Battletech - Also known as Trannytech

[Snekposter]

which I've never understood (neither why or the actual sport.)

Lacrosse is an incredibly brutal, vicious sport that even nowadays allows and encourages beating your opponents with that heavy stick you have, especially in the shins where you can claim you're just fighting over the ball. Its petty, vicious, and spiteful, which is why its mostly a women's sport these days. As such, I cannot imagine why the Fire Mandrills would not play such a sport given it suits their culture of "fuck everyone not in my Kindraa" rather perfectly. Not really sure about the Coyotes, but the Wolves have always been surprisingly vicious, mostly in a good way, and probably want their non-Elementals to know what outright physical violence is like, and if I was a fellow ASF pilot from another Clan I'd hate to fight a Wolf one unaugmented given he's got a lot of practice beating people up and getting beaten up from his lacrosse play.

 

[Corn Flakes]

Excessive force would have been flagged if they where severely injuring the players to the point where they couldn't play anymore.

There is a short story on the whole game I've been trying to find.

I think the point is that the Clans fight hard but they fight fair (even though fair fights are for suckers. Just like they abhor waste in 'Mech-to-'Mech combat, deliberately crippling an opponent in a game would be seen as dishonorable. And with the Ghost Bears putting a lot of emphasis on strength of character, it makes sense that they would take it relatively easy on a bunch of unaugmented Spheroids who had the balls to actually stand against them in a fair game.

I hadn't heard of this short story, though. I'm trying to find it now as well. Unfortunately, BattleCorps content can be hard to come by.

IDK, I'm not stumbling upon hordes of pulse lasers, ER lasers and double hink sinks its been very rare for me to find any and the stuff I have don't last that long due to combat reasons.

Maybe I was just blessed by RNG, because I've been able to fit pretty much all my Assaults with LosTech by the time I started fielding full lances of the damn things.

 

[Tenko Star]

Lacrosse is an incredibly brutal, vicious sport

Huh, you live and learn, I see. My only encounters with lacrosse have been with American films where it seems to be this game played by the yuppie sort of Uni students, whereas the working class types play football and disrespect the lacrosse players. But reading that description sort of makes it seem like Association football, where you can give your opponent a cheeky stinger across the instep or the shin ("I was going for the ball with the sliding tackle, I swear, it just slipped off the ball!") when the ref's eyes are turned.

 

[Snekposter]

Huh, you live and learn, I see. My only encounters with lacrosse have been with American films where it seems to be this game played by the yuppie sort of Uni students, whereas the working class types play football and disrespect the lacrosse players. But reading that description sort of makes it seem like Association football, where you can give your opponent a cheeky stinger across the instep or the shin ("I was going for the ball with the sliding tackle, I swear, it just slipped off the ball!") when the ref's eyes are turned.

Na. Its not at all like soccer. Its more like hockey, just on grass instead of ice. There's a reason everyone wears those face masks, and its because "accidents" happen when you're trying to nab the ball from your opponent as they carry it over their shoulder. Much like hockey, you're not technically supposed to just hammer away at your opponent but instead play for the ball, but whoops, people "accidentally" slamming the butt end of their sticks into your belly while they were body-checking you so you'd drop the ball happens more often than not. All the Clan version does is drop the pretense and incorporate it into the rules.

Yeah, I can't imagine why you'd think it plays the slightest like soccer...

 

[Gezkill]

I think the point is that the Clans fight hard but they fight fair (even though fair fights are for suckers. Just like they abhor waste in 'Mech-to-'Mech combat, deliberately crippling an opponent in a game would be seen as dishonorable. And with the Ghost Bears putting a lot of emphasis on strength of character, it makes sense that they would take it relatively easy on a bunch of unaugmented Spheroids who had the balls to actually stand against them in a fair game.

I hadn't heard of this short story, though. I'm trying to find it now as well. Unfortunately, BattleCorps content can be hard to come by.


Maybe I was just blessed by RNG, because I've been able to fit pretty much all my Assaults with LosTech by the time I started fielding full lances of the damn things.

Its in the Onslaught: Tales from the Clan Invasion anthology if your interested in the search.

 

[Corn Flakes]

Its in the Onslaught: Tales from the Clan Invasion anthology if your interested in the search.

I just bought the damn thing off Amazon. Needed some light reading material, anyway. So, here's the summary:

The Sheliak team got completely trounced by the Elementals. Concussions galore, but no illegal plays. Fun fact, the Ghost Bears brought in a mixed team: basically any Bear Elemental in the unit who wanted to play got to play, and one of their female players had an almost completely unopposed twenty-seven yard run (the Shekliakians only knew she was a woman once she removed her helmet). Meanwhile, the locals were going through players like a frat party goes through solo cups. In the end, they manage a play exploiting the Bears' excessive reliance on size and lack of tactical foresight that gets them close enough to attempt a field goal, the furthest they've ever got the entire game. The protagonist gets tackled by a Ghost Bear right at the end of the play with only seconds left on the clock and... okay, I'm just going to quote this one:

Cute little story, I liked it.

 

[TFT-A9]

They scored a field goal at the end of the game, don't know if they let them get it out of respect or pitty.

Maybe both I'm thinking.


