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2019/11/24 04:35:30
Subject: BattleTech: Clan invasion Kickstarter live.
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Commander of the Mysterious 2nd Legion
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nobody wrote:I could see a variant of the Bullshark becoming canon because of the Jordan Weisman connection (which is probably how House Arano became canon).
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Also HBS IIRC has hired a lot of long time battletech writers for this game.
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2019/12/03 12:04:33
Subject: BattleTech: Clan invasion Kickstarter live.
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Regular Dakkanaut
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Just finalised my pledge.
Another €200. Not as much extra damage as I expected but I did have to restrain myself.
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2020/01/23 19:05:19
Subject: Re:BattleTech: Clan invasion Kickstarter live.
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Fresh-Faced New User
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Just an update that the pledge manager will close on February 9th. Also if you have a cannon character you don't want you can trade it for $75 credit.
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2020/01/23 19:46:07
Subject: Re:BattleTech: Clan invasion Kickstarter live.
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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mumsnarf wrote:Just an update that the pledge manager will close on February 9th. Also if you have a cannon character you don't want you can trade it for $75 credit.
Yet it costs $200 to upgrade for one. I figured you wouldn't get full back, but that's a pretty big difference.
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2020/01/23 19:55:28
Subject: Re:BattleTech: Clan invasion Kickstarter live.
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Platuan4th wrote:
Yet it costs $200 to upgrade for one. I figured you wouldn't get full back, but that's a pretty big difference.
Its an option aimed at folks who pledged at levels that included said canon character, not folks who bought it as a standalone item.
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2020/01/23 20:20:04
Subject: Re:BattleTech: Clan invasion Kickstarter live.
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Lieutenant General
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Platuan4th wrote:mumsnarf wrote:Just an update that the pledge manager will close on February 9th. Also if you have a cannon character you don't want you can trade it for $75 credit.
Yet it costs $200 to upgrade for one. I figured you wouldn't get full back, but that's a pretty big difference.
From the BattleTech Forum it's $75 for Star Colonels and $150 for Galaxy Commanders.
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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 |
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2020/01/23 20:51:00
Subject: Re:BattleTech: Clan invasion Kickstarter live.
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Yu Jing Martial Arts Ninja
North Wales
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Hang on a minute...
I'm at Bloodnamed at the moment, for $150 for 4 mech packs, plus 3 or 4 extra packs.
Star Colonel is $300 for 12 packs, ditching the character thingy means that I can get that for $225?! What am I missing? To be honest, my brain has completely edited out any mention of the canon character thing because I no interest in it at all.
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2020/01/23 22:13:09
Subject: Re:BattleTech: Clan invasion Kickstarter live.
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Commander of the Mysterious 2nd Legion
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well if you don't want a canon character and for some reason can't cancel lemme know I'll be happy to give you some info you can send to em. *shrugs*
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2020/01/24 00:16:37
Subject: BattleTech: Clan invasion Kickstarter live.
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Owns Whole Set of Skullz Techpriests
Versteckt in den Schatten deines Geistes.
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Shame that only the Galaxy Commander allows art references for the canon character.
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2020/01/24 00:24:15
Subject: BattleTech: Clan invasion Kickstarter live.
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Ollanius Pius - Savior of the Emperor
Gathering the Informations.
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I'm a latecomer to this whole Battletech as a miniatures game thing...will all this stuff be available at retail?
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2020/01/24 00:26:17
Subject: BattleTech: Clan invasion Kickstarter live.
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Lieutenant General
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Kanluwen wrote:I'm a latecomer to this whole Battletech as a miniatures game thing...will all this stuff be available at retail?
The miniatures will be. Only some of the extras will be available.
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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 |
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2020/01/24 00:35:58
Subject: BattleTech: Clan invasion Kickstarter live.
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Ollanius Pius - Savior of the Emperor
Gathering the Informations.
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Ghaz wrote: Kanluwen wrote:I'm a latecomer to this whole Battletech as a miniatures game thing...will all this stuff be available at retail?
The miniatures will be. Only some of the extras will be available.
Did they show off any Inner Sphere powered armor? I couldn't find a mention of it(this is a huuuuge thread to go through! ), but since the Clan Invasion and Elementals are coming I figured it might be a thing?
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2020/01/24 00:43:02
Subject: BattleTech: Clan invasion Kickstarter live.
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Lieutenant General
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Kanluwen wrote: Ghaz wrote: Kanluwen wrote:I'm a latecomer to this whole Battletech as a miniatures game thing...will all this stuff be available at retail?
The miniatures will be. Only some of the extras will be available.
Did they show off any Inner Sphere powered armor? I couldn't find a mention of it(this is a huuuuge thread to go through! ), but since the Clan Invasion and Elementals are coming I figured it might be a thing?
No. There are no Inner Sphere Battle Armor models in this Kickstarter and the majority of the models are from TRO 3050.
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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 |
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2020/01/24 00:52:33
Subject: BattleTech: Clan invasion Kickstarter live.
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Ollanius Pius - Savior of the Emperor
Gathering the Informations.
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Aw darn. Was hoping at least the Grey Death Standard might show up in plastic.
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2020/01/24 01:15:51
Subject: BattleTech: Clan invasion Kickstarter live.
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Lieutenant General
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Kanluwen wrote:Aw darn. Was hoping at least the Grey Death Standard might show up in plastic.
The new lineart for the Elementals does look nice...
EDIT: You can see a lot more of the new lineart in this thread HERE.
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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 |
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2020/01/24 21:03:45
Subject: BattleTech: Clan invasion Kickstarter live.
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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I love that they have ankles now.
