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We've always suffered for putting off the persistent options. I vote B.
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I know B will not win, but it is clearly the most interesting option on the field. Add intrigue and deception onto a field filled with Highlander Burials and you get something awesome.
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Sep 23, 2011 16:44
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Bear in mind that the Highlander is Lostech at the moment... 
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Sep 23, 2011 16:47
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Arquinsiel posted:Bear in mind that the Highlander is Lostech at the moment... Like every other mech, there is the downgraded variant for level 1 play. And hell, maybe if we are lucky we will start seeing some imitation -732 Highlanders now that the Gauss Rifle is back.
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Sep 23, 2011 16:51
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Kind of disappointed we don't get a second shot at playing in the New Rim Worlds Republic territory (for the moment), but all of these choices are pretty interesting in their own way. I'm voting A since I want to see just how well we can employ asymmetric warfare against the Clans. Ideally I hope it goes down like that one chapter in Grave Covenant where 2 points of elementals get their poo poo kicked in by people armed with makeshift ballistas, carbombs, and dropping large objects onto them. Of course in reality we're probably going to die horribly but hey, nothing ventured, nothing gained.
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Sep 23, 2011 16:53
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Gotta think the best way to kill elementals is to trick them into swarming a fake mech doused in gasoline, then you attack with your hidden Firestarter.
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Sep 23, 2011 17:01
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Current vote count for next scenario- A)28 B)8 C)2 D)13 E)4
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Sep 23, 2011 17:33
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No love for Big MAC, which might be the only thing Capellan that I don't loathe. Maybe in this timeline we can somehow get them into the employ of House Davion or House Steiner. 
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Sep 23, 2011 17:39
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Voting B for Liao cluster fuckage.
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Sep 23, 2011 18:01
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KnoxZone posted:Like every other mech, there is the downgraded variant for level 1 play. And hell, maybe if we are lucky we will start seeing some imitation -732 Highlanders now that the Gauss Rifle is back.
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Sep 23, 2011 18:11
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Arquinsiel posted:Nah, the Highlander chassis itself was Lostech until the Gray Death Legion built one using the Helm core. No one was building new ones, that's true, but there were still a few -733s with AC/10s replacing the Guass, no CASE, and regular armor instead of FF wandering around.
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Sep 23, 2011 18:28
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I will vote D but I won't be disappointed if A wins.
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Sep 23, 2011 18:32
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D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_66lcCwBAk4&feature=related
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Sep 23, 2011 18:55
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E I want Hanse Davion to come out and play.
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Sep 23, 2011 18:56
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A because holy crap we need to slow down the clans. That is a bigass wedge taken out of the upper Sphere.
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Sep 23, 2011 19:34
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E I'm really curious to see where this one would lead.
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Sep 23, 2011 19:57
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I gotta vote for A. The FRR never got enough attention for how awesome they are.
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Sep 23, 2011 19:58
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Tyra and her warriors fought Like crazed demons above Radstadt. When her fighter was crippled by ours, And her life leaked away into the endless night, She chose to die And sent her fighter like a spear Through the Dire Wolf, claiming as isorla Our mighty ilKhan's life. Sing of our loss, warriors! Sing, but of Tyra also, For though an enemy, her courage none can deny. You do not win a war in a C3 room, surrounded my monitors. You win from the front lines. The mighty Rasalhague Republic will kick these invaders out of our galaxy the only way they know how - by crushing a spider, legs and all. A
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Sep 23, 2011 20:32
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Ooo... drat, that mystery box is tempting. Vote: A But I really want to see the Combine get some sympathetic protagonists, and PTN's done a bang up job so far of making the Goon team likable. BANZAI! 
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Sep 23, 2011 20:51
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Rick_Hunter posted:Tyra and her warriors fought
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Sep 23, 2011 20:52
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W.T. Fits posted:Ooo... drat, that mystery box is tempting. I think you have it wrong. FOR THE THUNDER GOD!    BANZAI!Rasalhauge isn't merely the Draconis Combine. It's the land of Swedenese Vikings.
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Sep 23, 2011 21:02
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Voting A because Widowmaker is the only Clan we haven't seen in action!
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Sep 23, 2011 21:03
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ShadowDragon8685 posted:I think you have it wrong. In my defense, I know nothing about the setting save for what I've seen in this thread so far.
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Sep 23, 2011 21:09
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Zikan posted:Voting A because Widowmaker is the only Clan we haven't seen in action! You haven't seen the Goliath Scorpions either. Edit: I can promise you'll see at least one Wolf Spider this time around. PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Sep 23, 2011 |
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Sep 23, 2011 21:17
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Voting A for more Sphere on Clan action.
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Sep 23, 2011 21:22
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A. I love me some guerilla warfare action.
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Sep 23, 2011 21:26
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gently caress yeah Rasalhague let's do this A.
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Sep 23, 2011 21:29
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Oh drat, I didn't even see that possibility for E. Yeah, there'd be quite the chance for Hanse to get pissed enough that he'd break out Battlemaster to kick these assholes off his lawn, just like he did with the "Death Commandos" OTL.pun pundit posted:Guerilla warfare or suicidal death rush? Seems like a hard choice, but only one option has someone called Lady Death who people seem to take seriously enough to be afraid of. E for Paula Trevine commands one of the biggest and meanest pirate groups in the Davion Outback and bordering Periphery, plaguing both the Fed Suns and the Taurians. Oh, and any people on Tortuga besides her lackeys. Remember the "Crowd control? Isn't that what the Firestarter is for" joke? It's not a joke in her case. Her guys *are* using flamethrowers for crowd control. And not as a measure of last resort, either. Shoeless posted:McCarron’s Armored Cavalry sounds like fun, and I do love tanks, so C for me. The Big Mac is a Mech unit. Also, amongst the "big boys" of the merc business, they're generally known as being pretty assholish.
