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I hope one of the AU boxes focuses on the Clan Homeworlds

>>96836146
the anime one was previewed with a Timber Wolf iirc

>>96836146
I want an AU where the SLDF doesn't go so insane.

>>96836151
That's Gothic, actually. Only a 3rd of the SLDF fucks off with Kerensky. A significant portion of it sticks around and allows Blake/Toyama to hold the Hegemony together as a sixth successor state.

MRM-10 vs Large Laser tradeoffs, options, and use cases.

>>96836187
Not really. Empires Aflame probably ha the most "normal" of the SLDF in that they aren't furies or tech priest wannabes

Time to roll for the Ghost vs Ghouls Halloween grudge match!
Using https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zdswz4c2avek6oing7pyk/3028-3057-Random-Assignment-Rarity-Tables-10.64.pdf?rlkey=s8ywj7tonnw87cgn1n2n7bf0b&e=3&dl=0 to determine units.
Running on the 30/40/20/10 distribution as in Battleforce. So do a "dice+2d1000" with the first die being your weight and second being the vehicle you get.
1-300 = Light
301-700 = Medium
701-900 = Heavy
901+ = Assault

Ghosts (Comstar) 2x Mech Level II's - use the Star League Regular Army 2750, mechs only.
12 slots

Ghouls (Pirates) 1x Combined Arms Company - use Mercenary/Periphery General 3028 either mechs or vehicles**
12 slots

**vehicle rolls have been given a modifier for skill dies this occasion just to give them more of a chance if some mad anons decide to go for them.

>How do I determine skill?
See attached. Roll a "dice+4d6" with first two being added up to determine experience with the third being gunnery skill and fourth being piloting skill.
**for vehicles apply a +2 modifier to skill dies, so for example say you roll your 4d6 and get 2, 5, 2, 5, first two means you've got a regular but you add a +2 to each of the skill dies so, 2+2 = gunnery 4 and 5+2 = piloting 3
>Rerolls?
Yes for skill but only one and you have to keep the result meaning you can in fact roll worse!
>Will there be balance applied?
Not really no, this is mainly done for fun with the randomness meant to make things more interesting.
>I'm a namefag can I join?
No. Aim is to keep things focused on the characters anons create, not the anons themselves.
>When does this start?
My intention was to aim for Halloween itself but due to time commitments its likely going to be next weekend.
>How does this run?
I'll be using megamek and princess AI on a random 34x32 map size for practicality reasons. As entertaining as it would be renting a hall and flying anons halfway across the world for a real match I don't have the time nor the resources for such a thing.

Rolled 245, 94 = 339 (2d1000)

>>96836368
Declaring for the Ghouls, Donald Butler Holdfast!

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

>>96836393
Looks like Steiner Salvage. Shall I roll another d1000 on the Steiner light table?

>>96836368
What's the fluff this time?

Rolled 386, 395 = 781 (2d1000)

>>96836368
Oh hell yeah, I'm getting in on this!
Declaring for Ghosts, Blake guide my dice

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

>>96836667
and now rolling for pilot skill set

IDK what to do with IS half of alpha strike box. I have AGOAC split between Fedrats and grorious CCAF but I can't really think of way of splitting them up nicely between the two, and the clans half will serve as start of Escorpion Empire force. Could start a merc company, maybe buy mercenaries or some forcepack to pad things out but then other two forces will remain small. And I have neither idea for mydudes or huge affinity for any big name group from the setting.

>>96836676
>>96836667
oof those rolls, so looks like my boy is a regular at 4/6, running a WVE-5N.
Feels like this guy is more zeal than skill, but that's pretty fitting for Comguard I guess kek.

huh

Rolled 640, 256 = 896 (2d1000)

>>96836368
Rolling for a Pirate

>>96836128 (OP)

Did someone say critical hit?

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

>>96836760
Float like a butterfly, sting like a... Stinger.

>>96836774
Looks like a 4/4 Stinger pilot, I'm going to name him 'Mad' Bob Cutler.

>>96836754
Not sure if I dig the Akuma's head redesign but glad the rokurokubi has sword options. Also pleased that the chimera has an optional missile cover

>>96836368
>>I'm a namefag can I join?
>No. Aim is to keep things focused on the characters anons create, not the anons themselves.

