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Thread Question: What makes a 'mech edgy, and which 'mech is the edgiest of all?

>>95934374
I mean, the reply is the OP. The Celestials are all edge and their writing (CYBER WARCRIMES, WE'RE GASSING CHILDREN AND BUILDING DEATH CAMPS) is like, peak Btech Edge.

>>95934374
Blood Kite for having the most edges of any mech by a fairly large margin.

Do you guys have any specific song or music you associate to Battletech or your specific mechs?

For me it's Burning Heart by Survivor. My first foray into the game was playing Clan Invasion era and rolling up some mercenaries. They felt like the proverbial Rocky vs the Clan's (my uncle) Drago.

Lyran cartoons be cray.

>>95933514
>>95933597
Black Lanner B
Cougar A
Many of the Mad Cat III's
Mandrill
Omni-Corvis B
Puma A
Ryoken D
Stooping Hawk B
Sun Bear B

and since you didn't specify if it has to be a mech:

Epona A
Hachiman
Onuris B
Sulla B

Though you will get called a furry faggot for using any of the above so be a man and use the Blackjack BJ2-OA!

>>95934374
Anything drawn by Shimmy.

>>95934374
>Called the Mortis
>Carries a scythe
>Covered in sharp edges
>CapCon mech primarily
I mean, the Mortis is certainly a contender for edgiest mech in the game.

>>95927416
Just updating the current slots with some WIP faction names. Apologies if I made any errors or left anyone out

Mariks - Marik Free Bird League - 5 slots
QKD-4G Quickdraw Tito Vulovic 4/6
ON1-K Orion Bruno "Mace" Zimms 4/4
QKD-4G Quickdraw Generic "Blondie" Soldierman 2/5
PXH-1 Phoenix Hawk Dylan "Minute Man" Zephyr 3/4
SHD-2H Shadow Hawk Grady "Grody" Paulsen 4/6
WSP-1A Wasp (slightly used) Izak "Bushman" Kahn 3/4
GRF-1N Griffin Pilth Zabur 4/5

Anduriens/Canopians - Angsty Anduriens and Friends - 5 slots
SCP-1N Scorpion Zita "Bracco" Bertoli 3/5 - C
PXH-1 Phoenix Hawk Chester Lee 2/2
FS9-H Firestarter Sanyarae Thaweekarn 3/5 - C
MON-67 Mongoose Colonel Conrad Murgatroyd 3/4 - C
WVR-6M Wolverine Murphy "Mumphrey" Humphreys 4/6
CRD-3R Crusader Cassie Riggs 4/4
STG-3G Stinger Glemmy Zala 4/6

C next to name = Canopian

For those who still want to join in:

>How do I roll my mech?
Using the 3028 RAT which you can find from https://battletech.com/forums/index.php?topic=1219.0
To roll your mech use a "dice+2d1000" in options without quotes. First number determines your weight. Second is what mech it is.
In this case cause its Marik vs Marik so the same distribution applies to both sides.

0-300 = Light
301-700 = Medium
701-925 = Heavy
926+ = Assault

Andurien can roll either Marik or Canopian RAT. Match being set post 3035 so pay attention to † symbol.

>How do I roll my character stats
See attached pic on how to roll your character stats, typos and all. There are no bonuses being applied to character rolls at this time.

>Reolls?
You can reroll your character stats once though you must keep the rerolled result.
You can reroll your mech if it has a ** next to it on the RAT but must keep the rerolled result.

>When does the match start?
Next weekend, either on a Saturday or Sunday depending on what happens that weekend for myself. The week gives people time to roll characters and make adjustments as needed.

>>95934664
>>95934374
Why settle for an edgy mech if you can have a whole edgy lance.

I’ve been printing and painting lots of battle armor lately, anybody got any favorite designs I should look at? I’ve already got the standard Elementals, Sylphs, and a sculpt for the Rogue Bear. I’ve also got a few points of Stormbirds, but they seem hard to make good use of given their inability to build any TMM with only 2 ground movement. They might be relegated to defensive missions only.

Primarily interested in other clan designs, but IS is cool too.

>>95934746
I feel like the gravedigger and exhumer would be natural enemies. And yet here they are, in a lance together.

>>95934949
They're actually tasked with relocating bodies from one place to another, so the Gravedigger digs a new hole while Exhumer gets the body out of the old one. Perfect symbiosis.

>>95934601
Shimmy is the most anti-edginest posible. For him is "extra THICC" mechs and tons of grebbles. And rape classic design choices with his own retarded ones.

>>95934972
so chewable though

>>95934970
So they're trying to re-enact the plot of Poltergeist? They really ARE edgy!

>>95934914
What are you using for Stormbirds? I've been proxying some Deathray Designs stuff.

Cuchulainn are pretty awesome. Slow as shit but they are lugging Clan Medium Pulse Lasers.

>>95934972
What you talking about? He goes at each mech with a straight edge so that there are no curves around, only 90 degree sharp edges!

>>95934728
> we doing /qst/ now

>>95934728
Rollan catgirl team

Rolled 722, 389 = 1111 (2d1000)

>>95934728
ROLLAN CATGIRL

Rolled 1, 5, 2, 4 = 12 (4d6)

>>95935215
MANIFESTING ELITE GIRLCOCK ENERGY

Rolled 4, 5, 5, 4 = 18 (4d6)

>>95935272
I DON'T WANT 6 PILOTING

>>95935292
FUCK YEAH WARHAMMER 6R WITH A 4/4 LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO

>>95935340
You're a 3/5 faggot

>>95935358
Oops, didn't realize we swapped order of gunnery/piloting. And yeah. Love dicks, frotting is pretty cool, etc.

WIP experiment with some 5$ paint markers from the dollar store.

>>95934914
If you play later eras the Hauberk is worth a look. Each squad is an invisible LRM20

sea fox blood ass?

>>95935051
I just printed some I found on cults by WOLVERINE_DH, haven’t painted any up yet. Scaled them down to 75% so they were more consistently sized with my other battle armor, I should be able to fit 5 on a base at that size.

>>95935459
Will have to take a look at those, they sound pretty cool.

Naginata Battalion is going into battle tonight. I wanted to run two Maxims full of Kanazuchis (we're not using the tacops rule where they actually take up more space), and I decided the mechs would be a striker lance, minimum speed 6/9/0. Playing Instant Action, I'm leaning towards Destroy as my agenda. Should be fun.

What was the elemental thinking here?

>>95935841
"All the chatterweb posts say the hatchetman sucks, I can take him"

>>95935841
>“It is but a scratch”
>”A scratch? Your arm’s off!”
>”I have had worse”

>>95935841
>There is no way this fucker has multi-ACK!

>>95934728
Currently at 370 tons to 300 tons. Looking a little light for the Anduriens. Current biggest mechs are an Orion and a Crusader.

>>95935841
>a medium laser can't kill an elemental in one shot!

>>95934728
I'm going to roll for a Marik loyalist, or at least as loyal as anyone from the FWL can be.

>>95935841
>>95935975
This.

Rolled 269, 897 = 1166 (2d1000)

>>95936332
Let's try that again. I'm hoping for an awesome.

Rolled 6, 5, 6, 2 = 19 (4d6)

>>95936344
I guess a spider is kinda awesome? I'm sure I'll get an elite pilot to make up for that.

>>95936273
warhammer is heavier than a crud.

me being in the biggest mech means I'm in charge. and yes, I will be giving orders and I will be a cunt about it.

>>95936367
Thomas "Fumbles" Menino, a 2/5 SDR-5V pilot.

>>95936427
I'll think you find that the Mongoose is the command mech for the Canopian group!

>>95936501
Only the mongoose, Phoenix Hawk, and the Wolverine have the command battlemech quirk. The Wolverine is heaviest but the Pixie has the best pilot. It's one of those two.

>>95936501
Ignore him. Don't interact, he's a known attention whore.

>>95934728
Petition to have bottom removed from this and all future listing after his recent heinous behaviour and unworthy attitude.

Rolled 555, 474 = 1029 (2d1000)

Am I doing this right?

>>95936567
I second this.

>>95936572
No. You need to specify what table you are rolling on ahead of time.

>>95936567
Better yet this whole bunch of faggots should get a discord channel for their not!quest-thread bullshit.

Rolled 549, 299 = 848 (2d1000)

>>95936595
My bad. I want to roll for the canopies side.

>>95936567
>>95936583
Nah anon >>95936604 has it right, this whole shitshow needs to fuck off. The faggot is only part of it because it's an act of masturbation in a place where others are forced to watch it happen, which is exactly what faggots are all about.
They need to go jerk each other off somewhere else.

>>95936567
this narrative you're pushing is stale and tired. your suggestions that I'm only here to degrade the thread are baseless and clearly false.

get better material.

May mech God Bless you, /btg/. I came as fast as I could. Removing Bottom from a /btg/ thread is harder than remove the stank from a hunk of shit. We must use these tools that the great God has given us to fight Bottom: enjoyment of the hobby, apathy towards his posts, ignoring his gay tranny shit. These things strike fear into Bottom' heat. A decent paint job. Avoid conversation with Bottom anon. Bottom will ragebait, Bottom will post from socks, he will randomly bring up Nazism. If he gets really desperate he may begin to post pornography, or nudes.

>>95936604
This ain't even close to a quest. This isn't even a CYOA. A quest would have the whole thread controlling a single character via voting on actions. This is a fully automated spectator sport.

>>95936583
That's 2 already.

>>95936604
Nah, I like the events. It's fun and brings content into the thread. It's like a breath of 2014 again. We used to do a lot like this back in the day, and there where even regular megamek games between anons. It's cool.

>>95936625
Not sure what your on about anon, but if your thirding censoring bottom then groovy.

>>95936622

>>95936654
Proven evidence based on past interactions and observations.
Get better paint

>>95936604
>>95936625
>Due to one namefag, nobody is allowed to play battletech or create OC
Are you fucking newfags or what? This is shit we did a decade ago. Filter and hide the namefag or fuck off!

>>95936722
>there where even regular megamek games
That's a lot different than this spamming/flooding garbage, anons go off and play their game, they didn't spam the thread relying to themselves like a bunch of newfags who just discovered the dice rolling script.

>>95936728
This is even funnier because bottoms "style" looks like he just splatters paint on mechs.

Mechwarrior "Flapjack", piloting his Gladiator-4R recently found himself without gainful employment. Linking up with a pirate group, he's hatched a plot to steal the Manatee from the group responsible for the liquidation of his previous company.

