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The Tech Kit (scroll down on link), is coming soon, and we've been working on a bonus poster to be included with it. Here's a preview.



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Re: Something we've been working on - a bonus for the Tech Kit
« Reply #1 on: 31 July 2013, 00:13:23 »
Amazing battlemaster blueprint!
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Re: Something we've been working on - a bonus for the Tech Kit
« Reply #2 on: 31 July 2013, 00:25:12 »
FINALLY a blueprint that has Myomers, not hydraulic cylinders! Thats AWESOME!

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Re: Something we've been working on - a bonus for the Tech Kit
« Reply #3 on: 31 July 2013, 00:32:18 »
Aw, HELL YEAH!  O0
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Re: Something we've been working on - a bonus for the Tech Kit
« Reply #4 on: 31 July 2013, 00:39:43 »
I have now been given the same shivers I got pulling the original battlemaster out of the 3rd edition box and going to town on the map.
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Re: Something we've been working on - a bonus for the Tech Kit
« Reply #5 on: 31 July 2013, 00:45:17 »
 :o OMG  :o


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Re: Something we've been working on - a bonus for the Tech Kit
« Reply #6 on: 31 July 2013, 01:03:45 »
 ZOMG! [drool] I'LL TAKE ONE OF EVERYTHING!
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Re: Something we've been working on - a bonus for the Tech Kit
« Reply #7 on: 31 July 2013, 01:18:10 »
does it manage to depict sufficient ammo storage for all 90 Missiles for the SRM, or all the watermelon sized slugs for the guass? even more so than the hydralics, that was the thing i disliked about the older blueprints. Missiles systems seemed to have space for only one volley, or at best 2, because of the massive missiles depicted and the tiny ammo space shown.

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Re: Something we've been working on - a bonus for the Tech Kit
« Reply #8 on: 31 July 2013, 01:24:43 »
I want to hug this. I need to get two, one to put on my wall after I hug the other until it falls to pieces.
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Re: Something we've been working on - a bonus for the Tech Kit
« Reply #9 on: 31 July 2013, 01:30:58 »
Size, I need to know size!

Is she 5th edition 3067 map big or smaller 25th Anniversary map big or what? I need details!

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Re: Something we've been working on - a bonus for the Tech Kit
« Reply #10 on: 31 July 2013, 01:32:47 »
YUS!  Do want!

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Re: Something we've been working on - a bonus for the Tech Kit
« Reply #11 on: 31 July 2013, 01:39:18 »
What model of Battlemaster is that?

And the name, it sounds like it's the Tech Manual tables, not the Total Warfare tables

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Re: Something we've been working on - a bonus for the Tech Kit
« Reply #12 on: 31 July 2013, 01:41:41 »
What model of Battlemaster is that?

BLR-4S BattleMaster.

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Re: Something we've been working on - a bonus for the Tech Kit
« Reply #13 on: 31 July 2013, 03:15:07 »
 [applause]

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Re: Something we've been working on - a bonus for the Tech Kit
« Reply #14 on: 31 July 2013, 03:19:04 »
So did G. Jetson sign off on this one too?

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Re: Something we've been working on - a bonus for the Tech Kit
« Reply #15 on: 31 July 2013, 03:27:12 »
Size, I need to know size!
Spec'ed as a 2'x3' poster.
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Re: Something we've been working on - a bonus for the Tech Kit
« Reply #16 on: 31 July 2013, 03:28:43 »
Excellent news, any chance of any more?
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Re: Something we've been working on - a bonus for the Tech Kit
« Reply #17 on: 31 July 2013, 04:18:25 »
And the name, it sounds like it's the Tech Manual tables, not the Total Warfare tables

OK, I made a mistake here but the description in the link in the OP could do with some work

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Tired of hunting for a specific table in a rulebook? Wish you had heavy-duty reference cards for Total Warfare game play like that found in the Introductory Box Set? Then the Tech Kit is for you!

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Re: Something we've been working on - a bonus for the Tech Kit
« Reply #18 on: 31 July 2013, 08:14:20 »
does it manage to depict sufficient ammo storage for all 90 Missiles for the SRM, or all the watermelon sized slugs for the guass? even more so than the hydralics, that was the thing i disliked about the older blueprints. Missiles systems seemed to have space for only one volley, or at best 2, because of the massive missiles depicted and the tiny ammo space shown.
Based on the ammo numbers, missiles would have to be soda-can or smaller sized in most instances. If you remember an SRM 2 has 50 shots, that's 100 missiles in an SRM ammo bin. LRMs are even more with 12 shots for a LRM10, or 120 missiles total. LRM sizes might even be smaller, more like hot-dog or sausage sized.
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Re: Something we've been working on - a bonus for the Tech Kit
« Reply #19 on: 31 July 2013, 08:15:59 »
Based on the ammo numbers, missiles would have to be soda-can or smaller sized in most instances. If you remember an SRM 2 has 50 shots, that's 100 missiles in an SRM ammo bin. LRMs are even more with 12 shots for a LRM10, or 120 missiles total. LRM sizes might even be smaller, more like hot-dog or sausage sized.

I maintain: Missiles in BT are as big as they are nowadays, but stored in the same space Bender stores everything he puts in his chest.


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Re: Something we've been working on - a bonus for the Tech Kit
« Reply #20 on: 31 July 2013, 08:20:57 »
And there's was much rejoicing!

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Re: Something we've been working on - a bonus for the Tech Kit
« Reply #21 on: 31 July 2013, 08:22:43 »
I want this in ways that may be illegal.


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Re: Something we've been working on - a bonus for the Tech Kit
« Reply #22 on: 31 July 2013, 08:25:13 »
That is undeniably pretty.
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Re: Something we've been working on - a bonus for the Tech Kit
« Reply #23 on: 31 July 2013, 08:26:02 »
that looks awesome!

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Re: Something we've been working on - a bonus for the Tech Kit
« Reply #24 on: 31 July 2013, 08:30:18 »
Oh my I apologize. My wallet just spontaneously threw itself at the monitor upon seeing that.
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Re: Something we've been working on - a bonus for the Tech Kit
« Reply #25 on: 31 July 2013, 08:49:07 »
I was on the ropes for the Teck Kit, now I want it, damn you CGL, DAMN YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Re: Something we've been working on - a bonus for the Tech Kit
« Reply #26 on: 31 July 2013, 09:02:58 »
I maintain: Missiles in BT are as big as they are nowadays, but stored in the same space Bender stores everything he puts in his chest.


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Re: Something we've been working on - a bonus for the Tech Kit
« Reply #27 on: 31 July 2013, 09:53:09 »
I maintain: Missiles in BT are as big as they are nowadays, but stored in the same space Bender stores everything he puts in his chest.


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Re: Something we've been working on - a bonus for the Tech Kit
« Reply #28 on: 31 July 2013, 10:38:26 »
That is some good stuff, can't wait for it.
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Re: Something we've been working on - a bonus for the Tech Kit
« Reply #29 on: 31 July 2013, 10:39:27 »
The ammo feed leading into the launcher certainly looks extremely small. If SRMs are truly that small, I can see 100 of them fitting into an ammo bin.
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