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Re: Clan Jade Falcon Thread II: Falcon Harder. I SAID HARDER!
« Reply #570 on: 18 June 2016, 21:40:06 »
I point an evil grin at your way...

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Re: Clan Jade Falcon Thread II: Falcon Harder. I SAID HARDER!
« Reply #571 on: 19 June 2016, 02:29:34 »
Don't Falcon harder or Falcon smarter. Falcon both!
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« Reply #572 on: 19 June 2016, 14:58:24 »
Don't Falcon harder or Falcon smarter. Falcon both!

I feel like this is a good Falcon motto, actually.  The way I started to grow to...well, tolerate the Falcons was through the lens that they are the "Frank Grimes" of the Clan.  Nobody works as hard to be the smartest and the best of the Clans as the Falcons do.

(Malvina Hazen is essentially them going, "I DON'T NEED SAFETY GLOVES BECAUSE I'M HOMER SIMPSON!")
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Re: Clan Jade Falcon Thread II: Falcon Harder. I SAID HARDER!
« Reply #573 on: 19 June 2016, 15:52:51 »
Malvina Hazen made a practice of bidding away the safety gloves.

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« Reply #574 on: 19 June 2016, 17:08:30 »
I feel like this is a good Falcon motto, actually.  The way I started to grow to...well, tolerate the Falcons was through the lens that they are the "Frank Grimes" of the Clan.  Nobody works as hard to be the smartest and the best of the Clans as the Falcons do.

At least some Falcons do.  Others let their arrogance get away with them and consider it a matter of course that they are the smartest and best of the Clans.
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« Reply #575 on: 07 September 2016, 15:27:53 »
Presenting your opponent with lose/lose choices is always fun. To that end...Hueys escorted by local-build SRM Carriers. Has anyone tried this? The idea is that no matter which slow, thin-skinned target you try to kill, something's gonna unload a world of hurt on you.
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Re: Clan Jade Falcon Thread II: Falcon Harder. I SAID HARDER!
« Reply #576 on: 07 September 2016, 20:43:24 »
I see what you did there Weirdo...

Try this on for size...

Points of Demolisher C and Morriqu, either version.

Just like the old Hetzer - Schrek combo.

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« Reply #577 on: 07 September 2016, 21:11:04 »
I'm actually painting up a pair of Demo-Cs, destined for that same Star.

Because of the size of Clan vee Stars, the group will more often than not split into two demi-Stars in battle. First half is my MBT force, consisting of three Carnivore-HAGs and two Demolisher-Cs. Second half is the artillery section, composed of two Hueys, escorted by two Scorpions, and one...not sure, which is why I was asking about the SRM Carrier. It seems to fit the Falcon view of tanks, with austerity and apathy compensated for by raw brutality.

(Before you ask, there will be spotters in other Stars. I'm planning to expand this to a full Trinary composed of this heavy Star, a recon hover Star, and a VTOL Star.)
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Re: Clan Jade Falcon Thread II: Falcon Harder. I SAID HARDER!
« Reply #578 on: 08 September 2016, 17:29:56 »
Kindly take this vehicle nonsense out of my Jade Falcon thread!

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« Reply #579 on: 08 September 2016, 18:22:20 »
Remember trothkin, that SRM Carrier may be crewed by freeborn degenerate surats who can barely grunt the requisite screeching, but they are still Jade Falcons, and thus inherently superior to any mechwarriors from other Clans, much less a spheroid realm!
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« Reply #580 on: 08 September 2016, 20:15:24 »
Remember trothkin, that SRM Carrier may be crewed by freeborn degenerate surats who can barely grunt the requisite screeching, but they are still Jade Falcons, and thus inherently superior to any mechwarriors from other Clans, much less a spheroid realm!

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« Reply #581 on: 08 September 2016, 21:09:06 »
Remember trothkin, that SRM Carrier may be crewed by freeborn degenerate surats who can barely grunt the requisite screeching, but they are still Jade Falcons, and thus inherently superior to any mechwarriors from other Clans, much less a spheroid realm!

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« Reply #582 on: 08 September 2016, 23:15:07 »
Exactly! On that note, I need to see if I can find more surprisingly useful utter crap I can populate my second-line stuff with.
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« Reply #583 on: 08 September 2016, 23:22:41 »
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Re: Clan Jade Falcon Thread II: Falcon Harder. I SAID HARDER!
« Reply #584 on: 09 September 2016, 00:16:15 »
Hueys and Urbie IICs - point-matches made in heaven!

