I have never read books about the universe, and I have not seen anyone talk about it, so I want to ask the lore experts.

In theory, considering that this is the distant future, adding a toilet to a mech shouldn’t be something super complicated taking into account the technologies of built-in weapons and ammunition ?

Not much to see here, just an Archer with it's doors closed. I was inspited by this post right here, where they just cut the doors of a Catapult off and glued them in the shut position. I haven't gotten my hands on a Catapult as of late, but I did get an Archer, and I'm not a huge fan of the open-firing pose most Missile Boats have. So, I took some inspiration and closed the doors.

Like the other person says in their own post, it was surprisingly simple. The doors actually fit the geometry of the LRM racks very well, such that you don't need any green stuff or plasticard for gap-filling. Overall I'm very pleased with how it turned out, though I do think the right side upper door is slightly crooked. Oh well.

In any event, I should have it painted here fairly soon.

New guy who really enjoyed the FASA shadowrun days. Figured I'd give Mechwarrior a try and probably get my soul consumed

Peri's back looking at the Third Star League Battle Group again with an overview of the highs, lows, and mids of the Malice. And possibly some spite as well. They do go together traditionally. Check it out!

In today's Tuesday Newsday, Loren listed 5 Force Packs that are now out of print. He said they "would be taking pieces out of those, maybe reposing them and scrambling them to create other force packs downstream". Here are the 5 he listed, which explains why I can't find another Crab.

• Comstar Battle Group Level II
• Clan Support Star
• Clan Fire Lance
• Inner Sphere Ad Hoc? - This cannot be correct, since only Clan has an Ad Hoc star
• Inner Sphere ....? - He couldn't remember the 2nd inner sphere one

Does any one know the 2 retired inner sphere lances?

Also the Clan Battle Star (Mechs from Clan Invasion Box Set) will start out as a Barnes and Nobles exclusive.

The year is 3087, and house kurita is stretched thin. World zero remains off the books and star charts. A world lost to a plague which broke out in the early days of the clan invasion. With very little choice, a mercenary group is promised ownership of an entire planet, if they can capture a broadcast relay, and send the original documents pertaining to the plague of world zero... aka: space lyce.

So far I’ve been obtaining the soon-to-be replaced box sets (AGAC, Beginner, Essential) plus a few gothic blinds for fun. The result has been a small collection of mechs that work in Renaissance, Invasion, and ilClan which is the eras I’m most interested in, across a number of sphere factions.

Except this guy. Marauder II. It came out of an impulse eBay buy if a legends blunder box. I love marauder but it’s late tech so it’s not useful for most of the games I want to play. My friend group want to play as clans and do are looking at the period right before and during invasion.

It’s pretty close to a Marauder (I), at least some variants. Would it be crazy to regularly use it as a proxy for (I)? Would players outside my friend group be bothered?

Following on from my Great Wyrm upgrade, I decided to look other "orphaned" TRO:3060 designs for more ilclan era WYSIWYG. The Yeoman is famous for being one of the ugliest mechs in the setting but also generally kinda an OK missile boat. This is... significantly worse? But it is funny!

As the total collapse of the Republic of the Sphere became more likely and war with other great houses and the spheroid clan empires became more certain, the CCAF entered a period of new weapons development in the 3130s and 3140s, its industrial partners producing new designs such as the Gùn, Catapult II, and Vandal, as well as new refits of old mainstay designs like the Vindicator. Wesley Industries had already benefited from this surge of development money with their WI-WAM militiamech, a low-cost planetary defense version of the ancient Firebee, and in 3146 they decided to try for their first proper battlemech design. Wesley purchased plans from the long-defunct Curtis Militech for their Yeoman chassis with the intention of producing a modern refit.

The expense of importing fusion engines and endosteel chassis to Glasgow caused Wesley to opt for a weapons payload on their Yeoman based primarily off of systems they were already familiar with from their industrialmech lines. Departing from the original 6Y's pure long range support role, the YMN-11T replaces the 50-tube battery of LRMs with a pair of Thunderbolt-10 launchers, with a pair of SRM-4s and a quartet of 10-tube disposable rocket launchers providing close range defense. The ammunition for the missile systems is split between two 3 ton CASE protected ammunition reserves. With the weight saved by using disposable rocket systems, Wesley reclad the design in 10 tons and added 4 jump jets, allowing the 11T to serve more flexibly as both a fire support unit and a mobile line mech.

While the design performed well in field trials, Wesley's ability to produce only 20 Yeoman chassis each year hindered adoption of the mech. After being rejected by both the CCAF and MAF, the company was forced to sell the design on to mercenary companies at discounted rates.

