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Looking good. My fav is the Vulture, it's such a bold color choice. I found a bunch of merc tracking spreadsheets google searching, but they were all a little too busy for what I wanted so I made something a lot simpler for my kiddo's merc campaign. It ended up being more of a chore than I expected and my eyes started crossing to the point where the word "ton" looked funny and I wasn't sure if it was right. Using what I do at work for my fun time feels perverse. 
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GD_American posted:I remember when that tech readout came out, I saw the loadout and thought “oh there’s some cheese” Yeah, it was a munchkin's wet dream when TRO3055 dropped. Our group wondered if anything was play-tested prior to publication.
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The campaign tools are all super crunchy; with the general idea being you're using them without a GM so more crunch = more fair. But you're taking on the role of GM. Unless your daughter really likes managing the space-dollars down to the penny? Toss out the crunch and abstract. Assume if she's winning fights she's not in financial trouble; and if she's doing well in fights present her with opportunities like: "You've been making good money for a while, the servant of the local baron has approached you wondering if you'd like to buy one of his family's Thunderbolts. It's in working condition but the Baron hasn't had enough money for proper maintenance so it may need a little work. You'd probably have enough money if you sold your Blackjack." or "In the last battle, you took out a Vindicator with almost no damage. Your employer has given it to you as salvage. Your chief technician could probably get it working again in a mission or two; or you could save the pieces to trade in or sell if another opportunity comes up." Or if you want something more structured, steal and modify the campaign rules from my Alpha Strike LP thread. I made them more game-like with systems the players can exploit, I just don't see the need to track every single C-Bill when there are other ways to tell how well/poorly a company is doing. PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Jan 9, 2023 |
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PopTartsNinja, you should do some Steel Wolves cluster. Gunmetal or Platemetal Steel with Darkish brown fur. I may use my extra Warhawk and Nova from the AS Starter and do them up in Steel Wolf colors. There's still a Steel Wolves Mercenary group in Marik space probably running those colors. http://www.warrenborn.com/Search.php?FACTION=Steel%20Wolves
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PoptartsNinja posted:The campaign tools are all super crunchy; with the general idea being you're using them without a GM so more crunch = more fair. These are good thoughts but I'm kind of going to be a Dad about it and wrap a piece of candy around an anti-biotic pill starting to get my tween ready for life in a way I think her little gamer brain will engage with. "Sure there IS an AS-8Q [cool video game] up for sale and you have enough cash on hand to afford it, but then you miss maintenance and payroll [rent and utilities] with the consequences that entails." E: Man blind boxes have been a bust for me, but in the weirdest way. I picked up several with AGoaC vouchers from the B&N sale paying for shipping. As a succession war/LOSTtech era IS grognard having a mega-assault Clan Star isn't super handy. I've got 2x MadIICs, 2c Behemoth/Stone rhinos, and a Supernova. I'm sure if these were chase collated like the Wizkids game some of those would be the ultra-rares.  Providence is hitting me over the head to give up my Inner Spere Succession Warrior ways and paint up a quadrillion BV Clan direct fire assault star. But I wasn't some science project born in no plastic womb. I should see if local people swap these. Owlbear Camus fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Jan 9, 2023 |
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Jan 9, 2023 17:16
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The urbie in the back is looking away in shame  as it should 
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Traffic court wants my distant heirs to pay a debt to Comstar in the waning years of the Third Succession War.  I'm going to assume they have no sense of humor and assume the typo lest they issue a BatChall.
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Owlbear Camus posted:Traffic court wants my distant heirs to pay a debt to Comstar in the waning years of the Third Succession War. Be sure to praise Blake when you pay, just in case.
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Owlbear Camus posted:Traffic court wants my distant heirs to pay a debt to Comstar in the waning years of the Third Succession War. I’ll send you my PayPal details and you can do it this century.
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I know I already did pictures but final weathering on the Marik Militia came out really nice.    Vallejo's pale sand feels like cheating.
