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PoptartsNinja posted:Or future-proofing. nah it's the Puma's side-firing LRM's
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I forgot about that. The best thing about the Puma is: the original art doesn't have LRMs on it at all.
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Rorahusky posted:I mean, they weren't wrong, I guess? Just that said reduction in size and weight only occurred after the Star League vomited blood all over and died. The 12-ton GR was almost done when the League fell. Clan weapons are all Star League homework that they put their names on.
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kingcom posted:Theres a genuine swarm of weird 3049 era mechs that have CASE shoved into xl mechs or mechs with no real help from it that I love. I assume they are all supposed to be battlefield refits or engineers trying to panic fit as much lostech as they can into line mech units now that it's plentiful again. I figure CASE in xl torsos is for lore/campaign reasons. It will still be out of the current fight, but the pilot has a chance of survival and there's a possibility of salvaging the mech.
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Defiance Industries posted:The 12-ton GR was almost done when the League fell. Clan weapons are all Star League homework that they put their names on.
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Floppychop posted:I figure CASE in xl torsos is for lore/campaign reasons. It will still be out of the current fight, but the pilot has a chance of survival and there's a possibility of salvaging the mech. The CASE on the Marauder II is protecting absolutely nothing, it has a standard engine. CASE in torsos with XLs are absolutely for salvage/pilot survival, though you could reasonably call it a downside since generally if you're losing 'Mechs to ammo explosions your enemy might well be the one salvaging them.
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Ever since she salvaged that firestarter she's been running it up to stuff and trying to force heat nonsense. I tried to make the tactic backfire by fielding a Hunchback, but alas the dice failed me on gimmie AC20 rolls. 
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kingcom posted:Theres a genuine swarm of weird 3049 era mechs that have CASE shoved into xl mechs or mechs with no real help from it that I love. I assume they are all supposed to be battlefield refits or engineers trying to panic fit as much lostech as they can into line mech units now that it's plentiful again. There's a thin slice of timeline there right after Clan Invasion Panic and during the Mass Inner Sphere Refittening that I think is rife for contractor fraud and snake oil lostech stories.
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GD_American posted:There's a thin slice of timeline there right after Clan Invasion Panic and during the Mass Inner Sphere Refittening that I think is rife for contractor fraud and snake oil lostech stories. Pentagon Wars but it's about the development and acquisition story of the Fireball.
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GD_American posted:There's a thin slice of timeline there right after Clan Invasion Panic and during the Mass Inner Sphere Refittening that I think is rife for contractor fraud and snake oil lostech stories. Are there any book or stories about that the period of the clan invasion panic? Where it was all very unclear who these guys were and what they actually wanted? The impression I got was it was all over in one book or something.
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CASE in the side torso with an IS XL isn't a bad in-universe choice. It's bad if you're optimizing for a standard one-off game because it doesn't prevent a tactical loss, but on a strategic level it saves the hugely expensive engine (replacing a side torso and repairing 3 engine crits is not a super challenging repair) and the mech, or at least anything you want to salvage from it, which would have otherwise gone up (CT getting cored by ammo explosions or area effect weapons leaves nothing behind.) This can be a worthwhile choice for a campaign game and not a bad choice for someone in-universe to insist on when purchasing new hardware or upgrade packages. The one thing that is a little sketchy are the one or two designs with IS CASE in the CT. That stops the mech from going up entirely, but you still can never bring that mech back because the CT is its irreplaceable "soul" and you lose the engine. Definitely a lot worse than putting it in the sides. BattleMaster fucked around with this message at 18:36 on Feb 6, 2023 |
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Comstar posted:Are there any book or stories about that the period of the clan invasion panic? Where it was all very unclear who these guys were and what they actually wanted? The impression I got was it was all over in one book or something. a whole rear end cartoon actually
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:a whole rear end cartoon actually You dare refuse my defamation lawsuit?
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Owlbear Camus posted:You dare refuse my defamation lawsuit? I challenge you to a trial of--wait, this is already a trial. poo poo. *gets tackled by the bailiff* Nicolai Malthus is canonically one of the few people Clan Neural Implants didn't kill by 35. I like to joke that he was already so hyper-aggressive the implants burned out his aggression centers and he kinda chilled out in his old age.
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BattleMaster posted:The one thing that is a little sketchy are the one or two designs with IS CASE in the CT. That stops the mech from going up entirely, but you still can never bring that mech back because the CT is its irreplaceable "soul" and you lose the engine. Definitely a lot worse than putting it in the sides. Yeah... 
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PoptartsNinja posted:I challenge you to a trial of--wait, this is already a trial. poo poo. This little blurb in whatever Legendary Pilots book it was in is one of my favorites. The fact it kept dumping on him non-stop was perfection. “The Malthus depicted in the holovid would’ve been immediately recognizable to anyone who ever knew him and wasn’t really much of an exaggeration” never fails to make me giggle.
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I want to know what gang he joined while he was in prison.
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"I am now a bondsman of the Aryan Brotherhood and hope to earn my place as a true warrior. I have issued a BatChall to MS13 for the use of the free weights."
