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>It's weird.

Welcome to Pinyin. But really, what would you expect of a system that had to use English as the phonetic baseline?
Japanese came off better simply because the system originated in Portuguese.

It's also why Peking changed into Beijing (Paychink) for the exact reason of not being Japanised/Portuguesed and ended up being, well, Bay - jing.

Reposting in the new thread.

Could I convince you to draw a Talos with a pilot like pic related?

Also I second the tomboy & Thud request

Very nice, I enjoy seeing some fresh art in here thanks ink user.

>Also I second the tomboy & Thud request
Short grumpy ponytail tomboy with the reseen thud, totes.

Requesting a Zeus and a long-haired young royal type? Social Lieutenant, if you will rather than a proper General.

Found some really old stuff in FB. A Crescent Hawk's Inception booklet.

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Holy shit, please please get to posting!!!

With Camacho's Caballeros being brought up last thread, could you do a Wraith with a MechWarrior like the girl in this pic?

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So uh, how does it look like in use exactly?

The top. The back of the launcher is a rotary magazine with an exhaust port.

Check the first pic user...

We need lewds of this instructor chick.

I did, but she's just holding it, not using it. The tiny thing that looks like either a trigger or a safety in on the grip is what threw me off. The fuck is up with the ergonomics on this space future gun anyways.

its gotta be the bottom. the first pic plus the angle the handle is pointing seem to suggest as such. the drum could still rotate with the back being a shared exhaust, missiles don't really need barrels.

Do you even original Space Marine Devastator rocket user?

I've got to disagree

The second sketch looks more like how it would fire. I've heard inferno launchers described as double barrel over under. that's the bulky 'front' with the single exhaust for both of them out the back.

Makes more scene than a rotating mag for a weapon that is likely expected to only be used once.

(repostan into the new thread)

On that note, what sort of callsign do you think they'd hang on a 'Mech-jock who was literally a top-tier porn star before she signed up? She still owns a lot of related businesses and IP rights, to the point of personal wealth in the low nine figures, but she's a genuine patriot who chose to serve her country.
I ended up calling her Succubus, and her (female) company-commander is a straight-laced blonde bombshell I dubbed Hammer, but given what I've subsequently learned about the callsign process, they sound more like tags the PR guys hung on them - I'm not sure either name has the right undertone of genteel mockery to be a genuine comradely nickname.

Is that a counterweight at the back? Which part is the exhaust? My head's hurting just looking at it.

So the almost propeller like thing at the back is not a counterweight but probably there to help disperse the exhaust in such a way as to reduce recoil...Wait is that a fucking vent on the side? Gods damn just when I thought I had it figured out.

Straight up, it would be something like 'Blowjob Queen' or 'Gangbang'. I don't think you really understand how much mad shit soldiers would talk about someone like that

Bottom version is correct. What's throwing people off is the thumb-actuated trigger.

There's a very similar launcher on the 2nd cover version of Mercenary's Star; the two-chamber missile launcher is a known quantity. The chamber rotates to bring the bottom missile chamber in line with the exhaust tube.

There you have, second cover.

Totally agree. I love that kind of 80`s femmes design.

My first impulse to deflect that by saying you're assuming her culture-of-origin holds the cultural mores around sex and women-in-uniform as the 2017 US military, but I'll let it slide - firstly, I *asked*, and secondly, semi-mocking callsigns like this appear to be a mostly-American phenomenon anyway. (Besides, she's still involved with the production side of the movie business.)

How much do you think it'd take for her to talk them down to something like 'Hollywood' or 'Succubus', like I originally went with? Would it make any difference to the troops if they realised she speaks five languages (kind of necessary in her home nation) and holds a degree in 'Mech EW?

(FWIW, one of her formative experiences in the film industry was running into a director who had a nasty habit of demanding freebies from new starlets. When he laid a finger on her against her will, she put him in hospital.)

Some reused art.

