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Psion posted:literally, until Hanse Davion reinvents them by asking "what if we had a second jumpship waiting where the first one's gonna go?" and this is why everyone was powerless against The Fox. It's the sort of thing that sounds extremely obvious until you take into account how insanely loving expensive and delicate JumpShips are. You pretty much have to be an economic and technological hyperpower by Inner Sphere standards just to deploy that many of them.
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Psion posted:literally, until Hanse Davion reinvents them by asking "what if we had a second jumpship waiting where the first one's gonna go?" and this is why everyone was powerless against The Fox. what if we -- hear me out on this -- what if we organized our armies into combined arms regiments?
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Pattonesque posted:what if we -- hear me out on this -- what if we organized our armies into combined arms regiments? It’s super unfun to play in megamek that’s what
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Pattonesque posted:what if we -- hear me out on this -- what if we organized our armies into combined arms regiments? RCTs are the actual in-universe pushback against 'mechs being the sole dominant force in combat. Though I can understand why military budget planners would balk at someone going "okay so every single 'mech regiment we have is going to have 3 attached armor regiments and 5 attached infantry regiments plus ancillary support, figure it out lads".
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Klyith posted:"Clans", "khans", a relatively tiny population that comes from the unknown edges of civilization and conquers vastly larger territories in the relative blink of an eye through application of superior technology1, broken by internal conflict that is much more a hindrance than external foes, mongols. Reminds me of Genghis Khan's supposed quote to the Persian Empire. "I am the Flail of God. God would not have sent a Scourge like me among you had you not greatly sinned." Yeah, and the Clans are supposed to be a mishmash of the Mongols and Communist Regimes (Their economies are 100% Communism but one that works). Mongol technology actually wasn't superior compared to the people they attacked; their tactics (mobility) and ferocity were. Kanos posted:RCTs are the actual in-universe pushback against 'mechs being the sole dominant force in combat. The sad thing is even when RCTs get dropped or factions that are supposed to excel at combined arms fight, the fiction still 99% of the time focuses on just the 'mechs. There's a lot of problems with Hour of the Wolf, one of the ones I would argue is the most egregious is the Republic of the Sphere, supposedly the most combined-arms focused military in the Inner Sphere, never is mentioned using artillery, power armor, or tanks, like, at all. Just BattleMechs that the Wolves and Falcons blow up. Partially I get it, writing in infantry and tanks bogs down combat, but I think it'd make the fiction stronger overall. Crazy Joe Wilson fucked around with this message at 14:00 on Apr 18, 2023 |
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Just have a Dragon round a corner and instantly get cored by a Demolisher lol
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Crazy Joe Wilson posted:Mongol technology actually wasn't superior compared to the people they attacked; their tactics (mobility) and ferocity were. "Technology is the application of knowledge for achieving practical goals in a reproducible way." Skilled horse archery isn't just a tactic. You can't do it unless you are living that steppe nomad life. Horses and horsemanship are kinda "technology". Genghis himself knew that when steppe nomads conquered an agrarian neighbor and "settled down", they quickly lost the ability. He left specific instructions that the capital of his empire never move from Mongolia, and that his people should live on the steppe forever. The set of techniques and skills for living off large herds on the steppe, which also happen to be the fastest military logistics system in the world until the invention of steam engines, are a form of technology. Composite bows and lamellar armor are definitely technology, and mongol armor (chinese really, but mongols were the ones wearing it) was good enough that it influenced european armor development, not the other way around. But also, the mongol army had greatest siege engineers in the world during the conquests. They weren't dummies, they'd lived next to people who'd been constructing fortifications against them for 1000 years. Every place they conquered they specifically went around and rounded up everyone who knew siegecraft and said "you work for us now". And they treated them well.
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Crazy Joe Wilson posted:here's a lot of problems with Hour of the Wolf, one of the ones I would argue is the most egregious is the Republic of the Sphere, supposedly the most combined-arms focused military in the Inner Sphere, never is mentioned using artillery, power armor, or tanks, like, at all. Just BattleMechs that the Wolves and Falcons blow up. Was that the one where an aerospace star strafed a company or battalion and made like 75% of it combat ineffective in the one pass? And also had a single ppc hit remove the armor from both legs all 3 torso locations and an arm on a timber wolf?
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I got a Hero King Crab with 4 UACs on it, is this a worthwhile build or should I put big guns instead? 4 AC/20s won't fit.
