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Arquinsiel posted:This lot are a late Kickstarter thing to help out with one of the IWM team's medical bills. I haven't heard if they intend them to be a retail item later or not. If I pledged on the Kickstarter, is there still a way to get this added to my order?
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Dec 11, 2023 01:58
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Been seeing some people complain about the size of 'map-scale' dropships, then a friend showed me this behemoth. It's resin, but looks rad. Need a big board for it though.
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Dec 11, 2023 02:18
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Defiance Industries posted:I think everything has been locked in for like a month now. Figured as much but wanted to make sure. I couldn't find a way to edit my order just now. Ooh well. I hope they release it! And there are 3rd party dropships out there too.
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Dec 11, 2023 02:20
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Crazy Joe Wilson posted:Been seeing some people complain about the size of 'map-scale' dropships, then a friend showed me this behemoth. It's an inch too small.
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Dec 11, 2023 02:23
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Crazy Joe Wilson posted:Been seeing some people complain about the size of 'map-scale' dropships, then a friend showed me this behemoth. I posted this on the previous page  It's very cool. The Gepard on the same sight is more my speed though.
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Strobe posted:It would be weird to spend the resources to make it shelf presentable if it's not intended to end up on shelves.
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Strobe posted:I posted this on the previous page Sorry 'bout that, saw new page and skipped to it. I asked this on a discord the other day but I think I went to bed and missed the answers, if any. In BattleTech a lot of merc companies seem to get into situations where their families get taken hostage by employers. Why is this/what are the solutions to avoiding it?
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Crazy Joe Wilson posted:Sorry 'bout that, saw new page and skipped to it. Make sure Charrette isn't writing your book
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Crazy Joe Wilson posted:I asked this on a discord the other day but I think I went to bed and missed the answers, if any. In BattleTech a lot of merc companies seem to get into situations where their families get taken hostage by employers. Why is this/what are the solutions to avoiding it? Depends on the outfit. If they're small enough, they probably aren't carting dependents around--but a moderate to large-sized mercenary group is probably bringing kids and family along, and some of the more paranoid ones aren't willing to trust them to the safety of their employers (why would you hand House Liao or House Kurita a group of ready-made hostages so they can force you to work for free?). So they have to find ways to protect them themselves.
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This is a very dumb question. I am painting up a bunch of Comstar mechs, and I cant tell whether the color scheme is pure white or white with gold details? Right now my mechs are white with gold details (weapon barrels , the Atlas' skull face) and Unit Color Compendium shows a bunch of gold but all the individual armies are all white. Are gold details/trim anywhere in the official books?
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Dec 11, 2023 06:08
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Depends on whether you're a parade formation or black ops. Black Ops are painted primer white with no identifiable markings. Before 3039, parade formations were only for the units stationed in visible places on Terra.
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Dec 11, 2023 06:17
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:This is a very dumb question. "Unlike House militaries, where most regiments have evolved a specific color scheme, the Com Guards simply paint their vehicles white for official occasions and use appropriate camouflage for combat." -Field Manual: ComStar. UCC takes a lot of liberties, don't trust em. Make your guys look like this: 
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PoptartsNinja posted:Depends on whether you're a parade formation or black ops. Oh, perfect, I had them in my head as some kind of Terra defense force.
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:This is a very dumb question. Com Guards are all white unless there's some super secret squirrel unit I'm not aware of. https://camospecs.com/factions/comstar/ White and gold accents is more like the 1st Knights of the Inner Sphere (who are only alive for late Clan Invasion and Civil War). https://camospecs.com/unit/1st-knights-of-the-inner-sphere/
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Gold trim is going to be particular units' foibles or maybe even specific pilots, but it absolutely is not the global Com Guard parade scheme.
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I could still see a lance or company doing that if they had to guard something prestegious (like the Vatican) or something ComStar wanted outsiders to think was important.
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Well, painted over the gold, now to make my friends' FedSuns pay their phone bill.
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Alpha Strike is such a neat looking game. 
