PLANET!
>>98106091Glory to the Falcons!
HONOR THE DRAGON!
More like Clan Jewed Failures
>>98106081The face animations are so fucked the eyes and such barely move but their jaws are so cartoonishly exaggerated when they talk, especially the clanners.
>>98106538>their jaws are so cartoonishly exaggeratedTranny coded
Finale of tonight's game was the most dramatic thing I've seen in fifteen years of Battletech.3151. The Dragon's Tongue. A lance vs lance engagement, Naginata Battalion and the Crucis Lancers fighting for control of an old firebase. Scenario is Capture and Control out of Instant Action, with the support vehicles as our control points. Early on, not too much happened, except my Firestarter taking advantage of the Assassin edge ability and coring out the enemy Jagermech in two turns of rear shots, and my Tenshi being out of position for most of the game, forced to snipe. But when the last turn rolls around, everything came down to control of the MASH truck at right.
>>98106274I can't wait to war crime them so hard.I'm almost bouncing like a kid and I'm a grown ass man with a family house etc.. I'm going to play BT cartoon S2!!!
>>98106629https://youtu.be/UkkF6Zz67TE?si=fXqt6B34mPCIxVeC
>>98106629Audrey Sakurai, my No-Dachi pilot, has reached the MASH truck and if she's still on it at the end of the turn, she'll claim it and win the battle for the Dragon. The only Davion mech in position to force her off is the enemy Thunderbolt. Last turn, and the No-Dachi isn't close to death, so there's only one real option.Death. From. Above.The No-Dachi fires a laser barrage as the Thunderbolt is in the air, but as it's coming down, Audrey lunges forward, sword raised skyward. I need a 6 to hit with the sword attack, so I go for an Accurate Strike, making it need a 9 but letting me roll on the punch table if I hit. I roll an 8, and Audrey spends her last Edge point to upgrade that to a 9, confirming the hit. Hit location ends up as center torso. 16 damage to the Thunderbolt's weakened front armor is enough to force a critical hit, and I roll a double crit. Engine and gyro.Impaled but undaunted, the Thunderbolt slams into Audrey, forcing her back off the objective and hammering her damaged armor but not carrying away anything vital. The Thunderbolt fails its pilot skill roll, but Audrey passes hers, using the sword in the Thunderbolt's chest to lever it to its knees. The Thunderbolt is facing death, but in the critical moment, it controls the objective. The recall order sounds.Audrey contemplates for a moment. She knows that with another volley of lasers and another sword strike, she could end this pilot's mech, and probably his life. But she's a soldier first. She tugs, her sword pulling free of the Davion mech, and as she backs up to obey the recall order, she bows to a worthy opponent.Game is a narrow victory for the Davions, but I don't even mind, that was cool.
>>98106668Oh, ye olde tug of war between duty and glory: either way leads to honor or disgrace depending on the perspective of the outside observer. That Thud pilot had best thank his misbegotten ancestors that Sakurai is a dutiful warrior.
>>98106668>>>Davion writer fiat again
>>98106411That pic works PERFECTLY
The only good clanner is a dead clanner. Free their slave castes.
Damn, I thought Jake Mason would been a legendary figure by now, for single-lancedly annihilating a batallion of mechs per mission and shits
And I thought Ryanna should be in her 80s by now
>>98107045>not a bogged-out hagThey were kind to her, it seems
>>98106887It all comes around again
>>98106091I AM JADE FALCONCLAN WOLF A SHIT
>>98107107You are both dezgra shitters, worthy of contempt. Accept this fact and die accordingly.
>>98106668Sounds like it was a fun game. The Davions had a nice paint job.
>>98107118How would a steel viper ,who didn't just off themselves first, act if they became a bondsman to a merc company?
>>98107128Read Star Lord. Any sin is forgivable if you kill an Amaris in contrition.
>>98107039I hope we get a dandy twink Victor Davion again, that was hilarious.
>>98107148Poor Stackpole, writing Victor as an Omi simp so hard the audience went full-circle and read him as having yellow fever for Kai Allard-Liao in spite of it
>>98107118>chimp-out snake talking down to anybodyYour words mean nothing
>>98107173Actions speak louder, and you stink of Ghost Bore.
>>98106252do not pursue nicolai malthus
Food for thought. Under the rules for starting a merc outfit for the draconian reach campaign...I can bring the very, very respectable marauder II C. Nyeh heh he he he heh.Fucking 4/6/4 clan xlfe. Two cerppc and a clbx10.
>>98107221... Or you could not be a fucking retard and run a Puma Prime, have almost all of that and have room for another Light instead of putting all your eggs into a single 4/6 basket.
>>981072611,500 for two mechs leaves me pretty much choosing my two hatchetmen 8s.However. Daishi E also fits the 3k bv limit.Two clbx10, 4 cmplas. Streak lrm10.
>>98107261I'm also looking for a mech that's got ac20 proof parts. Pretty much rules out all mediums. And lots of heavies.
>>98107270>ac20 proof partsExpecting Hunchies and Demolishers in abundance?
