Battletech - Also known as Trannytech

Zaryiu2 said:
I'm open to play most game genres besides card games, tower defense or racing

I admit i don't know what the best sites to look to sail the seven seas when it comes to video games or how to install games acquired thar way (i don't know much when it comes to using computer besides the basic stuff)
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Worst comes to worst sub to gamepass. Both HBS and MW5 is on Gamepass and its only 15 a month.
 
Zaryiu2 said:
HBS? I don't see any battletech or Mechwarrior games that use those initials
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Sorry kinda bit drunk atm but HBS is Harebrained Schemes. Its usually to clarify between the normal tabletop game and the PC Game.
 
William Murderface said:
I think I'm going to suggest three rules for us to adopt.

1) No more than two of any one design. This doesn't apply to infantry or BA, but will apply to Protos. Variants don't count. Meaning you can have four Partisan tanks, but only two standard and two AA versions. It also doesn't count for APCs on a one to one with infantry. (You have five platoons of rifle infantry, so you can have five hover APCs, but not more than that).
2) Gunnery and piloting skills can't be more than two levels apart. You can have G3P5, but not G2P5.
3) AP ammo for AC/2 and AC/5 only in mechs. I'm not entirely sold on this one though, but I don't want to see it happen the next time when someone grabs a Mauler, two AC/2 Carriers, and two AC/2 Warrior VTOLs.
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As @Moja Zemlja said, it's usually better to just have everybody agree on things. If someone calls a composition too cheesy, they either negotiate it, or the cheeser plays someone else. BT is not a competitive game (not with the ridiculous amounts of RNG involved), so we can afford to be nice to one another.

If you really want to implement rules, #1 should be enough for most purposes. Formations in BT are universally a hodgepodge of whatever the fuck the quartermaster managed to assign to the unit, including various different generations of the same vehicle/'Mech repaired from near-destruction multiple times, so being able to boat whole lances of the same model vehicle is almost unheard of. #2 almost works but it's not enough since an AC/2 Carrier at 4/5 is 403 BV and trying to drop it down to 2/4 would bump it up to 621 BV... but +50% of almost nothing is still almost nothing. Vehicles are just that undercosted in BT.
 
Haint said:
This why I play MegaMek. All Mechwarrior, no trannies.
Never, not once have I meet an real female that played BattleTech. If I see a creature that approximates a female and their profile says Battletech, I run the other way.
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I know of exactly two.
 
William Murderface said:
I know of OEM females in gaming, but I've never actually seen one in the wild.
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I know two into the video games, one of which does occasionally play tabletop and got turned into a minor YouTube celebrity in the fandom because of that No Guts No Galaxy podcast about a decade ago. Met her playing MW4 of all things before MWO came out.


The MW4 competitive league scene had a handful of actual females, one of whom was actually very good but a total feminist spaz for that time. Still, took some strength of character to hang with grognard BT and sim nerds.
 
William Murderface said:
I always figured it came down to women being smart enough to not waste their time in gaming. 😁
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Powelevelling but my wife is typical and plays Dead by Daylight and The Sims religiously. She's mainly into horror games though. They do exist, it's just rare these days to find one that isn't a titty streamer or drama monger.
 
Video gaming might be easier to find females in since they can be a casual gamer, but I just thought getting them into table top gaming might be a bit of a challenge for a first date.

"Hey, want to play a game with me about big, stompy robots?"
"Uhhhh, sure."
"Great! Okay here are the rules" [Brings out the six volume set of BattleTech rules] "But first, let me give you a little back ground..." [Spend the next six hours going over BT lore while ignoring the fact that your date has gone glassy eyed, yawned, played on her phone, counted the holes in the acoustic ceiling tiles, rethought the choices in her life that got her to this room, and considered becoming a nun] "And here's the pieces we use. I painted them all myself... [Break out the minis in their protective cases and the thousands of dollars of terrain]
 
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My wife knows how to play BattleTech, but if pushed she'd rather play Warhammer. The fantasy version, that is. She likes painting minis , and the frankly autistic level of dice-rolling and table-checking in BT turns her off. That and the matches taking fucking forever sometimes. And she's completely uninterested in the lore, she's into Kurita 'Mechs because she's a weeb and she likes their color scheme.

