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glwgameplayer posted:I am now imagining a mech just, stomping up and down on a tank. Over and over again If you want a picture of the future, imagine a Locust stamping on a Demolisher - forever.
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aniviron posted:If you want a picture of the future, imagine a Locust stamping on a Demolisher - forever. Captain Foo posted:Locust trying to stomp a demolisher to death lol Either you guys are sharing a brain cell or this is a meme that already exists
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aniviron posted:If you want a picture of the future, imagine a Locust stamping on a Demolisher - forever. Do you mean I should imagine it forever? Because a Locust only gets within melee range of a Demolisher once. Idiot mech jocks die screaming "b-b-b-but hbstech said!!!!"
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As long as the Locust moves after the Demolisher, the Demolisher can never ever hurt it.
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Tbh the demolisher seems like something that would just be permanently stuck in the mud or broken down and you just go around it
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Gnoman posted:As long as the Locust moves after the Demolisher, the Demolisher can never ever hurt it. It's making a melee attack so yes, the Demolisher can hurt it very much.
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aniviron posted:If you want a picture of the future, imagine a Locust stamping on a Demolisher - forever. No need to imagine. Maybe not the same mech, but close enough lol
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Preston’s Last Stand: Turn 2 Roger twisted his Warhammer to avoid another salvo of LRMs. The missiles thudded into the ground around him, ripping the loamy soil apart and sending plumes of burning dust high into the air. The battle was still in its early stages, and the two sides were still feeling one another out. Weapons fire was sporadic and inaccurate, and nobody was in any real danger just yet. Roger knew the lull wouldn’t last for long. About half of the Prowler’s forces had moved up to engage them, including a Trebuchet that stormed forwards as if it meant to challenge his Warhammer singlehandedly. The other half were hanging back close to the DropShip, including Josiah Preston himself. The former captain’s Phoenix Hawk hadn’t moved an inch since the battle had begun. Perhaps he was concentrating on coordinating the defence, or perhaps he was just a coward who would only fight personally once he had run out of bodies to feed into the meat grinder. From what Roger had been able to glean about the man, either option could be true. One of the first things Roger had done after accepting the contract was to request a copy of Preston’s service dossier from the Marik Militia. He had wanted to get a read on the man, and had hoped the document would help him better understand his foe. Reading it had been illuminating. The man was a competent mechwarrior and commander whose career stretched back nearly thirty years. He had been mentioned in despatches five times and decorated for bravery twice. He was described as polite and level-headed, and had never been disciplined or charged with any kind of misconduct. On the surface Preston seemed like the ideal company commander – brave, loyal, and with a solid grasp of both the tactical and strategic dimensions of combat. When Roger had finished reading he had felt more than a little incredulous. How could such a man decide to betray his nation and turn to a life of piracy? A more careful reading had revealed a possible answer. Preston’s disciplinary record was indeed spotless, but his subordinates recorded a much higher rate of infractions than normal. That struck Roger as incongruous – no truly disciplined commander would tolerate such behaviour from his rank-and-file. Either Preston was overly lax with his men, or he was just as bad as they were but better at hiding his misdeeds. If the latter were true, it would also explain the unusually high rate of attrition amongst his support staff. Several up-and-coming members of his admin team had been abruptly transferred to other units, and a couple had even died under mysterious circumstances. Silencing witnesses, perhaps? At the very least, Preston’s superiors seemed to have suspected that something wasn’t quite right. A man with his record and length of service should have been an easy pick for promotion to Force Commander, but all of his requests for a higher posting had been denied. Was that, perhaps, the reason for his defection to Anton Marik? Untempered ambition could do terrible things to even the best men. Roger sighed and turned his attention back to the battlefield at large. Josiah Preston was a problem for later. For now he needed to decide how to respond to the Prowlers’ sudden advance.    