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Take a picture of as many of your mechs as you can fit in one picture.

>>96564402
sorry for the bad pic, i only have my beloved banshee painted

would it be possible to do missions with time limit, like for example you need to get in, grab something/someone and get the hell out asap, with big heavy spheroid dropships like union and stuffs? or the missions where you need to relocate a lot/extraction spot changes?

I hate urbies

I wanna deer do deer huntn in me mech

>>96564402
Slowly fight back against the grey tide, but it's a slog. Lots of WIPs not pictured.

I'm buying a jumping Mortis for a laugh.

>>96564548
Adding onto this is a sort of reverse hover drop possible? Like if you have a lance of spiders can the union hover 7 hexes above the ground and the spiders jump into it to extract?

>>96564402
here is my bin of mostly unpainted crap, I have 10 or so other mechs that are painted but I have them set up on a table and don't want to move them.

>>96564957
You're really good at painting camo schemes anon, because I can't tell what the fuck anything is!

>>96564493
>>96564957
>>96564985
>Only unpainted plastic
>Not a single metal or even 3D printed mech
cringe.

>>96564978
I'm pretty sure hovering is entirely out of the question for any dropship. Spheroids can do perfectly vertical landings, and all dropships can do vertical takeoff (although aerodyne need to make a piloting roll), but I don't think there's any way for them to hover. Maybe an optional rule?

nobody actually statted these guys last thread

How far has the /btg/ fallen when they wont stat a mech!

>>96565000
>Not a single metal or even 3D printed mech
Blind, there is a badly painted 3D Printed Blackjack on the bottom left of my pic.

I have a plastic mackie i'm too antsy to paint. have my last painting exercise instead

>>96564995
Audibly chuckled.

>>96565000
There's about a dozen metal/3d printed mechs in my picture, and another two lances elsewhere.

>>96564402
-w-''

>>96565121
Die, Clanner Scum.

Today I will paint one (1) mech.

>>96565195
Bet.

>>96565195
Not if I paint it first!

>>96565000
all of my mechs are 3d printed also post models

>>96564402
That's everything finished

Why is the Mad Cat's cockpit so big? What do they do in there?

>>96565265
>5 Turkinas

>>96565294
It has room for activities.

>>96565294
Because the scale was different back when it was designed.

>>96565295
Correct, there's actually 6 in that picture

>>96565300
Why do you need six.

Are you feeding the whole family?

>>96565265
aaauuugghhh I want to roll for kissing phase

>>96565305
This reads like someone who doesn't have 6 Turkinas, just saying.

I was of the understanding that stealing from the Falcons was always morally correct.

What is the tactical advantage of the rommel and patton having a LRM5 instead of an srm4

>>96565195
I worked on painting this Battlemaster tonight. More done than not now.

>>96565352
Laying smoke

>>96565024
Do it yourself super genius. Somebody told you they could be society bullshit so crack on with the experimental clan-tech.

>>96565294
Have you seen the King Crab? That's the real deal

>>96565355
Good work, but you could probably thin the cockpit paint a bit more. I like humanoid poses for humanoid mechs.

>>96565352
swatting vtols, static emplacements

>>96565316
pure spheroid cope

>>96565355
Master Chief is that you?

>>96565352
They can still poke at things behind cover. Neither of their big guns have a minimum range until the Rommel pivots to other guns, and at that point it has medium lasers, streaks, and/or an SRT. Even the elongated thomas model has a couple ERMLAS along with a Thunderbolt 5.

Bored.

No local groups, no new fan books to read, no inspiration to work on my own.

Got your own project? I can help. Contact me on the OF. Sample; https://battletech.com/forums/index.php?topic=80440.msg1907599#msg1907599

>>96565379
I noticed that as soon as I took a picture. Oh well.

>>96565385
It still amuses me every time someone makes that joke.

>>96564974
>morts u

>>96565691
It's almost that time of year.

>>96564974
27$ single miniature + 20$ shipping
lol lmao

>>96565710
$22 and free shipping, actually.

>>96565697
As stupid as these mechs are, this is actually a perfectly valid mercenary lance for the era. Every one of them is widely available.

Stat it BTG!

>>96564381 (OP)
Yeah, I'll get the 3-strips meal, the seasoned wedges, and a drink. Real Mountain Dew, not that peach crap.

>install MegaMek because I've been getting into the tabletop
>as a tutorial I get a warhammer and a catapult against 2 panthers
>get to my second firing phase and my warhammer doesnt vent enough heat after firing all his weapons and shuts down and then all his SRMs explode insta killing him
>I have my Cat kite the panthers and kill them with lasers because theyre too close for my LRMs

This is amazing I cannot wait to play this shit in real life

>>96566016
>cannons
>Would you count these under Rifles? Mortars? Looks like it'd be a primitive Quad Mech. It apparently runs on steam too? So it runs on ICE? I'd definitely argue it shouldn't have an FE. Probably moves slow as shit too.

>>96566208
Some truly ingenious Fringe-world engineering, the kind that's wasted on planet which will also equip those things with "wizards".
A truly enterprising fringe warlord would find the creators, give them all the stolen tech he can find & a neuronet for dummies manual & let them create some insane fucking Frankenmechs. But most Pirate-Warlords would blow it to bits & level the creators city first rather than risk the competition, for the best probably. The best for us I mean.

Those cannons do load proper Autocannon rounds though, don't ask me how they get them just heads up, errr down.

Also watch out for those wizards.

>>96565195
Today I will paint two (2) terrain pieces

>>96566016
Real question is what faction?
Could make it a mobile fortress unit complete with dinning halls, luxury spas and croquet pitch for the Steiner customer?

>>96565163
Has that variant ever got a record sheet?

>>96565691
I don't get Mortis, the Capellan already have a perfectly great 75 tons melee machine in Ti T'sang. Why another 75 tonner with same function, personally I feel Mortis is weaker than Ti T'sang? Did devs mess up when they come up with Halloween theme and chuck this one with Capellan?

>>96566606
Ti Ts'ang is 60 tons, anon, and built to brawl exclusively with maxed out reactor and short-range weapons to finetune the TSM.

The Mortis as it is is a waste of a design, I'm with you on that front, but it's not a dedicated brawler but an HPPC sniper with a second headcapper for the minimum range bracket.

>>96566606
Before anything else, the Ti Ts'ang is 60 tons, not 75. Plus the Mortis was developed and put in the market 50 years after the Ts Ts'ang, and by a completely different company.
I feel like a lot of people forget that these Battlemechs are built by companies trying to make a profit, almost never directly by the state itself, even if these companies are subservient to the Great Houses more often than not.

>>96566605
No but considering some vidya variants have been slowly getting them probably only a matter of time.

>>96566672
>>96566605
>>96565163
What lasers are red in MW3? It's been so long I can't remember.

>>96566576
Hmm yes, Steiner version of a mobile command vehicle is just a luxury bunker with legs & cannons.

