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[Alcom Isst]

A facetious question. What if every mech was able to equip jumpjets?

[FupDup]

Suddenly, flying Stalkers.

Flying Stalkers everywhere.

[Mechteric]

Just not necessary nor wanted.

[Conductor Rarity]

FupDup, on 08 June 2014 - 01:14 PM, said:

Suddenly, flying Stalkers.

Flying Stalkers everywhere.

Because they need to look more like the hindenburg when I kill one

[FupDup]

Rarity HD, on 08 June 2014 - 01:17 PM, said:

Because they need to look more like the hindenburg when I kill one

[cSand]

FupDup, on 08 June 2014 - 01:18 PM, said:

Great pic, lol

[Pappus]

flying ecm atlas

[Racklesnack]

(from a different thread about a jetpack module)

[Aym]

I would equip them on my Atlai for sure.

[Vassago Rain]

FupDup, on 08 June 2014 - 01:18 PM, said:

My little goldforum can't be this into reposting /mwog/ OPs.

[Khobai]

thats the power of german engineering

[MonkeyCheese]

Mr Titan, on 08 June 2014 - 01:25 PM, said:

(from a different thread about a jetpack module)

[Mavairo]

Jump Jet Equipped Atlas.

[MonkeyDCecil]

If we could put JJs on any mech. All my mechs would have JJs.

[Triordinant]

According to BattleTech rules, ALL 'mechs can equip jump jets. MWO is not BattleTech, so it doesn't matter.

[FupDup]

Triordinant, on 08 June 2014 - 02:26 PM, said:

According to BattleTech rules, ALL 'mechs can equip jump jets. MWO is not BattleTech, so it doesn't matter.

If this game used the all-out TT construction rules, every single person with a modicum of experience would put ECM and JJs on everything.

[Triordinant]

FupDup, on 08 June 2014 - 02:29 PM, said:

If this game used the all-out TT construction rules, every single person with a modicum of experience would put ECM and JJs on everything.

That's true because our Jump Jets and ECM are not BattleTech either (you can't fire in mid-jump and ECM only blocks Artemis, Narc and C3). Of course, our LRMs aren't BattleTech LRMs either... You get the picture.

[Kassatsu]

Triordinant, on 08 June 2014 - 02:26 PM, said:

According to BattleTech rules, ALL 'mechs can equip jump jets. MWO is not BattleTech, so it doesn't matter.

But... But...

[Levi Porphyrogenitus]

Triordinant, on 08 June 2014 - 02:36 PM, said:

That's true because our Jump Jets and ECM are not BattleTech either (you can't fire in mid-jump and ECM only blocks Artemis, Narc and C3). Of course, our LRMs aren't BattleTech LRMs either... You get the picture.

That whole bit about not being able to fire in the air is a misapprehension based on the rules abstractions of the 10s TT turn.

In the fiction, including the arch-canon TROs and certainly in the novels, firing while jumping was a very common practice, though hard to do successfully due to the intense disruption to the mech's stability while popping its jets. The DFA (Death From Above, or for Highlander drivers the Highlander Burial) involved jumping into the air, firing all your weapons down at someone, and then landing on him. Note that bit about firing while in the air prior to the landing. If that's not firing during a jump, then I don't know what is.

[Vassago Rain]

Kassatsu, on 08 June 2014 - 02:45 PM, said:

But... But...

Position at the time.