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[Hardened Pyrokinetics]

By my count (I have been keeping count) James should have about 5 or 6 full volleys and another half left for his missiles and about half his MG ammo.

I haven't been keeping track myself.

[SaintB]

By my count (I have been keeping count) James should have about 5 or 6 full volleys and another half left for his missiles and about half his MG ammo.

I haven't been keeping track myself.

you were loaded up with like 5-6 tons of LRM ammo as I recall...

EDIT: 5 tons, that was enough for 12 full salvos of missile fire and another 2 shots left. So you have like 7 and a half full volleys left. If you don't fire all launchers at once you can stay in the fight a long time yet at missile range

[Northern Dominus]

I haven't been keeping track myself.

you were loaded up with like 5-6 tons of LRM ammo as I recall...

EDIT: 5 tons, that was enough for 12 full salvos of missile fire and another 2 shots left. So you have like 7 and a half full volleys left. If you don't fire all launchers at once you can stay in the fight a long time yet at missile range

Yeah... but isn't that sort of the fun of having LRM-20s? Firing them off all at once and making the battlefield nice and shady... at least for a moment anyway?

Note to self, DO NOT put Timberwolf and Bitch in the same lance ever again.

^This.

Not to be that guy... but where exactly is Warhound going? The overhead map was included in my latest post for Kat, but just for a quick primer, there is no Southeast of the facility. Southeast means instant death for this simulated mission...

[Oblivion2]

you were loaded up with like 5-6 tons of LRM ammo as I recall...

EDIT: 5 tons, that was enough for 12 full salvos of missile fire and another 2 shots left. So you have like 7 and a half full volleys left. If you don't fire all launchers at once you can stay in the fight a long time yet at missile range

Yeah... but isn't that sort of the fun of having LRM-20s? Firing them off all at once and making the battlefield nice and shady... at least for a moment anyway?

^This.

Not to be that guy... but where exactly is Warhound going? The overhead map was included in my latest post for Kat, but just for a quick primer, there is no Southeast of the facility. Southeast means instant death for this simulated mission...

Link me that please, I will fix

[Northern Dominus]

Yeah... but isn't that sort of the fun of having LRM-20s? Firing them off all at once and making the battlefield nice and shady... at least for a moment anyway?

Not to be that guy... but where exactly is Warhound going? The overhead map was included in my latest post for Kat, but just for a quick primer, there is no Southeast of the facility. Southeast means instant death for this simulated mission...

Link me that please, I will fix

Ask and ye shall... waitasec, I'm not riffing holier-than-thou because the pope's retiring am I?...goddamit just look

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/ ... iImage.jpg

[Oblivion2]

I vaguely recall receiving the primer map at one point but because I couldn't find it in an easy to access area or anything I bullshitted it. So someone find it for me and then there shall be order in the chaos of my post

[Northern Dominus]

I vaguely recall receiving the primer map at one point but because I couldn't find it in an easy to access area or anything I bullshitted it. So someone find it for me and then there shall be order in the chaos of my post

You can't access it? It's a photobucket file...

[Oblivion2]

I meant at the time I wrote my post I couldn't find it Domi, lol

[Ularn]

Note to self, DO NOT put Timberwolf and Bitch in the same lance Star System ever again.

Fixed!

I'm not riffing holier-than-thou because the pope's retiring am I?

Hard for anyone to hold down a job in this economy

[Oblivion2]

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[Northern Dominus]

Note to self, DO NOT put Timberwolf and Bitch in the same lance Star System ever again.

Fixed!

I'm not riffing holier-than-thou because the pope's retiring am I?

Hard for anyone to hold down a job in this economy

Speak for yourself, I have a pretty solid career... odd route I took to get there aside.

Post edited. New post inbound.

Uh...not to nitpick...but I assume you mean northeasternmost tip of the forest in your latest post?

[Oblivion2]

... It was four in the morning when I wrote that, but yes I do. Apologies, I'm at like 140ish hours at work this week. Edited again

[Northern Dominus]

... It was four in the morning when I wrote that, but yes I do. Apologies, I'm at like 140ish hours at work this week. Edited again

Yikes, 140? Hopefully you get overtime at least...

[Oblivion2]

Major overtime. But yeah apologies on the quality of my posts and the lack of fucks to give, this shit doesn't seem to wanna slow down

[Northern Dominus]

Major overtime. But yeah apologies on the quality of my posts and the lack of fucks to give, this shit doesn't seem to wanna slow down

Always fun, again I don't think anyone would fault you, and you at least have kept things going, which is always appreciated.

[Oblivion2]

I think if for some reason I lose the Cataphtact imma grab me a hammer hands

[Northern Dominus]

I think if for some reason I lose the Cataphtact imma grab me a hammer hands

Aaaaah but which variant, that is the question

[Ularn]

I think if for some reason I lose the Cataphtact imma grab me a hammer hands

If Jaz looses Bulldyke (and survives) I'm gonna see if I can get her a Lupus. It will be called Laurie, for reasons which may be clear depending on your taste in bitchin' medical dramas. If she doesn't survive, my next character's getting a Wraith.

[Northern Dominus]

I think if for some reason I lose the Cataphtact imma grab me a hammer hands

If Jaz looses Bulldyke (and survives) I'm gonna see if I can get her a Lupus. It will be called Laurie, for reasons which may be clear depending on your taste in bitchin' medical dramas. If she doesn't survive, my next character's getting a Wraith.

...so if one of her lancemates gets a rotund mech do they have to call it the Fry?

And if the Bulldyke is destroyed (although it would be much cooler to see it torn up then rebuilt...IMHO ), why go with the Lupus? Why not go bigger and badder with an O-Bakemono?

