ANOTHER THREAD USING ANOTHER SHIT PICTURE? ARE YOU GUYS FOR REAL?
COMMENCING ART DUMP SO YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE EXCUSES NEXT TIME
Julian Collins
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Elijah Kelly
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Dominic Cooper
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Jordan Cooper
(Repost of Tikonov-centric heavy)
Brody Morales
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Isaac Morris
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Angel Flores
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Grayson Hill
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Nathan Campbell
repost of my answer
Eli Smith
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Wyatt Campbell
>Check this guy, he needs 2 AC-20s to make his point
Brody Harris
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John Gray
oh Heck Horses
you cray cray
Andrew Green
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Levi Russell
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Lincoln Bailey
What is the lightest (not useful or good) dual AC20 mech out there? Any flavor AC is fair game.
Jaxon Martinez
ARE there any dual-AC20 mechs other than the king crab?
Julian Hall
Hunchback IIC
Brody Anderson
>That Summoner Stop dude, you're clearly drunk
Jaxon Baker
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Adam Wood
There's that one solaris medium with dual AC/20s
Justin Mitchell
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Jordan Rodriguez
The lyran Emperor has a pair of LBX-20s, and there's a Nightstar with one ultra-20 and one LBX
Jace Cox
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Blake Sanchez
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Jose Martinez
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Josiah Adams
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Leo Stewart
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Colton Anderson
What is the best introtech Assault and why is it the King Crab?
Liam Evans
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Jack Murphy
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Parker Roberts
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Ryder Torres
>COMMENCING ART DUMP SO YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE EXCUSES NEXT TIME
We know, we just don't care. At this point it's better to make OPs with shit-art just to piss you off.
Dylan Bennett
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Parker Hernandez
I always enjoy the art dumps. I can't complain.
Adrian Young
Been playing BT since pre-Clan invasion (on the cusp of Battledroids).
Shakes head at your new-school stylings. Misses the point with a G1 TF. ^_^
Hunter Turner
k
Ryan Brown
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Joseph Nelson
>not the Banshee Shaaaaame!
Jackson Reed
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Luis Walker
The Bombard is almost certainly the lightest semi-viable dual AC/20 design. And at 850 total BV2, it's something you can actually spam, as long as you don't need to move especially fast.
One of the meaner things I've seen done was a person taking 10 of them (at a 3/4 rating) as the defender in a 12k BV2 cityfight matchup with a "seize the governor's palace intact" objective. He deployed them in pairs via hidden unit rules inside heavy buildings just outside the objective area.
Nathan Morgan
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Aiden Martinez
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Blake Myers
The guns themselves remind me of an Orion sorta, but you've put them in the wrong places.
Carter Long
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Chase Foster
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Camden Parker
I made the mistake of saying in a solaris match "keep it under x bv and a medium" One of our players brought a 1/1 pilot Bombard.
shit was dumb
Mason Long
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Christopher Nguyen
my nigga
Liam Johnson
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Lincoln Martinez
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Elijah Turner
You guys hear about how MW:O is moving the setting forward? What mech you hoping for? me personally fafnir.
Jason Powell
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Blake Smith
Why are infantry so expensive C-bill wise? Is megamek calculating it incorrectly?
Juan Roberts
The problem is that Tikonov really doesn't have any particular design identity that I've been able to find, so "Tikonov-centric" doesn't really mean anything. Beyond that, it's a decent introtech heavy, but I might cut a ton of AC ammo.
Andrew Garcia
>Why are infantry so expensive C-bill wise? Because CGL slapped a bunch of arbitrary and nonsensical price modifiers on them in the newest rules set
Jeremiah Clark
I would bet money on a Sunder
Ryan Williams
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Liam Gonzalez
Well, the general idea is early Cappella "AC-20s wherever possible". Otherwise it's just trying to put one on the most useful platform.
Mason Roberts
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Charles Bennett
I expect lots of MW3 and MW4 mechs now cant' wait for Argus
Thomas Hill
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Hudson Howard
Yeah. It's just something I put a bit of effort into researching a while back and there's so little info you have a blank slate.
NEA, got a question to axe you. How would you organize the 3067 Free Worlds Navy?
In my group's campaign the fleets are centered around one carrier, two eagle frigates, two zecs, an Agamemon or impavido, and one of the Star League ships (black lion, aegis, essex, etc). So like seven warships in a battle group. But one member has suggested all the Marik ships be organized as is but with the half dozen SL ships forming their own "independent action" squadron. Thoughts?
Cameron Carter
How much access would the IS have to clan mechs (through salvage, diamond sharks, etc) in the various time periods?
Ian Baker
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Camden Torres
Is it known how Arc Royal fell or the damage the Falcons sustained in taking that world?
Also, has Coventry fallen?
Charles Brown
But why tho? I can understand that price being for quartering, paying, and training them them for a year, but that's not what it seems to represent in game
Robert Foster
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Camden Sullivan
no we don't know
Eli Ross
That updated Falconer looks nice.