>>98107045I'm betting that Mechwarrior 5 is going to last until the end of the Jihad at this point. It's both when the characters are basically hitting an absolute maximum for their age, and the immediate aftermath is when a lot of merc companies disbanded for various reasons.
>>98107270Why not use high TMM and distance?
>>98107270... Hardened Armor anon. There's a pile of Dark Age and on designs that can shrug off an AC20 if you insist on them face-tanking it.
>>98107295Or Ferro-Lam in a lot of cases. Turn that 20 into a 16 and also negate AP ammo.
Steel Viper has cooler mechs than Ghost bear
>>98107192Your khan violated not only the rule prohibiting weapons in the council chamber but also zellbringen when he drew a pistol on a unarmed combatant, all while the Steel Vipers were an invader clan. Your filth has no place in the homeworld as you have renounced the ways of the Father and for these dezgra actions your clan was erased. Good Riddance -Star Colonel Pierce Cage of Clan Cloud Cobra sent from my Kit Fox via Tap-Talk shorty before losing the mech race Trial of Possession, thus forcing me to give up my pants as isorla as was the agreement. Never set the rules of a trial while drunk.
>>98107295How good do those specialized armors from the Dark Ages and onwards era? Seen a chunk of what may or may not be the equivalent of M1911 Fuddlore towards anything more modern in regards to Ferro-Fibrous armor vs it.
>>98107373Sophistry, your entire Clan are Star Adder puppets. Your time will come in due course, when the same knife finds your backs in the dark.
>>98107365ngl the Vapor Eagle and Battle Cobra are the only cool Steel Viper mechs, Ghost Bear has Arcas, Kodiak, Kontio, Mastodon and Ursus. Both get mogged by the mechs from Clan Sea Fox as the Huntsman is pure kino
>>98107416>forgetting the based Crossbow
>>98107388I wish to respond but I've been given a batchal by some blonde weirdo in a bird fursuit, normally I'd just shoot the dezgra Jade Falcon but he promises bondsman and I need a win after my earlier loss so brb -Star Colonel Pierce Cage of Clan Cloud Cobra
>>98107377Hardened armor is an active detriment unless you have at least 3 piloting or a quad and 4 piloting.
>>98107473The Hammerhead proves that AES in the legs will solve that quick and give you a Banshee's armor in a Firestarter's tonnage (and movement profile)
>>98107287apparently...
>>98107473hi
>>98107557With the Jihad ending in 3081, that'd put him right at 85. More indications that the Jihad may be the last campaign for Jake.
>>98107473What about all the other specialized armor types?
>>98107618I keep getting spam filtered trying to explain so I'll be ultra brief:Hardened doubles Piloting Skill Roll Thresholds from damage and protects against AP ammo.Ferro-Lamellor provides 20% damage resist that rounds down, allowing you to shrug off machine guns and LBX shot. Critical slot requirements are a bitch.Reflective and Ballistic Reinforced are what they say on the tin, making them niche.
>>98107571>one (1) large x-pulse laser
I can also bring either an archer c2, or a crusader 10s, for more leftover bv to spend on armour vees bsp.
>>98107636I forgot to mention Ferro-Lamellor also protects against AP weapons. Heat Disappating may as well be called Heat Disappointing and gets similar billing as Reactive; frustratingly narrow in application. Stealth Armor is pretty well understood; makes you harder to hit.
>>98107571It still falls down annoyingly often with average IS piloting.
>>98106411>>98106957
>>98107661If you're falling over in a hardened armor quad that goes 3/4; I'm calling it strictly user error; even with a 4/5 pilot.
>>98107675You can't user error virtual dice rolls.It's an unusually slow assault, it's going to get shot at a lot. The hardened armor negates the quad stability bonus and regular 4/5 pilots are notoriously bad at not constantly falling down.
>>98107693You are telling me that you are consistently eating 40+ damage turns with a 3/4 that costs 3k BV. It doesn't move fast enough to get into that kind of trouble unless you're pushing it out somewhere it doesn't belong.If it's eating that much fire, why the fuck aren't you flanking and killing everything that's focusing down over 600 points of effective armor?
>>98107762>eating 40+ damage turnsNot terribly unlikely fighting contemporary assault mechs at close range.Received kicks are automatic PSRs.>unless you're pushing it out somewhere it doesn't belongIt has a single weapon that can reach 15 hexes.
>>98107416>>98107425Both of you forgetting the Scylla. It just looks so fucking cool.
>>98107780You have 4 highly accurate X-pulse lasers slotted to a TC AND improved short range targeting; you can stand without a PSR, fire from prone without penalty; you can hull-down behind partial cover. You are the single greatest proverbial anvil that can be imagined.How the FUCK are you getting kicked to death without intentionally leaving the GT unsupported? Where the fuck is the rest of your lance? I usually don't get pissy about megamek retards, given how infrequently I get a real game myself, but what the actual fuck are you doing?This is all even allowing for the fact you're talking about a VEST Solaris labrat like its ever seen a real conflict. If it's this fucking difficult, refit it to a GTR-2 and try to put some brain-cells together on how that variant works.