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Ensign Expendable posted:I got a Hero King Crab with 4 UACs on it, is this a worthwhile build or should I put big guns instead? 4 AC/20s won't fit. I love the 4x LBX King Crab you get in the story missions and would use it for everything except for always running out of ammo on any long mission. Whats the most anyone ever made on one of those bonus for kills if you stay behind missions? I've never made it beyond 3.5M or so due to some combination of running out of LRMs, gauss ammo, or just getting bored waiting for respawns when I am running a laser crew.
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tactlessbastard posted:I love the 4x LBX King Crab you get in the story missions and would use it for everything except for always running out of ammo on any long mission. That must've taken ages, I always get bored waiting for the new waves to spawn in - they seem to get big gaps where nothing appears once I'm in the bonus stage of a mission. That King Crab was sort of fun but the AI also seemed to be really good at headshotting them, I lost a pilot to that and then got nailed myself piloting it too.
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Ensign Expendable posted:I got a Hero King Crab with 4 UACs on it, is this a worthwhile build or should I put big guns instead? 4 AC/20s won't fit. That thing is crazy good. Only downside is running out of ammo.
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Is it true that multi shot weapons (uac, rac, x-pulse, eg) only can hit the head once per salvo on a called shot? I can’t remember the mechanics there
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Klyith posted:"Technology is the application of knowledge for achieving practical goals in a reproducible way." I appreciated this post.
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Polaron posted:IIRC there's a category in some of the rulebooks somewhere that modern tank cannons and antitank weapons fall into. There's also a XTRO: 1945 so if you want to have some Battlemechs join the Allies to storm the beaches of Normandy to (literally) Stomp some Nazis, you can. (it was an april fool's release, but real)
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Captain Foo posted:Is it true that multi shot weapons (uac, rac, x-pulse, eg) only can hit the head once per salvo on a called shot? I can’t remember the mechanics there I think all weapons can only hit the head once per salvo (ie, per weapon), because that made SRM/LRM doorknockers too good.
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SirFozzie posted:I think all weapons can only hit the head once per salvo (ie, per weapon), because that made SRM/LRM doorknockers too good. Yeah i knew it about missiles but couldn’t remember how it worked for other things
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In vanilla LRMs can only hit the head once per salvo. I'm not sure about SRMs, but UACs and MGs can hit multiple times.
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Captain Foo posted:Is it true that multi shot weapons (uac, rac, x-pulse, eg) only can hit the head once per salvo on a called shot? I can’t remember the mechanics there LRMs (and any other weapon that uses the cluster mechanic, but I think they're the only one in the unmodded game) can only hit the head if the weapon's first hit strikes the head. See here for the explanation on the official forums. I seem to remember that most other multi-hit weapons have decaying benefits from called shots: the first missile/LBX pellet/whatever will have the same chance of hitting the head as a single-shot weapon would, but the weight of the head on the hit table will only be increased by half as much on the second shot, a quarter as much on the third, etc.
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McGavin posted:In vanilla LRMs can only hit the head once per salvo. I'm not sure about SRMs, but UACs and MGs can hit multiple times. I'm pretty sure SRMs work too. It's the "ClusterChanceNeverClusterHead = true" that blocks clustering weapons from head hits, and in the stock game only LRMs cluster. Runa posted:I appreciated this post. Thanks! If you'd like to real an actual historian who interrogates pop culture vs real history, lemme recommend the acoup blog. He's got a good series about steppe nomads vs GoT Dothraki, which is top notch if you enjoy seeing GRRM get poo poo on. (As much as the Clans are dumb, at least the BT writers never made any claims for accuracy.) Klyith fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Apr 19, 2023 |
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Captain Foo posted:Is it true that multi shot weapons (uac, rac, x-pulse, eg) only can hit the head once per salvo on a called shot? I can’t remember the mechanics there I don't know but I have a Jagermech with some RAC5s and it absolutely obliterates heads.
