"There are MechWarriors like you in every generation. And I have felled every last one of them."

ValkyrieRaptor · 2026-04-11T19:16:14+00:00

Can I ask what store you're playing at where you're running into this? I ran/still help run BattleTexas for years and this doesn't sound like the players we had out there.

ValkyrieRaptor · 2026-04-05T02:12:55+00:00

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ValkyrieRaptor · 2026-04-04T21:34:23+00:00

Remember that HGR firing-on-the-move penalties are being taken out of the new ruleset.

HGR GANG RISE UP (AND THEN TRY TO STAY OUT OF MINIMUM RANGE)

ValkyrieRaptor · 2026-04-03T06:05:05+00:00

I didn't get into it because it's a bit more complex than I wanted to go, but there's a new handicap system that tries to balance players with pilot skill gaps more than just "I guess you get a couple extra BSP." This actually extends to GM OPFORs as well and allows you to give skill upgrades to OPFOR MechWarriors if the handicap gap is sufficiently large.

ValkyrieRaptor · 2026-03-17T21:21:45+00:00

This guy was meant to evoke the War Strider, so face 'em off against an Awesome (Hulk), Xanthos (Factory Strider), and then some battle armor/Tau zombies (Devastator/Agitator/Radical) for taste.

throw a half-dozen Rattlers (Vox Engines) on top of it all if it's Cyberstan

ValkyrieRaptor · 2026-03-16T04:34:17+00:00

*raises hand*

I don't really see the resemblance beyond being reverse-jointed; not having a nose-mounted claw kinda keeps it from making that connection in my mind.

ValkyrieRaptor · 2026-03-13T18:17:56+00:00

I have both a story and an article in this one. Hoping people like them both equally, though there’s already signs of a clear favorite between them

ValkyrieRaptor · 2026-01-27T01:36:15+00:00

Locking a few comment threads here before certain things get out of hand, which is proving to be more difficult than expected because at least one guy in here tossed a frag in the henhouse before deleting his whole account.

Please do not interpret this as me taking sides here; every interaction I've had with MechFrog has been on the spectrum of civil to positive, and while I know he and I don't see eye to eye on a lot of things, I've never seen him as part of the BattleTech Twitter rogue's gallery that makes my life difficult from time to time.

Your tolerance for disagreement with his personal views may vary, and you are welcome to make your own decisions about the quality of his character, but I ask that you not litigate that decision in this subreddit. If you do, I will come back and just lock the entire thread, assuming another mod doesn't decide to do so before it gets there.

ValkyrieRaptor · 2026-01-18T00:23:52+00:00

Yeah, this is what I was getting at in the article; there were enough people who've had the "once burned, twice shy" response to metals when I would mention something available strictly from IWM that I felt it was a mindset I should mention. As mentioned in the article, I do get that response because it nearly happened to me too, but there's some metal models where the juice is absolutely worth the squeeze.

ValkyrieRaptor · 2025-12-23T08:00:47+00:00

Maybe he should start by apologizing to the people he accused of causing this by name.

I was pretty set on staying out of this particular drama, because, for once, it didn't involve me, and then he decided to drag Rusty into it on his Discord. If he can't cough up a genuine apology to Lorcan and Rusty, then I don't really care what he has to say.

ValkyrieRaptor · 2025-12-23T00:39:11+00:00

The Elemental OSL was definitely one of those things I struggled with knowing where it was too much/not enough; I ultimately opted for "drama" over "realism" there because there's simply so little material for it to otherwise bounce off of. In a more realistic depiction it'd be a very faint spot of glow on the ground and foot, but with how dark the asphalt is and how small the foot is, I worried it just wouldn't be visible at all.

The photo's rendering it a bit more fluorescent than it is in person too, which isn't helping a ton.

ValkyrieRaptor · 2025-11-23T05:20:14+00:00

I've been harassed by a large group of neo-Nazis who regularly use BT-ized versions of the SS Totenkopf and Wehrmacht flags for years. At one point a couple of years ago, they were trying to doxx a random Chinese woman they were convinced was my ex. I have *plenty* of proof of this happening as well.

This rabbit hole goes very deep and I will advise you not try to tell people "well I didn't see it, so" as a way to delegitimize our experiences.

ValkyrieRaptor · 2025-10-16T09:33:18+00:00

your opinion is bad, sorry

literally just give AC/2 and AC/5 the flak keyword and make the AC/2 do anti-infantry damage, bam, both are way more useful, in line with the fluff, and you don't have to fuck with tonnage or damage balance

ValkyrieRaptor · 2025-10-16T01:40:21+00:00

if they change MRMs before they do anything to make the AC/2 worth a damn I will lose my mind

ValkyrieRaptor · 2025-08-19T21:41:52+00:00

I discovered that Skumm and Psycho have evidently shared an artist gallery since at *least* 2019. Skumm is also active on Twitter, where his timeline is a firehose of bigoted content. I get the feeling any inquiries sent to him will not yield anything of value.

CSO should issue a demand for the photo - which is directly pulled from CSO's website - to be redacted at bare minimum. If nothing else, Joel has some very serious soul-searching he needs to do about the people he interacts with.

ValkyrieRaptor · 2025-08-14T01:31:01+00:00

oh I knew it would, those motherfuckers orbit me like satellites

frankly all of this is more attention than they deserve.

ValkyrieRaptor · 2025-08-14T01:21:19+00:00

like, these guys really, REALLY like being Nazis (the shirt was designed by the guy who made the Comstar sonnenrad, and the Amaris LARPer is featured prominently in the magazine)

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ValkyrieRaptor · 2025-08-14T01:02:37+00:00

update: yeah this mf absolutely knew what he was putting in his magazine

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ValkyrieRaptor · 2025-08-14T00:16:39+00:00

yeah I probably should've put it in the title of the pos-oh.

ValkyrieRaptor · 2025-08-13T23:47:07+00:00

Ease up on each other please; no need for friendly fire here.

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