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Oooh, a Bobcat. I'm getting flashbacks - I think one killed me at least once during Caldera.
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Dunno about you guys but every mission's got me more hyped than the previous. Time to shank some mechs!
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Jul 8, 2016 05:38
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We have some pretty dinged up pilots coming out for this. We're not getting any time for rest and recovery between missions?
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Jul 8, 2016 05:47
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Voyager I posted:We have some pretty dinged up pilots coming out for this. We're not getting any time for rest and recovery between missions? Uncle Stevie isn't paying you to lollygag!
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Oooh, a Bobcat. I'm getting flashbacks - I think one killed me at least once during Caldera. Upon review it was the Coyote.
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Jul 8, 2016 06:09
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PoptartsNinja posted:5 mines per individual LRM. So an LRM 20 is dumping a hundred mines in a 30 meter area.  I would say we have been kitted out EXTREMELY WELL. I want to see all this amazing in action. edit: FIXED. vorebane fucked around with this message at 10:44 on Jul 8, 2016 |
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Jul 8, 2016 07:28
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What happens if someone pratfalls into a minefield? Does the explosion have a chance to hit everywhere or still just the legs?
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Bloody Pom posted:What happens if someone pratfalls into a minefield? Does the explosion have a chance to hit everywhere or still just the legs? They get a second chance to explode. Presumably that one can hit anywhere but I haven't looked it up.
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Jul 8, 2016 08:54
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Shields and Radical Heat Sink systems? Nice. Amaris really is playing favourites.
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Jul 8, 2016 09:34
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Shoulda did the trial!
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Jul 8, 2016 11:02
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Voyager I posted:We have some pretty dinged up pilots coming out for this. We're not getting any time for rest and recovery between missions? This is after, it's not like you've got two months to sit around to heal the rest of it.
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Jul 8, 2016 12:40
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We knew this was going to be a meat grinder going into this campaign. Honestly, I'm surprised no one has died yet or been seriously crippled... well, except for those two poor Clanner bastards who wound up eating 5 pilot hits each in the previous two missions.
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Jul 8, 2016 12:50
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I notice AMS has a range of 1, does that meam you can defend an adjacent ally?
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RA Rx posted:I notice AMS has a range of 1, does that meam you can defend an adjacent ally? No, but it means you can use them to make desperation attacks against enemy `Mechs. They're basically really terrible machineguns.
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Jul 8, 2016 13:32
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Olothreutes posted:That looks rad. Multi-trac is something I'd never heard of before, but seems very legit. PoptartsNinja posted:It's not all that useful. You suffer no penalties for firing at multiple targets in your front or side arcs. 
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berryjon posted:You mean it's not having multiple stereo systems with their own independant cassette players to allow the PC/Mech to play inspiring theme music in their cockpit and blasting a separate Space-80's rock anthem on shoulder-speakers for all to lament that they are not that cool? I am disappointed. No, but it may very well be powered by Clanner tears.
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Jul 8, 2016 15:08
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You must have great fun getting to design all these crazy NRWR mechs.
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Jul 8, 2016 15:10
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If you get infantry swarmed in a minefield and do the rolling around thing to get them off, does it make a sound?
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I'd imagine something like "thud-squash-boom"
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So as far as I can tell, the votes are at: 1A) Jojoken Outskirts: 20 1B) Mt. Kalgalath: 6 1C) Morgaine River Delta: 46 Sidegrade doesn't even need a count; poor Phoenix Hawk. I'd vote myself, but...  Anyway, seems like the mercs are headed to the swamps! I'm kind of suprised there isn't any mention that it's the perfect terrain for Clan hovertanks, assuming they have some planetside: it's the perfect place to swarm anyone unlucky enough to fail the slightly-harder piloting role. Jason especially is going to have a fun time trying to use a jump-heavy mech in an area where jumping largely impossible.