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Sep 23, 2011 21:36
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Between all this voting, has anyone played Missionforce : Cyberstom or Cyberstorm 2 before? They seem like pretty cool games, looks like tabletop Battletech too!
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Sep 23, 2011 22:53
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Koorisch posted:Between all this voting, has anyone played Missionforce : Cyberstom or Cyberstorm 2 before? Yes, Cyberstorm is one of my favorite games, worth the $5 bargain bin price I paid for it 20 times over. Cyberstorm 2 is O.K, but they lost alot of the charm and flavor of the original. Too bad it is impossible to play the original on modern computers.
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Sep 23, 2011 23:17
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Aren't those the Starsiege universe HERC sims? Of those I only played Starsiege and Earthsiege 2 - the former is a brilliant straight up Mechwarrior style sim, while the latter has you actually in control of manufacturing and research in addition to driving all the various vehicles. Including aircraft. Really wish they'd include a little of the bigger picture management in the new Mechwarrior (5? 6?).
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Sep 23, 2011 23:19
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DatonKallandor posted:Really wish they'd include a little of the bigger picture management in the new Mechwarrior (5? 6?). My less-than-likely quiet hope is that once Mechwarrior 5 does well, we'll see a "First Lord" Paradox-style game (or perhaps even an actual Paradox game) that lets you take the Inner Sphere from the fall of the Star League to the modern era. That's really the "Mech Commander" game I'd want to see.
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PoptartsNinja posted:My less-than-likely quiet hope is that once Mechwarrior 5 does well, we'll see a "First Lord" Paradox-style game (or perhaps even an actual Paradox game) that lets you take the Inner Sphere from the fall of the Star League to the modern era. That's really the "Mech Commander" game I'd want to see. If that were to happen, I would probably be found dead in my computer chair two months after release.
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PoptartsNinja posted:My less-than-likely quiet hope is that once Mechwarrior 5 does well, we'll see a "First Lord" Paradox-style game (or perhaps even an actual Paradox game) that lets you take the Inner Sphere from the fall of the Star League to the modern era. That's really the "Mech Commander" game I'd want to see. That would be incredible. But even just the freedom to say "for this mission, I don't think a Mech is the best choice - I'll do this with an Aerospace asset with X loadout" would be nice to have.
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PoptartsNinja posted:My less-than-likely quiet hope is that once Mechwarrior 5 does well, we'll see a "First Lord" Paradox-style game (or perhaps even an actual Paradox game) that lets you take the Inner Sphere from the fall of the Star League to the modern era. That's really the "Mech Commander" game I'd want to see. If we're dreaming, I'd say have a number of scenarios, including Fall of the Star League, 1st Succession War, 2nd Succession War, and so on so you can start at any historical era. My perfect scenario would start in 2315 with the fall of the Terran Alliance. Let me start with just New Avalon and see how far I can get! EDIT: For extra degree of difficulty, start with one of the historical losers like Rasalhague or Chesterton or Alpheratz! jng2058 fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Sep 23, 2011 |
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jng2058 posted:If we're dreaming, I'd say have a number of scenarios, including Fall of the Star League, 1st Succession War, 2nd Succession War, and so on so you can start at any historical era. Or pretty much everyone in the Free Worlds League. Also, will the Davions be able to cope with their rowdy vassal march lords? Will Skye's constant rebellions manage to wreck the Lyran Commonwealth's economy? Will the periphery states be able to research anything successfully?
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PoptartsNinja posted:Or pretty much everyone in the Free Worlds League. Comedy option: get to play as the Clans, and determine who gets dibs on the invasion. Clans Diamond Shark, Snow Raven, Goliath Scorpion, and Blood Spirit getting the invasion corridors, anyone?
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Going for A. The problem with a political game is that the whole IP is always about big stompy robots shooting each other. While I can see how the fluff could make for an interesting game (seriously, a game where technology goes backward the more you blow things up), it would take that fluff becoming heavily emphasized for its own sake. Maybe if there was a movie. edit: oooh man. Now I'm dreaming of seeing the intial clan invasion on the big screen in full CG glory. Hell, imagine a Justice Foot shot in 3D.
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Cythereal posted:Comedy option: get to play as the Clans, and determine who gets dibs on the invasion. Clans Diamond Shark, Snow Raven, Goliath Scorpion, and Blood Spirit getting the invasion corridors, anyone? I see what you did there. You just trolled the entire Clan way of life. Bravo. Diamond Shark wouldn't even bother with a genuine effort at overthrowing the Lyran Commonwealth. They'd just start snatching up periphery worlds, then strike a bargain to take the "troublesome" province of Skye off the Lyran's hands, then sell it to the Jade Falcons. Natty Ninefingers posted:edit: oooh man. Now I'm dreaming of seeing the intial clan invasion on the big screen in full CG glory. My question is, who do you want to direct this picture? 1: Steven Spielberg. 2: George Lucas. 3: James Cameron. 4: Michael Bay.
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ShadowDragon8685 posted:My question is, who do you want to direct this picture? Michael Bay. BattleTech is cheesy and demands many, many explosions. Preferably with plenty of giant robots armed to the teeth. Melodrama an optional but inevitable extra. Sounds like his kind of movie. You just know a James Cameron BattleTech movie would be visually stunning but involve the bird aliens as a bunch of technologically backward but oh-so-retarded magical space Native Americans who are ever so much better than the brutal, ignorant, humanity.
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