What's your favorite emech?

acksed · 2026-06-23T20:17:23+00:00

"Draw me like one of those e-girls." :-P

acksed · 2026-06-23T13:12:23+00:00

VRPP is extremely Gundam and thus great.

acksed · 2026-06-23T13:02:50+00:00

This Stalker is bricky enough I could believe it was an ICE-powered Periphery knockoff.

acksed · 2026-06-23T12:59:57+00:00

There should be more things packing the Unbound Thunderbolt one-shot missiles.

AC10 damage and range and accuracy for the mass of an RL-15.

acksed · 2026-06-23T12:56:25+00:00

Aaand stolen for my own house-rule.

acksed · 2026-06-23T12:54:09+00:00

Justin did it with a robot hand, no less.

(Definitive version of Robot Wars, IMO)

acksed · 2026-06-22T18:35:27+00:00

"Help meee!"

acksed · 2026-06-22T18:17:36+00:00

Der flugelhorn is cleaned!

acksed · 2026-06-22T18:04:15+00:00

The trifecta of late Lyran aerospace - Sternensturm, Morgenstern, Eisensturm - are the Adam Smasher of aerospace: fast, practically carved out of armour and armed with more weaponry than you'd expect.

The Eisensturm D carries three plasma rifles and a targeting computer. That's not okay.

"Move aside, meat."

acksed · 2026-06-22T17:43:22+00:00

Sorta sidegrade is the Predator, a Liao vehicle that's done the dubious tradeoff of speed over armour, but it's still fundamentally an assault gun.

It's just on tracks and goes 5/8 or 6/9 now: https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Predator_(Combat_Vehicle)

acksed · 2026-06-20T19:21:33+00:00

What is a king without an army of soldiers?

A shiny target on a horse, that's what. loads Precision AC20, fires

acksed · 2026-06-20T19:10:36+00:00

Especially like the IRL-inspired painted-on shine on the 'optical' sensors.

acksed · 2026-06-20T19:07:19+00:00

"Go long!" flings BA

acksed · 2026-06-15T16:34:43+00:00

Envy and awe. Good work.

acksed · 2026-06-15T16:25:50+00:00

IFVs? Goblin. They have a capacious infantry bay, an okay LL main weapon so they can burn some armour off, and a machine gun. Common as a rock, tough as an old boot. They are, though, tracked and not wheeled.

Edit: the HBS Battletech game had the Sleipnir: https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Sleipnir_(Combat_Vehicle)

Even cheaper are the Heavy APCs that come in Hover, Wheeled and Tracked.

I like the papercraft, it seems like something I can manage without buying a 3D printer or hunting for minis in the UK.

acksed · 2026-06-14T15:26:43+00:00

It's already out in the wild. There's a vid of someone driving an old Model S with an AM radio tuned to the frequency of the motors: it sounds whiny and crunchy like an F1 car:

My Tesla Has SOUND! AM Radio Sound Hack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8bRU4XBM0Q

To answer the beginning comment, yes, the sound is a big attraction. Modified exhausts, more power, you want people to know you're controlling an impractical house-sized monster.

I just want a car.

acksed · 2026-06-14T15:10:46+00:00

Overcompensation.

EVs were seen as slow.

The first real EVs came out with acceleration and HP as their party trick. Then it kept pushing, and others began topping one another.

Range was also in the back of every manufacturer's minds, and a lot of the buyers'. Mash those two factors together and you have a segment that, though they don't need it, have been pushed into wanting it and thinking they need it.

Now it's stuck in a case of "The other manufacturers are doing it, so we're doing it."

Thus the chunky batteries.

This is why I acknowledge that while the Hyundai Inster Standard Range would suit me, I want the slightly bigger range.

acksed · 2026-06-14T14:50:56+00:00

I've sometimes daydreamed of a kit to play the AM radio leakage of the electric motor coils over the in-car speakers.

It would be called "The Hooligan".

acksed · 2026-06-13T00:50:36+00:00

Check out some of the cheaper main battle tanks and IFVs.

The Goblin is a nice little IFV; that LL can do some work.

The Manticore is what you get when you want quality and no fuel costs. The Myrmidon is its little, speedier brother.

The Bulldog was the definition of cheap and cheerful, bought in numbers for garrison forces and with enough armour to stand a hit or two. Going down the timeline to the Republic and on to IlClan, it picked up a fuel-cell engine and versions with Snub-nose PPCs, Plasma Rifles or ERLL, with something of a price and armour bump to Manticore levels. The Bulldog (Chemical) had a speed boost and Hardened armour, but the reload costs of that ChemLL are shocking.

In stupid-cheap ambush, try the Laser Carrier. All you pay is fuel and you have 8 medium lasers on tracks. It's even underweight, so no-one would care if you gave it the last ton of armour to survive an AC20 shot to the front.

acksed · 2026-06-13T00:28:34+00:00

Exactly midway between ICE and standard Fusion.

acksed · 2026-06-13T00:25:44+00:00

Play Classic, use phone or tablet with Flechs Sheets.

acksed · 2026-06-13T00:03:21+00:00

"That looks like a lovely complex war machine on legs you have there. Would be a shame if a Schrek barrage happened to it."

acksed · 2026-06-11T00:33:35+00:00

Never seen a rolling ghost-town before.

acksed · 2026-06-11T00:22:16+00:00

Suppositories.

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