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I thought about that too, but it’ll be commercially available soon enough. The kickstarter this fall will probably be my biggest money sink.
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Strobe posted:Hey PTN I figure you would want to know that there are going to be Camachos Caballeros dice at GenCon, according to the announcement today. I'm glad to see more support for Alpha Strike. As someone coming over from other tabletop war games, I see the value in a more streamlined rule set even if it's not as realistic and detailed a simulation. I also think that a format that encourages bringing larger forces will help Catalyst sell more models. And while I'm generally opposed to the army size bloat that many war games suffer from over time, Battletech has a long ways to go before it reaches a problematic level.
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There's just something neat about this comparison. the Blockade Runner is 1:1000 so it's to scale
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Yellow will never have good coverage over a black basecoat. You'd probably want to put down a layer of white first.
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PoptartsNinja posted:Yellow will never have good coverage over a black basecoat. I'll keep that in mind for next time
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Pro-tip: paint yellow over a pink undercoat, it covers way better
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PoptartsNinja posted:There's just something neat about this comparison. I never realized Star Wars ships were that small compared to Battletech scale. Mech scale always throws me off. Dropships in the HBS game must be off-scale, because they don't seem big enough compared to the mechs. Also, I've got five people for my local August tourney signed up.  Trying to get more via opening it to Alpha Strike and CBT in addition to clix. Will take pics and share when done.
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Considering his latest fiction book is about how a left-wing "extremist" government takes over the USA and all the horrible things it does, I'm not so much bothered.
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SirFozzie posted:Considering his latest fiction book is about how a left-wing "extremist" government takes over the USA and all the horrible things it does, I'm not so much bothered. Yeah, that was in the same Genre as that Kid Rock song: "This is a quick joke on Saturday Night Live, but real and you meant it"
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:looks like catalyst cut ties with Pardoe. I havent seen much of his output except for Forever Faithful which was not very good. He had a big mad about the whole thing online. The statement they made on the Battletech forums: "Catalyst Game Labs recently suspended publishing new works by long-time BattleTech author Blaine Lee Pardoe, primarily due to Mr. Pardoe’s online activities which do not align with Catalyst’s publishing vision. This has nothing to do with Mr. Pardoe’s quality of work or ongoing sales, or (as reported elsewhere) his personal feud(s) with other fan(s) of the BattleTech brand. Mr. Pardoe has been instrumental to the BattleTech IP over the years, and we wish him well in his ongoing, professional career. This decision was made in consultation with Topps Entertainment, owners of the BattleTech intellectual property, but final determination was by Catalyst Game Labs."
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Can't believe that they don't want to associate with a guy who wrote a book one handed about how gay people are going to force you to get mandatory abortions
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Crazy Joe Wilson posted:I never realized Star Wars ships were that small compared to Battletech scale. I've got a 1:1000 Enterprise Refit on the way, too. I'd be willing to be that Fortress DropShip is a reasonable portion of its mass.  That Titan isn't the biggest aerodyne DropShip I have, either. I just didn't have space on the shelf for the Taiho. Edit: Since BattleTech Mapscale is 1:1000 (1mm=1m), at mapscale the Argo (320m) would be 32cm / 12.6" long. TheDiceMustRoll posted:looks like catalyst cut ties with Pardoe. I havent seen much of his output except for Forever Faithful which was not very good. He had a big mad about the whole thing online. Honestly, this makes me feel a lot better about Catalyst. It may just be because they don't want to risk their kickstarter money, but I've been a little leery of them keeping Pardoe on after he took his mask off and revealed the huge, rotting pile of poo poo underneath. The fact that they're not standing by him is a positive in my book. PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Jul 30, 2022 |
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PoptartsNinja posted:I've got a 1:1000 Enterprise Refit on the way, too. I'd be willing to be that Fortress DropShip is a reasonable portion of its mass. Telling him that having good sales and ratings didn't matter and he was done anyway was a gigachad move(if it happened at all). Guy's online persona is toxic as hell and if the summary someone posted over on the chans of Blue Dawn was accurate he was pushing a lot of buttons for absolutely no reason: quote:>What was Blue Dawn actually about?
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It's a good step towards the future. BattleTech doesn't have to die as an old man's game--booting unironic culture warriors helps produce products with more fidelity to the story that its own creators are looking to bring to new generations.
