I'm gonna pick MWO. It might be shit but I still enjoy it somewhat.
Nicholas Wilson
Is there like a page or wiki where I can look at all the minis for this game? Not like a paint showcase, but just a catalog of the various mechs and what their ingame counterparts look like.
Xavier Russell
Did they ever figure out what was going on with that plot-breaking walk-on Spectre? And where the hell did he get all those mechs?
Camden James
Your best bet really is Camospecs. There is nowhere that has official art side-by-side with the minis that I am aware of. You can check IWM's catalog for the minis themselves and Camospecs for most minis painted up.
Josiah Gonzalez
Iron Wind Metals maybe?
Charles Kelly
Not really. There's just so many. Some machines have four or five separate sculpts over the years. I'm not even counting variants, just the same damn one. Some are different scales. Some are fanmade or repurposed from their original franchises.
There's over 1500 separate kinds, easily.
But this guy has the most complete answer because they tell you model and IWM catalog number. Though it's only stuff that's not unseen and there's none of the oddball scales.
I, I just get the feeling they monitor all the messages I pay to send to the "enemies" of the Suns. I mean, how interested could they get in all those cat pictures?
Anthony Turner
How did the Word of Blake manage to do so well or get support anyways? People might not have liked Comstar but they weren't literally terrorists destroying shit on a jihad like the Blakeists. HPGs don't produce mechs.
Jason Harris
The billion factories on Terra do produce mechs though. Turns out, those are helpful when it comes to making an army.
Zachary Ortiz
Exterminating the clans was quite appealing
Chase Martinez
The WoB took over the HPG net in the FWL and CC and used the funds on mechs
How does mech production work anyways? Isn't like 99% of factories under control of the houses who would be unwilling to sell them to others? Is your only hope to get a mech if you're not part of a houses is to salvage one on the field?
Same way old Comstar did. Recruit from the core worlds in the ruins of the Hegemony where people hate the great houses and from the Periphery where life is shit comparatively and Comstar is the Catholic missionaries of the frontier, bringing technology, medicine and education and a way out.
Gabriel Perry
I'm sure you guys have discussed this to death, but:
Major arms manufacturers like EarthWerks, Starcorp and so on are, to a certain extent, extranational powers. Their facilities are built on planets owned by the Houses, yes, but all that means is that whoever owns the planet the factory is on gets rights of first-refusal on whatever is built there. If the planet's ownership changes, the factory keeps running and the new-build units just go into the hands of the new faction. Hell, given the desperate straits of most militaries by the end of the Fourth Succession War, I wouldn't be surprised if the major arms companies basically made deals with their 'home' House long ago, to the effect of "we may be building Design X for you at Factory Y on Planet Z, but that doesn't give you *any* say in what our Factory A on Planet B builds for Faction C. And if you start acting like it does, you might find we have some 'problems' supplying Unit X to you until you pull your head in."
Lucas Campbell
>4 and a half to 8 years in training >plus gunslinger program Jesus christ I'm imagining skeletons in the classrooms since everyone died of old age before even finishing training and going on their first deployment.
But we'll have those guys just get out and run around with guns sometimes. Effective use of personnel.
Noah Clark
Compared to the functional levy troops of the Houses at the time, the SLDF was the cream of the crop because their troops were actual soldiers.
Nicholas Sullivan
>defense force >actually conquers and forces others to join the Star League Americans, everyone.
Wyatt Hall
>Americans, everyone.
Makes sense. Star League were the unmitigated good guys of their setting, and likewise so are Americans.
Brandon Rodriguez
When was the last time the US annexed something?
Zachary Young
Honestly that sounds more like the UK
Liam Williams
Does that mean we'll all be furries in a couple hundred years?
Michael Stewart
Why wait?
Xavier Campbell
Only if you join the army when it flies to the moon.
Samuel Harris
I mean if being a furry lets me become a mechwarrior then it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
Gavin Moore
Hit up Dave Fanjoy's gallery. He's got the most complete listings for the Unseen, and although he's got some holes, and his stuff is also painted, it's waay better organized than Camo Specs or IWM. heavygauss.com/
Jack Bell
What are some good starter mechs for my first run in MekHQ? I want to work my way upwards.
