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Giovanni Blasini

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'Mechs with Tracks?
« on: 09 May 2017, 11:57:06 »
So, playing 0.42.1 yesterday, and had a Diomede in the field, testing it for a MotW I'm working on, and my poor Diomede took two gyro crits. I said to myself, "Self, this is the perfect opportunity to switch to its tracks and test that whole thing!"

Technical difficulty: I couldn't figure out how. Heck, I couldn't figure out how on a healthy Diomede. There didn't seem to be an option under movement, or on equipment. Is this feature unavailable on 0.42.1, and is there a version of MM/MekHQ that supports it?
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Re: 'Mechs with Tracks?
« Reply #1 on: 09 May 2017, 18:49:37 »
funny that you mentioned this type of mech
i came across one 100 variant in one of the old battletech magz and it had tom tom guns on it and was track based forgot the name of it tho
you sure cannot out run death...but sure as hell you can make that bastard work for it!

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Re: 'Mechs with Tracks?
« Reply #2 on: 09 May 2017, 20:26:55 »
This old thing?



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Re: 'Mechs with Tracks?
« Reply #3 on: 09 May 2017, 21:18:56 »
So, playing 0.42.1 yesterday, and had a Diomede in the field, testing it for a MotW I'm working on, and my poor Diomede took two gyro crits. I said to myself, "Self, this is the perfect opportunity to switch to its tracks and test that whole thing!"

Technical difficulty: I couldn't figure out how. Heck, I couldn't figure out how on a healthy Diomede. There didn't seem to be an option under movement, or on equipment. Is this feature unavailable on 0.42.1, and is there a version of MM/MekHQ that supports it?

Not supported at this time.  Some conversations about implementing it but nothing definite.
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Re: 'Mechs with Tracks?
« Reply #4 on: 09 May 2017, 21:20:01 »
Should be able to build a legal version of that now.
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Re: 'Mechs with Tracks?
« Reply #5 on: 10 May 2017, 15:59:10 »
This old thing?



The Huntress, see here: http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Huntress_(BattleMech)
yah thats the monster....LOL
you sure cannot out run death...but sure as hell you can make that bastard work for it!