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That Italian Guy posted:I've finally caved and watched Cohh's YT stuff from the start and I was pleasantly surprised by seeing that you can pick an "he, she, they" pronoun for the player's character. This is the only game I can think of (other than Sunless Sea) that allows it and it's a nice touch. Guess what people are very mad about in battletech
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I thought Warships became a lot more common after the Jihad/FedCom civil war Regardless of the lore, tabletop provides minis and extensive rules for space combat
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ImpactVector posted:They did have a smaller line of games devoted to space battles, but yeah. Gotta keep that focus on stompy robots. These rules live on! In Tactical Operations, Strategic Operations, and Interstellar Operations + the Tech Manual
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The more I read about the clans the more I realize they're just dumb klingons
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Apr 19, 2018 21:26
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Cowcaster posted:have you seen how many dice you have to roll to play a tabletop game of battletech 2d6
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Apr 19, 2018 21:27
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Apr 19, 2018 21:28
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Is the tabletop really that bad? I've played a few 1v1 games this week and it's pretty normal compared to any other tabletop game Aim gun, add like 2 modifiers, roll Roll again Check off damage boxes
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Apr 19, 2018 22:12
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Like I don't even know if you can get battletech minis anymore and if you can I have no idea where to get them Then most mechs kinda look lovely on their own and the miniatures from what I've seen aren't great
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Apr 19, 2018 22:14
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Mordja posted:He said lovely, not amazing. Yeah that owns
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Apr 19, 2018 22:23
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Internet Explorer posted:I hope they release a board game version of this game, but as an example of what I was talking about earlier the Battletech board game rights are owned by Catalyst Games, which as far as I can tell has absolutely nothing to do with HBS. Maybe they could work something out, but yeah... Catalyst is a mess. I'm pretty sure you can't even get copies of the tabletop rules anymore, I looked on Amazon and they don't have the core rules and the expansions are going for 5-10k dollars
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b0lt posted:fire lb 20-x at target I thought you grouped damage together with cluster weapons
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Apr 19, 2018 22:54
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I just waded into the rules and I guess I don't know all the bad parts yet
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Apr 19, 2018 22:58
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I should say I found Total Warfare at goodwill and wanna continue on that line
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Apr 19, 2018 23:04
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Rookersh posted:So last time I ever even heard of Battletech was back when I was a kid and a game came out? And you could join fun group names like the SMOKE JAGUARS and the ANGRY WOLVES and poo poo like that. ' 1. No smoke jaguars or any other clans in this game, the clans have not invaded the inner sphere 2. The inner sphere is the extent of human colonized space, with earth at it's center 3. The inner sphere is comprised of half a dozen successor states to the Star League. The Star League was a Roman Empire in Space kinda deal 4. The inner sphere states are mostly feudal or dictatorships and are ruled by ruling families known as Houses. 5. Earth is controlled by Comstar. Comstar is basically Comcast mixed with The Papal State. It is more powerful and somehow more evil than both. They control all technological development, ancient technology and communication. 6. The clans left the inner sphere and are unknown to the inner sphere. They want to invade to restore the Star League. 7. In terms of size, the inner sphere is an insignificant portion of the milky way, not a whole galaxy
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Apr 23, 2018 19:03
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Is there multiplayer?
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Apr 23, 2018 20:17
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No guts no galaxy
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Apr 23, 2018 20:29
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I just saw the character customization and it says, "pronoun". That's way too weird. Can you add the option so I can specifically pick male or female? It breaks immersion not to specify sex with absolute clarity. The pronoun is just way too vague and political because it's not logical. Other than this issue, the rest of the game looks great, thanks for hearing me out. Just to clarify, I don't mind the pronoun option, but just please add a gender/sex tab so I can specifically know that my character has the correct anatomy. It's kind of weird and disturbing not knowing with absolute clarity that my character may not be male or female. I'm sorry if I don't know how to speak in a way that doesn't offend anyone, I'm old school, sorry! UPDATE: I want to thank the mods for not deleting my post and banning me. I'm very impressed you let me speak my mind and ideals. It's rare to not be banned by left leaning types. You have my deepest respects for letting me bring this issue up. Thanks. UPDATE: Well, they locked the post... Leftists simply don't have the capacity for logical discussion. It's sad. They used to not be like this. Vote for Trump in 2020 to get back at them.
