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Defiance Industries posted:He really turned it around, using a Ryoken with a UAC/20 like it was meant to be. It was a really good job of salvaging a situation partway through. You know, as opposed to hanging in the back because he's "a major character" You might even say that he stepped up in the pocket to make some plays, and put those quick passes where only the receiver could get them.
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Fraction Jackson posted:He didn't get killed, actually. He flipped out and quit mid-mission because he got blocked in by lights a couple times, after hanging back in his super short-ranged mech, and people clowned on him for it. It was actually those incidents that inspired me to do Madden (to show tactically what was going on in a lighthearted way). IIRC that short-range profile is part of the reason he was "not sanguine about his 'Mech" - he said his preferred playstyle was to hang back with long-ranged weapons, shooting at guys who couldn't possibly shoot him back. Which, to me, says he's a dude who probably liked to play a Hellstar.
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Jun 20, 2017 22:01
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Didn't the pilot get roasted at the end?
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:IIRC that short-range profile is part of the reason he was "not sanguine about his 'Mech" - he said his preferred playstyle was to hang back with long-ranged weapons, shooting at guys who couldn't possibly shoot him back. There was an incident in #megamek where he wanted to test a custom against one of the channel regulars. The custom turned out to be some bullshit dual gauss/dual cERPPC tcomp custom assault. He also had a custom map to go along with it, which involved a giant hill and a river between the hill and the rest of the map. Needless to say, they never actually finished that game. Also needless to say, you're pretty spot-on. I think it will probably surprise no one that this incident was also when our not-sanguine not-hero was banned from #megamek.
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Fraction Jackson posted:There was an incident in #megamek where he wanted to test a custom against one of the channel regulars. The custom turned out to be some bullshit dual gauss/dual cERPPC tcomp custom assault. He also had a custom map to go along with it, which involved a giant hill and a river between the hill and the rest of the map. Needless to say, they never actually finished that game. Also needless to say, you're pretty spot-on. Oh god I forgot about that thing. Didn't it also have a single-hex wide winding path you had to walk up to get to his two-hex-wide little platform he parked his mech on?
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Defiance Industries posted:Oh god I forgot about that thing. Didn't it also have a single-hex wide winding path you had to walk up to get to his two-hex-wide little platform he parked his mech on? Yup. And the top of the hill was height 9 or 10 as I recall, too. Zaodai posted:Sounds like the perfect time to spend all your BV on air-dropped Elementals. He asked the other guy to only take L1 tech. I can't imagine why.
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Are there any good, cheap L1 aerospace fighters you could swarm it with? A billion things with a single PPC flying at mach 3 or something?
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Fraction Jackson posted:The custom turned out to be some bullshit dual gauss/dual cERPPC tcomp custom assault. He also had a custom map to go along with it, which involved a giant hill and a river between the hill and the rest of the map. Needless to say, they never actually finished that game. Also needless to say, you're pretty spot-on. ...He brought a Dire Wolf without asking? Wow. Zaodai posted:Sounds like the perfect time to spend all your BV on air-dropped Elementals. Or on a fast 'Mech with ERLL (like Crimson Hawk)! Fake edit: Fraction Jackson posted:He asked the other guy to only take L1 tech. I can't imagine why. ... ... The match stopped the moment the custom was revealed, right?
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Zaodai posted:Are there any good, cheap L1 aerospace fighters you could swarm it with? A billion things with a single PPC flying at mach 3 or something? You could get some MechBusters. Basically just an AC/20 strapped to a jet engine and most importantly they're like 400 BV a pop so you could field a whole goddamn squadron of the things. Defiance Industries fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Jun 20, 2017 |
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Defiance Industries posted:Doesn't that suppose that the Kerensky Cluster bothered to recover non-military technologies after they did 200 years worth of Succession Wars in like ten years? The Clans have all their tech because they hosed off to a military depot world. But they also understand how everything works and scientists are allowed to innovate without a Comstar death squad showing up. Also technology is technology; they know how to make spaceships, they've perfected human cloning, etc etc. Just because they focus on military applications doesn't mean the knowledge isn't good for anything else.
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Gun Jam posted:...He brought a Dire Wolf without asking? I mean, a Dire Wolf is actually a lot easier to take down than a lot of other Clan stuff, since it can't really go anywhere. Swarming with fast IS mediums/heavies is pretty easy to do. It was more than the dude deliberately designed the entire scenario so that there was no way he could even get touched and the OPFOR would just have to trudge at him and die so he could feel cool with his custom headcap machine. My recollection is the match ended when his opponent (I'm like 99% sure it was Captain Foo) saw the map and called bullshit.
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Alchenar posted:But they also understand how everything works and scientists are allowed to innovate without a Comstar death squad showing up. Also technology is technology; they know how to make spaceships, they've perfected human cloning, etc etc. Just because they focus on military applications doesn't mean the knowledge isn't good for anything else. No, when they innovate on anything but military-related hardware, a Clan warrior who failed out of real Clan warrior training comes by and executes them for wasting resources on non-vital technology.
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Defiance Industries posted:You could get some MechBusters. Basically just an AC/20 strapped to a jet engine and most importantly they're like 400 BV a pop so you could field a whole goddamn squadron of the things.  Those are amazing! Even if they are "only" conventional fighters. I love that the reason it was considered poo poo was because it didn't have VTOL capabilities, so when their 4 poo poo tier cheapo aircraft killed 7 mechs, some paratroopers took the airfield and they had to ditch. That's not the fault of the plane, you asshats. Get some guys with rifles to protect your airbase.
