[Scotty]

Bah, VSD is always portrayed as the good guy.  It's very irritating.  He always ends up the White Hat in a universe that should be full of nothing but Grey Hats, admittedly different shades.

[asyikarea51]

I thought the whole thing about some sick son and another thing about taking over someone else's territory as a wedding present (whatever that was all about) was selfish enough, but in retrospect, who doesn't want to save their own blood...

It IS irritating, but thinking about it now, I have no idea... apart from rating every faction as black ink, that is...

[Scotty]

I thought the whole thing about some sick son and another thing about taking over someone else's territory as a wedding present (whatever that was all about) was selfish enough, but in retrospect, who doesn't want to save their own blood...

Neither of those was Victor, IIRC.  That was Hanse, the Magnificent Bastard extraordinaire.

[el_magnifico]

That was Hanse, the Magnificent Bastard extraordinaire.

I thoroughly refuse to click that link.

 

[asyikarea51]

I'm not so much into CBT canon so I don't know much about all that... well mechs and stuff are fun, but in the CBT universe where morality sucks... just take all the fiction away and play the game blowing stuff up. Don't have anything else to add right now really.

Damn that Davionist XD

[SpardaSon21]

You know, BattleTech reminds me of 40k since it is in the grimdarkness of the future where there is only war, Gray Hats, and lost technology guarded by a jealous organization with lots of religious trappings, and now BT even has itself a Dark Age.

[pecenipicek]

no aliens tho, and no great cosmic horrors waiting to posses you for wanking too hard.

[Timerlane]

I thought the whole thing about some sick son and another thing about taking over someone else's territory as a wedding present (whatever that was all about) was selfish enough, but in retrospect, who doesn't want to save their own blood...

Neither of those was Victor, IIRC.  That was Hanse, the Magnificent Bastard extraordinaire.

Replacing Joshua Marik(being treated for leukemia in exchange for continued war supplies from the Free Worlds League, to help combat the Clans) with a doppleganger, when he took a turn for the worse, was Hanse's original contingency plan, but Victor chose to follow it(after Hanse's death). Didn't work for long(though IIRC, the double they found to replace him was actually female, so it was really more of a delaying tactic).

The wedding thing was Hanse's marriage to Melissa Steiner; the invasion, ironically enough, was revenge for a Capellan Confederation attempt to replace him with a doppleganger.

[esarai]

Eeeugh, fiction.  There are giant ass walking tanks that shoot lasers and guns and missiles and smash stuff for the lulz. . . I'm happy, don't need much more than that.

[Scourge of Ages]

Eeeugh, fiction.  There are giant ass walking tanks that shoot lasers and guns and missiles and smash stuff for the lulz. . . I'm happy, don't need much more than that.

That sounds good, I'll go with that.

[Angelus]

I thought the whole thing about some sick son and another thing about taking over someone else's territory as a wedding present (whatever that was all about) was selfish enough, but in retrospect, who doesn't want to save their own blood...

Neither of those was Victor, IIRC.  That was Hanse, the Magnificent Bastard extraordinaire.

Replacing Joshua Marik(being treated for leukemia in exchange for continued war supplies from the Free Worlds League, to help combat the Clans) with a doppleganger, when he took a turn for the worse, was Hanse's original contingency plan, but Victor chose to follow it(after Hanse's death). Didn't work for long(though IIRC, the double they found to replace him was actually female, so it was really more of a delaying tactic).

The wedding thing was Hanse's marriage to Melissa Steiner; the invasion, ironically enough, was revenge for a Capellan Confederation attempt to replace him with a doppleganger.

This one of the reasons i like the timeperiod 3000-3045 over the VerCom Civil War time period.
The characters are more interresting then Viktor, Katherine and Co. ( except for Sun Tzu Liao ), the storys much better ( with only a few past-3050 books as exceptions).

[General Battuta]

I think he was referring to Mercs itself and not the MekTek stuff.

Nope, to the MekTek stuff.

[asyikarea51]

I think what'd I'd really like in an MW game is 3028-3050 (as with MW2:M) but with some of the later civil war technology in it (X-Pulse, f**king GIANT VULCAN AC2s, etc).

And I might come under flak for this, but I thought the purple plasma, how lasers worked and the stupid hot lava spammer mech in the console games was "rule of cool"* enough... (What?! I played MW2M/MW3/MW4 long before the console ports!!!!)

Just imagine having that thing stomping towards you and your forces panic; everything from flying dustbins with autocannons, 25-ton stick figures and human/reverse-legged missile boats all falling apart and catching fire because volcanoes ARE hot, some Raven desperado fires a NARC beacon before dying, next thing you know a friendly Annihilator turns the corner at the next city block and shreds it apart with quad uAC20 or whatever else comes better...

KABOOM   ONE SHOT ONE KNOCK DOWN ONE KILL

(*lack of a better word so just throw something familiar into that sentence, meh)

Okay I guess I'm getting carried away now. XD

[carbine7]

I still love my old favorite standby, the Daishi CER laser spam. Heat-problems, you betcha'. Best use of space, not a chance. Probability of fun, 100%.

[pecenipicek]

I still love my old favorite standby, the Daishi CER laser spam. Heat-problems, you betcha'. Best use of space, not a chance. Probability of fun, 100%.

More like Fun, depending where you punt the CER's XD

[headdie]

I still love my old favorite standby, the Daishi CER laser spam. Heat-problems, you betcha'. Best use of space, not a chance. Probability of fun, 100%.

More like Fun, depending where you punt the CER's XD

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In MW3 with is destroyed leg and you die system I found that either 3  ERPPC and 1 large laser or 4 ERPPC worked very well as it could drop a Daishi in one volley and you could do it in a Thor

[pecenipicek]

erppc ftw




also, linked capacitor light ppc is incredibly devastating. 12 damage every 3 seconds

(the heat is a bit of problem with it, but hey, i get to throw a PPC round every 3 second )

[asyikarea51]

I forgot which mech it was but I had one with dual cap-ppc's and a mess of heat sinks.

If that was enough for rage quit despite the shooter (read: me) not being "blessed" with pinpoint accuracy...

[pecenipicek]

I forgot which mech it was but I had one with dual cap-ppc's and a mess of heat sinks.

If that was enough for rage quit despite the shooter (read: me) not being "blessed" with pinpoint accuracy...

Anything with loads of PPC's tends to irritate players.




or, my... evil thing. Behemoth II, Clan Railgun, 2 erppc's and loads of heatsinks. Behemoth's a bit more durable than the marauder II, so, yeah..



critting torsos from 1k afar, especially the missileboaters, is fun. especially when they dont expect the erppc's afterwards.

[Sushi]

also, linked capacitor light ppc is incredibly devastating. 12 damage every 3 seconds

or, my... evil thing. Behemoth II, Clan Railgun, 2 erppc's and loads of heatsinks. Behemoth's a bit more durable than the marauder II, so, yeah..

I enjoy combining the two. Behemoth II with railgun and dual link-cap-light PPCs. Very, very nasty sniper mech (the PPCs have a range of 875, longer than most gauss).