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My first complaint: The description of the Capellan Confederation says it is a "socialist police state" however in the hover text for Capellan Confederation, it says that citizens have "total subservience of the individual to the state" and literally "service guarantees citizenship" which are textbook foundational philosophies of fascism, not socialism
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Apr 24, 2018 18:02
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Xotl posted:"Service guarantees citizenship" is only textbook fascism if you've read bad blogs about Starship Troopers: neither Italy nor Spain nor Portugal nor Germany had that as a requirement. 1. command economies are not socialist 2. subservience of the individual to the state is distinct from deferring to state authority, and in context of how the Caps are presented it is fascist in that every individual's value correlates to their contribution military mobilization of the state "complete mobilization of society under a totalitarian one-party state as necessary to prepare a nation for armed conflict and to respond effectively to economic difficulties."
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Apr 24, 2018 18:20
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Drone posted:God the music in this game is just fantastic who did the music
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Apr 24, 2018 18:20
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wow there's 3d portraits with customization
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Apr 24, 2018 18:23
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I like Steiner because they don't seem stupid like FedSuns, Caps, Free World League, and Combine
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Lmao that Kamea mentions execution by hanging. You'd think there'd be like stomped by battlemech or like shot with a PPC style executions in tyool 3025
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How do you build mechs? I'm trying to to just max out armor and use what's left for weapons but it doesn't leave much.
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Apr 24, 2018 20:13
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Why oh why are AC/2s 6 tons??
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So just to ask the thread if I'm going in the right direction: I've maximized the armor for the starting Blackjack totally, everywhere. I've got 1 AC/2 and 4 MLs + 3 heat sinks + 4 JJs. Is that a good build or should I sacrifice like 6 tons of armor to cram on another AC/2
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Apr 24, 2018 20:20
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Xarbala posted:AC/2s are kind of mediocre, they do the damage of an ML but just at longer range. You're better off just maxing that armor tbh. Hell I'd drop the other AC/2 and upgrade one of the MLs to a Large Laser. So is like every mech they give you massively underarmored from the start or what
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PoptartsNinja posted:
If you use the whole tabletop franchise, RPG + the entire battletech line, you can run and manage your own periphy states as a metagame to fighting in space on the ground. Kinda halfway to that point
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Gamerofthegame posted:I suspect the general lack of weapons might hurt the game's longevity. You have shotgun missles, indirect missiles, two flavors of longrange gun, mcpunch gun, big and small laser, mcsnipe laser, fire and then the gauntlet of weapons-for-punching. That doesn't really feel like much, in particular when you start specializing your robits into various ranges and roles. Lol thinking battletech doesn't have enough weapons
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I must suck at this game because 2/3 skull missions are chewing me up to the point where I'm weeks in refit and losing money
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Drone posted:Yep. They should restart the lore from 3025 too
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Drone posted:
I feel like they can just redo everything the same, but modern and higher quality, up to like 3050. Then do something new
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Ciaphas posted:At this point i'm wondering why I wouldn't want to bring one scout and three LRM boats to every mission This will backfire very badly for you
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Vargs posted:This game's progression is kinda weird. As you get farther along, you start fielding heavier mechs with more weapons. Your enemies also field heavier mechs, so the extra damage is kinda balanced out by the higher durability all around. The main difference is that now everything moves agonizingly slowly. I miss the days when even my front-line tank mechs could zip around reasonably well. Yeah this is why I wish we had multiple lances
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Koorisch posted:So how do you guys build your Quickdraws and Jagermechs (both variants)? My Jager has 2 AC/20 and shreds rear end
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Apr 28, 2018 22:38
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:I think it's 8 seconds actually. 200 km/hour tanks and yet my 31st century long range missiles have a max range that's about a third of what a Sherman tank could hit with its main cannon in 1943. Yeah the 80s were pretty stupid with their conception of technology Like an M1 Abrams weighs as much as a Jagermech
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Apr 28, 2018 22:56
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Clans are just dumb klingons
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Apr 29, 2018 01:27
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Your daily "I wish we could have 2 lances"
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Peven Stan posted:Con: All battles would take over 2 hours with 8 mechs to juggle Do you know anything about battletech? Refitting is incredibly expensive and time consuming to the point where almost no one can make custom mechs And your average battle is only like 15-20 min idk why ppl are bitchinf
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