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2020/01/25 00:51:22
Subject: BattleTech: Clan invasion Kickstarter live.
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Fixture of Dakka
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Waiting on my credit for the canon character, currently agonizing over what mech packs I want with the credit.
5 extra Urbies isn’t madness, is it?
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"The Omnissiah is my Moderati" |
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2020/01/25 01:10:42
Subject: BattleTech: Clan invasion Kickstarter live.
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Owns Whole Set of Skullz Techpriests
Versteckt in den Schatten deines Geistes.
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5 extra Urbies... that would mean you have 6? Unless you're playing Com-Star that doesn't seem right. Get another 11. Full company's worth!
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2020/01/25 04:53:04
Subject: BattleTech: Clan invasion Kickstarter live.
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Thermo-Optical Tuareg
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So, I know it isn't normally a thing for Battletech, but are they planning on doing any 28mm Elementals? I'd love a decent, good sized mini of one.
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2020/01/25 05:46:29
Subject: BattleTech: Clan invasion Kickstarter live.
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Commander of the Mysterious 2nd Legion
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Barzam wrote:So, I know it isn't normally a thing for Battletech, but are they planning on doing any 28mm Elementals? I'd love a decent, good sized mini of one.
https://store.ironwindmetals.com/store/index.php?cPath=16_44_245 check there. that's for battletroops, a set of rules for infantry skirmish in the battletech universe, as far as I'm aware the rules are old, (dating back to '89) and not currently supported, (although you an proably still buy a PDF of the rules Btechs good for that) looks like they produce a 28mm scale elemental as well as, oddly a 28mm scale Hauberk.
also some great house infantry that I soo wanna see used for a guard regiment now
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Opinions are not facts please don't confuse the two |
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2020/01/31 20:11:17
Subject: Re:BattleTech: Clan invasion Kickstarter live.
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Yu Jing Martial Arts Ninja
North Wales
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Hooray!
Obviously, it took direct communication with CGL, but they swapped out my pledge level to Star Colonel. I'm guessing that they had to do it that way, rather than leave it to me to press buttons to select it so that I didn't do anything scummy; like downgrading and taking my already downloaded PDFs and running.
The thing is that since they took the neoprene map out, it dropped to $270, which, when factoring in the rebate for the canon character sort of makes it $195 for 69 (dude) mechs! That's like, 2 1/2 of the Queen's finest pounds per mech and a bunch of extra cool stuff as well!
Madness...
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2020/03/11 23:42:28
Subject: BattleTech: Clan invasion Kickstarter live.
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Owns Whole Set of Skullz Techpriests
Versteckt in den Schatten deines Geistes.
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Resurrecting this this thread because one of my fav 'Mechs just got its redesign revealed, along with a few other new ones:
Hankyu
Battle Cobra (much improved)
Black Lanner (the "Fat Duck 'Mech" is no more!)
Linebacker (man he looks beefy now)
And the star of the show...
Night Gyr (I love this redesign... so nice to have a Night Gyr that isn't a pretty ordinary mini)
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2020/03/12 01:28:47
Subject: BattleTech: Clan invasion Kickstarter live.
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Fixture of Dakka
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Hell yeah!
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"The Omnissiah is my Moderati" |
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2020/03/12 04:09:45
Subject: BattleTech: Clan invasion Kickstarter live.
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Battleship Captain
The Land of the Rising Sun
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Clan designs, meh!
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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." |
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2020/03/12 07:08:25
Subject: BattleTech: Clan invasion Kickstarter live.
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Commander of the Mysterious 2nd Legion
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well the kickstart IS called "clan invasion" but yeah my fav mechs alll tend to be Inner Sphere designs.
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Opinions are not facts please don't confuse the two |
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2020/03/12 16:03:44
Subject: BattleTech: Clan invasion Kickstarter live.
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Those backwards-canted legs are like digitigrade legs put on backwards.
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2020/03/12 16:52:21
Subject: BattleTech: Clan invasion Kickstarter live.
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Commander of the Mysterious 2nd Legion
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Nurglitch wrote:Those backwards-canted legs are like digitigrade legs put on backwards.
battletech has something like over 300 mech designs, some look amazing others less so. the real impressive thing about this art is some of these pictures are of tradtionally "less so" mechs that actually look really good now. the black lanner and linebacker have both, for example, tradtionally fell in the "less so" ranking.
original black lanner art
original linebacker art
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Opinions are not facts please don't confuse the two |
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2020/03/12 17:31:19
Subject: BattleTech: Clan invasion Kickstarter live.
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Both of those are immensely improved redesigns! My only issue is that the new Linebacker looks like it should be an Assault mech, gives me a lot of Daishi vibes and I would have expected 90/95 tons instead of a 65 tonner.
I'm loving everything about this campaign, even with the slight delivery delays
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2020/03/12 17:48:00
Subject: Re:BattleTech: Clan invasion Kickstarter live.
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Lieutenant General
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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 |
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2020/03/12 20:03:28
Subject: BattleTech: Clan invasion Kickstarter live.
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Thermo-Optical Tuareg
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I've often wondered how some of those old designs like the Linebacker were even supposed to move. There's no joints in those legs! The new artwork is lightyears ahead of the old stuff.
Regarding the 28mm figures, I knew about the old Ironwind figures. Some of those sculpts are really showing their age. And while the Hauberk is actually pretty decent looking, that Elemental is... not. I'm really hoping they put some consideration into making 28mm versions of the new designs as they're significantly better. I'd bet there's a good number of fans who would be interested in larger minis of the power armors. The new designs are too good to not make figures of.
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