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DUDES!!
Apparently some splendorous French folks scanned and uploaded a bunch of art from the Japanese Battletech books. FUCKING RAD MAN.
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Time To See Just How Bad It Is
I was still a huge fan of Heavy Gear when this series debuted in 2001, but didn't watch it during it's original broadcast run (I think YTV was screening it at something like 4 am Sundays?) and never tracked down the DVDs.
The series has been described as a heavily kiddiefied version of the Heavy Gear universe (by one of the original Dream Pod 9 crew), and "just another show with not much to say" by one of its creators.
So, time to see just how this flawed this adaptation of one of my favourite giant robot games really is.
My boy, and the Arch VOTOMS fanatic, Tim Eldred worked on that.
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I may have found an English translation of the Japanese text for this book.
Found a neat website that does some neat interactive cartography of the Inner Sphere. No, the attached picture is not from there; just wanted a picture to attach to the post.
Found it through a Shaun Cochrane on the Classic Battletech Facebroach group.
This is an old Japanese website where people would exhibit their Vifam models. I think it's functionally defunct but I know there's people out there, like @scope-dogg and @gunlord500, that would get a kick out it while it's still online.
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Ok I'm becoming the Joker right now because I looked at Battletech too hard and fell into a crack.
This is the Archer Rubinsky, a custom refit of an ARC-2R used by Rubinsky's Renegades that takes advantage the Inner Sphere techbase of the 3050s to swap the design's LRMs for 4 SRM-6s and add a Hatchet to the mech. It's a pretty cool design and after I saw Flechs didn't have it (even though Sarna and the MUL did) I decided to track the thing down.
First stop was the MUL to figure out where they're sourcing from, which was apparently Field Manual: Mercenaries. No dice there, just a description of an Archer with SRMs and a hatchet, but no tech readout or record sheet. Then I hear MegaMek has a sheet for the thing. Great!
But where is this thing coming from, because it also says it's in Field Manual: Mercenaries? I did more googling and I stumbled onto this ancient archive of a geocities site
This is definitely our mech, and paging back out of the Archer, we find that this whole thing is an archive of obscure and unknown designs, either made by FASA but with a very limited/no publication, or designs present in other BT media (games, novels, source books, etc.) with no official record sheet where the author made their best guess as to what they'd look like on the tabletop. The Archer Rubinsky falls into the latter category, a fluff only design that was given stats by an old fan working on their blog. At some point, that technical readout probably got ported into MegaMek and because there's a sheet in MegaMek and a reference in an official product, someone put it on Sarna. Because CGL also uses MegaMek, at some point they too got bamboozled and took the BV calculation and stuck it on the Master Unit List without crossreferencing to make sure they actually had a first-party record sheet in their own archives.
So congrats to Matt McLaine, wherever you are. You put together a project to archive obscure designs from a game you liked and threw some of your own stuff in there as well, and at some point it got so old that your fan design accidentally made it into the official game's site.
Do you have a link to this site?
I've got some strong deja vu vibes here. I think I recall it from when I was on a real Robotech binge back in 2003.
Thanks! Turns out the site I was thinking of was actually a different one. Although it seems very close aesthetically at first glance.
I think you can see where I got my wires crossed. I like how somehow they attributed the nickname "Heavy Howard" to the Monster Destroid.
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Anonymous asked:
my armor? Mk. 8 pattern. My boltgun? Artifex pattern. My Rhino? Mars pattern. My baldness? Male pattern.
The end of that hit me in the face like a whole sack of bricks. Thank you.
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I may have found an English translation of the Japanese text for this book.