Not like you can just remove the name you use and post anonymously

I am confused about LoS.

The BJ-1 is standing on a Level 1 Hex, in front of is it a level 2 Hex with light woods (which are then 2+2=Level 4 in LoS terms). The light woods it encounters before the hill are on Level 0 (0+2=2) so they don't count (right?). Then there's a level 1 hex with light woods (1+2=3) which does count. Finally, there's another light woods at Level 0 which shouldn't count.

So why is LoS blocked if only 2 light woods are intervening?

>>96836842
(Also forgot to mention BJ-1's LoS level is 3 since Level 1+Mech Height is 2=3, and only the 4 and 3 lightwoods are equal or higher to that)

>>96836486
Pirates go trick and treating a bit too hard and upset a local telephone company. It's a WIP.

>>96836401
Yes

>>96836842
>>96836851
The woods adjacent to the target counts, so you have 3 intervening light woods.

>>96836883
Ah! Right, thank you!

Wow, how can all Akuma variants be shit

Rolled 275 (1d1000)

>>96836871
Here we go then.

>>96836813
>Not like you can just remove the name you use and post anonymously
I think that's the point. Anyone can just drop their namefagging for a bit to participate and keep things focused on the scenario. But if you're so far up your own ass that you'd rather complain about needing to drop your name for all of a day because you crave attention, then you're just telling the whole thread you're not worth bothering with anyway.

>>96836950
So that's a Wasp-1A for Donald Butler Holdfast rating at 4/5.

>>96836949
Are they? The later ones have a Heavy PPC and the MRM equipped with Apollo. That seems decent enough.

Dear Blake I hate special armors. FF and maybe Stealth are the only ones I can tolerate

>>96836187
>>96836263
I meant an SLDF-in-Exile that doesn't become the Clans.

Maybe Alex K dies, there's a Second Exodus, and Andery takes the opportunity to try and establish a new society on less marginal worlds, with less conflict because the people who went this time knew better what they were getting into. They start a federal militarized state, but its Prussia and not whatever the fuck the Clans were. They reclaim the Pentagon worlds but are largely peaceful and happy. They probably eventually Invade the IS because why not.

>>96837122
Level 3 was a mistake

How do they even fix and maintain that only energy shield in universe in Steiner Stadium anyway

>>96837193
Star League magic. Same way you maintain an HPG. As long as the main core is good, you can replace mundane shit like coolant and caps and corroding power cables. But one day it will die and they will be totally fucked.

>>96837217
Not if you keep saying the right prayers.

>>96836754
Is there a closer look of the akumas head?

Rolled 187, 87 = 274 (2d1000)

>>96836368
Going to roll for Comstar, I've never gotten anything good before, but I'm feeling lucky today!

>>96836957
It's just weird to codify such a non issue that it makes me question whether the op is the one with the need for attention or is just that much of a control freak that they need to fail to exclude people

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

>>96837376
Wow, a '99 mercury, I think my grandpa had one of those! Look at all that fancy tech! It's like a faster locust! Hopefully i get a good pilot to go with this lostech mech!

>>96837392
A 3/4 pilot! This pilot is going to be Colleen O'Clery, and it'll be her treat to put an end to any pirate tricks, assuming the MASC system holds up!

Is there a use case for well armored but under armed fast assaults?

>>96837436
Physical beatdowns. See the Charger 1A1 or the OG Banshee.

>>96837436
Bullying light Mechs

>>96837466
The charger is not well armored.

>>96837556
Armored enough for what it does.

>>96837436
>>96837556
If that's the game you're playing, then shit like the Great Turtle just makes an excellent fire magnet to protect the rest of your force.


GTR-2 4 LYFE!

>>96837466
Can't the Charger perform a 60pt+ charge attack if I recall correctly?

>>96837565
It fails the hunchback test.

>>96837619
The Hunchback fails the "loses initiative against a Charger" test. It's peak bully material.

>>96837611
Why take the malus and the damage to yourself when you can kick the legs out of most anything or punch out the back of ammo bomb machines?

>>96837627
>eats 26pts of damage and falls over before the hunchback boots it in the head.

