We are looking for Glider Protomech designs for Clan Snow Raven. Designs must meet the following criteria: >12 tons >Must have at least 7/11 Glider MP
Designs with tech not currently used on canon protomechs are encouraged. Similarly, attempt to limit it to the base design and 0-1 variants unless you have a really good reason.
Submission requirements: >Must be submitted in .txt file format with all construction data filled out (see pic for example). Megamek or record sheet files are appreciated, but are not required. >Must have at least rudimentary fluff (state it's for, what it does) >Must have your name included in the files supplied for the design >Must have a description of how you want it to look. It can be as vauge as "small and blocky" or as detailed as "here's three examples of canon designs I'm taking from and a sketch of the end result" >Ideally, give us a zipped folder with the format "Mechname_Tonnage(Creator name)" and all of the above inside
Submit your designs to the /btg/RO Email listed on the Built for War blog.
A convenient list tech not used on protos that can be legally mounted: >Angel ECM >Improved Heavy Medium Laser >Ultra ACs >Protomech AC 4 & 8 >LBX-5 >AMS >NARC >(non-quad) Protomech Melee System >MG array >Torpedoes >UMUs >ER, Heavy, and Vehicle Flamers >Watchdog CEWS >Vehicular Grenade Launcher >ER Pulse Laser >Streak LRMs >Recon Camera >Remote Sensor Disperser >Re Lasers >TSEMP >RISC Repeating TSEMP >RISC Viral Jammers
>Protomech designer: cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/238471201633206272/425685873305321472/Protomech_Designer_v0.9.jar For anyone trying to make protos for the design contest, here's the thing I've been using. It has a number of bugs and errors, like the inability to remove weapons after placing them and most weapons requiring the wrong number of heat sinks. It works at the basic level, though.
I submit to your victory and hope to be taken as isorla.
Sell me on Clan Jade Falcon over the other clans. If I'm a spheroid whats in it for me.
Oliver Long
Another WIP.
Nuseen Wasp LAM for our local campaign, modified. For some retarded reason, the nuWasp has no arms in AirMech mode, so I kitbashed a couple of Stinger LAM arms just ahead of the hip actuators and it looks roughly 800% better.
Two more highlight layers to go on the blue, and then bone accents, markings, adding depth to the bare metal sections, cockpit, and finish the base. Water and snow effects get added after final varnishing. Considering adding some cotton vapor trails to the wingtips to indicate movement, but I don't know how well it'll hold up over time, since this is a game piece and not a display model.
What about a single Monsoon replacing a Winchester and the Dart on the Taurian side? It wouldn't be beyond what they could be fielding, considering that Amaris' handed a couple over to the secret navies, not to mention RW leftovers and any overbalance could probably be corrected by the Taurians being predamaged as the scenario concept suggests
Jordan Young
GAS THE CLANS SPACE WAR NOW
Matthew Gray
Neither are cool, but the Wolves are standard uncool, the Ghost Bears are fiat-tier uncool.
The Ghost Bears are stuck with the Canopians, Capellans and Star Adders in their tier of terminally uncool.
Only seen it in action in their latest combat gameplay video, and it's on the enemy team so you don't get a great look at it. Still, it's in a few shots and looks fucking great. Here's the vid, it's long but good.
The question - is there an online mech generator? The favour - and you can tell me to f*ck off, I'd understand because this is cheeky - but if someone has a mech design programme and wouldn't mind wasting a few minutes for, I'd like to request a design.
It has to be an Inner Sphere 60 ton Rifleman, but any tech level. While 4/6 movement would be preferred, I'd understand a 3/5 if you had to. The catch - I need it to have 4 (four) RAC/5s. Only needs ammo for a few shots. Any other details up to you. It's going to be used for a surprise boss fight. One of my players was mentioning how weedy RACs are and how weedy Riflemen are and I just want to surprise them. I'm not very good at the design work and especially not at the possible tech needed to get this to work at any level.
