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i really like the blood spirits

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>>97595826
Can I get a non-meme reason why?

I don’t get why anyone likes them. They don’t even have a cool totem animal and iirc mostly use non-omnis.

>>97595824
Literally me at 9

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I want to smell Joanna Jade Falcon’s command couch.

>>97595971
You shouldn't. Stop wanting that immediately

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Anon wanted to see the whole Flying Circus, not quite a battalion.

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Hay guys when Alaric WolfyMcWolferson wolfs up, will the merchants of Clan Sea Fox rise up and unify the Inner Sphere under the banner of the Store League?

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>>97596280
Have you ever considered painting up a bunch of Mossad level IIs? Just for kicks?
Or painting up some shitmechs in blue and white stripes? You know, for equality and representation purposes.
Though to be honest, I will not be too surprised if you respond with a pic of both of those..

Which had a larger population at it's height, the Federated Commonwealth or the Terran Hegemony?

>>97596423
Probably the Hegemony, since it had so many more densely populated Core Worlds

>>97596322
Those centurions go hard desu

>>97596280
Which dropship is that?

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>>97596322
I kinda wanna echo your statement because nazi anon already has a wild collection but at the same time I don’t know if I can see Mr. MechaHitler painting jewish mechs.

>>97596280 looks good, I like the mech choices, very nicely filled out.

Didn't future Jews canonically fuse with the roman catholic church in some weird interfaith alliance?

>>97596634
Kind of but not really, the house books treat Judiasim as a separate religion

>>97596580
A Fortress, custom STL I did myself from a random non-battletech ship, totally reworked it.
>>97596612
Your instincts are correct.
And even sarna states
>the FORMER state of israel
because the orthodox ceased to exist and the rest went catholic, CGL keeps ignoring that though

>>97596921
Isn't it slightly too short to be mechscale? Then again, getting it bigger is a pain to print and paint

>>97596280
So totally not!IJN is ok but the Nazi is 'how can you do that that's an abormination'?

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I finally have all the mechs/vehicles produced in plastic from Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Crusher Joe, and Fang of the Sun: Dougram. With duplicates I have 40 units/10 lances/1 battalion.

I'm surprised nobody in the setting's tried to do what Hungary did with making the Black Army

>>97596940
It holds everything pictured, if anything it may be too big.

>>97597013
Can you list them?
Also, didn't know that the Marauder II is anime-based

>>97597026
The actual Fortress has an actual listed size that'd probably add an inch or two to it's height at mechscale. The other things a Fortress holds are ammo for the guns, infantry, and cargo to supply all of the personnel. The Fortress is a big bastard, but still on the smaller end of Dropships.

>>97597033
It was originally just the normal Marauder art with some fins added, and hence based on the Zentradi Officer's Battle Pod, but its diverged visually over the decades.

>>97597026
Mech sardine can

>>97597013
Hi Wolfen

>>97597033
>Can you list them?
Like their original anime names or BT names?

>>97597068
Hi anon

>>97597051
>an actual listed size
And I ignore everything but weight as the writers arent engineers or consistent.
Never forget the marauder is 12 metres by canon, but also 15 metres by canon.

>>97597026
>>97597064
Of course though the entire interior is storage whereas the actual ship would have mechbays, vehicle bays, platoon bays, cargo bays and then engineering, bunks, c&c, etc... the Fortress is also supposed to have fairly roomy bunks for a dropship, it's a literal flying castle.

>>97597006
Recall a few threads back an anon confessed to being israeli, which means idf as they all get enlisted, so we have an actual warcrime tier fascist zionist jew amongst us.

>>97597110
I mean list of your mechs. Preferably with the anime names next to it if possible

How do /yoursudes/ get around? My donut steel mercs don't have their own dropship and have to ship their mechs as cargo when they travel from planet to planet.

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>>97597253
He should batchall nazi on megamek before Clan /btg/

>>97597409
The last time we tried to get those freebirths to fight a trial here they both just ended up bitching out. We'll have to nominate some actual warriors to represent them, it seems.

>>97597376
Space Über because poor

>>97596634
Rabbi Chang Martinez, your dropship is ready for departure

>>97597376
Until I decide to paint up a couple Unions and/or a bunch of Confederates, my Flying Circus has to hire a couple unions to get around in addition to the Fortress.
>>97597428
I don't do videogames anymore, haven't for years.

Something I've wondered about the mercenary trade in this franchise: were there hiring hall worlds before and during the 1st Star League era? I mean, if someone wanted to hire the Illician Lancers around that time, how were the Lancers approached? Same goes for the Greenhaven Gestapo prior to the Amaris Coup that ended the 1st Star League.

>>97597253
I hope he doodles an urbie on the bombs they chuck at the kebabs.

>>97596557
There's just something very appealing about the way those shields have been painted, simple but sexy.

>>97597453
Mercenary market started after 1st Star League era and during the Succession Wars from ex militar units like Eridani Light Horse.

>>97597376
They are davionmen and travel with their assigned ships (3x leopards flying in obnoxious vulnerable formations)
Or they're assigned to the ships
However it works

>>97597240
Quitter

>>97597540
? I figured out what size it needed to be to do it's advertised job.
I had to stop myself from modelling all the actual interior with a crew of 6mm dudes to go with it because that would be insane, and it would be a worse storage container.
It's job is just to keep dust off the mechs.

Let’s say I am curious about battletech. I play a few other wargames already. How do I learn more about the gameplay and the setting?