Alpha Strike is definitely more her speed, although she's just not that into stompies outside of more weeb-centric properties like Gundam (again, Kurita player). I even got her to join me and a friend in teaching his girlfriend AS. Turns out, having another lady at the table does wonders for lowering a girl's mental barriers.
 
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William Murderface said:
Video gaming might be easier to find females in since they can be a casual gamer, but I just thought getting them into table top gaming might be a bit of a challenge for a first date.

"Hey, want to play a game with me about big, stompy robots?"
"Uhhhh, sure."
"Great! Okay here are the rules" [Brings out the six volume set of BattleTech rules] "But first, let me give you a little back ground..." [Spend the next six hours going over BT lore while ignoring the fact that your date has gone glassy eyed, yawned, played on her phone, counted the holes in the acoustic ceiling tiles, rethought the choices in her life that got her to this room, and considered becoming a nun] "And here's the pieces we use. I painted them all myself... [Break out the minis in their protective cases and the thousands of dollars of terrain]
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Yeah, my wife will play board games but if I broach BT it's a flat out no, and if I mention buying 40k stuff, she goes batshit. (Most if not all of her male friends are 40k nerds so she has sort of a mild dislike of it). I think at the end of the day, wargaming is just more involved than she prefers in games. Nothing wrong with that, least we won't be fighting over rulers and shit.
 
It's funny that women are prominent in online gaming, and I am sure that is in part due to YouTube and streaming and being cute to an audience that will never touch a breast doesn't hurt (and I'm not suggesting every gamer is a housebound loser who will die a virgin, but we all know a lot of them are), but the only notable female table top BT game I can think of in all these years is Camille Klein and she didn't last long once the message board era started and a lot of that was her ultra-abrasive personality.

But we did get Gausszilla out of her, so at least there was that.
 
I'm looking into hopping back into HBS BattleTech, the vanilla experience was ok except the time limit on career mode. The campaign was very underwhelming.

Which of the big mods you think is the best for a better SP experience? I had read about the Roguetech but I'm not really interested on the online mode of the map, how is the offline map offered by the mod?
 
Hillary Clinton's Ass said:
I'm looking into hopping back into HBS BattleTech, the vanilla experience was ok except the time limit on career mode. The campaign was very underwhelming.

Which of the big mods you think is the best for a better SP experience? I had read about the Roguetech but I'm not really interested on the online mode of the map, how is the offline map offered by the mod?
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Battletech Extended 3025 is pretty solid and has some additional things for you to use and its not hardware heavy as RogueTech and BTA3062.
 
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On the BT thread on /tg/ someone posted the following:

In the DLC for HBS' game, you get to pit the Bounty Hunter and Natasha against each other and pick up the scraps when they're done fighting, then steal the wreck full of lostech they're after.
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Is that true? I just don't see either of them or the 'Goons with Nasty K just letting that stuff without pounding the player into dust first.
 
William Murderface said:
On the BT thread on /tg/ someone posted the following:



Is that true? I just don't see either of them or the 'Goons with Nasty K just letting that stuff without pounding the player into dust first.
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Its one of the Flashpoints that only become available after beating the main game and leads to obtaining the Bull Shark Battlemech which is only acquired during the Flashpoint. Comes equipped with a Thumper Artillery cannon.

Basically your pitted against both Natasha's lance and the Bounty Hunter Lance and during the mission they will fight each other.
 
William Murderface said:
On the BT thread on /tg/ someone posted the following:



Is that true? I just don't see either of them or the 'Goons with Nasty K just letting that stuff without pounding the player into dust first.
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That's the series of flashpoint missions after the main campaign is completed involving the SLDF warship AI that let's you acquire the Bullshark mech that was built by Clan Wolverine as the final spoils. Even with my mods that let me kit my mechs to be monster that breezed through the main campaign, this final mission is hard as fuck because both Natasha's crew & The Bounty Hunter's crew fight you and themselves. They have weapons & gear that, to my knowledge, you can't acquire in the base game with crazy bonuses (inferno missiles, ER LRMs, armor piercing rounds, PPCs with with barely any heat generated). My only saving grace when I finally beat it was getting most of my mechs on a cliff where I could jump in & out of visible range, and even then I lost at least 60% of my gear/weapons. It also took me five attempts to get that pyrrhic victory. It's a fun set of missions with a great final mission, but the difficulty spike in that final mission is a goddamn surprise that caught me off guard.

EDIT: Ninja'd by @BlackDragoons
 
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