BattleTech General

Nice, any of the Gotterdammerung?

i gotchu trothkin

Hmmm, not sure I'm entirely sold, but I guess it's not thoroughly bad either. I need a Dark Age heavy for my Lyrans, and one of these would fit the bill.

That does look better than expected. Bonus points for the sculptor making the fiddly shoulder bits separate so they can be easily left off.

Has the Hound gotten a mini yet?

Does Clan Sea Fox deal in the civilian market?

>Has the Hound gotten a mini yet?
Making a mini that everyone wants, for the faction most-played in the game? I think you have IWM confused with someone else, user.

Almost certainly, though I dunno how much the warrior-merchants focus on it.

Do the folders in the OP contain any good hexmap sets that could be used on Roll20?

What in the world is that basing material?

>at a game last weekend
>neckbeard player puts down an Incubus
>notice it has a brown and light purple paint scheme
>the word "Female" is painted on it in parenthesis
>tfw I got the reference

Is there supposed t be a joke here beside the name and the parenthesis?

How so? There's very little detail on civilian equipment, but there may be information on what you want to know. If you're expecting Clan security mechs, unlikely.

Does the Man O' War/ Gargoyle not exist either?

Which faction are you talking about? No, but there is the Heavy Metal Maps, the only official program that works amazingly well. You can create maps and use the exists ones. The program also export maps as images

Wolf cucked the sphere. Alaric did! He took a Wolf army to Terra. There was NO ONE left to cuck, da wimmiz wuz his.

I also get that reference.

Aww yiss, the Juliano is out. Going to do up a lance of these babies so fast.

>Does the Man O' War/ Gargoyle not exist either?

It's a pretty bad design especially compared to the Timber Wolf/Mad Cat which can copy all its configs with tonnage to spare so players tend not to use it.

Canonically it's very common, especially for the Invasion-era Wolves, where it's their second-most common 'Mech overall and behind only the Ice Ferret/Fenris.

What's the reference?

Post homebrew mechs/vees with fluff, everyone.

I'll get things started with a merc general 3050s clanbuster

Could you at least post something different? I've seen this at least a dozen times in different threads.

Also, 20 million "merc general" design that magically gets produced at about as many sites as some classic Unseen heavies, and is the Taurians' first ever home-built assault, holy kek.

>the Taurians' first ever home-built assault, holy kek.

Certainly you concede that the taurians deserve to get a dual-guass line of battle Mech to help them against the Davions, though, right?

>Could you at least post something different? I've seen this at least a dozen times in different threads.
I've got like three mechs saved on my phone, and I just generally think that you should start these things with a image otherwise they get ignored more often
>magically gets produced at about as many sites as some classic Unseen heavies,
Specifically noted as being tiny manufacturers building one or two a year in their garage. I thought it made more sense for a merc general thing to be made by a couple of small companies rather than a refit shop magically turning out a ton
>Taurians' first ever home-built assault,
Dude what. None of the planets I mentioned are in the TC.

The FWL doesn't even have its own dual-Gauss assault. I'd rate fixing that a much higher priority.

Here, have one for half the price and almost all of the performance.

How do I go about getting the mwo sculpt of the atlas? Pic related. I'm about to start playing battle tech overy this guy.

But the FWL is a meme faction. Just look at Muninn.

>Dude what. None of the planets I mentioned are in the TC.

Electra winds up being theirs.

Warhansa?

The FWL is too busy finding new and more horrifying things to do with their Awesomes to develop a dual gauss mech.

Now, if you suggested a quad LGR mech, then I'm sure they'd be interested.

>Here, have one for half the price and almost all of the performance
Without opening it, let me guess.
Is it an XL-to-endo swap?
It's a thing for pretty much every 3/5 XL assault, sure. I do them all the time.
Probably I just didn't think of it when I was putting this one together, it was a while ago
Warhansa

Oh right, in the Dark Age, right? I will admit to being kind of a grog and not so much fond of the jihad/DA era. Hell, I'm not even sure if I'd READ any of the jihad/DA stuff back when I designed the thing. Besides, if it bothers you that much, it would be reasonable to assume that the factory there got exploded in the FCCW or jihad before the taurians could actually use it

Is this something I can easily Google or is it like the China man for 40k?

Here's the link straight-up
warhansa.com/
It's easy to find by Google, though

I just started looking at the warhansa mechs, and the names they give them are fucking metal. I would totally pilot a Screaming Heretic into a valiant death in battle, presumably while tigers which are being ridden by naked women jump out of an explosion.