>>97597489

Then how did mercenary groups get hired by anyone prior to and during the 1st Star League era? And given the Mercenary Review Board only existing after the 1st Star League's collapse, how was mediation between mercenary unit and client done?

>>97597574
Craigslist

>>97597559
MW2:Mercenaries and MW3 intros for setting. You're pick of y*tubers for gameplay.

>>97597574
Shoddy mediation, unreliable mercs, and cheap-ass employers are why the Board was organized.

>>97597574
The board as I understand it was established based on the friction and pain of mercenary units during the previous period; where mercenaries would double-cross or cheat clients and clients would double-cross or cheat mercenaries on a regular basis. An organization that mediated, insured and at times enforced good relations between interested parties was only a natural evolution of a high-risk market.

As for before their establishment, mercenaries negotiated directly with clients over jobs and clients would put out jobs through their own (likely highly variable) channels.

>>97597574
Direct negotiations. Even with the review boards, mercenaries have agents and lawyers who are publicly available for inquiries from a fixed address. The mercs just need to check in with them every once in a while to see what they've got.

>>97597559
These anons will say YouTube is a bad start but there is good info there on learning the game and the lore.

>>97597559
It's been so long since I introduced anyone to the game that I don't even really know where to start from scratch right now. We've got a pretty good box set compared to most games called A Game of Armored Combat, with enough models in it to do normal sized 2 player games or allow one player to widely customize their force to go up against other people with their own shit. There are youtubers but the only ones I know are kinda memey.
I learned how the game works by playing against myself while emulating the rules examples in one of the old books on a sheet of hex graphing paper and learned the setting by reading a bunch of sourcebooks.
Battletech presents itself more like a historical wargame with an ongoing timeline.

If we're bringing up real life conflicts here, I must ask: has there been a case (or cases) where mercenary groups recruited a bunch of people from barely developed worlds, gave them a miniscule amount of training to make them into infantry, then tricked them into fighting in an actual war?

I bring up this documentary about how Sudanese men were tricked into fighting in Libya by a United Arab Emirates-based company:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riUiRG5X1hI

Now, has that been the case in BattleTech were mercenaries can and will bolster their numbers by tricking people from barely developed worlds?

>There's no genocide and land confiscated in Palestine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_expropriation_in_the_West_Bank

>>97597559
Check the stores in your area and see if there is a playgroup locally. Go and check them out. Talk with them. Watch a game. Maybe one of them might be willing to show you how to play and let you borrow some minis for a game so you can get a feel for it. That's how my group is at least. You can pick up lore and other shit later, and getting your own minis before you've ever experienced the game is silly in my opinion even if they are relatively economical. Find someone in your area that plays. Try playing with them. See if its something you want to do. If there is no one who plays in your area then either play the vidya if you're into that, or try and convince some of your friends to give it a shot with you if you're very determined. If you do that i'd say use proxies and pirated copies of the rules at first just to try things out and then buy in after if you and said friends decide you like it.

>>97597938
Posting a Wikipedia article you probably haven't even read isn't a valid defense of your position. That isn't evidence of an ongoing genocide. Do you even understand what that word means?

>>97597903
>>97597954
>noseberg melty
lol

>>97597964
Not Jewish, just sick of idiots defending Jihadis. Fuck em.

Yeah sure man

>>97597968
mossad not even trying tonight

>>97598144
Its Sabbath bro, Mossad ain't even here. I demand better schizophrenia in my giant robot threads.

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>>97598161
You'll take your damn ROM psyops and you'll LIKE it, heretic barbarian shit monkey!

Has anyone used the Templar III B? The chain whip/hatchet combo feels like a gimmick.

>>97598204
I mean, it is. Any variant involving the chain whip is inherently gimmicky.
Even the guy who was doing the updates on all the sidegrade equipment for the play test looked at the Chain Whip and just outright said it sucks.

>>97598235
It's a cool weapon, it just can't stack up to punches or kicks. Grappling an arm is actually a very powerful effect because it forces the target to not move for at least one turn but the grappler can play with initiative to still be able to move itself even though the grapplee can't, and forcing a PSR at +3 on a leg hit is good too. But the low fixed damage and need to hit twice in a row on a limb to get the extra effects sucks.

>>97598235
It think he said that about the flail, not the chain whip. The chain whip at least has a -2 to hit bonus. The flail hits yourself on snake eyes and makes you take a PSR.

>>97597253
You know what the really ironic thing is? The whole reason Nazi Germany is such an archetypal image of a cruel dictatorship is that they had to relentlessly propagandize, bully and spy on their own people to keep their warmongering and genocide going. Israel, by contrast, is a fairly open and democratic society precisely because the vast majority of the common people are just as hateful and bloodthirsty as the government.

Small lasers (and machineguns) would make more sense if they had the same range as the medium laser. They already pay for the half ton with the lower damage.

>>97597787
>If we're bringing up real life conflicts here, I must ask: has there been a case (or cases) where mercenary groups recruited a bunch of people from barely developed worlds, gave them a miniscule amount of training to make them into infantry, then tricked them into fighting in an actual war?
Almost certainly would happened; Shit like the usage of Child Soldiers occurs on dinky modern day Earth and life is Cheap, Battlemechs aren't.
One Anon already mentioned Hungary's Black Army, and one of my own ancestors was rounded up and shipped here to the States to fight in the American Revolutionary war.
The British Empire at the time actually used a lot of "soldiers" who were just dudes they rounded up and shipped out.

