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Defiance Industries posted:Yeah, but at least the Death Commandos know that they're villains. No they don't. Their motto is, basically: "One man's terrorist is another man's patriot". The Death Commandos are extremely patriotic. Arquinsiel posted:I was more wondering how hot he was running and if the pilot was dead before the SRMs hit. He'd taken 5 hits. If they'd inferno'd him, he'd have taken 6 and died anyway.
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I was kind of hoping you'd lost track and he'd been dead a turn or two. I love the constant "dead pilot" ghost stories that crop up in Battletech.
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Eh, the Death Commandos as depicted as novels (when they get speaking parts) have that whole schtick the Operative used in Serenity. "I'm doing bad stuff but I do it for the State so that people can be safe!" yadda yadda. Plus, their official insignia is just a goddamn skull. Anyone who uses a skull for an insignia is just coming out and saying "Yeah, we're not even pretending."
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Feb 28, 2011 22:25
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Affi posted:Are we the baddies? No. No we are not. That would be the Space Mexicans. Anything that puts a sombrero on an Atlas must be evil. Space China is working for everyone's good. 
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Defiance Industries posted:Eh, the Death Commandos as depicted as novels (when they get speaking parts) have that whole schtick the Operative used in Serenity. "I'm doing bad stuff but I do it for the State so that people can be safe!" yadda yadda. Yeeeeeah. I could buy a lot of the doing-bad-stuff-for-good rhetoric if they didn't call themselves the Death Commandos. It kinda eliminates any wiggle room away from self-declaring as evil. Or possibly 14 and with an X-Box.
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Tempest_56 posted:Yeeeeeah. I could buy a lot of the doing-bad-stuff-for-good rhetoric if they didn't call themselves the Death Commandos. It kinda eliminates any wiggle room away from self-declaring as evil. Or possibly 14 and with an X-Box. Not to get too de-rail-y, but... Reminds me of that Star Wars book where there was apparently one lone genius working for the Empire who apparently worked for years on projects with names like "Death Star Superlaser" and "Sun Crusher" without realizing that she was helping an evil empire oppress the poo poo out of people.
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Zeroisanumber posted:Not to get too de-rail-y, but... Reminds me of that Star Wars book where there was apparently one lone genius working for the Empire who apparently worked for years on projects with names like "Death Star Superlaser" and "Sun Crusher" without realizing that she was helping an evil empire oppress the poo poo out of people. It was written by Kevin J Anderson. It can be safely ignored.
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Zeroisanumber posted:Not to get too de-rail-y, but... Reminds me of that Star Wars book where there was apparently one lone genius working for the Empire who apparently worked for years on projects with names like "Death Star Superlaser" and "Sun Crusher" without realizing that she was helping an evil empire oppress the poo poo out of people. Clearly the superlaser is for blowing up Death Stars and the Sun Crusher will eliminate the scourge of skin cancer related ailments for the good of everyone. 
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She was also a blue hedgehog who shacked up with Wedge Antilles. This is one situation that gets worse the harder you look at it.
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ZeeToo posted:She was also a blue hedgehog who shacked up with Wedge Antilles. This is one situation that gets worse the harder you look at it. Allston put her on a bus on like page 2 and never mentioned her again. That is why Allston is the best.
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I kinda hope Engine Joe made it somehow. If only so he can track down the Death Commando Ace who ejected, and then beat him to death with a wrench or something.
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Affi posted:Are we the baddies? Oh geeze, I love that one. Their reaction at the end is priceless. They look around, realize everybody's fetishizing skulls, share an Important Look and come to the immediate and wordless conclusion of "leg it." What is that from, anyway? Obviously it's some kind of black humor British comedy.
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ShadowDragon8685 posted:Oh geeze, I love that one. British sketch comedy show called That Mitchell and Webb Look.
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The funny part is I linked that exact video a few (or apparently 20) pages back in regards to the Death Commandos logo. It's tucked away under an accusation of our opposition marching under the banner of a rat's anus.
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You know I'm kind of surprised with all the love the Capellans get here, that there's absolutely no love for the Free Worlds League. They're consistently ranked dead last in the great houses, yet people give the Cappies all the underdog support. Why does nobody love the FWLers?
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SynthOrange posted:Space racism I'm betting. The Capellans invented stealth armor, the plasma rifle, were the pioneers of elective myomer surgery, and rediscovered ECM and BAP first. They are infamous for being gigantic jerks with mines, and have some very nice tank and mech designs. The FWL brought us the light gauss rifle. I'm not too sure what neat designs the FWL has as well, but that might just be my memory failing me. Don't get me wrong, the light gauss rifle's a nice weapon, but it's a support weapon rather than a straightforward rear end-kicking device. That said, if you modify an Annihilator to use 4 LGRs and have a C3 uplink... well that's 32 points of almost guaranteed damage from 25 hexes away.
