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GF9 are doing a new terrain line seemingly aimed at Battletech https://www.gf9.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=7680 https://www.flamesofwar.com/gf9online_store.aspx?CategoryID=13873 Now, not cheap, but its interesting that they see enough of a market there to do it.
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HidaO-Win posted:GF9 are doing a new terrain line seemingly aimed at Battletech Me and my LGS guy were just talking about Thunderhead studio yesterday. He's got a bunch of stls that I wonder if he's going to have to stop selling now
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Apr 30, 2023 15:03
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Sweet crap those are expensive. I’d rather CGL just release a full box of paper craft terrain and buildings.
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Apr 30, 2023 15:10
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Dr. Lunchables posted:Sweet crap those are expensive. I’d rather CGL just release a full box of paper craft terrain and buildings. If you have a marketplace/local library/3d printer of your own https://thunderhead-studio.com/ I really need to get back into printing things now that it's getting warmer
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Dr. Lunchables posted:Sweet crap those are expensive. I’d rather CGL just release a full box of paper craft terrain and buildings. There's always Dropzone terrain - an entire 6x4 mat filled with paper buildings for 
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Len posted:If you have a marketplace/local library/3d printer of your own Cheers for the link, might try a print of one of the free samples later.
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HidaO-Win posted:GF9 are doing a new terrain line seemingly aimed at Battletech If those are about as big as I think they will be on the tabletop, they're not that pricey. GF9 always makes good stuff, I still have some old Mechwarrior:Dark Age terrain they made, first time I ever played a game using it I remember being blown away by how cool it all looked. Alpha Strike wise I've been really liking the Mongrel/Grendel. It costs pricewise the same as an IS assault mech, but man does it move, and is hard to hit. I'm thinking of building a 300 pt AS force of 2 Adders (Both at skill 1), a Mongrel, a Vapor Eagle, and a Nova, maybe some Elementals to ride in on the Nova and Mongrel. I find Assaults in Alpha Strike are just too big of targets that go down before they can really play an important role. I'm sure if we played with variable damage rolls that would change quick though. If I have any more points left over I might spring for an Incubus as well, really like that little light guy. Adder Prime (Skill 1) 48 pts Adder Primer (Skill 1) 48 pts Vapor Eagle/Goshawk (Skill 3) 49 pts Mongrel Prime (Skill 3) 55 pts Nova Prime (Skill 2) 57 pts Elemental BA (Skill 3) 23 pts (Riding Mongrel) Elemental BA (Skill 4) 19 pts (Riding Nova) Total: 298 pts Crazy Joe Wilson fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Apr 30, 2023 |
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I accidentally posted this in the wrong Battletech thread, the video game one and not the tabletop one. I finished this yesterday.   I am not going to paint another coconut crab thing, but one was fun.
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That 'Mech is beayootiful!! 12/10 would DFA
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May 3, 2023 16:40
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Okay but what if you did a coconut King Crab?
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Quick paint job today  Note if you follow camo tutorials and use basilicanum grey as your wash... bring it way down with contrast medium. The camo basically got lost 
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Basilicanum Gray is wildly variable. Which is unfortunate. Some batches are good, others are a 50/50 mix of Apothecary White and Black Templar. You can tell which is which because the 50/50 mix settles out. PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 02:19 on May 4, 2023 |
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May 4, 2023 02:16
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drat, I genuinely can’t see a trace of the camo. I guess you could always add it back in again with a darker tone.
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Very wraithy, me likey. Also nice job detailing the metal bits. Easy to skip those.
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Chainclaw posted:Quick paint job today
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Marauder, my beloved... Has anyone gotten eyes on the new Alpha Strike: Aces thing? If so, how easy do you think it would be to port into Battletech Classic?
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Paranoid Dude posted:Marauder, my beloved... Not easy at all. BT has too many things you decide to do, AS just has "move " and "shoot" so you can fit it on a playing card.
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May 4, 2023 18:20
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Massive Humble Bundle of Battletech Fiction. $18 gets you SIXTY battletech books (just about all the Legends books) https://www.humblebundle.com/books/...27038eea309e0d9
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Someone needs to make a Jinggau model that doesn't look like rear end.