>>96837635
>Thinks that it's not get behind the Hunchback with the superior movement and breaks its leg with only a single arm ML able to respond.
This is why you are bad at Battletech.

>>96837632
It seems like it'd be a laugh?

>>96837686
Sure, like DFA, but you don't do that sort of thing as your first choice. That's late game cripple fight shit.

>>96837632
Because the Charger does the most charging damage possible without oversized engines but is beat on those attacks by lots of other assaults

>>96836982
NTA but I dont like how pretty much every design is an eclectic grab bag with one of everything because I have to take too many range bands into account. Its got a TSM loadout in a non-tsm mech.

Rolled 347, 434 = 781 (2d1000)

>>96836368
Aight, roll me up for a Ghoul Vehicle!

Rolled 1, 5, 1, 2 = 9 (4d6)

>>96838029
A Vedette, hey? Could be worse. Oh who am I kidding. Rolling for skills.

Rolled 3, 6, 4, 3 = 16 (4d6)

>>96838055
Fucking OOF. Rerolling skills.

>>96836188
large laser: large
MRM10: garbage

>>96836774
??? This roll is a CN9-A Centurion
640 = medium
256 = Centurion

>>96838029
>>96838062
Okay, much better. A Vedette with a 3/4 pilot.

Lonnie Ferguson, reporting for ToT as ordered. Let's try not to scratch the paint on my baby this time.

Rolled 349, 870 = 1219 (2d1000)

>>96836368
YAY!

GHOULIES!

Oh would you look at that, Manic and the faggot are burning a thread to diceroll variables in a pathetic masturbatory vidya game.

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

>>96838143
skillies?

>>96837639
>gets behind the hunchback
>moving 5/8
Nope, it's eating at least two turns of fire in that case.

>>96838152
Ghouls.

4/4, medium mech 870. Can someone check the mech list for me?
callsign:

>>96838199
>It must approach me from the front with no cover
Haha, no.

>>96838203
You're piloting a TBT-5N Trebuchet, my fellow pirate.

>>96837632
Depending on your piloting, you aren't taking a malus on a charge, and the return damage is pretty insignificant. Charges area also a lot harder to stay standing after. A 60 damage charge forces the opponent to make a +3 check to stay standing.

>>96838246
Multiples of 20 stacking piloting roll numbers is an optional rule.

>>96838258
Good thing I'm not referencing that rule. Charges impose a base +2, which stacks with the +1 from taking 20 damage. With stacking damage multiplies, it's much worse.

>>96838206
>the hunchback must remain perfectly still and allow me to flank it and come within 8 hexes of movement without firing.

>>96838263
Isn't that 2 separate rolls? Like 20 damage + a kick is 2 separate rolls?

>>96838271
At 4/6, you just cannot dictate the engagement at all. Sorry, fag. Play more real games.

>>96838145
Shut up nuln, nobody likes your dogshit paint schemes.

>>96838280
Sounds like you're just bad if you let yourself be corraled by a mech that's 5/8.

>>96838273
It is two rolls, but all piloting modifiers apply to all piloting rolls made in a phase. For the kick example, it's two rolls at +1.

>>96836368
>Team:
Ghouls:
>Name:
Bones "Bones" Boneson.
4/4
Trebuchet 5N (The Wild Ride)

Abandoned at birth because he was born a skeleton, Bones quickly rose through the ranks of the local Comstar garrison forces. One day, the garrison commander notified them that their family dental plan was getting cut. This sent Bones into a homicidal rage, the thought of having to pay for braces for his 14 rapidly growing children.

From that day forward, Bones has been fervently fulfilling a freasom fued against his foes.

>>96838292
That you don't understand how a 5/8 can get where it wants with only a couple rounds of won initiative vs. a 4/6 just shows how retarded you are.

>>96838286
At least nuln has mechs with paint on them, manic (I can't I'm ranking nuln over someone else, look at what your faggotry has brought about)

>>96838145
Oh no. Let's mourn all the serious discussion that is not being had.

>>96838388
Or we could laugh about how pathetic and lonely you are that you have to do this.

