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I'm just glad they're reopening the pledge manager at all, there's a ton more stuff I want after seeing the renders.
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Wait, if we backed at $1 and the pledge manager opens back up, can we theoretically bump up to one of the actual higher tiers at those prices and get the benefits still? I missed the boat on that last time because I didn't have the funds to actually invest but I would KILL to be able to do it now.
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From the wording in the e-mail you may have to pick up Wave 2 items, but there're a lot of those.
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The add-ons can go into the Wave 2 stuff and that's almost everything in the campaign, I think.
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Catalyst posted:We will send out new links next week, allowing you to re-open your survey and continue shopping from Wave 1 and Wave 2 rewards. I read this as you can bump it up or add on with any of the W1 / W2 options. Everything you pick will just ship in wave 2 now, Q1 2021.
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PoptartsNinja posted:The list of really famous/infamous Clanners who didn't pilot some combination of the Timberwolf, Warhawk, or Dire Wolf for some/all of their career is shockingly low. If you're talking about a Clanner and they didn't pilot one of the Big Three they were probably an Elemental. I recall the Smoke Jaguar galaxy commander defending Huntress in Twilight of the Clans who, due to sloppy editing, kept re-kitting her Cauldron-Born* to the same configuration over and over again. Not super famous or infamous but an example I remember from the mid/late '90s where Omnis were portrayed right, i.e. you had a favourite chassis you piloted and then kitted the 'Mech out according to the mission. (*Ebon Jaguar, but I don't think they had coined the Clan name for it yet)
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Carbolic posted:(*Ebon Jaguar, but I don't think they had coined the Clan name for it yet) The Clan name for it comes from TRO: 3058 Upgrades in 2006, yeah. They noted that literally nobody calls it an "Ebon Jaguar" because who gives a poo poo what those morons wanted to call it? By 3067 the Jags were in lower regard than the second Star League.
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Defiance Industries posted:I thought the Marik equivalent of Blackjack was the Hero Training Institute? Definitely, but I still want a Princefield shirt to go with my Nagelring one. long-rear end nips Diane posted:I'm just glad they're reopening the pledge manager at all, there's a ton more stuff I want after seeing the renders. I was hoping they'd open it back up, because I really need a couple of those map tubes for the battlemats I picked up at Gen Con last year. Haven't been able to find anything similar on Amazon that can fit them.
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Icon of War is out which details something very important that happens during the Reavings. Children of Kerensky, the 1st part of the "IlClan" novels, is being teased by Pardoe on Facebook. The 2nd Part "The Hour of the Wolf", is still being written. Children of Kerensky probably will drop soon this month. I think it was 2-3 weeks after Pardoe teased Rock of the Republic that the DTF dropped.
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Was gonna just ask for a spoilered summary but since it's actually set during the Wars of Reaving and not the hated Dark Age I will buy the book and read it
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Picked up the Battlemech Manual and am pumped to get playing more.
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DrPop posted:Was gonna just ask for a spoilered summary but since it's actually set during the Wars of Reaving and not the hated Dark Age I will buy the book and read it The Dark Age is great and you should embrace it. Bring back clickytech. I'm well aware the license is split three-ways and likely clickytech will never exist again, it's a shame.
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I'll probably come around some time after they release ilClan. Catalyst has done a pretty good job of making the post-Jihad and Dark Age mechs less cringey at least, though I'm keeping myself pretty distant from the fluff
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Just making the blackout a long-term plan of Devlin Stone to take over the entire Inner Sphere did wonders for making the Dark Age less stupid. Not because the Blackout wasn't immensely stupid, but because it blew up in Stone's face so spectacularly. My current headcannon is that Victor Davion, secret Wobbie, was ultimately responsible for setting off the Blackout early. He had one more chance to gently caress over the entire Inner Sphere before his death and he took it. 
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Defiance Industries posted:I hope Devlin Stone's downfall involves his secret weakness, that you can just say "Victor Davion" or "Sun-Tzu Liao" and he zones out and starts rambling about them like your grandparents just heard the word "Obama" what's the BT version of just shouting "chappaquiddick!"
