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[Colt Ward]

As we get set for Shattered Fortress . . .

Its the 3140s, as a Wolf player do you still feel the rivalries of the 3050s & before?  IE, is it all about killing the Falcons, snubbing what is left of the Hellions (if in contact with Imperio), warily looking in the Bears' direction, ignoring the Horses and knowing you are better than the Lyran social generals?

Or do you hate the Lyrans for (supposedly) killing the Khan on their capital?
Regret not pressing further into the League?
Laugh at the superstitious Cats but respect the Protectorate's martial prowess?
want to stamp the mercenaries off of Galatea and surround worlds?
wrest the Desant from the Falcons?

[truetanker]

Wolves! as we race towards Terra, what is your ride?

I think everyone has their own little twist on a canon ride . . .

Septicemia E!

I play Horse all the time!  >:D

TT

[SteveRestless]

As we get set for Shattered Fortress . . .

Its the 3140s, as a Wolf player do you still feel the rivalries of the 3050s & before?  IE, is it all about killing the Falcons, snubbing what is left of the Hellions (if in contact with Imperio), warily looking in the Bears' direction, ignoring the Horses and knowing you are better than the Lyran social generals?

I always felt like the Falcon Rivalry was stronger on the Falcon side than the Wolf side. They envy Kerensky choosing us, whereas... what do we really have to envy them over? I always got the feeling that when we had Jaguars to fight, that given the choice between fighting the Falcons and fighting the Jaguars, in the absence of extenuating circumstances most invasion Wolves would have chosen the Jaguars.

Generally, I respect the  Bears, miss the Traditional Falcons (Galaxy Commander Stephanie Chistu is a breath of fresh air, even if her hobby would be more at home in Clan Ghost Bear), and am ambivalent about the Horses.

Or do you hate the Lyrans for (supposedly) killing the Khan on their capital?
Regret not pressing further into the League?

My resentment for the Lyran state is far more over their trying to use Clan Wolf as their pet, than the death of a Khan. We can make more of those, but they gravely mistook the nature of our arrangement when they saw themselves our masters. I am content with our cease-fire with the League, and if TRO3150 is to be believed, we have trialed them for Jumpship Maintenance at one of their yards. if they honored these trials, then they are as good a neighbor as I could wish for.

Laugh at the superstitious Cats but respect the Protectorate's martial prowess?

It annoys me that the Cats lash out at Clan Wolf when we are blameless for their misery. The first Ghost Bear to request hegira through the empire to reach them is getting my emphatic approval.

want to stamp the mercenaries off of Galatea and surround worlds?
wrest the Desant from the Falcons?

Pointless Distractions. The Road to Terra awaits us, why waste sweat on them?

[SteveRestless]

Interestingly, The Anvil does not depict Wolves in Exile, but it DOES reference their existence, and is set in 3148. If the speculation about their extinction sparked by TRO3150 does come to fruition, it does so at a far later time than anticipated.

[SteveRestless]

According to my watch agent who has a hardcopy of Shattered Fortress for me...

Encrypted Spoilers Follow Use ROT13 to decode.

Orybj gur pyvssunatre jurer gurl yrnir vg hc va gur nve jurgure gur Snypbaf be Jbyirf ernpu Green svefg, vf n cvpgher bs na Ngynf VV svtugvat n Fnintr Jbys. Gur fnzr cvpgher gung jnf, V oryvrir, ng bar gvzr fyngrq gb or gur pbire bs vyPyna.

[Colt Ward]

Interestingly, The Anvil does not depict Wolves in Exile, but it DOES reference their existence, and is set in 3148. If the speculation about their extinction sparked by TRO3150 does come to fruition, it does so at a far later time than anticipated.

To be honest . . . I think Malvina lashes back out with what we saw in the Anvil, and specifically uses what Stephanie did not.

[SteveRestless]

I fear you may be correct. One would think that would draw a rather strenuous rebuke from the other clans though

[Wrangler]

By the way They work  you need manually enter them verse the button.

[Colt Ward]

She already bled/drained the Horses and is likely sparring with them . . . which leaves the Bears on their shared border, travelling Foxes, distant Ravens and occupied Crusader Wolves who were already fighting Malvina.

Would I love the Bears to pound the Falcons, or the Ravens start raiding their space over nukes?  Sure . . .

[Kitsune413]

To be honest . . . I think Malvina lashes back out with what we saw in the Anvil, and specifically uses what Stephanie did not.

