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As much as I want to see the space mexicans get their revenge on, I have to agree with Zaodai and vote: C) Ignore the mysterious contract and return to Atreus as-ordered, but for a slightly different reason. Blood for blood is dandy, but I want some variety in the PTNverse. Let's start a few more storylines before we wrap them up in beautiful revenge (against space chineses).
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| # ¿ Apr 19, 2011 00:18 |
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| # ¿ May 19, 2013 13:15 |
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It's kind of sad that I never noticed my namesake was one of the scrappiest MechWarriors this side of the Draconis March. But as it stands he's probably telling the clanners not to rough him up because his dad owns a dealership and calling them faggots because they run a dry campaign.
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| # ¿ Apr 22, 2011 23:39 |
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Leperflesh posted:The contents of the Secret Surprise Box were secret. But I have beheld them and am joyful. And why does it make me anxious to see the results? 
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| # ¿ May 7, 2011 21:27 |
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Speaking as the voice of destructive reason, don't bet on the OpFor units taking the bait. They've been real good about not going in between city blocks if they don't have jump jets. They also just witnessed one of you go kaboom so I think they'd be more than eager to keep their distance. Walk away from the refinery, blow up the refinery, take out the rest of the red on the map (and the train) and go hug that big triangular building on the west side of the map. Send yourself out with a bang.
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| # ¿ May 12, 2011 06:00 |
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With all the negative talk about Heavy Lasers, I always thought they were a great way to keep a triple strength myomer mech running hot enough to benefit from it. Speaking of which, I find it hard to believe that no one has designed a Heavy/Assault melee mech with HLas and TMS. Does that sound too outlandish?
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| # ¿ May 13, 2011 15:55 |
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GhostStalker posted:...Just hope the Griffin isn't too close when you die, else you explosives might take him out as well.... Since the griffin is in its -1N config, I'm fairly sure it would try to get away from the target for the obvious reasons of it being made of EXPLODIUM and also because it's based around long range. But damage to a Home Guard unit is still damage, and that'll hurt. What I'm most concerned about is: If the refinery doesn't top you guys out at 30 million C-bills, how are you going to safely get the rest? The train is surrounded by residential buildings, the park is a shooting gallery, and the only way that both Valk and Assassin can make it to ye olde skycraper in cover is through a block of residential buildings. Difficult decisions, indeed.
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| # ¿ May 14, 2011 23:34 |
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Every part of me wants that building to get its supports taken out and fall into the park, crushing everybody. Is this feasible in game terms? Or do hexes just drop straight down regardless of height and connecting structures?
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| # ¿ May 18, 2011 16:38 |
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Time to turn those heat sinks off and make that mech run hot as hell. And hope for an ammo explosion before a shutdown. Wait, what am I saying? Turn your back to the douches outside and start dumping your ammo!
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| # ¿ May 19, 2011 14:30 |
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What's the reason other than their mechwarriors looking like clowns in tube tunics?
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| # ¿ May 20, 2011 00:32 |
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Fraction Jackson posted:ComGuards it is then. Blake's will be done. I concur. ComGuards is the only option. We've put them on the sidelines for way too long.
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| # ¿ May 24, 2011 03:29 |
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Derail AT-STs have a concussion grenade launcher mounted externally. In their pride, the drivers decided that Ewoks were not worthy of being concussed to death and thus their entire magazine created a horrendous space kablooie. On Track I hope you ComGuards send that Phoenix Hawk flying into the void.
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| # ¿ Jun 2, 2011 03:00 |
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Taerkar posted:Still a lot faster than my update rate for the LPs I've done (And the Mechcommander 2 one I still want to do). Wait, what? DO IT! DO IT NOW! Seriously, that was the first Battletech game that I could play without it crashing instantly or having to buy new compatible hardware. So many fond memories.
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| # ¿ Jun 15, 2011 21:27 |
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Since the thread is kind of slow, does anyone recommend buying a subscription to BattleCorp to read any of the Battletech novels? I didn't really get into Battletech until I was older and by then all the novels had been taken off the shelves. The only one I actually have is The Hunters by Thomas Gressman and I've read it three times over the past month because I'm so bored.
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| # ¿ Jun 19, 2011 17:21 |
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I'm sold, and on the hardcopies no less. Looks like I'll be spending quite a bit on Amazon this summer.
