Battletech - Also known as Trannytech

looking for it now going through some of his videos to find the name drop again. been a few months since I looked her up.

Edit: Found her @Gezkill, she did some voicing in some of his "Talks" series and praised her during some of this streaming stuff (not going to look for that though)

Whelp I'm already blocked for some sort of reason.
 
Fuck someone went after Tex? He's a good dude and helped and voiced for BTA mod . As well as awesome YT work.

We skipped our weekly game night due to the baseball event but I'm itchy for this upcoming week I just got a new hunchback iic mini and I plan on having it core out something and being cored out by turn 2.

Any ideas what to paint it as? I'm open to anything, but more leaning to a clan one I doubt many don't kaboom so badly IS can't salvage.
Out of respect to Tex and shitstorm he had to put up with recently, I say do up a Clan Snek Cobra paint job. Or for a laugh, go for a Fire Mandrill paintjob but give all the mechs red asses
 
Fuck Tex and his crew are half the fandom.

I don't see some minor shitflinging SJW's doing much damage to Ole Tex
Maybe not to his popularity and majority of his fanbase, but surely to his mental health and wellbeing.

Going by what he wrote in that blogpost, a lot of people went for really low blows with things that they knew will really hurt him. Dude opened up to a group of people thinking they are decent people. Most are, but some are the scum of the earth.

I hope all the support that his actual fans shower him with will convince him that he's not at fault and that the ones shrieking are vastly outnumbered by people who have his back.
 
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Clan Snek Cobra paint job
No fucking idea what that is, but it needs the words "Do Not Dezgra On Me" on it or something else equally stupid and Clan-like. "Live Free or Bondsref" is something actually awesome and therefore the Clans are undeserving of it.
Nazi Vampire RPG sounds like fun to me. Unless they literally and unironically used it to praise Hitler and his attempts to cleanse the world of jewish filth, I don't see the problem. FFS, the anime Hellsing is the best fucking thing since sliced bread in large parts due to Nazi Vampires eating babies. Sure it's edgy as fuck, but damn if it isn't also kinda fucking awesome.
Nazi Catboy Vampires > Nazi Vampires.
 
No fucking idea what that is, but it needs the words "Do Not Dezgra On Me" on it or something else equally stupid and Clan-like. "Live Free or Bondsref" is something actually awesome and therefore the Clans are undeserving of it.
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Image taken from a BPL thumbnail. Doing some combination of light brown, grey, and black trim would work.
 
Dammit, forums ate my post... Anyways...
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Can't have shit in the Periphery, can't have shit on Kiwi Farms.
And what's even worse? The feminists (Magistracy) gifted Detroit to the Chinese after the Victoria War. Let's see how the Ilclan era unfolds maybe we get a Reunification 2 Magistracy bugaloo since this is the only Periphery state left that has considerable industrial / military power. Not to mention allied with House Liao who seem to be bend on takiong Terra from the Wolves
 
After months and months of waiting, the shop I use for all my BT needs got a fresh shipment of the Battle and Command Lance... and they were sold out while I was still in checkout.
FML. These chink bastards better hurry up with their next shipments, I need my plastic crack.
 
After months and months of waiting, the shop I use for all my BT needs got a fresh shipment of the Battle and Command Lance... and they were sold out while I was still in checkout.
FML. These chink bastards better hurry up with their next shipments, I need my plastic crack.
You're German, right? What's with this meme I keep hearing about Germans being Clan fanatics?
 
You're German, right? What's with this meme I keep hearing about Germans being Clan fanatics?
I haven't yet started to hang out in German BT circles, so I don't know for sure... but let me put it like this:
Supposed supersoldiers in heavily overengineered machines of war, that are far superior to the kind of machinery the enemy has, that have their entire war for total domination undone by bad logistics and their inability to replace their fallen soldiers... just add Panzerschokolade some black leather coats designed by Hugo Boss.
 
I haven't yet started to hang out in German BT circles, so I don't know for sure... but let me put it like this:
Supposed supersoldiers in heavily overengineered machines of war, that are far superior to the kind of machinery the enemy has, that have their entire war for total domination undone by bad logistics and their inability to replace their fallen soldiers... just add Panzerschokolade some black leather coats designed by Hugo Boss.
Touché, my friend. I guess when the local Germany stand-in is characterized as lumbering and incompetent, you go looking for your strategically-shortsighted Übermensch somewhere else.
 
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Touché, my friend. I guess when the local Germany stand-in is characterized as lumbering and incompetent, you go looking for your strategically-shortsighted Übermensch somewhere else.
Well, I am a Steiner guy myself. There's just something amazingly poetic about a fantastically rich and powerful space-Germany with vast production facilities and well-armed and well-trained soldiers that get bogged down endlessly and constantly in stupid shit, just cause some incompetent inbred noble dude paid his way into a position of power to brag at parties.