Or it's basic legs & engines could indicate it being a slower, tankier mech that can take on Assault & Superheavy mechs in solely defensive situations whilst still being available to powers that would otherwise be unable to justify such a large machine, like Periphery powers or the Cappellens.
Or it's both, & none Steiner variants replace to ballrooms, ensuites & pools with extra armour, ammo & targeting arrays

>>96566772
Large iirc.

>>96566772
>>96566883
Just checked and large lasers are indeed red.

>>96566772
MW3 flips the script by making red the color for Large Lasers. I'll have to plug everything into SSW a few hours down the line, but my guess is that Big Al rocks twin LRM10, a trio of LLs split among the torsos, UAC5s in RA and RT and possibly LA, and at least judging from the screenshot an SRM4.

>>96564381 (OP)
What qualifies something being considered a mech?

>>96566971
legs

>>96566966
Could also be an LRM20 doing the whole split torso thing and might even be MG's in the arms?

>>96566016
Rules for steam power plants when?

>>96566991
Arm guns are too big for MGs, the Timber Wolf in the same video fires its MG's and they'repiddly pea shooters.

As for the LRM, it's possible it's doing the split thing, but an IS LRM20 weighs more than two 10s combined, and mass is at a premium if my prediction is remotely feasible. Also greater redundancy.

Here me out...Battlemech....but Monster truck

>>96567063
Two LRM10's weigh same as an LRM20 anon?
They do take up 1 less crit though at the cost of slightly more heat.
As for scaling well yeah went with that true but they seem to fire like MGs regardless?

>>96566966
MG in each arm

>>96567123
>Two LRM10's weigh same as an LRM20 anon?
My mistake. Crit space is gonna be a premium too though.
>As for scaling well yeah went with that true but they seem to fire like MGs regardless?
That's why I think the one we see firing is an Ultra and the one in the RT is jammed or something. Ultimately, the artists' creative freedom might have fucked reliable ID beyond hope before either of us ever saw a proper loadout.

>>96567159
With some quick drafting I manage to get a build with:
-Standard Engine 3/5 mover
-19 tons of armor
-3x Large Lasers
-1x UAC5 w 1 ton ammo
-1x LRM20 w 2 tons ammo
-1x SRM4 w 1 ton ammo
-2x MG w 1 ton ammo
All ammo protected by C.A.S.E. in LT with 13 DHS in total.
Not the most exciting build so going to play around with it a bit more. Am finding though that you quickly run out of crit space in the torsos even without touching on weight saving materials.

The Banshee reminds me of the style of Spatan armour from Halo reach

>>96567314
2x LRM-10, 1X SRM-6 matches better visually.

>>96567159
More likely it's just out of ammo, these guys have clearly been fighted for an extended duration without repair or resupply. Big Al is down to MGs and lasers, we never see the other ballistics or missiles fire.

I dont get it. Why are the weapon sizes on battlemechs so wildly inconsistent? Like the Hunchback has a huge AC 20 on it. But When you put an AC 20 on anything else, it fits within the frame? Why are the large lasers on the Warhammer taking up the entirety of the arms, when other large lasers can fit in the chest or even torsos of a mech?

Started the first layers on my fwl lance, don't have high hope but oh well.

>>96567740
Cause fuck you that's why!
Are was wildly inconsistent for even the same mech designs back in the day let alone weapons

>>96567765
The white looks pretty clean and good. Slow down a bit on the colors, especially for things like the stripe on the Thunderbolt. There's plenty of room for cleanup but getting white to cover over can be harder than vice-versa. For basecoats neatness is not always required, but you should try to get complete even coverage if you can.

Keep up the good work.

>>96567740
Warhammer uses PPCs. Different manufacturers have different dimensions for their weapons.
AC/20 is just a generalization of the damage and range. A 185mm big bore single shot and a 120mm autocannon that fires in 5rnd bursts can both be AC/20s.

>>96567765
The Tbolt mold must be pretty worn out by now.

>>96567314
XL Engines are magic, anon.

I had to downgrade the UACs to standard AC5s and shave off two tons of armor, but 17 tons remains respectable.

I have also rewatched the intro. It is not consistent at all. Just seconds prior to Big Al's full frontal, the Timby kills infantry and conventionals left and right with red lasers, only to fire blue lasers from the same barrels at Big Al. I believe ultimately we'll have to accept that the animators either didn't know shit or were trolls.

>>96567788
If they want that to actually matter, they should make a rule for it. Fluff is nice, but it has to fucking mean something. Have differences between manufacturers in how their weapons work. Some have buffs or debuffs to certain stats of the weapon. If the weapon takes up an entire arm, give it an accuracy bonus, or it generates less heat. You could do a lot with it and it adds to the lore.

>>96567822
Isn’t that the entire point of Quirks though? You get to introduce more complexity to the game and more flavor to individual mechs without forcing the eternal Introtech holdouts to learn statblocks for 5 different AC manufacturers per weapon size. Your suggestion would be fine from a lore standpoint but terrible from a gameplay perspective, and you can always house-rule it anyway if you want.

>>96567873
The quirks don't go far enough if you wanna be autistic about it.

>>96567779
Thanks anon.

>>96567793
I think they made a jumpy one.

>>96567662
I agree as well just don't like the lack of ammo it has.
>>96567817
Think XL's are going to be the answer but just noticed we haven't entertained the possibility that it might be using Clan Tech as well? A possible mixed tech Atlas used by Big Gay Al?

I also agree the intro is just trolling us.

What is this vehicle?

>>96567950
>we haven't entertained the possibility that it might be using Clan Tech as well?
True. Cut down those hypothetical Large Lasers to cERML and you save twelve tons for other options.

>>96567993
Probably a mobile HQ?
Not sure if it is the catalyst version(There was a set objectives or something) or a 3D print
I only have the IWM one

>>96567873
You could easily introduce a quirk system for weapon models in addition to mech quirks. Main benefit I see would be in campaign play. Maybe you can't find a hellstar PPC for your marauder, guess you have to settle for a donal, that sort of thing.
I've actually started looking at putting a doc together in my spare time. A lot of TRO entries make some mention as to the qualities of the weapons a mech is equipped with.

For the Anon in the last thread asking for the leaked rules

https://jumpshare.com/s/zhj8UiG2bQXuXcGkNOLQ

https://jumpshare.com/s/lsC7dAWIzwP19RjLrwNS

I PDF'ed them because fuck looking at 20 different pictures.

>>96567993
Cummand Vehicle

>>96567873
>>96568134
I think HBStech (or one of the mods) used a system like this.

>>96567817
I'm thinking standard armor, structure, and engine.
6x ERML (Two in each torso, it has a 6 laser array in the chest)
2x LRM-10 w/2t ammo
1x SRM-6 w/1t ammo
1x AC/20 w/2t ammo
2x MG w/0.5t ammo
CASE
Spend the remaining tonnage on HS.

