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[CDLord HHGD]

Escef, on 03 August 2015 - 05:18 AM, said:

The Griffins traditionally stand watch over the throne of the Lyran Commonwealth, on Tharkad.

[Escef]

martian, on 03 August 2015 - 06:03 AM, said:

Actually, that's not true.
BLR-2C can't be a Star League 'Mech, simply because when it was designed, the Star League was about one and half century dead by then. And nobody else in the Inner Sphere than ComStar had access to advanced electronics such as Beagle Active Probe (when BLR-2C entered service).

I believe Joseph is getting his text from an early printing of Technical Readout 3050 (commonly shorthanded to TRO3050). I suspect this info has been retconned away as Comstar propaganda, as the MUL (master unit list) dates the BLR-2C to 2925.

[Joseph Mallan]

Mors Draco, on 03 August 2015 - 06:09 AM, said:

Blessed Blake!

I got some Peace if Blake right here for ya pally!

[Hit the Deck]

cdlord, on 03 August 2015 - 06:12 AM, said:

It must be pretty boring for the Griffin pilots just sitting there doing nothing but it must beat standing!

[martian]

Escef, on 03 August 2015 - 06:14 AM, said:

I believe Joseph is getting his text from an early printing of Technical Readout 3050 (commonly shorthanded to TRO3050). I suspect this info has been retconned away as Comstar propaganda, as the MUL (master unit list) dates the BLR-2C to 2925.

Not even TRO3050 says that BLR-2C is a Star League 'Mech.

[Escef]

martian, on 03 August 2015 - 06:19 AM, said:

Not even TRO3050 says that BLR-2C is a Star League 'Mech.

My hard-copy is in storage, so I cant readily double check it. The only other copy I have is a pdf of TRO3050U, which has none of the Unseen in it.

[Joseph Mallan]

Escef, on 03 August 2015 - 06:14 AM, said:

I believe Joseph is getting his text from an early printing of Technical Readout 3050 (commonly shorthanded to TRO3050). I suspect this info has been retconned away as Comstar propaganda, as the MUL (master unit list) dates the BLR-2C to 2925.

MUL date 2925;
Users of the age:
ComStar.
3050-3085 ComStar, Dracs, WoB

Edited by Joseph Mallan, 03 August 2015 - 06:24 AM.

[martian]

Hit the Deck, on 03 August 2015 - 06:18 AM, said:

It must be pretty boring for the Griffin pilots just sitting there doing nothing but it must beat standing!

Yes, that's possible. However, their duty is extremely important. They are the last guard of the Archon and they saved the Archon's life during an assassination attempt in 29^th century.

[CDLord HHGD]

Hit the Deck, on 03 August 2015 - 06:18 AM, said:

It must be pretty boring for the Griffin pilots just sitting there doing nothing but it must beat standing!

Pays good enough to get DTV piped into your cockpit I'd wager.

[Kissamies]

I always considered the Technical Readout: 2750 a good starting point. http://www.sarna.net...l_Readout:_2750

Of course that's not all they had and they also modified some of it for Tukayyid.

[El Bandito]

Add the Exterminator and the Spartan in the future. Aside from the Com Guard, pretty much no one fields it in this timeline.

http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Exterminator

http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Spartan

Edited by El Bandito, 03 August 2015 - 08:09 AM.

[martian]

El Bandito, on 03 August 2015 - 08:03 AM, said:

Add the Exterminator and the Spartan in the future. Aside from the Com Guard, pretty much no one fields it in this timeline.

http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Exterminator

http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Spartan

And many other 'Mechs ...
They are not in MWO and there are no signs that they will be included in the future.

[Mystere]

Joseph Mallan, on 03 August 2015 - 06:15 AM, said:

I got some Peace if Blake right here for ya pally!

You betcha!

[VirtualSmitty]

Mors Draco, on 03 August 2015 - 05:58 AM, said:

We realllllllllly need ComStar and Word of Blake factions.

Anxiously waiting for that day!

[Hawktel]

There are a huge number of mechs that work for comstar, Many that are not in the game yet, and lots that are.



Infact just looking at the mechlist, it is almost easier to tell mechs that comstar didn’t use. Jenners, Dragons, Enforcers, Cataphracts, and the clan Mechs. Some of the others were not configurations that they used, but those general chassis was used.



I think that to really get a Comstar look off the ground, they need to add Mercury, Mongoose, Hermes, Hussar, Spartan, Shootist, Bombardiers, Wyverns, Thugs, Lancelot, Guillotine, Crockett, Flashman, Champion, and the problematic Exterminator.



It would also be nice that is a Comstar flag force got added to the game, that instead of dropping in CW as 3 lances, it dropped as 2 demi companies. It would take some effort to overcome that tactical handicap but it would be cool. But I’ve Felt that Clans should drop as 2 stars in a spot, and 2 points in the third spot.

[Escef]

Hawktel, on 03 August 2015 - 01:09 PM, said:

It would also be nice that is a Comstar flag force got added to the game, that instead of dropping in CW as 3 lances, it dropped as 2 demi companies.

PGI has in the past said that their faction is Comstar. As a side note, a Comstar "demi-company" is also referred to as a Level II.

Edit: While I'm thinking of it, I wonder how long PGI has used the steer's skull as their emblem? Because it bears a certain resemblance to the Opacus Venatori emblem (a small team of trouble shooters/head-hunters that was nominally part of the Word of Blake's 52nd Shadow Division).

Edited by Escef, 03 August 2015 - 01:21 PM.

[Kristov Kerensky]

I once had a list of the ComStar forces deployed to Tukayyid, but I've lost that over the years. I checked that MUL list linked by Mors Draco and see a number of retconned units in there that didn't exist when the Clans were first added into BTech, so it's a problematic list. Does anyone still have the original stuff?

[Soldier91]

Hit the Deck, on 03 August 2015 - 06:18 AM, said:

It must be pretty boring for the Griffin pilots just sitting there doing nothing but it must beat standing!

That's probably one of the best jobs in all of battletech they probably practice Drill and Ceremony constantly, probably DnC with their battlemechs too that would be a lot of fun. Playing galaga or something in the cockpit when they have to sit in boring meetings.

I think Comstar had some Atlas'

[Escef]

Kristov Kerensky, on 03 August 2015 - 01:27 PM, said:

I once had a list of the ComStar forces deployed to Tukayyid, but I've lost that over the years. I checked that MUL list linked by Mors Draco and see a number of retconned units in there that didn't exist when the Clans were first added into BTech, so it's a problematic list. Does anyone still have the original stuff?

It's not so much that they didn't exist, it's just that things have been getting retconned in the BT universe for ages. And for the better, overall. Fleshing out older time periods for those that want to run historical scenarios with more than 12 different mechs is a good thing.

Soldier91, on 03 August 2015 - 01:30 PM, said:

That's probably one of the best jobs in all of battletech they probably practice Drill and Ceremony constantly, probably DnC with their battlemechs too that would be a lot of fun. Playing galaga or something in the cockpit when they have to sit in boring meetings.

I think Comstar had some Atlas'

Uggghhh.... /shudder....

DnC is one of the most boring wastes of time in the Army.

[Gremlich Johns]

The incoming Black Knight is not actually the mass -produced BK from Canon, the one we are getting is a one-off that was in the MW4-Mercs game.