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[Fetladral]

Odd it works when I click on it. Did you click on the only selection there is for Skjaldborg and then hit Start Application?

And yes we are still recruiting. I believe we are working up to regiment strength or 6ish companies worth around 72 people.

(note I may be wrong with my math I havnt looked at the numbers in awhile nor commited them to memory)

Edited by Fetladral, 11 May 2012 - 04:36 PM.

[Damon Howe]

Titus Aelius Casca, on 11 May 2012 - 01:53 PM, said:

I must say, I'm disapointed in my fellow citizens. We may have fought against the Combine before our independence, but House Kurita ceded us a great manoy of our current worlds (not incidentely forcing the Lyrans to do the same), and then fought to protect us in the Ronin Wars. It's fair to say that our independence has been preserved not once but twice by House Kurita's actions.

Now I'm not going to pretend that their decisions were anything short of purest realpolitik. But to call them the enemies of the Republic is simply slander. I've no particular love for the Draconis Combine, but surely we should bear no grudge against them. And as for any claims that this could strengthen our position vis-a-vis the inevitable Clan invasion, let me ask you a question: who will we have to ask for help when the Clans are overrunning our Coremost worlds and gunning for Rausalhaugue itself? When the Republic's safety itself is threatened, I'd feel better if we'd declined from provoking our pwerful neighbors.

After all, there are periphery states aplenty to whet our blades against. Surely they offer a better prize than a long war against our closest neighbor? And, of course, there are the Lyrans to consider. I'm sure they'd like nothing better than to see their smaller neighbors fight amonst themselves. Now, I've no grudge against the Lyrans, the Federated Suns, or any other part of the Federated Commonwealth. But they're the largest power in the galaxy (albeit disunited), and we'd do better not to play into their hands.

Call me crazy. Anyway, forward the Republic!

Simple Answer:

Davion has agreed: Race to Luthein it is.
Clan invasion....what clan invasion? They'll be forced to go AROUND the Rasalhague, because we won't be giving up a single world.
And finally, in three years (3052) 99% of the Inner Sphere will belong to Rasalhague anyways....

...so I say again....where's there a need to make friends?

[Jack Gallows]

Watchit, on 11 May 2012 - 01:52 PM, said:

You can never be too careful with your mead around these folks

Well, for me it's a non issue because I don't drink, so they can have my mead any day anyway

[Suicidal Idiot]

Fetladral, on 11 May 2012 - 04:35 PM, said:

Odd it works when I click on it. Did you click on the only selection there is for Skjaldborg and then hit Start Application?

And yes we are still recruiting. I believe we are working up to regiment strength or 6ish companies worth around 72 people.

(note I may be wrong with my math I havnt looked at the numbers in awhile nor commited them to memory)

I'm very glad to hear you're still recruiting. Unfortunately, when I click the link, if I'm logged in I get:

Spoiler

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vBulletin Message
Suicidal *****, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:
1.Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
2.If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

If I'm NOT logged in, I get:

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vBulletin Message

You are not logged in or you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

1.You are not logged in. Fill in the form at the bottom of this page and try again.
2.You may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
3.If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

Earlier, when I tried to apply, I found that the drop down box labeled "Application Forms" doesn't do any dropping down. Looking at the Javascript on the page, there don't seem to be any targets to be dropping down. Same in IE, Firefox and Chrome.

All of the above caused me to think earlier that you'd stopped recruiting, and just nailed shut the application box.
personal stuff:

Spoiler

I thought about PM'ing Dihm, but figured pestering him wouldn't do me any good later when the inevitable vacancies will need filling.

Too bad. I played lots of TT and MW2, but 3 just didn't do it for me. Later on, I encountered MechAssault, and gave up on MechWarrior forever. At least until the MW5 teaser video showed up on YouTube one day.

From what I'd read in the books (little) the only unit I figured I could really join heart and soul would be Wolf's Dragoons. Although I admire bushido training and discipline, suicide to expatriate the sins of another is just wrong, wrong, wrong. And Liao turns my stomach.

I chose the Free Rasalhauge affiliation before I'd even heard of the Skjaldborg. Fighting Kurita sees like it would be fun, and looting their well supplied troops should make it even better.

If we can overcome the tech difficulties, I forsee many nights of mead and blasting. (I played viking in the SCA)

Edited by Suicidal Idiot, 11 May 2012 - 05:16 PM.

[Suicidal Idiot]

Well, some small good news. Somebody else was able to apply today, so the problem has to be with me or my system somewhere.

Excellent, because I can do something about my probs.

[Titus Aelius Casca]

Damon Howe, on 11 May 2012 - 04:42 PM, said:

Simple Answer:

Davion has agreed: Race to Luthein it is.
Clan invasion....what clan invasion? They'll be forced to go AROUND the Rasalhague, because we won't be giving up a single world.
And finally, in three years (3052) 99% of the Inner Sphere will belong to Rasalhague anyways....

...so I say again....where's there a need to make friends?

...tea parties? Er...mead parties, I suppose. Meh, I suppose it's all about shooting at each other in giant robots anyway.

But I'm here to fight the clans and hold back the tide of history. Glad to see we've got enthusiasm on board! Looking forward to hunting Clanners with y'all.

Edited by Titus Aelius Casca, 11 May 2012 - 09:16 PM.

[Suicidal Idiot]

Got the problems solved, though it took hours of hair pulling. Either having a profile, but not yet returning the email confirmation left me in limbo, ... Or the note to the webmaster caused something to get fixed on the back end.

Thanks guys.

