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I said come in! posted:
I did a batch using nothing but GW Contrast paints as a generic camo. I'll post them later today. I am pretty happy with how it turned out for not a ton of work. My WIP is an orange-grey-black lance that is off the resin printer.
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Oct 29, 2020 14:31
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DrPop posted:Post more mechs!!!  Finished mechs.  WIP clan mechs.  Green test scheme mech. (I didn't like it)  Orange ink over zenithal highlight WIP. Not actually sure how this one is going to finish up. Though I've realized that mechs look way cooler a few feet away than they do 6 inches away.
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Oct 29, 2020 15:18
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 Those look great! The cockpit on the Battlemaster looks particularly good. Well done!
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Oct 29, 2020 15:42
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Man, there’s a whole lot of stuff in this Kickstarter box. The Nova Cat logo looks real good as a pin.
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Oct 29, 2020 21:22
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I got all of my Wave 1 stuff today. I backed at the Galaxy Commander level, so there is a pile of stuff. I will catch some pictures tomorrow to share 
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Oct 30, 2020 02:38
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Finished up my first mini from the kickstarter, and started on another. I'm pretty happy with it so far. (the incorrect Point Commander decal has been replaced with the correct Star Commander decal, I just don't have a more recent picture yet)
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Oct 30, 2020 06:07
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Strobe posted:(the incorrect Point Commander decal has been replaced with the correct Star Commander decal, I just don't have a more recent picture yet) That's a good lookin mech. Were there decals included? I don't recall seeing any.
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Oct 30, 2020 12:26
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I don't think there were any transfers in the KS. But you can get them here: https://www.fightingpirannhagraphics.com/ I have some of their CJF ones and they're solid. Very nice Dire Wolf!
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Oct 30, 2020 12:57
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DrPop posted:I don't think there were any transfers in the KS. But you can get them here: https://www.fightingpirannhagraphics.com/ Nice! I've been using leftovers from various 1/72 scale tanks and planes. My merc lances all sport 1941 era Soviet KV-1 decals. Is there some rule that a Classic Battletech website still has to look like it was made on dial-up for a 2002 era Netscape Navigator Browser?
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Oct 30, 2020 13:26
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Yooper posted:Nice! I've been using leftovers from various 1/72 scale tanks and planes. My merc lances all sport 1941 era Soviet KV-1 decals. Yeah, it's gotta be some guidance handed down in a Harmony Gold lawsuit 20 years ago.
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Oct 30, 2020 14:00
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DrPop posted:I don't think there were any transfers in the KS. But you can get them here: https://www.fightingpirannhagraphics.com/ Be patient, though, PGI is basically a one-man sidejob so it takes a while for orders to get filled.
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Oct 30, 2020 16:52
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DrPop posted:Post more mechs!!! Here's a bunch I've done over the years, with varying levels of quality.  Annihilator!  Archer!  Urbanmech with an Arrow IV  big bird and little bird  Aqua Lance, reporting in!  Catapult.  Big Crimson!  Cyclops!  Flea!  Griffin!  Highlander here to check your cable reception!  Jungle Lance, in the pipe 5 by five!  My big bubba Kodiak.  Mad Cat with a weird upward tilt.  Mad Cat shiny metal and gold edition  Black Hawk!  Shadow Hawk! Caw!  Bruin! Which I never get to use!  My two Wolfhounds together. Taintrunner fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Oct 30, 2020 |
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Oct 30, 2020 17:39
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Very cool! Good variety. https://fs.battletech.com/fiction/ Catalyst is doing a big sourcebook for Tukayyid instead of a short PDF as laid out by the Kickstarter. Lots of short fiction to go along with it. I'll get the sourcebook because of the camospecs stuff alone, which you can see in the KS update about the sourcebook here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/450703636/battletech-clan-invasion/posts/3000876
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Oct 30, 2020 22:19
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"Greatest battle in history" is quite the exaggeration though.
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Oct 30, 2020 22:32
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That book has gotta be a must-buy for me. Will be a great follow-up when I finally get to finish my homebrew 3050 campaign. I also started making a newspaper as some in-universe lore for the events in the campaign I'm running:    Fun stuff so far. Next scenario is gonna take place on two maps simultaneously - one in an underground fighting arena, and the other up top inside the walls of the "Pleasure Dome" - which is basically a circular version of the Vegas Strip. Also here's a spaceport map I hacked together in Illustrator, with a bunch of 3d printed terrain I slapped on top of it:  Still gotta paint the rest of the buildings, though.
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Oct 30, 2020 22:40
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Defiance Industries posted:"Greatest battle in history" is quite the exaggeration though. It's not far off. Kerensky's march to Terra is the only thing that even comes close to being larger. Nothing that comes afterward is even half the size.
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Oct 31, 2020 00:01
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As promised, snagged some photos today. I am very much looking forward to painting these! A wide shot of most of my Wave 1 goodies.  A Star of Urbies. It makes sense if you don't think too hard about it.  Elementals!  Clan Heavy Striker Star.  Clan Command Star.  Legendary Mechwarriors.  Inner Sphere Battle Lance, aka Unseen This!  Inner Sphere Command Lance.  Clan Invasion boxed game.  The sum total of my model madness this shipment. First up is to paint up a Battlemaster in Black Watch colors. I've been off of painting for too long.
