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Mukaikubo posted:Okay fine then, just 10x10 map boards. 100 map boards. Is that so much to ask? Nope, not at all.
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landcollector posted:That's a mission area of 36 million m2! Also known as a 3.72822x 3.72822 mile area (or 13.899 miles2). That's an insanely huge mission zone. Wolfram puts that at about 1/3 the size of walt disney world. Now that would be an interesting field of battle. VVV Arrow IV only goes 9(c)/8(is) sheets (1/4 km). Cruise missile 120s (largest artillery I know of) only go 150 sheets. Longinus00 fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Apr 6, 2011 |
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Longinus00 posted:Wolfram puts that at about 1/3 the size of walt disney world. Now that would be an interesting field of battle. They all laughed at the Naga with its Arrow IVs... BUT WHO IS LAUGHING NOW?
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Longinus00 posted:Wolfram puts that at about 1/3 the size of walt disney world. Now that would be an interesting field of battle. There is an interesting cognitive dissonance present. A 12-15 meter tall war machine firing high powered beams of death standing next to either the Disney Castle, Space Mountain, or the It's A Small World ride  . I leave it to the rest of you to determine what should happen to the It's A Small World ride...V V V If I had any artistic ability, I would try to do that. landcollector fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Apr 6, 2011 |
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landcollector posted:There is an interesting cognitive dissonance present. A 12-15 meter tall war machine firing high powered beams of death standing next to either the Disney Castle, Space Mountain, or the It's A Small World ride Now I want to see a picture of a Grasshopper sitting on top of Epcot while a Mad Cat goes trundling past Space Mountain.
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PoptartsNinja posted:Now I want to see a picture of a Grasshopper sitting on top of Epcot while a Mad Cat goes trundling past Space Mountain. I want a Hatchetman hiding in the mine cart ride in epcot now 
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Axe-man posted:I want a Hatchetman hiding in the mine cart ride in epcot now Death Commandos of the Carribean.
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PoptartsNinja posted:Death Commandos of the Carribean. "You'd best start believing in war crimes Ms. Turner...you're going to be a victim of one." Excuse the paraphrased line from the 1st PotC movie, I couldn't resist. landcollector fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Apr 6, 2011 |
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All I can think of when someone mentions 'mechs and Disney is this:
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raverrn posted:All I can think of when someone mentions 'mechs and Disney is this: This I can get behind.
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raverrn posted:All I can think of when someone mentions 'mechs and Disney is this: Judging by the skull, is that an Atlas? If so, it certainly looks a lot better with some meat on it's bones (so to speak) than it normally does. Or maybe because it's more squat and stout. Either way, I approve.
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landcollector posted:"You'd best start believing in war crimes Ms. Turner...you're going to be a victim of one." Excuse the paraphrased line from the 1st PotC movie, I couldn't resist.
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Zaodai posted:Or maybe because it's more squat and stout. It has teeny tiny legs in that picture.
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Most battlemechs looks better when drawn by someone who is an actual artist/dude with talent instead of whoever made those horrible stilted linearts.
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Pimpmust posted:Most battlemechs looks better when drawn by someone who is an actual artist/dude with talent instead of whoever made those horrible stilted linearts. Pretty much. some of those things look like something I would doodle in my highschool notebooks.
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It doesn't help that some of the mechs just look straight up goofy and no amount of artistic talent can fix them. Case in point, the Yeoman.
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Veyrall posted:It doesn't help that some of the mechs just look straight up goofy and no amount of artistic talent can fix them. Case in point, the Yeoman. Guys they wanted me to put missiles on it. IS THIS ENOUGH MISSILES YOU GUYS? Also better make sure that all the missiles are sticking out so they can get hit with stray gunfire easier. Seriously, TRO:3060. You gave us the Hauptmann. Did you see how badass it was and just say "Good work! Just do whatever else you want for the rest of the book." or something?
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I was actually comparing it (mentally) to the Mechwarrior variants of the Atlas, where to me it seems overly static and cumbersome compared to a drawing like that. The Atlas looks like a sarcophagus compared to other mechs.
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Defiance Industries posted:Seriously, TRO:3060. You gave us the Hauptmann. Did you see how badass it was and just say "Good work! Just do whatever else you want for the rest of the book." or something? Also: I'll just leave this here.
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Arquinsiel posted:Yes. They did. ...So. It's YOU.
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Defiance Industries posted:...So. It's YOU. That Mech looks like he's armed with one of those cup dispensers on a water cooler.
