I want to make a Word of Blake unit for my first unit bigger than a merc lance. At least a company size. What unit should I go for?

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So what are quintessential /btg/ approved mechs?
Dragon I would presume obviously.
Whitworth?
Spider?
Rakshasa?

>>97897826
Jack(Off)rabbit

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HONOR THE DRAGON!

>>97897883
The dragon is gay

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>>97897883
Glory to the Commonwealth

>>97897824
52nd Shadow Division. They're based kino kingshit and their colour scheme mogs the other WoB schemes

Which era is the most fun for you?

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-4P

>>97898277
Whatever really takes my fancy. Quite like Star League and Reunification War eras but been trying some FedCom Civil War IS only mainly with melee mechs for shits and giggles and turned out to be surprisingly fun.
>>97898368
4J and 4G?

>>97898368
Woof, the CGL looks fucking melted next to the print.

>>97897826
Whitworth

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>>97896668
Protomechs are life.
Protomechs are love.

>>97898368
So CGL banning prints is like an ugly girl refusing to invite a pretty girl to her birthday party?

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>PGI fires a bunch of staff including flyingdebris
>Slowly their models start to get better

>>97898631
Claws and gun cowl added but otherwise looks exactly like before?
Huge fan of pgi prints but the claws here are an edgy hat on a hat.

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>the awesome is a dedicated ppc platform
>it doesnt ppc better than anything else

>>97898686
>3 ppcs at nearly heat neutral isn't better

>>97898702
No, since you can do that with any mech. The Awesome doesn't even get a range or heat sinking bonus. Not even a +1 to damage or accuracy.

>>97898725
>you can fire 17 ppcs over the course of 6 turns with barely any penalties with any mech

>>97898725
Name all the mechs that boat 3x PPC's or more anon. We can wait.

What was the most costly and bloody ground war in BT? I'm guessing either the SLDF's retaking of Terra of Terra or the battle of Terra between Stone's Coalition and the WoB at the end of Operation SCOUR.

>>97898101
You spelled Opacus Venatori wrong.
52 is hipster choice when everyone else is in white, gray and black.

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I did a slightly more elaborate method of laser jeweling on this Griffin IIC, and damn do I like it.

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>>97898774
Supposedly 25 also used other colors, but they also did things like deploy Lances and Stars so that people would be confused about who exactly just landed and started shooting at them.

>>97898686
It's an assault mech designed around shooting a bunch of PPCs at things, that's what a dedicated PPC platform is.
Customizing mechs is not as easy, cheap and risk free as it is in the video games. Converting something that isn't already carrying any PPCs into something that carries a bunch of them is asking for disaster and you're usually just better off buying something that comes with PPCs.
>>97898742
Annihilator, thug, titan, marauder IIC, warhawk, blood kite, hellstar, marauder II and the lament.

>>97898742
NtA but first thing that comes to my mind is Lament(3c-3r) cuz I was looking at it yesterday.

>>97898774
>Opacus Venatori
They're a part of the 52nd, loosely, and the TRULY kino thing to do is a have a few Venatori mechs in among your 52nd. They're assassins striking in the midst of battle, or Ascended Domini being placed in command of a 52nd force to eliminate a high value target.

>>97898791
Less than 10 out of aaaaaaallll the mechs in the game. You sure showed him. HHHYEP,

>>97898757
Kentares IV
>>97898791
>>97898796
Of those listed only the Annihilator can do that with introtech and not all of those are able to fire being heat neutral or close to heat neutral but then that's changing the goal posts which would be a dick move.

>>97898757
It's definitely either SLDF invasion or the Coalition's invasion of earth.

>>97898894
A lot of the casualties for the SLDF invasion can be attributed to void rather than ground combat.

>>97898875
Yeah, Lament is 9heat over it's dissipation. Got user HS thou so you might be able to shoot 3 every other turn.

>>97898875
It always makes me laugh that the lore is like "Kentares IV is the worst warcrime ever!" even though the WoB and Society were wiping out whole populations or even scouring entire planets clean of life with nukes and virus weapons and man made plagues and ASTEROID FIRING SUPER WEAPONS lmfao

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>>97898631
We know what the claws on the old green face are supposed to look like.

>>97898906
>It always makes me laugh that the lore is like "Kentares IV is the worst warcrime ever!" even though the WoB and Society were wiping out whole populations or even scouring entire planets clean of life with nukes and virus weapons and man made plagues and ASTEROID FIRING SUPER WEAPONS lmfao
BT writers don't know their own lore. Shocker. I am truly surprised by this fact.

