Current errata for anons curious
https://www.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,91365.0.html

>>98496000
>Anons too busy reading to post edition
Very true, I spend the better part of 2 hours looking over the new rules last night.
I liked some of the new fluff, the interview with the IlClan’s lore master was funny
>The “Second” Star League, whatever happened there
Also Hell’s Horses going full “The Clans have fallen, billions must answer my batchall” mode.

>>98496138
I'm just glad they went back to 2nd ed/Compendium RoW mode and axed the full stories. A main rulebook should have a bit of fluff, I get it, but I want that stuff as out of the way as possible when I'm playing the damn game, and they managed that here.

Overall, this rulebook is an improvement on the BMM. Gonna have to wait for the Vehicle book before it can completely displace total warfare

>>98496265
Agreed, pretty solid. BMM was already my go to, but this is a clear step up from that. But I want my vehicles stuff too. Maybe even PBIs if they can do a good job on the revision, current ones are stupid.

The dragon is gay

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>>98496325
Water is wet.

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What are everybody’s favorite clan striker mechs? Bonus points for “budget” options, anything that comes in under 2K. I’ve already got a pretty solid roster of clan mediums for Snow Raven, but I could always use more.

>>98496367
Stormcrow is always my go to. Some of the configs come in under 2k.

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>>98496379
Stormcrow is in the running for best mech in the game for me, I cannot think of a single mech that just cranks out banger after banger with the same consistency. It really is one of the few mechs that feels like there are no bad options outside of the named variants like the Attwater.

Stormcrow K in this pic, did a custom arm for this one with some extra big capacitors on the Gauss arm.

>>98496367
Horned owl

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>>98496367
Hellion is a favorite of mine, tho at 35 tons it's a little fragile.

>>98496000
I have concluded that the Preta Luminus and the Deva Achilleus custom are the only viable celestial mechs. There may one or two other variants that are ok but these are the two that I have determined to be maybe worth a shit. It's amazing that across a whole SERIES of mechs that there are only like 2 variants that are viable and not shitech mechs

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If I am reading the new rules right then kicks have been nerfed to be a -1 but club attacks are a -1 and can trigger a PSR? If so Oogabooga Tech when?

>>98496367
Linebacker, Shadow Cat-TC, Stormbirb, and the god teir Incubus.

>>98496915
They came down with a case of them Kuritas.

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HONOR THE DRAGON!

>>98496915
Archangel Dominus is a double-headcapper assault mech with loads of armor and C3, which you can't really go wrong with.

>For ProtoMechs entering such a hex, use the Gunnery Skill Rating when making Piloting Skill Rolls

?

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>>98497284

>>98497284
Protos have always had that kind of hack, because they decided to not give them anything but Gunnery.

The following pilots have not yet checked in for year 2 at Kapteyn Academy. Please check in if you would like to continue at the academy.
>Janusz Kotow 4/5, Orion ON1-VA
>Tetsuo Puentealto 3/5, Phoenix Hawk PXH-1
>Obal Moriancumer 5/6, Warhammer WHM-6R
>Bob Denard 4/5, Wasp WSP-1A
>Vladimir Ignatyev 6/7, Wasp WSP-1A
All require new pilot rolls with no modifier. Jausz Kotow and Obal Moriancumer may attempt to upgrade their mechs by doing 2 mech rolls and taking the lower of those 2. Once the option is determined, they make either take the new mech, or keep their current mech. Likely a keep for both an Orion and a Warhammer, but they still get to try all the same.
Tetsuo and Bob Denard both get to attempt a mech upgrade as well, but they both only have to make 1 new mech roll.
Vladimir Ignatyev does not get a new mech roll at this time.

>>98496456
Yeah, I haven't had a chance to play with any Clan stuff myself, but it seems like the general consensus is that Stormcrows are more or less the top pick for anybody who's serious about playing to win.

>>98497420
There are many individual variants of different medium mechs that are much more oppressive, and even the best Stormcrow doesn’t get up to the sort of extreme bullshit you can pull off. But they are all consistently very good, which makes the mech as a whole a very solid pick. Kinda like the Timber Wolf, none of the configs are game-warping but they’re always going to perform well.

>>98496265
Fuck off. It's new. Therefore it's bad. I want the BMM back, and the BMM is going to be the only rulebook I accept at my table.

>>98496915
Are you retarded? The Preta Dominus isn't viable? You can't figure out a way to use an 8 jump C3i spotter that boats medium lasers?

Fuck off.

>>98497164
What shitty AIsloppa is this supposed to be? This looks awful. Why did you waste a post on this? Get back to your slop containment thread.

