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The Periphery / Re: The Scorpion Empire: All your Warhawks are belong to us

« Last post by Gorgon on Today at 15:13:22 »

Sounds like a fine garrison force, Weirdo. Out of curiosity, how many Trackbikes do you plan on putting into a point? 2 like any other vehicle? Because I've been toying with the idea of organizing them like battle armor (5 to a point), if I ever get around of building my Barrens / new Oberon post-clan binary...

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Clan Chatterweb / Re: Clan Blood Spirit: Get Off Our Lawn

« Last post by tassa_kay on Today at 15:12:39 »

The Spirits' unofficial "totem" appears to be the blood kite (as in the actual predatory bird, as seen in Upsilon's logo), and since we've seen Mechs like the Stooping Kite, the Crimson Hawk and the eponymous Blood Kite itself, it stands to reason that any further "totem Mech" designs from the Spirits would almost certainly fall along similar lines.

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General BattleTech Discussion / Re: Customer Service

« Last post by Cache on Today at 15:07:58 »

Physical item purchase from CGL store on 21 January not fulfilled.

Emailed customer service 3 March. Received auto-response, "We received your email request and it's gone into our automated system. We will respond as quickly as possible (though, admittedly, as we try to get caught up there will be a delay, for which we apologize sincerely). Thank you for understanding the delay."

No further contact.


Emailed customer service regarding new issue with digital product on 28 March. No response whatsoever.

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The Periphery / Re: The Scorpion Empire: All your Warhawks are belong to us

« Last post by tassa_kay on Today at 15:07:51 »

Sounds fine to me, but since the Imperio (since you're referring to pre-Crusade times) has access to both MilitiaMechs and () ProtoMechs, there's no reason you couldn't throw in either of those options as cheap alternatives to BattleMechs, either. And since there seemed to be an implied intent of those colonies to bridge the gap between the Imperio and the Hansa in preparation for their future Crusade, it stands to reason that they might want to be prepared to see a little combat in a pinch.

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General BattleTech Discussion / Re: If you could get pre-painted BattleTech figures, would you?

« Last post by Rob Bendig on Today at 14:47:34 »

I think pre-paint on one-off hero mechs is fine but not so sure about a whole lance of pre-painted. So far, the lance packs always have me picking and choosing between them. e.g. my Dragoon's are a Firefly, Hoplite, Shogun, Archer, Annihilator, and Marauder II - only two of which came in the actual Dragoons pack. If the whole pack had been painted Dragoon's colours, that wouldn't work out. But a single Blue / Gold Archer would have been okay.

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General BattleTech Discussion / Re: Most Iconic Mech

« Last post by Caesar Steiner for Archon on Today at 14:46:58 »

ilClan Rec Guide 24 says Fred, still answering to that name, swapped out his Zeus for an Atlas during his fateful mission on Dromini VI in 3029. So a bit of an Aidan Pryde situation: you drive one 'Mech your whole life, then get into trouble while driving a substitute, and you become known for that substitute.

Hmm, so if we ever find out who the new Duke of Duran is, they'd probably be driving a very famous Zeus. Interesting.

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Ground Combat / Re: Adding in Arty

« Last post by OatsAndHall on Today at 14:41:57 »

Am I reading right.  You use the "Overwatch rules"  others want to use arty as a counter and you would prefer them not use those rules?

No, my post wasn't that cut and dry and neither is my intent. If I wanted to keep my "campers" safe, I wouldn't be asking for alternative methods for dealing with the tactic. As has been pointed out and discussed, arty is crunchy and adds time onto the game.  And... My gaming group will spam it (without necessarily understanding the rules), if allowed to, which makes things crunchier and more time consuming. I want other tactics, weapons, rules (etc) for dealing with campers that are more streamlined.

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The Inner Sphere / Re: What tech actually becomes obselete

« Last post by O5P_Ghost on Today at 14:38:39 »

What if autocannons got improved to the HBS game specs damage? Would people still use them?

AC/2   5 dmg
AC/5   9 dmg
AC/10 12 dmg
AC/20 20 dmg

With those damage bands AND the ability to use specialty ammo, they'd still have a place. Well except the LB10X. That's superior to the AC/10 in everyway

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General BattleTech Discussion / Re: Dropships statistics in the MUL?

« Last post by Weirdo on Today at 14:36:22 »

That is correct. The nature of the website means it cannot handle large craft. This is why all of the DropShip cards are available in a free document on the Catalyst store.

(There's a similar document for WarShips.)

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General BattleTech Discussion / Re: Tales of the Bounty Hunter - KS reward update?

« Last post by Rob Bendig on Today at 14:30:50 »

The Bounty Hunter - kind of like the Beekeeper