Goodbye, Capella. Goodbye, BattleTech.

[GreekFire]

It's been an interesting ride, but I've poured several hundred dollars into this franchise and I believe I haven't gotten my money's worth.  Pushing around little metal men and pretending they were board game robots has worn too thin for me.  I don't even know what kind of scenarios I want to play anymore!  There's too much to try and I never found what I liked.  BV is dumb, it doesn't help me decide what forces I should bring that make sense and are good and will help me win.  Oh also, why couldn't there have been regularly scheduled tournaments at specific BattleTech-themed venues where you must bring fully-painted miniatures that look professional to play?  I hate coming to a game and having to proxy unpainted chassis and proxy partially-assembled variants, it feels like I'm playing with bottle caps and reminds me of destitute plebeians with chess sets at the park.  Especially when I'm the one bringing all the unpainted minis because I always have amazing and great aspirations for having entire painted regiments of 'Mechs like 3rdCrucisLancers used to have but I never get around to it because I am too busy playing video games since no one will play BattleTech with me.

Not even faction affiliations made me enjoy the universe.  I mean, I tried to grin and bear it when I had the Capellan Confederation pushed on me, but it's really only left a bad taste in my mouth from all the horrible and disgusting discussions about interstellar events.  I've read and posted in so many flame wars and little thread-farts where people from elsewhere would drop by and leave a snarky one-liner that wasn't funny at all just to troll the thread.  I once thought it was my duty as a Capellan Citizen or some other make-believe job to do all this, but I can't handle the responsibility and the pressure anymore!  I have Asian parents that I only just managed to escape last year, and their words and attitudes and mindset continue to echo in my head, and drive me insane, and playing the Confederation just reminds me of that and I can't take it.  Why couldn't we all just get along like back in the original Star League?

I guess I'd have been more okay with it if they made CCAF 'Mechs more balanced, like have them able to produce weapons on par with other factions.  I'm talking about giving them more Standard Fusion Engine 'Mechs with Clan ERPPCs and Improved Heavy Gauss Rifles and Clan Double Heat Sinks, of course.  I wanted to be able to roll with whatever Capellan unit I want and my opponents needed to understand that they've already lost before the initiative dice hit the table.  Oh, and let's not forget WarShips, we needed twenty more of those, good ones like the Texas-class right now, at the beginning of the Dark Age.

Also, these forums are terrible.  I can't scroll down one stupid page without seeing a dumb forum user make an inane post about how BattleTech isn't the way HE (or she) wants it or how some loose end error from the FASA era hasn't been fixed yet and will never be or something like that.  Oh also, I hated it when the anti-Catalyst Game Labs rebel grognards clashed against the pro-Catalyst Game Labs apologists and there were posts deleted and I didn't get to read all of the hate and pent-up loneliness that I could associate with in their words.

Oh well, I guess this game's dying anyways since I can't find anybody to play a game with again and nobody answered my rules questions about Superheavy 'Mechs on the Rules Questions forum.  Just wanted to post a thread here because I'm in need of attention and you should all grovel at my feet.

The Capellans are imba and have so much fiat they haven't lost a battle since the 4th succession war, nerf pls.

It's been an interesting ride, but I've poured several hundred dollars into this franchise and I believe I haven't gotten my money's worth.  Pushing around little metal men and pretending they were board game robots has worn too thin for me.  I don't even know what kind of scenarios I want to play anymore!  There's too much to try and I never found what I liked.  BV is dumb, it doesn't help me decide what forces I should bring that make sense and are good and will help me win.  Oh also, why couldn't there have been regularly scheduled tournaments at specific BattleTech-themed venues where you must bring fully-painted miniatures that look professional to play?  I hate coming to a game and having to proxy unpainted chassis and proxy partially-assembled variants, it feels like I'm playing with bottle caps and reminds me of destitute plebeians with chess sets at the park.  Especially when I'm the one bringing all the unpainted minis because I always have amazing and great aspirations for having entire painted regiments of 'Mechs like 3rdCrucisLancers used to have but I never get around to it because I am too busy playing video games since no one will play BattleTech with me.

