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I'm more of a Heavy Gear inclined kinda guy but I'll be following this little romp with interest! Voting Com Guards (Comstar) because parking our fat Telecom asses infront of the main assault seems to be a great idea. Pimpmust fucked around with this message at 23:13 on Jan 21, 2011 |
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"Noble mechwarrior, go forth with this most holy and rare of Mechs to bring justice to our enemies in a honorable duel! The technology to make this glorious machinery might have been lost for a long time but it is made of the most sturdiest of unobtanium, you cannot fail us now!  "*Mech slips on some mud and explodes* "Ah, errm, hrrmm... can you start up the mech factory again dear? I got to go get some other idiot noble to pilot our death traps, these bloody electricity bills are killing us!  "
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Jan 24, 2011 23:32
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As for magic armour technology, it helps that stuff like AC20 200mm shots have the density of water (well, inbetween water and salt water to be exact!)  (Calculated by some insane people at Stardestroyer.net, yeah that place)
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Jan 26, 2011 23:12
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Voting F) 17th Recon. GOTTA KEEP IT A CLOSE RUN GUYS
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Feb 2, 2011 22:10
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Option A, this story obviously need more murder 
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Mar 22, 2011 12:33
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The armour comes off like an onion even to machinegun fire so I think they have a point  *It also makes battletech more orky, which is a good thing.
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Mar 23, 2011 19:03
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From the sounds if it 99% of every character in Battletech is suffering from some serious inbreeding defects. The remaining 1% lucked out and despite being a byproduct of someone loving themselves in the past managed to be born with fanfic abilities.
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Mar 25, 2011 21:33
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ShadowDragon8685 posted:Welcome to the nature of caste-based nobility, as if the extraordinary actions of some distant ancestor guarantee you have some kind of divine mandate to lord it over all and sundry. That or really bad sci-fi writers running loose but who can tell the difference  Defiance Industries posted:Victor Davion was born with the amazing ability to show and not tell. They say again and again he's this great general and give him in-game abilities to reflect this, but the one time he had to do all the planning on his own without his father, Focht, Ardan Sortek or Morgan Kell to hold his hand, he loses half the Com Guard and basically their entire WarShip fleet at once. Anyone can have a bad day
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Mar 25, 2011 21:39
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I sure hope we end up naming a mech "the MAX-123FIIz Battle Shrimp Ace Custom Full Mobility Version Revision 2.5 - Platinum Members Club only"
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Mar 26, 2011 21:54
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Well, this is the universe where most people pilot giant tin cans wearing the upper part of first generation scuba gear and otherwise beach shorts for "cooling" while sitting in an oven. Anything could happen! I've long since given up any hope of Battletech not being completely retarded and just laugh at all the hilarious mental images (do please post more BT related fluff, the inbred characters are my favourites). It's like a box of chocolate, you never know what you'll get? I don't quite know who to root for in this fight anymore, the Steel Viper clowns or the bad rear end underdogs(? They are up against proper idiots but you know what I mean).
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Apr 2, 2011 20:15
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Most battlemechs looks better when drawn by someone who is an actual artist/dude with talent instead of whoever made those horrible stilted linearts.
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Apr 6, 2011 21:16
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I thought I read that the Wolfhound lost its other leg the last turn, but I noticed now when it stood up again on a third leg this update that it was just a note for when something hit that non-existant limb now. It was a pretty amusing mental picture in true Monty Python style Things are getting interesting now.
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Apr 10, 2011 18:07
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Apr 10, 2011 18:15
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Now I want a match to be goons in a company of tanks vs a lance of clanners
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Apr 11, 2011 06:20
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The time has come, the Telecom giant must rise to the call, deliver excellent service at great prices and... a gently caress it  A) ComGuards
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Apr 20, 2011 20:46
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Most Battletech tech balancing seem to be semi-awkward attempts at keeping the mechs in focus even when they can't really explain why they should be. I like the better internal consistency/planning of the Heavy Gear game(s) for that part, things like MBTs will loving murder mechs in stand up fights and are held back more by their high cost / poor mobility in the terrain of the game world. Different strokes of military mechs between the game systems though.