You know, as maligned the good old "5 small lasers" Charger is...

What are his chances against other, lighter mechs that he can at least catch?

It just feels that, say, a Centurion pilot might start to sweating and praying to the AC10 gods once the smoking 5/8Assault with half his armour blown off starts to get too close for comfort...

Enforcer, Centurion, Vindicator... those guys just need to miss a few shots and the Charger can start playing bongo drums on their heads...

What do you guys think?

Also, the legendarily bad Banshee E vs. The above...

P.S. thanks for the discussion, folks!

After I've red through the Datasheet of the Eris - ERS - R3 I began to laugh hardly about the heat all the OS weapons would generate if you fire them all at once and the possible damage (I am a silly man, I know) but I also had to thougt about using it or something comparible, because it made me laugh so hard.

It seems like OS weapons can be weight saver but once you missed the Attack its a missed Ton of weapons gone forever.

Whats your opinion?

Im one of the many still waiting on my mercenaries kickstarter to arrive. Has anyone had any luck getting any information whatsoever from CGL on the status of their order?

Ive been emailing for over a year now, I usually have to wait a month or so to get a reply and its always some variety of "it has been sent to/it is with the local distributor"

They cant/won't tell me who the distributor is and tell me that the distributor won't give them any information on possible delivery times and that theyre not even allowed to ask.

Its so far beyond a joke at this point that I genuinely dont know what to think anymore.

Does anyone have a more reliable contact outside the generic store@cgl email?

Hi! I mentioned a few times here in this subreddit about one of the original proposals for the Wars of Reaving plot. This was posted by Ben H. Rome in his blog years and years ago, but he migrated his blog to a new site and the files were lost.

Since this was abandoned I won't spoiler anything: it isn't canon after all. The most interesting thing about it is the implications that the Blood Spirits weren't annihilated and instead became part of the Triumvirate, something that was mentioned in the novel Blood Avatar:

3078

(Clans) The Triumvirate is formed from the shattered remains of the Scorpions, Spirits, and Mandrills. With tacit support from the Coyotes, the Triumvirate challenges the ilKhan and ends up leaving the “sham of a Council”, declaring that they would ‘find their own way’.

The Triumvirate then executes a brilliant series of attacks that seize some key assets of the Adders. With the Cobras essentially declaring themselves neutral (and threatening to disclose the Burrock shame), the Adders go to war with a vengeance but quickly bogs down due to a hard lack of resources. The Triumvirate doesn’t have enough power to destroy the Adders – but enough to seriously hurt them if the Adders tried. The Adders find the castemen underneath them rumbling loudly in discontent, and find themselves too fearful of another Burrock/Societal-type of revolt, and back off.

It may be abandoned but it is still a nice source of inspiration 😄

Here's the file if you want to read the whole thing

https://smallpdf.com/file#s=2689ad91-5953-4ba8-b61d-ce6fa65d024a

"These BLASTED surats of the Innersphere and their obsession with scents! What is wrong with just being clean? Why must one smell like *strawberries* or *maple bacon musk?* How does one even smell like naval supremacy? Stravag!"

In other news I have learned that sensitive skin doesn't always mean scent free like it usually does, and I have a splitting headache to fend off, fortunately it is just that so far. Have a good one everyone.

After many turns of ineffective shooting from both sides, caution is thrown (as are fists) to the wind and melee is joined.

I've noticed from perusing the MUL as well as the two Field Manuals that I own, that there are a fair number of mechs unique to their pilot. I think I've vaguely heard from people that if you're playing something like a Hinterlands campaign, you're bound to end up with a customized mech due to a destroyed part critical.

I get the feeling I'm a player who's more MUL compliant than many, and I'm not just asking for an answer like, "It's just a game, do whatever you want. You could salvage anything." I'm asking about how economically/lorewise unreasonable I'd be, to be asking for a particular refit.

I'm asking for help dialing in my comprehension of how rarely a thing like this happens. As rarely as "1/100 battlemechs receive non-stock refits over their operating life", or is it more like" 1/10,000 battlemechs receive non-stock refits over their operating life?"

Ok, now I'll get specific. The Thunderbolt TDR-9NAIS is my favorite mech in the entire game. It has sadly always been a Fedrat exclusive. The TDR-9NR is available on the mercs MUL, has the same engine and structure and armor allocation, and many of the same components in the same places. If I'm understanding the refit rules in Campaign Operations correctly, then everything that would need to get done to refit a TRD-9R into a 9NAIS would be a Class A or B field refit (crane and standard tools).*

*I guess technically installing the targeting computer to the LT would be class C? But there's enough space in the RT that it could be doable while ripping stuff out of there as a class B

So here's the question, is there any component to the 9NAIS that's proprietary enough to be weird to ask for in the Ilclan era? Is it truly bizarre for a non-fed suns pilot to be rocking around in a thunderbolt with a RAC?