>and the names they give them are fucking metal
I know, right?
I plan to steal them for custom mechs

Horrible things?
Like what?

Frankenstien Gun is a perfect descriptor for some sort of swayback hunchie with some ridiculous weapon load.

Just painted these taurian mechs tonight as practice before ordering some real mechs for a taurian company. How shit/10 are they, Veeky Forums?

Can someone explain?

Bombast laser swayback?

Just curious since I see all the other major factions usually represented in /btg/ but are there any Drac players here?

Three blasers as the only weapons. Fluff it as someone with more large lasers than sense and a mostly intact hunchie.

Thanks anons I appreciate it

Taking into account or ignoring the fact that they're taurian?

Paint job, not faction.

Can anyone explain how to use megameklab to me? What am I supposed to be using to open the .jar file?

I've got a company of the Dracs that I use as OPFOR. That count?

Your Java Shell?

No, I think ()'s looking for Wrasslehog players and their Drac(ula) uniforms.

If that's red and not pink, not bad/10.
Which unit is that for, anyways? I don't play taurians

Brown base, with red and gold highlights, and a few gunmetal highlights as well.

And they're for the Taurian Guard.

Right, but it's a taurian paintjob, so under normal circumstances I'd deduct a point for the waste of minis and paint.

The paintjob is pretty close to what I'd consider "tabletop standard". The colors are mostly flattened, and while it looks like a wash was applied to the tan basecoat, that basecoat then wasn't given a highlight AND is the only part of the paintjob with multiple layers. The gold and crimson both are extremely flat, and the silver is as well. Bright side is that your brush control looks pretty good.

So, with what you've got there, add the following:
>highlight on the crimson panels
>paint all the gold on a second time for better coverage
>Flesh wash on the gold panels at the panel lines (on the Quickdraw's legs, for example)
>highlight on the gold panels
>drybrush a lighter tan (or a reaper "polished bone") on the brown parts
>black wash on the silver
>very light silver or even a white highlight on the silver
>gloss varnish on the cockpit canopies
>put Elmer's Glue on the bases and dip them in sand. Then put clumps of either static grass or bulk flock on them.

Currently, 4.5/10. Again, "tabletop standard". Do the above, and you'd get to a 6.5-7/10 or so (you can't get above an 8/10 without doing stuff like blending panel by panel, and ain't nobody got time for that). I'll also say that some decals; a Taurian guard insignia and some numbers, would really help.

Probably the closest thing here. What mechs you use?

I used to a bit, but teddy C3 was my coordinator, so I've lost interest in recent years

>blasers
No, I said bombasts
As in, the even more full retard laser.

Thanks for the advice, user. I was shooting for table playable, and I'm glad they are. I'll be getting some decals for the actual company at some later date.

Also the random Taurian hate in this thread always makes me laugh.

>lso the random Taurian hate in this thread always makes me laugh.

No worries, glad to help anyone asking for painting advice.

I just hate Taurian fans. I almost certainly have nothing against you personally, but between the OF, the two Taurianfags in my IRL group who actually ARE racist cowboys who believe fully in black NWO helicopters (welcome to Colorado), and the fact that EVERY Taurian fan I've met in person at cons has either been the cowboy sterotype or a paranoid fuckstick, you're guilty by association. Sorry, user.

Good luck with the painting, though. I'd be happy to share a table sometime with Mechs painted at that standard.

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I just like the Taurians because I like the periphery and they're the one relevant periphery power that doesn't do nothing but suck Capellan cock. I don't really mind the MoC but I dislike the Capellans and they're linked too closely for me to enjoy them. I do dislike telling anyone I'm a Taurian fan though, it's tough.

By the way, Colorado is pretty awesome. Where are you at? And do you guys have a good battletech scene?

I'm guessing those guys are all TAURIANS ONLY, FINAL DESTINATION types? In my experience it's always the monofaction guys who are the dumb and crazy ones; I and all the other taurian fans I've ever met play at least two other factions on a regular basis (FedSuns and Lyrans, for me, plus mercs of course), so maybe that's what keeps us from going crazy.
Also, weirdly, I've never ran into a crazy taurian fan in real life. In my personal experience, all the crazy ones are clan players (and one guy who had to have been MadCap's canadian cousin). Never met one of those bitchy FedSuns players, even. Maybe it's a canadian thing, I dunno

Probably acrylic medium with pumice or similar. It is sold in art supply stores in various textures/flakes/grits. Great stuff, way better than the traditional pva glue and sand.

