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[Saint Scarlett Johan]

iLLcapitan, on 18 May 2016 - 11:41 PM, said:

Some people have to share their military background on every occasion, holy cow.

I actually don't mention it much, but I digress.

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BTW you forgot to mention that mercenaries also relief the US government of those pesky lawsuits, moral obligations and stuff.

It's hard to deny involvement when you've got uniformed boots on the ground. Non-uniformed troops with no US markings? Super easy to deny involvement.

[multisoul]

all factions are like that, with the difference that some have a few regular dropping units regular on ts that get some wins and this sometimes solo puggers get lucky of being in a team with TEAM PLAYERS
i had several posts in the general FW forum about the cowards, panicked, slow or unable
one day if you think thinks have gone better - repent - as the next wave of Recruits will show up to make you cry while they have no idea whats happening
as always, look for teams, use ts, join a unit
... the basic thinks in war

[Feral Goose]

Kin3ticX, on 15 May 2016 - 05:00 PM, said:

There are also simply just too many factions to have enough decent sizable and active loyalists filling up all the fronts

Would be interesting to see the raw numbers of how many players are actually loyalist verses how many are part of the great exodus to become mercs. I guarantee you with the real numbers the actual problem would reveal itself very quickly. There simply is very little reason for anyone not to play as a merc.

Edited by Feral Goose, 20 May 2016 - 10:08 AM.

[Satan n stuff]

Saint Scarlett Johan, on 18 May 2016 - 11:59 PM, said:

It's hard to deny involvement when you've got uniformed boots on the ground. Non-uniformed troops with no US markings? Super easy to deny involvement.

There's little point to a mercenary wearing a uniform seeing as they're not protected by the Geneva convention either way ( with the exception of the french foreign legion, who do use them ) . It's not all conspiracies and covered up massacres you know.

[Daycrist Bloodfang]

nehebkau, on 14 May 2016 - 05:44 PM, said:

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How about you choose someone other than FRR to attack. Take some wolf worlds like a true clanner would! At least if you do that we won't have to hear you cry about how OP IS quirks are. Its rather stupid to keep attacking the FRR when there are so many transitory units currently on contract.

Oh ya, you can't attack another clanner because that wouldn't be FW... It would be BT but it wouldn't be FW.

lol I don't think CGB could attack CW even if they wanted to.....they are historical Allies in the voting system so not sure if they can vote to fight each other

[Shard Phoenix]

Daycrist Bloodfang, on 22 May 2016 - 03:35 PM, said:

lol I don't think CGB could attack CW even if they wanted to.....they are historical Allies in the voting system so not sure if they can vote to fight each other

"Traditionally Hostile" You know, that whole Crusader vs. Warden thing.


And yes, we can vote to attack one another. In fact, I waste my vote every day on voting to attack CW. Not that there's really any thing to be gained from it at the moment. It would just be a diversion from beating out heads up against the FRR

Edited by Shard Phoenix, 23 May 2016 - 07:09 AM.

[CK16]

But....we are making progress, seems the Kodiak woke several Ghost Bear warriors out of hibernation and we are dropping and not only dropping but having success for the most part. It was a pain to see us not get Outpost after ending at 46% yesterday afternoon but it was a lot better than seeing only 7 or 15% as the norm. Seems IMO we have a better group and numbers dropping in the EU zone and if we can even get a few matches at the end of the phase so be it from NA.

NA side of things yes, we are not dropping enough 12 mans.

[PyckenZot]

Yeah had a good time wiping the IS away playing on the CGB side of things this weekend. Sadly our numbers didn't allow to get enough attack runs in,... We were stuck defending against counter attacks.

[Daycrist Bloodfang]

Shard Phoenix, on 23 May 2016 - 07:08 AM, said:

"Traditionally Hostile" You know, that whole Crusader vs. Warden thing.


And yes, we can vote to attack one another. In fact, I waste my vote every day on voting to attack CW. Not that there's really any thing to be gained from it at the moment. It would just be a diversion from beating out heads up against the FRR

I figured CW and CGB were like CJF and CSJ where it shows on the voting panel Traditionally Allies in Green.

[Murphy7]

Interesting. Re: loyalists vs mercs

I think we have some sizable loyalist populations strewn about; I know Kurita has several units that are pretty constant as loyalists. COMA, 6RNT, ARKB, 9SD, 36th, 11th I've seen active a fair bit, and mix & match groups getting formed on the HK TS.

I feel like that should be true for many of the other factions, but as I have not travelled the factions extensively I don't really know.

