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Jellico

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Re: So... anyone actually use the royals?
« Reply #30 on: 24 August 2017, 17:05:44 »
Quote from: pheonixstorm on 24 August 2017, 00:22:40
If the FedCom and Combine had had Royals at the start of the clan invasion...

If the Clans had had Royals for garrison troops after Tukayyid...
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Re: So... anyone actually use the royals?
« Reply #31 on: 24 August 2017, 17:10:30 »
Quote from: SteelRaven on 24 August 2017, 16:55:07
...I just realized my copy of the 3085 Phoenix record sheets don't include the Royals, ouch  #P

A lot of the unseen royals are in the Op Klondike RS PDF or 3075 Age of War
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Re: So... anyone actually use the royals?
« Reply #32 on: 24 August 2017, 17:53:13 »
Quote from: Sartris on 24 August 2017, 17:10:30
A lot of the unseen royals are in the Op Klondike RS PDF or 3075 Age of War

Thanks, I'll be adding that to my list. My Sarna cross referencing skills really suck.
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Re: So... anyone actually use the royals?
« Reply #33 on: 25 August 2017, 14:30:49 »
Quote from: Jellico on 24 August 2017, 17:05:44
If the Clans had had Royals for garrison troops after Tukayyid...

 Won't lie..i chortled.
 
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Re: So... anyone actually use the royals?
« Reply #34 on: 25 August 2017, 15:13:58 »
Quote from: Jellico on 24 August 2017, 17:05:44
If the Clans had had Royals for garrison troops after Tukayyid...

Eh, not like the FedCom was able to push back anyways...
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Re: So... anyone actually use the royals?
« Reply #35 on: 25 August 2017, 15:18:45 »
How big garrisons do Clans employ? Somehow i'd imagine they tend to leave them pretty small.
Besides, Clan garrisons do have ClanTech 'Mechs as well, so Royals wouldn't affect things much.
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Re: So... anyone actually use the royals?
« Reply #36 on: 25 August 2017, 15:54:55 »
Clan Garrisons, depending on the unit, employ a mix of Clan frontline (officers/ristars), Clan secondline, SL leftovers, and IS equipment.  This applies for mechs, vehicles and aero though later on (post-Jihad) they may also have access to IS BA options.  For instance the Ghost Bears have the 72nd Phalanx IIRC, which is a primarily vehicle equipped secondline formation under the command of a bloodnamed Vehicle commander.  Even before the Royals, 3050 IS vehicles were better performers than Clan though Clan sort of shined under BMR rules.  The exceptions to that were very few, so Royals would have actually been about the best vehicles available in the Clan touman b/c most of the best vehicles were HH exclusive.
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Re: So... anyone actually use the royals?
« Reply #37 on: 25 August 2017, 20:32:00 »
Based on RATs assume say 40% IS tech. Any captured stuff is basically 3025 tech. So SL leftovers are more common and useful.

So you end up trying to hold off superior numbers of 3060 IS tech with 1/3 of your force being 2750 tech. One gets sick of Bombardiers, Champions, and Sentinals very quickly.
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Re: So... anyone actually use the royals?
« Reply #38 on: 22 October 2017, 18:26:00 »
How's the royal pilliager?
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Re: So... anyone actually use the royals?
« Reply #39 on: 22 October 2017, 21:22:57 »
 The 3Z is awesome overall. But it is not really a Royal. Or at least I would not classify it as a Royal design.
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Re: So... anyone actually use the royals?
« Reply #40 on: 27 October 2017, 20:54:35 »
Quote from: Stallion12 on 22 October 2017, 18:26:00
How's the royal pilliager? 

I don't think the Pillager has a Royal variant. 
It wouldn't need one, its about as good as it gets already.

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Re: So... anyone actually use the royals?
« Reply #41 on: 27 October 2017, 21:03:49 »
Quote from: The_Livewire on 23 August 2017, 09:45:54
Anyone else taken a liking to the royal designs? 

I've not used many in battle yet, Locust, Warhammer-7A, Exterminator, & Rifleman for sure that I can recall, maybe the Thug too.

But many of them look amazing.

Some of my favorites off the top of my head.......

Locust, Hussar, Crab, Griffin, Wolverine, Champion, Ostroc, Catapult, Exterminator, Excalibur, WarHammer(s), Marauder-2R, Thug, Rifleman-II, BattleMaster(s), Highlander, Atlas-H2
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