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[Sidney]

PaintedWolf, on 30 July 2012 - 02:09 PM, said:

-Same armor will protect against heat, electrical, magnetic, kinetic and physical weapons equally well. No nanotech or smart-material used!

If only.

It's even more rediculous- an Atlas' armour is only a few milimetres thick, if that- yet it does a better job at stopping a gauss round that was fired at- what, Mach 6 velocity... but will crumble if the Atlas falls 6 metres. A kick is just as effective...

It's a contradiction the game has to live with to make melee attacks viable

PaintedWolf, on 30 July 2012 - 02:09 PM, said:

-Machine guns are more terrifying to infantry then fusion powered lightning guns.

This makes sense if a squad is spread out over a 30m^2 hex. That's a lot of room for the infantry to spread out in. A lightning bolt covers a much smaller area than several dozen bullets.

That being said, gauss rounds traveling at those speeds would be...unpleasant...even if it didn't land near you. Also doesn't explain how that squad covers so much ground so quickly either...

[Brenden]

-They use metric still
-When a battlemech is cored, it does NOT go nuclear like most clear reactors do when damaged
-They can jump using jets, but not by crouching their legs and then suddenly flexing upward
-Pirates and Ninjas are still warring with eachother.

[Okami Ryu]

rail guns are more costly and unwieldy than Gauss rifles

[Brenden]

- Their aerospace fighters cannot exceed Mach 1
- A gauss rifle's ammunition is non-explosive, but when the weapon is hit it explodes like an internal ammo explosion
- They use colorless holograms instead of a colored High Definition Telly
- No 'mech over 100 tons (That's canon, the Ares is not canon. )
- I don't think Fry is in this future.

[Hakija]

Skylarr, on 31 July 2012 - 05:57 PM, said:

The Sword and the Dagger The novel is also notable for featuring the Swamp people, one of only two instances of (possibly) intelligent alien life in the entire BattleTech universe.

I was wondering if anybody would catch that one.

[Skylarr]

Hakiyah, on 31 July 2012 - 09:09 PM, said:

I was wondering if anybody would catch that one.

The Swamp people are inside ethe Inner Sphere. The Bird People are someplce really far away from IS.

[Lucas Dagger]

lol

[MasterofBlasters]

Quietly Crazy, on 31 July 2012 - 12:36 AM, said:

-Though the entire galaxy has been searched, only the human race managed to become sentient. No other star system produced what can be considered even semi-intelligent life.

Actually the Inner Sphere is the Red dot on this picture...

[Theodor Kling]

the gangster of boats, on 31 July 2012 - 04:17 PM, said:

Fixed for chuckles

the gangster of boats, on 31 July 2012 - 04:17 PM, said:

Fixed for chuckles

the gangster of boats, on 31 July 2012 - 04:17 PM, said:

Fixed for chuckles

the gangster of boats, on 31 July 2012 - 04:17 PM, said:

Fixed for chuckles

As to your fixes: IFF should not be THAT complex to make And let´s face it: they shoot each other in the back often enough without heat seekers, so no harm done if you add them
and : Yes they are shielded. Which should help with tha gamma radiation. but to control a decent fusion reaction you need one hell of a magnetic field. If there Magnetic Resonance sensors are able to see large masses of metal ( spaking assault mechs) , and smaler ones once they are moving, the fusion reactors field should realy stand out in contrast to that. The high interference of metla heavy downtown highrises still mihgt help to hide, but the novels have enough instances of mechs hiding outside cities as well.

[Theodor Kling]

Brenden, on 31 July 2012 - 08:57 PM, said:

-They use metric still
-When a battlemech is cored, it does NOT go nuclear like most clear reactors do when damaged
-They can jump using jets, but not by crouching their legs and then suddenly flexing upward
-Pirates and Ninjas are still warring with eachother.

Well the metric system IS superior to the imperial one

The lack of exploding ractors i fine. Most fusion reactor designs use the magnetic containment to also compress things, maintaining the high pressure needed to keep the reaction going. So damaging the field coils would lower the reaction rate, not accelerat it.

The other two points ae good though. But you forget : The ninja and pirates are also fighting vikings

[Tussock]

True... A fusion reactor just stops if the containment fields collapse.

Even a fission plant is just a steam engine... There's not nearly enough fissile material to reach critical mass and create a nuclear explosion. The excitement comes from the boiler exploding... BANG! radioactive steam everywhere! Exciting!
A nuclear fission steam powered mech = Ork Gargant = DAKKA DAKKA WAAAGH!!!

Channeling the energy to power a 100kg+ gauss rifle slug up to mach 6 generates no heat!

PPC's actually work in the absence of a vacuum!

A 500kg machine gun only has an effective range of 90m

The mutiple warhead missile launcher was fielded before the anti missile system!

Edited by Tussock, 31 July 2012 - 11:35 PM.

[Theodor Kling]

Tussock, on 31 July 2012 - 11:33 PM, said:

PPC's actually work in the absence of a vacuum!

That is just a mater of good engeneering. Or simply the energy level available

[Daniel Wraith]

Gaus slug is described as the size of a VW Bug being thrown an mach 6 I own a 72 vw bug i wish it could go mach 6

[Daniel Wraith]

Also I remember reading that most the warships left an the houses had very few an it was kinda a rule not to attack jumpships bringing in the armies to take a planet course this all changed when the clans arrived but even then after CSJ shelled turtle bay the warden faction of clan wolf soon bid away all there warship assests which not to be outdone most clans fallowed suit
It wasnt untill Victor went after clan smoke jags that i even read an intresting battle including the warships granted memory is spotty an it has been some years since i read the novels

[Skylarr]

Daniel Wraith, on 01 August 2012 - 06:35 AM, said:

Gaus slug is described as the size of a VW Bug being thrown an mach 6 I own a 72 vw bug i wish it could go mach 6

Can it at least do the speed limit????

[zorgoth]

ya know... the whole warhammer story can still unfold too, unless i missed some of the finer details, but i remember them not knowing much of what was it... pre 20,000?

[Sug]

Feindfeuer, on 31 July 2012 - 01:43 AM, said:

Not true, the noble Tetatae are a sentinent species that is part of the BT canon


edit: though the existance of the Tetatae could be considered a ridiculous Battletech fact.

Why are these aliens considered canon while stackpole explosions are not?

[Gail Piazzi]

Gausses have little parachutes stored inside that deploy, rendering the giant speeding balls of metal COMPLETELY HARMLESS at 22 hexes.

... There also may or may not be a crazed man obsessed with goldfish somewhere in the UK cutting all the buggers off. I believe he's also the one filling his bomber bays with doorknobs.

[Quietly Crazy]

Sug, on 03 August 2012 - 06:53 PM, said:

Why are these aliens considered canon while stackpole explosions are not?

It's based off of the Tabletop setting there (The explosions). Stackpole explosions never occurred like that in the TT game, but it does make for a more exciting read.

and I did sort of forget about those guys...I admit it. Though it may have come from the fact that I did block some of the sillier things out down the line. The early stuff was just weird at points.

[MadMarauder]

Pirates, Ninjas, Vikings, sure they fight but its only practice for the real threat ZOMBIES!!



Zombies in Atlases