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Show us your tower of power. Your plastic crack haul / vault.

>>98496456
Prime is munchkin territory, but the C and I configs are great.

>>98497610
BMM is better if you play with quirks. They seem to have removed quirks from the new Core Rules.

>>98497668
Quirks are probably are better off as non-core. They're fun, but they work best in campaign play imo.

>>98491554
I see CGL butthurt over being defeated by wobbies never went away.

>>98497643
We don't boxpost here. If you want to show off your minis, set them up and take a photo or play a game and take a photo.

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>>98497164

So, did they finally fix UACs? Machine guns?

>>98497950
Yes and depends
UACs can't jam anymore, and ammo explosions are capped at 20 damage without CASE (10 with, 1 with CASE II).

BLAKE LIVES!

>>98497962
waow

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You know what, this is actually a pretty good idea. I'm going to start doing this for the Kapteyn games I simulate.

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Confess.

>>98498107
I ship Jake and Leon from MW5.

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>>98497164
Handheld weapons and hands in general would actually be better for mechs than having them built into the arms. BattleTech got it right the first time.

>>98498156
for >>98498107

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>>98497164
DRAGON STATUS: HONORED

>98498107
The Sacrament of Reconciliation is confidential for a reason.
Find a better way to get cheap (You)s.

>>98497623
>4 ER medium lasers
OOOOOHHHHH I'm quakin in my boots. Eat a dick you child

>>98498198
define "viable"

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Cowards! They're afraid to have player mechs fall over!

>>98498264
Good. Falling over isn't fun. Games have to be fun.

>>98496367
good lord those are painted clean.

Dragon status?

>>98496367
What's the middle back mech there? I can't say I recognize it.

>>98498107
>tfw no milfy dommy mommy Trueborn gf like Joanna

>>98498291
This was awesome. >>98473405 You wouldn't know fun if you were fucking its brains out.

>>98498246
+3 or better TMM, max armor, no lower than 50 tons, capable of headcapping with a single weapon hit, no ammo, no ISXL.

And the celestials are shit. Child.

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>>98498347
That is a Dark Crow, a 55 ton Snow Raven design. It always mounts a pair of low-caliber ballistics in the weird low-mounted arms.

Old paint job in this pic, the new work is much better imo.

Sub /btg/.
I've got a game on the 29th, and one of the guys wants to do a scenario for a 'trial of position', as he's a massive Smoke Jag/Clanner in general. So it'll be him vs 3 of us, one at a time and I'm not really up on the whole 'clan stuff' beyond enjoying stomping them with my IS Mercs.
I was thinking about taking either a Viper, a Conjurer or a Linebacker. Vipers look derpy and fun, I like Linebackers, and I'd take a Conjurer and paint it just to piss off that Griffinposting faggot. If it helps, I'd probably be painting it in Ghost Bear or Hells Horses scheme. Thoughts?

>>98498527
Conjurer is a second line Mech, so it probably wouldn't be in a Trial of Position. Ghost Bear likes speedy designs so either the Black Python or Linebacker should work. The Linebacker overinvests in speed and Ghost Bear likes that, but the BP is on their MUL for Civil War onward..

>>98498107
I...I have cheated by fudging TMM's or ignoring bad modifiers when I thought I could get away with it...

I got away with it...

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This is new, right? It used to be that if you fired any leg weapons you couldn't kick, but now it's just that leg that can't kick. That means the humble Wasp can now fire its SRM2 and still kick.

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>>98497898
On-topic post is on-topic.

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>>98498342
Total Dragon Honouring (TDH)

>>98498470
Two cuac5's are what 14 tonnes? And putting 20 dmg downrange for sfa heat. Four tonnes of ammo for them is plenty and brings it up to 18 tonnes.

My Triskelion came with four legs.

>>98496000
I saw someone say there may be autocannon balance changes in the new rules, any truth to that?

>>98498527
>Smoke Jaguar fag
If he wants to larp super hard, tell him to bring a second mech along in case he gets owned the first time. Smoke Jaguar is a bit unusual in that they're one of the only clans that actually lets you have a do-over in a trial of position.

so, my enforcer is slightly oversized and is tall as a warhammer
I decided that the factory simply increased the size of all components slightly causing a mech to be functionally identical but slightly larger in every direction rather than try and re-tool

>>98498679
This is silly but in a setting where machines are 3d printed it would make sense

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I appreciate the toned thighs on this Capellan pilot from the new rulebook, would lick.
However something about her chest looks off to me. Like those tubes seem to be taking up quite a bit of the volume that I would normally expect her boobs to fill.
Is she actually just a flattie who's compensating?