>>98107890The GTR-2 really is a lovely little asshole.
>>98107668Corn Fed
>>98107890>You are the single greatest proverbial anvil that can be imaginedI have no idea how you're having trouble understanding a slow, short ranged assault mech is going to be drawing at least 40 points of fire if even one assault mech decides to start shooting at it and it's probably going to be in kicking range of something unless you're intentionally keeping it out of range of most of its weapons, most of its firepower being within the range of an SRM.
>>98107291that would be the 'two HCT-8S' way.however. if you only spend abou 2K ish bv on a say, heavy mech, that lets you have a fair bit of BV left over you can spend on converting to extra BSP to buy vee's in missions. I amleaning towards the crusader 10S thanks to the better close in boofening it has over the archer c2's longer range boofening, since its close in is two mplas and 2srm4. i LOVE me them streak 6's.
>>98107425crossbow is crusader, except retarded and uncool.
>>98107618Impact-Resistant and Ballistic-Reinforced aren't awful, but most of the rest are gimmicky or downright awful.
>>98107971SRM and LRM carrier C's becoming 'the'standard is neat, since they come with hardened. as does the vedette (armour), which ALSO brings a fucking cuac10, which is like, 4x the gun of the OG vedette.
>>98106091Omega reporting for duty.
>>98106411I don't mind being bondsman to that.
>>98107961You could have stopped at "I have no idea" and you would have been 100% right with no corrections or notes.There are two possible scenarios that can occur with the Great Turtle. The first, is you have placed it defensively or creeped it up methodically to threaten enemy advance units or as the 'anvil' of a 'hammer and anvil' manuever; a hard unit that behaves as a wall that prevents units from escaping more maneuverable and damaging units that are assaulting them. In this case, it will either draw fire as it is applying accurate fire on the enemy units, or force the enemy to correct their maneuvering to avoid it to prevent taking the combined fire.The second scenario is the Great Turtle is advancing in limited cover and its limited range prevents it from threatening damage. There is no possible universe where this is a good idea alone and without smoke cover in formation with other lance-mates in a charge, and so if this is occuring with no greater strategic conceit, you are literally setting it out in the open to fucking die; completely wasting its protective capabilities and armaments as an enemy with superior range can whittle down its protection with impunity.Put differently: What the fuck do you think you are trying to do?
>>98108009>it will either draw fireDid you know this often results in taking damage? What do you think happens when you get shot at?>hurr durr you think a unit that has no PSR bonuses is going to fall down a lot with a 4/5 pilot?Yes?And why are you such an obnoxious, belligerent, assumptive asshole anyway?
>>98106489Terrible art.
>>98108029You see if you are tank with big armor people will be afraid to shoot at you because you are big
>>98108043Of course, nobody wants to shoot the big, easy to hit, valuable target that is probably within range of all of their weapons.
>>98107968>I don't understand the CrossbowBless your heart
>>98108009>There are two possible scenarios that can occur with the Great Turtle.Three options. I may have deployed it from orbit as an RKV which will remain a viable combat unit after impact.
>>98108029Okay, so if the conceptual stuff eludes you entirely, we're just going to bury you with math.The GTR-1 has 42 points of hardened armor on each leg and 21 points of structure. To guarantee the destruction of any leg requires a combined 105 points of damage on that location alone. Partial cover additionally protects all four of these legs. With all four legs intact, a Quadmech may stand from prone without a PSR. This means on any turn a GTR-1 flops, if it hasn't sustained leg destruction, it may simply stand on the next movement phase; the only thing it is prevented from doing is jumping. Should a leg be destroyed, it no longer may stand without a PSR, but by losing its quad bonuses is simply standing at its hardened armor +2 penalty (as opposed to the +5 penalty of a normal mech with a destroyed leg). While not automatic, 7+s from a 4/5 pilot is a very possible PSR.Put differently, you would need 5 rounds of AC 20 or 6 ERPPC shots (minimum, it's not even guaranteed) to connect to a single leg to begin to keep the Great Turtle grounded. The mathematical odds of that are minuscule in a single round of even concentrated fire; and all the fire that is concentrated at that point is not being applied to other lance-mates. There is no strategic reason to dump that kind of firepower on a hard target that cannot yet apply its firepower unless it's literally the only thing you can shoot at.If I get pissy with people it's because when you don't read the rule books you don't know the rules; so when something sucks shit for you in megamek maybe you should figure out what went wrong before crying about your 4/5 pilot letting you down in a scenario where his piloting skill is practically irrelevant.>>98108129Fair. I hope it landed on an opfor Highlander for irony's sake.
>>98108139>keep it groundedAll I said was it falls down annoyingly often with an average IS pilot. Because it's a mech with no PSR bonuses, a slow, close range assault mech.I didn't say it was a bad mech.What a needless series of manic rants.
>>98108139>gets shot>falls over>gets up next turn, can barely move a step>gets shot>falls over>gets up next turn, can barely move a step>gets shot>the only thing it is prevented from doing is jumping
>>98108235>Oh no, the enemy is shooting my most durable unit, preventing it from using its single large pulse laser. This is a disaster.