Jordan Hill
>But why tho? Because fuck you, that's why. There is really no logical reason
Alexander Scott
Are there other changes from canon?
If the answer is "no", then I'd actually release the SL ships to be independent raiding elements. They'd be nominally organized into a squadron, but they'd steam alone. They're almost all powerful enough individually that they can overwhelm most any individual WarShip a canon 3067 House can deploy in defense (except the Tharkad). Oh, do pair up the Essexes - those shouldn't steam around by themselves.
The only reason not to do this is that I can't remember how many of the SL-era ship have LF batteries installed. Raiding sans LF batteries can be dangerous. But then again, most of the SL-era ships the FWLN has can flatten most other House WarShips even if they can't do an emergency jump back out of hostile space.
If the answer is any flavor of "yes" relating to "other Houses have a WarShip fleet that isn't actually complete shit", then I'd keep the SL ships embedded with the Thera Task Groups. The reason is that your Theras are your most important asset, and they need to be well-protected. Relying on the Aggie/Eagle/Zec combination of escorts to protect your Theras against non-canon beefed-up OPFOR lines of battle is questionable at best. When the OPFOR is limited to a DuShi or a a "squadron" composed of a couple of Foxes escorting an Avalon, the Aggie/Eagle/Zec escort makes sense. If the other Houses have heavier and/or more numerous fleets (capable of actually being deployed in divisions or squadrons), I'd want the SL-era NAC-boats available in close support of my Thera's screening forces. And that means keeping them with the Task Group.
>pic only related insofar as I'm talking about naval stuff while I wait for my USS Constitution and HMS Java minis for the /hwg/ painting project to get here
Ian Moore
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Matthew White
Threads don't have to start out like it's some freaking museum art gallery. As long as it's clear this is the beginning of a BT thread, why crap all over yourself over it? Are you trying to impress your GF or something?
Jordan Brown
Not a lot to start, more later. Early on the FedCom has more than the Dracs but then Bulldog happens.
As he said there is no sensible answer.
Cooper Carter
oh neat, I haven't seen that one before
Nicholas Fisher
PURPLE BURD STROOOOONK
We all know the FWL should rule the Inner Sphere, thanks to their sensible naval policies, efficient ground forces, and quality of life.
Jackson Brown
I appreciate the response.
The answer is "yes", so I'll keep your answer in mind. There are some minor adjustments to warships, for the FWL side the biggest is uparmoring the Agamemon and Eagle classes (including SI).
As an aside, there's an interest in expanding the navies of some of the other successor states. Are there any (fan made, I'd guess) warship designs you'd recommend? I'm wagering you've made some yourself.
Camden Scott
>tfw you're the Chancellor watching Saiph invite FWLM troops to land because they're tired of your insane oppressive bullshit
Lucas Myers
you ain't the boss of me
Nathaniel Miller
>uparmoring the Agamemon and Eagle classes (including SI). NOICE
Thera groups are gonna be one hell of a force to reckon with.
FWL WILL GROW LARGER
Connor White
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Mason Martin
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Jack Gutierrez
You could unfuck the Kaga-Class Carrier and give the Suns/Lyrans the Durandel.
I'm fine with the Yamato being stuck in feature creep hell and the Capellans getting nothing else given the shit state of their shipbuilding infrastructure.
Maybe have the other Houses recondition some old SLN hulls too. Nothing outrageous, Black Lions at best.
Andrew Powell
Was it Saiph that had pro-Free Worlds guerillas during the Chaos March era?
Ethan Adams
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Nathaniel Hall
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Dominic Diaz
Ive always wondered why the Crusader Clans never sent their own covert forces to confirm the Dragoobs information with.
Nathan Jones
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Thomas Martin
Because the bad guys are dumb and the good guys have everything go according to plan.
Ethan Long
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Adam Rodriguez
The Crusaders were lead by the Falcons and Jaguars.
The Jaguars were retards who believed intelligence was irrelevant and ALL RESISTANCE WOULD BE CRUSHED BY THEIR MIGHT. The Falcons were traditionalists who believed that everything in the Sphere would work the way they did at home.
The only Crusader Clan that would have even been inclined to send agents were the Adders but that would risk discovery from the Sphere and a political showdown with the much more powerful Falcons and Jaguars.
Most of the Crusaders didn't really want to know what the Dragoons had reported. A lot of stuff in the Invasion happens because the Clans deliberately ignored the Dragoons' intel and wouldn't listen to ComStar.
Sebastian Gonzalez
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Ryder Reyes
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Landon Ramirez
They set up their own little nation during the Chaos March era, encompassing Saiph, Tall Trees, and New Canton. Would have made a neat little package for the FWL to offer membership as a voting bloc.
Realistically, there was nothing to stop the FWL absorbing most of the Chaos March. Even their Blakist buddies hadn't really gotten going by that point.
Or, optionally, minor powers and independent worlds signing up with the FWL proactively. It must be pretty appealing, if you're a world near them. Especially if you just saw the Cappies snap up your neighbors.
