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I'd recommend myself, just for the sheer luck of my ammo not exploding early in, but I'll toss it to the Grif just for taking out that Dragon like a champ. That was brilliant. As for enemies, definetly Hussar. Argh. drat him. Edit: Here's a picture of a robot 
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The Griffin and that damned Hussar are the MVPs this time, hands down. Pladdicus was metal but KnoxZone utterly coring that Dragon's leg was what won us this fight.
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Feb 1, 2011 21:01
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Well played you magnificently lucky sons of bitches! And nicely done by PTN as well. Now for a novice question. Is PTN, or any game master, bound by an rules or protocol in how certain factions play their turns? People were worried about the Hussar rabbiting a few turns back. Is that something PTN had complete freedom to do or is he limited to playing the bushido angle to the hilt in the just finished battle?
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You guys are amazingly lucky and/or good. That was one hell of a fight. I don't think anything didn't go your way! Also, concurring - Vulcan and Hussar for MVPs.
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Trast posted:Now for a novice question. Is PTN, or any game master, bound by an rules or protocol in how certain factions play their turns? People were worried about the Hussar rabbiting a few turns back. Is that something PTN had complete freedom to do or is he limited to playing the bushido angle to the hilt in the just finished battle? The bushido and honor stuff is purely in-universe fluff for the Draconis Combine. There are no actual rules stating that you have to play them any certain way, no. I can't decide which way to vote, seeing crazy loving Liaos will be awesome but redacted would be hella awesome too...  VVV: Is that an actual novel or some sort of sourcebook thing? WarLocke fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Feb 1, 2011 |
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Feb 1, 2011 21:07
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WarLocke posted:Wait what? Where does this happen? I thought I had all the pre-DA books! It's pretty blatantly stated in Dawn of the Jihad. Waco's Battlemaster was found as a smoking wreck just meters away from Jaime Wolf's Archer, both blasted and gutted. The two died in mortal combat, killing each other with their respective last breaths. Of all the bullshit the Jihad caused, that one moment was beautiful. I was glad to see Wayne Waco hadn't just faded and been forgotten by the writers.
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My MVP votes go to the Griffin and the Kurita Dragon for doing double duty as a submarine. I can only imagine a goddamn furious Tai-i still sitting in the cockpit, unable to vent his rage because his Mech is resting at the botton of the drat river. As for the next game, I'm voting for y Caballeros de Coronel Carlos Camacho vs the Death Commandos. Because Camacho's Cabballeros kicking Cappellans is just awesome.
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Feb 1, 2011 21:11
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Magni posted:My MVP votes go to the Griffin and the Kurita Dragon for doing double duty as a submarine. I can only imagine a goddamn furious Tai-i still sitting in the cockpit, unable to vent his rage because his Mech is resting at the botton of the drat river. I endorse all parts of this post.
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Feb 1, 2011 21:12
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Magni posted:As for the next game, I'm voting for y Caballeros de Coronel Carlos Camacho vs the Death Commandos. Because Camacho's Cabballeros kicking Cappellans is just awesome. I would vote for this so hard if the Caballeros were on the table. Those guys know how to have fun.  but please no Abtahka stuff
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WarLocke posted:but please no Abtahka stuff She's two years old. If she can ninja a battlemech at 2, then what do we need Battlemechs for?
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Feb 1, 2011 21:17
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Hussar and Vulcan for me. Both good examples of what you can do with seemingly useless units in this game.Tempest_56 posted:It's pretty blatantly stated in Dawn of the Jihad. Waco's Battlemaster was found as a smoking wreck just meters away from Jaime Wolf's Archer, both blasted and gutted. The two died in mortal combat, killing each other with their respective last breaths. Of all the bullshit the Jihad caused, that one moment was beautiful. I was glad to see Wayne Waco hadn't just faded and been forgotten by the writers.
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Feb 1, 2011 21:20
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PoptartsNinja posted:My streaky luck actually extends to those as well. I almost never roll statistically average (but with D6's, I do tend to roll slightly higher than average; It's just rare that I'll roll a 3 or 4 on the dice, even electronically). Can you come and be my official dice roller on Sundays, then? I have a bad habit of only rolling 20s - but only when I'm rolling for bad guys making attacks on the PCs. I've lost too many good PCs to encounters they were intended to curbstomp getting lucky. It's gotten so bad I had to actually nerf critical hits! As for MVPs, I've got to say it was our Griffon for being  enough to pick a gunslinger duel with the Dragon and win, and on their side it was that goddamned  Hussar. That pilot has balls the size of BattleMechs, you should try and recruit him if at all possible.As for the next scenario, I'd love to see more of Morgan Kell's Hounds. but, just for the funny... Hell with it, I'm voting for y Caballeros de Coronel Carlos Camacho vs the Death Commandos, .
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Feb 1, 2011 21:26
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If we do the 17th Recon, I want to see at least one of our pilots in a Hermes II. Truly the most remarkable of battlemechs.
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Pladdicus posted:The fact they don't explode (how does -that- make sense, they're BASED on combustion) also marginally helps
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Feb 1, 2011 21:36
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Viva Marik! Camacho's Caballeros is the only possible choice.
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Feb 1, 2011 21:36
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Helter Skelter posted:Flamers supposedly work by venting drive exhaust. Which to me sounds like it should actually reduce the heat of the mech firing it a bit rather than raise it, but hey, what do I know. Best not to ask questions. (also, best episode in Community)
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Feb 1, 2011 21:39
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Voting the Vulcan and the Hussar for MVPs. When will we see out next vote choices Poptarts?
