Airborne Abberations

Shoot this asset if you dare.

Firing!

Shot hit! [ :) ]

Shot pen'd enemy armor! [ >:) ]

Enemy ammo bins cooking off! [ :D ]

This is the sorcessess Llainadau, in her most dreadful form.

More angles and waffle below the cut.

Secrets of Battletech has released a new post about MegaMek, and it's not great.

There's a petition to sign to (hopefully) get the MegaMek devs to reverse this:

I've signed it. For now, I'm sticking with MegaMek version 0.50.06 (since that is evidently the last update from before the AI code was added). Until we hear more on this from the MegaMek devs and/or news about the petition, I'm not going to be updating MegaMek.

EDIT: MegaMek's official response:

Sensors...Merry

Weapons...Jolly

All systems seasonal

BORN TOO SOON FOR CLAN TECH RENAISSANCE

(Maybe spoilers)

New Core Book replacing full rules combined arms with BSPs. Updated CA rules coming "later"

New Core Book replacing full rules combined arms with BSPs. Updated CA rules coming "later"

Let's hear 'em.

Hot take (maybe, it feels like around here): The wobbies lack a bit of spice as villains once they get going. Or are, at the very least, uninspiring. While the origin of the movement has a fun vibe of thinking what focht did wrt comstars tech being wrong with parts of religious zeal to it. It kinda fizzles out a bit in the flavour somehow with cyborgs, better than everything mechs pulling industrial scale worlds out of their ass to be a credible threat. And then also nukes. I will fully admit that this might have been one of those events that I just had to be there for to fully get. Or maybe I'm just over the whole big bad enemy that unites everyone to a common goal.

I need to make a PSR to prevent shutdown: I think I agree with the designer that said maybe double heat sinks shouldn't be allowed to be part of the ones that are built into the engine. It just warps the mech designs and favours energy weapons a bit too much. I think it'd probably be a little bit more interesting design wise to play around with. (maybe some of the ballistic stuff in the rules proposals fixes some of this, though).

There are SRM carriers with inferno missiles outside of my house: I don't think Canopus gets enough shit for being space libertarians and it makes me roll my eyes at least a little whenever people fawn over them.

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