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lilljonas posted:So I committed battletech today and picked up a box (IS heavy lance). The FLGS only had two IS lance boxes and two Clanner star ones, none of the actual starting boxes or rulebooks. I don't think there's much of a local BT scene, so I'm looking at painting up at least two sides myself. After looking around, the Free Rasalhague appeals to me, both as a filthy scandigoon and that I like several of their paint schemes. The Hatchetman also feels suitably space vikingy. We in da same FB group, saw your post there. Hi! Also a Nordicgoon (Finland), perhaps one day we’ll meet on the battlefield. Who knows, maybe someone in your city sees your post on FB and you get some games going. Happened for me. Or just convert your friends If you’re totally unfamiliar with the rules at this point, you can get the basic quickstart rules over at https://bg.battletech.com/downloads/ But do bear in mind that these are simplified rules that don’t use the full record sheets.
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a cyborg mug posted:We in da same FB group, saw your post there. Hi! Also a Nordicgoon (Finland), perhaps one day we’ll meet on the battlefield. Who knows, maybe someone in your city sees your post on FB and you get some games going. Happened for me. Or just convert your friends Yeah I have at least one person in my regular gaming club that has shown interest in trying it out, so I think I can get some games going as long as I do a bit of the legwork myself with assembling the minis. I'm not completely new to the game, I played it a bit way back in the 90's as a teenager since my dad had the old box with the paper standees. So I kind of remember the concepts, but will need a large dose of refreshing. I got some good advice in the FB group, I might start by assembling two forces based on the Ronin War. That could open up for both FRR and Ronin as well as Loyalist Kuritans. lilljonas fucked around with this message at 13:30 on Oct 12, 2022 |
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Oct 12, 2022 13:28
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i can't recommend enough that new players use the automations in flechs sheets. i'd never play this game with its truly heroic amnount of chart lookups and dice rolling (LRMs  ) without it
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Oct 12, 2022 13:29
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I had to create a meetup group to find local Battletech players and I'm running the first event soon. It feels a little overwhelming but I found the Death From Above walkthroughs very helpful as a refresher. They play using the 3d terrain rules from TacOps but also explain everything in terms of hexes (which I think is way simpler). https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6cVOAOWCow6LNG_clZc1DgzHJs19OveV
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SirFozzie posted:Plotline: "Company of misfit mechwarriors get hired as private security on some godforsaken Periphery world. Said bunch of misfits realize that while they're caught out in the Periphery, they really got a sweetheart deal, so they want to keep this going for as long as possible, because well, they're getting paid to walk around in their battlemechs and look tough, but don't have to DO anything." So they're trying to figure a way to convince their employers that they need to renew the contract.." Running a MW Destiny campaign and doing a similar setup of a merc company in the middle of nowhere. Slowly building up a bit of a conspiracy around things that are slowly coming to a head and what looks like an invasion from a neighbouring military is imminent. And then the players found a large cache of stolen gold so surprise motherfuckers its Three Kings/Bad Company time.
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Der Waffle Mous posted:Running a MW Destiny campaign and doing a similar setup of a merc company in the middle of nowhere. Slowly building up a bit of a conspiracy around things that are slowly coming to a head and what looks like an invasion from a neighbouring military is imminent. That’s a funny way of spelling that it is Kelly’s Heros time E: the t-34 dressed up to be a Tiger is a medium mech with a papier-mache Atlas head on it.
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Oct 12, 2022 17:40
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Marx Headroom posted:This looks awesome btw, mentally screenshotting that glass effect on the shoulder GD_American posted:This is really, really loving sharp looking. Thank you both for your kind words. The Mackie is has always held my interest, though the older metal models don't quite do it justice in my mind so when I found this version I snapped it up and had a lot of fun painting it-- the model comes in several parts with the legs, pelvis, torso and arms all being separate, so there is some freedom to re-pose it if so desired. I think the original sculptor was BishopSteiner.
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Oct 12, 2022 20:45
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Good news: Mercenaries kickstarter date set. Bad News: Late MARCH 2023. Reasoning is they just have too much in the pipeline to have the designs complete for their original goal of Late Q4.
