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I just had 10 minutes that were better than sex. If I ever have the cash, I am buying a battletech pod, and playing it non stop for a day.
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7thBatallion posted:I just had 10 minutes that were better than sex. If I ever have the cash, I am buying a battletech pod, and playing it non stop for a day. Woah now, the pods are awesome but I'm not sure I'd call them better than sex...
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WarLocke posted:Woah now, the pods are awesome but I'm not sure I'd call them better than sex... It was my first time and I kicked rear end. Everything was intuitive and after 30 seconds I had the whole thing down, including setting up weapon groups, using coolant, and headcapping with twin Gauss. I'm heading back tomorrow with a few friends to get another game on, gonna be wearing my Vibrams for easier torso twisting and a flight deck helmet and goggles for shits and giggles. I just need to paint up my Mech's logo on the front and get kill markers on the back. It'll be something like this, but refined and hand painted. 
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Jan 29, 2011 08:27
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Honestly I'm surprised you found someplace that still had pods and was running them. But hell yeah if I could get time in one I would too. There's just something about actually being in a cockpit that makes the whole thing a thousand times cooler. 
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Jan 29, 2011 08:39
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WarLocke posted:Honestly I'm surprised you found someplace that still had pods and was running them. But hell yeah if I could get time in one I would too. There's just something about actually being in a cockpit that makes the whole thing a thousand times cooler. 8 pods, actually. And that's all they have. No tables, no Magic cards, just the pods. On that note, can you make or insert custom 'Mechs for the game? I really want to use my Cauldron Born, the Starlancer II. It's been my signature 'Mech for over a decade now. Kilo147 fucked around with this message at 10:48 on Jan 29, 2011 |
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7thBatallion posted:
Aside from wanting my own pod, I'd love if you could put custom mechs in there. My AT&T Timberwolf would be a blast to play "Reach out and touch someone" with.
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Error 404 posted:Aside from wanting my own pod, I'd love if you could put custom mechs in there. I'm not sure how it works out in the Pods, but my Starlancer II has dual LB10Xs in the arms, twin LRM-15s in each torso and with the II model twin ERMLs in the CT, in the IIa model a LAMS in the CT. I have a lance of 'Mechs that altogether fire 150 individual tracked shots. If I fire at any 'Mech I get at least one head hit each turn. They are the 7th Batallion. They are the Clusterfuckers.
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Jan 29, 2011 21:36
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7thBatallion posted:I'm not sure how it works out in the Pods, but my Starlancer II has dual LB10Xs in the arms, twin LRM-15s in each torso and with the II model twin ERMLs in the CT, in the IIa model a LAMS in the CT. I have a lance of 'Mechs that altogether fire 150 individual tracked shots. If I fire at any 'Mech I get at least one head hit each turn. They are the 7th Batallion. They are the Clusterfuckers. I mentioned the stats of my AT&T Timberwolf earlier, but basically the LRM pods on the shoulders are replaced with CERGauss rifles, the arms have CERPPCs, and the rest is engines, armor, heatsinks, and ammo. hence the "reach out and touch someone" name. In a full star, I'd have another AT&T, and 3 packhunters.
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Jan 30, 2011 18:26
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Era Report: 3052 is pretty loving awesome. That is all.
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Whoa, drat, I thought the Era Reports were just going to be one of those small pdf-only things.
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No, those are the Era Digests (like Golden Century, which is pretty drat cool as well). There's another Era Report coming too: 3062.
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Jan 31, 2011 11:37
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LOLshevik posted:As far as I know, this hasn't been undertaken/circulated before. I have a hard time calling Davion good, since their entire society is built around military conquest of their neighbors and nothing else. They're not really any better than Kurita except that their methodology isn't batshit. I have a hard time knowing where the AFFS ends and the rest of the Federated Suns begins. And ComStar? Old ComStar is Lawful Evil, post-Schism ComStar is a sort of bumbling Lawful Good.
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So I see I can get a huge amount of those wizkids Mechwarrior figures for relatively cheap on ebay. Having never played any form of Battletech mini's, is it worth while? Is that clix version that bad?
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Spy posted:So I see I can get a huge amount of those wizkids Mechwarrior figures for relatively cheap on ebay. Having never played any form of Battletech mini's, is it worth while? Is that clix version that bad?
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Jan 31, 2011 20:21
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Arquinsiel posted:*that* game,  Blow it out your rear end.
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Jan 31, 2011 22:35
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Does anyone know when the new intro box set might come out? The previous one is sold out everywhere and there are no clear updates anywhere I've looked. I remember playing this game so much when I was in 6th grade, about 12 years ago. Such a good game--a four player two-mech-each game could take only 45 minutes once we knew the rules and had figured out our strategies, and we played pretty much every day. Well, I suppose MegaMek is there, at least. One of the guys I used to play with back then plays it now; I should look him up.
