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SteveRestless

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Re: Clan intelligence and the lack thereof.
« Reply #30 on: 27 January 2016, 22:09:47 »
Quote from: The_Caveman on 27 January 2016, 11:03:19
Had the Clans actually been smart, they'd have bypassed all the inhabited systems of the coreward Inner Sphere and struck at Terra first.

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It would be....glorious.

I want to play in this Battletech Setting. (and I've made some attempts at designing something VERY similar)
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False Son

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Re: Clan intelligence and the lack thereof.
« Reply #31 on: 28 January 2016, 11:52:19 »
Quote from: The_Caveman on 27 January 2016, 17:26:41
It would have been far more exciting than you seem to think.

Feel free to create your own head canon.  Feel free to play it on table top with your friends.  Hey, even pop in and say I would have preferred if things went like X instead of Y.   Just remember you're shaking your fist at a ship that has long since sailed.
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Re: Clan intelligence and the lack thereof.
« Reply #32 on: 28 January 2016, 22:30:58 »
Skipping the invasion and just landing on Terra never made any sense to me. It's like saying you won a car race by driving in reverse and then forward again over the finish line. Conquering the resource-rich worlds of the Inner Sphere and reforming the Star League were the real prizes of the invasion. And with prophecy and greed as the driving factors, military intelligence becomes nothing more than another propoganda and marketing tool.
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Re: Clan intelligence and the lack thereof.
« Reply #33 on: 28 January 2016, 23:35:06 »
Quote from: JadedFalcon on 28 January 2016, 22:30:58
Skipping the invasion and just landing on Terra never made any sense to me. It's like saying you won a car race by driving in reverse and then forward again over the finish line. Conquering the resource-rich worlds of the Inner Sphere and reforming the Star League were the real prizes of the invasion. And with prophecy and greed as the driving factors, military intelligence becomes nothing more than another propoganda and marketing tool.

You've got it backward. In this scenario, conquering Terra isn't the finish line. It's the starting line.

Quote from: False Son on 28 January 2016, 11:52:19
Just remember you're shaking your fist at a ship that has long since sailed.

One day I shall come to power and it'll be everyone else's fists that are shaking.  ;)
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Half the fun of BattleTech is the mental gymnastics required to scientifically rationalize design choices made decades ago entirely based on the Rule of Cool.

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Re: Clan intelligence and the lack thereof.
« Reply #34 on: 28 January 2016, 23:39:58 »
Quote from: The_Caveman on 28 January 2016, 23:35:06
You've got it backward. In this scenario, conquering Terra isn't the finish line. It's the starting line.

Ah! Got it. With the classic Clan approach to logistics, conquering Terra first makes more sense.  ;)
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