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Rhymenoserous posted:I think one of the worst moments in battletech besides Aleric Wolfs parentage was the description of that drink and what was used to cut it. Ugh. You mean the house variants of it? https://www.sarna.net/wiki/PPC_(beverage) Because none of those combos sound very appetizing to me either.
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I don't think they're the kind of drink you down because you enjoy it, you do it to prove a point. Also the worst moment in BattleTech is every time Kai is around.
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If anyone’s been trying to source a BT:AGoAC box, Barnes and Noble had them in stock today. link here If you order it with the preorder Clan Assault Lance box, they won’t ship it until December, so order separately.
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Nov 1, 2021 09:23
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Anyone know of any place doing pre-orders of wave 2 sets and wave 1 restocks?
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BattleMaster posted:You mean the house variants of it? https://www.sarna.net/wiki/PPC_(beverage) From experience when I was younger and more foolish, I can confirm all of them are pretty bad. (The Steiner variant was the best, mostly because the peppermint overwhelmed everything else.)
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Nov 1, 2021 15:49
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Still preferable to a flaming pelican.
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Nov 1, 2021 15:55
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Those all sound awful, though maybe the plum wine one is ok? I usually like plum wine and I wouldn't be surprised if people actually did mix it with baijiu.
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Y'know, I'm thinking some Mechwarrior in the setting just HAS to have invented a drink called the Headshot (also could probably have an Ammo Explosion, or a Neural Feedback), but I don't know liquor well enough to come up with a recipe for any of those sadly.
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The Headshot is a Clan drinking challenge that's just chugging a cup of their non-toxic 'Mech coolant and then taking a punch to the face from an elemental. Winner is the last person to remain conscious.
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PoptartsNinja posted:The Headshot is a Clan drinking challenge that's just chugging a cup of their non-toxic 'Mech coolant and then taking a punch to the face from an elemental. I bid three punches and two shots a round. Care to ante up, freebirth?
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Are the mechs in the Legendary ForcePack an Archer, a Marauder, a Mad Cat, and a Masakari?
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Nov 6, 2021 03:09
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I think the Clan assault mech is a Daishi.
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Nov 6, 2021 03:13
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Dang, I already have one and don't really see a point in a second. I kind of wish the product description named the mechs and not just the pilots.
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Unfortunately the people behind the packs were not smart enough to put Reinhardt Steiner in there and went with some mercenary instead, so no Masakari.
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The Marauder, Timberwolf, and Dire Wolf are alternate sculpts: the Marauder's autocannon is slightly bigger, the Timberwolf is the Pryde variant with jump jet ports on the back, and the Dire Wolf is the Widowmaker variant. Unfortunately, although I've looked over Morgan Kell's Archer quite heavily, I couldn't find any difference in the sculpt. It's just a normal Archer in a different pose.
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Nov 6, 2021 11:50
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I think Morgan just used a standard -2R that later got some upgrades that allowed for more internal bits without any real change to its loadout.
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Taerkar posted:I think Morgan just used a standard -2R that later got some upgrades that allowed for more internal bits without any real change to its loadout. It's why I think they should've done Jamie Wolf's Archer instead. They could've moved the cockpit from the nose to the top to show that it's more of a transitional unit on the evolution from Archer -> Archer(C) -> Mad Dog
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I assume they'd have put Jaime in a 2W since that's what he's piloting in the Legends book. Which is still a better choice because it's an actual different unit.
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Nov 6, 2021 18:10
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But you knew what I was getting at.
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I don't think they'd move the cockpit, since they put out a book around the same time with a big detailed illustration of Jaime Wolf's mech, and the cockpit is still in the same place. But I agree he'd have been a better choice.
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PoptartsNinja posted:The Marauder, Timberwolf, and Dire Wolf are alternate sculpts: the Marauder's autocannon is slightly bigger, the Timberwolf is the Pryde variant with jump jet ports on the back, and the Dire Wolf is the Widowmaker variant. It really seems like you're refusing my batchall here Edit: Lore wise, what's the actual 'punishment' for refusing a batchall? Do the clans just go "okay" and turn go full sicko mode on people?