>>97598470
And both of them are right, even though the Germans made the mistake of targeting us first. It's a zero sum world and the only way forward for your race is to systematically exterminate other races. One gene pool will win. We aren't going to let it be an inferior one.

>>97598470
>the vast majority of the common people
I wouldn't say that. There are super religious dickshits that are every terrible stereotype available and they have an oversized influence on the government. It doesn't help when Hamas does shit like attack a peace rave. If the Palestinians weren't saddled with the same kind of dickshit extremists then things would be easier. But you get Muslim dudes who might be able to live with Israelis getting attacked by "settlers", and Jewish dudes who might be able to live with Palestinians getting attacked in reprisal killings, and it's a cycle of violence that is funded and encouraged by hyper religious shitters all over the world who don't even have to live with the misery they're enabling.

>>97598470
Lmao, no even close.
You wish it had been a cruel dictatorship, but no the people loved him and the reason he got into power and stayed in power is the same reason the history channel never subtitles hi speeches with a translation, that anyone who hears the things the man had to say is moved to their core with the righteous truth of his message.
Have you ever noticed the way his people treat him in videos of him? They are always cheering, smiling, happy, reaching out trying to make contact with him, and his bodyguards never ever faced the crowd they were only there ceremonially, there was never any fear of anything untoward happening to him by the people, contrast that with any film ever of a US president where the military and secret service members are constantly observing the crowds around them, ill intent is always possible.
National Socialism was never about hating the Other, it was always first and foremost about loving your own, that was it's power and it took the entirety of the first world united to stop and, even then having to stoop to hideous warcrimes like firebombing whole cities with only civilian populations.
You are right that israel is united by common hate, that solidarity of sin is all that ever unites jews and even then left in a vacuum they turn on each other, the jew requires an Other to hate and attack to unite them.
>>97598531
>hamas
lol, the video of the IDF helicopter gunning down it's own civilians is still out there for anyone to see, the mudshits didn't do shit.

>>97598512
>it's sabbath we're not here!!
>minutes later
>"us"
cant even keep your lies consistent, eh vile schlomo?

>>97598615
The Nazis targeted the mentally retarded first for euthanasia, so Anon is obviously a high functioning Down's Syndrome case.

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I used a Battle Cobra for the first time (I don't usually play a Clan force) and thought it was good. Kind of like a Phoenix Hawk in how I ended up using it. What's the best variant?

>>97598637
>What's the best variant?
Null set. All Battle Cobras are garbage. Snake clans don't field good units. Don't ever support them.

>>97598658
I was looking them over, and apparently I picked the only variant that jumps, which trashes my conclusion that it can work in the PHawks role. Fucking shitter scientist caste.

>>97598622
When you've got a genetic inheritance of mental illness the size of a phonebook, yeah that's scary shit.

>>97598637
>best variant
Config X

Did Palestinians get their own planet, or would they just be Terran/Comstar by default?
I already know Jews set up shop in the FWL and Fedsuns.

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>>97598610

>>97598658
Good thing there's the IS version.

>>97596280
Very cool force.

>>97596423
The Hegemony. The Terran Corridor was insanely population dense. Meanwhile large swathes of the FedCom are really empty, and that's not including all the worlds that dead systems on account of the Fall of Star League and the Succession Wars.
Comparing the TH at its height to the FedCom is like comparing New York City to New York State, but only half the state and a bunch of towns went missing off the map.

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>>97598637
I was thinking about making whole star of them, with different variants co complement each other. Like prime for sniping, 2x H/C and one or 2 G for heating up enemies.
>>97598712
That's most expensive one right? Imo Battle Cobra main appeal is that it isnt very expensive clan mech with decent stats so you can star of them and enough points for combined arms.
At least that was my idea behind, I want to field some jetfighters in AS game so having lance for around 165points leaves me with room for other toys.

>>97595903
They have cool paint schemes and the use of IICs in frontline units makes them distinct on the table as well (and gives you a reason to paint those mechs that other Clans just stick in garrison units).
Plus they're the one Clan that never got into Nicky K's weird furry fetish club, and consider all their castes as being united in shared brotherhood and working for the survival of the Clan, where as most other Clans consist of a bunch of meatheads that bully the other castes into serving them.

>>97597787
I was thinking of doing this for my defunct corpo security turned mercs with the blue collar workers that got left behind at the facilities with them. I changed my mind though because half ass training people before putting them out to fight sounds like some shit brown people (your example) and russkies would do.

>>97597903
If you guys would finish the job we wouldn’t have to see this shit anymore.

I tried out Alpha Strike yesterday. Classic is just a better game, full stop, but AS is a lot easier on my casual friends so I may throw in a game here or there so I have something to do with my minis.

One thing I was completely unprepared for was how dangerous fast units could be, since there’s no arm-flipping or torso twist there’s nothing you can do against backstabbers if you’re just too slow. This little menace, the Carrion Crow (run as a B config in-game) scored 3 of my 5 kills and would’ve had a 4th if he shot first in the final phase - the killing blow was picked up by his star-mate in the Dark Crow instead.

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>>97599632
Slightly better pic of the crow in question

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>>97599682
He is very handsome. How do your friends enjoy alpha strike?

>>97597787
>If we're bringing up real life conflicts here, I must ask: has there been a case (or cases) where mercenary groups recruited a bunch of people from barely developed worlds, gave them a miniscule amount of training to make them into infantry, then tricked them into fighting in an actual war?
History of England in a nutshell.

