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I love that post-Jihad Jade Falcons mass-produce a tank whose name translates to "Jade Turkey" and I respect PTN for including it in this timeline
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Xarbala posted:I love that post-Jihad Jade Falcons mass-produce a tank whose name translates to "Jade Turkey" and I respect PTN for including it in this timeline I like to think someone told them it was an ancient word in the language of their people that mean brave strong cool warrior dude's tank. And then they just believed it, because they're stupid.
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May 18, 2018 04:28
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Perhaps they've never seen a picture or description of a turkey, but someone told them the great Benjamin Franklin, an ancient genius and warrior-prince of old Earth, wanted to make it his clan totem animal but the slow-thinking morons of his shortsighted clan instead picked the bald trash-bird. So they named their new tank the Jade Turkey in his honor.
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May 18, 2018 04:31
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They're going "all in" on mesoamerican imagery. The Smoke Jaguars' Jaguar Warrior was just the tip of the iceberg.
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Also PTN, if you don't think the game can handle the raw power of the immortal Gurtie, you could always have the Lyrans resurrect the Marsden II early. Maybe double MRM racks up front, LGR or AC/10 for the main gun. 17 TONS OF ARMOR. 60 TON TANK. MARSDEN... THREEEEEE Defiance Industries fucked around with this message at 04:36 on May 18, 2018 |
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May 18, 2018 04:34
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I've always had a fondness for the Patton and Rommel, particularly the latter since it was the tank you drove on the rescue mission in Crescent Hawk's Revenge. I played and replayed that mission like a dozen times until I managed to win with just the tanks...because I didn't realize until years later that you could capture a Marauder in the mission that made the rest of it trivially easy. 
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May 18, 2018 05:33
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PoptartsNinja posted:Talk me into redesigning your favorite (no promises (the Vedette is already in)). Yellow Jacket! Defiance Industries posted:The Hawk Moth is a VTOL with a Light Gauss. light gauss isn't the same  the idea of "how can we strap a truly ludicrous weapon to a platform completely ill-equipped to handle recoil forces of that magnitude" is the kind of thinking that irritates players the world over when the GM sends in a squadron of Yellow Jackets on a strafing run
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Psion posted:light gauss isn't the same Light Gauss or Heavy Gauss, take your pick because those are your options
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I always had a soft spot for the classic Behemoth, the original gently caress You I'm A Giant Tank of Battletech.
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J. Edgar. Come on. J. Edgar Hovertank. How can you not. Edit: vvv Yeah Partisans are cool too. As are Huits (bonus, it sounds like the new Jade Falcons would love them). DatonKallandor fucked around with this message at 15:22 on May 18, 2018 |
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I've always been partial to the Partisan line of models, those multiple RACs are just so much fun and nothing makes a light mech shake like 20 AC2 rounds coming at you from a single vehicle.
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May 18, 2018 15:04
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The Light LRM Carrier (5 It also has ECM and Stealth Armor because why wouldn't it? I'm a jerk. PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 17:00 on May 18, 2018 |
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May 18, 2018 16:41
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I've always wondered about that actually, why not an LRM20 + an LRM5 or even an LRM10? I'd have thought doubling up on mid-sized missile racks would be less efficient than just getting a big rack to start with.
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Because dice, I guess.
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The Hunter's already got the LRM-6, but the light LRM Carrier has much more longevity with only slightly less firepower (9 rounds of ammo (3 tons) vs. 18 rounds of ammo (5 tons)). The Light LRM Carrier is a harasser with five chances to hit a target per salvo rather than a sledgehammer with 1 chance. Basically, they're both good now, but they're good for different things. I made the LRM-5 good! 
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Holy crap. I finally caught up on the whole thread and it seems like at the right time. This whole thread rules and it finally pushed me to start playing a little table top Battletech.
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Ptn I’m really swamped at work and after this next order I won’t be able to submit anything until next weekend at the earliest. Do you want me to bow out or submit orders for the following turn as well? I’m so slow I can do consecutive turns if you allow me to be semi vague?
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May 18, 2018 21:47
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I'll allow it as long as it's not too over-the-top.
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I'll be submitting my orders tonight. I'm flying tomorrow, and will be in europe for the next two weeks; but every place we are staying has wifi, and our travel habit is usually to spend an hour or two every evening online catching up with stuff. So I intend to submit my orders by kindle and will let you guys know if anything comes up that makes that difficult.
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I'm too cheap to afford HPG transmissions, so my orders will be submitted by hand written letter delivered by jump courier. Expect 3-7 months for delivery.
