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[Mar Helmer]

Truck Thunders, on 30 May 2012 - 01:15 PM, said:

So you're in? Sweet. Just be sure to bring your entire Galaxy to the fight to watch. Oh, it'll be one-on-one, so be sure they leave their Mechs powered down at the drop site and come to the arena entirely unarmed.

You want my Galaxy unarmed? You truly insist on making your eventual treachery into a fair fight.

(OOC: Vodka, this is all in fun and the brow-beating is good for building friendships. I would be VERY surprised if I didn't team up with guys like you and Truck once the game actually hits to have some laughs and victories.)

Edited by Mar Helmer, 30 May 2012 - 08:20 PM.

[Xuvios]

my considerations at this point... are FRR or merc

steiner is well steiner, as is kurita, davion, and the other two that i never pay attention to

i'm awfully tempted to to FRR, but being merc may take me everywhere rather than just a few worlds...

[Ramien]

Mar Helmer, on 30 May 2012 - 12:20 PM, said:

Ha! I like you, Freebirth. You drink like a warrior. I accept your challenge and will add my bottle of Sudetenian brandy, gifted to me by my Khan. It will be a great battle.

All right, the duel begins at sundown and continues until one of us passes out, or the booze runs out, in which case the ancient custom known as "Beer Run" begins. Bring a fast 'Mech.

[Mar Helmer]

Ramien, on 30 May 2012 - 07:19 PM, said:

All right, the duel begins at sundown and continues until one of us passes out, or the booze runs out, in which case the ancient custom known as "Beer Run" begins. Bring a fast 'Mech.

I have access to a Jenner IIC. I will strip it and fit it with a Clan MASC and my share of the alcohol. This shall be a most pleasing competition!

[TWolfWD]

Mar Helmer, the invasion has not yet begun! We should not be leaking information to the freebirths, quiaff?

(OOC: Obviously the clans need a little some more representation in this thread )

Edited by TWolfWD, 31 May 2012 - 08:20 AM.

[Beazle]

Hagetaka, on 27 May 2012 - 01:00 PM, said:

I don't know how much leeway the devs will allow players to alter the continuing timeline but I'd love nothing better than to help shut down the Clan invasion. I hate Clan fanboys, I hated the idea and especially the tabletop advantages of the Clans ever since TRO3050 first came out. Nothing would make me happier than causing them to slam their keyboards in frustration.

FRR seems like a great way to do it

I had to give it some serious thought, but in the end i decided i hated Davion fan-bois more.

I do, however, feel where you are coming from.

[Kargush]

Grimm Wulf, on 30 May 2012 - 01:54 PM, said:

As it should be. It would be strange if you went FRR due to Swedes, rather then Norwegians.

Well, I could be doing it for payback for those years under Swedish rule.

That being said, Swedish rule was better than Danish rule.

[Titus Aelius Casca]

"Troll"? Hardly. That'd be most impertinent. "Meet with fire and steel and watch them crash like a tide of flesh and blood against the impenetrable bastion that is my determination"? Much more amenable.

Though upon reflection, those two may be somewhat similar. Potato potahto.

Edited by Titus Aelius Casca, 03 June 2012 - 02:53 PM.

[Kyone Akashi]

Numlock1776, on 28 May 2012 - 10:22 AM, said:

Or what if the FRR spanks the Draconis Combine so hard that the FRR should be invading Lutherin? Are the devs just going to say, "NOPE lol!"

So that is how you repay the Dragon's generosity!

On a more serious note, I do believe it needs to be taken into consideration that MWO will never, ever, have enough players as to simulate the entirety of the Inner Sphere's military forces, or even provide an adequate example. The FRR invading Luthien is about as realistic as Taiwan invading Russia. Regardless of how hard one would "spank", there are quite simply resource limits to keep in mind, even if they do not play a role for the scope of this game.

I for one appreciate an opportunity to "tip the scales" ... but this should never go beyond what seems reasonable. A faction having, say, a dozen good pilots more than another should not invalidate the number of entire regiments that would surely be dispatched to deal with the situation, yet cannot be depicted in the game itself. If MWO would allow for large scale battles with an accurate number of reinforcements (both players and AI-controlled) for either side, this would be different, but as it is we will only see a fraction of the war.

As such, I think the developers have found a good balance between the two extremes of "nothing changes" and "luck/skill overrides reason", by inventing a territory game that clearly shows victories and losses where individual players did manage to "tip the scales" without actually breaking the canon as a whole.

Just an opinion, of course. I will look forward to continuing the discussion on the battlefield.

[Soviet Alex]

"Who else is playing FRR solely to troll Clan fanboys?". No, but I wish I'd thought of it.

Edited by Soviet Alex, 05 June 2012 - 02:37 PM.