>>97599794
I think they like AS more for the same reasons I like it less - abstracted units make everything a little easier to understand at a glance and there’s less to keep track of, but individual mechs feel less unique as a result. Maybe that changes when you start introducing force construction abilities or SPAs or whatever, but we just did basic rules for the first time just to ease into it.

Are there any examples of defeated mechwarriors being raped?

>>97595824
I have been interested in Battletech for a while and went to get a starter box today but the person at the desk hadn't heard of it and the rest of the store was playing a tournament so I didn't ask around. Is this an indicator that it's not played around me and if so how do I find a group. New to TTGs btw.
Do all shops smell like shit?

>>97599976
Yes

>>97599976
>rest of the store playing a tournament
>smells like shit
These are highly causated phenomenon.

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>>97599953
You could be the first.

>>97600007
I'm just imagining an ejected and captured villainess, herself responsible for genocides, torture, personal slights to high ranking individuals, so on. But she is hot, so can imagine someone wanting revenge of the highest caliber. What could be more insulting and offensive to her than for her hated enemy to rape and impregnate her?

>>97599953
Fucking kill yourself

>>97600129
Found the example

>>97600134
The Jews died and then reincarnated into Sea Fox merchants.

>>97600171
Keep your disgusting fetishes out of the game, piece of shit gooner.
I bet you're the pissraeli.

>>97599953
the winning player decides the position. have you not read TW?

>>97600180
Reincarnation requires a soul.

>It's just one guy samefagging on his laptop and phone because he's really desperate to complain about jews so he has to do both sides and he has to ruin a congolese bat milking forum's thread about a giant robot game to do it

>>97600234
I wish.

>>97600198
Hey buddy, I think you got the wrong door. Reddit is two blocks down.

>>97600259
You first.

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>>97600234
He can’t afford the aces cards.

>>97600298
no one plays that

>>97600134
They asked for it

>>97599995
>>97600001
So how do I get games?

Are boarding parties using mechs in ship-to-ship a thing? I don't mean walking on top of ships like clanners do, but mechs actually fighting inside of a sufficiently large vessel.

>>97600596
Gotta get really lucky and find a decent group. You might have to ask around on social media or the like.

>>97600641
No. Nobody builds 12+ meter tall hallways inside their ships (even inside dropships to transfer from one mech bay to another) so mechs just can't fit.

Allegedly, some of the smaller protomechs can be used for boarding actions in bigger halls, but I've never actually seen this depicted.

>>97600596
Check out the local stores and join their discord if they have one to get a better look at how the battletech scene is there, that’s how I found the one in the city near me. I also checked out the facebook of a place much closer to me and just saw they have battletech on wargaming night so I’ll probably pop in to look this week so maybe you could try something similar.

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>>97600641
BT ship interiors aren't remotely large enough for mech combat. The closest you'll get is breaching a hangar bay, in which case you're fighting point-blank inside a garage. The biggest you'll see in ship combat is battle armor, which make excellent naval marines.

>>97600670
>picrelated
I recognize that chapter of space marines by the paintjob, but cant recall their name, founding or source legion.

>>97600652
As I don't have any tabletop stuff should I get things for another game, and if so any recs, or just ask to join their group.

>>97600796
There's a starter set for Battletech called "A Game of Armored Combat", buy that and you'll have everything needed to play in one package.

Should Rocket Launchers available in 3025/Introtech?

>>97600807
I was going to order that at the desk but the bloke acted like I was speaking Spanish so I wasn't sure if it's played here. Guess I'll get it and if no one else has it I'll play with myself.

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>>97600902

>>97600902
Decision at Thunder Rift?

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>>97599953
>>97600070
>t.

>>97600796
>As I don't have any tabletop stuff should I get things for another game, and if so any recs, or just ask to join their group.
Depends on the shop; My FLGS is a general hobby store, so they have things like Models, Trains, and RC stuff.

>>97600986
Can't be sure Valasek actually raped, and then there is the sadistic fuck that is Redjack Ryan.

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>>97600880
Aces is a single player or coop expansion for the alpha strike version of the game that comes with ai cards. It has not been officially made into classic but I’ve seen people just generally following the intention of the card as well as a more 1:1 styled conversion on the helm memory core discord. If you are interested in playing a single player experience it may be worth looking into.

>>97600999
He certainly implied he would do it to Weaver if he won their 'duel' (and was there)

>>97600999
This anon >>97601025 beat me to it. Fat old bastard would have definitely stolen some cheeks. https://youtu.be/79yG2VfUnYs

>>97600862
There's technically nothing stopping you from using Prototype RLs except for rule level IIRC.

>>97601055
Some shits come out WAY too late in the timeline IMO

>>97601069
Like chemical lasers.

>>97601003
Thanks I'll have a look at it.
>>97600999
Checked.

>>97601025
>>97601032
>Fat old bastard would have definitely stolen some cheeks.
...Is it stealing if was a Batchall?

>>97601094
Chemical lasers are from so early in the setting that they predate Primitive, and are therefore outside of scope.

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The mighty pirate UrbanMech.

>>97601250
heard it's way taller than the regular urbie. is that true?

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The mighty Urbanmech with correct orientation I hope.

>>97601268
I don't know, I don't have a regular UrbanMech to compare it to. The scale varies pretty wildly between the Gothic minis though. The King Crab is almost exactly the same size as the regular King Crab, the Phoenix Hawk and Scorpion are very similar to their regular counterparts (the Scorpion just has a much wider stance for whatever reason), the Atlas is only slightly bigger, the Marauder and Rifleman are noticeably bigger, and the Firestarter is huge for some reason.