>>96565697
Turns out, the Undead Lance isn't (just) a stupid edgy meme pack. That is the actual unit composition of a shady mercenary lance made up of escaped convicts who call themselves The Undead. Later they expanded to a battalion and went off to play in the hinterlands.

>>96568410
They also didn't start in metal either, they were a Clickytech pack.

>>96568410
>Later they expanded to a battalion and went off to play in the hinterlands
And they were never heard from again.

>>96568600
Surprisingly no, they're in a Shrapnel and one of the later rec guides when the Mortis pilot upgraded to a Mastodon.

I think mercs are cool.

>>96564643
Understandable.

For the Clan Invasion era game, how many Clan mechs should be used if going against a lance of IS mechs? How many mapsheets should be apropriate for that scale?

Why does no one just sell basic Stingers that's not a blatant rip off? I can't even find Macross VF-1As at 32mm.

>>96568364
I like this idea for a build. Only thing I have thought of is somehow replacing that AC/20 with a Gauss somehow?
>>96568933
Really depends on the kind of fight and battles you want to depict?

>>96564643
I have a cool idea for a senario involving loads of urbies
>Rouge Liao general gets exiled and takes over a continent on a poorly defended backwater Davion planet and turns it into a banana republic and he works with the mob
>The main character is a self taught mech warrior at the sims at the local arcade, he hates the mob because they harassed hus village as a kid a lot
>The main city is constatly patroled by urbies and other shit box light mechs, mostly mobsters
>The arcade gets raided because a gang was useing it as a hideout so he goes to his hideout, an anandoned davion bunker which he found a few years ago, in it he found an Axman, which was left behind
>He then went on a rampage killing all the urbies and is joined by an undeecover davion noble woman (a secret love child her father had with a kuritan) in her fathers gunsmith and a rouge Taurian rock star turned merc in his griffin
>they retreat to the country side when the terror lances show up.
>They are joined by a true born claner who ran away from her as a child due to accidentally killing several sibkin and was adopted by an innersphere couple and Former member of the generals teoops who quit after the general was too far gone.
>they form a vigilantie group to bring down the mob and general, later teaming up with a Hard old school Russian Liao general and a fopish flashman type steiner noble and merc looking to show off.

>>96568196
thanks for the text

>>96568952
Lucasfilm might sue

I always thought the crusader was based on the ground gundam.

>>96569078
That doesn't seem cool at all, but have fun.
Also 'rogue', unless you're talking about color

>>96569078
This seems on par for the average urbanmech enthusiast.

>>96569488
I actually did mean Rouge, hes from a Liao break away faction based on the khmer rouge called the Capellan Rouge. They got exiled after trying to de-industrlise by shooting up factorys with their terror lances

>>96569564
and the Taurian rock star?

>>96569616
He was the son of a politcian and buisness man, he played music in his local indie scene and was a reserve mech warrior, his dad stumbled upon a plot to involving his and several other companies to use Liao refugees as slave labour and was killed along with the rest if the family other than the rock star (due to being away on training) who fled to the fedsuns as, but not wanting to be dependeant on davion hand outs, he joined a merc unit. Who got hired by the general, after seeing the Axman trashing the place he helped him by blowing up three urbies and a Commando before fleeing with him, he wants to fight so people can have the justice he never got, here his mech. Meant for this to give off USA vibes but its a bit too close to davion.

Big Al is here to explode and die, but god help anyone he gets within 3 hexes of.

>>96569726
>3070
wasn't she supposed to be in bulldog?

>>96566199
>>get to my second firing phase and my warhammer doesnt vent enough heat after firing all his weapons and shuts down and then all his SRMs explode insta killing him
How did you over heat enough for an Ammo explosion in Megamek, it automatically tallies your heat build up!

>>96567044
>Rules for steam power plants when?
I think they're still considered ICE, aren't they?

>>96569078
>I have a cool idea for a senario involving loads of urbies
Urbithon!
How many waves of Urbies will YOU survive?!

Can misjump happen out of blue. just randomly without any reason?

>>96570022
Yes.

>>96570022
There's always a 'reason' for a misjump, but due to the nature of the event, that reason is seldom known.

>>96569950
>I think they're still considered ICE, aren't they?
If I.C.E. engines were for coal fired boilers I would hate them less and then demand non shit diesel engine rules.

>>96568325
HBS had rare weapon variants with between one and three bonus attributes like more damage or less weight.

Why was UAC20+++ available in Aurigan shithole again? Dobrev?

>>96567740
The real reason is that the original anime artwork they used came from three different sources (four if you count the Atlas being traced over from a VOTOMS model sheet outline) that had nothing to do with each other.

>>96570447
Comstar sending their best agent goodies on the sly

>>96570447
Actually, yes. There's a whole subplot after the main campaign about a crime syndicate called the Bauman Group selling Wolverine tech on the black market.

>>96567822
>>96567873
Something that bugs me is the centurion's autocannon is described as temperamental and prone to jamming, but it isn't reflected in the quirks

>>96570487
Make a post on the OF asking to give it that quirk.

>>96570463
There's actually a random encounter you can get in pirate hunting missions where ComGuard mechs will show up to reinforce them. I think they might have retconned it, though. I noticed they stopped showing up after the final DLC came out. Maybe they thought it's unlikely they'd try backing pirates again after the Jolly Roger Affair about two decades before the game takes place.

>>96570487
Which mech was 'you have to load 1 round less else the AC will 100% jam we don't know why but it happens'?

THREAD CHALLENGE:
Write and original Battletech joke, preferably one that works in universe.

>>96570638
>What's more numerous? The amount of locusts produced or all the women looking for child support from me?
>I don't know, but I bet all those locusts are cheaper!

>>96570638
I tell ya I get no respect.
Back when the Clans were gunning for Terra, as soon as they got to my home planet, they took one look at me and held a trial of DIS-possession!
No respect.

>Going through some blisters in a lot I got half a year ago.
>"Cool, the new sculpt Black Knight in metal."
>BL-9-KNT
PRAISE BLAKE
I didn't even know that was out in metal.

>>96570638
A Mechwarrior, an Aerospace Jockey, and an Elemental walk into the entrance to a bar on a recently captured Spheroid world.
"Ouch." Says the Elemental, rubbing his head. Once the trio have their drinks and are seated, the conversation naturally turns to a discussion of toughness and stoicness.
"I should think both of you would retire in short order if you had to endure the heat of a 'Mech's cockpit during a prolonged engagement." The Mechwarrior asserts.
"Bah! An Elemental is the most physically demanding position for a clan warrior!" The Elemental boasts loudly. "For centuries we have been bred for superior stamina and endurance!"
"All that strength and endurance, and you would not be able to lift a hand to the controls were you in a 10 gravity turn." The aerojock responds smugly, sipping her drink.
"Oh yeah?" Interrupts an obnoxious voice from a nearby table. "Try being a Black woman and a merchant in a world dominated by barbarous Clan warriors like the lily-white Malvina Hazen!"
The three clan warriors turn to each other and nod, before proceeding to eject the merchant from the establishment for daring to interrupt Clan Warriors.