Why would anyone use "Hollywood" rather than a more local reference, considering the time and fact that nobody bestowing these nicknames has ever SEEN a single film from earth at all, and even so, why would Hollywood still be the movie capital of earth a thousand fucking years in the future?
If anything, people would probably call her "Herodotus", because that's the retarded hedonism planet

General rules about callsigns:
1. You don't choose your callsign
2. If you bitch enough about your callsign, it will be replaced with another one which is even less complementary
3. Callsigns must be phoenetically clear so that they can be easily distinguised on a radio link; more then 2 syllables is highly unusual.
4. Callsigns cannot be blatantly sexual or scatalogical; that is, "Shitbird" or "Cock Whore" is going too far. However, allusions to sexual or scatalogical references, or abbreviations or acronyms which are not obviously forbidden in nature, are strongly encouraged.

So something like "Hollywood" would be unlikely to pass muster because of its length. "Gangbang" would likewise be too blatantly sexual in nature. As a point of comparison, in a 21st century parlance, she could certainly end up with a callsign like "Hoover" or "Roomba". I'd personally push for something more clever like "Mounds" (b/c Almond Joy has nuts, while Mounds doesn't). Alternatively, it can easily be a callsign intended directly as an insult, depending on her attitude ("Oinker" is an easy one, "Tractor" is a harder one - what's the first thing you look for when you want to plow something...?).

Alternatively, if she's done something funny or stupid while in service, that gets you a callsign. For example, callsign of "Ed" (E.D. - as in the medical condition) was granted for thinking he heard an explosion on landing, and pulling the ejection handles without checking what happened...leaving a civilian VIP in the back seat. Insist on a badass callsign like Ice? Congrats, you're "Slush" - you aren't cool enough to be Ice.

Finally, what's her name? Col Gaud's callsign was "Oh my". Last name Campbell? Get used to "Soup." LT Cummens? "Sider". And so forth.

If she's the CO, then she can just use whatever call sign she wants, though her troops will most assuredly make fun of her behind her back for it (though that would be true in any case, not just this one)

Fluffer - two syllables, hard consonant, mocking, derisive
Butt end looks like the exhaust cone of the Carl Gustav

>Would it make any difference to the troops if they realised she speaks five languages (kind of necessary in her home nation)
Oh, Magic Mouth would be a good one then

>Would it make any difference to the troops if they realised she speaks five languages (kind of necessary in her home nation) and holds a degree in 'Mech EW?

>stupid character limit

Absolutely not. A cool callsign has to be EARNED (whether through deeds or heavy drinking/bribes). It doesn't matter a damn who you are, and in fact it's a mark of a good leader when he can bear a shitty callsign with good grace.

And callsigns do change. If you watch the Flight of the Intruder movie, there's a GREAT example of this where the FNG of the squadron gets his name changed from Razor (since he's too young to need one) to Straight Razor (cause he's a badass killer).

As an aside, these aren't just things for pilots. I don't know about other service members, but we absolutely had nicknames which worked the same way as callsigns in the Army. I got saddled with the rather uncomplementary "Showboat" when I started in Basic because I started volunteering to demonstrate skills (to save the rest of my platoon from fucking the demonstration up and getting us all PT'd), and got it changed outright to "Killer" by virtue of being all of 5'7" in service boots and yet calmly and methodically beating the shit out of *everyone* I faced in both pugils (a low bar, but a bar nonetheless) in my entire training battalion AND among the permanent party (ie, the instructors). Fortunately, neither name followed me out of BCT.

>Butt end looks like the exhaust cone of the Carl Gustav

Yeah, mostly. I'd split it 50/50 between the Gustav and the cone of an M20A1 Super Bazooka.

My buddy was a marine, and they sure as shit have nicknames there, too, but they are evidently a lot more willing to use obscene terms than y'all

Well, I know 100% that after Tailhook, the Navy and Air Force both came down on anything even remotely sexual or scatalogical like the wrath of god.

If it's not going to go out over a radio net, nobody much cares about obscene terms. Which is good, because otherwise we wouldn't have been able to talk much. If it's *supposed* to go out over the net, though, AF, USN, and Army all slam down pretty hard on you.

Again, though, I don't know how it is dealing with the green weenie. I have family members who are or have been in all service branches save the jarheads, so I've got less info about the details there.

yeah, this was down at the E-3 level, so I doubt they ever went out on the radio much, if at all

But on the other hand, would mercenaries actually give a shit? Without endless command-level ass-covering and death by sexual harassment PowerPoint, I just don't see any reason why they'd try and avod those things in callsigns

The story/character in question, for those who might care: forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=115834

I was using the Earth equivalent for simplicity - the local film industry is based in Ciudad Habana (Havana City).