Teams are:
>Pirates
>Gladiator-4R, Uziel 2S "Jacob", Lu Bei Wing, Banshee 3E

>70s Carpet Company
>Bushwhacker-S2r, Dervish-8D2 "Lightbringer", Archer-4M2, Sagittare-8R

Turn 2:
Pirates feint their assault mechs towards the northern side of the dropship. Mercs respond by moving in that direction.

Shooting has been minimal so far, Archer sending volleys into dirt.

>>95936567
Can we keep his mech and give it to the Stinger pilot?

>>95936722
>censoring bottom then groovy.
Don't you get it? When he's banned the dice spam stops. Doesn't that tell you who's doing this?

>>95935072
He's the king of chamfer, bevel and groove though. And eight foot wide panel lines.
Seriously approaching Studio Nue for kenophobic tendencies.

>>95936785
Nobody was rolling dice the last time he was banned because the event wasn't on, dumbass. The system doesn't let you roll more than one kind of die at a time, so we need at least two posts to roll on two different tables that use different die types.

>>95936756
>A once a month event is spam
Have you considered not being a faggot?

>>95936801
Or you could just go to discord and fuck off.
Any pitiful claim at legitimacy went away the moment you started rerolling any time you don't like the results, that turned this from annoying to straight out spamming. Fuck off, /btg/ threads move fast enough already.

>>95936801
He's probably the fag that kept reporting the drawfag.

>>95936813
One reroll for pilot skills is part of the rules. You think we're gonna run out of posts to use or some shit? We've got infinite posts available for these threads.

>>95936778
Could just give him a vehicle instead?

>>95936809
This is not an "event" no one ever polled the thread asking if this was wanted, the faggot just started spamming dice posts in self-response.

Turn 3:
The pirate assaults start shifting south.
The enemy Bushwhacker moves up, and Flapjack and Deadeye see this via seismic sensor and round the corner to skirmish. The Dervish uses its jump 8 to sail in, popping a coolant pod to fire snubs and two medium lasers for 0 effect.

The pirates score several chunky hits, the pair of RACs doing 25 damage, as well as the Gladiator's PPC. The Carpet Company fails to score any meaningful damage in return.

>>95936830
It is an event. We've done two of these previously and the number of people who participated last time would require one samefag to have at least ten devices on standby and be able to type into all of them simultaneously.

>>95936830
I can wholeheartedly tell you that you are a retarded faggot who needs to take their meds.

Turn 4:

Skirmishers backing off as everyone struggles to get in position. Pilots clearly wary of drawing enemy fire.

>>95936845
>We've done two of these
Yeah and your attempt to establish this as a forever recurring thing is incredibly annoying, go make a thread or take it somewhere else.

>>95936845
There's been three actually, this will be the fourth. It happened as a spur of the moment thing and only now seems to become a problem when the no fun allowed fag shows up who is the honest to god real problem with /btg/ reporting shit he doesn't like.

>>95936846
Pure projection.

>>95936830
>no one polled the thread
It's Marik vs Andurien because the thread was polled and that was the vote.

Turn 5:

More movement. I'm cautious of engaging with my pirates, don't want one mech to get caught it.

>>95936870
>the thread was polled
getting two fucking (you)s is not a poll, asshat.

>>95936854
This is what the dice function is for. You fuck off, you joyless faggot.

>>95936879
>the dice script is specifically for spamming self relies!
No, it isn't.

>>95936877
There were ten votes in response to the question and they were overwhelmingly for MvA. One vote was indecisive and tried to vote for three things, one was Lyrans vs Kurita, and one was Butte Hold pirate free for all.

>>95936887
Show us some screenshots of the posters being the same then, since you obviously have access to it. You do have a view of poster IP, right?

>>95936830
The thread was polled, the scenario was laid out, and 15 people responded (BA isn't a person). That's pretty solid proof that this was wanted by the thread. That's a "we want this result. If people didn't want this, then they'd respond with some form of 'kill yourself' and we'd all move on.

Meds now.

>>95936877
>>95936887
>I don't like something therefore it should be shut down
Have you considered going somewhere like reddit?

>>95936887
I only replied to myself once to roll a different set of dice. You've replied to yourself at least a couple of times by my count, and are too cowardly to even admit it.

>>95936899
>10 votes, counting the samefag
So you get 9 people, last time the thread had IP counts we showed 70-90 anons frequenting /btg/ so you've got a pitiable minority of approval, that's a far reach from having the threads approval.
Go jerk each other off in privacy.

>>95936932
The entire thread has not approved of your bitching, madam. At best, you have two posters, and frankly I don't even believe the other one isn't just you agreeing with yourself since you both type the same and sound equally ugly and retarded.

>>95936919
>it was 10 anons, clearly these 15 anons are a majority of the thread, how could you disagree with 20 anons? when it's 1 vs 25 you're clearly in the wrong, 30 anons want this!

>>95936942
>only one anon has objected in a 30 minute timeframe, so clearly only one anon objects!

Turn 6:

Pirates charge over the hill.

I goofed up my Uziel's movement and ended with +2 TMM while only being 3 hexes from the Sagittare.

All of the pirates dump fire into the Sagittare, scoring 40+ damage and causing a failed PSR to topple the assault. The Sagittare retaliates with its battery of pulse lasers, opening the Uziel's RT but failing to set off the ammo, and shredding it's left leg down to 1/3rd armour. The Uziel fails it's PSR and takes a tumble. Lu Bei Wing takes superficial damage from the Dervish and Bushie.

That's where we left it for the night. Might pick it up today or tomorrow.

Overall, this was the most damage adverse game I've ever played. Only two rounds with real shooting by turn 6. My dad set up the map, and I think he put in a bit too many level 2 hills, which combined with the dropship to create very congested sight lines.

I think I played well, using my 4/6 assaults to feint at the start resulted in his mechs needing to pivot, which made him fail to set up in an advantageous position. I'm concerned that my Uziel is about to pop, which will be very bad if I can't take out the Sagittare in the next turn or two.

But the brawl is starting, and I'm fairly certain my Banshee and Lu Bei Wing will be able to CQC the Sagittare to death.

>>95936952
They've had multiple threads to complain. These events have gone across like a dozen threads not even counting the "I am planning to do this eventually" posts. And yet here you are, sulking like a curmudgeon.

>>95936942
I am honestly thinking that he can only be fishing for (You)'s and deliberately trying to shit up the thread. The fact it took four months for this to suddenly become an issue really is the only explanation.

>>95936964
>These events
Here you go calling it an "event" again
It was an annoyance worth ignoring the first time because it was going to be gone fast enough, but now you've made it clear you want to forever spam the threads with this crap so now objection is being vocalized.

How to build the ultimate mech of any weight!
>Get any mech of any weight, since the chassis is just for show, and they all do the same thing
>Shove as much armor onto it as it can take
>Then, as many medium lasers and double heatsinks you need to support them
>Finally, the largest engine you can shove into it with the remaining tonnage,
>Win because you can outrun almost everything and one-shot basically anything!

>>95936978
Where's that screenshot showing it's all one poster? Chop chop, you histrionic fag.

>>95936969
If you can spam the thread with dice posting then I can spam the thread with declarations that it's gay.

>>95936995
where's the timestamped mechs showing you're all unique and actually play a tabletop game?

>>95936991
I would agree if it wasn't for fact HBK-4G vs HBK-4P fights exist and that ain't exactly often as clear cut as you'd think?
>>95936997
Does pic related trigger you?

>>95937026
>the only dice anon can get pictures of are a stock photo
Nogames whore.

I'm not giving you even a single (You) until you furnish proof that we're all the same poster like you claim. I would suggest nobody else does either.

>>95937043
Nomechs, nogames, discord tranny.

>>95937043
No (You)s?! Wow anon that's so powerful! Definitely not a passive aggressive childish and ineffectual display.
Kek.

>>95937058
You see, bottom thinks directed attention is the most important thing there is, so he perceives that denial of it is the worst punishment there is.

>>95934363 (OP)
>Running campaign for friends, most of whom have experienced battletech through the mechwarrior games
>Start off with wasps and stingers for the "tutorial", end with them discovering a small cache of mechs for their real units
>Hunchback
>Griffin
>Vindicator
>Waaaay in the back of the bunker, they almost didn't notice it. A marauder in black. All by its lonesome.
>The group nearly comes to blows over who gets to ride it
>When syncing their neurohelms, pass them all notes.
>All the other pilots get the usual ghosts or neurohelm feedback
>Marauder pilot gets static. Make sure to write that this is unusual.
>After every mission, fudge repair rolls for marauder
>Have been reporting AWOL asteks after every mission
>Mechteks who work on the machine will randomly kill themselves
>Players still haven't noticed it yet, keep making jokes about missing crew being trannies or having gambling problems and getting stabbed.

I dont know how I'm going to make this pay off yet, but honestly I'm having a lot of fun with the implication of a haunted marauder on the crew.

It's really telling about the state of /btg/ that the only time this thread actually gains any traction is when its a retard having a sperg out

>>95937092
seems like a genius to me as every time the rage posting starts the thing being raged at stops. anons ITT cant resist replying so are easily manipulated.

>>95937111
Well if anons had any self control they wouldn't be posting in a Mongolian Basket Weaving Forum mister trips!

>>95936813
>Or you could just go to discord and fuck off.
How about you do that?

>>95936865
>the no fun allowed fag shows up who is the honest to god real problem with /btg/ reporting shit he doesn't like.
Indeed.

ENOUGH! From all of you. Stop this bickering now or be cursed.

>>95937111
I'm not gonna double dip and roll up two characters.>>95937127

>>95937143
Cursed by the provosts to steal your chickens!

Lorewise, if Clanner would issue batchall to his opponent but receive no response, would that count as refusing it and give him "right" to attack with full force? Just wondering.

>>95937079
Have it rape someone while everyone is in the hangar. No one can miss that!

>>95936778
Sure. Just, he's banned from ever taking part again, ever.

>>95936813
As someone whom has partaken in all 3 so far, no. It's fun and actually gets shit done. It's a breath of life into a general that's been on life support and infested by shitposters for over half a decade now. I sympathise with your ignorance and teenage edginess, but I recommend going to the archives and reading back a solid decade to realise how far off the mark you are.

>>95937067
This is very good advice, so long as its done permanently.

>>95937184
That's a hanging!

>>95937207
>It's fun and actually gets shit done. It's a breath of life
It's /v/, not /btg/
Megamek is a way to produce record sheets and teach the game, but the moment it starts replacing the tabletop aspect is the moment it becomes off-topic.
If so many anons really do like this shit, let's see them post timestamped mechs and prove they're really /tg/ battletech posters and this isn't spam.
And then if they do have physical mechs they can play physical games.