[Tovan Cassidine]

Hagetaka, on 27 May 2012 - 01:00 PM, said:

I don't know how much leeway the devs will allow players to alter the continuing timeline but I'd love nothing better than to help shut down the Clan invasion. I hate Clan fanboys, I hated the idea and especially the tabletop advantages of the Clans ever since TRO3050 first came out. Nothing would make me happier than causing them to slam their keyboards in frustration.

FRR seems like a great way to do it

I have always liked the idea of the FRR, partly because of my Norwegian ancestry, partly because the idea of royalty or corporate hegemony offends me, and partly because the men of the FRR were rebellious and did not like for anyone to try to control them. I have always rankled at the Clans, especially their built-in "superiority" to mere mortals from the Inner Sphere.

In my experience, Clan players tend to embody the worst in Mechwarrior players; bunch of nitwits. I love to tweak them. It would be great to thwart their advance into the Inner Sphere; let's rub their genetically-engineered noses in it. I hope the developers let the results of the battles stand, even if it changes "future history."

[Kargush]

On the note of possible targets, we've got two large Successor States next to us that we owe a lot. Like, say, the formation of the FRR. The only real option then would be to go toward the Periphery. Might even let us catch the Clans on the back foot and shut them down.

Or, considering that the Kuritans were the first to cough up worlds to form the FRR, we could go kick som Steiner-Davion arse. First one to Tharkad gets to pick a military district to call their own?

EDIT: Looking at the galaxy map now, and noting a few nice targets for expansion. Shame this part of the forums is freely accessible, or I could post some ideas.

Time to break out Sun Tzu, von Clausewitz and a few other choice books.

Edited by kargush, 05 June 2012 - 10:40 PM.

[Carl Wrede]

kargush, on 05 June 2012 - 10:37 PM, said:

On the note of possible targets, we've got two large Successor States next to us that we owe a lot. Like, say, the formation of the FRR. The only real option then would be to go toward the Periphery. Might even let us catch the Clans on the back foot and shut them down.

Or, considering that the Kuritans were the first to cough up worlds to form the FRR, we could go kick som Steiner-Davion arse. First one to Tharkad gets to pick a military district to call their own?

EDIT: Looking at the galaxy map now, and noting a few nice targets for expansion. Shame this part of the forums is freely accessible, or I could post some ideas.

Time to break out Sun Tzu, von Clausewitz and a few other choice books.

On the other hand it was Kurita that attacked the Principality of Rasalhague and has occupied and opressed us for hundreds of years.

Steiner actually helped us by forming the Tyr Assault Regiment with Rasalhague resistance fighters as its pilots and the Archon signed a treaty with Tyr resistance leaders on the intent of forming a free Rasalhague state before ComStar convinced Kurita to let go of our worlds.

[Kyone Akashi]

Would those Tyr resistance leaders be the same ones that were imprisoned by Steiner "peacekeepers" for protesting the arrival of Tamar nobles sent to take control of "liberated" Rasalhague worlds, by any chance? *smirks*

[Amarus Cameron]

Hagetaka, on 27 May 2012 - 01:00 PM, said:

I don't know how much leeway the devs will allow players to alter the continuing timeline but I'd love nothing better than to help shut down the Clan invasion. I hate Clan fanboys, I hated the idea and especially the tabletop advantages of the Clans ever since TRO3050 first came out. Nothing would make me happier than causing them to slam their keyboards in frustration.

FRR seems like a great way to do it

I am playing FRR to destroy Kurita and make CSJ's invasion that much smoother.

[Dataman]

I maybe a merc for the highest bidder, but I was born just to crush clanners. with or without their own tech

[Der Kopfsammler]

I wanted to start as a loner at first... but the FRR ideals and geo-culture origins are pulling me in more and more every time i learn new stuff about them. I never followed much BT universe story up close but im sure ill be feeling home in the FRR... Just for the facts that my gf is Finn and ive allways had a "thing" for nordic stuff and the scadinavian countries...

[bleeche]

Tovan Cassidine, on 05 June 2012 - 09:50 PM, said:

In my experience, Clan players tend to embody the worst in Mechwarrior players; bunch of nitwits. I love to tweak them. It would be great to thwart their advance into the Inner Sphere; let's rub their genetically-engineered noses in it. I hope the developers let the results of the battles stand, even if it changes "future history."

An alternate to an alternative universe
this is all blowing my mind.

I'm playing as FRR simply because of the situation it is in, seems to be the faction with the most happening.

[Moodysea]

Firsty Battletech and Mechwarrior are not real.

Secondly I never played the TT game, I played MWII about 18 years ago or whenever it came out and loved it.

I think the Clan Mechs look cool so I want to play in one. I also think the Atlas looks stupid and never ever played in one.

Does that make me EVIL...?

Not so sure as Mechwarrior is not real.

[StarSlayer40]

If I choose to play The Free Rasalhague Republic it will be because I like the faction, not because I wish to bite at the clans.