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 aphyon wrote:
TMM? you mean TSM? triple strength myomer?


Advanced rules allow you to turn off heat sinks to hit the magic +9 over heat to activate it.

Heat management is a large part of the game along with what kind of modifiers you are willing to take. the +3 to hit from jumping in very situational. the extra +1 to be hit can be super beneficial as well as being able to re position facing any direction you want.


Target Move Modifier. Am I not using that right? I mean balancing the penalty your mech gains on being hit vs. the penalty it incurs to its own to-hit based on movement. Seems like slower mechs have very few opportunities to inflict a worse penalty to be hit than they gain on their own attacks to-hit.

We're only on our second game, definitely not ready for triple-strength myomer

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Yeah, TMM. I understood what you meant.

Speed is its own kind of defence (until you face a Gunnery 0 Clanner armed with Large Pulse Lasers and a Targeting Computer...), but I often favour manoeuvrability over speed a lot of the time.

If you've got a clear run to get somewhere, be it low terrain or that magical join between the two long edges of map sheets, then your speedy ones can get some great TMMs going. But once you throw any amount of hills, trees, or both into the mix, then the jump jet 'Mechs will begin to shine. And then 'Mechs that can jump 6 or more? Ha. Forget about hitting them!

Doesn't mean that slow 'Mechs have an inherent disadvantage. I still prefer my 4/6 Clan Heavy 'Mechs, or "Pocket Assault 'Mechs", as the weight saved from going from 5/8 to 4/6 means you get a LOT of guns.

For the slower ones it's about accepting what that 'Mechs role is and committing to that. The Atlas is damned slow, and most of his weapons want to be up close (the LRM is for opportunistic fire), so he has to spend a few turns running as far as he can, not getting any good shots (either due to range or just not being in range), and having chunks of his armour blasted off. You'll be rewarded once he gets up close, still has more armour than whatever he's facing, and can finally bring that AC/20 to the party.

Also, as an aside, despite their name Long Ranged Missiles aren't really good at long range. The +4 is punishing on anything that isn't Gunnery 3 or better. You want "Lucky 7's" with LRMs - 7 range. It's short range, but just beyond min range. Get to 7 hexes and let the missiles fly!

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Yeah sorry about the confusion we just call them movement mod dice since we place a little dice next to our mechs so our opponent knows what to add to their "to hit" rolls.



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When we put a 6 next to a mech it means it has not moved since no mech in the game can hit above a 5, now aerospace on ground maps or VTOLS are a different matter since they have higher speeds or movement modifiers. of course AA mechs/vehicles automatically reduce that by 2 for built in tracking radar.

A clan rifleman IIC is a deadly threat to aerospace- X4 clan large pulse and air tracking radar reduce the best you can get with an aero (7) down to a 3 modifier + range.


Also, as an aside, despite their name Long Ranged Missiles aren't really good at long range


Well in all fairness missiles are a crap shoot to begin with because of the random number of missiles generator table, unless they are streaks and to a lesser degree sport artemis IV tracking or MRM tracking systems.





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On the other hand Streak LRMs are murderous weapons that only a cheating Clanner would use.

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Or advanced ATMs that work like streaks



My osteon with X4 advanced ATM 9s firing HE ATMS is a thing of beauty

You forgot clan LRMs have no minimum ranges (but don't do indirect fire).






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Yeah clantech is just cheating. Speaking of clanners has everyone picked up Ilclan yet?

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BrianDavion wrote:
Yeah clantech is just cheating. Speaking of clanners has everyone picked up Ilclan yet?


Except when it is not.

We have found using the standard breakdown of 1.3 to 1 mechs for IS VS clan it turns into a very fair fight (2 lances VS 1 star).

We try and play thematic so we don't bother with BV or tonnage or anything like that.

As examples my kurita lances tend to favor fast heavies and PPCs, MRMs, C3 etc.. while my steiners (10 lyran guard!) tend towards the big and stompy with gauss rifles.

On the clan side i play hells horse so i always run a mix of air, ground vehicles, battle armor/protomechs along with mechs.

And no not interested in IIclan so i won't be getting it.

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 aphyon wrote:
My osteon with X4 advanced ATM 9s firing HE ATMS is a thing of beauty

Even just one iATM9 can be brutal. It's hard to argue 6 location hits per weapon.

One night we were allowed experimental customs, so I effectively put 3 on something that was basically an Archer chassis and it almost deleted a ShadowHawk (and definitely put it in to Forced Withdrawal).

Last Friday, I had one with 2 iATM-12s, and pretty much deleted a Black Hawk when it got in to HE range. 2x 36 damage across 8 locations can be quite painful.