Ayden Perry
If you're new to battletech/mechwarrior I would say a lance of like 3 mediums 1 heavy or 2 mediums 2 heavies would be alright. 3025 would be a good date to start. Wolverine 6M is a solid medium mech in my opinion. If you want you can just roll a RAT to create a lance/company for you.
Gavin Perez
I'm interested in Battletech but have no idea where to start. I watched a lore video and it seems really interesting but the setting has enough fiction to fill a library, where should I start?
Caleb Miller
Succession Wars. Maybe read a synopsis on each of the houses then the one you like the most read up more on and learn what mechs they use. Theres also the books like Decision at Thunder Rift.
Levi Harris
>If you want you can just roll a RAT to create a lance/company for you. I read something about this in the pdf starter guide but I couldn't find a way to do it in the program.
under manage campaign click GM tools. If you have GM mode on (which you should) at the bottom of the window that pops up is a RAT roller. The year is automatic, just select the faction, probably merc, and then set quality to C and then weight class then hit add random unit to roll and add a unit to your hangar. "Roll for RAT" just tells you a random unit, you have to hit "add random unit" for it to roll + put in your hangar.
>I mean if being a furry lets me become a mechwarrior Fuck, that's one hell of a tough choice.
On one hand, you become a fucking furry. On the other, holy shit battlemechs.
Parker Wood
Nope. That mesh is their advanced cooling suit which works better and a million times more fetishy. Star League style suits are for the elite forces of the IS. The Kuritans especially as they were the ones who invented the things in the first place.
Evan Brooks
In effect, or officially?
John Hughes
Yeah, I found official fishnet art after posting that.
>Kerensky didn't throw everything away. He fought a big war and left the little that could be saved with Blake. >He left
The only reason so little could be saved is because he left. Blake literally got the scraps of units who didn't want to leave.
>It's a literary trick. They don't have to write it out explicitly. Well in that case it's just a literary trick that "Jessica Marik" was a Blakist clone of "Thomas Marik"'s daughter. You can make up whatever you want and say it's just a literary trick. Fact is, there's no evidence that Kerensky had any kind of info from the Bright Star, and plenty to show that they had no idea where they were going. And if he did know it makes his handling of the Prinz Eugen mutiny even more monstrous.
>If three House Lords were even remotely amenable to working together, why did they throw such a powerful army away? Kerensky wasn't refusing to work for them, and he'd need their help to rebuild the Hegemony.
Because as we're shown, Kerensky is a total failure of a leader. It's clear that he was a figurehead propped up by de Chevalier et al. and not actually good for anything on his own. Remember, they didn't kick him out and start fighting immediately. Kerensky was the de facto leader of the Star League but he did nothing for a year. Then the House Lords saw what a useless bitch he was and then another year after that with him still doing fuck-all they dissolved the Council of Lords.
Even at the time it was openly acknowledged that it would have been possible for the SLDF to depose any or all of the Lords. While I think it's dumb, it is stated that the SLDF was massively superior even after the war.
Let's not forget that as soon as the Exodus fleet got the Pentagon worlds they had their own mini-Succession War. And Kerensky bitched out of that too.
tl;dr Kerensky got by on his personal charisma and ideals, but in action was simply a figurehead for more competent men. So basically he's Hitler to Amaris' Stalin.
Thomas Cox
>It's clear that if you disregard everything ever written about Kerensky, I'm right and everyone else is wrong.
Oh, good. I'm so glad you're back with more high-quality posts.
Angel Collins
>I'm BTFO but I'll try to hide it behind sarcasm
Gabriel Diaz
No, you're just a literal fucking retard. Kerensky explicitly left because he knew he couldn't hold the SLDF together. Even without the House Lords around he couldn't keep the SLDF together, if he'd stayed it would have imploded in six months or less.
But of course canon is less important than your ability to REEEEE across multiple threads. So go your hardest.
Colton Reyes
Well you did try to hit him with the "literary trick" so he could say some of the things written about Kerensky are just literary tricks.
Juan Ortiz
>I'l try to disprove a hypothetical about what a useless piece of shit Kerensky is by talking about what a useless piece of shit he was
lol
Hunter Moore
>Even without the House Lords around he couldn't keep the SLDF together, if he'd stayed it would have imploded in six months or less.
lolwut
So first your argument was he couldn't because the House Lords were stealing the SLDF out from under him, but now even without them the whole thing would fall apart?
