Battletech - Also known as Trannytech

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Wow. CGL is trying to dethrone GW on being a scummy company to their customers.
pretty sure they've overtaken them years ago. GW is greedy af, but that's pretty much it.

Fucking hell. That's why if you're ever doing any kind of fan content anywhere, you really have to self-host and have a single dedicated admin that holds the keys. This shit is insane.
don't forget >discord
so much information and knowledge stuck in that shithole that will become inaccessible once someone spergs out and nukes the server (or the service inevitably goes down).
 
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Fucking hell. That's why if you're ever doing any kind of fan content anywhere, you really have to self-host and have a single dedicated admin that holds the keys. This shit is insane.

Between having Shimmy tell fans to leave and kick rocks if they don't like the direction the art has taken, to telling the Grognard types that they aren't the fans CGL really cares about these days in favor of the 40k and videogame crowds, to using the "totally not canon fiction" that came out during Pride Month as a way to take over the Reddit, and now using the whole "the law says we can't pay volunteers, so we're kicking you out of the Discord you made for us. kthxbye!" thing, I have to admit a grudging respect for Loren and Randall.
 
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to telling the Grognard types that they aren't the fans CGL really cares about these days in favor of the 40k and videogame crowds,
I want to say that’s not bad because I hate most grogs, but then I see the kind of faggotry the new Battletech has brung in and it’s like doing a 90 degree nosedive. The annoying troons on twitter are eventually going to drive enough people away from the game just like they did with infinity.
 
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Right now we have a IS in turmoil with the Wolves holding Terra and Alaric actually sending out a message "I own you bitches" while he certainly doesn't have the manpower to back up this claim
Well, he's got something more important than manpower: plot armor.
 
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One of the funniest things I’ve seen lately at all of the LGSes I go to are 40k rapefugees picking up battletech, trash talking people for playing clans and then spending money on 4 copies of a single force pack in order to build a meme atlas lance that winds up eating shit because they don’t really know how to play.

I was playing a 400 PV game of alpha strike last weekend using a jade falcon binary with a battlemech star and a star of toads. Guy had the comstar command level II and Hansen’s rough riders packs, which I think is over 400 but whatever, I just wanted to get a game in before taking my wife to work. The guy kept spouting a bunch of /tg/ faggot tier speech and calling me a clanner. I wound up beating the guy because he spent all his time trying to destroy my mechs while the toads were working on the objective. I told the guy good game and he just glared at me.

Is this what the tabletop game is going to be like?
I've only gotten into Battletech seriously recently, but it's a fucking shame that the Atlas is the default mech everyone goes to. It's a Shadowhawk in an Assault body and with better armor. AC/20, SRM-6, LRM-20, and two M-lasers means that you just get to sample every weapon without being able to effectively use them, but people see the giant cannon and go 'this thing can fuck'.

As for clan stuff I'm an Inner Sphere bitch, but as long as we go by BV I don't have problem fighting clan mechs. The key is weight of numbers. Clans carry more weapons on their mechs, so you need to spread out and make sure you're always ganging up on them.. So long as the clanner is being honorable and sticking to one target, one mech of course.
 
I've only gotten into Battletech seriously recently, but it's a fucking shame that the Atlas is the default mech everyone goes to. It's a Shadowhawk in an Assault body and with better armor. AC/20, SRM-6, LRM-20, and two M-lasers means that you just get to sample every weapon without being able to effectively use them, but people see the giant cannon and go 'this thing can fuck'.

As for clan stuff I'm an Inner Sphere bitch, but as long as we go by BV I don't have problem fighting clan mechs. The key is weight of numbers. Clans carry more weapons on their mechs, so you need to spread out and make sure you're always ganging up on them.. So long as the clanner is being honorable and sticking to one target, one mech of course.
Most of the people simp out for the King Crab which is by far a worse mech compared to the mighty Atlas. Its a decent mech honestly if you can utilize it right is can brutalize opponents in close combat fighting as the thing is topped at 304/307 Armor.

Also its probably going to be the best available 100 ton mech if your running an independent merc outfit in 3025. If the 7D isn't your fav you can always go with the RS variant. 2 Large lasers, AC10, LRM 15 and a SRM 4 for close combat encounters.
 
