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Off Topic / Re: What are we Reading Now: Conan the Librarian

« Last post by Zematus737 on Today at 18:42:55 »

Religious discussions are one of the fastest ways to get moderators swarming on a thread.  So let's not.

Wilco.  I wouldn't want to derail a thread that has been a pleasure to keep up with. 

Anyone can continue the discussion on just how much literature has had on the post industrial/printing press world with me in private if they so wish.  PKD was a talented writer but philosophers and sophists, from Spinoza to Dawkins, have had so much of an impact on the hard sciences that you could really have a long discussion about --and turn the argument around to say that-- how it has actually stunted ethical technological advancement. This is why you see works being conceived around this time with works like Mary Shelly's, Frankenstein and Thea von Harbour's, Metropolis are given birth.  Ideas arising from dire portents also, you could say. 

But I concur.  As interesting as it is, and beyond the simplistic, ..because they were atheist! argument, this is not the place for it.

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Ground Combat / Re: The Value of an AC/2

« Last post by CrossfirePilot on Today at 18:32:04 »

I have had a couple of occasions where I have had some AC2 nick me with a CT TAC and take out my gyro.  very irritating.

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General BattleTech Discussion / Re: Upcoming Releases XXIX: First Annual 29th Birthday

« Last post by Tyler Jorgensson on Today at 18:31:06 »

I received my Command Lance today.  The Orion actually looks nice!  Unfortunately, it doesn't fit in with my "plastic grey" unit scheme...

It’s a very fashionable color scheme for a lot of people to ‘paint’. Why I myself have probably 250+ mechs between my Clan and IS factions ‘painted’ in that color :)

Looking forward to Without Question tomorrow.   

Good book!

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Clan Chatterweb / Re: Clan Jade Falcon III: Admittedly, We May Have Falconed a Little Too Hard

« Last post by Tyler Jorgensson on Today at 18:29:19 »

Finished ‘Without Question’ I can look in the Falcon thread again :)

No spoilers without tags…. But Clan Spaniel has a throwaway line :)

Enjoyed it!

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Ground Combat / Re: The Value of an AC/2

« Last post by Arkansas Warrior on Today at 18:18:43 »

I've played with most of those mechs and the Warriors a handful of times. I enjoy the Blackjack because he's just friggin' obnoxious.

The Blackjack is also hilarious because if you do manage to close, you’ve fallen into his trap, because his four MLs are actually his primary battery.

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General BattleTech Discussion / Re: Upcoming Releases XXIX: First Annual 29th Birthday

« Last post by Wolf72 on Today at 18:17:40 »

I received my Command Lance today.  The Orion actually looks nice!  Unfortunately, it doesn't fit in with my "plastic grey" unit scheme...

my order is expected Monday ... so I presume it will arrive between Saturday and Wednesday, and then I'll get a notification it was delivered, lol.

You don't say! Well, sir ... my units (all of them!) is also plastic grey!

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BattleTech Miniatures / Re: Painting SDS Drones

« Last post by Giovanni Blasini on Today at 18:11:59 »

Just keeping it to two types of grey will be easy to follow, very helpful thanks. 

Any idea of the system behind that hull number? It [example: 90114638711] is very long, I think it has enough room for any type of platform in use by the SL. I guess that other SDS drones will likely vary in the last five digits..

Not that I can think of.  That's the only example I remember seeing, and it's so out there compared to what you'd expect I'm not sure how to reconcile it compared to other hull numbering systems.

And, yeah, the numbers are so small that I didn't actually even see that they were there until I was looking at the image to post it today.

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General BattleTech Discussion / Re: Upcoming Releases XXIX: First Annual 29th Birthday

« Last post by Rob Bendig on Today at 17:57:20 »

I received my Command Lance today.  The Orion actually looks nice!  Unfortunately, it doesn't fit in with my "plastic grey" unit scheme...

 

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BattleTech Miniatures / Re: Painting SDS Drones

« Last post by Maingunnery on Today at 17:28:23 »

Just keeping it to two types of grey will be easy to follow, very helpful thanks. 

Any idea of the system behind that hull number? It [example: 90114638711] is very long, I think it has enough room for any type of platform in use by the SL. I guess that other SDS drones will likely vary in the last five digits..

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BattleTech Miniatures / Re: Painting SDS Drones

« Last post by Giovanni Blasini on Today at 16:59:17 »

The canon artwork we have for them doesn't show much in the way of markings other than a hull number:



I checked Iron Wind Metals, but whoever painted that one up for Camospecs chose to go with Word of Blake colors, which isn't terribly helpful:





What Camospecs does have, though, is a page for SLDF Fleet Asset paint schemes, which gives the verbal description and several examples, including this Vincent Mk 39:



That "light grey, dark grey and one other color" gave me enough leeway to go with something vaguely orca-like when I did my own M-5 Caspar: