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[Cato Zilks]

Cypherdrene, on 28 August 2018 - 11:44 AM, said:

That was 3057, were 10 years ahead

FP map is actually right at 3057

[Big Tin Man]

Alcom Isst, on 28 August 2018 - 02:43 PM, said:

It's Crimson Straight with a big Union(?) dropship in the middle.

I'm not saying it is long tom...

https://youtu.be/w9fgD9LBknQ?t=120

but it's definitely long tom.

Edited by Big Tin Man, 28 August 2018 - 03:13 PM.

[Mikayshen]

'City of Edo'

TURTLE BAY! WOO!

[FupDup]

Big Tin Man, on 28 August 2018 - 03:07 PM, said:

I'm not saying it is long tom...

https://youtu.be/w9fgD9LBknQ?t=120

but it's definitely long tom.

Why are most posted Youtube links always in the broken youtu.be format? I hate having to manually edit them every time. >_<

Fixed link:


Long Tom at 2:07.

Edited by FupDup, 28 August 2018 - 03:13 PM.

[Big Tin Man]

FupDup, on 28 August 2018 - 03:10 PM, said:

Why are most posted Youtube links always in the broken youtu.be format? I hate having to manually edit them every time. >_<

Fixed link:

1. how do you do that on this forum?
2. Long Tom on crimson @ 2 minutes

[The6thMessenger]

This better be Word of Blake.

[FupDup]

Big Tin Man, on 28 August 2018 - 03:14 PM, said:

1. how do you do that on this forum?
2. Long Tom on crimson @ 2 minutes

Copy and paste the address at the top bar.

The6thMessenger, on 28 August 2018 - 03:14 PM, said:

This better be Word of Blake.

[Big Tin Man]

FupDup, on 28 August 2018 - 03:15 PM, said:

Copy and paste the address at the top bar.

Got it. When you right click a video to have it start at the exact timecode you get the broken version of the link. Thx

[James Wirth]

Clan Smoke Jaguar orbital attack on Edo at Turtle Bay in March 3050.

http://www.sarna.net...e_of_Turtle_Bay

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Finally Galaxy Commander Perez ordered all Smoke Jaguar forces to withdraw from Edo, which the local resistance mistakenly took as a sign of victory. Perez ordered Beta Galaxy's WarShip, the Sabre Cat, into low orbit above the city and commanded it to open fire. Repeated strikes from the ship's autocannons and laser weapons bombarded the city until there was nothing left but smoking debris.

It will be us Jaguars vs the Draconis Combine.

Seyla!

Edited by James Wirth, 28 August 2018 - 04:14 PM.

[D V Devnull]

Hmph... I look at all this, and still keep having a Pirate Faction come to mind. Where is your originality, people?

Hell, where's the Massive Ruined Metropolis (https://mwomercs.com/forums/topic/221827-new-map-metropolitan-ruins/) that everyone has looked forward to? I don't think that ever really happened.

~D. V. "I guess we'll still have to wait and see what explosivity happens... It's all we can do." Devnull

[D V Devnull]

Okay, just a short time after I posted that last, they put in the Final Update to their Lead-Up Posting. I am feeling VERY sad that they just decided to make an item that went with the normal stuff, instead of punching a new expansion into the game.

InnerSphereNews, on 28 August 2018 - 11:21 AM, said:

ISN News (Update)- For Immediate Release:

The DCMS has released the following statement from the recently freed Hohiro Kurita II.

"Fellow citizens and those loyal to the Great House Kurita.  As many of you know, the planet Turtle Bay was taken by the hostile forces of Clan Smoke Jaguar.  While we maintained a strong level of resistance, the city of Edo fell under control of the Clans.  I was captured in their round-ups but apparently they did not know of my lineage.  With the help of resistance fighters and other underground contacts, I was recently freed from the city.

It is at this point that I must bring you the horrifying news of what has transpired in Edo.

An uprising revolt of Clan Smoke Jaguar occupation rose from the ashes of previous combat.  This uprising was fought bravely by those loyal to the DCMS and to House Kurita as a whole.  It was the loyalty in their hearts that allowed them to push the aggressors out of the city limits.  But this victory was short lived.  Not long after the withdrawal of Clan Smoke Jaguar forces from Edo, a massive war ship entered a low orbit over the city.  Its entire weapons array was used upon the city below, and to my horror, the city is now gone.  The devastation on the ground is none that we've ever seen in historical combat.  While I do not have the exact numbers of casualties, I can say with certainty that the death toll will be in the millions and the majority of those deaths are civilians.

I ask that everyone across the InnerSphere hold strong in the face of this atrocity and we of the DCMS along with any other allies that choose to stand by our side, will make the dishonorable Clan Smoke Jaguar pay for their actions ten fold!"

- Hohiro Kurita II

Oh well... I guess I might try looking forward to something more original at some future point? I don't know.

~D. V. "They could have left us guessing for a while, but now all my dreams lay shattered on the floor." Devnull





[Minor Edit by Post Author to correct a Formatting Problem...]

Edited by D V Devnull, 28 August 2018 - 04:24 PM.

[Marius Evander]

D V Devnull, on 28 August 2018 - 04:01 PM, said:

Spoiler

Hmph... I look at all this, and still keep having a Pirate Faction come to mind. Where is your originality, people?

Hell, where's the Massive Ruined Metropolis (https://mwomercs.com/forums/topic/221827-new-map-metropolitan-ruins/) that everyone has looked forward to? I don't think that ever really happened.

~D. V. "I guess we'll still have to wait and see what explosivity happens... It's all we can do." Devnull

Solaris city is our ruined city map, it suffices.

Edited by Cadoazreal, 28 August 2018 - 04:39 PM.

[Iron Buccaneer]

This is Turtle Bay.

[Marius Evander]

Now that penalties are gone can we get lost ranks back ? preferably b4 this event.

[FrontlineAssembly]

This not the clan invasion, or the Jihad. This the start of Operation Bulldog. When the Inner Sphere combined efforts to wipe out Clan Smoke Jaguar.

[Navid A1]

Why all the hype and teasing for a generic Clan vs IS faction-play event?

[Bud Crue]

Navid A1, on 28 August 2018 - 04:57 PM, said:

Why all the hype and teasing for a generic Clan vs IS faction-play event?

Cuz one of the things some people told Paul that they wanted to see more of in his prospective revised FP is "more lore". And so within the confines of the mode as it currently exists, a .gif and a little write up and whalla: a "lore" based event.

[Stonefalcon]

Wasn't Turtle Bay nuked by the Jags during the invasion when the DCMS refused to tell the Jags how many mech battalions they possessed? If this is what this story entails then the followup to this will be Operation Bulldog and the annihilation of the Smoke Jaguars.

[TELEFORCE]

Stonefalcon, on 28 August 2018 - 05:05 PM, said:

Wasn't Turtle Bay nuked by the Jags during the invasion when the DCMS refused to tell the Jags how many mech battalions they possessed? If this is what this story entails then the followup to this will be Operation Bulldog and the annihilation of the Smoke Jaguars.

The Jaguars didn't nuke Edo. They wiped it out with a conventional weapon orbital bombardment. BattleTech space naval weapons are pretty powerful when used on ground targets.

With that being said, the aftermath of this genocidal act even disturbed Smoke Jaguar leadership. Galaxy Commander Cordera Perez, who ordered the orbital bombardment, was seen as disgraceful for the attack and had his command challenged in a typical Clan Trial by Combat. He ended up losing that trial and his command.

[Sixpack]

The followup would actually be Tukkayid (the fourth).