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7thBatallion posted:
Apollodorus posted:Does anyone know when the new intro box set might come out? The previous one is sold out everywhere and there are no clear updates anywhere I've looked.
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Arquinsiel posted:Clix are poo poo dude, the system is inherently boring. Move along now. Clix saved Battletech from death. You owe WizKids everything. Except your money, you owe Catalyst and Games Workshop that.
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Having played classic and clix, I don't think that Dark Ages was that odious. I mean sure it was simplified, but it was nice to have a game that only required a handful of plastic minis and a die. It was something that you could really play anywhere, anytime, with people of varying levels of gaming experience. It was just quick, dirty, and fun.
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I just could never get into it, having played MageKnight before I ever tried it. The fact that I had plenty of Battletech stuff to work with and the really great local community for it meant that we never really needed to even look at clickytech unless we wanted to. It works well for 15mil scale Battletech though, and we have a lot of WWII city terrain around to use for cityfights.
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Clix and the novels are what got me interested in Battletech at all. Some people don't like playing boardgames as intricate as the "real thing" and there's nothing wrong with that.
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And for those people we have Battleforce.
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Arquinsiel posted:Clix are poo poo dude, the system is inherently boring. Move along now. I don't know poo poo about the Battletech Clix, but I had poo poo-loads of fun playing HeroClix for a bit. I'm just pissed they never released a figure for Secret. I wanted to run a Young Justice team, dammit!
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PeterWeller posted:I don't know poo poo about the Battletech Clix, but I had poo poo-loads of fun playing HeroClix for a bit. I'm just pissed they never released a figure for Secret. I wanted to run a Young Justice team, dammit!
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7thBatallion posted:Clix saved Battletech from death. You owe WizKids everything. Except your money, you owe Catalyst and Games Workshop that. I don't know if clix saved it, since FanPro sublicensed the line almost immediately. WK certainly did, and Weissman, yeah. OTOH BT is what made Weissman, Weissman used that capital for WK, WK saved BT, so really... BT saved ITSELF!
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Feb 3, 2011 04:03
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Oh god, it's like some horrible Star Trek time travel episode. 
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Bieeardo posted:Oh god, it's like some horrible Star Trek time travel episode. Suck it causality!
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Feb 3, 2011 08:11
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Jordan Weissman borrowed $5000 off his grandmother to help start FASA. Jordan Weissman is his own grandmother
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Der Waffle Mous posted:Jordan Weissman borrowed $5000 off his grandmother to help start FASA. And his own sister, wife, father, cousin, uncle, brother, and neighbor.
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Der Waffle Mous posted:Jordan Weissman borrowed $5000 off his grandmother to help start FASA. Oh god i just realized that battletech literally was developed in his grandma's basement 
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7thBatallion posted:Already sent HG an email about it a week ago. I will ruin that man.
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The guy that I contacted at Harmony Gold? Same guy I talked to last time. I think I owe him drinks now.
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Arquinsiel posted:Lookie here...... Aww, I was hoping, but after all that nothing. 
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Are there any sculpts of the Mad Dog / Vulture Mk II, I.E The MW4 styled one with the chin turret? I know it was pseudo-official after it got stuck with a name, I just thought a miniature of one would look pretty snazzy. It'd also be a neat way to show one rebuild with ER PPC, because those modular arms suit it. You could make it using some Timberwolf arms, I suppose.
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Shockeh posted:Are there any sculpts of the Mad Dog / Vulture Mk II, I.E The MW4 styled one with the chin turret? I know it was pseudo-official after it got stuck with a name, I just thought a miniature of one would look pretty snazzy. It'd also be a neat way to show one rebuild with ER PPC, because those modular arms suit it. You could make it using some Timberwolf arms, I suppose. Technically, yes. The downside is it's in N scale. http://cgi.ebay.com/Latonya-Lyons-Vulture-MechWarrior-Falcons-Prey-Figure-/330526469416?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4cf4e9ad28
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I seem to remember this guy on the BT forums who's thing was making BT-scale kitbashes of the MW4 mechs, with varying levels of success.
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Shockeh posted:Are there any sculpts of the Mad Dog / Vulture Mk II, I.E The MW4 styled one with the chin turret? I know it was pseudo-official after it got stuck with a name, I just thought a miniature of one would look pretty snazzy. It'd also be a neat way to show one rebuild with ER PPC, because those modular arms suit it. You could make it using some Timberwolf arms, I suppose. Omnimech arms are actually interchangable if you use the older models. It works out pretty well actually.
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Does anybody know where I can order models online? I really am not comfortable with ebay; so I was hoping one of you fellows have a good source.
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Ironwind metals if you're in the US, Ral Partha UK if you're not.
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