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Soylent Pudding posted:Hit the plainsman with 3 medium lasers and My understanding is that you can kick him from 1326 because he is really at level 0 - he's hovering on top of the layer of mud. If you go there, I'd make sure to turn so my back is not to the Phoenix and Quasit.
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Carbolic posted:My understanding is that you can kick him from 1326 because he is really at level 0 - he's hovering on top of the layer of mud. If you go there, I'd make sure to turn so my back is not to the Phoenix and Quasit. He's at -1. Mud doesn't work like water. The water fills in to -1, but the lake has still been partially drained.
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Sep 29, 2013 12:42
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PoptartsNinja posted:He's at -1. Mud doesn't work like water. The water fills in to -1, but the lake has still been partially drained. So 0817 is basically a waterfall pouring into the lake, whose surface is at -1? And if I went to, say, 0919, I'd be submerged in depth-1 water?
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Sep 29, 2013 18:54
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Carbolic posted:So 0817 is basically a waterfall pouring into the lake, whose surface is at -1? And if I went to, say, 0919, I'd be submerged in depth-1 water? Correct. Also, I got a delay-of-game request from a player so no update today. Thanks again for keeping me in the loop, it's much easier to work around delays when I know what's going on!
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Sep 29, 2013 19:01
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At least we won't have another turn of someone standing stock-still and politely saying Hello to the big guns.
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Sep 29, 2013 20:26
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I'm easy to work with! "Too drunk to MechWarrior" is perfectly reasonable. "Too drunk to tell you I'm too drunk to MechWarrior" is not.
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Sep 29, 2013 21:15
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PoptartsNinja posted:I'm easy to work with! "Too drunk to MechWarrior" is perfectly reasonable. "Too drunk to tell you I'm too drunk to MechWarrior" is not. Being too drunk never stopped my orders! It enhanced them!
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Sep 29, 2013 21:21
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Does BT have dice rules to let us roll the dice to see if you're getting drunk? Blow your BAC and email a photo to PTN and it acts as a modifier for your dice rolls? I mean we already had people making PPCs and that godawful drink with a sardine, this is the natural extension!
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Red_October_7000 posted:The Google Doc is telling me that I can accomplish the same thing I submitted orders for (jumping behind the Plainsman hovertank) with walking instead of jumping. Can I change me orders and if so is it in my best interest to walk instead of jump? I jumped on the assumption that I'd get a better move mod by jumping rather than walking. The move mod for the bad guys shooting you is determined only by how many hexes you move through. In some circumstances, jumping will enable you to move through more hexes than running or walking as you don't have to pay extra MP for difficult terrain. Conversely, your mod for shooting at the bad guys is not affected by the number of hexes you move, only the way you move - walking is +1, running is +2 and jumping is +3. Therefore, if you can move the same distance by walking or running instead of jumping, it is better to do so in order to both get a better shot and to save heat.
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Pretty sure jumping has a flat +1 over your regular move mod. 10 jumpers are REALLY hard to hit.
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dis astranagant posted:Pretty sure jumping has a flat +1 over your regular move mod. 10 jumpers are REALLY hard to hit. Correct, J:5 gets you back to neutral.
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dis astranagant posted:Pretty sure jumping has a flat +1 over your regular move mod. 10 jumpers are REALLY hard to hit. This is why the Wraith is the `Mech of choice for Inner Sphere assholes.
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Wafflecopper posted:The move mod for the bad guys shooting you is determined only by how many hexes you move through. In some circumstances, jumping will enable you to move through more hexes than running or walking as you don't have to pay extra MP for difficult terrain. Conversely, your mod for shooting at the bad guys is not affected by the number of hexes you move, only the way you move - walking is +1, running is +2 and jumping is +3. Therefore, if you can move the same distance by walking or running instead of jumping, it is better to do so in order to both get a better shot and to save heat. Welp, I guess this is what happens when you only play Battletech through MegaMek; you forget this stuff. I'll PM PTN to see if I can append my orders!
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T.G. Xarbala posted:This is why the Wraith is the `Mech of choice for Inner Sphere assholes. I hope one day that PTN puts a Wraith on the opfor with ace status just to show the world how cruel a single mech can be.
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T.G. Xarbala posted:This is why the Wraith is the `Mech of choice for Inner Sphere assholes. Then you have a custom with a partial wing to make things more worse. It is the thing that redefines annoying jumpy pulse-boatness into nearly something pure. Nearly pure because it lacks a TarComp.