>>96570737
I prefer the version where all 3 beat them merchant to death.

>>96570774
You can use that ending when you tell it.

>>96570493
There's a battletech onlyfans?

>>96570638
think there were more of this template

>>96570638
>what's the difference between a blackjack and my ex-wife?
>One's a 45 ton worthless, money sink, that never works
>The other's a Blackjack

>>96570638
>a family walks into a talent agent's office. the father says, "have i got a great act for you! it's the greatest act you've ever seen!"
>the agent asks, "what do you call yourselves?"
>the father says, "the successor lords!"

>>96571137
Actually laughed out loud, bit of a meta joke though.

>>96571137
I don't get it

>>96571224
It's a The Aristocrats joke, which traditionally are not told in public.

>>96571173
Isn't that the whole point?

>>96571269
Well it's not like he did the whole joke and then dropped the punchline. It's supposed to be an original joke that works in universe as well, not just a reskin.

>>96571309
The whole point of the aristocrats is that it's not even funny except for the punchline and the punchline never changes. It's like an anti-joke. You can tell the entire joke with a 30 minute gratuitous description of incestuous necrocoprophilia, or you can just say the punchline by itself. It's only funny if you already know what's coming. Changing the punchline to be setting specific is literally the only thing you need to do to adapt it.

>>96570487
Don't they also mention specifically mechwarriors/techs cracking the shits with it and swapping it out for almost anything else even though its a time consuming bastard of a job?
Not that I mind, I use the -AL, I like my large lasers.

>>96571441
Quirks could have a whole phonebook for the true autistes. Some problems get solved by replacement, some get solved by just reconfiguring the same equipment, some never get solved, sometimes later models add or fix problems, there's a whole world of quirks by production run hidden in the fluff. Sometimes we don't have any answers. The later Clint models are said to have reduced the proprietary part issue (and the fact that they're being widely produced also alleviates it), but then one of the periphery states is producing the original model. Is it truly truly the original model complete with new production proprietary parts, or is it a functional clone using off-the-shelf components to achieve a similar unit? We don't officially know, but we should.

>>96571496
C'mon, Anon, stop gatekeeping with all this stuff and get back to talking about important BattleTech stuff, like how many heckin' valid transsexual Canopian catgirls it would take to smash the fascist clans!

>>96571858
The only competent Canopians all stopped being Canopian.

Was going to do a bog standard Lyran Guards scheme, then changed my mind and came up with this instead. Now I need to come up with a name for my DIY Lyrans, but I'm stuck. I keep coming back to them being Grenadiers, but that's as far as I get. I can't think of any cool German themed thing to add to that.

>>96570638
I took my Warhammer to an astech the other day.
"Can you replace the missing right arm?"
"No"
What about the rear armor? Can you fix that up?"
"No!"
"What the fuck do you do here?"
"We're the Free Skye Movement!"
"Can you refill my MG ammo bins then?"

One of these shows up in the IS. How does tech advance?

>>96572067
We have Barghests at home.

>>96571958
"Mit Senf" Battalion. Look it up

>>96572083
Wait, Google's AI summary things it's a real unit. No it's not, don't believe AI's lies.

>>96572075
I don't know. The Liger Zero Schnider has a top speed of 310kmph and weighs 135 tons. I wonder what that would deal in melee damage?

>>96572120
How many tons is it?

>>96572133
I said it weighs 135 tons. If we don't use the laser blades on it and just go on weight and speed alone. I wonder how much damage it would deal in a successful charge.

>>96572146
Not a big fan of allowing superheavies into a game without agreeing on it first

>>96572168
I think the fact that it could close the distance on anything in a single run is more of a problem than its weight class. But if you want a more in-depth look at the stats. Here you go https://zoids.fandom.com/wiki/Liger_Zero_Schneider

>>96572187
Not gonna read your fanfiction dude

>>96572196
Zoids is a real IP... it's older than battletech by three years.

>>96572203
Yeah....a real IP. A "real IP" with fuckable wolf mechs. No thanks bud, I'm not into that kind of thing

>>96572120
That would make it either a 20/30 or like a 15/23 with MASC or a Supercharger, or a 10/15 with both. In any case, by BT standards that's an engine far outside of the realm of anything that moves on the ground. It would weigh many multiple thousands of tons by itself. Therefore rather than take the 125 tons at face value, it would make more sense to scale the unit down based on how it compares to other mechs in its own franchise. Which iirc it's pretty bulky, my gut feeling would be to make it a 75 ton quad omnimech with particularly fast swaps.

>>96570487
Because quirks are only listed if it applies to every known model of that mech, and not all Centurions have autocannons with that flaw.

>>96572221
But then to make it actually go that fast, it's gonna have to be much lighter, so you're sacrificing something. Can't be heavier than 40 tons if it wants to hit 10/15 before boosting.

>>96571137
This one made me laugh

>>96572221
Well. Zoids are biomechanical in nature. All their organs are inside a core that is basically a fission reactor. So, by their very nature they are already breaking the rules.

>>96572264
Nah they'll fit right into Battletech Gothic

>>96571958
How does Palatine Grenadiers sound? A unit made up of Lyran nobles who are too far down in succession to ever assume a family title, but too proud to join the regular forces as an everyday mechwarrior, so those with enough money join up with this outfit where every mechwarrior is a noble. Or something like that.

>>96572215
w-what part of that mech seems fuckable to you?

>>96572215
>thinks Zoids are fuckable

That says more about you and your thoughts processes than anything else

>>96572215
Battletech has a long and storied history of ugly zoids knockoffs and metal fursuits.

Now that we've agreed that it would be weird to fuck an anthropomorphic quadmech, I think it's safe for CGL to make more of them.

>>96572311
https://zoids.fandom.com/wiki/Iron_Kong could an Iron Kong beat an Atlas in an arm wrestling contest?

>>96572215
>A "real IP" with fuckable wolf mechs.
>>96572291
>>96572310
>That says more about you and your thoughts processes than anything else
>>96572323
>it would be weird to fuck an anthropomorphic quadmech
Wait, were they anthropomorphizing them?

>>96569950
>How did you over heat enough for an Ammo explosion in Megamek, it automatically tallies your heat build up
I wanted to fire everything and blow up a mech in one turn and the dice were not on my side. I thought to myself "there's no way my rolls are gonna be that bad. dump everything"

>>96570360
>>96569950
>>96567044
Steam engines are an available engine type for support vehicles.
Steam engines and ICE engines are different engine types.
Among other things, steam engines are twice as heavy as ICE engines.