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Oct 13, 2022 03:56
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Well, they did just do a Shadowrun kickstarter to try to capitalize on Edge Runners, so that's not unexpected.
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Oct 13, 2022 04:08
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I'm glad they're getting other products done first
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Oct 13, 2022 04:35
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If I understand the update it's a good idea, they're basically saying that instead of forcing the kickstarter for a Q4 launch and then have a long dragged out production time they'll make sure that the sculpts are done first and make the production time shorter.
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I appreciate not trying to budget for a kickstarter during the holiday season
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lilljonas posted:If I understand the update it's a good idea, they're basically saying that instead of forcing the kickstarter for a Q4 launch and then have a long dragged out production time they'll make sure that the sculpts are done first and make the production time shorter. That's the way they're pitching it. Hopefully they don't get dicked on shipping again.
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Oct 13, 2022 17:59
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If you aren't literally Apple or Amazon you will always get dicked on shipping.
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Ok, a couple friends who are Battletech fans asked me to flesh out that little bit of fanfiction I posted, now I'm trying to figure out the other folks in a "Kelly's Heroes/McHale's Navy" unit in battletech Rules: Late Succession War Mechs only, this is the Periphery after all. Quick thoughts on some more quirky types and their Mechs: We already have an Archer pilot who is a George Hamilton type (always sunbathing, The Dude Abides type). A Stinger pilot who's normally super jittery and frantic outside of the mech, but calm when piloting the mech "It's the only time where the world and my brain are running at the same speed" A monk (New Avalon Catholic, or a stoic Kuritan samurai-wannabe type) who's taken a vow to never speak. so he totes around a vocoder with preprogrammed statements to communicate (probably a Whitworth or something similar) The Resident Scrounger (I dunno, a Clint?) who's liable to steal anything that isn't nailed down, and will bring a claw hammer to remove said nails if he can get away with it. Has appeared on six planetary militia "If you catch this guy around your equipment, shoot to kill, no questions asked" list. The CO, who bought out his son's post-academy service term to have him train these whackaloons. Mostly absent otherwise.. "What I don't see, I don't have to care about. My job is to keep the unit running, and ignore anything that doesn't interfere with said unit's smooth running." (Grasshopper) The main character, who's going to be the straight man for the backdrop of insanity (Centurion) Vehicles: A couple lances of Savannah Masters, led by a couple "Speed freak" types, who are always "practicing maneuvers" (ie, having Savannah Master races that have turned on more than one occasion into full contact contests, close to Demolition Derby. (They were restricted to quarters when not on duty until they had fixed the damage done from collisions and sideswipes at 100+KPH) Infantry: All in the pay of the Scrounger, and complicit in his schemes. SirFozzie fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Oct 13, 2022 |
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Oct 13, 2022 22:58
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Savannah Masters are probably too high tech for what you're going for. They have a fusion engine and are basically still Steiner-only at the time. I'd go with the J. Edgar instead.
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Finished three more mechs today, including a non-combat construction mech. I doubt we'll see official non-combat mechs from Catalyst for awhile, but there are plenty in lore.
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SirFozzie posted:The Resident Scrounger (I dunno, a Clint?) who's liable to steal anything that isn't nailed down, and will bring a claw hammer to remove said nails if he can get away with it. Has appeared on six planetary militia "If you catch this guy around your equipment, shoot to kill, no questions asked" list. Please, it's not 'scrounging' or 'stealing'. It is Tactical Resource Procurement.
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Rorahusky posted:Please, it's not 'scrounging' or 'stealing'. It is Tactical Resource Procurement. Leader of the Fungible Asset Recovery Team
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Rorahusky posted:Please, it's not 'scrounging' or 'stealing'. It is Tactical Resource Procurement. Strategically Taking Equipment And Liberating Supplies 
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Taking House Equipment For a Time
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Chainclaw posted:Finished three more mechs today, including a non-combat construction mech. I doubt we'll see official non-combat mechs from Catalyst for awhile, but there are plenty in lore. Do you mean "more" official ones? Because TRO: Vehicle Annex is a book full of non-combat vehicles, power armor, and mechs. There are also a bunch of ones here or there in different products.
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Rorahusky posted:Please, it's not 'scrounging' or 'stealing'. It is Tactical Resource Procurement. My grandfather was a quartermaster in the Army Air Corps. He called it requisitioning.