Not even faction affiliations made me enjoy the universe.  I mean, I tried to grin and bear it when I had the Capellan Confederation pushed on me, but it's really only left a bad taste in my mouth from all the horrible and disgusting discussions about interstellar events.  I've read and posted in so many flame wars and little thread-farts where people from elsewhere would drop by and leave a snarky one-liner that wasn't funny at all just to troll the thread.  I once thought it was my duty as a Capellan Citizen or some other make-believe job to do all this, but I can't handle the responsibility and the pressure anymore!  I have Asian parents that I only just managed to escape last year, and their words and attitudes and mindset continue to echo in my head, and drive me insane, and playing the Confederation just reminds me of that and I can't take it.  Why couldn't we all just get along like back in the original Star League?

I guess I'd have been more okay with it if they made CCAF 'Mechs more balanced, like have them able to produce weapons on par with other factions.  I'm talking about giving them more Standard Fusion Engine 'Mechs with Clan ERPPCs and Improved Heavy Gauss Rifles and Clan Double Heat Sinks, of course.  I wanted to be able to roll with whatever Capellan unit I want and my opponents needed to understand that they've already lost before the initiative dice hit the table.  Oh, and let's not forget WarShips, we needed twenty more of those, good ones like the Texas-class right now, at the beginning of the Dark Age.

Also, these forums are terrible.  I can't scroll down one stupid page without seeing a dumb forum user make an inane post about how BattleTech isn't the way HE (or she) wants it or how some loose end error from the FASA era hasn't been fixed yet and will never be or something like that.  Oh also, I hated it when the anti-Catalyst Game Labs rebel grognards clashed against the pro-Catalyst Game Labs apologists and there were posts deleted and I didn't get to read all of the hate and pent-up loneliness that I could associate with in their words.

Oh well, I guess this game's dying anyways since I can't find anybody to play a game with again and nobody answered my rules questions about Superheavy 'Mechs on the Rules Questions forum.  Just wanted to post a thread here because I'm in need of attention and you should all grovel at my feet.

Stealth armor is broken and WarShips are dumb, everyone should build monitors.

It's been an interesting ride, but I've poured several hundred dollars into this franchise and I believe I haven't gotten my money's worth.  Pushing around little metal men and pretending they were board game robots has worn too thin for me.  I don't even know what kind of scenarios I want to play anymore!  There's too much to try and I never found what I liked.  BV is dumb, it doesn't help me decide what forces I should bring that make sense and are good and will help me win.  Oh also, why couldn't there have been regularly scheduled tournaments at specific BattleTech-themed venues where you must bring fully-painted miniatures that look professional to play?  I hate coming to a game and having to proxy unpainted chassis and proxy partially-assembled variants, it feels like I'm playing with bottle caps and reminds me of destitute plebeians with chess sets at the park.  Especially when I'm the one bringing all the unpainted minis because I always have amazing and great aspirations for having entire painted regiments of 'Mechs like 3rdCrucisLancers used to have but I never get around to it because I am too busy playing video games since no one will play BattleTech with me.

Not even faction affiliations made me enjoy the universe.  I mean, I tried to grin and bear it when I had the Capellan Confederation pushed on me, but it's really only left a bad taste in my mouth from all the horrible and disgusting discussions about interstellar events.  I've read and posted in so many flame wars and little thread-farts where people from elsewhere would drop by and leave a snarky one-liner that wasn't funny at all just to troll the thread.  I once thought it was my duty as a Capellan Citizen or some other make-believe job to do all this, but I can't handle the responsibility and the pressure anymore!  I have Asian parents that I only just managed to escape last year, and their words and attitudes and mindset continue to echo in my head, and drive me insane, and playing the Confederation just reminds me of that and I can't take it.  Why couldn't we all just get along like back in the original Star League?

I guess I'd have been more okay with it if they made CCAF 'Mechs more balanced, like have them able to produce weapons on par with other factions.  I'm talking about giving them more Standard Fusion Engine 'Mechs with Clan ERPPCs and Improved Heavy Gauss Rifles and Clan Double Heat Sinks, of course.  I wanted to be able to roll with whatever Capellan unit I want and my opponents needed to understand that they've already lost before the initiative dice hit the table.  Oh, and let's not forget WarShips, we needed twenty more of those, good ones like the Texas-class right now, at the beginning of the Dark Age.