>>98498674
All autocannons can take one crit and continue to function. Rotaries no longer take your entire shooting phase away when unjamming (but you can't run or jump), and they can take Caseless ammo. Ultras can't jam.

Also, is the NLRT new? I don't remember seeing that anywhere before.

>>98498715
>Ultras can't jam
holy shit

Oh gods. I am now imagining an ilClan era enforcer sporting xlfe, 5/8/5, endo, cuac10, cerllas and maybe a couple cermlas. Pure sex.

Here's a weird one. I thought they had minorly buffed SSRM-2s because yhey made streaks count as having rolled a 12 instead of an 11. Under TW, this would mean an AMS brings it to 8 instead of 7, which is a result of 2 hits for cluster 2. But they made AMS count streaks as if they had rolled a 7 instead of just giving them a -4, so it's the same. AMS itself is buffed though, it can bring clusters down to 0.

>>98498695
Bit of column A & B from the looks of things. She may well just be a flattie/almost flatline and the cooling coils are emphasized over her (diminutive) bust. The leotard style panel should continue up over her chest proper before splitting for her shoulders. On the other hand, she also looks desperately thin because the cooling coils (which are oblong shape rather than round) around her ribs and waist then push her in to an incredibly narrow waist, like corset thin. Addtionally, there is a lack of bulk under the leotard panels to accomodate the cooling setup there.

Its a nice design, I like it, but much like anything drawn by artsy types shows a lack of practical education for anything like actual physical use of an object. The artist has literally drawn 'the woman' and then filled in a good part of her with the cooling vest she wears. If they took her right now and then added the cooling vest over top for added bulk it'd be much more realistic. You see it with firearms/weapons/tanks/planes. Planes are *especially* bad for this, covered in greebles and dumb shit that would increase drag so very much.

>just realized I'm gonna have to print my own quick ref stuff on card stock updated w/new rules cause I ain't buying the new box
Oh bother

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>>98496000
Scouring Sands is pretty good fun.

>>98496367
Vixen by far. I want to like the Grendel but none of the loadouts click for me.

>>98498640
Nope, it's like that in the 5th printing of TW, just with worse wording. "No weapons mounted in a kicking leg can fire in the turn in which a 'Mech kicks."
"kicking leg" implies you're choosing one of your legs to kick with.

>>98498673
Congratulations on your quad.

>>98498645
Fuck off. Play with your Mechs or don't post them.

>>98498695
>Is she actually just a flattie who's compensating?
It's actually a tranny. That's why he's got no tits. It's the MOC influence seeping into the Confederation.

>>98498695
CGL art direction has deliberately avoided showing any pretty women with big tits for years. They consider the traditional male gaze to be toxic, and have stated that they no longer intend to make product in that demographic.

>>98498784
Nope as in that's not new or nope as in you can't fire the Wasp's SRM2 and still kick?

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>>98498837
Aww, does contrarian anon have a melty of off topic posts at actual content?

Cry harder fag.

My aces box is coming 1 sep.

Anyhow. I got TWO lots of terrains from the agency box, the terrains from the clan invasion box, two lots from the beginner box. And I bought a whole extra set of the terrains from the alpha strike box so I have two lots of them too now.

I am.going to have some cluttered, clustered urban hellsprawls.

>>98498903
not new

>>98498907
The reason I'm telling you to not post your shelf is because you are being incredibly fucking boring. I have a shelf with minis on it; it's not interesting to other people to post my fucking shelf. You aren't even TALKING about what's on your shelf, just talking about spending more money on putting shit on your shelf.

Why are you wasting your fucking money on all this shit if you cannot even find it in yourself to make fucking conversation over it?

That's why box-posting is fucking brain-damaged and even on the most softplay daycare-mode sites on the internet it's frowned upon.

>>98498951
NTA, but your screeching about it isn't any better.

>>98498951
True

>>98498988
What you want me to downvote him and report him to the mods? I'm not asking for the fucking impossible here.

>>98498681
if the supersized enforcer was also raised to 55-tons, what would fit into added tonnage?
preferably a loadout thats janky, since if its being manufactured by a factory that doesnt see a problem with just increasing the size of all parts in every direction to fit their tools

>>98499036
sure, I mean why not brother

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Poor Steiner

>>98498640
Sort of. As the other anon said, it used to be individual leg, but only through early TW. Then BMM and later TW had it as "any leg" disables fire. Now it's back to individual leg (as you see in the text). I think individual leg is better, especially with quads.