>>97898906
Kentares IV was a blip in the radar casualty-wise compared to the many, many, other atrocities of the First Succession War, when humanity came close to nuking itself back to stone age and bombing worlds from the orbit until the nightside glowed in the dark was standard procedure. It's only really noteworthy due to the way it was carried out. Ordering the entire population of the planet to be literally put to the sword is much more visceral than somebody in the orbit pushing a button to delete a civilization. In the latter the casualties are abstract, reduced to statistics on a spreadsheet. The people committing the act will never have to look their victims in the eye when the hell comes down.

>>97898906
It's sort of like how the chinese kvetch way more over the nanking massacres than the japanese do about the nukes even though both events killed about as many people.

>>97898906
Kentares is nothing compared to the shit the Society, WoB, Clans and a billion other factions in BT have done. It's just retarded writers trying to be dramatic and shocking.
"Oh no! They killed people!"
Better to be shot in the head than killed with an engineered plague, or trapped on a world being slowly glassed from orbit by nukes.

The only crime about Kentares was the amount of arms that got tired Combine side.

>>97898757
The 3151 Battle of Terra, if one includes the IlClan Trial which ended said battle.
Basically every last military member of Clans Wolf and Jade Falcon plus the Stone's RAF died in that battle.

>>97899091
>Basically every last military member of Clans Wolf and Jade Falcon plus the Stone's RAF died in that battle.
What? That's just straight up wrong rofl
The Falcons and Wolves lost most of the soldiers who were ON TERRA, not spread across the galaxy.
The RAF didn't get wiped out, fuck a ton of Ares pilots and such ended up working WITH the Wolves against the Falcons.
Where did you get your info lol

Is 'warriors from multiple clans forming up a task force star for a joint mission' thing something that never ever happens?

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What's next after IlKhan's Eyes Only? I know we've got something set in Drac space, a Hotspot or something, coming out but is that all we know about?

>>97899118
Stone's Coalition and the Wars of Reaving.

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>>97899131
>>97899118

>>97898777
Your paint schemes almost made me a Snow Ravens player.

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>>97899125
The Matter of Pleiades

>>97899182
Pleiadeez nuts.

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>>97899182

In your opinion, which faction garners the most irrational hatred from fans?

>>97899324
Spess Ukraine?
>Good luck painting that

>>97899342
Capellans with the caveat that they are actually a very interesting and layered faction pre Xin Shen but after they go full Space China they become boring as hell.

>>97899342
>>97899394
Seconding the CapCon, they haven't done anything worse than anyone else in the setting has in the 800+ years of human space colonization/habitation, but they're painted as untrustworthy psycho shysters as a whole. If anything, Davion glazing has been the primary vehicle for the sort of propaganda taking such hold, all while occluding the MANY perfidious crimes of the FedSuns.

>>97899392
I'm actually working on that. Got the yellow done, just need to apply the blue once I settle on a shade and a method of application. Might use The Painted Topher's camo method for it.

>>97898631
RIP my beloved Rising Sun. Taken away from Rhonda and now Yen Lo.

>>97899579
The old one is still being kept, as far as i could tell

>>97899596
https://mw5mercs.com/news/2026/04/184-chaos-reign-new-details
>With this DLC, we’ve taking the opportunity to revisit the Yen Lo Wang and update its visual design. The goal is to bring it closer to current visual standards while keeping the identity of the original intact. We’re happy with how this redesign has turned out, and we think players will see it as a clear upgrade.
They're updating it completely. Which is a shame.
I suppose it matters not, though. I can still paint my mechs with the rising sun on tabletop.

>>97899182
Still no new Marian Hegemony lore T_T T_T T_T

>>97899118
Clans Wolf, Steel Wolves, Wolf Hunters, Wolf-In-Exile and the Wolf Dragoons team up to fight Stone on Terra at the end of the Dark Age/beginning of the Ilclan era. That's a loada different clans fighting together.
FUCK THAT'S A LOT OF YIFFS BOIS

>>97899665
If the new book is about periphery there is good chance to see some Martian lore too.

>>97899708
Just a sign of how devoid of imagination the lore people are, or relentless furfaggotry at the top pushing it.

>>97899714
DON'T FUCKING EDGE ME, ANON!

>>97899118
Clan Smoke Jaguar and Clan Nova Cat team up during the Battle of Luthien in the Clan Invasion era.

>>97899118
All the other surviving Homeworld Clans, Blood Spirits, Cloud Cobra, Star Adder etc, united in the war to wipe out Clan Steel Viper during their Trial of Annihilation,

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>>97899665

Anybody know how to fix the MegaMek(Lab) listing the same mechs three times? Like:
>Atlas AS7-D
>Atlas AS7-D
>Atlas AS7-D
>Annihilator ANH-1A
>Annihilator ANH-1A
>Annihilator ANH-1A
>and so on

>>97899916
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH SHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTT BBBBBBBOOOOOOIIIIIIISSSSSSSSS!!!!!!