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>>97601268
Nta

>>97601307
Perspective isn't doing this any favors, but jesus christ it's like they didn't even try.

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I don't like Dragon (a mech).

>>97601307
father and son?

>>97601272
Can you post the side and back too please

>>97601307
Why does the bigger urbanmech not simply eat the smaller?

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>>97601345

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>>97601366

>>97601366
>>97601361
Cool thank you. It won't be too hard to cut off the spikes I suppose

>>97601392
What are you planning to do with it that involves cutting off the spikes

>>97601414
He prefers his Urban mechs circumsized

>Be browsing the utubes for battletech/mechwarrior vids
>Found a female japanese vtuber who streams basically nothing but mechwarrior online
>Even has a live translator bot on her vids
Neat.

>>97601325
It's interesting, to see an opinion that's wrong. The whole point of opinions are they are subjective, but you've chosen to be incorrect.

>>97601414
Pirates as well but less spikey
not sure about the bird- like PHawK and crowned Firestarter yet. The Atlas seems worth it, as Drac command Atlas+other heads for basing

>>97601550
Karan? Think she did MW5 as well

>>97601681
Yep. That's the one. Not sure if I would watch one of her streams live. But her model is cool and she seems to know her stuff.

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>>97601348

Because they're pack hunters.

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>>97601660
Pirates love their spikes though!

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>>97601361
Oh right I forgot that the box had decals included

>>97601681
Was Karan a Lyran or a Drac?

>>97600751
???
This paintjob is older than wh40k 2°edition, kiddo

>>97601272
>>97601361
The mechs in Gothic are kinda nice, but don't like the banners and cape

>>97600751
Tiger Claws

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>https://archive.org/details/rpgdragon-issue-09
Today's special: Japanese RPG magazine scan
>Behold! This is the ruler of the battlefield

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>>97601988

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>>97601988
and FemMech

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>>97601988
and the GriffinHawk

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>>97601906
They're not my favorite part, but you could probably chop them off the King Crab pretty easily at least.

>>97602054
Black Marauder is that you

>>97602006
The Ikusaotome's just a Wolverine on a diet

>>97601988
>>97601992
>>97602006
>>97602013
Wish someone could translate it. Wonder if...AI could do it.

>>97602153
Thou shalt not make machines that think

>>97602160
AI doesn't think as is. So, not like we ever started.

>>97602006
That Hydra looks familiar, but the site with all the japtech art is down. Is it just a variant of something canon?

>>97602225
It says "GRS stands for Griffin Rebecca Special" according to my limited moonrune skill check

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>>97602261
Yep, that's definitely the japtech Griffin. I hope Gears comes back online. I don't want to resort to going on leddit for these images.

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Recommend me some good year 3050 battlemechs to go with my lance. So far I got
>Axman AXM-2N
>Hunchback IIC
>Ostroc OSR-2L

>>97602360
It's up right now for me

>>97602469
Warhawk C

>>97601756
>Oh right I forgot that the box had decals included
Gothic Box had decals?
That actually would have been a decent selling point, right?

>>97602494
For me it's showing a test page from the server host on the landing page, and all other pages are 404ing.

>>97602515
For a small crowd, sure. A lot of people don't paint at all and a lot of painters don't use decals. I've got one upcoming faction I got decals for because it's called out specifically in their paint scheme description, but the vast majority of my stuff doesn't have any decals.

I don't like use decals on my minis

>>97602469
>Axman
>Hunchback IIC
>In a 3050 lance
Did you mean 3050s? Either way a WHM-7S would be pretty fitting imo.

>>97602604
Shush. Don't engage with the bait.

>>97602495
Looks cool. I like that it's body kind of resembles a giant spartan helmet with stubby arms and legs.

>>97602604
I meant 3050s yeah. I should have been more specific.

>>97602633
>I meant 3050s yeah. I should have been more specific.
kek no worries, I just wasn't sure if you meant pre Clan Invasion or the entire decade, but either way a 7S would make sense, the lance feels pretty FedCom coded overall imo.

>>97602527
>A lot of people don't paint at all and a lot of painters don't use decals.
I mean sure, but it's still a decent selling point for the larger sculpts that they'd have good areas for sticking decals or doing freehand.

>>97602006
The Blacktail looks like it's supposedly to be related to the Mercury, doesn't it?

>>97602006
Honestly I'd be happy if CGL introduced these into Battletech properly. A lot of these Japtech originals are pretty cool.

>>97602648
It is. I'm in a game where my player character is slowly building his own lance by rounding up as many clanners to take as his bondsmen everytime he wins a fight and he recently captured two more bringing the total up to four.

>>97602527
2nd SoL?

>>97602517
For some reason I'm getting all pages normally. Maybe some ISP fuckery?

How much 'personal retcons' do you insert to canon fluff when you make yourdude chronicles?

>>97602786
Zero.

>>97602786
I mean it depends on what I'm doing and how I'm implementing it.

>>97602707
Ryuken-ni. They put the dracky dragon on their leg and the Ryuken-ni symbol on the top of their heads, which seems too prominent for me to leave off.

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Is there an in-between dropship between a confederate and union that can carry 8 mechs?

is the lore worth getting into

>>97602888
I think the Broadsword can carry more than its standard 5.

>>97602895
Very much yes, its one of the most rewarding settings to dive into. However everyone has their preferred stopping point as, with every project that changes writers, not everything works. For some its the comstar civil war, others its the Ilkhan stuff. Personally past the first part of civil war when the Free Worlds league just decided to vote itself out of existence was too stupid for me to put up with.

