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One of these days we need to play out the 4th MAC's last stand verse the Republic; I just need to determine my force composition. I know the commander piloted a Starslayer.
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So Alpha Strike or Traditional?
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And we rolled DICE for HOURS to play our games! There was none of this plastic clicky nonsense! Our DICE were radioactive TOO! And we had to roll them for hours and hours and hours to track EVERY SINGLE MISSILE! Why, my some of my friends are STILL rolling dice for their last turn when I left Norman THREE YEARS ago! And I don't plan to move back for at least five years and it STILL won't be my turn! But we didn't know any better, and we LIKED IT.
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I'll be bringing a force for each, and we can just see what folks want to play. :)

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I'll also bring Naval Command, just in case.
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I'll bring my stuff.  I would like some old awful Battletech.
The Patton of wargame design, the Berg himself, is being immortally quoted elsewhere.
"Rich Berg once responded to gamers comments about one of his games, "I make this ****** up, so can you.""

"Back in MY day we played Battletech with figures made of LEAD! POISONED LEAD! And the only PAINT we had was RADIOACTIVE! Why, we lost at least THREE or FOUR dear friends every YEAR to BATTLETECH POISONING! But we didn't know any better, and we LIKED IT!
And we rolled DICE for HOURS to play our games! There was none of this plastic clicky nonsense! Our DICE were radioactive TOO! And we had to roll them for hours and hours and hours to track EVERY SINGLE MISSILE! Why, my some of my friends are STILL rolling dice for their last turn when I left Norman THREE YEARS ago! And I don't plan to move back for at least five years and it STILL won't be my turn! But we didn't know any better, and we LIKED IT.
These kids today."  --Jim Butcher, Dresden Chronicles Author

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Sounds good to me! O0

Bring a force from any era you want. For Alpha Strike I'll be bringing a company of SLDF troops, and for TW, a small 3150s Jade Falcon group.
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hopefully i can make it.  bringing a lance of mechs for BT...

thats all i'll say.

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(keep in mind that we were going to try using those quirks found in the new manual/book/whateverthehellitis.)
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Forgot to mention to Terence that Wild West Comics just restocked the Imperial Light Cruiser for Armada.
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But can we do it in less than 12 parsecs?
The Patton of wargame design, the Berg himself, is being immortally quoted elsewhere.
"Rich Berg once responded to gamers comments about one of his games, "I make this ****** up, so can you.""

"Back in MY day we played Battletech with figures made of LEAD! POISONED LEAD! And the only PAINT we had was RADIOACTIVE! Why, we lost at least THREE or FOUR dear friends every YEAR to BATTLETECH POISONING! But we didn't know any better, and we LIKED IT!
And we rolled DICE for HOURS to play our games! There was none of this plastic clicky nonsense! Our DICE were radioactive TOO! And we had to roll them for hours and hours and hours to track EVERY SINGLE MISSILE! Why, my some of my friends are STILL rolling dice for their last turn when I left Norman THREE YEARS ago! And I don't plan to move back for at least five years and it STILL won't be my turn! But we didn't know any better, and we LIKED IT.
These kids today."  --Jim Butcher, Dresden Chronicles Author

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Hope so.I suspect whoever's bringing the supplies does NOT have access to that much masking tape...
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i was actually looking at the rules myself, and i would like to make one suggestion.  instead of trying to actually recreate Mario Cart we could simply do an X-Wing version of it.  I was thinking that we could use existing X-Wing cards instead of custom ones.  let me put it like this:

mushroom = Adrenaline Rush [single use]
gold mushroom = Push The Limit [keep for remainder of race]
superstar = Expertise [keep]
bananas = Proximity Mine
red shell = Adv. Homing Missiles
green shell = Proton Rockets
lightening = Ion Torpedo
ghost = Stealth Device [keep]

oh, and i can handle the tape.  i think.  i am actually considering doing it ahead of time on an artboard, so that way it is mobile and reusable.  main thing is just getting the exact measurements for the track if possible.
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I wasn't able to get anything printed out.
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i will have to tape up someone's playmat... it was going to cost more than twenty bucks just to get the board.  so we will see how it goes before i commit that much to racing.
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just looked at the rules; you can't use large base ships, lone wolf, or wingman.
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Who's bringing the cards and tokens and such?
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"...finally, giant space panties don't seem so strange." - Whistler
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I will show.  I have nothing.  And I may need to just watch since I have some deliverables that I need to get uploaded for work.
The Patton of wargame design, the Berg himself, is being immortally quoted elsewhere.
"Rich Berg once responded to gamers comments about one of his games, "I make this ****** up, so can you.""

"Back in MY day we played Battletech with figures made of LEAD! POISONED LEAD! And the only PAINT we had was RADIOACTIVE! Why, we lost at least THREE or FOUR dear friends every YEAR to BATTLETECH POISONING! But we didn't know any better, and we LIKED IT!
And we rolled DICE for HOURS to play our games! There was none of this plastic clicky nonsense! Our DICE were radioactive TOO! And we had to roll them for hours and hours and hours to track EVERY SINGLE MISSILE! Why, my some of my friends are STILL rolling dice for their last turn when I left Norman THREE YEARS ago! And I don't plan to move back for at least five years and it STILL won't be my turn! But we didn't know any better, and we LIKED IT.
These kids today."  --Jim Butcher, Dresden Chronicles Author

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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #106 on: 03 February 2017, 10:53:18 »
What's the plan for this weekend? Are people planning to show up, or hunker down at home to avoid super bowl crowds?
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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #107 on: 03 February 2017, 12:51:09 »
Hunker down and go to work,

BTW, GO FALCONS!
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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #108 on: 03 February 2017, 13:28:51 »
BTW, GO FALCONS!

