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Warhammer: 3025
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 Posted: 31-Mar-2005 19:10 Post subject: User Review: Leo LEO-2D |
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On 2005-03-09, Blackhand wrote:
Its pretty much a meld of the Wolfhound and the Valkryie. 3025 has had just about every combination covered in depth. If you'd have said 3050 its slightly more forgiving simply because then its a garrision mech. But, as it stands why produce a 3rd machine when it duplicates 2 you already have.
I also question the lack of a hand and the placement of the medium laser. Those are fairly important things for mechs in the light category.
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The design date is 3023. While the Valkyrie had already been around for a good long time, the Wolfhound wasn't even starting field trials until the fourth war. You're comparing my peach to an ancient apple, and an orange that hadn't even been designed yet. 
As for the second part: the hand is removed because of the size of the large laser. Look at the Wolfhound: it has no hand on the laser-arm. The Valkyrie has no hand on the arm that carries a MEDIUM laser. Assassin - Medium Laser, no hand. Whitworth - Medium Lasers, no hands at all. The laser in the chest was a holdover from a previous version of the 'mech. I didn't see any reason at the time to move it, since several 'mechs carry weapons in their center torso (Commando, Spider, Jenner, Panther, Wolfhound, etc).
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jymset
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| Posted: 31-Mar-2005 19:19 Post subject: RE: User Review: Leo LEO-2D |
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On 2005-03-31 19:10, Warhammer: 3025 wrote:
The design date is 3023. While the Valkyrie had already been around for a good long time, the Wolfhound wasn't even starting field trials until the fourth war. You're comparing my peach to an ancient apple, and an orange that hadn't even been designed yet.
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Very eloquently put! However, the fact remains that it offers very, very few new things to the table-top.
I just looked it up, very nice design indeed. But the changes to the Wolfhound chassis (whichever date it was released - the Wolfhound was first published in Battletechnology Nr. 0204 in 1988) are extremely superficial, to a point where it would be viable to modify that design, even when using the strictest modification/construction/RPG rules!
I refrained from reviewing it, after all, this thread is a better forum to make those views heard.
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