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Anon10/21/26, 23:01No.98860888

First to praise Blake!

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Anon10/21/26, 23:20No.98860971

What kind of a light/medium mech would fit into a merc company as salvage? Roughly thinking around clan invasion time frame to shortly after. Don't want anything too crazy/unrealistic, but it would still be a lucky situation for the company.What would be a realistic set of 3 mechs to run with it? Just want to paint up a believable lance for display.Thinking Rifleman / Wolverine / ThunderboltPic related?

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Anon10/21/26, 23:24No.98860987

>Wolf's Dragoons edition As a side note putting a pilot with cautious + patient edge abilities into this thing is downright mean.

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Anon10/22/26, 00:18No.98861194

[/tg/thread/98847965#p98861052] I guess you missed it. [/tg/thread/98825363#p98834934] I came around to your argument after thinking about it for a bit.

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Anon10/22/26, 05:44No.98862095

Since the Wasp and Stinger are so similar, it should be possible to Phoenix Hawkify the Wasp chassis.

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Anon10/22/26, 06:10No.98862170

i played my first game of battletech alpha strike two days ago after shilling it to a friend and it was so much fun. could someone please help me understand a few of the rules? am i correct in my assumption that shooting out of woods does not give the attacker a +1 mod if the woods are only within 2" of him? does this 2" rule impact how the 6" of wood to block LOS are calculated, or is 6" always 6"? does partial cover always go two ways for attacker and target or is it possible to shoot out of cover while not being affected by it yourself? how do vantage points work? is it possible to jump on a high building to use the angle of the roof to receive partial cover while shooting down freely?

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Anon10/22/26, 08:39No.98862534

HONOR THE DRAGON!

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Anon10/22/26, 10:43No.98862818

In the ilClan era do the Clans still have their ceremonial uniforms?Or did that disappear with Stackpole?

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Anon10/22/26, 13:37No.98863255

This may be cringe, but what "dad rock" and adjacent songs would work on a hypothetical BattleTech movie soundtrack?

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Anon10/22/26, 14:40No.98863445

>pipisi

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Anon10/22/26, 17:48No.98864193

Weird character concept for the Holiday:Clan mechwarrior who, in his free time, is an avid occultist. Goes out of his way to collect and study all things esoteric. Even paints a seal of Solomon on his Thor because of course he pilots a damn summoner as a “just in case” precaution, usually under the guise of being a “personal emblem”. Then following Tukayyid, upon learning that ComStar is functionally a cult within the inner sphere, makes it his latest campaign to learn all their secrets, and in the process become a general nuisance for ComStar. And no, I would never suggest that the character’s interest ever be “validated”.2 questions: 1: how terrible is the concept? I mean beyond the general: “Battletech takes itself way too seriously to entertain such a goofy concept” 2: which Clan would he most likely come from? Or at least would be the least surprising?

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Anon10/23/26, 02:10No.98866038

What are the chances of a Darkcaste willingly working with Sphereoids to get revenge against the Clans?

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Anon10/23/26, 04:25No.98866383

Why is she so overdressed? She should be topless with a thong and boots, and maybe the gloves. Decision at Thunder Rifts is very clear that Mechwarriors fight in as little as possible if they don't have star league vintage cooling suits or clantech cooling fishnet body stockings.Is CGL just telling artists to completely ignore canon now?

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Anon10/23/26, 06:18No.98866689

I know this is probably asked like every thread, but how do we feel about Iron Wind Metals? I really fuck with this funky Griffin but at the price tag I just have to ask

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Anon10/23/26, 15:12No.98868125

So, turns out you can take all the lasers out of a Royal Locust and turn it into the most annoying thing ever.

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Anon10/23/26, 17:01No.98868636

Finally finished up the game of 8 billion tanks our group had going; the highlight of the game was probably the Cyclops dying in the most dramatic fashion. He tried to stop-drop-and-roll to dislodge the battle armor that were swarming him, when he flung himself into the ground, squished one of the Salamanders in the process, and set off his remaining ammo and exploded the entire mech. The resulting blast ALSO killed the rest of the Salamanders, but he died without getting to shoot that turn since he didn’t live to see the weapon attack phase.The Devastator almost had a similarly dramatic finish, he got knocked down and took a nap next to the Kingfisher (only half a mech but still plenty dangerous at this point) and got his torso cracked open via aimed shots; then about 16 LBX pellets hit him square in the chest. I think he took like 9 CT crits in that turn, but the roll for the Stackpole explosion came up short so he died quietly instead of loudly.