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Trast posted:That Mech looks like he's armed with one of those cup dispensers on a water cooler. That's because it is. That's not actually a 'mech, it's a novelty humaniform office robot that dispenses styrofoam cups out of its arm holder and fills up people's empty cups with more cold water. Those four holes on its chest? Refill hook-ups. They just used photoshop to make it look a hell of a lot bigger than a man and a real 'mech.
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Trast posted:That Mech looks like he's armed with one of those cup dispensers on a water cooler. Snow-cones, actually. Mech pilots gotta keep cool.
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Veyrall posted:It doesn't help that some of the mechs just look straight up goofy and no amount of artistic talent can fix them. Case in point, the Yeoman. That Yeoman? That's actually just 2 LRM20's. Only you get to see how utterly silly the concept is. Where's the 5 reloads for those 2 LRM20s, Yeoman? I wanna see the quad LRM20 Vulture variant drawn like the Yeoman.
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DatonKallandor posted:That Yeoman? That's actually just 2 LRM20's. Only you get to see how utterly silly the concept is. Where's the 5 reloads for those 2 LRM20s, Yeoman? I count 25 LRMs on each side. Isn't that 2 LRM 15s and 2 LRM 10s?
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ShadowDragon8685 posted:I count 25 LRMs on each side. Isn't that 2 LRM 15s and 2 LRM 10s? You are correct.
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Arquinsiel posted:Also: I'll just leave this here. ...But that's a Panther. Why is someone making a Marik propaganda poster primarily featuring a Combine mech? That's stupid.
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Arglebargle III posted:Gotta be an LRM 15 and an LRM 10. We can't have LRM 25s because Oh this is easy to explain in canon. "Efficient" programming technique 200 years ago, and the decay of current understanding across worlds of each Great House, means that we're limited to LRM5/10/15/20. The Clans? They do it out of tradition 
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Chronojam posted:Oh this is easy to explain in canon. "Efficient" programming technique 200 years ago, and the decay of current understanding across worlds of each Great House, means that we're limited to LRM5/10/15/20. Now explain away how come Ultra versions of autocannons fluff describe it doing pretty much the same thing!
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ShadowDragon8685 posted:I count 25 LRMs on each side. Isn't that 2 LRM 15s and 2 LRM 10s? Yes I can't count, don't judge me. But really it's still quite a few LRMs short of one of the real heavy duty missile boats.
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DatonKallandor posted:Yes I can't count, don't judge me. But really it's still quite a few LRMs short of one of the real heavy duty missile boats. Out of curiosity, what are some of the heavy duty missile boats in question?
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landcollector posted:Out of curiosity, what are some of the heavy duty missile boats in question? Longbow Archer Maddog Bowman Most of those are missle boats but there are others that have a bit more, those are off the top of my head
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Axe-man posted:Longbow I like the Archer myself, especially alt. configurations ARC-2R (C), ARC-9M, snd ARC-6S. Another missile boat design is the Viking.
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Axe-man posted:Longbow Salamander Bombardier Catapult Naga
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raverrn posted:All I can think of when someone mentions 'mechs and Disney is this: Is it bad that the first thing I thought upon seeing this image was "Who drew fanart of Zaodai as a Death Commando?" Arquinsiel posted:Also: I'll just leave this here. No, YOU shut up! Interesting site, though I have no idea what some of these posters mean. That said, I must admit this got a good laugh out of me.
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Longinus00 posted:To give you an example of what this Hellbringer might be like, here's (purportedly) the original Hellbringer as published before the official clan tech specs. PoptartsNinja posted:Cool as they are, I've been forced to conclude that the Mk I omnis are bullshit. Why? Because they use machine guns far more intelligently than any other fielded design (other than the Piranha). Pretty clearly bullshit but I remember people on the BT forums being bizarrely credulous about them. I mean, look at the guy's page about them: Bullshit webpage posted:To the best of my knowledge they were printed in the magazine 'Space Gamer' under an article called 'The Clans are Coming' about three to four months before the official release of clan tech, which included filled out record sheets for the 'Mechs, as well as ranges, damage and heat for clan weapons (no tonnages given). [...] If anyone out there has further information on this please contact me, as I can no longer find my original source materiels for these. Last I saw of it were photo-copies of the range chart and four of the original record sheets. Huh? To the best of your knowledge? You have all the stats for them but can't show us where the stats came from? Of course religions have been based on less, so it's not like there isn't precedent. I checked the BT forums a while ago and people were getting worked up about a Comstar sourcebook that also very clearly never existed. It was a massive circle-jerk in half-"remembered" details of a so-called missing sourcebook that nobody actually has a copy of, but they remember seeing at their cousin's house when they were 13.
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