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Rest in Piss, Bozo
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:looks like catalyst cut ties with Pardoe. I havent seen much of his output except for Forever Faithful which was not very good. He had a big mad about the whole thing online. el em ae oh
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Sidesaddle Cavalry posted:It's a good step towards the future. BattleTech doesn't have to die as an old man's game--booting unironic culture warriors helps produce products with more fidelity to the story that its own creators are looking to bring to new generations. Even if he's right that this will alienate people who hold views like Pardoe's, that's a GOOD thing. You don't want to be their game any more than a bar wants to be a Nazi bar.
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I'd say they can go back to 40k, but Games Workshop has also made it clear it doesn't want them. Oh well, I'm sure they'll cry over it while playing a meticulously painted SS squadron in whatever WWII wargame misunderstands that the SS were largely garbage conscript regiments the hardest.
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I, for one, am excited to hear the hot takes from a local guy that paints his mechs German grey with iron crosses.
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:Telling him that having good sales and ratings didn't matter and he was done anyway was a gigachad move(if it happened at all). Guy's online persona is toxic as hell and if the summary someone posted over on the chans of Blue Dawn was accurate he was pushing a lot of buttons for absolutely no reason: Good lord that's vile.
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Meh. 1st amendment. Y'all would be doing backflips if it was left-wing masturbatory fantasy. I just want to have giant robots punch each other.
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What the gently caress is a left-wing masturbatory fantasy?
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Jobbo_Fett posted:What the gently caress is a left-wing masturbatory fantasy? Everyone doesn't have to die because they can't afford a doctor and can actually live life normally without the threat of imminent death at the hands of the state for the crime of not being the way any given cop wants you to be, probably?
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Saman posted:Everyone doesn't have to die because they can't afford a doctor and can actually live life normally without the threat of imminent death at the hands of the state for the crime of not being the way any given cop wants you to be, probably? stop it I can only get so hard
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Jobbo_Fett posted:What the gently caress is a left-wing masturbatory fantasy? Star Trek, I guess.
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PhotoKirk posted:1st amendment. Okay??? He can say what he wants but that doesn't mean we can't call him a dickhead for it. In any case they cite "online activities" not his published writings so I'm wondering if he said something extremely hosed up somewhere.
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PhotoKirk posted:Meh. Lmao gently caress off
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None of that makes any sense.
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Strobe posted:Lmao gently caress off 
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It's funny how right-wing masturbation fantasies are like "fascism and racial purity and imagining their opponents are all pedophiles and are waiting in the shadows to strike and steal nukes" while left-wing masturbation is "it would be nice if everyone was happy and had enough food/housing/medicine to live and jobs, education, and fulfillment" it's almost like those things are not the same!!!
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PhotoKirk posted:Meh. Great news, you still can, Pardoe didn't invent the concept of battlemechs and by all indications his writing is even more schlocky garbage than you can get away with even in the relatively wild west zone that is military sci fi writing! Crying 1st amendment about some guy being a concern troll for the concept of equality isn't poo poo, he has a right to say whatever he wants and we have the right to not pay him dick for whatever shitbrained scribble he puts to page about it.
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I liked his older stuff when I was younger, like his Highlander stories, but my goodness Hour of the Wolf was incredibly boring, rote, and predictable - which isn't what you should be able to say about the book that reveals a massive upheaval in the setting! They didn't cite the quality of his work but that alone should have been what had them not ask for him to come back, let alone whatever specifically caused them parting ways now
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I kind of enjoyed Betrayal of Ideals but that was mostly because it's about how awful the clans are and how they're built entirely on lies. Besides that, it's only passable and the characters are all pretty cartoonish and one-note. Everything I head about Hour of the Wolf made me very frustrated, though, so good riddance to a bad writer and a horrible chud.
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PhotoKirk posted:Meh. Can't have too much freeze peach in punchbots. His "I have been cancelled" spew can be found here if you really want to click it, but you shouldn't. Taerkar fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Jul 31, 2022 |
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I am glad he's gone, but unfortunately this does mean I won't be able to look up #battletech on Twitter for the next several weeks to enjoy pictures of minis without having to also wade through a sea of Angry Right-Wing Chudheads shrieking about the 'Woke Mob'.
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