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[Xtrekker]

Wow, this is awesome. Just found the thread. Absolutely approve!

Falling through terrain was pretty common so I would definitely add that.

Better still, getting a kill while stuck in terrain.

A teammate and I were hiking the hill from the spaceport to UC on River City when I suddenly got stuck in the terrain. I turned and was facing the spaceport. My teamie got the idea to ram me out of the glitch. Result, we both got stuck, back to back. Funny thing, we couldn't do {Scrap} as the fighting was over in LC. A couple of times it boiled out into the water and I was able to get a few hits in. Teamie was facing behind me, so he couldn't see the fight. Once the other team wiped out our team, it was the two of us versus 7 of them, unable to move, back to back...and we won. I took most of them out because of my vantage point, then once they tried to get in behind me they figured out I had a teammate stuck to my back, lol. I think we ended at me with 5 kills and him with 2, the last kill being me taking out the guy running up the ramp to our base for a cap. Was a fun fight with lots of oohs, aahs, and holy *****.

Wish we had a medal for that!

[Kurkotain]

Great post, awesome.

Needs the medal for the breakdancing kintaro. CT blown up and they would go down dancing.

Those moves. lol

[Sir Roland MXIII]

Ah, the memories, they came flooding back like a rain of nightmarish LRMs in a terminal straight-down dive onto my head, and the laughter rolled through me like a Dragon with a football helmet... HILARIOUS! Love it. If anyone makes these that's great but whether or not they do I'm bookmarking this thread with the plans that if I ever put together a MW outfit, these will be the medals and ribbons I use. Thanks Alistair!

[Caswallon]

So not meaning to be either stupid of cheeky I can just grab the medals I have "qualified" for from the OP? Yes/no?

I had been wondering where some of these awesome ribbons I had been seeing in Sigs were coming from now I know....

[Kiiyor]

I added them all up, and were I to wear all those I qualify for...



Except I wouldn't be a brutal, murderous, deranged *********. Well, not a ********* at any rate.

[RotS Targe]

Took quite a bit of fiddling on paint, but, new sig

[Tynan]

This list is amazing. Thanks, Alistair!

[Zentraedi57]

This was brilliant! My hats of to you Sir!!

[Alistair Winter]

Sir Roland MXIII, on 09 October 2013 - 03:27 AM, said:

Ah, the memories, they came flooding back like a rain of nightmarish LRMs in a terminal straight-down dive onto my head, and the laughter rolled through me like a Dragon with a football helmet... HILARIOUS! Love it. If anyone makes these that's great but whether or not they do I'm bookmarking this thread with the plans that if I ever put together a MW outfit, these will be the medals and ribbons I use. Thanks Alistair!

I would really love to see that!

MnDragon, on 01 October 2013 - 02:10 PM, said:

Allistair, How did you design these? what program did you use...etc.

The clean-looking ones were made in Microsoft Paint. The fancy-looking ones were made with Microsoft PhotoDraw 2, which is an outdated, buggy piece of {Scrap} software for people who don't have the patience to learn, the money to buy, or the conscience to illegally download Adobe Photoshop. (And don't get me started on GIMP. It makes Linux look user friendly)

As for inspiration, I just had a quick browse on Wikipedia and got plenty of help from guys in this thread

Caswallon, on 10 October 2013 - 04:07 AM, said:

So not meaning to be either stupid of cheeky I can just grab the medals I have "qualified" for from the OP? Yes/no?
I had been wondering where some of these awesome ribbons I had been seeing in Sigs were coming from now I know....

Haha, yeah, you won't actually be awarded any medals like Luke Skywalker after blowing up the deathstar, I'm afraid. There's no ceremony. Just download the ones you like, copy-paste them in some kind of editing program and make yourself a signature.

Or just use one of the pictures in the first post as your signature.

[juxstapo]

All this time I was waiting for my Yavin temple ceremony... no wonder I don't have any yet.

[ArmandTulsen]

Amazing. I've got at least 70% of those medals.

[MustrumRidcully]

I have made good experience with Paint.NET, Alistair. If you get tired of PhotoDraw and regular Paint.

Edited by MustrumRidcully, 22 October 2013 - 02:00 AM.

[General Solo]

Still the best fun I've had in a while and I survived, gonna tell the grandkids one day about my adventures

[Alistair Winter]

MustrumRidcully, on 22 October 2013 - 02:00 AM, said:

I have made good experience with Paint.NET, Alistair. If you get tired of PhotoDraw and regular Paint.

Much appreciated. I'll check it out sometime.

[Proxzerk]

Just found this post today and it was funny to reminisce some of the events being rewarded.

Good stuff, Alistair!

[LiGhtningFF13]

Pretty nice idea man!

[MustrumRidcully]

I am getting the feel t his and the procastination thread could be merged... At least for me. I am procastinating to alter my signature to cover all the medals (at least the ones I think I qualify for..)

[Alistair Winter]

Marack Drock, on 29 October 2013 - 07:23 PM, said:

Nice medals Alistair. I will love to put them on my Mechwarrior Uniform that I am making.

I would love to see it

MustrumRidcully, on 29 October 2013 - 05:29 AM, said:

I am getting the feel t his and the procastination thread could be merged... At least for me. I am procastinating to alter my signature to cover all the medals (at least the ones I think I qualify for..)

Ah, I haven't seen that thread. Will have to search for it

[Red squirrel]

Order of the Splatcat
Thanks to splash damage, each missile did over 9000 damage.
Awarded to anyone who has been killed by a CPLT-A1 with 6 SRM6's in 3 salvos.

Do I also qualify if I was killed in one alpha?


Besides there should be a medal for the "Teleporting Knights of Knockdown".
Those guys that purposedly knocked themselves down at the beginning of a game to shift their hitbox into oblivion.
Remember, when you could hit that Jenner if you shot your lasers one to two mech sized in front of the actual mech?

Finally I recommend a medal if you won a game with more than 4 AfK mechs on your team.
(Remember the days of CB farming when half your team would run into out of bounds after the game started)

[Mordin Ashe]

This topic made me laugh. It also brought back so many memories and shows how long was the way to the current state. Even though I was ranting a lot about the ECMs (ECMpocalypse medal please, anyone who remembers the days after ECM was introduced knows what I mean) and other stuff, almost all those memories are good and can't but laugh now. I will wear those medals with pride ;-)