>>98108255They can also shoot at other enemies first, in which case you also only have a single large pulse laser. It is a disaster.
>>98108255great turtle does more damage with its medium pulse lasers than the single large pulse laser, the medium pulse lasers are 66% of its ranged damage
>>98108267If your real objection is the sensible one, it's too much BV for something that can simply be played around, you should have said that instead of pretending it's a bad thing for your opponent to be devoting 40 damage or probably more like 50 or 60 to keep it knocked over.
>>98108308The problem is both. It is a lot of BV for no credible threat in a team battle, and then when one team has been whittled down to just the Turtle remaining the defensive overcommitment means it cannot accomplish anything even in spite, no last stand that can take at least one opponent down for persistent campaign considerations.
>>98108076Yes? Last game my opponent try to ignore my sturmfeur because it was big chunk of armour and he had very little in way of drilling trough it.
>>98108337>>98108308The GTR-1 is obviously meant for the cramped confines of the arenas, but the GTR-2 is a real honest anvil menace.
>>98108350>want to add Sturmfeuers to a merc unit I'm building>box comes with memetrash Hetzers I have no use forGrrrrrrr
>>98107287DLC will continue as long as there is profit in making them. There is also one in development for MW5Clans but that is supposedly the last one for that game as the rest of the DLC for that game have not turned a profit.
>>98107287>a lot of merc companies disbanded for various reasons.Yeah, getting Nuked out of existence is a pretty good reason. Gotta respect Waco's Rangers though. They saw a chance to be the greatest hater in the setting (a hotly HOTLY contested title) and all they had to do was make a deal with the devil to do it.
>>98108350Yeah man I bet everyone in your bizarro universe ignores targets just because they're durable.
>>98108527I see, nice non-argument you got there.Makes me think you don't even play.
>>98108430Yeah well it should have been Clans that got a Nicolai DLC so that it could expand on his story from his perspective. Unless it is a double whammy and that's exactly what the Clans DLC is.
>>98108548As opposed to the claim that people just never ever shoot durable targets?
>>98108371The Von Luckners in that box are pretty good though.
https://youtu.be/uRClWlt6mKM?si=x3HjH3XoDWo2WnIDOne of /ouranime/ getting a movie it seems?
>>98108554If they had the talent to pull it off a DLC focused on him finding redemption via the Watch could be pretty good.
>CJF sibko instructor that got left behind from march to Terra meets sudden unexpected death, leaving a cadet in the wild Hinterlands with a mech as a only 'warrior' to pilotNow, what should be the reason for his death? Not sure wether the Clanners drink alcohol for sudden alcohol poisoning or whatnot
>>98108695Stroke
>>98108695Knifed by a freebirth hooker after a tumble is a happy accident to make that fate real enough.
>>98108695The locals swear they've never seen an allergic reaction to the local delicacy before
>>98108695The cadet knifed the instructor because it was obvious they weren't good enough to fight on Terra, be an instructor, or even pilot an omnimech
>>98108695full blown AIDS
>>98108771Aids is a wasting disease, not sudden or unexpected at all.
>>98109048That makes for a stronger story, given the situation of the Falcons overall
>>98108573Re-read my post niguh, find me saying "never". I only posted one example of my friend deciding that tough tank is easier to ignore than to crack despite being slow and easy target.
>>98109111>nobody wants to shoot the big, easy to hit, valuable target that is probably within range of all of their weapons>Yes?(you)
>>98107890X-Pulse lasers aren't that great unless their mediums.Also its slower then an atlas, can't torso twist worth a damn and honestly just fucking dies if your opponents fielding re-engineered lasers.I would honestly not even field it and I field a lot of terrible mechs.
>>98106668I don't want to harsh anyone's mellow, but aren't DFAing mechs considered to be 2 levels higher than their target for targeting purposes?
>>98109275My bad. I was thinking in more general terms than sith like you.My point still stands, if you don't have something to crack that shell on a slow but not very dps oriented thing most people with who know math can see how long it would take and maybe decide it noth worth doing.
>>98109726>if you don't have something to crack that shell on a slow but not very dps oriented thing most people with who know math can see how long it would take and maybe decide it noth worth doing.How the fuck has this argument gone on this long? "Deprioritize the beefy but comparatively unthreatening unit" is literally Gaming 101. It's why tanks in MMOs need artificial mechanics to do their job. Of course an intelligent opponent would try to shoot the glass cannons first. I can't imagine ever shooting a hardened armor 100 tonner with an effective range of 6 if I still had literally any other targets. Might as well shoot the ground for 3 turns while the opfor gets free reign.
Are there any other tricks to dealing with ultra fast backstabbers than pulse lasers and precision ammo? One of the guys in my normal group almost always dive bombs with TSM/MASC/Supercharger clan laser boats and I'm pretty over it. I need those TMMs reduced.
>make era have clan shit everywhere >make vehicle forcepacks>no clan vehicle forcepacksWhen catalyst? Also what do you homos want from to see in a clan vehicle force pack?
>>98110269By default it would be the ones they made BSP cards for in Hinterlands. I already have the clan vehicles I want in metal.
