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Those are some dudes who got together during the clan era, I was asking about the foundation of successor state warfare. One the feudal topic: what was the military basis of the Lyran Alliance? An army split or a feudal rebellion?
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Baron Porkface posted:One the feudal topic: what was the military basis of the Lyran Alliance? An army split or a feudal rebellion? A failed coup followed by a rebellion
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Apr 2, 2018 13:52
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Baron Porkface posted:Those are some dudes who got together during the clan era, I was asking about the foundation of successor state warfare. The basis was Katherine Steiner-Davion seizing onto the first excuse to come her way to sieze power and recruit enough Noble malcontents to effect a secession from the Commonwealth and kick off another generation of war.
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Apr 2, 2018 14:00
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Baron Porkface posted:Those are some dudes who got together during the clan era, I was asking about the foundation of successor state warfare. Short answer: yes, but you usually find them when you get into the local garrison of a single ancient shadow hawk and half-broken stinger that are the hereditary property of His Royal Highness the Grand Maquis of Bumblefuck Backwater. It's also a popular backstory for various mercenaries. Grand Maquis Bumblefuck gets killed in a coup and his son takes the ancestral Shadowhawk and signs up with the first merc unit he finds to pay the bills. Most of the named units you see are what amount to regular army. The Great House level poo poo is actually still being done on the level of regular military units throughout the succession wars. Question re: Crab: I seem to remember that, while it was a pre-exodus design it was hyper advanced awesome tech at that point so it was almost entirely in the SLDF and, as such, most went on the exodus. I think it was one of those designs that was resurrected when they started being able to reboot the industry post-Grey Death memory core.
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Apr 2, 2018 14:26
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Sarna says there were a number of surviving Crabs in House hands up through the end of the 4th Succession War, although they only totaled about a hundred at that point. They ran standard armor instead of ferro fib, single heat sinks instead of doubles, and then regular lasers instead of ERs or pulses (which helps offset the lack of heat efficiency anyway and isn't really much of a downgrade in the era). So a full star league CRB-27 would be basically ComStar or SLDF cache only, but a downgraded CRB-20 wouldn't be THAT far fetched.
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Apr 2, 2018 14:54
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I hope they sell enough copies to get the quirks patch back on track. Crabs really need extra melee damage quirks to be full crab.
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Apr 2, 2018 15:50
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Baron Porkface posted:Those are some dudes who got together during the clan era, I was asking about the foundation of successor state warfare. The entire history of Battletech is based on the fundamental premise that democracy beyond the planetary scale does not work and feudalism was needed to bring stability after it was tried and failed. Every one of the major Houses and Periphery powers are organized along this basis. Unforunately, this background material has been greatly deprecated in more recent products--not so much retconned as quietly ignored--but it's there. Feudalism is one of the foundations of the setting.
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Apr 2, 2018 16:44
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A.o.D. posted:Noble malcontents to effect a secession from the Commonwealth and kick off another generation of war. This is what I'm not grasping about the feudal future. The lyran portion of FedCom seems to be based off the c.1730 Prussian Army which was dominated by nobility but would not split in the way that a medieval army would. Xotl posted:The entire history of Battletech is based on the fundamental premise that democracy beyond the planetary scale does not work and feudalism was needed to bring stability after it was tried and failed. Every one of the major Houses and Periphery powers are organized along this basis. Is it like one planet per space baron and 5 planet barons serve a space count?
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Apr 2, 2018 16:47
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It varies from place to place. You'd have Dukes who could run anything from one planet to a handful, and in general status was mostly about how much money and power you could bring to bear. Most nobility below that ruled a continent or a city or something.
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Apr 2, 2018 17:04
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Is there anyway to get the game early?
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Apr 2, 2018 17:27
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Be a big streamer, or be a real life Shadowrunner and break into HBS and steal the data.
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Apr 2, 2018 17:33
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Hire shadowrunners to hit HBS's offices in Seattle.
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Apr 2, 2018 17:33
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Make your own robots, with blackjack and hookers.
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Apr 2, 2018 17:50
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Dear HBS, Please make a sequel to Starsiege as your next game. Thank you.
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Apr 2, 2018 18:10
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I said come in! posted:Dear HBS, oh poo poo TRIBES of all things had an extremely active RP/lore community for quite some time (I know this because teenage me was very into it). There's a great game that 2500 people would play somewhere in the old Firetruce packets
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Apr 2, 2018 18:33
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I said come in! posted:Dear HBS, Or a 40k version of Battletech with Titans.
