| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
bladewind
Free Rasalhague Republic
Major General
Joined: 02-Oct-2004 00:00
Posts: 1054
Location: Singapore
|
 Posted: 30-Aug-2005 11:28 Post subject: Own up !: How many of you faithfully follow Omnimech's internal structure placement ? |
  |
|
C'mon admit it guys.  Let me start the first answer.
I adhere to the design specs most of the time but if my friends do otherwise, i don't mind ignoring the rules.
Edit: This is assuming the Omni has Endo-Steel / FF or both constructed into the mech and has the location of the crits fixed.
[ This Message was edited by: bladewind on 2005-08-30 11:32 ]
|
|
| Back to top |
 
|
cain
Blighted Sun Battalion
1st Company
"Ralgith's Renegades"
Lieutenant
Joined: 10-May-2004 00:00
Posts: 329
Location: Canada
|
| Posted: 30-Aug-2005 11:56 Post subject: RE: Own up !: How many of you faithfully follow Omnimech's internal structure placement ? |
|
|
i will usually only deviate from a base chassi for a once of but normally never
_________________
Nothing is as good as it looks and rarely looks as good as it isAnything that can go wrong will go wrong :Murphy
|
|
| Back to top |
 
|
WhizzbangThePowerSquig
Royal Black Watch Regiment
Master Sergeant
Joined: 21-Mar-2005 00:00
Posts: 345
Location: Canada
|
| Posted: 30-Aug-2005 14:54 Post subject: RE: Own up !: How many of you faithfully follow Omnimech's internal structure placement ? |
|
|
Not gonna lie, I rarely use Omnis.
_________________
All fear Squiggy!
"I've never seen anything this beautiful in the entire galaxy - okay, give me the bomb." - Ultra Magnus
|
|
| Back to top |
|
StarRaven
Federated Suns
Leftenant General
Joined: 01-Jun-2004 00:00
Posts: 1138
Location: United States
|
| Posted: 30-Aug-2005 16:22 Post subject: RE: Own up !: How many of you faithfully follow Omnimech's internal structure placement ? |
|
|
I go with an Omni's stated allocation. Always, every time.
Even on the (few) Omnis I've made myself, I always follow the ES/FF/HS placement. I do occasionally cheat by changing the base allocation to fit my configs after I've got them. But even then, I don't change between one config and the next.
_________________
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close semblance to the first."
- Attributed to General Aleksandr Kerensky
|
|
| Back to top |
|
Nightmare
Lyran Alliance
Kommandant-General
Joined: 03-May-2002 00:00
Posts: 2214
|
| Posted: 30-Aug-2005 18:36 Post subject: RE: Own up !: How many of you faithfully follow Omnimech's internal structure placement ? |
|
|
I follow the allocations if I ever use omnis. Heat sinks aren't thrown out to make room for big low-heat weapons. And of course, I try to remember picking off hands and lower arms for big guns. To do otherwise would be cheating.
But that brings me to another question... Jump jets. I know they're pod-mountable on omnis, but what if the base chassis has them? Can you dump the jets?
[ This Message was edited by: Nightmare on 2005-08-30 18:39 ]
_________________
A tree fall in the forest, and no one is around, and it hits a mime. Does anyone care?
|
|
| Back to top |
|
AWAD
Draconis Combine
Chu-sa
Joined: 06-Feb-2002 00:00
Posts: 766
|
| Posted: 30-Aug-2005 18:49 Post subject: RE: Own up !: How many of you faithfully follow Omnimech's internal structure placement ? |
|
|
What's an Omni?
AWAD- Swapping an LRM 5 for an SRM 4 is an Omni as I get.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
SaberDance
Federated Suns
Colonel
Joined: 07-May-2004 00:00
Posts: 837
|
| Posted: 30-Aug-2005 21:18 Post subject: RE: Own up !: How many of you faithfully follow Omnimech's internal structure placement ? |
|
|
I'm with AWAD here. Thunder LRM in the left rack, Semi-Guided in the right rack. That's omni enough for me.
Just out of curiosity, what are these Internal Structure rules?
_________________
"Politics is the Art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, misdiagnosing the problem, and applying the wrong solution."
-Groucho Marx
|
|
| Back to top |
|
bladewind
Free Rasalhague Republic
Major General
Joined: 02-Oct-2004 00:00
Posts: 1054
Location: Singapore
|
| Posted: 30-Aug-2005 21:31 Post subject: RE: Own up !: How many of you faithfully follow Omnimech's internal structure placement ? |
|
|
Basically when an Omni is designed to integrate ES/FF, those things take up crits. And rules state that those crits cannot be moved around. Its fixed.