You're an inner sphere general facing off against an internet-brained self-insert who has created an army consisting exclusively of tricked out high tmm tarcomped pulse jumpers, turret-tech gauss and iATM boat assault mechs, cheap trucks with m-pods or rockets, heavy asf with air-fuel bombs and artillery. He has a set of implausible factories to maintain his force in the field so you can't simply attrite him, and you're expected to be reasonably cost effective. What conventional forces do you try to bring against the forces of cheese?

>>96838505
Savannah Master spam.
Nothing else can register in the same tier of cheese.

>>96838505
Equal BV in Savannah Masters. Just bury the board in them and watch him die of rapid-onset premature aging when he realizes it'll be days between his moves.

>>96838505
Savannah Masters?

>>96838505
>>96838526
>>96838531
>>96838533
Three in less than a minute!

Favourite Draconian mech?

>>96838604
Hatamoto or Quickdraw

>>96838505
Wouldn't bother. The game is about having fun and if explaining his force takes a 3 paragraph essay, I'm not interested.

simple 4v4 introtech and little need to reference tables and rules will actually get a game over with in about an hour.

Where's the line between blindsiding your opponent and setting yourself up to be hard countered?

>>96838604
O Bakemono

>>96838625
>will actually get a game over with in about an hour.
If your goal is to just get it over with fast so you can move on to something else, then you can always just skip playing the game at all.

>>96838646
>being held hostage by some guy that wants to leverage every rules in the collective manuals
Nah, I'm good. I want to have fun. Not have a back and forth waiting for him to resolve 45 minutes of dice rolls and table lookups per turn.

And a 4v4 with 2 competent players can easily be played in an hour and more likely already decided in half that. It's a game, dude. Not a lifestyle.

>>96838668
>It's a game, dude. Not a lifestyle.
Go back.

>>96838685
Blessings of Blake upon you.

Gonna need a QRD on the Huron Warrior

>>96838604
Tenshi because I like it.

>>96838730
it's based and capellan (which makes it double based)

>>96838730
https://youtu.be/b8tWXHgzvoc?si=PYedPqc91vXUkUSh

>>96838533
>>96838531
>>96838526
If you want to add some diversity to your Savannah Master spam, you can add some Hover APCs or Heavy Hover APCs with LRMs or SRMs. Hell, if you feel like splurging an extra 115 BV, you can even get an LAC5 on the Heavy Hover.

>>96838604
Charger's always a good time

>>96836128 (OP)
Is the pilot supposed to be that tiny? The Whitworth's head is the size of a small house. Meanwhile the Pixie is five tons bigger and the pilot seat barely fits in its head.

Banshee 3E or Trebuchet 7K?

>>96838893
There's been horrible quality control in art direction over the last 50 years. Including disagreement on how big mechs are in general.

What IS a cowl? How does it add armor but not add weight?

>like the cyclops
Just looks like every other head

>>96838893
I wish there was a digital version of these new blueprints.

>>96838764
>Tenshi is japanese for Angel
What did the combine mean by this?

>>96839099
"We are cringeworthy weeaboos"

>>96839077
Do you not see the bonnet?

>>96839111
literally every mech with a head on its shoulders looks like it's wearing a helmet of some kind. what makes that one special?

>>96839117
furthermore, what about the heads that are basically noses on center torsos? Why are you able to hit them from behind when you'd obviously need to pass through the CT?

>>96839127
>anon discovers gameplay abstraction

>>96839141
Wait till he gets to infantry.

>>96838145
I haven't participated in one of these for months, asshole...

>>96838335
And I've at least painted ONE mech.

>>96839099
>>96839107
>"We are cringeworthy weeaboos"
*Cruel Angel's Thesis Intensifies*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8ozVkIkr-g

>>96838764
>remember, no dual Gauss

Do these companies make any sense?

>>96838730
The Cappies copied the Dracs homework and made a mech in 3055 that has 11 single heat sinks and a weapon that generates 12 heat by itself. You're paying 1500bv for an armored gauss rifle essentially.

Thoughts on Sneede's Irregulars?

>>96839657
You look like a 3060 ex-Feddie from the Chaos March.

>>96839657
The lance names are retarded. Why are your biggest shit kickers in the "support" lance and your ranged support a heavy battle? Why is a beemer wasted on a niche use unit for cqb of all things? Why even have a dedicated urban lance are you not planning on using them for other environs and vice versa?