[ScrewCityChris]

A bit of column A a bit if column B. The email was the key to the puzzle

[Fetladral]

Suicidal *****, on 11 May 2012 - 11:06 PM, said:

Got the problems solved, though it took hours of hair pulling. Either having a profile, but not yet returning the email confirmation left me in limbo, ... Or the note to the webmaster caused something to get fixed on the back end.

Thanks guys.

That's great!

I read the KungsArme description again and I realized just how awesome it is. They have Lyran specific equipment, Combine specific equipment AND Comstar equipment and mechs. What other military has that kind of access?

[Andrew Start]

I Actually find FRR An amazing faction of which I truly respect. I wish the FFR liked Mercs more. Steiner is a "butter" producing state (for the most part ) and mercanaries provide the perfect standing army that is not constantly finaced by taxpayers. A truly perfect proposition, specificly for a growing state such as FRR. As a citizen of The Lyran state I would be pleased to help you regain teritory from the clans and House Kurita.

I know you can crush the Dragons head!

[Sporkosophy]

The Clans don't have that territory. Yet.

[Fetladral]

Sporkosophy, on 12 May 2012 - 10:02 AM, said:

The Clans don't have that territory. Yet.

What do you mean 'yet'. The clans only take it because it would be too unfair if we fought them from the get go. We LET them have it.

[Sporkosophy]

To be fair, I said nothing of fighting them, merely that they aren't in the game yet. Enjoy those CERPPC's to the face.

[Fetladral]

Sporkosophy, on 12 May 2012 - 12:07 PM, said:

To be fair, I said nothing of fighting them, merely that they aren't in the game yet. Enjoy those CERPPC's to the face.

Well no players will be able to fight or join the clans there is only the 'Borg. Resistance is futile.

On another note Welcome to our newest member Suicidal Id iot!

oddly the second part of your name is censored so I'm amazed the name even got by.

Edited by Fetladral, 12 May 2012 - 12:12 PM.

[Watchit]

Fetladral, on 12 May 2012 - 12:11 PM, said:

Well no players will be able to fight or join the clans there is only the 'Borg. Resistance is futile.

On another note Welcome to our newest member Suicidal Id iot!

oddly the second part of your name is censored so I'm amazed the name even got by.

Haha! that's pretty funny Suicidal *****

[Damon Howe]

What, we fell past the first page? Unacceptable.

Still recruiting people! Sign up now, as our slots fill up fast!

[ScrewCityChris]

Gasp, we fell off of the first page?!? How could we let that happen?

On a side note water is wet

[Dihm]

Welcome to our newest recruits, Suicidal ***** and Jotnara! Congratulations to our new Korprals, David RavenWater and Tearlum!

Titus Aelius Casca, on 11 May 2012 - 01:53 PM, said:

I must say, I'm disapointed in my fellow citizens. We may have fought against the Combine before our independence, but House Kurita ceded us a great manoy of our current worlds (not incidentely forcing the Lyrans to do the same), and then fought to protect us in the Ronin Wars. It's fair to say that our independence has been preserved not once but twice by House Kurita's actions.

Now I'm not going to pretend that their decisions were anything short of purest realpolitik. But to call them the enemies of the Republic is simply slander. I've no particular love for the Draconis Combine, but surely we should bear no grudge against them. And as for any claims that this could strengthen our position vis-a-vis the inevitable Clan invasion, let me ask you a question: who will we have to ask for help when the Clans are overrunning our Coremost worlds and gunning for Rausalhaugue itself? When the Republic's safety itself is threatened, I'd feel better if we'd declined from provoking our pwerful neighbors.

After all, there are periphery states aplenty to whet our blades against. Surely they offer a better prize than a long war against our closest neighbor? And, of course, there are the Lyrans to consider. I'm sure they'd like nothing better than to see their smaller neighbors fight amonst themselves. Now, I've no grudge against the Lyrans, the Federated Suns, or any other part of the Federated Commonwealth. But they're the largest power in the galaxy (albeit disunited), and we'd do better not to play into their hands.

Call me crazy. Anyway, forward the Republic!

Now, let me just address this. Based on the RP unit history we fleshed out, the proto-Skjaldborg was formed in '27 as a part of the Tyr Resistance Movement. In '29 it became an official merc unit, after its members were able to escape and receive support from the Lyrans. It was founded by people who had faced generations of oppression by the Combine, and its main founder (as well as other members) were brutally tortured and executed by Combine officials.

Despite Theodore Kurita's seemingly beneficial actions (that we know were really done to benefit the Combine) on the behalf of the Free Rasalhague Republic, emotion will never be divorced from this units relations with House Kurita. They have many centuries to atone for.

Edited by Dihm, 14 May 2012 - 05:56 AM.

[00dlez]

^ This, forever and always

[Solis Obscuri]

Dihm, on 11 May 2012 - 05:04 AM, said:

I have a feeling they won't go with the side torso XL engine death, they said you have to take out the head, both legs, or the CT to get a kill somewhere.

It'd better be destructible. Most MW games have been way too easy on XL engines.

ScrewCityChris, on 11 May 2012 - 09:08 AM, said:

Im going to hang out in this thread for a while. I just went into general and need to be consoled.

Why what happened?

00dlez, on 11 May 2012 - 02:51 PM, said:

This is quite true. We have people who don't work until the afternoons USA time that are on in the mornings, GMT/Euro players in the afternoons, Nighttime USA folks who are on sometimes until 3, 4 or even 5 AM Eastern duking it out with the $&@^($# clanners on MegaMek!

Fricking canisters keep crashing the game, too...