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Combat Vehicles / Re: Mudskipper Hovertank: An orgy of kinetic mayhem
« Last post by Daryk on Today at 19:03:28 »
I'm with Hellraiser here... you can add two more MGs to the turret without increasing its mass and still have a full ton of ammo for them.
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Clan Chatterweb / Re: Best of the Star League ASFs for Clan units
« Last post by Alan Grant on Today at 19:02:09 »
If the SLDF/SLDF-in-Exile never flew it, I'm probably not interested. Best of the Star League stuff. Or at least stuff from that era. So the Ogotai is out.

I'm curious about it because it represents this bottom rung of the equipment ladder. Lower than Clan-designed second-line designs. Lower than some of the Golden Century stuff like the Ogotai that might have lingered.

Curious to identify the best of the low and old. Because this stuff absolutely lingers on Clan aerospace second-line RATS for a very long time. They are scattered around the Clan second-line RATs on FM: Updates. Some of it still pops up in the Clan aerospace RATs of FM: 3145 even, clustered amongst the low dice rolls for the various Clans.

Obviously, it's not going to be very competitive in a straight up comparison, but I'm interested in what machines from that pile might actually hold more value, perform better, hold up better, than people might expect or presume. Based on whatever logic you can come up with. Creative thinking encouraged.
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Great work!

I remember when I thought this was the standard WD colour scheme.
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BattleTech Miniatures / Re: Old school Black Widow paint scheme
« Last post by Daryk on Today at 19:00:31 »
From what I can see the paint job looks good, but the photo resolution is awful... :/
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Ground Combat / Re: Clan Large Pulse Lasers
« Last post by Daryk on Today at 18:57:25 »
I seem to recall a Rifleman variant with four of the damned things...
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The PPC is still safe because 10 heat and damage isn't in a bad spot:  50% less heat than the ER PPC is worth taking in certain situations.  YMMV.

The Clan Large Pulse Laser has the same damage and heat, better range, less tonnage, less crits, no minimum range, and a bonus to accuracy.  The PPC is absolutely not safe.
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BattleTech Miniatures / Old school Black Widow paint scheme
« Last post by shadowdancer on Today at 18:40:04 »
Painted these for a customer. One of several sets that I did in this color for him.
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Value and in-universe price are often disconnected... ;)

Seriously... Germanium is the sine qua non of FTL travel.
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Germanium is the most valuable element in BattleTech, last I checked... :)

At less than 1 C-bill per kilogram? KF drives without docking collars set sort of a maximum for germanium prices.
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Mine there too, also Australian, so I'm wondering if its just the Aus hub shipping that's locked in now.
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