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Off Topic / Re: What Are We Listening To: This List Goes Up To Eleven!

« Last post by rebs on Today at 01:18:49 »

Not sure.  It was on Marky Ramones’ punk channel on satellite radio.



As Long As I Can See The Light ~ CCR

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Tactical Operations / Artillery Spotter Bonuses

« Last post by XanKortal on Today at 00:54:56 »

Tactical Operations: Advanced Rules 6th printing

So for artillery spotter, it lists two different ways for spotters to provide bonuses for artillery accuracy.

One is adjusting, while the other is for spotter gunnery skill.

However, the wording of the spotter gunnery modifier has a bit of weirdness with the text that needs clarification

Page 149:
"If the target hex was in the LOS of a friendly unit (the spotter) at the end of the Movement Phase of the turn in which the artillery attack was launched, and the same friendly unit has the target hex in its LOS in the turn in which the shell/ missile arrives, then a modifier, as shown on the Artillery Modifiers Table, can be added to any new attack"
(emphasis mine)

Does this mean that the spotter does not provide any bonuses on an initial round of firing and the spotter gunnery + adjusting for fire both kick in on subsequent rounds fired?
Or is the 'new attack' wording meant to apply to the phase in which the first round applies as well?

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Off Topic / Re: What Are We Listening To: This List Goes Up To Eleven!

« Last post by MoneyLovinOgre4Hire on Today at 00:37:26 »

Rock the Casbah ~ The Clash

Which version?

Soul Man- The Blues Brothers

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Clan Chatterweb / Re: Clan Nova Cat - Zombie Catgirl Extravaganza

« Last post by MoneyLovinOgre4Hire on Today at 00:23:37 »

Sarna says that they were introduced to Irece.

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Clan Chatterweb / Re: Clan Nova Cat - Zombie Catgirl Extravaganza

« Last post by rebs on Today at 00:22:18 »

Did the Nova Cats successfully introduce the Nova Cat (the kitty, not the machine) to the worlds that they inhabited in the Combine?  I doubt it's ever been addressed, but that's a clan thing to do is introduce the totem to new places.

But what say you, trothkin? 

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General BattleTech Discussion / Re: Best Era

« Last post by rebs on Today at 00:15:58 »

2900 to 3025 has a ton of potential for compelling stories and scenarios.  It's loved for a reason.

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The Inner Sphere / Re: Help me do this! Your opinions or lists wanted

« Last post by Natasha Kerensky on Today at 00:04:36 »

My take.  12 mechs instead of 10, but all Capellan designs/variants.  Favored armor and energy weapons where possible for multi-scenario survivability.  Fire Lance can throw 120 LRMs per turn, indirectly with spotting from the Ravens, if needed.  Alternately, the EW Equipment on the Ravens can hide the Command Lance for ambushes or flush out enemy ambushes.

Command Lance
Highlander -733P, 1801
Marauder -3L, 1363
Cataphract -2X, 1344
Guillotine -4L, 1400

Fire Lance
Catapult -C1, 1339
Catapult -C1, 1339
Catapult -C1, 1339
Catapult -C1, 1339

Recon Lance
Vindicator -1R, 1024
Raven -1X, 639
Vindicator -1R, 1024
Raven -1X, 639

Total BV2: 14590

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Alpha Strike / Re: 'Mech destroyed result-then what?

« Last post by Desert Scribe on 19 May 2024, 23:55:10 »

Thanks, y'all! Even though it doesn't make an in-game difference, I think I will leave destroyed mechs on the board with some white cotton smoke, or replace them with kitbashed wreckage.

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A Time of War / Re: Tips for GM-ing?

« Last post by idea weenie on 19 May 2024, 23:29:11 »

I'm currently learning the AToW rules and was wondering if anybody could give me some tips (the Do and don't do's)
on being a Game Master.

After every session ask three questions:

1) What did you like?
2) What did you dislike?
3) What do you want to see more of?

This way you get feedback from your players and can adjust for your next session.  If you are sneaky you can put down cards for each player listing what each of them are enjoying so you can give them their own fun in turn.


Try to have two different plans for the night.  This way if some players are out for the night suddenly, you can still run something that the remaining players will enjoy.  I.e. if you have a mix of murderhobos and political players and the murderhobos are not able to show up, then pull out your Agathie Christie and Poirot to get a good political side-story.  This way the political enjoyers can work to have extra materials for the next session when the murderhobos are meeting their opposites.

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Off Topic / Re: What Are We Listening To: This List Goes Up To Eleven!

« Last post by rebs on 19 May 2024, 23:23:09 »

Copperhead Road -- Steve Earle (watch The Wire if you haven't already)

Good song.  Very Celtic.  In Music and in subject matter.  Many an Irish and Scotsman was labeled an outlaw - some justly and some unjustly.

I can play this on my guitar but it's missing something without the bagpipes!