Atlas Hugged posted:

The Urbanmech level is what finally defeated me in The Crescent Hawk's Revenge. God that game was loving tough, but a level where you're just in Urbanmechs? No loving thank you. The scenario designers were masochists.

Atlas Hugged posted:

I paint my mechs however the gently caress I feel like and I don't think any two have a matching scheme.

PoptartsNinja posted:

Strobe posted:

Strategic reserves. Landing on a half dozen planets gives command time to recognize how a contest is going before committing additional resources to taking planets that are no longer feasible targets.

In the time between the First Succession War and the Clan Invasion, it was also a matter of communication. If you landed your command would have no idea what the progress on the ground was until the HPG was successfully taken or a courier delivered news; mobile and ship-borne HPGs were practically unheard of. In the time after Gray Monday, even regular HPGs are rare. If a flotilla suffers a misjump, they're as good as dead.

Serpent falls between both of those dates, and included significant assets with HPGs that made that kind of strategy safe enough to have a backup plan that wasn't "Guess we'll die."

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4) We recently started using target number dice and it has sped up gameplay immensely. I think most videos will go into details on how this works, but the basic idea is that after a mech moves, you put a dice next to the mech that by color shows its movement type and what the targeting penalty against it will be based on how many hexes it traveled and what terrain it ended up in. This greatly reduces the amount of math you will have to do in the shooting phase. Another hack we've used is attaching small paper clips to the heat scale, positioning the "eye" of the paperclip on one side to show what the current heat for each mech is.