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Primitives Volume 4: Which mechs do you want to see?
« on: April 23, 2014, 01:19:38 PM »

I was thinking about this when examing Era Digest Age of War.  barring any surprises like the Bellerophron and Eisenfaust, we will have most likely 9 more primitive mechs in the XTRO Primitive Series.  each XTRO though only uses 5 mechs.

so which ones do you want to see?

for me it is

Griffin- unlike the Thunderbolt. whose role was determined by decree, the Griffin has magically changed tonnage fdrom 60 to 55 tons, and primitive components are the most likely explanation.

Rifleman- Despite being introduced well after the Terran Hegemony perfected Battlemech Technology, the Rifleman ALSO has shifted mass, gaining ten 10s from the 1 N to the 3N.  the fluff for both of these could be interesting.

Phoenix- Becasuse Rim Worlds Republic, that's why

Archer- the Archer is the 3rd oldest continously serving mech in the game (behind the Banshee and Orion) and has never been dethroned from the king of Missile support despiute some valiant efforts from the Catapult, Trebuchet, Dervish, Apollo and Longbow. that service needs to be recognized.

Toro- the little Periphery Mech that could, I want to see how it went from a close combat mech to a long range support beast,
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Re: Primitives Volume 4: Which mechs do you want to see?
« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2014, 10:17:56 PM »

Guillotine.  Maybe Locust.
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Re: Primitives Volume 4: Which mechs do you want to see?
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2014, 01:17:36 AM »

the Guillotine and locust were developed after the TAF standardized Battlemech production... so that will be kind of hard to do unless they pull a "little known primitive variant." like the Dervish and Eisenfaust.
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Re: Primitives Volume 4: Which mechs do you want to see?
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2014, 07:20:53 PM »

Well the Hector has to appear in one of the remaining volumes.

Looking forwards to seeing the Archer, Phoenix and Toro.
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Re: Primitives Volume 4: Which mechs do you want to see?
« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2014, 11:28:10 AM »

Well the Hector has to appear in one of the remaining volumes.

Looking forwards to seeing the Archer, Phoenix and Toro.

Does it though?  it's appearance in Era Digest Age of War Covers it nicely I feel.
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Re: Primitives Volume 4: Which mechs do you want to see?
« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2014, 06:07:19 PM »

I want to see the Sarna Supremacy's primitive Ares prototype.
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Re: Primitives Volume 4: Which mechs do you want to see?
« Reply #6 on: April 26, 2014, 05:50:44 PM »

Well the Hector has to appear in one of the remaining volumes.

Looking forwards to seeing the Archer, Phoenix and Toro.

Does it though?  it's appearance in Era Digest Age of War Covers it nicely I feel.

Well the Dervish appeared in a Jihad book and then in the XTRO Primitive series so i'm fairly sure the Hector will as well.
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Re: Primitives Volume 4: Which mechs do you want to see?
« Reply #7 on: April 27, 2014, 02:14:28 AM »

a fair counterpoint... my only rebuttal is that the Jihad Secrets book was not set in the age of war like the Primitives were...
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Re: Primitives Volume 4: Which mechs do you want to see?
« Reply #8 on: May 01, 2014, 01:35:12 AM »

I was thinking about this when examing Era Digest Age of War.  barring any surprises like the Bellerophron and Eisenfaust, we will have most likely 9 more primitive mechs in the XTRO Primitive Series.  each XTRO though only uses 5 mechs.

so which ones do you want to see?
Rifleman- Despite being introduced well after the Terran Hegemony perfected Battlemech Technology, the Rifleman ALSO has shifted mass, gaining ten 10s from the 1 N to the 3N.  the fluff for both of these could be interesting.
Archer- the Archer is the 3rd oldest continously serving mech in the game (behind the Banshee and Orion) and has never been dethroned from the king of Missile support despiute some valiant efforts from the Catapult, Trebuchet, Dervish, Apollo and Longbow. that service needs to be recognized.
both of these and I would agree for al the reasons that you have said
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