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>BattleTech Introductory Info and PDFs
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>Overview of the major factions?
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>How do I find out which BattleMechs a faction has?
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2017-03-03 – (Against the Bot)
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>BattleTech IRC
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I am just starting to get into battletech fluff, any recommendations as to what novels to start with?

Legend of the Jade Phoenix trilogy for early Clans, Wolves on the Border, just about any novel written by Robert N. Charrette, and depending on your taste the Warrior and Blood of Kerensky trilogies.

Decision at thunder rift or wolves on the border are my two favorite novels. Else just read source books on factions that interest you.

>build all the varients of the Celestial series from the Jihad

Wait a second... Build?
Maybe I'm misunderstanding here, but isn't every mech in the MUL already available as AS cards free to download? I don't know why you'd need to build them at all...

For example...
>masterunitlist.info/Unit/Details/2573/preta-c-prt-o-invictus

Likewise, though I have to admit that Thunder Rift had one glaring fault as an early novel: They didn't know when to dial back the space babble, so they set this world as one with like, 24 different seasons in a non-regular pattern and 35 hour days or some shit...

Kind of cool flavor text, but they would drone on and on about it.

I also liked the Jade Phoenix Trilogy, but then, that was my first of the Battletech novels, and what a doozie it was for a first read. Luckily I had a rock hard tween boner for Mechwarrior 2 at the time, so hearing all the clanbabble didn't scare me off right away.

If you're absolutely just starting I'd recommend Decision at Thunder Rift, then Mercenary's Star. They were the first and third novels to be written, and as such are very newbie friendly, as there was no assumption a reader would have reams of lore already memorized. They also follow one another in terms of plot. They take place in an older time period, so modern games don't play like the setting suggests, but they're a lot of pulpy fun.

I'm so Combine my shits transmit targeting data...

He's talking modelling them all. Why I don't know, nor why he's namefagging up.

Thanks for clarifying.
Nah Bambaman's namefagged for years now, but he's not an attention hog or shitposter or anything, so its' cool. The Pole used to do that to, but again, it doesn't matter so long as you're not a shitposter like vroom vroom was, and at least we know what's coming in that case.

Some people around the chans are crazy tightassed about everyone protecting their super secret identity and start looking for post-style quirks or content, thinking saying "I recognise you" is the scariest thing possible.

But fuck, I've been in Veeky Forums since late 2007 or early 2008 for Battletech, because the OF get their panties in a bunch if you disagree or say "Fuck" in their hugbox. By now, someone's recognized me - and if they have - I'd be more likely to get a Battletech meetup out of it than have a flaming bag of dogshit at my doorstep.

Thought the guy asking about how to start would be interested.
This was a hastily done comic I made in 2k8 detailing how I got my start into Battletech and Veeky Forums shit in general, before finally getting my start in the LGS playing pickup games. Sorry about the WORDSWORDSWORDS

No wonder that fucker has no ammo or guns, the sword's so overdone it weighs at least 35 tons.

I think it's the 21 tons of Hardened Armor and fuckhuge engine that are to blame.

Imagine the power that shit must have.

Two handed pole-arm of doom made from sci-fi super alloys that is roughly 16 meters high, 2.5 meters wide and weighs 35 fucking tons, used by a human giant with up-powered muscles who is about 17 meters itself.

It's all sci-fi physics, so I guess it's perfectly reasonable to imagine it wedging that thing and splitting an Atlases' cockpit in half. Which is cool as fuck.

Per chance any resident artfags come around, I think someone could make a pretty decent reaction pic out of this applied to BT. There's downright too many goofy mechs to pick just one.

I could see this designed to be about the DCMS and the Charger 1A1

Urbie, Hoplite, Jenner with a pancake on it's head, hell I'd say Akuma because it's just weird.

Around Dracs, never relax!

Oh god; the memes would never stop. There are too many options!

Around Dracs, alpha strike and laugh.

Just put a pretty or semi-pretty blond somewhere in their view and they'll be distracted for four turns.

And then after four turns pass, fighting resumes and the snake dies.

So I have to admit that I'm surprised there aren't more PGI deaign minis available on like Sbapeways. I thought that wohld be the place to find them.