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I'd like to take this opportunity to say gently caress that one 10 jump Ostcout that the WoB/C* use c3i jumps 10 and comes with it's own ECM it's the ultimate gently caress you spotter mech for a network.
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SIGSEGV posted:Then you have a custom with a partial wing to make things more worse. It is the thing that redefines annoying jumpy pulse-boatness into nearly something pure. Nearly pure because it lacks a TarComp. Yeah, about that... Panther PNT-HA Mass: 35 tons Tech Base: Mixed Chassis Config: Biped Rules Level: Experimental Tech Era: All Eras (non-canon) Tech Rating/Era Availability: X/X-X-X Production Year: 0 Cost: 7,935,210 C-Bills Battle Value: 1,440 Chassis: Unknown Endo-Steel Power Plant: Unknown 280 Fusion XL Engine Walking Speed: 86.4 km/h Maximum Speed: 129.6 km/h Jump Jets: Unknown Jump Capacity: 240 meters (300 meters) Armor: Unknown Ferro-Fibrous Armament: 2 (CL) Medium Pulse Lasers 1 C3 Computer (Slave) 1 Angel ECM Manufacturer: Unknown Primary Factory: Unknown Communications System: Unknown Targeting and Tracking System: Unknown ================================================================================ Equipment Type Rating Mass -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internal Structure: Endo-Steel 58 points 2.00 Internal Locations: 1 RT, 3 LA, 1 RA, 1 LL, 1 RL Engine: XL Engine 280 8.00 Walking MP: 8 Running MP: 12 Jumping MP: 8 (10) Standard Jump Jet Locations: 4 LT, 4 RT 4.00 Heat Sinks: (CL) Double Heat Sink 10(23) 0.00 Gyro: Standard 3.00 Cockpit: Standard 3.00 Actuators: L: SH+UA+LA+H R: SH+UA+LA+H Armor: Ferro-Fibrous AV - 96 5.00 Armor Locations: 1 RT, 1 LA, 3 RA, 1 LL, 1 RL Internal Armor Structure Factor Head 3 9 Center Torso 11 13 Center Torso (rear) 4 L/R Torso 8 13 L/R Torso (rear) 3 L/R Arm 6 8 L/R Leg 8 11 ================================================================================ Equipment Location Heat Critical Mass -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 (CL) Medium Pulse Lasers RA 8 2 4.00 Angel ECM LT 0 2 2.00 (CL) Partial Wing LT/RT - 3/3 2.00 C3 Computer (Slave) CT 0 1 1.00 (CL) Targeting Computer CT - 1 1.00 Free Critical Slots: 9 BattleForce Statistics MV S (+0) M (+2) L (+4) E (+6) Wt. Ov Armor: 3 Points: 14 8/10j 2 2 0 0 1 0 Structure: 2 Special Abilities: C3S, AECM, ENE, SRCH, ES, SEAL, SOA
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Guys! GUYS! Exciting news! I just found my copy of the worst BattleTech book ever written! I may break out of Lets Read retirement to go over it, because It features: - Rape - A plot hastily cannibalized into another plot because of an Editorial Mandate - Rape - The Clans - Rape - Phelan Kell - Rape - Nonsensical Politics - Did I mention Rape? - And also Rape PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 17:33 on Sep 30, 2013 |
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PoptartsNinja posted:Guys! GUYS!  I've heard many bad things about the Twilight book line. You are saying Bred for War is worse than Twilight? That's...that's terrifying.
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Well, what could possibly go wrong. Fire that baby up! (I mean that literally. Burn that book.  )
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PoptartsNinja posted:Guys! GUYS! You said rape twice.
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PoptartsNinja posted:Guys! GUYS! Not to downplay the absurd overuse of rape as a plot device by modern authors, but...even worse than ostrich muppets and an aggressively pointless plotline?
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Worse than DRT? I don't even want to think about it.
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landcollector posted:Panther PNT-HA You magnificent bastard.
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PoptartsNinja posted:Guys! GUYS! Oh no. Phelan Kell. 
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Readingaccount posted:You magnificent bastard. It bears as much relation to a Panther as a stale croissant, but, hey, whatever gets you hard.
