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 It's the far future, and people have forgotten lots of things after a series of cataclysmic wars. What they haven't forgotten (completely) is how to build ten meter tall battle mechs and stomp around the battlefield looking cool. I want in on this, so here we are! Battletech is Hairbrained schemes game based on the long standing tabletop wargame, I'm not only running all the DLC, but I'm running the Commanders Edition mod set. This basically reworks the game in a way I like, as well as the expected more mechs, it adds in a host of features such as morale (people will actually save their lives by ejecting from doomed mechs) and fatigue (no more running the same four guys three missions a day for three years.) You can read all about it here WE're going to be doing a career 0 we will have three years to make as much money as possible (though most of it will be banked in the highly expensive battlemechs) before retiring to live the life of luxury we know we deserve. So we need to make a mercenary company!  First we need some difficulty. Ironman won't be used as this is an LP and killing my saves is bad. Unequipped mechs mean you need to spend some time to equip your newly bought/salvaged chassis. Parts is how many parts we need to put a mech together – you can get up to three from a kill, and this ranges from three to six. Overall difficulty will be normal, as I suck. Mech destruction means if we lose a mech, we lost that mech. Advanced mechwarriors are the number of guys we can hire who are above normal skill level. The others are fairly self explanitory, apart from starting planet – which choses where we start on the map.  This is a big galaxy  And here are our locations – this only really affects who we are fighting at the start, and there is nothing stopping us jetting across the galaxy. Next we will move on to our character.  First up, the our origin is the same choices as before, and has next to no impact on the game.  Now, unfortunately for our character, they had a fairly traumatic sweet sixteen, but it set them out on a life path. Each one gives bonuses to some skills. They are pretty self explantatory – guts gives more hit points but they will also help us down skill trees with other advantages.  We then get to choose our career before we founded this mech-warrior company. The soldier one changes depending on your location, but the bonus is the same.  We need a name, and more importantly a call sign. We also need a face. The customization options are vast, so give me in idea or I'll just hit random. After all this, we somehow got the cash to buy a light mech lance!  Next we need to pick a timeline. This mod has several, with Clan weapons (advance invaders from the outside of the galaxy) being an option later on.  Finally, we need a company name and colour scheme! And a logo, but there are to many of those to list properly, so I'll just pick something I think fits with the company scheme! So! Suggest the following Name & Callsign Company Name Start Date Homeland Terrible life changing event Career Start Location Then give some suggestions for difficulty, and finally Yes. I will be renaming the mechwarriors to people in this thread. Get your names in. That is all!
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Name & Callsign: Tiffany Lawson, “Tango” Company Name: Red Rovers Start Date: 3039 Homeland: Arano Terrible life changing event: Bankruptcy Career: Pirate Start Location: Outworlds Difficulty: All defaults. And I would like to submit “Marmalade” as a name, with “Mars” as a possible nickname if those are a thing.
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Jan 29, 2023 18:15
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Commander Name & Callsign: Adrian Kantor / "Gallant" Company Name: The Grey Hunters Start Date: 3039 Homeland: Davion Terrible life changing event: Family Betrayal Career: Gladiator Start Location: Option 1) If possible, whereever Arano are in this game - if that's not doable, Option 2) Rasalhague Difficulty: Default is fine, except perhaps Unequipped Mechs / x5 Parts needed for construction (got to give some issues, after all) Personal Name / Callsign: Alexander Crown / "Vedette" Serpentis fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Jan 29, 2023 |
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Jan 29, 2023 18:25
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Company name: Grey's giants. Year: Clan invasion. quote:Yes. I will be renaming the mechwarriors to people in this thread. Get your names in.
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Jan 29, 2023 19:38
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Name & Callsign: Marion Darche / "Rooster" Female, French, and ideally a crazy hair color Company Name: The Grey Hunters Start Date: 3025 Homeland: St. Ives Terrible life changing event Betrayal Career Merchant Guard Start Location: Wherever seems most fun Difficulty: normal Then give some suggestions for difficulty, and finally [Yes. I will be renaming the mechwarriors to people in this thread. Get your names in. Callsign: Soylent Pudding Feel free to use Soylent or Pudding if the full Callsign is too long.
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Jan 29, 2023 20:48
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So what's the difference between 3025 and 3039 (it doesn't mention in the shot)?
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Jan 29, 2023 22:41
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Lustful Man Hugs posted:So what's the difference between 3025 and 3039 (it doesn't mention in the shot)? My guess would be that 3025 is pretty basic technology, whereas 3039 is long enough after the discovery of the Helm Memory Core that more advanced star league era lostech is pretty common. So you can get more advanced equipment to make refitting mechs more interesting, without resorting to OP clan stuff that you can pick up on the later starts.
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Jan 29, 2023 23:18
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I vote for 3039 1.5 tech AHOY
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Jan 29, 2023 23:28
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No real opinion on the setup choices but I volunteer to get my cockpit shot out when a sacrifice is most opportune in the name of Though if we've got callsigns as well as names, "Disposable" on its own might be an okay callsign while leaving the name alone.
