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[Toki Warface Frederiksavn]

As long as i played all the mechwarrior and mech commander games, ( pc / board / rol games) i ve seen that one of the most popular and charismatic and obviously deadly mechs, are the Marauders. I dont know if theres already a message with this topic, but if its not, i d like to have this mech in consideration. Thanks.

[Stickjock]

The Marauder is just ONE of many Mechs that are listed in the Unseen catagory...

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The Unseen is a term used for some of the first BattleMech designs from the original game. These designs, longtime favorites of BattleTech fans, were based on mecha found in the Japanese anime series' Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Fang of the Sun Dougram and Crusher Joe.
Legal difficulties prohibited FASA from displaying any more pictures depicting these 'Mechs, although they were often freely mentioned in novels and books, and their rules remained legal. Thus, these 'Mechs remained unseen until the publication of Technical Readout: Project Phoenix, which presented "redesigns", allowing them to be used freely once again.
On 24 June, 2009, it was announced that Catalyst Game Labs had secured the permissions needed to utilize the original "unseen" artwork for these designs again.
Shortly after the return of the "unseen" BattleMechs was announced, the BattleTech: 25 Years of Art & Fiction PDF was pulled from circulation. Managing editor Randall Bills made a statement on Catalyst Game Labs' website on August 10th, 2009 explaining the move. An error was made in negotiating the distribution rights for some of the images. Twelve Unseen images, those originating from Macross, were again pulled from circulation and will remain unseen, due to their exclusive distribution rights (within the United States) belonging to another company (Harmony Gold). Whether or not these images will be licensed or purchased in the future remains to be seen. The tone of the article was doubtful.^[1]

PGI/IGP's response as to wether we'll see them or not has been this (from the FAQ)

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Q. Will the unseen Mechs make it into the game after all?

A. Look forward to a future announcement.

[Stormwolf]

The only thing you can hope for is a reseen version of the Marauder.

[Lazer Blazer]

I just hope they bring in a reseen version.

Edited by Lazer Blazer, 14 August 2012 - 06:52 AM.

[Monsoon]

I'll say it before someone else does.

Use your search function

The Marauder is one of the most talked about mechs on this forum (along with the Warhammer and the rest of the Unseen/Reseen also the Zeus & Urbanmech) allot of people are dying for this mech. (myself included.)

Edited by Monsoon, 14 August 2012 - 07:26 AM.

[Evil Hamster]

Stormwolf, on 14 August 2012 - 06:40 AM, said:

The only thing you can hope for is a reseen version of the Marauder.

I don't care if it's reseen, I am going to be waiting impatiently for my Marauder 5D

[Bishop Steiner]

here....



Unseen, Re-Seen, Harmony Gold's puckered sphincter not withstanding, is a version that sticks true to the design, yet navigates around the legal issues. I hereby freely bequeth this to PGI and Catalyst to use in good health. Just gimme my Unseens back.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled lives.

Edited by Bishop Steiner, 14 August 2012 - 09:55 AM.

[Ricofico]

Still waiting...

[Deadoon]

I'd love the marauder reseen variant, the unseen one would be quite unwieldly for usage in this game afterall(going over hill, gun gets blown off befor seeing anything), the reseen version has a torso mounted side gun similar to a bulky long barrel hunchback. I like the long barrel side gun.

[pLaGuE DoG]

LOL the marauder has been around since the the Russian Revolution in 1917
http://www.forbes.co...ian-revolution/

Edited by pLaGuE DoG, 15 December 2012 - 05:10 PM.

[cmdr_scotty]

Bishop Steiner, on 14 August 2012 - 09:54 AM, said:

here....



Unseen, Re-Seen, Harmony Gold's puckered sphincter not withstanding, is a version that sticks true to the design, yet navigates around the legal issues. I hereby freely bequeth this to PGI and Catalyst to use in good health. Just gimme my Unseens back.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled lives.

[Void Angel]

Lightdragon, on 14 August 2012 - 01:12 PM, said:

that is absolutely ******* ugly and as to the OP learn to use the freaking search feature im sick of seeing the same fuckign topics over and over because people are too ******** to check if they were posted before

Wow, someone forgot to take their meds today.

[cmdr_scotty]

one thing that always bugged me on the maurauder was that the giant frickn gun on it's back was only a 2 crit spot (CT)

but then again, clan tech is awesome at space saving c:

[Firelizard]

Lightdragon, on 14 August 2012 - 01:12 PM, said:

that is absolutely ******* ugly and as to the OP learn to use the freaking search feature im sick of seeing the same fuckign topics over and over because people are too ******** to check if they were posted before

The term 'ugly, but well hung' comes to mind looking at that thing.

I'll buy ten!

[Valten]

You can actually make a marauder with the cataphract 3D, I should know, I've been running it for the past week.
Sure it's not quite the right weight but you can get the exact same armament, speed etc. As for the AC5 in the center torso, if you ever actually iused one you would know that it is actually mounted in a side torso, Right if I recall.

Anyway, the Cataphract marauder build is fun for nostalgia but sucks ingame due to poor heat management. 2xPPC, 2xMedLas, and an AC5 generates a TON of heat.

Now my Dragon/ ShadowHawk redux, that's fun.

[Deadoon]

Valten, on 16 December 2012 - 02:05 PM, said:

You can actually make a marauder with the cataphract 3D, I should know, I've been running it for the past week.
Sure it's not quite the right weight but you can get the exact same armament, speed etc. As for the AC5 in the center torso, if you ever actually iused one you would know that it is actually mounted in a side torso, Right if I recall.

Anyway, the Cataphract marauder build is fun for nostalgia but sucks ingame due to poor heat management. 2xPPC, 2xMedLas, and an AC5 generates a TON of heat.

Now my Dragon/ ShadowHawk redux, that's fun.

Marauder also weighs 5 tons more, and has a high mounted torso gun, thus allowing much more flexible mounting.

[LynxFury]

Well if we can't get the marauder, I'd hope we'd get it's star league little cousin the Osprey:
http://mecha-master....sprey-177026222

Edited by LynxFury, 16 December 2012 - 03:33 PM.