Weapons fire for Blackjack BJ-1DB (Player): -Fires Large Laser at Scorpion Light Tank (LRM) (Prowlers); needs 13, rolls 4: Automatic Miss! Weapons fire for Hunchback HBK-4G (Player): -Holds fire! Weapons fire for Trebuchet TBT-5N (Player): -Holds fire! Weapons fire for Warhammer WHM-6D (Player): -Fires PPC at Scorpion Light Tank (LRM) (Prowlers); needs 9, rolls 5: Misses! -Fires PPC at Scorpion Light Tank (LRM) (Prowlers); needs 9, rolls 4: Misses! -- Weapons fire for Firestarter FS9-H (Prowlers): -Holds fire! Weapons fire for Phoenix Hawk PXH-1 (Prowlers): -Holds fire! Weapons fire for Scorpion SCP-1N (Prowlers): -Fires PPC at Trebuchet TBT-5N (Player); needs 10, rolls 3: Misses! Weapons fire for Stinger STG-3R (Prowlers): -Holds fire! Weapons fire for Trebuchet TBT-5S (Prowlers): -Fires Medium Laser at Warhammer WHM-6D (Player); needs 12, rolls 8: Misses! -Fires Medium Laser at Warhammer WHM-6D (Player); needs 12, rolls 7: Misses! -Fires Medium Laser at Warhammer WHM-6D (Player); needs 12, rolls 6: Misses! Weapons fire for Galleon Light Tank GAL-100 (Prowlers): -Fires Medium Laser at Hunchback HBK-4G (Player); needs 12, rolls 7: Misses! Weapons fire for Galleon Light Tank GAL-100 #2 (Prowlers): -Holds fire! Weapons fire for Goblin Medium Tank (Standard) (Prowlers): -Holds fire! Weapons fire for Scorpion Light Tank (Standard) (Prowlers): -Holds fire! Weapons fire for Scorpion Light Tank (LRM) (Prowlers): -Fires LRM-5 at Warhammer WHM-6D (Player); needs 9, rolls 7: Misses! -Fires LRM-10 at Warhammer WHM-6D (Player); needs 9, rolls 3: Misses! -- Weapons fire for Eagle Standard (DropShip) (Prowlers): -Disabling final safety mechanisms…  No melee attacks this turn!  Blackjack BJ-1DB (Player) gains 12 heat, sinks 13 heat and is now at 0 heat. Hunchback HBK-4G (Player) gains 2 heat, sinks 2 heat and is now at 0 heat. Trebuchet TBT-5N (Player) gains 2 heat, sinks 2 heat and is now at 0 heat. Warhammer WHM-6D (Player) gains 21 heat, sinks 20 heat and is now at 2 heat. -- Firestarter FS9-H (Prowlers) gains 6 heat, sinks 6 heat and is now at 0 heat. Phoenix Hawk PXH-1 (Prowlers) gains 0 heat, sinks 0 heat and is now at 0 heat. Scorpion SCP-1N (Prowlers) gains 11 heat, sinks 10 heat and is now at 1 heat. Stinger STG-3R (Prowlers) gains 2 heat, sinks 2 heat and is now at 0 heat. Trebuchet TBT-5S (Prowlers) gains 11 heat, sinks 11 heat and is now at 0 heat.    Player Status  Enemy Status    Special Abilities: -Toughness: Grants bonus to consciousness rolls. -Multi-Tasker: When splitting fire between multiple targets, secondary targeting penalties are reduced by 1. -Hopping Jack: Pilot suffers a +2 penalty when firing after jumping instead of +3. Primary Objectives: -Defeat Josiah Preston (0/1) -Neutralise remaining Prowler forces (0/9) Secondary Objectives: -Secure the crash site without damaging the Eagle Standard (250,000 C-Bill Reward) Next Orders Due: Saturday 24th 9:00PM GMT.
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Galleons 1 and 2, ima need you to roll riiiight up in that hunchback's face while I stay back here and command, you'll be fine, I didn't get mentioned in dispatches five times for nothing!
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This might be a bit risky but I see a chance to get a shot on a 7+ so I'm going to take it. If I back up through the forest to Hex 2505 I can get that enemy Trebuche at Short range with my LRMs (but outside of their minimum range) I think it's 4 Gunnery + 2 Evasion, +1 difficulty for moving. But I doubt I'm going to get a better shot than this. At least for now. If all goes well I might be able to shred the enemy Trebuche's armor, maybe break a weapon or something.
