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Saint Celestine posted:Why is it so fat. WOW all mech chassis are beautiful  Edit: Ok I lied but it’s the ugliest ones that are the coolest
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Painted up the Alpha Strike mechs. I must say it feels really good to have a fully painted gaming set! Clan Wolf Beta Galaxy  Started off as Donegal Guard, might be Amaris Dragoons now? I dunno.  And here they are in the dropship 
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May 24, 2023 19:11
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Impeccable work, that’s fabulous I’m sad I’ve thrown away the plastic trays from the box sets and lance boxes, love the look of painted minis in the box. Makes em look like action figures
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May 24, 2023 19:43
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Sidesaddle Cavalry posted:You could say the same about UrbanMechs and Demolishers, but that doesn’t make them good. Arquinsiel fucked around with this message at 21:43 on May 24, 2023 |
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May 24, 2023 21:35
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Z the IVth posted:here they are in the dropship Absolutely in love with this phrasing.
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May 24, 2023 21:36
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If only you could put an AC20 on a Savannah Master
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May 24, 2023 22:14
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a cyborg mug posted:If only you could put an AC20 on a Savannah Master I'm picturing what happens if you try to put a harness on a cat.
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a cyborg mug posted:If only you could put an AC20 on a Savannah Master That's the thought process that gave us the Saladin
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Defiance Industries posted:That's the thought process that gave us the Saladin Oh yeah, I need to get me some Saladins. Proxies, though - the old Ral Partha ones look like rear end. Related to AC20 chat, Hunchback is one of my favorite mechs currently. To me its main function is less delivering the AC20 to the front line and more drawing fire from everything else because everyone’s brains seem to go into panic mode the moment they see a Hunchback on the table. In my most recent lance vs lance game the Hunchback had my only 4/5 pilot while everything else was 3/5, but my opponent decided to focus his fire solely on the Hunchback because they wanted nothing to do with the AC20 and did their best to remove it - while I focused on grabbing objectives with my other, more mobile mechs. And that’s kinda my experience in every game I bring a Hunchback to. And I bring one to every game now. Love da Hunchie a cyborg mug fucked around with this message at 22:58 on May 24, 2023 |
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Hunchback 4p best hunchback Or 5p/IIC if you're into that fancy stuff I guess Is the entire point of the charger to win initiative then run in and punch the poo poo out of things? How successful is it at doing this? ilmucche fucked around with this message at 23:53 on May 24, 2023 |
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May 24, 2023 23:22
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The best Charger is the Hatamoto-Chi
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LeschNyhan posted:Am I missing something about the Backerkit for the kickstarter? I'm getting emails about how salvage boxes aren't working and visigoths weren't available but it worked perfectly for me and as far as I can tell my order has all the ridiculous plastic I'm expecting? I was having a hard time wrapping my head around those posts as well, but here's what I think they're talking about : 1) I qualified for the free Visigoth but it was not showing up in my list items until AFTER I put my address in and I arrived at the final confirmation screen. It was supposed to show up much earlier, and that is either resolved or irrelevant because it does appear in your cart by the final page. 2) The Force Packs that come as part of your pledge level include the Salvage Box option. It's when you purchase additional Force Packs that the Salvage Box option is unavailable. They've detailed a few work arounds in the updates, such as making sure to take Inner Sphere lances in the pledge options and Clan Stars and vehicles in the Add-Ons to avoid the issue.
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Atlas Hugged posted:I was having a hard time wrapping my head around those posts as well, but here's what I think they're talking about : That makes a ton more sense. Glad I went with simple options and my add-ons are mostly rulebooks. That also explains why I couldn't understand why my visigoth numbers were off by one until I did more fiddling.
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An acquaintance of mine had an issue with seeing the right number of Visigoths and I just told him to set all his salvage boxen to the Legendary ones, see if one Visigoth was there, and then reset to what he wanted. That somehow made the missing one magically appear.
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LeschNyhan posted:That makes a ton more sense. Glad I went with simple options and my add-ons are mostly rulebooks. Happy to help. I know CGL is doing their best with this, but I totally understand why companies like Mantic have dramatically reduced what customers are able to do with their orders.
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So how do the rules work? Is it like x wing or mtg where I can look them up somewhere or is it like 40k and dnd where I am supposed to buy a book?
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HootTheOwl posted:So how do the rules work? Quick start BT and AS rules: https://bg.battletech.com/downloads/ BT has been around for going on four decades with only incrimental rules changes, so I'm sure the non-quickstart basic game rules are all over, but afiak technically 
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Z the IVth posted:Painted up the Alpha Strike mechs. I must say it feels really good to have a fully painted gaming set! Man the highlighting on these is just outstanding.
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Owlbear Camus posted:Quick start BT and AS rules:
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HootTheOwl posted:Ty, but then what is this Kickstarter that's reinvigorating the game? It's not a reboot? It's basically an "expansion pack" that adds to the core rules and adds some optional ones to resolve combined arms/battlefield support in a more streamlined way. Incomplete in and of itself and not necessary to play bot-on-bot battletech.
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Hmmmm, when I filled out the pledge manager the bonus Visigoth showed up as part of my pledge stuff, but when I got the email receipt it doesn't show up there, only the three extra Visigoth Salvage boxes I added on. But then when I go back to the pledge manager it does show up. Should I be worried?
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May 25, 2023 03:21
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The current kickstarter is just an expansion wave for the previous kickstarter. The game has technically never died since it started 40 years ago but it had a soft, mostly aesthetic reboot about 5 years ago with the current product line. The Alpha Strike sister game of Battletech is also exploding in popularity right now.
