Upcoming Releases XXI: Urbie's Beer Run

[Doc Swift]

Bit weird that that is their only divergence from typical Hanseatic organization. 16 'Mech Companies, 16 Squad BA Companies, just the only difference seeming to be using 4-suit squads instead of Hanseatic 5-suit squads.

Yep, they're unique.

[Starfury]

Schmidt's Petraries has become my new favorite command unit. Great writing, Doc Swift, just like all of the Hanseatic Leauge and other small Periphery work you've written.

[Fat Guy]

The next Light Horse short: Failings in Teaching is up on the Catalyst store.

It's not on B&N yet unfortunately.

Edit: It is now.

[bobthecoward]

love the ih-rid-n-ahy light horse

[DarkISI]

Then give Failings in Teaching a 5 Star rating everywhere you can ;)

[Doc Swift]

Schmidt's Petraries has become my new favorite command unit. Great writing, Doc Swift, just like all of the Hanseatic Leauge and other small Periphery work you've written.

Thanks!   :)

[bobthecoward]

This is poor form...but I'm kinda waiting until Granada before I double back and purchases scorpion/hanse/Castile products. I'm hoping they stick the landing on the Umayyad reveal.

[Orwell84]

Then give Failings in Teaching a 5 Star rating everywhere you can ;)

I buy short stories from Catalyst rather than Kobo but I'll try to do that anyway. It wasn't the Clan Invasion era story I was expecting but perhaps all the more powerful for it. Well done sir :thumbsup:

I'm hoping they stick the landing on the Umayyad reveal.

Huh? "Stick the landing" - as in, no Umayyad reveal after all? Or totally blow our socks off?

[DarkISI]

I buy short stories from Catalyst rather than Kobo but I'll try to do that anyway. It wasn't the Clan Invasion era story I was expecting but perhaps all the more powerful for it. Well done sir :thumbsup:

Thank you. :)

[bobthecoward]

I buy short stories from Catalyst rather than Kobo but I'll try to do that anyway. It wasn't the Clan Invasion era story I was expecting but perhaps all the more powerful for it. Well done sir :thumbsup:

Huh? "Stick the landing" - as in, no Umayyad reveal after all? Or totally blow our socks off?

Good execution of the reveal. I don't care what the reveal is specifically, only that the reveal is not ambiguous.

[Wrangler]

Doc, your OP:SP book was very good.  Thank you for writing it.

[Orwell84]

Good execution of the reveal. I don't care what the reveal is specifically, only that the reveal is not ambiguous.

Ah yes, understand you now. Totally agree. Ambiguous revelations in fiction are sometimes good and proper, but far more often just frustrating and pointless.

[rebs]

This conversation was going along fine until someone brought Clan Wolverine into it!  ;D

Whoops!   >:D

Just kidding, I'm sure the Umayyads have a good story that does not lead us back into old well-worn territory.

[bobthecoward]

This conversation was going along fine until someone brought Clan Wolverine into it!  ;D

Whoops!   >:D

Just kidding, I'm sure the Umayyads have a good story that does not lead us back into old well-worn territory.

In a sense, I don't care if they are or are not the wolverines, only that we leave Granada confident they are or are not.

[Liam's Ghost]

My money is still on the 295th Battlemech Division.

[rebs]

In a sense, I don't care if they are or are not the wolverines, only that we leave Granada confident they are or are not.

Yes, I've been curious ever since Explorer Corps.

[Doc Swift]

Doc, your OP:SP book was very good.  Thank you for writing it.

Appreciate it!

[VhenRa]

My money is still on the 295th Battlemech Division.

Eh, survivors who fled from Buffalo Meadows? Doesn't really fit with the whole "deleting their own history, on purpose" aspect IMHO. Needs to have been fleeing something more dangerous then "We were a bunch of SLDF stragglers who conducted our own failed Exodus, landed on a planet and started dying out and then deserted from the deserters".

You don't attempt to delete your own history unless the cost of someone finding out about it is sufficiently high.

[Orwell84]

My money is still on the 295th Battlemech Division.

Eh, survivors who fled from Buffalo Meadows? Doesn't really fit with the whole "deleting their own history, on purpose" aspect IMHO. Needs to have been fleeing something more dangerous then "We were a bunch of SLDF stragglers who conducted our own failed Exodus, landed on a planet and started dying out and then deserted from the deserters".

You don't attempt to delete your own history unless the cost of someone finding out about it is sufficiently high.

Another non-Wolverine possibility is ex-Pentagon denizens fleeing Kerensky's Clans. The timing is a little off but they might have wandered for a few years or tried colonising elsewhere first. It could also be the Minnesota Tribe was this group, led by an ex-331st Division retiree rather than an actual Wolverine.

Ex-RWR soldiers wanted for war crimes is another idea, but the timing doesn't fit there.