But i know plenty who ignore it. 
|
|
| Back to top |
|
mud
Draconis Combine
Tai-sho
Joined: 23-Jul-2002 00:00
Posts: 1618
|
| Posted: 30-Aug-2005 22:20 Post subject: RE: Own up !: How many of you faithfully follow Omnimech's internal structure placement ? |
|
|
I don't think you can dump the jets...of course, I don't know why anyone would put fixed jump jets on an omni in the first place. Why sacrifice the flexibility.
_________________
"The enemy's gate is down."
|
|
| Back to top |
|
Delta
Lyran Alliance
Leutnant
Joined: 11-Dec-2004 00:00
Posts: 635
|
| Posted: 30-Aug-2005 22:52 Post subject: RE: Own up !: How many of you faithfully follow Omnimech's internal structure placement ? |
|
|
If its just for a mechwarrior, I'll just mess with the weapons. The structure stays the same.
If its for a commander of batallion/trinary level or higher, I may move an endo steel here or there (their techs could move the anchor points or whatever...), but not drastically.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
Stinger
The Knights of Chaos
General
Joined: 30-Apr-2002 00:00
Posts: 1833
Location: United States
|
| Posted: 31-Aug-2005 01:22 Post subject: RE: Own up !: How many of you faithfully follow Omnimech's internal structure placement ? |
|
|
Depends, I dont do to much with omnis, just the timberwolf that I have posted that I have moved things around on. But for the most part I will follow it if we have to, if no one cares then I will move things around.
_________________
Stinger
If it's "creepy" to use the Internet, military satellites, and robot aircraft to find a house full of gorgeous young models so I can drop in on them unexpected, then FINE, I'm "creepy". Howard Wolowitz. BBT.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
Rudel Gurken
Allisters Light Thunder
Major
Joined: 15-Jun-2005 00:00
Posts: 1470
Location: Germany
|
| Posted: 31-Aug-2005 01:24 Post subject: RE: Own up !: How many of you faithfully follow Omnimech's internal structure placement ? |
|
|
If the base has JJ these are fixed equipment and cannot be removed.
Some Omnis exist with fixed JJ for ease of maintenance/standard tactics for new warriors (fluff text as i remember).
_________________
Reality is where the Pizza-man comes from!'Gucken, petzen, verpissen!' (Look at it, squeal it, get the hell away from it!) – Motto of the recon troops'Artillery doesn´t know friend or foe! They only know worthwhile targets!‘ – Kuritan Infantrist
|
|
| Back to top |
|
Rudel Gurken
Allisters Light Thunder
Major
Joined: 15-Jun-2005 00:00
Posts: 1470
Location: Germany
|
| Posted: 31-Aug-2005 01:29 Post subject: RE: Own up !: How many of you faithfully follow Omnimech's internal structure placement ? |
|
|
That are the rules and I´ll obeye them! 
To be serious: Omnis are very flexible and if you make them even more flexible by shifting around fixed items I think it´s a bit too good!
So fixed equipment/structure is .....erm...fixed!
Don´t try to "unfix" it!
_________________
Reality is where the Pizza-man comes from!'Gucken, petzen, verpissen!' (Look at it, squeal it, get the hell away from it!) – Motto of the recon troops'Artillery doesn´t know friend or foe! They only know worthwhile targets!‘ – Kuritan Infantrist
|
|
| Back to top |
|
Sleeping Dragon
Draconis Combine
Tai-i
Joined: 06-Apr-2005 00:00
Posts: 4820
Location: Czech Republic
|
| Posted: 31-Aug-2005 06:32 Post subject: RE: Own up !: How many of you faithfully follow Omnimech's internal structure placement ? |
|
|
I always obey the rule, no changes of equipment fixed on base chassis. I distribute structure around custom omnis to allow mounting big guns in one torso, so I may leave hand actuators in place when I wish to do so.
When I make record sheets for omni I write only fixed equipment with pen and then just use pencil and rubber to change config so I use omni-sheets too (ya know, I like to write ...)
_________________
The dragon NEVER sleeps!
|
|
| Back to top |
|
Warhammer: 3025
Freelance
Captain, AFFC (Ret.)
Joined: 29-Jan-2005 00:00
Posts: 1856
|
| Posted: 31-Aug-2005 10:36 Post subject: RE: Own up !: How many of you faithfully follow Omnimech's internal structure placement ? |
|
|
What? I'm the ONLY person who owns up to fudging with the crits? Man... 
_________________
Evil is like a bowl of oranges. Only one, instead, is an orange of DOOM. That orange has a fate to rule over the other oranges with an iron fist. That orange is me.
Because sometimes, there are many guards in the castle.
Ya Rl'yeh!
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
