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Re: NEW RELEASE: Mini-PDFs for Winter 2018/2019
« Reply #210 on: 24 June 2019, 14:51:17 »
Quote from: Adrian Gideon on 24 June 2019, 14:38:23
The art is wrong, burn all the books!
And then sell new books.  ;)
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Re: NEW RELEASE: Mini-PDFs for Winter 2018/2019
« Reply #211 on: 24 June 2019, 15:07:16 »
Quote from: Maingunnery on 24 June 2019, 14:51:17
And then sell new books.  ;)
Release the CGL ninjas!

Anyways, the bit with the flag was done for symbolic value. There would have been symbolism with the Amaris flag, sure, but the message would just be driving home “Amaris lost,” instead of “the SLDF is victorious but the Star League has fallen.”

It’s art, and us artists get artsy fartsy.
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Re: NEW RELEASE: Mini-PDFs for Winter 2018/2019
« Reply #212 on: 24 June 2019, 15:08:48 »
Ah.. symbolic value.  I can accept that, but not without an explanation.  Thanks for it!  :thumbsup:
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Re: NEW RELEASE: Mini-PDFs for Winter 2018/2019
« Reply #213 on: 24 June 2019, 15:21:29 »

It could also have been put up by an internal resistance fighter after sabotaging something critical.  8)
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Re: NEW RELEASE: Mini-PDFs for Winter 2018/2019
« Reply #214 on: 24 June 2019, 17:50:47 »
A wizard did it.
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Re: NEW RELEASE: Mini-PDFs for Winter 2018/2019
« Reply #215 on: 24 June 2019, 18:02:54 »
Quote from: Adrian Gideon on 24 June 2019, 15:07:16
Release the CGL ninjas!

I thought Hardy convinced the Boss that Shadowrunners was cheaper and less hassle to use than ninjas......

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Anyways, the bit with the flag was done for symbolic value. There would have been symbolism with the Amaris flag, sure, but the message would just be driving home “Amaris lost,” instead of “the SLDF is victorious but the Star League has fallen.”

It’s art, and us artists get artsy fartsy.

Can I use that the next time I try to write a Gundam into Battletech Lore?  :P

Artists have a little more flexibility than us writers, as it's more interpretive.

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Re: NEW RELEASE: Mini-PDFs for Winter 2018/2019
« Reply #216 on: 24 June 2019, 23:41:13 »
Quote from: Wrangler on 27 April 2019, 07:15:06
[spoiler]The Warhammer's comm gear is interesting.  If it is what i think is, it's communication equipment that gives you initiative bonus, let's you connect to a satellite which part of the initiative thing, basic ECCM which is perhaps useless in 3039. However it's can help detect units in a double blind game.[/spoiler]

Oh lord... Natasha just got deadlier in 3025! Clansman bred, AND using a 'Hammer?

Yikes, here comes the Black Widow!

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Re: NEW RELEASE: Mini-PDFs for Winter 2018/2019
« Reply #217 on: 25 June 2019, 02:25:16 »
Quote from: Wrangler on 27 April 2019, 07:15:06
[spoiler]The Warhammer's comm gear is interesting.  If it is what i think is, it's communication equipment that gives you initiative bonus, let's you connect to a satellite which part of the initiative thing, basic ECCM which is perhaps useless in 3039. However it's can help detect units in a double blind game.[/spoiler]
Wrong, you can get ONE and only one of these bonuses.
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Re: NEW RELEASE: Mini-PDFs for Winter 2018/2019
« Reply #218 on: 25 June 2019, 05:24:23 »
Quote from: truetanker on 24 June 2019, 23:41:13
Oh lord... Natasha just got deadlier in 3025! Clansman bred, AND using a 'Hammer?

Yikes, here comes the Black Widow!

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It’s a specific Warhammer variant in Vega that has removed the secondary weapons for communications equipment.
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Re: NEW RELEASE: Mini-PDFs for Winter 2018/2019
« Reply #219 on: 25 June 2019, 06:03:22 »
Quote from: SCC on 25 June 2019, 02:25:16
Wrong, you can get ONE and only one of these bonuses.
I was going by what the TechManual said, the passage didn't spell out the "you can only use one option only" portion.
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Re: NEW RELEASE: Mini-PDFs for Winter 2018/2019
« Reply #220 on: 25 June 2019, 07:34:10 »
Quote from: truetanker on 24 June 2019, 23:41:13
Oh lord... Natasha just got deadlier in 3025! Clansman bred, AND using a 'Hammer?

Yikes, here comes the Black Widow!

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Of course, most 3025-Era sources give her a 2/3 G/P score at best, so she wasn’t particularly deadly per se in the official scenarios.  (Circa 3015, despite being bloodnamed, she was only 4/5 in The Spider and the Wolf).  She’s comfortably 0/0 by the Refusal War.
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Re: NEW RELEASE: Mini-PDFs for Winter 2018/2019
« Reply #221 on: 25 June 2019, 08:46:02 »
Yeah, consider those stats (4/5 especially) a retcon-to-be. There just hasn’t been enough opportunity to rectify that. More recent sources like Death to Mercenaries lists her as Elite in 3028 (without listing stats) and CM: Mercenaries lists her as Legendary for the same general period. 
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Re: NEW RELEASE: Mini-PDFs for Winter 2018/2019
« Reply #222 on: 25 June 2019, 09:26:35 »
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Re: NEW RELEASE: Mini-PDFs for Winter 2018/2019
« Reply #223 on: 25 June 2019, 09:47:29 »
Quote from: Adrian Gideon on 25 June 2019, 08:46:02
Yeah, consider those stats (4/5 especially) a retcon-to-be. There just hasn’t been enough opportunity to rectify that. More recent sources like Death to Mercenaries lists her as Elite in 3028 (without listing stats) and CM: Mercenaries lists her as Legendary for the same general period.
I guess you can always use lostech to explain why supposedly elite pilots have only average battlefield skills in a given scenario. In my "Twins" scenario for BC, I explicitly explained Cranston Snord's elite skills to be counterbalanced by faulty cockpit electronics... because actual elite skills would've imbalanced the scenario.
So yes, the Black Widow was totally elite. So much so that she still fought as a regular pilot after her targeting system died on her.
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Re: NEW RELEASE: Mini-PDFs for Winter 2018/2019
« Reply #224 on: 25 June 2019, 16:57:53 »
Quote from: Wrangler on 25 June 2019, 06:03:22
I was going by what the TechManual said, the passage didn't spell out the "you can only use one option only" portion.
To be clear, it seems to me TacOps (pages 100-102) is clear that it's only one effect "at a time".  The gear can provide any of the listed options, but only one at any given moment.
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Re: NEW RELEASE: Mini-PDFs for Winter 2018/2019
« Reply #225 on: 26 June 2019, 01:54:22 »
Quote from: Daryk on 25 June 2019, 16:57:53
To be clear, it seems to me TacOps (pages 100-102) is clear that it's only one effect "at a time".  The gear can provide any of the listed options, but only one at any given moment.
And given that it's TacOps that lets comm gear do any of those things at all, you kind of have to take that.
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