>>95937241
>Megamek isn't /tg/
Is or is not Chapter Master /tg/?

>>95937241
If Megamek was /v/ it would be published by Microsoft. I'm going to work right now, where's your mechs?

>>95937270
>I won't post mechs!
Yeah I know you can't, faggot.

It seems like there is one anon ITT who is 24/7 "on my way to work" but last time that excuse got posted it took only a few minutes for anon to post a mech when called out for being a work from home bitch (not really anon has no job and is just a pussy).

>>95937223
I am legit considering painting a company of mechs like redcoats.

>>95937331
oh look another fucking nazi

>>95937342
>Sharpe posting is now nazi posting
Take your meds

>>95937331
And deny the 2 story tall walking tank the benefit of camouflage!?

>>95937347
All imperialist white regimes are literal nazis.

>>95937351
Yes but in order to fire 3 PPC shots a minute!

>>95937326
Did you know that "Anonymous" is not a username? In fact, most posters have it listed as their name because they didn't enter one at all! And because of that, when there's a post from "Anonymous", it often isn't the same poster as other "Anonymous" posts. Crazy, I know.

>>95937241
>If so many anons really do like this shit, let's see them post timestamped mechs and prove they're really /tg/ battletech posters and this isn't spam.
>>95937277
Even IF we did that you'd still bitch that we just set up minis and dice on a table to LOOK like we were playing!

>>95937359
a panther can fire six shots per minute with one PPC

>>95937367
>anon doesn't understand what a timestamp is
No one ever said an in-game picture or a crop from someone else's that you saved.

>>95937378
Because adding a date would TOTALLY prevent you from claiming Nogames...

>>95937372
In any weather?
The New Avalon can barely manage 2 on a good day!

>>95937388
That's a very old pic that was posted here quite some time ago and not by you.

>>95937378
Fine! Here.
Lol

>>95937404
>not by you
ORLY?!

Rolled 651, 517 = 1168 (2d1000)

>>95934728
Rolling for a Marik! What's the theme this time around?

>>95937541
So you're a nogames with one mech that hasn't even put paint on it in like, what 6ish months now?

>>95937614
It's the Andurien secession crisis

Rolled 3, 6, 6, 6 = 21 (4d6)

>>95937642
Good to know! I look forward to solidifying the claims of Purple Birb to its rightful clay.

>>95937614
Alright, so a Hunchback if I'm reading this right, that'll be fun. Rolling for stats!

>>95937633
>So you're a nogames
Nope...

>>95931163
What's the vibe on the regulars? Do they seem like normies, channers, or redditors? Ancient grogs playing since the 90s or the kind who never heard about battletech until the kickstarter?

>>95937659
So, again if I'm reading this right, I have a Regular Hunchback pilot with 3/4, yes? I'm almost tempted to try rerolling to get out of the regular bracket, but I think I'll keep things as is and hope for the best. Please add Karamond "Hardhead" Majere to the roster, and hopefully he doesn't go down to quickly.

>>95937671
> Sassy Chic

>>95937633
>>95937404
>>95937378
It's Manic. So not engage, he's also known as Nicedaemonette, a notorious cunt whose been plaguing t
/tg/ since 2010ish. The mods permabanned him but reddit taught him to ban evade, and he dropped the name to try and fly under the radar. The jannies ban and censure him on sight. He used to be /40kg/s problem but then someone made the monkeys paw wish that made Battletech popular and he wandered in a few years back. Prior to 4chan he went by the name whiteeagle, and he's been banned from pretty much every forum or message board he's joined, including brikwars and spacebattles.
Just ignore him and report, don't engage, don't reply.
Also, he refuses to paint his minis. Actually he refuses to put effort into anything, as history attests.

Purple Bird Strong.

>>95937863
Yeah makes sense that he's one of the ones into this.
It's really nice how mechposting as proof exposes just what kind of poster supports bottom and spam.

>>95938117
You have yet to post a single mech.

>>95938134
Really? You think so? I don't think so.

>>95938117
If you don't like it, LEAVE!
Everyone else can enjoy playing Battletech and watching the Megamek monthly fight while you go... piss off someone else I'm guessing?

>>95937438
Now I'm wondering what Mech Snoopy would pilot.

>>95938140
There is no timestamped picture of a mech attached to your post.

>>95938256
Which post?
>>95938203
Manic, your opinion doesn't count for shit, you're a nogames failure loser with an (incorrect) opinion on everything.

>>95937723
>I'm almost tempted to try rerolling to get out of the regular bracket,
Terrible idea.
The odds of rolling in the Elite bracket are 1/36. That's ~2.75%.
The odds of rolling in the Veteran bracket are 2/36 or 1/18 or ~ 5.55%
The odds of rolling in the Elite OR Veteran bracket are 3/36 or 1/12 or ~8.3%.
Meanwhile, the odds of rolling in the Green bracket are 15/36 or ~41.7%.
If you do somehow manage to roll in the Elite bracket, there is still a chance that you roll a 3/4 pilot. In the Veteran bracket, you could also roll another 3/4 or even as low as a 4/5. By the numbers, if you roll anything better than a 4/5, you KEEP IT! Take a look at the current roster. 4 other anons have rolled 4/6 pilots so far. Do not complain about getting a 3/4, it's really good and that 1st extra point of Gunnery goes a long way in helping you to land shots. We've also seen that in these massive matches, PSR are numerous and frequent. A good Pilot skill is arguably even more important than Gunnery for these matches.
So yeah, no rerolling. Sit back and enjoy your good fortune.
Before anyone decides to ask why I typed all this up, I'll remind you all that this is a Battletech message board and number crunching if enjoyable.

>>95937079
Give them a shiny better mech, and if the pilot changes have the ghost-mech 'attack it' overnight

>>95938352
Every post. Unless you're tripfagging, every post requires timestamped mechs otherwise you're a nomechs, nogames secondary shitposter.

>>95938367
Of course all of my math assumes I wasn't forgetting that the Veteran bracket gets rolled on a 10 or 11 and not just an 11. Whoops. I should have double checked the chart. I still stand by my original statement though. You rolled good, a reroll is more likely to go bad, so keep it.

>>95937723
You should reroll it unless you're a pussy like >>95938367
>>95938406
Unless you rolled quad 6s, you can always roll better.

>>95938401
That's no way to talk about yourself.

>>95938352
I posted photo evidence of me HOSTING a game!
Meanwhile you keep not posting Mechs.

>>95938434
Nope, we're going all in on this purity spiral. Since you still haven't post mechs, that means you're a confirmed nomechs, nogames secondary shitposter.

>>95938422
Andurien spy detected. We've added a 3/4 Hunchback to our tanks. Maybe you can add another 4/6 bug.

>>95938367
>A good Pilot skill is arguably even more important than Gunnery for these matches.
Yeah there has been a few instances where a pilot with a good piloting has managed to carry themselves better than one with good gunnery. If a map has advanced terrain features the bare minimum for piloting you want is 4.

>>95938422

>>95938501
Instead of an eagle, you guys should have a Chicken!

>>95938452
Playing with yourself isn't hosting anything but your own delusions.

>>95938367
>>95938422
>>95938501
>>95938518
>>95938530
Get a fucking room assholes, the only ones who havee spoken up to say they want you here are bottom and manic, the company you're keeping should tell you everything you need to know about how fucking gay this is.

>>95938570
Yet you still haven't posted any mechs. Probably because if you did have any mechs, people would recognize them as belonging to bottom.

>>95938580
You're full up pants-on-head retarded.

I hope ur having a nice day!

I made soup :3

Get back to the UK from Origins, check thread, and you people are sperging out again. Because of course you are. Megamek is Battletech and as such its never off topic. Setting up a megamek game is setting up a Battletech game and therefore not off topic. What a shitty attitude.

In other news, met NEA, played a bit of Leviathans. Fun game, he's a good bloke and a hell of a teacher. I wish our GM had that much presence and energy for running games. Levs is interesting, it's about 80% of the detail of Battletech for about 20% of the effort. It's not going to replace Battletech for me, but I definitely want to pick it up when it's released. Also confirming that NEA is a much more attractive human being than bottom. Even through the long navy coat, the mans got cake.

>>95934728
Just going to update the listings here just to make sure I have got things up to date?

Mariks - Marik Free Bird League - 3 slots left

QKD-4G Quickdraw Tito Vulovic 4/6
ON1-K Orion Bruno "Mace" Zimms 4/4
QKD-4G Quickdraw Generic "Blondie" Soldierman 2/5
PXH-1 Phoenix Hawk Dylan "Minute Man" Zephyr 3/4
SHD-2H Shadow Hawk Grady "Grody" Paulsen 4/6
WSP-1A Wasp (slightly used) Izak "Bushman" Kahn 3/4
GRF-1N Griffin Pilth Zabur 4/5
SDR-5V Spider Thomas "Fumbles" Menino 2/5
HBK-4G Hunchback Karamond "Hardhead" Majere 3/4

Anduriens/Canopians - Angsty Anduriens and Friends - 3 slots left

SCP-1N Scorpion Zita "Bracco" Bertoli 3/5 - C
PXH-1 Phoenix Hawk Chester Lee 2/2
FS9-H Firestarter Sanyarae Thaweekarn 3/5 - C
MON-67 Mongoose Colonel Conrad Murgatroyd 3/4 - C
WVR-6M Wolverine Murphy "Mumphrey" Humphreys 4/6
CRD-3R Crusader Cassie Riggs 4/4
STG-3G Stinger Glemmy Zala 4/6
WHM-6R Warhammer Bottom "Faggot" Anon 3/5 - C
PXH-1 Phoenix Hawk or HBK-4G Hunchback - unknown - unrolled skill - C

>>95936572
>>95936622
You've kind of messed up. You can pick what mech you want from those results then roll a 4d6 so you can get stats.

>>95938570
>>95938580
>Yet you still haven't posted any mechs.
MECHS OR GTFO!!!

>>95938579
No U!

>>95938668
Do you only have one mech?

>>95938637
>Setting up a megamek game
That's not what's happening here, that consists of posting a link to a discord channel or other such for interested anons to go join in and then afterward maybe posting a battle report too.
This is a bunch of obnoxious spam posting.

>>95936567
>Petition to have bottom removed from this and all future listing after his recent heinous behaviour and unworthy attitude.
I think its more entertaining just to sabotage his mech and character in some way.

