199 replies to this topic

[IllCaesar]

I might have to get my first Hero mech. That thing is a beauty.

[New Breed]

Good job on the model

[Carrioncrows]

The original plan for this mech was to have x3 missile hardpoints.....

I think we need the original plan back.

[Bors Mistral]

If instead of Jones it would list my username, I'd buy it right away.

Nice looking mech, but a darn shame that the max engine size is 250. Bit on the slow side for my taste.

[braveheart95]

StillRadioactive, on 19 August 2014 - 02:29 PM, said:

This 'mech is DOA, plain and simple. Here are my stats, as compared to the Blackjacks (same tonnage) and Griffins (similar hardpoints). There's obviously a problem here.

I don't think the mech is the problem....http://www.screencas...m/t/qsfMywawRkw

Edited by braveheart95, 19 August 2014 - 06:47 PM.

[Khan Hallis]

OMG! They actually released a REAL cannon hero (again...FINALLY) 'Mech!!! HOLY MACKEREL!

About ______ time!

[Koniving]

Khan Hallis, on 19 August 2014 - 06:59 PM, said:

OMG! They actually released a REAL cannon hero (again...FINALLY) 'Mech!!! HOLY MACKEREL!

About ______ time!

The last one (the Battlemaster) was also a canon hero.

And the Boar's Head.

[SgtMagor]

couple of things, haven't done that well with the Vindi,. put a 220XL and a 1X skill for hard brake and kinetic Burst, it still moves like an assault. reticle floats around when your torso twisting very fast, guess with the weapons mounted all over the mech its very difficult to get your weapons to converge. about the only real complaint I have about the mech even though I was 1-8 won loss is that it seems way to sluggish for a medium mech (pretty baby ring a bell).

[CdtWeasel]

It's a bit clean, but I'm sure Jake and Elwood approve.
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Edited by CdtWeasel, 19 August 2014 - 08:19 PM.

[Koniving]

SgtMagor, on 19 August 2014 - 07:51 PM, said:

1X skill for hard brake and kinetic Burst, it still moves like an assault.

You're only stopping 20% faster and accelerating 22.5% faster than an Assault that typically has 50% faster braking and 55% faster acceleration.
Welcome to the fast lane.

Imagine how much more the mechs would feel like mechs if those were only 2.5% bonuses with 0.5% extra once you got elites?

[Khan Hallis]

Koniving, on 19 August 2014 - 07:27 PM, said:

The last one (the Battlemaster) was also a canon hero.

And the Boar's Head.

Ok I'll give you that the Hellfire was cannon, but the Boar's Head is not.

[Koniving]

Khan Hallis, on 19 August 2014 - 08:48 PM, said:

Ok I'll give you that the Hellfire was cannon, but the Boar's Head is not.

"AS7-D Atlas Danielle

Piloted by Wolf's Dragoons Captain Danielle Rondema, this modified Atlas carried three medium lasers in each arm, trading away the SRM rack to do so. The additional heat was dissipated by two additional heat sinks that replaced the rear-firing medium lasers."

Atlas D default is:
AC/20 + 2 Arm lasers + 2 rear firing lasers + LRM-20 + SRM-6.

It was made with the idea of being able to recreate it in mind, based on someone suggesting it.
Paintjob isn't canon nor is the actual weapons, but the hardpoint arrangement is.

Here is Danielle Rondema's build, which the Boar's Head was based on but modified because, well, PGI.

Edited by Koniving, 19 August 2014 - 08:58 PM.

[Malcolm Reynolds]

I WANNA CRY!!!! I have been wanting a police mech. Made my commando look like one. in the pimp my mech forum I posted to have a police mech. Now though I get a medium that's slower less armed less armored then other mediums out there (Kintaro and shadow Hawk (which also jumps)) AND WORSE IS I DONT EVEN GET A GUN!!! no ballistics for a cop mech. so now shotgun, mg, or 6 shooter for it. to make it worse I get a twenty tube and a ten tube but if I put a 20 tube on that's 10 of my 45 measly tons. this is killing me..... AND WHO IS JONES! sure is not me. and a bugle fantastic. THIS MECH IS A JOKE!!!! not a light hunter, not a scout, not a missle boat, not a snipper not a brawler so what is it.....a joke.

Edited by Kitsune Kaji, 19 August 2014 - 08:57 PM.

[Koniving]

Oh btw.
I saw a Vindicator in the field.
Here it is facing a Timber Wolf.

[Keira RAVEN McKenna]

Reminds me of Barricade

[Star Colonel Silver Surat]

Khan Hallis, on 19 August 2014 - 08:48 PM, said:

Ok I'll give you that the Hellfire was cannon, but the Boar's Head is not.

The name Boar's Head is cannon, right out of the very first Technical Readout book ever published (3025):

"Mechwarrior Rodney Van Kleven

A member of the elite 6th Syrtis Fusiliers, Rodney Van Kleven is an aristocrat with the instincts of a democrat. Extremely personable, he is well-liked by everyone from fellow MechWarriors to the lowliest ship's cook.

On the battlefield, Van Kleven uses his Atlas, which he calls the Boar's Head, like a 100-ton scout. He stomps all over the field, creating general terror in the enemy lines and almost always overheating his 'Mech. He has won several land grants, but quickly loses the tittles when his 'Mech overheats and shuts down on the battlefield"

A hero atlas with more energy hardpoints than any other seems to fit that description pretty well.

Edited by Star Colonel Silver Surat, 19 August 2014 - 09:43 PM.

[CranstonSnord]

I think this has got to be my favorite paint scheme so far. Nice work!

[Ren Kurogane]

Just a suggestion....can you make it so that we can change the -Jones- on it's right torso with our own nickname?

Edited by Discarius, 19 August 2014 - 11:02 PM.

[Lily from animove]

Reno Blade, on 19 August 2014 - 11:12 AM, said:

I promised some screens. Hope these are OK.
Most of them are used with stock build and stock camo.
Some with black/grey using 2PPCs and some with white camo using LRM15/10 to show the tubes.


white camo and LRM15/10

Spoiler

dat storm trooper ^^

The mech is really nice, only strange thing is the alignment of the lower 2 Missile tubes of the upper missile hardpoint.

[David Makurai]

Where is my silver trumpet on the chest