Thank-you and please tell me to bugger off if this is too cheeky!
Luke Gonzalez
Download Solaris Skunkwerks. You can even print your record sheets!
Henry Rogers
NO BLAKE STOP
Sebastian Price
the RFL-8D is has two RAC/5s and jump jets and might be what you are looking for.
>Solaris Skunkwerks Thanks, I didn't realise it was mac capable.
Brayden Mitchell
Decent shot of the Stalker from the rear at 56 minutes in.
Jeremiah Collins
Do the Bears have cool mechs? That's really all that is important.
Leo Miller
>60-ton design >Quad RAC/5s
I hate to tell you this, man, but that's not going to be a thing. RAC/5s are 10 tons per gun, before ammo. No Mech is ever going to be able to have 2/3rds of its mass taken up by payload. Even using MixTech bullshittery to minimize support system mass (clan endo-steel, Clan XL engine, XL gyro, etc), you can't get quad RAC/5s plus ammo plus armor onto a 60-ton frame.
If you wanted to use the 80-ton Rifleman II as a base, that's at least closer to the realm of possibility. But not a 60-ton Mech; no way, no how.
Jonathan Nelson
None that I can really think of, no. Lots of people like the Kodiak but I find the ears more derpy and adorable than cool. Plus other clans use the Kodiak anyways.
Connor Richardson
Actually, wait. I had IS-tech DHS turned on. Clan DHS lets the non-engine heat sinks actually fit.
This is still a terrible, terrible Mech design, and you shouldn't field it. But it has quad RAC/5s and can technically fire for more than 1 turn, so it fits your requirements (even if your requirements are bad ones).
Again, I will reiterate: this is not a thing you should put on the battlefield except as an unfunny joke,.
you'd need to use a SL Rifleman II (which is 80 tons) if you wanted it to work, like at all though in the mean time you can have this suicidal abomination that technically fills the criteria. I only gave it two tons of ammo because it's not gonna survive more than one turn, and I couldn't just mount 24 shots
it's really just the basic AC 2, AC/5, UAC/2, UAC/5 and LAC/2 that suck outright, along with to a lesser extant the LBX/2 and /5 and the UAC/10
the LAC/5 and regular /10 are both borderline fine, the LBX-10 is solid, all of the 20s are good, and the RACs are perfectly fine
Dominic Ross
Lets say that instead of attacking the IS, the WoB dedicated all its forces, and associated mercenary forces, to an attack on the Clan Homeworlds.
How would this go? Could they do it? Could they do it with nukes?
Christopher Lewis
It would be an unholy shitshow for everyone involved, because once you start seriously employing WMDs in a war of extermination against an enemy that doesn't really know you're coming and what kind of war they're getting into, you can do a horrific amount of damage before anyone can stop you. inb4 clan austist screeching
Ethan Barnes
I forsee a mutual annihilation, where the last of the Homeworld Clans die strangling the last of the fanatical Wobbies who are stabbing them repeatedly, all of it covered in radioactive dust and surrounded by burning ruins and utterly wrecked mechs. Perhaps a few Wobbies or mercs live to limp back to report, only to get FUCKED by the IS clans, if those haven't come running home to help the Homeworld clans. I'd guess the Burrs, having gone full native, would come out on top of the whole mess.
Chase Martinez
WoB against all the clans? Clans win.
WoB turning the clans against each other a la Wars of Reaving, then attacking? WoB might have a chance.
Alexander Stewart
The thing is that the WoB simply doesn't have enough WarShips and ESPECIALLY not enough battleships to hit the home world's, if it was total war they'd all get killed in space before they could land and start nuking shit
Liam Butler
Why is UAC/10 on the kinda sucks list but not AC/10?
Ayden Clark
The regular 10 is good enough in introtech and in later eras can do decently with special munitions, but the ultra 10 doesn't get the specialized ammo that keeps the regular 10 even sorta viable
Christian Clark
The AC/10 is the ICE's best friend. And who doesn't like a suddunly! flak shotgun.