Zachary Hill
This is battletech, of course they don't. You're lucky if plain soap isn't lostech.
Wyatt Lopez
>left because he knew he couldn't hold the SLDF together. >80% of it followed him on the Exodus
Really gets the noggin joggin
Isaac Sanders
Switch to the TO&E tab and make sure an applicable lance is actually deployed onto the mission, once it is, go back to the briefing room and select start mission.
Carson Stewart
What happened in the Pentagon, again?
He was losing regiments at a time. There was no way he could sustain it forever, if he'd stayed it would have crumbled. He left before he bled too many troops and made the first SWs more destructive than they already were.
None of this is a mystery. It's always been clearly written since the game first had fluff.
If you want to spazz about how you're a smarter writer then feel free, I can't stop you. I can sit here think "what a complete gibbering fucktard," and ignore it. You're still not going to be right.
Benjamin Hill
God forbid anyone try to actually discuss hypotheticals, reconcile fluff contradictions, or do anything other than lap up the latest retcons.
Andrew King
>What happened in the Pentagon, again? Several million soldiers were told they couldn't be soldiers anymore and had to take up other, lesser trades. After wearing 'khaki halos' for so long, all those troopers resented being dumped into lower-status careers and tried to reclaim their former 'honour'. Their former nationalities were simply justifications, convenient pre-existing fracture lines that charismatic former-officers used to form their own factions. After that, all it took was an argument between two or more of those leaders - more likely over turf or resources than "dirty dumb [X] scum!" - and a few guns to kick off the Exodus Civil War.
Bentley Perry
And that's why I find it retarded that Focht when hearing that WoB had taken over Terra, didn't sent Comguard armies to take it back, just going "Eh we can survive without it", especially when he had fought largest battle ever fought in IS just to keep Clans off Terra barely 6 years earlier.
Daniel Lee
>But we'll have those guys just get out and run around with guns sometimes. Effective use of personnel.
That would be later date, around late 3rd Succession War, when mechs where becoming rather more rare than they where back in the Star League Era which the picture is talking about.
Nathan Bennett
At the time, Terra wasn't honeycombed with factories. It just had the Nexus, Raijin, Grim Reaper and Pike. The real crown jewel was at Titan, which ComStar kept for a while.
It's only when CGL needed to explain WoB numbers thanks to the Jihad going off the railes with clicky-tech that Terra was retconned to having a million billion hih-output factories. Before that its value really was mostly symbolic.
Nathan White
That's one of the special missions AtB throws at you sometimes. Those will allow you to choose your force you want to deploy into the fight.
Isaiah Robinson
I remember reading from even earlier lore that Terra had quite a few of mech factories, but as Comstar didn't really need all of them active apart from few to keep their mech forces intact, they where mostly mothballed, for the eventual day when Comstar would take over IS.
So you can see why I don't really buy that Focht didn't know what sort of industrial pearl he was throwing away to his enemies. It just comes off as Focht holding an Idiot Ball because plot demands it.
Gabriel Kelly
Pure motherfucking magic, basically
Nathaniel Green
Where is that from?
Jaxson Robinson
>What happened in the Pentagon, again?
You're the one saying that first it was the Lords then citing an example of how Kerensky had everything go to shit. Make up your mind.
. He was losing regiments at a time. There was no way he could sustain it forever, if he'd stayed it would have crumbled. He left before he bled too many troops and made the first SWs more destructive than they already were.
The whole point is about how his failure to lead is what put him in that position. It took two years of him doing fuck all for some of the troops to start thinking about taking other jobs. He undertook Operation Exodus the same time as the first unit left. And he got 80% or more to go with him so clearly "Muh SLDF was falling apart" doesn't make sense even then.
Pretty sure Jags have been gene-engineered not to suffer from pancake ass
Josiah Morales
They look great and all, but what about the Scorpion and Goliath?! Or the rest of the Ostmechs (god knows those things could use a facelift)
Brandon Perez
Nobody gives a fuck about Quadmechs, atleast nobody that matters in CGL.
There is an image of an Ostscout Shimmy did, which is part of the set he made for the new mechs. So that would indicate CGL might have had plans for Ostcout to be made aswell but the Harmony Gold lawsuit scared them away.