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May 1, 2011 18:40
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MJ12 posted:Heavy Gear is a single-planet game, though, which allows the limitation of making your planet a Giant Stair World full of tight terrain and craggy everything to allow mechs to have a place. Well yeah, that's why it feels like Heavy Gear had some more... thought going into it on how the overall picture looks. Battletech feels like it's trying to be Space Knights one moment and serious real warfare mech game the next, so it kinda gets stuck on the fence. It's a bit like how Warhammer 40k tries to have things like Terminator armour be super rare and special yet mass-produced at the same time (or somehow have enough around to replace all that is lost over thousands of years of warfare). That kind of presentation just feels lazy (and/or dumb). Not much one can do about that other than homebrewin'.
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May 1, 2011 19:03
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Shouldn't the Behemoth be cubish? I can buy the actual dropships being spheroid to be able to enter atmosphere without being ripped apart by friction but it's not like the Behemoth needs to think about that versus hauling space (and there's a reason the common truck isn't a round ball).
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May 2, 2011 17:11
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Rivensteel posted:Dunno if anyone cares, but Steam has a weekend sale on Crysis titles ($5-10). Crysis Warhead and the complete pack both come with Crysis War, the multiplayer add-on which is the basis of the total conversion mod MechWarrior: Living Legends! Yeah, noticed that as well. I'm installing Warhead right now, gonna check out some stompy 'bots later on today.
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May 7, 2011 13:20
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I can only imagine that the first guy to think up the look and concept of the cooling vests and gigantic helmets was a hideously fat goon who refused to be oppressed by pants. "Yes! Finally I have created the perfect world for noble knights such as I!" 
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May 20, 2011 17:03
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E sounds like fun and I can't see how it could backfire
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May 22, 2011 07:23
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Comguard, third times the charm right? (I think I've voted for them three times by now...)
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May 24, 2011 17:28
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 "Those Elemental guys are goddamn jerks"
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Jun 6, 2011 09:10
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TildeATH posted:That chick has some killer sideburns. Chick... She?  I thought that venture bros clip might have tipped you off but it seems I should have been clearer. Those tits are standard issue in this mans army e: What the clanner pilots are discussing right now while the Comguard are screaming in their cockpits and drowning in their own piss Pimpmust fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Jun 6, 2011 |
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Jun 6, 2011 21:50
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TildeATH posted:You need all those double heats on account of the the pilot. That design looks dangerously hot, will need some more heatsinks... but where?  Oh right, there. e: A slight improvement, I think. Pimpmust fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Jun 7, 2011 |
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Jun 7, 2011 19:41
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I want to see what is behind the ???-Door.
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Aug 21, 2011 07:52
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What if some of us like it hard? No fun unless the fight comes down to the last roll of a punch
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Aug 21, 2011 10:12
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T.G. Xarbala posted:He meant to say kick. What if I meant both? 
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Aug 21, 2011 15:09
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A bit weird to have hundreds of lush (as in: Perfectly breathable atmosphere) planets settled for hundreds of years without the population growing by more than a few hundred thousand/millions though. Now if they were all barren rocks that takes tens of thousands of years to terraform with hard labour and there's only a handful of "like Earth" planets around... Which begs the question what could possibly motivate someone to even bother sending one of those rare jumpships + a couple of lances of super rare and expensive mechs to take a bowl of backwater sand or why anyone would have troops to defend those same places. Not every planet could be home to a HPG (and why place that on a planet anyways) or a lush deposit of unexploited unobtanium
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Sep 12, 2011 19:44
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Grizzled pilot wearing a Gigantic Neuro-Helmet, hotdog cooling vest, hawaii-patterned shorts and taking a dump in his sparkling white porcelain toilet while grabbing a cold one from the 'fridge. Downtime baby. Also, these guys make fine mechwarriors
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Sep 19, 2011 06:30
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Option E) Death’s Consorts looks like a interesting mission. loving up the Federated Suns can only be a good thing, right?