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Zaodai posted:I'm too cheap to afford HPG transmissions, so my orders will be submitted by hand written letter delivered by jump courier. Expect 3-7 months for delivery. I feel like this would not cost less than one C-Bill to do
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Defiance Industries posted:I feel like this would not cost less than one C-Bill to do maybe he's got a very thorough list of contingencies
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Defiance Industries posted:I feel like this would not cost less than one C-Bill to do You'd be amazed what you save when you don't have any guarantees on when it will arrive. I paid 27 Periphery Pesos to a janitor on one of the regularly scheduled outbound ships that shows up every few months to bring our planet a new load of shovels, and he's going to pass it along at random until a Jumpship arrives back to PTN with the orders.
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PoptartsNinja posted:I'll allow it as long as it's not too over-the-top. I’m going to continue swarming. But I may revise after this turn.
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Zaodai posted:You'd be amazed what you save when you don't have any guarantees on when it will arrive. I paid 27 Periphery Pesos to a janitor on one of the regularly scheduled outbound ships that shows up every few months to bring our planet a new load of shovels, and he's going to pass it along at random until a Jumpship arrives back to PTN with the orders. That definitely sounds like an "if" rather than a "when" kind of guarantee. But hey, half a kroner is a lot if you drive a loving POOR PERSON MECH
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May 19, 2018 00:18
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Does a kick to a mech being swarmed have the same risk of hitting the swarmer as weapons fire?
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A swarming unit is only vulnerable to friendly fire if shots hit the target in the torso.
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Don't the Sins have a terrifying vibroclaw or something? The swarm attack seems really underwhelming.
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wiegieman posted:Don't the Sins have a terrifying vibroclaw or something? The swarm attack seems really underwhelming. It's not on their stat sheet. Even then, the point of swarm attacks is that they add up all the damage the whole squad could do and apply it to a single hit. 1 battle armor isn't that threatening, 4-6 of them crawling around on your center torso is a different matter entirely. In this case leg attacks do virtually the same damage and have an extra chance to hip the target.
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PoptartsNinja posted:A swarming unit is only vulnerable to friendly fire if shots hit the target in the torso. Okay, thanks.
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wiegieman posted:Don't the Sins have a terrifying vibroclaw or something? The swarm attack seems really underwhelming. It still only adds 1 damage sadly, because there's only 1 unit in the swarm attack. If you want to see some real rad as hell Battle Armor action, (maybe re?) check out Ikuta Glacier https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3383329&pagenumber=1790&perpage=40#post466952118 That mission was metal from the loving get go and had some great air dropped elemental on mech abusive action, because some of the players were controlling elemental points that hit for 25 or 30 every turn on a swarm attack.
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wiegieman posted:Don't the Sins have a terrifying vibroclaw or something? The swarm attack seems really underwhelming. Swarming is something you do as a full squad. A full level II of Anti Infantry Se'irim (2 Machine Guns, 1 Flamer, 1 APWM) with TSM + Dermal Armor can deal 8 damage per trooper, x 6, for a total of 48 damage to a single location, which often will hit rear torso armor or the head. A single battle armor swarming is a bad idea, as I said. It's not worth it because the point of a swarm is to tear open cockpits or rear torso armor with concentrated damage, and if you're not capable of doing that, don't bother. Especially given that the enemy here is actually made of generally mediocre to bad pilots, leg attacks, which can easily render a mech combat-ineffective because it keeps tipping over at the slightest provocation, are a superior choice.
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Orders submitted: L3-RWA-X Legion #6 Nephilim-2 - Rabbit Warren Turn #12 - Orders Run to 1711 facing 1610, fire rHPPC + 2x AP Gauss at 1611. Kick 1611. I won't be able to change these before PTN runs the turn on Saturday night, so this is set in stone. My next post will be from Paris, France!
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This must be some record for most number of pilots having trouble getting orders in due to work/travel
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Leperflesh posted:Orders submitted: Enjoy Paris! There's a great little place called Le Petit Cler on Rue Cler, great food and very affordable. It's pretty close to the Eiffel Tower as well.
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Well, we got ~3 inches of rain in a 45 minute stretch (in a city that usually gets 3 total inches of rain in May). Long story short, my bedroom flooded. I should have it all cleaned up by Sunday so it shouldn't impact my update schedule, but I'm giving an early FYI just in case. 
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PoptartsNinja posted:Well, we got ~3 inches of rain in a 45 minute stretch (in a city that usually gets 3 total inches of rain in May). Long story short, my bedroom flooded. Next scenario better be water-based combat. Ships, mech torpedoes, swimming elementals. The works!
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All the best with baling out, PTN. Orders submitted: If I'm lucky I might even get to shoot at a mech.
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