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Recently, thanks to this thread, I decided to buy the Beginner's Box and tried to find out where the gently caress I left my old GW-colors 5+ years ago, when I just one day stopped doing anything related to models. Turns out I still have some colors, but they're basically the consistence of granite now. Can I save them somehow, maybe by mixing some water in? Or can I throw my old colors into the trash now? Also, are there primers that can be used like normal colors, e.g. not in spray cans? Looking at my tiny apartment and my very active young cat, I decided using anything in spray cans to be a Bad Idea. Normal colors and poo poo I can at least emergency cover with some reserve sheets of paper until she calms down. Not putting the brush down on the miniature also seems widely more possible to my slow reflexes then magically sucking a cloud of toxic primer back into the can if she makes a rather ill-timed jump
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Yeah you really don't want to use spray cans indoors. It's not just the risk of overspray, it's more that the fumes are real fuckin bad and they linger. The Miniatures Painting thread probs has a ton of brush on primer opinions that I ignore bc I always prime with an airbrush.
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Libluini posted:Turns out I still have some colors, but they're basically the consistence of granite now. Can I save them somehow, maybe by mixing some water in? Or can I throw my old colors into the trash now? Once they harden, they’re trash. I use them out of sheer inertia at this point, if my whole paint collection disappeared I’d be asking the painting thread what’s a better option. e: painting thread! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3660745&perpage=40&noseen=1
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Libluini posted:Turns out I still have some colors, but they're basically the consistence of granite now. Can I save them somehow, maybe by mixing some water in? Or can I throw my old colors into the trash now?
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Ever since I got back into minis I’ve been using the brush-on primer by Army Painter since it came in the hobby kit they sell. Great for mechs since you don’t have hundreds of minis to prime.
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a cyborg mug posted:Ever since I got back into minis I’ve been using the brush-on primer by Army Painter since it came in the hobby kit they sell. Great for mechs since you don’t have hundreds of minis to prime. look at this idiot who's never laid out 1500 mapsheets and spend a month of 12 hour shifts running a battalion-on-battalion game.
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Thanks for the tips and the link, I'll look into that. Welp, I guess hoarding my old colors was pointless after all, ha ha  At least most of them were stuff like ugly browns and greens, as I was painting Skaven back in the day. Not exactly the paint scheme I had in mind for battlemechs! I'll also probably take one of the new minis arriving soon to train painting a bit. My Skaven didn't even look that great and I've nearly forgotten everything about painting by now. (I'm planning to keep abusing mechs I don't like from this and future mech packs for painting experiments, they'll end up as different pirate OpFors and poo poo.) Libluini fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Feb 6, 2023 |
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Owlbear Camus posted:look at this idiot who's never laid out 1500 mapsheets and spend a month of 12 hour shifts running a battalion-on-battalion game. that's not even 75 mechs. Amateur. Anyway, here's my dioarama of the entire Battle of Luthien.... SirFozzie fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Feb 6, 2023 |
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Libluini posted:Thanks for the tips and the link, I'll look into that. Welp, I guess hoarding my old colors was pointless after all, ha ha It’s like riding a bike, all of my (meager) skills came back to me pretty quickly after like 15 years of not painting anything 
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Speaking of: Free app (store says there's IAP but nothing that keeps it from being functional and no nagging that I've seen): Army Painter Pro. Very easy to use: You configure it with which paint brands/sets you own, import an image, tap a spot, and it finds you the closest color matches from your collection. I don't have a stake or get a kickback, honestly I stumbled on it randomly in the app store. But it's really, really handy for streamlining the process of going from camospecs to the table.  
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Owlbear Camus posted:look at this idiot who's never laid out 1500 mapsheets and spend a month of 12 hour shifts running a battalion-on-battalion game. 
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Arquinsiel posted:If you do movement by Lance you'll get it done in an evening or maybe try usong popular gaming assistamt Flechs Sheets. anyone itt heard of this?
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I use it, but I print out record sheets off it. I don't have a tablet and it's way too small to use on a phone.
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:or maybe try usong popular gaming assistamt Flechs Sheets. anyone itt heard of this? This is a very specific problem but I am absolutely fine with dying on that hill.
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My head-canon is that 75% of the mech designs are a young fan mailing in their "totally awesome" custom build, to which someone at FASA/Catalyst says "yeah I guess that got built"
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For one,SkyeAuroline posted:
For two: Fortress Miniatures is running a sale on some of the Death Ray Designs vehicles and infantry, and I'm vaguely considering some combined arms in the future. Any recommendations on good entry points for armor? It looks like the ones I can actually recognize and am interested in are are Goblins + infantry, Bulldogs, Manticore(s), Schrek(s), or Pattons. I've heard good things about all five; a bit concerned about the Goblin option for bringing in infantry rules at the same time (and being the most expensive option, probably, as a result) but nothing I don't think I can deal with.
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SirPhoebos posted:My head-canon is that 75% of the mech designs are a young fan mailing in their "totally awesome" custom build, to which someone at FASA/Catalyst says "yeah I guess that got built" They tried to get over "WarBear" as a character and everyone looks at everything he did that way. Thankfully now he's dead.
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Comstar posted:Are there any book or stories about that the period of the clan invasion panic? Where it was all very unclear who these guys were and what they actually wanted? The impression I got was it was all over in one book or something. Books no. Which I've complained about before; Stackpole spent a few pages on ALIENS? before quickly dispensing with it.
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Want to ask the brain trust of lore-heads here before I commence to painting: I've decided a good bulk of my Mech's I'm going to do up as an overstrength SLDF company vs its contemporary Taurian Concordat for something a little different than the usual. Is anything grossly anachronistic in either line up? I already swapped an Annihilator out of the SLDF guys realizing I was way wrong on its vintage.  
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