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Jesus christ this thread got huge before I got here. As a megamek vet I would like to sign up to be a mechwarrior since given how many are ahead of me I figure there's a good bet we'll be megamekkin' by the time I get the nod. And as a staunch Davionist who likes cool poo poo voting Kell Hounds
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With that many jumpjets and that little armor let's hope for mountains or at least thick forest. I love playing hit and run with lights and mediums. When my turn comes around I have SA PMs PoptartsNinja atelier morgan fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Jan 22, 2011 |
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Jan 22, 2011 20:01
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A Dragon would hardly be insurmountable provided the terrain to gangbang it at close range. Or just shoot it with the Griffin, really. PPC's are the weapon of the gods. But really, AC/5s and LRMs both have minimum ranges and the Medium Lasers that make up the bulk of the Lance's firepower don't, so walk right up in its face and it has all of two medium lasers, which it can't bring to bear on a single target because one is an rear end laser. Bonus points if you do so from 1 height level up and kick its stupid head off atelier morgan fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Jan 22, 2011 |
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Jan 22, 2011 20:25
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Arglebargle III posted:Yikes, I never thought of that. How do they shed heat!? Very effectively, in the case of being in water. Standing your mech in a Depth 1 lake or river is an excellent way to improve your heat efficiency and pump out more Large Lasers.
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Jan 24, 2011 10:24
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Mukaikubo posted:2 AC/2s and 1 medium laser. A scant 4.5 tons of armor. Decent mobility, but no jump jets. Did I mention only a single ton of autocannon armor for the autocannons? dude tag that poo poo 
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Jan 27, 2011 01:51
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On the plus side they don't have a drat thing that can stop your Hunchback from loving them up if it can get close and they hopefully can't maneuver too much on account of needing to guard the hostage hexes.
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Feb 3, 2011 19:11
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Or a...whatever variety of tank packs an AC/20 for a main gun
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Feb 3, 2011 19:48
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MJ12 posted:(the best miracle win is when you have a warship go out of control and careen off the board) This is true with mechs too, especially when it happens from a skid roll from running and turning on concrete call that one hitting 88mph
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Feb 4, 2011 17:27
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Arglebargle III posted:Wait, this exists? Infantry can do that? BattleTech just keeps making less and less sense. Infantry generally move 1, and have tiny, tiny ranges, but they can do some serious damage with ambushes in thick terrain like a city A combined arms force of VTOLs, vehicles and infantry in an urban environment would be a really nasty opponent if the scenario uses secret placement and movement for them (either through megamek or on a tabletop via one player writing units and hexes on a piece of paper to provide a log and only placing them when they're visible/shoot)
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Feb 11, 2011 19:48
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Hob_Gadling posted:AC/20 is a special case: 20 damage in a single location hurts every mech and stands a good chance of punching through the armor of almost everything under 80 tons on the first hit. The AC/20 is the best weapon and all other ballistics suffer the disadvantage of not being AC/20s
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Feb 12, 2011 20:19
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Axe-man posted:The sad thing is that everything ballistics do, there is an energy weapon that does near the same thing. There is no laser/20 Actually is there? I'm not familiar with all the wacky high tech stuff
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Feb 12, 2011 20:51
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Axe-man posted:Advanced Heavy Lasers have 16 damage for 15 heat and better range, with no acc -, hence the "advanced" Even that still doesn't hit the 20 threshold for forcing a piloting check, though loving hell
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Feb 12, 2011 21:38
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radintorov posted:Choosing a favorite 100 ton 'mech isn't easy, Yeah it is, because the correct choice is always the Atlas
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Feb 22, 2011 23:25
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Tempest_56 posted:A combination of cheating, massive numbers and abusing the Clan's extreme overconfidence. If Tukkayid was cheating then the clan invasion's use of superior strategic mobility to pick and choose short, decisive engagements most certainly was as well. Tempest_56 posted:I forget which one it was, but one Clan basically marched in with almost all ammo-based weapons and brought no reloads at all since they figured they wouldn't need 'em. Tukkayid was the height of Clan arrogance. Most famously that was Clan Diamond Shark but everyone but Ghost Bear, Jade Falcon and Wolf made the same mistake and the Jade Falcons got all their supply depots blown up anyway. atelier morgan fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Mar 5, 2011 |
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Mar 5, 2011 21:49
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ShadowDragon8685 posted:No, no. Diamond Shark didn't gently caress up. Given that they would have lost their entire command structure (and even then didn't the merchants end up taking control of the clan?) if not for the suicidal bravery of their hated freeborn warriors it wasn't entirely intentional
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Mar 5, 2011 22:00
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PoptartsNinja posted:how many of its launchers are full of Infernos? all of them
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Dolash posted:When people talk about how the clans were bound to lose due to manpower concerns, is it because their system of war totally discounts the importance of support elements? ding ding ding
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Mar 25, 2011 00:05
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mercenarynuker posted:Since I don't really know anything about BattleTech, whatever the hell these REDACTED are, they sound loving terrifying. I'm currently imagining some kind of Alien bio-monster melded with mech-grade armor plating that doesn't impact its speed that opens its mouth to reveal an AC/20 instead of the mini-head for murdering pilots. That last part doesn't seem consistent with the Clan's honor code thingy, but good god hahaha for being completely wrong that's actually not that far off
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Mar 25, 2011 17:31
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TildeATH posted:I like how every plan put forth in the last 100+ posts revolve around the assumption (hope?) that Clan warriors are complete morons. Did you see how much firepower that thing pumped out in a single half-salvo? Hoping they are morons is an entirely reasonable strategy