If you're lucky with cluster rolls, even the normal one is fine. It helped brutalize a couple Battlemasters last Friday (did a second game after destroying that Black Hawk with a different force). It was helped by a bit of focus fire, admittedly, but I managed to get all 9 to hit each time it fired (Artemis can be very useful at times).

 aphyon wrote:
You forgot clan LRMs have no minimum ranges (but don't do indirect fire).

The Streaks and regular ATMs don't fire indirectly, but the regular LRMs and iATMs do indirect fire (iATMs lose their Streak function if they fire indirectly, though).

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Speed is its own kind of defence (until you face a Gunnery 0 Clanner armed with Large Pulse Lasers and a Targeting Computer...), but I often favour manoeuvrability over speed a lot of the time.

Yeah, maneuverability can often trump speed, allowing one to get behind terrain or another unit when speed just can't. Add in the fact that Jumping adds to the TMM means one doesn't quite have to move as far to achieve a similar result. That doesn't even consider the ability for a sniper to get in to position more quickly

Of course, it can get quite ridiculous. On unlimited nights, I usually have a 3-40 tonner with a Jump of 8-10 carrying C3 just to provide targeting data. Hitting that guy is a pain in the arse. Heck, I love that HBS' Battletech starts you off with a Spider instead of a Stinger for just that reason.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
For the slower ones it's about accepting what that 'Mechs role is and committing to that. The Atlas is damned slow, and most of his weapons want to be up close (the LRM is for opportunistic fire), so he has to spend a few turns running as far as he can, not getting any good shots (either due to range or just not being in range), and having chunks of his armour blasted off. You'll be rewarded once he gets up close, still has more armour than whatever he's facing, and can finally bring that AC/20 to the party.

Some ways to do that is get a +2 Level behind you so he can't shoot the back without doing a lot of maneuvering.

Another is to have a light hunter sitting in your backfield just waiting for someone to do something stupid. One example of that is we had a game where we had to keep a guy in their backfield to gain a point, along with the usual beat'em up points. I sent a Battlemaster up to a Sniper position (slightly modified to pair an LRM-15 with its PPC, ran forward with a Davion Thunderbolt (also slightly modified to to swap an LRM-10 with a PPC), sent an OstScout in to their backfield, and kept a Centurion in my backfield to handle his locust. He used a Wolverine for his backstop, but I don't think he was as prepared as I was. His speedy guy was a Locust, but it didn't last long enough against my Centurion.

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The Atlas is damned slow, and most of his weapons want to be up close (the LRM is for opportunistic fire),


I am going to add to that...depends on the atlas variant, just like playing MWLL online you choose the atlas that has the best loadout for the environment.
I only have one atlas i run in my Lyran lance and it doesn't need to be close, it is the K variant. 2 ERlarges, gauss, LRM20...and 2 medium pulse lasers "just in case"

Now if you are in a city fight the S variant is the brawler with only the LRM 20 for range everything else is knife fighting range.





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Oh the AS7-K is awful. *shudder*

But yes, when I said "Atlas" I was generalising. There are many versions of many 'Mechs that have vastly different roles based upon their load outs.

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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Oh the AS7-K is awful. *shudder*

But yes, when I said "Atlas" I was generalising. There are many versions of many 'Mechs that have vastly different roles based upon their load outs.

Not to mention considering time frame of use. The AS7-K requires Star League tech in order to work, but the AS7-D is available in the worst parts of the Succession Wars. The AS7-RS may work better in the open field, and the AS7-A might work better in Urban environs, I think. 5 SRM-6s is nothing to sneeze at when you come around a corner.

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Depends on what you mean by awful, in conjunction with my desert assault lance it is amazingly good.

I run a fafnir, atlas, viking(g2) and scout mech...er i mean battlemaster (4s).

In true Steiner form they all have gauss rifles of some sort and generally run very cool.

"There is much scouting to be done here"-Steiner scout squad

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Ok, I really know, where did this "Steiner uses Atlases/heavy assault mechs for scouting" meme come from? I keep seeing it pop up everywhere.

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you know or don't know? (not sure if it is my english that tricks me or a typo in your post)

in case you don't know, Steiner high rank commanders got there mainly because of nobility and people they know rather than any comabt experience (hence not knowing the basics of warfare) while their mustering system is similar

so the commanders bring only the biggest most expensive stuff with them when going into battle (and Lyran Alliance have enough money to do that), and have nothing but Assault Mechs available (so need to send one for recon as they don't have anything else)

the Meme of the Lyran Recon Force/Steiner Scout Force/Steiner Scout Mechs, is around since the very beginning
(even saw once one as a kid during a store/club event, with the opponent team introducing their army "this is the command lance with 4 Atlas, this is the fire support lance with 4 Atlas, this is the recon lance, with 4 Atlas")




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chaos0xomega wrote:
Ok, I really know, where did this "Steiner uses Atlases/heavy assault mechs for scouting" meme come from? I keep seeing it pop up everywhere.