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PhotoKirk posted:My grandfather was a quartermaster in the Army Air Corps. He called it requisitioning. Having been in the army, supply people are absolutely the best/slimiest thieves you’ll ever meet. Get them on your side and keep it that way, elseways lots of expensive things go missing suddenly 🤔
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BattleMaster posted:Do you mean "more" official ones? Because TRO: Vehicle Annex is a book full of non-combat vehicles, power armor, and mechs. There are also a bunch of ones here or there in different products. That's a book, not models, though. I was talking about official models. I know Iron Wind Metals has a bunch, but I was hoping for Catalyst made non-combat mechs. Their models are much higher quality than IWM's
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PhotoKirk posted:My grandfather was a quartermaster in the Army Air Corps. He called it requisitioning. Do you know how many thieves are in the Army? One. Everyone else is just trying to get their poo poo back
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Interesting sentence from the blurb to TRO: Dark Age The Blackout was a notable event, but what of the decades before that, usually ascribed as being part of this “Dark Age”? Conversely, the effects of the Blackout did not magically disappear with the rise of the ilClan, and lingered until several years after the Last Annihilation. Of those decades before Gray Monday, what made them so dark? Really very little, it turns out. The Republic of the Sphere succeeded in stabilizing the core of the Inner Sphere... The Last Annihlation? Sounds like sooooomeclan is about to have a really bad time. Hell's Horses? Ghost Bears? (remnants of the Nova Cats?). Reasoning: Hell's Horses is picking up the banner of the Mongol Horde tactics. Ghost Bears: About to undergo civil war thanks to the ilKhan's snit Nova Cats "The Last Annihlation?" Either that, or Clan Wolverine's going to show up
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I think all those TRO blurbs are getting pretty softly retconned. I believe they're remnants of the old story that got thrown out after Ben Rome didn't get paid and the line developer changed.
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That would be a lot more likely if some of them hadn't been written well after that.
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Oh. Maybe the Last Annihilation is a Homeworld clans showing up to kill all the Inner Sphere clans thing.
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Gonna laugh my rear end off if it's the Wolves getting combo dunked on by the rest of the IS Clans.
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The noble Tetatae Federation shows up show up to try to prevent the last two humans from killing eachother in the next episode, "Let That Be Your Last Annihilation"
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Yeah, additional targets/victims could be the Homeworld Clans (Yo dawg, I heard you like Clan Invasions so I made it so clans are invading clans, with a potential counter Clans invading Clans option), the remaining Melvina-supporting Jade Falcons following the Mongol Horde terror tactics, being an Annihilation of the IDEAS of the Mongol Horde, but a new favorite is Wolf's Dragoons. They have the temerity to not stay dead or down at the hands of the ilKhan, and recently pissed him off even more by taking his progeny and giving them to other Clans.
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SirFozzie posted:the remaining Melvina-supporting Jade Falcons How many can there even be??? I thought the Jade Falcon warrior caste had been reduced to double digits.
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wtf why would anyone ever think a clan mech is better than an inner sphere mech. This is finally proof that inner sphere design is better:
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Strobe posted:That would be a lot more likely if some of them hadn't been written well after that. On the other hand, since they're no longer doing large time skips, maybe they're not particularly worried about explaining this vague stuff because we won't see 3250 in print until the 22nd century.
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General Battuta posted:How many can there even be??? I thought the Jade Falcon warrior caste had been reduced to double digits. Stephanie Chistu killed one of these to become khan after the ilClan Trial (and nothing of value was lost) so they definitely still exist. It seems like a reasonable place to get some internal conflict that's still meaningful with the reduced numbers but I doubt it flares up to a big extent any time soon if ever.
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We have a different Jade Falcon group now so the authors are free to kill those guys off. It's for the best, until they do it we have to spend a bunch of time specifying which Jade Falcon Clan.
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Everyone else had to deal with Clan Wolf, Clan Wolf-in-Exile, the Kell Hounds, the Wolf's Dragoons, and later the Steel Wolves and Wolf Hunters being slightly different flavors of the same thing for decades, you can handle a couple years of the Falcons doing the same thing.
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