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PoptartsNinja posted:Mechwarrior: Destiny is really great and I can't wait until it fully launches. Is there an overview of the mechanics online?
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A new pack has been confirmed full of oldmechs. it contains the first mech developed by each of the great houses plus the Mackie and the first omnimech. Hegemony: Mackie Lyran: Ymir DC: Gladiator FWL: Icarus II Capellans: Firebee Fedsuns: Battleaxe Clans: Coyotl
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Saint Celestine posted:Whats a good screening mech? Hoplite, it's just a big chunk of metal that soaks enemy fire.
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CGL has revealed the first couple KS tiers for the mercenaries wave:  The mercenaries box has the following:
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SirFozzie posted:Alright, bring out your ks predictions (no toxxes unless you want to) There are already 23,345 signups on the backerkit page. IDK how that translates to kickstarter pledges though.
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If you're planning to run Alpha Strike then you can look up the http://masterunitlist.info/ and print out unit cards for the variants you want. As a rule AS is much more forgiving toward force composition than Classic and janky/bad mechs are much more viable.
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Atlas Hugged posted:Yeah there's really nothing stopping you from taking a later version of the Locust and Commando. This is BattleTech, not WarHammer. You can use any variant of the unit without having to buy a dozen versions of the mini. I mean, you could use a bottlecap frankly, but if you at least want to keep things close to visually accurate, then just focus on silhouettes. According to MUL there are 34 officially supported Locust variants and only two or maybe three different CGL locust minis. What I'm saying is that I want a locust version of the new Urbanmech box.
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 Does an LRM20 count as artillery? E. Actually I think the one on the bottom right may be a UM-R68 with a MRM-30. The one on the bottom left is probably a new Ilclan era variant although there is the UM-AIV which has an Arrow IV tactical nuke launcher. E. https://bg.battletech.com/news/battletech-at-adepticon-mercenaries-kickstarter-launch-party-details-and-product-announcements/ NoNotTheMindProbe fucked around with this message at 09:56 on Apr 3, 2023 |
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They say on the store page that the Urbanmech box, Proliferation box and Snords box will be available in retail at the end of northern hemisphere spring.
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Floppychop posted:I hope that if it doesn't hit the $8m mark that we'll still see a Blood Asp mini at some point. They probably already have the Blood Asp and the Strikers boxes in the pipeline and were able to bring them forward due to the success of the kickstarter.
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PoptartsNinja posted:
The Summoner is the Thunderbolt IIC. It even has a shoulder LRM launcher and an off centre cockpit. e. Horned Owl is the Mongoose IIC
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I think it's just a stand-alone card game. There's an Encounters: Shadowrun game on BGG.
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Z the IVth posted:I'm thinking of getting the Alpha Strike starter. Would the Comstar Level 2 be a good complement to the existing Lances and Star from the box? If you don't have many clan mechs then I would recommend picking up another clan star box. The Striker Star has light and mediums that will allow for more force composition flexibility if you want to pit them against your IS mechs.
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SirFozzie posted:There needs to be a ilClan era Emperor Crab superheavy. That's basically the Omega albeit Jihad era rather than Ilclan. 150 tons of Wobbie goodness: 
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The Ilkhan Alaric Ward decided that only clans could wipe out other clans so technically the Smoke Jaguars were never gone. Also the 2nd Star League flag had a gold trim so under admiralty law...
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PoptartsNinja posted:I wish. This one is the only one I know of, but you lose out on the train tracks aesthetic because it's an elevated maglev. There is an enormous land train in the master unit list
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Owlbear Camus posted:What's the most iconic Amaris/RWR 'mech (outside of idiotic wunderwaffen that never worked or got deployed as one or two off prototypes as a last ditch to hold terra)? I was bored at work and tried to theory craft an Amaris Civil War box set the other day. I haven't decided what should be on the SLDF side other than Kerensky's Orion and maybe a Sling light mech. On the RWR side however there's a clear set of distinct Amaris aligned mechs: Jackrabbit Galahad Pheonix Dragoon Rampage and the mandatory Rifleman III
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Owlbear Camus posted:I mean technically true, in the sense than if you're playing a war game set in 2023 a P-38 mustang would be "available," though rare due to age and attrition The P-38 was the lightning. The Mustang was the P-51.
