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[Vodkavaiator]

Will have something up later, off to run errands and pretend I am responsible.

[Thom Frankfurt]

It's possibly in the top 10 if not top 5 most produced mechs ever.

I'm not sure how your TT jargon is but. It does a 6/9/6 (meaning it can keep up with a Commado and jumps 180 meters, as far as a Jenner.) And packs a decent arsenal of weapons. I think the onlything that keeps it from being more popular is how it mounts standard heat sinks and a standard engine.

Nikoli's mounts an extra light engine, double heat sinks, NARC missile beacon, Guardian ECM, 1 large laser, 2 med lasers, and a SRM6 w/Narc equipt missiles... and has the same armor diagram as an Enforcer.

I dropped the TAG and BAP fromt he Raven fluffing it up that they were destroyed when Nik fled Menke with the Raven. I thought about putting endosteel on and keeping them, but thought it was a bit much considering that no version of the Chameleon mounts endo.

By itself it's kind of squishy, but put it in a lance and you can do all kinds of nifty things with it.

[RogueSpear]

No TAG? Awwww...I was going to have Dirk use TAG data to aim the Sniper, rather than just guess.

[ChaosGrinder]

Dirk just has to aim for the colorfull lights and the black pillars of smoke and ashes i leave in my trail

[Thom Frankfurt]

RogueSpear, on 03 August 2012 - 02:34 AM, said:

No TAG? Awwww...I was going to have Dirk use TAG data to aim the Sniper, rather than just guess.

TAG works best with the Arrow IV's homing missiles.... didn't we go over this? I'm kind of hoping the Sniper gets knocked out during combat and the only thing we have to replace it is an Arrow IV.

But I know, it's a missile and can be shot down, while a Sniper round, well there's no stopping it once it's fired.

ChaosGrinder, on 03 August 2012 - 02:38 AM, said:

Dirk just has to aim for the colorfull lights and the black pillars of smoke and ashes i leave in my trail

you could also always look for the bright lights as Nikoli totally misses with all his shots.

Edited by Thom Frankfurt, 03 August 2012 - 03:11 AM.

[RogueSpear]

Well if you laze a target for a second, Dirk can aim spot on with it, rather than educatedly guessing with the latest calculation he's come up with. Sure it won't home (Unless he MacGyvers a copperhead or twelve) but it will be much more precise, and will allow him to just blow the bloody doors off.
Also, for me, missile artillery just doesn't have the same feel as tube arty. *Shrugs*

[ChaosGrinder]

Howizers > Missiles.

Dunno, maybe it´s possible to link the Target lock from one mech to another ?

[Sparks Murphey]

TAG is just an advanced laser designator. The BAP is what you're really missing.

[RogueSpear]

I know it's a laser designator, I'm thinking it will give off some form of return. Otherwise how do missiles home in on it o.O
Beagle wouldn't transfer the data to another mech without C3, and we're not the Suomi Warders, more's the pity!

[Rasengetsu]

And this is where I feel like I don't belong here with all the mumbo jumbo you guys let out. I'm really interested but I don't understand any of it! T_T

[RogueSpear]

www.sarna.net is your friend, my friend

[Rasengetsu]

I've been checking around, I mean its not like I have anything better to do, but there's no way I could catch up to the amount of knowledge you guys have in just a week. xD

[RogueSpear]

True. Download MW4 and MC2, you can get *some* knowledge from that.

[Rasengetsu]

Modern Warfare 4 and MineCraft 2?
Just kidding, though what do they stand for, really?

[RogueSpear]

Mechwarrior 4 and MechCommander 2. Both are free

[ChaosGrinder]

Sarna ruined mechwarrior for me Kinda. Dark ages, Jihad, that´s kinda **** for me :/

[Rasengetsu]

Like, the actual PC games? FREE? How can this be, companies giving away stuff? O_O

[RogueSpear]

Mech Commander 2's source code was released for a competition, and MW4:Mercs as I understand it was eventually sold to a fanbase company called Mektek that did a couple of minor mods to it (More maps, mechs and guns) for free.
As to what CG said, Dark Age seems like it was a good concept, but poorly implemented. It sounds like a half decent story, but wrecked tabletop.
Jihad is kind of...meh.
"Oh look the clans are mainstream. Quick! Make someone even more broken!" But I could be reading that entirely wrong. Does look like the Jihad brought some cool toys though, even if all the Wobbly mechs look like rubbish.

[Rasengetsu]

Sadly, the MekTek download link is down D:

[ChaosGrinder]

you can download it from chip online. It´s a german site but it´s pretty easy to dl