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Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Reply #450 on: 10 March 2018, 07:28:39 »
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Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Reply #451 on: 10 March 2018, 08:40:48 »
dang it :s we're running out of Mechs to do! :(
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Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Reply #452 on: 10 March 2018, 09:16:28 »
Nope. There are some 600 different 'Mechs, current fan article directory has some 350, especially when you count few that are missed from the list.
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Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Reply #453 on: 10 March 2018, 09:46:48 »
I'm working on a writeup of the Spartan, just in case  :) I can post it this weekend if necessary
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Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Reply #454 on: 10 March 2018, 11:01:00 »
Blimey! Well gimme one from the list, don't care what and i'll start working on it :D
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Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Reply #455 on: 10 March 2018, 12:04:16 »
How about the Lancelot?  I was looking to see if there was an article on that last night and I couldn't find one.
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Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Reply #456 on: 10 March 2018, 15:07:41 »
Quote from: Getz on 10 March 2018, 12:04:16
How about the Lancelot?  I was looking to see if there was an article on that last night and I couldn't find one.

Good call! I'll second that; the Lancelot is another that doesn't get much attention
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Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Reply #457 on: 10 March 2018, 16:05:07 »
Okies I'll do the Lancie :)
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Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Reply #458 on: 11 March 2018, 11:57:42 »
The Spartan is ready, I can post it when you guys want  :)
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Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Reply #459 on: 11 March 2018, 17:58:28 »
Quote from: lucho on 09 March 2018, 19:16:02
An article was done not that long ago, some time last year. But one can never say too much about the Thor  ;)

I can try to write something up this weekend. I was doing some research for the Trojan (shameless plug: go check it out  :D ), I can do a MotW for the Spartan, which has definitely not seen any recent posts

You were about five years off. ;)

It's still about as comprehensive a write-up as you'll ever see, and a not small contributor to why I don't do articles much anymore (that and the Banshee).
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Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Reply #460 on: 11 March 2018, 18:09:44 »
You know, it occurs to me that it would be really useful if we could get a pinned thread with links to past MotW articles.

Of course, tracking all of them down would be a pretty large undertaking.
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Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Reply #461 on: 11 March 2018, 18:26:17 »
Quote from: MoneyLovinOgre4Hire on 11 March 2018, 18:09:44
You know, it occurs to me that it would be really useful if we could get a pinned thread with links to past MotW articles.

Of course, tracking all of them down would be a pretty large undertaking.

https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php?topic=174.0
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Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Reply #462 on: 11 March 2018, 18:49:26 »
And that thing is indeed pinned...
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Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Reply #463 on: 11 March 2018, 20:22:04 »
I stand corrected.
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Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Reply #464 on: 11 March 2018, 20:29:51 »
Quote from: Scotty on 11 March 2018, 17:58:28
You were about five years off. ;)

It's still about as comprehensive a write-up as you'll ever see, and a not small contributor to why I don't do articles much anymore (that and the Banshee).

Oops  :-[
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Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Reply #465 on: 11 March 2018, 21:55:30 »
Hey everyone, ages ago I volunteered for the Ha Otoko and the Firestarer O. Unfortunately I didn't have the time then and took a break from the forum, and I don't have the time now. I doubt anyone is lining up to get them, but they're free game for anyone who wants them. Thanks!
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Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Reply #466 on: 12 March 2018, 09:15:58 »
I'll pin the Hoplite down too and do one on the tic-tac with legs.
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Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Reply #467 on: 12 March 2018, 12:15:56 »
Quote from: Scotty on 11 March 2018, 18:26:17
https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php?topic=174.0

I could do with being updated, however, and perhaps arranged alphabetically?
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Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Reply #468 on: 12 March 2018, 12:57:18 »
Quote from: Getz on 12 March 2018, 12:15:56
I could do with being updated, however, and perhaps arranged alphabetically?

Unfortunately, the person who had been maintaining it has passed, which is why it hasn't updated in some time.

That said, the best bet in that thread is to use your browser's 'find' option, look for the name of the unit in question, and filter through the results- and check for the right spelling, of course, because as i learned once doing VotW and finding a tank wasn't on the list... if you spell it wrong, you write an article a second time and upset the original author. (I miss writing articles, I definitely don't miss the beating I took from people in PM over it.)

