Battletech - Also known as Trannytech

RomanesEuntDomus said:
Good things come in pairs, Tex releases a new video and this dropped a day before yesterday as well:
Core Products back in stock, Update on new releases, incoming Kickstarter featuring Merc units: mechs and tanks(!)

So CGL restocked on AGOAC Boxes (reprint of 25k boxes!) and a few other things, new BattleForce sets with game tokens, novels and so on, but the cream of the crop:

New Lance Packs!

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All these packs will drop between Fall 2022 and Spring 2023. Bit of a question here, what's the Mech in the bottom row on the right in the Gray Death Legion box? Some Clan machine, I presume?

If only they offered packs of waterslide decals. I know there's a shop selling those, but they are obscenely expensive (especially when you order them from abroad) and I utterly hate that I get a sheet of a bajillion identical decals. If I could buy a sheet of Steiner decals with a bunch of the official unit insignia on there, too, I wouldn't mind, but I'm simply not going to buy 3 overprices sheets of paper for a single lance and then use 4 decals per page and let the rest rot in my drawer.

In fall, there'll also be a new Kickstarter, featuring a shitton of variants of established mechs as well as redesigns of some vehicles, such as the SRM/LRM Carrier, the Demolisher and the Galleon Light Tank
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Not gonna lie, those Kell Hounds and Northwind Highlanders lances are looking mighty tempting. Unfortunately, I can't paint worth a damn so I'll probably stick to my cardboard standees. I've been talking to a friend who got a 3D printer recently and he's been designing proper mech-shaped plastic standee backs I can glue my printed images to.
 
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Urbanmech said:
Its a Regent. So partly right lol.
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I thought that thing gave off a strong "Hauptmann" vibe... though I would be more happy with a Hauptmann, but I guess it's neat to have an ilKhan era mech if people are into that era.

One thing that I realized though, the Northwind Highlanders actually have an Atlas as a standin model atm. The lance pack will actually include the Highlander, Warhammer, Grasshopper and Gunslinger. I've been hoping for a redesign of that Mech for years. The IWM version looks terrible, but the Mech is such a gorgeous machine statwise, I'll have to get my hands on one of these boxes!

Who am I kidding, I am going to buy them all anyway. Who needs food anyway?
 
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Gezkill said:
Getting a merc kickstarter thats gonna be coming with CV. My wallet is going to be hurting.
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I feel you. Some of the greatest games we used to play were the merc campaigns where you built up armies starting with your humble lance of Stingers.
 
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RomanesEuntDomus said:
I mean, if the Vatican approves, who am I to complain?
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Technically, it doesn't. The BattlePope is from the New Avalon Catholic Church, and therefore not subject to the Vatican's designs. They're still working on reunifying the funny hat.
 
Corn Flakes said:
Technically, it doesn't. The BattlePope is from the New Avalon Catholic Church, and therefore not subject to the Vatican's designs. They're still working on reunifying the funny hat.
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Look, if they haven't managed to fix the Great Schism with the Orthodox by the 32nd Century, pretty sure the NACC isn't going to enter the fold again any time soon. Especially not when the English King New Avalonian First Prince finds them politically expedient. Thankfully there's a lot fewer beheadings (that we know of), although that's probably because only Queen Elizabeth II can authorize those, not her stand-in the Prince.
RomanesEuntDomus said:
I mean, if the Vatican approves, who am I to complain?
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Don't you Germans have a long history of violent complaints towards the Vatican?
 
Just posting some WIP on MyDudes.
 

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Gezkill said:
Just posting some WIP on MyDudes.
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Looks very promising, I really like that light blue, gives a very striking contrast to the anthrazit! Please post images when it's done.
I'm still on-and-off working on my Killer-Bee Karnov (lovingly dubbed Bumble-Bee), it's coming together rather nicely, but I still need to do some clean-up, I'll share images when it's done.

Corn Flakes said:
Technically, it doesn't. The BattlePope is from the New Avalon Catholic Church, and therefore not subject to the Vatican's designs. They're still working on reunifying the funny hat.
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Let me put it like this: Does the false pope currently illegally occupying the Vatican have the kind of authority nested in him that only an LB-X AC20 and three ER LL can give? No, I'm telling, no!
 
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Titan Lithos said:
I feel you. Some of the greatest games we used to play were the merc campaigns where you built up armies starting with your humble lance of Stingers.
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There's such a reward using junk and working your way up. I remember few months ago amped I got a shadow hawk to use as a bug leader but had nothing to use sane with it.

A brace of machine guns and few random LRMs but damnit I worked hard for that salvage I was not going to let it sit in my drop ship while my dudes went to war.
 
RomanesEuntDomus said:
Let me put it like this: Does the false pope currently illegally occupying the Vatican have the kind of authority nested in him that only an LB-X AC20 and three ER LL can give? No, I'm telling, no!
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You'll have to talk with the Wolf Empire about passage, though, given their control of Terra. Besides, unification can wait until those godless heathen Kuritans are dealt with. Deus vult!
 
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While I'm far from dedicated player the new MWO freebie is an urbie. Guess I gotta grind for a trash can. Um-63 if you care to sarna it.
 
Snekposter said:
You'll have to talk with the Wolf Empire about passage, though, given their control of Terra. Besides, unification can wait until those godless heathen Kuritans are dealt with. Deus vult!
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So, on one hand we got a TRUE and HONEST Battlepope in a decked out Regent, giant metal pope-hat and all, running on a Fusion Engine that undoubtedly runs on literal holy water and on the other, we got an old crusty dude in the Vatican who can't even leave without a hall pass.

The Battlepope follows in Jesus' footprints, only the Battlepope turns water into hyper-focused beams of purifying light. The other pope follows the orders of a tubeborn weirdo.
 
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Easy on the Vatican dunking, guys. Terra spent 300 years under ComStar's rule, chances are St. Peter's Basilica and St. Peter's Square have so much LosTech buried under them they are able to stand up and walk around like one of those Titans from 40K.

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"The Kuritans think they have the Lord's Light. I will show them."

As for the Clanners... nobody cares that the Wolves control Terra, and Alaric will be in for a fun time once he realizes that.
 
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Had to look deep into his community page to find out the TTBT line-up. Hopefully the Charger won't take too long to do up since he's already on the second draft for it. I dread the thought on the research & writing that'll go into the First Succession War after that though. If he gets that out in a year from the Charger, I'll be impressed.

Also, since I finally got around to watching the Warhammer video, shit was good. I was wondering where he was going with the Baron story, but dug the extra history on the aerospace side of things as a juxtaposition to the efficiency/effectiveness of the Warhammer in its simplicity. Loved the Steiner Scout animation Bruins did up too as well as the Mechbeth ad.

I got a kick out of seeing my name in the credits too. Now if only Albania accepted Tex's request to buy some MiGs with the Patreon money
 
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