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General BattleTech Discussion / Re: Upcoming Releases XXVIII: Which Months Have 28 in Them?

« Last post by StCptMara on Today at 00:21:14 »

It's less a case of changed protocols as the fact that PoD printers and classic printing have different margins. Putting a book you had for one on another will lead to bodged print jobs. And that is in addition to every printing company having their own rules, too. For example, you can't just take am Amazon PoD file and put it on Drivethru. (Going by my own self publishing experience here.)

DarkISI, I have to say that the BattleTech forums over the years have been very educational to those who will listen/pay attention to what goes on in the progress to bringing things to our greedy hands. Nothing is ever as simple as we average joes outside the industry want to believe it is, and that people like you, Randall, Herb, Cubby, etc, etc, etc have the experience and patience to tell us these details? That has made understanding the processes, thus understanding the delays that products we really, really want to see (Like: RS: Prototypes: Unabridged...because I want the stats of those variant protomechs!). May not make it easier..but at least we understand it, and can explain it to people kvetching in real life. Thank you!

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Off Topic / Re: What movies/tv are we watching part what ever: Running the streams!

« Last post by Jal Phoenix on Today at 00:20:01 »

ik
ice pirates...
and still has me laughing dinner conversation and space herpes

My favorite part has always been when he pushed the robot over the railing. "Ya see down there?" SHOVE

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Off Topic / Re: Naval Pictures X: Underway on Nuclear Power

« Last post by Colt Ward on Today at 00:17:47 »

One storm deserves another . . .



USS Essex (CV-9) Takes spray over the bow while steaming in heavy seas, Note S2-F at the rear of the flight deck, with its engines turning. Other planes visible, amidships, include AD and F4-D January 12th 1960 .

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Ground Combat / Re: Protomech Damage detail

« Last post by StCptMara on Today at 00:12:15 »

When I first started playing them, I used FASA-style plastic models (due to their smaller size and I was testing them before buying them) and they always freaked people out when they first played them.  There's nothing like that "How are you fitting 15 models in a list?" expression.

In many ways, they are like UrbanMechs.  You should expect much out of them, but the more fire they take is fire your Mechs are not taking.

Still, they tend to have more firepower and/or mobility than an UrbanMech, so there's that.

Used right, they can be very effective. The Minotaur is an ambush predator, the Delphyne and Roc are hit and fade units, Satyr is a line combatant, Erinyes is something we point and laugh at...Svartalfar is something we really want the official sheets for the Svartalfar 2...

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Off Topic / Re: NHL 2023-2024 Vegas Edition: Mojave, Mo' Problems

« Last post by gyedid on Today at 00:04:31 »

I'm perfectly fine with universal retribution. 

Um, like what David Perron tried to do to Artem Zub...?
(even though neither of them were involved in the play that injured Larkin)

cheers,

Gabe

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General BattleTech Discussion / Re: Upcoming Releases XXVIII: Which Months Have 28 in Them?

« Last post by DarkISI on Today at 00:03:46 »

It wouldn't surprise me if the layout had to change because they were printing it on a different machine. it's been a decade, protocols and tolerances have doubtless changed.

It's less a case of changed protocols as the fact that PoD printers and classic printing have different margins. Putting a book you had for one on another will lead to bodged print jobs. And that is in addition to every printing company having their own rules, too. For example, you can't just take am Amazon PoD file and put it on Drivethru. (Going by my own self publishing experience here.)

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The Inner Sphere / Re: How is tank operation different in BT?

« Last post by paladin2019 on Today at 00:01:41 »

I wonder if 40k didn’t influence it as well.  I think a Baneblade has a crew of about 10.  Even a Leman Russ has a crew of 6.

Leman Russ makes sense at up to eight. Basic crew: driver, gunner, commander. Then the bow gunner. A loader or two if the main gun requires them and the exact configuration of the ammunition. Then a gunner for each sponson. It's a lot of guys, but the tank can do a lot of stuff. EDIT : This really means BT needs to revisit the crew numbers. 1/15 tons is not as useful as one per gun position plus a driver, loaders as needed, and maybe a separate commander (based on the developing state's philosophy on commander and gunner vs. commander/gunner). Beyond fluff and campaign/RPG considerations, this is potential quirk territory; a tank with multiple weapon locations might be able to engage multiple targets without the multiple target modifiers so long as they are not engaging multiple targets with weapons mounted in the same location.

RE: operator-level maintenance. Make it happen with the crew positions that you need to operate the tank. You don't get extra bodies with no combat job riding in the tank just to fix it. It's why bow gunners went away when we found out what a bad idea bow guns really are; co-driver/radio operator isn't a legitimate combat task in the tank that justifies getting another trooper schwacked with the tank.

RE: sensor operators, etc. If these functions require dedicated personnel rather than being automated assistance to the crewman who needs it, they are poorly designed. A sensor should cue the commander and/or gunner to a threat, not require another body to monitor the raw data, interpret it, and then tell the crewman who can do something about it. The same with "heat management". If I have to monitor my tank's temperature gauge, the tank design sucks.

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Off Topic / Re: NFL 2023-2024: Hail to the Chefs... great googly moogly

« Last post by ANS Kamas P81 on 10 December 2023, 23:58:01 »

Yeah, that was probably the most painful penalty I've seen in a while.  Deserved, all the same.

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Off Topic / Re: NFL 2023-2024: Hail to the Chefs... great googly moogly

« Last post by 17thRecon on 10 December 2023, 23:53:32 »

Andy Reid really needs to get with his guys about the neutral zone. First Dee Ford, now this. 😂 😂 😂

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Fan Fiction / Re: Beyond Hope: a featurette brought to you by Cannonshop and Monbvol.

« Last post by idea weenie on 10 December 2023, 23:36:50 »

The real question will be how many front-line galaxies the Vipers will have when this is resolved.

He lost three so far, and they should have lost even more with everything else.

Will the Vipers get any reprieve when word returns to the Homeworlds?  I could see someone bidding to absorb them due to the royal mess of this engagement.

The Inner Sphere may end up watching two clans end up being eliminated when they hit the Homeworlds.

Or the other Clans choose to only absorb the non-Warrior castes from the Vipers, to avoid the ego/foolishness of the Viper Warriors from affecting their Clan.