If anyone has the time and dedication to build a new version of the index, it's not going to be a quick or easy process, but it would have to be the hard way- only the original poster or a moderator can modify the original post, and with the former gone and the latter already overworked as it is the other option is a rebuild- and one that would need to be worked on weekly-ish, so it's a long-term project. If anyone IS interested, know what you're getting yourself into- and contact me so I can make sure it's stickied and all that.
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Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Reply #469 on: 12 March 2018, 19:26:29 »
For a second there I thought you meant me, but then I checked and saw it was Moonsword that accidentally covered the same tank I did six months later.

What blight on fun and good times got mad at something like that? ???
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Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Reply #470 on: 13 March 2018, 05:30:06 »
Nah, I had it happen with the Schmitt as well. (Part of the reason I stopped doing VotW... there's a lot fewer tanks out there than Mechs, and I was running out of things to cover that hadn't already been done. There's only so much to say about the 3060 flatbed truck, after all.)
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Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Reply #471 on: 15 March 2018, 00:11:39 »
I'm pretty sure the Roadrunner hasn't got an article yet, right?
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Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Reply #472 on: 15 March 2018, 07:55:20 »
Quote from: MoneyLovinOgre4Hire on 15 March 2018, 00:11:39
I'm pretty sure the Roadrunner hasn't got an article yet, right?

I didn't even know that there's a canon roadrunner  :o

Anybody object me posting the Spartan? It would be good to follow up the Lancelot with another SLDF ḿech
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Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Reply #473 on: 15 March 2018, 09:10:46 »
Spartaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan away :D
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Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Reply #474 on: 15 March 2018, 11:28:58 »
Quote from: lucho on 15 March 2018, 07:55:20
I didn't even know that there's a canon roadrunner  :o

It's in the print copy of TRO: 3150.  Mass of 15 tons, moves 14/21.
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Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Reply #475 on: 15 March 2018, 11:59:11 »
Quote from: MoneyLovinOgre4Hire on 15 March 2018, 11:28:58
It's in the print copy of TRO: 3150.  Mass of 15 tons, moves 14/21.

It also is 1) a blast to use and 2) has a surprisingly great miniature. (Mine is now in charcoal grey and blood red on my shelf)
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Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Reply #476 on: 15 March 2018, 12:39:52 »
The miniature is also smaller than some Protomechs.
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Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Reply #477 on: 15 March 2018, 12:57:21 »
Quote from: MoneyLovinOgre4Hire on 15 March 2018, 12:39:52
The miniature is also smaller than some Protomechs.

Which is really not the worst thing- it IS smaller than some of them.  ;D

Nah, seriously, if you've not tried a Roadrunner, it's a hoot. Super-fast, high-risk/high reward stuff, the way Clan tech should be. If it works, you move fast enough no one can take advantage of your Pepsi-can armor, light off basically a pair of IS large lasers into someone's ass, and zip away to do it again in a couple of turns. If you do it wrong (or if you just end up unlucky), you're a grimy smear on the battlefield because of even small-end weaponry (I lost one to a minefield in a Megamek game a while back- both legs destroyed, I like to think the rest of the Mech continued in the air for another few hexes on sheer momentum).

The Clans don't really do zerg-rush stuff (abhorrent!), but even without that as an option it's fun to use them in hit-and-fade attacks, and the bigger the opponent the better. How infuriating must it be for some poor schmuck in a Warhammer IIC to find himself being depantsed by a skilled Roadrunner pilot, unable to strike back despite outsizing his opponent several times over?
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Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Reply #478 on: 31 March 2018, 00:18:25 »
Gonna try get the Hoplite out today.
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Re: MotW Schedule Thread 2017
« Reply #479 on: 08 April 2018, 14:30:48 »
I'm in process of moving and it is ****** stressful, so i was thinking i'd write as that is nice way to unwind.

Thinking of the Exterminator, it has interesting flaws and ideas. If i do write, i expect it'll be ready "today" (not my timezone though) or tomorrow.


But. I don't know if readers are reading this thread, but if they are, i will not hear any critique about my writing (factual errors aside). Not here to write professionally, so critique is completely pointless, it will just piss me off and it isn't relevant to others.
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