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| # ¿ Jun 20, 2011 05:00 |
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Fraction Jackson posted:8. Remember to focus fire and coordinate movement. 6 on 5 is pretty tricky, so you don't want to make mistakes or leave room for error in terms of downing a mech the turn it needs to be downed. You WILL need to work together to remove targets at any reasonable and useful speed. Use the irc channel to discuss plans, if you need to. You beat me to the punch. Sticking relatively together will also help should any elementals show up to ruin the shooting party. Since PTN highlighted the 'Pressure' rule, it might be worth it to pull a little Rope-A-Dope before concentrating your fire. Once you break Zellbrigen, they might do the same and before you know it, you'll all be going down one at a time under massed fire.
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| # ¿ Jun 21, 2011 10:05 |
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Chance II posted:From the narrative between last round and now, it sounds like the Hells Horses consider Comstar forces as honor less bandits due to the ship ramming. Does this mean they don't consider planet side Comstar units worth of Zell now? Did the Lola III survive and can it communicate with the ground teams? After all, it's at the jump point, not in orbit. Using the books, it can take upwards of ten minutes to send a signal. All fluff aside, I think that's PTN's call.
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| # ¿ Jun 21, 2011 22:56 |
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landcollector posted:Where can I find information about RAC20s? Are they listed on the wiki? Chicken Slayer posted:Maximum Tech. The Rotary AC20 is the cheesiest weapon (at least in my opinion) in a book dedicated to ridiculously cheesy weapons. I guess I was wrong about it not being in a book! But here's my extrapolation: --It can shoot up to 6 rounds per turn --Heat should be like a standard AC/20, 7/shot --Each additional shot increases chance for gun to jam. It can be unjammed, but I think you can unjam it one turn and then fire the subsequent turn. It's a murder cannon. Rick_Hunter fucked around with this message at Jun 23, 2011 around 02:21 |
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CrabGuard expects every good man to do his duty and scuttle to victory. In Blake's name.
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| # ¿ Jun 23, 2011 19:57 |
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 Hate would be too kind a word, PTN. I thought our CrabGuard friends had a chance. I for one welcome our new Clan overlords. Also, every single time I'm looking at sarna.net, I still do a double take when I see an ATM launcher. Yes, I ask myself why is it carrying that. Every time.
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| # ¿ Jun 25, 2011 18:20 |
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LLSix posted:Speaking of, I would like to register as a Mechwarrior for Fixed for Atomik.
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| # ¿ Jun 27, 2011 03:03 |
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Should PTN get MegaMek working, the process will speed up immensely, so I don't think you should set your date of ascension in stone.
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| # ¿ Jun 27, 2011 06:45 |
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Any reason one of the Clan 'Mechs has a line titled "Mechwarrior Player"? Or is that a typo PTN?
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| # ¿ Jun 28, 2011 13:28 |
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Astus posted:It'd be perfect if they did. Because then the clanners would manage to have an upgraded Justice Foot, proving their superiority. Justice Foot IIC, with half of the crit slots taken up and a third less weight.
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| # ¿ Jun 29, 2011 09:21 |
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I figured as much, I just didn't want to assume that was the case. Maybe you were playing us against each other. Maybe one of the CrabGuards...has been a clansman this entire time! 
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| # ¿ Jun 29, 2011 15:23 |
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UberJew posted:Question to the assembled: I am thinking it might be good for us frontal elements to hold position (well, probably walk forward 1 in my case) for one turn to let the jump jetting left flank and our slowpokes catch up before we go over the top Tactically speaking, I would suggest the faster mechs move into position on the edge of the bluffs they are running over (one more turn of movement). Pinning the Clanners in the valley with lack of cover would make it a deathtrap. Once the bluffs are secured and the heavier mechs have caught up, CrabGuard can flank to either the left or right, using JumpJet mechs to jump the river and flank, or using the hill in the center of the valley as cover to come up to the HPG plateau.
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| # ¿ Jun 30, 2011 08:28 |
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Just reminding Fits that if the Clanners are adhering to Zell, he probably has already declared his target by firing at the Dervish. Which should probably tell us if the Clanners are adhering to Zell if the Dervish follows him to stay in range.
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| # ¿ Jun 30, 2011 16:44 |
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PoptartsNinja posted:Nope. Oh. My. Goodness. 
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| # ¿ Jul 2, 2011 05:36 |
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Z the IVth posted:
Paint it Zoidberg red with a dozen small lasers on it's chin. Sure, that defies Battletech logic and critical slot placement, but the CrabGuard doesn't need logic. 
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| # ¿ Jul 6, 2011 00:26 |
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SilentW posted:Since the Flashman's main advantage was its speed... I see that 'Mech going down, HARD, next turn. May as well start cussin' out those Clanners' sibkos before you get hammered into tiny, tiny little pieces by those AC/2s. My techno-mystic blood lust says don't even worry about surviving. The Flashbulb should saunter up those cliffs and blind the hell out of the King Crab IIC until either it or the clanner is dead. And by blind I mean head cap him.