>>97602895
No, just use the mechs and rules to play your own setting, treat it like tabletop wargame mecha D&D

>>97602786
none that I know of.
We be pirates that just up and fucked off during the ol Amaris dust up when things were looking bad.
Which side were we on? Dont worry about it lad, here have a cat girl and a catapult.

For me it's late succ wars up until the end of the jihad and everything else is alien to me

davion btw

>>97602920
Civil War is reserved for the Fedcom one because it is confusing otherwise. If you think about it everything has been one giant civil war after the other because they were one Star League at one point.

>>97602786
No lol, that's retarded

>>97602973
Piloted by Epstein himself

so where do I get started on the lore. Do I listen to some loretuber or is there something I can look up online to read. Are the wikis good or should I ignore them?

>>97602992
quite a lot of the books are available via kindle or as audible audiobooks too. they are effectively the 'highest' / 'hardest' level of canon, as they are in-universe accountings.

all the GAME rulebooks are far less canon, especially since many of them are produced IRL... AS IF they were an in-universe work, and as such, biased potentially in one sides favour. force manuals and shit like that.
the tabletop game itself is heavily an abstraction and as such cannot be considered 'canon' even if you're using every rulebook you can get your hands on and are meticulously re-fighting the battle of tukkayid.

however, parts of many of the books fall right on their fucking face in full retard mode, because authors try and incorporate tabletop gameifications into the 'real' things 'happening' in their book. like 'muh martell medium laser has a 300 m range hurr durr'

>>97602946
fair point, though i dont count the succession wars past the first as civil war since by then they were separate nations again.

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>>97602973
I wonder what user who frequents this general posted this image.

>>97603066
Can't wait for the plastic -4P
>B&N exclusive
oh, shit

>>97603076
what box is it gonna be in

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>>97603076
I feel your pain anon, discoback is best hunchback.

>>97603100
It really is, I have a love hate for the forgotten 4N because it's so weird I love it. I hate it because it's fucking not good. I really wish it made it into MWO/5 probably could be darn good via quirks

>>97602888
>The cat girl isn't the pilot, she's part of the loadout
>She sits on your lap for the cool factor

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>>97603119
Is there a render or artwork of it anywhere? Had to look this up and I’m a little intrigued.

>>97603119
The Awesome 8R of Hunchbacks

>>97603120
sounds comfy and good for moral.

>>97603100
heresy. Hunchback orthodoxy is supreme. you swayback lunatics are all blasphemers!

>>97603083
Camacho's Caballeros Force Pack, contains a Grand Titan, Hunchback 4P. Other 2 mechs not mentioned. Fall 2026 B&N pack.

>>97603144
Unironically found a new sculpt 8R/8T metal in my blisters last week from a lot. I wonder if I should give it to my Regulans? It's the type of trash Savannah would dump on them.

>>97603119
>ballistics and missiles in one side
Not really going to work competitively, an AC20 and LFE will leave no room at all. If MW5 I'd rather an SHD-2H because its at least fast for an early option.

>>97603215
>Fall 2026 B&N pack.
I look forward to it finally becoming available Summer 2027.

>>97603143
Not that I know of and while I have a few hunch minis I've never seen this one. I've seen 4SPs even.
>>97603144
You're not wrong.
>>97603237
It's not about being good, but AC5s aren't awful in vidya, if anything pretty darn good. Probably make a nice lance mate who can stand back and throw some damage while taking a hit or two.

As a SEPAer I apologize to all of you for that ground hog dooming us to more snow.

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>>97603197
Can’t argue with your zeal purist.

>>97603066
Probably the israeli dog a "watcha doin' rabbi?" post

>>97603066
I don't know, but that person is probably devastatingly handsome and smart and objectively correct about his opinions on the Third Reich, and also has the best paint jobs in this general.

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>>97603352
>who posted the Jew killer mech?
>the Jew.
>????
Get melted

Can't believe nothing will be coming out until April at the earliest

>>97603382
You get nothing until there's Leviathans for sale.

>>97603370
/btg/
>reeee you're a silly poo poo head for liking meta waac fag shit like the hunchback C
also /btg/
>why yes this is my introtech hunchback, OH LOOK ITS A FLASHBULB OF ALL MEDIUM LASERS, I am a brilliant mechgineer! and certainly NOT a waacfaggot at all!

>>97603484
Is it even possible to WAACfag is Battletech? What does a WAACfag force look like?

>>97603492
You asked for it

https://www.goonhammer.com/goonhammer-battlemech-championships-analysis/

https://www.goonhammer.com/goonhammer-battlemech-championship-light-mechs/

https://www.goonhammer.com/goonhammer-battlemech-championships-medium-mechs/

https://www.goonhammer.com/goonhammer-battletech-championships-heavy-mechs/

https://www.goonhammer.com/goonhammer-battletech-championships-assault-mechs/

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>>97603509

Oh my *god* this is absolutely cancer. I stand by my opinion that tourney-focused players are a blight on every game that they manage to infest.

BattleTech is a quasi-historical campaign game played with a GM, and should never have developed beyond that. Disgusting.

>>97603509
>goonhammer
no wonder, wh40k refugees

>>97603492
Max armor jump 10 clan pulse laser boat is a pretty standard answer to "yo how can I make sure nobody ever wants to play with me?"
Honorable mention to the same thing but also like ten basic infantry units to eat up initiative so your important units can always move last, and as many fast hovertanks as you can afford, which do pretty much the same thing in aggregate.