XL engines with recourse to double heatsinks don't need friends.
Jack Scott
If UACs could be unjammed like RACs, I'd bump the UAC10 up into good-tier
Brandon Fisher
I'm looking through the unused items listed here and in most cases there's a really good reason they aren't mounted on any canon protomechs.
Robert Green
I think you're looking at it backwards, user.
You don't get people to appreciate the Rifleman and the x2 LL x2 AC/5 on 10 single heatsink loadout by throwing an optimized Rifleman at them. You do it by throwing a strafing aerofighter at them halfway through a battle.
Then rescue their bleeding asses with a Rifleman.
Noah Edwards
Why is a Banshee coded as BNC? Why not BNS or BSE?
Charles Perez
Yeah, a lot of them are kinda trash. Some things, like AECM, the lack is a bit odd since they give it a nice niche. Others, like the TESMP or Re Lasers, don't really have a reason to be mounted at all.
Parker Davis
The protomech ACs in particular compare quite poorly to clantech ER medium lasers
Tyler Wood
Indeed. Ironically they're actually pretty great for small cheap tanks
Isaac Perez
FINISH WHAT WE STARTED AT TUKKAYID. TUBE BABIES MUST DIE.
Christian Stewart
How? What makes them better than a laser in that case?
Brayden Harris
Which Clans adopted the use of Protomechs?
Cameron Barnes
Only on ICEs
Jaxon Carter
Difference in heat management, probably
Jeremiah Garcia
All of them except the WiE and Clan Snord, I believe
Andrew Stewart
>no mention of the RotS or FS in fiat-tier uncool
Julian Martin
They're on another, lower level
Brandon Murphy
Several tried them, but long-term adoption was limited to the Horses and Ravens in the IS. Burrs decided they didn't need them, Wolves looked at it a bit and then gave up, and the Falcons tried it but their scientist caste sabotaged the program (see: Wars of Reaving stuff). The homeworld clans were more interested, which makes sense when you consider that the proto was made because resources in the homeworlds were short and protos were designed in response to that. IS clans have more material to make proper mechs.
Ryan Martin
>half of the viable factions in the game are at fiat-tier level
What's the point of complaining?
Luis Martin
> /btg/'s own image board: - (2018-03-22 - Still getting worked on & now has 35401 pics! Any help with tagging appreciated!) bgb.booru.org/index.php
Tagging wouldn't be a problem if something was done about that untagged macross pic upload troll.
>IS clans have more material to make proper mechs.
They're also the "trial some innersphere freebirths against each other and put the survivors in a vehicle" expedient, which has proved irresistible to enough dissimilar clans to establish itself as a competing trend.
Aaron Hernandez
Honestly, even the "good" autocannons are merely okay, and not great. AC/2s and AC/5s of all types(UAC, LBX, LAC, and even RACs) could be bumped up to /3s and /6s and it wouldn't even be unbalancing.
This is even more true for Clantech Autocannons, who if compared to other Clantech are pretty bad. Only the clan LBX/5 and UAC/20 are defendable(LBX/5 for an AA and anti-vee weapon, UAC/20 for double tap).
Also, shoutout to the Protomech AC/4 and AC/8, who are both strong candidates for the worst weapons in the game, and that is INCLUDING intro-tech.
Ayden Martin
I've been trying, but it seem pretty hard to make it neither shit nor boring.
Jayden Evans
Hold on, that's me. I'm working on the tagging, but I'm in a cloud of pics that I have done partially before, so it doesn't show up on the tallies. Also the Macross thing, the booru has 6 components. Battletech as the main, and then Macross, Crusher Joe, Dougram, and Southern Cross and MOSPEADA because of the very scant pics of mecha from them in one FASA product of old. So I allow anything of those five animu. There is also one Patlabor pic from Pencil Bro, but Pencil Bro is Pencil Bro so I'm cool with it. I'm also uploading a massive stash that's kind of mixed right now, so that's the current situation. No problems, mate!