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Gothsheep posted:You know I'm kind of surprised with all the love the Capellans get here, that there's absolutely no love for the Free Worlds League. They're consistently ranked dead last in the great houses, yet people give the Cappies all the underdog support. Why does nobody love the FWLers? They get zero page time. They're between Steiner, who are themselves busy dealing with Kurita, and Liao, who until the 3060s existed just to get the poo poo kicked out of them. No border with the Clans, and their periphery neighbors are a joke. They don't really have anyone to square off with. Hell, after the First Succession War, the most notable thing about the Steiner/Marik border worlds is the existence of gateway planets like Giausar, where Steiner and Marik citizens freely intermix for trade and such. Near as I can tell that doesn't really happen on other borders. Defiance Industries fucked around with this message at 11:13 on Mar 1, 2011 |
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They had some interesting Dark Age books by the looks of it! A whole series where the League had dissolved at last into independent provinces and then various provincial leaders start to try and unify them again, only for House Steiner to lead a huge invasion aimed specifically at crushing anybody who tries to unify the League again. And unlike how these scrappy underdog series usually go, the unifiers lose and their heroic last stands end in massacre! Basically the Lyrans are afraid that a united League would be a regional power and a threat to their own security. There goes that nice straight border.
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Gothsheep posted:You know I'm kind of surprised with all the love the Capellans get here, that there's absolutely no love for the Free Worlds League. They're consistently ranked dead last in the great houses, yet people give the Cappies all the underdog support. Why does nobody love the FWLers? I like the FWL because they have the Soumi Warders 
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Gothsheep posted:You know I'm kind of surprised with all the love the Capellans get here, that there's absolutely no love for the Free Worlds League. They're consistently ranked dead last in the great houses, yet people give the Cappies all the underdog support. Why does nobody love the FWLers? Because the only interesting thing the FWL has ever done is build the Word of Blake's army and collapse. Even their civil wars haven't been that interesting.
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Zaodai posted:Well they've got genetic superiority as a redeeming quality. Nothing bad ever comes from claiming genetics as an advantage over your opposition. Actually, after the first waves of clan wars were over, the Inner Sphere sent some bastich half-rear end diplomat over in a short story to evaluate and examine the clans and their culture (I don't remember what book or supplement that was from). He essentially looked down his nose at absolutely everything and somehow made the clans look great in comparison. Also what's wrong with enjoying a bit of random mayhem and looting against , say, Comstar or Kurita forces? Steiner'd be too cliché and obvious.
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Tempest_56 posted:Because the only interesting thing the FWL has ever done is build the Word of Blake's army and collapse. Even their civil wars haven't been that interesting. I'd call that the fault of the writers, not the FWL. Near as I can tell (not a big BattleTech guy myself), the writers have never put much effort into exploring the FWL or giving them something interesting to do/deal with. Granted, I get that the BattleTech universe is big enough that someone is going to get neglected in favor of "more interesting" factions, but I'd lay it at the feet of the writers that the FWL never got interesting to begin with.
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Cythereal posted:I'd call that the fault of the writers, not the FWL. Near as I can tell (not a big BattleTech guy myself), the writers have never put much effort into exploring the FWL or giving them something interesting to do/deal with. Granted, I get that the BattleTech universe is big enough that someone is going to get neglected in favor of "more interesting" factions, but I'd lay it at the feet of the writers that the FWL never got interesting to begin with. Thomas Hallas was too timid. We'll see how Duncan Marik does.
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PoptartsNinja posted:Thomas Hallas was too timid. We'll see how Duncan Marik does. Something tells me this universe is going to be very awesome. I forget, were you a 'trained' writer or something? Because I would read the hell out of a PopTartsNovel. I've certainly done much, much, worse... *cough* Stackpole *cough* Salvatore *cough*
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Felime posted:I forget, were you a 'trained' writer or something? Because I would read the hell out of a PopTartsNovel. I've certainly done much, much, worse... *cough* Stackpole *cough* Salvatore *cough* Edit: Early morning grammar fail. I've spent a lot of effort towards becoming an author; but I'm not published. I am working on a couple of 'projects', though. VVV And no, I don't have a best-seller name. I have a (French) last name that nobody can spell correctly. PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 18:22 on Mar 1, 2011 |
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Do you have a catchy, Anglo-european sounding name? A nice middle initial? Does it look good in raised, glossy letters? Then you too ca-Oh... you probably want to be a good author...
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I think I sent my orders in. Did I>?
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bunnyofdoom posted:I think I sent my orders in. Did I>? Yes, I got them. Taking stock of things now.
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PoptartsNinja posted:Yes, I got them. Taking stock of things now. PTN I'm going to take this opportunity to express just how very much I enjoy this thread, even your ominous teasers. Lots.
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Teledahn posted:PTN I'm going to take this opportunity to express just how very much I enjoy this thread, even your ominous teasers. Seconded. This has been a really fun thread.
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Indeed. It makes me want to splurge on Battletech miniatures so hard.
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lilljonas posted:Indeed. It makes me want to splurge on Battletech miniatures so hard. If that doesn't, my Jade Falcon trinary might...  Scout Charlie:  Beak Beta:  Talon Alpha:  The unmarked testbed for my chosen colors...  Of course, I don't paint Jade Falcons exclusively. That'd be boring. 
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PoptartsNinja posted:If that doesn't, my Jade Falcon trinary might...  What do you use for Omni variants? Are those hacked up pewter, or some of the elusive plastics that floated around for awhile?
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PoptartsNinja posted:Edit: Early morning grammar fail. I still say your ST:Online story would at the very least make a fun graphic novel. Its certainly more entertaining than Voyager was.
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