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thetruegentleman posted:Anyway, seems like the mercs are headed to the swamps! I'm kind of suprised there isn't any mention that it's the perfect terrain for Clan hovertanks, assuming they have some planetside: it's the perfect place to swarm anyone unlucky enough to fail the slightly-harder piloting role. Jason especially is going to have a fun time trying to use a jump-heavy mech in an area where jumping largely impossible. We're not fighting the Hell's Horses, so there's little danger of any of the actually good Clan tanks showing up is pretty low. Most other Clans don't rate their vehicle crews as anything more than speed bumps, and why give a speed bump the honor of defeating the Demon Hawks?
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That makes me wonder if the NRWR has any combat vehicles of their own... though now that I think about it, they simply might not have enough manpower to field enough vehicles to make a difference against the Clans. CombatVees tend to get pretty crew intensive.
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A single driver can control every aspect of a combat vehicle with VDNI implants. Not sure if the NRWR implants are quite that far along, though.
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Vehicles don't seem to make much sense for a state that is manufacturing rich and personnel poor, given that the whole reason it seems like they see use is "We can toss a shitload of them in a garrison for way cheaper than an equivalent 'Mech force" (and the crews are endlessly replaceable).
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Scintilla posted:A single driver can control every aspect of a combat vehicle with VDNI implants. Not sure if the NRWR implants are quite that far along, though. Even buffered VDNI, cutting edge Manei Dominei stuff, has a max lifetime limit of 15 years. NRWR personnel problems probably don't permit that kind of attrition in their lifers.
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I'm very curious to see what the clans bring to this party. Based on them already employing a Hellstar last mission I'm worried we might see some serious poo poo. Time to hope the Tomahawk II is not a Sea Fox contraption in this timeline...
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Jul 8, 2016 19:39
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Without iATMs, how much topping of Hellstars and Black Pythons can you really do??? (JINX TIME)
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Jul 8, 2016 19:41
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If you can drone up some mechs, you can drone up some vehicles. If the NRWR really wanted to, they could probably field tons of vehicles.
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Coffeehitler posted:If you can drone up some mechs, you can drone up some vehicles. If the NRWR really wanted to, they could probably field tons of vehicles. Yeah, the only thing better than boomdogges would be boomtrukks.
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dis astranagant posted:Yeah, the only thing better than boomdogges would be boomtrukks. Escorted by hovercraft with AC20s on them. Awww yeah.
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Zaodai posted:Escorted by hovercraft with AC20s on them. That themselves go boom. It's booms all the way down.
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Jul 8, 2016 20:26
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A hundred drone Savannah Masters, replacing the crew components for an extra ML.
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Chair In A Basket posted:A hundred drone Savannah Masters, replacing the crew components for an extra ML. You mean replacing the medium laser and crew components for a machine gun and a ton of ammo for the most apocalyptic explosion potential possible in battletech 
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Zaodai posted:Escorted by hovercraft with AC20s on them. Awww yeah. http://www.sarna.net/wiki/SM1 one of the best units of MWDA makes it's triumphant entry to the LAPBARISH (wow, what an acronym) thread.
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Pretty much everything made in the Draconis Combine gets the 'poor sealing' trait. Mice.
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PoptartsNinja posted:Pretty much everything made in the Draconis Combine gets the 'poor sealing' trait. Now I want to see a Kurita mission that takes place underwater so half the players/opfor instantly explode on turn 1. Bonus points if the fluff has a Kurita Mechwarrior confused about the rats in the cockpit trying to escape. Edit: an underwater mission just in general would be awesome. There are enough mechs designed for it that I'm kinda surprised it never really comes up in the fluff much at all. Picard Day fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Jul 8, 2016 |
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garland336 posted:http://www.sarna.net/wiki/SM1 Six tons of ammo is incredibly optimistic.
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PoptartsNinja posted:You were probably wondering when one of these would show up. The Axman was always one of my favorites and this is like a sexy lighter version of one. Considering I was on the reserve for last mission, I would not be upset at all if I got to take this one for a spin.
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So, what does a swamp do, force a piloting check every jump?
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raverrn posted:Six tons of ammo is incredibly optimistic. Truth. Or spectacularly explosive. Either way, fantastic  Honestly from the standpoint of MWDA/AOD I used this unit a LOOOOT. It's so cheap to deploy and does so much damage for it's speed it's perfect for putting those overzealous uniques into risk.
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