[Oblivion2]

I think if for some reason I lose the Cataphtact imma grab me a hammer hands

Aaaaah but which variant, that is the question

Probably the standard or the 4D. Maybe swap the 4D out with some endo steel and ferro fibrous in order to grab some more AC/10 ammo or
Heat sinks or atleast up them to doubles. I'm big on custom 'Mechs XD

[Northern Dominus]

Aaaaah but which variant, that is the question

Probably the standard or the 4D. Maybe swap the 4D out with some endo steel and ferro fibrous in order to grab some more AC/10 ammo or
Heat sinks or atleast up them to doubles. I'm big on custom 'Mechs XD

I've always wondered about that sort of weight-saving. I mean sure, Endo-Steel, Ferro-Fiberous and XL engines on their own can be pretty good weight savers... but is the decreased critical slot availability worth implementing more than one of those weight-saving measures? I mean sure you can add a big "headchopper" weapon in a relatively smaller mech, but then how much does a mech give up in firepower when it can't mount as many smaller weapons or heat dissipation or electronic warfare?

Seems like whole-hog weight saving should be left to mechs that are 70 tons and up...

[Ularn]

If Jaz looses Bulldyke (and survives) I'm gonna see if I can get her a Lupus. It will be called Laurie, for reasons which may be clear depending on your taste in bitchin' medical dramas. If she doesn't survive, my next character's getting a Wraith.

...so if one of her lancemates gets a rotund mech do they have to call it the Fry?

And if the Bulldyke is destroyed (although it would be much cooler to see it torn up then rebuilt...IMHO ), why go with the Lupus? Why not go bigger and badder with an O-Bakemono?

Meh, the OBK looks cool but it just seems like an up-armoured C-3 Catapult minus the jumpjets, whereas the Lupus is like Bulldyke on steroids; lighter, faster and with better guns and an ECM suite for extra sneak. And since it's an omnimech we can do all sorts of tinkering with the loadout for funsies. Admittedly the ammo capacity takes a bit of a beating but overall it's only half a ton less per launcher than The C4 Catapult.

[Oblivion2]

Hammerhands is a 75 I think so it works. AC/10s arnt that big, medium lasers surely arnt, PPC would probably be on par with the SRM-6 due to ammo. So at that point I'd imagine you'd have plenty of crit slots left to slap either endo or ferro on it in order to fit either more heat sinks, up them to double, or add more AC/10 ammo for extended engagements

[Northern Dominus]

...so if one of her lancemates gets a rotund mech do they have to call it the Fry?

And if the Bulldyke is destroyed (although it would be much cooler to see it torn up then rebuilt...IMHO ), why go with the Lupus? Why not go bigger and badder with an O-Bakemono?

Meh, the OBK looks cool but it just seems like an up-armoured C-3 Catapult minus the jumpjets, whereas the Lupus is like Bulldyke on steroids; lighter, faster and with better guns and an ECM suite for extra sneak. And since it's an omnimech we can do all sorts of tinkering with the loadout for funsies. Admittedly the ammo capacity takes a bit of a beating but overall it's only half a ton less per launcher than The C4 Catapult.

Ah, but you see, the O-Bakemono is a full 20 tons heavier than Catapult. Moreover, the O-Bakemono is used by Comstar, so theoretically, the Word of Blake could have their hands on a few as well.

It's also well-known that the Blakists really glomed onto MML technology. And am MML-9 launcher weighs 9 tons less and takes up 10 less critical slots than an Arrow IV artillery launcher.

So strip out the Arrow IV launchers and the 6 tons of ammo that feed those launchers, and suddenly with a little imagination the O-Bakemono goes from a simple copy of the Naga clan mech to something with a lot more tactical options without any decrease in firepower...and probably an increase in accuracy if one includes Artemis IV FCS'.

Plus, here's the other thing: The Lupus is clan tech. Video games aside apparently clan tech isn't as common as the Mechwarrior IV series would have one believe.

Hammerhands is a 75 I think so it works. AC/10s arnt that big, medium lasers surely arnt, PPC would probably be on par with the SRM-6 due to ammo. So at that point I'd imagine you'd have plenty of crit slots left to slap either endo or ferro on it in order to fit either more heat sinks, up them to double, or add more AC/10 ammo for extended engagements

Okay, so you have AC/10's and ammo...what else would this mech utilize?

[SaintB]

Probably the standard or the 4D. Maybe swap the 4D out with some endo steel and ferro fibrous in order to grab some more AC/10 ammo or
Heat sinks or atleast up them to doubles. I'm big on custom 'Mechs XD

I've always wondered about that sort of weight-saving. I mean sure, Endo-Steel, Ferro-Fiberous and XL engines on their own can be pretty good weight savers... but is the decreased critical slot availability worth implementing more than one of those weight-saving measures? I mean sure you can add a big "headchopper" weapon in a relatively smaller mech, but then how much does a mech give up in firepower when it can't mount as many smaller weapons or heat dissipation or electronic warfare?

Seems like whole-hog weight saving should be left to mechs that are 70 tons and up...

I personally think it works better one smaller 'mechs, most of them aren't heavy enough to carry some of the biggest weapons even if they had a lot of empty space on them anyway. The extra tonnage usually goes to maximizing armor coverage and top speed and such which makes them better at surviving.

Plus, here's the other thing: The Lupus is clan tech. Video games aside apparently clan tech isn't as common as the Mechwarrior IV series would have one believe.

Clan tech is not that rare, its the clan Omnimech's that are. Truthfully a lot of the 'mechs the clans actually use aren't any different from the pre-succession wars era. If its before 2784 than it is also found in the clan military with Star League Era technology and makes up the second line and garrison forces.