I just want a good looking Centurion model. Is that so much to ask?

Warhansa mate.

I know it's not the point of the meme or the post, but in the defense of the Zock it doesn't look too bad in its first game introduction after which they decided to use the show design as is and use that from that point on

Hitting the whiskey early today, yo?

Could still be lit from last night.

Didn't know that even existed! Thanks!

I assume this is due to spelling errors? I'm typing on my phone, and these damn touchscreen keyboards are the devil.

Nah mane, I'd totally buy figs from Sbapeways. They make great Muckies.

I wonder how that thing would look in late 1970's mecha anime colors of red, white, blue and yellow with black accents.

this thread needs an image dump

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What? It was already a dump, and it had images. I don't mind your posts, but you coulda chosen images from battletech, and not some video game, at least.

>but you coulda chosen images from battletech, and not some video game, at least.
what kind of drug are you using, nigga?

Nostalgia goggles are hell mate, leave the old grognard be.

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>That creaky old fuck Stone in the same piece of shit he drove in Operation Scythe

Old motherfucker thinks he's Wayne Waco or Jaime Wolf. I hate the mary sue wolf he's up against but I hope Alaric kills Stone dead.

That Atlas isn't a bad mech, I dunno what you're on about.

I'm hoping for a Waco/wolf repeat ending myself

The Atlas II is a mediocre nonsense mech that falls into the same star league prototype trap as have way too many before it. Except it did it for a limited production machine that was also ugly as sin. Stone's personal beast is a sad mixtech abomination.

Mostly, I hate the Atlas II and hate Stone, so it's like a perfect hate sandwich.

I dunno, I've had good experiences with the Atlas II. Different strokes etc.

As for Stone, I hate the entire RotS and most of the Dark Age due to it being pretty stupidly written, so I can't really argue with you on that front.

If you want a serious one, blood kite.

Silly: yeoman, flashman, stalker, dasher...

The Atlas II doesn't perform that badly. The large laser and LBX10 thing is as old as fuck mod used by players for the machine like a ton of the royal munch designs. There's just no reason they shouldn't have made it an AS7-Db instead of that ugly piece of shit.

Every time I see a Dasher / Fire Moth, I keep expecting to go, "Booga, booga, boo!"

So THAT'S how you get into a mech in the field...

Rope ladder/chain ladder has been stated since forever though some also have handhold ladders welded on them. They're usually not automatic like that though.

They also sometimes have single line winches with a footstrap like a gundam.

I still hear the voice in my head. "Get ready, lance leader. They're coming."

I really don't like how they portrayed the cockpit. That looks damn near impossible to climb into without some serious gymnastics. Don't most cockpits in the BT-verse open from the front or sides?

>I still hear the voice in my head. "Get ready, lance leader. They're coming."

"Oh, man."

"I see them ground commander. Hold your position."

Why wouldn't you attach the ladder to the top edge of the cockpit?

It is attached to the mech hatch in canon.

That picture also really makes me curious as to how you'd get into the MWO raven design.

>And then after four turns pass, fighting resumes and the snake dies.

Do you think I'd be working in a place like this if I could afford a real snake?

"We're tracking the Thor, lance leader do you read?"

"That's the last com-sat. Moving to escort positions."

youtube.com/watch?v=YzWP-C8oDPw

Is it okay to ask questions about the battletech RPG?

Go ahead. Some of us here even play it.

Most MWO designs are made with the TRO art in mind, not human proportions.
The cockpits used in the game fit only on like 2 mechs, most of them are completely unable to even contain a human being, let alone have a way of getting them inside.

Anyway, I'd go with the Mobile Suit solution. Have a rope with a stirrup (or whatever its equivalent is called for mountain climbers) attached over the cockpit entrance.
The tech is primitive, reliable and gets you into and out of the cockpit about as fast as it really gets.

Goddammit user. You said the name, you'll summon him up!

Ejecting, ejecting, ejecting!

>Ejecting, ejecting, ejecting!

Track that pod!

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Does shimmy still stream, or even hang out here anymore? I remember watching him do that one, was a lot of fun.

He got a job or something and has less time to fuck around on the internet, which is why he hasn't been here much recently.

