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chaos0xomega wrote: I just received notice that mine were delivered, so I'll be seeing them in about another 5 hours.
Quick question - would the mechs in the Wolfs Dragoons box be considered Inner Sphere or Clan mechs?
Except for the Timber Wolf, all of the 'mechs would be built with Inner Sphere technology (with the exception of a few variants liike the Annihilator C).
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
chaos0xomega wrote: I just received notice that mine were delivered, so I'll be seeing them in about another 5 hours.
Quick question - would the mechs in the Wolfs Dragoons box be considered Inner Sphere or Clan mechs?
Except for the Timber Wolf, all of the 'mechs would be built with Inner Sphere technology (with the exception of a few variants liike the Annihilator C).
You could use the Mad Cat as a counts-as Rakshasa!
As as a special post-Thanksgiving treat, we’re pleased to announce that the BattleTech Tactical Companion App is now available for download! With its formation tracker and smart sheets, you've never played BattleTech like this before!
Shows up in the play store for my s10 free version doesn't have a comprehensive list of mechs but that's tonbe expected. Feels a bit clunky to use on my phone but that could be it expects a larger interface.
Nultaar wrote: Shows up in the play store for my s10 free version doesn't have a comprehensive list of mechs but that's tonbe expected. Feels a bit clunky to use on my phone but that could be it expects a larger interface.
they did say it was designed for a tablet not a phone
Opinions are not facts please don't confuse the two
Is this something even comparable to Flects sheets? Because I hear that is really good.
"By this point I'm convinced 100% that every single race in the 40k universe have somehow tapped into the ork ability to just have their tech work because they think it should."
Catalyst store has had decent enough stock for me to snag an inner sphere company. Still sold out on a lot of stuff but much better than the past couple months
That's his second BattleTech video. His first covered Clan Wolf's iconic Beta Galaxy.
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'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
That's his second BattleTech video. His first covered Clan Wolf's iconic Beta Galaxy.
I'm hoping he'll do the davion guards down the line, I'd be curious if he'd have any tips for those stripes
Patience, and a firm pulse.
M.
Jenkins: You don't have jurisdiction here!
Smith Jamison: We aren't here, which means when we open up on you and shred your bodies with automatic fire then this will never have happened.
About the Clans: "Those brief outbursts of sense can't hold back the wave of sibko bred, over hormoned sociopaths that they crank out though."
I mean... "great house" and "walking war crime" are synonyms in the Btech universe. Only reason Kentares got singled out back in the day is vecause it was the 80s and they needed to make extra sure you knew the japs were the baddies, but the First and Second Suc Wars happened, so...
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Albertorius wrote: I mean... "great house" and "walking war crime" are synonyms in the Btech universe. Only reason Kentares got singled out back in the day is vecause it was the 80s and they needed to make extra sure you knew the japs were the baddies, but the First and Second Suc Wars happened, so...
I mean there's a differance between nuking a planet and sending your forces in to kill the entire population by hand.
and I'm pretty sure they where borrowing from the Rape of Nanking when they did it.
Opinions are not facts please don't confuse the two
Albertorius wrote: I mean... "great house" and "walking war crime" are synonyms in the Btech universe. Only reason Kentares got singled out back in the day is vecause it was the 80s and they needed to make extra sure you knew the japs were the baddies, but the First and Second Suc Wars happened, so...
I mean there's a differance between nuking a planet and sending your forces in to kill the entire population by hand.
and I'm pretty sure they where borrowing from the Rape of Nanking when they did it.
I'm sure they did, but as I said, "successor state" and "walking war crime" are kind of synonyms, even not taking into account the meager nuking of a planet.
FedSun forces kidnapped all the population of Bell to use as slave labor, for example. Capellan forces gassed Davion troops in Wei and then used the same gas to perpetrate the Black Monday Attacks. All of them genocided the Smoke Jaguars. Multiple liran leaders used Loki on their own population to enact terror regimes... etc, etc ^^
Or in other words, countries, are countries. It's not like it's any different in the real world.
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Albertorius wrote: I mean... "great house" and "walking war crime" are synonyms in the Btech universe. Only reason Kentares got singled out back in the day is vecause it was the 80s and they needed to make extra sure you knew the japs were the baddies, but the First and Second Suc Wars happened, so...
I mean there's a differance between nuking a planet and sending your forces in to kill the entire population by hand.
and I'm pretty sure they where borrowing from the Rape of Nanking when they did it.
I'm sure they did, but as I said, "successor state" and "walking war crime" are kind of synonyms, even not taking into account the meager nuking of a planet.
FedSun forces kidnapped all the population of Bell to use as slave labor, for example. Capellan forces gassed Davion troops in Wei and then used the same gas to perpetrate the Black Monday Attacks. All of them genocided the Smoke Jaguars. Multiple liran leaders used Loki on their own population to enact terror regimes... etc, etc ^^
Or in other words, countries, are countries. It's not like it's any different in the real world.
yeah except the bell exhibit is in the past. it sounds like the dracs are going Kentares on new avalon. So yeah the dracs are back to their "absurd mustach twirling bad guy" days
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Opinions are not facts please don't confuse the two
there are no "good" guys outside some individuals, who you can find in each faction
but the nations are all bad, and continue to do bad things
or how a friend ones said, he play Capellans because those are the only ones who don't pretend to be the good guys
Harry, bring this ring to Narnia or the Sith will take the Enterprise
Yeah sorry this is bumpkiss. If I take a large amount of black paint and mix in a bit of white, you don't get the same color as if you take a large amount of white paint and mix on a drop of white. Even the DCMS had the good sense to be demoralized by Kentares, even the Smoke Jaguars removed the warrior responsible for Edo Bay. But for the CC committing warcrimes seem to be a weekly occurrence.
And as for leadership
In the active battletech timeline they've been led by.
Maxmillian Liao who kidnapped Hanse Davion and replaced him with a not exactly willing doppleganger. Hmm maybe Hanse had a good reason for his invasion maybe...
Romano who tried to have her sister and her family killed and partially succeeded and may have offed her father in his retirement.
Sun-Tzu who decided that when he was acting as caretaker for the newborn star league and everyone was off saving the Inner sphere from the clans was the perfect time to start a war of conquest
and Lets not forget
Dao-Shen the guy who seems to really believe in his own divinity including getting his younger sister pregnant and its unclear how willing she was. But thats ok because he sent the Daughter warcriming through Federated Suns space with the Big Mac
If your friend wants to play evil thats fine but if hes trying to justify it as theyre all the same that just doesn't jive with game reality.
This is all very strange to me. I played a fair bit of BT back in the day, but never got into any of the background information for the BT universe. We'd just plop mechs down and fight, never worrying about which faction they were for - other than a general clan vs. IS division.
Stormonu wrote: This is all very strange to me. I played a fair bit of BT back in the day, but never got into any of the background information for the BT universe. We'd just plop mechs down and fight, never worrying about which faction they were for - other than a general clan vs. IS division.
It's easy to ignore the lore if you want since unlike 40k there aren't really faction army list. The closest you have is the MUL (Master Unit List) but all it does is tells you what's common for a given faction in a given time period and its neither against the rules nor lore breaking to have exceptions given that battlefield salvage is a thing.