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Is it just me...?
« on: November 07, 2012, 03:30:05 AM »
This post on the BT boards(http://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,24397.msg76237.html#new) is really quite interesting.

However, am I the only one wishing the correct option for the Mech's name is No.7?
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Re: Is it just me...?
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2012, 09:01:21 AM »
I join you there, Blacknova!  ;D I wonder how many other Chinese named Mechs have similar translations?  ???
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Re: Is it just me...?
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2012, 03:08:59 PM »
I wish it was a combo, a double entendre version of the emperor has no clothes.
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Re: Is it just me...?
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2012, 03:41:16 PM »
Yeah, not all Mech names have to be cool.
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Re: Is it just me...?
« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2012, 01:37:16 AM »
Wuld you ride in a Mech called the 'Marigold' or the 'Pixie'?
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Re: Is it just me...?
« Reply #5 on: November 08, 2012, 02:27:01 AM »
Quote from: Blacknova on November 07, 2012, 03:41:16 PM
Yeah, not all Mech names have to be cool.

Not all are... 2 that jump out at me

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Mechs with Mech in the name inspired...  ;D
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Re: Is it just me...?
« Reply #6 on: November 08, 2012, 02:41:33 AM »
Quote from: Epoch Rooster on November 08, 2012, 01:37:16 AM
Wuld you ride in a Mech called the 'Marigold' or the 'Pixie'?

Yeah!

Mainly due to the theory that if you drive a Mech called Daisy, you'd better back that up with real angry.
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Re: Is it just me...?
« Reply #7 on: November 08, 2012, 08:02:48 AM »
Quote from: Epoch Rooster on November 08, 2012, 01:37:16 AM
Wuld you ride in a Mech called the 'Marigold' or the 'Pixie'?

A lot of people call the Phoenix Hawk the Pixie.
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Re: Is it just me...?
« Reply #8 on: November 08, 2012, 10:48:30 AM »
Quote from: Ken on November 08, 2012, 08:02:48 AM
Quote from: Epoch Rooster on November 08, 2012, 01:37:16 AM
Wuld you ride in a Mech called the 'Marigold' or the 'Pixie'?

A lot of people call the Phoenix Hawk the Pixie.
I'm one of them and I would still pilot it.
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Re: Is it just me...?
« Reply #9 on: November 08, 2012, 12:10:01 PM »
Mech is a Mech is a Mech, if the name is semi appropriate for it's capabilities, I will Operate it
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Re: Is it just me...?
« Reply #10 on: November 09, 2012, 02:43:54 AM »
Quote from: Epoch Rooster on November 08, 2012, 01:37:16 AM
Wuld you ride in a Mech called the 'Marigold' or the 'Pixie'?
Scores, perhaps hundreds, of British sailors had to serve on HMS Pansy during WWI.

When the name was to be used again in WWII, a merciful moment of sanity had the name changed to HMS Heartsease before the ship was launched.
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Re: Is it just me...?
« Reply #11 on: November 09, 2012, 08:24:18 AM »
That's a damn shame. Pansies are scary flowers.
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Re: Is it just me...?
« Reply #12 on: November 11, 2012, 02:58:54 AM »
Quote from: Dread Moores on November 09, 2012, 08:24:18 AM
That's a damn shame. Pansies are scary flowers.

I can assure you that the habit of using the ships name to identify the crews (e.g. the crew of HMS Pansy are Pansies) did a great deal of damage... to bars and the like when they made harbour.
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