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Drewbacca

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SLDF infantry stats
« on: 28 February 2020, 07:22:17 »
Am I the only one who would like to see stats like those in TRO 3085 for SLDF infantry?
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Re: SLDF infantry stats
« Reply #1 on: 28 February 2020, 09:37:04 »
As a general rule, the answer to any question that begins “Am I the only one...” and “does anyone else...” is almost certainly “no” and “yes” respectively

I do want to see more articulated and specialized infantry from all eras and factions. The SLDF probably had some crazy spec ops platoons among a ton of other options
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Re: SLDF infantry stats
« Reply #2 on: 28 February 2020, 10:40:48 »
More infantry is good.
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Re: SLDF infantry stats
« Reply #3 on: 28 February 2020, 19:29:44 »
One of the problems is that they set up the "vintage" SLDF armor to be encumbering.  I posted errata to fix it years ago, but never saw a response.
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Re: SLDF infantry stats
« Reply #4 on: 28 February 2020, 19:32:56 »
SLDF kit? Don't think it had encumbering tag in MegaMekLab. It does seem to have damage divisor of 2 though.
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Re: SLDF infantry stats
« Reply #5 on: 28 February 2020, 19:37:10 »
It's in the Companion.  The only way to get to that 2 Divisor is to wear the Cargo Jacket, which via the "stacking armor" rules, makes the whole rig encumbering.
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Re: SLDF infantry stats
« Reply #6 on: 28 February 2020, 19:38:45 »
Hmm, that would would mean MegaMek got it wrong then?
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Re: SLDF infantry stats
« Reply #7 on: 28 February 2020, 19:42:03 »
More likely TacOps is the culprit, and MegaMek just took the TacOps stats.
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Re: SLDF infantry stats
« Reply #8 on: 29 February 2020, 12:19:37 »
Or we choose to ignore it, cause SLDF infantry rock  ;) :rockon:
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Re: SLDF infantry stats
« Reply #9 on: 29 February 2020, 19:34:33 »
I just hand waved it as it was a combination of the SLDF design and material. Those two pieces are designed to work together and only together. Substitutions do not work.

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Re: SLDF infantry stats
« Reply #10 on: 29 February 2020, 20:25:27 »
SLDF infantrymen strong like bull
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Re: SLDF infantry stats
« Reply #11 on: 29 February 2020, 23:08:53 »
I can't seem to find out, but somewhere on the MegaMek subforum, back when creating custom infantry platoons first became a thing with MegaMekLab, I created a gazillion different factional infantry platoons, and I'm fairly certain SLDF-Classic infantry were among them. So if you want to try some out in MM, try hunting those files down.
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Re: SLDF infantry stats
« Reply #12 on: 01 March 2020, 07:13:48 »
Quote from: Sartris on 29 February 2020, 20:25:27
SLDF infantrymen strong like bull
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Re: SLDF infantry stats
« Reply #13 on: 01 March 2020, 16:34:14 »
I opened up Megamek lab and decided to take the standard inner sphere laser infantry types and just add mausers and the SLDF infantry kit. They turned out pretty nasty.
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Re: SLDF infantry stats
« Reply #14 on: 01 March 2020, 16:39:45 »
Mausers hit the sweet spot for damage, certainly.
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Re: SLDF infantry stats
« Reply #15 on: 01 March 2020, 18:06:00 »
TRO 3085 and its Supplemental are two of my favourites purely because they show the sheer variety of units BattleTech has and we can construct

Same with XTROs they all came out around the same time and it really worked the Jihad mixed things up a lot
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Re: SLDF infantry stats
« Reply #16 on: 01 March 2020, 18:47:34 »
Quote from: Drewbacca on 01 March 2020, 16:34:14
I opened up Megamek lab and decided to take the standard inner sphere laser infantry types and just add mausers and the SLDF infantry kit. They turned out pretty nasty.

Also I think you can safely say they are fully anti-mech trained as well. 18 months of education is going to give them some skills.
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Re: SLDF infantry stats
« Reply #17 on: 01 March 2020, 21:50:57 »
The Hellbore Assault laser is fluffed as "matches the quality of comparable laser weapons used by the SLDF."

Though I'm not sure it ever really lived up to the fluff...
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