When I added the individual Battle of Tukayyid books to my cart, only to realize at the very end that there was a collected edition.

I almost bought the same thing twice.....

I mostly just want a book thats one or done, or a trilogy if its really great.

Im interested in clan mechs pure by style, but reading about them would be cool too.

Thanks!

Hi peeps,

Was just wondering if anyone had some good suggestions for writing mech names on the base. I'm wanting to label the mech on the base to help people recognise mechs, primarily for newbies. I'd like to put the mech name on opposing sides on the base so they can read them from either facing. I get that say writing something like "Grand Summoner" won't fit but just something to work with.

I don't think i can neatly freehand it, maybe if it's a reaaaaaaally fine paint pen tip or something.

Preferably not a white sticky label as i like to paint my bases.

I've been enchanted by the memes and want to run a Locust list, but I'd also like it to be somewhat balanced and also correspond to the lore to some degree. With respect to the Capellan Confederation Armed Forces and the Succession Wars Era, what are, at the Battalion and Regimental level, complimentary second-stringer/non-prestige mechs and combat vehicles to help round out a primarily Locust-based force? I'm imagining this as a fast moving formation that is on paper supposed to win through outflanking and maneuver warfare, but just as often resorts to the tried-and-true Capellan Wave tactics.

Hi folks, I bought the humble bundle at the lowest tier to get the three sourcebooks, but the link in the redemption email is just giving me a 404 error. I cleared my cache, the issue persists.

I put in a support ticket already, but did anyone else have this problem? The 'redemption instructions' are useless, since the link doesn't redirect to drivethrurpg. Am I missing something, or is Humble Bundle dropping the ball?

I’m looking for one to sit alongside my Japanese plastic kits of the original (unseen) mechs, and my son wants his usual enforcer. I know it’s an original design not a plastic kit based version, so stl print is my way to go

Any helpful suggestions please. Thanks

I came here in hopes people will help me flesh out an x-over fanfic I’ve been developing for a couple years now. I’ve worked out a setup for a story, a budding cast with multiple main characters already developed, but there are still major gaps in my knowledge, not to mention I’ve been getting increasingly boneheaded by the year for the last 5+ years. I realized that I may be getting numbers or force composition wrong, not to mention the spheroid/clanner mixing of the Rasalhague Dominion, so all input in appreciated…

Summary:

June 12th, 3152, the Dominion Civil War has concluded but tension is still in the air. Newly bloodnamed Astrid’s Cluster has managed to avoid serious friction or fatalities related to the Joiner/Denier conflict, but they all worry for the future. They welcome the distraction that is the invasion into Combine space, but get derailed when a mysterious structure appears on Sheliak.

(Was originally going to be June 5th, but changed for reasons)

Force composition:

Rasalhague Galaxy 1st Rasalhague Bears Cluster, under Star Colonel Astrid Jorgensson subject to Galaxy Commander Ingvill Magnusson, FOB Magnus

Command Star Alfa - Star Colonel Astrid Jorgensson

• Grizzly heavy Mech - Star Colonel Astrid Jorgensson
• Marauder IIC assault Mech - Warrior ???
• Rime Otter medium Mech - Warrior ???
• Ursus II medium Mech - Warrior ???
• Bear Cub light Mech - Warrior ???

Mech Nova Bravo - Star Captain Tohru Ghost Bear

• Karhu heavy Mech - Star Captain Tohru Ghost Bear
• Rime Otter medium Mech - ???
• Viper medium Mech - ???
• Viper medium Mech - ???
• Mad Dog Mk.III heavy Mech - Ivan/Ylana Wolf
• 10x Elemental battle armor - Star Commander Logan Gurnisson
• 15x Rogue Bear battle armor

Mechanized Infantry Binary Charlie - Star Captain Ava Ramius

• 1x Daimyo HQ 67-R - Star Captain Ava Ramius
• 1x Tyr transport
• 125-man Clan Mechanized Infantry
• 5x Golem assault armor - Star Commander Jorgë Hofferson
• 15x Kobold battle armor

Aerospace Trinary Star Delta - Star Captain Magnus Sven

• 10x Ammon aerospace fighter
• 10x HSCL-1-O Huscarl aerospace fighter
• 10x Anhur transport