Her given name is Olivia Bella. (IRL, I originally based her off Olivia Del Rio - pic related - though the character has evolved a fair bit since then.)
The three planets of her home nation are, respectively, Svoboda (Russian/Ukrainian), Highside (Canadian/Welsh), and her home world of Ensenada (Cuban/Chicano, with Brazilian/Argentinean touches); all three have some American influences, given how much the Terran Alliance homogenised things before colonisation really got started.

Her company CO/pilot is a mostly-straight-laced blonde called Hammer. After this discussion, I figure she got that by not handling hangovers well ('will someone please *kill* that fucker with the hammer?') and learning to share the laugh.

>Her given name is Olivia Bella

Without thinking into it any more (muscle relaxers are kikcing in), either "Prima Donna" or "Porta."

1) Prima Donna fits the ex-actress, and you get a nice "BellaDonna" pun.

2) PortaBella is a kind of mushroom, and the applicability of mushrooms to soldiers is obvious. Often kept in the dark and given bullshit.

reminds me of someone who got the callsign of ghost, because they were never around and you could never find them.

is this a serious post?

It was; I just forgot to put my name on for it. Is there a problem?

Didn't expect a veteran comic artist, Howard Chaykin, did this?!

>If it's not going to go out over a radio net, nobody much cares about obscene terms.
Also depends on the level, on platoon net nobody gives a shit. Though generally anything company and higher is just working off unit nicknames anyway.

I would go with Beejay, as in BJ or Star due to her career.

... yeah, "star" could work. 'Zvezda' or 'kinozvezda' (Russ.: '(movie) star') might work for the Svobodan angle... or maybe "Stella" Bella? It carries the 'star' meaning for the media reference, and it rhymes enough to go with her last name, at least in English.

(It's gonna be a pain to edit all those long-standing posts, of course, but considering how much else I have to correct or touch-up *anyway*....)

Many thanks to all respondents!

This. I was gonna say something like Five-Tung. Lips is also probably in the running.

She was a *porn* star(all the emphasis is on porn here), and a successful one at that. Her call sign will reference it in one way or another and calling her 'star' or any other generic title that could be mistakenly applied to any movie star or wannabee or has-been undercuts the very real fact that she was in porn and those that gave her the title were aware of this. They might choose to only subtly hint at her past for whatever reason but no one will ever, ever just ignore it.

What I find ironic about all this former porn star bullshit is it's one of the genuine good reasons to have a MoC pilot. Just make her a Canopian instead of Lyran. Have her be from Hardcore (yes that's a real planet and does everything it says on the tin) and transitioned from porn into the knockoff Solaris Battlemech circuit on world.

It even takes care of the nickname. Hardcore.

REDLINE had a pair of very sexy idols who also happen to be legit race car drivers. Their car even turns into a mech at one point.

Lyrans have all sorts of large media entertainment firms in their territory and where there is movie industry you bet there is people making porn.

And those people wouldn't be let near a mech with a fifty foot pole. Canopians are the only group that doesn't care about that kind of thing and who you can literally buy your way up the military ladder.

And Lyran military you can't, though in Lyran Military it's more of who you know that matters. Why are you hanged up on a lyran expornstar becoming a mechwarrior?

For the same reasons I would a USA ex pornstar becoming a USAF fighter ace. Plus, the story of how they got to their position will forever be more interesting than anything they do while in it.

Also, there simply aren't enough mechs to go around. There's like one functional machine for every fifty million people in the sphere. And there's five military people trained to drive a mech for every one available.

Notice that while there's a ton of strange bird mechwarriors in battletech, they're mechwarriors first and quirk second. Even infamous pirate warlords like Redjack Ryan started out as a regular merc dude who hugely fucked up his first contract.

