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Horsebanger posted:PTN got you covered mate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NrxjnEWIuk RIP Youtube Annotations
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Airspace posted:Nah, they did that before they added the Clans. It took until Dark Age before anyone was inbred. You know, when they decided the franchise needed rape and incest to really break into a new level.
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PoptartsNinja posted:RIP Youtube Annotations some of us still remember....  I got some minis on ebay that were painted in Word of Lowtax colours and they are kicking rad Horsebanger fucked around with this message at 07:26 on Dec 13, 2019 |
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Defiance Industries posted:It took until Dark Age before anyone was inbred. You know, when they decided the franchise needed rape and incest to really break into a new level. Gotta get that game of thrones money. edit: up to, like now that I think of it, ending a bunch of the book plotlines (and factions) with a "ha ha suckers real life doesn't work out like that" Der Waffle Mous fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Dec 13, 2019 |
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Defiance Industries posted:It took until Dark Age before anyone was inbred. You know, when they decided the franchise needed rape and incest to really break into a new level. That's how you know the times were dark.
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Clans are moron turds and it's a great theoretical society that started as somewhat well-meaning veterans and turned into hosed up weirdos
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The wrong brother lived.
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Too bad the Clans were not ready for total unrestricted war against their civilians.
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Mulva posted:The wrong brother lived. And even before that, Aleksandr Kerensky inexplicably favored his idiot son who had a pathological hatred for all civilians rather than his thoughtful son who was a good listener.
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Hustlin Floh posted:Clans are moron turds It's true. They rolled up with way better tech and just get dunked on repeatedly by the rich failsons of the Inner Sphere.
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Defiance Industries posted:It took until Dark Age before anyone was inbred. You know, when they decided the franchise needed rape and incest to really break into a new level. Oh jesus christ. Who greenlit that?
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Interested in trying out BattleTech after playing a ton of the HBS strategy game and some MechWarrior 5. Is Alpha Strike the way to go? Should I try both of the freely-available quick-start rules? In case I go with Alpha Strike, by my reading of it it's mostly played as a minis game - how viable is it to convert to hexes? No minis at hand so I'd be using the cutouts provided in the pdf. Any easy-to-miss stuff to keep in mind?
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Most of my ‘mechs have ended up with color schemes inspired by Mega Man X and I’m not even sorry about it. I will say though that there’s a brief moment between basecoating and shading/highlighting where everything looks like lovely big blobs of day-glo colors where I think it looks super awful and I’m going to have to strip it and try again, but so far I’ve been happy with the results when I pushed through anyway.
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Azran posted:Interested in trying out BattleTech after playing a ton of the HBS strategy game and some MechWarrior 5. Is Alpha Strike the way to go? Should I try both of the freely-available quick-start rules? In case I go with Alpha Strike, by my reading of it it's mostly played as a minis game - how viable is it to convert to hexes? No minis at hand so I'd be using the cutouts provided in the pdf. Any easy-to-miss stuff to keep in mind? Alpha Strike works fine on hexes, just cut every distance on the unit cards and rules by half. A mech that moves 8"j on terrain moves 4j on hexes. Ranges are 6"/24"/42" on terrain and 3/12/21 on hexes. That by itself is probably most of the conversion you'll need to do.
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Defiance Industries posted:It took until Dark Age before anyone was inbred. You know, when they decided the franchise needed rape and incest to really break into a new level.  Lawman 0 posted:Oh jesus christ. Danai is a Liao so I'm sure Loren Coleman was involved in that one. Edit: Alaric was also the only Clanner ever to be held back in a Sibko (he graduated at 24 when Clanners test into the Warrior Caste at 20) and my favorite quote about him is: quote:Alaric was somewhat tormented by [Katherine Steiner's] constant meddling with his life PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Dec 15, 2019 |
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Alright, where's a big nasty lore wiki that I can read instead of working over the holidays? Clearly there's a lot of stupid crap in there but I've killed time in 40K lore wikis, I'm pretty inured.
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Sarna.net is the BT wiki, though some of the articles are very poorly written.
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https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Far_Country Start here.
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Sarna.net is definitely the wiki to use. It's not quite as... overwrought as some of the 40K wikis, but it usually has most of what you could want.
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I think the Jihad and Dark Age lore as written by Catalyst is probably the best part of the setting  I wish we’d get a Jihad game.