>>96572871
ICE is diesel electric. A big part of the weight of ICE is the fuel tank, by default it stores enough gas to take the unit 600km on a full tank. ICE is already a futuristic space engine with that kind of efficiency. It's just not as good as fusion or hydrogen fuel cell engines.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1huRjdQ0BmOMlqRCqf4-PsS8GN_1vjab0/view
What do you guys think?

Did the Clanners really think/expect the Spheroids would understand and follow their rituals and terms that were made after the Exodus/Klondike?

>>96571958
Goldstripe Grenadiers. A proving ground unit for the scions of nobles fed up with traditional Lyran social general incompetence. It's a deliberately small unit, but the officers graduating out of it aren't cursed out half as much as others. Many also have the good sense to top out as Hauptmänner.

>>96572956
I appreciate the effort. "Goldstripe" doesn't resonate with me. Makes me think of gold star, like a facil
award in school.

>>96572922
The goons were supposed to teach em

>>96572922
The average clanner's understanding of history is... limited at best. They're told their culture is self-evidently the best and can't be questioned so why would they even think those guys don't understand it? They might foolishly reject it because they're foolish monarchists, but not even know it? Unthinkable if you aren't one of the nerds who actually know that the way things are is not the way they always were and the split is post-exodus. A lot of clanners think the SLDF had trials and batchalls and isorla and castes because they've never had a reason to ask if it didn't.

Clans are incredibly fucking stupid and lame and the only reason anyone goes along with it is because they came out at the same time the game finally started getting decent original designs.

>>96573197
>A lot of clanners think the SLDF had trials and batchalls and isorla and castes because they've never had a reason to ask if it didn't.
In a weird way they are right if you think about it. They're basically raised on the ideal of what they thought the Star League was and dueling was a huge part of it outside of the Amaris Coup. The whole First Hidden War where Ronin dueled SLDF Gunslingers fits into the Clan ideals of ritualized warfare if you think how many times it probably has been retold with each retelling drifting further from the reality. If this is what you have as a point of reference why would you think things would be different?
>>96573204
Most people who like the Clans like them because they are powerful and must have the shiniest of toys. That's the simple reality of your average Clan player.

>>96570561
ON1-K Orion from 3025/3039 TRO.

>>96572889
Would have to find someone to playtest it with but overall it seems a lot easier to read and follow than what CGL puts out.

Hey people im likely going to commission another run of BT pinups in these coming weeks anyone want anything specific the clanners got their go last time what about IS this time

>>96573490
Lyran Schoolgirls drinking tea at the Nagelring.

>>96573490
Nikol Marik just because I know a few people who'd go apeshit about it

>>96573490
A RVN-3X in highheels and a latex bodysuit.

>>96573490
Candace Liao attempting to seduce a member of the wolf dragoons.

>>96573490
Lyran blonde with either a Black Knight or a Banshee.

Danai Liao-Centrella riding either Julian.

Sterling McKenna surfing an ASF (she fucked two First Princes, she counts.)

Janella Lakewood done with Clan Wolf shit.

Katherine Steiner-Davion's Trial of Many Positions.

Kelley Metz needs an update.

Oh, and I second Nikol Marik, but not in her frumpy 40+ stuck-in-crumpets look. And definitely not with the abomination that is the DA FWL Beemer.

Despite being vastly smaller, each Clan is the military equivalent of an entire Inner Sphere Great House

>>96573705
Not even close. Some planetary militias alone vastly outnumber all the Clans put together when the writers remember they exist

>>96573490
Gotta go with a Kurita geisha

>>96573735
Omi Kurita dressed as a Geisha.

>>96573745
Theodore Kurita dressed as a Geisha

>>96573783
Siriwan McAllister-Kurita dressed as a Geisha

>>96573490
bottom-anon w/Marauder

>>96573899
Fuck that, Narimasa Asano!

As a Simpsons fan that thumbnail looked like Springfield Elementary. It looked kinda purplish. Has anyone made terrain that looks like Springfield? I think that'd be a fun easteregg for my LGS' next tourny.

Does anyone has urbanmech alignment chart?

>>96574297
https://www.sarna.net/wiki/UrbanMech

>>96574164
>Citytech Springfield
I think that would be a fun scenario.

The more we test this new proposed rules, the less sense they make. With the new tables, its better to look for a side than a rear, so the rules basically say "Fuck You" to IS XLFE. And the ammo explosion are also very anti-climatic.

All end up feeling way too much "videogamey"

>>96574297
Here you have Anon

>>96574512
>With the new tables, its better to look for a side than a rear
So are you suggesting that the new meta is to make all your armor and weapons face rear and moon your enemies?

>>96574524
Thank you anon

>>96574512
The playtest rules result in a 14% increase to side hits when shooting at the side arc. Most of the times you'd still want to shoot at the rear arc, given how much less armor mechs have in the rear. If the mech has already lost armor in one side torso and has XLFE or its main weapon on that side, then it's worth it to stick to that side and try fishing for crits, since when shooting from rear some of the hits will go to the opposite side torso.

>>96574524
I think it would make more sense if the structure alignments were "The Urbanmech is an egg-shaped mech"/"The Urbanmech is a mech"/"The Urbanmech is a combat unit". As it stands, 2/3 of the structure neutral tier are mechs anyway, and both the neutral and radical tiers include ground units.

>>96574524
Mechbuster my beloved

Playing with an idea for my next campaign game, I'm thinking a strike on an off world backline maintenance depot. My player will have up to two companies of mechs plus support vehicles, so I'll scale the opposition based on that. For the core of the scenario I'm thinking a few fixed turrets, some mid weight vees, and a partially repaired lance of assault mechs. The main objective will be destruction of enemy infrastructure, with secondary objective of capturing and carrying off as much material as possible before enemy reinforcements arrive.
What's a good quartet of 3rd succession war assaults that aren't likely to explode early and don't have to close to range to deliver the majority of their firepower? I don't have a longbow so that's right out.

>>96574512
He's calling rules that are like how battletech is supposed to work videogames again.

>>96574629
Thing is, while the rear have less armor, you have 8 posible locations. With the side table, you have 5 locations. The rear is still good if you have a weapon that is capable of making a penetrating hit in those side torsos.

Beside the Dragon, what other 'make the players feel satisfied/accomplished' mook opfor mechs are there?

>>96573490
>>96573672
Ben Shapiro's wife as a Cappie mechwarrior.

>>96574813
3/8 rear locations representing a whopping 44% of all possible dice results are rear torsos, usually with toilet paper armor.
2/8 side locations representing 28% of all results are side torsos hitting the thick front armor.

>>96574971
Sorry, 2/5 side locations. It's still only 10/36 dice results. You actually have the same chance of hitting the side arm and a slightly lower chance of hitting the side leg.

>>96574512
I believe they're going to push through with the changes regardless of playester input. I also think this whole thing is superfluous when they plan to add the old tables as either an optional rule in the new rulebook or in a NuTacOps book as an "advanced" table to replace the one already in TacOps that gives you rear shots on the flanks.

