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[Amarus Cameron]

Dihm, on 23 November 2011 - 08:18 AM, said:

Can I be the one flying the Shilone shortly after you guys show up?

As long as IlKhan Leo Showers is not on the bridge you can destroy Wolves to your hearts content!

Mr. Freeze, on 23 November 2011 - 06:48 AM, said:

wait guys
guys
hold on guys
guys what happens to us when canon clan smoke jaguar gets annihilated in-game

Also seconding Maus' comment, LOL it will never come to pass

[Alizabeth Aijou]

Dihm, on 23 November 2011 - 08:18 AM, said:

Can I be the one flying the Shilone shortly after you guys show up?

No, you are not allowed to pretend that you are Tyra.

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Also seconding Maus' comment, LOL it will never come to pass

Would be an awesome way to ruin an MMO and upset the fanbase, though.

[Amarus Cameron]

Alizabeth Aijou, on 23 November 2011 - 10:04 AM, said:

No, you are not allowed to pretend that you are Tyra.

Would be an awesome way to ruin an MMO and upset the fanbase, though.

It would also break any sense of player progression if CSJ has captured most of the DC and then all of a sudden it just disappears in 3060...sorry if that happened I would be out. Though I doubt this game will go on for 10 years. It would need a new engine and a graphical update.

[Der BruzZzler von Wiesndoof]

More Smoke Jaguar stuff for Smoke Jaguar fans!

Today: ProtoMechs

ProtoMechs also were createt and designed by Clan Smoke Jaguar as a low-cost campaign.
A combination between Elemental Battle Armor and BattleMechs. Small, faster and more armored than Elementals and also cheap to produce. They're available from 2 up to 9 tons. Some of them look really strange. Like monsters, animals, dragons or gods.
Some examples:


Delphyne


Erinyes


Gorgon


Minotaur

There are two lines of ProtoMechs. The first and the second generation.
First generation:

Harpy (2 tons)
Siren (3 tons)
Satyr (4 tons)
Centaur (5 tons)
Hydra (6 tons)
Roc (7 tons)
Gorgon (8 tons)
Minotaur (9 tons)

Second generation:

Erinyes (2 tons)
Cecerops (3 tons)
Orc (4tons)
Procyon (5 tons)
Chrysaor (6 tons)
Basilisk (7 tons)
Triton (8 tons)
Delphyne (9 tons)

[Dihm]

Barf...

[Alizabeth Aijou]

Erinyes is a Clan Jade Turkey design, iirc.
Also, Third Generation ProtoMechs:
Satyr-XP (new art)
Procyon (Quad)
Svartalfa (Ultraheavy Glider)
Minotaur P2 (new art)
Basilisk (Quad)
Hobgoblin (Ultraheavy)
Boggart (Quad)
Sprite (Ultraheavy)

[Grayson Pryde]

I ever tried to ignore thse things. They look like japansese rip-offs.

[Dihm]

One of them is (Mecha)Gojira...

Edited by Dihm, 23 November 2011 - 07:05 PM.

[Sean Pryde]

They look like something from Warhammer 40k as well...


SHUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Der BruzZzler von Wiesndoof]

Dihm, on 23 November 2011 - 07:04 PM, said:

One of them is (Mecha)Gojira...

Let me guess. The Delphyne from the Blood Spirits and Fire Mandrills?



Yeah, this thing look really bizarre. No classic BT-style. I understand why most of the BT-fans dislike these things...

[Dihm]

The_Birdeater, on 24 November 2011 - 06:05 AM, said:

Let me guess. The Delphyne from the Blood Spirits and Fire Mandrills?



Yeah, this thing look really bizarre. No classic BT-style. I understand why most of the BT-fans dislike these things...

Yes, but most especially in the other picture, all it needs are a few buildings in the background that it is destroying too:


I think I prefer pretending these things don't exist.

[Grayson Pryde]

Same...ignore them and everything is fine. *closed*

[Amarus Cameron]

Protomechs were introduced when a writer did not consult the Battletech staff........thus...the cluster f***


they were like...*shrug shoulders* oh well, lets go with it...notice how much love it got, until cattytech that is

Edited by Amarus Cameron, 28 November 2011 - 08:19 AM.

[Marauder3D]

Amarus Cameron, on 28 November 2011 - 08:18 AM, said:

Protomechs were introduced when a writer did not consult the Battletech staff........thus...the cluster f***

I never knew that this is how they came to be. All I thought at the time was "how munchy" and that I would never use one or feel like playing in a game with one.

In my mind, they are kind of like the Jihad: bad ideas that were implemented, but thank heavens I can avoid them completely and just ignore them for practical purposes.

[Amarus Cameron]

Marauder3D, on 28 November 2011 - 08:30 AM, said:

I never knew that this is how they came to be. All I thought at the time was "how munchy" and that I would never use one or feel like playing in a game with one.

In my mind, they are kind of like the Jihad: bad ideas that were implemented, but thank heavens I can avoid them completely and just ignore them for practical purposes.

There are many things that happened like that...how do you think mechs going 'stackpole' happened

[CoffiNail]

How do you think it was that the Ghost Bear only had 4 legs instead of the 6 is should. Someone in the Mechwarrior companion iirc messed up the art thinking 'bear' alright i will draw a nasty looking bear... apparently he missed the memo the Ghost Bear had 6 legs... so sadly it is now canon that is has only 4 legs. Why do you think the Ghost Bear logo has 6 legs?

[Dihm]

I thought it was his frilly circus collar.

[Amarus Cameron]

Dihm, on 29 November 2011 - 05:06 AM, said:

I thought it was his frilly circus collar.

Neg in original lore the Ghost Bear has six legs...and just so you know Coffi. That is only cannon if you take newer stuff over older stuff. If anything conflicts I fall back to older stuff. In the Invading Clans Source book the Ghost bear has six legs in a story from what I remember, and even thought it is a story...that is in 1991 well before any muck up happened.

[CoffiNail]

Invading Clans is what i plan on getting for Xmas, if I do not i will be buying it with what ever xmas money i recieve. It was in one of the FASA printings that it claims to have 4 legs.

[Amarus Cameron]

CoffiNail, on 29 November 2011 - 12:14 PM, said:

Invading Clans is what i plan on getting for Xmas, if I do not i will be buying it with what ever xmas money i recieve. It was in one of the FASA printings that it claims to have 4 legs.

Well then that is a case of "oh **** I forgot that" that happened very often in FASA