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[dal10]

title pretty much explains itself. Post the mech you think looks the best out of every mech.

i will lead off with a gundam.

Argotera

[Karl Streiger]

oh that is hard: I can't decide:
both have features i like...or dislike -

70t fear and destruciton thx to its Defiance Anihilator Improved Heavy Gauss Rifle next to a C3 computer.... it should place fear into the heart of my enemys and it has the ability to do that - by look and ability.

The other is simple the alien like celestial series:

[Joseph Mallan]

I was always partial to this version of the Stalker!

[Karl Streiger]

Joseph Mallan, on 23 October 2013 - 06:08 AM, said:

I was always partial to this version of the Stalker!

hey the Japanese one? Was this ever official or only fan made?

[Alcom Isst]

Huron Warrior

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Or maybe I just have a thing for Matt Plog's artwork.

Edited by Alcom Isst, 23 October 2013 - 07:23 AM.

[CyclonerM]

Definitely not my favourite 'Mech . But i think this deserves a mention.

[Lukoi Banacek]

Still the "Ebon Jaguar." At work so no pic avail. Will fix later.

[Sadistic Savior]

I hate all these anime atrocities. Dark Age was the worst thing to ever happen to Battletech.

[Lord Ikka]

I actually like some of the Dark Age artwork, not all, but some. Like the updated Hatamoto-Chi, my favorite Mech, which actually looks pretty good.

[101011]

Personally, I love the look of the Bushwacker, or maybe the Summoner.

[dal10]

Sadistic Savior, on 23 October 2013 - 01:49 PM, said:

I hate all these anime atrocities. Dark Age was the worst thing to ever happen to Battletech.

so i guess you hate all the unseen as well? cause guess what? anime.

[Karl Streiger]

Sadistic Savior, on 23 October 2013 - 01:49 PM, said:

I hate all these anime atrocities. Dark Age was the worst thing to ever happen to Battletech.

Hate is the protection of the ignorant?!
Do you hate Dark Age because of the bad Clix system (that had some really interesting ideas) - or do you allready know the story line at its whole?

In my opinion the most interesting BT times - are before the 4th SuccessionWar or after the selfish end of the 2nd Star League

[dal10]

on a side note, i am trying to figure out how karl's two mechs are anime...

[Sadistic Savior]

dal10, on 23 October 2013 - 04:07 PM, said:

so i guess you hate all the unseen as well? cause guess what? anime.

Uh huh.



Doesn't look anime to me.

[Sadistic Savior]

Karl Streiger, on 24 October 2013 - 01:32 AM, said:

Hate is the protection of the ignorant?!
Do you hate Dark Age because of the bad Clix system (that had some really interesting ideas) - or do you allready know the story line at its whole?

In my opinion the most interesting BT times - are before the 4th SuccessionWar or after the selfish end of the 2nd Star League

I am familiar with dark age from Sarna. The Clix system was the part I hated the most and why I gave up on Battletech until MWO came along. It was also around that time that Battletech started becoming a lot more anime....I really dislike those cartoony designs a lot. The whole appeal of battletech to me was gritty realism. These are not exoskeletons or robots...they are vehicles. MWO despicts how they always SHOULD have been IMO. And it is gratifying to see Battletech return to it's roots. Better late than never.

As for lore, the best Lore IMO is 3049 to 3060 era. I read all the IS books in the pre-clan era...the Clan era books were far more interesting.

[Spokes]

I've always been partial to the picture on the back of the 2nd edition box set.



The Clan era may have made for more interesting novels, but I think the setting as a whole was more interesting pre-Clan invasion. My BattleTech time line ends in 3065.

[Graywar]

Sadistic Savior, on 24 October 2013 - 07:49 AM, said:

Uh huh.



Doesn't look anime to me.

What?! The Battlemaster is one of the most anime looking mechs, probably because the design WAS taken from an anime series called Dougram...
I think the Dark Age mechs look much less like "animes" than many of the classic ones.

I always thought the original Phoenix Hawk design was horrible, because it looked extremely "anime-ish", much more so than the other unseen, so much that it didn't really fit in.

I always liked the Rabid Coyote:

[dal10]

Sadistic Savior, on 24 October 2013 - 07:49 AM, said:

Uh huh.



Doesn't look anime to me.

http://en.wikipedia....the_Sun_Dougram

The battlemaster is from that series. nor is that what the battlemaster originally looked like.



original



Battletech.

[Spokes]

You're missing the point. I think in this case, the word "anime" is being used as a stand in for "cartoon". That first picture of the BattleMaster looks like it came out of a cartoon. The second one does not. Even though the Unseen were sourced from other places, in BattleTech they were generally presented with dings and dents and a "I walked through 500 kilometers of mud and ice to get here" look.

[Sadistic Savior]

dal10, on 24 October 2013 - 11:39 AM, said:

http://en.wikipedia....the_Sun_Dougram

The battlemaster is from that series. nor is that what the battlemaster originally looked like.



original



Battletech.

Yeah, that was my point. Battletech was NOT about anime mechs in the beginning. It took designs and made them gritty and realistic.

Dark age went the opposite direction, and it was awful. Thankfully, MWO looks to be going back to Battletech roots.

Graywar, on 24 October 2013 - 11:37 AM, said:

What?! The Battlemaster is one of the most anime looking mechs, probably because the design WAS taken from an anime series called Dougram...

The Battlemaster in Battletech source books does not look cartoony like the original Anime version. Which was my point.

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I think the Dark Age mechs look much less like "animes" than many of the classic ones.

The dark age artwork does not give me that impression. Just the opposite.