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SirFozzie posted:Massive Humble Bundle of Battletech Fiction. How many of those are any good?
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Wolves on the Border Heir to the Dragon The one chapter of Malicious Intent where Vlad is trapped in a cockpit and realizes he's the main character of the universe. Also his scrotum is described as "clenched in pain."
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Ok, I have been on a tear for the last year or so reading theough most of the old Battletech books and I now have Opinions. The Victor Milan books are great fun, I actually like the Grey Death trilogy as a pulpy introduction to the setting, and the Jade Phoenix books do a good job of showing how the Clans function as a broken hosed-up system. Part of this is my personal preference, but I think Battletech fiction is usually pretty good when it focuses on small conflicts or low-level characters, and is usually pretty bad when it tries to do epic space opera with a focus on royals and the setting's primary movers and shakers. I have come to really dislike most of the Stackpole books I've read, and I've started writing some reviews that I'll get around to posting someday. To make a long story short, if the book's description involves a small mercenary company fighting against long odds, it will probably be at least readable. If its main character's surnames are Steiner, Allard, Davion, or any combination of the above, get ready for boring characters facing either cakewalks that showcase their genius, or frustrating unfair obstacles set up by their no-good very bad super evil enemies.
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That kind of makes sense though. The higher ups are pushing pieces around a table, the mercs are the ones actually doing stuff with the big stompy robots we're all here to see
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FishFood posted:Ok, I have been on a tear for the last year or so reading theough most of the old Battletech books and I now have Opinions. Seconding the Victor Milan books. He is sorely missed. Double Blind is a good book. Avoids the Steiner/Allard/Davion big bags and actually fleshes out Sun Tzu as an interesting character. Gressman's books have good space battles.
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Saint Celestine posted:Someone needs to make a Jinggau model that doesn't look like rear end. My Capellan friend, Please get in line, right behind fixing whatever is going on with the Thunder/Lightning’s and Ti Ts’ang’s feet
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Owlbear Camus posted:How many of those are any good?
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FishFood posted:and is usually pretty bad when it tries to do epic space opera with a focus on royals You can just say "Michael Stackpole is a bad writer"
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I say it all the time. He should be legally barred from writing character dialogue ever again.
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more like slackpole
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GD_American posted:You can just say "Michael Stackpole is a bad writer" I feel bad pinning it all on him but he's by far my least favorite author in the setting, and I feel crazy sometimes because he seems so beloved. I understand that he's foundational and his books are pretty frequently the big tentpole novels that propel the metaplot forward but his characters are just awful. I've been reading the Twilight of the Clans books and I've enjoyed all of the series except for his two entries. Exodus Road was a fun setup and I really enjoyed the Clanner intrigue and the cool spy mission set on a jumpship. Pardoe might be a horrible chud now, but he was a solid pulp writer back in the day. Then there's Grave Covenants which was a slog but I got through it alright, despite the constant droning on about how honorable Victor is and how he's so cool for becoming an honorary samurai and all that poo poo. I really liked Gressman's three books, they were tense and had fun mysteries with solid political and interpersonal drama. All the characters in Task Force Serpent are likable and I enjoyed the push-and-pull between the pragmatic reality of the mission and the desire to limit casualties to military targets. It brought up some interesting questions about how you attack an entirely militarized state and how you distinguish between military and civilian targets. Pretty good for genre fiction about giant robits fighting in space. And then I got to Prince of Havoc and that book is a giant turd, just loving awful. There's a scene where Victor and his dumbass friends go over the assassination of Morgan Hasek-Davion and poo poo on and "debunk" the investigation that happened in Gressman's book and it made my jaw hit the floor. It's entirely some dumb technobabble about how it went down slightly differently than what was presented, and as far as I can tell the scene only exists to show how much smarter and betterer the Victorfriends are than everyone else. It sucks. The book then gets to the Great Refusal itself which was simultaneously too brief and also seemed to go on forever. The designated hero factions win or tie and Victor makes a big dumb smug speech to the Clans who are amazed by him and then he goes home and *gasp* his evil no good sister has stolen his kingdom offscreen! Katrina is an awful villain, I hate how one-dimensional she is, I hate how she's the bad politician scheming against the honorable warrior, I just hate it. The book then has a few decent spy chapters that I actually like but I still haven't bothered to finish it. Blech. Thurston's two entries are odd inclusions in the series that only loosely tie into the rest. I haven't read Falcon Rising yet, but Freebirth is a fun diversion with lots of Jade Falcon weirdness and more explorations of the Clans' Kafkaesque insanity he's really good at. I didn't mean to turn this post into an impromptu review of the series, but that's what happened and I'm sticking by it. FishFood fucked around with this message at 17:04 on May 5, 2023 |