>>96574805
"Off world" depot, so in space?

Anyway, the Banshee 3M is about as unexplodey as you can get on an assault, right up there with the Battlemaster 1D. And I know I'll be skinned if I don't mention the Awesome 8Q, so here you go. Add a Charger 1A for the memes and you're good to go.

>>96575034
And if you want to tone down the firepower, the Eww, Okay and Alright are available to sub in for the Awesome. Although the latter two are from later parts of the 3rd succ, so you'll have to check the dates. The 8R predates the 3rd succ but using it is considered a form of animal abuse, the 8T is from 2815, and the 8V is from 2980. They all have CT LRM ammo, but they still have max armor.

Quick batrep of a game I played this weekend
>Lore
Someone fucked up their drops and a PDF captured a Mars. Clanners need to kill to prevent great dishonor. Played on the Alien Worlds lunar base map, IS starting on the green dome end, clanners walking in from the other side
>Forces
15k bv, mostly civil war era units but some 3100s stuff snuck in
Clans: Clan Wolf augmented(?) star
Timber Wolf N (3/4)
Dire Wolf E (3/4)
Vapor Eagle 5 (3/4)
Fire Moth H (3/4)
uPL Elementals (sqd6) (2/3)
Fire Moth E (3/4)
AP Gauss Elementals (sqd6) (2/3)

Vs mixed IS units:
Capellan Combined Arms Rgt (4/5 unless otherwise specified)
2x lances of 4 Scorpion Light Tanks (Armor upgrade)
Partisan Heavy Tank
2x LRM Carrier (3/5)
3x Karnov w/ 2x LRM Jump Platoon ea
2x Mechbuster (3/4)
+ asstd. MWDA units
Mars (HAG)
Hanse MBT
Griffin 4N
Blade XL (3/5)
(Friend and I were each bringing 7.5k of our units so our clanner friend could play a full 15k pts, we just activated and played as if one person, handling resolving our own units.)

Turn 1) Capellan rgt starts on the board (we were using the stratops simplified aerospace rules, so aero assets plod on and show up turns 3/5/7 etc), Mars does as well, rest of the MWDA units move on as reinforcements along with the VTOLs. 4/6 of the jump inf get dropped off on midmap buildings, others stay in their bird to get a deeper flank. Fire Moths both sprint forward stupidly fast and run up on a pair of the inf, kill most of a platoon with some lasers and missiles. LRM carriers drop smoke and augmented FASCAM, blocking off LoS (we were pretty sure LRM-20 smoke is radius 2, ie, 17 hexes covered based on rulebook RAW, but maybe its supposed to just be 7?), leaving some nice smoke-hidden minefields blocking paths down the side alley and entrance to the main crater of the map. Third volley (you can have multiple secondary targets right) went directly on the two sidebyside Fire Moths to try to force them to move through it).
1/?

>>96575085
Turn 2)
Clan player goes to great lengths to avoid stepping on mines, moves up very gingerly into smoke. Vapor eagle jumps on one in the alley regardless, eats 10 to a leg. Fire Moths continue to zoom, one taking cover out of LoS of the combinedarms and dropping off its elementals there, the other quickly getting behind the LRM carriers and dropping its friends off as well
Smoke cover prevents any long-range direct fire from the vapor eagle, timberwolf, or daishi, though the fire moth spots for some LRM fire (all of which misses). The fire moth H also dumps all its heavy lasers into the rear arc of an lrm carrier, but at long range, after running, while spotting, and hits nothing. Partisan (running close protection for the LRM carriers) introduces the fire moth to 4x precision AC5s and cripples it. Mars also moves to fire on the elementals dropped off by the moth H, exposing its rear arc to the fire moth E and its friends. Scorpions continue to blast randomly at anything in LoS, dealing minimal damage. LRM carriers fire off a second round of smoke and non-augmented FASCAM, plonking down some high strength minefields in front of the path the daishi and timberwolf are on, and further cordoning them off with another massive wall of heavy smoke. Still very few real casualties.
Turn 3) Fire Moth E and its elementals move up on the rear arc of the mars, dump HEATMs and SRMs into it, get a TAC and engine crit, already securing the cripple for clanside. Scorpions/partisan clean up the other elementals and fire moth, hanse moves to clear the elementals firing on the mars but don’t get a chance as the mechbuster comes in for a dive bombing, dropping an unguided arrow IV on the as-of-yet unharmed elemental pack and completely obliterating it. Second mechbuster drops both its arrow IVs on the timber wolf, visible in the gap between the smokescreens, for a cool 40c5 damage on it. Timberwolf continues to only be able to provide LRM support.
2/3

>>96574920
Do you mean like "OH GOD THIS IS SCARY!" but in reality they can be quite easy to beat type mechs if running a campaign? Assuming don't want to be too cruel the following.

Panther and Jenner when they're separate. Together I'd consider them a mini boss fight.
Hermes II makes a good general trooper to throw in as can be either the linchpin of a lighter lance or a goon in a heavier lance.
Whitworth and Wyvern make good mooks even if people tend to underestimate them. They can also stand as a mini boss if playing a light game.
The basic Centurion the 9A can be good as the AC/10 gives it some threat but people tend to forget the protection on the thing is garbage so they overestimate it. Similar reason also why the Treb and Dervish can be good for mooks as you can't really ignore their missiles but basically have no armor.
I would also say Osts can be good mooks to fight but with the caveat to not play with quirks if using them, otherwise they're suddenly tanky as fuck and you've turned the game into nightmare mode.
Phoenix Hawks, Wolverines and Griffins can make excellent mooks if running heavier lances or need a boss for a lighter one.
Going heavier if you want a mook boss as it were then 6R, K or L Warhammer can be a good choice as loads of firepower but 10 tons of armor only means you going to be chopping it to bits. Cyclops also can fill this role for same reason if using 10-Z and if you want a tanky boi that doesn't have too much damage output then 10-Q.
If you need a tanky mook boss 2R Archer can be decent as it'll soak damage but won't be putting out as much as you'd think.
I am tempted to say Banshee can be a good mook if you using 3M or 3MC but most people don't tend to respect it.

>>96575144
I forgot but somewhere in turn 2 the vapor eagle kills a scorpion in first blood for the clans. Woot
Turn 4 the clans continue to advance under heavy fire, as the fire moths and elementals are completely eliminated, but only the vapor eagle has any real shots to make, since the other two are still deep in smoke and trying to avoid mines. IS units bundle up around the engine-out mars, LRM carriers deal a minimal amount of damage the timber wolf after the infantry hiding in the building its next to spot for it. Another infantry platoon tickles the daishi for 3 damage and promptly eats an alpha strike from it and dies.
Turn 5: Advance continues, timberwolf gets on top of the already damaged scorpion lance, rakes the griffin with fire and opens up a couple of its locations. Vapor eagle tries to alpha the mars from the front instead of flanking, does 20 or so damage to the untouched 105 frontal armor. Eats fire from just about everything else on the field, plus the last Arrow IV off the mechbuster. The other mechbuster cracks the right leg of the TW open with an AC-20 shot, gets a pair of crits inside the leg and trips it from the PSR.
We call the game here as a draw, since the clans achieved their partial win con (crippled the target), but were absolutely going to lose everything in the next couple turns, facing down a force untouched besides some superficial armor damage, cracked but not critted griffin, and a single dead scorpion and inf. platoon to their name.

