Well, at least its not as bad as the Fafnir that has no free crits. Have fun yanking off all the rear torso armor just to get at the Gauss Rifles. Of all sad words of mouth and pen, none are as sad as these: "Hans, ze gyro broke again." What makes things even more hilarious is that Annihilator-C has the "Easy to Maintain" quirk. So, is it cramped? Is it not cramped?
Technically, the Annihilator C with the Easy to Maintain quirk is the one with the four Ultra 10s, and the quirk is a function of the chassis itself. Custom designs can and usually have different quirks. Me, I'd probably give the Gausszilla Distracting instead of Easy to Maintain. Both are 1 point each, and it just makes way more sense like that.
Pretty much. "Wait, are those.... five Gauss rifles? GOD HAS ABANDONED US!"
The Battle Computer usually tries to guess what weapons the target is carrying. In the Gausszilla's case, the readout screen only shows
YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME.
I prefer the official motto of the USAF's Wild Weasel pilots: "You Gotta Be Shitting Me". Well, technically not, but YGBSM appears on enough squadron logos the only thing preventing its official adoption is that it looks yucky to the generals.
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Isn't that how it always goes? I'm sure 90% of gamers wouldn't give a shit about trannies if they weren't so fucking pushy with everything. Just play the goddamn game and shut up, you assholes.
That reminds me of my game yesterday where my commando got swarmed by a bunch of Elementals, I had him run into depth 1 water and have him go prone into it to get rid of the bitches.
Duane Loose's art was iconic, but the TRO the original Emperor was in was...special. I'm a much bigger fan of the newer art. I'm partial to the -6M2 myself, at least in theory. The poor LGR, FASA did it dirty all those years ago. It's a tricky weapon, but paired and with ER LLs, especially if you can afford jump jets, it's very mean. Or you can just throw LGR and LGR/MML Ontos tanks at people.
Shit, that happened to me in the last game I played. I had an Awesome and decided to park my 80 ton arse in some level 1 water to get more cooling so my PPCs volleys would come faster.
Same. But I'll give Loose's older art this: the guy went for some dynamic camera angles a lot of BT artists wouldn't dare try. Sure, staring at the soles of the Grand Crusader is a bit unsettling, but at least the 'Mech was clearly on the move. That's more that can be said for a lot of TRO illustrations.
I know the pain all too well. Except in Alpha Strike (no PSRs!), I've simply taken to treating water hexes as impassable. After all...
I never warmed up to the LGR myself, precisely cause I never found a stock Mech with an LGR that I liked... but it's essentially an AC-10 that trades a tiny bit of damage for way more range and a nice boost in ammo-per-ton.
It is pretty poorly used on Canon designs. It's really a replacement for AC/10s and a replacement for paired AC/2 at the same time. You use it to punish fast lights thanks to that 17-hex medium range band. That also lets it remain useful on more mobile mechs, since the big range brackets help counter their own movement penalties. You'd wants multiples on bigger mechs, but an ideal LGR medium would have one, a fair bit of speed, jump jets, and maybe an ERLL if you can afford it. Skirmish, harass, and dissuade those fast lights like the Solitaire from getting too close. I'm pretty sure the Wolf Empire's Wulfen is an explicit hard counter to LGR mechs being used like that.
The M113 Armored Personnel Carrier was infamous for having a 'diff monster'- tools/parts dropped into the engine/differential bay were basically non-retrievable as it had no access hatch underneath it. And no, the tool kits did not come with spares.
I have no clue who that is or what he does but if he's the artist that made that artwork, I really hope he'll give us sexy Canopus Catgirl pinups.