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The Republic of the Sphere, circa 3145:

[ross-hollander]

Short tales from the hangar.

Yes, infantry do get crushed underneath the feet of the 'mechs, and yes, the pieces do have to be hosed off, but sometimes there is a frankly statistically improbable number of limbs grasping at you from the slurry of gore.

Everyone knows the one about opening the cockpit and finding the pilot had to have been dead for hours. That's nothing. Sometimes you find pilots who are alive, horribly alive, howling and laughing through teeth like a jackal's, drooling blood.

I hated that 'mech. Hated how many had died in it, and it still alive, each shine of joint or gunmetal suggesting a smug little grin. It got repaired. Pilots can't be. "I came back and they didn't," it seemed to say. But hearing it snickering to itself, one night, alone in the hangar, that was too much. And they can keep me locked up, call me psychotic, but that 'mech will never laugh at anything again.

Mercenaries don't size each other up. They sit down and eat together, share tales and trade trinkets of old campaigns. Then a week later they blast each other into charred scraps of flesh for a thick wad of bills, and just keep sharing coffee and old tales with the next ones they meet, without so much as a flicker in their eyes.

Do not open the cockpit on that one. I mean it, orders straight from the top. Keep it sealed, replace compromised armor, refill ammo, standard reactor check, but do not open the cockpit. If the pilot asks you to, ignore them.

One officer comes through for an inspection. Then another. Then another. Each one, it seems, with a firmer set in the jaw, a prouder tone, a cheek sunken deeper with long nights of command. Some with more medals, some with more eyes, some with opalescent wings or grimy foot-long claws.

They said he was a curse. Every 'mech his hands touched ended up as so much scorched shrapnel. So they chained him up, hands fastened in place with makeshift cuffs, and they fired up that reactor as high as it went, and they watched while his cursed hands cooked, roasted, to bones and ash.

If anybody leaves the hangar, whether it's a single patrol 'mech or a full strike force, and then- a little while later -a 'mech comes in (dusty, grey-white), hose it down, refill the ammo, and flag it back out. Whoever went out died in their cockpits; at least they fought instead of ejecting.

If you work in a hangar for too long, it starts to follow you around. Metal fork in the mess hall staining your meal with joint oil. Armor plates falling off trees in autumn. Stare into the mirror as you brush your gleaming autocannon shells and see a pair of smooth ball bearings staring back at you.

You load a missile pod, and feel childhood homes bursting in a spray of vaporized brick. You rewire the lasers and feel each scything burst, each wound, each widow. You polish the viewport. You can't see your own face in it; a decrepit, jawless skull looks back at you. Things make more sense now.

[theurbanmechcomesforthee]

You have 100,000,000 C-Bills and a crack-team of MechTechs to make your dream mech come to life What do you build

(Full access to anything whenever/wherever for convenience's sake)

Are we building like a mech or an army of one type of mech? cause thats a LOT of c-bills doc.

(Also sowwy for not answering sooner :( )

[alphamecha-mkii]

Nova by Vertexnormal

[house-liao-official]

I'll have you know that according to recent studies, the poisoning of the Confederation's enemies has reduced sharply in the last year!

Hey, I can't make a post for the Clans and not include the Inner Sphere as well.

[cal-1maf]

Firestarter of the 1st Regulan Hussars.

This is the first of my next batch of Regulans, which I will be painting to match the Rolling Thunder company. I tried a new approach to the urban base, similar to the hangar bay base on my Blood Asp. I'm not sure that I love it, I may have to keep workshopping it.

[astralmight]

Endurance hunting, battles of attrition. The last one left gets to gloat over this barely functioning shell of a behemoth at their mercy.

[gonk2020]

Soundwave has added another cat to his collection. this one is really mad for some reason

[kasperl-ruprecht]

From what I'm told by some of the guys who have been around since the Battledroids days, apparently the Death From Above rules were quite different at some point and the Assassin could do some ridiculous damage that way.

Beep boop basic kitbash inbound

The Assassin is one of those mechs where you need to find reasons to use it beyond raw damage and for my money the ASN-30 does that best as a nasty little objective nabber and vehicle exploder

[zhjake]

exploring the concept of omninet streaming for the "By Star and Melody" Lancer supplement

[house-liao-official]

Yeah well neither is my-

Actually I'm deciding to cancel this post

Shadow hawk more like shadow gock

[ross-hollander]

The Jihad inspired some meetings of minds that came to unusual conclusions. (Incidentally, if you ask the large HEMA crowd in the Commonwealth, the answer is a resounding 'yes'.)

[theurbanmechcomesforthee]

If I might say a few words in the defence of the humble Nova. Yes, it runs STUPIDLY hot. A lot of Clan Mechs released around that time to.

And it is because, if you look at any art from them that predates the Clan Invasion kickstarter redesigns, the hip and shoulder actuators are in fact a shared axle.

They could not, prior to the Clan Invasion KS, use the torso twist mechanic, on accounts of not really having a waist. And thus you were typically expected to usually only be firing a single arms weapons at a time. Which WOULD be heat neutral.

Alas, "No Torso Twist" is a quirk, which are an optional rule, and not part of the introductory rules set. So the 'Mechs that had it were redesigned to have waists, the quirk was retconned out of existence, and something like half of the early Clan Omnimechs have the heat management capability of a Polar Bear in a Sauna.

I should not be able to use the radiating heat from an alpha strike to reheat my spanish rice on the cockpit dashboard. You could send an entire Clan after me and nothing would stray me from this opinion.

Also. One arm at a time? Are you trying to fight two mechs with an arm each? Are you trying to cosplay a cowboy with two guns?

[tacticattails]

More Honey, inside the cockpit. Cause i cant help myself i guess.

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