I would say Steiner might be a decent stand-in for WW1 Germany, whereas the clans take a lot after WW2 Germany - though there is quite some overlap and it doesn't fit perfectly. Or maybe both are WW2, just different aspects. After all, Hitler enforced the construction of virtually pointless superheavy wundertanks instead of versatile and cheap medium tanks. He also interfered with strategic operations, which backfired horribly on the war effort.

Be that as it may:

What makes the Lyran Commonwealth and the Free Worlds League so interesting to me: They are both pretty strong and they could kick some serious ass, but they got something that balances out their strengths. I find that a very nice and elegant way to make them believable.
The LC has their incompetent inbred nobility that prefer to built Assault mechs and engage in moronic wars of attrition. They seem to be the definition of "To the man with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail"... or rather "If you can't solve your problem by using Atlases, you're not using enough of them".
The FWL is constantly caught up in infights, civil wars... it's almost like the FWL is a full fledged setting within BT.
 
I started reading the novels a few years back with the Warrior Trilogy and I played Mechwarrior 2 and 3 extensively online back when that was a thing. The novels helped fill in some lore gaps, but I won't be satisficed until I can get to play the tabletop game and RPG. I miss those MW2 and 3 days LARPing as an IS stravag. I wish MechCommander had been more in-depth than it was.
 
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I started reading the novels a few years back with the Warrior Trilogy and I played Mechwarrior 2 and 3 extensively online back when that was a thing. The novels helped fill in some lore gaps, but I won't be satisficed until I can get to play the tabletop game and RPG. I miss those MW2 and 3 days LARPing as an IS stravag. I wish MechCommander had been more in-depth than it was.
There's a sequel of mech commander and a free mod that redoes it really amps up difficulty and fun factor plus adds a lot of units.

I don't really like mc2s engine as much nor the looks. Also the heat system kinda wonky imho.

In both MCs I have little trust in my guys to not waste ammo thank goodness there's a key bind for it.
 
So is it wrong to assume that Comstar is responsible for 99.999999999% of the Lostech? I mean the chances for the Houses to destroy the facilities making the product, anyone that knows how to take care of the facilities, and the information to fix said facilities seems almost nil. While Comstar capitalizing on parts of those happening seems like 100% chance.
 
I haven't yet started to hang out in German BT circles, so I don't know for sure... but let me put it like this:
Supposed supersoldiers in heavily overengineered machines of war, that are far superior to the kind of machinery the enemy has, that have their entire war for total domination undone by bad logistics and their inability to replace their fallen soldiers... just add Panzerschokolade some black leather coats designed by Hugo Boss.
Kerensky did nothing wrong.
 
So is it wrong to assume that Comstar is responsible for 99.999999999% of the Lostech? I mean the chances for the Houses to destroy the facilities making the product, anyone that knows how to take care of the facilities, and the information to fix said facilities seems almost nil. While Comstar capitalizing on parts of those happening seems like 100% chance.
No, ComStar was responsible for some punctual, targeted technology losses, but most of it was just the Inner Sphere being too nuke-happy in the first two Succession Wars. The more advanced the technology, the more of an industrial "tail" it has, so any disruption to the chain means you can't produce the product anymore. And once the surviving factories are shuttered and forgotten, or repurposed into something else, it's easy for data to just rot away. Remember, BattleTech was made in the 80s. Storage media at the time was tapes (it still is in some applications) and it wasn't such a networked world as it is today. It was very possible to important data to be lost and the concept of off-site backups didn't seem to dawn on FASA back then.

Also, it's not like the Inner Sphere completely lost everything. What they had left by 3025 was still ridiculously advanced. Fusion engines were still being made. Standard 'Mech armor is a very complex composite of many materials that requires very specialized procedures to produce. Autocannons were still firing without jamming even if the arm they're mounted on was used to punch another 'Mech. Even the humble Small Laser, the tonnage-filler weapon in the setting, is a free-electron laser the likes of which we can barely imagine due to how sturdy and reliable it is. The IS lost access to its most advanced technologies from the Star League days, but overall it still held on to more tech than the Star League had starting out.

The real problem was disruption of supplies and destruction of facilities. Sure, your Gauss Rifle production line might still be intact after the Second Succession War, but if the factory two systems over that produced the rifles' superconducting coils is now a smoking crater and no one had an updated, reliable copy of the blueprints, you're hosed. And even if you had the blueprints and the resources to build another factory somewhere else, if the rare-earth mining facility that produced the exotic minerals required to create those coils was gone, or if the branch of the company that built the control circuitry for the Gauss Rifle magnets got atomized by a trigger-happy Kuritan naval officer... guess what, you still can't built these damn Gauss Rifles and your production line might as well be repurposed for something else that you have both the know-how and raw materials to produce.

ETA: as for why the Successor States didn't go digging for the data... well, BattleTech is this weird Capitalist Paradise where damn near nothing is actually built by state-controlled factories. So even if one company had the blueprints to build something a Successor State wanted, and another company had the factory that could put those blueprints into production, the Successor State couldn't usually just order them to get together and make it work.
 
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