>>95938668
Wow anon I didn't think you actually only owned a single fucking battletech mech but this proves it.

>>95938681
>then afterward maybe posting a battle report too
You sound like the anon that was reporting the battle reports

>>95938686
>we really mustn't exclude the degenerate faggot!
Again people, this is the company you're keeping with this shit, everyone involved is a faggot and/or an obnoxious loser.

>>95938690
Post some mechs.

>>95938697
>"No! You can't kill the faggot in effigy! That would be too mean!"
I hope you all scuttle back into your closets after this month is over.

>>95938697
Yeah, but the alternative is (You) and look at how scuffed you are. You've wasted more posts than what you're bitching about. Very feminine behavior.

>>95938730
If the thread is going to be full of hot garbage what the fuck do you care as to what flavour it is?

>>95938677
>Do you only have one mech?
Well I've only got the one painted...

>>95938690
>Wow anon I didn't think you actually only owned a single fucking battletech mech but this proves it.
I've posted plenty of Mechs.

>>95938668
You should delete this picture, it has some identifying information in it.

>>95938741
even if this actually is a picture of your property, a full twelve urbie mechs shows that you're a fucking meme, not a battletech player.

>>95938741
This is the most redditoid collection of mechs that one could possibly have. Like actually impressive if you have a shitton of other mechs and just posed these for the purpose of looking like someone who just found out about battletech through reddit memes in 2022 and doesn't belong in /btg/ at all.

>>95938753
Meh, if they want to roll up to my local Aldis, who am I to stop them?

>>95938760
HOW CAN I HOST AN URBIE DERBY WITHOUT URBIES?!?!

>>95938753
Too late, tactical nukes have been launched to aldi #256.

>House Marik themed grudge match prepartion
>Thread turns into pointless autistic screeching for absolutely nothing except that anons are having fun wrong
Have we unintentionally stumbled into a Mechwarrior RPG or something with anons larping as the FWL?

Rolled 3, 2, 6, 2 = 13 (4d6)

>>95938653
I'm going to reroll pilot skills for Zita "Bracco" Bertoli in defiance of probability

Rolled 2, 4, 6, 1, 3, 6, 3, 5, 2, 5, 3, 6, 6, 3, 3, 1, 3, 4, 1, 6, 3, 5, 6, 6, 3 = 96 (25d6)

>>95938653
I will pick the hunchback so there is one on each side.

>>95938797
And this is why you don't deny probability kids!

>>95938694
That anon had a good idea. Spamming battle report posts doesn't belong here either.

>>95938808
Messed up, this is hard. Trying again.

>>95938771
URBIE DERBY!!!
And honestly this ordeal has reminded me I probably should look into a new camera, fuck Iphone Emailing myself and waiting five minutes...

>>95938785
>Too late, tactical nukes have been launched to aldi #256.
NOOOO!
Now we'll have to go across town to the Iowa City location!

>>95938785
But it's actually store #056!

>>95938808
What fucked sort of rolling is that? Did you just decide to put dice in a cannon or something?

>>95938830
I fumbled and tried to rolled 45d6 by misteak.

>>95938816
So what, just ban all Battletech discussion in the /btg/?

Rolled 3, 1, 1, 6 = 11 (4d6)

>>95938653
Trying again for stats for hunchback. If I roll good the pilot will be a sexy woman with big boobs. If I roll badly, the pilot will be a less sexy woman with not big boobs.

>>95938828
There's always another nuke.

>>95938860
Of course not. We can still talk about faction lore and shitpost about other faction fans, and we can shitpost about Catalyst, and we can shitpost about each other's choices and paint jobs. That's more than enough to support the general. Thats basically all this thread has been anyway.

>>95938872
These are small numbers and that seems bad. I will name this mech after first girl I dated who had small boobs.

>>95938905
Maybe YOU are the one who doesn't belong here Anon.

>>95938908
>small boobs.
Just admit your gay

Dating a girl with boobs smaller than D cups means you like men, or that your a pedo. Just just admit your gay, because the alternative is worse

>>95938915
No one belongs here. If you want to have discussion about Battletech, you can go to Reddit or the official forums. This place is here to be mad and to keep people away from Battletech. You're the ones posting wrong.

I will say the Canopian fags who have rolled seem to be all consistently retarded.

>>95938919
No you are gay! I have had sex with many women. At first I did not know about women, and women with big boobs would not date me, but now I have a wife with big boobs and when she is pregnant her boobs get even bigger. I will have many children for this reason.

>>95938927
>This place is here to be mad and to keep people away from Battletech.
Are you sure you don't mean the Official Forums?

>>95938973
I thought that was the CGL twitter?

>>95938919
>>95938947
>Being sexually attracted to women
Real men fuck their mechs!

>>95938653
that's not very nice :c

>>95938908
small boobs are fine.

>>95939060
you would say that, you gnarly titless goblin

>>95939002
What about your tomboy mech mechanics?
They can care for your child and your big stompy robot child.
That way its like your raising two families at the same time.

>>95938905
>talk about faction lore and shitpost about other faction fans, and we can shitpost about Catalyst, and we can shitpost about each other's choices and paint jobs.
This is the whole entire purpose of the thread.

>>95938653
>WHM-6R Warhammer Bottom "Faggot" Anon 3/5 - C
Just censure him entirely man, delete him from the listings.
Note, im not criticising you, I love these events, but that cunt is a stain on this general and needs to be ostracised.

>>95939100
Exactly. Not posting made up """battle reports""" and spamming dice rolls and the other assorted faggotry that you all seem to revel in. You're all using this thread wrong and you don't belong here. Either be mad or get out.

Rolled 57, 135 = 192 (2d1000)

>>95938653
Rolling for Mariks (betraying my Canopian roots)

Batch of mechs came in, now I just need a friend of a friend to print some Locust 1M arms.

Rolled 2, 2, 2, 4 = 10 (4d6)

>>95939130
A Stinger 3R... IIRC I piloted one of these in the first game too. Looks like its not just my Canopian roots im returning too.
Rolling for skills
Serji Baltivor, a member of the household of a minor Marik power. Extremely proud of his great moustache, a waxed handlebar monstrosity that seems to amass at least half that of his head.

>>95939160
5/5...
Clearly that moustache is too large for the cramped cockpit of the Stinger.

>>95938668
Oh shit, its snapfagkun. That retard whom screamed in /m/'s /gpg/ about how paionting gunpla was wrong and spammed awful snapshits that hasnt even been de-nubbed.

>>95938872
>>95938908
That's a 6/5 pilot. You should REALLY consider rerolling.

>>95939192
No, I'm the guy who didn't want to get a fucking airbrush...

>>95939274
If you aren't going to use an airbrush you shouldn't be painting at all. Just give up. Your minis will never look good.

>>95939284
No.

>>95939297
Never post again. Gundam aren't Battletech and you're spamming off topic images. Also your painting is shit. Unless you're winning painting competitions, don't post your minis. No one wants to see that shit.

Rolled 819, 805 = 1624 (2d1000)

>>95938653
Rollin for the glory of Marik whatever mech i get has FUCK ANDURIANS written on the side

>>95939312
Where do you think you are dipshit?
Hell I went and ask my local Battletech group if I could use rattlecan primer, and they told me that's EXACTLY what they do!

Rolled 3, 2, 5, 1 = 11 (4d6)

>>95939333
and for stats

What type of nightvision would mechs use?

After 15 long years, I finally have it, anons. The rare unseen Thunderbolt. Thats one more off of my Unseen list.

>>95939274
Lolno. You where the retard whom posted some of the shoddiest snaps we have ever seen and refused to improve, to the point of getting downright insulting when people tried to give you advice, then refused to leave for years, spamming your shoddy snapshits that didnt even have the sprue marks cleaned up despite everyone asking you to stop.
I wish I still had the details that the other guy used to doxx you, it cleared you from /m/ and I dont doubt it will clear you from /tg/ too.
>>95939351
LMAO no you didnt. You asked here after tons of harassment from posting unpainted minis, then ignored everything everyone told you and went and purchased the cheapest, nastiest, thickest, car primer you could find.

>>95939372
What a waste of an Unseen on an asshole like yourself.

>it cleared you from /m/
It didn't, that was me falling behind on my backlog, and that was just the Gunpla General.
Your exactly the type of fucker who claims THIS is a good starter kit!

>>95939370
Depends on the model.
Older more obsolete designs would use a green phosphor.
Newer or more advanced would use a white phosphor.

>>95939402
stop posting off topic dogshit you dumb gundam faggot.

>>95939372
>they painted the hatch instead of the cockpit.
Lmao, no matter the model, it keeps happening. I hope you strip and repaint that.

>>95939333
Enjoy your Orion and 4/7 pilot lmao.

>>95938653
Generic Soldierman does not have a callsign as he has not been noticed by his chain of command to be assigned one

Rolled 4, 3, 6, 1 = 14 (4d6)

>>95939203
Ok I reroll the hunchback pilot, I call her Shanta "Mosquito Bites" Deva.

>>95938935
To be expected of periphrats and their fans

>>95939370
Green isn't done because it's cheaper, it's because the human eye can distinguish more shades of green than any other single color.

>>95938782
Insufferable redditoid faggot who has a lower number of mechs than their BMI.

I saw a third edition starter box for $40 in a game store. Online they go for $80, but are the plastic mechs inside worth it quality-wise? I don't see much use in the rules since that's not how the local scene leans.

>>95939644
None of the plastic mechs have ever been good.

>>95939653
What about the Shimseen that actually made BT popular?

>>95939658
NONE OF THE PLASTIC MECHS HAVE EVER BEEN GOOD.

>>95939658
The current plastic mechs are the 'best' of the attempts at plastic mechs, in terms of production quality. Take that as you will.

>>95939658
Any increase in popularity battletech may have seen has nothing to do with shimmy's designs.

>>95939644
The minis are shit quality but not as bad as the 25th anniversary box and theyre still unseen designs if nothing else.

>>95939643
59 mechs if my count is correct.

Ranking of mini material quality from best to worst:
Metal
3D printed resin
CGL Plastic
3D printed PLA

>>95939644
The old plastic mechs can be charitably described as "board game quality". Or perhaps that they have the "essence of green army men that come 30 for $1 in 1995 money".

>>95939756
Metal minis can never be good. They're useless overpriced boomer shit. The actual ranking is
>3d printed resin
>CGL plastic you get or steal for free
>Literal shit
>CGL plastic you pay for
>Everything else, including PLA and metal

I don't want to be controversial, so i'll just say this: If you prefer prepainted and preassembled mechs over being able to pose and paint your own, you probably enjoy the taste of penis.