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Fraction Jackson posted:Yup. And the top of the hill was height 9 or 10 as I recall, too. I was gonna feel (a teensy bit) guilty about helping to contribute to a pile-on of a dude who isn't here to defend himself after he stormed off in a huff, but no longer. Fuuuuuuuuuck that noise.
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:I was gonna feel (a teensy bit) guilty about helping to contribute to a pile-on of a dude who isn't here to defend himself after he stormed off in a huff, but no longer. Fuuuuuuuuuck that noise. I felt bad for that guy because I thought it was his first time playing and he was in over his head. Like, the first time I played was here, and I definitely held back a bit and took potshots. Since it seems like it wasn't his first time...
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Zaodai posted:
Even some of the less beefy conventional fighters can be pretty scary once you start mounting external munitions. Strap enough RL10s to anything and it starts to get bonkers. I learned that lesson the hard way a couple times. DivineCoffeeBinge posted:I was gonna feel (a teensy bit) guilty about helping to contribute to a pile-on of a dude who isn't here to defend himself after he stormed off in a huff, but no longer. Fuuuuuuuuuck that noise. There's a reason the guy is a legend on IRC, after all. It's just not the good kind of legend, you know?
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Zaodai posted:
Yeah, a lot of modern IS warfare is preeeeeety incompatible with things you can't load onto and deploy from a DropShip. On the other hand if you're defending somewhere like Donegal, you have plenty of time and flat land to fill with MechBusters,
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Mechbusters are a good idea with a bad execution. They're slow enough that recoil from the AC/20 can actually cause them to fall out of the sky. Yellowjackets don't have that problem (but are much more expensive).
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PoptartsNinja posted:Mechbusters are a good idea with a bad execution. They're slow enough that recoil from the AC/20 can actually cause them to fall out of the sky. It just means you have no reason not to leave it at max speed. 
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I've used Mechbusters (and other Aeros with external munitions) in Megamek a few times. Never had problems with them stalling out though. Bombing runs with conventional bombs were absolutely hilarious though.
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I used to play a fair bit on Megamek with the guy, before he went completely off the sanguine end. As someone overly fond of Clantech myself, I didn't pick up on the warning signs.
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AJ_Impy posted:I used to play a fair bit on Megamek with the guy, before he went completely off the sanguine end. As someone overly fond of Clantech myself, I didn't pick up on the warning signs. I miss mekwars legends.
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Viva Miriya posted:I miss mekwars legends. I miss faction hopping every cycle. I miss banning Ragnarok every cycle for trying to rules lawyer his way into dumb poo poo. God help me, I even miss setting continents and terrain for planets.
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AJ_Impy posted:I used to play a fair bit on Megamek with the guy, before he went completely off the sanguine end. As someone overly fond of Clantech myself, I didn't pick up on the warning signs. I played a few games with him too, and he seemed fine and friendly if a bit earnest. Until one day he shared a big library of custom mech assets with me and oops, it included a shitload of furry porn.
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Leperflesh posted:I played a few games with him too, and he seemed fine and friendly if a bit earnest. Like a true Clanner. 
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I was going to bring up that, without looking deeply into his history, it was very heavily implied that his account name was also his fursona.
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Leperflesh posted:I played a few games with him too, and he seemed fine and friendly if a bit earnest. Holy poo poo, even I forgot that story. I do know there's a pastebin or a gdoc of all the weird poo poo that guy said/did on IRC though. I'm not going to post it in the thread for obvious reasons, but it exists.
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I know it's fairly amusing in hindsight, but I still hope the vast majority of players had fun playing my scenarios (and any who didn't, I'd love to hear why). That little saga turned the thread into an uncomfortable battleground for a few days when it happened, so I do hope it's something we'll never see happen again.
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At the very least it seems like the vast majority of readers enjoy your scenarios. I know I do, even the ones that don't suit my particular storyline fancy.
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Fraction Jackson posted:I miss faction hopping every cycle. heh
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PoptartsNinja posted:I know it's fairly amusing in hindsight, but I still hope the vast majority of players had fun playing my scenarios (and any who didn't, I'd love to hear why). That little saga turned the thread into an uncomfortable battleground for a few days when it happened, so I do hope it's something we'll never see happen again. As one of the players on Luthien, I had a loving blast the whole time. Including all the weird nonsense with SD, it's really funny in hindsight.
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My only beef is that I was not able to moonwalk in battle, otherwise I had a lot of fun. I'm terribly looking forward to my next turn in the cockpit.
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PoptartsNinja posted:I know it's fairly amusing in hindsight, but I still hope the vast majority of players had fun playing my scenarios (and any who didn't, I'd love to hear why). That little saga turned the thread into an uncomfortable battleground for a few days when it happened, so I do hope it's something we'll never see happen again. Every battletech story has to have its Maximilian Liao.
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lmao I always did have the sense I wasn't getting the full picture with SD.
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Xarbala posted:I always did have the sense I wasn't getting the full picture with SD. Yeah, most of that is news to me. The only thing I saw was the constantly changing avatar and the constantly changing red text.
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