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| # ¿ Jul 10, 2011 23:24 |
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Random question: If the King Crab hypothetically expends all of its gauss rifle ammo, is it possible to power down the gauss rifles so they do not explode on a weapon hit?
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| # ¿ Jul 11, 2011 17:56 |
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GhostStalker posted:Don't the ComGuards use Sandhurst as a training academy and grounds in canon? Wonder what happened to all the other prominent military academies on Terra in the interim, like the aforementioned West Point... Blown up by Amaris? Wouldn't put it past him... More than likely an afterthought for this game's fiction, but I guess we can say that Amaris burned West Point to the ground rather than have the SLDF have anything intact after victory.
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| # ¿ Aug 9, 2011 18:22 |
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I'm in awe that PTN has dedicated a good portion of his free time to help us run a friggin tabletop game on the internet. If it wasn't for this thread, I wouldn't have bought the starter set for Battletech last week at GenCon. What's even more surprising is that all of the goon pilots have been good sports about it and most of the crap is coming from the peanut gallery. PTN, if you're inundated with data and rolls, would it help if you got an assistant/proofer? I really can't offer my services, but I'm sure there's someone in the thread that can assist you.
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| # ¿ Aug 12, 2011 17:18 |
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Cythereal posted:Comedy option: A major IS power, like House Marik, allies with the Clans. Yes, during the invasion. This is actually a pretty good idea, aside from the fact that it would not work out politically. A two front war is still a two front war, and with the Lyran part FedCom barely holding on and the Fed side (eventually) having to push units to save the Draconis Combine, The FWL's only competition comes from the Capellan Confederation, with the southern rump of FedCom ripe for the taking. But this is all speculation. Let's focus on what's at issue here: Clanners curbstomping space mystics and vice versa.
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| # ¿ Aug 13, 2011 00:38 |
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raverrn posted:Not to mention Earth is a very, very, very hard target. It's got a functional SDS and something like ~40 Castle Brians, all of which are armed with anti-capital and anti-dropship weaponry. Add that to what is probably thousands of (SL-tech) battlemechs, and it's not the kind of place you take in a lightning strike. I thought the SDS was only activated (and innovated) once the Wobbies took over. Right now it's just....a relic.
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| # ¿ Aug 13, 2011 16:46 |
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W.T. Fits posted:Voting for D; I wanna see what happens when Goons gets their hands on Clantech. I concur. D) ??? I've been poking my way through Twilight of the Clans, so a certain Sho-sa has been on my mind as of late. Forget Clan-tech, I want to see what the goons do when they get their hands on some DEST commandos.
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| # ¿ Aug 21, 2011 06:39 |
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Mukaikubo posted:This is basically accurate, and if anything would be WORSE in PTN-canon. After all, in this canon, the Clans have to add "settle a 250 year old humiliation" on top of literally everything else because Kerensky didn't defeat Amaris. Watch it with the contractions, Inner Sphere scum.
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| # ¿ Aug 21, 2011 17:34 |
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KnoxZone posted:Aww, don't be a hater. Katherine Wolf is a proud warrior of Clan Wolf now. She passed her Trial of Position with ease! The only thing Katherine Wolf has going for her moving from the Lyran Alliance to Clan Wolf is that instead of surrounding herself with inept social generals piloting mobile oppression palaces, she actually has competent mechwarriors and their superiors to use in her plots.  But did the authors actually take advantage of this? Of course not.
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| # ¿ Aug 22, 2011 03:57 |
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ShadowDragon8685 posted:What constitutes a mobile oppression palace, may I ask? When I said that, it was tongue in cheek reference to the Lyran Alliance's preference for slow, heavy assault mechs designed to out last their opponents. Little did I realize there are actually 'mobile oppression palaces' in canon. Fun to read about, impractical for gameplay.
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| # ¿ Aug 22, 2011 19:14 |
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PoptartsNinja posted:I am, of course, talking about the Jackrabbit. I can't tell if you're joking or not, but looking at the Jackrabbit's successor, http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Nexus, I  a bit. It looks like a baby Nova Cat.
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| # ¿ Aug 24, 2011 00:35 |
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| # ¿ May 19, 2013 13:15 |
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I don't see Mechwarriors Elfrede or Nioclas saying much this coming turn. Their comm links will be drowned out by the "BUDABUDABUDA" of their 24 machine guns.
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