I's not MS. Pirannha claims that the designs are their IP and no one else's (despite that not being the way the contracts work) and zealously guard the images. (Except, you know, from all the folks making minis illegally.)

Mech rights are Topps (who licenses to IWM), so the whole thing is PGI (or between PGI and Topps).

No, the final negotiations would have to be between Microsoft and Topps because PGI is liscencing from them.

But everyone along he way wants a slice of the action and there's no way for MS, PGI, CGL, and IWM to get enough of a cut so it's never gonna happen.

Or Topps to get their cut, forgot that.

What else? Grand Dragons, Dragons, Panthers, Jenners and Hamoto-Chi's.

lol some of those names

That's cool though.

Are RAC/5 rounds interchangeable with standard AC/5 rounds? I'm not talking about special munitions, just basic slugs

Nope.

Konnichiwa. I've played Dracs ever since I started playing. Teddy K is A-OK.

>Just curious since I see all the other major factions usually represented in /btg/ but are there any Drac players here?
Another ForeverGM, play Dracs as OPFOR a lot.

>What mechs you use?
Not that guy, but currently a shitload of Panthers, spiced with assorted Heavies/Assaults and a few salvaged mediums. I've got a lance of fast Lights (Kabuto, Locust, Owens, and Spider) for scouting and screwing with people. There's a DMM detachment (mostly Stingers with a smattering of low-end FedSuns designs) I can use as backup/salvage, and a company of generic desert-camo Unseen units I occasionally pull out for other shit.

Commander is usually riding in a Grand Dragon, Orion, or Beemer, although I also have a No-Dachi and Black Hawk Ku in the parts box awaiting a reason to use them. Bodyguards (if necessary) get the Atlas or Quickdraw. I'll use Dragons where I'd normally deploy a Medium, add in something fast to get strung out and killed, and then season with Panthers and salvage based on the players' BV. Not the most creative thing out there, but it does the job.
By which I mean seriously damaging the PCs if they do things right, or wiping them out if they fuck up and get stupid.

Oh, and one of my buddies plays Dracs as his primary faction. He's an Azami player: got a full boxed set of 3e Unseen in Azami colors, plus a Longbow. In addition, he's got the Drac Alpha Strike pack in SoL colors (that one with the Panther, Dragon, QKD, and Guillotine), along with a few MWO 'Mechs and a good chunk of his 25th Anniversary box.

I had a drac heavy company that I used in a campaign one time, and y'all just inspired me to dig it up and post it.
This company in particular was unusual, on account of it contained an almost-lance of mechs captured from mercenaries who ended up in the employ of pirates, and since it wasn't especially favored by central command, this company got em
Command Lance
>Emperor-6A (captured unit) 2/3
Commander of the unit, fanatical supporter of Teddy Kurita. Hates the clans to the death, but is surprisingly ambivalent about the FedCom
>Mauler 3/4
A strong christian from Bad News, married to his tech. Strong believer in the Second Star League; biggest regret of his life is missing operation Bull Dog
>Archer-4M (captured unit) 3/4
Also a supporter of Teddy Kurita, but at the same time a firm believer in samurai ideals. In his off time, an expert on katanas, owns a small collection, with examples dating as far back as the 20th century
>Warhammer-6K (modified) 4/5
The heir to a long-standing mech family, terrified of being dispossessed. Currently working up the courage to propose to one of the second lance mechwarriors
(His mech has been modified with 16 DHS, 2 ERPPCs, CASE and an extra 3.5 tons of armor)
>next two lances in next post