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Owlbear Camus posted:I'm going to pretend like I was laying some kind of militaria nerd trap instead of legit conflating their nicknames humor me for the sake of my ego It's the trad games sub forum. That's like shooting fish in a barrel.
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GD_American posted:Masakari Prime? The four PPC bastard? The AS card in the box is the C (2x ER PPC, 2x LP Laser, Flamer) and the T (2x Plasma Rifles, 2x ER PPC, RL 10) e. The second scenario uses the T configuration NoNotTheMindProbe fucked around with this message at 09:33 on May 22, 2023 |
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Sidesaddle Cavalry posted:Was going through the add-ons for my Mercs BackerKit and this little number came up: They're working on faction specific force packs as well to help 40k refugees who are intimidated by the whole no fixed factions thing.
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The best Charger is the Hatamoto-Chi
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The current kickstarter is just an expansion wave for the previous kickstarter. The game has technically never died since it started 40 years ago but it had a soft, mostly aesthetic reboot about 5 years ago with the current product line. The Alpha Strike sister game of Battletech is also exploding in popularity right now.
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Cross posted from the GBS thread. Some fresh drama in the BattleTech community just dropped.  An anthology of queer Battletech stories was recently released with the blessing of CGL. It turned out that the moderators on r/battletech were alt-right bigots and they had a meltdown due to the gay mechs. The community responded by ripping into the mods and posting pride coloured mechs, cat girls and cat mechs.  This caused the r/battletech mods to completely poo poo the bed and delete the sub. The community started a new LGBTQIA+ friendly sub https://www.reddit.com/r/OfficialBattleTech/ which has received official backing from CGL: CGL posted:Hi everyone, this is Rem Alternis - the Community and Marketing Director from Catalyst Game Labs.
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Yeah they decisively lost control of the little culture war they thought they were fighting by being unable to just ignore rainbow coloured mechs for a day.
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GD_American posted:LB-10X, Streak SRM-2, Ultra AC/5, ER Large Laser. No other sizes of those flavors at first. Were Blasers introduced at the same time?
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Technowolf posted:Do you mean in universe or which book it debuted in? The book
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HBS Battletech has S=red, M=green, L=blue. Pulse lasers have a pulsating effect. The official art over the years for the TT game has been whatever colour the artist felt like at the time.
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If I was writing for CGL I'd have a prole uprising being armed and secretly co-opted by Blakist cells. That way you can have your ramshackle army decked out with converted industrial mechs plus WoB mech variants (minus the fancy WoB gear like C3i) can come back for the IlClan era. You could even throw in some Solaris VII mechs and Protomechs for good measure.
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Xenomrph posted:So as an outsider with a barely-functional understanding of the setting and the franchise as a whole, how come we haven't gotten live-action Battletech movies/shows yet? The rights are a mess. Topps (who are owned by some other megacorp) owns the IP for Books and tabletop stuff, Microsoft owns the rights for all video game and some other random corporation owns the film/animation rights. Every time someone thinks about making a BT show or movie they take one look at the IP situation and run the gently caress away.
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IIRC the devs mentioned in one of the streams that they were going to do TRO compilations although they may need to be more than one volume due to the number of Ilclan TROs.
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aphid_licker posted:The noble stuff always had this sorta old timey soap opera feel. Like it's just this handful of ppl dramaing at each other in budget sets. It never worked that well for me. The old Stackpole Melissa and Hanse trilogy etc. Stuff like Wolves on the Border felt a tad more lived in but overall it's probably better to write about the little guys and let the reader imagine the crazy poo poo going on at the top that sets it all in motion. Well the great houses do love stealing each others DNA to make fake replacement babies and secret heirs.
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That's some crisp highlighting on the panels.
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Strobe posted:Scroggins does a lot of it, but if you look hard enough a couple artists have styles that somehow manage to be distinct still within the larger new design aesthetic. Scroggins' patreon is probably a pretty good indicator of the ones he's worked on personally, for anyone curious. Scroggins is mostly in charge of the redesigns of older mechs while another team handles the new Ilclan era mechs.
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Flipswitch posted:I've honestly no idea, but it's one of those mechs if love to see so I can get a 3d printed one, along with the Lu Wei Bing and the Gùn CGL are working on a new line of faction specific force boxes to go with the new faction books, and Scroggins mentioned in an interview with Big Red 40Tech that they're doing both Clan Invasion and IlClan era mechs. So we might be getting some of the newer Liao designs in plastic in the next couple years.
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