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:Edit: Lore wise, what's the actual 'punishment' for refusing a batchall? Do the clans just go "okay" and turn go full sicko mode on people? Total war. "You won't fight us on even terms? We're hitting you with everything, including our WarShip."
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Nov 7, 2021 06:00
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Yeah see the time the Smoke Jaguars razed an entire town they occupied because some prisoners escaped. Now those prisoners included Hohiro Kurita, but I'm fairly sure the clans didn't know that at the time.
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PoptartsNinja posted:Total war. Like everything else with the Clans, the answer here is a lot of "depends on when and what Clan" and then also what commanders are in charge. There may be no honor in the enemy but there's still honor to be won on the field, and that'd result in a bid between competing officers. The end result would be significantly less bound to the "next best bid can be called in" tradition because it's not a trial with the opponent it's just internal dickwaving, and victory is the expectation and not a pleasant bonus to personal glory like in a formal trial. I'd be surprised if there weren't half a dozen instances in the initial invasion where the defenders confusedly refuse a batchall and the invading Clan officers immediately start squabbling about who has the right to crush those honorless dogs.
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And of course the forcepacks sell out instantly on CGL's store. No Warhawk for me. 
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Sky Shadowing posted:Yeah see the time the Smoke Jaguars razed an entire town they occupied because some prisoners escaped. That's pretty typical for their dealing with any kind of civil disobedience. Ever hear about Londerholm?
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And even then, nothing the Smoke Jaguars or Word of Blake did really comes close to matching the level of sheer spite involved in the Kentares massacre. It's why I remain convinced House Kurita's reprisals against both were just them trying to show the Clans / Wobbies how it's really done.
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PoptartsNinja posted:And even then, nothing the Smoke Jaguars or Word of Blake did really comes close to matching the level of sheer spite involved in the Kentares massacre. House Kurita is an experienced state dynasty and effectively uses the state's monopoly on violence for political ends. The Clans/WoB respond like wounded animals when confronted with a challenge from a lesser/non-opponent.
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Nov 7, 2021 21:01
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Now in defense of wounded animals they're usually effectively employing violence to try to promote their own survival.
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You see, war crimes are cooler when you look like an adult committing the war crime and not a manchild committing the war crime, and
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General Battuta posted:Now in defense of wounded animals they're usually effectively employing violence to try to promote their own survival. This is true, and in this particular metaphor the short term goals still fit, but the implications for long term survival are less well considered. They do tend to be able to fix the immediate conflict effectively.
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PoptartsNinja posted:And even then, nothing the Smoke Jaguars or Word of Blake did really comes close to matching the level of sheer spite involved in the Kentares massacre. I just googled that and jesus I thought they were over-tuning it a bit in the GDL books I've read, this is like cartoon character levels of evil, what the poo poo
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Nov 8, 2021 03:33
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They thought the part where the Combine made it illegal to be Jewish was too subtle.
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The Combine made it illegal to be any religion except the state-sponsored "Shinto," which isn't much like the real thing. Santa is a Kami.
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if they made every religion illegal why did the keretanos massacre article refer to a buddhist? shinto and buddhism aren't the same thing
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Buddha is a kami and the state looks the other way because they'd have to execute more than half their population if they really cracked down on it.
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how did several billion people become buddhist as one myself, active recruitment is literally not something we do lol
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The same way nearly every Protestant denomination (theoretically) got folded into Space Catholicism (which then had a shism when Stefan Amaris took Terra, causing New Avalon to declare their bishop the new pope) during the age of the Star League:  BattleTech doesn't talk about religion much.
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PoptartsNinja posted:The same way nearly every Protestant denomination (theoretically) got folded into Space Catholicism (which then had a shism when Stefan Amaris took Terra, causing New Avalon to declare their bishop the new pope) during the age of the Star League: I thought there'd be lots of mormons. Space Mormons is a surprisingly common trope (and honestly I would be shocked if I got futurama'd 1000 years into the future and the LDS were gone)
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