Painted my first mech last night. I'm not going to call it finished since it still needs a base, but aside from that what can I do to improve the paintjob? I was thinking about getting some paint on gloss varnish for the viewscreen effect since it's too recessed to really paint normally.I do really appreciate how much simpler it was to deal with than other miniatures I've done in the past. And metal is a fun material.
>>98110269Ishtar make them redesign this abortion.
>>98110214Movement blocking can slow a lot down. Maps with decent choke points that arent planet fucking bowling ball help.Random smoke srm2s and lrm5s can also just make you give less of a fuck if there aren't trees to park in.Artillery and can Arrow IV target hexes, not mechs and therefore don't believe in TMM. Can't remember about bombers.A mech with 16 fucking machineguns may not have a good hit chance but somethings probably gonna hit. Depending on what they play like and the map you can occasionally throw out Thunder lrms to dissuade running a fast Boi down a line for a turn as it's -4 to hit the ground.
>>98110269I like horses so literally the hinterlands BSP deck. The only other one I super like is the Oro, and I made my own one of those.
>98089149HahahahahahahaThere's TWO They/Them freaks in this and Bryan fucks up BOTH TIMES and accidently uses the wrong pronouns for 'em.Performative ass woke-ism.HAHAHAHAHAHA
>>98110398As I said here >>98089149 the fucker can't even keep up with his own stupid liberal shit. Such performative bullshit has no place in BT and Bryan should be flayed.
I haven't been paying attention to the meta plot because its shit so what's the current status of Clan Wolf? I saw some people say the devs took the lazy and stupid route of having them pull fresh forces out of their ass rather than doing something interesting with idea that they're completely spent from taking Terra.>>98110398Are they Clanners because I've been seeing an increasing number of woke people trying to claim the Clans would 100% support this nonsense and that makes them the good guys and im curious if this hack writer is pushing that idea. Which makes it funny when I see other woke people absolutely despise the Clans for being fascists and claim that its a serious problem that the devs keep them around.
>>98110510Both Sphereoid XD
>>98110510The ilclan is stalling for as much time as the wall will give them (which shouldn't be much) and integrating as much fortress republic stuff as they can. I fear it's going to be another one of those "and then all the soldiers who really believed in the cause of their previous nation all happily became Warriors and oppressed the absolute shit out of their former friends and family (note: family is outlawed) while not getting paid anymore because money and private property is dezgra" type situations.
Where's the DLC, Piranha?
>>98110404>>98110398KEEEEEK
>>98110398As someone trying to read a comment chain the only thing you're accomplishing by "not"replying is looking like you care way too fucking much.(You)s are not an upvote, redditard, they are there to sort out the fucking comment chain.
>>98110398Don't forget the "Um actually its they/them" for a mech from Hot Spots Draconis Reach
>>98110214Park a smaller mech with a few medium pulse lasers 3 hexes behind your main sniper. >>98110292Common extra details include hazard stripes on legs or near hot components, numbers that represent who knows what, and colored lighting effects on laser muzzles and around visible heat sinks.
>>98110269I don't play clans to field vehicles.If I had too I would like some jetfighters/vtols.
>>98110269How many Clan vehicles are there? Aren't they so focused on mechs that even the random pilot generation gives a debuff to rolling vehicle guys?
>>98110269>Battlefield Support Clan Vehicles (Quarter 4 2025 Release)Donar x2Joust Medium Tank x2Athena Combat x2Mars Assault Tank x2
>>98111294Roughly about 30 that aren't just Clan tech versions of IS designs. There's quite a few omni vehicles as well.
I got a lot of use out of the Hachiman the one time I deployed a vehicle point. 40 Artemis cLRMs on a 4/6 chassis can only be so bad.
Are totem mechs held in a high enough regard that they could end up on the front lines by choice, or do they only end up there when there's a shortage of omnimechs?
Clan vehicles are how you increase your number of units without breaking fluff. A vehicle Point is two vehicles, so a Binary consisting of a mech Star and a vehicle Star outnumbers an IS Company.
>>98111582Yeah but the average Clan vehicle pilot is 5/6. Have fun with that.
>>98111706Even better, then you can say your default 4/5 vehicles are actually veterans without paying any extra BV for it.
Clanners, being retarded, hate vees, despite making the best vees.Vedette (armour) and srm/lrm carrier C's.All they do is sell them and licence them for others to make them.Vedette armour comes with hardened armour, 5/8 and CUAC10. Class 10 clan ultra autocannon.Class 10.Clan.Ultra autocannon.>tankboner acquired.
>>98110796I link to the comment chain here >>98110404 you spaz :3
I could use the 'tanker' option to have my mercenary force start with three vedette (armour)'s... that... almost seems like the best option. What with their neat 5/8, super heavy armour AND a great fuxking gun...
>>98111527In Without Question, Hell's Horses happily take one of the quad totems into an invasion.
Is the game worh it? I played the other MW games, but people say 5 is kinda shit without mods.
>>98112206Honestly liked it better than MW4 but not more than MW3.