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I would actually just sit still. You're not generating a movement mod from that movement, and you're hitting that treb on 6es (4 base + 2 enemy movement) with the LRMs while it needs a 10+ (4 base + 2 ran + 4 long range) to hit back at you. I think this is a good turn to try and get the best shots possible in, because with our relatively poor gunnery those chances are going to be few and far between. Once we get closer to the dropship it'll be much more important to be maxing out our movement mods than it is while we've still got range on our sides here. I'm considering moving on top of the tank in 1509 and shooting at the one in 1511. That gives me an 8 to hit which isn't great, but it also stops fire from the second galleon on me and lets me kick it on a 7. I'm also thinking I can turn and back up one hex in to 1708, and unload on the firestarter on 8s. I'm pretty likely to eat extra heat on this because the firestarter can light the woods up, but it's better for me defensively since at least the woods will give enemies a +1 to hit on me. The firestarter is also a slightly larger threat than the Galleon. I'll focus on whichever one my blackjack buddy has a better shot at I think.
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Gwaihir posted:I would actually just sit still. You're not generating a movement mod from that movement, and you're hitting that treb on 6es (4 base + 2 enemy movement) with the LRMs while it needs a 10+ (4 base + 2 ran + 4 long range) to hit back at you. That's fair. I wasn't sure if sitting still counted as them being 7 tiles away. I wasn't 100% sure how to count that out. I guess I'm just going to unload a missile barrage at my twin and see what happens.
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Gwaihir posted:I would actually just sit still. You're not generating a movement mod from that movement, and you're hitting that treb on 6es (4 base + 2 enemy movement) with the LRMs while it needs a 10+ (4 base + 2 ran + 4 long range) to hit back at you. Blackjack I'm thinking of reversing 2 hexes to 2006 to put me out of range of the Firestarter's flamers. Definitely gonna fire the LLs this turn. If my math is correct, that would mean 8s to hit on the Firestarter and the Galleon in 1508, 10s on the Galleon in 1510, and 7s on the Stinger. The Stinger's easier to hit, but the Firestarter's the bigger threat right now so I'm willing to focus fire on it if you are.
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By the way, don't forget about the Dropship's guns. I think everyone is still out of range of most of them, but if anyone on the frontline gets any closer they will be in their range. And I think the Blackjack and Hunchback are in the range of their LRMs. It might be worth backing into the forest just so you don't get torn up by 40 missiles headed your way. Not saying that to make you afraid or anything just, keep it in mind I'm safely out of range though so I'm staying put in 2306 and firing both LRMs at my "Brother" glwgameplayer fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Jun 21, 2023 |
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anakha posted:Blackjack I know I initially mentioned focusing fire, but in retrospect I'd take shots at whatever is the easiest to hit tbh. These enemies are so light that any heavy weapon hit is a good chance to cripple. A large laser hit will blow off arms, head, bring legs to 1 structure, etc on the stinger. Gwaihir fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Jun 21, 2023 |
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What does the rugged quirk do?
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Space Kablooey posted:What does the rugged quirk do? Mech needs less maintenance
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The 'Rugged' and 'Easy to Maintain' quirks are an absolute godsend in a Battletech campaign, especially if you're playing with the default maintenance rules (don't do this). They will save you a lot of aggro in the short term and a not insignificant amount of money in the long term.
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Doubly so if you're doing a planetary raid contract where you only have field maintenance facilities
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Warhammer I'm backing up to 2406 to join our Trebuchet in giving the enemy Treb the patented Sterling and Sable Hello. Fingers crossed I can open some holes for those LRMs to find. vvvv: yeah, I'm not gonna count our chickens before they hatch but there's decent odds we at least open up a section, and it is full of ammo. Dachshundofdoom fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Jun 21, 2023 |
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Dachshundofdoom posted:Warhammer Friendly Trebuchet here. We're launching approximately 50 points of damage at the enemy Treb. (I assume you're using your PPCs and nothing else. For Heat and Range reasons) So best case scenario we completely destroy at least one piece of their body. We still have to roll the dice obviously, it is entirely possible that we hammer its armor but don't actually destroy anything. But I'm thinking it's pretty likely we take out something
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Blackjack orders in - 2006, firing both LLs and a ML at the Stinger.
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Orders in as well, backing up in to the woods in 1707 and then shooting the firestarter with both MLs and the AC20.
