Author Topic: Vehicle of the Week Schedule (Read 199835 times)

Alan Grant · « **Reply #30 on:** 18 January 2012, 23:44:59 »

Requesting the Chevalier

Moonsword · « **Reply #31 on:** 19 January 2012, 17:42:31 »

I'll repost it in a little bit.

Neufeld · « **Reply #32 on:** 29 January 2012, 03:59:59 »

Requests for Morningstar, Glaive and Morrigu.

worktroll · « **Reply #33 on:** 02 February 2012, 00:29:22 »

Requesting the Hunter - doing a 3055-3065 lance of these little beeswaxes, and interested in whether the ERLL version is better than the stock 3054 upgrade, thanks!

Alex Keller · « **Reply #34 on:** 02 February 2012, 01:00:49 »

Requesting the Bulldog tank.

Weirdo · « **Reply #35 on:** 08 February 2012, 14:45:05 »

Requesting Merkava Heavy Tank. Also, compare/contrast of known AoW MBTs.

Moonsword · « **Reply #36 on:** 08 February 2012, 17:06:18 »

Quote from: Weirdo on 08 February 2012, 14:45:05

Requesting Merkava Heavy Tank. Also, compare/contrast of known AoW MBTs.

Good news and bad news on the comparison. That's been in progress for a while now, although I haven't done a lot with it lately. I'm still waiting to see what at least Volume 2 has in it as well as the sheets for Historical: Reunification War.

Weirdo · « **Reply #37 on:** 08 February 2012, 17:32:00 »

Fair enough. The more tanks, the more fun for the article.

Moonsword · « **Reply #38 on:** 08 February 2012, 17:52:24 »

Quote from: Weirdo on 08 February 2012, 17:32:00

Fair enough. The more tanks, the more fun for the article.

Exactly! I've got a few pieces of it written. More or less, it's going to summarize the major designs of the period (with links to articles for the ones that have them), then look at some of the overall conclusions you can draw, such as the transition from support vehicles to true combat vehicles epitomized by the Marsden I/Marsden II evolution.

Zureal · « **Reply #39 on:** 19 March 2012, 06:51:21 »

I see lots of tanks and choppers being discused, but not much in the way of anything els, how about we do articles on some of the big blue water navy stuff? :)

We could start with the Wyrm SDS sub, love that thing, then the Rattler MK ll, the Triton Missil Submarine i always thought was a nice ship and would deff be a good addition to any water heavy planet, as would the nifty Lysander Carrier Submarine, then the serface ships like the huge Luftenburg SuperCarrier and Meabh Heavy Cruiser, Even some of the armed Trains are pretty cool, though i do not know if they would be worth there own articles at the moment :/
Then we have things like the Torrent Heavy Bomber, thats the FIRST plane in BT that i have heard in the terms of "BOMBER" and i feel this is worth exploring. Though the Air Ships i feel are just plain worthless as combat units, on the other hand some of the Wiges i feel are worth there own articles , some like the Koi / Ryu Transport Wiges are amazing to me and i would definitly use them to move flanking forces.
Can you emagine how bad ass cops are in BT are when they have such choppers as the Soar / Peacekeeper SWAT Carrier!? I mean CMON! cops with that kind of firepower! talk about overkill XD lol especialy when they have equipment like the SmoothDavid ll / SmoothGoliath ll PAL suits, cmon, COPS with PAL!? sheesh, i feel bad for bank robbers XD lol.

Most of these come from TR: Vehicle Annex and the First few from JHS: Terra, I can throw page numbers and other such info if you like. Hope that eventualy all these get there own articles, becouse when I look at them, even though some are impractical, on the modern battlefeild they can be vary dangerous units. And a few, like the Cops equipment i mentioned last would go great in the RPG aspect of BT.

Thanks for reading this long read and i Hope that all these requests can eventualy be filled. thx

Moonsword · « **Reply #40 on:** 19 March 2012, 11:47:30 »

I cover other types of units from time to time. I've covered farm equipment and I've covered the Ahab, for instance. However, a lot of what I write is request driven, and the requests lately have been combat vehicles.

As a general note, I'm not that interested in covering anything TROVA at the moment due to the known problem of the stats being frequently unreliable and the fact that we have a republish somewhere in the pipeline, but at an unpredictable location. Given that the stats could be changing underneath me, I'm loath to make definitive statements on the vehicles at this time. Also, I really prefer that people limit requests to a maximum of 3-4 at once.

