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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #720 on: 06 February 2019, 02:58:49 »
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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #721 on: 06 February 2019, 16:57:23 »
Hey Gents,

It's Corey. Longtime no see.

Finally at a point in which I have time and money to start playing Battletech again. I was wondering where we are meeting up these days. I am in Denton still, but I don't mind driving for a game a couple times a month. Alternatively, if anyone is up my way I would love to found a sub-group up here for us to meet up.
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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #722 on: 09 February 2019, 22:05:00 »
I will be at Gen X Sunday; I'll bring some mechs and sheets. I am good for playing other games as well.
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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #723 on: 09 February 2019, 23:30:05 »
Hey Gents,

It's Corey. Longtime no see.

Finally at a point in which I have time and money to start playing Battletech again. I was wondering where we are meeting up these days. I am in Denton still, but I don't mind driving for a game a couple times a month. Alternatively, if anyone is up my way I would love to found a sub-group up here for us to meet up.

Hey dude, been a while indeed :)

Not gonna make it tomorrow. Ice T and I were talking about a Battletech scenario for next week using our box sets. We can figure it out later on though.
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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #724 on: 10 February 2019, 20:16:46 »
OH GOOD.....I can leave my CBT gear in the car. Sammy and I played an A&A air combat scenario today. Yamato's transport survived; so did the Rookie Zero pilot in a crippled plane  :thumbsup:...…….(promotion)
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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #725 on: 10 February 2019, 22:13:35 »
Here is the initial Japanese setup and endgame.
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 #726 on: 10 February 2019, 22:53:09 »
The idea for next week is that we will only need my and whistler's AGoAC boxes. Since we usually have four players, that'll give us a lance per player. The idea is to play with quirks and as many TacOps rules as we can.
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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #727 on: 10 February 2019, 23:19:01 »
So don't bring any 'mechs and show up sunday?
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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #728 on: 11 February 2019, 00:56:18 »
Just read through Turning Points: Orbisonia  :yikes:   Talk about BRUTAL; linked scenarios with no repairs for any units that are carried over; new units take damage in all locations (except head) ranging from 1/5 to 2/3 initial rating.

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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #729 on: 14 February 2019, 21:26:17 »
Gents, its your favorite out of town Ghost Bear player, Darrell and I will be playing Battletech at Gen X this Sunday the 17 around 1130-1145, bringing a Binary of Diamond Sharks versus a Binary of Steel Vipers, see you there
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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #730 on: 15 February 2019, 07:50:13 »
Hooray! And welcome to the forums!
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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #731 on: 23 February 2019, 10:37:09 »
So what's going on Sunday?
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 #732 on: 23 February 2019, 22:18:42 »
I plan to be at Gen X. I still have my CBT gear in the car, but I was also going to bring "The Duke" (Lord's Legacy edition) as an option.
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I will be at Gen X this Sunday. Anything in particular I should bring?
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HUZZAH.....my 35th anniversary T-shirt has arrived :thumbsup:
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Thoughts for this Sunday? I'll bring a Battletech scenario, but it's a small one, best for just two players.
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Sounds good to me :thumbsup:
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Do the SPAs in Alpha Strike operate the same way in regular play?  I ask because the "Jumping Jack" ability in AS gives a ' -1 to-hit modifier' for any weapon attack when using jumping movement, not reduce the jump move modifier from +3 to +1.
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They are different sometimes, probably to better suit the two rulesets.
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Well, due to the constant flux of my job I haven't been able to get a weekend off to head down to GenX.

However, I mentioned Battletech to one of the cooks working for me and he sounded interested. So yesterday I scheduled both of us off so I could show him a game. We wanted to go big and I set up an epic 17k BV vs 17k BV clash. Word of Blake's 36th Division vs my house brew DCMS command.

https://imgur.com/a/XTytF3U <<<< link to pictures from the game

The game was epic as Battletech usually it. I was testing an objective system I have been working on for some time now. As well as porting command special rules from the old field manuals and new combat manuals into easy to use cards. It was really fun to face off with two very distinct forces and play a game that I savaged the Word of Blake, but overall they won after achieving more objectives than I did.

Hopefully I will get to show y'all the system I created one day. Until then I will keep recruiting more BT fans.

Whistler you will be happy to know he is pledging loyalty to the Lyrans. I showed him their lore and tactics. He is sold. Damn social generals.
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Gents, going to be in town this weekend, bringing Sword of Light for a raid on a second-line Ghost Bear Trinary this Sunday the 17th at Gen-X

See ya there
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See you there! I think we've got Alpha Strike planned.
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Rises from the dead.

So, what's up?

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Anything going on this Sunday at Gen-x? I am in town but I did not bring any mechs
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We're playing a big X-Wing game. Sevengates and Whistler are each bringing Resistance units, and I'm going to bring a double-sized Imperial group to face them.
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There was a mix-up and someone has my AGoAC rulebook, right? Could you bring it tomorrow if possible, please?
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This weekend is X-Wing 2.0, right?

What point value should each force be?
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I checked the Squad Builder site, and it suggests 200pts ('cause all the card cost went up)
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Okay.
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Here's that link I mentioned, with all the papercraft models:

https://www.genetmodels.com/free-stuff/
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