Straight Up Lancing It

New Lancer Girlie on the block. Just here to ramble about battletech's cooler, transgender, older sibling

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Overkill gamblers after hitting 5 nat 1s in a row: “I can’t stop winning!”

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I have reached a level of divine inspiration that mere mortals should cower in fear of.

gyaru Iskander pilot.

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My tabletop group is done with a long running 5e campaign and we're looking for something to move on to since we're all getting fed up with that system. So we're having everyone put in suggestions for what to try next. I originally wanted to suggest Degenesis but there is no way in hell a bunch of normally 5e/PF centric players are going to bite on that weird ass worm. It's simply not happening.

I remembered hearing about the Lancer mech rpg that apparently is exceptionally good so I looked it up and holy shit this fucks. A tight ruleset with an even split between narrative and combat portions to account for taste and an easy to learn combat system with crazy unique mechs and customization out the wazoo? Sign me the fuck up. I got my horse in the race and I'm going to be fighting tooth and claw to ride that sucker past the finish line.

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Ladies, Gentlemen, and all those in between. We got another one. Welcome to peak and I sincerely hope you have a great time.

[vexwerewolf]

I was wrong about the Hydra. Here's my apology shitpost.

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imagine looking through the lancer rulebook for the first time, reading through the HA mechs. At first it’s a breath of fresh air after all the Horus nonsense and even some of the SSC shenanigans. I mean sure maybe there’s a war crime or two here and there but at least they’re not breaking reality for a stupid reason like throwing grenades further. What do you mean they’re breaking reality just to throw grenades further?

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the different types of lancer builds I have bouncing around in my head at all times are the following

Some bread and butter nonsense that loops a specific action every turn instead of barraging like a normal person (heatfall loops, puppet systems on a tortuga, etc)

some hyper aggressive striker build that will combust seconds after defeating a single enemy if it ever hits the battle field.

good stuff Gilgamesh.

Somehow the generic good stuff is probably the best build. Maybe the bread and butter loop can compare when everything goes perfectly. Ah well.

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Tom and Miguel after writing the entries for the IPS-N and SSC mechs: “alright, it’s time to get fucking weirrrrrrrrrd”

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me, wracking my brain for different builds I might want to swap to (homebrew was a bit too good, so I elected to swap to a main book one): “how badly do we actually need a support?”

cause there’s like so many different things my team could use. The team has two different CQB fighters and a sniper, so my options are a defender, a support, a controller, or a second artillery

(for context the party rn is a viceroy, a hecatonchire, a death’s head, and me. I’m really looking for something that fills a niche while also being something I want to play and it’s been a struggle lol)

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Really glad XPtoLevelThree is making lancer content now, as not only does it get new players into the game, it also gives incredible insights such as “the Nelson is not actually that fast, it just encourages you to play it as if it is”

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the iskander is funny because at a first glance it seems like one of the more basic mechs in the game. Like, oh wow you have mines and grenades? Cool I guess. But then you start reading the frame lore and the different gravtech systems and you realize just how fucked up the think tank is lmao.

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something that lancer doesn’t get enough credit for is the fact that it makes supporting feel good. Like, there’s not a lot of outright support abilities in the game, and maybe that helps this feeling, but I’ve never met a Lancaster pilot who hasn’t walked away from a session feeling incredible about their party role.

[vexwerewolf]

The thing is that it's incredibly difficult to fuck up being a Lancaster pilot. That's not to say there isn't an incredible amount of skill that goes into doing it well, but the utility floor on the Lancaster is such that you can basically do shit all for an entire combat and so long as you don't straight up die, you're still providing value to the team via giving them a shared Repair pool.

Add to that the incredible utility of the battle taxi and you're laughing

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Hi I’m sorry I think I missed the fucking Vex reblogging my post. Currently fangirling out over the shit poster who convinced me to try out some of my favorite mechs that I absolutely wouldn’t have touched otherwise.

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something that lancer doesn’t get enough credit for is the fact that it makes supporting feel good. Like, there’s not a lot of outright support abilities in the game, and maybe that helps this feeling, but I’ve never met a Lancaster pilot who hasn’t walked away from a session feeling incredible about their party role.

[redgarredbeard]

I think your assessment is right: because there really aren't many full on support abilities, it really helps those in the support role shine. Lanny is the only frame that can heal others, and keeping your main Dps up in a fight feels great in a system where you're getting hit more often than not.

I also think Lancer does an amazing job at rewarding teamwork. The way it allows control to set up enemies into vulnerable positions, or strip away defenses (looking at you swallow tail), for your more dps oriented characters to wreck havoc is not something I've really seen much of in other positioning heavy combat games. My players, using teamwork, have more than once trivialized a fight that a different all DPS group had trouble with.

And each time this happened, the support player that made it happen got a ton of credit and really got to shine in a way that my cleric in Pathfinder never really got to.

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IMO that feeling of setting up for a sitrep in such a way that you absolutely destroy your DM’s plans for a challenging combat is so satisfying. My current squad in a campaign I’m in has a lot of tech abilities that set up “enter and you take damage” AOEs, so we’ve devised a strategy of setting up these AOEs in a way that funnels the enemies straight into the DPS while our death’s head picks off everybody from a distance.

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okay. Everybody panic. We have someone who’s actually good at lancer following me now, so I have to be extra correct about everything to avoid looking like an idiot.

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Woah who is it?

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There was a person who recently reblogged one of my things with a really in depth review of a build someone sent me that I did not do a good job answering. Just completely blew my answer out of the water lol. Anyway it’s nice to have you here.

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okay. Everybody panic. We have someone who’s actually good at lancer following me now, so I have to be extra correct about everything to avoid looking like an idiot.

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Idk why but I imagine the average Nelson Pilot just has the opening of Fortunate Son blaring during their turn in combat.

[vetchtibbles]

I think I’m falling behind in pop culture can we stop writing books and making movies until I catch up. something crazy is about to happen to gilgamesh

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THIS IS AN OFFICIAL

GILGAMESH POST

[jack-in-the-dark]

The two ways to receive a Horus license:

1. It started with intrusive thoughts. Strange musings on the nature of reality, that didn't quite feel like they came from your own mind. Then the dreams, strange and surreal even by the standards of the feverish. They felt almost like they were desperate to tell you something. Then one night, your dreams transcended. Suddenly, you understood: the truths of reality were laid bare before you, and one by one you gorged yourself on each understanding. But then, you realized it was a dream. The knowledge was pure truth, the understanding divine, but you knew that the moment you awoke it would prove fleeting as a blink. You jolted awake, with only the vague sense that you had lost something precious. When you arrived at the hangar that morning, the Goblin was standing in your bay like it belonged there. When you climbed inside it felt familiar, like you'd been piloting it for years. According to the records, the printers received no instructions during the night. The Goblin exists regardless.

2. You recieved a silly anonymous birthday card. Inside was a piece of paper that said "pegasus license" written clumsily in crayon. It was not your birthday.