Also, these forums are terrible.  I can't scroll down one stupid page without seeing a dumb forum user make an inane post about how BattleTech isn't the way HE (or she) wants it or how some loose end error from the FASA era hasn't been fixed yet and will never be or something like that.  Oh also, I hated it when the anti-Catalyst Game Labs rebel grognards clashed against the pro-Catalyst Game Labs apologists and there were posts deleted and I didn't get to read all of the hate and pent-up loneliness that I could associate with in their words.

Oh well, I guess this game's dying anyways since I can't find anybody to play a game with again and nobody answered my rules questions about Superheavy 'Mechs on the Rules Questions forum.  Just wanted to post a thread here because I'm in need of attention and you should all grovel at my feet.

I'm done with this game until CGL releases personnel bios for every soldier in the FWL. And if CGL really cared about BattleTech they'd increase the size of armies by a factor of 500 and increase weapon range. That's the way it is IRL, so that's the way it should be in this game, amirite?

It's been an interesting ride, but I've poured several hundred dollars into this franchise and I believe I haven't gotten my money's worth.  Pushing around little metal men and pretending they were board game robots has worn too thin for me.  I don't even know what kind of scenarios I want to play anymore!  There's too much to try and I never found what I liked.  BV is dumb, it doesn't help me decide what forces I should bring that make sense and are good and will help me win.  Oh also, why couldn't there have been regularly scheduled tournaments at specific BattleTech-themed venues where you must bring fully-painted miniatures that look professional to play?  I hate coming to a game and having to proxy unpainted chassis and proxy partially-assembled variants, it feels like I'm playing with bottle caps and reminds me of destitute plebeians with chess sets at the park.  Especially when I'm the one bringing all the unpainted minis because I always have amazing and great aspirations for having entire painted regiments of 'Mechs like 3rdCrucisLancers used to have but I never get around to it because I am too busy playing video games since no one will play BattleTech with me.

Not even faction affiliations made me enjoy the universe.  I mean, I tried to grin and bear it when I had the Capellan Confederation pushed on me, but it's really only left a bad taste in my mouth from all the horrible and disgusting discussions about interstellar events.  I've read and posted in so many flame wars and little thread-farts where people from elsewhere would drop by and leave a snarky one-liner that wasn't funny at all just to troll the thread.  I once thought it was my duty as a Capellan Citizen or some other make-believe job to do all this, but I can't handle the responsibility and the pressure anymore!  I have Asian parents that I only just managed to escape last year, and their words and attitudes and mindset continue to echo in my head, and drive me insane, and playing the Confederation just reminds me of that and I can't take it.  Why couldn't we all just get along like back in the original Star League?

I guess I'd have been more okay with it if they made CCAF 'Mechs more balanced, like have them able to produce weapons on par with other factions.  I'm talking about giving them more Standard Fusion Engine 'Mechs with Clan ERPPCs and Improved Heavy Gauss Rifles and Clan Double Heat Sinks, of course.  I wanted to be able to roll with whatever Capellan unit I want and my opponents needed to understand that they've already lost before the initiative dice hit the table.  Oh, and let's not forget WarShips, we needed twenty more of those, good ones like the Texas-class right now, at the beginning of the Dark Age.

Also, these forums are terrible.  I can't scroll down one stupid page without seeing a dumb forum user make an inane post about how BattleTech isn't the way HE (or she) wants it or how some loose end error from the FASA era hasn't been fixed yet and will never be or something like that.  Oh also, I hated it when the anti-Catalyst Game Labs rebel grognards clashed against the pro-Catalyst Game Labs apologists and there were posts deleted and I didn't get to read all of the hate and pent-up loneliness that I could associate with in their words.

Oh well, I guess this game's dying anyways since I can't find anybody to play a game with again and nobody answered my rules questions about Superheavy 'Mechs on the Rules Questions forum.  Just wanted to post a thread here because I'm in need of attention and you should all grovel at my feet.

If you need attention you need to l2p n00b.

[/end april fools trolling]

[Youngblood]

[/end april fools trolling]

Okay, now you've just crossed the line with that tag.

[GreekFire]

Okay, now you've just crossed the line with that tag.

#YOLO #Swag #cuteguy #single #CallMe

[Atlas3060]

GG, can I have your drops?