In the lore steiner are known for using the biggest mechs and the biggest guns favoring gauss and AC 20s because... well they are the bankers and they have the money, however the down side is that most command positions within the LAAF are based on social standing not on skill.

The steiner scout squad meme is from TEX over on the BPL YT channel.

https://www.youtube.com/c/BlackPantsLegion/search?query=steiner%20scout%20squad


here is the first one-







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 aphyon wrote:
The steiner scout squad meme is from TEX over on the BPL YT channel.

Tex made it famous on Youtube, the Meme already existed long before Memes existed

by the way

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chaos0xomega wrote:
Ok, I really know, where did this "Steiner uses Atlases/heavy assault mechs for scouting" meme come from? I keep seeing it pop up everywhere.


Alright so historicly the Lyrans are not known for their tactical skill, in part this is because the Lyran armed forces, more so then any of the other great houses suffers from the problem of "social generals" (wealthy people using connections to secure high military rank so as to use their military service to propell their social rank) however what the Lyrans do have is prodigious industrial output. match only by, MAYBE the Free Worlds League. this means Lyran Tactics tends to be "wall of steel" using large numbers of heavy and assault mechs and just out shooting and out lasting their enemies. This BTW lead to major sources of tension within the FedCom alliance as the Federated Suns tended to prefer more sophisticated tactics then "RUSH THE ENEMY WITH OUR HUNDRED TONNERS!" and tended to... advise the Lyran troops on tactics (which prickled the pride of Lyran generals)

So yeah the "4 atlases is a steiner scout lance" is an exaggerated meme based on the very real in universe fact that the Lyrans prefer heavier mechs and don't really hold light mechs in high esteem


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 kodos wrote:
 aphyon wrote:
The steiner scout squad meme is from TEX over on the BPL YT channel.

Tex made it famous on Youtube, the Meme already existed long before Memes existed


the meme existed among the online battletech community well before Tex. it was a meme in the days of IRC and newsgroup BBS'

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BrianDavion wrote:

Alright so historicly the Lyrans are not known for their tactical skill, in part this is because the Lyran armed forces, more so then any of the other great houses suffers from the problem of "social generals" (wealthy people using connections to secure high military rank so as to use their military service to propell their social rank) however what the Lyrans do have is prodigious industrial output. match only by, MAYBE the Free Worlds League. this means Lyran Tactics tends to be "wall of steel" using large numbers of heavy and assault mechs and just out shooting and out lasting their enemies. This BTW lead to major sources of tension within the FedCom alliance as the Federated Suns tended to prefer more sophisticated tactics then "RUSH THE ENEMY WITH OUR HUNDRED TONNERS!" and tended to... advise the Lyran troops on tactics (which prickled the pride of Lyran generals)


There is a lot more to it than that. The Lyran memes of social generals and assault mech units are exactly that. Lyrans have a reputation of using assault mechs even when they don't, and most Lyran field commanders, even at higher levels are competent. 'Social generals' are a feature throughout the succession wars era and afterward for the great houses. These are after all feudal aristocracys and they all agree that it is better to have a mediocre general with historic house connexions than a more competent and maybe ambitiious one who has no deep roots to the royal house they serve. Lyrans possibly have less social generals than the Capellan Confederation, but the Lyran press can criticise theirs. Furthermore most actual social generals are relatively harmless, they buy their commission to wear a uniform and pontificate at parties, and can be easily steered away from command roles. Most occurances when one of these incompetents has to make a real military decision are incidental and close to home, and normally under the nose of the press. Lyrans don't do much about their reputation, but it would be foolish to assume they are unaware of it, or are ignoring it. Instead methinks they understand the phenomenon better than most and are happy to be underestimated, and if the cost of that is to have some clueless nobles in staff uniforms hanging around in Tharkad, so be it. If they draw attention away from the largely competent Lyran staff corps and those nobles who can be trusted with field command so much the better.

