51 replies to this topic

[Bishop Steiner]

Seriously.... it's not just the cheezy Powercreep tech that makes the whole Clan Invasion thing hard to digest (or the poorly disguised plagiarism of the Mongolian Invasion)....

But the Angsty Teenager Clan Names:
- Goliath Scorpion
- Hell's Horses
- Ice Hellions
- Steel Viper
- Blood Spirit

Sounds more like a bunch of cheezy 80s Hair Metal bands than fearsome military forces...


And really all their Conventions and Rituals.......

Let's convocate together in our Super Secret Meetings dressed up as FEARSOME ANIMALS..... While lashing out against the evils of the "normal" society.... (and tossing in some kinky taboo ridden sex here and there)

Sound Familiar?

(Hologram taken from actual Grand Conclave of 3051 and the election of Ulrich Kerensky to ilFurry)

I mean the whole thing is so ridiculous it spawned it owns semi approved parody.....
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Critter-TEK

Thank Goodness HBS's Battletech is going back to an era of common sense, where the Warring Factions were just racial simplifications of existing cultures and their lore was loosely stolen from the Byzantine Empire, Prussia and various other historical events (rebadged, repackaged with borrowed Anime and poor WWII combat analogies)!



Sorry...but the main topics in this section are getting really repetitive and boring... let's all get together and mock clanners, instead!

#InnerSphereLivesMatter

[RestosIII]

I give huge props to the one guy in the middle that is just wearing a bike helmet. I too identify as a badass.

[Juodas Varnas]

Clanners are basically Edgy Space Communist Furries.

[Champion of Khorne Lord of Blood]

RestosIII, on 19 July 2016 - 10:17 AM, said:

I give huge props to the one guy in the middle that is just wearing a bike helmet. I too identify as a badass.

Had a good laugh when I noticed that guy. Hes just so out of place.

[Raso]

RestosIII, on 19 July 2016 - 10:17 AM, said:

I give huge props to the one guy in the middle that is just wearing a bike helmet. I too identify as a badass.

Some say that animals hold conventions where they dress up in costumes made to imitate his likeness... and that his favorite pokemon is the Splat Cat.

All we know is he's called the Stig!

[MeiSooHaityu]

Bishop Steiner, on 19 July 2016 - 08:50 AM, said:

But the Angsty Teenager Clan Names:
- Goliath Scorpion
- Hell's Horses
- Ice Hellions
- Steel Viper
- Blood Spirit

Sounds more like a bunch of cheezy 80s Hair Metal bands than fearsome military forces...

Of course, just look at them!



Looks straight out of the era of 80's metal. I'm pretty sure Malthus even toured with Poison.

[Yellonet]

Just another in the long line of reasons not to play like a Clanny.

[DjPush]

******* furries!

[cazidin]

So, the IS vs Clan war is essentially an intergalactic game of "DUCK SEASON!" "RABBIT SEASON"?

[Kael Posavatz]

Have you considered a campaign to have wolves renamed 'pre-dogs'? Purely for science of course, it simply does not do for scientists to be using Angsty Teenager when referring to species.


And at least the Clans haven not chosen to name themselves after the receptacle of their drug-of-choice, Stein...er.

Not even the strung-out Goliath Scorpions.

[Whaler]

#clanpilotsmater

[Cy Mitchell]

Bishop Steiner, on 19 July 2016 - 08:50 AM, said:

I see the Stig!

[Juodas Varnas]

Kael Posavatz, on 19 July 2016 - 11:05 AM, said:

And at least the Clans haven not chosen to name themselves after the receptacle of their drug-of-choice, Stein...er.

My german knowledge is basically non-existent, but i'm pretty sure Stein means "stone" or "rock"

[Nomex 99]

[Charlie Grant]

"This has gone too far"

--me, in 1992 or whatever, upon reviewing the 3055 TRO

[Hal Greaves]

I'm one of those filthy furries myself

[Void Angel]

Whaler, on 19 July 2016 - 11:06 AM, said:

#clanpilotsmater

#sibkosschoolingsucks #Clannerscantspell

I'm told - but have not sourced the claim - that the Clans were intended as module-based RPG enemies, rather than a balanced faction in their own right. So while I don't know if it's true, it makes the Clan Invasion make more sense - from the unstoppable onslaught all the way to the Deus Ex Tukayyid that gave the Inner Sphere time to tool up the factories and fight back.

And don't get me started on NaziSpaceHun "culture."

Also, has anyone noticed that any Clan that doesn't have an Adjective to go with their Animal, gets rofflepowned? Clan Wolf gets effectively destroyed, and then there's Wolverine...

[Raso]

Rampage, on 19 July 2016 - 11:08 AM, said:

I see the Stig!

Some say the reason he's clever like a fox is because he actually is one... and that he once flew over the coo-coo's nest in a Delorean with Christopher Lloyd...

[Dogstar]

DjPush>******* furries!

You do realise that can be interpreted more than one way don't you...

[process]

Something something honor batchall freebirths.