>>97899118
I mean, like Elememtals (CGB)/Summoner (CJF dude)/Timber Wolf (CW)/Nova Cat (CNC)/Viper (CSV) making up a Star for example

>>97899956
A few different disgraced Clanners from different clans form a Trinary in Icons of War and go on a rampage throughout Katyusha City while the main character does some spoiler stuff.
They were called the Retribution Wraiths, and were comprised of numerous disgraced or washed out Clanners. There were former Clanners from Clans Wolf, Jade Falcon, Ghost Bear, Smoke Jaguar, Steel Viper, Ice Hellion, and even a Clan Burrock member!
You're welcome :)

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Don't go to Addicks folks. If it ain't Fury and Hammers duking it out on your lawn, it's Highlanders and Wolves, or Swords and Cats, or Raiders and everyone.

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What sourcebooks/novels do I need to read to get the story of both Steel Wolves invasions of Northwind?

>>97899755
That already happened though.

at the battle of Tukayyid, Clan Smoke Jaguar and Clan Nova Cat were ordered to work together. CSJ was so pissed off about it that they refused to coordinate with CNC and ultimately kept getting in each other’s way

>>97900105
>That already happened though.
So???
OP asked if it ever happens. I provided an example. Sit down.

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I didn't hate it.

Daily reminder, twelve sarath's fit in a union, having compact, and narrow/low profile quirks.

And a turret. Decent armour, great speed/mobility. And one load out is a melee monster.

LIGERS for everyone.
>the dumbass fwl tards who make it hate it so you can easily 'get' it.

>>97897826
Griffin, duh. All the classics
Archer, warhammer, rifleman etc.

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>>97900102
Are they escorting a mirror?

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>>97900281
Mirrors being lostech would go a long way to explaining the state of faces in Battletech.

>>97900102
A Silence in the Heavens
Truth and Shadows

>>97900340
ty king

Relationships between the mercs-mercs and mercs-house who fought (and killed) each other in previous contracts; When ending up in a contract together next time, 'Buisiness is buisiness and no hard feelings'? Or 'fuck that assholes'? Not sure Waco holding deep grudge is unusual in BT universe or not

>>97900281
Coffin. Funeral procession.

>>97900386
Varies by unit/commander. Waco is an extreme end of the spectrum also occupied by people like Bronson's Horde.

Question about the Draconis Combine:

What does the combine do with their warrior caste when they don’t have a war to fight? Do they assign them other shit to do? Or just keep them on standby, just in case?

Because the DC is weeb-imperial Japan, and during the Edo period Japan had a similar problem: a bunch of samurai with no wars to fight and still being paid in rice despite the adoption of a currency System, resulting in a whole lot of overly pompous and armed bums going through an identity crisis and making that everyone else’s problem.

I just wondered, given the centuries of foresight the Combine had, what they do to keep their mechwarriors from doing the same thing when there isn’t a war to fight?

>>97900509
Ronin? Hidden Wars?

>>97898780
>swiggity swooty, he's coming for that booty
Pose

>>97900545
So… more or less repeat the exact same mistakes as Edo Japan?

>>97900565
No… more like, to protect the combine from its own military, he is expected to always be finding someone for the DCMS to fight. If not overtly as part of some conquest, then they are sent out as, functionally, privateers to cause havoc, basically anywhere else but Combine space.

Basically, the warrior caste is never left bored, thus they are always too busy to cause “mischief”.

>>97900509
Brutal training. They're the battletech fremen/sardaukar. And when they're not training their asses off constantly, they have pleasure quarters to 'relieve stress'...

>>97900452
Very reflective coffin.

>>97900386
Waco rangers are just faggot tards.

>>97900509
>What does the combine do with their warrior caste when they don’t have a war to fight?
They are a state military, so they do state military things. Anti-piracy actions, training rotations, border raids, that sort of thing. In the Star League days we know that skilled mechwarriors were allowed to seek out duels against the Star League forces, so there is probably still a dueling culture (especially post-Clan Invasion I would think.)
Don't fall into the trap of thinking that inspiration is determinative.

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>>97900743
> Don't fall into the trap of thinking that inspiration is determinative.
Yeah… but the answer is a bit… bland.

>>97900666
I mean, given what the name “Waco” brings to mind in the average American, that tracks perfectly.

>>97900817
Waco, Texas?

Why everyone knows nothing ever happened there.
Certainly not the government going full retard.
Don't be rediculous.