RE: Calling all BattleTechies
08-31-2018, 03:14 PM (This post was last modified: 09-07-2018, 02:47 AM by classicdrogn.)
08-31-2018, 03:14 PM (This post was last modified: 09-07-2018, 02:47 AM by classicdrogn.)
Notes taken on the Charger. As for the ASFs, they're carried on the Union, not the Danais.
RE "Jackrabbit," given that they mainly exist as part of the von Neumann cycle, I suppose the double-Rabbit doesn't really need a name of it's own... Would just "Rabbit" still suffer the same pall? I could go with BN-1E Bunny, thus making the doubled up version a Bun-Bun...
I'm keeping "Grasshopper" as the PA name, though: MC doesn't even know if he's on a currently inhabited world when he makes it, let alone that it's BT, and being taken from before I got the idea for this project and started looking wouldn't know there was a Grasshopper battlemech even if he did.
e: WRT the lack of mention of shuttles, well, the game (and the IC) are very much focused on big stompy robots doing stompy robot things, and aside from scooting a Light or Medium (up to 50 tons for teh K-1, 65 for the Mk VII) into the bay on its back they're generally too small to have anything directly to do with stompy robots. Dropships on the other hand are designed for getting the stompy robots to the stompin' party, so they're what all the cool kids want. The K-1 isn't that impressive, I'll grant, though it's got enough space for a couple 20t trucks, a crowd of troops to collect loot and load it into them, and a few tons of other souvenirs or captives, but the Mk-VII is surprisingly capable, especially for being 50t lighter than the K-1. It's basically a super-long-range ASF that's also designed to carry two squads worth of passengers and drop off an MBT when it gets to the operational area.
RE "Jackrabbit," given that they mainly exist as part of the von Neumann cycle, I suppose the double-Rabbit doesn't really need a name of it's own... Would just "Rabbit" still suffer the same pall? I could go with BN-1E Bunny, thus making the doubled up version a Bun-Bun...
I'm keeping "Grasshopper" as the PA name, though: MC doesn't even know if he's on a currently inhabited world when he makes it, let alone that it's BT, and being taken from before I got the idea for this project and started looking wouldn't know there was a Grasshopper battlemech even if he did.
e: WRT the lack of mention of shuttles, well, the game (and the IC) are very much focused on big stompy robots doing stompy robot things, and aside from scooting a Light or Medium (up to 50 tons for teh K-1, 65 for the Mk VII) into the bay on its back they're generally too small to have anything directly to do with stompy robots. Dropships on the other hand are designed for getting the stompy robots to the stompin' party, so they're what all the cool kids want. The K-1 isn't that impressive, I'll grant, though it's got enough space for a couple 20t trucks, a crowd of troops to collect loot and load it into them, and a few tons of other souvenirs or captives, but the Mk-VII is surprisingly capable, especially for being 50t lighter than the K-1. It's basically a super-long-range ASF that's also designed to carry two squads worth of passengers and drop off an MBT when it gets to the operational area.
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