|
Why are we spoilering a well-known part of the Clan order of battle again? Someone remind me because I honestly can't remember.
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 03:19
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 27, 2024 23:13 |
|
|
Arglebargle III posted:Why are we spoilering a well-known part of the Clan order of battle again? Someone remind me because I honestly can't remember. Because REDACTED aren't well-known to Battletech noobs, and it will make the impact of their debut all the more terrifying to greenhorn players and hilarious to spectators.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 03:21
|
|
|
That's it exactly, yeah. Still waiting on orders for Tech Platoon, but... FY Lancelot VVV Yeah, the Nova Cats had a pretty funny way of saying "gently caress it, we're joining the Draconis Combine". They also lost a coin flip (called 'edge'). PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 03:34 on Mar 6, 2011 |
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 03:27
|
|
|
PoptartsNinja posted:Sheliak, a planet in Rasalhague, had no 'Mechs or militia, so they challenged the Ghost Bears to a game of football. It didn't end well. I also recall the Clans losing in a game of soccer and a drinking contest during Operation Bulldog. E: Oh, Divot's hosed. 
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 03:30
|
|
|
PoptartsNinja posted:That's it exactly, yeah. Might be space Mexican cavalry, but I'm hoping for hidden Atlas.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 03:36
|
|
|
Fare thee well, Divot! Your probable impending death will not be in vain.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 03:38
|
|
|
PoptartsNinja posted:VVV Yeah, the Nova Cats had a pretty funny way of saying "gently caress it, we're joining the Draconis Combine". They also lost a coin flip (called 'edge'). Yeah, but the Clanner who made the coinflip call had an awesome justification for it. "Imagine the glory, if I had won." 
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 03:54
|
|
|
And to be fair to her, I have had a coinflip come up 'edge' before. Hit the ground, started rolling.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 03:59
|
|
|
Yes but in your case you should have realized that the most likely explanation was that the Obsidian Order had an operative hiding nearby that used a magneto-gravitic field-quantizer to generate the result remotely.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 04:18
|
|
|
I dunno if PTN will let me announce my very special discovery. I hope so, and I've already made alternate plans.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 04:49
|
|
|
bunnyofdoom posted:I dunno if PTN will let me announce my very special discovery. I hope so, and I've already made alternate plans. If you're about to say "Blake's Blood, I'm dan-cing with an Annihilator up here!" I am going to laugh so hard.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 04:55
|
|
|
Lemme guess, that SRM Carrier has a twin. 
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 05:09
|
|
|
Mukaikubo posted:If you're about to say "Blake's Blood, I'm dan-cing with an Annihilator up here!" I am going to laugh so hard. Dannihi? What's Dannihi?
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 05:09
|
|
|
bunnyofdoom posted:Dannihi? What's Dannihi? No, I am making fun of the odd cadence/accent used for that line in Mechwarrior 4. :p
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 05:13
|
|
|
Magni posted:Lemme guess, that SRM Carrier has a twin. I'm expecting another group of SRM infantry in that building the SRM Carrier's hiding behind.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 05:18
|
|
|
Mukaikubo posted:No, I am making fun of the odd cadence/accent used for that line in Mechwarrior 4. :p 
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 05:20
|
|
|
Zeroisanumber posted:Might be space Mexican cavalry, but I'm hoping for hidden Atlas. How do you hide something as big as an Atlas with all those  running around with lucky dice? It's going to be something like a Death Commando Suicide Squad or a herd of corgies that have c4 strapped to them.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 05:26
|
|
|
Xmas Future posted:Mechwarrior 3 Numbers are hard.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 05:27
|
|
|
Mukaikubo posted:I figure this would be a fine place to canvass for interest: Would I be able to get five (maybe ten including backups) goons to play http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3966/the-succession-wars if I ran a game in this forum? It is pretty similar to Axis and Allies in some ways, only it is the Succession Wars. I should add that the rulebook is scanned and posted on that same site, since the publisher has been out of business since the first bush presidency. I would commit murder for a chance to play Succession Wars with other people. My mother threw out my copy back when I was in high school (more years ago than I care to think about) and I've never been able to find another copy, I call dibs on the Confederation.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 05:35
|
|
|
Trast posted:a herd of Mexican children that have c4 strapped to them. Fixed that for you. Why waste dogs when you have perfectly good hostages? Besides, even Space Mexicans won't shoot their own children.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 05:38
|
|
|
PoptartsNinja posted:Sheliak, a planet in Rasalhague, had no 'Mechs or militia, so they challenged the Ghost Bears to a game of football. It didn't end well. I guess, at that point you just hope you have a properly neutral ref, and they all get red-cards for doping.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 06:34
|
|
|
FFFFFFFFFFF Quote!=edit first time for everything 
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 06:35
|
|
|
Felime posted:I guess, at that point you just hope you have a properly neutral ref, and they all get red-cards for doping. Or that Captain Picard can swerve them by referring a rules dispute to an impartial mediator over in the other side of the Inner Sphere.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 06:41
|
|
|
I am really bad at remembering things. Anyhow TP fire at I4 again, cause gently caress those dudes.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 07:09
|
|
|
Felime posted:I guess, at that point you just hope you have a properly neutral ref, and they all get red-cards for doping. It wasn't the kind of football that has red cards, otherwise they'd have wanted a biased ref so they could dive like Spaniards and win on free kicks.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 08:03
|
|
|
Thanks for the visuals, PTN. Turns out I did pick up the correct usage from... whichever book(s) it was.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 08:32
|
|
|
Best case scenario? The transport "pilot" survived the crash and hijacked the SRM carrier Tommy Vercetti style.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 09:04
|
|
|
Mukaikubo posted:I figure this would be a fine place to canvass for interest: Would I be able to get five (maybe ten including backups) goons to play http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3966/the-succession-wars if I ran a game in this forum? It is pretty similar to Axis and Allies in some ways, only it is the Succession Wars. I should add that the rulebook is scanned and posted on that same site, since the publisher has been out of business since the first bush presidency. count me in, I'd be more than happy to give it a go!
