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Atlas Hugged posted:I've always loved the feudal themes of the setting and how outside of the official regiments of the Successor States, each mech represented the sum total wealth of some obscure noble family. To that end, all of my random rear end mechs are flying their individual family colors, like sci-fi Bretonnians. So if they lost the mech the family went bankrupt? Battle tech has a weird universe. I read a few of the book when I was young. If I wanted to get into the game and bought the video game how groggy is it? All tabletop games look from a distance like they have a million subtleties that'll get me chewed up.
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Defiance Industries posted:BT is on the simulator end of things. Until you've done things like memorize the hit table, target move mods and crit chances, it's best played with a single unit per player. Which isn't bad, it makes for a great campaign. Is that the hit table per weapon? I've watched a bit of an lp and am very very lost. One unit per player sounds like fun though. Looking for a new fairly slow paced strategy game that isn't managing more than a few units
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The battletech mercenary edition is on sale for like 30 euros on gog. Worth it as an entry point into the game? I don't think I'll ever play tabletop
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Well I bought it to give it a go. I look forward to watching my lance repeatedly die because I can't handle the crunch or make a good mech
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girl dick energy posted:Until you learn enough to get into minutia, have some slightly oversimplified rules of thumb: Thanks for the tips! I'll try this when it eventually finishes downloading...
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Is it supposed to be like a dozen tanks, bunch of infantry and 1 or 2 mechs on each side?
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It's hard to get a "lives are cheap, mechs are valuable" perspective if there are the same number of lives and mechs on the table. If every game had like 10 groups of infantry and some tanks that got wrecked then it'd be easier to see.
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moths posted:I wish I'd known about the scale difference with plastic elementals before I bought 60 of the metal ones. Sometimes they take the mask off and just go with "no politics I disagree with" though I don't know if cpsam or dnd mods are considered chuds
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Defiance Industries posted:House Kurita definitely has all the worst traits of the other factions, minus any redeeming qualities they might have. A lot like the Jags. It's not their fault, they have to live in jacksonville
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DrPop posted:Word, I understand where you're coming from. Maybe I've just been on the bad end of :battletech: too many times to consider it viable. Yes please. I know little about this game but that would be interesting to see
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Do mechs ever fight in space or do big capital ships blow each other and all the mechs/dropships in them up?
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Atlas Hugged posted:My kid and his buddy have been running around my house after school all week shouting, "ER PPC! ER PPC!" while shooting Nerf guns at each other. I think this means I'm parenting correctly? Lol
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So I've gotten back into the HBS battletech game and am thinking of picking up the beginner's box/ the base set to dip my toes in the tabletop version. for 20 pounds is the beginner's box worth it or is it better to pick up the full one for around 50? It looks like the full one has some alpha strike rules which are simplified as well?
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PoptartsNinja posted:Beginner Box: Cool, I'll probably pick up the core box then. Messing around with megamek I don't really like the griffin v wolverine, as it seems to come down to closing the distance with the wolverine and hoping the griffin doesn't hit before you get 2 hexes out? How does the griffin open the space up again if the wolverine gets that close? Also I need to find people to play with lol
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Disproportionation posted:I got both recently, one after the other, and going by the pricing I'm guessing you're in the uk? It'll be for the UK yeah. Been looking for groups to try and join to get a few games in with people as well. I'll probably get the core box, as a way to get into it and then see if a friend can let me mess around with his warhammer paints
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Rorahusky posted:You generally don't want to 1v1 things with a Griffin. It's a battlefield sniper after all, not a frontline machine. Ideally you want a second unit to run interference so the Griffin can hang back and punch holes in things That's kind of what I noticed messing around in megamek, though I guess in the beginner box heat isn't a issue
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A question on resolving crits If something gets hit with 2 SRM missiles and the first one TAC crits the CT damaging a gyro does the mech do the PSR and fall over if it fails before the second missile hits? If so, does the second missile now hit relative to the now prone mech? like if the first one was a shot to the back but the mech falls on its back, is it now a front shot for the second missile?
