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parafighter
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 Posted: 23-Aug-2005 22:16 Post subject: Favourite battle armour |
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Whats your favourite battle armour and why?
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Mulkosaur
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| Posted: 24-Aug-2005 06:18 Post subject: RE: Favourite battle armour |
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The Kamazuchi battle armor from the DCMS field manual. Why? Well at the time is was like holy crap it's got a medium laser and two srm racks and can take a clan PPC hit.
It's also one of the few designed I've gotten to use in a game before my leave of absences from Battletech and it held up quite well.
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bladewind
Free Rasalhague Republic
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| Posted: 24-Aug-2005 07:00 Post subject: RE: Favourite battle armour |
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Yeah who needs speed. 
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Mulkosaur
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| Posted: 24-Aug-2005 20:58 Post subject: RE: Favourite battle armour |
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Well if you want speed take a looky at the Lyran battle armor from that field manual. A squad of those look to stand a good chance of going toe to toe with a 20 ton mech and whooping it.
Then again it depends on how you play it to. I used the Kamazuchi battle armor with the 50 ton hover apc in a city enviroment playing defense.
And if this battle armor making program I just got is really following the rules I can make a squad of quads with 4mp ground speed, 10 points of armor and pack two medium recoiless rifles. You get hot dice it threatens some medium mech designs. I suspect a new world opened up with the battle armor construction rules and we just don't know it yet.
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Nightmare
Lyran Alliance
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| Posted: 24-Aug-2005 21:23 Post subject: RE: Favourite battle armour |
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I'll stick with the "standard" BA, just because of it's general-purpose nature. Specialists always tempt you to go for specialist situations, losing the initiative if the enemy doesn't fall in your trap. And the spare parts are rare enough.
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Delta
Lyran Alliance
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| Posted: 24-Aug-2005 21:40 Post subject: RE: Favourite battle armour |
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| I like the Achilles and Longiese (excuse the horrible spelling) battle armors. The standard BA and Elementals also fit the bill nicely. The extra large BAs attract too much fire.
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Erenon
Blighted Sun Battalion
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| Posted: 24-Aug-2005 22:25 Post subject: RE: Favourite battle armour |
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I've a liking for Infiltrator IIs.
Good speed, Stealth and the Gauss Rifle makes a neat combo. I also favour standard inner sphere or clan BA.
But my absolute favourite (clan wise at least) is the Salamander 
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mud
Draconis Combine
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| Posted: 24-Aug-2005 23:55 Post subject: RE: Favourite battle armour |
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I like elemental armor and Longinus armor. They're fast enough to be useful for disrupting a formation of enemy 'mechs, especially if you mount them on some sort of carrier.
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WhizzbangThePowerSquig
Royal Black Watch Regiment
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| Posted: 25-Aug-2005 09:42 Post subject: RE: Favourite battle armour |
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I've always enjoyed the Grey Death Scout armour. It looks awesome, atracts little attention, and can ruin a unit by hitting it with TAG and waiting for the Arrows of doom.
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Sleeping Dragon
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| Posted: 29-Aug-2005 11:50 Post subject: RE: Favourite battle armour |
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BURN THEM! ehh ... Salamanders 
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Erenon
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| Posted: 29-Aug-2005 22:21 Post subject: RE: Favourite battle armour |
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yay! High five.. errr.. burn them all!!
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Seraph
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| Posted: 29-Aug-2005 22:24 Post subject: RE: Favourite battle armour |
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Grey Death Scout suits.
Other than that I like flattened BA suits.
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DarkAdder
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| Posted: 01-Sep-2005 03:10 Post subject: RE: Favourite battle armour |
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Do you count protomechs as battlearmor, or no?
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Warhammer: 3025
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| Posted: 01-Sep-2005 03:18 Post subject: RE: Favourite battle armour |
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Since Protomechs are Protomechs and Battlearmor is Battlearmor... I'd go with no.
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Moonlapse Vertigo
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| Posted: 02-Sep-2005 19:57 Post subject: RE: Favourite battle armour |
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Standard elementals - the original is still the best.
Salamandar is also nice. Not fun for a unit in a large forsest with Salas hidden in it, they're also great when using the 2 heat instead of damage rule for flamers.
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