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 09:30
|
|
|
AJ_Impy posted:Mechwarroior 2: Mercenaries did cutscene it. As usual, the Atlas gives no poo poo. Mukaikubo posted:I figure this would be a fine place to canvass for interest: Would I be able to get five (maybe ten including backups) goons to play http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3966/the-succession-wars if I ran a game in this forum? It is pretty similar to Axis and Allies in some ways, only it is the Succession Wars. I should add that the rulebook is scanned and posted on that same site, since the publisher has been out of business since the first bush presidency.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 10:48
|
|
|
UberJew posted:If Tukkayid was cheating then the clan invasion's use of superior strategic mobility to pick and choose short, decisive engagements most certainly was as well. WarLocke posted:I don't remember this. The defenders make a hail-mary play, score one touchdown to the Clan's FUKKEN LOTS and they are so impressed that they take the coach as a bondsman IIRC. PoptartsNinja posted:That's it exactly, yeah. There was also trial of possession which was supposed to be on a hand of poker which the Nova Cat would fold, but the Drac commander challenged him to a game of miniature golf on the planet's moon instead.... Arquinsiel fucked around with this message at 11:09 on Mar 6, 2011 |
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 10:52
|
|
|
"Nice Clan Homeworld you have there - I challenged you to play Pong for it!" "Because of my superior genes I will use a smaller paddle! "
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 10:56
|
|
|
Mukaikubo posted:I figure this would be a fine place to canvass for interest: Would I be able to get five (maybe ten including backups) goons to play http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3966/the-succession-wars if I ran a game in this forum? It is pretty similar to Axis and Allies in some ways, only it is the Succession Wars. I should add that the rulebook is scanned and posted on that same site, since the publisher has been out of business since the first bush presidency. Sure, I'm game.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 11:00
|
|
|
anakha posted:Sure, I'm game. I'll play too
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 11:02
|
|
|
Defiance Industries posted:The Clans Homeworlds, where they manufacture all their gear, is a 13-month trip each way, and none of their plants produce as much as Hesperus or Irian, let alone Terra. It was really a matter of grinding them down. The enter philosphy and strange decision making of the clans reminds me of the WWII-era japanese in an number of ways - and the bizarre decisions with old pilots in hunchbacks could have been ripped straight from a japanese 'how do we manage our airforce' manual. The delta is that the space americans don't have the actual americans rapid pace of innovation.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 11:55
|
|
|
Cthulhu Dreams posted:The enter philosphy and strange decision making of the clans reminds me of the WWII-era japanese in an number of ways <sensible suggestions> "Okay! We're going to do the exact opposite of that!" Yup, it works.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 12:10
|
|
|
Arquinsiel posted:The reason Tukkayid was cheating is that Comstar picked up and moved the target cities, replacing them with fake shell buildigns that hid mechs and tanks. In a few early cases clusters rolled into undefended towns only to find the towns coming alive and tearing them apart. I thought they only did that in the Jade Falcons' case. IIRC, the Wolves won, the Bears took one of their two targets, ComStar did the "fake city" thing with the Falcons, and the other four clans failed to reach their targets entirely. strikereternal fucked around with this message at 13:28 on Mar 6, 2011 |
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 13:25
|
|
|
Cheating is cheating, no matter how often you do it.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 13:36
|
|
|
The Falcons still got a draw (meaning credit for capturing one of their two locations, i.e. having set foot in the fake town -- they never touched the real ones) so I'm not sure you can even call it cheating. And it's not like one of seven clans going all "boo hoo, they cheated guys!!" was going to have any effect on the overall outcome. Which was not how the Falcons reacted anyway. But you said the Com Guards picked up and moved multiple cities; my correction was that they only moved one.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 13:45
|
|
|
I'm in work, my memory for details is decreased by the shrill retards whining about their Xbox at me.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 14:06
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 27, 2024 23:13 |
|
|
Arquinsiel posted:The defenders make a hail-mary play, score one touchdown to the Clan's FUKKEN LOTS and they are so impressed that they take the coach as a bondsman IIRC. Actually, they scored a field goal. End result was 84-3 or, as the natives refer to it, the three points of pride.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2011 15:34
|
|