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The new Sentinel's looking a whole hell of a lot better than the old one. 
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Where are these coming from?
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Kickstarter updates. The new Black Knight is an interesting cross between the Dark Age Chunky Linebacker and the PGI SlenderKnight. 
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May 11, 2020 13:14
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I like the head and arms a lot. I don't like that they mixed Succession Wars-style block armor for the torso and SLDF-style rounded around for the legs, though.
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It's emulating some of the shapes from the Mechwarrior 4 Black Knight, but slimming them down a bit. We'll see what the final model looks like, but I have a feeling those shapes are more rounded than the flat shading suggests. Edit: It really does seem like they're trying to find a middle ground between every version of the Black Knight.
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drat those battlemech illustrations are real dang good. I think I like them better than the PGI anglefest that they went with.
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I don't like the new Jenner. Thighs are too thiiic. The rest are sweet tho BULBASAUR fucked around with this message at 03:28 on May 13, 2020 |
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May 13, 2020 03:23
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The Panther is fantasticPussy Cartel posted:The new Sentry's looking a whole hell of a lot better than the old one. The old model was so bad I would reroll any time it came up in a unit list.
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There's a miniature of the Panther floating around on Facebook. It's good.
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Are there any online stores (etsy, ebay, other places) selling custom Battletech maps?
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This guy does some nice maps in a variety of sizes: https://mapmasterbattlemaps.com/ I have one and I quite enjoy it.
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Question for people who get Jumpship lore/rules/etc- what is fuel used for when it comes to jumpships? I see in the write-up for a jumpship like the magellan (https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Magellan) it boasts enough fuel for 600 days, but I was under the impression that jumpships mostly just stay at jump-points, maybe needing enough fuel for station-keeping and minor moves to actual stations, and the jump engines were either completely charged off solar sails or lithium batteries?
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Gotta keep the reactor running, otherwise there's nothing to run the life support, computers to calculate the next jump or the big comm centers that military ships use.
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Fuel is also used for station-keeping drives, and can be used for the main drives as well if the jumpship needs to move in realspace.
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Jumpship drives are really low powered so any relocation will take quite a while. Like ~.1G
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Yeah they get towed if they need to move places, the engine is just to keep it from falling into the star while it sits at a jump point.
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As a Battletech player, what is the most terrifying enemy you could possibly encounter? Battlemech sized Xenomorphs? Clanners with a death wish? After the quarantine lifts, I'm looking to see how I can raise the stakes for my campaign group.
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Oh that's easy, realistically operating space ships. e: To be clear, the entire setting is predicated on the vast majority of craft being glorified trucks moving your awesome metal knights from system to system. And yeah sure maybe there are weapons on them but we won't think about that too much. The reality is that the weapons on any given heavily armed ship, taken seriously, are enough to flatten anything not super hardened on a planet. And that very much includes the mechs on it. And there's nothing those mechs could do about it. Mulva fucked around with this message at 14:58 on May 25, 2020 |
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A mandatory urban area with properly entrenched and hidden conventional infantry. It's like Minesweeper, but instead of a mine you get shot in the rear end by thirty flamers. And it takes forever to kill them, since a) they're in a Heavy building and b) nobody brings anti-infantry weapons. And sometimes they have field guns, so you've got an AC10 that can take 200+ damage and keep firing.
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Mulva posted:Oh that's easy, realistically operating space ships. This is the reason Catalyst went to some pains to blow up as many WarShips as possible during the Jihad.
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Warships were cool in the task force serpent books but that's about it
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General Battuta posted:This is the reason Catalyst went to some pains to blow up as many WarShips as possible during the Jihad. There were much better solutions but it left space as a place for people who liked them to play, and they decided that wasn't okay. There was definite antipathy involved, it was not a dispassionate call.
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I remember a distinct amount of antipathy on the part of some devs toward both warships and augmentations, and both got axed to varying degrees by the Jihad.
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Defiance Industries posted:There were much better solutions but it left space as a place for people who liked them to play, and they decided that wasn't okay. There was definite antipathy involved, it was not a dispassionate call. Frustrating that this is the one thing they decided to break from their philosophy that new things pile up in the Battletech universe (wtf is a WIGE? And a QuadVee?) while old things never disappear. I thought WarShips were cool. I never actually played with them, and it sounds like their game balance was all kinds of messed up, but they made sense as a part of the universe.
