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[Alex Wolfe]

Ranger207, on 28 August 2012 - 06:16 AM, said:

According to this link (http://www.scrapyard...***-2012-day-2/) Catalyst Game Labs will be doing the Dark Age for most, if not all, of next year. The Dark Age is canon, just not that well thought out.

Gotta love the Dark Age, Star Wars Holiday Special of Battletech.

What's surprising is the willingness to continue something so widely reviled rather than take it behind the retcon-shed already.

Edited by Alex Wolfe, 28 August 2012 - 06:45 AM.

[Buda]

Have you guys considered that the only engine that can make the Omega move is a 300-rated one? With only 2/3 movement? That sucks! (Unless they have considered a 450 or 600-rated engines)

[Ranger207]

Alex Wolfe, on 28 August 2012 - 06:44 AM, said:

What's surprising is the willingness to continue something so widely reviled rather than take it behind the retcon-shed already.

What they're going to do, IMO, is basicly make sure everything fits in correctly.

Buda, on 28 August 2012 - 07:02 AM, said:

Have you guys considered that the only engine that can make the Omega move is a 300-rated one? With only 2/3 movement? That sucks! (Unless they have considered a 450 or 600-rated engines)

Yeah, TacOps has rules for "Large Engines" rated 405+, all the way up to 500.

[BlackAce]

I trust Herb Beas and Ben Rome to make a good job of the Dark Age. They handled the JH brilliantly given the pretty awful mish-mash WizKids left them. If only Roc hadn't dropped classic era novels.

[Grendel408]

Cobweb, on 21 June 2012 - 07:25 AM, said:

Eww, not a true battle mech, 3 legs,more than one pilot, it's a train wreck, and outside of clix garbage it's not cannon (yet).

This, however is cannon(s): see what I did there!?

150 ton super heavy mech
3 gauss rifles
2 LB AC-10s
http://mecha-master....Omega-277461743

Omega Super Heavy BattleMech

LOL! Guess what dude... that's not "canon" yet either... it was produced in limited quantities during the ending years of the Word of Blake *****... The Colossal Class was a Dark Age 'Mech, yes... but technically, neither exist yet... see what I did there?

[Society]

Odweaver, on 21 June 2012 - 07:37 AM, said:

Imagine the possibilities with including it, each player gets randomly assigned a leg and a gun!

MWO: QWOP

[Evinthal]

Grendel408, on 28 August 2012 - 09:33 AM, said:

LOL! Guess what dude... that's not "canon" yet either... it was produced in limited quantities during the ending years of the Word of Blake *****... The Colossal Class was a Dark Age 'Mech, yes... but technically, neither exist yet... see what I did there?

Actually, it IS canon. The Omega appears in a canon PUBLISHED [*****: Final Reckoning, which was published in 2011, so it has been out a year now...] book from Catalyst Game Labs, it has a canon record sheet, and it even has a canon pewter miniature produced by iron wind metals for said canon book and canon record sheet.

So quit saying it is not canon, when it has all the requirements to being canon. Just because you say it isn't does not change the fact that it is.

As to the Aeries, they are that grey area canon. They have a record sheet, but they haven't been covered in an official publication/tech read out. They might be touched upon more next year when catalyst continues the battletech timeline after the Dark Ages.

Really, ji-had is censored? What the ****. I guess too many whiny people complained about seeing that HORRIBLE AWFUL WORD! OH GOD MY EYES!@

Edited by Evinthal, 28 August 2012 - 10:00 AM.

[Grendel408]

Vhyle, on 28 August 2012 - 01:24 AM, said:

I think the Behemoth (Stone Rhino) is the best looking 100t mech ever made. I don't really think we need to discuss anything in the Dark Age, because it's not cannon.

Oh... it's canon... there's just some things not fully supported by Classic BattleTech... otherwise... consider it canon and the eventual future of MWO years down the line. MWDA later got labeled MW Age of Destruction.

[wanderer]

Society, on 28 August 2012 - 09:42 AM, said:

MWO: QWOP

This is probably the best description of the Ares series, ever.

Thankfully, we will never see those monstrosities in MWO- heck, it's gonna be tough doing quads, much less Martian war machine wannabes.

[Grendel408]

Evinthal, on 28 August 2012 - 09:51 AM, said:

Actually, it IS canon. The Omega appears in a canon PUBLISHED [*****: Final Reckoning, which was published in 2011, so it has been out a year now...] book from Catalyst Game Labs, it has a canon record sheet, and it even has a canon pewter miniature produced by iron wind metals for said canon book and canon record sheet.

So quit saying it is not canon, when it has all the requirements to being canon. Just because you say it isn't does not change the fact that it is.

It's not "canon" (yet) as you said back on page 1 regarding the Ares No need to raise your blood pressure dude
(see what I did there)

[Evinthal]

Grendel408, on 28 August 2012 - 10:02 AM, said:

It's not "canon" (yet) as you said back on page 1 regarding the Ares No need to raise your blood pressure dude
(see what I did there)

Seeing as how I didn't say anything at all back on page one about the Aeries, and my last post was my first in this thread...no, I don't see what you did there.

Also my blood pressure is fine, but thank you for trying to be concerned.

[Grendel408]

There I go not paying attention to names... lol

[Argost]

okay I know this is off topic, but after seeing people post Unicron and 40k titans in this thread I just cant help myself. How about a mech on the scale of a galaxy. http://t1.gstatic.co...DkMB4jpoVpw&t=1

[CGB Kilbourne]

Before all this "Super Heavy" nonsense.

The Stone Rhino was considered the largest 'Mech, however, I believe I read that the Executioner was the tallest.

[Edom]

Argost, on 28 August 2012 - 06:46 PM, said:

okay I know this is off topic, but after seeing people post Unicron and 40k titans in this thread I just cant help myself. How about a mech on the scale of a galaxy. http://t1.gstatic.co...DkMB4jpoVpw&t=1

Keep in mind that it's not just a mech on the scale of a galaxy, but rather the biggest galaxy.

And the Chou TTGL was twenty times larger than that. So that'd actually be the biggest, if we classified it as a mech.

[Oppresor]

OMG so there were some designs bigger and more powerful than the Omega! After seeing the Omega I instantly knew this was the unit for me; I figure I'm not the only one either. There is something about the thought of being able to tear a light unit apart with one Alpha Strike.

[TVMA Doc]

Akaryu, on 26 August 2012 - 05:25 PM, said:

you wont say that when you see its top speed and loadout im a dedicated light mech pilot and even i think its firepower is pathetic.

That and the fact that it's so tall that it can be cockpit sniped by the other team from the drop site as soon as the countdown timer hits zero.

[Solis Obscuri]

[Vahnn]

I see this way too often in these forums...

canon
cannon

Know the difference!

[TungstenWall]

The biggest mech I know of that is mass produced (not a one of a kind) is a Elephander.

180 tons