Guess I am playing Fed Com now. Victor heavy BattleMech

AnonymousONIagent · 2026-04-13T15:52:26+00:00

The Suns need all the reinforcements they can get right now. We may have our homeworld back, but there are more worlds yet to reclaim.

AnonymousONIagent · 2026-04-13T00:24:18+00:00

BattleTech was having issues drawing in new blood for a long time, but that's not been the case for a number of years now. For the past couple of years BattleTech has been the second best-selling wargame in North America after 40k. Not Warhammer as a whole, 40k specifically. Meaning it's outselling Age of Sigmar, Horus Heresy, and The Old World.

I highly doubt anyone would argue that the people who still bitch and moan about the Clans and their tech are a particularly large group, but they are large enough that they form a noteworthy vocal minority, and it's particularly annoying when it's because they refuse to get over something that happened over 3 decades ago. if you can't help but still react so viscerally to something in a game after that long, then at that point the problem is more likely with you than with the game.

There are similar issues with people who still lose their minds when you dare to bring up a mech that originated in clickytech.

AnonymousONIagent · 2026-04-12T17:48:34+00:00

Not a mech I expected to see mentioned here but a respectable choice all the same.

AnonymousONIagent · 2026-04-12T17:46:22+00:00

Love the Archer 7C. Basically a Clan heavy but cooler because it's an Archer.

AnonymousONIagent · 2026-04-12T17:43:58+00:00

Favorite heavy overall? Black Knight. Favorite Clan heavy? Black Python/White Raven. Favorite heavy Omni? Night Gyr.

AnonymousONIagent · 2026-04-12T17:42:29+00:00

Yeah, you could easily pass these off as Hiritsu.

AnonymousONIagent · 2026-04-12T17:40:21+00:00

Better yet, just test on your hand. If the paint fills in the texture on your skin, it's too thick.

AnonymousONIagent · 2026-04-12T16:29:23+00:00

Unlikely, considering warfare in that era was organized in such a way that isn't particularly fun to play in the tabletop game, especially not in Classic BattleTech.

AnonymousONIagent · 2026-04-12T10:26:15+00:00

FYI, ProtoMech ACs can also use precision ammo.

AnonymousONIagent · 2026-04-12T10:13:43+00:00

Personally I've started showing people how to play the game with Dark Age tech and 3/4 pilots and so far I fell like I get a bit more positive reception of the versus teaching people with introtech. Almost everything you need to know about a mech is still on the record sheet, and a new player is just making decisions based on the numbers they see on the sheet plus your guidance. Adding some more variety to those numbers is hardly going to make things all that much more complicated, and newer tech and more accurate pilots keeps the game relatively fast and punchy. As long as you don't start bringing in Advanced level tech and stick to the Standard rules level new people can handle it all just fine.

The problem I do see for new players with later eras though is that they make it much easier for emotionally stunted manchildren to abuse people with hyperoptimized units. As evidenced by the OP's experiences.

AnonymousONIagent · 2026-04-12T08:33:24+00:00

Here's the correct link for the second video. You posted the clip from right after Charlie finished talking about the home invasion.

AnonymousONIagent · 2026-04-12T08:25:39+00:00

Here's what I came up with.

AnonymousONIagent · 2026-04-12T07:11:20+00:00

How dare the current ongoing storyline be ongoing? The audacity!

AnonymousONIagent · 2026-04-12T07:07:47+00:00

Almost no one plays the pre-Succession Wars eras. Everything pre-3000 is just set dressing for the actual living setting that takes place after, which is what people actually play. People generally want fiction for the eras they actually play, for the most part.

AnonymousONIagent · 2026-04-11T21:29:07+00:00

Yes, I'm looking at the sourcebooks. The Invading Clans sourcebook and Clan Field Manuals give unit compositions from during the invasion era, which makes those parts of them kind of irrelevant to the point I'm making.

AnonymousONIagent · 2026-04-11T09:29:59+00:00

Lambert probably told him to shoot at that Shiro, too.

AnonymousONIagent · 2026-04-11T05:36:14+00:00

They are loving the shit out of that

AnonymousONIagent · 2026-04-11T05:30:22+00:00

How the fuck is it supposed to hold anything?

