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Last night on the end of campaign stream they said they are slowly working towards having all their sourcebooks PoD, so that's pretty cool.
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Hey I got a question for you guys, I picked up this box at my local game store recently: https://www.amazon.com/Battletech-Game-of-Armored-Combat/dp/B07MCYLBCR It contains cards for the alpha strike rules, but nowhere in the box does it actually contain the alpha strike rules. Is this intentional? Or am I supposed to be able to use these cards regardless?
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Aug 21, 2019 15:13
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I've got a copy waiting for me at home, funnily enough, from CGL directly. Will let you know if I also have any Alpha Strike cards inside.
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DarkAvenger211 posted:Hey I got a question for you guys, I picked up this box at my local game store recently: Got Alpha Strike cards in mine, probably about 16, but haven't opened em yet.
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DarkAvenger211 posted:It contains cards for the alpha strike rules, but nowhere in the box does it actually contain the alpha strike rules. Is this intentional? Or am I supposed to be able to use these cards regardless? The box contains the basic rules for standard play with normal record sheets for each 'Mech in the box (plus a few), and alpha strike cards as a bonus for the people who play Alpha Strike. No BattleTech box set (with the exception of BattleSpace?) has ever, to my knowledge, contained the full rulebook. There isn't a 'basic' version of Alpha Strike, a lot of Alpha Strike is balanced around using special pilot abilities, lance combos, and special command abilities to modify the way individual units play. VV Ah, so I was mistaken. I can't imagine Alpha Strike quickstart being any more than a page or two. PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 22:18 on Aug 21, 2019 |
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Aug 21, 2019 21:16
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There are the quick start alpha strike rules available for download.
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They've given out Alpha Strike cards as promotional items a bunch of times so they're probably in the box for that reason.
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I honestly can't remember if I asked this already: if Alpha Strike has all or nothing to-hit rolls isn't it incredibly swingy?
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PoptartsNinja posted:(with the exception of BattleSpace?) BattleSpace had the full rulebook, just to confirm. The full manual was half the size of the typical Battletech rulebook, which may explain why it did.
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General Battuta posted:I honestly can't remember if I asked this already: if Alpha Strike has all or nothing to-hit rolls isn't it incredibly swingy? Per unit? Yes. Across an entire force? It tends to even out. The basic unit of organization in Alpha Strike isn't a single mech, it's a lance. That analogy extends to combat, too. In that sense it's swingy in the same way as, say, an AC/20. A miss with your big gun feels bad; it shouldn't be your only gun.
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I finished up the other half of the starter box: I am not too fond of the accent colours for the marik militia so I was a bit conservative with them, no clue how well that works lore wise.
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Looking good; really like the cockpits! I'm gonna use these as my inspiration   Unless I play it straight with some Ice Hellion stuff.
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Strobe posted:In that sense it's swingy in the same way as, say, an AC/20. A miss with your big gun feels bad; it shouldn't be your only gun. This is an extremely dangerous and unsavory mindset to spread around the community. Hollander owns. Coolest and stupidest looking Mech.
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I read that the new commanders edition has option rules for rolling a hit for each point of damaged in a unit. Apparently it feels a bit more like the classic rules and is less swingy
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BULBASAUR posted:I read that the new commanders edition has option rules for rolling a hit for each point of damaged in a unit. Apparently it feels a bit more like the classic rules and is less swingy It also completely fucks the game by making big beatsticks with lots of damage good against literally everything. I hate it. There's no reason to ever take anything that does less than 7 points of damage because you can just switch targets mid-attack with only a trivial penalty and ensure that no damage is ever wasted.
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Battletech is most memorable (maybe, maybe not "best") when it's swingy. Regular CBT is swingy as hell and I love it.
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Ran across this in a facebook group.
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Boomers are the worst
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Strobe posted:It also completely fucks the game by making big beatsticks with lots of damage good against literally everything. I hate it. There's no reason to ever take anything that does less than 7 points of damage because you can just switch targets mid-attack with only a trivial penalty and ensure that no damage is ever wasted. So it sounds like a buff to clan players, who apparently usually loose anyway in AS. Perfect 
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Luigi's Discount Porn Bin posted:Ran across this in a facebook group. Welp, I've changed my opinion on Clans now. They're cool and good.
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Also hate clans and am happily ready to declare batchall just to piss off shitlords. I think it's always been an issue with Battletech since it attracts the worst sort of "old school" or "grognard" people.
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Luigi's Discount Porn Bin posted:Ran across this in a facebook group. need to wear a CLAN FREE ZONE shirt to my next meetup
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thinking about a part of one of the jihad books where some clanners are talking over their special HPG chatroom and then some rando teenager stumbles in issuing batchalls before promptly being kicked.
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Drone posted:Welp, I've changed my opinion on Clans now. They're cool and good. TBH I see poo poo like this more from people bagging on the Jihad or DA. I mean, gently caress. DA was like 15 years ago at this point.
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Luigi's Discount Porn Bin posted:Ran across this in a facebook group. Certainly no scantily clad clanners. Nope nope nope.
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Taerkar posted:Certainly no scantily clad clanners. Nope nope nope. They know there's no way those warriors would conceive a freebirth with any of them, even in their dreams.
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Locust side template Locust side camo idea - Ice Hellions  Thoughts/Comments? Its not final but you get the general idea.
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It breaks up the outline, so it would work as a traditional camouflage. The only thing I'd be careful of is to avoid having the cockpit be the same color as other, otherwise unimportant parts of your mini. In BattleTech terms, I tend to do camo/unit scheme on mooooost of the mini, and then the obvious joints and gun barrels get a traditional metallic, usually gunmetal, because it helps draw attention to them.
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Kinda unsure how ill do the cockpit but will see how i go about that. Maybe go with a dark green or darker blue. And yeah, I'm thinking of having the guns be a sort of half-camo, half-gunmetal/burnt effect
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Kinda unsure how ill do the cockpit but will see how i go about that. Maybe go with a dark green or darker blue. If you leave orange off of the actual camo portion of the scheme it'd be an excellent contrast color against the main body. Are you going for the Alpha Galaxy look? 
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Strobe posted:If you leave orange off of the actual camo portion of the scheme it'd be an excellent contrast color against the main body. Are you going for the Alpha Galaxy look? I basically just looked at whatever Ice Hellions had in common, generally, for camo. I just remember that theres one "Galaxy" that had a desert or non-blue theme and thats about it haha
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Locust side template Hell yeah, glad to see someone else is planning on doing the best and stupidest Clan.
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I made a poster for the Intro to Battletech I'm hosting this week
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Dope
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Dude that's sick
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Aw poo poo I'm in Brooklyn. Now I kinda want to go.
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Should I send it to CGS as fanart?
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General Battuta posted:Aw poo poo I'm in Brooklyn. Now I kinda want to go. Dude go. If you’re not a Carcosa Club member it’s literally only ten bucks and I can cover that no problem, it’s Friday @ 7 at the Carcosa Club in Williamsburg. Edit: if you’ve never been it’s actually free for your first visit, so don’t even worry about that. Taintrunner fucked around with this message at 05:20 on Sep 11, 2019 |
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Sorry for 3x posting I like to get new Battletech players but you wouldn’t have to bring anything as a newbie or a veteran
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