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To be fair only 3 streamers have gotten the game: NGNGTV, who to people's chagrin are the biggest, if not the only, BattleTech fan group on Twitch, HyperRPG, which is really close to HBS if not owned by the same people, and CohhCarnage, who got his from GOG because he has a partnetship agreement with them and makes money from every sale made through his link. I can't remember the technical term for that. None of Paradox's usual suspects have gotten access yet- not shenryyr, quill18, Arumba, any of them. Judging by past games the general, non-unique streamer embargo might not break until the 23rd. That was when Pillars of Eternity's embargo broke. That was a kickstarter game too that Paradox published. Vvv that works. Sky Shadowing fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Apr 2, 2018 |
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Apr 2, 2018 18:53
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Sky Shadowing posted:I can't remember the technical term for that. Affiliate might be the word you're looking for?
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Apr 2, 2018 18:55
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I said come in! posted:Dear HBS,
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Apr 2, 2018 19:17
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How Disgusting posted:Make your own robots, with Blackjacks and Hollanders Fixed!
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Apr 2, 2018 19:51
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PoptartsNinja posted:Fixed!
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Apr 2, 2018 19:52
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Buzz off with your ideas for HBS' next series. Jordan needs to make  The FASA Trinity must be completed.
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Apr 2, 2018 20:40
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Sky Shadowing posted:On the topic of dumb lore, how well known amongst Goons is it that the guy who wrote the Eridani Light Horse lore (setting aside the legal arguments being made about that lore being integrated into the canon) tried to use that stuff as a vessel to insert his own Mary Sue literal furry anthro unicorn character into the setting? Alright, I just read through the entire thread to try and tide me over (it didn't work, I had to play Mech Commander 2 as well) but this really, really stuck out. Can anyone explain what the hell?
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Apr 2, 2018 20:46
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Buzz off with your ideas for HBS' next series. Jordan needs to make Not empty quoting this.
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Apr 2, 2018 20:53
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Dreadwroth posted:Oh man you do some clean lines, what did you use for those illustrations? Just zoomed in photoshop, though I used some advice Shimmy gave me and FD talked about his straight-lines negative drawing method in a /btg/ thread once and I gave it a try. Galaga Galaxian posted:Buzz off with your ideas for HBS' next series. Jordan needs to make
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Apr 2, 2018 21:16
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Seriously, I don't care if it's an arcadey flight sim or something like a more elaborate and detailed Sid Meier's Ace Patrol. I need a new Crimson Skies and I want HBS and Jordan to be the ones to make it. 
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King Doom posted:Alright, I just read through the entire thread to try and tide me over (it didn't work, I had to play Mech Commander 2 as well) but this really, really stuck out. Can anyone explain what the hell? The internet puppetmaster defense, of course. "I was just trolling," claims individual who attempted to assert legal co-author status of the entire BT franchise in a genuine court of law. sarna has a page on it but it reads like it was written by this same person or a fan of them because fair and unbiased it's not. It does have a "needs cleanup" tag though  Psion fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Apr 2, 2018 |
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Apr 2, 2018 21:39
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Dear HBS, Please make a sequel to Crimson Skies as your next game. Thank you.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:The FASA Trinity must be completed. Poor, poor Earthdawn.
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Airspace posted:Poor, poor Earthdawn. Earthdawn, get back in the basement!
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Radio Free Kobold posted:Dear HBS, Unfortunately Microsoft wants a unreasonable amount of money for that license.
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Apr 2, 2018 22:36
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Well then we should make sure HBS gets an unreasonable amount of money from Battletech 
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I think Zaodai was on to something: we need to organize a Shadowrun, but instead the objective will be to steal back all of FASA's IPs and deliver them to HBS.
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Apr 2, 2018 23:09
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Dibs on being the street sam.
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We don't have wired reflexes but we can probably work out something rather similar to Novacoke.
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Zaodai posted:Sarna says there were a number of surviving Crabs in House hands up through the end of the 4th Succession War, although they only totaled about a hundred at that point. They ran standard armor instead of ferro fib, single heat sinks instead of doubles, and then regular lasers instead of ERs or pulses (which helps offset the lack of heat efficiency anyway and isn't really much of a downgrade in the era). I love the Crab, but won't twin large lasers plus secondaries make it overheat hilariously on single sinks? The lasers alone put out, what, 8 heat apop.
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Drake_263 posted:I love the Crab, but won't twin large lasers plus secondaries make it overheat hilariously on single sinks? The lasers alone put out, what, 8 heat apop. The Crab-20 has 16 single heat sinks, so in TT it can sink both lasers but movement and using its other lasers will result in a slow buildup of heat that can be dealt with by simply not firing one of the large lasers every few rounds.
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Crimson Skies: Mercenaries would own so hard
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DatonKallandor posted:Unfortunately Microsoft wants a unreasonable amount of money for that license. Smith & Tinker got the license at one point, but I don't know what happened to it once PGI bought them up.
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