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PoptartsNinja posted:They'll also be ten feet tall, and easily defeated by girls singing. B-but Rick Hunter has already been taken prisoner... 
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PoptartsNinja posted:They'll also be ten feet tall, and easily defeated by girls singing. Because of this post I now love you, PTN. I'm imagining  Edit: poo poo, wrong era. Hrmm, who's an appropriate female love interest in the early 3030s? W.T. Fits posted:B-but Rick Hunter has already been taken prisoner... Hahahahaha... Rick Hunter as a big-boned college frat boy maybe.
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WarLocke posted:Hahahahaha... Rick Hunter as a big-boned college frat boy maybe. No no, Rick Hunter was actually piloting a thing in that last scenario. I don't remember what, but he was captured while piloting it one legged and blind. The clanners decided to make him
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PoptartsNinja posted:They'll also be ten feet tall, and easily defeated by girls singing. I'm fine with that as long as I get to say "Glorious." as one of my last words. And be able to breathe in space.
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Apr 23, 2011 00:25
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Veyrall posted:No no, Rick Hunter was actually piloting a thing in that last scenario. I don't remember what, but he was captured while piloting it one legged and blind. The clanners decided to make him Then who is Max Sterling?
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Defiance Industries posted:Then who is Max Sterling? Gray Noton. Or, in 3050-era, Phelan.
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Defiance Industries posted:Then who is Max Sterling? He's not making a reference or comparison. Go look. The Wolfhound pilot's name was in fact Corporal Richard Hunter. If it turns out that that wasn't an intentional reference I will laugh like hell.
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It's kind of sad that I never noticed my namesake was one of the scrappiest MechWarriors this side of the Draconis March. But as it stands he's probably telling the clanners not to rough him up because his dad owns a dealership and calling them faggots because they run a dry campaign.
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PoptartsNinja posted:They'll also be ten feet tall, and easily defeated by girls singing. Have you seen that Rebecca Black video? Being defeated by pop music isn't as bad as it sounds considering that I'm sure "Friday" is banned by the Geneva Convention under the same clause that bans torture. Every Great House probably has a strategic stockpile of terrible pop songs to deploy in the event that not even nuclear weapons are enough. Anyways, I think the main thing to do is set up so that you're in a good strategic position the moment you open up on the statue and defenders start crawling out of the woodwork. More importantly, the original plan called for a false-flag op against the Kuritans, this new one is a false-flag op against the Clans. I think whatever the op's attempting, it's probably got something to do with keeping the Lyran Commonwealth together against the Clans. Maybe guys are trying to get their individual peace instead of fighting to the bitter end? It seems like an operation to smash a big shiny symbol might be just the thing to look like a Clan psyops operation gone horribly, horribly wrong. And the IS doesn't know how pathetically bad Clan Watch is, so this might even be reasonable to believe as a Clan op. Surely Clan SF wouldn't be so bad as to not use recovered enemy mechs to attempt an operation like this, right? But that makes me wonder about the Clan emblems on the mechs. MJ12 fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Apr 23, 2011 |
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Well, that's the Second Donegal for you. We drink hard. We fight hard.
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WarLocke posted:Because of this post I now love you, PTN. Lynn Minmei is Chinese, right? Wouldn't a more proper choice be...wait for it... Romano Liao?  Suddenly, I feel very bad for suggesting that... *is sitting in his Archer mech glancing at the ejection seat handle*
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KnoxZone posted:This is Duke Aldo Lestrade. The statue is obviously built like an Atlas. Oh dear. It's an Atlas in covered in bronze paint, isn't it?
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TildeATH posted:Oh dear. It's an Atlas in covered in bronze paint, isn't it? The duke is in the atlas... waiting for you... try to attack it mwahahah!
