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MechWarrior Hall / Re: Word Association 36: SAY WHAT AGAIN!!!
« Last post by rebs on Today at 23:11:19 »Favorite
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Off Topic / Re: Deep Space and Interplanetary Exploration - Houston, we are go for launch!
« Last post by rebs on Today at 23:10:00 »NASA has decided that the cost to return Martian samples to Earth is too high. And waiting until 2040 is far too long. So an overhaul of the sample return mission has been called. Let's see how that goes.
Any bets that the price goes up and gets blamed on inflation?
https://www.space.com/nasa-revamp-mars-sample-return-plan
Any bets that the price goes up and gets blamed on inflation?
https://www.space.com/nasa-revamp-mars-sample-return-plan
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Off Topic / Re: naked and affraid
« Last post by garhkal on Today at 23:07:57 »Is that show still going on? I remember it starting when I was in college. Dumb show, IMO, but then most of the survival-themed reality shows have been.
How is it dumb, when these folks have to ACTUALLY survive, on their own. Hunting for their food, building their shelters..
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Off Topic / Re: Deep Space and Interplanetary Exploration - Houston, we are go for launch!
« Last post by rebs on Today at 23:07:21 »Looks like scientist have figured out how Pluto got it's heart shape feature on the planet.
It appears in ancient time a object size of Switzerland collided with Pluto, creating the Sputnik Planitia & Tombaugh Regio regions, aka each sides of the heart.
Unfortunately, the report suggests that because way things turned out and the impact on the region would thinned crust of the planet, there is most likely no subsurface ocean.
Report was posted on phys.org.
Excellent follow up on Pluto. At that distance, a small object maintaining a subsurface body of liquid water all this time was questionable. Not foregone by any means, because there's so much for us to learn when we aren't getting in our own way by assuming we have things figured out. But questionable.
And now we know. Or at least we are pretty sure we know.
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Off Topic / Re: Deep Space and Interplanetary Exploration - Houston, we are go for launch!
« Last post by Wrangler on Today at 22:32:51 »Looks like scientist have figured out how Pluto got it's heart shape feature on the planet.
It appears in ancient time a object size of Switzerland collided with Pluto, creating the Sputnik Planitia & Tombaugh Regio regions, aka each sides of the heart.
Unfortunately, the report suggests that because way things turned out and the impact on the region would thinned crust of the planet, there is most likely no subsurface ocean.
Report was posted on phys.org.
It appears in ancient time a object size of Switzerland collided with Pluto, creating the Sputnik Planitia & Tombaugh Regio regions, aka each sides of the heart.
Unfortunately, the report suggests that because way things turned out and the impact on the region would thinned crust of the planet, there is most likely no subsurface ocean.
Report was posted on phys.org.
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MechWarrior Hall / Re: Word Association 36: SAY WHAT AGAIN!!!
« Last post by Wrangler on Today at 22:25:06 »Preference
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Non-Canon Units / Re: Varangian Guard- A MW5 Narrative unit
« Last post by Colt Ward on Today at 22:18:36 »interesting force
Interesting indeed... :)
MW5 offers some interesting options and only on Ronin War and the last bit of the narrative campaign arc do you get "only bring assaults" . . . I was happy to get War of 3039 which chopped the dropped lance weight target back down to 250-350.
Yeah, I subbed in a Cronus as a 'bought' replacement for the lost Wolverine and will be using a Merlin in a 3040s force.
I figured you played through- why NOT build them as a table top merc force. I keep a set of non-canon mercs as options to be for or against along with individual MWs that could randomly be hired.
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After Action Reports / Re: Big Scrum-Con AAR with lots of pics
« Last post by Lance Leader on Today at 22:08:21 »I am in absolute awe of the map. What an amazing battle report!
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Ground Combat / Remote Sensor Dispenser
« Last post by tynsa on Today at 22:06:03 »Two assumptions regarding this equipment.
1) Each elemental headhunter point is equipped with five sensors, one for each outfit or dispenser. Each can be placed in distinct, otherwise qualified locations.
2) A unit equipped with an active probe can utilize its sensor to detect another unit, resulting in a net bonus of (+1 for indirect +3 for sensor) +4 to the shot, prior to considering the spotter's movement and any additional attack modifiers. (A unit equipped with an operational probe and LRMs would incur an identical +4 penalty while indirectly launching its own missiles.)
Are these accurate?
1) Each elemental headhunter point is equipped with five sensors, one for each outfit or dispenser. Each can be placed in distinct, otherwise qualified locations.
2) A unit equipped with an active probe can utilize its sensor to detect another unit, resulting in a net bonus of (+1 for indirect +3 for sensor) +4 to the shot, prior to considering the spotter's movement and any additional attack modifiers. (A unit equipped with an operational probe and LRMs would incur an identical +4 penalty while indirectly launching its own missiles.)
Are these accurate?
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The Inner Sphere / Re: Icons of Hubris in Battletech
« Last post by Starfury on Today at 22:05:20 »Katherine Steiner Davion
Nondi Steiner
Melissa Steiner (the 3130 plus one)
The last Nova Cat Khans
Kenyon Marik
Elson Nova Cat (until after the Dragoon Civil War)
The great whatever of Amaris from Star Lord
IlKhan Brett Andrews and Steel Viper in general
Nondi Steiner
Melissa Steiner (the 3130 plus one)
The last Nova Cat Khans
Kenyon Marik
Elson Nova Cat (until after the Dragoon Civil War)
The great whatever of Amaris from Star Lord
IlKhan Brett Andrews and Steel Viper in general