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sacrificing a goat to the dice gods for a TAC ammo cookoff on the enemy treb because it is the funniest outcome
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Let’s Read Wolves on the Border: Part Five Chapter Eight The chapter opens with Minobu carefully steering his Vindicator through Fire Rift. Jaime Wolf and his Command Lance have already moved on ahead, forcing Minobu to move quickly in order to catch up. This is proving difficult, since the terrain is full of smouldering ash and volcanic vents that force him to slow down. The heat is also an issue, and Minobu takes a moment to introspect on how dangerous overheating can be, specifically mentioning ammunition explosions and automatic shutdowns. The igneous rock of the valley is also interfering with communications, so Minobu is essentially blind to the wider situation unfolding around him. However, it doesn’t take long for him to stumble across evidence of recent fighting. quote:Minobu’s first sight of the wrecked BattleMech came as he passed through an arch of ruddy stone. Frozen in place against the background of spires and buttes, the ’Mech was gigantic, dwarfing the tablelands. Illusion and his memories had caught him. This was no refugee from a child’s holo entertainment, no impossible machine standing hundreds of meters tall. It was an ordinary Griffin, destroyed in combat. The ’Mech was only fifty meters away, not the hundreds it had first appeared to be. The Griffin bears Dragoons markings, which doesn’t bode well for the imperilled forces. Minobu looks for the pilot, but the ambient heat makes IR scans useless, and a visual search yields no results. In the end Minobu can only mark the mech on his map display for later salvage and move on. An hour later, Minobu manages to regain communications with HQ after climbing a low hill. He makes contact with Captain Cameron, and discovers that they have lost contact with Jaime. The command lance was caught in a Snake Stomper ambush during which Jaime’s comms antenna was shot off, preventing him from broadcasting his location. Jaime’s last orders were for the lance to scatter into the Badlands, and nobody has seen or heard from him since. quote:“We’ve called up Charleton’s Company from reserve to keep those Stompers off our back while we look for the colonel. Major Blake is up in his LAM.” Oh boy, LAMs. For those who aren’t aware, LAMs, or Land-Air-Mechs, are special battlemechs that can transform into aerospace fighters. Think the Variable Fighters from the Macross series and you won’t be far off. LAMs are… controversial in the Battletech fandom. Many fans feel they don’t really fit the tone of the setting, that the concept stretches credulity and/or is too anime-esque to fit in with the rest of the universe. This isn’t helped by how janky they are to use in-game, and how their strict construction rules result in them being masters of none in a gameplay sense. The average LAM is slower and less manoeuvrable than most aerospace fighters while in aerospace mode, while also being undergunned compared to most battlemechs while in battlemech mode. The exception is in air-mech mode, a hybrid configuration that was game-breakingly powerful until it was nerfed in Interstellar Operations. Long story short, LAMs are kind of eh and probably won’t be showing up in this LP. Anyway, Minobu decides to go and look for Jaime. Cameron protests, but Minobu is an honourable samurai and cannot sit idle when his allies are in danger. He reaches the ambush site and finds it deserted aside from an unidentified mech’s arm lying half-buried in the volcanic sands. He deduces from the various footprints that Jaime’s lance was ambushed by a larger number of lighter battlemechs and forced to withdraw. Since Minobu doesn’t know what type of battlemech Jaime pilots, he chooses to follow the tracks that indicate a larger pursuing force. He makes quick progress, but just as he stops to get his bearings… quote:Minobu had hunkered the Vindicator down in order to better use shadows in reading particular marks of passage when his exterior sound pickups brought him the sound of shifting gravel. As he was straightening his machine to a standing position, the new arrival announced his presence over his external speakers of his ’Mech.  Chapter Nine quote:Keeping his ’Mech’s movements slow, Minobu noticed his rear scanners showed a BattleMech half-hidden in the shadow of a twisted spire of stone. No visible markings betrayed its allegiance, though its type—a 55-ton Shadow Hawk—was clear. The newcomer’s autocannon, locked into its firing position, pointed out over the left shoulder. The machine’s right arm, bearing an externally mounted laser, was extended in Minobu’s direction. Thankfully, the Shadow Hawk turns out to be a friendly. The pilot introduces himself as Sergeant Dechan Fraser, and explains that he is also looking for Jaime Wolf. Fraser is a semi-major character in Wolves on the Border, as well as a recurring character in the wider Battletech universe. I’m pretty sure this is his first appearance, but he also turns up in a number of sourcebooks and other novels. He’s a cool dude, and does some cool stuff later. Minobu and Fraser banter for a bit before setting off after the tracks. They eventually detect the sounds of battle and make visual contact with a Snake Stomper light lance composed of a Locust, Stinger, Javelin and Valkyrie. The light mechs are harassing the same blue and gold Archer Minobu encountered earlier. quote:Moving his machine forward, Minobu caught sight of the Stompers’ target through a notch in a ridge line. It was the blue and gold Archer. The pilot had tried to cross what he must have thought was an old lava flow, but it was not old enough. The 70-ton machine had crashed through the crust, falling in to its waist. Steam rose around it, and Minobu could see the glow of molten rock whenever the ’Mech’s legs churned in its attempts to free itself. Oof. Falling through a volcanic crust and into lava is an actual thing in the tabletop, and it is brutal. Mechs in lava take damage every turn they stay there, along with +10 points of heat if they end their turn in it. Moving through lava also costs +5 heat per hex traveled. Worse, this heat is cumulative and ignores the usual external heat cap of +15 heat per turn, so there's basically no way to avoid overheating, especially if you’re using Succession Wars era tech. Minobu and Fraser open fire on the Stomper mechs in an attempt to draw them away from the Archer. The two men manage to tag-team the Locust and bring it down, but firing his Vindicator’s PPC spikes Minobu’s heat to dangerous levels. The battle quickly becomes a deadly game of cat-and-mouse, with the Stompers utilising their superior speed and mobility to great effect. Fraser duels two Stompers at once, because he’s a badass. Minobu stalks the Stomper Javelin and puts an end to it. quote:The action at one with Minobu’s thought, the Vindicator’s right arm lifted. A bolt of blue lightning arrowed toward the Stomper ’Mech to score on its leading leg. Armor vanished, and with it, some of the myomer pseudomuscles and carballoy structural members it had protected. Off-balance, the ’Mech toppled forward. Missiles arced skyward as it fell, a visual punctuation to the scream that echoed across the open comm frequencies. The Javelin hit the lava crust, broke through, and disappeared beneath the magma. Hmm? Oh, just quoting this bit because the description is neat. The Vindicator is seriously overheating now, but the other Stompers break off and flee after seeing the Javelin get roasted. Fraser, madlad that he is, chases after them, desperate to score a kill.  Meanwhile, Minobu tries to save the Archer. He urges the pilot to eject, but quickly realises that the cockpit hatch has jammed due to battle damage. The clock is also ticking, because the Archer is now so hot that its LRM ammo could cook off at any moment. To make matters worse, Minobu’s Vindicator isn’t strong enough to pull the 70-ton mech free. But does Minobu give up? Of course not! quote:Ruby light lanced out from the 5cm Ceres Arms laser mounted alongside the Vindicator’s head. Centimeter by centimeter, the coherent light burned through the heavier ’Mech’s armor, outlining the cockpit area. Each centimeter was purchased with increased heat in Minobu’s cockpit, edging his own ’Mech closer to shutdown. Following in the path of the laser was the battlefist, exerting incredible pressure and peeling back the weakened ceramet armor. It was slow work. Every moment brought the inevitable ammo explosion closer. What a fantastically metal sequence. Ejection mechanism jammed? Cut the whole cockpit block out of the mech and carry it to safety! It’s not a moment too soon either, because half a second later the Archer’s LRMs detonate with enough force to knock Minobu’s Vindicator over. For a moment he’s seriously worried that he might have fallen on the Archer’s cockpit and crushed it, but it turns out the pilot just barely avoided getting turned into a pancake. But, um... who is the pilot anyway? quote:Minobu had snatched this man from death, literally taking the MechWarrior’s life into his own hands. If not for Minobu’s actions, the warrior would be dead, his future blown to the winds with his atoms. From now on, the karma the man earned, good or bad, was also Minobu’s karma. The man’s words, his deeds, even his life was now Minobu’s responsibility. Bushido demanded it. Dun-dun-duuuuun!
