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MechWarrior Hall / Re: Word Association 36: SAY WHAT AGAIN!!!
« Last post by Akamia on Today at 08:26:59 »Tiresome
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Off Topic / Re: Naval Pictures X: Underway on Nuclear Power
« Last post by Cannonshop on Today at 08:16:14 »The problem I'm seeing in the Fujian images, is maybe not a problem...but I suspect it is, and I suspect it's not a good sign.
Where's the ready aircraft? Those decks are too 'clean', she's not ready for action.
Where's the ready aircraft? Those decks are too 'clean', she's not ready for action.
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Aerospace Combat / Re: FC Naval Command Decision
« Last post by Cannonshop on Today at 08:11:20 »Not really. If you properly control an engagement, ships like the Inazuma and Zechetinu are more difficult to destroy than a Fox. It is true that warships have wax paper armor against fighter swarms, but ships like the Eagle and Agamemnon have been known to survive such engagements whilst scoring a lot of kills and they are not exactly the most durable things out there (Weirdo has a post in the Agamemnon warship of the week thread where he breaks down the rule changes and how they designed the armor around the ships). No one expects a Fox to have the AAA fire to match either the Eagle or the Agamemnon and it should not have been designed to be easier to corner.
The problem you're failing to catch, is that the zechetinu isn't a Troop Transport, neither is the Eagle. That's not what they were designed to do. The Fox is absolutely from the ground up a troop transport, it's optimized to transport a FedCom RCT to a planet's orbit, and support the dropships making landings. that's what it's for, that's why it's designed the way it is, and for the purpose it was designed for, it's a pretty optimized design.
Trying to use it for other roles, is when it falls down-but that's because it wasn't built to fill those other roles.
It's like asking an A-10 to dogfight an F-22, I'm sure the pilot will do his best, but he doesn't have what it takes to win that fight.
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General BattleTech Discussion / Re: Upcoming Releases XXIX: First Annual 29th Birthday
« Last post by I am Belch II on Today at 08:10:40 »15
Aerospace Combat / Re: FC Naval Command Decision
« Last post by Minemech on Today at 08:00:06 »Your calling the Fox a total failure that is an easy target in a fleet engagement & that it needs the Overlord-A3 to handle fighters.Not really. If you properly control an engagement, ships like the Inazuma and Zechetinu are more difficult to destroy than a Fox. It is true that warships have wax paper armor against fighter swarms, but ships like the Eagle and Agamemnon have been known to survive such engagements whilst scoring a lot of kills and they are not exactly the most durable things out there (Weirdo has a post in the Agamemnon warship of the week thread where he breaks down the rule changes and how they designed the armor around the ships). No one expects a Fox to have the AAA fire to match either the Eagle or the Agamemnon and it should not have been designed to be easier to corner.
I'm asking how it is any different than any other canon WS in a fleet engagement against equivalent tonnage of forces?
Every WS is a sucker for swarmed fighters.
I'm not seeing any other canon ship of similar size that is going to school the Fox easily.
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General BattleTech Discussion / Re: Upcoming Releases XXIX: First Annual 29th Birthday
« Last post by ColBosch on Today at 07:47:20 »Did anyone who ordered any of the new stuff from the store Friday get a shipping notification yet?
Not that the lack of one means it didn't ship. I've had several Catalyst Store orders over the years just show up without any notifications of any kind.
No shipping notification yet.
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General BattleTech Discussion / Re: Campaign Operations editions?
« Last post by Sartris on Today at 07:43:18 »https://bg.battletech.com/errata/
Xotl keeps a visual record of the core book covers on the errata page
Xotl keeps a visual record of the core book covers on the errata page
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Off Topic / Re: Deep Space and Interplanetary Exploration - Houston, we are go for launch!
« Last post by Kit deSummersville on Today at 07:34:12 »Deep Space and Interplanetary Exploration III-The Search for More Funding
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General BattleTech Discussion / Re: Campaign Operations editions?
« Last post by I am Belch II on Today at 07:33:39 »I have the one with a Marauder on the cover printed 2016
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Clan Chatterweb / Re: Clan Jade Falcon III: Admittedly, We May Have Falconed a Little Too Hard
« Last post by Church14 on Today at 07:21:15 »The Falcons have Tara Campbell in their ranks. She might become something of a poster child for recruiting Terrans into the ranks of the Clan forces. The Wolves also had I think 1 or 2 Galaxies made up mostly of freeborns from the League and Commonwealth. So it can happen. Though probably not with the currently fresh wounds (espcially with how the Falcons treated RAF troopers that surrendered) Though as end result you can always say that the Clans will not look like Clans in the long term should they not be able to populate their ranks with new trueborns. If they have no sibkos with them on Terra it will take at least 16 years to have the first new batch of trueborn recruits available (unless the scientists put in some growth accelerators). And every Clan warrior that dies fighting the Capellans is another dilution of a "trueborn SLDF". In the end it might really come to the "absorption" of the victorious Clans by Terra by the simple fact of population disparity. 10 billion vs a couple of thousands? Plus there is no time for say "proper indoctrination" as the IlClan has no breathing room except that 1 year the wall granted.
Tara as a recruiting tool is like an alternate WW2 where General Montgomery joined the Germans during the blitz, the Germans won, and now they use Monty to convince Brits to help Germany conquer the world. Thats about the closest analogue I can give.
Long term, Tara might help the reputation of the Falcons, but the concern is in the short term. Falcons under Malvina were monsters, and all of the surviving ones were party to some of those atrocities. They should be pariahs in universe who receive no quarter for a very long time. Them recruiting meaningful numbers of Terrans in the next year seems extremely poor.
Dont get me wrong. I want to see what the Terran falcons do. They’re much more interesting than the Terran wolves.
And Wolves didn’t raise 1-2 galaxies. They raised seven. In two years. An entire house frontline army just out of nowhere. It’s one of those BS plot points used to help them power like a super saiyan to attack Terra. I can’t see CGL writing a repeat.