Which would make her an idiot because that would end them. If they used that against me I would use it against them at every opportunity. The Clans have a superior weapon in their warriors and equipment. She would make the Inner Sphere an equal with her foolishness.

[Wrangler]

Without reading the book, sounds like Stephanie being setup as next possible Khan of Clan Jade Falcon.

[Kitsune413]

If she was then Clan Jade Falcon is in trouble if Alaric decides to challenge her to a duel with melee weapons...

[Colt Ward]

Kitsune, I would agree except the IS is still scarred from the Jihad apparently and the Warden Wolves may or may not have any to reply . . . and if they did, they would likely have been in the concentration she would have fired them towards.

She executed Ortillery on the Kell Hounds and her Horse allies with very little negative feedback . . . she use plutonium to poison the water of a world, again with little feedback - except to be reviled by everyone who has not clicked their heels to follow her example.

She may . . . but we also have Noritomo Helmer sitting in command of Omega in the Desant.

[Kitsune413]

Yeah. Actually remembering all that it kind of breaks my immersion.

If I'm Trillian Steiner after what Malvina has done I meet every Falcon Batchall with a tactical nuke. Dropships are all retrofitted to carry warheads until the Falcons are shadows burned into the earth.

It's stupid. Every battle between the Lyran Alliance and Clan Jade Falcon at this point should be aerospace forces desperately trying to keep dropships away.

[Colt Ward]

A bit of a thought exercise with the establishment of the Wolf Empire . . .

Khan Alaric Ward has selected you, ristar, to be the Star Colonel of a collection of freebirths from the League or Lyrans (pick) to form a new garrison cluster.  You and your officers will be initiating them to what it means to be a Clan warrior and foremost a Wolf.  You equipment for the freebirths will be leftovers from the Inner Sphere isorla that was taken in the campaigns against the League & Lyrans, and brushes with the Remnant & Galatea- it will contain very little Clan tech gear and no OmniMechs.  The Khan has decided that you can select some equipment for your use and the use of your officers- pick your 4-6 officers (Mostly Star Captains, maybe a Star Commander) which will be promoted from their current slots (meaning you cannot tap, without very good reason, a serving frontline Star Captain.  Since we do not have much actual knowledge of warriors, I basically mean types/qualifications.) who will serve under you.  You maybe have other transfers assigned to the Cluster, but these are likely to be nearly solhama or viewed as dezgra.  You will have at months to turn this collection of warriors into a functioning cluster that will take up assignment along our borders.

So as a example, for my garrison cluster . . .

CO- for my ride I would take either a Night Wolf or Tundra Wolf, which is a pocket heavy.  Most of the IS equipment I get would probably not go faster than 4/6 so it works

Officer #1-  I want a well regarded freebirth mechwarrior who was born in the OZ from IS lines, someone who did not come from the Homeworlds enclaves.  This person would be the living example I would encourage the new warriors to strive to be like.  Probably give this Star Captain something like a Fox-built Black Hawk battlemech or a Jade Hawk to lead a faster trinary.

Officer #2-  Elemental Star Captain, someone to train the freebirths infantry in BA operations, assist in training MW how to operate with BA, and teach the MW how to effectively fight BA.  Their point would probably be Clan Med BA, so Rabids or such.

Officer #3-  Dipping for someone capable of logistics work, this would be a mechwarrior, BA trooper or vehicle crewman who was noted as being gifted with logistics.  They would get a promotion to Star Commander and be the Star Colonel's aide.  They would be in the cluster command star, and equipped with- Blood Reaper/Elemental/Joust dependent on type.

Officer #4-  A defense specialist since this is a garrison unit, either a MW or armor trooper preferably.  They will command a supernova of slower mechs & vehicles that will be the anvil in any deployments.  I would also accept someone who gets more out of their artillery.  This Star Colonel would use something like a Warhammer IIC 4 or Carnivore/Morrigu.

Officer #5-  Solid pilot who can work with ground support, not looking for a pilot who can lead DS defense or raid insertion as much as interdiction.

[SteveRestless]

Shattered Fortress Spoilers

Sure looking Wolf ilClan in here!

2nd Succession War SB foreword speaks of the Exarch providing information to the Loremaster. As if the republic existed in some form within the ilClan. I do not see the Falcons suffering the republic to exist in any capacity, do you? I do not see any other proximate contenders as of this sourcebook. And the Empire tends to be pretty hands off regarding civilian government, have they not?