>>95939783
Hey, FUCK YOU. I can enjoy posing and painting my own minis, enjoy being a superior human being to preassembly cucks, and still enjoy the taste of penis, thank you very much.

>>95938653
Are you using a simpler map this time so Princess doesnt go full retard and trap 1/3 her force in a corner endlessly falling over

>>95939819
All who prefer preposed and prepainted enjoy the taste of penis, but not all who enjoy the taste of penis prefer preposed and prepainted. Happy now, you cockbreath faggot?

>>95939576
Its in the stripper jar as we speak mate, along with a Hermes 2, and Blackhawk KU, all RPE metals. Not sure whose going to get it, so for now its going to enter the Unseen Box of unassigned Unseens.

>>95939402
What a waste of oxygen on a moron such as yourself.
And thanks for admitting to being snapfag, we can add that to the list of blatant lies youve been caught spouting. There are literal starter kits, but as your too retarded/lazy to clear up sprue remnants I doubt that will help you much
>"D-doxxing w-w-wasnt what made me q-quit... please d-dont go l-l-looking through the a-archives it wont w-work"
Guess I need to plumb /m/'s archives later.

>>95939643
Sadly I have to defend snapfagcunt here, ive seen an IRL photo of him - I actually have a copy but for obvious reasons cannot upload it here. Its easy to find on the internet though, just search "Brikwars Whiteeagle" and scan the first page of threads.
He's a lanklet, which is fucking amusing when you consider he claims to have done "hard graft" and "farm work", activities which tend to result in a frame beefier than an auschwitz claimant.

>>95939888
>Guess I need to plumb /m/'s archives later.
Good, you be reminded that I'm not actually Snapfag!
All you'll do is find out I never made a secret where I live, and you're not going to do shit with that info anyways.

>activities which tend to result in a frame beefier than an auschwitz claimant
Frame is fine, I just never developed the muscle mass.
Tons of chicken shit isn't easy to move, but THAT'S WHY WE INVENTED THE WHEELBARROW!

>>95939888
>beefier than an auschwitz claimant.
Auschwitz is a hoax anyway, so I fail to see the relevance.

>>95939888
>Brikwars Whiteeagle
Looks like someone edited the posts, unfortunately, denying us the ability to laugh at him.

>>95940055
Mother fucker you do NOT want to start this shit!
I already went off on another Britbog thinking they were Kraken, do you REALLY want my Crazy Ass doing stupid shit that might actually effect you?

Mike can claim I didn't TRY hard enough to improve my life, but he's the one who nearly got his ass kidnapped by driveway pavers and cucked out of his signature art style.

>>95940088
It's like 3am in Bongistan, why the fuck would you think I'm british? Fucking retard.

>>95940107
Nice of you to narrow the search parameters!

>>95940088
Yes, be an unhinged faggot and continue to prove that the anons involved in this gay "event" are pure trash.

>>95940114
>continue to prove that the anons involved in this gay "event" are pure trash.
Pff, can you be any more transparent with your shit stirring?
I have actively participated all of ONCE in Anon's monthly match.
Focusing on my bitching only shows your here to start shit for the sake of starting shit.

>>95940111
The search parameters for what? Do you just spend all your time on the internet because on there you can pretend to be less of a failure than you are in real life?

>>95940136
>The search parameters for what?
Finding you Anon.
Remember I LIKE being called a maniac!

>>95940145
>I LIKE being called a maniac!
Which is just more proof that you should be killed out of hand to improve the gene pool. Do us a favor and take care of that yourself, and don't forget to take your mom with you.

>>95940172
Do it your fucking self!
You have all the tools and information, don't you?!
This isn't a [WHITEAGLE PROBLEM] for you, right?!

>>95940145
Go ahead and find me if you can, you'll probably fail at that like everything else in life. People were mocking you online 13 years ago, so you need to be at least in your 20s, probably 30s, possibly 40s.
What have you accomplished? Do you have your own land? Your own house? A Family, or even just a wife or girlfriend? Your own business, or even just a career? I'm wagering no, you've failed at almost all of those. You'll probably try and say something edgy like "that means I have nothing to lose", but the truth of the matter is that you're simply sad and pathetic.

>>95940191
>Your own house?
Actually yes, advising Nat to get one herself because "working until you die" is a life plan so horrible even I can see the flaws is what got me kicked from the Brikwars Discord.

Shitposts I eschew,
Have a Cincy game preview,
It’s a kaiju haiku.

>>95940266
I want to send BA into its cloaca and find out if it's a boy or a girl.

>>95940266
>>95940326
Could be a hermaphrodite like Zilla!
DO WE KNOW IF IT CAN REPRODUCE?!

>>95940191
>What have you accomplished?
He bought 4 boxes of urbie memes and never painted them, is that an accomplishment?

>>95940343
Three boxes, Company, Lance, and LAM.

>>95940266
Now THAT is what a fucking kaiju should look like. Not a stupid little alpha strike card. That's fucking awesome. Also, what the hell is going on in your game that requires this to exist?

>>95940356
It's NEA, ALL the hell is going on!

>>95940352
Utterly repulsive.

>>95940266
Why aren't you a line dev for this game?

Anyone remember where the story of a wrekerMech moving an Annihilator on it's back was?

Ended up playing Bombing Run, a striker lance from Naginata Battalion against a Free Worlds League heavy lance. Thanks to some lucky dodges and my Kanazuchis decapitating the FWL Wolverine after its head was damaged earlier, I ended up scoring a win, delivering three out of four bombs.

>>95940449
Because he only cares about flying dildos right now.

>>95940449
>>95940899
If he did he'd have to deal with a constant stream of porch dwelling Davion men

>>95940916
But he does work for the porch man, for the flying dildo crap.

>>95940976
Porch-dwelling Davion men are a troglodytic species of near-human who inhabit porches and ambush those who want bad things to happen to Davions. They're why Loren Coleman had to spend nine point eight million dollars of Catalyst money remodeling his porch, to make it defensible against them.

>>95940976
the porch man is a different species than the porch _dwelling_ davion man.

These are the best paint markers I've ever used, and I have tried basically every brand I can get my hands on. A lot of them have this little pushy tip thingy that ends up spurting, or they dry out after a couple uses.

I'm not super sure how they react with other paint etc, but I used them for >>95935425 >>95935470 so will let you know eventually.

>>95941154
>this little pushy tip thingy that ends up spurting
I thought you liked those?

>>95937899
That looks nice, like actual quality fanart of BT rather than a bad edit.

>>95941154
>paints mechs with felt markers
Well that explains your shitty work.

Battletech is a very flawed game! But how would YOU, balance it!?

>>95941291
If you want balance, play chess.

>>95941298
Then dont complain when mixmaxed builds wipe the floor with your lance with its super deep lore no one gives a shit about.

>>95941302
I'm sure whatever argument you're having with the voices in your head makes sense of this comment.

>>95939658
If anyone deserves credit for that it isPGI. For keeping mechwarrior above water, giving models to HBS so they can make their game and ending HG court nonsense.

>>95940899
The prep he's doing for his Battletech campaign seems to disprove that, anon. Or are you forgetting that the man runs a game every <month> that's the size of the feature event that it takes the demo team half a year to prep for?

Alright, working out battles for a three week campaign to run in July, I've decided I want two battles per week, themed on a planetary invasion. Week one will feature an invader force hot dropping in to capture a fortress and a small skirmish over what turns out to be the location of the on-planet tech cache. Week two features a desperate battle of attrition in a city, and an ambush centered around a long tom bombarding the city. I want week three to feature a DropShip Assault as one battle. Should it just be one big battle with everyone involved, or should there be another one?

>tried something new
>had fun
>posts pics
>get shit on for it

ok? I still enjoyed the process. I'm learneding :3

>>95941403
I haven't forgotten. I just don't care. If you aren't doing exclusively Battletech then you don't matter. All other games are shit.

>>95941182
You don't own any models lol

>>95941413
do u mean the fortress dropship or like, a fortification?

for the other thing, a 3x3 grid of mapsheets with a fortress (dropship) or an overlord in the middle?

>>95941441
A fortification, probably the Forward Base map from the Grasslands Map Pack.

For the finale, the DropShip being in the middle with attackers coming from all sides could be pretty cool...

>>95941154
Did you paint the whole thing using the lines or just did lines?

PRAISE BLAKE!

>>95940266
Oh man, that's cool as all hell. That's a proper kaiju record sheet. Mind if I steal your ideas?

>>95940178
Iirc that's actually a filter they introduced specifically for his posts, every time he made an excuse for his laziness, or lack of effort, or tried to garner sympathy or the like, they filtered it to [WHITEEAGLE PROBLEMS]

>>95940145
Lmao, you won't do shit. Or go on, get on a plane and fly to whicher anon you've tracked down and show everyone your the big hard man. Oh wait, that requires effort, and besides the last 2 decades of doing nothing but whining on the Internet and playing lego have robbed you of any muscle mass.

>>95940191
He's about 40 now, if my math is correct. 0 jobs, 0 achievements, living off of benefits. I-its all daddy's fault though, he swears! (Dad's dead and has been for about 20ish years, maybe longer)

>>95941817
>Iirc that's actually a filter they introduced specifically for his posts
No, it's something Mike specifically inserted.

>>95941817
>Or go on, get on a plane and fly to whicher anon you've tracked down and show everyone your the big hard man.
I mean that'd be Map Campaign, and I'd wouldn't get a plane ticket to Arizona.

>Dad's dead and has been for about 20ish years, maybe longer
Dad died December of 2016, and like I told Mike years before that, my life did significantly improve after that.

>>95941831
>Arizona
wrong

>>95941839
Fuck, I got Albuquerque and Phoenix mixed up...

>>95941851
Gulag, twenty years. Anyway, I don't feel like reading back, why was Manic talking about me?

You people know way too much about each other.

>>95941867
I find your decision making questionable but you're still less unpleasant than Manic.

>>95941861
I had covid a few years back and wasn't allowed in work, so spent 2 weeks on my PC because the weather was shite. There's only so much gaming you can do, so I decided to follow some leads on manic. Guys like a lesser version of chris-chan, everything I've mentioned he's freely made public.

Oh, it seems this thread is using those optional artillery rules; someone just called in an airstrike on manic's grid reference.

>>95941881
>you're still less unpleasant than Manic.
How am I less unpleasant than myself?

