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Remember, kids: a Saladin might get your allies out alive, but gorgon is the only mech that lets you Get Even.

I love this series and I would have really liked to see more. Sad it's ending

GET TO THE D POINT

むせる

Wait i watch you all the time, how was i not already subscribed

SADAME

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Awesome to see this review come out, thanks for spending the time to take a look at it!!

So you’re telling me this game has Neo-Sapiens in it, Nice. Exo Squad needs more love than it gets.

I see the dream pod 9 guys every year at a convention in PA. Dudes are absolutely head over heels for their game in every aspect. I can't not buy something when I go chat with them.

hnnnngggg. Commenting here from in front of a bookshelf groaning under the weight of 1st/2nd edition HG books.. I'm cautiously excited for 4th. some of the things i saw being mulled over as it was in development were a little... wacky.

Ah yes, Armored Trooper MECHWARRIOR

Is that armoured trooper votoms? 17:07

CZcams: New 11dragonkid video appear! Me: "yippee!!!"

Say dragon will you do a deep dive into heavy gear's universe and other factions?

LETS GOO HEAVY GEAR

I remember watching the Heavy Gear cartoon as a kid, enjoying it and then finding out absolutely no one else on the planet did and that it doesn't even marginally represent the game

Lordy, this is a CHONKER of a video

also it is very important to note, I'm pretty certain the official minis are in 1/144 scale. you know what that means. some kickass boss fights.

i played a couple of games of Blitz, if this plays like that it would be pretty kickass

Sweet video and a really good coverage of what the game has to offer, both the pros and cons. The underlying system 4e offers is great, but it has lots of issues when it comes to presentation and readability. (The various VOTOMS cut-ins are [chef's kiss])

FUCK YES HEAVY GEAR

As a point of comparison - the old way the system worked was: Roll a number of dice equal to your skill, and the highest is your outcome. If you roll multiple sixes, you get +1 for each past the first (ie three sixes is 6+1+1 =8). Your Raw attributes can add a bonus or penalty to that maximum outcome. (the average number is zero - if your very good it could be plus one to three, and abysmal could be negative). As with the new system, you're looking at the margin of success over the target number. In combat, margin of success multiplied your damage (now it adds to it) while targets had multiple thresholds for injury. Say a weapon did fifteen (15) damage, you would multiply that by your margin of success, and then compare it to the three levels or armor on an enemy unit (light, heavy, overkill) to see your effect. So say a vehicle that is 20/40/50 against our 15 weapon, one MoS is only scratching the paint, two levels is inflicting medium damage (total of 30 is more than 20, but less than 40) and forcing a roll on a table to see what systems are disabled, and a margin of four (4x15=60) scraps our target outright. Technically, there was a way to make your own gear, but the construction system required a scientific calculator and using square roots for some of the equations. I like robots and power armor - but do not care for calculus. That said - screw the Steam Summer Sale, I'll probably get Heavy Gear instead.

"Yes, I'm doing fine reviewing two mechanically-crunchy vehicle combat TTRPGs with extensive rules twice in a month. I'm totally fine. Why are you asking?" So... METALLURGENT review when? ;)

Yo hold up, one of those is called MindFang..... Does it mean Vriska/Aranea Serket MindFang or something else?.. Edit: I JUST REALIZED IT IS BECAUSE OF THE PROBABILITY MANIPULATION STUFF-

I had the first edition of this game, many, many, MANY years ago, but sadly never got a chance to play.

Note: I think a case can be made that you'd always want your disposable clone soldiers to be visually distinct from "real" humans. You don't want commanders becoming attached or overly emotional to them. You don't want them to hide among "real" people. You don't want any bleeding hearts asking "are we the baddies" when you send a few thousand out to charge across the land mine field.

Setup and payoff, screenwriting 101

The true future, our real tech destiny, lies in data gloves!

Fucking love this setting so much. I still have my first edition books. I'm very glad you find it as interesting as I do. I have spent a lot of time thinking about this setting and I'm very excited other people will be introduced to it via your channel.

I remember playing the older version. And there are the GRELs.

"This ain't a scene, it's a RA-damned arms race!"

Union is such Fertile ground for campaign storys It is such a refreshing concept while still having interesting debate at its core You take an average TTRPG story and its like "everything is bad what are you gonna do to fix it" Or like a classic D&D story "go on a quest to kill this one guy" I have seen so many Lancer supplementals that are like "you live in the most back water diaspora of all time its time to make your rags to riches legend" and like i understand thats the classic story and there us alot about Union in the core book already But what I'm saying is lancer gives a chance to tell a new story through Thirdcomm "things are good and here and it's your job to make them good everywhere (and you get big fucking robots along the way)"

6:44 “Metal box but British” I don’t know why but this line made me die laughing this is why I watch you keep up the good content

this seems pretty directly influenced by the work (and title) by Dali called "The Persistence of Memory." you know, the melting clocks. he stated (to paraphrase) that he was trying to illustrate the essence and dialogue of accessing memory of a time, and place. sometimes the impressions are vivid, sharp, and precise. sometimes the memory (and time within it) is warped by accessing it. surrealists looked to different methods to access the buried information that existed below the surface of their consciousness, but many adopted automatism, a means of making art that embraced chance and attempted to remove consciousness. by splattering paint, allowing materials to fall and be placed according to chance, and doodling around the resulting shapes and composition, the artist essentially removed their agency as much as possible from the creative process. here, the record keeper seems to be playing the role of surrealist artist - the players are elements of the composition. but the players also seem to be delving for their own buried content - the characters, scene, and game system could all be viewed as a form of automatism. the idea seems to be that by accessing the unconscious mind the composers and composition can enter a pure form of narrative that has not been sterilized by social mores or insecurities. can you tell i'm charmed by this? this is awesome.

This mech is the personification of all the hatred of all lancer players with Witch.

What the hell is testament

Whats yall opinion on GMPCs?

1:55 a gundam reference

0:34 a GM

Why Ra would go so far as to do anything for or against Humanity is odd and off. It would lose nothing if it let Humanity destroy itself once again, yet when transhumanism is a thing, and at any point in time, Ra gets upsetty-spaghetti, and takes action. Either it is preventing ascension into extinction, doesn’t want competition, or something else. Perhaps preventing these fictional characters from “leaving the book” that is their simulation, and into ours? Our reality, I suppose.

Welcome to Lancer where average is the weirdest thing you can be

yooooo is this a filipino TTRPG

"Don't try to find out what happens when you die." is possibly the most worrying commandment from a god possible.

As per usual for HA Mecha, Sherman is NOT in line with ThirdComm Utopian Pillars if used correctly. You think Genghis does collateral damage? Pathetic. If you let a Genghis get within range you deserve what's coming. Sherman, however...You can be on the other aide of town, hiding behind multiple buildings and a mountain and still feel the fear of Ra when that reactor core goes *VRYYYYYYYYYYYYY* because it's deletion time and you better pray that it hits you HARD because if it won't then that mech of yours is now a molten coffin.

Oversized anti-gear rifle? Or... If you're attacking a Strike Cheetah... Oversized... Handgun.

The cover art reminds me of Land of the lustrious- that manga about gem people fighting moon creatures (there's more and it goes existential, but no spoilers) Quite possibly due to proportions of the character And the game, just like surrealism, is very interpretative- that's why it's kinda hard to understand. It's vague on purpose, just giving a few more defined lines for the person looking at it to hold on to.