AFFS High Command: Eternal Grandeur

[greatsarcasmo]

I assume this is FM:3085 or what have you? Similar set up as FM:U?
Which would get me my paint schemes on the Filtvelt! Yay!

[greatsarcasmo]

Somehow I doubt it, but softly softly catchee monkee, I s'pose. Maybe somebody liked my little Blakist conference call riff.

Yvonne, however, dictated they changed paint schemes...

[3rdCrucisLancers]

Yvonne, however, dictated they changed paint schemes...

Everywhere I turn, hot red-headed women are telling me what to do!

[greatsarcasmo]

Everywhere I turn, hot red-headed women are telling me what to do!

To be envious of another mans woes...

[Paladin1]

To be envious of another mans woes...

Exactly!  Be glad your redhead doesn't have combat training Edward, that little jewel makes things around here interesting...

[nerd]

Everywhere I turn, hot red-headed women are telling me what to do!

And how would that be a problem?

[Caesar Steiner for Archon]

Everywhere I turn, hot red-headed women are telling me what to do!

Ugh, don't remind me.

You know, if you ever feel like a change of scenery, you could keep the same acronym by signing up with the 3rd Caesar's Legion. It's just an idea.

[3rdCrucisLancers]

Ugh, don't remind me.

You know, if you ever feel like a change of scenery, you could keep the same acronym by signing up with the 3rd Caesar's Legion. It's just an idea.

Gotta level with you: I've always loved the Lyran Guard paint scheme, and the 3rd LG's CO is the brother of the former 3rd CL's CO.

Say, does anyone know if the Fennec is scheduled or funded as a mini?

[Moonsword]

Doesn't appear to have been from a quick check of the IWM website and the forums here.

[Caesar Steiner for Archon]

Gotta level with you: I've always loved the Lyran Guard paint scheme, and the 3rd LG's CO is the brother of the former 3rd CL's CO.

Say, does anyone know if the Fennec is scheduled or funded as a mini?

The Zardettos are kind of a big deal over here. Them and the Vosses.

[97jedi]

I should note that I was replying to Neko's post, who was speaking about DCMS units.

Also, Sarcasmo, I think that FM:U had little if anything regarding color schemes.

[Weirdo]

The RAC and plasma rifle variants are solid.

Wait, there's a Plasma Garm? Sweet! The original was useful, the RAC nasty against other lights, but a cheap Plasma-toting light? You Davions are covered as far as anti-combined-arms-units is concerned.

[Moonsword]

Cheap... not so much.  6/9 LFE.

[Weirdo]

I balance by BV, and that's what I meant by cheap(at least, I hope it is). I don't think I've ever done anything with C-Bills, aside from the rules for incorporating support vees into Chaos Campaign.

[MadDogMaddux]

The RAC and plasma rifle variants are solid.

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In some ways, the Garm 01C is the Feddie variant of the Wight or Hollander. And the 1A2.....so many other light 'Mechs are going to crumble with that kind of heat being dished out.

As far as the Wolfhound goes. It's Lyran, it's slow for a light 'mech with nothing more for an ERPPC (in its best variant, the 3S) to show for being slow (at least the Garm has a Plasma Rifle or RAC, the Wight has an HPPC, and the Hollander has a Gauss), it doesn't jump, and for the BV/Tonnage you paid for it, you could have had a Talon or a Spector - which have better maneuverability, equivalent armor, and decent payload.

Seriously, your Javelin 10N could hose the Wolfhound 3S in a duel - for a full 5 tons less!

The only reason the Wolfhound gets any cred is because Phelan drove it. And no self-respecting AFFS player should field one. :P

[Caesar Steiner for Archon]

I think that's far from the only reason. The WLF is also rock-solid in L1 play and has a bank of good will built up from that, for one.

[3rdCrucisLancers]

I should note that I was replying to Neko's post, who was speaking about DCMS units.

>sob<

Wait, there's a Plasma Garm? Sweet! The original was useful, the RAC nasty against other lights, but a cheap Plasma-toting light? You Davions are covered as far as anti-combined-arms-units is concerned.

Ask me about our SNPPC/LMG Javelin!

I think that's far from the only reason. The WLF is also rock-solid in L1 play and has a bank of good will built up from that, for one.

It also has an SFE and can take a beating. The inability to jump is the only strike against it, in my book.

[Ian Sharpe]

The WLF-2 is still solid up until the latest and greatest.  The 3S is where it started going wrong.

[Caesar Steiner for Archon]

I don't necessarily mind the 3S, it's just not really... a Wolfhound. Like a Thud without triple mediums on one side and a missile rack on the other.

[3rdCrucisLancers]

I don't necessarily mind the 3S, it's just not really... a Wolfhound. Like a Thud without triple mediums on one side and a missile rack on the other.

I have a hard time trusting a Thud that doesn't have triple mediums and an arm-mounted BFG. The 60-RLA is a mockery meant only for those who would mock a weeping child.

[MadDogMaddux]

I have a hard time trusting a Thud that doesn't have triple mediums and an arm-mounted BFG. The 60-RLA is a mockery meant only for those who would mock a weeping child.

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[MadDogMaddux]

Really, the Wolfhound is a passing fair 'Mech. And yes, in the Introductory ruleset, it's pretty darn good. But Battletech is not about just oldschool Level 1, unless you want to go back to whining about DHS. And on the modern battlefield, the modern WLF just doesn't cut it.

If you're a Lyran player and don't understand how to play a light 'Mech, then sure, maybe. But then you'd be better off with something like a Hollander anyhow. If you're a Davion player, for the love of the Six Liberties and the First Prince, man, take a Javelin, Spector, or Talon over a Wolfhound.

Damn Katherine-ists, the lot of you!

[3rdCrucisLancers]

The Talon is a Lyran design, as is the Spector, Nabroleon Bronaparte.

[MadDogMaddux]

Bah, details!

I'm on my high horse here, don't confuse me with facts!!!

[Ian Sharpe]

Like the Spector, Talon is too fugly to field, and the Javelin...eh.  I'll be happier with a PXH-6D or a Wraith or something.

[MadDogMaddux]

Like the Spector, Talon is too fugly to field, and the Javelin...eh.  I'll be happier with a PXH-6D or a Wraith or something.

Well, sure, we'd ALL prefer to field Mediums if we had the chance.

Except maybe Edward.

But if you've GOT to take Lights.....


And how can you NOT call the Wolfhound Fuggly? It looks like it came straight out of an early 80s video game, before they had developed the technology to handle curved lines!!!

[3rdCrucisLancers]

I just like light 'mechs because when I inevitably lose them, my teammates are less upset than if they had been heavier designs.

[Neko_Bijin]

Interesting.  Now if only you could get the enemy to underestimate and perhaps ignore you, there could be some real potential there.

[3rdCrucisLancers]

Interesting.  Now if only you could get the enemy to underestimate and perhaps ignore you, there could be some real potential there.

The problem is that they usually exactly estimate my potential, and then safely ignore me.

[Neko_Bijin]

Perhaps you could try being worse?  Or at any rate, doing things unpredictable?

I've had success with light mechs simply by running around the battlefield stabbing the wounded.  Perhaps your role could be to attack the enemy's plan moreso than his mechs.