John Sanchez
>before they could land and start nuking shit
they don't need to land to nuke shit lmao
Just chuck asteroids at Strana Mechty with the Erinyes to announce your arrival, then nuke/bioweapon/chem weapon anything that looks remotely alive.
Cooper Stewart
So get creative lol
Find an unexpected synergy, fill an unfilled niche, whatever.
Wyatt Miller
A SECOND TUKKAYID FOR EVERY CLANNER KID
CLAN GENOCIDE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE
Liam Wilson
I was gonna say ... I see new pictures getting uploaded as we speak - and there's a ton of Mospaeda stuff in there - but I didn't see any Macross pictures until I got to page 35!
Asher Morris
Looking for a couple of cheap vees to bodyguard the dropship while our mechs are out beating ass. Anybody got recommendations? Year is currently 3067.
Gavin Martin
RotS are on their own level, right at the very bottom, for "plot cancer"
FS are at "horribly bland stock protagonist" level
Colton Bennett
Partisans. You really don't need anything else if you've got a lance of C3 (even regular will do, really) partisans and some artillery guarding the thing
Austin Gutierrez
The Capellans and Canopians have some things going for them.
Bentley Gonzalez
Had, past tense
Adrian James
I was gonna suggest making anybody who gets close regret their decision with some (cheap) Hetzer Wheeled Assault Guns, but ... if anybody ever saw them, they could just sit back out of range and plink until they were nothing but wreckage.
Partisans and Hetzers are a good choice, but grab a few Musketeers.
RAC/5s, TAG, grab a cheap AIV artillery unit to deploy, or slap it into the dropper and you're pretty much covered.
Tyler Young
Hetzers aren't a bad way to haul a Thumper around (and tow another in a trailer), which might work for what he intends, but yeah, they aren't great as static defenses
Sebastian James
So I’m not a Battletech guy, just a 40kid looking for color ideas for Knights (40k mechs, but with more skulls and rivets I guess?) Are there, like, great houses with established liveries? Where could I find them?
Ian Wood
Thumpers with copperhead ammo, Hetzers to help bodyguard them, and Musketeers to spot and be rapid reaction isn't bad for dropper security. Though unless he has a lot of space, he may just need to settle for either/or.
Aiden Lopez
Yeah, Capellans and Canopians haven't been cool for ages by now.
Hudson Thompson
>Are there, like, great houses with established liveries? Where could I find them?
If you go all the way back to 3025, there was a whole book of them.
Nice, thanks! Beats my original idea of using Dune houses (although Miles Teg’s great-great-(...)-great-great granddaughter is still going to be the pilot of the #1 Knight)
Michael Cook
If he's a mercenary unit using anything other than a cargo ship with tons of space for vehicles like these, he's already fucked and there's nothing for it
Juan Robinson
What are some religions in BattleTech that are original to its universe?
I know there's Blakism, the One Star Faith that believed Kerensky's fleet found some gaia world to live on or something.
Ryan Howard
Blakism isn't a religion
t. CGL
Adam Ortiz
There are some cults in Niops, the OA, and other spots in the Periphery. It's where you'll find most of the setting's versions of the Puritans and other religious offshoots/non-mainstream cults.
Caleb Smith
There's the Unfinished Book people, the Taurian Deist Church and a couple of local animist faiths in the primitive parts of the Periphery
Dylan Campbell
You could consider the Far Reachers to be a religion.
Asher Bennett
Clanners(especially Cloud Cobras) literally worshiping Kerensky as God
Ethan Smith
Proportionally how big was the Warden/Crusader split in Clan Wolf when the invasion began?
50/50? 70/30?
Ian Williams
Strana.net seems to imply that massive parts of the Taurian Concordat, Fronc Reaches, and even Magistracy of Canopus think so. It's a pretty 'secular' religion, but I can dig it.
