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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #540 on: 22 March 2018, 11:57:32 »
The middle one looks like a thunderbolt

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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #541 on: 22 March 2018, 12:09:00 »
Guess what I was taking as the head could be the LRM rack . . . in fact, you are probably right.
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #542 on: 22 March 2018, 12:33:16 »
Griffin, Thunderbolt, Shadow Hawk (front to back)

So yes, that is "Battlemech: Griffin"

Note: The griffin is in the intro set, not the GoAC, but it has cards in the GoAC.
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #543 on: 22 March 2018, 12:35:16 »
Looks like the 3050 take to me, just a better sculpt.

it's got some MWO in it as well



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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #544 on: 22 March 2018, 12:43:48 »
From Day of Heroes scenario. (courtesy of Sarna.net)  This is the closest art to the new one.




I find the MWO one a little too low-slung on the cockpit, which is more Thug-like to me.

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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #545 on: 22 March 2018, 12:49:02 »
yeah it's clearly not all of one. the new sculpt definitely takes the hip panels and feet (uneven toe split) from MWO as well as the right arm. the upper torso is much more 3050 with the enclosed torso PPCs

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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #546 on: 22 March 2018, 13:33:52 »
Yeah, but the hip panels look more like a reseen Warhammer than the MWO Awesome.
There are style elements, a more “modern look”, but not taking specific items from the MWO.
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #547 on: 22 March 2018, 13:34:05 »
Want a closer look at the Mechwarrior cards? Previews coming tonight!
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #548 on: 22 March 2018, 13:57:30 »
Please tell me there are trap cards.  Asking for a friend.
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #549 on: 22 March 2018, 14:02:46 »
Probably not, but...

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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #550 on: 22 March 2018, 14:22:14 »
Note: The griffin is in the intro set, not the GoAC, but it has cards in the GoAC.
actually that’s Alpha Strike cards, these are MechWarrior cards.

The Beginner Box has no Alpha Strike cards. The GoAC box has Alpha Strike cards, and includes the Griffin.

Both boxes have MechWarrior cards; the BB has cards for the Wolverine, Griffin and some of the ‘Mechs from the GoAC. The GoAC has cards for all the ‘Mechs that it comes with, as well as the Griffin.

The cards are double sided. A different MechWarrior on each side. There are two different sets between boxes, you won't get any duplicate cards. 
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #551 on: 22 March 2018, 14:56:16 »
So we get . . . a Wolverine pilot, a Battlemaster? and of course the Shadow Hawk

Looks like they also give 4 specific bits of info- ?, Affiliation, ?, Battlemech . . . but the battlemech looks like a name?  since that does not look like enough space for 'Wolverine'?

The first one looks like

Rank: MechWarrior
Affiliation ?? / ??
Unit?: ??
Battlemech: Griffin

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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #552 on: 22 March 2018, 15:20:03 »
Lol, we are all squinting at the blow up picture to make things out.
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #553 on: 22 March 2018, 15:31:27 »
Lol, we are all squinting at the blow up picture to make things out.

yeah i've been zooming in and trying to make out the distorted text

I noticed the rulebook is 56 pages. That's slimmed down from the CGL box variants ran around 80 pages.

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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #554 on: 22 March 2018, 15:42:12 »
Lol, we are all squinting at the blow up picture to make things out.

Nothing new there for fans. I remember chuckling at the people at Gencon years ago painstakingly trying to reassemble the torn-up pages of what turned out to be The Blake Documents after they'd been torn from the book and hurled at the heretic responsible for the book (Herb). All night people were trying to match up shreds of pages to learn a few hours before the book released just what secrets and lies were contained within. Quite entertaining. (Really the whole thing was funny as hell- poor Herb looked totally flummoxed. If he was in on the act and knew it was coming, he acted it out VERY well.)
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #555 on: 22 March 2018, 15:49:50 »
Lol, we are all squinting at the blow up picture to make things out.

Hey, it beats working.  ;)

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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #556 on: 22 March 2018, 16:21:52 »
Lol, we are all squinting at the blow up picture to make things out.

