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PoptartsNinja posted:I am at an impasse. I can't decide what color to paint my Warhansa Urbanmech. Pink, the answer is always pink.
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Mar 3, 2017 05:09
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Sadly I do not own a pink paint bright enough, or yellow paint at all. My only blues are very dark and I'm reserving the brightest green I have for something else. Metallic gold is the brightest I can manage. Edit: If I were to do anything up like a construction worker, it'd be the Cyclops. It looks like it's wearing a vest and helmet already. PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Mar 3, 2017 |
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Mar 3, 2017 05:28
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In that case, paint the UrbanMech metallic gold with flecks of white across the top of its canopy. It's designed for urban combat, after all, so its owners just parked it in a city park during a cessation of hostilities and told everyone it was a statue. Then birds started making GBS threads on it.
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Mar 3, 2017 05:44
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Hazard stripes. Hazard stripes -everywhere-
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Mar 3, 2017 05:45
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The plan of a Kurita scion to host the "Golden Urbies" awards for "best colony" as a gambit to covertly place urban pacification forces in key locations drew sharp criticism from many within the regime, but ultimately moved forward due to a lack of better ideas. Edit: Or would that be more of a CapCon sort of move?
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Mar 3, 2017 06:14
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Kuritas don't need to covertly place those forces. They just do it.
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Mar 3, 2017 08:06
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The Urbie's not especially good at shooting civilians in any case, a determined infantry platoon is an Urbanmech's worst nightmare.
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Mar 3, 2017 12:36
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paragon1 posted:The plan of a Kurita scion to host the "Golden Urbies" awards for "best colony" as a gambit to covertly place urban pacification forces in key locations drew sharp criticism from many within the regime, but ultimately moved forward due to a lack of better ideas. If they have time to do that, surely they have time to just hide barrels of napalm and explosives everywhere.
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Mar 3, 2017 12:52
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Kurita would probably just hand out flamethrowers to the local garrison, whatever they're made up of, then ask them to go to work. No need to get a mech involved.
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Mar 3, 2017 14:52
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Too much effort for succession wars House Kurita. They'd just order a pit to be dug, put a katana in it point up, and tell the pit-diggers to jump in and aim for the katana. Then they'd tell the neighbors to collect the bodies followed by immediately telling them to jump in after.
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Mar 3, 2017 15:19
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PoptartsNinja posted:Too much effort for succession wars House Kurita. An excellent way to cycle the hole-digging economy and ensure full employment!
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Mar 3, 2017 15:42
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PoptartsNinja posted:I am at an impasse. I can't decide what color to paint my Warhansa Urbanmech. Grey trashcan with Oscar the Grouch on the cockpit.
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Mar 3, 2017 16:29
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PoptartsNinja posted:Sadly I do not own a pink paint bright enough, or yellow paint at all. My only blues are very dark and I'm reserving the brightest green I have for something else. Ah well. If there's any combination of words I'd use to describe the mwo urbanmech, it's "scrunt zaku," but you can't really go wrong with an oscar statue either.
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Mar 4, 2017 00:01
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PoptartsNinja posted:The Urbie's not especially good at shooting civilians in any case, a determined infantry platoon is an Urbanmech's worst nightmare. As someone who played through the Crescent Hawk's Revenge video game back in Caveman Times, i can attest to this. Urbies are poo poo against Infantry. God drat I hated that mission.
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Mar 4, 2017 00:02
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Rorahusky posted:As someone who played through the Crescent Hawk's Revenge video game back in Caveman Times, i can attest to this. Urbies are poo poo against Infantry. Doesn't that kinda defeat the point of a mech designed for urban combat?
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Mar 4, 2017 00:03
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AJ_Impy posted:Doesn't that kinda defeat the point of a mech designed for urban combat? As has been mentioned before, the Urbanmech is actually pretty terrible at its stated job. It can't even jump over most mid-height urban buildings.
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Mar 4, 2017 00:05
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The Urbanmech exists to be cute and useless. Since its survivability is so low the only simple way to make it more useful is to upgrade its armaments to either a walking bomb or something longer-range with higher damage in the hope that it can do something meaningful before it is destroyed.
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Mar 4, 2017 00:14
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Yeah, basically. Incidentally, this is why the CattleMaster story from Total Warfare is so funny.
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Mar 4, 2017 00:27
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That story made me sad. Those farmers were so determined.
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Mar 4, 2017 01:38
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vorebane posted:That story made me sad. Those farmers were so determined. These feelings are not mutually exclusive.
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Mar 4, 2017 01:42
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Anyone want to give advice on what I, the thunder hawk, should do here?
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Mar 4, 2017 06:42
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Neopie posted:Anyone want to give advice on what I, the thunder hawk, should do here? Ultimately, your lance as a whole needs to pick a single target and focus fire it down. Consult with your teammates, pick a Clanner, and kill it. The Kingfisher is in all your faces and should be pretty easy to hit, and is already damaged. Alternatively that King Cobra has a lower movement modifier, and is nearly as close. The Nightstar is giving you his rear arc...for a couple of your lance anyway...but there's something to be said for letting the allied Cyclops take the Nightstar's heat for a little while longer. But don''t let her get killed! As far as you personally, the fact that you know that the Dire Wolf is the one going to shoot you lets you maneuver to make his shots harder. Try to keep something between you and him if you can while making sure you can see your lance's chosen victim is a short term solution, but if you hide for too long he can choose another target.
