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I first saw him in Iron Eagle II and I liked him right away. It's such a shame he's gone.
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Well - lets just pile on the Shipping Outrage train here....Mine is projected at $260 (i'm assuming this is USD) which means if CAD is just over 350 USD.

That means my shipping is almost half the KS value.

Bloody Hell.

I don't remember the first KS being anywhere near this expensive.
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I'm looking at over a third (closer to a half) of my pledge level in shipping and VAT.

This completely destroys any value in the KS.

I'm sorry that sucks.  There is unfortunately not much Catalyst can do about that.
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General BattleTech Discussion / Re: Impact crater of a gauss rifle
« Last post by klarg1 on Today at 08:25:35 »
At a certain point compression heating will still melt the slug in an atmosphere, but I don’t know how fast it needs to be going for that to be true.
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The Periphery / Re: Fall of the Aurigan Coalition
« Last post by smdvogrin on Today at 08:15:05 »
SO . . . trying to remember, but what was the name of the dropship Victoria blew up to cause the Taurians to side with her father as part of fearing the FedSuns were on the move?  When did that happen?

I don't believe a dropship was involved - I think you're referring to her assisting with the Perdition massacre, which was a chemical weapons attack:
https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Perdition_Massacre
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Plus there is other issues with the 1 minute turn scale, like where does the other 5 shots a gauss rifle gets in 60 seconds go?  Its all so undefined.

So Gauss in space would still be faster, but the minimum would be 3000m/s using the acceleration to distance hex scale, instead of 6000.  Still faster then 1750, but unable to be easily defined using the space hexes that dont add up.
You can also reverse the thinking, in that the in atmosphere shots are lower-powered in order to deal with having an atmosphere in the barrel, and with lower powered shots you can easily fire more often.

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Gladius, the navy railgun is quite fast!  Using 2 km/s would only increase the crater size!  Those gauss rifles sure do make a mark!  The navy railgun melts itself firing though right?  So its possible the 125kg watermelon is also partially melted, reducing the impact mass.  I have heard at that speed everything acts like a liquid instead of a solid.
Railguns use a different way to accelerate their projectile, so gauss rifles will not have that melting issue.
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MechWarrior Hall / Re: Word Association 36: SAY WHAT AGAIN!!!
« Last post by Akamia on Today at 07:56:41 »
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The way you framed this question, the only merc units we can compare in a "presence of author/absence of author" way is those merc units who have had page time or novel time devoted to them.

That's actually a pretty short list. Wolf's Dragoons, Kell Hounds, Eridani Light Horse, GDL, Black Thorns, Avanti's Angels, Northwind Highlanders, I'm sure I'm forgetting one or three off the top of my head. Most merc units have only appeared in sourcebooks and field manuals.

I find this question kind of limiting. If they've never had an author behind them to provide that "plot armor" then they've always existed in the second state you mentioned. Always. They've lived there, their entire existence. Just getting a page in a field manual or a few references in a sourcebook. Sometimes winning, sometimes losing.

So I feel like you are asking, of the few merc units that have had that kind of author focus and attention, who do we think would still hold up and do well, in the absence of that author focus and just being treated like every other mercenary unit.

My answer to that would very much be it depends. As good as Wolf's Dragoons were they still got ground down on Misery and via employer betrayal essentially (yes they ultimately won on Misery, but the cost was enormous and it's not like the Combine recouped them for the losses). Any mercenary unit can fail just by being completely overwhelmed, 5-1 or 10-1 odds (the presence of hostile units that weren't supposed to be there), after having been given just all around bad intelligence and/or bad/poor/inadequate support going into a contract. That disastrous combination of many things went wrong, many mistakes were made, by the unit or the employer or both. Any of them can suffer a disaster from that.

So is your question then really, which units do you think don't deserve their success because of the plot armor they've been given, due to the dedicated focus of an author and page time devoted to them?
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There Is not a "stabilizer" entry.
The one you could have to search for a vehicle if a critical hit destroys It.
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