Not really sure why the clans player skimped on anti air - we told him beforehand we were going to have vtols and air assets, shared our entire lists about 2 weeks before. I fully expected to lose the mechbusters instantly to a rifleman iic or the like. The mines felt a bit cheesy, but in the end they cost a few hundred bv for like 30 damage across 3 mechs, which is about par I think. Smoke against slower mechs, on the other hand, is completely busted.

>The Successor States were still able to maintain and produce ECM suites, but these were more primitive, less discerning systems, like those found on the Packrat.
>These jammers were powerful enough, for example, to block out all communications within a given area, but both friendly and enemy forces were equally affected by it.
Is this just a lore bit, or we actually have construction rules for primitive ECM?

>>96575034
Off world as in not on the frontlines, I switched up what I was saying halfway through. So on a planet that's a bit away from the fighting, like a midpoint between field repairs and sending it all the way back to the factory.

>gm a game
>enjoy it more than playing normally
Am I a cuck?

>>96575345
No? GMs are the chads.

>>96575274
The Packrat's ECM is just fluff, although it does have the Improved Communications quirk which can block the sensor ghost effect generated by hostile ECM.
Communications Equipment is always available and can also do ECCM with a strength dependent on how many tons you have.

>>96575274
RVN-1X's Electronic Warfare Equipment?

>>96575085
>we were pretty sure LRM-20 smoke is radius 2, ie, 17 hexes covered based on rulebook RAW, but maybe its supposed to just be 7?

w a t?

I'm like, fairly sure that's not how it works and that you roll cluster and it's your damage/5 or some shit. I'd have to go dig it up.

>>96575345
Yes, but not cause of the GMing.

>>96575378
Thanks.
>>96575388
No, Capellan ECM works only on enemy units. I'm talking about regular EW that blocks friends and foes.

>>96564381 (OP)
>Everyone in the community is glazing Black Watch and calls them the best unit in history who even a nuke didn't stop
>Look up at their achievements
>Failed to save Camerons
>Failed to kill Amaris
>Nuke pretty much DID stop them from doing anything of note
>What few remnants they had piddled about on Terra thorough the civil war, notably not killing Amaris thorough their guerilla warfare, or weakening terras defenses, or doing anything
>Didn't even seem to help Keresnky all that much even when he showed up, could've done it without them
Whaow

>>96575428
Tacops 371
> This smoke varies in density and size with the damage capacity of the launcher used. For every 10 points of damage a Smoke Missile would deliver
as a standard missile volley (rounded up), the radius of the smoke-filled area increases by 1 hex (so an LRM-5, with its 5 points of damage, would fill only 1 hex [Radius = 5 ÷ 10 = 0.5, round up to 1], while an SRM-6, with 12 points of damage as a standard munition, would fill the target hex and each adjacent hex [Radius = 12 ÷ 10 = 1.2, round up to 2]). This smoke is treated as Light Smoke if the weapon delivers 5 points or less in damage to the target hex. Otherwise, it is treated as Heavy Smoke.
You don’t roll cluster, but also it seems like they’re saying “radius 1” is one hex and “radius 2” is 7 even though normally “radius 0” is 1 hex and “radius 1” is 7

How exactly the NW Highlanders are related to the Black Watch? Just that both are Scot larpers?

What's the best way to spend patrol time?

>>96575720
They were very good at killing civilians that wanted off Kerensky's wild ride.

>>96575720
To be fair, 9 people being such a nuisance enemy double taps them with nukes is pretty badass.

>>96575752
Watching solaris trivids you got from Blockbuster on the jumship.

When was all the amris star league civil war stuff formalized and written down? The og star league sourcebook was rather scant on the exact details of it's dissolution wasn't it?

I want to dip my toes into the game without dropping any money. I have a large hex map and plenty of random game pieces and figures to represent mechs. Theoretically I should only need a rulebook and some printouts for tracking stats right?
I'm open to any diy tips

>>96575976
Yeah, this game is easily played with proxies or chits. You'll want to have a clearly designated front hex face for each unit. Even some of the actual models struggle with that. The worst is when the model is facing a hex corner without clearly favoring either side.

>>96575976
Should be no issue at all
Just have to make sure your game pieces have facings

>>96570638
>How do you get a Taurian girl pregnant
Cum on her feet and let the flies do the rest!
>If laughter is the best medicine, can you laugh enough to cure cancer?
Sure just have a look at a Liao Assault Lance!
>How do you stop a Drac from drowning?
You stop pushing his head down!
>We are being invaded by a Steiner and a Drac, who do you shoot first?
The Steiner, then the Drac, business first, then pleasure!
>What do you call a crazy clan girl?
Because they are Ella Mental

>>96570638 #
>>How do you get a Taurian girl pregnant
Cum on her feet and let the flies do the rest!
>If laughter is the best medicine, can you laugh enough to cure cancer?
Sure just have a look at a Liao Assault Lance!
>How do you stop a Drac from drowning?
You stop pushing his head down!
>We are being invaded by a Steiner and a Drac, who do you shoot first?
The Steiner, then the Drac, busisess first, then pleasure!
>What do you call a crazy clan girl?
Ella Mental

>>96576446
SOMEONE has to be using the VTR-9A1s!

>>96564381 (OP)
STL for pic related or links to such?

>>96573490
alright i rolled some Dice going with Lyrans this time you are getting two characters who should they be or if you want i can make one up but they gotta be mechwarriors is my requirement

>>96577202
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4684962
"Urban Burger file was made with resin in mind for the medium of production as well as the style of printing orientation. FDM style printing will NOT print this building in a good enough quality" was what I got when I asked for 3D printing service, btw

>>96573490
The coordinators most honorable soldier (whitest person you've ever seen piloting a hatamoto-chi)

Recommendations for 3025 autocannon tanks that aren't the patton?

>>96577565
The Fedrats fear the ginja.

>>96577614
If you can nudge a few years then the Po.

>>96577329
Thanks!

>>96577614
Tokugawa 150, Von Luckner k70

>>96577565
A true Drac born and bred, straight off of Luthien!

>>96577614
Seconding the Tokugawa 150

>>96576006
>>96576446
Got the quick play guide printed off. The basic rules seem simple enough. My buddy is coming over in a bit and we're going to try some light battles using googy star trek romulans as mechs

>>96575740
Does it say if you can stack smoke, e.g. if I dumped multiple smoke LRM-5s on a single hex can I turn it into heavy smoke?

