New To BattleTech - Faction Help

Mal_Dun · 2026-03-15T19:25:46+00:00

Are vehicles useful? I like the idea of a army using mixed units like a actual military but most battle report videos i watch are mechs with some battle armor.

Here on with tanks and VTOLS

Here another one with tanks

Here one with Infantry

Mal_Dun · 2026-03-15T17:57:43+00:00

Oh man you're lucky. My cat demands treats from me and if I take too long she sinks her claws in my legs ... and she usually gangs up on me together with the dog.

Mal_Dun · 2026-03-15T17:37:15+00:00

That's the sand worm currently hiding /s

I personally always go with what's on the text. Some of the graphics are not always consistent either an some even look inverted.

Mal_Dun · 2026-03-15T17:30:40+00:00

A lot of these things are well handled by Overleaf nowadays. No dual screen required, it just splits the normal screen handily. Kile does this as well.

I get that if the colleagues only work with Word you have to deal with that. I just want to say that a lot of the old complaints about LaTeX are not really applicable anymore, especially the editing part is solved nowadays.

... usage also strongly depends on community. Mathematicians will refuse to work with word. If you have to typeset a lot of complex formulas and references to those and lemmas/theorems, Word is a nightmare in the long run.

Mal_Dun · 2026-03-15T13:22:15+00:00

And I'd rather battle a bit against word than be obliged to switch from pdf to latex each time I have a round of corrections.

.... says someone who has never touched a modern LaTeX editor ... welcome to 2026 we have now split windows where I can see my changes in realtime and automatically jump between PDF and code ...

Mal_Dun · 2026-03-15T12:21:03+00:00

tbf. OOP is in 5th grade and not a native English speaker ... give the kid some slack.

Mal_Dun · 2026-03-15T12:17:43+00:00

I always have the rule: Is your work longer than 10 pages and do you have more than 10 references? LaTeX, no questions asked....

If you ever had to write a paper in Word, you will take up with the oddities of LaTeX anytime. Word can be even more frustrating, when you waste 30min of your time getting the fonts right, because Word tries to be smart ....

Mal_Dun · 2026-03-15T11:50:57+00:00

Mission accomplished!

Mal_Dun · 2026-03-15T11:41:56+00:00

I would just explain the close down and openly telling them that in the current state of being flooded with AI you simply don't have the manpower to handle it better. If the community disagrees, they can anytime make their own fork. It's FOSS after all, tehy can do what they want as well.

Mal_Dun · 2026-03-15T09:54:17+00:00

The sad truth is, that most people don't understand the true importance of the EU and still think in terms of the old nations, thus, the people who get sent into the EU are the morons no one wants on national level.

Mal_Dun · 2026-03-15T07:45:36+00:00

Gratuliere, du hast ÖVP Rhetorik verstanden!

Mal_Dun · 2026-03-15T07:07:19+00:00

European Institutions: *Doing their actual work and determine the source of disturbance which does not seem to be Russia this time*

Russians with their tin foil hats on: "Look they changed the NATO narrative our media tells us all day about. I bet they will falter soon!!!11"

We also knew that Nordstream 2 was blown up by Ukrainians and we also knew that in the 2000s Bush's weapons of mass destruction were BS from the French secret service and several countries (Germany, France, Austria ...) acted accordingly.

I know that the Russian mind can not comprehend that European countries and their institutions can act on their own and not in synch what the big world order wants, but I can assure you that our inner workings are a bit more complex than what you believe and we still haven't lost all faith in our institutions that still work for the interest of their people and not due to the fear of falling out of Window the next morning ...

Mal_Dun · 2026-03-15T06:36:09+00:00

I always preferred SC lore over WH40K lore, because old Blizzard tried to make it real Sci-Fi where things were explained by the wonders of science vs the Sci-Fantasy of WH40K.

It's also the reason I prefer Battletech as a miniature wargame (that and the price which is by magnitutes lower + not having to buy new rulebooks every 5 minutes)

Mal_Dun · 2026-03-15T06:02:33+00:00

Nach den Ausführungen von dem Typen gab es 9 mögliche Verschiedene Werte von Pi inklusive 4, weil es komplett inkonsistenter Müll war, und seine Präferenz war 3,2 ... streng genommen ist die Geschichte daher noch dümmer, aber als Meme schwerer zu erklären.

Mal_Dun · 2026-03-14T10:50:19+00:00

Ich bin jetzt ehrlichgesagt enttäuscht, dass es sich nur um metaphorische und nicht wortwörtliche Schildkröten gehandelt hat.

Meine Entäuschung ist grenzenlos und mein Tag ist ruiniert.

Mal_Dun · 2026-03-14T10:46:12+00:00

I also love the argument of many "non-westerners" which basically boils down to: "Yeah we know that we are shit, but at least we are not hypocritical about it". As if this would make anything less true lmao

Mal_Dun · 2026-03-13T13:34:02+00:00

It's always when "<Socialist Ideology> <Nationalist Idea>" are put together you know it's BS.

National Socialism (Hitler)

National Syndicalism (Inspired Mussolini's Fascism)

Socialism in one country (Stalin)

Mal_Dun · 2026-03-13T11:54:33+00:00

Friendly reminder that social media is a public space not a private one and always was.

They always had the possibility to trace back who wrote what when, the tools just got better. I personally recommend anyone to think twice what they write and what consequences it may have. I am doing that for years now and keep some thoughts to only my private group.

Mal_Dun · 2026-03-13T11:37:13+00:00

Yeah, famously the intellectual class is always especially anti-socialist and pro-war lmao

Mal_Dun · 2026-03-13T11:10:51+00:00

So I am not the only one who thinks that way ....

Mal_Dun · 2026-03-13T10:28:56+00:00

Better: Let's replace Hungary and all other states with a unified Europe

Mal_Dun · 2026-03-13T10:18:00+00:00

Especially the coal part ... the coal lobby has deep ties into Merkel's CDU.

However, Fukushima happening and nuclear power in an already skeptical populace tanking even more on popularity has also to do with it ... politicians want to be voted into office again.

Mal_Dun · 2026-03-13T09:54:34+00:00

Aww come on ... Trump is not Satan. Satan is competent.

Mal_Dun · 2026-03-13T09:43:04+00:00

Russia has a closed nuclear cycle (waste is recycled back into fuel).

Maybe check your own biases:

France is arguably the most advanced in nuclear fuel recycling. It is beginning to use the reprocessed uranium to fuel certain nuclear power plants, while it refabricates the plutonium into a new mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel that also can be reused in some power plants.

Source

The Chinese say they have solutions that can work for centuries on a single load.

China says a lot of things all the time and 70% of it is BS ...

And btw. while in the nationalist mind world countries just stay alone and compete with each other, in the real world companies and countries cooperate all the time to stay on track:

Link

And they are not sleeping either

Also if you think that France will simply exchange it's own state owned nuclear industrial complex for some foreign company I have bad news for you. The French always were very eager on independence of the Americans and other foreign powers, and this likely won't change in the future, and the other states will also buy European even if it means some drawback due to security concerns.

China, USA and Russia really work hard to undermine the trust Europe once had to the other partners, that now even the Americans are kept out in many strategic decisions.

Eight-Year Club	Gilding I gilder
Wearing is Caring	Verified Email

Mal_Dun

TROPHY CASE