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Ok, so to make sure I've got it shooting phase is Declare shots Resolve attack x, along with its associated crits/ammo explosions/part destruction/pilot injury Resolve attack y, along with its associated crits/ammo explosions/part destruction/pilot inury etc. Any mechs that are destroyed or have dead pilots from the above are removed psrs/falling down triggers created during resolving attacks are put on the stack and resolved Any mechs that are destroyed or have dead pilots from the above are removed Go to physical attacks phase and do it the same way?
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Isn't that what makes one of the light mechs in the agoac box really difficult? I want to say it's the Jenner but it's an 8/12 that really needs initiative to be effective
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DrPop posted:Yes, both the Jenner and the Jenner IIC had No Torso Twist. They also have No/Minimal Arms, which is a penalty to PSRs when attempting to stand up. Ah yeah. Messing around with the box on my own it's deadly to a Jenner that gets knocked down. One day I'll find some people to play 3025 rules with 
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Cut the head off that and it looks like that Megaman enemy
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One round is 10 seconds right? Is 3 minutes to go from 2 lances getting each other on sensors to 6 smouldering wrecks and 2 half functioning mechs normal in the universe?
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Muir posted:Rough paint scheme test for my merc company (Contrast paint and regular paint). Sweet paint scheme. If I ever paint my minis I was thinking of a similar scheme!
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PhotoKirk posted:Meh. I would not being doing backflips if cspam got deleted, actually
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Jobbo_Fett posted:What the gently caress is a left-wing masturbatory fantasy? C-spam lol
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PhotoKirk posted:From what I saw posted of Pardoe's book it looks just as absurd as Harrison Bergeron. Stupid as hell, but the odds of me reading it are zero. Harrison Bergeron is a fun but ridiculous short story though
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I like the 3025 tech in the agoac box, but that's probably because it's all I've messed around with and also is the setting for the PC game
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Chainclaw posted:wtf why would anyone ever think a clan mech is better than an inner sphere mech. This is finally proof that inner sphere design is better: I didn't think there would be enough space in the cockpit for a pilot to shuffle around like that. How big is a cockpit relative to a person? Mw5 makes it look like the pilot is surrounded by their controls
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There's a battle tech event late this month using the agoac rules at 5000 BV, nothing past 3049. I'm thinking of going because it'd be fun to play some games at a newbie friendly ruleset but 3 2-hour games in a day sounds like a long intro to the game
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I think I'll back the ks at the veteran level. Am I reading right that there are now salvage boxes tossed in at that level? I'm having trouble following exactly what's in each tier after unlocks
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Trying to pick out force packs. I don't know that much about mechs, but I do want the battle&fire or assault&cavalry tank pack. Other than that I only know 1 or 2 of the mechs in each pack. The clan stars seem cool, even if the cavalry one has 3 variants in the agoac box, and the legendary pack 3 has marauders and a timber wolf which seems like a really cool mech too. The inner sphere security Lance has some real fun mechs in it. If I've got the agoac box now and want to expand which packs would be good to get? I'm sort of basing my choices off poptarts' posts and what mechs I thought were neat in the HBS game. I will probably never paint these.
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Thanks for the big post poptarts. I ended up going in at battalion level because I wanted extra minis and have poor impulse control 
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Might drop back to company if it crosses 7m. 4 force packs + buying one seems alright, don't think I need 11! packs All these packs and not one hunchback though
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It is, I was hoping I could get it as a pick in the kickstarter though. Maybe I can trade someone after the fact
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11 packs is so many options.
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That kind of makes sense though. The higher ups are pushing pieces around a table, the mercs are the ones actually doing stuff with the big stompy robots we're all here to see
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The only part of a battle tech book I remember from my childhood is one bit where I think a gladiator ends up a riot on the planet. I'm guessing it would've been on Solaris VII, but I mostly remember it specifying how many tons of armor were destroyed on each part of a mech by each shot and lmao.
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As many JRF-7s as you can. Sprint like a motherfucker and get them in the back and outnumber the hell out of them as your force gets oneshotted if they hit Something with like 7 jump jets is probably even better for TMM.
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PoptartsNinja posted:How to fight clans post This was really interesting to read. As someone who doesn't know much beyond the most basic of introtech and HBS battletech what do you mean by this bit?
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