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HootTheOwl posted:Ty, but then what is this Kickstarter that's reinvigorating the game? It's not a reboot? The Kickstarter is new stuff for the existing game. BattleTech essentially never makes stuff obsolete, just updates the rules in minor ways every so often, so most products are additional new content or reprints of old stuff. You can get a rulebook from the following sources: -The "A Game of Armored Combat" box set (standard 'mech rules with introductory equipment) -The "BattleMech Manual" hardcover or PDF (all the stuff in the box set plus all the standard equipment, plus some advanced stuff and optional rules) -The "Total Warfare" hardcover or PDF (all the stuff in the box set plus standard equipment, plus rules for the standard non-'mech units: infantry, battle armor, ground vehicles (includes helicopters), aerospace fighters, dropships, small craft, and protomechs)
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Finally getting back into Battletech (in Alpha Strike form) after a demo game at my LGS and this has me fishing out my old metal mechs. Mostly IS, so probably gonna strip them down and start in on some 1st Canopian Cuirassers painting. The Helepolis remains my favorite things, even if it is a weird, insanely situational mech that no one in their right mind should field. It’s a shame they’re drat near unjustifiable to field during any era.
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Hedningen posted:Finally getting back into Battletech (in Alpha Strike form) after a demo game at my LGS and this has me fishing out my old metal mechs. Mostly IS, so probably gonna strip them down and start in on some 1st Canopian Cuirassers painting. You know what, I admire you for having such a niche favorite and I think you should just say gently caress it and use it whenever you want 
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Crazy Joe Wilson posted:Hmmmm, when I filled out the pledge manager the bonus Visigoth showed up as part of my pledge stuff, but when I got the email receipt it doesn't show up there, only the three extra Visigoth Salvage boxes I added on. But then when I go back to the pledge manager it does show up. Should I be worried?
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that's just the to&e paper they bid it way down during the batchall, probably 
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Z the IVth posted:Painted up the Alpha Strike mechs. I must say it feels really good to have a fully painted gaming set! cool
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Arquinsiel posted:Just because I've seen people get surprised by this, you know that Clan Aerospace Stars are ten units, right? Completely aware a star is 10 aerospace, I only want 1 point each for my Spirit Cats/Steel Wolves. Imagining an entire star of clan aerospace in an AS game seems a little extreme (Also I have to learn aerospace rules). The only thing that still confuses me about Clan military organization is Novas and Supernovas (And supernova binaries/trinaries). A Nova is two stars (Mech/Elemental), and a Supernova is 4 stars (2 mechs/2 Elementals), but a nova binary is also 4 stars I think (2 novas working together), and a Supernova binary is...? I ASSUME it would be 8 stars (2 supernovas working together), but I just can't figure it out. Which means a nova trinary is 6 stars, and a supernova trinary is 12 stars, so basically a cluster. I'm probably wrong. Crazy Joe Wilson fucked around with this message at 12:46 on May 25, 2023 |
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Arquinsiel posted:Okay but it's really difficult to deploy Why limit oneself to the floors of a building? Stack two Karnovs per level in a tower of guns stretching up to the atmospheric rules
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Crazy Joe Wilson posted:Completely aware a star is 10 aerospace, I only want 1 point each for my Spirit Cats/Steel Wolves. Imagining an entire star of clan aerospace in an AS game seems a little extreme (Also I have to learn aerospace rules). Where you're falling down is that a Supernova *is* a Nova Binary. A Supernova Trinary is three Novas, totalling six stars.
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Volkova III posted:Where you're falling down is that a Supernova *is* a Nova Binary. Ok, that makes a lot more sense, so when a Keshik has two Supernova Trinaries, we're looking at 12 stars total, basically an oversized cluster. Thanks.
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The only difference between a Nova Binary and a Supernova is that some Clans don't like deviating from Kerensky's ~*~vision~*~ and while a Nova Binary led by a Star Captain is fine, a Supernova led by a Nova Captain is just taking the piss. They are otherwise identical, and it's just some nice fluff to explain why Clan A hates Clan B.Sidesaddle Cavalry posted:Why limit oneself to the floors of a building? Stack two Karnovs per level in a tower of guns stretching up to the atmospheric rules
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Space elevator filled with field gun Gauss Rifles that never explode, UAC/20s that never jam, RAC/5s always firing full rate, and LB-20-Xs that rain endless BBs everywhere
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Sidesaddle Cavalry posted:Space elevator filled with field gun Gauss Rifles that never explode, UAC/20s that never jam, and RAC/5s that always firing full rate, and LB-20-Xs that rain endless BBs everywhere A single Main Gauche crew cackles maniacally from 23 hexes away.
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HootTheOwl posted:Ty, but then what is this Kickstarter that's reinvigorating the game? It's not a reboot? The "reboot" is less about new fancy rules and more about miniatures. The first kickstarter was the first range of nice plastic minis for Battletech, which turned out to make the game a lot more popular all of a sudden. How odd! This second kickstarter is mainly about expanding that range further. There are more things too, yes, but it's mainly plastic crack. lilljonas fucked around with this message at 20:23 on May 25, 2023 |
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Sidesaddle Cavalry posted:Space elevator filled with field gun Gauss Rifles that never explode, UAC/20s that never jam, RAC/5s always firing full rate, and LB-20-Xs that rain endless BBs everywhere
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got my train in the mail... too big . i guess i should have had them print it at 66% size or something
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Nebalebadingdong posted:got my train in the mail... I think that's a perfect size for a big military train carrying munitions or something.
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I don't think it's that far off. A lot of the art shows BattleMechs as being way too big compared to scenery and the vehicle minis tend to be way too small compared to the BattleMech ones. If a person is supposed to be a little shorter than the door on the train then that seems nearly right.
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