Shattered Fortress depicts a number of "And then the surviving RAF were made into Lower Castes or Bondsmen" moments.

Then there's Stone's conversations with Tucker that sure sound like getting ready to submit to the Wolf Empire.

My bet? The Clan fleet that arrives in the Terran system in 3151 is Wolf, and has been allowed to arrive to fight a Trial for possession of Terra. The same battle we saw fought so many Gencons ago. The one culminating in Alaric versus Stone, and an overall Wolf Victory.


Other things:

Apparently our lower castes on Phecda were loyal enough to sabotage the RAF occupation. Doubly funny since the Republic seemed to be using that same tactic against the combine and confederation

Outreach is in Capellan hands. I want it back.

The Wolves in Exile have vanished to points unknown. I want to know them.

[Niopsian]

Shattered Fortress Spoilers

The Wolves in Exile have vanished to points unknown. I want to know them.

I'm guessing to wherever Calamity Kell meant when she sent the message saying to meet "Where It All Began".

Which could be a few things, actually. Donegal, since that's where Arthur Luvon christened the Kell Hounds. Or maybe the periphery world where Morgan, Patrick and Katrina found the black boxes?

[Decoy]

My guess is The Rock.

[Deadborder]

Makes you almost wonder what happened to Garner Kerensky...

[Decoy]

It matters little. He failed Clan Wolf. Anastasia Kerensky still breathes.

[Deadborder]

It matters little. He failed Clan Wolf. Anastasia Kerensky still breathes.

And I have no doubt that Anna K aided in said failure

[Colt Ward]

Makes you almost wonder what happened to Garner Kerensky...

Well, there was the article about that . . .

And it was nice to see my prediction on nuking Arc Royal was off- particularly since it happened before Anvil.

I really have to wonder how her neighbors would take the news of Malvina sending Elementals to rampage through Iron Wombs and sibko children.  TPTB definitely want to keep my Warden Wolf hate on for the Falcons.

[Kitsune413]

I'm guessing to wherever Calamity Kell meant when she sent the message saying to meet "Where It All Began".

Which could be a few things, actually. Donegal, since that's where Arthur Luvon christened the Kell Hounds. Or maybe the periphery world where Morgan, Patrick and Katrina found the black boxes?

Terra.

[Tai Dai Cultist]

I'm guessing to wherever Calamity Kell meant when she sent the message saying to meet "Where It All Began".

Which could be a few things, actually. Donegal, since that's where Arthur Luvon christened the Kell Hounds. Or maybe the periphery world where Morgan, Patrick and Katrina found the black boxes?

Terra.

I hadn't considered the WiE as having any chance of being ilClan... and while ultimately Clan Jekyll Wolf is less plausible than Clan Hyde Wolf of being ilClan... I gotta admit it's a lot more plausible than I was originally thinking.  The idea has got a lot of potential.

[Kitsune413]

Terra.


I hadn't considered the WiE as having any chance of being ilClan... and while ultimately Clan Jekyll Wolf is less plausible than Clan Hyde Wolf of being ilClan... I gotta admit it's a lot more plausible than I was originally thinking.  The idea has got a lot of potential.

They suffer the same problems as the Smoke Jaguars. They aren't considered a real clan. But, "Where it all began." for the Clans is Terra and "Where it all began" for the darkage is essentially the same place. They may not even be trying to become Ilclan. But it seems to me if you're Warden Wolves and want to protect the Inner Sphere there is only one place to protect the Inner Sphere from right now and that's Terra.

Callandre is also there in the novel Fortress Republic. But the Exiles are one of the few factions to not have a representative there.

[Kitsune413]

Hunting down the passage in Fortress though she is addressing the Kell Hounds. Not the Wolves in Exile. Though, if I were the Wolves in Exile, Terra is still the place I'd have to go.

[ColBosch]

Terra might be the final destination, but she's talking about where they will meet up for their "Exodus." Maybe New Samarkand, then?

[Kitsune413]

The Kell Hounds could be off to Galatea where the unit was founded. It's still Lyran. But I wouldn't put all of my civilians there.

[Decoy]

You think ;)

For all we know it's at The Rock where one side first met the other. or it could be out on Poulsbo or ANY other place from Kell Hound history. The question should be "Where what began?"

[ColBosch]

You think ;)

For all we know it's at The Rock where one side first met the other. or it could be out on Poulsbo or ANY other place from Kell Hound history. The question should be "Where what began?"

IT ALL. Come on, people!