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Marx Headroom posted:Hahahahaha good luck with that, dear leader It’s worse, he’s actually caused a ton of internal fighting in each Clan already. I’m half wondering if the Wolves are gonna fall and Sea Fox will take the title or something; at the current rate them buying out the Inner Sphere seems more likely than Alaric conquering much of it.
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General Battuta posted:Reversing the process of the Clans acculturating with their Inner Sphere holdings and turning it back into IS vs Clans would be, imo, a huge creative mistake. Marx Headroom posted:Hahahahaha good luck with that, dear leader I don't think the Clans will stop be acculturated with IS influence, I think Alaric is hoping for a united foreign policy under the IlClan border. Trials will still happen, but if Alaric says "we're destroying the Combine", then all the Clans launch attacks on the Combine simultaneously. Reading the Blood of Kerensky trilogy I actually find Grand Council (And Clan Council) politics pretty neat, so if Alaric's policy results in a reborn Grand Council that actually does stuff that would be a boon to the fiction. MadDogMike posted:It’s worse, he’s actually caused a ton of internal fighting in each Clan already. I’m half wondering if the Wolves are gonna fall and Sea Fox will take the title or something; at the current rate them buying out the Inner Sphere seems more likely than Alaric conquering much of it. I'm willing to bet with the new IlClan era we're going to see a stalemate. The Clans are all in the IlClan/nuStar League at the center of the Inner Sphere, and the Great Houses and hinterlands are surrounding them. Every state is at war with everyone else, alliances are shifting. Anyone could fight anyone. And there we go, new status quo for the next decade or so. Crazy Joe Wilson fucked around with this message at 17:15 on May 15, 2023 |
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Crazy Joe Wilson posted:Alaric has also opened the door to allow the Nova Cats to become a Clan again, although he hasn't said anything officially, just that he wants to avenge their death at the hands of the Combine. Given that the Spirit Cats are currently split on protecting the IlClan vs. staying loyal to the League, there's a good shot that the Nova Cats will come back with no more abjuration, similar to how Alaric brought back the Smoke Jaguars.
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Imagine hearing your faction is going to come back and when it happens it's just as bootlickers for one of the worst characters in the fiction. I can't imagine there's a single Falcon fan who looked at the two options and said "well Jiyi is fighting for his life against impossible odds, but on the other hand Tara Campbell is 48 and is written like she's 14. I'm going to go get bossed around by Alaric."
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General Battuta posted:Reversing the process of the Clans acculturating with their Inner Sphere holdings and turning it back into IS vs Clans would be, imo, a huge creative mistake. Wrong part of the map, but them + the 17th Recon Regiment would be pretty nifty. Give someone the Bloodname "Abtakha"
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Defiance Industries posted:Imagine hearing your faction is going to come back and when it happens it's just as bootlickers for one of the worst characters in the fiction. I can't imagine there's a single Falcon fan who looked at the two options and said "well Jiyi is fighting for his life against impossible odds, but on the other hand Tara Campbell is 48 and is written like she's 14. I'm going to go get bossed around by Alaric."
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how do you do fellow mech pilots i don't know too much about battletech, but im painting some stuff for a friend's 40th birthday (he knows an absurd amount about battletech)     this thing is apparently called an inner sphere bushwhacker. i guess it whacks bushes on your inner sphere. good hygiene is important! anyway, I'm planning on doing a few mechs and loads of buildings and stuff useful for campaigns are there any good 6-8mm sci-fi trains out there? Nebalebadingdong fucked around with this message at 03:55 on May 16, 2023 |
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Arquinsiel posted:Her parth to becoming a Jade Falcon is the clearest indication that the writers have never met anyone from Scotland I can think of. I really liked Ken Horner's article in Shrapnel 12 about how, no, people from Donegal aren't just Irish, they're significantly different because of 800 years of cultural drift. But it's totally cool if someone from Donegal wants to go visit Ireland, just don't pretend that having an ancestor who lived there 800 years ago makes you Irish. The Scotland stuff in HotW was the absolute opposite of that.
