What's everyone's beef agains BattleTech?

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2002-10-20 04:35am

We;; considering how the west really did destroy and subvert communism. I am now picturing:

Rhonda Snord for Starleague Jeans......
*Topless, cybernetic arm covering her breasts, wearing the shortest pair of cut off's imagineable.*

how long before the clans defect?

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2002-10-20 05:22am

Steve wrote:
phongn wrote:
Steve wrote:Of course, this makes for ample storyline growth when you bring them into contact with democratic republics, as I have done in a certain work that has become ignored.... :evil:
Bah. You have some creative errors in there, like the whole M1A2 being defeated by mechs
Don't make me hurt you.

Slarty: my pet theory for the autocannons thing is that the reason the heavier bores have shorter range is accuracy issues. Autocannons don't fire one round but a burst, like a MG, and that's bound to fubar targeting. Particularly for heavy calibers.

So while an AC-2, which appears to be a 30mm, can easily pick away at it's targets at range even at full fire, the heavier autocannon bores can't. So their effective ranges are shortened.

Lasers are probably effected by atmospheric material, dust and the like, reducing their range. Targeting system capabilities make up the difference.

If the laser has any real power it would burn through that stuff. While that might explain the lasers short range, it also means there so weak that they would not have any real effect on the target.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2002-10-20 06:03am

Didn't Michael A. Stackpole write Btech before he wrote SW? Are his Btech noivels anygood?

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » 2002-10-20 12:08pm

2000AD wrote:Didn't Michael A. Stackpole write Btech before he wrote SW? Are his Btech noivels anygood?

YES

Seriously, Stackpole's books are without a doubt my favorite in the Btech series.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2002-10-20 12:10pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:
phongn wrote:Bah. Crush them under the cleansing fire of the atom and reshape their shattered society in the image of the West
That’s my damn line, though it needs more genocide and west replaced with my.

Bah. I have a reputation to uphold here.

starfury · Post by **starfury** » 2002-10-20 12:45pm

Didn't Michael A. Stackpole write Btech before he wrote SW? Are his Btech noivels anygood?

He wrote many of the best Btech books like the excallent "Bred for war"

RayCav of ASVS · Post by **RayCav of ASVS** » 2002-10-20 01:16pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:
If the laser has any real power it would burn through that stuff. While that might explain the lasers short range, it also means there so weak that they would not have any real effect on the target.

Sigh...we really need to stop the real world comparisons.....

*coughwankercough*

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2002-10-20 04:13pm

RayCav of ASVS wrote:
Sea Skimmer wrote:
If the laser has any real power it would burn through that stuff. While that might explain the lasers short range, it also means there so weak that they would not have any real effect on the target.
Sigh...we really need to stop the real world comparisons.....

*coughwankercough*

You'll be glad to know I don't hold the belief that a 1970's army could beat Btech; rather I believe that 1950's Soviet equipment would be overkill and any decent WW2 tank would win easily against a mech.

RayCav of ASVS · Post by **RayCav of ASVS** » 2002-10-20 04:55pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:
RayCav of ASVS wrote:
Sea Skimmer wrote:
If the laser has any real power it would burn through that stuff. While that might explain the lasers short range, it also means there so weak that they would not have any real effect on the target.
Sigh...we really need to stop the real world comparisons.....

*coughwankercough*
You'll be glad to know I don't hold the belief that a 1970's army could beat Btech; rather I believe that 1950's Soviet equipment would be overkill and any decent WW2 tank would win easily against a mech.

See previous post, particularly the "*coughwankercough* part