To address the specifics in order:
- The Wyrm and Rattler have been covered in the past and the articles are being reposted.
- The Torrent, despite technically being a vehicle, was covered by Fighter of the Week, as was the Mosquito. PM Trace about getting the articles reposted.

As for the rest, the only response I have is that they'll get covered when they get covered. I'm not refusing to cover TROVA material ever, but it's not going on my priority list right now.

Scotty · « **Reply #41 on:** 21 March 2012, 05:14:04 »

May I request a write up for the Vedette, unless it already exists, in which case a link to said write up? A quick scan of the boards didn't bring one to my attention.

Moonsword · « **Reply #42 on:** 21 March 2012, 10:45:26 »

There hasn't been one lately.

Moonsword · « **Reply #43 on:** 10 April 2012, 11:07:48 »

Just for anyone who's wondering, Chanman volunteered to write an article on the Vedette for this week.

From what I've seen when we've been chatting, it's worth the wait.

Scotty · « **Reply #44 on:** 11 April 2012, 02:20:27 »

It was worth the wait. ;D

I would be interested in trying my hand at one of these, but I'm afraid I don't possess the requisite sourcebooks/record sheets to point out the various idiosyncracies (or, really, even write up the article to completeness) to my or any one else's satisfaction.

Zureal · « **Reply #45 on:** 11 April 2012, 14:13:32 »

The Manticore and Myrmidon plz :) thx

Neufeld · « **Reply #46 on:** 11 April 2012, 14:39:55 »

Myrmidon was done quite recently:
http://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,9169.0.html

Moonsword · « **Reply #47 on:** 11 April 2012, 16:20:12 »

As I indicated with the last merge, requests go in here. I'll add the Manticore to the schedule but it may be a while - I've had some significant other concerns come up that are cutting into my writing time, which is why I handed off to chanman this week, and there's a lot of Manticore variants to cover. It'll happen sooner or later, however.

Colt Ward · « **Reply #48 on:** 11 April 2012, 16:25:28 »

What about the Marksmen M1 from MWDA?

Or the new series of SP Arty like the Danai, TAV-1 and others?

Was any article done on the Moltke?

Moonsword · « **Reply #49 on:** 11 April 2012, 16:30:57 »

Well, that answers the question of what I'm doing for Monday, at least - one of the Thumper or Danai, I'll decide later. Also, if you're curious whether or not something's been covered, the best place to look first is always the Fan Article Directory. While it occasionally gets a week behind, chanman indexes pretty much everything for us.

To save you some time, the Moltke (and Augustus) and Marksman have both been covered.

Sami Jumppanen · « **Reply #50 on:** 06 June 2012, 00:36:47 »

Drillson?

Scotty · « **Reply #51 on:** 06 June 2012, 01:05:21 »

Is there still nothing in the pipe for this coming week? I could try to do one from the outstanding requests if there's nobody else with one finished.

Moonsword · « **Reply #52 on:** 06 June 2012, 10:49:58 »

TBD just means I haven't decided what to do. If you want to take a stab at the Morningstar, that might be a good way to get your toes wet, but I'm planning to dredge something out of TRO3039 or TRO3058U.

Actually, I just decided. It's the Year of the Star League, right? I'll do the Maultier.

Scotty · « **Reply #53 on:** 11 June 2012, 13:59:09 »

Per the discussion in the Condor thread, could we get a repost of the Drillson? Failing that, I could probably try and do an updated article on it.

Moonsword · « **Reply #54 on:** 11 June 2012, 16:02:27 »

If you want it, have fun. Do you think you can manage the 18th?

Scotty · « **Reply #55 on:** 11 June 2012, 16:11:01 »

I can certainly give it a good attempt. It took me about four hours to write the Uziel article, and my best guess is it's easier to write about vehicles than it is 'Mechs. :P

Moonsword · « **Reply #56 on:** 11 June 2012, 16:13:14 »

Having done both, it depends on the vehicle and the 'Mech.

Scotty · « **Reply #57 on:** 11 June 2012, 21:01:08 »

Well, article is done, ready to be posted for next week.

Should it be labeled "Repost" or no?

Moonsword · « **Reply #58 on:** 12 June 2012, 11:28:30 »

Nope. Repost is for articles that are specifically being reposted (my reposts came from the last board iteration, for instance), not new articles on units that have been covered before.

Scotty · « **Reply #59 on:** 19 June 2012, 00:36:35 »

I'd be up for writing another article, schedule permitting.

I don't really have reliable access to any TRO that's not between 2750 and 3067 and/or Project Phoenix, so my ability to cover some of the newer stuff is limited, but anything up to then I could probably nab.