Where the Lyrans do have a particular dogma is in understanding the price of everything and thinking of their military in fiscal terms. Now again the other great houses do this to. But for everyone else the mantra is 'what corners can we cut without dropping military strength', for the Lyrans it is 'what extra can I spend now for a best results later'. Now the Lyran mantra would be forward thinking if it refered to R&D or developing new more efficeint battle machines, but instead the Lyrans take a spreadsheet approach. This approach is not necessarily wrong, just two dimensional. It is understood, from spreadsheets at least, that assault mechs are the most survival combat units, so in order to minimise long term costs in mech replacement, invest now to build the heaviest mechs possible. This works, at least from the Lyran point of view, but the result is not an overall upshift in tonnage, light and medium units are left more or less unchanged, and the Lyrans do produce a large number of both, though admittedly they too tend to follow the upper side of tonnage in their weight bracket. The extra assault mechs the Lyrans possess instead come at the expense of the number of heavies they deploy. With remaining designs being those that favour specialist roles or fire support.
The end result is that Lyran heavy battalions, now assault battalions sacrifice mobility in return for diminishing but still present returns in firepower and armour. The lack of mobility in turn leads to two dimensional battle tactics and an attrition based strategy which is flavoured by the mantra that it is cheaper to repair the damaged armour of a Lyran assault mech than the enemy costs to repair internal structure of their own. Like almost every non clan unit Battletech tactics still revolves largely around the concept of 'combat loss grouping', which is based on the observed phenomenon that mech units tend to deplete capability more or less evenly over the course of an engagement but take very few casualties during this process, however when the first mech falls the depleted strength of the remaining mechs means the other will quickly fall after. This doesn't work in game because players tend to concentrate fire on one target, destroy it and move on. The fluff assumes however that mechwarriors will spread fire around more, both not having a top down view of the battlefield but also concentrating on what is closest to, or firing upon themselves. Lyrans as a faction gamble on having a higher bar threshold for a CLG against more limited ability to extract assets approaching the threshold. Most major Lyran defeats occur when the latter cannot be avoided, and when they do the losses are more spectacular; meanwhile the Lyran press blames the high ranking field commanders for these losses when their attention should be directed at procurement policy makers and the military-industrial complex.


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every great house has social generals yes but for the Lyrans it's more notable then most.

seriously the biggest reason for friction between the fedcoms military was clashing fedsuns vs Lyran doctrine. and it was heavily implied the Lyrans doctrine sucked and the Lyrans just didn't like being told so (there's a reason why the Lyrans adopted the RCT)

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The fourth and final cycle of BattleMech Recognition Guide: ilClan kicks off today with Vol. 19, featuring the rare Iron Cheetah and a host of redesigned classics!

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Recognition Guide: ilClan, Vol. 19

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the recguide contains:

The Cougar
The Iron Cheetah (an old battletechnology mech thats finally been canonized a 4/6 100 ton omnimech)
The Scorpion
The Rime Otter (new Ghost Bear 55 tonner)

with the Spider, Mercury and Orion featured in the "3 on a page overview"

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 kodos wrote:
 aphyon wrote:
The steiner scout squad meme is from TEX over on the BPL YT channel.

Tex made it famous on Youtube, the Meme already existed long before Memes existed


Memes have been recorded as existing since around/before WW2 and the term itself has existed since the 1960's. So not older, but it's still pretty damn old a meme.

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 Platuan4th wrote:
 kodos wrote:
 aphyon wrote:
The steiner scout squad meme is from TEX over on the BPL YT channel.

Tex made it famous on Youtube, the Meme already existed long before Memes existed


Memes have been recorded as existing since around/before WW2 and the term itself has existed since the 1960's. So not older, but it's still pretty damn old a meme.


yeah the meme dates back to at LEAST the late 90s. and I say at least because that was when I got into battletech and it was already a meme then

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Well one buddy of mine will be really happy if they finally come out with a mini for the iron cheetah, he has loved that thing for years.





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AegisGrimm wrote:Steiner: If brute force doesn't work, you probably aren't using enough.

Wenn Gewalt nicht hilft, hilft mehr Gewalt

Platuan4th wrote:
 kodos wrote:
 aphyon wrote:
The steiner scout squad meme is from TEX over on the BPL YT channel.

Tex made it famous on Youtube, the Meme already existed long before Memes existed


Memes have been recorded as existing since around/before WW2 and the term itself has existed since the 1960's. So not older, but it's still pretty damn old a meme.

Yeah, the term itself is much older (was used around 1900 in science to describe the spreading/evolution of ideas/behaviour) yet the phenomenon of "memes" that are also universally called that way started ~2000/2010
During the 90ies early 2000 also the term "de-motivational-poster" was used for what we call meme now (this is actually were the black framed pictures with text come from, to make jokes about this motivation poster companies placed in the office)

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 Orlanth wrote:
Time to park this:

This does explain how the Lyrans got mangled by the Jade Falcons.
   
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 Nurglitch wrote:
 Orlanth wrote:
Time to park this:

This does explain how the Lyrans got mangled by the Jade Falcons.


I mean in fairness everyone got mangled by the clans. I mean this was a case of 5 3/4 pilots in clan mechs beating up a half dozen 4/5 pilots in old tro 3025 clankers.

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Versteckt in den Schatten deines Geistes.

New Rec Guide is out.

The (now canon) Iron Cheetah, as many expected, is really frickin' dangerous:


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