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Damn i love/hate the names you find on MWO
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Today, because I feel like it, I want to give a shoutout to my fellow asexual mechwarriors out there. No particular awareness day or anything just a big old shoutout to keep it up.
These days you need five solo mech kills in a campaign to come out as ace when you are a mechwarrior. It is tough out here man.
Mechjock claiming to have the next great iteration of the venerable Atlas.
You look in his bay and it appears to be an Urbie with the skull plate of an Atlas welded on.
Poorly at that.
The Jock refuses to explain what else, if anything, they've done to it.
How afraid are you?
We've got a micro laser, a small laser, a medium laser, and finally a large laser
When will CGL have the balls to give us what we deserve??
An XL Laser, for XL heatsinks, and XL problems!
What do you mean it's a PPC?
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Wait, y'all get elections?
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The Vatican's funko pops are just indulgences for a new generation
Holy Shit.
The mad lads did it.
Do you think Comstar has better customer service than modern ISPs?
Like no joke, serious question. I know they're dedicated to the HPGs and kickstarting wars when the Sphere got too peaceful, but how's their call center?
Will you be on hold for hours only to get a vague window of help a week out?
Or is an acolyte at your door within a day?
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Reasons for new...
...'mechs getting invented in Battletech (incomplete list):
- We invented a new gun and it doesn't actually fit on anything we currently have, so we need a new 'mech to go with it.
- Situation: there are five 'mechs competing to cover a certain role. "Let's make a 'mech dedicated to perfectly covering that role!" Situation: there are six 'mechs competing to cover a certain role.
- Oh boy, we (traded for/scavenged/were conquered but got access to/simply stole/etc.) Clan tech, let's see what we can make with this stuff!
- Hey, you know [attempted horrible prototype 'mech]? Let's make that, but better this time.
- Hey, you know [perfectly functional 'mech made by another company]? We could totally [add/subtract] like, a quarter-ton of armor, change up the name, bam, our own new 'mech.
- We've got a war on our hands, a tractor factory, several thousand tons of metal for prototypes and a dream.
- We are running low on our stock of [good 'mech], let's build something that's about roughly kind of decent enough to pad out the numbers.
- My uncle works for [state army] and he said I can build all the BattleMechs I want, so there.
- We made a Superheavy 'mech! A Size 5! A titan of war! Yes it's very practical and actually worth the trouble it takes to deploy it instead of just about twelve regular-sized 'mechs, really, I pinky promise it :)
- You see Perry the Platypus, when I was a young boy in Gimmelshtump, the infantrymen would always bully me. Every day they launched their little rockets at me and stole my lunch money and said, "oh, there goes the 'mechjock, there goes the tin can brigade!" And when I stomped on them they would make the least satisfying sounds- you know how, like, with leaves, you always except a very nice sort of crunch but sometimes it's just like a- a- [platypus sound] -yes, exactly, words right out of my mouth! Anyways, it was like that. Now, with my Infantry Obliteratinator 3,151,000, it is I, Perry the Platypus, who will bully every infantryman in the pan-Successor-State Area!
Would Elementals with some sort of point defense be called Poison Frogs? Think about it, anything that tries to touch them gets killed Paint them crazy bright and vivid colors? Might be able to work
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When you managed to successfully set off a second Succession War:
Blake be praised.
For as warcrimey as the IS has gotten, at least there never existed this... Naval Flamer
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Meme by u/MagnanimousTaco
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Mechs who's arms are guns, you are my beloved
I'm looking at you Blackjack, Jagermech, and Rifleman predominantly
You walk around with your pewpew arms kings and queens
*pushes you over in rough terrain*
No wait that's illeg-!
*crash*
Mechs who's arms are guns, you are my beloved
I'm looking at you Blackjack, Jagermech, and Rifleman predominantly
You walk around with your pewpew arms kings and queens
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Low-stakes objectives...
...for your next game of Battletech or Alpha Strike:
- A signed copy of "Yes You Khan: Negotiating in the Way of the Clans", a business management guide written by notorious hack Jackson Sea Fox. (Not even a Merchant- he is a Warrior trueborn.)
- The cockpit hip-flask of Janice "Just You Watch" Johnson, the Sphere's worst mercenary on the record. Everybody wants it so they can destroy the thing, but everybody who gets their hands on it always ends up fumbling and losing it again, usually in such a way that starts a civil war and gets them sued for something. Not known as cursed, per se, but it is suspicious.
- One of the famous Steiner-Davion wedding plates, forgotten here by the Liaos during a diplomatic outdoor barbecue meet-n-greet.
- A notepad holding the true recipe for the infamous "Razin' Hazen" cocktail, said to overheat 'mechs into slag if poured over them and turn drinkers inside-out and backwards in seconds.
- A relic of the Star League's fall- the shell from the very bullet that Amaris fired in ultimate, bloody treason! (Questions as to whether or not a laser weapon was used in that case are carefully avoided.)
- The bar tab of Snord's Irregulars, a document (in fact, a massive binder) theoretically representing a debt of millions in any given currency to the bearer, if you assume they will ever actually pay it.
- A really cool stick. It even looks like it has a cross-guard and everything. Come on, you can't not want to pick up that stick. To be perfectly clear: if it comes to it, people will die for that stick.
- A box of the infamous Kuritan 'diplomacy tea', bred from cultivars specially selected to be horrible and tasteless, thereby revealing the mettle of an ambassador in whether they drink it as is or try to avoid it, or mask it with- Dragon forbid -sugar. It's sought after by paranoid diplomats who want to build up a tolerance.
- Currently deflated and boxed up bouncy castle. And not the kiddy-size type either. Once you let the motor run it up, this could fit an Elemental Star inside, with room for backflips.
- A preemptively manufactured t-shirt, which bears a ComStar logo and reads "I Helped Conquer The Known Galaxy In Operation SCORPION And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt". (Unisex fit, large, 100% cotton.)
The last thing a Spheroid Locust sees when I alpha strike it with my Nova