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Sep 23, 2011 16:22
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You'd expect tanks in mechwarrior to be like loving Bolos or something similar. That would be an amusing sight, a company of Atlas strolling along and then BAM, BOLO OUT OF NOWHERE. Skull heads flying everywhere. Mountains melting, the sea rises to swallow nations, entire Clan fleets falling out of the sky... And then the tank speaks. "IGNORE ME"
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Sep 25, 2011 19:15
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That LongTom  Show those mechs who is boss 
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Oct 14, 2011 16:56
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I took a screenshot ages ago when I watched Gasaraki, anticipating that this day would come  (Watch that series if you like... weirdness).
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Oct 14, 2011 18:11
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Or mount a engine-unit on the rear end end of the asteroid, point at planet and have it accelerate itself to near light-speed  (I take all my strategic decisions from Yang Wenli)
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Oct 25, 2011 20:25
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Holybat posted:Heavy Gear is a boardgame from Dream Pod 9. It was actually a pretty good one, and unabashedly a VOTOMS-based game, as the developers intended. There used to be a RPG component to it as well, but that's effectively dead from what I gather. Was? Dead? Nu-uh. Check out: http://dp9.com/ There's a rather new rule revision out right now for the boardgame (Heavy Gear: Blitz: Lock&Loaded: Revision 1.1: Somethingsomething ( ) up on DriveThruRPG and the RPG is still functional by using the latest SilCORE rules.The rules are pretty great because they are A) Quick n Dirty B) Scaleable from individual soldiers up to company/battalion level slug fights with combined arms (tanks will and do gently caress the Gears up given half a chance). And the Jovian Chronicles rules works well enough for a more Gundam or Macross-like game. 
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Dec 27, 2011 17:17
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Holybat posted:Oh I knew HG Blitz is around, but when I said "dead" I was referring to the RPG side of the game. There hasn't been a new sourcebook or new edition in quite some time, and the planned Heavy Gear RPG from SJG fell through as well. Silcore's done the job pretty well, but it seems that they're substantially revising the metaplot for HG now with the new Locked and Loaded rulebooks, so there's plenty (especially regarding the CEF and their plans) that's being changed up now. I don't mind at all, but they're just shoehorning it as blurbs in the new books, and so it's a bit unsatisfactory from the RPG playing angle. Yeah, that's a pity. I've never used the actual setting, but it's a nice one from what I've read. The horrible 90ies artwork that they continue to reuse doesn't help set the mood but eh, not like battletech is better in that regard. Just cut n' paste some nice Votoms over it all and you are good to go I rather liked the old rules, hex based glory and more detailed hit rules all around. Makes it a lot easier to run things over forums and the like, as this LP can attest to. Not that it's impossible to convert the gun ranges and such to hexes, but the old rules had their gritty charm. Can't exactly fault them for going where the money is at, but it loses something when each new edition is just a slimmed down wargame version of the previous one (does wonders for speeding up turns though, so that's a plus).
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Dec 27, 2011 20:52
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I'm actually curious how he would have hidden his company in the gigantic forest. Like, there's the city/colony and then a solid, wild, forest all around right? How do one march a company of mechs into that without leaving a easy trail of downed/trampled trees to follow? Assuming of course that mechs can just travel for days, pushing through trees big enough to hide them from the sky, without rapidly suffering some sort of damage and-No, no must not bring realism into-Argghllllhgh 
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Dec 30, 2011 18:22
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 This book only makes sense if done South Park style, with Cartman as Rose.
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I would have introduced a Clan PROtagonist that would loving murder the antagonist of the story, Jeremiah Rose, and burn down the entire planet. The End. But that's just me
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