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This exact possibility (statue is really a mech) is exactly what I was thinking. I only regret that I am about a page too late in broaching it. Think about it: you shoot that thing first to "lure out" or whatever whoever is in the nightclub (as per the scenario objectives I vaguely recall reading earlier). Ok, you shot a loving statue, grats, real hardcore, not even any drat people around it, some terrorists you are. Hell, if you decide to go melee it to "death," how would anyone at the club even know? Answer: there's a pilot sitting in it, because Heimdall has been infiltrated and the plan's been leaked, but last minute orders managed to go out to kill the statue because the counter-intelligence within Heimdall has managed to find the plant and ferret out his last report. If you had ignored the statue, it would have started mowing you down through your rear armor while you were faffing about at the nightclub. But NOW you have a fighting chance, because I seriously doubt those tanks are going to make it to you anytime soon.
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I hope this isn't the surprise, because if it is it's utterly far-fetched. How would you sneak an Atlas anywhere? If the Duke is aware of Heimdall's involvement, why would he stand there waiting to be attacked? If the target is a nightclub, why smuggle a 100-ton death machine into a major urban area to take it out, when a truck bomb would do the job just as well? Hope you're wrong on that one.
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Maybe I just skimmed the last update or two, but do we really know this is Heimdall and Loki? Are we sure it isn't, like, Space PETA after some snooty model who can afford "light" security by Lyran standards?
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Arglebargle III posted:I hope this isn't the surprise, because if it is it's utterly far-fetched. How would you sneak an Atlas anywhere? If the Duke is aware of Heimdall's involvement, why would he stand there waiting to be attacked? If the target is a nightclub, why smuggle a 100-ton death machine into a major urban area to take it out, when a truck bomb would do the job just as well? See, the problem here is that your assuming anything in the Battletech universe makes any amount of goddamn sense at all. I think this thread has pretty thoroughly proven that it kinda doesn't. Also, Cardassians are well known for their wily war game shenanigans.
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WarLocke posted:Because of this post I now love you, PTN. Kym Sorensen or Riva Allard, perhaps?
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In the 3030s? Melissa Steiner, duh.
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paragon1 posted:See, the problem here is that your assuming anything in the Battletech universe makes any amount of goddamn sense at all. I think this thread has pretty thoroughly proven that it kinda doesn't. Also, Cardassians are well known for their wily war game shenanigans. Nah, I have confidence that whatever PTN comes up with will hang together fairly well. There are scenarios where I could see a mech being smuggled into a statue (would probably have to have the statue built around it actually.) But those scenarios are less for taking out nightclubs and more for, say, launching a surprise attack on the Steiner throne, which of course has the most hardass royal guard in the Inner Sphere. You would actually need an Atlas to assassinate a Steiner sitting in the Lyran throne room. But for a nightclub I really don't see the point. Then again, risky covert operations in real life often get hosed up beyond all belief before they even get started. Maybe PTN has decided to let fiction follow truth and engineered some kind of giant clusterfuck of an operation where an Atlas could conceivably be hiding in a statue for entirely unrelated reasons and burst out like the Kool-Aid man to the surprise of everyone involved.
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Arglebargle III posted:I hope this isn't the surprise, because if it is it's utterly far-fetched. How would you sneak an Atlas anywhere? If the Duke is aware of Heimdall's involvement, why would he stand there waiting to be attacked? If the target is a nightclub, why smuggle a 100-ton death machine into a major urban area to take it out, when a truck bomb would do the job just as well? You should shut up because it would be awesome. Awesome. 
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Don't kick the statue you morons. you will get too close to the residental area and there might be infantry in the buildings. also dude i supposed to buy plat to check your email and send me the right email.
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Update: The Commando just cannot catch a break, Kaboom Dragoon has also passed. Terror Storm is up to bat! Additional Update: Wargames is very close to 'timing out', so Capskye (and potentially Uberjew, just in case) should stand by. PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 08:57 on Apr 23, 2011 |
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Alright, sign me up. Maybe enough people will ditch or be too busy.
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SO.. I just realized that blue poo poo in the middle of the map is a park? Way to think it was a blue residental area. Is the blue poo poo ice then? PTN 
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Griffin is a pretty chill mech I would not want to take one on. also Please update the sign ups and put me on it... I do have pms... I think, I know I paid money for them, but I have never used them.