Which is kinda more entertaining than just releasing the previews, but you’ll have the answers later this evening (U.S. EST).
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #557 on: 22 March 2018, 19:02:14 »
I see: Hafa Kaur, Simon Beckner, and Durant Carlyle (presumably)
Kaur is new to me. Beckner is pretty obscure. Carlyle is pretty well known because of Grayson, but not much on him. I'm guessing these are pilots from the new fiction included. (Did I miss that being stated earlier?)

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« Reply #558 on: 22 March 2018, 19:22:42 »
Only Durant is part of the accompanying fiction.
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« Reply #559 on: 22 March 2018, 19:28:03 »
As promised, here's your first look at a few of the Mechwarrior pilot cards which will be included in the upcoming boxed sets! You'll receive four in the Beginner Box and eight different ones in the A Game of Armored Combat box, and each is double-sided, giving you a total of 24 unique MechWarriors to spice up your games.

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« Reply #560 on: 22 March 2018, 19:31:51 »
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #561 on: 22 March 2018, 19:33:53 »
As promised, here's your first look at a few of the Mechwarrior pilot cards which will be included in the upcoming boxed sets! You'll receive four in the Beginner Box and eight different ones in the A Game of Armored Combat box, and each is double-sided, giving you a total of 24 unique MechWarriors to spice up your games.



Cool, so I'm guessing the RED (Upper left) is the Gunnery, while the Yellow (Upper Right) is Piloting. I'm also guessing the Pilot Special Abilities are not ALPHA STRIKE?
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« Reply #562 on: 22 March 2018, 19:36:29 »
Cool, so I'm guessing the RED (Upper left) is the Gunnery, while the Yellow (Upper Right) is Piloting. I'm also guessing the Pilot Special Abilities are not ALPHA STRIKE?

Yup, Gunnery is upper left, piloting is upper right.

Remember that SPAs were ported over to CBT in Campaign Operations. These abilities are taken directly from those, though slightly reworded in a few cases either for space, or to be a friendlier read for new players.
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« Reply #563 on: 22 March 2018, 19:36:53 »
Definitely TW scale, though AS has most or all of those, so all you'd need to do is look them up.
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« Reply #564 on: 22 March 2018, 19:37:29 »
Yup, Gunnery is upper left, piloting is upper right.

Remember that SPAs were ported over to CBT in Campaign Operations. These abilities are taken directly from those, those slightly reworded in a few cases either for space, or to be a friendlier read for new players.

Gotcha. Except for Zhen Zheng, all the PSA are easily converted to AS anyways as written.

And of course Poor Captain Kalu becomes a worse shot  :( in AS rules (2 Gun + 4 Pilot = 6 divided by 2 = SKILL 3)
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #565 on: 22 March 2018, 19:49:41 »
Gotcha. Except for Zhen Zheng, all the PSA are easily converted to AS anyways as written.

And of course Poor Captain Kalu becomes a worse shot  :( in AS rules (2 Gun + 4 Pilot = 6 divided by 2 = SKILL 3)

The SPAs first appeared in the Alpha Strike Companion, p. 49, before being converted to TW in CO.
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #566 on: 22 March 2018, 19:51:22 »
Beautiful. I love the notable pilots, and having more of them in this format makes me happy.

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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #567 on: 22 March 2018, 19:53:31 »
Beautiful.

I meant to add in the original post: Ray really killed it on these. SO much info to cram in there, and the level of detail is really awesome. Those watermarked faction logos!
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #568 on: 22 March 2018, 19:56:30 »
The SPAs first appeared in the Alpha Strike Companion, p. 49, before being converted to TW in CO.

LIES! They first Appeared in A TIME OF WAR pages 219 - 225  :P
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #569 on: 22 March 2018, 19:59:07 »
LIES! They first Appeared in A TIME OF WAR pages 219 - 225  :P
Correct.

SPAs are for both TW and AS, the TW text is listed on the cards, but they have the same SPAs/values in AS.
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