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Falcon rising has nothing to do with anything in the rest of the series and is only numbered as one of the series to trick people into buying it. It doesn't even have the excuse of his other book in the series where ostensibly we were seeing the destination of the journey. gently caress that book.FishFood posted:I feel bad pinning it all on him but he's by far my least favorite author in the setting, and I feel crazy sometimes because he seems so beloved. I understand that he's foundational and his books are pretty frequently the big tentpole novels that propel the metaplot forward but his characters are just awful. There's a large group of fans who only read the books to know What Happens Next and actual craftsmanship doesn't matter. Combine that with how most people read his stuff when they were calling novels "chapter books" and don't actually reexamine them as an adult, you get a Stackpole fan. Defiance Industries fucked around with this message at 18:07 on May 5, 2023 |
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Defiance Industries posted:There's a large group of fans who only read the books to know What Happens Next and actual craftsmanship doesn't matter. Combine that with how most people read his stuff when they were calling novels "chapter books" and don't actually reexamine them as an adult, you get a Stackpole fan. There's a sizable number of guys in my local scene who are honest-to-god VSD fans and are actively angry at the extremely fictional character Katrina Steiner and it boggles my mind. Like, I get mad at Stackpole when I read Katrina chapters because I'm being so blatantly and clumsily manipulated, but these guys just lap it up. It makes me feel insane. Most of my friends are all people who think a lot about media and storytelling and so encountering such uncritical consumption in the wild has been a bit of a shock. There are all these newbies coming in and I hear people recommend the Warrior Trilogy and poo poo and I just want to scream "No!"
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Can I run named variants of mechs in lists or is that something you usually ask your opponent beforehand? Fighting a clan list again, and I want to bust out the NSR-9J Nightstar Brubaker.
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Yeah I can't imagine you'd think that's a good way to get into the universe. Besides being really dated and having a lot of flat characters it's also just not an interesting story. The biggest guy beats up the smallest guy, he wins the whole time and the big final reveal is that the big guy was in even less danger than we previously thought. RIVETING.Saint Celestine posted:Can I run named variants of mechs in lists or is that something you usually ask your opponent beforehand? Depends on the type of game you're playing. If you are playing a game that's balanced just by BV it's fine. If you're playing a game where your opponent is bringing a Faction X, 3150 force I would say it's poor form. Defiance Industries fucked around with this message at 19:16 on May 5, 2023 |
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I mean eventually you have to read the Warrior Trilogy if you're getting into the setting, because they're the foundation of so much. But it's by no means good. I want to read a trilogy from the Liao side
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Saint Celestine posted:Can I run named variants of mechs in lists or is that something you usually ask your opponent beforehand? If you're going to blow 2,838 BV on a glass cannon that dies from losing a side torso (Inner Sphere XL Engine) to a Gauss Rifle explosion (Total lack of CASE which comes default on Clan 'Mechs) then you might as well take a Dire Wolf A.
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GD_American posted:I mean eventually you have to read the Warrior Trilogy if you're getting into the setting, because they're the foundation of so much. But it's by no means good. you'll find i don't have to read any of the books at all, actually
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GD_American posted:I mean eventually you have to read the Warrior Trilogy if you're getting into the setting, because they're the foundation of so much. no YOU should go read some CGL sourcebooks
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Sidesaddle Cavalry posted:no I've got the original House books sitting in my bathroom reading pile, sonny
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Sidesaddle Cavalry posted:If you're going to blow 2,838 BV on a glass cannon that dies from losing a side torso (Inner Sphere XL Engine) to a Gauss Rifle explosion (Total lack of CASE which comes default on Clan 'Mechs) then you might as well take a Dire Wolf A.  I am bad at building lists. What should I be focusing on for a 10k list vs clans?
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