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[GAME ON] I'm running a MegaMek/BattleTech Campaign
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God I forgot how awful this thing was, the bombadier has more armor, and is faster than me.
I'm gonna have to mod/replace this piece of crap as soon as possible.
I believe the key is to play on on enemy sympathy long enough to roll in front of them and trip them. My bet is you'll end up hanging back with me to help me out if light mechs get in too close. Even against the bots in MegaMek, that Urbanmech is always getting picked on. Destroyed in 3 out of 3 engagements so far against similar point levels.
I like the fact that my guy is pretty decent with lasers... but his mech has no lasers, just missiles and a machine gun. I suppose if we're going to keep the Urbanmech I have zero right to complain, though. Maybe we can swindle somebody on a tradeup or dig up some salvage to get Morkath something a little less... suicidal?
How is the skill stuff going to work in MegaMek, anyway? Poking around with the program, it seems that customized pilots are limited to Gunnery and Pilot skills. I don't see anything for edge, laser gunnery, missiles, etc. I'm probably missing something, though. And are we going to be working with salvage and purchasing new equipment and the like? We're not dealing with omnimechs here, but being able to drop my machine gun and SRMs for a pair of medium lasers would be nice at some point. Perhaps we'll be able to trade up with a combination of the value of our mech and whatever we've earned/salvaged?
or a MG would work too.
There's a tab for using the skills i outlined - i'll show you on sunday. as house warriors, you don't really get to keep what you salvage. i'm not adverse to letting people customize mechs, but i need to make it expensive/difficult. it won't be something done off the bat, i don't think. otherwise people just run around in medium laser boats.
Wait, you mean they'll be shooting at us? You know that is expressly against the intended purpose of an Urbanmech? It's clearly stated in the warranty:
"Do not shoot this mech or it will explode. Don't drive it, either. Or use it to shoot things. Or use it as entertainment at birthday parties. Basically, don't buy this mech. Any violation of the warranty means we will laugh at you and send you pretty pictures of real mechs."
Yeah, I figured there would have to be some pretty severe limitations on salvage since we aren't mercs, but frankly I was hoping we wouldn't be able to go custom-crazy. Not being able to customize every last thing means we have to be more inventive than just loading stuff up with medium lasers and LRMs.
Good news everyone, I can kill a flea in an urban environment!
A falcon kicks my ass though, it can jump jet too much.
Err, you mean the mech with the same amount of armor, twice the speed, and more guns and far more range?
Team mascot!
He's also in our Assault Lance.
Maybe if it breaks he'll get a better one.
I expect great things from Morkath.
I'd probably do that, if they would let me. Mostly out of pity though.
Cool, it is one of the variants to lose and heatsink and gain a MG, so maybe kali will allow it.
It will at least make me decent at killing infantry.
If he paints it red will it go faster?
I think you should name it Rita Mcneal.
Managed to kill an assassin even though he was pounding the shit out of me. Hit his hip actuator, he failed his pilot roll and went down. Critting 3 locations. Jump jet, LRM5, and LRM5 ammo.
The ammo explodes for 85 damage on the right torso triggering a auto eject.
Horrible, horrible things can happen when someone shoots at you.
-I just tried out an Urbie vs Assassin match too!
Weapons fire for UrbanMech UM-R60 (Defender)
Autocannon/10 at Assassin ASN-101 (Bot1); needs 9, rolls 10 : hits RT
Assassin ASN-101 (Bot1) takes 10 damage to RT. Armor destroyed, 9 Internal Structure remaining
Critical hit on RT. Roll is 8; 1 location.
<<<CRITICAL HIT>>> on LRM 5 Ammo (23).
*** LRM 5 Ammo EXPLODES! 115 DAMAGE! ***
I guess as long as I stick to low armor targets I should at least have a minor chance.
I think I have a basic understanding of the mech now, and I at least remember how jump jets work in MM. Forgot they show red even when you can make the jump heh. At first I was cursing at the tin can going, "WHY THE HELL CAN'T YOU EVEN JJ UP A LEVEL 1 OBSTRUCTION!"
JUST TO CONFUSE EVERYBODY
It used to be the data\mex\mechset.txt file, but I don't seem to have that folder/file in 34.6
Nevermind, they moved it to the images folder.
alternatively we could use the PA ventrilo server.
Meh my custom image is spilling the color into the entire square instead of just the mech for some reason.
You've got at least one person rooting for you Morkath. Go Urbie!
Go team Urbie!
Also thanks for the support guys. :P
haha
I just did a DFA on a large laser weapon carrier, I killed it.
Then fell over and blacked out.
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Also god look at that thing, the urbie looks like something dr.robotnik would design.