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[Jason1138]

the 75th madcat thread this week is allowed to flourish while others are locked for lack of content

[Ascendic]

So where can i read up on the cool battle tech story line i have been missing?

What is the inner sphere and the clans and why did they invade?

Edited by Ascendic, 02 November 2012 - 09:50 AM.

[Krondor]

sarna.net

http://bg.battletech...iverseGuide.pdf

Edited by Krondor, 02 November 2012 - 09:54 AM.

[NovaFury]

Krondor, on 02 November 2012 - 09:31 AM, said:

Actually, all the clans call it the Timber Wolf.

This is correct. As a long-time CJF warrior, I always cringe when someone calls a mech I like by the IS reporting name.

Then again, I cringe when they use contractions if I am in character, also.

[IceSerpent]

Dagger906, on 02 November 2012 - 09:06 AM, said:

1-1 year? Seriously? We have to wait decades to get something cool, like Fafneir?

They probably will "fast forward" time when nothing interesting happens in the BT timeline, but designs like Mad Cat MkII or Fafnir are way, way in the future regardless. You can check sarna for production dates on your favorite mechs.

Edit:

Ascendic, on 02 November 2012 - 09:48 AM, said:

So where can i read up on the cool battle tech story line i have been missing?

What is the inner sphere and the clans and why did they invade?

Same place - www.sarna.net

Edited by IceSerpent, 02 November 2012 - 09:55 AM.

[Jason1138]

Ascendic, on 02 November 2012 - 09:48 AM, said:

So where can i read up on the cool battle tech story line i have been missing?

What is the inner sphere and the clans and why did they invade?

there are over 100 battletech books, check amazon or wikipedia or ebay or whatever. if you start at the beginning you'll be about 40 years before where we are now in this game, and at the end they're about 100 years past where we are now

[MeiSooHaityu]

Ascendic, on 02 November 2012 - 09:48 AM, said:

So where can i read up on the cool battle tech story line i have been missing?

What is the inner sphere and the clans and why did they invade?

Here is the very basic run-down from how I understand it...

• When the star systems around Earth were colonized (inner sphere), they were ruled and protected by the Star League.
  
• soon factions arose in the the inner sphere and house governments started taking shape (Draconis Combine, Federated Suns, etc...)
  
• They started developing their own battle mechs to assert their dominance, but they were much weaker and less capable than the Star League mechs.
  
• The houses of the inner sphere started to undermine the Star Leagues influence and try to obtain Star League technology
  
• General Kerensky, being appalled by this (and the bloody house wars), began an exodus from the Inner sphere (from which 40% or so of the Star League left the Inner Sphere for the Periphery). He was afraid the house governments of the Inner Sphere would destroy the Star League and leave human kind vulnerable and weak. Kerensky's plan was to return when the Inner Sphere imploded and restore order.
  
• After the Star League retreated, the Inner Sphere continued to war with itself (Succession Wars) and the remanents of the Star League became Comstar (religious zealots that controlled Earth and the close surrounding systems) along with the communications network for the Inner Sphere.
  
• The Star League that left with Kerensky colonized 5 worlds in the Periphery. They soon also started fighting each other as well.
  
• After General Kerensky died, one of his descendants united the Star League by creating the Clans. (I think about a 100 years or so after Exodus).
  
• Clans continued to develop tech while the Inner Sphere burned in war.
  
• It was decided that the Clans would return to the Inner Sphere, but there was a dispute on the role of the Clans in their return. Clans like Jade Falcon and Smoke Jaguar wanted to be conquerors imposing their will and ways on the Inner Sphere, while Clan Wolf wanted to be more passive in their role as mostly Guardians (but still rulers).
  
• Clans invade the Inner Sphere and the first Clan to Earth absorbs all other Clans and gets to rule man kind.

Clan Mechs were better because they had a Long time to advance while most advancements in the Inner Sphere were lost to war. Inner Sphere mechs are generally worse still than the Star League mechs, and WAY worse than the new Clan Mechs.

Again, brief overview with probably some errors. Should give you an idea if you didn't go to sarna.net



More knowledgeable people might be able to elaborate more or correct me if I am wrong.

[AlbinoSlug]

You want a Madcat? 35 bucks

[Sayyid]

I would rather have the game set in the original trailer of 3005.

[Deedsie]

The Mk II was not introduced until 3060. That's a long time to wait, and I'd have a Grand Titan retrofitted with Clan tech weapons by the time that thing comes around.

Edited by Deedsie, 02 November 2012 - 11:19 AM.

[AllGamer]

that means we wont get Mad Cat MK2 until like 2014/2015 ? (3060)



MC and MC MK2 were my favourite

[o0 SpAzTaRd 0o]

MadCat MKII was my favorite as well. I hope they do speed things up at some point. Any idea when that could be?

Edited by o0 SpAzTaRd 0o, 15 January 2013 - 02:09 AM.

[roguetrdr]

Seriously you think this game is ready for Clans? They still haven't even got the basics right or even 10% of the promised features. Hell it takes them months to make a 'new' map which is just an old map with the sky changed out and gamma adjusted.

[CrashieJ]

we'll just restart the timeline then... we're all timelords here

[Armorpiercer M82]

ugly mech.

[ConnorSinclair]

It kills me how long it took the idiots here to realize he asked about the late civil war MK 2.

Step it up GOLD KIDS.

[smokefield]

i would say that for now a 1:1 ration works better for pgi..they are not forced to release/add content that often, and since the game is still beta...would make things very difficult for them. But i suppose (and hope so) that when they will release the final form of the game they will change the timeline to something more suited for us humans. I mean i dont want to reach 70 till i see a madcat or another mech from future lol. probably 1month in real time should be 1year in the bt...

[Solis Obscuri]

Ascendic, on 02 November 2012 - 08:14 AM, said:

Madcat MKII has always been my favourite mech. I mean the thing was on the cover for mech warrior 1, 2 and 3 but absent from this game? How can it be?

:sadpanda:

No, it wasn't.

Warhammer (now Unseen)

Mad Cat/Timberwolf

Vulture/Mad Dog

(Ugh) Mauler/Daboku

Mad Cat/Timberwolf

*vomit* Uziel

Apparently some kind of ballistic-toting Black Knight?

By now MS has ****** it up so badly who the hell cane tell...

[ConnorSinclair]

Solis Obscuri, on 15 January 2013 - 02:47 AM, said:

No, it wasn't.

Warhammer (now Unseen)

Mad Cat/Timberwolf

Vulture/Mad Dog

(Ugh) Mauler/Daboku

Mad Cat/Timberwolf

*vomit* Uziel

Apparently some kind of ballistic-toting Black Knight?

By now MS has ****** it up so badly who the hell cane tell...

I would sneak into canada, wait in the parking lot and extort a PGI dev for a mauler.

[Chief 117]

arden, on 02 November 2012 - 08:28 AM, said:

Mad cat mk2 has never been on the cover of a game. You are mistaking it with the timber wolf. The mad cat mk2 is a 90 tonn mech made for export, built by clan diamond shark starting in 3066. It has only been in mw4.

finaly someone who got it right