Battletech

[Douane]

That is handy, quiaff? So "Welcome aboard" isn't just a figure of speech.

I agree. It is quite good to have the additional armor Elementals provide. Instead of my torso armor, "Pop!", there goes an Elemental.

I think that with good cover (in urban enviroments particularly), an elemental star would give a mech one a run for their money.

Of course, is it inconceivable that such a breach of Zellbrigen would ever occur, quiaff? Just imagine this, a star of elementals engaging a point of mechs. Shocking! Sounds almost like an Inner Sphere barbarian tactic to me.

 

[Douane]

[...]his father's mother was abtakha from Clan Ghost Bear, and he knows both clans' poems.

Surely you meant to say "the female genetic donor of your own male genetic donor", quiaff?

Or has the elemental part of the Warrior caste done the unthinkaable and returned to the filthy Inner Sphere ways of ..., what was the word again, ah, yes ... "families"?

 

[Paxus Asclepius]

Surely you meant to say "the female genetic donor of your own male genetic donor", quiaff?

Or has the elemental part of the Warrior caste done the unthinkaable and returned to the filthy Inner Sphere ways of ..., what was the word again, ah, yes ... "families"?

Speaking out of character, I realize that the Clans consider freeborn to be second-class citizens, but they're also very meritocratic. Is it possible for a freebirth to enter the warrior caste?

 

[Jemal]

Possible, yes, especially in the Wolf clan, which is much more tolerant of freebirth warriors. However they're still considered very lowly, and freebirth units are usually bid away. And, I don't think a freebirth warrior would be able to top 8'.. The huge size of elementals is due mostly to their geneticly engineered-ness.

Also, they're constantly having to prove themselves, sometimes in nearly suicidal missions, just for the honour of staying warriors... ALthough the upside to that is that very seldom do freebirth clan warriors have to face the dreaded dishonour of death by old age.

 

[Paxus Asclepius]

And, I don't think a freebirth warrior would be able to top 8'.. The huge size of elementals is due mostly to their geneticly engineered-ness.

As I understand it, "freebirth" means that one was conceived in the natural fashion. If both parents are Elementals, their kid is going to be of Elemental stature, quiaff?

 

[Shalimar]

Yes, but Elementals are even more fanatical about the breeding program, so to have a pair of True-Born Elementals flout the traditions like that would be unheard of.

Actually, Why don't you just take the 5th mechwarrior slot since Ankh Morpak Gaurd seems to have gone bye bye.

 

[Paxus Asclepius]

Actually, Why don't you just take the 5th mechwarrior slot since Ankh Morpak Gaurd seems to have gone bye bye.

If he's well and truly gone, I could, but with one caveat: I leave town in less than an hour, so I won't be on hand for the trials. I can re-post my original concept, and Jemal can NPC him if necessary.

 

[Douane]

As I understand it, "freebirth" means that one was conceived in the natural fashion. If both parents are Elementals, their kid is going to be of Elemental stature, quiaff?

Stature might be, but game-mechanics wise a freeborn would not gain the phenotype boni of a trueborn which are reserved only for the carefully engineered, not for "accidentally" conceived children (not even of two true-borns). [Though they would get other things to make up for that!]

Also you would not be able to earn a bloodname, as the trick a let a freeborn do so was invented only because of political necessity.

BTW, Clan Wolf has indeed an freeborn Elemental Star Commander in the Gurbeng Garrison Cluster, the 6' something Jodi whose former occupation was as a child laborer in a mining pit.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Sorry guys, but I think I'm going to have to pull out of this one. Real life's getting a bit hectic at the moment, and I can only handle so many games. Have fun!

 

[doghead]

Yes, but Elementals are even more fanatical about the breeding program, so to have a pair of True-Born Elementals flout the traditions like that would be unheard of.

Romeo and Juliet.