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  1. Varia Vespasa

    Battletech

    Did you load yours with 6 machineguns?
  2. Varia Vespasa

    Battletech

    Got my first Grasshopper- bloody 5hp pilot made it a huge pain in the ass to capture.
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    I'm not sure thats what "shotgunning your beer" means...
  4. Varia Vespasa

    Battletech

    RMA? Not sure if I could tell ozone or not given that my power supply blew recently and sorta cornered that market! :P But no worries, after my supply blew I got a bigger one in prep for a better video card so I said fuckit and went and bought one just now. :)
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    Sigh, another kid with shaken-baby syndrome... :P
  6. Varia Vespasa

    Battletech

    fark. Tried updating my drivers and my video card seems to have bricked itself. Yay. And Battletech crashes when I try to start it which may or may not have something to do with the dead card. On my onboard graphics now, but cant play much with that, especially not on the pretty settings.
  7. Varia Vespasa

    Battletech

    I dont know that impressed is the right word, but its served well enough.
  8. Varia Vespasa

    Battletech

    ?? I'm still using a Quickdraw as my main tank- 4 medium lasers and 2 SRM 6s.
  9. Varia Vespasa

    Battletech

    Is there actually only 1 gauss rifle in the game?
  10. Varia Vespasa

    Battletech

    And maybe Fallout 1 and 2 before that! :)
  11. Varia Vespasa

    Battletech

    Reasonably fast jump-capable armed scout northwest past the left side of the turret on its hill to spot for killing the ammo transports, preferably by direct vision so it can shoot too. LRM boat (preferably with multitarget ability) west but not too far. Heavy west to kill the turret, last...
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    Or this-
  13. Varia Vespasa

    Battletech

    Oh right, penetration = possible crit, and if so roll for location. Obviously its been far too long since I played tabletop. :(
  14. Varia Vespasa

    Battletech

    How does a PPC one-shot you? They do 10 damage and the head has 9 armor and 3 structure. One PPC to the head leaves you at 2 structure left and a wound on your pilot...
  15. Varia Vespasa

    Battletech

    Mmm, but what would the payout have been with all those bonuses applied to the starting 700k? I'm not convinced max salvage IS in fact more money if money is what you need, especially if a mission is likely to have bonus objectives.
  16. Varia Vespasa

    Battletech

    Earlier in the game for us I think. You're playing more.
  17. Varia Vespasa

    Battletech

    I just got one as an enemy (and a centurion too) in my last "sending a message" mission, which naturally was on max cash because I need to make next payroll (Bloody Argo sucking all my money! :p ), so I'm currently save-scumming to try and get one of the pieces in my random loot to go with the 2...
  18. Varia Vespasa

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    You know thats how THIS starts, dont you?
  19. Varia Vespasa

    Battletech

    I was all excited when I got my first Trebuchet but it was a severe disappointment. Its faster than my Centurion missile boat, but the Centurion is much better armored for the same weapon loadout, which is 2 LRM 15s and an LRM10, 4 tons of ammo and 1 heatsink. The Trebuchet cant carry 3 LRMs...
  20. Varia Vespasa

    Battletech

    First serious glitch in the game- I kicked the head off a thunderbolt, took all 3 pieces as salvage and a cockpit++. The thunderbolt did not show up in my bay. :( Loaded a save, finished the mission, the thunderbolt showed up fine but the possible salvage list was different so no cockpit...
  21. Varia Vespasa

    Battletech

    I turned my Centurion (45 ton iirc) into a missile boat- 2 LRM 15s and an LRM 5, recently upgraded to an LRM 10. Works fine.
  22. Varia Vespasa

    Battletech

    What it needs is to go more campaign-y style contracts- its not just a single mission and youre done, its a single goal but you have to prep the ground with light and medium mech missions to make the final goal mission easier or possible at all. That lets you run a full company but the other 2...
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    Happened to my friends car in Houston during Hurricane Alicia in '83. A tree between our driveway and the neighbors house fell right across his car without touching it, and took out the 7 or 8' long roof covering the path between the house and garage without touching either. 4 feet to the...
  24. Varia Vespasa

    Battletech

    I'd suggest not aiming at the side torso for captures because anything that would otherwise go to that arm or the side torso instead goes to center as natural focused fire which as you've noted kills it. Raw stability damage for the first takedown at least. Then you can try for a stability and...
  25. Varia Vespasa

    Battletech

    Only just got the dropship and havent finished the other contracts in that system, but the conversations after finishing the second storyline mission suggest you can go anywhere after that. I've been getting my Liao faction from missions in the local area. Ok, just checked on my star map, says...
  26. Varia Vespasa

    Battletech

    Running an LRM35 Centurion, a quickdraw tank with 4 ML and 2 SRM6's, and whatever of my 45-50 tonners are online at the time with 1 tank pilot and one scout pilot to target lock for the centurion.
  27. Varia Vespasa

    Battletech

    No crashes for me either, and some but minor memory leaks. The "reinforcements coming" is basically it presuming you hit the main target first rather than sweeping the map first. Sounds like youre sweeping the map to kill the reinforcements first, same as me. So it gives the message while...
  28. Varia Vespasa

    Battletech

    God dammit- I flew to my next contract but forgot to start a refit on my missile boat before travelling so I was gonna reload and start the refit first, but I looked in the store just in case- a +1 stability damage lrm 15, a +1 stability damage SRM 6 and a +2 damage, +2 stability damage SRM6...
  29. Varia Vespasa

    Battletech

    Ran into my first SRM carrier a couple hours ago. That was a rude shock! Thank god I was mostly behind a rock! Soooo many SRM 6's! Ran into my first Goliath tank on the next mission. Boom, headshot on my heaviest mech. Fortunately it was me, rather than my other pilots so I didnt lose...
  30. Varia Vespasa

    Battletech

    Got my first heavy by headshotting (by luck) both the pirate queen and her escort in that mission. Not even with big weapons either, just srm and medium laser spam. :)
  31. Varia Vespasa

    Battletech

    I havent experimented with the concept yet but I'm thinking something fast with at least 2 heavy guns and multitargeting just for going after those little shits. Related- Wanted- a fucking pilot who can fucking hit with her fucking heavy fucking weapons. Fuck.
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    Thats not a very impressive rec room....
  34. Varia Vespasa

    Battletech

    Wonder what the mech customisation options are like- I want my Locust gunship horde back! 3 medium lasers and speed 12 for the win!
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    Hmm
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    Permit me to expand upon that theme-