MrJake's Interminable Questions Thread

[NickAragua]

1, 2 are good to know.

3. Yes it does. There's no point to running an ultra-light lance. What mechs do you have in that anyway?

[MrJake]

The first time was when I disabled the Lance restrictions so that I could try my hand at a 3025 Knight-Errant kind of thing. It actually worked surprisingly well (if you built a character in AToW and imported it, anyway).

The second was when I created a training lance to season some newbies. It was a squad of infantry (overflow from a veteran infantry platoon), a Wasp 1 (is that the primitive one?), and an APC. It...ended poorly.


Edit: I just can't help myself. I think that the next primitive Mech I get for a reward is going to become my Mech Tech's training unit. I'm going to make the Green ones Salvage it down to the CT, then Repair it back together. They only graduate when they can do it without using Mode: Extra Time. Otherwise, they get to do it over and over and over....

[pheonixstorm]

2. Please God don't ask me to land that stupid DS. My attempts (without referencing the appropriate rules, I must admit) should have been called, "How to Make Big Craters and Scare Your Dog with Random Cursing. A Primer."

Better to "land" them on top of the enemy formation. Not only do they make pretty craters but they BBQ the enemy rather nicely ;)

[MrJake]

I will have to try that.

Right now I'm in a moral quandry. It's 3020 and my employer, ComStar (which is way cool btw), keeps trying to sell me Star League Mechs and my resistance is waning.

It's getting harder and harder to tell myself it's an obvious glitch and not a "ComStar plot of which I am but a pawn. I should, therefore, stop questioning the Toaster, and, instead, buy that stupid Trebuchet TBT-3C with the 300XL and double HS, strip it, and custom fit a Mauder that would be the envy of the IS."

Then, change my Campaign's name to "Birth of the Bounty Hunter" and lay waste to the IS. Or, at least, the AtB part of it.

[Rince Wind]

But you can't use that 300XL in a Marauder, the engines only fit a certain size.

[pheonixstorm]

Just do the refit and ignore the rules shark

It's a 300, it is stupid to think one 300 isn't the same from another 300. In this regard I ignore the rules (as does the fluff itself). Reality is that the rules are only there to make calculating the COST of the engine easier between units of different tonnages. I get it, but it is dumb regardless. A Vlar 300 is a Vlar 300 no matter where it comes from.

[scJazz]

You are probably better off selling Primitive Mechs

[MrJake]

It was my Training Unit. I'd put new hires in it to get them up to Regular, maybe a point of Edge, and sometimes a Special Ability....

Anyway, that was the plan. Got shot to pieces. Literally.

[scJazz]

Trust me on this one... sell them

[pheonixstorm]

Not all of the primitives are worthless. Some are worth the trouble to refit once you get to a high end world or hiring hall

[MrJake]

I just got my first INN news report. MekHQ continues to surprise me.  O0

[MrJake]

Today it surprised me by not allowing my Jump Infantry to land on a bridge. Is there a trick?

ajh

[scJazz]

You have to use CLIMB MODE to land on top of bridges instead of the terrain underneath.

[MrJake]

If you'd asked me if I tried that, I'd have sworn that I had. Sworn.

Siiiiigh.

[scJazz]

If you asked me whether there was a difference between... jump & climb mode vs climb mode & jump... I would just shrug. There probably is a difference but this comes up so infrequently... meh.

[MrJake]

So, I have a Mek with the Improved Communications quirk. Is it reasonable to double the chance that a deployed unit (lance) can reinforce another if one of them has a Mek with that quirk?

[NickAragua]

Go for it.

[scJazz]

So, I have a Mek with the Improved Communications quirk. Is it reasonable to double the chance that a deployed unit (lance) can reinforce another if one of them has a Mek with that quirk?

Your game your rules :)

Hah... hit done before I was actually done...

I would suggest that +1 to the roll might be more reasonable and that Improved Sensors/BAP be a better choice. Imp. Comms has no game effect it is just a fluff quirk.

[MrJake]

Yeah, double seems a little much. Maybe +1 if both lances have a Mek so equipped. . That would change the "Reinforcement Roll" from 6/5-6, to 5-6/4-6.

Hmmm. It's still double for Fight assignments, but, meh. I think I'll go with it, anyway. Call it, Independent Comms Network. The campaign is in 3022 at the moment, so I'm trying to think of advantages in a non-ecm IS.

4TR, Improved Comms does grant one small advantage (just not much of one), and only if satellites are in play.  Altho, I would assert that, on the off-chance of a science satellite coinciding with a really good Sensor Ops/Piloting roll, the extra rolls are worth it. Ghost Targets affecting every opponent everywhere on the board? Oh yes. Yes, please.

ajh

[MrJake]

Does Edge do anything for non-MechWarriors?

[NickAragua]

Not that I'm aware of, although I believe there has been some work done on that for an upcoming MekHQ release.

[scJazz]

OMG it has been 3 days since MrJake's last post? Are you dead man?  :P

[MrJake]

Maintenance cycle on my domicile!

[scJazz]

Maintenance cycle on my domicile!

Roll 2d6: 6 + 6 = 12... Struck for Critical Hit #P
Roll 2d6: 6 + 6 = 12... 3 Critical Hits
Critical Hit to Partner Griping
Critical Hit to Partner Griping
Critical Hit to Comm Interface

Unit is DEAD.

 >:D

[MrJake]

Why is it that sometimes Special Abilities displays on the character summary screen, and sometimes it doesn't?

For the record, a heavily armed Infantry Unit inside a hardened building, on a block of hardened buildings, in a city of hardened blocks, really ought to be illegal. It is also a looooot of fun.

ajh

[MrJake]

ComStar continues to try and sell me all manner of exotic vehicles. A Karnov VTOL, however, is apparently LosTech.  8)

[MrJake]

The given name "Abdul" is associated with female characters. Pretty sure that's not a unisex name. Paula Abdul notwithstanding.

[scJazz]

While it is currently considered a male name it translates as worshiper or Servant of God from Arabic to English... which doesn't strike me as being exclusively male.

In any event, you should file a bug report. https://github.com/MegaMek

[MrJake]

Nah. Not worth it. The future ought to be more gender neutral than today, anyway.

[MrJake]

Soooo, how do I "unhide" a unit?

It's because I checked the wrong Skip Ineligible box, isn't it?