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Defiance Industries posted:I really liked Ken Horner's article in Shrapnel 12 about how, no, people from Donegal aren't just Irish, they're significantly different because of 800 years of cultural drift. But it's totally cool if someone from Donegal wants to go visit Ireland, just don't pretend that having an ancestor who lived there 800 years ago makes you Irish. To be fair though, 800 years from now Scotland won't seem much like Scotland either anyway.
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I told him to his (online) face that I liked his article already, he'll be fine. And he should be flattered because the switch means I thought he came up with the TV guide article.
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Nebalebadingdong posted:are there any good 6-8mm sci-fi trains out there? I wish. This one is the only one I know of, but you lose out on the train tracks aesthetic because it's an elevated maglev. If you find any others, please let me know! Unfortunately, none of the official train scales really match 6mm/1:285. Z scale comes closest at 1:220 but still looks enormous, and is pretty rare to boot. About the only other way to get a train at that scale would be 3D printing.
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Crazy Joe Wilson posted:I don't think the Clans will stop be acculturated with IS influence, I think Alaric is hoping for a united foreign policy under the IlClan border. Trials will still happen, but if Alaric says "we're destroying the Combine", then all the Clans launch attacks on the Combine simultaneously. Again, this would take someone who's a Steiner-Davion to bring about, and Alaric should just admit he is one already, or go pound sand because multi-faction power blocs in the writing nowadays is dead dead dead and no amount of wishing or optimistic worldview is going to bring it back. Nebalebadingdong posted:how do you do fellow mech pilots I have a soft spot for your Bushwacker bby  since MechCommander 2 (cute missile & gun noises) and MW4 (where I could fit even more missile and gun noises on it)
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PoptartsNinja posted:I wish. This one is the only one I know of, but you lose out on the train tracks aesthetic because it's an elevated maglev. I did find this one: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1077048071/grimdark-terrain-heresy-train-base-kit its very 40k looking but maybe if I painted the engine right it would look less gothic
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You were more likely to see a multi-faction bloc in the period where there were only like two characters per faction and they needed them just to give people someone to talk to. Now that they've realized that, oh, these are complex nation states that hold large amounts of territory, they can have more than two people in them, that space in the story is kinda filled. Trillian can send people to treat with Tamar and Arc-Royal rather than New Avalon.
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Nebalebadingdong posted:how do you do fellow mech pilots Obviously MW2/MW3 was what socialised me with Battletech so I think Bushwackers are loving rad and this owns
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Crazy Joe Wilson posted:I'm willing to bet with the new IlClan era we're going to see a stalemate. The Clans are all in the IlClan/nuStar League at the center of the Inner Sphere, and the Great Houses and hinterlands are surrounding them. Every state is at war with everyone else, alliances are shifting. Anyone could fight anyone. And there we go, new status quo for the next decade or so. I admit the reverse Uno of the Clans being the central power and the rest of the Inner Sphere being the looming threat on the border is amusing  .As I’ve mentioned before, I’m getting a definite vibe we’re going from a couple major powers to several smaller powers squabbling for lesser stakes. It brings back the era of a lance or two making all the difference in a planetary battle if that’s all anyone usually has available. Defiance Industries posted:I really liked Ken Horner's article in Shrapnel 12 about how, no, people from Donegal aren't just Irish, they're significantly different because of 800 years of cultural drift. But it's totally cool if someone from Donegal wants to go visit Ireland, just don't pretend that having an ancestor who lived there 800 years ago makes you Irish. I seem to recall actual Terran Japan is unamused by the DC being samurai weeaboos. Not sure what Terran China thinks of the Capellans though.
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Look, let's all just agree that if you came to BattleTech anywhere between 1993 and 2001 you probably fukkan love the Bushwacker.Defiance Industries posted:I told him to his (online) face that I liked his article already, he'll be fine. And he should be flattered because the switch means I thought he came up with the TV guide article. Nebalebadingdong posted:I did find this one:
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PoptartsNinja posted:I wish. This one is the only one I know of, but you lose out on the train tracks aesthetic because it's an elevated maglev. There is an enormous land train in the master unit list
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Gerblederp posted:Bushwackers kick rear end, my favourite mech. The Bushwacker also gets a wicked variant in the ilClan era. Plasma Rifle, ER Large, twin Mediums, twin MML5s, CASEII, MASC, and maximum armor.