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Thinking about starting a board game club at the school I teach at and using BattleTech Alpha Strike as one of the draws. Got my posters ready to be laminated, I'll be letting kids use my minis, but I also would like to get a school set of minis to expand the options. Where would be the cheapest and most reliable place to get a box set of AGOAC. Might teach the kids how to paint minis as well for the fun of it.
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Cheapest I'm seeing is 46.49 on Amazon, or 43.47 on Gamenerdz with 5 bucks shipping if you're averse to Amazon shopping. Both are reliable in my experience. I've seen it discounted as low as around 40, not sure about getting it cheaper than that new in the near term. If you want to play with standees I'll send you one I ratfucked for the minis gratis. 
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Speaking of 3d printing, does anyone know where to get in-scale helo models? 6mm infantry aren’t so hard to find, but I want some VTOLs and don’t want to buy more metal models. e: the plan is to have some a diorama with kind of aerodyne dropship landed/on their landing approach, mechs at the ready to jump out and a pair of VTOLs perched on top, mid-takeoff (because the spirit of  possessed them and the VTOLs rode to planetside on the outside of the dropship). e2: is there a 3d printing thread anywhere on this website? Icon Of Sin fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Jan 10, 2023 |
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Icon Of Sin posted:Speaking of 3d printing, does anyone know where to get in-scale helo models? 6mm infantry aren’t so hard to find, but I want some VTOLs and don’t want to buy more metal models. Looks like this person does a lot of 6mm vehicles and has a few aircraft including an attack helo and a four engine VTOL https://www.myminifactory.com/users/igj
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Here's also a big collection of STLs an poo poo https://na3.ragic.com/ffolcore/fightmech-export/8#!/8 If you click where it says mech gaming you can swap the assets to other which includes tanks and plans.
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I have a lore-question: How 'omni' are omnipods supposed to be? Can pods be freely swapped between different chases? For example, both the Mad Cat and the Loki, in their Prime configuration, have LRM20s mounted in their LT and RT. But on the Mad Cat they're configured in a 5x4 launcher, while in the Loki they're 3x6 +2. Can you swap these launchers between these two mechs? SirPhoebos fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Jan 10, 2023 |
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This is a real problem with the design of OmniMechs. A pod is a pod is a pod but most of them are so frustratingly bespoke. Except the Hauptmann, he does it right.
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SirPhoebos posted:I have a lore-question: How 'omni' are omnipods supposed to be? Can pods be freely swapped between different chases? (Clanner anger intesifies)
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I thought the pods were configured for a specific type of 'mech rather than being generic? There might be some interchangeability between chassis but the primary concern was the ability for a given mech to swap configurations. If the problem is missile tubes, you could say that each tube is modular, so you can swap them out from one chassis to another in a different configuration.
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You can pull any pod out of any Omni and slap it into another one in an hour. Taking the LRM-20 from a Mad Cat and putting it in a Thor? Half an hour to remove the pod, half an hour to install it in the Mad Cat. Swap the Hauptmann B's Gauss rifle with an AC/20? Half an hour each.Want to take the Thunderbolt-10 launcher in the Gauntlet's left arm and put it in place of one of the PPCs on a Masakari? Ready in an hour.
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You spend ten minutes taking it off the first Omni, ten minutes plugging it into the second Omni, then ten minutes flipping it over and installing it the right way up.
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How many Poznan technicians does it take to reconfigure an OmniMech?
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General Battuta posted:You spend ten minutes taking it off the first Omni, ten minutes plugging it into the second Omni, then ten minutes flipping it over and installing it the right way up.   
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General Battuta posted:You spend ten minutes taking it off the first Omni, ten minutes plugging it into the second Omni, then ten minutes flipping it over and installing it the right way up. Clan Black Windows is installing an update and will need to be restarted.
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Cthulu Carl posted:Looks like this person does a lot of 6mm vehicles and has a few aircraft including an attack helo and a four engine VTOL I printed that artist mlrs and it's small! Haven't tried their aircraft yet tho. I've finished paintings up a tank unit to go with my soon to be fed com clan invasion era company. You can see to of the mlrs in the pick. All of these are printed. 