I've only gotten into Battletech seriously recently, but it's a fucking shame that the Atlas is the default mech everyone goes to. It's a Shadowhawk in an Assault body and with better armor. AC/20, SRM-6, LRM-20, and two M-lasers means that you just get to sample every weapon without being able to effectively use them, but people see the giant cannon and go 'this thing can fuck'.

As for clan stuff I'm an Inner Sphere bitch, but as long as we go by BV I don't have problem fighting clan mechs. The key is weight of numbers. Clans carry more weapons on their mechs, so you need to spread out and make sure you're always ganging up on them.. So long as the clanner is being honorable and sticking to one target, one mech of course.
PV in alpha strike is pretty much a more flexible and balanced system than BV in TW/classic. Assault and heavy mechs will range from the higher 40s to the mid 60s usually, with formations being 200-400 PV. There’s no real tech base distinction in the game, rather mechs having special rules. There’s a guy at my LGS that just fields 26 savanna masters with reflectors for our 400 PV games. It’s really just a more streamlined version of the game where you can play with more mechs and field more units.

I think a lot of fawning for mechs like the atlas, king crab, black knight and others like that comes from all of the art of them you can see so often. The only thing is I wouldn’t want to center a force around just having them. A lot of missions have different objectives and win conditions and if you just build a force with annihilating enemy mechs in mind you might have difficulty with other kinds of missions. We almost never do annihilation missions because they just devolve into shooting matches with no real strategy other than kill all of your opponent’s dudes.



Most of the people simp out for the King Crab which is by far a worse mech compared to the mighty Atlas. Its a decent mech honestly if you can utilize it right is can brutalize opponents in close combat fighting as the thing is topped at 304/307 Armor.

Also its probably going to be the best available 100 ton mech if your running an independent merc outfit in 3025. If the 7D isn't your fav you can always go with the RS variant. 2 Large lasers, AC10, LRM 15 and a SRM 4 for close combat encounters.
If they weren’t priced like a motherfucker in TW/classic I’d field a lot of the IIC and C units like the atlas C variant. I think there’s a lot of people who just like comstar and see the crab as this great piece because of how much armor it has or because it destroyed a lot of clan mechs in tukayyid that just couldn’t handle the 000 variants due to lacking decent armor. It’s a shame the card for it in the command level II box is ass because an assault mech at that cost with an S/M/L of 3/3/1 is just underwhelming.
 
If they weren’t priced like a motherfucker in TW/classic I’d field a lot of the IIC and C units like the atlas C variant. I think there’s a lot of people who just like comstar and see the crab as this great piece because of how much armor it has or because it destroyed a lot of clan mechs in tukayyid that just couldn’t handle the 000 variants due to lacking decent armor. It’s a shame the card for it in the command level II box is ass because an assault mech at that cost with an S/M/L of 3/3/1 is just underwhelming.
Its probably a vidya thing since in the turn-based game and MW5/MWO being able to delete BattleMechs is far more important than anything else. And boy does it have the firepower to do that.
 
I've only gotten into Battletech seriously recently, but it's a fucking shame that the Atlas is the default mech everyone goes to. It's a Shadowhawk in an Assault body and with better armor. AC/20, SRM-6, LRM-20, and two M-lasers means that you just get to sample every weapon without being able to effectively use them, but people see the giant cannon and go 'this thing can fuck'.
The Atlas was the OG 100-ton 'Mech so it has a lot of love for it built up through the decades. Besides being the game's mascot for a while, the stock AS7-D Atlas is also a just plain solid 'Mech for 3025. Particularly for that age, having something you can chuck at enemies at medium to long range while closing in is useful, and even when you're stuck in point-blank combat (where the AC/20, SRMs and MLs all work perfectly together) you can always fling lurms at something else in the battlefield if you have the heat left over for it.

Also, the thing everybody loves to forget about 100-tonners is that they don't just carry their weapons. An AS7-D carries a combination of AC/20, SRM-6, LRM-20, 4x Medium Lasers (flipping them forward is trivial) and a point-blank, ammo-independent AC/20 (kick) or a pair of point-blank, ammo-independent AC/10s (punches). No matter how much ClanTech fucked with that paradigm, BattleTech is still a game of close-range skirmishing. For the Atlas in particular having all its heavy-hitting weaponry mounted in the torso (along with two MLs), means you can just trundle on to a target and go full rock 'em 'sock 'em robots while losing almost no firepower in the process. Which is something the King Crab or many other iconic Assaults can't do nearly as well.
 