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Feb 1, 2011 21:54
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Agent Interrobang posted:Viva Marik! Camacho's Caballeros is the only possible choice. Our entire lance is gonna be 0/8  At least the Stingers can do handstands and poo poo.
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Helter Skelter posted:Flamers supposedly work by venting drive exhaust. Which to me sounds like it should actually reduce the heat of the mech firing it a bit rather than raise it, but hey, what do I know. because venting directly from the fusion core makes the rest of the mech hotter as it travels through it and the drive core itself marginally cooler. the fluff is that the internal temp that we use for heat is that of the insides around the shielded fusion core, not the actual fusion core itself.
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Feb 1, 2011 22:04
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WarLocke posted:Our entire lance is gonna be 0/8 It's making me picture an Atlas wearing a sombrero, in Mexican Day of the Dead paints. 
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Feb 1, 2011 22:06
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I think it was something along the lines of disrupting the containment bottle when you drew power from the core or something. Been ages since I've read any of the books that tried to describe the hand waving that is the fusion cores.
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Feb 1, 2011 22:07
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My last request didn't make it. Please put me on the pilot list.
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Feb 1, 2011 22:10
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Tempest_56 posted:It's pretty blatantly stated in Dawn of the Jihad. Waco's Battlemaster was found as a smoking wreck just meters away from Jaime Wolf's Archer, both blasted and gutted. The two died in mortal combat, killing each other with their respective last breaths. Of all the bullshit the Jihad caused, that one moment was beautiful. I was glad to see Wayne Waco hadn't just faded and been forgotten by the writers. Yeah, I was okay with that. There are some cool things in the Jihad era, don't get me wrong, but most of it is ridiculous. Most of the problem, in my mind, is that the Word of Blake just didn't make for a very interesting set of antagonists. Maybe that's just a failing of how the writers went about things rather than a problem with the WOB per se, but I could never see them as anything more than mustache-twirling villains given the power to gently caress up the setting the exact amount to produce the status quo of Dark Age. In Battletech...pretty much everyone's a bad person, but they're bad people with some sort of standards and/or redeeming qualities, and their bad-ness is displayed in a way that makes them human and interesting. The problem for the Word of Blake is that St. Jamais, Apollyon, and the Master are basically just bad people period, and not interesting, and only credible because of some fairly ridiculous stuff.
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Agent Interrobang posted:It's making me picture an Atlas wearing a sombrero, in Mexican Day of the Dead paints.  (Wrong franchise, still awesome.) And I'd like to also cast my vote for the 17th Recon.
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Feb 1, 2011 22:27
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Feb 1, 2011 22:28
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Y'all know we're not voting yet and you'll just have to repost this when PTN does call for a vote, right? We don't even know what the Political Event he's been darkly alluding to is. 
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Mukaikubo posted:Y'all know we're not voting yet and you'll just have to repost this when PTN does call for a vote, right? We don't even know what the Political Event he's been darkly alluding to is. Peace in the INNERSPHERE all mechs are being turned into Flower holders, Space Hippies everywhere! Free love to replace free ammo! expected sales of soap plumenting!
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Axe-man posted:Peace in the INNERSPHERE all mechs are being turned into Flower holders, Space Hippies everywhere! Free love to replace free ammo! expected sales of soap plumenting! HUG MECH 3000 POWERING UP
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Fraction Jackson posted:The problem for the Word of Blake is that St. Jamais, Apollyon, and
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Feb 1, 2011 22:36
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WarLocke posted:Our entire lance is gonna be 0/8 Clearly, the way to victory is to run circles around our enemies and punch and kick them into submission!
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Feb 1, 2011 22:36
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Mukaikubo posted:HUG MECH 3000 POWERING UP weapons include Laser light show, fireworks, and love.
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Arquinsiel posted:Fixed. I thought about doing that and spoilering it just in case there were people who might not have caught up on that front yet. But yes.
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Feb 1, 2011 22:37
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Axe-man posted:weapons include Laser light show, fireworks, and love. We're going back to My Little PonyMech are we?
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Fraction Jackson posted:I thought about doing that and spoilering it just in case there were people who might not have caught up on that front yet. But yes.
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Feb 1, 2011 22:40
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Magni posted:Clearly, the way to victory is to run circles around our enemies and punch and kick them into submission! MegaMek seems to imply to me that physical attacks use gunnery skill, not piloting.
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WarLocke posted:We're going back to My Little PonyMech are we? I've still got my artbitches working on that!
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Iridium posted:My last request didn't make it. Please put me on the pilot list. Same here really. I look forward to exploding gloriously from an ammo explosion after a fall from a missed pilot roll on the first turn sometime late 2011 early 2012 when we get around to me. Unless we're talking x-com rookie survival rate on the mechwarriors in the future.
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Feb 1, 2011 22:48
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Agent Interrobang posted:I've still got my artbitches working on that! Please tell me you refer to them this way in their company. 
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Trast posted:Please tell me you refer to them this way in their company. Well, of course. Term of endearment.
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Agent Interrobang posted:It's making me picture an Atlas wearing a sombrero, in Mexican Day of the Dead paints. And now I have the image of a Mech mariachi band stuck in my head. Thanks for that.
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