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YingJanshi

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Would You Buy This?
« on: 17 February 2013, 20:33:12 »
Would anyone buy a book that only featured creatures? As a PDF exclusive maybe?
A BattleTech Bestiary?
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Re: Would You Buy This?
« Reply #1 on: 17 February 2013, 20:56:11 »
Yes, but it'd be low on my list. Lots of other things to buy first on a limited budget.

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Re: Would You Buy This?
« Reply #2 on: 17 February 2013, 21:29:22 »
Tell me about it. #P
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Re: Would You Buy This?
« Reply #3 on: 19 February 2013, 15:39:07 »
YES!!
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Re: Would You Buy This?
« Reply #4 on: 19 February 2013, 19:33:19 »
Definitely...more beasties the better!
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Re: Would You Buy This?
« Reply #5 on: 19 February 2013, 21:14:14 »
I want to see some small animals that can fly and are domesticated, so I can have VTOL K9 units.
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Re: Would You Buy This?
« Reply #6 on: 19 February 2013, 21:30:35 »
There better be good screens on the intakes of the VTOLs turbines  :'(
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Re: Would You Buy This?
« Reply #7 on: 19 February 2013, 21:52:59 »
There's 2 types of VTOL infantry, one type uses hang gliders, the other  one man microcopters.  THe former is probably safe.
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Re: Would You Buy This?
« Reply #8 on: 19 February 2013, 23:03:58 »
How do the hang glider ones get the vertical takeoff? Though jumping off a cliff would be about as vertical a takeoff as possible.
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Re: Would You Buy This?
« Reply #9 on: 19 February 2013, 23:14:18 »
It's an abstraction, they can't take off vertically, but they are light enough to get airborne in a short space.
Also they have to enter at least 1 different hex per turn, so it is clear they are flying rather than hovering.
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Re: Would You Buy This?
« Reply #10 on: 20 February 2013, 02:44:31 »
Quote from: BirdofPrey on 19 February 2013, 21:14:14
I want to see some small animals that can fly and are domesticated, so I can have VTOL K9 units.

Do we not have Branth infantry?
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Re: Would You Buy This?
« Reply #11 on: 20 February 2013, 12:36:41 »
THose are large animals, and that would be mounted infantry.

I'm trying to do something batshit insane here, but I lack the domesticated bats to do it with.
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Re: Would You Buy This?
« Reply #12 on: 20 February 2013, 17:46:28 »
Quote from: BirdofPrey on 20 February 2013, 12:36:41
THose are large animals, and that would be mounted infantry.

I'm trying to do something batshit insane here, but I lack the domesticated bats to do it with.

Ahh... I see.... You want infantry with medium-sized mad bats on leashes that can be slipped free as attack bats.... :o

Probably should include a morale check for those.....things.

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Re: Would You Buy This?
« Reply #13 on: 25 February 2013, 01:41:25 »
i'd probably spring for a $5 pdf or two released as a series like xtros
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Re: Would You Buy This?
« Reply #14 on: 25 February 2013, 02:27:44 »
Xenobiology of the Battletech universe? Yes.
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Re: Would You Buy This?
« Reply #15 on: 27 February 2013, 11:55:33 »
Quote from: YingJanshi on 17 February 2013, 20:33:12
Would anyone buy a book that only featured creatures? As a PDF exclusive maybe?
A BattleTech Bestiary?

Yes I would.  I try to scoop up any AToW source material, because there's so little of it compared to other RPGs.  As a GM with a family anything that saves me time is on the buy list.

Now if they could just publish some generic adventures that work in most time periods... or some generic planetary locations... or some dropship deck plans...
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Re: Would You Buy This?
« Reply #16 on: 28 February 2013, 01:07:22 »
Quote from: Acolyte on 20 February 2013, 17:46:28
Ahh... I see.... You want infantry with medium-sized mad bats on leashes that can be slipped free as attack bats.... :o

Probably should include a morale check for those.....things.

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Problem is that we need normal K-9 infantry first
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Re: Would You Buy This?
« Reply #17 on: 28 February 2013, 07:21:19 »
AToW Companion pg.135. Not much use in TW, though.

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