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[Jaenos]

Only just found out about the MMO game and I have been a fan since Mechwarrior 2 and that old cartoon show. Only read the Jade Pheonix books. Anyways, when the game starts up, I would like to join Clan Wolf if possible. If not, then Wolf Dragoons since, if I remember right, they started off as a Clan Wolf advanced scout group to observe the Inner Sphere, later to become exile or something. Could someone please give me more information on this? I plan on playing a clanner character which is why I made a pilot with only a first name. I plan to re-read the jade pheonix books to refresh my knowledge on the rules and customs of the clans. In case I don't check back here, my email is vdacosta(att)telus(dot)net.

[LordDeathStrike]

itll be about 5 years before clans are playable, this is an inner sphere wargame, clans wont be sighted for another year yet thanks to real time system.

we will start seeing them in a year, politics will proceed, in a few years we will go to war.

edit: i say 5 years playable because thats when IS tech = clan tech unit wise, lets face it, the devs dont want to come up with a way to have single lance of clan mechs vs battalions of IS to balance it when theres no equal hardware footing.

its highly likely clans will never be playable and we will only see some mercs hired to fight for them or their chasis with our weapons and armor installed. as it is 3050 and there are no factories in the IS to produce clan items for many years.

Edited by LordDeathStrike, 17 March 2012 - 01:20 AM.

[Odins Reaver]

Ok, what stravag dezgra freebirth is letting this one run free in the clan forums?

Clans will be playable next year some time, as for this ones inability to understand military unit structure I think that well I shall not say what I think.

Edited by Odins Reaver, 17 March 2012 - 12:36 AM.

[Jaenos]

I'm just trying to get some info since I am new to the forum and the MMO and all. Yes, I am a roleplayer so that is what I mean by making a character. I don't mean things so much in the basic game terms for making clan, but as a roleplayer. Maybe a bondsman who's stuck in the IS or in a merc group like Wolf Dragoons but I need more information. I asked some questions in my first post so please help me out with those. I love the clans and they just make sense to me compared to the Inner Sphere.

[LordDeathStrike]

Jaenos, on 17 March 2012 - 02:42 AM, said:

I'm just trying to get some info since I am new to the forum and the MMO and all. Yes, I am a roleplayer so that is what I mean by making a character. I don't mean things so much in the basic game terms for making clan, but as a roleplayer. Maybe a bondsman who's stuck in the IS or in a merc group like Wolf Dragoons but I need more information. I asked some questions in my first post so please help me out with those. I love the clans and they just make sense to me compared to the Inner Sphere.

well if youre a bondsman, that simply means you lost to one of us freebirth scum and follow our orders till you die or you survive your time period of bonding. undoubtedly your clan chasis was too damaged to be repaired without clan tech so youll have to pilot our inner sphere junk, and as an early bondsman you will be bound to mercs, as no inner sphere house faces the clans and survives for a couple years.

[Stormwolf]

LordDeathStrike, on 16 March 2012 - 09:27 PM, said:

itll be about 5 years before clans are playable, this is an inner sphere wargame, clans wont be sighted for another year yet thanks to real time system.

we will start seeing them in a year, politics will proceed, in a few years we will go to war.

edit: i say 5 years playable because thats when IS tech = clan tech unit wise, lets face it, the devs dont want to come up with a way to have single lance of clan mechs vs battalions of IS to balance it when theres no equal hardware footing.

its highly likely clans will never be playable and we will only see some mercs hired to fight for them or their chasis with our weapons and armor installed. as it is 3050 and there are no factories in the IS to produce clan items for many years.

Come now, trolling isn't fun.

Clans will be playable some time next year. Otherwise the devs wouldn't have been working on a honor reward system.

[fire2100]

I would love to play for the clans, I would either go for the smoke jaguars or the steel wolves, love them both. I am willing to wait 5 years just to play as the clans, nothing like a good old Madcat.

[Jaenos]

So is there any forum group I would need to join to be a member of the dragoons or anything like that or anyone that can help me with that? Also, fire2100, it's called a Timberwolf.

Oh and also my favourite mech types to use were the Maurader IIC, Summoner, Timberwolf, Direwolf, and Atlas.

[Red1769]

Mad Cat and Timberwolf are the same mech, Inner Sphere calls them different names, try not to get too picky with it. Steel Wolves aren't until the Dark Ages era, which if this MMO continues to thrive to that point, I can see the devs straying away from canon then, fire2100, as mechs are rarer in that era. Stormwolf is right on that one, clans will be playable next year.

Forum groups, I thought I saw a Wolf's Dragoons recruiting thing...didn't look at it though. Do some exploring of the forums should answer if one of them don't see this and post up a link. The Atlas isn't a Clan mech, but it is confirmed that it is in the game. Sorry I couldn't help you more.

[Odins Reaver]

As for the Atlas, the clans do have quite a few variants of their own (and quite a few of the atlases themselves).
http://www.solaris7....fo.asp?ID=10321

[Stormwolf]

Odins Reaver, on 17 March 2012 - 11:30 AM, said:

As for the Atlas, the clans do have quite a few variants of their own (and quite a few of the atlases themselves).
http://www.solaris7....fo.asp?ID=10321

That is not a official design.

This on the other hand is:
http://www.masteruni...it/3750/Atlas-C

And better check this out for good measure:
http://www.sarna.net...28BattleMech%29

[Odins Reaver]

I find it hard the clans refused to adapt the Atlas seeing as it was a mech that was around for a long time and almost all of them left with Kerensky.

[Jaroth Corbett]

Why go Atlas when you can go Dire Wolf?

Edited by Jaroth Winson, 17 March 2012 - 05:52 PM.

[Hawkeye 72]

Odins Reaver, on 17 March 2012 - 05:03 PM, said:

I find it hard the clans refused to adapt the Atlas seeing as it was a mech that was around for a long time and almost all of them left with Kerensky.

Kerensky took almost all the Atlas II models with him. The tech was later lost in the succession wars. Kerensky piloted one himself for awhile. It wasn't adopted probably because Omnimech technology exceeded it.

[Gremlich Johns]

Jaroth Winson, on 17 March 2012 - 05:52 PM, said:

Why go Atlas when you can go Dire Wolf?

Why pilot an assault at all, I say...

They are just bigger targets and are slow (of course, you can just strip down an atlas, put machines guns on it and the biggest engine allowed - wicked fun)

[Odins Reaver]

Until a kit fox comes along.

[Darth JarJar]

Jaenos, check your private message inbox.

[RJMadCat]

fire2100, on 17 March 2012 - 08:18 AM, said:

I would love to play for the clans, I would either go for the smoke jaguars or the steel wolves, love them both. I am willing to wait 5 years just to play as the clans, nothing like a good old Madcat.

I CANNOT Wait to play the MadCat !!!! If they do not have this guy in the game at some point i will redo my univeristy degrees to Game programming and design and apply to the company and MAKE IT MYSELF!

[Gremlich Johns]

RJMadCat, on 20 March 2012 - 06:05 AM, said:

I CANNOT Wait to play the MadCat !!!! If they do not have this guy in the game at some point i will redo my univeristy degrees to Game programming and design and apply to the company and MAKE IT MYSELF!

Do not attend Full Sail, choose Dave instead.

[Seabear]

I just hope all you would be clanners become familiar with and follow the honor code of the clans and are not just IS style pilots in high tech machines! The clans are DIFFERENT! That is what makes them fun to play and to fight.