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Its probably a vidya thing since in the turn-based game and MW5/MWO being able to delete BattleMechs is far more important than anything else. And boy does it have the firepower to do that.
I often forget that a lot of people pick up the game after playing MW5/MWO. I wish CGL didn’t give it such terrible damage stats in the box set card. I hate that I have to go to the MUL if I want to field a decent variant of any IS mech.


The Atlas was the OG 100-ton 'Mech so it has a lot of love for it built up through the decades. Besides being the game's mascot for a while, the stock AS7-D Atlas is also a just plain solid 'Mech for 3025. Particularly for that age, having something you can chuck at enemies at medium to long range while closing in is useful, and even when you're stuck in point-blank combat (where the AC/20, SRMs and MLs all work perfectly together) you can always fling lurms at something else in the battlefield if you have the heat left over for it.

Also, the thing everybody loves to forget about 100-tonners is that they don't just carry their weapons. An AS7-D carries a combination of AC/20, SRM-6, LRM-20, 4x Medium Lasers (flipping them forward is trivial) and a point-blank, ammo-independent AC/20 (kick) or a pair of point-blank, ammo-independent AC/10s (punches). No matter how much ClanTech fucked with that paradigm, BattleTech is still a game of close-range skirmishing. For the Atlas in particular having all its heavy-hitting weaponry mounted in the torso (along with two MLs), means you can just trundle on to a target and go full rock 'em 'sock 'em robots while losing almost no firepower in the process. Which is something the King Crab or many other iconic Assaults can't do nearly as well.
It gets boring when you see it in nearly every other formation. It’s like the people that field a bunch of savanna masters or a bunch of crit fishing units.

I kind of hate to hear that the savanna master is being made into plastic because of so many people trying to pull off the meme list where you just field a bunch of them and some support vehicles or elementals and just wreck every battlemech on the board.
 
Yeah we will see spam lists but it's easy enough to break if you bring arty.

Also hopefully it'll get more people into vees, they have a great bang for Buck fit lore and downsides. Just adds spice to normal lance on lance style pick up games.

The Atlas will always be an iconic mech, rule of cool. Super important in history of BT and lore of it.

Is it worth it? Always, depends on what's happening. Most of the time I just don't find a home for it when other things are around. Far to say it's a bad mech. Anything in 9 hexs just melts esp intro tech it's like game over.

Lazy afternoon today and out for deer hunting tonight but might get little more mwo in just to kill some time.
 
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I’m still sour grapes about them pushing out the mad cat as the poster child when it’s one of the best omnimechs that fights above its weight class.
I’m pissing in the rain here, but I’d love to see more dark age mechs that were made as clix or short run IWM mechs get some kind of plastic or resin reissue for the CGL game. You wanna talk about rule of cool, mechs like the undead lance (mortis, gravedigger, cadaver and exhumer) are super cool in comparison to their star league/succession wars/clan invasion counterparts. The hammerhead was pretty nice and I have one painted for every clan I use.
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What they going to do, send in the commandos to steal my models because I called someone a nigger online? This is genuinely pathetic.
No, it refers to the online forums that CGL operates. They want clean, inviting online spaces.

Though someone should make a Kiwifarms battlemech. Slap a rainbow flag somewhere so it confuses the fuck out of people and test the boundaries of their platform!
 
No, it refers to the online forums that CGL operates. They want clean, inviting online spaces.

Though someone should make a Kiwifarms battlemech. Slap a rainbow flag somewhere so it confuses the fuck out of people and test the boundaries of their platform!
A KiwiFarms TotemMech? Talk about a total disaster. I foresee more arguments about shape and loadout than I do anything else.

Personally I think it needs to be a QuadVee LAM to properly represent our autism. It also needs a Null Signature System and Chameleon Light Polarization System so it can't be spotted, and a Bloodhound Active Probe so it find out everything.

Finally, a BattleMech just like the Farms. You won't know where it is or what it looks like, but it knows everything about you. An even more perfect stalker than the Stalker itself.

Or we could just make a QuadVee LAM (LAQ?) version of the Stalker with all of the above.
 
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