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Re: Fan-TRO 3145 Lyran Commonwealth Supplemental
« Reply #15 on: August 22, 2013, 06:34:53 PM »

Well, the reason for the reverse order is rather trivial to be honest. Initially I only planned to release the Supplemental as a mini-TRO, consisting of only the Yggdrasil and the Nibelung. But after a while I decided to expand the TRO a bit and thus I wound up with with the reverse order. But I thought it to be alright as long as they are in some kind of logical order.

In-universe-wise the reason for the name (Yggdrasil) is mentioned in the fluff. ;)
From the meta-perspective however, since the design is quite powerful, a Berserker on steroids basically, I thought it befitting to pick the biggest motif in Germanic mythology for it.
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Re: Fan-TRO 3145 Lyran Commonwealth Supplemental
« Reply #16 on: August 22, 2013, 06:46:21 PM »

Having only skimmed the book and considering how quickly you put this together, with art and record sheets, in word (pig of a program) and that you are not a native speaker, it's a bloody good effort.
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Re: Fan-TRO 3145 Lyran Commonwealth Supplemental
« Reply #17 on: August 22, 2013, 07:33:11 PM »

Thank you :)
And yeah, I got lucky that Rudy had a bit of time at his hands and managed to squeeze the artwork for my TRO in his schedule. Most of the other graphics artists that did work for CGL at one point or another were either occupied with CGL stuff/had huge waiting lists or didn't seem all that interested.
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Re: Fan-TRO 3145 Lyran Commonwealth Supplemental
« Reply #18 on: August 22, 2013, 07:42:49 PM »

For a non native speaker/writer of English you did real good. ;) Seriously wouldn't have known if you didn't tell us. Who did the art? Tis very nice. Any plans for future fanbooks?
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Re: Fan-TRO 3145 Lyran Commonwealth Supplemental
« Reply #19 on: August 22, 2013, 08:28:00 PM »

Nah, not as of now. Will have to see whether the post-DA era inspires me enough to do another one. Or maybe I add another design (or more) in a later revision of this Fan-TRO.
As for the art, the name is Rudy Valle (aka shortpainter).
http://www.darkartimages.com/
http://shortpainter.deviantart.com/

Alternatively Brother Ostavia recently mentioned that he's available for work as well. Not sure about his line art, but I suppose he's good at it too.
http://brotherostavia.deviantart.com/
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Re: Fan-TRO 3145 Lyran Commonwealth Supplemental
« Reply #20 on: August 22, 2013, 10:22:22 PM »

Having only skimmed the book and considering how quickly you put this together, with art and record sheets, in word (pig of a program) and that you are not a native speaker, it's a bloody good effort.

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Re: Fan-TRO 3145 Lyran Commonwealth Supplemental
« Reply #21 on: August 23, 2013, 12:16:41 AM »

Well, the reason for the reverse order is rather trivial to be honest. Initially I only planned to release the Supplemental as a mini-TRO, consisting of only the Yggdrasil and the Nibelung. But after a while I decided to expand the TRO a bit and thus I wound up with with the reverse order. But I thought it to be alright as long as they are in some kind of logical order.

In-universe-wise the reason for the name (Yggdrasil) is mentioned in the fluff. ;)
From the meta-perspective however, since the design is quite powerful, a Berserker on steroids basically, I thought it befitting to pick the biggest motif in Germanic mythology for it.

No major issue with the order it just threw me off for a start

Looking over a second time the Nibelung and the Terror variant are particularly nice - I may have to use a few these in my AU assuming you don't mind
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Re: Fan-TRO 3145 Lyran Commonwealth Supplemental
« Reply #22 on: August 23, 2013, 12:30:46 AM »

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Re: Fan-TRO 3145 Lyran Commonwealth Supplemental
« Reply #23 on: August 23, 2013, 04:59:53 AM »


Looking over a second time the Nibelung and the Terror variant are particularly nice - I may have to use a few these in my AU assuming you don't mind

Of course, feel free to do with them what you want, that's why I made the Fan-TRO, to have someone actually use the designs in his or her board/Mega Mek games ^^

And yeah, I was thoroughly dissapointed with Catalyst that they didn't follow through with what they started in XTRO Steiner concerning the Clan XL engines (they did though with Clan Lasers being available to the Davions as a progression from XTRO Davion to TRO 3145 Davion) and I could think of no logical reason for that, so I told myself "what the hell" and used the ideas of XTRO Steiner for my Fan-TRO. Though to keep it somewhat more credible, I decided that expensive variants utilizing CL XL engines ought to be all there is in that regard.
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Re: Fan-TRO 3145 Lyran Commonwealth Supplemental
« Reply #24 on: August 23, 2013, 10:32:29 PM »

Fenris, a quick note; on the record sheets, each head has the standard 2 slots each for Sensors and Life Support in the head, but there is only a single circle for Life Support at the bottom of each record sheet, while Sensors have two circles.
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Re: Fan-TRO 3145 Lyran Commonwealth Supplemental
« Reply #25 on: August 24, 2013, 02:13:06 AM »

I found it interesting but you tried to pack too many things on the pages without letting much space and I find that this can be hard to read.
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Re: Fan-TRO 3145 Lyran Commonwealth Supplemental
« Reply #26 on: August 24, 2013, 04:16:32 AM »

Hm, not sure. The only things I actually added (for Mechs) were the overall amount of structure and armor points plus armor percentage (upper right part), as well as the production cost (next to BV) and the year of introduction (near era). And I marked which DHS are in the engine. But other than that it's the same scheme as used by Catalyst. All my additions actually aimed to clarify rather than confuse... :/
Does it really appear THAT confusing?

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Hm, not sure whether that is an error? Every single Catalyst RS that I own does it the same way. I mean I basically took screenshots from their RS and then edited them in a graphics editing programm. But that particual section of the RS wasn't among the ones I edited.
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Re: Fan-TRO 3145 Lyran Commonwealth Supplemental
« Reply #27 on: August 25, 2013, 10:09:53 AM »

...Because...  A Mech can fight without sensors but not LS?  I guess it makes sense...
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Re: Fan-TRO 3145 Lyran Commonwealth Supplemental
« Reply #28 on: August 28, 2013, 01:01:53 PM »

How did you get it to look this good in WORD!?
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Re: Fan-TRO 3145 Lyran Commonwealth Supplemental
« Reply #29 on: August 29, 2013, 04:23:13 PM »

Well... page backgrounds, RSs, Quick/Alphastrike Cards were all done in a graphics editor, to be honest. So I only inserted the graphics and adjusted the scale. The text boxes are tables. I know, word is a tad goofy, but it works more or less...
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