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Re: 'Warcriming the Militia' - Battlemechs of the WoB
« Reply #120 on: 10 October 2024, 16:41:31 »
Designed to fit the pic. What can I say?
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« Reply #121 on: 10 October 2024, 17:19:30 »
That you did it exactly right! :D

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« Reply #122 on: 11 October 2024, 00:07:28 »
So, that one matches the art; now, how screwed up and totally obscene can the MK 5 and 6 be?  Perhaps its Thunderbolt-TOW time?   :grin:
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« Reply #123 on: 11 October 2024, 07:41:25 »
Thunderbolts on that thing would redefine "kludge"! ;D

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« Reply #124 on: 11 October 2024, 10:40:07 »
Just wait for the wire-guided T-bolts.  Don’t know if I nerfed them enough, they were intended to provide vehicles a sniper weapon that could fire over hills.

Mind you, the vehicle has to be stationary, so it’s a massive bulls-eye.  Given it’s 3160 I got a lot of weird stuff.
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Re: 'Warcriming the Militia' - Battlemechs of the WoB
« Reply #125 on: 11 October 2024, 19:21:37 »
Imagine a Swarm Thunderbolt-20, fired at a group of opponents and none of them have AMS.

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« Reply #126 on: 12 October 2024, 01:32:02 »
Hmmph.  Just realized there isn't an Auxiliary 15 ton wheeled or tracked vehicle that can move above 9/14 with one of these.  Note to self, do this.
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« Reply #127 on: 12 October 2024, 02:33:50 »
An XL engine will get you there EASILY! :D

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« Reply #128 on: 12 October 2024, 09:37:01 »
Oh, heck, no.

These things would be suicide sleds, they have to stop for a turn to fire the TOW missile; can't remember the rules offhand (it's been that long) but the player rolled the dice and picked from 3 locations to impact IIRC.  I think they could fire with blocked LOS, too, because of the camera in the nose and the wire guidance.  Enemy ECM meant nothing to them, either.

Naturally, they were priority targets. Tube artillery cannons were their biggest enemy, with the Blakists using drone artillery units and the New Clans favoring VTOLs to get under their minimum ranges.

OK,  back to 'Mechs.  I hope to have a full page done today.  We had to cancel Thanksgiving, everybody's sick.
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« Reply #129 on: 12 October 2024, 09:49:42 »
Ugh... I hope everyone feels better soon!

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« Reply #130 on: 12 October 2024, 17:38:24 »
Well, half done.  But its time to get up and do a couple things.

*edit-Hmm.  MML doesn't have the Stalker-9F.  I can't seem to build one I like, so I'll skip it for now.
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« Reply #131 on: 15 October 2024, 01:13:17 »
Well, got lazy and watched YouTube shorts all evening.  They're as evil as TikTok.

Anyway, the Stalker was a particularly hard one - started and re-started again and again, finally just didn't care anymore and pushed something out.  Does anybody have an opinion on these?  It seems to get harder as I get into the Assault category, the Annihilation just seems dumb, for instance, but it is 3160 or so.

Anyway, Screenshot.
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« Reply #132 on: 15 October 2024, 03:14:46 »
Only three IJJs on the Stalker?  Might as well use regulars... ;)

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« Reply #133 on: 15 October 2024, 16:47:22 »
It was the mass and heat that decided it.  But yeah, questionable choices.  The Blakists have done lots of things against my personal design philosophy, this is just one more.
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« Reply #134 on: 15 October 2024, 17:26:52 »
Switching to regulars gets you enough room for a DHS? ???

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« Reply #135 on: 15 October 2024, 18:13:41 »
No location with 3 cribs left.  I had to short HS really bad, far more than I normally would tolerate.

What can I say?  Blakies.
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« Reply #136 on: 15 October 2024, 18:33:19 »
Hmm... jumping is still a minimum of 3 heat though, right?

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« Reply #137 on: 15 October 2024, 22:11:57 »
3 min with standard Jets.  Wait, isn't it 2 heat per?  I don't remember, I'll have to check later; just confirmed 2 girls have impetigo, missing 2 days of school, everything they touch or wear has to be washed immediately like sheets and blankets and towels,and wife is still sickly.

Yay,  me.  My cup runneth over.
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« Reply #138 on: 16 October 2024, 03:20:58 »
Nope, only one.  And yikes!  I REALLY hope everyone feels better soon!

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« Reply #139 on: 28 October 2024, 14:28:56 »
Well.  This one wasn't noticeably harder, just notably more difficult to sit down and finish.  Lots of RL issues.  Anyway, screenshot.

Next up, the Devastation, Viking, Emperor-6M, and Spite.  IIRC, the Spite is a slightly improved version of the Malice.  I like the name, like the art, hate the design.  It sucks, so I might take the name and declare it an import.
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« Reply #140 on: 17 November 2024, 21:44:25 »
Ugh, this was really, really tough.  I have only one more Cluster-specific unit, and then the Assault- and Heavy Assault Components.  Those will be full-page entries; there's just going to be too much to cover.

And life is getting to be too much.  This is all I can manage from a full weekend of trying, and it looks bad to worse going forward.  Hopefully I'll be able to put something down, but I just don't know.

