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Technical Readout: 3145 Lyran Commonwealth
« on: 29 July 2013, 15:29:06 »
This thread is for all issues and problems with Technical Readout: 3145 Lyran Commonwealth.

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Re: Technical Readout: 3145 Lyran Commonwealth
« Reply #1 on: 29 July 2013, 16:05:49 »
TRO3145 Lyran Commonwealth, pg. 27
The Weapons and Ammo section lists the base model as having two sets of three Flamers in the Left Arm.  The record sheets (and common sense) disagree with this.

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Display one set of three Flamers in both the Right and Left Arms on the base model.
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Re: Technical Readout: 3145 Lyran Commonwealth
« Reply #2 on: 01 August 2013, 16:30:29 »
P. 32, MGL-T1 Mongrel profile:
"Less than two years later gained popularity among younger Exiled Wolf MechWarriors." (missing subject in this sentence, "Less thank two years later it...")
Deployment section:
"Within two days of each other, the First Wolf Guardians landed on Borghese and the Fifth Bear Guards made planetfall on Fort Loudon."
"On Fort Loudon, the Fifth Bear Guards bid a single Star of T2-model Mongrels against seven Points from the Second Wolf Assault Cluster."
"On the Palisade Highlands, the Fifth managed to circle around to the Second’s weakened flank and surprise the Wolves with a brutal, point-blank assault." (in all cases, these prepositional phrases don't need a commas, should be past tense)

P. 42, ZEU-X4 Zeus X profile:
Variants section:
"It was also an ungainly hodgepodge of patchwork armor, reactive composites and counterintuitive short-range weapons whose limited production during the Civil War merely served propaganda." (oxford comma needed, subordinate clause requires a comma)
Notable Units section:
"In battle, his communications officer ensures the battalion’s battlefield coherency while Mündler is free to engage the enemy directly." (Prepositional phrase does not require a comma, subordinate clause requires a comma)
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Re: Technical Readout: 3145 Lyran Commonwealth
« Reply #3 on: 03 August 2013, 18:00:05 »
PDF P. 23 Kelswa Assault tank.

2 lines of the fluff from Lt. Carson Jones runs into the stat/art page.

Suggested fix: Trim two lines from the fluff. Most of Carson's write-up overlaps with the Deployment text anyway.

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Re: Technical Readout: 3145 Lyran Commonwealth
« Reply #4 on: 04 August 2013, 14:19:56 »
PDF p.36 SCG-WF1 Scourge
In section "Armanent" missed designation of Medium Pulse Laser.

Suggested fix: Insert а line like "1 Defiance P5M Medium Pulse Laser"

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Re: Technical Readout: 3145 Lyran Commonwealth
« Reply #5 on: 18 August 2013, 16:39:23 »
p.52 Notable Unit

Karmesinoter Hund doesn't make any sense.

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Karmesinroter Hund

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Re: Technical Readout: 3145 Lyran Commonwealth
« Reply #6 on: 02 September 2013, 12:12:16 »
P. 32, MGL-T1 Mongrel profile:

Problem: All entries for the Dominion is listed as Rasalhague Dominion.  Since the MUL profile for the design came out, which shows that 'Mech was produced before 3103 (See 25 Years Art & Fiction p.29 Timeline - 3103), all entries for Dominion should be noted as Ghost Bear Dominion.  Not Rasalhague.


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Re: Technical Readout: 3145 Lyran Commonwealth
« Reply #7 on: 06 September 2013, 02:35:29 »
p. 22, Kelswa Assault Tank, first Notable Units entry:

A native of Glengarry, Kilcracken was placed on administrative leave following withdrawal of Lyran troops Hesperus.
Change to:
A native of Glengarry, Kilcracken was placed on administrative leave following the withdrawal of Lyran troops from Hesperus.

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Re: Technical Readout: 3145 Lyran Commonwealth
« Reply #8 on: 03 October 2013, 17:02:46 »
dev-level errata:

Gulltoppr, p. 24
Armor: replace "Star Slab/3H Hardened with CASE" with "Star Slab/3 with CASE"
Capabilities delete the word "hardened" in the fourth line

Gulltoppr, p. 25
delete "(Advanced)" from Technology Base
delete "(Hardened)" from Armor Factor, replace total "352" with "704". The Armor Values are in order:
136
104/104
90/90
64
66
50
add "--Advanced" behind "Primary Configuration" and "Configuration B"

Note BV stays identical.

Modify RS on pp. 77-79 accordingly.
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Re: Technical Readout: 3145 Lyran Commonwealth
« Reply #9 on: 30 May 2014, 23:03:39 »
p.37 & p.95 (record sheet)
SCG-WF1 Scourge
BV: 2,172

p.90 MGL-T2 Mongrel
BV: 1,949

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Re: Technical Readout: 3145 Lyran Commonwealth
« Reply #10 on: 31 May 2014, 04:24:31 »
FYI:
Those new errata values are dev-level errata made necessary by the AES BV change. (Pa Weasly has taken over BV calculations from me, so I can focus on necessary rules changes, like this one, and new rules. Thank you for that :))
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Re: Technical Readout: 3145 Lyran Commonwealth
« Reply #11 on: 11 March 2016, 17:39:16 »
Pg. 100 ZEU-X Zeus-X Record Sheet

The record sheet only has 8 Reactive armor criticals assigned to the design. Add 1 to the CT, 1 to the head, 2 to the RA, and you'll need to remove the lower arm actuator on the LA so you can slide the LB20-X up a slot, and add 2 criticals to the LA as well.

