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fool of sound
Oct 10, 2012
Zeus

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fool of sound
Oct 10, 2012

fool of sound
Oct 10, 2012
Off rails

fool of sound
Oct 10, 2012

TOILETLORD posted:

ok so i haven't played any battle tech for close to 20 years now just how much better even without clan weapons is a timber wolf over a 3025 atlas.

The Atlas can carry about 1/3 more armor and about half again as much equipment, but the Timberwolf is 2/3s faster and (presumably) comes with Double Heat Sinks standard, and possibly CASE.

fool of sound
Oct 10, 2012
Kill all clanners. Especially Jade Falcons.

fool of sound
Oct 10, 2012

Alchenar posted:

Well it's a setting in which it was originally intended that a lance of neo-knight mechwarriors could conquer a planet. That vision doesn't scale.

IIRC only a handful of planets actually have extensive settlement. Most are based around one or two large colony cities, which is also why orbital strikes can't really be a thing unless you want to rebuild all the infrastructure from the ground up after conquest.

fool of sound
Oct 10, 2012

Deadmeat5150 posted:

The only good clan was Nova CatDiamond Shark.

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fool of sound
Oct 10, 2012

PoptartsNinja posted:

Before anyone knew anything about the Clans, Anastasius Focht (a high-up ComStar guy) first theorized the Clans were an alien race of adaptive shapeshifters a-la The Thing who ate Kerensky's people and, because they're social chameleons with no history of their own, took up the trappings of Human culture without really understanding any of it.

tbh this would be much more interesting.

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