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As an anime fan, I'm not 100% opposed to LAMs as a concept, but I do think that Battletech sits pretty far on the "Hard" side of the Sci-Fi scale. I mean, making walking mechs at all is a bit of a stretch but the series as a whole deals with stuff like weight, heat, the difficulty of manufacturing, and so on. Mechs are expensive and often develop little glitches and foibles unless they're factory fresh. Sometimes mechs will develop in strange ways or be designed in ways that look good on paper but fail in the field When looking at it through that lens... yeah LAMs don't feel like they have a place in Battletech. They push the boundary just a little bit too far in the other direction. On the other hand I once fought an Urbie LAM in the Battletech 3062 mod for HB Battletech and that was pretty rad. Aside from the part where I couldn't melee it with my Hatchetman
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LAM's seem perfect for the BT universe because it's exactly the kind of thing an arms manufacturer would market as the next big thing for a mere trillion credits of development cost only to have it fail, after which the concept gets resurrected every generation because they're convinced THIS time they can make it work. Many, many real world examples of this.
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They were just copying things from all sorts of Japanese cartoons, right? The Stinger, Wasp, Pheonix Hawk and Valkyrie were different Robotech / Macross veritech fighters, right? I might have the names wrong, it's been a while and I'm too lazy to check. So, they just went right ahead and grabbed the LAM feature from the Robotech as well, were all like, "This might be too OP," and made them a little too awful in trying to balance it. Yes, BattleTech is a bit more on the "hard" side of Science Fiction. Like, there's no anti-grav, interstellar travel has limitations, interstellar communication is expensive and also complicated, and things break down when the industrial base that has to support it no longer exists. I really love the setting. They put a good deal of thought into it, which is cool. It's not perfect, but at least they did a little bit of research and tried to think about why things are the way they are.
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Slavvy posted:LAM's seem perfect for the BT universe because it's exactly the kind of thing an arms manufacturer would market as the next big thing for a mere trillion credits of development cost only to have it fail, after which the concept gets resurrected every generation because they're convinced THIS time they can make it work. Many, many real world examples of this. this is the best explanation for "LAMs are okay" i have ever heard but I still don't like them at all
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Slavvy posted:LAM's seem perfect for the BT universe because it's exactly the kind of thing an arms manufacturer would market as the next big thing for a mere trillion credits of development cost only to have it fail, after which the concept gets resurrected every generation because they're convinced THIS time they can make it work. Many, many real world examples of this. Yeah, I think LAMs are fine because they're pretty much all terrible, a bad mech + a bad ASF combined isn't a superweapon its just bad at twice as many jobs
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The important thing is *checks sarna* Allied Aerospace got paid
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They're perfectly serviceable as an expensive hard to maintain alternative to the wild weasel
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painedforever posted:They were just copying things from all sorts of Japanese cartoons, right? The Stinger, Wasp, Pheonix Hawk and Valkyrie were different Robotech / Macross veritech fighters, right? I might have the names wrong, it's been a while and I'm too lazy to check. So, they just went right ahead and grabbed the LAM feature from the Robotech as well, were all like, "This might be too OP," and made them a little too awful in trying to balance it. This is basically my take on it. LAM's push things just a little too far into the soft side of sci-fi for me to take them seriously. On the flipside, though, I have to confess that I am something of a QuadVee enjoyer. It helps that they are slightly more practical than LAMs as a concept, and don't have nearly as many construction restrictions.
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There are a few different versions of the Macross Valkyrie in Battletech, but do they have an aerospace version of the fighter mode?
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No, the only fighter that was ever unseen was the samurai, and that's based on something from Crusher Joe
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drat. I'd really get into Aerotech if they had Valkyries or even the Gunstar from The Last Starfighter.
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All fighters which would be destroyed by the mighty Eisensturm
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For some reason the MegaMek RNG seems to have a vendetta against left legs. Lots of armour getting stripped off left legs this turn.
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Scintilla posted:For some reason the MegaMek RNG seems to have a vendetta against left legs. Lots of armour getting stripped off left legs this turn. You know that could actually be a thing. Some RNG isn't quite so R depending on how it's been programmed.
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