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Defiance Industries posted:
See sometimes UCC has some really cool examples, like this. I based my Republic Battalion off of it. Even though I recently saw someone else's take that looks even cooler, I might stick with the stripes instead of just accents. Crazy Joe Wilson fucked around with this message at 16:05 on Dec 11, 2023 |
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I use UCC to find the primary color I want, then check Camospecs to see what the unit really looks like. Unfortunately, UCC treats searching for two colors as an OR not an AND which makes narrowing things down a pain in the rear end.
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Atlas Hugged posted:Alpha Strike is such a neat looking game. Agreed, I need to get a nice neoprene mat like what Southern Assault uses. Here are some pics from a recent battle I played with a friend. 350 pts, Wolf Dragoons vs Spirit Cats, IlClan era (But tech is all Clan Invasion).  Wolf Dragoons with captured Wolf Empire stuff  Spirit Cats!      I have to say, I really like little fast guys. This was mostly a learning game for my friend and me.
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Defiance Industries posted:"Unlike House militaries, where most regiments have evolved a specific color scheme, the Com Guards simply paint their vehicles white for official occasions and use appropriate camouflage for combat." -Field Manual: ComStar. My Comguard are basically using gold the way that figure uses silver to hilight metal parts. As well as silver. It's a few very small bits here and there to add just a teeny bit more colour to the model.
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I like to do field schemes on my minis because, well, mainly I like how desert camouflage looks.
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I do the parade scheme because the prospect of repainting my minis because the 2nd Donegal gets stationed on Tharkad rather than Furillo fills me with terror.
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I'm debating on just batch-painting my mechs a simple olive drab and saying they're just random merc mechs.
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Floppychop posted:I'm debating on just batch-painting my mechs a simple olive drab and saying they're just random merc mechs. I'm definitely looking for a "neutral" scheme for most of my 'mechs so when they hit the table they're whatever.
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"SLDF Green/Tan" or "generic camo" always work well for that.
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Arquinsiel posted:Yeah, the UCC people are both bad at reading and prone to simply making poo poo up. Maybe I'm missing something but given a huge number of entries all over CamoSpecs that are basically "scheme was canonised by <rando user name> on <date>" aren't CamoSpecs just making poo poo up too?
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Mode 7 posted:Maybe I'm missing something but given a huge number of entries all over CamoSpecs that are basically "scheme was canonised by <rando user name> on <date>" aren't CamoSpecs just making poo poo up too? By virtue of being included on the website, that paint job becomes canon, just like getting your writing published in official material does for prose.
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Mode 7 posted:Maybe I'm missing something but given a huge number of entries all over CamoSpecs that are basically "scheme was canonised by <rando user name> on <date>" aren't CamoSpecs just making poo poo up too? Yeah and all the novels that say "BattleTech" on them are basically just fan fiction.
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Yeah but they gave me 300 bucks for my fan fiction, and then I turned around and spent it all on the kickstarter.
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I know I have posted about them before, but I recently got a much better picture for my Constructicon-themed unit that I thought I'd share.
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^^^^ Excellent. Mode 7 posted:Maybe I'm missing something but given a huge number of entries all over CamoSpecs that are basically "scheme was canonised by <rando user name> on <date>" aren't CamoSpecs just making poo poo up too?
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Arquinsiel posted:What DI said Definitely, they also turned around and spent any money they got out of it on miniatures, too.
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To be fair, that does seem to be a problem with people who work on the game in general
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Ah, the Yeoman. There's one in a story I sent a bit ago, just because I don't think it's appeared in fiction before. It's so "I don't give a gently caress how I look" that you have to respect it on some level.
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Defiance Industries posted:By virtue of being included on the website, that paint job becomes canon, just like getting your writing published in official material does for prose. Ah okay, I didn't realise there was a 1:1 relationship between Catalyst and CamoSpecs, I thought it was a fan initiative. That's awesome. Strobe posted:Yeah and all the novels that say "BattleTech" on them are basically just fan fiction. Seems like an insult to the good name of fan fiction. Mode 7 fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Dec 14, 2023 |
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