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I have the books for advanced rules, technical operations, techmanual, and tact operations, and total warfare. If I want to really get deep into outfitting the 30 mechs I have so far, is there an order I want to go through for each book? Or what is the primary book for getting  about my mechs? I havent been able to read through these yet but want to start.
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TW and the Tech Manual form the basic level of the game. TW is how to play and TM is unit construction. Most of the time all you're really going to NEED is Total Warfare, everything else is gravy. Tac Ops (now two different books) is a book for adding more complicated poo poo than the base game. And that is fuckin saying something. Strategic Ops is about fighting a system-level campaign. It's built around three main things: more advanced rules for space-capable units; rules for salvage, repair and customization; and BattleForce, the latest rewrite of an old favorite you could use to fight regimental-scale battles without it requiring a month. Interstellar Ops is for playing on a Successor State level, kind of like the old Succession Wars board game. It also has a bunch of information on playing different eras outside the normal 3025-3150 window, and lots of ways to do war crimes on a planet.
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Don't forget Campaign Ops, which was a grab-bag of a book that was put together after the original draft for Interstellar Ops proved too long to make for a single volume. Covers things like (mercenary/house/clan) unit creation, and things like solar system creation and colony creation.
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Pussy Cartel posted:Don't forget Campaign Ops, which was a grab-bag of a book that was put together after the original draft for Interstellar Ops proved too long to make for a single volume. When you realize there's a "longer version" of IntOps... That this was the version they cut down to...
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Defiance Industries posted:When you realize there's a "longer version" of IntOps... That this was the version they cut down to... Battletech is eternal and pure, unsullied by the passage of the ages
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I miss clickytech. No new mechs in the "Wave 2.5" stuff. Catalyst posted:WAVE 2.5 - NEW KICKSTARTER REWARD EXTRAS But if you took the Canon character rebate credit, they said it should be applied by next Monday. Time to decide which mechs I'm going to turn mine into.
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Supposedly they're redoing Campaign Ops to roll in the non-aerospace (and presumably non-Battleforce) stuff from StratOps. Strat Ops will then be the advanced aerospace rules, with a name that doesn't really make sense for it. Maybe it should be Aerospace or Space Operations??? I'm hoping it gets an editing pass to be more of something you can use as written rather than the "*tosses pile of stuff on floor* put it together yourself" approach the original takes. Catalyst is kind of not very good at editing or playtesting though so who knows.
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Just loving call it BattleForce 3, you assholes
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This guy ripped off a bunch of BattleTech tank designs https://twitter.com/__br__ba/status/1301247807802806273
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I mean, maybe some of the really bad and stupid Clan ones.
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Whoever designed those clan tank designs needs to go to prison. There's "I'm not a military engineer, I'm just a guy doodling sci-fi tanks" and then there's "I'm intentionally making these as bad as possible"
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I dislike the GI Joe-looking bubble cockpitted Dark Age vehicles more. The M1 Marksman tank looks good, imo, so Wizkids clearly wasn't incapable of making things look reasonable.
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Got my tracking info today, and it turns out that the package was outside my door 45 minutes before. Catalyst did it, I got all my wave one stuff. Correct and everything
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Lord_Hambrose posted:Got my tracking info today, and it turns out that the package was outside my door 45 minutes before. Awesome! What part of the world are you in? I recall that Europe was expected to get their shipments first.
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Some people in the US are getting their shipping notices now (not me  ). Or at least I have nothing on FedEx's app. Maybe I'll start checking my door more often for awhile.I also haven't gotten my character credit yet, but I'm just chalking it up to normal kickstarter slowness.
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I am on the east coast, so not so far from Florida. I was shocked it came as quickly as it did.
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I can't find my Canon Character in the database  Who do I, uh, ask about it?
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BULBASAUR posted:I can't find my Canon Character in the database I'd say just fill this out and they'll email you https://store.catalystgamelabs.com/pages/contact.
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Does anyone have their own pictures of the new miniatures? I think Catalyst has only ever shown 3D renderings of the models.
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