[rebs]

Survivors from a "lost" colonization attempt,  perhaps?  I know I read somewhere that many colony fleets over the centuries were unaccounted from inception to departure.

Or Succesion Wars refugees, maybe. That's the simplest answer to me.

[DarkISI]

If you are interested, I provided some insight into the writing process behind "Failings in Teaching".
Have fun with it.
Spoiler alert, though.
Also, it's in German. So you might want to use a translation tool in your browser or this Gooogle Translate link:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://hpgstation.de/2021/09/11/fuer-die-eridani-light-horses-schreiben-spoilergefahr/

Original link (google free):
https://hpgstation.de/2021/09/11/fuer-die-eridani-light-horses-schreiben-spoilergefahr/

[VhenRa]

Another non-Wolverine possibility is ex-Pentagon denizens fleeing Kerensky's Clans. The timing is a little off but they might have wandered for a few years or tried colonising elsewhere first. It could also be the Minnesota Tribe was this group, led by an ex-331st Division retiree rather than an actual Wolverine.

Ex-RWR soldiers wanted for war crimes is another idea, but the timing doesn't fit there.

Honestly, my money is if Umayyads are Wolverines, they aren't from the main group that we see. We know one of the 3 Scouting/Screening groups were MIA after Barbados. [Trish Ebon found the other one and she was commanding one of them so the third is MiA]

[ShroudedSciuridae]

This is what I'm tracking for our current slate of products coming, including some KickStarter items

Brush Wars: Battle of Dahlgren (3SW Carlye's Commandos and Sword of Light)
BW: Burrock Absorbtion
BW: 1st Combine Ghost Bears War
BW: Operation GUERRERO
BW: St Ive's War
Eridani Light Horse Chronicles x4
Forgotten Worlds: Escape From Jardine
Founding of the Clans: Visions of Rebirth
Founding of the Clans: Land of Dreams
Honor & Glory #4 (KS novella and possibly others, keeping track of what stories were what is tricky)
Recognition Guide x6 (series expanded from 22 to 24)
Spotlight On: Hellion Keshik
Spotlight On: Payne's Raiders
Spotlight On: Snord's Irregulars
Spotlight On: The Stealths
Touring the Stars: Granada
Batchall (KS Scenario)
BattleMech Technical Blueprints, Volume 1
Battletech Universe
Blitzkrieg (KS Scenario)
Camospecs: A Guide to Faction Paint Scheme
Camospecs: A Unit Art Manual
Den of Wolves (KS Novel on Wolf's Dragoons founding)
Empire Alone (ilClan aftermath in FWL)
Grand Melee (KiS scenario)
MechCommander's Handbook
No Substitute for Victory (ilClan aftermath in Jade Falcon OZ)
Shrapnel #06
Shrapnel #07
Shrapnel #08 (and likely green light for #09-12!)
Tamar Rising
Touring the Stars: Rocky

Am I missing any?  Have any of the Kickstarter things been released and I missed them?

[nova_dew]

This is what I'm tracking for our current slate of products coming, including some KickStarter items


Am I missing any?  Have any of the Kickstarter things been released and I missed them?

AMA had them mention that they're going to cover the Nova Cat's death at some point, there might have been other mentions of other stuff coming at some point maybe in a list of possible realities that might include this one,

Didn't know about the BW: 1st Combine Dominion War

[Dragon Cat]

Nova Cats death was already covered in depth in the 2nd Bush Wars I believe

[Wrangler]

Nova Cats death was already covered in depth in the 2nd Bush Wars I believe

Ahhh...no.  Not the extinction by the Draconis Combine.  2nd Bush Wars / Wars of the Republic Era covers the Ghost Bear War with Nova Cats / DC.

[Dragon Cat]

Ahhh...no.  Not the extinction by the Draconis Combine.  2nd Bush Wars / Wars of the Republic Era covers the Ghost Bear War with Nova Cats / DC.

I thought that was covered the Bears used cruise missile artillery to flatten the capital on Irece :'(

[Orwell84]

No Substitute for Victory (ilClan aftermath in Jade Falcon OZ)
Tamar Rising

Aren't these two the same thing? ???

Or is No Substitute for Victory a novel or novella?

[Adrian Gideon]

Novella

[five_corparty]

If you are interested, I provided some insight into the writing process behind "Failings in Teaching".
Have fun with it.
Spoiler alert, though.
Also, it's in German. So you might want to use a translation tool in your browser or this Gooogle Translate link:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://hpgstation.de/2021/09/11/fuer-die-eridani-light-horses-schreiben-spoilergefahr/

Original link (google free):
https://hpgstation.de/2021/09/11/fuer-die-eridani-light-horses-schreiben-spoilergefahr/

Why aren't the ELH stories getting plugs on this or the front page anymore?  If you hadn't said something, my friend, I would have never known yours was out!  :P