[Daycrist Bloodfang]

Interestingly enough all of FRR's attention is on CJF I'm surprised CGB hasn't taken advantage of this

[zaku2142]

I hate to say this as I am forever Clan Wolf, but...
I say, eliminate Clans all together, retreat in to the void once again. It will end this pointless squabble of never-ending counter-attack/defending planets when attack lanes have been butchered and made into swiss cheese. Along with constant rotating units, ontop of the constant OP Clan/IS'ness and forums crying.

Just wipe them off FW/CW and Quick Play, let clan mechs just collect dust in the hangers as trophies and maybe someday to be recalled to battle once again in the future when the time is right. As it stands I personally ONLY use Clan mechs and will continue to fight the good fight along-side my faction/leader

Edited by zaku2142, 26 May 2016 - 05:16 AM.

[Murphy7]

"Forever" clan wolf, while showing jade falcon.

Were you using "forever" in a Judy Blume context?

[zaku2142]

Murphy7, on 26 May 2016 - 05:26 AM, said:

"Forever" clan wolf, while showing jade falcon.

Were you using "forever" in a Judy Blume context?

I knew someone was going to try and be a troll. I have always loved playing as Clan wolf, all the way back to MW2: 21st Century Combat. We recently changed to Jade Falcon on MWO, but go ahead and post how that is somehow wrong with some wonderful intellectual response, please.

[Murphy7]

Someone's feeling sensitive - definitely Judy Blume.

Or, maybe, consider the point you want to make how you make it.

[zaku2142]

Murphy7, on 26 May 2016 - 12:42 PM, said:

Someone's feeling sensitive - definitely Judy Blume.

Or, maybe, consider the point you want to make how you make it.

Being 'sensitive' is objective depending on ones perspective. I would be ranting and making a nice wall to make a point, but I am not. Maybe you should consider not Jumping to the conclusion that is incorrect. obv. troll is obv.
So how about we leave this fun trade and let others post about CGB no?

Edited by zaku2142, 26 May 2016 - 12:56 PM.

[Conan The Mechwarrior]

Kin3ticX, on 15 May 2016 - 04:52 PM, said:

Lol, that must be why some Merc units from lore had 2-5 regiments + supporting warships

Lore nerd fail......

Obviously you are confused. There are hundreds of Merc units and you are basing your estimates of of the top 50 or so. Read more and you will learn that most do not survive cause there is not much profit.

[Carl Vickers]

Well I did see Ghost Bears dropping on the weekend.

They got the planet they were going for to over 90% on intel then started dropping in invasion mode.

Guys, you wont get that many planets using this tactic.

Here's what will happen, you get lots of drops on intel, get your LT then stop dropping on scout mode. Yes you got a few drops in on invasion after that, from what I saw you didnt win all of them, stop using the crutch. After a while the peeps who are defending will get annoyed with LT and stop dropping, do you know how long it takes to flip a planet by ghost dropping? Ill bet you cant keep enough people on to flip it.

If you guys dont start playing for real you will never get off your PGI planet.

[Baulven]

If the entirety of the IS couldn't rush in to defend each and every attack point, that would have a lot more impact on how well the clans do tbh.

[R79TCom1 Night Lanner]

Conan The Mechwarrior, on 12 June 2016 - 08:30 PM, said:

Obviously you are confused. There are hundreds of Merc units and you are basing your estimates of of the top 50 or so. Read more and you will learn that most do not survive cause there is not much profit.

I have to agree with Conan here. Large mercenary units are a rarity due to the cost of keeping up, transporting, and paying such a large fighting force. Even the ones that are massive -- Wolf's Dragoons, Eridani Light Horses, Grey Death Legion, or Kell Hounds for example may have each been able to influence or even be the sole deciding factor in the battles on single planets, but never were the main player in an entire invasion. Also, a quick search of Sarna reveals that the only mercenary unit with a WarShip at the time of Operation REVIVAL was the Wolf's Dragoons and they had one. In fact WarShips were thought to be extinct in the Inner Sphere until the Clans arrived. ComStar had their small secret fleet and with the rediscovered LosTech the Great Houses were looking into building their own fleets, but that was still years away.

Now, if you including DropShips and JumpShips under "supporting warships" then yes, plenty had their own DropShips and a few of the bigger units had their own JumpShip, but they are by no means capital WarShips. JumpShips rarely have weapons and DropShips only have 'Mechs sized weapons until the Word of Blake Jihad.