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Anon10/23/26, 18:11No.98869033

I play Alpha Strike at a local store and decided to printed some Elementals to ride on my omnimechs and I'm genuinely shocked at how good they can be. I had my Adders print through cover near the objective and spent all game jumping and harassing the enemy tanks. I'm an Inner Sphere boy at heart though, what are some good variants of Battle Armor I could pick up?

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Anon10/23/26, 18:25No.98869137

At least the clanners get to come back when they get destroyed. If you you liked Comstar/WoB CGL tells you in no uncertain terms to go fuck yourself they are not coming back. The even revived them to kill them again.

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Anon10/23/26, 21:18No.98869813

Anyone know where I might be able to find this Arrow IV demolisher file? Yeggi says its on cults but the link seems to be a dead end. Not sure who the creator is https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/arrow-iv-demolisher

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Anon10/23/26, 21:49No.98869949

What is the CUTEST clan mech?

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Anon10/23/26, 22:28No.98870073

Can someone give me a quick rundown of these guys?

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Anon10/23/26, 23:37No.98870332

https://www.mediafire.com/file/167dt0ihunv7ull/Demolisher+Alt+23+(UMF).zip/fileHere you have Anon. The designer sadly died during the war in Ukraine.

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Anon10/24/26, 04:42No.98871249

Do most people accept custom mechs in games as long as they’re built right? Should I even bother?

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Anon10/24/26, 05:04No.98871329

>small arms It's a crying fucking shame that big stompy robots (unjustly) get so much attention, because the personal weapons in Battletech are superb, in both quantity and quality, (except the Federated Long Rifle) and they get zero attention.

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Anon10/24/26, 09:19No.98871846

whats /btg/'s opinion on CGL art designs vs PGI re-designs?

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Anon10/24/26, 11:58No.98872158

>wow! What a cool looking mech! What does it do? >Nothing a mech of same tonnage can't, since all mechs have the same internal space and can equip anything! >wow! That's fucking lame!

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Anon10/24/26, 14:50No.98872605

You know, playing with ai slop to come up with some wwe btech mech ideas may come up with some interesting results.

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Anon10/24/26, 20:14No.98873666

Do you guys stick to one paintscheme for everything, or paint different lances or companies? Also, do you make sure that they are lore accurate for the force and period or you don't care about that stuff at all?

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Anon10/24/26, 22:51No.98874234

Hey is the new Total War book out yet?

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Anon10/25/26, 03:49No.98875192

Ended up a bit busier with work than I expected, but finally got around to building out a more formal look for the Realm Generator, even if its not yet fully completed just yet as I might want to be adding some more details.I probably could have gotten this out faster, but I had the very funny idea of creating a second Example from inverting literally every single roll we got for Namek in order to see what its opposite version would be. Might have slipped on a couple of them and the Relations was a bit eyeballed, but still got it built out if anyone wants to do anything with it.I plan on giving the Namek Supremacy a better structured presentation and thereby a template for all of this, that'll also include the various bits of lore people came up with over the threads thus far. As an incredibly funny aside, even before we ended up with the flag colors that led to the Namekian shitposting, someone shitposted about it being a Kami praising general due to the Shinto roll and another anon posted [/tg/thread/98836817#p98844513] in response.Also, three rolls to make:Golgotha Dropship Production (1d6) >1-3: 1 Dropship Classes >4-5: 2 Dropship Classes >6: 3 Dropship ClassesCat's Bane Dropship Production (1d6) >1-3: 1 Dropship Classes >4-5: 2 Dropship Classes >6: 3 Dropship ClassesNew Bazaar Heavy/Assault Battlemech Factory (1d6) >1-2: 1 Heavy Class across all lines >3-4: 2 Heavy Classes split across all lines >5-6: 1 Assault Class across all lines

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Anon10/25/26, 06:15No.98875514

>>BattleTech Introductory Guide & PDFs >https://battletech.com/qsr/ your link got rugpulled by CGL, OP

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Anon10/25/26, 08:51No.98875811

Sheesh

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Anon10/25/26, 10:20No.98875981

>Killing geckos is a service to the Inner Sphere.He is right.

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