Anyway, screenshot.  Wish me luck!
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« Reply #141 on: 18 November 2024, 04:21:18 »
Good luck, good sir! :)

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Re: 'Warcriming the Militia' - Battlemechs of the WoB
« Reply #142 on: 20 November 2024, 10:53:13 »
Are the Assault-Components and Heavy-Assault Components supposed to be the Legacy Cluster's native take on Superheavy Battlemechs?

Edit: I vaguely remember that they were made, respectively, by welding a bipedal mech to a quad mech and welding a quad mech to another quad mech.

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« Reply #143 on: 20 November 2024, 16:54:21 »
Are the Assault-Components and Heavy-Assault Components supposed to be the Legacy Cluster's native take on Superheavy Battlemechs?

Edit: I vaguely remember that they were made, respectively, by welding a bipedal mech to a quad mech and welding a quad mech to another quad mech.

Yeah, there's a funny backstory about a drunken party leading to one guy suggesting tieing two mechs together.  They come in 150 and 200 tons, but I've been toying with the idea of a massive train, 4-5 linked mechs with 1 pilot and 5 gunners.
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« Reply #144 on: 20 November 2024, 21:55:06 »
Yeah, there's a funny backstory about a drunken party leading to one guy suggesting tieing two mechs together.  They come in 150 and 200 tons, but I've been toying with the idea of a massive train, 4-5 linked mechs with 1 pilot and 5 gunners.
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« Reply #145 on: 21 November 2024, 05:59:57 »
There was some western themed , post apocalypse book with some kind of wheeled land train in the 70s or 80s - blame that.   :tongue:
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« Reply #146 on: 01 December 2024, 23:38:46 »
Well.  Things aren't going well at work or at home; the school is 'layered in stupid', as I like to describe it and I've decided to just stop nagging my family and let them live in the mess.  I'll do my share, then walk away and do some writing.

Speaking of, screenshot.  Not quite finished the Viking entry, but here are the stats, too.

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Viking VKG-3LC

Mass: 90 tons
Chassis: Endo Steel Biped
Power Plant: 270 Fusion
Cruising Speed: 32.4 kph
Maximum Speed: 54 kph
Jump Jets: None
     Jump Capacity: 0 meters
Armor: Standard
Armament:
     2 Streak SRM 2
     4 MML 9
     1 TAG
     2 ER Large Laser
Manufacturer: Unknown
     Primary Factory: Unknown
Communication System: Unknown
Targeting & Tracking System: Unknown
Introduction Year: 3072
Tech Rating/Availability: F/X-X-E-X
Cost: 10,782,500 C-bills

Type: Viking
Technology Base: Mixed (Advanced)
Tonnage: 90
Battle Value: 2,008

Equipment                                          Mass
Internal Structure            Endo Steel            4.5
Engine                        270 Fusion           14.5
   Walking MP: 3
   Running MP: 5
   Jumping MP: 0
Double Heat Sink              10 [20]                 0
Gyro                                                  3
Cockpit                                               3
Armor Factor                  279                  17.5

                          Internal   Armor   
                          Structure  Value   
     Head                    3         9     
     Center Torso            29        44   
     Center Torso (rear)               14   
     R/L Torso               19        28   
     R/L Torso (rear)                  10   
     R/L Arm                 15        30   
     R/L Leg                 19        38   


Right Arm Actuators: Shoulder, Upper Arm
Left Arm Actuators: Shoulder, Upper Arm

Weapons
and Ammo                 Location  Critical   Heat    Tonnage   
Streak SRM 2                LL        1        2       1.5   
Improved C3 Computer        CT        2        -       2.5   
TAG                         RT        1        0       1.0   
CASE                        RT        1        -       0.5   
ER Large Laser              RT        1        12      4.0   
MML 9 LRM Ammo (26)         RT        2        -       2.0   
MML 9 SRM Ammo (11)         RT        1        -       1.0   
2 MML 9                     LA        10       5       12.0 
CASE                        LT        1        -       0.5   
ER Large Laser              LT        1        12      4.0   
MML 9 LRM Ammo (26)         LT        2        -       2.0   
MML 9 SRM Ammo (22)         LT        2        -       2.0   
Streak SRM 2 Ammo (50)      LT        1        -       1.0   
Streak SRM 2                RL        1        2       1.5   
2 MML 9                     RA        10       5       12.0 
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Re: 'Warcriming the Militia' - Battlemechs of the WoB
« Reply #147 on: 02 December 2024, 04:13:14 »
Why Streaks on top of the MMLs?

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« Reply #148 on: 02 December 2024, 12:25:43 »
I pulled out the Light. ACs and slipped the clan er-large in.  The streaks were there, and I was out of time.  I’ll try looking again later.
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« Reply #149 on: 02 December 2024, 13:26:14 »
I pulled out the Light. ACs and slipped the clan er-large in.  The streaks were there, and I was out of time.  I’ll try looking again later.

Did the Design originally have the Metalstorm-inspired Improved Autocannons or did they have the Light ACs brought from the Inner Sphere?

 

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