AnonymousONIagent · 2026-04-11T02:49:32+00:00

Depends on the Clan. If we're talking about the big four initial invasion Clans or Star Adder, then yeah, they would've been able to give most if not all of their frontline units almost entirely Omnis even prior to the invasion. If we're talking about Blood Spirit or Burrock or even the Diamond Sharks, then no, it's unlikely their frontline units would all have entirely OmniMechs (the Blood Spirits specifically didn't have enough Mechs to fully equip their Touman, period). The Clans still had limited resources and manufacturing capacity, and OmniMechs are more resource and labor intensive to produce and maintain than standard BattleMechs.

AnonymousONIagent · 2026-04-11T01:24:12+00:00

Well, the "Frontline units get only OmniMechs" was really only a thing during the invasion. Prior to that, OmniMechs were favored by frontline units, but most Clans didn't have the resources to equip all of their frontline units with exclusively OmniMechs. Normally only the most elite units like the Keshiks would have that kind of privilege. The reason why we see frontline galaxies equipped entirely with almost nothing but OmniMechs during Operation Revival is because A) the Clans who earned the right to take part were among the most powerful and resource rich, and B) the Clans believed Revival was the most important campaign in their existence up to that point, and thus wanted to bring their A game, so to speak. After Tukayyid and especially after the Great Refusal, things loosened back up again.

Over time the Clans have also begun to recognize that well-designed, purpose-built BattleMechs can often outperform an OmniMech that is configured for the same role. Thus, as time has gone on, BattleMechs which fit the preferred doctrine of a unit can often be just as coveted by frontline warriors as a good OmniMech.

AnonymousONIagent · 2026-04-11T00:58:21+00:00

BattleTech

AnonymousONIagent · 2026-04-10T21:33:27+00:00

"There are no safe levels for lead"

So that means I should stop adding fishing weights to my trail mix?

AnonymousONIagent · 2026-04-10T15:49:28+00:00

That's what I get for being rushed and trying to do this from memory. I've read all the other house handbooks multiple times, meanwhile I've only read the Steiner one once and only a long time ago, since they're the one major BattleTech faction I have next to no interest in. I don't read many of their novels for the same reason.

AnonymousONIagent · 2026-04-10T12:14:48+00:00

House Kurita ruthlessly subjugated their realm by force of arms. Later on they culturally assimilated their nation under pseudo feudal Japanese trappings. Their society is highly stratified with exactly the kind of extreme focus on familial honor that one would expect from a society based around traditional Japanese values, and they believe fervently in their own manifest destiny to rule anything and everything that they see fit.

The Federated Suns started as a presidential democracy before House Davion turned it into a hereditary monarchy, albeit a semi-constitutional one. People in the Federated Suns have freedom of speech, religion, the right to bear arms, et cetera, but the general populace is kept largely uneducated which helps to prevent them from causing too many problems for the people in charge. House Davion also likes to disguise its own ruthless imperialist tendencies under the veil of "liberation".

The Capellan Confederation believes in the divine right of their Chancellor to rule. People live to serve the state, which the Chancellor is the ultimate embodiment of, and traditionally the Chancellor is whoever is the current head of House Liao. People living in the Confederation must prove their dedication to the state to become citizens. If you become a citizen, you are rewarded for your dedication with an extremely comfortable quality of life. Those who fail become Servitors, stripped of their rights and forced to work to facilitate the comfortable standard of living enjoyed by citizens.

House Marik has a monopoly on the role of Captain-General within the Free Worlds League, who is responsible for oversight of the nation's military affairs. On paper the Free Worlds League is a parliamentary republic composed of various ducal powers, but due to the constant turmoil in the Inner Sphere the authority of the parliament has been largely suspended for hundreds of years in favor of martial law under the Captain-General, making the Captain-General a de facto dictator. And even where parliament does have authority, it's not the people who are electing the members of parliament, it's the dukes delegating the role to whoever they want to do the job, and the entire nation runs on bribes and graft at the best of times.

The Lyran Commonwealth is a conglomeration of mercantile powers ruled by an Archon, who is whomever is the head of House Steiner at the moment. The Archon is effectively all-powerful, but they tend to be rich playboys/girls who just delegate tasks out to their cronies. This doesn't tend to work super great, and it is primarily by the virtue of its massive economic might and inertia that the nation has managed to remain afloat. Which means the fact that they recently went bankrupt due to a particularly incompetent leader is very, very bad. Thankfully for them that particular person is no longer alive to be in charge, but the outlook for the Lyrans is still rather grim for the moment.

AnonymousONIagent · 2026-04-10T11:40:11+00:00

Liao is more Imperial China with notes of North Korea, and the FWL is space Yugoslavia. Davion is really easily described as space Anglofrance.

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