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Jan 29, 2023 23:35
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i've got no votes for stuff but i'd like bios to be added to the goon pilot roster please
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Jan 30, 2023 00:28
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Some good ideas, but could we get a few votes for one of them 
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Jan 30, 2023 07:02
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Gallant gets my vote, specifically for the Rasalhague option if doable
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Jan 30, 2023 07:59
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Name & Callsign: Stefan "Wasn't Me" Amaris Jr. Start Date: 3039 Homeland: the Rim Worlds Republic Terrible life changing event: Death of the family Career: Mercenary Start Location: Outer rim Please make this my pilot if it doesn't make the cut as MC! That Italian Guy fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Jan 30, 2023 |
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Jan 30, 2023 10:10
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Serpentis posted:Commander Name & Callsign: Adrian Kantor / "Gallant" I know nothing about this game, so I vote for this. Callsign: Meatbag
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Jan 30, 2023 10:26
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Please make me callsign "Dogfood"
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Jan 30, 2023 15:40
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I don't know anything about this game either, but voting that we start in St. Ives because of the gotcha riddle.
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Jan 30, 2023 19:54
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Hello Sailor posted:I don't know anything about this game either, but voting that we start in St. Ives because of the gotcha riddle. Seconding this I don't know much about the setting either but apparently they are a peace-loving underdog breakaway nation and this is their symbol: 
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Jan 30, 2023 19:58
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Serpentis posted:Commander Name & Callsign: Adrian Kantor / "Gallant" These options, and a MechWarrior named Cloud Potato, please!
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Jan 30, 2023 22:00
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That Italian Guy posted:Name & Callsign: Stefan "Wasn't Me" Amaris Jr. I'll vote for this guy, I like the cut of his jib. He should definitely be paired with: Name & Callsign: Richard "Shooting Star" Cameron Start Date: 3039 Homeland: Terrible life changing event: Death of the family Career: Mercenary Start Location: Outer rim
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Jan 30, 2023 23:56
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Serpentis posted:Commander Name & Callsign: Adrian Kantor / "Gallant" I'll vote for this too! And I would like to be a mechwarrior, I'm happy with a random name, but I'd like the callsign to be "Oops".
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Jan 31, 2023 00:50
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And here we go with the setup and the first two missions! No losses and a few banged up mechs - not a bad start, but I need to get someone on those harder missions soon! We got the all important XP though, so here are your pilots - if you want to pick how to spend it go ahead - the big square boxes are bonus skills, you get to get a limited number of these, but points in different areas are always good.         This last one shows another thing this mod adds - affinities - the more you pilot a certain mech type, the better you get - some of them are transferable - this is to encourage me to have the same pilots in the same mechs. But of course, we will be putting the pilots into the better mechs as we get them! So, nice and easy - I think I’ll send Gallant out on that one on one to get more missions in a short period of time - we want to be moving up the difficulty as quickly as we can, getting the salvage in for bigger and better mechs, but for now we’re small time. Grey Hunter fucked around with this message at 15:14 on Feb 1, 2023 |
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Jan 31, 2023 14:34
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It's kinda hard to tell exactly what's happening since apparently youtube is mangling the compression... but there seems to be a cut around the 45 minute mark that looks like you misclicked something your video editing UI and accidentally copypasted most of the timeline so that after the post-mission2 repairs it jumps back to the beginning mission 1 inexplicably?
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Jan 31, 2023 16:37
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Dammit. I'll take a look later
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Jan 31, 2023 17:12
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silentsnack posted:It's kinda hard to tell exactly what's happening since apparently youtube is mangling the compression... that's just how grey talks
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Jan 31, 2023 17:15
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Sherbert Hoover posted:that's just how grey talks Harsh, but true. A northern english accent and a slight lisp. Youtube should not be my thing, but I'm a stubbon sod. The video thing is weird, my video is 45mins, the upload an hour. I've rerendered it and reuploading now. See you in 2 hours. I hope!
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Jan 31, 2023 18:20
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I'm just kidding, I've always loved your videos 
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Jan 31, 2023 18:25
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That Italian Guy posted:Name & Callsign: Stefan "Wasn't Me" Amaris Jr. This is funny as hell to me. Good luck Grey!
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Jan 31, 2023 19:16
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Guts 3 for Vedette please, when the opportunity arises. (And good luck with the reupload...!)
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Jan 31, 2023 20:12
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https://youtu.be/rAE-HeLWv1o Take 2!
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Jan 31, 2023 20:39
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Do as you think best with XP for "my" character. Calling for more Guts thus more health amuses me, all things considered, but I don't actually know if improving health is actually the best path to survivability versus just killing better. Or if it would even be particularly useful for you.
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Jan 31, 2023 20:42
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Please give Mars a point in Tactics for me.
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please slap that 400xp right into biosterous' gunnery, so i can actually hit things at a less terrible rate  (side note it's pronounced buy-AWE-stir-us, you were pretty close though!)
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Feb 1, 2023 04:32
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Sign me up as Lostech
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Feb 1, 2023 05:43
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Sign me up as Totally Not Comstar with a preference for autocannons.
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Feb 1, 2023 06:25
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(Also having just seen the vid, a) drat you for putting me in an Urbie, and b) I had no rights pulling off that long range leg shot...)
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Serpentis posted:(Also having just seen the vid, a) drat you for putting me in an Urbie, and b) I had no rights pulling off that long range leg shot...) You know what you did! (Serpentis is a mate in my RPG group) That was an amazing shot! it was more of a "oh sod it" moment as I knew ammo/heat was not going to be an issue. Hopefully the Urbie can be retired soon, it would be a great little mech if it could move more than walking speed.
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Feb 1, 2023 11:28
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Grey Hunter posted:You know what you did! (Serpentis is a mate in my RPG group) Pretty sure he terrified them
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Feb 1, 2023 11:29
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The link in the update still points to the removed video, fyi!
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Feb 1, 2023 14:36
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I'll take a seat as Blue on blue.
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That Italian Guy posted:The link in the update still points to the removed video, fyi! My edit says its changed? if its 45 mins not 1hr 15 mins its the right one!
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