>>95941882
And you proceed to blow things out of proportion to make them look as bad as possible.

>>95941905
Oh, I mistook you for stalker anon. Anyway, good luck next time you try to murder your mom

>>95941989
You drop ONE Cabinet on someone...

>>95938653
Updating list no idea if I missed anyone but looks like Marik side nearly filled?

Mariks - Marik Free Bird League - 1 slot left

QKD-4G Quickdraw Tito Vulovic 4/6
ON1-K Orion Bruno "Mace" Zimms 4/4
QKD-4G Quickdraw Generic Soldierman 2/5
PXH-1 Phoenix Hawk Dylan "Minute Man" Zephyr 3/4
SHD-2H Shadow Hawk Grady "Grody" Paulsen 4/6
WSP-1A Wasp (slightly used) Izak "Bushman" Kahn 3/4
GRF-1N Griffin Pilth Zabur 4/5
SDR-5V Spider Thomas "Fumbles" Menino 2/5
HBK-4G Hunchback Karamond "Hardhead" Majere 3/4
STG-3R Stinger Serji Baltivor 5/5
ON1-K Orion "FUCK ANDURIANS" 4/7

Anduriens/Canopians - Angsty Anduriens and Friends - 3 slots left

SCP-1N Scorpion Zita "Bracco" Bertoli 4/6 - C
PXH-1 Phoenix Hawk Chester Lee 2/2
FS9-H Firestarter Sanyarae Thaweekarn 3/5 - C
MON-67 Mongoose Colonel Conrad Murgatroyd 3/4 - C
WVR-6M Wolverine Murphy "Mumphrey" Humphreys 4/6
CRD-3R Crusader Cassie Riggs 4/4
STG-3G Stinger Glemmy Zala 4/6
WHM-6R Warhammer Bottom "Faggot" Anon 3/5 - C
HBK-4G Hunchback Shanta "Mosquito Bites" Deva 3/6 - C

>>95936567
>>95936583
>>95939114
>Remove Bottom
I am considering a full blanket ban on all namefag participation in future events not just Bottom. Reason being is that the emphasis is being put on the individual rather than the characters which isn't really in keeping with the spirit of these matches. I'll keep his character only for this match but if someone wants to roll a character in future it will have to be as an anon.

>>95939838
It'll be a random generated map but it'll only be able to draw from basic tiles. Most advanced terrain should see are trees, hills and maybe some water.

>>95939593
Updated

>>95940449
Whenever fans become devs, disaster follows.

Rolled 852, 236 = 1088 (2d1000)

>>95942007
Lets round out the purple birds

Rolled 6, 6, 4, 3 = 19 (4d6)

>>95942312
OTL-4D Ostsol

>>95942320
OTL-4D Ostsol Mike 'East' Donna 2/3

>>95942007
>Reason being is that the emphasis is being put on the individual rather than the characters
My decision to take my name off for these is vindicated

>>95941437
Simping for a faggot won't get you any pussy.

I just picked up a banshee 3E. I have a 3S painted up as lyrans already, who should get the 3E?

>>95942329
2 Quickdraws, a Griffin, and an Ostsol, two of those at 2 gunnery, is a hell of a heavy cav lance. Purple Burd is too strong now Princess is gonna throw the game.

>>95943003
Marik
>>95943032
Who knows maybe the Anduriens might roll some assaults? inb4 a few Stingers and a Wasp

Rolled 961, 549 = 1510 (2d1000)

>>95942007
Rolling for last marik slot

>>95943186
Already taken by
>>95942312
>>95942320
>>95942329

Rolled 3, 4, 2, 1 = 10 (4d6)

>>95943206
Woops, didn't refresh. I guess I'll take an andurien slot.

>>95943186
>>95943253
Well its an assault at least

>>95943308
>its an assault at least
Anon its a Stalker 3F?
That's a really good roll!

>>95943253
You should reroll those skills, that's trash.

Do you guys prime white, black, or whatever the most dominant color will be?

>>95943599
>whatever the most dominant color will be?
I go with the dominant color, save time so you can just paint the details.

Rolled 5, 1, 1, 5 = 12 (4d6)

>>95943535
>>95943253
Alright, I'll reroll for Getti Outheah, STK-3F pilot.

>>95943349
I didn't look it up was just remarking that the anduriens finally got some heat

So that's it then, the rosters are finalized? I'd like to throw in my 2 cents then about something for next time. I am of the opinion that in future events, we should either ditch the re-rolling of pilot skills entirely, or at least attach a -1 to the rolls for a re-roll. Part of these events is the randomness of the rolls and just going with what you got. Afterall, these are less about who wins and who loses and more about the spectacle. Lesser pilots have their place in that as well. That's also how legends are made. Nobody bats an eye when the 1 gunnery guy lands all his shots, but when the 5 gunnery guy does it, now that's something that gets talked about.
It was funny though that the 1 anon re-rolling ended up with a worst pilot. Tried to warn him about the odds.

>>95944262
I agree we shouldn't be rerolling especially since as we've seen the skill doesnt matter with Princess because she's retarded and the dice does what it wants. I do think no skill should be lower than 5 though, which doesnt warrant a reroll just if you get a 6/5 its just a 5/5 just to have some kind of standard.

>>95944262
>>95944286
3rded, as the anon whom rolled Serji Baltivor. Sometimes you get an ace, other times your a greeney, and it's not a true traditional rats rolled Battletech game if everyone is reeeerolling to get 3/4's or better. You get a 6/6 pilot? Tough, that's you.

>>95944262
2 slots still for Anduriens
The rerolling was that anons were bitching for rerolls previously as well but generally rolls have been kinda decent here.

>>95944262
>>95944286
>>95944327
>>95944355
You faggots are despicable, just spamming the dice rolling to jerk off over some AI bullshit and it's confirmed now that you've got a nutjob loser who spews threats over the internet, a know-it-al loser who is one of the threads worst shitters and the degenerate attention whore faggot amongst your number.
You are the worst people in this thread, fuck off.

Rolled 984, 906 = 1890 (2d1000)

>>95942007
I suppose I'll roll for an Andurian, though I'll be the first to admit my black hole of knowledge on the lore there. Maybe this dude will just be a Merc hired for the pay, and not for the righteous cause.

>>95944518
Nice

Rolled 4, 2, 2, 5 = 13 (4d6)

>>95944518
Ok! At least we've got some more heavy support on this team. Hopefully we got some good stars here!

>>95944513
>You are the worst people in this thread, fuck off.
No, that's still your fun hating ass.

>>95944551
This is what I get for phone posting, but ah well! Mark down a 4/4 Longbow for the side of Andurian Clay, and know that even if he couldn't point to it on a map Archibald "Rain Man" Rathars will be bringing his best downpour to the match.

Was reorganizing my hobby desk and found a King Crab from a while back that I forgot about. I didn't have any plan with the paint and just started trying stuff, kinda like the colors it ended up with. Anyone have a suggestion for a unit it could be part of? I originally thought Crescent Hawks, but it's severely lacking in the gray.

>>95944598
1st Tyr maybe?

>>95944598
For a second, I thought I recognized that crab.

Coming from the MW side of things, I will always appreciate a pornographic display of force. Bombast is king.

>>95941636
Both of those mechs are just the paint markers.

>>95944262
>>95944286
>>95944327
There's nothing wrong with rerolling. Yeah, if you're greedy and get burned, tough shit, same if you roll twice and get a bad result each time. You have to keep it. Rerolling means you're not necessarily screwed over from the start. No one WANTS to be a shitter, and it's entirely possible to roll snake eyes on the green column. Being stuck with a garbage pilot from one dice roll just isn't fun, and opportunity to change that matters. Skill matters not just to performance but also to people's enjoyment.

>>95944355
If we're voicing opinions about minimum standards, then you could abolish rerolls for skills and restrict rerolls to your experience class; and/or, adjust the chart to have a regular pilot from a result of 5-9 instead of 6-9 to increase the likelihood of a regular pilot (pic related). As-is, 40% or so probability as that other anon posted makes green pilots pretty likely. A little too likely.

For adopting both, here's an example: say you roll 4d6 and get 1, 3, 2, 3. Green pilot, 5/6, pretty bad. You reroll 2d6 to get a better experience class and get 4, 1. Now you're a Regular pilot! But you have to keep your old skill roll (2, 3) so your final result is a 4/5. That way you're not entirely wiggling out of a bad roll but you have a chance to get into a better experience column.

If it matters, I rolled Zita. So I do have skin in the game.

>>95944908
If we really wanted to be full autismo, we'd all be starting as green pilots and we'd be tracking XP between missions.

Or, we'd be using a slightly modified skill chart per team per mission, to reflect the average skills per unit?

I think either of those two are probably too much effort?

Also, is it actually lore accurate that they'd give a heavy or assault to a green pilot? I was always under the assumption that you got given a bug mech or a shad or something if you are green?

>>95944973
I remember in the Rock and a Hard Place novel they salvaged a Thunderbolt and Grayson was saying the pilot he wanted to give it to needed a promotion because his current rank wasn't appropriate for it.

>>95944973
If your going to add narrative and experience tracking you may as well move this over to /qst/

Carrion Crow or War Crow?

>>95944908
>you could abolish rerolls for skills and restrict rerolls to your experience class
Alternatively, abolish rerolls for experience class but keep them for skills, given it's more significant to change your class than to change the results of your skill rolls.

Redoing that example: say you roll 4d6 and get 1, 3, 2, 3. Green pilot, 5/6. You reroll 2d6 to get better skills and get 4, 1. Your final result is 4/7 on the same column. Makes it simpler. I made a typo there too, it would be 4/6 not 4/5.

Anyway, if I were to recommend anything it would be to shift probability towards more regular pilots than green; that's the simplest solution of all. Changing rerolls would probably just confuse people given what we've seen before.

>>95944973
If you ever read the lore, you'd know.

Only allows rerolls if you can proce you have the appropriate mech painted in the appropriate faction colors.

>>95945238
I actually like this idea, adds another level of audience participation.

>>95945000
>If your going to add narrative and experience tracking you may as well move this over to /qst/
I mean that might not be a bad idea for its own thing.
It could allow "Play by post" so the players actually direct their characters, but that'd also require more GM involvement and screenshot editing.

>>95945342
Nah, I don't want any persistence. Seems ripe for making new namefags/avatarfags.

>>95945342
Honestly, I'd be keen on taking one or two notables from each match, and sprinkling them in periodically in future scenarios where the situation calls for it, but I'd also say it should be at the GMs discretion. And even then, it really feels like it'd be a slippery slope to deal with.