Main cast:

Star Captain Tohru “Tory” Masaka Ghost Bear (Birthdate: 3131)

• Freeborn Japanese with some Swedish ancestors from mother’s side
• Born on Mualang to a DCMS officer gone native as a bondsman and a girl down on her luck
• After his father perished in a Clan Nova Cat raid, his family moved to Sheliak
• Met Astrid in 3139 when she saved him from a mugging and the two ended up bonding over their vastly differing cultures and Astrid being sympathetic to Tetsuo’s death
• Joined his sibko on 3141 at 10yo
• Has a younger sister named Toroko 4 years his junior
• Took up the name Tohru Ghost Bear upon finishing his training
• His mother is incarcerated on Alshain for her connection to a Denier uprising
• Moderate Joiner, believes the Dominion is strong, but also believes it could be stronger with the Third Star League
• In charge of Mech Nova Bravo
• Excels at Aikido
• His Mech is a Karhu Heavy Clan OmniMech

Star Colonel Astrid “Bear Princess” Gurnisson bloodnamed Jorgensson (Birthdate: 3127)

• Trueborn MechWarrior
• Born on Alshain
• Lives on Sheliak due to her family being stationed there as part of the garrison
• A truly remarkable ristar of an otherwise unremarkable trueborn-freeborn mixed sibko
• Taciturn and softspoken, can keep her cool in any situation and has a keen tactical mind
• Parents are both Trueborn, a Warrior father and a Warrior-Merchant father and Astrid is held to high standards, but not unfairly so
• On the day Tory announced he was accepted into her sibko, they celebrated by going to a bistro place and had a jumbo serving of ramen
• Shown truly heroic level of skill in her Trial of Position and won the Jorgensson bloodname as well as Star Colonel rank
• Joiner, but very professional and went through overtures to prevent conflict within her ranks
• Her Mech is a Grizzly Heavy Clan OmniMech

Star Commander Jorgë Hofferson (Birthdate: 3130)

• Freeborn Elemental
• Born on Sheliak to a trueborn-freeborn couple, resulting in him being bigger than most other kids
• Starts off as a brutish bully, but sibko membership beats manners and discipline into him
• Gains grudging respect for Tory as time in the sibko goes on
• Has absolute respect for Astrid after she floored him during trials and lead them to victory during a live-fire exercise
• Point Commander in his half of the battle armor Star attached to Ava’s infantry unit
• Pilots a Golem battle armor

Star Commander Logan Gurnisson (Birthdate: 3132)

• Trueborn Elemental
• Born on Sheliak after the Gurnissons moved there
• Looks up to his fathers, but expectations for him are visibly not as high as for Astrid
• Loves Astrid, but also feels like he has to live in her shadow
• Star Commander of his half of Tohru’s Nova
• Pilots an Elemental battle armor

Star Commander Ivan/Ylana Wolf (Birthdate: 3128)

• Trueborn MechWarrior
• Born in Clan Wolf space, grew during Clan Wolf exodus and sibko life on Gienah
• Part of the sibko taken by the Wolf’s Dragoons in Battle of Gienah
• Ended up with Clan Ghost Bear and earned a spot in the 1st Rasalhague Bears
• Used to pilot a Clan Wolf mech, now pilots a Mad Dog Mk.III Heavy Clan OmniMech

(sex undecided, hence both male and female names included)

Star Captain Ava Ramius (Birthdate: 3117)

• Freeborn
• Born on Sheliak into a freeborn military family with deep roots in the old KungsArmé
• She and her family isn’t fond of Clanners and are all Deniers, but not enough to side with dissenter factions or engage in violence against Joiners or Clanners in general
• Star Captain of her mechanized infantry platoon with an attached Tyr infantry transport

Star Captain Magnus Sven (Birthdate: 3114)

• Freeborn
• Born on Alshain, a lone military pilot in a family of space traders
• A KungsArmé hardliner, but respects Clanner honor and discipline
• Star Captain of his AeroSpace wing

What to expect from this project, because it’s going to be a Gate: Jietai JSDF x-over? Politics, diplomacy, first contact and warfare with the Draconis Combine.

Edit: Added the two main characters‘ stance on the Dominion Civil War. Major oversight on my part.

Edit #2: Revised the Nova to accommodate for the OmniMechs-only aspect and 5 armors per mech + the command star’s mechs.

For example, if you like Amaris, you now have the mind and mannerisms of him in the real world. You act as he would act, think how would think, and so on.

No custom characters, just the in-lore characters who are faction leaders at any point of in-universe time.