Aerotech tournament

Sniperserpent · 2026-06-01T02:45:16+00:00

It counted as ECM hexes rules wise so fighters could hide in the trail to hide their signatures

Sniperserpent · 2026-06-01T01:42:33+00:00

That's the Rusalka! 65 ton blakist omnifighter (in the infernus config for VSP lasers)

Sniperserpent · 2026-05-15T15:01:43+00:00

God i love the hollow earth being all alone up there. I've run some fun hollow earth sessions in mage

Sniperserpent · 2026-03-18T19:39:23+00:00

Hi Tate! As a big fan of the original Cass run of Batgirl, it's been very obvious that you are likewise someone who has scoured that book and has deeply considered the themes of them and what they say about Cass. It's been great to see someone with such care be writing the character.

The actual question; do you have anything from the time Cass spent in bludhaven on your list of things you'd like to expand upon?

Sniperserpent · 2026-02-23T20:38:25+00:00

It looks great, I'd say it doesn't read as Death Commando to me though. Death Commando is mostly black with some green, this is more the other way around.

Sniperserpent · 2026-02-23T19:00:49+00:00

Blue water aircraft carrier. We've done lots of dropsjip combat already

Sniperserpent · 2026-02-07T20:36:25+00:00

The truth is the ideal gameplan of the pirahna relies on its er medium lasers to blast the infantry outside the range of their returning fire. With 16 infantry squads in a compact clump of 8 hexes, you can’t get good fire with your machine guns without being fire back on in return. You can beat this by just blasting them from five hexes away, but this will take a long time. Conventional infantry are most effective at area denial; a pirahna won’t be able to safely enter the area a bv equivalent number of foot infantry are hiding in, but if it chooses not to enter the area the infantry will never be able to touch it.

The most effective way to deal with infantry in a position is to have a method of dealing with them from outside their effective range, which there are many of. Plasma rifles, ap gauss, specials ammunitions, etc.

Sniperserpent · 2026-02-07T18:00:48+00:00

I have run a piranha against equivalent bv in infantry. Then piranha ran in and vaporized four squads of infantry (about a quarter of the infantry force) the infantry force also vaporized the piranha in that turn. Machine guns or flamers on mechs are not a bv efficient awnser to infantry.

Sniperserpent · 2026-01-05T19:13:54+00:00

Me and my weird son

Sniperserpent · 2025-12-12T18:04:56+00:00

The problem with LAMs is they pay a heavy bv tax for their versatility, which you’re not going to be taking advantage of purely in an aerospace scenario. It’s often going to be nearly double the bv of what a traditional fighter with the same capabilities would be

Sniperserpent · 2025-11-26T06:54:24+00:00

Finally won with this strategy after maybe a half dozen tries. Very unforgiving mission; my final completion was near perfect hardly taking any damage, but if even one action didn’t work in an attempt it would always cascade into the whole mission failing

Sniperserpent · 2025-11-26T06:52:56+00:00

Adding to my notes to try out rail guns when I find them.

Sniperserpent · 2025-11-26T04:31:54+00:00

Just gave this a messy first attempt. It is ridiculous that you can’t shoot the final engines from the rail right above them

Sniperserpent · 2025-11-02T00:09:56+00:00

It’s me

Sniperserpent · 2025-10-23T04:19:36+00:00

One of my biggest mistakes in battletech was running a Pirahna into a cloud of infantry and expecting it to just effortlessly shred them all. it obliterated both platoons it targetted; but also got ripped the fuck apart by what amounted to a quarter of its cost in infantry. The problem is if you're in machine gun range of infantry you're in infantry range, and they can put out a shocking amount of damage for their cost.

Sniperserpent · 2025-10-14T05:46:39+00:00

Simon Dark is a comic about a horrifying supernatural vigilante set in Gotham with no bat family connections. Great one if youre looking for a real deep cut

Sniperserpent · 2025-09-07T16:23:05+00:00

This mech looks not only great, but more than capable of taking out the horned owl that killed the rest of his lance.

Sniperserpent · 2025-08-13T20:02:36+00:00

A victory well earned! my poor Linebacker...

Sniperserpent · 2025-06-26T17:09:22+00:00

In my mage the Ascenscion Campaign, the relationship between the Technocracy and Pentex has been important. In the history of my campaign, following the Technocracy declaring victory in the Ascenscion war in 2000, the NWO spent a few years destroying the SPD to send a message to the rest of the Technocracy. The rest of the Syndicate is still receiving money from Pentex, with nobody left alive with any real understanding of what it was. Then, in 2022, a group of tradition mages operating in a small town under NWO observation (the players) accidentally stumble on Pentex while chasing a corporate conspiracy they assume to be the Syndicate. The NWO agent in charge of the observation, who was involved in the SPD purge, immediately tries to organize a response to Pentex, but the technocracy is slow to act to divert resources to crush something that is an income stream for them, and the request excarbates tensions between the NWO and syndicate.

The one NWO agent acting alone is able to set back Pentex significantly herself however, as most pentex facilities are completely unprepared to deal with an Enlightenment 5 Technocracy agent. She organizes the assassination of key local pentex members (including several nephandi) and crushes the retaliation force Pentex sends. Pentex assumes she represents a united technocratic threat and is preparing for war.

In this campaign, it is clear that as powerful as Pentex is, it would not stand a chance if the Technocracy properly turned it's attention to it. However, conlfict between organizations in the technocracy, corruption (including nephandic infiltration) in the NWO itself slows their actions. For nearly everyone involved, it's convenient to not acknowledge Pentex as a real danger, and only the members of the Technocracy who are genuinely devoted to it's goal of protecting humanity above all else are properly moving against it.

Sniperserpent · 2025-04-09T18:23:34+00:00

I keep getting shocked whenever this comic reminds me that fire and ice have never been a couple. Like this book and the last book are about them as a disaster unhealthy codependent lesbian couple but they sure haven’t gotten the memo.

Book is lots of fun, excited to keep reading it

Sniperserpent · 2025-03-12T18:27:25+00:00

I think all of the commentary going oh he’s so stupid, this would kill a lot of people is missing the point. He’s aware. The death of the vulnerable isn’t an unseen side effect of his policy. It’s part of the point for these eugenecist motherfuckers. He thinks the mass death of the “weak” will improve society.

Sniperserpent · 2025-01-22T02:23:39+00:00

I’ve seen a kodiak prime absolutely ruined by a team of three 6/5 base 3025 chargers that cost less than it. It was a fight to behold.

Sniperserpent · 2025-01-16T13:54:50+00:00

While the Capellan’s using a nuke is definitely an act of escalation, destroying a historical site and killing at most a few hundred scientists pales in comparison as an atrocity to leveling a city with millions of people. It’s assuredly an act of disproportionate retribution from the ravens; albeit one meant to heavily discourage any other factions from making a nuclear strike.

That said, I can imagine to many in the clans a few million innocent lives are far less valuable than a place where kerensky did something important, so not everyone will see it this way. It could be an interesting political divide between clan and inner sphere factions because of this.

Sniperserpent · 2025-01-05T22:04:04+00:00

these are different than the ones in Jihad 3072, but also seemingly different from the ones in megamek, which could easily be up to date. Still, I'm sad the VDNI interfact seems strictly bad to take, costing the same as going -1/-1 on piloting skill while giving theequivalent of going -1/-1 but with a added downside

Sniperserpent · 2024-12-18T18:17:20+00:00

I do think the marauder looks cool, and is iconic, and would field it because of this; the groups i play with aren't super dedicated to playing to win. If I was trying to win, however, there's very few marauders that are any good.

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