Mechwarrior reference....outstanding

I'll still put money on my Dire Wolf.

Even faster if you engage MASC

So, What's the Clan equivalent?

DERPA

Sometimes I feel like I was the only one that burned half an adolescence on MechWarrior and MechCommander.

/Mad Cat cheats were glorious
//6-hour standoffs on MechCommander were not...two dudes with 12 Masakaris each lined up on a hilltop, nobody willing to move...stupid. And that was how we spent our time.

I'm sorry, but unless you add some more heatsinks and LRM ports, it'll be nothing but DFA fodder

BTW: Anyone else foaming at the mouth for the Mechwarrior MMORPG (new window)?

Bah. Scout mechs can suck it. Hovercraft for the win!

Thirty years from now, as you huddle in the basement of your bombed out suburban ranch home, and you hear the mechanized whirring of the approaching killbots, you'll think back on this moment and say "I really should have gone Sarah Connor on those robot scientists when I had the chance."

Meh. 50 MPH is only a 5/8 movement profile assuming that's the top speed.

A fast 'Mech is more like a 9/12 or an 11/17 profile.

/tabletop wargaming pedant
//bravo subs for the Battletech reference

inkarnata: MechwarriorBattletech reference....outstanding

FTFY

Skwishmitten: BTW: Anyone else foaming at the mouth for the Mechwarrior MMORPG (new window)?

I was...it would be nice to know what's going on w/ it. Seems like they are treading water.

But where will they find the protoculture to power that thing?

crab66: inkarnata: MechwarriorBattletech reference....outstanding

FTFY

i'll play the Zentradi officer's battlepod. i love them PPCs.

But will it have jump jets, light mechs ain't shiat if they can't DFA.

/Aiieee!

Know what'd be really cool? If instead of investing so much money in things primarily geared for warfare with marginal side benefits for the rest of society, we would instead invest that money in things primarily geared for the benefit of the rest of society with a marginal side benefit for warfare.

That'd be pretty cool.

The Crescent Hawks Revenge?

ZipSplat: Know what'd be really cool? If instead of investing so much money in things primarily geared for warfare with marginal side benefits for the rest of society, we would instead invest that money in things primarily geared for the benefit of the rest of society with a marginal side benefit for warfare.

That'd be pretty cool.

Farkin' government funding, how does it work?

Was it necessary to model it on a crappy cult Ralph Bakshi cartoon??

If you have a rocket launcher in the bathroom that the former tenant left, it shouldn't be a problem.

obscure?

knightofargh: Meh. 50 MPH is only a 5/8 movement profile assuming that's the top speed.

A fast 'Mech is more like a 9/12 or an 11/17 profile.

/tabletop wargaming pedant
//bravo subs for the Battletech reference

It would be 8/12 not 9/12. Some pedant you are....

/Spider was the best Scout mech
8/12 and jump jets

Suddenly I am reminded of the styrafoam terrain cutouts of my youth.

Technology in DARPA's FastRunner robot will enable it to run up to 50 miles an hour, making it the fastest Scout Mech in the Inner Sphere find Sarah Connor.

FTFOld School.

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Was it necessary to model it on a crappy cult Ralph Bakshi cartoon??

Come on. Give Peace a chance.

I can haz upgrade?

Make sure you're higher than the terrorists when you collide.

Skwishmitten: BTW: Anyone else foaming at the mouth for the Mechwarrior MMORPG (new window)?

I... I did not know about that. But now I want it about as much as I've ever wanted anything.

Meh. When they cook up an Atlas, I'll be impressed.

Maybe they can design one that doesn't produce so much waste heat.

SuperChuck: It would be 8/12 not 9/12. Some pedant you are....

/Spider was the best Scout mech
8/12 and jump jets

Typo + Fark = no edit button

Still 50 MPH is slow in 'Mech terms.

Kojima was closer than MW

http://i29.tinypic.com/x4rjgx.jpg

Oznog: Was it necessary to model it on a crappy cult Ralph Bakshi cartoon??

Crappy?! I rather enjoyed that film.

Also, this is what I prefer fast robots to look like.

Not impressed.

Skwishmitten: BTW: Anyone else foaming at the mouth for the Mechwarrior MMORPG (new window)?

I don't know. But Hawken looks pretty sweet.

The Wizard of Frobozz: Skwishmitten: BTW: Anyone else foaming at the mouth for the Mechwarrior MMORPG (new window)?

I don't know. But Hawken looks pretty sweet.

Hawken looks sweet, but I still wish for a sim

Scrotastic Method: Sometimes I feel like I was the only one that burned half an adolescence on MechWarrior and MechCommander.

You don't even want to know.

/Spent huge chunks of my pay as a young adult visiting Virtual World's battletech centers and flying tons of sorties. I was two away from my veteran pin before the local center got sold and moved to another city :(



Those buttons, they all do something. Those screens, they all mean something. Coolant loop routing, ammo jettisoning, weapon trigger links, weapon seek levels, coolant flush etc.



/would pick it back up in a second if there were a center nearby. Hell, if I had the space and the internet bandwidth to support it, I'd build a tesla pod in my house somewhere.
Get in the pod, shut the door

I don't think you need to worry about any kill-bot based on a bird that exists almost exclusively because it runs away.
If you know where it's going (say, because it's pursuing you) it'd be fairly easy to topple and fairly slow to get up.
This has gotta be a scout thing.

What you really want *for a kill bot*, are spider-legs.
Resistant to trapping/snaring, flexible for climbing/jumping/navigating uneven ground, and with built-in redundancy to weather damage.

I can't be the only Farker who noted there were definite break points with respect to Mech weight and speed.

I know I've forgotten some, but the ones I exploited most often were:

50 tons x 6; this was kinda pushing it, as the 300 class engine weighed a lot and limited your weapons loadout. However, this was fast enough to outrun heavy Mechs that could outgun it, while powerful enough to really hurt light Mechs that could match its speed.

55 tons x 5; at 55 tons, jump jets were half a ton each, vs a full ton above that weight

75 tons x 4; above this weight, the engine weighed too much to make movement speed more than 3 hexes impractical


Most annoying light Mech I ever made? 20 tons x 8 (IIRC), jump jets, and no weapons --- just a TAG unit to paint the target for a devasting Arrow IV bombardment, or a C3 slave unit.

Battletech Ref FTW, holy sh*t Mechwarriro MMORPG!!!!!

Ah yes, where wars will be fought around open areas of water to improve the efficiency of heat sinks, and 100 ton mechs can actually walk on the earth without sinking down to their knee-equivalents

/robotech is better

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Meh. When they cook up an Atlas, I'll be impressed.

Maybe they can design one that doesn't produce so much waste heat.

The Atlas packed a punch and had great armor, but the waste heat and slow speed where bummers, I preferred marauder.

PsyLord: But where will they find the protoculture to power that thing?

Probably can get it for a few songs, that is if the 60 foot fanboys don't kill you first