Also Razorfist dumped his shitty take on MW5. I'm more in coming in his shitty takes on stuff Lorewise. His concept of everything regressing during and after 3015 is complete horseshit, compounded by the fact he used the Timber Wolf as a defense to the reason why technology is old based on the fucking cockpit.


I'm honestly questioning if this man is truly a fan of the series.

Faggotfist has always been a broken clock and it's a miracle he says anything remotely intelligent ever, but I do think he BELIEVES he's a diehard Battletech fan.

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

Ah yes, Three Points of Pride. A surprisingly lighthearted tale during the Clan invasion.

As bad as the Jihad got, it seems to have missed Sheliak, thankfully. I imagine it would've become a sibko training world for the Dominion, and -- of course -- plenty of football and other sports.

 

[Gezkill]

Is it me or am I the only idiot who can't get out of a MW5 mission without losing valuable and expansive weapons.

 

[Corn Flakes]

Is it me or am I the only idiot who can't get out of a MW5 mission without losing valuable and expansive weapons.

If it's on your own 'mech, that's probably you. If you're giving valuable and expensive weapons to the AI, it's the AI. Your buddies are really bad at self-preservation.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

I just bought the damn thing off Amazon. Needed some light reading material, anyway. So, here's the summary:

The Sheliak team got completely trounced by the Elementals. Concussions galore, but no illegal plays. Fun fact, the Ghost Bears brought in a mixed team: basically any Bear Elemental in the unit who wanted to play got to play, and one of their female players had an almost completely unopposed twenty-seven yard run (the Shekliakians only knew she was a woman once she removed her helmet). Meanwhile, the locals were going through players like a frat party goes through solo cups. In the end, they manage a play exploiting the Bears' excessive reliance on size and lack of tactical foresight that gets them close enough to attempt a field goal, the furthest they've ever got the entire game. The protagonist gets tackled by a Ghost Bear right at the end of the play with only seconds left on the clock and... okay, I'm just going to quote this one:

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Cute little story, I liked it.

So, did this come out after Space Jam? Cause it would be a rather great parody.

 

[White Devil]

Is it me or am I the only idiot who can't get out of a MW5 mission without losing valuable and expansive weapons.

Your AI lance mates are literally useless. Try playing with friends. And the AI is coded to suicide rush you in some situations.

 

[Gezkill]

Your AI lance mates are literally useless. Try playing with friends. And the AI is coded to suicide rush you in some situations.

Ironicaly its not my AI lancemates that are losing shit its me.

I honestly feel like even the Assault Mechs have paper thin armor. Specially late game.

 

[White Devil]

Ironicaly its not my AI lancemates that are losing shit its me.

I honestly feel like even the Assault Mechs have paper thin armor. Specially late game.

It's you because they don't engage. If you play with other people, you will see a huge difference. Some missions have your Lance going against a reinforced company, 18 mechs. With just AI, that's literally just you vs 18 mechs and their combined arms.

 

[Corn Flakes]

Ironicaly its not my AI lancemates that are losing shit its me.

I honestly feel like even the Assault Mechs have paper thin armor. Specially late game.

Question: when you max out the armor on your 'mechs, are you balancing out the rear and front armor on the torso locations? I found that MW5 really likes to split the armor half-and-half, and I have to manually pull a lot of that armor to the front of the 'mech. I forgot about it the first time I took an Atlas out for a spin, and so I was going around with less armor on my CT than a Dragon.

So, did this come out after Space Jam? Cause it would be a rather great parody.

2009. Way after Space Jam, and still way better than the new one.

 

[Tenko Star]

Cute little story, I liked it.

I'm still salty Battlecorps folded. The short stories were much more fun than the Dark Age novels, especially the idiotic early ones and every last single thing by Ilsa Bick. I want more fire-breathing dinosaurs and civil wars on some backwater Lyran planet, not people invading Terra with a single battalion and everyone treating it was like a big deal. At least the Chaos Irregulars got a thematically appropriate end in FM3085.

 

[Gezkill]

Question: when you max out the armor on your 'mechs, are you balancing out the rear and front armor on the torso locations? I found that MW5 really likes to split the armor half-and-half, and I have to manually pull a lot of that armor to the front of the 'mech. I forgot about it the first time I took an Atlas out for a spin, and so I was going around with less armor on my CT than a Dragon.


2009. Way after Space Jam, and still way better than the new one.

I actually didn't know that, I thought maxing armor would have focused on the frontal armor over the back. Gotta change that.


Wonder if it does the same thing in Battletech HBS.

 

[StevieLasVegas]

I actually didn't know that, I thought maxing armor would have focused on the frontal armor over the back. Gotta change that.


Wonder if it does the same thing in Battletech HBS.

Could have sworn it tries to balance it out as best it can, but will prioritize the front armor. Most times for me, I noticed it has a habit to skimp on the leg armor compared to the rest of the mech.

 

[Gezkill]

Could have sworn it tries to balance it out as best it can, but will prioritize the front armor. Most times for me, I noticed it has a habit to skimp on the leg armor compared to the rest of the mech.

Yeah it does when you strip your mech of armor then hit maximize armor it balances it 50/50. I went and made it 75/25 and played a mission I was having a problem with.


Went from losing some good shit to oh my armor got peeled off.


Fricken night and day difference.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

Pretty neat guide to make the Kell-Hound (well, literally any red/black) camo:

Looks good and seems like it's fairly fast. I really need to check out contrast paints.