How's this base look? I feel like it's a bit plain or missing something, but could just be me overthinking it.

>>96578164
You are definitely overthinking. I think it's too busy, if anything.

I don't like when the base does not match the map.

>>96578164
Looks good, I wouldn’t add anything. I’ve done some more elaborate bases and it’s easy to make them seem too busy, what you’ve got looks fine.

Man. Wayne Waco deserved it. I mean who the fuck in right mind would put his son in fucking Wasp?

>>96578180
So what do you do when your forest based mech fights on an urban map?

>>96578311
Bring different mechs.

>>96577951
When smoke drifts it stacks like that, so presumably any source of additive light+light smoke produces this result. I don’t think, however, any RAW supports, eg, firing 4 LRM5s at a hex and treating it as an LRM-20 for the purpose of AoE.

>>96578311
requiring basing is a warhammer-ism and I hold no truck with it.

>>96575756
Elaborate

>>96578400
Dare I say I've come to appreciate the look of a blank base and even prefer it in some circumstances

>>96578534
Oh you dare~

>>96578284
t.Jaime Wolf

Have you even had a cursed mech? We've got a guy in our campaign whos highlander has been shot in the head something like 7 times in as many games and Im pretty sure the damn things cursed

>>96578751
Is the mech cursed? or are the dice loaded?

>>96578791
Different opponents each time for the most part. I think one guy has done it twice but thats about it

>>96578805
That's when whoever is running the campaign gives your crew a special mission to find an exorcist to remove the angry pilots and appease the upset soul of the mech. Maybe you fight a lance of dream highlanders or something

Couple questions about HPG
>About how many byte is 1Cbill worth of data?
>Is there a formula for calculating how many days a HPG message from A to B will take?

>>96578911
Sending one page of text from one HPG to another costs 1 cbill. Don't worry about any compression techniques, the writers didn't know about them. Another HPG has to relay the message if the destination is more than 50 lightyears away, which costs another c-bill.

>>96578911
>About how many byte is 1Cbill worth of data?
1 millisecond of transmission time, roughly 4kilobytes transmitted 50Ly
>Is there a formula for calculating how many days a HPG message from A to B will take?
When they get around to sending it. Low priority worlds/messages might sit in the queue for a week before they sent out. Highest priority messages are sent almost instantly. A message needs to be sent, received, transcribed, and resent every 50 light years. Unless it's a high priority message, it's first come first serve, so if your message goes through a particularly busy world it might end up sitting behind a few thousand other messages.

>>96578911
https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Hyperpulse_Generator

>>96578400
>>96578534
Clean bases gang.

>>96578164
That grass is taller than a man so it's weird that it only exists in isolated clumps

>>96579003
I don't want to read a wiki. I want to have a conversation and lore and fluff and all the good parts of the setting.

So have been gone a bit how's the feelings on the new rules?

>>96579240
The knee-jerk reaction is that it's bad because no more exploding knees.
The actuallys-plays reaction is that it's adding consistency to the game.

Naturally, it's easier to shitpost against the rules than to shitpost for them, so expect to attract nothing but hate if you dare use them.

>>96579240
Generally the feeling has been cautiously positive, but needs more testing, from what I've seen.

>>96579027
Super nice work anon.

>>96579240
mixed most are pretty good. Grogs gonna grog, myself I kinda like facing i'm really not into capped ammo blow ups, it nerfs case.

more testing needed really. I'm open to making it better and I think over all while I'm old and like my ammo bombs probably best to nerf it.

Trying to load an old unit list from megamek and for some reason it's giving me this error. Any way I can fix it? Because I would like to be able to access the list

>>96579240
My local group is content not to worry about them, no real reason to.

First ever mech battle in the books, on the grimy old d&d pad. Quick start rules so only basic mechanics, and we didn't use any terrain besides that deck box in the middle.
We had a lot of fun and I finished the fight with double 12 rolls. Blew his head clean off with a full volley from my LRM 15. Needless to say I'm going to be diving deep into this game. Checking now if they make display model kits of the little comando that won my first game so decisively, even if it was in the training sim.

>>96579521
Nice. The official paper maps are a great investment that add a lot of variety to games, and I highly recommend them. Some people balk at buying them over the neoprene mats, but the paper ones are much more versatile.

>>96579521
Commando and Catapult are both in the Game of Armored Combat Box, which is a decent continuation.

>>96579521
how old are you for those paper prints? Not trolling.

>>96579420
Try allowing invalid unit designs, changing max tech level to unofficial, and un-ticking allow canon units only under Game-Game Options-Allowed Units and Equipment

>>96579700
That seems to have done it, thank you. This seems to have been the problem though I have no idea why 4 jump jets got deleted, I went into edit damage and nothing was there. If I remember right I had the unit saved when it was in airmech mode. Could that have broken something?

>>96579580
I didn't realise the sheets for the intended tutorial mechs were in the pdf I downloaded so I quickly googled balanced teams and found those printouts. I basically learned the rules and put everything together with friends, with music and booze as distractions. Evidently we weren't meant to learn about cluster damage yet, but I'm glad we did lol.
I was thinking a decent way to distribute terrain on the mat would be toss a couple handfulls of d6 on the map and place woods where they land. 3 and lower is lightly wooded and above is thick woods. Obviously you could copy maps from the internet, or design them to be balanced but I like randomness.
>>96579617
Too old to spend money on toy robots for a game I might not like.

>>96579725
The GoAC box is a pretty good value, you get eight plastic Mech Minis and at least as many cardboard standees.

>>96579718
Sorry, I should have added "try one of those" rather than all three being the solution. That said, I'm not sure why it's bugging out with the jumpjets but that feels like something to bring over to the megamek team over on discord or github

I wish Clan Invasion Reinforcements box get restocked. Never thought I'll be goung to need punchboard standees but here I am

I'm reeling at the potential game modes of this. Imagine a map that is 100% thick woods, you have a one hex spire in the middle and you play king of the hill on it, with respawning. You set a time limit based on turns and whoever held the hill the longest wins.
I know I sound like a gay newfag, but I am really excited about this game.

>>96579926
I guess if there was 4 players with lances, it would just be 1st one on the hill gets dumped on by 12 mechs, next turn first person to move gets the hill, repeat.

>>96578478
During the Prinz Eugen mutiny they conducted boarding actions and opened fire on SLDF ship crews. Later executed all officers from defecting ships to make sure no one else tried to leave the exodus fleet.

>>96578478
Jade Falcon Culling of civilians. They wore jade falcon uniforms but they were still the black watch.

>>96579926
>Imagine a map that is 100% thick woods
So you cannot shoot at anybody until you are right in their face unless they are standing on the king stupid pedestal? That does not sound like a great set up at all.

>>96580017
It will get worse when a fire starts.

>>96580017
4 lances fighting to be within one tile of the hill? Sounds hectic