>>96839786
Oh, this mekhq flechs knockoff actually assigns them automatically based on composition, and I left them because I was actually a bit curious what it bases it off off. They don't really mean anything to me. I was mostly asking if this is intelligent way to split and expand AGOAC and Alpha Strike boxes into company per side, Liao and Davion respectively in this case.

>>96839768
I'm pretty sure my uncle dated her.

>>96839821
Make the Rifleman a 2N and commit to the PPC lance

>>96838335
Nuln is a cowardly nogames so his painted minis are just paperweights

>>96839821
The mekhq one lets you switch ammo and that's 10x better than Flechs. They do need to format battle armour to print on one sheet instead of separate ones

Damm, there were no hidden/illegimate children among the Great Houses in late Succ War era? Really?

>>96840501
I can think of at least one

>>96837933
Well it is basically a Drac Atlas, so the same problems you saw in that feature in it more or less

>>96840583
Who, Kitsune?

>>96840501
Isis Marik was a bastard, Theodore's legitimate kids were kept hidden at first plus he had a secret bastard, Joshua Steiner-Davion kind of counts.

>>96840634
No, Isis.

Also holy shit this new captcha is retarded. Only type characters with circles and they all have fucking squares or rectangles.

Rolled 441, 641 = 1082 (2d1000)

>>96836368
LETS GO GHOSTS, SCORE SOME FAKKIN GOALS

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

>>96840833
Call me Khamsin because I'm the desert wind babyyyyyy

>>96840845
3/4 Dervish 6M. Not bad.

>>96839657
Just pointing out that every mech there except the wraith is level 1 tech, so it stands out a bit.

Rolled 585 (1d1000)

>>96836368
Rollin for ghosts
pilot is Wilhelm "Kaiser" Billings

Rolled 225 (1d1000)

>>96840975
sorry only rolled 1

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

>>96840975
>>96840988
Hunchback very nice

Rolled 577, 698 = 1275 (2d1000)

>>96836368
Rolling for Ghosts — Logan Carmichael

Clint 2-3U, what an upgrade, pulse laser sniper jumpy guy for only 1k BV? What is there not to like?

>>96840975
>>96840988
>>96840996
okay so if i did the math correctly he's a 4/6 Hunchback 4G

Can someone rate my Champion build?

Mass: 60 tons

Equipment: Crits Mass
Int. Struct.: 99 pts Standard 0 6.00
Engine: 300 Fusion 6 19.00
Walking MP: 5
Running MP: 8
Jumping MP: 0
Heat Sinks: 11 Single 0 1.00
Gyro: 4 3.00
Cockpit, Life Supt., Sensors: 5 3.00
L: Sh+UA R: Sh+UA 4 0.00
Armor Factor: 169 Standard 0 11.00

Internal Armor
Structure Value
Head: 3 9
Center Torso: 20 25
Center Torso (Rear): 15
L/R Side Torso: 14 20/20
L/R Side Torso (Rear): 8/8
L/R Arm: 10 12/12
L/R Leg: 14 20/20

Weapons and Equipment Loc Heat Ammo Crits Mass
---------------------------------------------------------
1 Medium Laser CT 3 1 1.00
2 Medium Laser LT 6 2 2.00
1 SRM 6 LT 4 15 3 4.00
(Ammo Locations: 1 LT)
1 Medium Laser RT 3 1 1.00
1 Autocannon/5 RT 1 20 5 9.00
(Ammo Locations: 1 RT)
---------------------------------------------------------
TOTALS: 17 5 17.00
Crits and Tons Left: 39

Calculated Factors
Total Cost: 5,032,000 C-Bill
Battle Value (BV1):962
Battle Value (BV2):1275

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

>>96841017
Logan Carmichael pilots a KTO-19 Kintaro

Was VSD pretty much the protagonist of BT?

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

>>96841051
Hmm going for the reroll

>>96841037
Kinda boring

>>96841017
>>96841051
>>96841085
Ghosts — Logan Carmichael (4/4) — KTO-19 Kintaro
>a wise reroll

>>96841088
Boring is good, boring means it can be thrown into a lance without care.