>>98112206Its improved a lot and they allege AI improvements in Chaos Reigns.Even if it still sucks, you're SOL for a little as all the mod makers have to update. Once it updates if you end up looking for a mostly vanilla experience that is much improved, slot in TTRULEZ_AI mod. Some of the jumpjet changes will probably be redundant and tweaked/dummied out, but it has an animation based system for enemies using their jets that make them more aggressive and effective; as well as targeting behaviors that make lights for example more of a threat (or at least more fun to shoot).A lot of Chaos Reign's AI tweaks seem at least partially inspired by it though, so you might have a great time without it. I can't say I know yet I haven't booted it up yet.
>>98112283The devs at piggy are so retarded I wouldn't be surprised if they just straight up stole a bunch of code from the modders who have been unfucking the game for years now.
>>98110398Why hasn't anyone gone to a convention and killed this pedo yet?
>>98112308Based. Why pay someone to do stuff when dumbass modders do it for free and you can just take credit?
>Chaos Reign introwait, Tharkad was an ice planet?
>>98112862Always has been. New Syrtis is too.
>>98108430>we'll probably never get a Nova Cat DLC about Operation Bulldog>or the Wars of ReavingWhy even live?
>>98108430>There is also one in development for MW5Clans but that is supposedly the last one for that game as the rest of the DLC for that game have not turned a profit.Why did the game fail?
>>98112953Isn't it mainly campaign focused and while Mercenaries does have campaigns, it also has the freeform mode? So Clans is something you play through maybe a couple times, but Mercs you can replay repeatedly, as well as Mercs being more open to modding?
>be me>Rasalhague technician working on mechs and battle armor>life's bretty good>one day elemental woman comes up to me to get her armor repaired>do-all-elemental-women-have-tits-that-big.png>agree and get to work>dear lord in heaven what happened and who did this to you>suit looks like it's been mauled by one of those ghost-bear things the clanners talk about>do my damnedest to fix it up to original spec>even throw in a tune up of the actuators since they were grinding a bit>elemental woman comes back>show my work>she likes it>relief.jpg>likes it so much she decides to claim me as her personal technicianand that kids is how I met my wife...
>>98113557>posted from the intercaste marriage exile camps of Vega
Is Enhanced Imaging worth the BV cost? It's a -1 to piloting and a random mix of other niche benefits (reduce penalties for shooting through heavy woods or smoke but not light woods or smoke, ignore night fighting modifiers, make aimed shots with a penalty unless you have a tcomp, then it's a bonus, act like you have an active probe but only to one hex out) and penalties (may take pilot damage from any structure hit), and it costs as much BV as getting your piloting and gunnery -1 better than they are.
>>98113581It came from the TV show and I've never seen it used in real life. Also, despite all Proto pilots having it, I don't think they get those benefits.
>>98113639With the way it's written, they should. It even specifically calls out that protomech EI interfaces cannot be shut down while mech and BA interfaces can.But the actual rules for EI use are classified as Experimental and protomechs themselves aren't even Advanced. So I guess for them it's just a suite of optional rules.
So, almost all of the mechs that are doing logistics and engineering work are Stingers and Wasps, right? They're the most produced mechs and they're always available everywhere, but they also have the features needed to rapidly load and unload materiel.
>>98113686Until industrials with more specialized equipment come back into production, sure. A Wasp or Stinger looks pretty bad in comparison to almost anything with lift hoists and a salvage arm.
>>98113686Carrying capacity is based on weight, so you want the heaviest mech available that has two hands. Conventional forklifts and equivalent indomechs are even better at it, so battlemechs are only involved during emergencies.
>>98113743A battlemech with hands can at least load ammo into other mechs, you just need an ammo hauler to roll up next to them.That said, the only actual logistical operation I've ever read about with battletechs had an entire lance of Archers with Thunder missiles which snatched up a bunch of unpaid for goods and replaced them with active landmines.
>>98113557That reminds me, have the Clans brought their totem murderbeats like the ghost bear and hell horse to the IS?
https://youtu.be/GEvafAyzwbAOh boy they really did it
>>98113686>>98113703>Shovel-shaped hatchet
Good news, it's the 3060s and your homeworld has survived the Clan invasion. Even better, they've found the equipment to build new SWD-2s and a dozen of them lying around in storage. They're outdated and need to be modernized before the next war, and you've been put in charge of the project with the following conditions. No changes to the structure. You already checked, none of your friends who can make Endo Steel can spare the facilities for a run of Swordsman frames. Maybe on another run.No Mixed Tech. All the nice Clan gear within three jumps is being claimed by that asshole with an Atlas.Include ballistic, missile, and energy weapons. You can expand or cut them as much as you want, but all three need to be there so your friends are involved in manufacturing the new design.At least one weapon in each side torso and arm. Changing what weapons are there is fine, but those mounts need to be reused according to your favorite technician and it's not worth arguing with him.Keep the Dry Cost below 4,500,000 C-Bills. Any more than that would be cutting into your profits.What's your upgrade package for these museum pieces?
