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KnoxZone posted:I wouldn't be surprised if the last assault is a 4/6 (or better) mech, since each weight class has had one fast mech, one brawler, and one fire support (except light which has the Raven instead.). I would give them the 60$ if they make the final mech a Charger. The 3K is my favorite non-broken assault mech. I'm kinda hoping for the Charger myself, since they need an assault-weight scout. We can be pretty certain we're not getting the Stalker. Saint Celestine posted:Would it be possible to have a team of 2 people control 1 mech, so that theres always SOMEONE there? I'm not sure how I'd be able to manage that and still have it be fair to both players. I'll have to think on that, because I do have dreams of ending with a Battalion-sized brawl.
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Saint Celestine posted:Would it be possible to have a team of 2 people control 1 mech, so that theres always SOMEONE there?  on people who don't respond quickly enough instead.Then again, I'd still recommend against doing a company on company (or even larger) battle outside of MegaMek just because it takes forever.
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Have a set timetable, and if someone doesn't respond, have it automatically go to the alternate for instructions so youre not waiting forever? or better, have a few people that know what theyre doing be designated as alternates so if you dont get orders from someone on a team, they could provide orders for whoever didnt do it? Either way would avoid all this waiting.
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PoptartsNinja posted:I'm kinda hoping for the Charger myself, since they need an assault-weight scout. We can be pretty certain we're not getting the Stalker. It'd be pretty hilarious if they threw the stock Charger in there, especially for new Battletech players that weren't paying attention. "All right, got me my first assault mech, gonna go and kick... me... some... wait, what? Five small lasers? Who thought this was a good idea?!"
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As both the Awesome and Atlas (in-game Awesome at least) are 3/5s, a 4/6 would technically be a 'fast' assault. The BNC-5S is a 4/6 thanks to its XL engine.
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Saint Celestine posted:Would it be possible to have a team of 2 people control 1 mech, so that theres always SOMEONE there? I'd be in favor of having command override--if you don't get your orders in within X hours, the CO for the mission gets to send your orders. It would probably anger people if you instituted it mid-mission, but if they knew that was the case when the mission starts, then that should be fine, right?
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As a player in this mission I would be all for that as well. Its annoying having a discussion with the active players with everyone getting their turns in a day or two, with only a single person always taking a week or more with absolutely no discussion. I want my Glorious 
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Could tag in people who have already played, rather than taking people's turn.
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Defiance Industries posted:Could tag in people who have already played, rather than taking people's turn. You just want another turn. Not that I blame you, this is pretty awesome.
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I think having a pool of alternates drawn from past players who still follow the thread is a good idea, with the addition of shortening the time before an alternate swaps in. If you don't get your orders in in 48 hours and don't/can't post/pm/email someone with an explanation, you've probably got bigger things to worry about than someone stealing your prized position in a queue of pretend robot pilots on a comedy forum. If the missing player later comes back and explains they got in a car accident or were kidnapped or something they can go back on the top of the queue for the next match*. *As a tank pilot.
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They need to have the Thug in there. It's got an amazing and distinctive armament. So yeah, Thug and Charger, even though they won me over already with the Raven and Cataphract. As to the Charger, the game needs both flavors. Because Fast Chargers are awesome. I can do stupid things with a Charger 1L. Like putting it in a lance to support a Raven.
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Andrevian posted:They need to have the Thug in there. It's got an amazing and distinctive armament. So yeah, Thug and Charger, even though they won me over already with the Raven and Cataphract. So you want a Hat-Chi.
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BatteredFeltFedora posted:You just want another turn. Hey, I've already gone twice. Wouldn't be fair.
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KnoxZone posted:So you want a Hat-Chi. Well, yes. But also its component parts! I want a Thug and a Charger that can do combination magic and end up becoming a Hatamoto-Chi with a pilot and a gunner.
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Bad Moon posted:Don't mean to derail but I found it hilarious somebody made a Cataphract look cool. The Cataphract has always been cool.
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PoptartsNinja posted:Just need a quick update from the Shadow Hawk on targeting priority. And the crowd goes wild!
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Trast posted:And the crowd goes wild! Yay.  This is going to be one hell of a turn, DFA success or no.
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PoptartsNinja posted:I'll have to think on that, because I do have dreams of ending with a Battalion-sized brawl.  On a more serious note I kind of lost track - what was the status on PTN's battlecrops short story? Did it come out already or not yet?
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Malek Deneith posted:battlecrops Clan Asparagus is so OP. Twice the vitamins and only half the gas as IS Asparagus what the hell.
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Working on the update, but I'm not going to get it done before I have to leave for work. I'll finish it as soon as I can, once I get home.
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Clan Asparagus is so OP. Twice the vitamins and only half the gas as IS Asparagus what the hell. Mechwarrior Celery depressed the firing stud on his soycrow's left joystick, sending an iridescent beam of death streaming over the battlefield to strike the fleeing cornmando in it's weak rear armor. If the scout mech got away he would report Celery's position, and even the tough flaxo-fibrous plating it sported wouldn't protect his mech from a few lucky apricannon rounds, should he be forced to fight a full bushel instead of a single mech.
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Nevets posted:Mechwarrior Celery depressed the firing stud on his soycrow's left joystick, sending an iridescent beam of death streaming over the battlefield to strike the fleeing cornmando in it's weak rear armor. If the scout mech got away he would report Celery's position, and even the tough flaxo-fibrous plating it sported wouldn't protect his mech from a few lucky apricannon rounds, should he be forced to fight a full bushel instead of a single mech. That's radishiculous.
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"This years Strana Mechty Annual Clan Laborer Caste Fair once again ended in controversy during the Trial of Agriculture: Summer Squash Division when Clan Jade Falcon FarmCommander Brown accused Clan Wolf CropWarrior Zeke of not genetically altering his harvest. Results of the Trial of Grievance were inconclusive as Brown and Zeke simultaneously decapitated each other with hoes in the Circle of Equals."
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Haddock Smoked Bacon Occupation Zone 1st January 3055 Rivulets of molten vinaigrette streamed down the flanks of Mechwarrior Ainsley Harriott's 65-ton Poultrymech as the enemy's PPCs* hit home. *Potatocake Projection Cannon
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Machine guns, best rivulets of molten metal causer ever. oh stackpole 
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Ghost of Babyhead posted:*Potatocake Projection Cannon That's a latke firepower.
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TildeATH posted:That's a latke firepower. MAN MADE LATKE
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Man, this bread has the weirdest derails.
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This thread keeps going to strange, delicious places.
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the JJ posted:Man, this bread has the weirdest derails. It's enough to induce starch terror.
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Yeah, we need out bread & circuses. If it's much longer before PTN brings home the bacon we may start to go bananas. Food.
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Hob_Gadling posted:This thread keeps going to strange, delicious places. I blame elves. Hey, why didn't you do that? Did they get to you?
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His pulse laser found a critical harvest on his opponent's right leek, shearing it clean off at the base. Mechwarrior Azuki knew just how close his own ammunition had bean to caramelizing and was relieved just to have survived the entree.
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landcollector posted:This has been a good derail. What would Chaff pods become, sprout pods? Come on, man, you can't dance around the pun, make the pun. Don't be a punter.
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We were bullshitting around in IRC about weird experimental tech and I ended up making this: The REAL reason the coalition had trouble kicking the Word of Blake off Terra. (Art not mine, I GISed for UrbanMech and took the meanest looking remake I found)
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Steiner's idea of a light breakfast is a triple cheeseburger, a potatoes worth of fries, two foot-long chilli-cheese hotdogs, and a 24-ounce big gulp.
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