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Mar 4, 2017 08:56
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Neopie posted:Anyone want to give advice on what I, the thunder hawk, should do here? According to the public googledoc your teammates are using most of your lance is focusing on the Kingfisher, I'd probably walk one hex up to 2333 and just unload on it, maybe put contingencies on the King Cobra just in case. You can fire all Gauss Rifles and two of your Medium Lasers and remain heat neutral. As you're in an assault there's not a lot of movement options available to you, and a common point veterans like to hammer into newbies is to focus fire because an enemy killed now is one who can't shoot at you later. It's always better to pile damage on and try to knock someone out as quickly as possible instead of weakening each enemy piecemeal, as they can still shoot back at you while you do. So long as you and the rest of the southern lance gets stuck in and tries to knock people out as quickly as possible, you should manage. The King Cobra can't melee anybody so long as it's not an ACE and it won't be an ACE unless the Cyclops NPC bites it. Shame the northern lance underestimated how quickly those fast and heavily-armed Clan Mediums could close in on the Cyclops' butt but, well, them's the breaks. Hope they manage to land their own backshots.
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Mar 4, 2017 09:07
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A reminder that as far as we know if you put the King Cobra as a contingency it becomes your primary due to Distracting.
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Mar 4, 2017 09:11
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Zaodai posted:A reminder that as far as we know if you put the King Cobra as a contingency it becomes your primary due to Distracting. Oh I forgot about that. Yeah, probably want to contingency the Nightstar then.
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Mar 4, 2017 09:16
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I'm going to overheat this turn but I think it is worth it for the chance of putting as much as I can into the rear of the Kingfisher, I'll restrain my firepower next turn to help cool off.
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Mar 4, 2017 12:15
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Zaodai posted:A reminder that as far as we know if you put the King Cobra as a contingency it becomes your primary due to Distracting. Oh, hmm. PoptartsNinja, I put in the King Cobra as my contingency target if the Kingfisher LOS was blocked by a crane. Would distracting make me fire on it anyway? If so, I can edit my orders to pick another contingency target.
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Mar 4, 2017 14:24
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You can always edit orders right up until the point I start working on an update. Once that happens I'm afraid all bets are off as I probably won't check my messages until after the update is finished.
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Mar 4, 2017 14:59
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Xarbala posted:Ah well. If there's any combination of words I'd use to describe the mwo urbanmech, it's "scrunt zaku," but you can't really go wrong with an oscar statue either. Sold. Dark green body, light green arms and legs. ... With metallic gold (or would bronze be better? It'd look nicer with the green I think) hazard stripes.
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Mar 4, 2017 17:38
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PoptartsNinja posted:Sold. Dark green body, light green arms and legs. Bronze is a natural fit to be sure, but gold is positively Capellan. Either works, we all trust in your judgment.
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Mar 4, 2017 18:00
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Xarbala posted:Shame the northern lance underestimated how quickly those fast and heavily-armed Clan Mediums could close in on the Cyclops' butt but, well, them's the breaks. Hope they manage to land their own backshots. We didn't underestimate them as much as we collectively hosed up LoS calculation.  And unless I am mistaken about the strict zell thing, only the Nightstar can fire at the cyclops right now.Also, cant decide between walking to 1811 and shooting the Battle Cobra A versus shooting the Wyvern IIC. If I am counting correctly, I would be shooting the Battle Cobra A at 10 ( 4 gunnery + 2 med range + 3 move mod + 1 walked ), but Archer is shooting at it too, so there is larger chance of doing proper damage. The Wyvern IIC I would be shooting at 8 (It has only +1 move mod), assuming I am counting the range correctly and its still in medium range, but nobody else will be shooting it with me.
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Mar 4, 2017 21:21
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8s are far better odds than 10s- You're more than twice as likely to hit on 8s as you are with 10s.
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Mar 4, 2017 21:59
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PoptartsNinja posted:
paint it like a great orange traffic cone. Maybe one of those annoying yellow light LED billboards on its back.
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Mar 5, 2017 07:46
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Just a reminder that orders are due today, in case anyone hasn't sent them.TheParadigm posted:paint it like a great orange traffic cone. Maybe one of those annoying yellow light LED billboards on its back. You overestimate my painting ability. The Urbanmech's only a little bigger than a quarter, it's pretty tiny.
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Mar 5, 2017 14:44
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Also a reminder that the googledoc is open to edits by the public so you don't need any special permissions to post in it. As I've clearly done. If neither tokenbrownguy nor any of the listed alternates are available or currently able to follow the thread, maybe it's time to tap in a veteran who hasn't yet had a second go. I know both me and Knox were cycled in but DI would probs be interested in helping the LC get a much-needed win.
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Mar 5, 2017 21:20
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Update's delayed until Wednesday to give Neopie a chance to get orders in. I know she's working right now and just forgot the deadline again, but the players can't do without the Thunder Hawk this fight and giving the Clans a turn of free damage would be crippling.
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Mar 5, 2017 22:03
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Hey Poptarts, my card doesn't like SA anymore and I can't buy Platinum. I'll have to resort to e-mails the next time, so sign me up using fjgr89@gmail.com Thanks!
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Mar 5, 2017 22:19
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Got it!
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Mar 5, 2017 22:19
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Apropos of nothing, I think I really want to get http://www.gambody.com/3d-models/mechwarrior-atlas and maybe try to cast it in bronze or something.
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gently caress poo poo goddamnit the email is in MT DRAFTS ONE MOMENT
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