>>95944973
Fags, trolls, psychotics and total noobs too, eh?
I'm beginning to think this "event" is a discord tranny invasion to swamp the thread with bullshit.

>>95942007
Just updating list before I go out and hopefully this is all up to date?
I'll do the BV calculations whenever I get back.

Mariks - Marik Free Bird League - filled

QKD-4G Quickdraw Tito Vulovic 4/6
ON1-K Orion Bruno "Mace" Zimms 4/4
QKD-4G Quickdraw Generic Soldierman 2/5
PXH-1 Phoenix Hawk Dylan "Minute Man" Zephyr 3/4
SHD-2H Shadow Hawk Grady "Grody" Paulsen 4/6
WSP-1A Wasp (slightly used) Izak "Bushman" Kahn 3/4
GRF-1N Griffin Pilth Zabur 4/5
SDR-5V Spider Thomas "Fumbles" Menino 2/5
HBK-4G Hunchback Karamond "Hardhead" Majere 3/4
STG-3R Stinger Serji Baltivor 5/5
ON1-K Orion "FUCK ANDURIANS" 4/7
OTL-4D Ostsol Mike 'East' Donna 2/3

Anduriens/Canopians - Angsty Anduriens and Friends - 1 slot left

SCP-1N Scorpion Zita "Bracco" Bertoli 4/6 - C
PXH-1 Phoenix Hawk Chester Lee 2/2
FS9-H Firestarter Sanyarae Thaweekarn 3/5 - C
MON-67 Mongoose Colonel Conrad Murgatroyd 3/4 - C
WVR-6M Wolverine Murphy "Mumphrey" Humphreys 4/6
CRD-3R Crusader Cassie Riggs 4/4
STG-3G Stinger Glemmy Zala 4/6
WHM-6R Warhammer Bottom "Faggot" Anon 3/5 - C
HBK-4G Hunchback Shanta "Mosquito Bites" Deva 3/6 - C
STK-3F Stalker Getti Outheah 4/4
LGB-7Q Longbow Archibald "Rain Man" Rathars 4/4

>>95944908
>>95945162
Quite a number of ways could do rerolls. Will need to have a think about it but one possibility is only allowing rerolls if BV is massively out of whack i.e one side is disadvantaged. Another way is not allowing rolling at all by anons and just do what I did with the first game which is roll for absolutely everyone and what they get is what they get though don't think this would feel as fair and knowing results in advance allows for more fun in creating a character.

>>95945342
Could but I really don't have the strength of will to do that myself. Doing this once a month is more than enough especially since reporting can take hours.

>>95945414
Nothing to stop anons running with some of the more entertaining characters but I prefer to keep things fresh and unique each time.

>>95945369
Since couldn't reply due to character limit I am of the same line of thought. Really is best when you get a character and mech or two to shitpost about and get something new each time.

>>95945238
This idea might legit finally convince me to get a 3D printer. I'd be up for printing and painting models of the grudge match mechs in action.

>>95945162
Or don't do rerolls at all and only adjust pilot skills to balance BV, starting with the worst pilots in the lightest mechs who are worse than 4/5, 1 point at a time until the BV is within 500-1000 or so, and spread out so no pilot gets more than 2 points unless every other pilot has already gotten at least 1 in some miraculous display of terrible pilot rolls.

Rolled 622, 62 = 684 (2d1000)

>>95945562
Rollan for last slot, canopian

Rolled 5, 6, 4, 6 = 21 (4d6)

>>95945856
vulcan 2t? lawl.

>>95945863
So VL-2T, 3/3, Dani "UWU" Slater. (C)

>>95945856
>>95945863
>A 3/3 Vulcan pilot
This is going to steal so many kills!

>>95945438
>I'm beginning to think this "event" is a discord tranny invasion to swamp the thread with bullshit.
I've long ago concluded your a proactive shit stain who quite possibly doesn't know anything about Battletech.

>>95945562
>Could but I really don't have the strength of will to do that myself. Doing this once a month is more than enough especially since reporting can take hours.
Fair enough Event Anon, I knew you already had your hands full with this monthly schedule.

>>95945593
Yeah, there is nothing wrong with what you're doing now, just floating the idea in case another Anon has the time.

>>95945980
>your a
And you're illiterate too!

>>95945438
Always was. Thr trannyfaggots cannot allow any space to be free of them rubbing their diseased junk and asses in every ones faces screaming 'suck the female penis reeeeeee'.

>>95946236
>t. guy who brings up trannies at every opportunity

>>95946236
Good thing you are so clear eyed and have such a tight grasp on reality

What are the most survivable vehicles for a mercenary group to stuff into light vehicle bays?

>>95946251
Tracked tanks with lots of armor. Can you fit a Manticore in there?

>>95946253
No, they're 60 tons and need a heavy bay if I understand the rules correctly.

>>95946246
>>95946249
Trannyfaggot floods thread, again.
>ugh why are you talking about the trannyfaggot?obsessed!

>>95946251
Depends on the era and the environment. There are some fairly heavily armored hovercraft that can do well on open ground, and the Goblin and Myrmidon have good variants.

The Schildkrote is something I haven't heard of until just now but apparently exists in the dark age.

>>95944598
It's Megaman styled. I like it. Do that paint scheme for a Commando next.

>>95946251
On an open map, the Drillson Armor factor greater than 100 and it's an 8/12, but vulnerable to crits like all hovers. For tracked vehicles it's either the goblin or vedette depending on whether you think 5/8 and slightly less armor is better than 4/6 and slightly more armor.

What amenities would a mech have for long marches?

>>95946356
There's a whole Shrapnel article on this, though I forget which issue it's in

>>95946356
t. newfag who hasn't read any of the lore.

>>95946356
If it's a clan mech, it has a diaper (byod) and a chair.

>>95945897
Why must you taint the name of my girl from the previous match?

>>95946395
I wasn't here for the previous match, so it's just a coincidence.

>>95946383
Let me guess, you need more?

How angry do you guys get if you're facing someone with TAG units and LRM Carriers blasting indirect fire?

>>95946413
Zero. Increase that to seven if they bring Semi Guided LRM ammo, nine if they don't do the BV adjustment for SGLRM.

Indirect fire and LRM carriers is part of the core game. SGLRMs are in the same pandora's box as tandem charges and fuel air artillery ammo.

I'm not the game organizer. I just like compiling some numbers and stats. I also have sorted the list by mech weight then stats, to see how everyone lines up.
---------
ON1-K Orion Bruno "Mace" Zimms 4/4
ON1-K Orion "FUCK ANDURIANS" 4/7
OTL-4D Ostsol Mike 'East' Donna 2/3
QKD-4G Quickdraw Generic Soldierman 2/5
QKD-4G Quickdraw Tito Vulovic 4/6
GRF-1N Griffin Pilth Zabur 4/5
SHD-2H Shadow Hawk Grady "Grody" Paulsen 4/6
HBK-4G Hunchback Karamond "Hardhead" Majere 3/4
PXH-1 Phoenix Hawk Dylan "Minute Man" Zephyr 3/4
SDR-5V Spider Thomas "Fumbles" Menino 2/5
WSP-1A Wasp (slightly used) Izak "Bushman" Kahn 3/4
STG-3R Stinger Serji Baltivor 5/5
Total Tonnage: 605 tons
Average Mech weight: 50.42 tons
Average Gunnery: 3.34
Average Piloting: 4.84


STK-3F Stalker Getti Outheah 4/4
LGB-7Q Longbow Archibald "Rain Man" Rathars 4/4
WHM-6R Warhammer Bottom "Faggot" Anon 3/5 - C
CRD-3R Crusader Cassie Riggs 4/4
WVR-6M Wolverine Murphy "Mumphrey" Humphreys 4/6
SCP-1N Scorpion Zita "Bracco" Bertoli 4/6 - C
HBK-4G Hunchback Shanta "Mosquito Bites" Deva 3/6 - C
PXH-1 Phoenix Hawk Chester Lee 2/2
VL-2T Vulcan Dani "UWU" Slater. (C) 3/3
FS9-H Firestarter Sanyarae Thaweekarn 3/5 - C
MON-67 Mongoose Colonel Conrad Murgatroyd 3/4 - C
STG-3G Stinger Glemmy Zala 4/6
Total Tonnage:630 tons
Average Mech weight: 52.5 tons
Average Gunnery: 3.42
Average Piloting: 4.58
---
So tonnage wise, I recall the Anduriens were concerned early on about being too light, but they actually came out ahead, but only by 25 tons. That gives the Andurien a 4% advantage on weight. It's not much, but it's better to be ahead than behind.
On the gunnery front, both sides are showing impressive averages with the Mariks only ahead by an average of 0.08. That's a miniscule 2.5% advantage for the Mariks. When it comes to this stat though, what the gunners are piloting is the real important part. 3 Marik pilots have a gunnery of 2 across 150 tons worth of mechs, while the Anduriens have a lone 45 ton P-Hawk at 2.

cont

>>95946494
cont
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Other notable gunners to keep an eye on are the Hunchback and Phoenix Hawk pilots for the Mariks. While they do also have a Wasp at G3, well, it's hard to get excited about that, but hey, you never when an SRM will slam into a cockpit for a head crit kill.
The Anduriens likewise have a G3 Hunchie and a G3 Warhammer which shall not be named. It should be noted that there are also 3 lower tonnage mechs that all have G3. Fast moving accurate shots en masse? Could be dangerous.

On the piloting front, the Mariks are walking around in clownshoes with an abysmal 4.84 average. There are some major concerns about if the Shad, and Tito's Quickdraw will be able to stay standing. Then there's the Orion pilot of "FUCK ANDURIANS". 7P. My goodness. This could be an easily knocked over mech that gets taken out quickly and as 1 of the 2 heaviest mechs that Mariks have, that doesn't bode well. In fact, it's only "East" in the Ostsol that seems to have any real piloting skills. Looks bleak on this front for the Mariks.
For the Andurians, they average out a 5.5% advantage on the piloting front. Their worst are a Hunchie, Wolverine, and Scorpion at P6 and their Stinger, but again, do bug mech stats even really matter?

Overall, I'm giving a 7% edge in this battle for 57/43 odds, favoring the Andurians. Not quite a 6/4 matchup and it could go either way, but hey, you always want whatever odds in your favor you can get. This all without calculating any BV though. It'll be interesting to see what those numbers come out as.

