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[Bishop Steiner]

Mister Blastman, on 14 April 2016 - 01:23 PM, said:

Can't run large XL. *yawn*

Oh, and go away ridge humper demon spawn!

So you've seen Alex rendition and know it can't XL? Please link arts?!?!?!

[cazidin]

Bishop Steiner, on 14 April 2016 - 01:57 PM, said:

So you've seen Alex rendition and know it can't XL? Please link arts?!?!?!

He and I went into the future of 2020 in our Experimental Time Machine™ or ETM™. When the Gunslinger was first released it had a large CT hitbox bug so PGI overcompensated by engulfing it with ST. It became an XL death trap. Then PGI gave it quirks and it was OK again until the following quirk pass about 4 months later. Also in a Town Hall in the future he promised to buff Machine Guns.

Coincidentally, he also announced the release of the Piranha.

Edited by cazidin, 14 April 2016 - 02:22 PM.

[Mister Blastman]

Bishop Steiner, on 14 April 2016 - 01:57 PM, said:

So you've seen Alex rendition and know it can't XL? Please link arts?!?!?!

No no, I mean 255 XL brah, it like... can't lift 400. That's like... totally weak sauce, man.

Edited by Mister Blastman, 14 April 2016 - 02:23 PM.

[cazidin]

Mister Blastman, on 14 April 2016 - 02:22 PM, said:

No no, I mean 255 XL brah, it like... can't lift 400. That's like... totally weak sauce, man.

Good cover but I already told him about our time-ventures™.

[Mister Blastman]

cazidin, on 14 April 2016 - 02:23 PM, said:

Good cover but I already told him about our time-ventures™.

Not a cover, bro. That like, totally was what my post said, dude.

Edited by Mister Blastman, 14 April 2016 - 02:26 PM.

[Navid A1]

Bishop Steiner, on 14 April 2016 - 01:57 PM, said:

So you've seen Alex rendition and know it can't XL? Please link arts?!?!?!

Well... you seemed to have no problem drawing your conclusion based on the art alone.

I'd say, only 2 hardpoints will be cockpit level.... you object?... how? ... can link to alex's concept please?


IS is OP enough, btw... I demand buffs to puny pathetic clan garbage mechs.

Edited by Navid A1, 14 April 2016 - 03:57 PM.

[Narcissistic Martyr]

Sigh... I was really hoping no one would remember this thing existed...

[Bishop Steiner]

Narcissistic Martyr, on 14 April 2016 - 08:54 PM, said:

Sigh... I was really hoping no one would remember this thing existed...

because you are allergic to Awesome in a Sumo Suit?

[Evan20k]

I always approve of another assault to add to my hangars.

[Narcissistic Martyr]

Bishop Steiner, on 14 April 2016 - 09:12 PM, said:

because you are allergic to Awesome in a Sumo Suit?

More the silly high energy hard points mixed with some nice dakka while you cool off but yes that too.

[FLG 01]

I just reread The Dying Time in which the Gunslinger is the Mech of the Defiance Self-Protection Force's commander, which reminded me of this thread.

I would definitely want to pilot it, despite the low engine cap. Here are the parts of the novel dealing with the Gunslinger:

Movement caught Brewer's eye. He looked up and spotted a Gunslinger marching deliberately toward his position. Its camouflage had been so cunningly painted that the barrel-chested assault 'Mech had been invisible to the naked eye, while its position had been masked by the heavy electronic jamming.

[...]

As the Mech Warriors of the Defiance Self-Protection Force scattered toward their BattleMechs, Goree headed for his GUN-1 ERD Gunslinger. The 'Mech was the product of a joint Davion/Kurita design team. Intended to cripple Clan 'Mechs at the stand-off ranges the genetically engineered Clan warriors seemed to favor, the Gunslinger mounted a pair of gauss rifles, one in each forearm. A half-dozen medium lasers, two of them pulse models, completed the assault armament.

Goree was as familiar with the 'Mech and its capabilities as he had been with his ex-wife, but unlike her, the big machine had never let him down. He sprinted up the steep metal stairs to the catwalk that ran shoulder-high to most of the 'Mechs in his battalion. When he reached the open ingress/egress hatch set into the back of his Gunslinger's head, he placed his duffel on the perforated steel decking and knelt beside it. He pulled a coverall from the bag and exchanged the MechWarrior combat suit for his normal clothing.

Like a cooling vest, the MCS helped counteract the effects of the waste heat generated by a 'Mech's fusion plant and weapons. Unlike the vests, the combat suits covered the whole of a warrior's body, increasing their effectiveness. They included a hardened armor vest and a special light combat neurohelmet, which could be sealed against a hostile atmosphere. With practiced fingers, he fastened the suit's armored plastron in place over his chest and shoved his civilian clothing into the duffel. He pulled the light combat neurohelmet from its padded compartment in the bag, lucked it under one arm, and ducked into the cockpit.

Then Goree dropped into his command couch and fastened the seat's five-point harness around him. He made sure his combat suit, with its all-important cooling tubes, was not pinched or constricted by the heavy nylon straps encircling his waist and crossing his body down from his shoulders and up between his legs. Once he was satisfied with the fit of the harness, he pulled the neurohelmet over his head and attached the control leads. For a moment, he experienced a flash of vertigo as the sensors in the helmet attuned the big gyrostabilizer in the 'Mech's belly to his own sense of balance.

[...]

Goree brought up his powerful gauss rifles, dropping the targeting reticle over the center-mass of a slightly damaged Ranger Flashman. The basketball-sized nickel-iron slugs smashed into the stubby 'Mech's torso and left leg, shattering armor and cracking the enemy's metallic shin bone. The rebel must have spotted Goree's camouflaged Gunslinger, for he raised both arms and touched off the Radionic large lasers that replaced the 'Mech's hands. The radiation-intensified light beams ripped across the Gunslinger's breastplate, leaving deep, blackened scars on the 'Mech's belly and left side.

The enemy didn't get a chance for a follow-up shot. Three flights of twenty long-range missiles from Lassiter's Salamander completed the work Goree, along with some unknown Defiance MechWarrior, had begun. Armor-piercing warheads savaged every portion of the Flashman's body. Its left leg parted company with its body, and the machine toppled to the ground, snapping off its right arm at the shoulder as it tried to break its fall with that weakened limb.

Still, it was not enough. There were far too many rebel 'Mechs for the DSPF to destroy one at a time. Facing odds of better than six-to-one, Goree's valiant warriors could not hold out.

It is a bit immature, but I still smile at the "ex-wife"-part...