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I did a game yesterday where I fielded one company along with a friend who also fielded one, vs a third player who fielded two. We slapped three hex maps side by side and played a ridiculously big Alpha strike game in about four hours all told. The hex conversion is super straight forward: 1 hex is two inches. Given that we could not only field lances, but whole companies, I’m wondering if I’ll ever go back to classic Battletech again. e: a Centurion headshot my Awesome and dropped it straight off. My Flea continually harassed the back side of a Cyclops until it finally killed the drat thing (meaning my Flea killed an assault), effectively taking the cyclops out of the fight entirely. The cyclops never did decent damage because it was constantly turning backwards to try to get at my Flea. Alpha Strike is amazing. Dr. Lunchables fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Dec 16, 2019 |
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That sounds really fun! I didn't know Alpha Strike had any kind of hit locations, or even any modeling of front/rear.
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It doesn't have hit locations, but to-hit rolls of 12 do a through armor crit. A crit result of 12 is a dead mech, the narrative justification is really easy after that. There is definitely a difference between front and rear though, both in terms of firing arcs and also in terms of taking damage.
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PoptartsNinja posted:WizKids, mostly. Danai Liao-Centrella and Alric Wolf are the big offenders DI is referencing, and even Alaric's questionable since Clan genetic manipulation is involved. Caleb Davion is the rapist in question. Between that and finding out her uncle was her dad. Danai was treated real badly.
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Right, I forgot about him. There's so much to keep track of with Caleb since he was designed to stop people whining about the Davions always being the good guys by personally checking off every possible villainous trope he could.
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You're starting to sound like the folks on the official forums who said that Davions not having the most machines in... TRO: 3075, I think? was part of a conspiracy to get people to stop liking House Davion. Caleb was bad because they wanted Julian to be even more clean and pure and heroic by the comparison.
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Nah, I think Caleb's fine. He's a paranoid schizophrenic sociopath, I just have difficulty remembering all of his crimes when Yori Kurita is so much more entertaining.
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Yori Kurita is a character they actively want to build around and so give direction to. Caleb is Rabban to Julian's Feyd, he exists just to make someone else look good by comparison and so never had any long-term plans made for him. That's the difference. e: Yori being the "only" Kurita left definitely had me scratching my head, though. It's weird that there apparently aren't whole other branches of the Kurita family like there are Gallery Steiners and Furillo Steiners, Victoria Davions or Stewart Mariks and Tamarind Mariks. e2: Whatever happened to the Rasalhague Kuritas? Did they all get torn apart by hordes of identical 6'3" blondes? Defiance Industries fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Dec 16, 2019 |
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It really does feel like they took a chainsaw to most everything out of the 3050 era that was left after the Jihad.
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By the way, what is the most recent iteration of Battleforce? Or is it now called something else with Catalyst?
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The most recent version is just called Battleforce. It's in Strategic Operations, although the errata for it is pretty significant. It's always been the red-headed stepchild to Alpha Strike, built off the same engine mostly but receiving updates at a far slower rate. SO is out of print though (except for PDF); the next printing of SO will have that pile of errata integrated, but I have no idea when that will be.
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Xotl posted:The most recent version is just called Battleforce. It's in Strategic Operations, although the errata for it is pretty significant. It's always been the red-headed stepchild to Alpha Strike, built off the same engine mostly but receiving updates at a far slower rate. SO is out of print though (except for PDF); the next printing of SO will have that pile of errata integrated, but I have no idea when that will be. Thanks! I'll have to keep an eye out for it.
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Does MegaMek have any Battleforce mode, or is it pretty much just for that normal Classic Battletech experience?
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Mostly regular TT, but you can play space battles on it too
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Xotl posted:The most recent version is just called Battleforce. It's in Strategic Operations, although the errata for it is pretty significant. It's always been the red-headed stepchild to Alpha Strike, built off the same engine mostly but receiving updates at a far slower rate. SO is out of print though (except for PDF); the next printing of SO will have that pile of errata integrated, but I have no idea when that will be. Battleforce is more like the father of Alpha Strike that's been forgotten about in a retirement home, SO even contains the rules for the prototype of Alpha Strike that was built off of Battleforce. I wonder if those rules will be cut from the reprint since they're now obsolete?
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BattleMaster posted:SO even contains the rules for the prototype of Alpha Strike that was built off of Battleforce. I wonder if those rules will be cut from the reprint since they're now obsolete? Yes, I requested that Quick-Strike be axed for that reason.
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Minneapolis Battletech chat: Source Comics and Games does a Battletech night every second Thursday. So next one will be early January.
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