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Klyith posted:Thanks! I appreciate this even more and I do have a soft spot for GRRM's claims to accuracy and realism getting challenged and dunked on. E: I am not surprised a lot of GRRM's decisions on how to characterize the Dothraki ultimately boil down to regurgitating old racist tropes about Native Americans, as well as Mongols, and abandoning internal logic to do so. Runa fucked around with this message at 11:01 on Apr 19, 2023 |
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Klyith posted:He's got a good series about steppe nomads vs GoT Dothraki, which is top notch if you enjoy seeing GRRM get poo poo on. I was just about to post this! That blog is a treasure trove. Series after series about culture and warfare from the dawn of history to modern times. I've read his articles about the logistics of moving large medieval armies, the principles of trench warfare, NATO tank doctrine, ancient cavalry tactics, etc etc etc
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I'm a little bit into my first campaign with BEX, and I'm trying to figure out how to swap between cluster and solid for LBX. In mission I've found middle mouse appears to swap between, but it shows no ammo loaded for solid. So I go to check to see if you have to manually load cluster/solid ammo when fitting and I can't find where to dictate that. The only LBX ammo I can find is just generic that doesn't specify which type it is. edit: I found out. It's just the same sized AC ammo. Floppychop fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Apr 21, 2023 |
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highly recommend picking up one of these bad boys if you can find em https://www.bta3062.com/index.php?title=Teppo Easiest is in the Kuritan faction store. just an absurd amount of firepower
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Cozying up to the combine is the best. A lot of their canon 'mech designs are mediocre so you don't waste time salvaging lovely Dragons by fighting them, and they sell you infinite Apollo FCS, Teppos, and vMRMs.
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After buying this the day it came out, I finally beat the campaign this week. I'd had a save file on the final battle for a long time, and every now and then I'd load it up, die, and rage quit for another couple years. I tried again the other night, and managed to kill the final boss but on the very next turn one of the remaining bad guys killed Kamea. Tried again two days later and finally got it. Is it worthwhile playing the flash points in this post campaign state or would it be better to experience them playing a new career mode? I feel like having a fully kitted out assault lance might make things a little weird.
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bgreman posted:After buying this the day it came out, I finally beat the campaign this week. I'd had a save file on the final battle for a long time, and every now and then I'd load it up, die, and rage quit for another couple years. It depends. If you're going to do the high difficulty FPs and the Alliance ones, you'll be fine with the existing save. By default the FPs spawn at random, with no regard to difficulty or your progression. My Flashpoint Spawn Adjustments mod fixes that so the easier ones have a better chance of appearing first, so there's a sense of progression as you build up your company if you make a new save.
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This bastard right here is the most efficient hole-puncher I've found yet. https://www.bta3062.com/index.php?title=Marauder_II_Omni#MAD-LJP-O Heavy gauss makes a hole, 12 LBX-5 shots make it way bigger
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Update on the 4x UAC5 King Crab: it rules. Easily the most fun mech in the game after the Hero Blackjack. I do 3000+ damage per mission with it regularly. It helps that I threw out all the secondary weapons and replaced them with the biggest possible engine plus supercharger.
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bgreman posted:After buying this the day it came out, I finally beat the campaign this week. I'd had a save file on the final battle for a long time, and every now and then I'd load it up, die, and rage quit for another couple years. A lot of the flashpoints are designed for lower tonnage lances than the typical endgame assault crew, so doing them with your existing save will just feel kinda pointless. There are plenty of endgame max level ones too that you could do now though. One thing that might help out if you had such trouble with the final mission is if you posted the mechs you were using- There's nothing we love more ITT than tweaking and rebuilding mech designs, and that can make a huge difference.
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Gwaihir posted:There are plenty of endgame max level ones too that you could do now though. Eh, doesn't the flashpoint system give you low star ones at first? That's how it seemed to me, but flashpoints are the thing I've done the least digging into the code mechanics. Though I suppose at the end of the campaign you probably have a stupid amount of money, so you could just press fast-forward for 6 months until you see the high star FPs. Also the max level end-game ones are for the faction alliances, but playing the campaign you probably end with no rep for any of the 5 majors. Personally I think it's better to start a new career mode game, but that depends on how much more game you want. If someone just wants a dozen or so more missions playing some flashpoints post-campaign is more reasonable. Also I'm very biased to the early and mid-game more than the all-assaults end game.
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Flashpoints in BTA also have the OpFor drawn from the expanded list so sometimes you get some real fuckers very apparent in the campaign one where Kamea nicks four SLDF mechs -- the first wave you face is way more advanced so you get mauled more
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I played BT back when it came out, enjoyed it. Fired up BTA today and, uh... I guess my career is over due to bugs, on the 2nd mission.
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Mile'ionaha posted:I played BT back when it came out, enjoyed it. huh, i'm a few dozen hours into a BTA campaign and haven't seen anything remotely like that e- i do see 16.1 came out either today or yesterday and I haven't run that yet so not sure if that's the issue
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I picked up BTA and I'm liking it so far. I got the popup for putting the campaign mission in and though why not, then went to do the 1st one. The very last guy decided to suicide DFA Kamea, knocked out her XL engine and lost me the mission  E: I got through it second time and now it’s just stuck on the Argo sitting in space, no ui, I guess I’ll skip the campaign missions 
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