[Lysanderz]

A platoon? You only need 1. 4 Machine guns can pretty much obliterate everything.

[All4BigGuns]

A platoon? You only need 1. 4 Machine guns can pretty much obliterate everything.

Well, I was thinking high security Merc installation for a company that keeps a platoon of them ready for deployment at any given time

[Lysanderz]

Do some homework before hand, get the cyberware, ride out in style.

[Valashar]

The sad part is how hard some of us worked to make sure the rules for these things actually worked.   If I'd have had a little more time, I would have had some folks actually playtest the Warhammer BattleMech.  And I'm tempted to include the Hostile Amish Go-Gang in Season 5.

Last night I listened to Ep. 5 of the Critical Glitch podcast w/ Bull as guest. And today I'm reading about the Amish war buggy, which dovetails so nicely into their banter.

And, best of all, I now know exactly what it takes to add more of Bull's vans to the existing pile of Bull's van wreckage littering the sixth world wastelands.

[Mirikon]

A platoon? You only need 1. 4 Machine guns can pretty much obliterate everything.

Well, I was thinking high security Merc installation for a company that keeps a platoon of them ready for deployment at any given time

What mercenary company is going to have a platoon of mechs at 50 MILLION nuyen each, not counting the things to go in the mod slots? Now, a merc company that has one, maybe two? I'll buy that, especially if they have Ares ties. Because remember, you have to visit an Ares delta clinic in order to get the cyberware (another 2.75 million nuyen) to control the thing. Otherwise, it is simply a big target that can't even shoot back.

[Bull]

A platoon? You only need 1. 4 Machine guns can pretty much obliterate everything.

Originally I had a "stock loadout" for this thing, but ultimately decided it wasn't necessary with the MIPS system, so left them out.  My original loadout was:

Arms:
2x Phalanx Rotary Autocannons (Miltech Spec 1)
2x Medusa Point Defense Laser (Miltech SPec 2)

Chest:
2x Ares Heavy Rail Gun (Miltech Spec 1)

Shoulders:
2x Missile Launchers w/ Ares Demonfire Rockets (Miltech Spec 1)

Internal MIPS would include 1 Rotocannon Ammo Bin, 1 Rail Gun Ammo bin, 2 Missile Bins, and 2 extra Heat Sinks.

Bull

[Bull]

What mercenary company is going to have a platoon of mechs at 50 MILLION nuyen each, not counting the things to go in the mod slots? Now, a merc company that has one, maybe two? I'll buy that, especially if they have Ares ties. Because remember, you have to visit an Ares delta clinic in order to get the cyberware (another 2.75 million nuyen) to control the thing. Otherwise, it is simply a big target that can't even shoot back.

Kane's probably got one by now

[All4BigGuns]

What mercenary company is going to have a platoon of mechs at 50 MILLION nuyen each, not counting the things to go in the mod slots? Now, a merc company that has one, maybe two? I'll buy that, especially if they have Ares ties. Because remember, you have to visit an Ares delta clinic in order to get the cyberware (another 2.75 million nuyen) to control the thing. Otherwise, it is simply a big target that can't even shoot back.

Kane's probably got one by now

Who you kiddin'? Kane is probably the first man ever to gather a full regiment of them.

[DarkLloyd]

Very nice product you guys made there. A lot of actually useful stuff in there, thank you. Even stuff that actually adds to the game in general. Too bad it'll all be disallowed in any real products just because it was in the April fools book...

That won't stop me from using that stuff tho. My rigger thanks all the writers for this.

And as for the Mech. I could see the Azzies stealing this for use against Dragons.

[Mirikon]

By the way, if anything out of the book gets made official in SR5, please make it the Nadeshiko! That baby fills a hole that has been there for far, far too long.

[CanRay]

What about the Hoverboard or the Pound-Penny-Farthing?

[Wakshaani]

By the way, if anything out of the book gets made official in SR5, please make it the Nadeshiko! That baby fills a hole that has been there for far, far too long.

The April Fools books are quasi-canon.

And, yeah, I want to get the MK-5 in when we get an opening in SR-5. We'll be able to get a REAL artist instead of my crappy art for it. (WHich didn't make it in. The MK-4 is based off the normal "Robot Maid" from today's Manga, complete with two metal antennae as "ears", which marks it clearly as non-human, despite the rest of it looking human. Older models look less realistic, of course.

One addition that I planned on for months, but didn't get in due to my art just keeling over and DYING, was Truckasaurus. A Truckasaurus vs Battlemech battle was *begging* to happen, but, sadly, it didn't make it in for now. Maybe in the future. AFter all, it could show up in your town on any given sunday Sunday SUNDAY!!!

Ahem.

Lastly, around midnight on the 31st, Shannon Galvin sent me a more finished form of the Hoverboard art. Shannon was the artist behind Spore, and is the lead of The Witness, which should be out this year on, like, every system as well as PC. You could see a trailer for it at the Playstation 4 reveal. (Shannon was also the art behind most editions of Sim City. And the police chief in one of the cinematics. Talented!) I'm gonna put a link to my Photobucket account here, so y'all can see the final form (Well, until the hits crash my poor account. Have a lil' mercy!) ... MAJOR kudos to Shannon for this one. If you see a place doing a review of the Witness, be sure to drop by there and compliment the art.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a140/Wakshaani/Hoverboard_02_zps2ca2c679.jpg

Feel free to color her in and share your artistic vision! 'Boards are all about being painted all fancy, and I'm curious what you people can come up with in terms of neat designs. (Later, I might post the original, so you can all point and laugh. OMG, are my hands bad! And heads. And feet. And, well, all of it, really!)

 

[All4BigGuns]

I just would've preferred a REAL Rigger 4 rather than an April Fools book for that, complete with comprehensive 'from scratch' vehicle design rules.

[CanRay]

Just no pleasing everyone...

[All4BigGuns]

Well...vehicle design rules that weren't just modifying existing vehicles are one of the few things that are missing from 4th, but are really needed.