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Re: More crack please
« Reply #60 on: 28 January 2014, 19:13:29 »
Do you need an excuse to end a post with Splint Chesthair?

No no, I'm just worried that if we keep invoking his names, Gristle McThornBody will burst into the thread, and deadlift two urbanmechs.
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« Reply #61 on: 28 January 2014, 19:16:23 »
No no, I'm just worried that if we keep invoking his names, Gristle McThornBody will burst into the thread, and deadlift two urbanmechs.

Deadlift 2 Urbies? No problem...

Deadlift 2 Imps...now that's impressive!
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« Reply #62 on: 28 January 2014, 20:56:53 »
If anyone can do it, Fridge LargeMeat can.
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« Reply #63 on: 28 January 2014, 23:23:28 »
If anyone can do it, Fridge LargeMeat can.
One-handed.  Flint IronStag is just that man.

That actually is a cool name, and could stand a bit of germanics.  Eisenstag is a bad translation but mixed-language portmanteaus aren't unheard of in Battletech after all, see the O'Malluki kid with parents from the O'Malley and Suzuki clans.  And considering we already have the Eisensturm, maybe the Eisenstag is a lighter, faster fighter...even if 'stag' already has a meaning in German, darnit.  Just call it the Iron Stag then.
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« Reply #64 on: 28 January 2014, 23:29:14 »
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« Reply #65 on: 29 January 2014, 04:40:54 »
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« Reply #66 on: 29 January 2014, 07:56:53 »
Updating, Twilight of the Clans for the next generation are we, ANS Kamas? ;)

I think we'll likely see Historical: Wars of the Republic Era, the book looks like it will be firestorm of conflict to campaign in.  I wonder if there will be any interesting units introduced in it.  We still are missing some things like the Trike Squads and such. (I known not as exciting as BattleMechs, but if we can something new I'm not going complain.)

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« Reply #67 on: 29 January 2014, 09:06:13 »
 O0, I'm eagerly awaiting new toys to destroy.  :D

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« Reply #68 on: 29 January 2014, 13:48:12 »
Updating, Twilight of the Clans for the next generation are we, ANS Kamas? ;)

I think we'll likely see Historical: Wars of the Republic Era, the book looks like it will be firestorm of conflict to campaign in.  I wonder if there will be any interesting units introduced in it.  We still are missing some things like the Trike Squads and such. (I known not as exciting as BattleMechs, but if we can something new I'm not going complain.)



I'd say the trike squads would count as motorised infantry.
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« Reply #69 on: 29 January 2014, 14:03:43 »
I'd say the trike squads would count as motorised infantry.
Without the old Record Book infront of me, i can't say for certain. I think they were faster than normal Motorized Infantry. I know their suppose to be different in some way.
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« Reply #70 on: 29 January 2014, 14:08:45 »
They certainly fit into any description of motorized troops, but you may be right about that. If I remember(not bloody likely :-[), I'll check my copy of RS:DA tonight.
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« Reply #71 on: 31 January 2014, 16:16:32 »
The next stage of the WIP cover art for H:WotRE is up.

(Is the "Era" in the name still going to be there? Calling it just "Historical: Wars of the Republic" might be somewhat inaccurate, if only one of the three major conflicts in the book is to actually feature the Republic of the Sphere itself...)
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« Reply #72 on: 31 January 2014, 18:15:14 »
man, I'm so nervous/anxious about WOTRE. I'm worried they're just going to whitewash the DA era's crummy original presentation, when a little bit of alteration could go quite a long ways in fixing the holes in the era.
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« Reply #73 on: 31 January 2014, 19:56:51 »
man, I'm so nervous/anxious about WOTRE. I'm worried they're just going to whitewash the DA era's crummy original presentation, when a little bit of alteration could go quite a long ways in fixing the holes in the era.
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« Reply #75 on: 01 February 2014, 15:28:21 »
Very good!

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« Reply #76 on: 01 February 2014, 15:39:13 »
Now THAT'S a fancy-looking Emperor! O0
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« Reply #77 on: 01 February 2014, 15:56:02 »
I want this book NOW!!!!! :D

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« Reply #78 on: 01 February 2014, 19:18:38 »
Okay, what command is that Emperor from?  [drool]
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« Reply #79 on: 01 February 2014, 20:20:12 »
Amazing art, Alex should be commended makign this stuff look so awesome.  The book is going be piece of art alone, never mind what tales of military campaigns its going to tell!  Man, i can't wait till this thing comes out.
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« Reply #80 on: 01 February 2014, 20:52:24 »
Okay, what command is that Emperor from?  [drool]

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« Reply #81 on: 01 February 2014, 21:01:13 »
House Fujita?

Oh, oh...can't breathe...sorry, read that at first as "House Fajita"...

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« Reply #82 on: 01 February 2014, 21:04:35 »
Oh, oh...can't breathe...sorry, read that at first as "House Fajita"...

No, those colors are medium brown with black trim.
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« Reply #83 on: 01 February 2014, 22:00:49 »
Maybe the wait is building up for a big drop of new stuff that will be released.
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« Reply #84 on: 01 February 2014, 22:03:07 »
Maybe the wait is building up for a big drop of new stuff that will be released.

looking forward to the Era Report. Ilclan and Wars of the Republic Era.

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« Reply #85 on: 02 February 2014, 01:24:23 »
Okay, what command is that Emperor from?  [drool]
It may be House Fujita as it uses copper-gold colour.

Or it may be Sun-Tzu Liao himself. He uses Emperor as his personal BattleMech.

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« Reply #86 on: 02 February 2014, 01:31:24 »
While he's taken the field on occasion(what, once?), Sun-Tzu seems like the kind of guy to leave the fighting to the people who are actually good at it. While he might maintain his mechwarrior training just in case, I doubt he'd actually participate in something as risky as a combat drop. Might be his 'mech though, they did send it out during the worst fighting on Sian with another pilot, and it did a wonderful job of drawing fire.
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« Reply #87 on: 02 February 2014, 01:32:19 »
I thought he fell in combat during the Capellan Crusades...am I misremembering?

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« Reply #88 on: 02 February 2014, 01:38:12 »
...maybe? I know nothing of that conflict, and didn't read any of the DA novels that talked about him. It just seems really out of character for him to go directly into combat like that. I could be horribly wrong, it's happened before.
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« Reply #89 on: 02 February 2014, 02:33:14 »
Perhaps that planet has some high symbolic value. You know, "ancestral Capellan world" and all that stuff.