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Lmao.  This is the kind of answer that's why CGL can't shake their image as a fly-by-night bunch of amateurs.

Seems like a perfectly sensible answer given the minis are produced by two different groups?
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Off Topic / Re: Anyone else remember Hypernauts?
« Last post by Daemion on Today at 22:57:08 »
It is too bad that it didn't get more optioned out of it.  Having watched it all the way through, now, it is much better and less hokey than Power Rangers of the time.  And there is a great Mech battle during the first half of the two-part finale.

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"Lucius, use the Force..."
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Nah, it effectively reduces the water game to rocket tag between quasi Savannah Master expies (and as an accidental side effect means the existing canon submarine designs, from the Manta & Moray to the Neptune, nonsensible in retrospect

Brown and green water warfare feels very one-note since it ends up boiling down to who has more Submarine Masters with few other tactical considerations.  I tried to rectify this with navy-themed equipment years ago, and while it helped a bit with variety it still fell short (Submarine Master Superiority remained). 
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Fan Fiction / Re: Opalescent Reflections
« Last post by Giovanni Blasini on Today at 22:48:31 »
Actually, in the foreword of the House Davion sourcebook, the writer says the following:

So it's highly probable there are actual descendants of Stefan Amaris around, children born from his concubines.

What's funny is that they (the steel vipers) thought there was just one descendant. How does that make sense at all?

Worse, in this case, they're not just going for descendants of Stefan Amaris, but, just ask Kerensky had all members of the Amaris family that the SLDF could find executed, the Clans have pledged to eliminate anyone with any blood or genetic relation to Stefan Amaris.  That means going back to common ancestors.

That doesn't take long: in the real world, you need only go back to the ninth century for everyone of European descent to have a common set of ancestors, even if in many cases they no longer have any of their genetic material.
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Fan Articles / Re: Armchair Analyst: The Hermes I
« Last post by Starfury on Today at 22:47:27 »
Nice article @Darthmetool.  The Hermes is fairly typical of Marik 3050 and earlier lights, combining fast ground speed with a scout focused armament. You can add one to a Marik scout lance as a command mech combined with Fleas and Locusts, a heavy scout for heavier units, or as a nasty backstabber with the 3057 and later units.
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Heavy APCs are cheap and do the job well enough... that said, Worktroll has a really good point too! :)

Agreed on both counts.

Heavy APC isn't something I normally run in my games but its for sure something I fluff as most Militia using.

Meanwhile WT mentioned the Mantef-D above which is a beast & I love it, but, I also don't own the mini & would find some issue with justifying my cheapo mercs having access to them with their "new" (for the CI/CW eras) production limited house access & pricey XL engine when those mercs can use ICE powered cheapo Maxims/Karnovs that are more effective than the Heavy APC lines but also not touching the XL-HeavyOmni pricetag either.

That said, for a 1-off game playing FedCom House unit in the Jihad,  oh yes, please, she is PURTY.

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Off Topic / Re: Anyone else remember Hypernauts?
« Last post by beachhead1985 on Today at 22:31:06 »
Ho-lee-cow...

YES I REMEMBER THIS SHOW!

...I did not remember the title, but the show? Yes. I remember thinking it was pretty okay for the time. I only caught it a few times, but I *think* that was actually on YTV, up in Canada? Could have been ABC as well, but I think it was YTV.
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Hellraiser, how do your Karnovs survive when the heat is on?
Surprisingly well actually  :smilie_happy_thumbup:

Of course, I tend to use Flank Speed (or Sprint if that rule is in use) and blocking terrain for a turn or 2 to get them to deployment point & then RUN AWAY RUN AWAY for the rest of the game to my own backfield & hide.

I use my Karnovs for their large cargo room & ability to go over hills/trees, but if they heat is on, they drop & hide.
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Early 3050s (pre-3055 but after Tukayyid) you are hired by a mech/weapon manufacturer to get samples of Clan technology for them to reverse engineer.  They want to be able to improve their knowledge base to produce more advanced weapons than the standard/3025 models they are currently producing at their factories.  The contract, of course, pays more the better sources of information you can provide along with a variety of samples- depth & breath of Clans' tech- which will be overseen by the company's liaison which has oversight.

The mission plan calls for bypassing the Clan frontlines, trying to get the raiders into the 'rear' of the Occupation Zones where garrison units are stationed and supplies could be getting shuttled forward from wherever the Clans are from.  You might even be able to find a repair facility where the Clans are rebuilding/refitting their mechs away from the frontlines.  The merc raiders and their supports have very little specific intelligence about what can be expected on each world, using some information gleaned from Twycross and Teniente along with other House raids for projections.  They have a advisor paid for by the company that has experienced combat against the Clans.

Also to consider . . . whatever the mercs end up recovering, they are going to have on the same dropships/jumpship until they get back around the Clan/House frontlines.  The mercs will go their own way while the company's jumpship & dropship will continue back to their HQ.  So . . . a few weeks . . . maybe months . . . being able to look at what they won from the Clans.

I am asking this b/c I was a bit surprised by the answers in this- https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php?topic=84792.0 poll.
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