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Just found this rad thread, I've played all the video games but know nothing about the tabletop so this is really cool. I'm surprised the cicada has a PPC, that seems like crazy firepower for the size. Then again the original mechcommander had a firestarter variant with a PPC. Not much to add, cool thread!
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The puma/adder also has dual ppc's, seems mw3 was correct But then I remember the cougar is meant to be a heavier, more powerful derivative and yet it's only got large lasers?
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How does the infantry work in this situation? Are they basically a small laser with zero armour or do they have some meaningful combat value? Can infantry ambush from cover at all somehow?
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Amechwarrior posted:Your only quirk is Minimal Arms. 
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glwgameplayer posted:I have officially joined the reserve. I look forward to piloting with you guys. Until my time comes I'll probably lurk, ask questions, and comment on how pretty exploding battle mechs look  I am ready to eject in ignominy
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Apr 22, 2023 20:49
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The more I read about this dragon guy, the less I care for him
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Apr 22, 2023 21:17
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glwgameplayer posted:As someone who’s first experience with BT was the 2018 computer game, my opinion on light mechs was largely formed from that game’s version of the rules. Which Led me to believe that the runs hot and hits hard breed of light mech (Jenner and Javelin mostly) and the “has one gun well above it’s weight class” breed of light mech (Urbanmech, Panther) we’re pretty good. The rest (Locust, Commando, and Spider) might have been very fast, but their anemic armor and weapons meant one good punch was an instant subsystem loss and they were usually incapable of serious damage. This is an irritating thing that basically all of the games do, only mech commander 1 bucked the trend as far as I know, you could only field a fleet of mostly heavy and assault mechs in the last few missions.
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Space Kablooey posted:Locked in jump to 1510 and alpha striking (kinda) the CDA Mostly-strike
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Apr 25, 2023 18:49
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Picturing still-unarmed missiles vomiting out of an lrm20 and immediately crashing into the target like rocks Alternatively, already armed missiles vomiting out of an lrm20 and showering the launcher with fire and shrapnel
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Apr 26, 2023 20:40
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Increasing combat effectiveness while decreasing veteran disability budget, pretty clever really
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Apr 27, 2023 04:32
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??? They clap them together really fast that's how they make that noise
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Apr 28, 2023 05:10
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Scintilla posted:I imagine it having Slenderman-style long arms and fingers. Highly disturbing  Remmon posted:But even better is when your elevation is 1 above your target and you get to KICK on the punch table. A 60 ton 'mech will one-shot anything it kicks in the head, a 50 ton 'mech will force a crit roll. Curbstomping for the commonwealth
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Apr 28, 2023 20:47
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Good lord
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Apr 28, 2023 23:24
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I like how the lrm launcher is empty, nice attention to detail
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Apr 29, 2023 20:35
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What's the one on the middle right there? A sunder?
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Apr 30, 2023 00:11
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Gary is clearly a survivor and we should pick up the pod and recruit him
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May 3, 2023 09:55
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How is ejecting horizontally supposed to work canonically anyway
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May 5, 2023 00:03
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Do the novels go as far as operation bulldog?
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May 16, 2023 23:49
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I asked because mech commander 1 is my all time favorite giant robot game. Following a davion guard unit from the initial landings, through the inevitably atrocity-packed cities, all the way to the desperate last stand for the space port would be some good stuff in book form The expansion with the deranged jaguar colonel trying to score some star league nukes would also be rad
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May 17, 2023 02:17
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Hell yeah nothing like those weedy little bagpipe tunes to get the blood pumping Those models are clearly recreating the agonizing mission where you have to escort a convoy of ambulances and a maddog turns up right at the end
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May 17, 2023 03:36
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biosterous posted:
This would be great for reaching things on those high shelves like eg infantry on a balcony
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May 25, 2023 18:48
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As a fellow watcher, to me it seems the galleon and infantry are virtually no threat, whereas unloading everything on the rear of the stinger could potentially lead to a lucky shot that cripples it or forces the pilot to eject leading to more of that sweet sweet salvage with no downside I can see.
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Do the AC numbers correspond to anything real like caliber or are they totally abstract? Iirc the lasers are sized by beam diameter (ML is 50cm...?), in my mind I picture ac2 being 20mm, ac5 being 50 etc and this seems like it would line up well with their actual capability ie an ac20 is basically a short barrel howitzer, ac2 is an AA gun and so on This breaks down somewhat when you get to LBX though
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Defiance Industries posted:The numbers corroborate to how many 16th of a ton of standard armor they can destroy in a single volley This makes sense even if it's really abstract
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Jun 1, 2023 21:37
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I suppose it's no more or less abstract than having 'small' and 'medium' lasers Irl these things usually have a functional, tactical difference rather than being broken down by size which I guess they AC's kind of do, if the ac5's tactical role consists of being mostly useless
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Jun 2, 2023 00:10
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Wouldn't that be a UAC5?
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painedforever posted:The Panther has two things going for it: What about the Raven? Is ecm very effective in this?
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Jun 4, 2023 02:08
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That sounds like a feature packed forward thinking product targeted at early adopters to me
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Scintilla posted:A basic Leopard DropShip (advertised as a good ship for mercenary companies, even though it isn't really) Are you telling me mw5 lied to me? And you can't actually store fifty mechs on one leopard if you take all the weapons off???
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What I'm hearing is that it should be possible to get a cheap leopard that nobody wants and do an absolutely sick camper conversion
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Jun 7, 2023 00:11
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Just bypass security with a clipboard
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Zurai posted:If MW4 Mercenaries taught me anything, it's that you can snipe Unions from outside their range by shooting their thruster nozzles with ER PPCs. That game also had them armed with gauss rifles, idk how canonical that possibility is
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glwgameplayer posted:I mean. The stock Leopard, which we have already made fun of for being small and wimpy for the given role of "Mech Transport" is armed with 2 PPCs, 3 LRM 20s, 7 Medium Lasers, and 5 Large Lasers Yeah me too, I am also definitely doing this for fun and not out of desperate necessity
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Captain Foo posted:You’re going to take a ppc to the face and like it I imagine the PPC is very good at unwanted hair removal
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Jun 11, 2023 00:10
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Do any of the pilots have a wife with a baby on the way
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Seems logical when one of the major polities is all about those sweet sweet eugenics
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My uncle works at ceres and he says the new blackjack is gonna have two gauss rifles and armor like an Atlas and it'll be a LAM as well
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wiegieman posted:You don't run a Blackjack because you want to be good at stuff, you run one because you want to bully local militia in lights on a budget. Ah, an export product
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Scintilla posted:
Lol fantastic
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Dachshundofdoom posted:What's worse is that every time you boot up the Blackjack Clippy starts asking if you need help loading your mech's ammo bays. Terrifying thought
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