Possible team captains.
For the Mariks, it seems like it obviously has to be Bruno "Mace" Zimms. Being the pilot of 1 of the 2 heaviest mechs makes him a strong contender and his twin mech buddy just isn't up for it with his stats. One could make an Argument for Mike "East" Donna however with his respectable 2/3 stats in a 60-tonner.
For the Andurians, it seems even more obvious. When you have a 2/2, he's gotta be the boss.

>>95946567
>>95946494
I appreciate this breakdown.

>>95946601
You're welcome anon.

>>95946567
>>95946494
Have you considered how each side compares in terms of mobility? Could be crucial when it comes to flanking and map control, especially when you consider that about half the Marik's tonnage can jump 5 or more.

>>95946645
Could be, but remember these are all piloted by Princess. "Mobility" is not really a thing in the royal furball. We will see walk 2 Stingers and Wasps try to facetank and kick the forward arc of mechs three times their mass.

>>95946645
It'll certainly depend on what the map is like and even more so how Princess behaves. All I can do is analyze in a vacuum as if the match was being played by 2 competent people, but we all know that's not going to happen.
The more I think about the lists, the more I lean towards the Andurians. "FUCK ANDURIANS" could potentially be a really big liability and if he goes down early that's a big chunk of the Marik firepower gone early on. We also know that when a mech falls to the ground, Princess loves to have everyone focus fire it. In matches like this, you fall to the ground, and you're pretty much dead a turn later as you'll have up to 12 mechs all firing on you for easy hits.
The Andurians also have a Stalker and a Longbow. They're going to provide a crazy amount of LRM spam and over the course of a long battle that will be a lot of damage and contribute to multiple PSRs for the Mariks.

>>95946494
I predict that the side with more women will lose.

>>95946727
Do the Mariks even have any women on their team?

>>95946731
The Marik bloodline is pure, free from woman's taint.

>>95946719
Stalker, Longbow, and a Crusader. That's 100 missiles per turn. Now that I look at all, the Anduriens do have the throw weight advantage at range, they have the 100lrms, 3PPCs, an ac/2 and an ac/5 against 40LRMs, a PPC, and an AC/5, with 2x AC/10s 3x Large Lasers at medium range.

>>95946719
But on the other hand, it's an Orion. Unless they get some good head hits or TACs in, they will be spending more than one turn shooting it while it's down. Maybe even three or four. It's as close to a brick as something that carries ammo can be.

>>95946760
That orion is going to fall over, fail the seatbelt check, and lose consciousness. And then the entire enemy team will miss 75% of their shots against a prone immobile enemy.

>>95946787
For six turns in a row as they get picked off one by one. Also that Longbow will advance into melee range and then try to punch.

What if instead of a league we make a sort of republic, a republic of the inner sphere if you would.

>>95946872
How about we call it a republic but have a tiny club of insane warlord-oligarchs take up all the important roles at the top, replicating all the worst parts of late republican rome.

>>95946892
Yeah, and we can take everyone's mechs away so they can't resist when we relocate them for the explicit purpose of stamping out cultures that we find politically distasteful. Also sometimes unleash biological weapons and nukes on them, as a treat.

>>95946719
The Feddies last time were a walking itano circus of LRMs. The Cappies before that had a PPC wall. It doesnt make that big a difference because they never coordinate fire and miss half the time. Everything hangs on dice rolls. The Steiner Awesome last match spent a good chunk of its life on the ground but never stopped getting back up, their Commando was doing prat falls in front of half the Feddie force and survived multiple times.

>>95946810
The Longbow will only use its LRM5s and occasionally 1 of its LRM20s and at least one Quickdraw is going to pick up a tree as a weapon and then forget its there

>>95945038
Personally I enjoy the Carrion Crow a little more. The C and D are both fun with high jump movement profiles. Favorite War Crow of the ones I’ve tried is probably the B. Not a fan of the Prime config in either case, expensive loadouts that seem to require more finesse than I have to truly maximize their effectiveness.

You playing Snow Ravens, or just fluffing one as salvage?

I wish we had rules for more unique weapons like the Hermes pulse lasers or the Bombardiers Delphinius LRMs.

>>95947524
Sorry, streak lasers, not pulse.

>>95947531
homing laser

>>95947524
The Marauders armor finally getting something is cool at least

Anyone here doing Hinterlands? I'm going to have my first game in a couple days.

Landing on starting with a Warhammer WHM-9K and a Phoenix Hawk PXH-9.

Nothing too fancy just a couple of dependable mechs that should be pretty survivable also.

>>95947693
It's fun. Have a few bonus contracts you can play: https://victorypointproductions.neocities.org/contracts

>>95947843
Cheers!

>>95947693
Just finished my second hinterlands contract (or four tracks) with my local group. Lost two mechs, a pilot to a headcap, down to -2 rep and I have 1200 hinterlands bux left ._.

>>95948047
>down to -2 rep
Ooof, my group house ruled it so you bottom out at 0...

>>95948194
Fuck off, we don't want bottom here.

>>95947843
I thought you hated it. What's changed your mind?

So what abomination do you think PGI will come up with for the Shad IIC?

>>95948047
I've also reached that negative rep point but I've been lucky that most of my contracts have been a net positive for SP - most have been 110-130 base pay - with repairs/rearm paid for by the employer

>>95948400
Dunno what gave you that idea, i liked it from Day 1 and integrated Instant Action into it before Hinterlands was even out.

>>95948509
All the complaints you've had regarding scenario design I'd have assumed you disliked it. Hell, you even warned other anons away from using the contract gen with/wothout IA when another anon suggested to avoid the hotspots altogether and just go random gen

>>95946356
If you are having to ask then you haven't read the lore.
IS mechs legit have everything in your pic described if not a little more.

>>95946494
>>95946567
I pictured Gene Okerlund here giving a breakdown.

>>95946686
Considering Princess likes to kick a lot piloting is a huge factor.

>>95946731
They're just there to chew gum and beat up women and they're all out of gum.

>>95945562
So that is the slots filled. Think this is all correct so scream if there is an error here?
Any changes to things like names either characters or factions then let me know.

Mariks - Marik Women Beaters Militia

QKD-4G Quickdraw Tito Vulovic 4/6
ON1-K Orion Bruno "Mace" Zimms 4/4
QKD-4G Quickdraw Generic Soldierman 2/5
PXH-1 Phoenix Hawk Dylan "Minute Man" Zephyr 3/4
SHD-2H Shadow Hawk Grady "Grody" Paulsen 4/6
WSP-1A Wasp (slightly used) Izak "Bushman" Kahn 3/4
GRF-1N Griffin Pilth Zabur 4/5
SDR-5V Spider Thomas "Fumbles" Menino 2/5
HBK-4G Hunchback Karamond "Hardhead" Majere 3/4
STG-3R Stinger Serji Baltivor 5/5
ON1-K Orion "FUCK ANDURIANS" 4/7
OTL-4D Ostsol Mike 'East' Donna 2/3

Tons: 605 BV: 14536

Anduriens/Canopians - Angsty Anduriens and Friends

SCP-1N Scorpion Zita "Bracco" Bertoli 4/6 - C
PXH-1 Phoenix Hawk Chester Lee 2/2
FS9-H Firestarter Sanyarae Thaweekarn 3/5 - C
MON-67 Mongoose Colonel Conrad Murgatroyd 3/4 - C
WVR-6M Wolverine Murphy "Mumphrey" Humphreys 4/6
CRD-3R Crusader Cassie Riggs 4/4
STG-3G Stinger Glemmy Zala 4/6
WHM-6R Warhammer Bottom "Faggot" Anon 3/5 - C
HBK-4G Hunchback Shanta "Mosquito Bites" Deva 3/6 - C
STK-3F Stalker Getti Outheah 4/4
LGB-7Q Longbow Archibald "Rain Man" Rathars 4/4
VL-2T Vulcan Dani "UWU" Slater 3/3 - C

Tons: 630 BV: 14944

I appreciate the breakdown anon did in the thread. This has turned into a relatively well balanced match in terms of BV and even tonnage.
Map will be a random map, likely 34x30 hex with basic terrain. Mainly should only see trees hills and some low depth water so nothing for Princess to go full retard mode on.
Quirks are enabled along with accidental fires just for a bit of added spice.
Will start this match depending when I am back on Saturday or Sunday, whichever day I'll aim around 12pm EST.

>>95948628
The individual tracks in Hinterlands are bad. The campaign framework is actually really good.

>>95946567
>For the Andurians, they average out a 5.5% advantage on the piloting front. Their worst are a Hunchie, Wolverine, and Scorpion at P6 and their Stinger, but again, do bug mech stats even really matter?
The Scorpion is operating with a -2 to its PSRs until it loses a leg or a torso, which won't take much but still.

>>95948962
Generally if you are in situations where you have to rely on that bonus then you've got much bigger problems to be worrying about especially in a Scorpion

>>95948826
That's a tiny map, you should make it at least 2x2 for a company sized engagement.

>>95949277
What 2x2 hexes? :^)

>>95948718
>IS mechs legit have everything in your pic described if not a little more.
Feels like that would be complicated considering most mechs would have rather small cockpits.

>>95949925
If you think about your average mech cockpit having internal space of your typical family saloon car its not actually a huge stretch.

>>95949925
Would probably depend on class a bit.
>light/cramped cockpit
Would most likely only have simple compartments for food, possibly something to cook with.
>mediums
Could fit sleeping and possibly toilets, might depend.
>heavies
Would have no issue.
>assault
Might feel pretty nice, have everything you need, especially if you're in a king crab.

>>95950007
Increasing weight doesn't necessarily mean automatically mean that you may have more internal volume to play with, in fact it could actually mean the exact opposite. For example yeah the mechs get bigger but they have to dedicate more of that space to larger engines, structure gyros etc so there might not legit be as much room left over for more cockpit space.

>>95948047
Resort to piracy.

>>95950045
Looking at models at least(which might not be the best way to compare scale) mediums and heavies are pretty similar in terms of how the heads could be scaled. Really the main limiting factor is the cockpit is in the head which becomes more complicated with some mechs. Like trying to compare how much space a catapult gets vs a black knight. Also with assaults they do tend to take the more tonnage is bigger philosophy but again a lot of that is the king crab.

>>95950110
It's a neat image but that scale is way off, the mechs here are like 20 meters tall

>>95950158
It is a state decree that depictions of elements of the capellan state must be larger than life.

>>95949277
I may be retarded, but isn't a regular map sheet 17*16 or something, so a 2*2 would be 34*32, which is basically exactly the size anon is generating?

Or is it your sense of scale that is fucked up?

New thread

>>95950277