I want to fuck the wyvern

Ghosts (So Far)
>>96836667
[Name Missing] (4/6) WVE-5N Wyvern (45 tons)
>>96837376
Colleen O’Cleary (3/4) MCY-99 Mercury (20 tons)
>>96840833
“Khamsin” (3/4) DV-6M Dervish (55 tons)
>>96840975
Wilhelm “Kaiser” Billings (4/6) HBK-4G Hunchback (50 tons)
>>96841051
Logan Carmichael (4/4) KTO-19 Kintaro (55 tons)

Rolled 438, 419 = 857 (2d1000)

>>96836368
hoisting the black flag of the Ghouls

>>96841172
>[Name Missing] (4/6) WVE-5N Wyvern (45 tons)
Let's go with Max "Jumpman" Hassan for the name

Rolled 2, 3, 4, 5 = 14 (4d6)

>>96841282
… and skills

Rolled 4, 4, 4, 4 = 16 (4d6)

>>96841300
… and rerolling

>>96841311
Looks like Vedette 3/4
Honesty “Honey” Wallace

Ghouls (So Far)
>>96836393
Donald Butler Holdfast (4/5) WSP-1A Wasp (20 tons)
>>96836760
“Mad” Bob Cutler (4/4) STG-3R Stinger (20 tons)
>>96838029
Lonnie Ferguson (3/4) Vedette Medium Tank (50 tons)
>>96838143
Bones “Bones” Boneson (4/4) TBT-5N Trebuchet (50 tons)
>>96841282
Honesty “Honey” Wallace (3/4) Vedette Medium Tank (50 tons)

>>96841290
Jumpman? why not “Shock Collar”?

Rolled 566, 303 = 869 (2d1000)

>>96836368
Let's go Ghouls! Let's see a good pirate mech for Willie Snakebeard.

Rolled 3, 3, 4, 6 = 16 (4d6)

>>96841494
Oh boy, a blowjob. How well is this BJ gonna go?

>>96841498
A 4/4 BJ-1. Could certainly do worse for a pirate.

When putting together tanks, should the turrets always be pointing straight forward, or should they be turned a little?

>>96841513
whatever you like best, I like mine straight ahead (see the vedette a few posts above)

>>96841400
Ah that took me a minute kek. i wasn't even thinking of that Hassan, I just wanted it to rhyme and still sound foreign-ish

>>96841513
I usually just do straight forward, but in the rare cases where I'm making more than two, I start turning their turrets. I never do anything more drastic than 90° and try to avoid doubling up on directions at that point, but that's just me.

Rolled 2, 4, 1, 1 = 8 (4d6)

>>96836368
Ghouls, I guess? Bone-biter will be the name.

Rolled 4, 3, 2, 3 = 12 (4d6)

>>96841628
Gonna re-roll, shit's the worst ones out there.

Rolled 794, 486 = 1280 (2d1000)

>>96841628
>>96841639
Now mech

>>96841642
>A Warhammer 6R
If it isn't the skill rolls that fuck me, it's the mech or tanks roll that does.

>testing colors on spare free marine minis
Will the left one be too light for SLDF green?
Also, the right one was supposed to be 'olive drab' but damn it's more of tan

Would a nuclear armed Urbie be a good objective?

>>96841941
A classic one

Why is there this insistence on torso twisting not affecting anything except firing weapons? I enjoyed being able to use torso twisting defensively in the videogames (example: to protect my damaged CT, I could torso twist to show my Left Arm to the enemy instead). Is it just to simplify things, or is there a deeper reason I'm not grasping?

>>96842048
It's because you're an autistic vidya-tard. If it weren't for that fact you wouldn't have ever thought about this more than once.

>>96842111
I'll take your answer to mean it's the former

>>96842048
Mostly it's abstraction. The whole "A round is 10 seconds and you're probably not doing that the whole time."

>>96841379
More Ghouls (seven so far)
>>96841494
Willie Snakebeard (4/4) BJ-1 Blackjack (45 tons)
>>96841628
“Bone-Biter” (4/5) WHM-6R Warhammer (70 tons)

Why does the new Akuma's head look like an unlicensed Chinese bargain bin FNAF toy? It is genuinely funny how bad it is

Is this what an interface cockpit is?