>>98113805>Keep the Dry Cost below 4,500,000 C-Bills.This is the real killer. Mech design challenge accepted. I will be back.
>>98113802That's clearly a spade.
>>98113831No, that's clearly a hatchet
>>98113805>it's the 3060sDamn, MMLs are still 7 years out...
>>98113848We'll say you know a guy who knows a guy, it's close enough and I didn't specify any specific planets.
>>98113805Ignore my moronic ballistic and missile friends demand for a kickback. Multiple ammo using weapons is too much for 40 tons. Source pitban 240s from somewhere and make slightly fat wolfhounds.
https://youtu.be/KpCLz9s6DhY?t=404&si=aFGDFZppjBC4BFDuADAM SAID THE LINE
So, even if you ended up with 6 (standard) engine crits, 3 gyro crits, the mech is not truly destroyed as long as it has 1 CT structure remaining?
Any cheats or hax for Mechwarrior Online????
>>98114107Correct.
>>98113805I refuse. Literally can't be done. Try again with a Mech that's actually a decent weight. 40 tonners aren't legitimate Battlemechs.
>>98113899>>98114191I understand your complaints, I get it, and I've got an offer for you.Do it or Atlas George gets the job and puts an LB 2-X and LRM-10 on them.
>>98114115Get good, faggot.
>>98113805Roll like you're on the rim. Periphery pride exactly where we fucking like it, Houses and Clans can go fuck themselves.
>>98113805Replace AC/5 with LB 5-X AC w/1 ton of ammoReplace SRM4 and LRM5 with MRM10 w/1 ton of ammoReplace armor with FFRemove Small Laser and add C.A.S.E. - put both tons of ammo in same torsoAdd 4x JJIts not going to be amazing but what you are left with is an annoying militia mech that can plink at range and ambush up close that costs roughly 3mill per unit.
Other than Scorpion MLs and J. Edgars, what other conventional vehicles have lasers as their main weapons?
>>98114445Actually heres' a bit of a tweak. 180 is way too much RAC ammo. Dry cost is 3.2 MCB.
>>98114461Galleon, kamisori, laser carrier, schreck.Propanly way more as this are vehicles I got by marking ENE tag.
>>98114512Schreck is a PPC carrier, I thought?
>>98114445Go to bed, Tex, you're drunkposting again
>>98114191>40 tonners aren't legitimate Battlemechs.Clanner 40s are pretty legit, tho
>>98114512Forgot that the Galleon was a laser carrier.Given they're into combined arms warfare and thus, take more chances with conventional vehicles, would Clan Hell's Horses be the one Clan that would try to do a conventional vehicle with a heavy laser?
Is 5Mercs good yet? Also why can't they just remake 4Mercs? Give us back the soulful cast of Spectre, Castle & Comrades. The characters in 5Mercs have as much personality as wet fart.
>>98113743forklifts are a fucking miracle from god. the OG designers must have been inspired by divine revelation.they are tiny, they have teensy tiny little engines you think shouldn't be able to power a wet fart...and yet they are total fucking retardium workhorses with some models doing an utterly insane gazillionty miles in their life cycles.seriously. everyone in the western world completely unaware of just how their lives are made possible by countless motherfuckers driving forks.
>>98112451Not worth the effort.
>>98110510>>98110626I'm kind of hoping that what we see in 3250 is actually the result of Word of Blake remnants (those who weren't accounted for when the Jihad ended) popping up and that their new Master is actually a descendant of Clan Wolverine survivors (having it that Chandrasekhar Kurita was right all along to claim Clan Wolverine remnants were taken in by ComStar and their descendants helped create the Word of Blake) and they simply took over the Third Star League and opted to act like Clanners to explain why we have a Loremaster and Auditor Clusters in 3250.
>>98114691I hope it's revealed that every last Word of Blake remnant perished of incurable space herpes, just to stop you shitters from wrecking the setting any further with your bullshit>inb4 Trying Too HardFuck you, everyone blames the Clans for trashing the lore but WoB and its nonsense has done a hundred times the damage and no one calls their cancer out for being the literal gorilla on the back of the story for a century
>>98114730Trying too hard
>>98114554I'd ignore the fag. There are plenty of good 40 tonners. He is just being deliberately retarded.>>98114591Define good? PGI are also too retarded to make MW4. They failed at marketing their latest DLC which if the release trailer had been their initial announcement absolutely everyone would have been hyped.
>>98114730Both Neo-Blakists and the Manei Domini are still around and that's awesome.Seethe more, grog.
>>98114735>plenty of good 40 tonnersfake and gayIS 40 tonners are 100% garbage55tonmaxxing is the only way to make a good medium mech
>>98114543Kinda lazor still.
>>98114745I bet you like Wolverines you faggot!
>>98114745I will continue to use the CDA-3C until morale improves.
>>98114740SPACEHERPES
>>98114745Arctic Wolf, Battle Cobra, Carrion Crow, Clint iic, Coyotl, Dragonfly, Griffin iic, Lobo, Phantom, Pouncer, Raptor ii, Sentinel(maybe) and Yurei(because LAMs are great and fuck all WoB haters).