>Line Lance
2X Grand Dragon 3/4
A pair of twins, brother and sister, known for their nigh-unnatural coordination in battle. The two are engaged in an incestuous relationship, which they believe they are keeping secret from the rest of the unit (they suspect, but choose not to investigate further)
>Wolverine-6K (slightly modified) 4/5
The only child of a pair of mechwarriors, she is a strong advocate for medium mechs, against DCMS tradition. She is interested in a mechwarrior from the first lance, and intends to propose to him soon
(Her mech has removed one SHS to upgrade the small laser to a medium and add CASE)
>Wolf Trap 3/4
A recent transfer to the unit, he is a survivor of the Clan Invasion. Although a drinking man off duty, he is still a solid pilot. He possesses an odd mix of disdain and respect for the clan way of life, and will readily offer confused explanations after a few drinks
Fire Lance
>Bandersnatch (captured unit) 4/4
Of half-Rasalhague ancestry, she is possessed of a continual desire to prove herself, mostly by strictly adhering to samurai combat rules (although not the rest of the ideal samurai lifestyle). Currently involved with her (female) tech. In her off time, she is a devoted mech geek and expert in twenty-fifth century battlemech design; she dreams of one day restoring and piloting a Mackie
>Daikyu 4/5
A new, brash mechwarrior who enlisted after the clan invasion, he is eager to kill clanners for the destruction wrought on his ancestral home world by the Smoke Jaguars. Outside of the cockpit, he is a surprisingly good cook, and regularly prepairs group meals for the whole unit
>Panther-10K2 4/5
Pushing 40, after an extended stint of garrison duty along the periphery border, he requested a transfer to a unit more likely to see major action. When not piloting his mech, he is a devoted Solaris VII fan, and in his younger days entertained occasional ambitions of fighting there hinself
>last pilot in next post

>Panther-9R 4/5 (modified)
The daughter of a mechwarrior who died in the battle against Wolf's Dragoons, she loathes the dragoons, but it believes that the Combine should employ more mercenaries in general (just not clan ones). Her older brother pilots the main family mech, a captured Marauder II, and she longs to acquire a similar mech
(Her mech adds DHS and removes the SRM-4 and ammo for three MLs)

it's not a funny enough joke to spam every thread m8

It wasn't even funny enough to be posted once.

Any way, have a Nightstar IIC.

Is Warhansa reliable? Wouldn't mind a Mauler.

They are. Unfortunately the russian post isn't.

Ordered a large set roughly a month ago on a monday, a day after placing my order warhansa contacts me and says they'll have it ready to ship in 3-4 days, send a confirmation and tracking number on Saturday.

Two days ago russian postal services apparently visited my house, according to their tracking program, but failed to contact or notify me, ring my doorbell so that my wife could have signed off the order, or anything of the sort. Only a "Unsuccessful delivery attempt" note on the tracking software, no answers from them yet.

Why kind of SDS do the Clans use? Caspar drones or what?

I see, you live in or around russia?

I've had similar issues with a local delivery service but it seems to have eased up after a lot of people complained and as long as I have a tracking number I can pick it up. Very tempting anyway.

You would think, but no. PGI claims the rights to the images they designed. MS doesn't figure into it on that point.

There's stuff in The Hunters about what the Jaguars have around Huntress. CASPAR-type DropShips about Overlord size, packed with nukes. Ground batteries as well.

They crop up in the Wars of Reaving SB as well.

This being said they are almost certain not to be used in normal Trials, only broken out in exceptional circumstances.

I live in Finland. The postal service fuck-up could actually in all honesty be on the Finnish postal services behalf. They've become ridiculously inefficient since the corruption in the management ladder bloomed into full blown cancer.

What about Strana Mechty's defenses?

If Huntress has an all-aspects SDS you can bet your ass Strana Mechty will as well.

Honestly it's the same the world over AFAICT. Just about every service I know of has contractors doing the final delivery and a factor in what they get paid is how many deliveries they make/attempt to make per day. It's more profitable for them to drive to the address, idle for a few seconds to appease the GPS in case anyone checks, and say they tried to deliver but nobody was home.

If I didn't think any future packages would be mysteriously damaged or lost I'd put in an official complaint but it's just not worth the angst.

I've had much better luck with my international orders from them.

Though Russia is absolutely not the only place to deal with postmen who can't be arsed to do their job properly, having encountered the exact same problem (managing to catch postmen in the process of doing it a couple of times too), and having seen it turn up in the news for problems like delivery guys just throwing boxes with TVs and the like over walls rather than wait for someone to receive delivery.

I had a package get sent to the wrong continent once. Almost right next door to manufacturer and the fucking thing gets sent to south-east asia. WTF?

It showed up 6 months later, no worse for wear but by then I'd already received a replacement.

Porn about a tsundere boy succubus getting reamed a lot and refusing to admit that he loves it.

I saw the thread update with this post and thought I was in the wrong place for a moment.

I might be the exception but does it ever bug anyone that mech formations at company/binary/trinary level or high tend to lack command elements?