For greater context, this woman is from an AU Periphery nation. Her homeworld of Ensenada has attitudes to sexual matters that are closer to European models than the American, so the Canopus reference may not be inaccurate: high schools have mandatory and thorough sex-ed classes, prostitution is an open and legal industry rather than a black-market, and to a certain extent 'A-rated productions' are treated as a subset of the mainstream media. (Unification of the A-trade's not!AVN Awards with the local not!Oscars and not!Emmys is still being opposed by certain interest-blocs.) That said, she's also got no-shit acting chops, and in the year or so before she enlisted she broadened her range (heuhuehue) to appearing in a couple of serious dramatic 3V productions, even winning a not!Emmy for Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series.
While I still like 'Zvesda' for various reasons, for the time being I'm leaning towards 's suggestion of 'Hardcore'.

>For the same reasons I would a USA ex pornstar becoming a USAF fighter ace.
Maybe I'm being autistic here, but would you mind explicating those reasons? I'll grant it's not a field of employment that builds skills useful in the cockpit of an F-22, but if they met the physical and mental/educational requirements, and they didn't have any problems that would disqualify any other pilot-candidate (drugs, psych issues, medical issues etc.), why raise any objection? In the modern world, it could be spun as a case of someone 'turning their life around'.

So what you're saying is that user is playing Battletech wrong?

It's written like bullshit and bait.

More he's shitting up the thread with his faggoty AU.

Every AU is faggoty, but it's not like the actual fluff is any better
Quit shitting on it and come up with your own OC if you want threads to have discussion. You lose nothing by taking anons questions at face value and answering them genuinely.

Eat shit, cancer. This thread isn't your safe space.

In real life, not seeing an expornstar become a US jetfighter pilot is due to politics and culture,as in USA making porn is seen as dirty busines that is even below prostitution and it leaves a stigma that will follow the person for a very long time.

I suspect is from USA and is placing american moral values on fictional nation some 1000 years to the future.

>muh USA
>muh America

List 10 former pornstars that are fighter pilots in any nation's airforce. I'll wait.

Not American, for the record, so whatever point you think you're making... well, you're quite off in the wilderness. Dumb shitposter.

We don't feel its worse than prostituting, just that in exchange for.money and fame we lose all respect for you and treat you like the dirt periphery nation you are.
"What did you contribute to society?" "sucked a lot of dick, got gaped, now.gimmie respect."

Can you guys just drop this stupid debate?

What's your favorite WarShip?

Not my best work but eh.

Anywhere else can I post this besides here?

Aegis.

Fox corvette! Nifty little ship with a lot of possibility (5 dropships!)!

I like it.

Was asking why you woul not see expornstar becoming a USAF fighter pilot. I gave him an answer.

Speaking as a femanon who did a few adult modeling scenes, I was still able to become a Navy Reserve Fighter Pilot.

>Anywhere else can I post this besides here?

There's a booru imageboard specifically for us at bgb.booru.org/index.php. With over 20,000 images, I'd be surprised if yours weren't in there already; some have already been tagged as well!

I love the Thud so very nice. Can I bump my Talos request?

Wish the girl had bigger thighs to match the THUNDER THIGHS of the Thunderbolt, but whatchagonnado?
Looks great though.

I still totally want that scorpion though

What is the best of the original clan mechs and why is it the Mad Dog?

Are there any examples of cheap* cargo dropships to carry along some extra parts/ammo to support a union and it's mechs?

*by dropship standards

Leviathan III, i like screams.

But did you become an ace?

First for Black Lion!

L O N D O N

Tell me more about this Ukrainian/russian planet

Mule is pretty much the standard for relatively cheap and common cargo DS. In fact they're good for hauling your whole unit if you don't plan on hot dropping.

Because it's a Smoke Jaguar MR Archer.

Hell no. It's what got me into BT though. My bf played it.

Aside from Natasha Kerensky, who are some famous redheads in BT history?

Hanse, Morgan, and Victor.

>I was still able to become a Navy Reserve Fighter Pilot.

So not a real fighter pilot.

See, I'm right. You can't do anything adult industry-related and still serve as a real fighter pilot in a real military.

Wasn't Victor blonde?

What was your stage name?

>You can't do anything adult industry-related and still serve as a real fighter pilot in a real military.

You can, however, rise to the level of infamy and land a cush job in a make-believe military.

It's honestly a damn shame that the Mechwarrior series never went the Wing Commander way with gloriously cheesy live action cutscenes

Besides all the cheesy live-action that it did have?