>>96842237
I think the old one looks like a weird jester, but they're supposed to be more like an Oni mask.

>>96842237
it’s accurate

>>96842260
I haven't seen the current model, and shimmy can be hit or miss for me, but this seems pretty good imo.

>>96841952
The nuclear Urbie even has 2 nukes and a laser. The only thing it doesn't have is the machineguns. Actually, was NEA trying to do that when he made the nuclear Urbie?

>>96836368
>can I join?

Good man. No namefag has ever contributed positively to these threads. They're constitutionally incapable of coming up with worthwhile characters for MM battles. Everything has to be about them at all times, and we don't need that vibe for this project. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

what a melodramatic faggot proving anon’s point

>>96842256
Only if you can fit a horse in there.

>>96842374
It's especially proving that the only way a namefag can come up with a worthwhile character is by stealing it from another anon

>>96842382
If you think that's actually NEA I have a bridge to sell you. It's a good price. You'll like it. Very good bridge.

>>96842310
>NEA trying to do that when he made the nuclear Urbie?
He never made it anyway. That's just a story and there's no proof he was involved at all. Namefags always lie.

your forgot to remove the name for that post

Is the Akuma closer to the Atlas or the Banshee if I'm going to use it as count-as in pre-Invasion?

>>96842400
Maybe you should stop idolizing namefags. They're shit attention whores who should have their families killed. They don't belong here and they don't deserve to play the game. All namefags must die.

>>96842409
Maybe you should just kys namefag defender. Your tolerance is just as bad as their existence. Rape all namefags and kill them, and do the same to everyone who allows them to exist.

>>96842422
holy shit are you 40 or something? your JPG files must be from a decade and a half ago.

>>96842440
Everyone over 25 on this site needs to die already

>>96842440
I can crack open the brian cache if you really want

>>96838769
>>96839744
Wait I thought the Huron Warrior was a Canopus mech?

>>96842468
It's made in the Federated Commonwealth, which makes the choice of SHS even weirder. Loren Jaffray the 'Death Commando' gives one to the Northwind Highlanders during the Operation GUERRERO bullshit, but that's probably just Sun-Tzu T-posing about how his people managed to steal one from the FedCom to start with.

>>96842397
>That's just a story and there's no proof he was involved at all.
Except all those witnesses...

>>96842444
>I can crack open the brian cache if you really want
DEW IT!

So if the nuke damage is dealt in 5dmg clusters, there's a chance for a mech surviving even when it got directly hit?

>>96842515
>Except all those witnesses...
AIslop doesn't count as proof

>>96842538
No wonder the Cincy Group is so good at BattleTech, THEY'RE AI!!!

My poor uziel was supposed to be a 2025 release, we don't even have concept art yet :(

>>96842485
It's always been presented as Capellan, likely the writers forgot the Caps lost Corey in the 4SW but they do get it back in Guerrero. But also don't forget the Enforcer 5D boasts 12 SHS and an ERLL, it's not all cool running for the FedCom either.

>>96842611
Everything is postponed one year it seems

>>96842558
Was the Urbie nuke only a 5 hex radius? That's a pretty low yield nuke.

>>96836368
So just a quick update and apologies to anyone I missed out. Thanks to the anons keeping track that was a help.

Ghosts (Comstar)
WVE-5N Wyvern Max "Jumpman" Hassan 4/6
MCY-99 Mercury Colleen O'Clery 3/4
DV-6M Dervish Khamsin 3/4
HBK-4G Hunchback Wilhelm "Kaiser" Billings 4/6
KTO-19 Kintaro Logan Carmichael 4/4

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Ghouls (Pirates)
WSP-1A Wasp Donald Butler Holdfast 4/5
CN9-A Centurion 'Mad' Bob Cutler 4/4 - you actually rolled a Centurion not a Stinger.
Vedette Lonnie Ferguson 3/4
TBT-5N (The Wild Ride) Trebuchet Bones "Bones" Boneson.4/4 - I assuming this is the anon that rolled the Treb earlier
Vedette Honesty “Honey” Wallace 3/4
BJ-1 Blackjack Willie Snakebeard.4/4
WHM-6R Warhammer Bone-biter 4/5

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