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>>97603484
Why can’t us hunchback fans all get along?

>>97603550
I will someday make a lance consisting of HBK-4H, -4J, -4SP and -4P

>>97603550
We can. Just accept that Hunchback Cs can be deployed by any faction in any era, because all that era and intro date fluff is just optional rules and I can take what I want to play. That's all you have to do. Then we can get along.

>>97603509
Do the goonhammer guys actually play Battletech or is all this stat sheet wanking?

>>97603562
Would like to have something similar at some point.
>>97603566
You play how u play anon, I have extinct Urbanmechs in my Hinterlands mercs

>>97601658
It is a slightly beefier SHD that can't jump, has weapon loadout more vulnerable due to placement in the arms, useless (R)laser in exchange for more ammo and 5 more lrm.
Shadow Hawk also looks better.

>>97602973
Nice deco, sadly it's on FROMslop so I'm going to have to declare you a homo.

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Do you feel there is a place in battletech for combi-mechs?

>>97603622
Go back to /v/

>>97603644
For the poorest Periphery shitters trying to protect their cabbage farms, I guess.

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>>97603509
Trebuchet was unexpected but I guess that’s cause it’s a later refit. Honestly some of this stuff is sweaty but then most of it just seems like not all that uncommon mech choices.

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>>97603550
Because all Hunchies are inherently violent and want an excuse to start hunching at every opportunity.

>>97603644
>>97603665
Unironically would be pretty cool as a form of Frankenmech rules. Like, they'd be inherently inferior to an actual, well maintained Battlemech but still have a place in the Periphery and the lesser taken care of areas like the Outback and the rim borders.

>>97603688
The fact so many of them declared a unique model of an obscure mech from an era most people don't play to be the greatest light mech ever because it can theoretically cause stupid amounts of charge damage and then poured on the hyperbole about how TOs need to ban it is all you really need to understand these guys are just shitting out content to fill space.

>>97603370
It usually is, the nazi has never posted anything but painting projects, doesn't fit his modus operandi

>>97603703
The Periphery nations can manufacture actual battlemechs. "What if mech but deliberately a fucked over piece of shit?" May seem like an interesting thought experiment, but that is the kind of thinking that gave us the Clicky-tech shitbox wars era.

>>97603703
Wouldn't it just be the upper half of a mech and the lower half of a vee? They'd probably get the sealing and controls of a Mech, but the motive crits and lack of jumping of vees. That alone's enough to make them inferior to Mechs, but still a step up from vees.

>>97603533
On this specific point, I disagree slightly. Btech is completely unsuited to be played competitively because the rules aren't good enough and it's more fun fucking around, but trying to break the system at all costs is by itself interesting. They're not forcing anyone to play with their sweaty focus, they're simply pushing the balance to the limit.
There's something interesting in that, like race cars or competition handguns.
Also, why the fuck Goonhammer posts pics of male hands with nail polish in their last article, what the fuck

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>>97603717
They can, buy it's never been in great numbers and Battlemechs are in general a lot rarer. I'd imagine it wouldn't be something an actual military power would run through. More likely a militia or even small time pirates in the deeper periphery would run it as more out of just working with what they have. In the same sense as when small time colony worlds will run an indomech instead of an actual Battlemech because it's the only real option for them.

>>97603566
FUCK OFF YPOU RETARDED TROLL. you aren't me and anyone believing you to be me should also be HUNG by the neck until dead dead dead right next to you as a lesson to retards everywhere.

>>97603697
of course. to hunch is divine. The DIVINE JUSTICE OF THE FULL FORCE OF KALIYAM AC 20 on full BRRRT!

>>97603774
If that's your thing, go nuts I guess. Personally I don't find junkyard refits interesting in the Battletech setting.

>>97603717
No, it was just the typical result of a long line dev era of "nothing besides Clantech can be an upgrade everything else is varying levels of holding your nose". This
>>97603719
would be easy to implement, stat out and would be a decent diversion from the normal gameplay. The LL and RL hit results are considered a single wheeled/tracked chassis instead and rolls again for motive crits like normal. A one-man tank is in no way undesirable and the Hell's Horses were trying their damndest anyway, but not allowed to succeed because of the word of a spiteful god.

>>97603820
The next evolution of Quad-Vees that comes from the Inner Sphere, the Mech-Vee.

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>>97603827
>>97603820
Why can't QuadVees be run by one MechWarrior anyway? Needing a separate pilot and gunner seems unnecessary desu

>>97603859
They were a clan invention, so it's a caste thing. Same reason they dismissed LAMs.

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>>97597559

Sarna.net is the best way to learn the setting. People will say YouTube but if they aren't reading directly from Sarna they are likely biased as hell and pretend that nothing happened after 3025 or 3067.

>>97603896
The best way to learn the setting is to read the books.
Everything else is a compromise.

>>97603896
Sarna's a good way to get started on learning about the setting. Sarna does get things wrong or put biased perspectives on things as well, if not words things incomprehensibly to the point of being gibberish on random lore blurbs. The best part about Sarna will always be it's works cited.

>>97603920
The gibberish isn't gibberish, it's very poor English Third Language contributions that nobody bothered to clean up.

>>97603016
>The novels are canon!
>The Sourcebooks and rulebooks are not!
Are you actually fucking retarded, mate?

>>97603016
That used to be true until CGL allowed anyone who asked them nicely to write for Battletech.
Now new novels are not canon until confirmed with other sources.