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Mar 29, 2011 16:42
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Arglebargle III posted:Hmmm... all this 'spergin (myself included) has made me wonder whether there has ever been a giant robot fightin' franchise that wasn't completely retarded in some way. Steel Battalion: Basically perfect in every way both game-wise and fluff-wise (hai shi dao forever)
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Apr 3, 2011 05:17
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2/3 pilot breaks his leg off on a level change roll and an erppc headshot in the same round; hopefull that will silence whining about the PC's rolls because goddamn
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Apr 5, 2011 20:37
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Hob_Gadling posted:I feel completely vindicated. personally I'm just grateful to this valiant on behalf of every mech pilot later in the list for getting that terrible turn out of the way
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Apr 5, 2011 20:48
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I'm on deck, but I'll be gone for this evening. (and I'm hoping one of the other two pick it up since I'd rather play comguard  )
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Apr 23, 2011 20:31
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They compare very well to US army formations actually, which only have anything that would qualify as a battletech heavy weapon at the platoon level. iirc a standard 42 man infantry platoon will have one weapons squad with 2 machineguns and 2 antitank weapons. You can fit a lot more than 2 MGs and an SRM2 in that many battletech infantry atelier morgan fucked around with this message at 20:36 on May 24, 2011 |
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May 24, 2011 20:24
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goatface posted:^^ arguing is fun. just gonna quote this Defiance Industries posted:They are. But most of that infantry are loyal to the planetary governor. Most of the rulers on the border worlds don't give a poo poo who they pay taxes to as long as they get left alone. You'll only see local conventional troops getting involved if you go after civilians, upset the status quo, or the ruler has strong ties to the nation. Local troops getting involved risks turning a quick takeover into an occupation. Nobody wants that.
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May 24, 2011 23:53
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Enforced short range engagements and I'm in a Whitworth? Yeah. I'm okay with this  I'm sure I'll get TAC'd on turn one but you rolls da dice you takes ya chances. PTN, do the hexes on both boards count as light side, dark side, or neither?
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May 25, 2011 17:05
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raverrn posted:So what fabulous prizes do Comstar win if they ace this Trial? Or do they not know to ask for anything? Given that we'll be breaking Zell about a minute into the engagement (unless not doing so is a specific objective from PTN) I don't think we're going to be winning anything
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SageNytell posted:Barring specific instructions or an unwinnable scenario requiring something on the order of Steiner rules, nah, you're good. Cross the drat streams all you want. Figure you get a one-turn surprise of them using really shoddy tactics? Might make the difference, combined with the limits placed on their mobility. Yeah, exactly. Some Steiner folks dramatically outnumbered desperately searching for a way to survive adopting Zell, sure Warriors of the Comguard standing against heretics who dare to strike at them doing anything but smiting them with massed fire like the fist of Blake himself? Nonsense!
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Is there an irc channel or similar method for us to coordinate? Because uh fighting heavies with mediums is not exactly a great idea without some kind of plan
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May 26, 2011 06:39
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Are we able to use our jumpjets to move normally, ptn?
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May 26, 2011 20:25
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Cover is for mechs that aren't filled with srms
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May 28, 2011 09:35
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AtomikKrab posted:does the phawk move first? someone should charge its rear end... Let me put it this way, thanks to magboots it can't fall, so you might be able to SNAP IT LIKE A SLIMJIM if you hit it with something big. We don't have anything big the clan mechs have the realistic weight advantage of all being generally heavier than ours (which is much better than having a few more light mediums) edit: yeah I can't actually get around to hit C2 but I am continuing my strategic cowardice to hopefully live until it is dead and we have to deal with the double threat atelier morgan fucked around with this message at 20:05 on May 30, 2011 |
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May 30, 2011 19:48
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The reason the Whitworth did not shoot last turn was that it is slow and could not shoot at C2 and getting focus fired by C1 and C3 by going it alone then would have precluded joining in on the GRAND MELEE now (physical attack clanners everyday  )
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I had been led to believe my shots would be against C3's rear armor. I was lied to 
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Jun 3, 2011 03:18
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AtomikKrab posted:it might be advisable for the two currently swarmed to space themselves On it, but it'll be difficult with this drat better than usual pilot skill
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Nevets posted:Or since our mech's feet can be magnetized, try to kick the elementals. It takes a drat strong magnetic field to hold 60 tons of mech still while being hit with punches/kicks/missiles, etc. If their armor is attracted to the magnets they should stick there and be unable to move, then you just put your foot down. This is a brilliant idea
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Jun 3, 2011 21:06
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Mukaikubo posted:because 4/6 hurt like fire) It hurts so much 
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Jun 3, 2011 22:51
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wiegieman posted:Actually, if you're facing the dark area of space heat loss by radiation can be really impressive. Go to the desert at night and line a hole with aluminum foil, and you can make waterbottles explode by radiating heat into a cold sky. That relies on having air to carry the heat away (convection) not actually radiation of heat. In fact a water bottle is an absolutely terrible radiator. Radiation is a pretty strict and easy to calculate value for any given amount of energy and given radiator so we should just assume that mech heatsinks, like mech armor, are made of mst3kium.
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That is so many lasers , all for me 
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PoptartsNinja posted:F1 King Crab IIC Holy poo poo. The penalty for a headshot with a targetting computer is what, 5? That's not too bad when you've got Gunnery 0 Definitely hoping the Clanners aren't immune to their own jamming atelier morgan fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Jun 22, 2011 |
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