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Readingaccount posted:You magnificent bastard. Heh, rip out the Standard Gyro for an XL Gyro and you can replace the C3 Slave with C3i. The Merry Marauder posted:It bears as much relation to a Panther as a stale croissant, but, hey, whatever gets you hard. The base unit was a custom Panther that mounted an SRM-6 and the 2 MPLs. Yeah, I had to modify it quite a bit.
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:Not to downplay the absurd overuse of rape as a plot device by modern authors, but...even worse than ostrich muppets and an aggressively pointless plotline? It is 375 or so pages long, and has 58 chapters. That's an average of 6.4 pages per chapter; and some of those chapters are divided into sub-chapters so it's really more like 3-4 pages per chapter. PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Sep 30, 2013 |
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Sep 30, 2013 03:56
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But what of the Boris Vallejo cover art?!
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You mean half-naked beefcake  Boris Vallejo did the cover art for D.R.T. too. That doesn't make D.R.T. good. It just means the publisher wasted a lot of money commissioning inappropriate artwork from a really good artist.
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Ah, but that is an Imperator SMG, a clear symbol for the impotence the tiny yet powerful V S-D feels as he is unable to keep the FedCom from flying to pieces, because And I think that's Dot from Spaceballs behind him. Look, she found Vespa's hairdryer! landcollector posted:The base unit was a custom Panther that mounted an SRM-6 and the 2 MPLs. Yeah, I had to modify it quite a bit. If only there already were two fast, jumpy Kuritan light 'Mechs with MPLs in the torso....
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The Merry Marauder posted:Ah, but that is an Imperator SMG, a clear symbol for the impotence the tiny yet powerful V S-D feels as he is unable to keep the FedCom from flying to pieces, because I apologize for not having memorized the Master List nor spending time looking it up. Please forgive my ignorance.
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It's just funny, man. You mutated a Venom/Spider from a Panther without realizing it. To save you the onerous task of looking 'em up, those are 30/35 tons and move 8/12/8 with 2 (or 4) MPLs as their only armament. They're as close as you can get to what you did with 3055 tech. They're even Kuritan and have wings on the back!
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PoptartsNinja posted:Guys! GUYS! Strange I don't remember any rape. Unless you have it confused with Natural Selection plenty of raping going on there which also has Phelan Kell being *In the last three pages or so but still..
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PoptartsNinja posted:Guys! GUYS! Are you sure you didn't run into TFR's Pitch and somehow swap books without realizing it? Because it sounds like a book he'd make a let's read about. Also since it is a Stackpole, are there any inappropriate comparisons of events to the behavior of the traitorous Union during the War Of Northern Aggression?
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Ferrosol posted:Strange I don't remember any rape. Unless you have it confused with Natural Selection plenty of raping going on there which also has Phelan Kell being Oh, gently caress me, you're right! I did get it confused with Natural Selection! Which I have also just found. I think Bred for War was the one where Phelan gets smug and challenges Victor Steiner-Davion and pals to a simulator match or something because ComStar is too nice to tell the Clans "no" when Phelan wants to attend his dad's birthday or something inane like that.. Oh, wait, no. That's also Natural Selection. Bred for War is the book that's 80% Victor naval gazing. PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Sep 30, 2013 |
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Maybe you should go back to the Warrior trilogy. At least that's less terrible and more just sort of ... there. 
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PoptartsNinja posted:Oh, gently caress me, you're right! I did get it confused with Natural Selection! Victor was the one who challenged Phelan and got schooled by a force one third its size. There's nobody alive who wouldn't take an opportunity to be a smug dick to Victor Davion after that 
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Poptartninja. This thread is insanely addictive, serious thanks for starting up this Let's Play thread. sidenote: I booted up Mechwarrior2: mercs, and discovered this.  Two of the mercenary units don't exist in PTN's timeline, and Gray Death Legion is gone. Seriously, with Wolf's Dragoons not existing in PTN's alternate timeline, Wayne Waco must be the happiest man alive. battlemech volleyball matches with his son every thursday? Possibly taking over the role of relic-hunters that Snords Irregulars performed? PTN, I'd love to see your take on Waco's Rangers without Wolf's Dragoons. edit1: found that hilarious Viper News Network fanart and the reasoning behind it. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3383329&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=350#post394516968 quantumfoam fucked around with this message at 03:03 on Oct 1, 2013 |
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