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Carbolic posted:Frustrating that this is the one thing they decided to break from their philosophy that new things pile up in the Battletech universe (wtf is a WIGE? And a QuadVee?) while old things never disappear. They made sense when they were so rare as to be basically non-existent. IIRC the clans showing up with a bunch of no bullshit warships was a big part of the 3050 pucker factor. It also made a lot of sense for explaining why combat in the BT universe worked the way it did. THere's no reason to bother with mechs if you can just park a warship in orbit and pound on the planet.
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I have always been frustrated by the answer to that being "remove WarShips" and not "change the rules to make that risky and difficult".
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No one played BattleSpace because even for BattleTech it was an unfun chore, and there were other considerations at the time (wizkids wanting more of that sweet Mage Knight money) that meant the chances of getting new rules for the space warfare side of things were slim to none. They went away during the Jihad because it was one less thing for the line developers to worry about while developing clickytech. I expect WarShips will get revisited in 3150, especially now that games like Alpha Strike and the new MW:Destiny rules have shown the line developers have an interest in streamlining the game. You can actually play WarShips pretty easily with the Alpha Strike rules as-is, they just don't have official stats. About the only change I'd make to Alpha Strike to accommodate WarShips would be to give everything two damage values: one for anti-ship attacks and one for anti-fighter point defense, and then make sure the bigger the ship the worse it is at killing fighters to encourage bringing a mix. Make hex play the standard rather than an optional rule, and most everything else is fine as-is with a little re-skinning. Trees become gas clouds. Rough terrain becomes asteroid swarms. Water becomes gravity wells (with no MP cost to enter, but big costs to leave). Etc, etc.
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Strobe posted:I have always been frustrated by the answer to that being "remove WarShips" and not "change the rules to make that risky and difficult". Exactly. I thought of this in ten seconds: after the Jihad, all planets of any significant value have capital missile silos, and if they move into range for an orbital strike they probably eat a nuclear missile because they are too big to avoid it. DropShips and fighters are nimble enough to avoid them, so fleets fight over jump points and then you land troops to take control of a planet. It's the easiest "big problem" to solve I can imagine.
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Quite a number of the warships still in the Inner Sphere after the SLDF left had sudden dates with nuclear warheads.
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PoptartsNinja posted:No one played BattleSpace because even for BattleTech it was an unfun chore, I’ve still got a boxed set of it on my shelf. Pretty sure it got played twice, 25 years ago.
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I wasn't much into BattleSpace but I do like AT2
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I'm interested in TRO: Irregulars; actually, I have been waiting for it for a long time since it was talked about as XTRO: Irregulartech years ago. With the TRO title instead I'm wondering if it will be a full book? That would be cool. I'm also interested in Touring the Stars: Kaumberg because I liked that planet ever since I read Operation: Flashpoint and I liked it when Herb Beas snuck in references to it and the houses on it into Jihad and onward era stuff. It will be cool to have a map of the place. I think that the little civil war microcosm that happened there between the two ruling houses during the FedCom civil war would be a good RPG setting.
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Totally going to start my next campaign playing as the Thermo Police and run around the Wastes as glorified meter maids enforcing the specifics of maritime law
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I can't believe we've already gone three posts without pointing out the obvious ending to
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Taintrunner posted:Totally going to start my next campaign playing as the Thermo Police and run around the Wastes as glorified meter maids enforcing the specifics of maritime law "THIS IS A FREE MECH ON THE LAND."
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Taintrunner posted:Totally going to start my next campaign playing as the Thermo Police and run around the Wastes as glorified meter maids enforcing the specifics of maritime law SEA PATROL gonna put on our hobnail boots and show the Scoobydoos what an axehandle is for. SirFozzie posted:Rock of the Republic: Another Pardoe novella, bringing the timeline forward dealing with the Republic Remmnant outside the Fortress now that the Fortress is down. (Fiction) Weird chose to base a book around considering that Redburn and his government got wiped out by Stone with the same level of gravitas they gave the annihilation of Malcolm Buhl's ComStar. BattleMaster posted:I'm interested in TRO: Irregulars; actually, I have been waiting for it for a long time since it was talked about as XTRO: Irregulartech years ago. With the TRO title instead I'm wondering if it will be a full book? That would be cool. I think, now that they've decided TROs can have tech besides just tournament legal stuff, the XTRO label is kind of obsolete. Defiance Industries fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Jun 10, 2020 |
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Defiance Industries posted:Weird chose to base a book around considering that Redburn and his government got wiped out by Stone with the same level of gravitas they gave the annihilation of Malcolm Buhl's ComStar. Where did that happen?
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