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Is there a good way to connect with people in your area for in-person games? I'm just getting into this whole thing and I love it, but I would really like to find more players nearby if they exist...
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Admiral Snackbar posted:Is there a good way to connect with people in your area for in-person games? I'm just getting into this whole thing and I love it, but I would really like to find more players nearby if they exist... You could try the Facebook groups. There might be local players posting in your area. The other option is to search Battletech plus your city name and to see if any groups specific to your region already exist. Alternatively, just start showing up to your FLGS with a box of mechs and see if you can get anyone's attention. You could also always relocate to Bangkok and enjoy Battletech and cheap beer and warm weather. My FLGS is above TWO weed dispensaries.
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Admiral Snackbar posted:Is there a good way to connect with people in your area for in-person games? I'm just getting into this whole thing and I love it, but I would really like to find more players nearby if they exist... Find a store that at least sells the mechs, and see if they've got a Facebook/discord/other option for organizing games. There's a store in Cary, NC (Hangar 18) doing announcements for all of their games/leagues on Meetup, of all places, so that may also be an option.
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My local game store has a discord group and we organize game thru that. There is also a fb group but its mostly for gw stuff. Also I painted up a bunch of mechs in camo for a local clan invasion campaign we are doing. This is the first 2 lances of a fedcom company im working on. These combined with my tanks are the first time painting camo on anything. I think they turned out ok. 
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Has anyone ever done Kell Hounds or Crescent Hawks? I think I might do my Alpha Strike box up in their colors.
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Admiral Snackbar posted:Is there a good way to connect with people in your area for in-person games? I'm just getting into this whole thing and I love it, but I would really like to find more players nearby if they exist... Facebook I find is the best way, there is also the BattleTech forums. Lot of local groups on facebook, and you can always put a feeler for local players in the main group, and other local players will reach out. In the past year I've found 2 new players of Battletech/Clix in my area I didn't know about.
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Atlas Hugged posted:Has anyone ever done Kell Hounds or Crescent Hawks? I think I might do my Alpha Strike box up in their colors. I have a few lances painted up as Crescent Hawks. Mine are more washed out and sky blue than the ones on Camo Specs. Now that I've become more comfortable with using washes, I'll probably paint up a few more lances with the official royal blue look.
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Some kind of new MechWarrior game (not MWO2) will come out this year, hopefully another wave of momentum.
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Finished my Nova Cats. I was going to give them a purple accent somewhere to remind House Marik whose side they were on, but I thought that would be a detail too far. Instead I settled on some traditionalists using traditional Nova Cat "appropriate camo," a few former Xi Galaxy machines, and mostly hand-me-downs from the Spirit Cats--with everyone adopting the "paint sections of the 'Mech white based on personal achievement" of the Spirit Cats. Command Star  Battle Star  Skirmish Star  Nova Cat Trinary 
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SirFozzie posted:Some kind of new MechWarrior game (not MWO2) will come out this year, hopefully another wave of momentum. *Will be formally announced.
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Did a clan elemental in Jade Falcon colors, as best I could getting stepped on by a Timberwolf. Also experimenting with technical paints, and liking the crackle pattern that’s emerging as it dries. Doing a straight red as the base coat on…the base , then doing Martian ironearth over that. 
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Looks like CGL did the classy move and promoted Land&Sea's first novel on their main page. From what I can tell, it's not to help BLP, but rather the other guy working on it, since he's a part of CGL, which is neat. I wasn't going to look into Land&Sea before, because it seemed like "gently caress you! I'll make my OWN Battletech, with blackjack, and hookers!" but Brent Evan's post made it sound okay.quote:Hey there BattleTech fans.😊 Brent Evans here, longtime BattleTech Art Director (and former Line Developer) – and I’m excited to announce the release of my brand new franchise LAND&SEA! Even though this is a new gaming universe, we decided to launch it through Novels, and Splashdown is the first book in this exciting ongoing original series.
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