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Affi posted:SO.. I just realized that blue poo poo in the middle of the map is a park? Way to think it was a blue residental area. Is the blue poo poo ice then? The blue poo poo is stuff you're not allowed to damage. Which the statue is right in the middle of. So don't melee the statue or stuff you're supposed to protect is going to get collateralled.
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DatonKallandor posted:The blue poo poo is stuff you're not allowed to damage. Which the statue is right in the middle of. So don't melee the statue or stuff you're supposed to protect is going to get collateralled. But this is an ice planet, how do we know this isn't a snow park?
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DatonKallandor posted:The blue poo poo is stuff you're not allowed to damage. Which the statue is right in the middle of. So don't melee the statue or stuff you're supposed to protect is going to get collateralled. They only have to avoid damaging civilian buildings. Those would be the rather well defined parallelograms you see in some places of the map that are not the statue.
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Affi posted:SO.. I just realized that blue poo poo in the middle of the map is a park? Way to think it was a blue residental area. Is the blue poo poo ice then? quote:The blue poo poo is stuff you're not allowed to damage. Which the statue is right in the middle of. So don't melee the statue or stuff you're supposed to protect is going to get collateralled. quote:But this is an ice planet, how do we know this isn't a snow park? I hope you people don't depend too much on maps in your daily life.
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Vox Nihili posted:I hope you people don't depend too much on maps in your daily life. Most of the maps I deal with in daily life don't divide poo poo into hexes, bro 
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The objective did say to avoid shooing anything blue, I saw the blue in the middle and figured that was part of it. On closer inspections the darkblue rectangels are likely the residental buildings. I don't want to be nitpicky but that was inherently obvious 
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Affi posted:The objective did say to avoid shooing anything blue, I saw the blue in the middle and figured that was part of it. On closer inspections the darkblue rectangels are likely the residental buildings. Different shade of blue though... The darker blue parallelograms are definitely the residential buildings that you guys are supposed to avoid damaging. The hexagon and triangle of lighter blue is probably snow on the ground in a park or something of that nature. We are on an ice planet, after all... Common sense, people!
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I'm colourblind. There is no blue on that map. Burn everything.
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GhostStalker posted:Different shade of blue though... The darker blue parallelograms are definitely the residential buildings that you guys are supposed to avoid damaging. The hexagon and triangle of lighter blue is probably snow on the ground in a park or something of that nature. We are on an ice planet, after all... Common sense, people! I think what tripped me up is that the buildings don't correspond to the hexes 1:1 - which is the way it's presented in the BT manuals.
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GhostStalker posted:Different shade of blue though... The darker blue parallelograms are definitely the residential buildings that you guys are supposed to avoid damaging. The hexagon and triangle of lighter blue is probably snow on the ground in a park or something of that nature. We are on an ice planet, after all... Common sense, people! The darker blue looked sorta grey and I just focused on the easily identified lightblue. This changes a lot though. We should probably try to stay around the middle fighting. Use jumpjets liberally (they dont slide on ice right?) and keep the commando outside, move from cover to cover and try to nail people with a backshot. Also. NEVER. Stand next to a fellow mech. If he gets killed you will suffer 20dmg.
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goatface posted:I'm colourblind. There is no blue on that map. Burn everything. Hmmmm... Would Heimdall be stupid enough to take a MechWarrior who suffers from the inability to see certain shades that he normally compensates for by driving a 'mech whose HUD is adjusted to display all colors in shades he does recognize, then put him in a 'mech which has not been color-adjusted and color-code the map? Probably not. What about LOKI? 
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ShadowDragon8685 posted:Hmmmm... It's not stupidity, it's equal rights. Jerk. =P (It worked out even more poorly for the completely blind unit they sent to defend the refugee camp from the initial Clan attacks.)
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Zaodai posted:It's not stupidity, it's equal rights. Jerk. =P "If you could let me touch your face, I could 'see' who I'm talking to... wow, that's a lot of metal!"
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