You were right. That story had some major background flaws. I am now going to write a prologue for Sparrow washing out of the comguards for committing war crimes against the enemy while on garrison duty defending an HPG uplink.

Who cares about war "crimes"?

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A better question is who leaves Comstar alive, much less the Com Guards? Best to ignore the fucking moron.

>A better question is who leaves Comstar alive, much less the Com Guards?

Jeremiah Rose.

Sorry, but leaving the Com Guards - with Star League-era experimental equipment, even - is 100% canonically possible. Unless you'd like to argue that Main Event isn't canon?

Yeah, but that's the exception that proves the rule. Not just anybody can do it, because it's so exceptional that it gets written about in fucking canon.

I'm new to the game and getting into the background fluff. The notion of "Great Houses" reminds me of Game of Thrones, which I'm a fan of.

Maybe to simplify things if you had to match up a Battletech great house to a GoT great house which would be similar to which?

That was during the magical time of the schism where a shit ton of people up and walked with their machines while the upper levels of the organization were in total chaos. It just plain didn't happen before then. Fochtstar isn't old school comstar.

Also, even Jeremiah got cockblocked by old Comstar when he wanted to quit before Tukayyid.

Tards are House Cameron
Arryn are Marik
Lanister are Steiner
Stark are Davion
Martell are Kurita
Greyjoy are Liao

Probably the closest you'll get but none of that fits exactly.

Yeah, but he did that after Tukayyid. This dumbass Swallow is doing it before the Clans are even a thing.

Well, the idea was that he was a cadet pulling garrison duty at a faraway HPG link, and was rejected from the comguards prior to being fully enlisted.

after all, they must have had to do training, there are a lot of HPG uplinks that needed guarding, and a few were bound to wash out.

Mechwarriors don't just grow on trees.

If you wash out, you're still in the organization though. You just get shunted down to something like mailman.

I'm only going to say this once, user.

READ.

THE.

FUCKING.

LORE.

The ComGuard, prior to Tukayyid, are the most highly trained and highly watched force in the game. Massive chunks of the Guard are actually ROM agents operating under cover, and ROM is the uber-elite intel agency.

If they even *suspected* a recruit might try this shit they'd execute them on the spot for being a traitor to the will of Blake.

Training is also conducted on Terra or Mars which are, you guessed it, ROM central. MechWarrior training for the Guard is done *only* through Sandhurst, which is where they train ROM agents as well. In the same fucking classrooms.

Prior to Tukayyid, I'd give a deserting ComGuard soldier a lifespan measured in seconds, unless he is secretly a ROM agent using it as a cover story.

And even then there'd be a ROM agent coming after him hard-core, either to make it look good or because he's pissed about it, who will put in a major effort to get the kill for the Blessed Blake.

During the Era of Mad Max would a mech be passed down through families, or would it ultimately belong to the state in a more communist fashion?

Since you're so dedicated to this character being a total edgy sociopath asshole, mister writefag, why not have him be from, y'know, the fucking BANDIT KINGDOMS where he could have literally been a professional child molester before he went mercenary?

Do you mean the reign of Maximilian Liao, or just the general 3rd succession wars era? Either way, the answer is that it's gonna be a mix of both state and family owned mechs, with the CC under Mad Max tending more towards state owned than average, but by no means exclusively

Passed down.

State ownership becomes a lot more common in 3050+ or the Star League/Age of War eras.

>belong to the state in a more communist fashion
the USA army let their soldiers keep their tanks and helicopters after wars?

Mad Max as in the terrible movie

Apologies I meant the CCAF under Mad Max.

State mechs were basically just new production. Family mechs were the old relics. Even in the Mad Max era you were awarded your state mech as a personal machine for great deeds or even making a machine live far past life expectancy. Lights especially were awarded at retirement. If you drove a Wasp for twenty years and it didn't explode, then they tended to give it to you.

In the old days, family machines and mechwarrior knights were the majority. They got to be rare breeds by the 3060's-3080's though.

>Dat Atlas ASD7-K2 entry
McKinnon has always been a faggot of the highest caliber.

Calm down user, read the previous two threads. He's aggressively stupid in his refusal to learn the lore of what he writes about. He's too much of a genius to be confined by mere established canon, you see.

It's best to ignore or mock him and move on.