Pg. 101 ZEU-X2 - The record sheet only has 8 reactive armor criticals assigned to the design. Add 2 to the RA, 2 to LA, 1 to CT and 1 to HD.

The BVs on both should probably be checked as well, but they're different on the MUL already, so that might have happened already.

pg. 102 ZEU-X3 - Not really an error per se, but the arm weapons are on opposite sides from what they were in the original MDA Record Sheet book. Not necessarily an error, but considering the problems with the first 2 Zeus-X designs, I figured I'd mention it just in case.
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Re: Technical Readout: 3145 Lyran Commonwealth
« Reply #12 on: 11 March 2016, 18:15:06 »
Can't comment on BV at this time.

ZEU-X/2 don't share the-X4's full reactive armor. They feature patchwork armor and only the limbs have reactive armor, with current crit nos per TacOps.

The ZEU-X3 is a correction and overrules the older sheet.
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Re: Technical Readout: 3145 Lyran Commonwealth
« Reply #13 on: 27 February 2017, 20:38:44 »
Pg. 100 Zeus-X ZEU-X
The design is 3 tons overweight. How to fix it might need discussion. Perhaps drop a ton of LB ammo and an X-Pulse? Can also drop two points of armor off each of the arms, legs and left/right torsos.

Pg. 101 Zeus-X ZEU-X2
The design is 2 tons overweight. How to fix it might need discussion. Perhaps drop an X-Pulse? Could also play with armor values.

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Re: Technical Readout: 3145 Lyran Commonwealth
« Reply #14 on: 27 February 2017, 20:50:58 »
Pg. 100 Zeus-X ZEU-X
The design is 3 tons overweight. How to fix it might need discussion. Perhaps drop a ton of LB ammo and an X-Pulse? Can also drop two points of armor off each of the arms, legs and left/right torsos.

Pg. 101 Zeus-X ZEU-X2
The design is 2 tons overweight. How to fix it might need discussion. Perhaps drop an X-Pulse? Could also play with armor values.

Just to add. I think the issue is because the original designs had Reactive armor instead of Patchwork. Switching it should correct both issues (or at least it did on the ZEU-X, I didn't check the ZEU-X2)

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Re: Technical Readout: 3145 Lyran Commonwealth
« Reply #15 on: 20 September 2017, 09:31:28 »
I've been working on the patchwork armor code in MML and looking at the Zeus-Xs with patchwork as part of my testing. I believe the weight problems with the ZEU-X/X2 are rounding errors from the patchwork armor. If you calculate the armor tonnage based on total number of armor points the tonnage allocated to weight is correct. However patchwork armor is rounded up to the half-ton in each location. If the armor points are shifted around so to multiples of 8 in each location the weight problem is solved.

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Re: Technical Readout: 3145 Lyran Commonwealth
« Reply #16 on: 21 September 2017, 08:24:37 »
I've been working on the patchwork armor code in MML and looking at the Zeus-Xs with patchwork as part of my testing. I believe the weight problems with the ZEU-X/X2 are rounding errors from the patchwork armor. If you calculate the armor tonnage based on total number of armor points the tonnage allocated to weight is correct. However patchwork armor is rounded up to the half-ton in each location. If the armor points are shifted around so to multiples of 8 in each location the weight problem is solved.

So, this is not how it's done, though reading TO it still appears to be written ambiguously. I had this discussion with some CGL folks a while back though I can't find the thread (maybe it was in the TO errata thread but is gone because Errata was published since then). The way patchwork is suppose to work is you add up all the points of a given armor type on the unit, and then calculate the weight. This is supported by the various designs out there that use patchwork armor. In TO, there was once a sentence that read "This is done per location, with excess points per location discarded." It was removed because the weight calculation is not done by location. I can see where it's still ambiguous because it still says "...the number of points assigned to the location..."

It really should be raised in the TO errata thread again.

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Re: Technical Readout: 3145 Lyran Commonwealth
« Reply #17 on: 23 May 2019, 10:37:10 »
"Winterhawk APC", p. 10, 2nd and 3rd paragraphs under "Deployment"

Problem, proper noun typo (or is it?):

Quoting from paragraph 2: "The Winterhawks were used to shuttle the battalion between the capital of Pencader City and the mining complexes of nearby Carmarthenshire."
Quoting from paragraph 3: "The Winterhawks streaked in to shower the Blakists in inferno SRM fire as they approached the Carmanthenshire hills,..."

3 options here:
A, Carmanthenshire
B, Carmarthenshire
C, Carmarthenshire vs. Carmanthenshire hills (but if these are 2 distinct proper nouns, the "h" should be capitalized)

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