[Battletech] Storyline decay...

[Seamus]

This thread on rpg.net makes a good point about the Battletech Universe
beyond the Clan Invasion and the later FedCom civil war.

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=556918

It seems as though the cohesiveness of the writers just disintegrated after
a certain point and the storyline just became a series of interlaced
Charlie-Foxtrots.

I'm curious as to what the Battletech players here (if there are any left
on r.g.m) think?

(DISCLAIMER: This isn't intended as a kerosene wick, but I know just how
volatile the topic of the CBT timeline can be).

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"The sonuvabitch didn't die. He must've landed on his head. He's getting a
new arm and leg, and if anyone wants to pull his 'Mech out of the rubble,
we can have a crazy, bionic Locust pilot to contend with."

"No thanks. And the moral of the story is: don't run in the city."

"No, the moral of the story is: Locust pilots are the weirdest."
- Life In The Big City, CITYTECH Rulebook

[Terry FitzSimons]

Not even sure what is going on in the universe as I haven't gotten much of the
new series books and have stuck with the real series as long as possible.
Usually the convention games I play in are battletech and pass on the new
version.

Terry

On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 09:39:28 -0800, Seamus <eatabul...@yourface.net>
wrote:

>This thread on rpg.net makes a good point about the Battletech Universe
>beyond the Clan Invasion and the later FedCom civil war.
>
>http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=556918
>
>It seems as though the cohesiveness of the writers just disintegrated after
>a certain point and the storyline just became a series of interlaced
>Charlie-Foxtrots.
>
>I'm curious as to what the Battletech players here (if there are any left
>on r.g.m) think?
>
>(DISCLAIMER: This isn't intended as a kerosene wick, but I know just how
>volatile the topic of the CBT timeline can be).
--

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[Sebastian Brocks]

Am 17.01.2011 03:19, schrieb Terry FitzSimons:
> Not even sure what is going on in the universe as I haven't gotten much of
> the
> new series books and have stuck with the real series as long as possible.
> Usually the convention games I play in are battletech and pass on the new
> version.

The MechWarrior Click-game doesn't even exist anymore, and the "old" universe
is
still moving forwards, we're now in 3085.

Sebastian

[David Damerell]

Quoting Seamus <eatabul...@yourface.net>:
>I'm curious as to what the Battletech players here (if there are any left
>on r.g.m) think?

I'm not sure I think I'm a Battletech player anymore. I certainly haven't
played for some time.

Setting-wise, I'll have 3025 and the Unseen, please. To me, that Warhammer
stomping along is always what Battletech looks like. Most of the later
mecha designs for Battletech ranged from merely mediocre to the painfully
awful, and although the 3025 setting doesn't actually make sense (hardly
anyone can make 'Mechs anymore but they get chewed up like popcorn, tanks
are cheap as dirt but no-one just buys a thousand of them...) at least it
isn't utterly ridiculous like the Clans.

And then there's game mechanics. What Battletech really needed, to cut
down on the way the combat system's a bit of a crapshoot sometimes, was a
whole bunch of headcapping weapons with longer ranges than the AC/20.

Fundamentally, though, I think the issue is I don't believe in "initiative
and move in rotation" games which don't have large enough numbers of units
that the game doesn't come down to an initiative rolling contest.
--
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