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Crazy Crossover Poll
« on: March 20, 2013, 01:12:10 PM »

So I'm always curious about this.  I've seen a few good crossovers, and I've seen even more terrible ones.
I guess I just want to know which ones people favour.
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Re: Crazy Crossover Poll
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2013, 02:40:16 PM »

I think a lot has to do with the author and how they integrate the two systems. IMO the best one I've read was a BT/nBSG crossover. Macross might be the next best universe as it is mostly Mech/mecha based.

Just my 0.02 of whatever currency you choose. ;)
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Re: Crazy Crossover Poll
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2013, 02:55:39 PM »

Well to be honest, I've seen a few good ones and a few bad, the only issue is I've never seen any good ones actually make good use of BattleMechs.  In all honesty, there are some good ones out there, but they cross the aerospace parts of Battletech with something else.  Honestly, though crossing the general universes and using the aero assets is important, when I think Battletech, I thing big stompy BattleMechs, and those I just have not seen done well when clashed with a different system.  It really just depends on what you're going for, and who writes it.
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Re: Crazy Crossover Poll
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2013, 03:09:49 PM »

the Haloverse would probably be the most compatible (use that term loosely) in terms of not making one side or the other irrelevant.
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Re: Crazy Crossover Poll
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2013, 04:52:59 PM »

Robotech got me into BattleTech in the first place so that is what I voted for. Kind of hard for me to imagine any kind of cross over.
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Re: Crazy Crossover Poll
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2013, 05:16:37 PM »

Out of those Halo or nBSG overall I'd probably say Halo as you have the ground and aerospace elements with only the Covenant really outclassing BT tech much like it does the human forces in Halo

That said the best and most complete one I've seen to date was a BT nBSG story
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Re: Crazy Crossover Poll
« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2013, 06:02:50 PM »

StarCraft! StarCraft StarCraft StarCraft!

Combat is in the same basic scale as BattleTech, and BT construction works okay for statting StarCraft units. I think the most important thing would be to keep the crossover local rather than the Sphere-wide.
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Re: Crazy Crossover Poll
« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2013, 06:22:10 PM »

Babylon 5!
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Re: Crazy Crossover Poll
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2013, 10:17:06 AM »

StarCraft! StarCraft StarCraft StarCraft!

Combat is in the same basic scale as BattleTech, and BT construction works okay for statting StarCraft units. I think the most important thing would be to keep the crossover local rather than the Sphere-wide.

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Re: Crazy Crossover Poll
« Reply #9 on: April 01, 2013, 06:14:18 PM »

I had to say star wars as...

It has space fighters
It has walkers
Ranges are typically quite short
Nobody can shoot straight
Jedi's doing anti-mech attacks gets me excited, and not in a good way :)

Though I think Star Wars and Star Trek would be the most interesting.  Or, robotech with jedi pilots, which may actually make more sense if somebody the mecha is "alive" or built from metachlorians or something.
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