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To be fair, the FWL does basically nothing for most of BattleTech history, until the Jihad when the writers decided to take an axe to the faction over and over as an example to the rest of the factions about what happens when you don't engage with the plot enough.
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Frankly a game set in the Jihad era would be nice, everything can be on fire
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Jul 10, 2021 20:17
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Gothsheep posted:To be fair, the FWL does basically nothing for most of BattleTech history, until the Jihad when the writers decided to take an axe to the faction over and over as an example to the rest of the factions about what happens when you don't engage with the plot enough. It didn't have to be that way; House Marik invented the Star League, the HPG and the Succession Wars. But if the entire time you focus on is when Thomas Marik is in charge, you aren't gonna see more out of them than you would, say, the LC when Giovanni Steiner ran the show.
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BattleTech's early fiction was all FWL. Janos Marik was interesting, the FWL civil war was fun, they just... stopped. The Thomas Marik reveal was too big and too important for them to casually lay it on the table, despite more or less saying "Thomas isn't really Thomas" in 3055. Everyone knew, but it was just too big and too important not to be a huge deal so the FWL just kept getting moved back and forth between the two back burners because "We can't do anything with Thomas yet!" It doesn't help that the two books the FWL did get were some of the worst in the franchise. Ideal War is unambiguously written from the perspective of the villains (if Regulus had nuked the Word of Blake's leadership in 3056, there would have been no Jihad) and Star Lord pits the might of the Free Worlds League against a periphery power so minor it only controls one planet and the League still almost loses because it turns out Thomas Marik's The Knights of the Inner Sphere are loving morons. Is there a word like Weeaboo for Chivalry buffs? Chivalboo? Thomas Marik's The Knights of the Inner Sphere are Chivalboos. Edit: It really felt like someone had an idea for the League that was "just too good" to not use and then sat on it for a decade rather than just using it or dropping it. PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Jul 10, 2021 |
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Jul 10, 2021 21:03
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PoptartsNinja posted:Is there a word like Weeaboo for Chivalry buffs? Chivalboo? Thomas Marik's The Knights of the Inner Sphere are Chivalboos. I like "Theeaboo" because they usually speak in bad faux-Shakespeare too. Or if they're really into specifically British chivalry you can group them in with the other flavors of Teaaboo.
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Theeaboo works. I vote we canonize Theeaboo for weeaboos who sperg over knightly stuff instead of japanese stuff.
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I was really hoping Dekker was going to get the DFA kill on Victoria; he deserved it after all those Spider melee thumbnails! This was a fun campaign to watch; thanks for sharing it with us.
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