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« Reply #585 on: 09 September 2016, 08:19:50 »
Exactly! On that note, I need to see if I can find more surprisingly useful utter crap I can populate my second-line stuff with.

Spirits? The mini kinda sucks, but it's a surprisingly good Mech, able to fight at any range.

Pinions? I mean, it blows at most jobs, but... well, disposable... I haven't got much nice to say about the Pinion.

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« Reply #586 on: 09 September 2016, 08:52:35 »
Chalupas do not qualify as crap in my book. 8) I do need more of those, though. The pair I have so far are slated for my Watch observation/intervention unit.

I'm trying to build my Kappas into the kind of force that makes a proper Clanner(and even some spheroids) say "Ew" when they see it. Not the kind of "Ew" when you see something that'll chew your foot off if you kick it, the "Ew" of seeing an ant hill that has grown up around a half-eaten turkey that was thrown out two weeks ago. Imagine looking at the Millennium Falcon for the first time, without knowing what's under the hood.

Of course, the idea is that this force will still chew your foot off if you kick it...you just don't know it yet. >:D
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« Reply #587 on: 09 September 2016, 09:27:08 »
Hmmmm. In that case, how many old Scorpion tanks do you think could have been knocked out and then repaired during the invasion?
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« Reply #588 on: 09 September 2016, 09:46:10 »
Exactly. Now if you can find any evidence that the Falcons actually kept any Peregrine VTOLs they captured... ^-^
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« Reply #589 on: 09 September 2016, 09:53:51 »
Exactly. Now if you can find any evidence that the Falcons actually kept any Peregrine VTOLs they captured... ^-^

I would think even a sohlama unit would do better than to get saddled with that trash. The Clans abhor waste, after all- where's the efficiency in keeping one of those lemons flying, what with its control problems, excessive maintenance needs, etc.? Better off scrapping it and using the parts to keep actual combat units running.

...say, what about Hunters? Ubiquitous, simple, easily repaired, but not useful in the front (or even second) line.
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Re: Clan Jade Falcon Thread II: Falcon Harder. I SAID HARDER!
« Reply #590 on: 09 September 2016, 10:05:26 »
Not a bad idea, actually. I'll have to keep those in mind.

I really need to get to the MUL on a proper pc. My phone won't do the filters for some reason, and I'd love to see what all the Falcons have access to, with the Clan stuff filtered out.
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« Reply #591 on: 09 September 2016, 10:27:02 »
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« Reply #592 on: 09 September 2016, 13:42:29 »
That's awfully familiar...
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Re: Clan Jade Falcon Thread II: Falcon Harder. I SAID HARDER!
« Reply #593 on: 12 September 2016, 19:57:39 »
Carnivore. O0

For second line Clan vehicles, what about Strikers?
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Re: Clan Jade Falcon Thread II: Falcon Harder. I SAID HARDER!
« Reply #594 on: 13 September 2016, 01:57:14 »
Was going to recommend the bargain bin Flatbed Truck with LRMs, but sadly it's on the IS General list instead of IS Clan General list.

The MUL does specifically shows that the Falcons have access to the Scorpion, from the invasion onward. Multiple flavors, too. For clown car potential, looks like the Jade Falcon cargo Saladin could haul an entire Star of footslogging solahma to their glorious end.

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« Reply #595 on: 13 September 2016, 12:11:54 »
Definitely going to have to look at the BatmobileSaladin, as that sounds like a nice way to fill out the transport half of my scout/transport Star with something other than Maxim Cs, and I won't feel bad about putting some genuinely scary hovers in the scout half. :)
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« Reply #596 on: 13 September 2016, 16:39:53 »
Badger C, Bandit C, Command Point Saladin LBX-20 ( consider them clantech ) and I believe some Pike C's for support.

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« Reply #597 on: 14 September 2016, 10:06:21 »
Wait, I've got it!  Utter crap compared to any true Clan unit, cheap enough to be obtained by the Kappas, just barely effective enough that it might earn its Work Credits back in one less battle than it will likely survive...Barouche! ;D
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« Reply #598 on: 14 September 2016, 10:21:03 »
That sounds familiar....
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« Reply #599 on: 14 September 2016, 11:19:28 »
Wait, I've got it!  Utter crap compared to any true Clan unit, cheap enough to be obtained by the Kappas, just barely effective enough that it might earn its Work Credits back in one less battle than it will likely survive...Barouche! ;D
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