>>98113805not perfect but I think this will do
>>98108695Aneurysm when asleep. The idea of a peaceful, painless death in a bed would horrify clanners and Dracs.
>>98114803damnit you can barely fuckin read that, sorry for that, for some reason I can't use a pdf file
>>98113778Yes. There was a short story about an impromptu Clawing ritual to kill a Ghost Bear that survived a dropship crash and was killing sphereoids. The Horses brought their horses too, but there's no info or whatnot outside of planets they put them on because no one on the writing team likes the Heck Ponies.
>>98107039Maybe it's just the facial animation hitting the Uncanny Valley for me, but this version of Adam Steiner feels... insincere somehow. The cartoon version was painfully forthright and earnest, but this guy has 'I'm Up To Something' written all over him.
>>98114801You forgot the Sentry, Whitworth and Watchman. All of these are fantastic for what they are.
>>98114691>the BloodGo back to sleep and lay off the PCP, Herb. No one likes your conspiracies stacked within conspiracies nonsense.
So, what's stopping the inner sphere, with their vast industrial base, from just out producing the clans at this point? Let me guess, sci-fi writers have no sense of scale, strikes again?
>>98114854Fiat
>>98114077Can anyone identify the WarShips at 5:10? The upper-right is clearly Redmond's flagship (an Aegis), but the other two are defeating me for now.
>>98114817>damnit you can barely fuckin read that, sorry for that, for some reason I can't use a pdf fileAre you like, actually fucking blind?
>>98114827Well that's the entire point, the real Adam wasn't quite a cartoon main character.
>>98114591Story, characters, and writing are still anemic.Game is still unstable af on my rig.Not really.
>>98114691We're probably never getting 3250 because there's no need for it, Battletech isn't up shit creek without a paddle any more thanks to all the recent successes and doesn't need a reinvention and relaunch attached to another big timeskip just to get away from it all to reset and hope that people buy in.Thank fuck.
>>98115064>>98114691The small bits of 3250 lore we've got are interesting and I hope we get to seem the expanded someday. Who was wiped out in the Final Annihilation?!
>>98114859Without more detail can't really say. I think they are both Aegis class as well just at different angles and levels of shadow.
>>98114801>>98114796If a Mech can't take an AC/20 to the side torso without going internal, it's not a viable battlefield unit.
>>98113805>>98113866Well here's what I've got, Dry Cost of 3,982,160 C-bills, 4,095,560 C-bills fully loaded.
>>98115055Get a better computer, pleb. If you aren't running at least a 5090 over 64 gigs of DDR5, you don't deserve to be playing vidya.
>>98114817PDF files belong in the White House, not on 4chan.
>>98114841Might be so, I made my list from mechs I know or read about.>>98115214Skill issue.
>>98115214Hope you are prepared to get quirked all over your face!
Would you say the LTV-4 has the same ramshackle trait as the Falcon? The record sheet on recguide 27 doesn't have it, but mekbay does.
On the Bulldog tank, any reason why it's called a medium tank instead of a heavy tank since its mass is 60 tons?
>>98115231kek'd>>98115276Usually people take a 40 tonner cause they have limited funds to spend and expect mediocre results but they end up usually putting in a good show. Whitworth typically be the best example of this.>>98115559The recognition guide itself says it has the quirk.
>>98115606Role is as a medium or rather an MBT rather than a heavy or assault (defensive, low mobility) tank. Please understand small indie company forgot that ground vees don't have the same alternative weight class bracket as aerospace.
>>98115606Rule of acquisition number 239, never be afraid to mislabel a product!Only thing I could find through quick glancing is that it is considered a rather standard tank for its tonnage mainly due to armament but nothing that outrights say why they class it as a medium
Guys...hear me out...battlemech soccer!
>>98115618It says the Falcon has the quirk, I was just wondering why a hovertank would get popularity if it's got a random negative quirk every fight.
>>98115618I take 40tonners because we play small points cuz we are bunch of noobs and I want match my star to my opponents lance.
>>98115894Gay.
Evening All.Trying to find Remasters / OCR / OEF of the following, but haven't had any luck with old links in Share, the linked Troves, asking in here or the old DA Files when they got dropped for curated.BattleTech 10975 - Classic BattleTech CompanionBattleTech 1716 - MechWarrior's Guide to Solaris VIIBattleTech 1722 - LosTech – MechWarrior’s Equipment GuideBattleTech 35008 - Guide to Covert OpsBattletech 35011 - Aerotech 2 RevisedAny help would be much appreciated, but given I haven't been able to find myself in about two months I think I'm out of luck.Still, have to ask just in case.
>>98116022No! You're gay!
>>98115894Played or not played by schoolgirls in mechs?
>>98115894Great for the Noisel Summer Games
>>98116086Don't think I have anything like that. Anybody with a full or cracked Adobe Acrobat should be able to convert the old ones to something like what you want, though.
>>98114817Uploading pdfs was banned after sharty crashed 4chan last year.
>>98116352did not know that, thank you for the information.
>>98116012Simply play star cs 2 lances and take 6 hours
First Star League-era novels when?