Thanks, but that only applies if people want to do a TW game. I don't have a good CJF force set up for AS yet. :)

Alternatively, I'm always up for Starmada, I just need to know before the end of work today so that I can print record sheets. :)
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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #109 on: 04 February 2017, 22:50:30 »
Well, I'll be there, the new X-wing pieces are out today; saw them at Wild West Comics.

 :o :oYEESH :o :o...that Upsilon shuttle is BIG.......and Boshek is back O0
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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #110 on: 10 February 2017, 12:30:07 »
Plans for this weekend?
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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #111 on: 11 February 2017, 03:08:22 »
Weren't you wanting to replay the Starmada fight using different tactics? (I'll run a couple ships if needed)

I'll bring some X-wing, AS, and CBT.
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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #112 on: 11 February 2017, 11:46:58 »
I was, I just didn't want to trample over anybody else's ideas.
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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #113 on: 12 February 2017, 22:51:23 »
In regards to the brief discussion of Capellan aerospace fighters, the 3085 plane is the Mengqin.
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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #114 on: 14 February 2017, 02:26:22 »
Ok, my brain is fried (seriously, couldn't do the captcha) and I have been thinking about this all day, if this sounds jumbled, I am well and truly sorry. Here is a list of ships from Halopedia that I was able to find models for for Starmada.

Must have ships:

Marathon Class Heavy Cruiser: https://www.halopedia.org/Marathon-class_heavy_cruiser
Paris Class Heavy Frigate: https://www.halopedia.org/Paris-class_heavy_frigate
The Infinity: https://www.halopedia.org/UNSC_Infinity


Ships that can be done later:

Epoch Class Heavy Carrier: https://www.halopedia.org/Epoch-class_heavy_carrier
Halberd Class Destroyer: https://www.halopedia.org/Halberd-class_destroyer
Orbital Defense Platform: https://www.halopedia.org/Orbital_defense_platform
Orion Class Assault Carrier: https://www.halopedia.org/Orion-class_assault_carrier
Punic Class Super Carrier: https://www.halopedia.org/Punic-class_supercarrier
Valiant Class Super Heavy Cruiser: https://www.halopedia.org/Valiant-class_super-heavy_cruiser


Fighters:

F-41 Broadsword: https://www.halopedia.org/F-41_Broadsword
GA-TL1 Longsword: https://www.halopedia.org/GA-TL1_Longsword
YSS-1000 Sabre: https://www.halopedia.org/YSS-1000_Sabre


V: Rambling

From what I can tell, MACs come in 5 types:

Mini; mounted in batteries either on the ground or the Punic's broadside armament.
Light; mounted spinaly on Frigates and paired on Destroyers.
Medium; mounted spinaly on Destroyers and paired on Light Cruisers.
Heavy; mounted spinaly on Light Cruisers and paired on Heavy Cruisers.
Super; Orbital Stations and Dreadnoughts.

Combat for the UNSC mainly consists of long range engagement with the MACs to strip shields and cause initial causalities followed by short range engagement with fighters and massed Archer Missile barrages to clean up.

As far as fighter compliments on ships, I was thinking we could either allow customization by picking fighters beforehand or just simplifying and sticking to the Longsword. The Marathon Class gives us a good idea of the fighter compliments of other ships, we know it carries 24 fighters, or 4 flights of 6, and has hangar rating of 2. Leading me to believe the hangar rating is doubled to get the total fighter compliment. 12 fighters per hangar, 2 flights per hangar. This gets kind of crazy when talking about the Punic. Total hangar rating of 14 = 28 flights of 6 fighters = 168 fighters.


Long story short: Cut everything out and assembled them. Ordered bases. And found a model for the Infinity, which seams to be roughly in scale.



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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #115 on: 14 February 2017, 09:22:53 »
1: Banana! >:D

2: Welcome to the forums! We're all mad here... ^-^

3: I'll take a look at those and get on the conversions.

4: Why is everything spoiler tagged? ???
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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #116 on: 14 February 2017, 13:47:03 »
I thought that using spoilers would colapse it and make it all nice.and compact, not black it out.

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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #117 on: 18 February 2017, 19:53:51 »
Good news; Bad news.

Got called into work today and didn't get to go airsofting. Which means that I will be at the comic book store tomorrow.

More good news;

I picked up the Orion Class Assault Carrier, the UNSC Infinity and the bases I need came in.

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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #118 on: 18 February 2017, 21:35:02 »
Very nice! I haven't had time to convert the ships yet, but I'll get on them sometime this week.
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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #119 on: 20 February 2017, 00:50:44 »
HUZZAH......I do indeed have a copy of Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome; I will bring it to the next game.
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