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Oct 31, 2020 00:28
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Strobe posted:It's not far off. Kerensky's march to Terra is the only thing that even comes close to being larger. Nothing that comes afterward is even half the size. The Battle of Terra is SO much larger in scope than Tukayyid that comparing the two seems silly. Yeah, they both involve "army" deployments, but a single SLDF army was larger than the entire Com Guard combined and they dropped... what, twenty-some of them? Also, no WarShips at Tukayyid so it loses by default.
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Oct 31, 2020 00:29
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I was a little bit off on the sheer scale of the Liberation of Terra; it was definitely larger. The Liberation of Terra is still the only thing that even halfway threatens for the title of "greatest", and honestly I'd still say Tukayyid fits the bill for its impact on the game.  EDIT: in case anyone is curious, Terra included 183 BattleMech Brigades, which (admittedly an assumption) at full strength is a little bit under 60,000 'Mechs.
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Oct 31, 2020 00:54
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Strobe posted:EDIT: in case anyone is curious, Terra included 183 BattleMech Brigades, which (admittedly an assumption) at full strength is a little bit under 60,000 'Mechs. I wonder how many Wasps.
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Oct 31, 2020 01:41
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Defiance Industries posted:"Greatest battle in history" is quite the exaggeration though. Relax
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Oct 31, 2020 03:57
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Sorry I'm not excited for the hard sell on a Com Guards vs Clan players expansion? Maybe this is how Com Guards players felt when the FCCW was a thing, I dunno.
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Oct 31, 2020 04:03
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Strobe posted:I was a little bit off on the sheer scale of the Liberation of Terra; it was definitely larger. How much infantry? Are we talking anything close to Citadel? The Somme? Stalingrad?
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Carbolic posted:How much infantry? Are we talking anything close to Citadel? The Somme? Stalingrad? Just doing some napkin math, the two most common SLDF division types were the BattleMech division (6 regiments of mechs and 3 regiments of infantry) and the Mechanized Infantry division (6 regiments of infantry, 3 regiments of mechs) so let's just say, for the sake of estimation, they kind of equal each other out and each SLDF army (there were 20) were half-and-half. With 20 armies of 9 divisions each, half of which being infantry, and each division being 6,804 infantrymen, you get 602,360 SLDF infantry involved. This doesn't count anyone outside a Mechanized Infantry division in the frontline assaults but hey, it's an idea.
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There were 41 BattleMech Divisions (two Mech Brigades, one Infantry Brigade, one Armored Brigade) and 111 Infantry Divisions (one Mech, two Infantry, one Armored) that participated in the actual battle according to Liberation of Terra Vol, for a total of 263 infantry brigades. Each brigade is three regiments, each regiment is three battalions, each battalion is three companies, each company is three platoons, and between foot and mechanized infantry you can probably average about 25 infantry per platoon. So: 25 x 3 (company) x 3 (battalion) x 3 (regiment) x 3 (brigade) x 263 (# of brigades) = 532,575. So presumably between 500,000 and 550,000 infantry.
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Since we're posting mechs here's the pre-final cleanup and basing shot of my Catapult for my as-yet-unnamed garish nightmare mercenary regiment
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Strobe posted:There were 41 BattleMech Divisions (two Mech Brigades, one Infantry Brigade, one Armored Brigade) and 111 Infantry Divisions (one Mech, two Infantry, one Armored) that participated in the actual battle according to Liberation of Terra Vol, for a total of 263 infantry brigades. Each brigade is three regiments, each regiment is three battalions, each battalion is three companies, each company is three platoons, and between foot and mechanized infantry you can probably average about 25 infantry per platoon. So: Nah, foot and mechanized infantry platoons are both 28 guys. It's jump infantry that's different (21 dudes).
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Oct 31, 2020 05:26
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I would have sworn that Mechanized was 20.
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Oct 31, 2020 05:29
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I can't speak to every army ever, but it's definitely 28 in FM:SLDF.
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Oct 31, 2020 05:34
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In that case it's nominally 596,484, assuming there are no jump platoons and also that Independent Regiments don't normally include infantry. Six hundred thousand feels like a safe place to round off.
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Strobe posted:In that case it's nominally 596,484, assuming there are no jump platoons and also that Independent Regiments don't normally include infantry. Six hundred thousand feels like a safe place to round off. And then four-to-six times that for support staff, and WarShip crews and...
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I don't even know how you'd try to calculate the total crew count of the SLDF navy. Like most fleets, we have an actual count of combat vessels and then the transport fleet is however big or small the story needs it to be.
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Oct 31, 2020 19:23
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Defiance Industries posted:I don't even know how you'd try to calculate the total crew count of the SLDF navy. Like most fleets, we have an actual count of combat vessels and then the transport fleet is however big or small the story needs it to be. Are you the same Defiance Industries that sells 3d printed mech minis on Etsy?
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Oct 31, 2020 21:49
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No, he lives in Maryland and I'm a West Coast guy.
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DrPop posted:Very cool! Good variety. 25 galaxies? How are they able to travel to other galaxies in the Battletech universe?
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Nov 1, 2020 06:24
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Galaxies are a Clan military grouping.
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I said come in! posted:25 galaxies? How are they able to travel to other galaxies in the Battletech universe? This is how Tukayyid was the greatest battle in history
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Finally got my wave 1 shipment and god these models are just too drat beautiful. Really glad I made sure to get two Phoenix Hawks!
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Whatcha all get in your blind boxes? Mine currently sit at Aiden Pryde (Timberwolf), shadow cat, mad dog, ice ferret and a hellbringer. Because I am too poor to get more than that 
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