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MadDogMike posted:I seem to recall actual Terran Japan is unamused by the DC being samurai weeaboos. Not sure what Terran China thinks of the Capellans though. Both actual Terran Japan as well as New Kyoto, the world that actual Japan's government and people settled in the First Exodus.
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:There is an enormous land train in the master unit list They're talking about actual physical 6mm train miniatures.
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Sidesaddle Cavalry posted:They were in Damien Reburn's spooky secret Fidelis force setting up the Fortress Republic before then. No need to wonder; the neo-Jags are getting fleshed out on the MUL just like the other new factions of ilClan era. Filtering out the clantech stuff provides quite a few examples of inherited equipment. MadDogMike posted:It’s worse, he’s actually caused a ton of internal fighting in each Clan already. I’m half wondering if the Wolves are gonna fall and Sea Fox will take the title or something; at the current rate them buying out the Inner Sphere seems more likely than Alaric conquering much of it. Vlad's Wolves have always felt lacking compared to the green bird's villainous verve, so I wouldn't mind them sidelining the ex-exiles before charging the Capellans and getting their collective faces warcrimed off.
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Arquinsiel posted:When's the last time we heard from the Home Clans? 3090s? Wars of Reaving Supplemental, which is dated to December 3090. Either way, they're not going to say it counts because they abjured the Homeworld Clans back in the 3070s.
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So theres a scenario that involves a traitor in your lance that you have to try to get killed by the enemy force. (I.e. no self induced engine overheats, etc) My idea is to stick him in a Hunchback IIC and point him straight at the enemy. Incredibly dangerous mech, with paper thin armor. Thoughts?
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DeepThrobble posted:No need to wonder; the neo-Jags are getting fleshed out on the MUL just like the other new factions of ilClan era. Filtering out the clantech stuff provides quite a few examples of inherited equipment. I looked up the Doloire and immediately vomited. Anyways what I'm really saying is I want to see funny ristar Smoke Jags in a new Legacy C variant. The Legacy was even based off a Star League design called the Rising Star!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sidesaddle Cavalry fucked around with this message at 05:05 on May 16, 2023 |
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Saint Celestine posted:So theres a scenario that involves a traitor in your lance that you have to try to get killed by the enemy force. (I.e. no self induced engine overheats, etc)
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Arquinsiel posted:I think you may find the Hunchback IIC is sturdier than you expect, but it's otherwise a good idea. Alternatively the original MAD-3R Marauder has an explosive left torso. Cheap too! Thanks for the suggestion. \/ Can't use light mechs. My other idea was to put him in a lovely phoenix hawk, and oops he forgot to jump this turn. Saint Celestine fucked around with this message at 07:04 on May 16, 2023 |
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Saint Celestine posted:Thanks for the suggestion. SCP-1O Scorpion. Same problems as both the Marauder (unprotected ton of ammo in the left torso) and Hunchback IIC (paper-thin armor) combined and all saddled to a quad, which are easier to make genuinely accidental maneuvering mistakes with. The OG JM6-S JagerMech's up there, too. Less likely to die to an ammo crit, but even less armor than the Scorpion. Edit: It's less explosive, but there's also the Capellan CGR-1L Charger. That's the one that trades in the small lasers for a large laser and two mediums (at the cost of 4.5 tons of armor, giving it just slightly more armor than a Locust). PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 08:31 on May 16, 2023 |
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Arquinsiel posted:Look, let's all just agree that if you came to BattleTech anywhere between 1993 and 2001 you probably fukkan love the Bushwacker. Continues to be heresy but I will always want my Smoke Jags to have a Summoner and Timber Wolf due to MW3.
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Owlbear Camus posted:What's the most iconic Amaris/RWR 'mech (outside of idiotic wunderwaffen that never worked or got deployed as one or two off prototypes as a last ditch to hold terra)? Rampage or Dragoon, probably. The latter was devised by the man himself.
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GD_American posted:I mean, you're literally ruling out a Mech known as Amaris' Folly with those limitations I'm doing a large number of mechs as sldf for alpha strike and I thought it would be cool to have some RWR opfor to go with it, but not like... stuff that just sucked up resources and didn't work.
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PoptartsNinja posted:SCP-1O Scorpion. Amazing. Whats the point of such a lovely mech? (The Charger)
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