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Fan Fiction / Re: The Lyre Ascendant: A Dark Age AU Writeup
« Last post by PlEGUY on Today at 04:06:23 »Your map is too big for the screen. I just saw now that the right part was really interesting too.
Which leads me to a question, where are the Taurians?
I'll try to see if I can fix the image later.
The Taurians are that little brown spot hugging the rimward boarder between the Suns and Capellans. They are a member of the Outback Cooperation Zone. In that political bloc map They are the second light yellow bloch from the left. What's that? You ask. The Taurians are cooperatimg with the Suns instead of delusionally frothing at the mouth and nuking their own citizenry? Unbelievable, I know, but it is true. That is one of the things I didn't do much more than tweak from the canon timeline. After the Calderons divorce them for being too crazy in the Jihad they sit down and have a nice long think. The better part of a century later, Julian invited them to the group. The Suns had spent most of that time being rather peacefull. The Fronc Reaches demonstrated that the Suns could be reasoned with. Every other political body in the region had joined.The Suns had Co-operated with them and the Protectorate that whole time operating a warship without pulling any funny business. The terms of the zone were fairly undemanding, trade and anti-piracy Cooperation. Lastly, the Calderon Protectorate and the Suns were getting along swimmingly and the Concordat did want to reunify. In the face of all that the standard paranoia wavered and they conceded. It wasn't the most popular choice ever and the Taurians are certainly the most unruly of the bunch. Unless of course you count Randis who keep absolutely abusing the deal to get in way over their heads then call in the big guns of their friends to sanitize pirate holdouts.
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Fan Fiction / Re: The Lyre Ascendant: A Dark Age AU Writeup
« Last post by PlEGUY on Today at 03:50:18 »This is very interesting, are you going to be posting bits and pieces? Or are you going to put a source book together?
The current plan is to post in bits and pieces then tape those together with art and a themed format to make a book when I'm done. This way I can work on, share it, and get what feedback I can peacmeal without having to commit to a whole book up front, but still end up with a book by the end.
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Off Topic / Re: Deep Space and Interplanetary Exploration - Houston, we are go for launch!
« Last post by Daryk on Today at 03:25:28 »Finally caught up, thanks for the links! :)
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Clan Chatterweb / Re: Clan Jade Falcon III: Admittedly, We May Have Falconed a Little Too Hard
« Last post by BrianDavion on Today at 03:16:09 »TBH. depending on how many and which units, it's not actually that bad. Citadel contrast paints & shades make all the difference. Happy to talk via PM if you're interested.
I mean YELLOW itself isn't a problem, I paint Imperial fists, but the diagonal is a bit of a hassle. but yeah best not hijack a jade falcon thread any further :)
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Clan Chatterweb / Re: Clan Jade Falcon III: Admittedly, We May Have Falconed a Little Too Hard
« Last post by worktroll on Today at 03:10:22 »TBH. depending on how many and which units, it's not actually that bad. Citadel contrast paints & shades make all the difference. Happy to talk via PM if you're interested.
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Clan Chatterweb / Re: Clan Jade Falcon III: Admittedly, We May Have Falconed a Little Too Hard
« Last post by BrianDavion on Today at 03:07:43 »Sounds like my plan for doing "the 2nd dawnguards" "........ DIAGONAL YELLOW? PFFT NOOOOOO!" :)
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The Inner Sphere / Re: Question: mixed infantry/BA companies organisation
« Last post by Gorgon on Today at 03:05:50 »You know, just yesterday I was thinking about attaching a squad of mag-clamp BA to a platoon of PBI. Load the conventional infantry into a Winterhawk or something else that goes 9/14+, hang the BA from the sides and rush them to where they're needed.
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Iron Wind Metals News and Announcements / Is IWM Finished With Con Exclusives?
« Last post by GRUD on Today at 02:54:07 »I Hate to ask this, but is IWM finished making "Convention Special" minis? 
Looking at their site, the last LE mini I can find was from '18, though we Seem to have got several that year. I'm going from the "Copyright" date of the pics, but looks like we got the following in '18.
(ALL are Jumping sculpts.)
Agrotera
Enforcer III
Jade Hawk JHK-03 (Thought we got it before '18 though?)
Shadow Hawk SHD-2Hb
Super-Griffin
The Jumping T-Bolt (-10M) is also Copyright 2018, but I know we got that in '11. I Thought we'd gotten 1 or 2 at GC '19, but I can't remember them at the moment.
They outright canceled GC '20, due to Covid, and there was enough "Rumbling" early in the year for IWM to halt any plans, but I never heard about anything that HAD been "Planned" for that year. I know they'd mentioned that they had Planned on "a couple" (I think was the term used) for GC '21. But then Covid delayed the Con (from AUG to SEPT), and we still didn't get them even after the delay.
We were also never told What they were. (Ok, I never heard What they were! 
) And we didn't get any for GC '22 or '23. They've had "Convention Specials" since GC '21, in that they had certain things On Sale, but we haven't had any LE Miniatures.
Can Speck or one of the Sculptors please chime in on this?
I know that I would LOVE a Re-issue of the old RP Assault Lance Box Set! One Battlemaster, one Marauder, and TWO Warhammers! We could even have 2 DIFFERENT WHMs!
Looking at their site, the last LE mini I can find was from '18, though we Seem to have got several that year. I'm going from the "Copyright" date of the pics, but looks like we got the following in '18.(ALL are Jumping sculpts.)
Agrotera
Enforcer III
Jade Hawk JHK-03 (Thought we got it before '18 though?)
Shadow Hawk SHD-2Hb
Super-Griffin
The Jumping T-Bolt (-10M) is also Copyright 2018, but I know we got that in '11. I Thought we'd gotten 1 or 2 at GC '19, but I can't remember them at the moment.
They outright canceled GC '20, due to Covid, and there was enough "Rumbling" early in the year for IWM to halt any plans, but I never heard about anything that HAD been "Planned" for that year. I know they'd mentioned that they had Planned on "a couple" (I think was the term used) for GC '21. But then Covid delayed the Con (from AUG to SEPT), and we still didn't get them even after the delay.
We were also never told What they were. (Ok, I never heard What they were! ) And we didn't get any for GC '22 or '23. They've had "Convention Specials" since GC '21, in that they had certain things On Sale, but we haven't had any LE Miniatures. Can Speck or one of the Sculptors please chime in on this?
I know that I would LOVE a Re-issue of the old RP Assault Lance Box Set! One Battlemaster, one Marauder, and TWO Warhammers! We could even have 2 DIFFERENT WHMs!
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General BattleTech Discussion / Re: Mercenaries Kickstarter Discussion 6: the 1st 3rd Star League conversation
« Last post by Lorcan Nagle on Today at 01:57:17 »Mine has dropped to the total Rem quoted me too. Down another $21 to $79. So I am very happy.
