Vehicles are cheap in pen and paper Battletech. Drop one of your medium mechs and have an army of crappy little glass cannons filled with SRMs.
The one thing in Battletech is that there is never any real stealth or cover. You canāt hide in a tree like advance wars. That is the key element that makes a fast or tiny mech not so great for much beyond scouting and spotting. If there were actual opportunities to be invisible, the SRM carrier would be god. Hide in a tree. Lure enemy mechs in close. Jump out and mow 'em down.
Also, the video game does not offer the ability to fire artillery or AOE weapons that target a hex instead of an actual enemy. You need that in a world where enemies can hide.
The computer game add straight damage reduction. Cover in trees prevents 1/4 damage, and Bulwark (A Pilot Skill in the guts tree) prevents 50% damage from the front if the 'mech doesnāt move.
EDIT: For clarity
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Does that stack?
(Isnāt bulwark in the Guts skill?)
I know what it does. But there is an enormous gulf between damage reduction and āI have no fucking clue where the enemies areā.
It doesnāt, but if get behind a Bulwarked Mech in cover it still has 25% damage reduction from cover.
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Double blind rules do exist in Battletech, but they require a GM. Iāve never heard of anyone whoās used the rules.
I basically run Bulwark on everyone now that Iām in the assault mech stages of the game. I also have a lot of +1 initiative people which is debatableā¦ some maps itās the strongest thing to be able to go first, or ideally to go twice back to back by passing. Problem is that thereās no phase ābelow assaultā to use to get those back to back actions against assault mechs and you end up having to deal with turn order. Similarly the guts final thing is probably the worst skill late game as youāre not really doing much with it.
Breaching Shot is probably the default go-to I guess.
Should move this convo to the Battletech thread IMHO
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Squad new patch
We got fooled by Mario Tennis, but we still have Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
Yeah fuck that demo nonsense.
https://youtu.be/jiSCaYJB20I?t=6h47m34s
Me onstage at Comic Con, playing Rocket League (Team Rogue). Lost the finals!
Thereās no wired LAN for the switch (for rocket league), so literally had 4 players on split screen for every game.
Not sure why they chose to put in the Underpass arena for the finals! Also, roll wasnāt bound to any buttons by default. Therefore not much air control during the matches.
Was still loads of fun!
Now that Iāve had a taste, e-sports here I come!!
Going to stream Mario Tennis tonight for real. Supposedly it goes live at 9pm Eastern, 6PM Pacific time.
Turns out Iām really bad at Mario Tennis.
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After the stream I played, and there was much less lag. Made it to the finals and lost.
Iām still getting a grasp on when to do what. I lost a lot of matches before they started even getting competitive and then I won a couple. But Iām still far from being decent at the game.
Rosalina is some major bullshit. The amount she can curve shots is insane.
Also the lag in this game is really killing it. Makes it basically unplayable if you donāt have a good connection.