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[Togg Bott]

too late...and too little.

i , of a scottish decent have taken offence to this BLANTANT attack on myself and my culture. you have no other option but to throw yourself onto your sword.


P.S. we need youtoob vids of this to be sure.

[xxx WreckinBallRaj xxx]

I told you it'd be the Highlander. You know the next one is Assault and PC Gamer has pictures of this Mech already. Connect the dots.

[MeerKatV]

Waldex, on 17 October 2012 - 11:21 AM, said:

Great story cant wait to crawl inside one and annoy everyone on my TS with a terrible scottish accent!

This will be the end of TS as we know it :-)

[MacKerris]

3 please

[SilentWolff]

Groovy. Mech and this thread are full of WIN

[Squigles]

MajorTom, on 17 October 2012 - 03:43 PM, said:

Good grief. There's a reason I used the term "fanboys".

TRO 3039 and 3050R, the two most recent sources that cite the history of the 'mech, both make it clear that the 'mech was in limited deployment outside of Comstar.

Your excepts from the TRO's contain a few words, which you have taken to mean rare. The specific word used in the TRO 3039 was "moderate", as in, a moderate amount.

mod·er·ate/ˈmäd(ə)rət/
Adjective: Average in amount, intensity, quality, or degree.

So an average number of 733's were given to and fielded by the DCMS during the war of 3039, along with a smaller number of original 732's. This in no way implies rarity on the field.

TRO 3050U says relatively few were given....relative to what? If we assume relative to the average mech, then by definition the 2 canonical sources conflict. Unless TRO 3050U is referencing the original 732 model, which went back into production in the 3050's. Hmm, that strangely makes sense, let's look deeper.

TRO 3050: http://www.masteruni...rce/Details/231 Scrolling down through the list of mechs on which information is provided in this book, we see it's the 732, with a few other post 3050 designs.

TRO 3039: http://www.masteruni...rce/Details/180 Scrolling down through the list of mechs here we see that it references the 3 733 models, that were handed out in such numbers as to be referred to as being "moderate", otherwise known as average.

Grabbing my own copy of TRO3050U, it's clearly listed in the section for SLDF mechs, of which the 732 is, and the 733 is not. The 733 being a scaled down 732 using technology available at the time in lieu of the gauss rifle. Much as the Flashman-7K is a derped down version of an 8K and most definitely not star league tech.

The only way you can declare the highlander is rare in the current era is if you define "moderate" as "rare", as no other canonical source states anything contradictory to that notion, and your idea that it's rare is based specifically on your interpretation of those 2 quoted references.

/Removes fanboy hat

All that technical mumbo jumbo out of the way, I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you in that the victor may have made somewhat more sense canonically. My argument is against the statement that the 733 variant is rare (it's not at this time), that it's not in production (it is in at least 1, possibly 2 factories, although 732 production doesn't resume until 3057), and that it had fewer then 3 variants (it has exactly 3 relatively available variants, with 1 rare variant, and 1 variant that could be argued at best to have less models in existence then I have fingers).

[Draken X]

YES!!! HIGHLANDER!!!

Finally! Our wish have come true!

/Fanboy mode OFF

[Watchit]

yay!

[Bophades]

HELL YES!!!!! OMG LOVE IT!~!!!

[DrCapon]

little over the top and silly with the scottish accent... and bagpipe music... me no gusta

[Odanan]

This is the best Alex Iglesias' art so far and the Highlander is a powerful mech, so... why am I not totally happy?

Maybe because the Highlander isn't the most common mech...
Maybe because I wanted a faster Assault (like the Cyclops or the Victor)...
Maybe because I don't like these jack-of-all-trades mechs with one weapon of each type...
And certainly because this mech was already "announced" via PC Gamer and I hoped for something new.

[Dirus Nigh]

I see you resisted putting on a North Wind Highlander unit patch on the mech.

Also will this come with the ability to blast bagpipe music over the enemies speakers?

[VIEJODIABLO]

What about the writings on the knee?? Real time documentary on undertaking Filmming in progress.

[Lonestar1771]

I wish we didn't have to wait until 2013 to get it.

[Kaemon]

http://youtu.be/vZTHzdpkpgU?t=2m31s

Edited by Kaemon, 17 October 2012 - 06:44 PM.

[Wolf Hreda]

Prosperity Park, on 17 October 2012 - 10:35 AM, said:

The McDoomswingers aren't going to take this stereotyping lightly.

It'd be better if they were named the MacDoomswingers. More Scottish. And I'd deal with any amount of stereotyping to pilot Davis McCall's 'Mech (also named Bannockburn, the name of his original 'Mech, a Rifleman).

Edited by Wolf Hreda, 17 October 2012 - 06:50 PM.

[guardian wolf]

Sheesh, didn't know they hired RogueSpear to do this one? Was wondering what he was up to.

[Morashtak]

Heheheh....

Now it gets fun! Se ya' on the field o' battle, laddies and lasses.

[Covah1606]

Wish it was the jaggermech, take down all those LRM wheenies.

[Vanguard836]

Looks great can't wait to try it out.