>>97603792
Sounds like SOMEONE isn't sufficiently devoted to the Hunchback C. God's perfect Mech.

>>97603992
>>97603984
Novels are the highest form of canon outside of direct developer statements. Cope and seethe you shitty trannies. It's true even if you don't like it.

>>97604006
(You)

>>97597787
"Ideal War", the pre-Jihad book about 'Thomas Marik' founding the Knights of the Inner Sphere. One of the first recruits, Paul Masters, heads off to check out the insurrection on Gibson against the FWLM/Word of Blake and finds that the pro-Marik forces are doing pretty much what you say to throw cannon-fodder mercenary infantry (McNamara's draftees) at the 'Gibson Freedom League' (Viet Cong).
I mean, I was kind'a dense about historical parallels when I first read that book, and even then, I thought the VIETNAM IN SPACE analogy the author was using was, uh... well, Garth Marenghi would've approved.

>>97604006
The novels, their depiction of the universe, their characters and lore are literally the worst version of Battletech, inbred.

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>>97603792
>getting angry at someone on a myomer weaving board

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>>97603924

I've half a mind to make an account just to clean up the grammer and spelling. I applaud the guy who put the info on Sarna, but a lot of pages need a good proofread.

>>97604017
unfortunately though, they're STILL the only hard 'canon'. as they are 'in-universe' actual events as they happened.

just because quite a lot of the books are merely meh to poor or outright terrible for genre fiction 'standards' does not, as much as anyone might wish otherwise, contradict their canon status.

this is why gay faggot trannies and child raping paedos like 'bryan young' must not be allowed to write anything for the IP.

>>97604058
I can't believe I fell for bait in 2026.

>>97604024
Stop weaving myomer you simpletons!
The 'study' that shows it's more beneficial in linear action glosses over the fact it wears out faster from friction.
Brand name weaved myomer is a scam for stupid people. We have been making out own straight strand packed myomer and have been replacing it less. Stop paying for some Baron's kid new hovercar.

>>97604072
>john deere's lawyers would like to know your location

>john deere has despatched a bright green and gold assault force to your location. enjoy your incoming fortress-class demise

>>97604093
>incoming fortress-class demise
I laugh in farmer with a rifle

>>97604094
you fool! john deere's lawyers have 'errata'd that rule out of existence!
NOTHING CAN STOP THE JOHN DEERESQUISITION!

>>97603727
>competition handguns
Are only interesting to the WAACfags of shooting circles just like broken tourney lists are only fun for WAACfags

>>97604151
actually, thanks to competition raceguns, much like racing cars have driven normal car development to the nth degree, normal handguns are approaching quite rediculous accuracy, reliabiliity and recoil control etc.

take the 2011's (and now 2022) now almost everyone is making affordable, to very pricy compacts, to full size combat handgun 1911 style all metals etc, chambered for 9mm, with some having quite astounding capacity, and many models (some even being quite affordable ones) shooting rediculously flat, like a tack driver, with pathetic, tiny amounts of recoil for maximum controllability.

this makes it so anyone who actually uses or trains with their handgun even moderately, can become a far, far more proficient marksman. ambi controls, etc, elongated controls, a variety of 'race' open irons to suit all tastes, handguns are a trillionty googolplexes better than they have ever been

>>97604183
Exactly. The WAACfag mentality is to remove all possible skill from a skill, and to replace that skill with hyperoptimized individual components which replace the need to actually develop a skill. Therefore creating a meta environment where you either use those components, or auto-lose at any sort of competition.

It's exactly why WAACfaggtory should be met with extremely literal gunfire whenever it rears its disgusting head. The people driven to WAAC behavior ruin everything good about anything they touch.

>>97604209
no. you hand a really good handgun to a noob, they're still liable to blow their own foot off.

>>97600082
>>97600134
As far as i am concerned, both sides are disgusting scum and we should leave them to kill each other.

>>97604093
>tfw john deere was birdfags all along

>>97604052
I've never seen a BT watercolor before like this. I love it! Where did you find this or are you the artist?

>>97604052
>I've half a mind to make an account just to clean up the grammer and spelling.
>grammer
You should listen to the other half.

>>97603727
>Also, why the fuck Goonhammer posts pics of male hands with nail polish in their last article, what the fuck
Goonhammer started on Something Awful, and that site is absolutely infested with trannies and hardcore leftists nowadays.

>>97600751
That's oldschool autism.
https://fightingtigersofveda.com/

Prior to and after 2869, did the Eridani Light Horse also take the risk of having to recruit people that may not have been inclined about the idea of resurrecting Star League like Bronson's Horde (the faction within the ELH that stayed loyal to William Bronson when he declared that the ELH weren't being mercenary enough)?

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>>97603550
Too much arguing over dogma. Everyone claims their Hunchback is God and completely ignoring the Council of Kalidasha that established the holy trinity of Hunch the Big Back, Hunch the Disco Back, and Hunch the Sway Back. 3 aspects of one God.

Clan tech is idolatry and displaces Hunch, resulting in personal emptiness, spiritual separation, and a distorted life.

>>97603774
>Battlemechs are in general a lot rarer.
I'm not sure about it, 3025 mechs are rare as consequence of succesion wars & 3050 omnimech are more rarer becuase the invasion happened recently, but 3150+ has been good enough to produce more, I mean sure, you can't find mechs under a rock like pokemon, but currently the Inner Sphere knows how to work with clantech even though the plot make some limits for game reasons.

>>97604183
2011s make for a bad example because they're notoriously finicky, plus they're uninteresting with no service history