[Youngblood]

For those who would covet my miniatures and books that I will no longer need, let it be known that I will be melting them all down into a large paper-maché-slag sculpture that I will be literally throwing down on the table of the largest BattleTech game event at GenCon and ruining the robot positioning and general mood of everyone who is attending.  And in those moments that I am maced, beaten, and dragged away from the convention by security, I will be kicking, screaming, and reaffirming the fact that I am greater than the franchise and anything it ever was or will be.

[Atlas3060]

That sounds like it will be heavy, do you even lift?

[Lorcan Nagle]

Even worse, it'll be bad Feng Shuei

[SCC]

The Capellans are imba and have so much fiat they haven't lost a battle since the 4th succession war

You know, in broad strokes I think this is accurate.

[/end april fools trolling]

Actually that should be [/April fools trolling] or [end April fools trolling/], apart from the wrong form of brackets

[Jackmc]

"You should have picked a better faction."   >:D >:D

[GreekFire]

You know, in broad strokes I think this is accurate.

Actually that should be [/April fools trolling] or [end April fools trolling/], apart from the wrong form of brackets

[Degman]

"You should have picked a better faction."   >:D >:D

True that. He should have picked the good, old FWL.

Mo more faction, no more worries  ;)

[Stormlion1]

Its not the faction he is with that causes him grief its that he didn't pick the greatest faction of all! Yep bring back the love and join the Marion Hegemony or even better the Mandrills if the Clans are more your thing!

[GreekFire]

I think he's just annoyed that Sun Tzu inherited the CC instead of Kali. I think she would have made a great Chancellor.

[YingJanshi]

I think he's just annoyed that Sun Tzu inherited the CC instead of Kali. I think she would have made a great Chancellor.

Well, yeah. Everything that made Romano such a great Chancellor and humanitarian Kali has tenfold.

[cold1]

I'm gonna be real honest... this is the worst April fools joke ever.

It's not funny.  It's like burning down your best friends house and then yelling April Fools at him...

But I am glad it is a joke

[Thatguybil]

Don't forget your towel!

[JadeHellbringer]

I'm gonna be real honest... this is the worst April fools joke ever.

It's not funny.  It's like burning down your best friends house and then yelling April Fools at him...

But I am glad it is a joke

HEY.

You shut your mouth. Arson can be HILARIOUS.

 O:-)

[ClarkeMarek]

True that. He should have picked the good, old FWL.

Mo more faction, no more worries  ;)

Nonsense.  House Liao FTW!!!  Zhen Sheng! O0

[truetanker]

Life is like a cereal, Mickie likes it.

TT

[GreekFire]

Nonsense.  House Liao FTW!!!  Zhen Sheng! O0

WHAT THE HECK your spoiler'd sig doesn't say "made you look" anymore!!

Welp, there goes the neighborhood.

[SteelRaven]

If April fools, I honestly don't see the punchline.

[Stormlion1]

If April fools, I honestly don't see the punchline.

then try harder!  ;D

[ClarkeMarek]

WHAT THE HECK your spoiler'd sig doesn't say "made you look" anymore!!

Welp, there goes the neighborhood.

Well, then, I'll say it now: MADE YOU LOOK!!!!!!  :D

(Seriously, I changed it when an associate of mine passed away.  I would've gone back to it, but I thought I'd change it to see who notices! :) )

[skiltao]

Typical martian post.  I already have you on my Block list for being too smart at me.

Well played.  ;D

[Youngblood]

GUYS, WEIRDEST THING happened to me.  I went to bed on Sunday night and had this stupidly vivid dream that I vomited out a wall of text on the General Discussion forum and people woke up and started posting on it with just about every single off-topic response ever!

...I don't have to clean up after this, do I?

[ClarkeMarek]

GUYS, WEIRDEST THING happened to me.  I went to bed on Sunday night and had this stupidly vivid dream that I vomited out a wall of text on the General Discussion forum and people woke up and started posting on it with just about every single off-topic response ever!

...I don't have to clean up after this, do I?

No.  The mods will just lock it.  That, or sweep it to the MW Hall.  BTW, if it makes you feel any better, I dreamt I was a Capellan.

...

Ah, dammit.  Last time I mix Coke and Stoli.

[MadCapellan]

Lovely parody, my friend!  8 stars out of 10.

[ANS Kamas P81]

Depends on what kind of coke you're mixing, CM...  O:-)

[Youngblood]

Lovely parody, my friend!  8 stars out of 10.

Would troll again?

[greatsarcasmo]

Would troll again.