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Fan Fiction / Re: Heart of the Dragon-Brought to you by Monbvol and Cannonshop
« Last post by Daryk on Today at 22:06:35 »Dang, my editing privileges came back too late for Nondi... she's missing an "e"... :/
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Off Topic / Re: What Are We Listening To: This List Goes Up To Eleven!
« Last post by Jal Phoenix on Today at 22:06:07 »Tool - Lateralus. I swear, if we ever do another Voyager type spacecraft, that is the song we should put on the record.
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Fan Fiction / Re: Opalescent Reflections
« Last post by Daryk on Today at 22:05:18 »Atsuko has swayed at least one War Lord... and may be beginning to assert herself. Interesting times all around! :)
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Off Topic / Re: My running days are over
« Last post by Prospernia on Today at 21:57:59 »And even if you, or all of you are not in a climate that is suitable for swimming or cycling, the primary-point is cardio; an hour's worth of exercise at 90% or below your max heart-rate. My swimming coach in college, that had two heart-attacks while I was there, couldn't stress that enough. And he was a college athlete-runner.
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Alpha Strike / Aerospace PV calculation Inconsistencies.
« Last post by Thunder on Today at 21:49:01 »2 Issues
First.
Booby Traps on Aerospace. In the book (pg. 143 AS:C) it says their value is: Size*Highest Move*.5
This is the same formula as for ground units, but gives different valuations. For a ground unit PV=damage. For an aerospace unit PV=Damage*Move/2 (What happens if the Move is less then 2? Which happens with Airships.)
Would it be convenient to errata Booby Traps PV to just be equal to their damage? Since this is what the MUL and Megamek are already doing, and it seems easier to change a seldom used rule to match whats already happening then to update the software.
Also it does affect 1 real unit which is technically incorrectly valued in the MUL. The Bullet Suicide Drone should cost 2 more points, Or its fine if the rule is updated.
Second.
Is it the intention for a Dropship armed with 80 Cruise Missile-120 systems to have a PV of... 9?
This is caused by the lack of reference to Offensive Special Abilities in the Large Aerospace Craft section (pg 144). This does affect real units like the Fortress which gets to deploy a free Long Tom.
PS. The Offensive Special Ability Table (Aerospace Units) (Pg 143) may need to be updated for ART PV value. I'd just port over the Ground unit values since these systems tend to need to be used by landed units anyways.
Pretending I didn't just ask a rhetorical question... I dont think 9PV is right. I think it should be changed to create a more accurate and robust set of rules that doesn't have an obvious exploit built it. Even though it will cause all the work I wanted to avoid with my first concern. Game is better for this change, so its worth it.
First.
Booby Traps on Aerospace. In the book (pg. 143 AS:C) it says their value is: Size*Highest Move*.5
This is the same formula as for ground units, but gives different valuations. For a ground unit PV=damage. For an aerospace unit PV=Damage*Move/2 (What happens if the Move is less then 2? Which happens with Airships.)
Would it be convenient to errata Booby Traps PV to just be equal to their damage? Since this is what the MUL and Megamek are already doing, and it seems easier to change a seldom used rule to match whats already happening then to update the software.
Also it does affect 1 real unit which is technically incorrectly valued in the MUL. The Bullet Suicide Drone should cost 2 more points, Or its fine if the rule is updated.
Second.
Is it the intention for a Dropship armed with 80 Cruise Missile-120 systems to have a PV of... 9?
This is caused by the lack of reference to Offensive Special Abilities in the Large Aerospace Craft section (pg 144). This does affect real units like the Fortress which gets to deploy a free Long Tom.
PS. The Offensive Special Ability Table (Aerospace Units) (Pg 143) may need to be updated for ART PV value. I'd just port over the Ground unit values since these systems tend to need to be used by landed units anyways.
Pretending I didn't just ask a rhetorical question... I dont think 9PV is right. I think it should be changed to create a more accurate and robust set of rules that doesn't have an obvious exploit built it. Even though it will cause all the work I wanted to avoid with my first concern. Game is better for this change, so its worth it.
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General BattleTech Discussion / Re: Mercenaries Kickstarter Discussion 6: the 1st 3rd Star League conversation
« Last post by 2DarkWolf2 on Today at 21:46:43 »I'm in Canada with a Vet level pledge + 1 forcepack and the new shipping number for me is a tick over $50 CAD, which is slightly better than the number from a month ago but still seems darn high. Game shops in Toronto can send similar sized packages anywhere in Canada for as low as $11 or $22.50. Hoping maybe the numbers get further tweaked cause it sure doesn't seem like a Canada-friendly local shipping rate.
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Off Topic / Re: What movies/tv are we watching part XXX, Back into the fray!
« Last post by MoneyLovinOgre4Hire on Today at 21:39:39 »I felt like it and Looper were both movies with interesting ideas that rather squandered them by going with fairly generic plots.
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Off Topic / Re: What are we Reading Now: Conan the Librarian
« Last post by MoneyLovinOgre4Hire on Today at 21:36:57 »And they mixed with local European populations off and on throughout the centuries.
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Off Topic / Re: What movies/tv are we watching part XXX, Back into the fray!
« Last post by elf25s on Today at 21:24:56 »read the comic surrogates its much more deeper than the movie....its hard to find now
always thought that it was a warning about how net lets us insulate to a point of actually having fear of another human being or fear of embarrasment
always thought that it was a warning about how net lets us insulate to a point of actually having fear of another human being or fear of embarrasment
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Off Topic / Re: What are we Reading Now: Conan the Librarian
« Last post by elf25s on Today at 21:21:51 »Reading a book about Gypsies; it turns out, they pretty much sprang up in Europe at the 15th-century. They're considered refugees from the collapse of the feudal-system and their genetic make-up was not necessarily from Egypt or India, but most were European.actually they are descendants of groups that ghenghis khan displaced when he started his empire a lot of them initially came from central asia and their lines got pretty diluted by the time they reached europe around late 13th century
