pretty sure they've overtaken them years ago. GW is greedy af, but that's pretty much it.
don't forget >discord
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.
Well, he's got something more important than manpower: plot armor.
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'.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A KiwiFarms TotemMech? Talk about a total disaster. I foresee more arguments about shape and loadout than I do anything else.
For what? Fucking normie corporate moderation on platforms none of our KF accounts are connected to?
